RELICS FOR SALE
Several relics of considerable interest were to come under the hammer at Sotheby's rooms recently, including Lord Lovat's watch, the watch worn by Lord Anglesey at the Battle of Waterloo, relics of Sir Robert Peel, and works of art at one time in the possession of the Russian Royal family. Lord .Lovat's watch, by Yver, of Angouleme, a late seventeenth-century maker, bearing the arms of the famous intriguer, is the property of Lady Dorothy Fraser, of Carlton Curlieu Hall, Leicester. From here also comes a compass in ivory inscribed with the name of Admiral Byron, the famous navigator and grandfather of the poet. The relics of Sir Robert Peel, 1788-1850, ■which were being sold by the executors of Mr. Horatio L. Seddon, included a canteen of silver, 270 pieces all engraved with the Peel crest, several presentation snuff boxes, and a malachite casket given by Nicholas I of Russia to Lady Emily Peel. The Russian works of art included a number of objects by that fine craftsman Carl Faberge and a gold pendant set with rubies, diamonds, and emeralds which always hung in the late Tsar's study at Tsarkskoyc Selo. and was believed by him to contain a piece of the True Cross.
RELICS FOR SALE
Evening Post, Issue 82, 6 April 1936, Page 11
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