Auction boost of ‘Butcher’ and King Billy
A rare contrast to the Jacobite glass which has served Edinburgh auction house Lyon & Turnbull (25% buyer’s premium) so well was a large mid-18th century goblet with a wheel engraved portrait of the victor of Culloden. It was inscribed 'His Royal Highness William Duke Of Cumberland'.
After the 1746 battle Handel wrote See, The Conquering Hero Comes! for the duke but since then ‘Bu…