CULLODEN RELIC.
£9OO FOR PRINCE CHARLIE’S STANDARD.
The standard of Prince Charlie’s bodyguard, captured at the Battle of Culloden m April, 1746, by Captain ueoige Burges, aide-de-camp to General Bland, realised £9OO at Sotheby’s recently.
A piece of blue silk ribbon worn by o-io 1 /? Charles lon the scaffold obtained
An old Pretender glass, with drawn bowl and tear in stem, engraved with the Jacobite version of the National Anthem, realised £430.
Sir Walter Scott’s proof sheets of the first edition of “The Betrothed” and “The Talisman” fetched £lOl.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 September 1924, Page 7
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89CULLODEN RELIC. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 September 1924, Page 7
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