£6500 says Rob Roy’s large kinsman sat here...
For a Scottish antique, no provenance is more guaranteed to stir the blood than a connection, however tenuous, with a romantic outlaw. At Lyon & Turnbull’s sale on 26 March the link was Rob Roy McGregor, or at least the cattle rustler’s loyal kinsman and Glasgow magistrate Baillie Nicol Jarvie.
This ordinary stained beech armchair, right, is aid to have accommodated the ample figure of Nicol J…