country sporting sale

An original 1907 poster "Rabbit Coursing at The Colliers Arms, Camerton, Monday November 11th 1907", printed by A.
E. Middleton & Co. Ltd., Star Printers, John Street, Workington. 43 cm x 28 cm, framed.

Sold for £48

An original 1907 poster, "Great North of England Pigeon Shooting at Aspatria, Organised by Joss Lazonby, Station Hotel, Aspatria, to be Held on News Year Day January 1st 1908". 75 cm x 50 cm. Printed by Joseph Askew of Aspatria.

Sold for £150

A large and unusual G. & J.W. Hawksley Norfolk Liar game counter, with 4 dials for pheasants, hares, partridges and rabbits. Length including loop 10.5 cm, width 4.75 cm.

Estimated: £1000 - £1500

15 hunt buttons, to include the New Forest Buck Hounds,
Fitzwilliam Hunt, etc.

Sold for £65

16 clay pigeon shooting cloth and other badges, to include Perazzi and Area Champion Olympic Trench 1973 and 1974.

Estimated: £15 - £25

7 tiles depicting fish, to include salmon, grayling, etc. 10.5 cm square.

Estimated: £10 - £15

* Ralston Gudgeon, watercolour gouache on linen, pair of magpies. 39 cm x 50 cm, framed.

Sold for £85

* George Edward Lodge, personal letters, photograph, books, Christmas cards, etc., to include "Memoirs of An Artist Naturalist" by George E. Lodge, published by Gurney & Jackson 1946, Christmas card from and signed by George E. Lodge dated 1953, two letters from George Lodge stamped "Hawk House, Upper Park Road, Camberley" dated 1948 and 1953, photograph of George Lodge in his studio, two retrospective catalogues "The Moorland Gallery Ltd" 1977 and 1976, one containing a letter from the Moorland Gallery to Robert Coombes, and two Rowland Ward George Lodge Exhibition catalogues 1954 and 1948.

Sold for £700

* Robert Coombes (Robert Armitage Hamilton Coombes 1902-1988), a copy of "Mountain Birds" a King Penguin book, written by Robert Coombes, illustrated by George Edward Lodge, published 1952, a photograph of George Lodge and Robert Coombes, a copy of "The Moult - Migration of The Sheld-Duck" by Robert A.H. Coombes, and a copy of Chritstie's "Modern Sporting Guns & Vintage Firearms" catalogue March 1989 which contained Robert Coombes gun collection.

Sold for £130

* George Edward Lodge's artists box, carved to the top "G.E. Lodge", opening to show palette, brushes, etc., also lithographic tools, etc. Width 24.5 cm, depth 15 cm, height 6 cm.

Sold for £3000

* George Edward Lodge (1860-1954), watercolour and gouache painting, white tailed sea eagle observing wildfowl. 17 cm x 25 cm, framed, mounted, with Ottersburn Gallery, Dumfries, label verso. ARR

Sold for £420

* George Edward Lodge (1860-1954), watercolour and gouache painting, red stags and hinds in Highland landscape. 18 cm x 27 cm, framed, mounted, with Ottersburn Gallery, Dumfries, label verso. ARR

Sold for £420

* Harold Frank Wallace (1881-1962), watercolour painting, red stags and hinds in Highland landscape. 34 cm x 49 cm, framed, mounted. ARR

Estimated: £500 - £800

* Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935), watercolour painting, Highland pony with red stag loaded to its back. 17 cm x 23 cm, signed, framed and mounted.

Sold for £1300

* William Rodgers Commando style antler handled hunting knife, with 6" double sided blade, the ricasso stamped "William Rodgers", with antler and leather handle. Length 26.5 cm, with sheath.

Sold for £45

* Taxidermy - A roebuck shoulder mount, with six point antlers, mounted on an oak shield. Shield length 34 cm.

Sold for £85

* Taxidermy - A six point roebuck shoulder mount, antler length 23 cm, mounted on a carved oak shield with acorns, leaves and ivorine plaque marked "Denmark Fjellebro Fyn 1950 Richard Armitage Hamilton Coombes". Shield length 48 cm.

Sold for £80

Taxidermy - Peter Spicer, 9 point red stag head and neck mount on oak shield marked "Shot by Lieutenant D. Clifton Brown KDGS, Cairnlochen Wood, 18 stone 6 lbs", with Peter Spicer & Sons trade label verso. NOTE - Douglas Clifton Brown First Viscount
Ruffside Speaker of The House of Commons 1938-43, MP for Hexham.

Sold for £400

Taxidermy - A cock pheasant on a wooden base. Height 38 cm.

Sold for £30

Taxidermy - A half mount fox peering from a rocky outcrop, with taxidermist label verso "Jonathan Standing, Taxidermist & Naturalist, Witherslack, Grange over Sands. Length of mount +/- 70 cm, protruding from wall +/- 27 cm.

Sold for £160

Taxidermy - A set of roebuck antlers on quarter skull mounted on a wooden shield.

Sold for £12

Taxidermy - A stoat mounted on a wooden plinth. Height 23 cm.

Sold for £48

Taxidermy - A badgers head/mask on an oak shield. Shield 23 cm.

Sold for £110

Taxidermy - An Edwardian black buck head on a circular wooden shield. Horn length +/- 50 cm

Sold for £48

Taxidermy - A Cape Mountain Zebra (Equus Zebra skin). Measuring from neck to tip of tail 255 cm, front leg to front leg 235 cm.

Estimated: £300 - £400

Taxidermy - A Plains Zebra (Equus Burchellii) skin, mounted with black felt. Neck to tip of tail 225 cm, front leg to front leg 158 cm.

Sold for £180

Taxidermy - A Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus Strepsiceros) skin. From neck to tip of tail 233 cm, front leg to front leg 153 cm.

Estimated: £80 - £120

Taxidermy - A Nyala (Tragelaphus Angasi) half skin rug.

Taxidermy - A red Hartebeest skin. From neck to tip of tail 177 cm, front leg to front leg 125 cm.

Sold for £50

Taxidermy - A pair of Greater Kudu horns mounted on quarter skull on wooden shield. Horn length 77 cm, shield length 38 cm.

Sold for £80

Taxidermy - A Pair of kudu horns on skull mounted on wooden shield. Horn length 78 cm, shield length 57 cm.

Sold for £90

Taxidermy - A pair of Gemsbok (Oryx Gazella) horns on quarter skull mounted on wooden shield. Horn length 89 cm, shield 37 cm.

Sold for £80

Taxidermy - A pair of Gemsbok horns on half skull on wooden shield. Horn length 96 cm, shield length 56 cm. Horns removable for transportation.

Sold for £90

Taxidermy - A pair of black wildebeest (Connochaetes Gnou) horns on half skull mounted on wooden shield. Horns tip to tip 44 cm, shield length 56 cm.

Sold for £75

Taxidermy - A pair of Hartebeest (Alcelaphus Buselaphus) horns on half skull mounted on wooden shield. Horns tip to tip 22 cm, shield length 59 cm.

Sold for £75

Taxidermy - pair of warthog (Phacochoerus Africanus) tusks mounted on oak shield. Shield length 27 cm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Taxidermy - A Nyala (Tragelaphus Angasi) shoulder mount. Overall length +/- 125 cm, protruding from wall +/- 50 cm.

Sold for £240

Taxidermy - A bushbuk (Tragelaphus Shiptus) shoulder mount. Horns 31 cm, protruding from wall +/- 50 cm.

Estimated: £150 - £250

Taxidermy - A Lechwe (Kobus Leche) shoulder mount. Horn length +/- 57 cm, protruding from wall +/- 52 cm.

Sold for £130

Taxidermy - A common reedbuck (Redunca Arundinum) shoulder mount. Horn length +/- 29 cm, protruding from wall +/- 45 cm.

Sold for £100

Taxidermy - A mountain reedbuck (Redunca Fulvorufula) shoulder mount. Horn length 16 cm, protruding from wall 42 cm.

Sold for £95

Taxidermy - A blesbok (Damaliscus Dorcas) shoulder mount. Horn length 34 cm, protruding from wall 43 cm.

Sold for £85

Taxidermy - An impala (Aepyceros Melampus) shoulder mount. Horn length +/- 48 cm, protruding from wall +/- 53 cm.

Sold for £95

Taxidermy -Impala ram and ewe shoulder mounts. Horns +/- 42 cm, protruding from wall 53 cm, ewe protruding from wall 49 cm.

Sold for £190

Taxidermy - A common springbok (Antidorcas Marsupialis) shoulder mount. Horns 19 cm, protruding from wall +/- 42 cm.

Sold for £90

Taxidermy - A white springbok (Antidorcas Marsupialis). Horns 23 cm, protruding from wall 40 cm.

Sold for £95

Taxidermy - A black springbok (Antidorcas Marsupialis). Horns 24 cm, protruding from wall +/- 42cm.

Sold for £90

Taxidermy - A steenbok (Raphicerus Campestris) shoulder mount. Horns 12 cm, protruding from wall 28 cm.

Sold for £95

Taxidermy - A klipspringer (Oreotragus Oreotragus). Horns 8 cm, protruding from wall 27 cm.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Taxidermy - A common grey duiker (Sylvicaphra Grimmia) shoulder mount. Horns 8 cm, protruding from wall 34 cm.

Sold for £55

Taxidermy - Two sets of deer antlers, six point roebuck on wooden shield with note verso "Roe Deer, Borgie forest, 1980, and six point red stag with note verso "Young Stags Heads Found at Tongue, Sutherland, June 1998".

Sold for £20

Taxidermy - A full mounted fox standing on hind legs and mounted on a piece of wood. Height 92 cm.

Sold for £180

Taxidermy - A Victorian case of British birds, to include corncrake, water rail, green woodpecker, etc. Height 61 cm, width 63 cm, depth 20 cm.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Taxidermy - A Victorian case containing a pair of pheasants. Height 56 cm, width 84 cm, depth 29 cm.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Taxidermy - A Victorian case containing pair of red breasted mergansers, in the manner or Murray of Carnforth in naturalistic setting. Height 56 cm, width 92 cm, depth 23 cm. Width note verso "From The Penprale Collection, Helston".

Estimated: £200 - £250

Taxidermy - A Victorian case containing a pair of golden eye ducks and a little grebe in naturalistic setting with bulrushes, etc. Height 57 cm, width 80 cm, depth 27 cm.

Estimated: £300 - £350

Taxidermy - A late 19th/early 20th century bushbuck head and neck mounted on an oak shield. Shield 30 cm, protruding from wall 39 cm.

Estimated: £120 - £180

Taxidermy - A part human skull, late 19th century.

Sold for £240

Taxidermy - A cased Atlantic salmon in naturalistic setting with rocks and weeds, in a three sided glass case. Fish length +/- 40", with note verso "Tweed Yair October '57". Case height 53 cm, width 132 cm, depth 22 cm.

Estimated: £300 - £500

Taxidermy - A cased Atlantic salmon, in naturalistic setting with gravel and weeds, ihn three sided glazed case, marked verso "Tweed Yair October '59". Case height 54 cm, width 132 cm, depth 22 cm.

Estimated: £300 - £500

Taxidermy - A late 19th/early 20th century bittern, mounted in naturalistic setting with branches, grasses, etc., standing on an oak plinth. Height +/- 48 cm.

Sold for £80

Taxidermy - A pair of golden eye ducks, cock and hen, mounted on a wooden board with inset grasses, etc. Height +/- 20 cm.

Sold for £50

Taxidermy - A pair of bulls horns. Length +/- 80 cm.

Sold for £40

Taxidermy - A pair of kingfishers, early 20th century, mounted in a four sided glazed case and in naturalistic setting with grasses, branches, etc., the case with brass beading and an oak frame wall hanging. Height 25 cm, width 33 cm, depth 10 cm.

Sold for £380

Taxidermy - A pair of six point roe deer antlers on half skull. antler length +/- 22 cm.

Sold for £12

Taxidermy - A pair of six point roe deer antlers on half skull. Antler length +/- 23 cm.

Sold for £10

Taxidermy - A goat horn and two roe buck heads.

Sold for £5

Taxidermy - A Scottish wild cat mask/head mounted on an oak shield, pre-1947. Shield 17 cm, head protruding from wall 17 cm.

Sold for £220

Taxidermy - A Victorian case containing tawny owl, nightjar and a bullfinch in naturalistic setting, with taxidermist stamp to inner case "W. Hall Preserver, Wooler". Case height 44 cm, width 48 cm, depth 16 cm.

Sold for £60

Taxidermy - A red squirrel mounted on a log, circa 1970. Height 18 cm.

Sold for £65

Taxidermy - A mid 20th century goat head mounted on a pine shield with inset .270 round. Shield length +/- 55 cm, protruding from wall 40 cm.

Sold for £160

Taxidermy - John McPherson Taxidermist, Inverness, brown trout in naturalistic setting with plaque "Caught by Mrs Malcolm Horsley on Little Loch Lockie 29th May 1939, Weight 3 3/4 lbs, Ghillie Donald Stewart", with inset fly and part case. Case width 63 cm, height 34 cm, depth 13 cm. With further trade label verso "John McPherson, Inglis Street, Inverness, Gentleman's Private Collection Attend to on Shortest Notice.

Sold for £220

Taxidermy - A stoat nesting in a shoebox.

Sold for £55

Two Fladen Charter beachcasters, 3 sections, 14'.

Sold for £30

Two Fladen Surf Chieftain beachcasters, 3 sections, 13'.

Sold for £10

Two Fladen Charter beachcasters, 2 sections, 12'.

Estimated: £15 - £25

Two Fladen beachcasters, 12' in 2 sections,11' in 3 sections.

Estimated: £15 - £25

A Fladen beachcaster, 2 sections, 12', an Abu offshore kit and 10 packs of Hokkei rigs.

Sold for £8

A Fladen bass rod, 2 sections, 11', an Abu offshore kit, 3 braid cutters, 6 packs of sea rigs and 3 bulk spools of line.

Sold for £10

Two Fladen Charter beachcasters, 3 sections, 14'.

Sold for £20

2 spinning rods, Milbro Classic Ghillie 80, 2 sections, 9' 6", and another 10' 6".

Sold for £5

2 trout fly rods, Goldcrest of Rodrill Kingfisher trout, 2 sections, 9' 6", and Gleniffer Rods of Paisley, 2 section, 10'.

Sold for £8

A Shakespeare traditional salmon fly rod, 3 sections, 4.2 M, line 9-11.

Sold for £35

3 spinning rods, Abu Garcia Conolon 800 spinning, 2 sections, 305 cm, Strike Spin spinning,2 sections, 2/70 M, and a Power Flex composite spinning, 2 sections, 2.70 M.

Sold for £25

2 trout fly rods, Cafaros(?) of Glasgow, 2 sections, 10', line 6-8, and Portman, 2 sections, 9' 6", line 7-8.

Estimated: £10 - £15

2 rods, salmon fly possibly by McHardys of Carlisle, 3 sections, +/- 15', and Allcocks Feathero split cane spinning, 3 sections, 3.5 M.

Sold for £10

3 rods, Charles Farlow Greenheart trout fly, 3 sections, 2 tips, 3.3 M, Greenheart salmon fly, 3 sections, 4.8 M and a split can, 2 sections, 2.8 M.

Sold for £15

2 match rods, one in 3 sections, 3.6 M, and another.

Estimated: £10 - £15

A Conqueror by Horrocks & Ibbotson split cane spinning rod, 2 sections, 5', fitted with a Bakelite multiplying reel and with Shakespeare Walk & Wade stik.

Sold for £5

Hardy split cane trout fly rod The Gold Medal Palakona, 3 sections, 2 tips, 10'.

Sold for £42

An Allcocks Sapper split cane trout fly rod,3 sections, 9' 9".

Estimated: £10 - £15

A Shakespeare Ugly Stik Lite trout fly rod, 2 sections, 9', line 5-6.

Estimated: £10 - £15

A Hardy split cane salmon fly rod, 3 sections, 2 tips, 13' 6". Serial No. 10447.

Sold for £30

A Shakespeare Onset trout fly rod, 2 sections, 2.70 M, line 6-7.

Estimated: £10 - £15

A Hardy boat rod, 2 sections, 7'.

Sold for £20

A Hardy salmon fly rod, 3 sections, 3.8 M, line 9.

Sold for £30

A Hardy split cane trout fly rod "The Palakona", 2 sections, 6' 8", line 5.

Sold for £220

A Bruce & Walker "The Walker Powerlite" salmon fly rod, 3 sections, 15', line 7-10.

Sold for £42

A Grays G Series spinning rod, 2 sections, 9'.

Sold for £10

Three sea rods, Daiwa Sandstorm ZS13M beachcaster, 2 sections, 13', Shakespeare Contender saltwater spinning, 2 sections, 2.70 M, and a Leeda Dominator surf rod, 2 sections, 12'.

Sold for £18