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Bonnie Prince Charlie artefacts go under the hammer for more than double their estimate

A ring, containing a lock of Bonnie Prince Charlie's hair, is going under the hammer on August 14. Pic: Lyon & Turnbull.
A ring, containing a lock of Bonnie Prince Charlie's hair, is going under the hammer on August 14. Pic: Lyon & Turnbull.

A collection of rare items celebrating Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite supporters sold at auction for £65,000, more than double their estimate, in Edinburgh.

Originally in the possession of the Creyke family from Yorkshire, the artefacts were sold at Lyon & Turnbull as part of their Scottish Silver & Applied Arts after attracting a global audience.

Top lots included a gold mounted ring enclosing a lock of the Bonnie Prince’s hair sold for £11,250 and a hidden portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie in a snuff box made £9,375.

Colin Fraser, a specialist in Jacobite works of art said: “Once again, our sale of items linked to Bonnie Prince Charlie  and the Jacobite cause has been a great success achieving double their estimate.

“While various locks of Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s hair have survived, this one was highly unusual as it had a dated presentation and even more so to a date preceding the launch of the 1745 campaign.”

Also in the sale were two rare portraits of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s parents –  James Francis Edward Stuart, The Old Pretender, and Maria Clementina Sobieska – which made £7,500.

The pair of portrait miniatures sold alongside another single miniature of James Stuart, known as King James III to supporters, which went for £5,250.

Other portraits in the collection included a rare picture of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, pictured with the sash of the Order of the Garter and a neck badge of the Order of the Thistle, which sold for £5,250 as the bidding continued at a hectic pace.

Mr Fraser continued: “Examples such as this are amongst the most iconic items of Jacobite works of art.

“We had a packed saleroom and plenty of phone and internet bidders not only from Scotland, but the United States and Europe, so it seems that interest in Bonnie Prince Charlie is on a truly global scale.”