The sale of the private collection of historic medals, arms, armour and Indian weapons from the home of Lord Raglan went ahead last week. Last ditch attempts to keep the collection together failed when Arthur Somerset, the nephew of Fitzroy John Somerset, died at the age of 52. Arthur was due to inherit his uncle's title and the estate at Usk, until the will was changed in favour of another nephew living in America, who decided to auction the collection to raise money for repairs and modernisation of Cefntilla House near Usk, the family home he inherited from his uncle. A legal injunction halting the sale was dismissed by the Court in December 2013. The top ten prices from the Raglan collection are; •The highly important and exceptionally rare group of honorary awards, distinctions and medals to Field Marshal Lord Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855), estimate £250,000, sold for £290,500 to a UK buyer. •An Indian antique gold ring, late 18th century, estimated at £10,000-15,000 sold for £140,500 to a European private collector. •A Victorian silver figural military centerpiece, mark of Robert Garrard, London, 1844, after a design by Edmund Cotterell; estimated at £25,000-£35,000, sold for £104,500 to a private UK buyer. •A Russian bronze 6 pdr pattern 1805 cannon captured at Sevastopol, cast at the Kazan Arsenal, finished in St. Petersburg, dated '1821'; estimate £20,000-£40,000, sold for £85,000 to an anonymous buyer. •An ivory-hilted watered-steel sword blade, Iran, 17th or 18th century, hilt and sheath India, 19th century; estimate £6,000-£9,000, sold for £62,000 to a Middle Eastern buyer. •William Webb landscape with five horses: the Duke of Wellington's 'Copenhagen'; Sir John Water's 'Bitter'; the Duke Of Wellington's chestnut mare and white arabian; and Lord Fitzroy Somerset's bay mare ridden at Waterloo, estimate £15,000-£20,000, sold for £56,250 to a UK private buyer. •A Russian bronze one quarter pood pattern 1805 (Field Artillery) licorn cannon captured at Sevastopol, cast at Bryansk, dated 1829, serial no. 71, estimated at £20,000-£40,000, sold for £52,500 to an anonymous buyer. •An important Spanish diamond-set gold-hilted sword, circa 1814-15, estimated at £30,000-£50,000, sold for £43,750 to an anonymous buyer. •Benjamin West, P.R.A. (Springfield, Pennsylvania, 1738-1820 London), Portrait of the Hon. William Wellesley-Pole, 1st  Baron Maryborough, and 3rd Earl of Mornington, estimated at £15,000-£20,000, sold for £40,000 to a UK private buyer. •Breguet. A fine and rare silver and 18k gold hunter case quarter repeating lever watch, signed Breguet, horloger de la Marine Royale, no. 3720, circa 1820, estimated at £15,000-£25,000, sold for £40,000 to a UK private buyer. Bettina Harden of the Save the Raglan Collection said: "As feared, things clearly went for much more than the Christies' estimate. I would imagine that the late Lord Raglan is spinning in his grave at the thought that a collection of his courageous and splendid ancestor's treasures and awards that he spent a lifetime looking after, adding to, preserving and showing off with great pride has now been scattered to the four winds".