the decorated fragment with foliate detail, within card mount with inscription reading ‘Relic of Bonnie Prince Charlie. The above piece of Curtain from the bed in which Prince Charles Edward Stuart slept for three nights prior to the fateful Battle of Culloden Moor. This historic bed was purchased by Mr. Lawson Johnstone from the Culloden Estate and the authenticity of the relic is beyond question’, within a simple oak frame with applied ivorine plaque inscribed ‘To Ormond Blyth from Gordon Lawson-Johnston, August 1911’ (Curtain section 11cm x 6cm (approx.), frame 22cm x 21.5cm) Footnote: Provenance: The Valuable Contents of Culloden House , Messrs A. Fraser & Co. Inverness Wednesday 21 st and 22 nd July 1897, lot 605 (part) Note: The contents and collections from Culloden House have long been admired for their virtually unbroken province up until 1897 when the house and contents were sold. Immortalised in the tartan covered ‘Purchasers Catalogue’ many fascinating and important items were listed within the collection. The main section of Jacobite relics were held within the The Presidents Bedroom and included the mahogany tester bed in which Prince Charles Edward Stuart spent three nights here before the fateful battle of Culloden. It is recorded the bed was sold to J Lawson Johnstone, London and cost £750, by far the most expensive piece in the sale. From this fragment which appears to have been mounted in the late 19 th / early 20 th century Lawson Johnstone took at least some of the curtains and gifted or perhaps sold them as souvenirs. That said these relics appear on the market so seldom it seems unlikely many were made as surely more would survive and have been offered for sale.