LONDON.- A large pair of silk bloomers belonging to Queen Victoria, sold for £9,375, at Lyon & Turnbull’s auction of the antique treasures from Old Battersea House, the London home of the Forbes family, the US publishing dynasty. The sale made a total of over £3 million and included an oil painting of Queen Victoria and her faithful servant, John Brown, which made £145,250. Nick Curnow Managing Director and Painting Specialist at Lyon & Turnbull said “The twenty inches by twenty four inches painting by Charles Burton Barber is particularly valuable because it was a personal gift from the Queen to Brown and shows the pair on August 26, 1876, the year Brown celebrated his fiftieth birthday.” Charles Burton Barber was born at Great Yarmouth in 1845. Barber was a particular favourite of Queen Victoria and he produced a number of pictures for her. When Barber died in 1894, at the age of forty nine, the Queen