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Letter from the New Pretender A letter from Bonnie Prince Charlie to his cousin, the King of France,
pleading for troops to support the Jacobite rebellion will go under the hammer in Edinburgh on 7 May at Lyon & Turnbull’s auction. The document is expected to fetch £8,000-£12,000. Simon Vickers, book specialist at Lyon & Turnbull, says: ‘The allure of Charles Edward Stuart, the Bonnie Prince Charlie of legend, and his romantic but ill-starred campaign in 1745-46 to win back the Stuart throne, still holds sway 269 years after the crushing defeat of the Jacobites at Culloden on 17 April 1746. This is no more so than in 2014, the year of the Scottish independence referendum, which represents, arguably, the fi rst time since 1745 that Scotland has had a chance to choose its own destiny.’
Searching the salerooms for interesting lots and the latest prices
Scottish selection Scottish Colourist painters FCB Cadell
and JD Fergusson will be under the spotlight at Bonhams’ Scottish Sale in Edinburgh on 15 and 16 April. Cadell’s Iona – the Island of Lunga is expected to go for £40,000-£60,000, while Fergusson’s view of the capital’s Princes Street is forecast to fetch £20,000-£30,000. Other works up for sale include a seascape of the Aberdeenshire village of Catterline by Joan Eardley (pictured below), which is also expected to change hands for £20,000-£30,000.
Sales dates
NORTH Lindsay Burns, Perth
29-30 April: Antiques & Fine Art
Curr & Dewar, Dundee 8, 22 April:
Antiques & Collectables
EDINBURGH Lyon & Turnbull
16 April: Decorative Arts, 30 April: British & European Paintings & Sculptures
Shapes 4-5 April: Fine Art & Antiques
TRIUMPHANT SALE A new world record for a Salvador Dali
bronze sculpture was set at Bonhams’ impressionist and modern art sale.
Elephant de Triomphe, a three-metre-tall statue, sold for £446,500, smashing both the previous record of £313,000 and also its estimate, which had been set at £250,000- £350,000. The design had been conceived in 1975, with the fi rst in the series of sculptures cast in 1984. Dali used elephants as a symbol to represent the future, with the golden angel representing a future with great fortune.
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Over the asking
An early-20th-century German tin plate toy, The Artist, was up for grabs at a recent auction held by Shapes Auctioneers in Edinburgh. The fi gure, which came complete with its outer packaging, was snapped up for £1,000, compared with its estimate of £50-£70.
Bonhams 15-16 April: Scottish Sale
Thomson Roddick 3, 10, 17
Toast of the tipples A bottle of The Macallan 25 year-old
anniversary Highland single malt was sold for £1,550 by Thomson Roddick at its auction in Edinburgh on 20 February. The whisky – which was distilled in 1957 and was bottled in 1983 by Macallan-Glenlivet – had an estimated value of between £500 and £800. Other tipples on sale at the auction included two cases of 1986 Chateau Palmer wine, which sold for £750 each, and a case of 1990 Chateau Musar, which sold for £400.
April: Home Furnishings & Interiors, 24 April: Collectors’ Sale
GLASGOW Great Western Auctions 12, 26 April:
Antiques & Collectables
Mulberry Bank Auctions
25-26 April: Fine Antiques & Collectables
SOUTH Thomson Roddick, Dumfries 8, 22 April: Home
Furnishings & Interiors
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