sporting sale

11th October 2014

Lot 419

2 books, "Shooting & Salmon Fishing" by A. Grimble, published by Chapman & Hall, London 1892, and "A Portrait of Shooting" by John Marchington, limited edition 859/1100.

Sold for £50

Lot 420

Hardy "Anglers Guide" 58th Edition 1951 and 1951 price list, order form and purchase tax form.

Sold for £20

Lot 422

13 books, predominantly fishing, including "The Trout & The Fly" by Goddard & Clark.

Sold for £30

Lot 423

4 books, ferreting, poaching etc., including Fred J. Taylor's "Guide to Ferreting".

Sold for £14

Lot 424

4 books, taxidermy, "Modern Basketry Techniques" and "Countryside Crafts Today".

Sold for £12

Lot 425

14 books, predominantly shooting, including "Pigeon Shooting" by Archie Coates.

Sold for £40

Lot 426

Pin in form of riding crop, stamped "9 ct" and another stick pin, white metal decorated with horseshoe.

Sold for £30

Lot 428

Two prints, Peter Scott, pink footed geese on fenland, 31 cm x 37 cm framed and mounted, and Havell engraving "Partridge Shooting near Windsor", 21 cm x 30 cm framed and mounted.

Sold for £16

Lot 429

Three books, 2 by C.F. Tunnicliffe, "Shoreland Summer Diary", "Mere Side Chronicle" and copy of "Wildfowls Year" by Aylmer Tryon and Hugh Monahan.

Sold for £10

Lot 430

Box of 27 books, shooting.

Sold for £44

Lot 431

3 books, 2 by Hugh Falkus.

Sold for £22

Lot 432

Archibald Thorburn limited edition print "On the Alert - Pheasants" 199/850. 31 cm x 49 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Lot 434

Of Horse Racing Interest - Roy Miller signed limited edition print "Dancing Brave with Pat Eddery Up" signed by jockey and artist 416/500, with certificate of authenticity verso. 48 cm x 36 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £38

Lot 435

Lionel Edwards, two prints "The Tetrarch" and "The Aga Khans Mumtaz Mahal", 23 cm x 34 cm and 24 cm x 42 cm respectively.

Sold for £38

Lot 436

R. Fletcher signed print of fox. 29 cm x 37 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £12

Lot 437

R.A. Maney, two signed prints, both of kingfishers, one 14 cm x 26 cm, 263/350, the other 13 cm x 17 cm, both framed and mounted.

Sold for £10

Lot 438

Print of grouse by Philip Rickman and three brass figures of dogs, man with gun, etc. and two white metal pheasant figures.

Sold for £12

Lot 440

5 framed salmon flies. 17 cm x 17 cm.

Sold for £5

Lot 441

Collection of brass birds, animals, including pheasant/nutcracker combined bottle opener.

Sold for £4

Lot 442

Howorths of Keswick hunt photograph of the Blencathra Foxhounds in Keswick. 12 cm x 17 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £110

Lot 443

Crown Devon Fieldings John Peel musical tankard. Height 25 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 444

Crown Devon Fieldings John Peel jug. Height 20 cm.

Sold for £38

Lot 445

Crown Devon Fieldings John Peel lamp, height 19 cm, and hunting light shade.

Sold for £68

Lot 446

3 books, "Air Rifle Hunting", "Duck Shooting" and "Woodsman" by Ben Law.

Sold for £12

Lot 448

Cecil Aldin signed print of a foxhunt. 33 cm x 67 cm.

Sold for £18

Lot 449

Cecil Aldin pair of handcoloured prints "The Water Jump" and "A Hunting Family". 27 cm x 70 cm, in oak frames with hunting motifs and labels verso "The Parker Gallery, 2 Albermarle Street, London".

Sold for £150

Lot 450

2 horseracing engravings "Weighing and Rubbing Down" and "Preparing to Start". 19 cm x 54 cm, mounted.

Sold for £28

Lot 451

2 pictures, engraving "The Weary Sportsman", 25 cm x 20 cm, framed and mounted, and print of men digging, 20 cm x 30 cm.

Sold for £2

Lot 452

Archibald Thorburn pair of prints ptarmigan and red grouse. 32 cm x 45 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £68

Lot 454

4 books, hunting, including Baileys "Hunting Companion".

Sold for £4

Lot 456

7 books, shooting, including Purdey "The Guns & The Family" by Richard Beaumont.

Sold for £30

Lot 457

3 books, including, "The John Peel Story" by W.R. Mitchell.

Sold for £6

Lot 458

Barbour flat cap decorated with 36 hunt and related badges, Coniston Foxhounds, Ullswater, Bedlington Terrier Club, etc.

Sold for £60

Lot 459

Sanderson & Dixon hunt photograph "Lake District Huntsmen 1953". 30 cm x 38 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £30

Lot 460

J.A. Stewart signed print of foxhunting with Fine Art Trade blind backstamp. 21 cm x 670 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £32

Lot 461

2 Baily's Hunt Directories Seasons 1961-62 and 1965-66.

Sold for £2

Lot 462

9 Baily's Hunting Directories Seasons 1955-56, 1958-59, 60-81, 61-62, 62-63, 63-64, 65-66, 71-72 and 78-79.

Sold for £20

Lot 463

5 fell pack photographs, 3 of Melbreak Foxhounds, 19 cm x 25 cm, framed, mounted, Coniston Foxhounds photographic print, 23 cm x 28 cm, framed, mounted, and Geoff Prestwich photographic print Fell Pack Huntsmen at Lowther Show 1990, 23 cm x 40 cm.

Sold for £12

Lot 464

Henry B. Neilson print "Mr Fox's Christmas Dinner". 29 cm x 60 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £20

Lot 465

Johnny Richardson Blencathra Foxhounds, 3 photographs mounted in single frame "Johnny Richardson Blencathra Huntsman 1988. Frame 34 cm x 70 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 466

Robin Furness, 3 prints "Foxhunting on the Lakeland Fells", "The Martindale Fox - To Ground Borrowdale" and another. 28 cm x 41 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £30

Lot 467

4 books, fishing, including "An Anglers Basket" by T.E. Pritt 1896.

Sold for £18

Lot 468

"Morris's British Birds" 2nd Edition 5 volumes, 1, 2,3, IV and VI.

Sold for £14

Lot 469

3 books, "The Gamekeeper at Home", "Shooting on a Small Income" and "British Rural Sports" by Stonehenge.

Sold for £16

Lot 470

Riding crop with brass handle, integral priest, leading to silver coloured collar with fox mask motif, malacca shaft and thong. Length 78 cm.

Sold for £34

Lot 471

Photograph of Blencathra Foxhounds by James Tuersley at Stannah Ghyll April 1972. 27 cm x 38 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £85

Lot 472

Robin Furness singed limited edition print of Eskdale Ennerdale Foxhounds also signed by W.E. Porter, 94/250. 28 cm x 41 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £12

Lot 473

Photograph on canvas of the Blencathra Foxhounds with Johnny Richardson and Barry Todhunter. 39 cm x 49 cm, in gilt frame.

Sold for £44

Lot 474

2 coursing scenes with lurchers and hares, one signed "Everet" 27/100. 29 cm x 39 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £5

Lot 475

Print by Nora Fulcher of Tommy Dobson Eskdale Ennerdale Foxhounds. 28 cm x 23 cm, mounted, in oak frame.

Sold for £5

Lot 477

Silver medal (tested as silver) in base metal surround showing breeds of dogs to one side and to the other the inscription rubbed, possibly "The Welsh Bloodhound Society Circa 1880". Diameter 5.5 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 479

Michael Lyne signed print of The RAC Beagles, Cirencester, with Fine Art Guild back stamp. 38 cm x 52 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £36

Lot 480

James Boardman signed limited edition "Red Kite over Gwastedyn Hill" 48/345. 24 cm x 34 cm.

Sold for £5

Lot 481

John William Wilkinson (Wilk 1906-1994) cartoon of Johnny Richardson and The Blencathra Foxhounds, signed and dated 1984. 29 cm x 47 cm, framed.

Sold for £350

Lot 482

12 books, hunting, including "John Peel, The Man, The Myth and The Song".

Sold for £8

Lot 483

4 copies of Baileys Hunting Directory 67-68, 73-74, 81-82 and 86-87.

Sold for £16

Lot 484

2 books, Hugh Falkus "Salmon Fishing, A Practical Guide" and "Sea Trout Fishing - Revised 2nd Edition".

Sold for £18

Lot 485

3 tankards, two engraved "Eskdale Show 1993" and "Dugdale's Trophy".

Sold for £8

Lot 486

Collection of foxhunting plates, figurines, pictures, glassware, copper hunting horn, etc.

Sold for £20

Lot 487

Pair of silver hallmarked cufflinks with fox head motif, makers mark "PDH", London 1967, property of W.E. Porter, Eskdale Ennerdale Foxhounds.

Sold for £60

Lot 488

27 hunt and related badges, trophy badges, etc., Melbreak, Ullswater, Eskdale, Ennerdale, etc.

Sold for £62

Lot 489

12 hunt buttons, metal, composition, etc., some made by The London Badge & Button Co., other Firmin & Son, all with fox head motif, one stamped "Tynedale Hunt Club".

Sold for £20

Lot 490

Car mascot in form of fox, stamped to base "Made in England". Height 7 cm, length 15 cm.

Sold for £85

Lot 491

15 books, predominantly shooting, and copper hunting horn.

Sold for £22

Lot 492

Cumberland Foxhounds badge Season 1962-63.

Sold for £22

Lot 493

Cumberland Foxhounds badge Season 1961-62.

Sold for £20

Lot 495

Lionel Edwards, 2 limited edition prints of foxhunting with Chelsea Green Editions blind stamp, 231/600 and 230/600. 33 cm x 49 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £75

Lot 497

Cecil Aldin, set of 6 prints published by Richard Wyman & Co., London, "The Quorn", "The Warwickshire" x 3, "The Cheshire" and "The VWH". 14 cm x 30 cm.

Sold for £90

Lot 499

"Closes Fisherman Chart of the North Sea, Correct to July 1948 - September 1952", showing minefields, etc. 156 cm x 100 cm.

Sold for £12

Lot 501

12 books, firearms, including "The Real West" and "Gun Collecting".

Sold for £5

Lot 502

Print, distinctly signed possibly SAH, "The Red Lion" with huntsmen, hounds, etc., published London 10 July 1896 by Robert Dunthorne. 56 cm x 43 cm, in oak frame with gilt slip.

Sold for £12

Lot 503

Pair of prints "Capercaillie" and "Black Grouse". 29 cm x 38 cm, framed, mounted, with "Richard Hewlett Gallery, Chelsea Green, London" label.

Sold for £34

Lot 504

Horse measuring stick with stag antler handle, silver collar makers mark JH Birmingham 1897, and bamboo shaft. Height 93 cm (spirit level intact.)

Sold for £115

Lot 505

4 DVDS on fishing, "Hooked on Fishing" Scotland, England and Ireland and "Mick Brown on Pike Fishing".

Sold for £8

Lot 506

3 books "Reminisces of a Local Angler 60 Years Ago" by John Fleming of Cockermouth 1927, Hugh Falkus "The Stolen Years" and "The Life History of The Salmon" by J. Arthur Hutton including photographs of the Fitz Weir on the Cumberland Derwent.

Sold for £24

Lot 507

Picture and 4 books, picture containing 6 salmon flies, 16 cm x 23 cm, and 2 copies of "The Complete Angler" by Isaac Walton, "Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before you Die" and "How to catch a Trout" by 3 anglers, second edition 1888.

Sold for £6

Lot 508

Pair of cockfighting spurs. 4.5 cm and 5 cm shafts.

Sold for £80

Lot 509

Pair of cockfighting spurs. 4.5 cm spurs.

Sold for £65

Lot 511

Late 19th century horn or composition whistle in the form of dogs head. Length 7 cm.

Sold for £26

Lot 512

Heythrop hunt jacket, 5 large and 4 small metal buttons stamped verso "Firmin & Sons", 2 large buttons to rear.

Sold for £115

Lot 513

Brass and copper curved hunting horn originally from the Iriving Family, Lorton. Length 21 cm.

Sold for £40

Lot 514

Henry Keat Sutton Scotney copper and silver plated hunting horn. Length 23 cm.

Sold for £140

Lot 516

Pair of ivory handled boot pulls marked with bird and branch crest and initials "HMG". Length 26 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 517

10 silver coloured fish and animals, hare, stag, salmon, etc. Hare height 10 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 519

John Peel Toby jug with Wilkinson Ltd., Royal Pottery, Staffordshire backstamp exclusive to Soane & Smith Ltd., 462 Oxford Street, London, also signed by S.H. Shorter, height 36 cm, and 2 Danbury Mint game bird tankards, black grouse and grey partridge, height 13 cm.

Sold for £165

Lot 520

Walking stick with pheasant head handle. 88 cm.

Sold for £24

Lot 522

Jill Healing watercolour of huntsman and follower on horseback, hounds, etc. 50 cm x 52 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £85

Lot 523

3 stick pins of cockfighting interest, one tested as gold, length 6 cm, one silver coloured, length 4 cm, the third painted in black and white.

Sold for £115

Lot 524

Pair of cockfighting spurs with 4.5 cm shafts.

Sold for £160

Lot 526

5 menu cards with watercolour paintings of foxhunting scenes and with quotes from The Old Grey Fox by Arthur Connan Doyle and one blank menu card. All 13 cm x 8 cm.

Sold for £55

Lot 527

4 Blencathra Foxhounds hunt badges.

Sold for £20

Lot 528

Coniston Foxhounds hunt badge.

Sold for £8

Lot 530

19 books, shooting, including "Pigeon Shooting" by Archie Coates.

Sold for £22

Lot 532

21 books, lurchers, greyhounds, etc., including "Your Dog" by John Montgomery.

Sold for £28

Lot 533

Cuthbert Bradley print "Earl of Bathhurst BWH Damsel & The Fitzwilliam Harper", 19 cm x 22 cm, framed, mounted, and brass and beech lined box with embossed sporting dog motif, width 8 cm.

Sold for £6

Lot 534

5 game cock prints.

Sold for £36

Lot 535

Manner of Britains, 4 lead figures, huntsman, height 9 cm, 2 hounds and otter.

Sold for £10

Lot 536

Gold coloured scarf clip with enamelled fox's head motif. Length 2 cm.

Sold for £42

Lot 537

Stick pin in form of horseshoe with fox's head mounted with ruby coloured eyes, tested as gold. 3 cm.

Sold for £10

Lot 538

D.E. Wardle watercolour duck flighting on to pond. 28 cm x 37 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £22