country sporting sale

A Swarovski Habicht AT80 HD spotting scope, marked to the underside G&02530031, with a 20 x 60 eye piece.

Sold for £700

* Gundle a vintage shop bike with basket to front and sign written for Solway Vintage Guns Museum, established 1987, the opposite side for The Duck Inn Darts Team, fitted with a sprung Dunlop saddle.

Sold for £420

A cast iron door stop in the form of a sheep. Height 17 cm.

Sold for £20

* A decorative cast iron cannon, with 43 cm barrel, the stand decorated with horses. Overall length 65 cm.

Sold for £110

N.B. James circa 1900 an oil on board, depicting red stag hind in a Highland landscape by a loch. 18.5 cm x 29 cm in an ornate gilt frame.

Sold for £30

* A box containing a collection of vintage Shooting Times magazines, The Double Gun and Single Shot Journal, various auction sporting catalogues etc.

Sold for £10

* A leather bound game book, with inscription to the inside R.J. Jefferson from Arthur Brocklebank Xmas 1913, Springfield, Bigrigg, Cumberland, from various shoots to include Low Hall, Shaw Farm, Froggo Tarn, Moor Row Farms, Newton Manor, Lazonby Hall Fell, Eden Lazonby Fell, Irton Hall etc.

Sold for £100

* Five North of England Northumberland clay shooting patches.

Estimated: £10 - £15

* Five North of England clay pigeon cloth patches.

Estimated: £10 - £15

* Five Cumbria North of England clay pigeon cloth patches.

Estimated: £10 - £15

* Five Merseyside North of England clay pigeon cloth patches.

Estimated: £10 - £15

* Five Lancashire North of England clay pigeon cloth patches.

Estimated: £10 - £15

* Five Durham North of England clay pigeon cloth patches.

Estimated: £10 - £15

* Five Yorkshire North of England clay pigeon cloth patches.

Estimated: £10 - £15

* Nine cloth badges, to include Gamebore, Trawden Clay Pigeon Club, Cummersdale Rifle & Pistol Club, Eley cartridges, Gyttorp, Nitro Noble etc.

Estimated: £20 - £30

* A 19th century photograph of a gentleman with gun and dogs, together with seven books and three DVD's to include Letters to Young Shooters by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey.

Sold for £14

* A large brass artillery shell. Height 84.5 cm x 18.5 cm.

Sold for £75

* A large brass artillery shell case. Height 70 cm width 16.5 cm.

Sold for £55

* A large brass artillery shell case, converted into a stick stand and having a turned wooden base. Overall height 66 cm, 19 cm at the base.

Sold for £45

* Three vintage traps.

Estimated: £20 - £30

* Four gin traps, one stamped with illegible name ......... & Co, another stamped Gilpa 2nd.

Sold for £20

* Two pole traps, diameter 14 cm.

Sold for £130

* Three gin traps, one stamped Advance XX, 26-28 cm.

Sold for £20

* A gin trap and a large leg pulled trap, 44 cm and 18 cm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

* Two gin traps and another vintage trap, one gin marked with a Registered Design No. 695967.

Sold for £30

* Three gin traps, one possibly marked J Wild & Son 50, 28 cm, 27 cm & 22 cm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

* Three gin traps, two marked Gilpa 2nd and with number 5.

Sold for £22

* Three gin traps, one marked Glovers No. 6R.

Estimated: £30 - £50

* An Everett Lowestoft pattern gin trap, together with a Fenn Mk 1 rabbit trap and a scissor trap.

Sold for £30

* Three vintage traps, one stamped H Lane 2 and a Fenn Mk 4.

Estimated: £30 - £50

* Three vintage gin traps, one stamped with No 2.

Estimated: £30 - £50

* Three vintage gin traps, one stamped Daniel.

Sold for £20

* Three vintage gin traps, one stamped Lewis.

Sold for £20

* Three vintage gin traps, one stamped but illegible.

Estimated: £30 - £50

* A live Catch Rat trap together with three vintage wooden mousetraps.

Sold for £18

* James Gratton Gunsmith to the Gentry, Bond Street, London, advertising mirror 66 x 60 cm.

Sold for £40

* An early 20th century feather and watercolour picture, depicting a pair of hanging snipe, 47 x 32 cm in an oak frame with gilt slip.

Sold for £35

* A collection of books, pamphlets etc. to include Drill All Arms 1951, Extended Directory of Proof Marks, The International Military Collectors Guide etc.

Sold for £10

* Gunmakers & Gunsmiths of Cumberland & Westmorland by Kenneth Pilmer and Alan Allison.

Sold for £30

* Three books, The Powder Flask Book by Ray Riling, Air Rifles Fourth Edition by Dennis Hiller and British Hand Loading Cartridge Tools by D.J. Baker.

Sold for £40

* Two vintage plaques, The British Association For Shooting and Conservation and The Game Conservancy, 17 cm and 18 cm.

Sold for £28

* T & W Harrison Gun Manufacturers of Carlisle, an original bill dated 1871, 23 cm x 18 cm, framed.

Sold for £35

* A cabinet photograph by R.W Dugdale of Wigton, together with three postcards, all depicting gentleman with shotguns.

Sold for £5

* Cumberland & Westmorland Double Rise Championship and Cumberland & Westmorland Sporting Championship, Clay Pigeon Shooting trophies together with two photographs of Stanley Hope of Carlisle holding one of the trophies with various others.

Estimated: £20 - £30

* A Treen pot and a tin containing various types of musket balls and a bullet mould.

Sold for £24

* A large quantity of pamphlets, instruction manuals etc, to include Small Arms Training Manuals 1942 for Rifle & Grenade, Browning Automatic Rifle instructions, Webley Osprey etc.

Sold for £30

* A World War One cast iron trench mace.

Sold for £80

* A late 19th century sword stick, having a hexagonal 26 1/2" blade with a bamboo shaft, sold together with a swagger stick with carved fox's head handle.

Sold for £160

* A leather and canvas cartridge magazine, opening to a two part interior.

Sold for £65

* A folding Sportsman's travelling kit, with space for ammunition and containing a fixed blade bone handled knife, with 6" blade and a sharpening steel.

Sold for £50

* T Thomasson & Co a leather pouch dated 1917, together with another pouch marked to the rear Denver, together with a leather ammunition wrist or leg belt.

Sold for £40

* Two leather pouches containing cleaning equipment, a pull through stamped 12 and one pouch with lift up stamped Patent.

Sold for £20

* Three nipple keys, together with two powder measures, one stamped James Dixon & Son.

Sold for £110

* Two early 19th century brass belt hanging boxes, length 10 cm, together with two leather ammunition pouches and a leather ammunition wrist band.

Sold for £80

* An unusual brass 19th century powder measure, length when not extended including carrying loop 11 cm, together with a later wooden holder.

Sold for £65

Trevor Boyer (b. 1948) a pair of watercolour gouache of a New Ireland hawk owl and a Rufus Scops owl taken from the book "Owls of the World", 13 x 10 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £100 - £150

Trevor Boyer (b. 1948) a watercolour gouache of a grass owl 19 x 21.5 cm, framed and mounted with lavel to rear Wildlife Art Gallery, 70-71 High Street, Lavenham, Suffolk with a price of £385.

Sold for £80

* A punt gun powder measure marked Powder 3 1/2oz shot 20oz, together with a turned brass case and a three draw brass telescope.

Sold for £45

* A 19th century brass powder measure, together with another with ebony handle and a Tomlinson gun cleaner with original box.

Sold for £50

* Hebron & Medlock trigger tester, marked in pounds with instruction sheet, together with three oil bottles, to include a Damascus one, length 6.5 cm.

Sold for £70

* A quantity of reloading tools, to include a J.C. Cocker Patent 5535 12 bore capper decapper combination tool, together with powder measures etc.

Sold for £60

* Two pieces of reloading equipment, capper decappers, to include a four pillar version stamped 12.

Sold for £35

* G & J.W. Hawksley a 12 bore roll turnover machine, together with a Jeffries 12 bore Patent roll turnover machine.

Sold for £40

* James Dixon & Sons a powder measure, together with another, two capper decappers etc.

Sold for £65

* Four Eley and other percussion cap tins, together with two military oil bottles, one stamped Gabriel Birmingham, the other possibly Harcourt.

Sold for £45

* A Salter trigger pull tester, together with three powder measures.

Sold for £45

* A Kynoch's Patent 12 bore chamberless cartridge reloading tool, stamped 12 G.609 157 A. Length 8 cm.

Sold for £90

* G & J.W. Hawksley, two 12 bore roll turnover machines.

Sold for £35

* Three pieces of reloading equipment, to include a J.C. Cocker Patent 12 bore capper decapper, another item stamped Blitz and a roll turnover machine.

Sold for £50

* James Dickson & Son, an oil bottle together with a stainless steel 1oz flask and a Henri Nicolas French powder measure.

Sold for £75

* P Webley & Sons a double tube capper and expeller, marked to the top R7035 16, together with another. See D.J. Baker Cartridge Tools page No. 31.

Sold for £45

* A brass capper decapper, together with two brass decappers.

Sold for £40

* A brass decapper, together with a 12 bore powder rammer.

Sold for £50

* Two roll turnover machines, one stamped Ward and 12.

Sold for £30

* James Dixon & Sons a 12 bore roll turnover and wad rammer, together with a G & J.W. Hawksley 12 bore roll turnover machine.

Sold for £40

* Bartram & Co Nimrod 12 bore roll turnover with combined wad rammer, together with a combined roll turnover capper decapper and rod rammer.

Sold for £75

* A collection of powder and shot flasks, to include a scrotum type and a small pistol flask. Length 11 cm.

Sold for £20

* Two leather bodied shot flask, one embossed with hanging game, 21 cm and 23 cm excluding hanging loops.

Sold for £28

* Two leather bodied shot flasks, one embossed to both sides with a hunting dog, 18 cm and 22 cm.

Sold for £26

* James Dixon & Sons Sheffield, a brass and copper powder flask, together with a leather covered powder flask, 16 and 19 cm.

Sold for £65

* Two leather bodied shot flasks, 18 cm and 22 cm.

Sold for £20

* A leather shot bandolier.

Sold for £45

* G & J.W. Hawksley Sheffield, two leather bodied shot flasks, embossed G & J.W. Hawksley and with fox hunters on horseback, 19 and 21 cm.

Sold for £50

* Two steel bodied powder flasks, G & J.W. Hawksley of Sheffield and another stamped Sykes Patent improved fireproof. 21 cm and 20 cm.

Sold for £30

* Two copper and brass powder flasks, the first by Dixon & Sons embossed with leaves and hanging game 20 cm, together with another stamped Sykes Patent improved fireproof.

Sold for £50

* James Dixon & Sons a leather bandolier type shot flask.

Sold for £65

* Two copper bodied shot flasks, the first embossed with a hunting dog and deer 19 cm, the other embossed with a floral lattice work 20 cm.

Sold for £45

* Two copper bodied powder flasks, the first embossed with a man reloading with dogs 19 cm, and the other 17 cm.

Sold for £28

* Two copper bodied powder flasks, the first embossed with hanging game 20 cm, and the other with framed lattice work 19 cm.

Sold for £35

* A pair of oak leaf stag and fox embossed powder flasks 20 cm.

Sold for £50

* Two powder flasks, both stamped Sykes Patent, the first of rectangular form 18 cm, the other 16 cm.

Sold for £55

* A pair of embossed powder flasks, length 21 cm.

Sold for £75

* G & J.W. Hawksley Sheffield a heavily embossed powder flask, length 21 cm, together with a fluted bodied flask 19 cm.

Sold for £35

* A near pair of powder flasks, with border decoration, the one stamped Sykes Patent 19 cm, the other 18 cm.

Sold for £26

* Three powder flasks, one stamped US in a shield with eagle and clasped hands, length 23 cm, also marked Batty, a flask with floral Art Nouveau style decoration 20 cm and a James Dixon & Sons Sheffield improved Patent flask with shell decoration 21 cm.

Sold for £90

* A.M. Flask & Cap Company, a large powder flask with fluted body with hanging chain, length 24 cm.

Sold for £100

* A pressed horn bodied powder flask, with unusual folding brass nozzle, height when open 20 cm.

Sold for £95

* An unusual flask with a horn topped spring pump charger, the flask with leather covered body, length 24 cm.

Sold for £95

* Dixon & Sons a copper bodies powder flask, with embossed Art Nouveau style floral decoration, length 20 cm.

Sold for £70

* James Dixon & Sons Ltd and Parker Hale, a leather covered powder flask, overall length 21 cm.

Sold for £65