While reading the Financial Times recently (all the other papers in the library at work had been grabbed before I got to them!), I noticed an interesting item of Waterloo-related news. No doubt you have a desk in your home that is the nerve centre for all your research. I daresay yours is not as expensive as this one. The newspaper report (9th July 1993) read:

A desk made in 1812 for the Marquess of Anglesey, a hero of Waterloo, sold for
.76m at Christie's yesterday - an auction record for English furniture.

The marquess lost a leg when he led the cavalry as second in command to the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo.

The Regency mahogany desk is monumental in size and highly crafted with bronze enrichments and ebony and brass inlay. It was sold by the executors of the late Sir John Musker, and had been estimated at between £ 400,000 and 1,600,000.

We can but dream of such things. I'll stick to my twenty year old MFI version!

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