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LYON & TURNBULL the international sale wednesday, october 3rd, 2012
1021 FD32/4 COLLECTION OF MILITARY SASHES AND BADGES BELONGING TO GENERAL THOMAS GRAHAM, LORD LYNEDOCH comprising a papier mache, silk, silver and gold Design for the Star Ordinary, St Michael and St George in a red leather case; a ribbon of the Order of Ferdinand IV; ribbon of the Order of Tower and Sword; and a pair of leather, steel and gilt metal buckles in a leather case £1,000-1,500
$1,600-2,400
1022 FD32/5 COLLECTION OF PERSONAL EFFECTS BELONGING TO GENERAL THOMAS GRAHAM, LORD LYNEDOCH comprising an oval gold locket containing a lock of Lord Lynedoch’s hair, engraved ‘Lord Lynedoch’s Hair/ 18 December 1843’ and a coronet over an ‘L’; a maroon silk net purse containing seven shillings, seventeen six pence coins and four four pence coins; and a small parquetry box containing a small gold wedding band (cut); a small leather purse; and a cream leather and gilt almanac in a cream leather slip belonging to Mary Graham Note: According to papers accompanying this lot, the first three items were removed from Lord Lynedoch upon his death in 1843 and kept by his heirs. The gold wedding band, which belonged to his wife, born the Honourable Mary Cathcart, was worn by Graham for over forty years following her untimely death in 1792. The almanac is inscribed in pencil on the interior, presumably in her handwriting ‘M.G. Given to me by Lord Tullibardine, Lady Charlotte & Lady Emily Murray on my birthday’
£300-500
$480-800
1023 FD32/7 PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF LADY CHRISTIAN HOPE 18TH CENTURY oval, the sitter depicted as an elderly lady wearing a black wrap and white shawl, her head in a white ribbon-tied bonnet with a blue bow, the reverse with a hair arrangement and the initials ‘Ly C G/ 85’ against a cobalt enamel ground, in a gold locket pendant frame and red moroccan leather oval case
1024 FD32/10 THOMAS GRAHAM OF BALGOWAN GREAT SEAL CHARTER DATED 1787 on vellum, issued to Thomas Graham for the lands of Lynedoch in Perthshire, with a black and yellow plaited silk cord; together with three other charters on paper relating to the lands of Lynedoch dated 1786 (4)
6.5cm high
1025 FD32/12 GENERAL THOMAS GRAHAM, BARON LYNEDOCH, MAHOGANY BRASS BOUND DESPATCH BOX EARLY 19TH CENTURY of rectangular form with brass straps, corner mounts and recessed side handles, the cover bearing a rectangular brass plate engraved ‘Lieu. Gen’l / Lord Lynedoch’, the void interior lined in cobalt Moroccan leather
Note: Lady Christian Hope (1714-1799) was the third daughter of the Charles, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone. In 1743 she married Thomas Graham of Balgowan. She gave birth to three children but only their son Thomas, later Lord Lynedoch, survived to adulthood. According to an accompanying card, the hair belongs to her three children and her parents.
£300-500
$480-800
£200-300
$320-480
36cm wide, 15cm high, 26cm deep Note: the inscription on the brass plate indicates that this box was made after Thomas Graham was given the Perthshire barony of Lynedoch and raised to the peerage in 1814, and also the year of his final campaign.
£600-800
$960-1,280