Hi, yes I did put the breeches on ebay and no she was not influenced by the ridiculously high amount I put on them. I state in the listing that the reserve is high I do not know that value pending further research:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...STRK:MESELX:IT

As was previously suggested by MacMillan of Rathdown, this is just a fishing trip to see if there is any interest, which there has been. The items do have a good provenance and the family sold Lord Lynedoch's uniforms and other things to the Scottish National Museum and Scottish National Library a few years ago for several hundred thousand pounds. Sadly because this was divided by three and then by seven as I have six brothers and sisters, I didn't receive a fortune but still a welcome windfall. This is some reflection of the importance of Lynedoch in Scottish military and political history. His correspondence with Viscount Melbourne then PM, written shortly before the coronation of Queen Victoria, which he kept discretely in an 18th century (yes!) silk purse, concerns the grant of a higher patent of peerage on behalf of his heirs and is here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/hughranc...eat=directlink