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Leader Live
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Leader Live
Culloden cannonball sells for almost £19,000 at auction
The cannonball, engraved with the words 'Ogilvy Culloden 16 April 1746', had been expected to sell for between £3,000 and £5,000. However, it fetched £18,900 when it went under the hammer in Edinburgh on Wednesday at Lyon & Turnbull's Scotland Collected sale. A gown, reputedly worn at the Palace of Holyroodhouse by an 18th century Scottish noblewoman closely allied to the Jacobite cause, sold for £20,160, almost double the estimated price. The dress was one of more than 80 lots of Property from the Earls of Airlie, belonging to the Ogilvy family, which featured in the sale. Lyon & Turnbull's John Mackie, who is head of sale for Scotland Collected, said: 'It was an honour to handle these items which have a direct link to such an important part of Scotland's history. 'These pieces which sold today stood out in terms of both provenance and condition and so it was no surprise that there was such a great deal of interest leading up to the sale. 'The Airlie Collection featured objects with a link to well-known Scottish figures which heightened the appeal to buyers at home and abroad.' The prices include buyer's premium. The Battle of Culloden on April 16 1746 saw about 1,600 men killed in less than an hour and marked the end of the 1745 Jacobite rising. The iron cannonball sold in the auction has a silver collar with moulded rim where the words 'Ogilvy Culloden 16th April 1746' are engraved. The brocaded dress, originally estimated to fetch between £8,000 and £12,000, was reputedly worn by Lady Margaret Ogilvy, wife of David Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Airlie, when they attended a ball hosted by Prince Charles Edward Stuart, more commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in 1745. Lady Margaret's gown has been on long-term loan to the Royal Collection at the Palace of Holyrood for the last 100 years and was most recently on display in the Queen's Lobby, next to the Great Gallery at Holyrood Palace.
South Wales Guardian
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- South Wales Guardian
Culloden cannonball sells for almost £19,000 at auction
The cannonball, engraved with the words 'Ogilvy Culloden 16 April 1746', had been expected to sell for between £3,000 and £5,000. However, it fetched £18,900 when it went under the hammer in Edinburgh on Wednesday at Lyon & Turnbull's Scotland Collected sale. A gown, reputedly worn at the Palace of Holyroodhouse by an 18th century Scottish noblewoman closely allied to the Jacobite cause, sold for £20,160, almost double the estimated price. The dress was one of more than 80 lots of Property from the Earls of Airlie, belonging to the Ogilvy family, which featured in the sale. Lyon & Turnbull's John Mackie, who is head of sale for Scotland Collected, said: 'It was an honour to handle these items which have a direct link to such an important part of Scotland's history. 'These pieces which sold today stood out in terms of both provenance and condition and so it was no surprise that there was such a great deal of interest leading up to the sale. 'The Airlie Collection featured objects with a link to well-known Scottish figures which heightened the appeal to buyers at home and abroad.' The prices include buyer's premium. The Battle of Culloden on April 16 1746 saw about 1,600 men killed in less than an hour and marked the end of the 1745 Jacobite rising. The iron cannonball sold in the auction has a silver collar with moulded rim where the words 'Ogilvy Culloden 16th April 1746' are engraved. The brocaded dress, originally estimated to fetch between £8,000 and £12,000, was reputedly worn by Lady Margaret Ogilvy, wife of David Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Airlie, when they attended a ball hosted by Prince Charles Edward Stuart, more commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in 1745. Lady Margaret's gown has been on long-term loan to the Royal Collection at the Palace of Holyrood for the last 100 years and was most recently on display in the Queen's Lobby, next to the Great Gallery at Holyrood Palace.
North Wales Chronicle
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- North Wales Chronicle
Culloden cannonball sells for almost £19,000 at auction
The cannonball, engraved with the words 'Ogilvy Culloden 16 April 1746', had been expected to sell for between £3,000 and £5,000. However, it fetched £18,900 when it went under the hammer in Edinburgh on Wednesday at Lyon & Turnbull's Scotland Collected sale. A gown, reputedly worn at the Palace of Holyroodhouse by an 18th century Scottish noblewoman closely allied to the Jacobite cause, sold for £20,160, almost double the estimated price. The dress was one of more than 80 lots of Property from the Earls of Airlie, belonging to the Ogilvy family, which featured in the sale. Lyon & Turnbull's John Mackie, who is head of sale for Scotland Collected, said: 'It was an honour to handle these items which have a direct link to such an important part of Scotland's history. 'These pieces which sold today stood out in terms of both provenance and condition and so it was no surprise that there was such a great deal of interest leading up to the sale. 'The Airlie Collection featured objects with a link to well-known Scottish figures which heightened the appeal to buyers at home and abroad.' The prices include buyer's premium. The Battle of Culloden on April 16 1746 saw about 1,600 men killed in less than an hour and marked the end of the 1745 Jacobite rising. The iron cannonball sold in the auction has a silver collar with moulded rim where the words 'Ogilvy Culloden 16th April 1746' are engraved. The brocaded dress, originally estimated to fetch between £8,000 and £12,000, was reputedly worn by Lady Margaret Ogilvy, wife of David Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Airlie, when they attended a ball hosted by Prince Charles Edward Stuart, more commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in 1745. Lady Margaret's gown has been on long-term loan to the Royal Collection at the Palace of Holyrood for the last 100 years and was most recently on display in the Queen's Lobby, next to the Great Gallery at Holyrood Palace.
The National
3 hours ago
- Business
- The National
Historic Culloden battlefield cannonball sells for £18,000
A cannonball, which was discovered from the Culloden battlefield and was engraved with the words 'Ogilvy Culloden 16 April 1746', had been expected to sell for between £3000 and £5000. However, the historic piece of artillery went for around six times more than its expected asking price, as it sold for £18,900. Along with the cannonball, a gown worn at the Palace of Holyroodhouse by an eighteenth-century Scottish noblewoman who was a close ally to the Jacobites also sold for almost double its estimated price on Wednesday. READ MORE: 'Irreplaceable' Charles Rennie Mackintosh buildings on sale for first time ever The brocaded dress, originally estimated to fetch between £8000 to £12,000, was worn by Lady Margaret Ogilvy, wife of David Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Airlie, when they attended a ball hosted by Prince Charles Edward Stuart, more commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in 1745. (Image: Stewart Attwood) Lady Margaret's gown has been on long-term loan to the Royal Collection at the Palace of Holyrood for the last 100 years, but was sold at auction for £20,160. The dress was just one of more than 80 lots of Property from the Earls of Airlie, belonging to the Ogilvy family, which went under the hammer at Lyon and Turnbull's two-day-long Scotland Collected sale. As a group, the Airlie heirlooms that were up for auction at Scotland Collected sold for more than a quarter of a million. A pair of French silver Campaign Beakers carried by Colonel David, Lord Ogilvy, throughout the Jacobite campaigns of 1745 were also sold for £17,640. Lyon and Turnbull's John Mackie, who is head of sale for Scotland Collected, said: 'It was an honour to handle these items which have a direct link to such an important part of Scotland's history. (Image: Lyon & Turnbull) 'These pieces which sold today stood out in terms of both provenance and condition and so it was no surprise that was such a great deal of interest leading up to the sale. 'The Airlie Collection featured objects with a link to well-known Scottish figures which heightened the appeal to buyers at home and abroad.'
Rhyl Journal
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Rhyl Journal
Culloden cannonball sells for almost £19,000 at auction
The cannonball, engraved with the words 'Ogilvy Culloden 16 April 1746', had been expected to sell for between £3,000 and £5,000. However, it fetched £18,900 when it went under the hammer in Edinburgh on Wednesday at Lyon & Turnbull's Scotland Collected sale. A gown, reputedly worn at the Palace of Holyroodhouse by an 18th century Scottish noblewoman closely allied to the Jacobite cause, sold for £20,160, almost double the estimated price. The dress was one of more than 80 lots of Property from the Earls of Airlie, belonging to the Ogilvy family, which featured in the sale. Lyon & Turnbull's John Mackie, who is head of sale for Scotland Collected, said: 'It was an honour to handle these items which have a direct link to such an important part of Scotland's history. 'These pieces which sold today stood out in terms of both provenance and condition and so it was no surprise that there was such a great deal of interest leading up to the sale. 'The Airlie Collection featured objects with a link to well-known Scottish figures which heightened the appeal to buyers at home and abroad.' The prices include buyer's premium. The Battle of Culloden on April 16 1746 saw about 1,600 men killed in less than an hour and marked the end of the 1745 Jacobite rising. The iron cannonball sold in the auction has a silver collar with moulded rim where the words 'Ogilvy Culloden 16th April 1746' are engraved. The brocaded dress, originally estimated to fetch between £8,000 and £12,000, was reputedly worn by Lady Margaret Ogilvy, wife of David Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Airlie, when they attended a ball hosted by Prince Charles Edward Stuart, more commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in 1745. Lady Margaret's gown has been on long-term loan to the Royal Collection at the Palace of Holyrood for the last 100 years and was most recently on display in the Queen's Lobby, next to the Great Gallery at Holyrood Palace.
