A group of British and foreign Orders presented to Field Marshal George Charles Bingham, third Earl of Lucan, is to be sold in London next Tuesday. Lord Lucan is remembered both for his land clearances during the 1840s and as the man who was held responsible for the 1854 charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War.
His medals are being sold as part of an auction of military material at Spink and Sons, where they are expected to fetch £18,000-£20,000 sterling. In the same sale, a medal for Canada General Service 1866-70, awarded to Fermoyborn Company Sergeant-Major James Kelly, carries an estimate of £180-£220. Badges of Irish and other regiments, including those of the Leinster Regiment, Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers are expected to fetch between £400 and £500.
Mirror-backed chiffonier sideboard for £1,500plus
TWO houses in Clontarf and Milltown, Dublin, provide the bulk of lots for next Thursday's fine-art sale at Drum's of Malahide. Auctioneer Denis Drum expects there will be particular interest in a number of items, such as an arched and mirrored-back chiffonier sideboard in walnut veneer with satinwood inlay, which he believes will sell for £1,500-£2,000.
Attributed to Strahan of Dublin, a single-door music cabinet has an estimate of £1,000-£1,500, while both an Edwardian inlaid mahogany envelope card table and a convex-door French vitrine are expected to go for £1,000-£1,300 each.
Other estimates include £800-£1,000 for both a Georgian semi-cylindrical two-door mahogany wall cabinet and a Victorian white-faced longcase clock, as well as an ormolu mantel clock. A number of Edwardian fall-front bureau bookcases have estimates in the £500-£800 range, as does a pair of small circular gilt-framed convex mirrors.
Victorian double-sided bookcase for £2,000-plus
Town & Country expect a Victorian double-sided, open, graduated bookcase to sell for £2,000-£2,500 and a George III mahogany writing desk to make £1,800-£2,200 at tomorrow's house contents sale in Monkstown, Co Dublin. Among other lots, there are estimates of £1,400-£1,600 for a Georgian mahogany longcase clock, £1,200-£1,400 for a Georgian-style mahogany sideboard and £1,000-£1,200 for both a Victorian mahogany bookcase and a Victorian mahogany games table.
