the brass lamp is being sold at auction in june by auctioneers hansons -lrb- above with model in period costume that experiences in the crimean war is to be sold at auction .
it was given as a gift to two sisters who worked as servants for the nightingale family at lea hurst , where she had spent her childhood , in the 1850s .
she wrote of what she had seen in the conflict with her 1859 notes on nursing still considered as having shaped the profession today .