sporting sale

9th - 11th April 2025

Viewing  Monday 7th April 10-5 and Tuesday 10-7 in the main saleroom.  The sale commences at 10 am on each day.  You can bid on this sale online, by leaving bids with Mitchells by email only upto 9.30 am on the day of the sale (info@mitchellsantiques.co.uk) or by attending the saleroom and registering to bid.  You can live bid on The Saleroom and Easy Live.  CARD PAYMENT ONLY

Day 1 - Lots 1-374, Day 2 - Lots 375-811, Day 3 Lots 812-1014

Lot 401

J G Millais "A Breath From The Veldt" published by Henry Southeran & Co London, first edition 1895.

Sold for £70

Lot 402

Leesa Sandys-Lumsdaine (British 1936-1985), a watercolour gouache "Trailhounds on Skiddaw", singed and dated September '71. 29 x 44 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £90

Lot 403

Mark Huskinson (1935-2018), two watercolours the first "The Paddock Royal Ascot", signed and dated '86.  44 x 31 cm, together with another of a horse and jockey.  24 x 23 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £25

Lot 404

Mark Huskinson (1935-2018), a watercolour horse racing scene with horses and jockeys "The Start Of the Season", signed and dated 1989. 18 x 53 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 405

A feather cockfighting picture, with label to rear Grey & Sons Carlisle. 4.5 x 21.5 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £28

Lot 406

Six books - "Hunting Scraps The Hunting Diary of Charles James Cropper" published by Ellergreen Press Kendal 2013 and Roger McPhail "An Artist By Nature".

Sold for £35

Lot 407

Twelve Cecil Aldin books - "Rat Catcher To Scarlet", "Handley Cross" volumes 1 and 2 and "Right Royal" by John Mansfield, illustrated by Cecil Aldin.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Lot 408

Four pictures - Jean Musgrave (Cumbrian late 20th century), pastel of two foxhounds, signed and dated 1995. 33 x 29 cm, Jean Musgrave watercolour of horse "Night Nurse" and jockey (Jonjo O'Neill), signed and dated 1986. 30 x 49 cm, framed and mounted and Two Edwin Straker prints.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Lot 409

Four engravings of comical foxhunting scenes "Hounds in Full Cry", "Hounds Finding", "Coming in at the Death" and "Hounds Throwing Off". 22 x 35 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £10

Lot 410

Wilk - John William Wilkinson (1906-1994), a watercolour cartoon "Walkies" with two dogs, pheasant and hare, signed and dated 1989. 25 x 42 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £70

Lot 411

Wilk - John William Wilkinson (1906-1994), a watercolour cartoon "Hang On Wot", with terrier, fox, rabbit and hedgehog, signed and dated 1989. 24 x 37 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £70

Lot 412

A Keltcraft of Ireland Designed by Noritake part dinner service, comprising 30 pieces, to include dinner plates, side plates, tea cups and saucers, the dinner plates decorated with foxhunting scene, Pheasant, Fox, Mallard, Rabbit and Raccoon.

Sold for £20

Lot 413

Pat (Patrick Cleary) a signed limited edition print "Meals on Wheels Hartsop", sheep in a snowy landscape with farmer and tractor. 23 x 46 cm. 4/10.

Sold for £20

Lot 414

Two hazel shafted walking stocks, the first with antler collar and tup horn handle with carved thistle. Length 127 cm, the second with tup horn handle. Length 115 cm.

Sold for £40

Lot 415

A pine stick stand, with six apertures. Height 72 cm, width 56 cm, depth 27.5 cm.

Sold for £25

Lot 416

Eleven London Midland Scottish Railway Fur and Feather Society badges, original 1947.  Diameter 22 mm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 417

Eleven London Midland Scottish Railway Fur and Feather Society badges, original 1947. Diameter 22 mm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 418

"Wick & District Beagles My Story" by Ernest Stevenson

Sold for £28

Lot 419

Richard Williamson a signed copy of "Capreol The Story of a Roe Buck".

Sold for £40

Lot 420

Richard Williamson a signed copy of "The Great Yew Forest - The Natural History of Kingley Vale", together with various letters.

Sold for £42

Lot 421

Richard Williamson a first edition signed copy of "Capreol".

Sold for £40

Lot 422

Masons of Keswick a hand coloured hunt photograph, The Blencathra Foxhounds in The Newlands Valley.  30 x 37 cm, framed.

Sold for £65

Lot 423

Masons of Keswick a hand coloured hunt photograph, of The Blencathra Foxhounds at Dodd Wood with Jim Dalton Hunstman, dated 1924. 42 x 61 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £40

Lot 424

Masons of Keswick a hand coloured hunt photograph, of The Blencathra Foxhounds in the Borrowdale Valley, huntsman Jim Dalton. 41 x 60 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £50

Lot 425

Two Trench Art brass shell cases, modified into canisters, both dating from the First World War. Height 10.5 cm, diameter 8.5 cm.

Sold for £22

Lot 426

A vintage photograph, possibly The Windermere Harriers. 26 x 44 cm framed and mounted.

Estimated: £15 - £25

Lot 427

Three vintage Ullswater Foxhounds hunt photographs, circa 1960, featuring Joe Weir huntsman and Maldwyn Williams whip 1960-1971. 12 x 16.5 cm.

Sold for £15

Lot 428

An album of sixteen postcards of hound trails in The Lake District, to include Wasdale Hound Trail 5th September 1903, Grasmere Sports, Burneside etc.

Sold for £200

Lot 429

A hunt photograph possibly The Cockermouth Beagles, the card marked Herbert Bowley Cockermouth. 16 x 21.5 cm.

Sold for £130

Lot 430

Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935), twelve signed artist proofs, depicting birds of prey, all with Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp and labelled to rear The Macdonald Booth Gallery, Walton Street London. 25 x 17 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £80

Lot 431

Two Royal Doulton figures, The Gamekeeper HN2879 with Black Labrador and The Huntsman HN2492.

Sold for £42

Lot 432

Two hip flasks, one labelled Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the other The Dalvey Sporran Flask, together with two tankards, one marked E & O FCC 1973/74, The Tom Howard Veterans cup Mr F Harvey N/S Random Caroline and a boxed set of six hunting shot glasses.

Sold for £20

Lot 433

A pair of bronze coloured boxing Hares. Height 15 cm, together with a similar Greyhound figure. Height 17 cm and three books "Tales of Rat Hunting Man" by D Brian Plummer and "Omega" 2001 reprints and "The Complete Lurcher" by D Brian Plummer 1980.

Sold for £60

Lot 434

Of Cock Fighting Interest - a pair of bronze coloured Old English Game Cocks. Height 16 cm, together with two silver coloured Cocks. 15 cm.

Sold for £160

Lot 435

A hazel shafted walking stick, with Red Stag antler handle with carved Red Stag. Height 135 cm.

Sold for £25

Lot 436

A hazel shafted walking stick, with Red Stag antler handle. Height 157 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 437

A hazel shafted walking stick, with carved wooden crook handle.  Height 137 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 438

A hazel shafted walking stick, with tup horn handle. Height 132 cm.

Sold for £25

Lot 439

A hazel shafted walking stick, with wooden crook handle. Height 142 cm.

Sold for £25

Lot 440

A collection of pewter and other badges, to include Greyhounds, Hare, EDRD 2013 Finals badge, Earth Dog Running Dog badge etc.

Sold for £15

Lot 441

A hunt photograph, in the manner of Wilkinson of Keswick of C.N. De Courcy-Parry. 31 x 40 cm framed and mounted.

Sold for £15

Lot 442

Border Fine Arts three figures Shepherd with Border Collie dated 1982, height 19 cm, together with an Otter and Kingfisher Private Fishing and a Pheasant.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 443

Border Fine Arts, two figures Gentleman Shooting with a Pair of Black Labradors on Peg No. 3, 26 cm and an Action Dogs Labrador and Pheasants figure Model No. A1440.

Sold for £40

Lot 444

H Kahle a 20th century wall hanging plaque with Stag Hounds and hunters. 43 x 38 cm.

Sold for £22

Lot 445

A ladies Barbour International black jacket Size 14.

Sold for £40

Lot 446

Robert Fletcher, a pastel depicting a Red Stag on Moorland, signed and dated 2007. 30 x 43 cm framed and mounted.

Sold for £22

Lot 447

Eight books - "German Small Arms" by A J R Cormack and "The New Encyclopedia of Hand Guns" by Christopher Chant.

Sold for £15

Lot 448

Twelve books on shooting - "The Modern Shotgun" by Major Sir Gerald Burrard and "Wildfowling" by C T Dalgety.

Sold for £20

Lot 449

Six books - "British Birds Their Nests and Eggs" by Arthur G Butler and illustrated by F W Frohawk published by Brumby & Clarke Ltd London in six volumes.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Lot 450

A Beswick Yellow Labrador, height 14 cm together with two Fallow Deer Does and a Fox.

Sold for £30

Lot 451

A quantity of Cumbria Terrier Club News pamphlets, together with a quantity of Earth Dog Running Dog magazines and a signed limited edition print by W Hobson 390/1000 dated 10/3/2001.

Sold for £50

Lot 452

Eight books on dogs and country life - "Gamecock & Countryman" by R D Humber and "Breaking Through" by Johnny Bluck.

Sold for £75

Lot 453

Six books, to include "Badger Digging With Terriers" by David Harcombe and "The Great Game The Life & Times of a Welsh Poacher" by Harold Wyman.

Sold for £50

Lot 454

Six books on hunting and Terriers - "Working Terriers, Badgers and Badger Digging" by H H King limited edition 118/250 numbered and signed by the publisher Reed Country Books and "Digging The Dirt" by Johnny Bluck volumes 1 & 2.

Sold for £60

Lot 455

Seven books on Terriers dogs etc - "Work Them Hard Treat them Like Heroes" by David Harcombe and four copies of "Country Mischief" by Colin Didriksen.

Sold for £90

Lot 456

Six books on hunting and dogs - "Try Back Lads Try Back" by Lyn Harber and "Bully and the Badger" - the remarkable story of a badger cub fostered by a Bull Terrier and eventually returned to the wild by Wickham Malins.

Sold for £65

Lot 457

Border Fine Arts cock and hen Pheasant from the Game Bird Series, Model A1392. Height 31 cm, with original box.

Sold for £40

Lot 458

Three Border Fine Arts figures - Red Stag, Fox and Boxing Hares, all boxed (AF).

Sold for £45

Lot 459

Border Fine Arts three figures - Badger, Lurcher and Fox, boxed.

Sold for £28

Lot 460

A brass hunting horn, length 30.5 cm, 6 cm at the bell end. Together with a hunting whip/crop with Stag antler handle and leather wrapped body with thong and whip section. length excluding thong 44 cm.

Sold for £50

Lot 461

Four books on cockfighting and poultry - "Cockfighting and Game Fowl from the note books of Herbert Atkinson and letters of John Harris" published by Spur Publications Hampshire and "Lewis Wright Poultry" by Dr J Batty.

Sold for £70

Lot 462

Three books on cockfighting - "The History of Cockfighting" by George Ryley Scott, limited leather bound edition 5/50, published by Spur Publications Hampshire and "Sport in the Olden Time" by Sir Walter Gilbey 1975 and "The Royal Past Time of Cockfighting" published 1973.

Sold for £130

Lot 463

Three books -"Cockfighting All Over The World" by C A Finsterbusch, "Story of Old English Game Large & Small" by William Crellin and "Understanding Old English Game" by Joseph Batty, third edition 1987.

Sold for £120

Lot 464

Four books by BB (D J Watkins Pitchford) - "The Idle Countryman April" 1948, "The Countryman's Bedside Book" 1947, "Manka The Skye Gypsy" 1970 and "The Fisherman's Bedside Book" 1950.

Sold for £25

Lot 465

Wilk (John William Wilkinson 1906-1994), a watercolour cartoon depicting John Peel of the Blencathra Foxhounds and an American gentleman in a 10 gallon hat with caption "I only said I would give you 5500 for your little trumpet" with signpost to rear Carrick Fell to the Mill Inn and Caldbeck, signed, 23 x 31 cm. NOTE: This will relate to the Keswick antique dealer Brassy Johnny Mr John Cowell Keswick antique dealer who sold hunting horns to busloads of American tourists.

Estimated: £200 - £300

Lot 466

John Trickett a signed limited edition print "Autumn Pheasants", 75/500, 24 x 36 cm, unframed.

Sold for £5

Lot 467

Anne Davies (now known as Anne Roberts from Northumberland) an oil on canvas, foxhunting scene with huntsman and follower on horseback with hounds, possibly Morpeth Hunt. 72 x 65 cm, framed.

Estimated: £100 - £150

Lot 468

Albert Bright (1890-1937), watercolour (grey wash) Grand National At Beechers Brook 1892, signed to lower left and inscribed with the horses names.  NOTE:  The winning horse in 1892 was Father O'Flynn.  46 x 72 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £150 - £250

Lot 469

A model Delivery Van Colt Patent Firearms Hartford Connecticut USA.  Height 14 cm, length +/- 21 cm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 470

Four Beswick Foxes, various styles together with three second version foxhounds.

Sold for £70

Lot 471

A set of six Rural Wrappings, fox mugs bone china, boxed.

Sold for £20

Lot 472

Quail Pottery two pairs of salt and peppers, in the form of Chocolate Labrador and French Bulldog.

Sold for £15

Lot 473

Two pairs of salt and pepper shakers by Quail Pottery, in the form of Black Labrador and Buff Orpington Chickens.

Sold for £25

Lot 474

Two pairs of Quail Pottery salt and pepper shakers, in the form of Maran hens and French Bulldogs.

Sold for £20

Lot 475

Two pairs of Quail Pottery salt and pepper shakers, in the form of Chocolate Labrador and French Bulldogs (AF).

Sold for £22

Lot 476

Two pairs of Quail Pottery salt and pepper shakers, in the form of French Bulldogs and a Dachshund mug and three hunting half pint glasses.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Lot 477

Three bottle stoppers in the form of Rabbit and Fox.

Sold for £20

Lot 478

Fourteen packs of cards and sound cards, relating to Foxes and foxhunting.

Sold for £10

Lot 479

Thirteen books on Foxes, foxhunting, Horse Racing etc. to include "My Sketchbook in the Shiny" by Snaffles, reprinted in India 2004.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Lot 480

Jonathan Walker (British born 1966), a watercolour "Ragtags Haul" Fox surrounded by Chickens. 25 x 36 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £250 - £300

Lot 481

A pair of coursing limited edition prints 217/250, possibly signed David Dent. 18 x 66 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £35

Lot 482

Alex Underdown a watercolour depicting a pair of Chickens "A Pair of Anconas". 40 x 58 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £70 - £100

Lot 483

Snaffles a hand coloured print, a Warwickshire follower "Bangtails". 36 x 14 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £90

Lot 484

Daniel Crane, two prints "The Sailor" and "The Flyer". 27 x 22 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £150

Lot 485

A print of two Greyhounds "Simonian and Fullerton" the property of Colonel J T North. 31 x 42 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £85

Lot 486

Two prints by D C Kirtley "The Roadside Fence Sedgefield" and "After The Race Sedgefield", both 14/200, together with ten various horseracing and foxhunting prints.

Sold for £15

Lot 487

Fourteen books and catalogues on horseracing, sporting art etc, to include "My Sketchbook in the Shiny" by Snaffles, reprinted in India 2004.

Estimated: £15 - £25

Lot 488

Snaffles Charles Johnston Payne 1884-1967, a book - being a selection of his hunting and racing prints, published in 1983 by Millwood Press Ltd Wellington New Zealand, limited edition, this copy No. 694 signed by the publisher and with forward by Princess Anne, quarter leather bound and in a cloth backed outer case.

Sold for £95

Lot 489

Belinda Sillars (born 1961), a watercolour pen and ink drawing of a Greyhound, signed to the tail, frame size 30 x 36 cm. NOTE: Belinda Sillars is a renowned bronze sculptor.

Sold for £40

Lot 490

Two signed limited edition prints "Shadow Hunters" by Caroline Cook 15/250, 35 x 27 cm, framed and mounted and Mick Cawston a triptych "Day Off" 647/850.

Sold for £20

Lot 491

Jacqueline Stanhope, signed limited edition print of the racehorse Kauto Star, 78/250. 50 x 36 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £38

Lot 492

Caroline Cook, three signed limited edition prints of racehorses, to include "Cue Card" 25/350. 35 x 27 cm and a study of Kauto Star, 130/500. 35 x 27 cm and another Frankel 59/250, 44 x 37 cm, framed and mounted and a Judy Goodman print "Polo Horses".

Sold for £15

Lot 493

Graham Holdsworth, a watercolour "Long Run", signed to the bottom left. 28 x 35 cm, framed and mounted.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Lot 494

Two synthetic pearl and silver necklaces, both with horse stirrup catches, marked 925, both 52 cm, black and white.

Sold for £20

Lot 495

A synthetic pearl and silver necklace, with horse stirrup decoration, stamped 925, length 52 cm.

Sold for £15

Lot 496

A silver coloured bracelet, featuring ten horses heads. Overall length 19 cm.

Sold for £10

Lot 497

A silver stamped 925 necklace, in the form of horse bits. length 44 cm, weight 27 grams.

Sold for £42

Lot 498

A silver stock pin, Birmingham hallmarked. 5 cm, 2.6 grams.

Sold for £15

Lot 499

A silver pin marked 925, in the form of a running Hare. Length 2 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 500

A pair of silver coloured cufflinks in the form of dogs heads. Stamped silver, weight 6.5 grams.

Sold for £10