COLLECTION OF PERSONAL EFFECTS BELONGING TO GENERAL THOMAS GRAHAM, LORD LYNEDOCH
£600
Auction: 3 October 2012 at 13:00 BST
Description
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
Footnote
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'