sporting sale

16th April 2016

Lot 101

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - Classic Doubles Model 92 12 bore over/under shotgun, 30 inch multi-choked barrels, single adjustable trigger, 14.75 inch pistol grip stock, cased, with 5 chokes, choke key, etc. Serial No. 193464.

Sold for £220

Lot 102

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - 3 part boxes of 12 bore collectors' cartridges, including Eley Gas Tight Water Resisting 3 inch BBs and No. 4s, Griffiths of Skipton, etc.

Sold for £45

Lot 103

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - 10 part boxes of 12 bore collectors; cartridges, Eley, Cogswell & Harrison, Purdey (empty), P.D. Malloch.

Sold for £25

Lot 104

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - 10 boxes of collectors' cartridges, including Westley Richards, Boss, Holland & Holland, William Evans, Churchill, (250).

Sold for £25

Lot 105

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - 10 boxes of 12 bore collectors' cartridges, including Climax, Eley Special Trap Shooting, Pneumatic Cartridge, William Powell, War Time Issue, etc. (250).

Sold for £80

Lot 106

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - 10 boxes of 12 bore collectors' cartridges, including Eley War Time Issue, Holland & Holland, British Smokeless, Eley Skeet, etc. (250).

Sold for £30

Lot 107

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - 6 boxes of 12 bore collectors' cartridges, Winchester AA, Eley Grand Prix War Time Issue, Gunnerside, etc. (200).

Sold for £30

Lot 108

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - Box of 5 Eley Rocket cartridges, 12 bore, and 24 Eley 2 inch paper cased cartridges, 12 bore.

Sold for £38

Lot 109

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - 3 part boxes and bag of 20 bore cartridges, including McCormick's Solicitors, Eley, Sellier & Bellot, Velox, etc.

Sold for £12

Lot 110

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - Fabarm Model 130 GO semi-automatic shotgun, 25 inch barrel, improved choke, 3 shot, 14.75 inch stock. Serial No. 407087.

Not Sold

Lot 111

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - 250 NSI.UNO Primi 12 bore cartridges, 28 gram, No. 8 shot.

Sold for £40

Lot 112

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - 250 NSI.UNO Primi 12 bore cartridges, 28 gram, No. 8 shot.

Sold for £38

Lot 113

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - Morgan 12 bore over/under shotgun, 28 inch multi-choked barrels, 14.5 inch stock, 5 chokes and choke key, new. Serial No. 0742 (1886).

Not Sold

Lot 114

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - Webley 810 12 bore semi-automatic shotgun, 28 inch multi-choke barrel, cased, 5 chokes, choke key and instructions, etc. Serial No. 6152845 (3786).

Sold for £200

Lot 115

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - Winchester Super X2 12 bore semi-automatic shotgun, 29 inch barrel, multi-choke, 3.5 inch magnum, synthetic 14 inch stock including rubber recoil pad. Serial No. 11DNN08451 (3734).

Sold for £200

Lot 116

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - Gamber 12 bore semi-automatic shotgun, 25 inch barrel, 1/4 choke, action engraved with snipe and ducks, 14 inch stock, Model 80. Serial No. 200590 (3858).

Sold for £95

Lot 117

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - Miroku 12 bore over/under shotgun, 26 inch barrels, 1/2 and 1/4 choke, 2.75 inch chambers, single trigger, 13.75 inch stock including rubber recoil pad. Serial No. 1121264 (3878).

Not Sold

Lot 118

SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED - Stevens Model 67 Serial E 12 bore pump action shotgun, 29 inch barrel, 3/4 choke, 3 inch chamber, 14 inch stock including rubber recoil pad. Serial No. E783761 (3859).

Sold for £100

Lot 119

Melbreak Foxhounds hunt badge 1969-70 with green and red enamel. 15 mm.

Sold for £38

Lot 120

Mid to late 19th century otter hunting photograph, gentlemen, otter hounds and stately home (possibly Higham Hall) with car parked on drive. 14 cm x 24 cm, in oak frame with gilt slip.

Sold for £18

Lot 121

Country Artists figurine "Woodland Glory" Limited Edition, cock and hen pheasant with chicks, dated 1993, impressed initials "AB" and signed "S. Bews".

Sold for £120

Lot 122

Early 20th century postcard, 6 gentlemen in India with bag of trophies, including leopard, black buck, chinkara.

Sold for £8

Lot 123

John William Wilkinson (Wilk 1906-1994), watercolour cartoon, Johnny Richardson of The Blencathra Foxhounds with fox and hounds, signed and dated '75. 32 cm x 27 cm.

Not Sold

Lot 124

Blencathra Foxhounds hunt photograph, young Johnny Richardson. 15 cm x 20 cm, framed.

Sold for £10

Lot 125

Pair of Studio Pottery boxing hares mounted on pine plinth. Hare height 30 and 31 cm, plinth length 54 cm.

Sold for £65

Lot 126

Copy of Whitehead Encyclopedia of Deer by G. Kenneth Whitehead, First Edition 1993.

Sold for £25

Lot 127

Early 20th century postcard "On The River Cocker", fishermen in river.

Sold for £10

Lot 128

Beswick fallow buck figure. Height 20 cm.

Sold for £25

Lot 129

Pair of needleworks, pheasants, deer, ducks, etc. 38 cm x 9 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Lot 130

Print, fox hunters on horseback leaping wall with hounds. 52 cm x 65 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £5

Lot 131

2 Carlisle Otter Hound postcards, Carlisle Otter Hounds at River Lyne, West Lynton Bridge, and Muckle Lyne's Fairy Table.

Sold for £18

Lot 132

8 sporting engravings, 4 by Howitt "Woodcock Shooting", "Partridge Shooting", "Grouse Shooting" and "Pheasant Shooting", 16 cm x 10 cm, in Hogarth frames, and 4 Alken "Grouse Shooting", "Partridge Shooting", Pheasant Shooting" and "Duck Shooting", 10 cm x 13 cm, in Hogarth frames.

Sold for £30

Lot 133

Large wooden and metal fish platter by Sijam of France. 92 cm.

Sold for £18

Lot 134

Salzmann (b. 28/05/1835), oil on canvas, red stag in wooded landscape. 49 cm x 99 cm, in gilt frame, with paperwork from Josef Mensing Art Centre and Certificate of Originality.

Sold for £28

Lot 135

Brian Rawling, watercolour, study of roebuck head, dated '71. 32 cm x 26 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 136

7 Melbreak Foxhounds Annual Dinner Dance menus, 1965, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72.

Sold for £8

Lot 137

3 books, "Tales of The Old Poachers, "Tales of The Old Gamekeepers" and "A Countryman's Year" by Alan C. Jenkins.

Sold for £18

Lot 138

Royal Worcester VLP large tea cup and saucer, glass with handpainted fly decoration, another glass and 2 fishing related mugs.

Sold for £10

Lot 139

Pair of cushions, with green velvet backs with fishing scenes. Length approximately 36 cm.

Sold for £5

Lot 140

C. David ......, watercolour, snowy owl, reputedly by a Blackpool artist. 48 cm x 32 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 141

Pair of late 19th/early 20th century cock fighting pictures, watercolour and feather. 3.5 cm x 16 cm, framed.

Sold for £38

Lot 142

Set of 6 engravings, painted by Turner, engraved by Hunt, published London 1841 by J.W. Laird, Leadenhall Street, "Grouse Shooting", "Partridge Shooting", "Pheasant Shooting", Woodwock Shooting", "Duck Shooting" and "Snipe Shooting". All 45 cm x 53 cm.

Sold for £18

Lot 143

Poem by Christopher Curtis, "Hi Lost", drawings by John Tickner, signed by Christopher Curtis, 25 cm x 20 cm, framed, and 2 Howitt engravings "Partridge Shooting" and "Pheasant Shooting", 31 cm x 43 cm.

Sold for £5

Lot 144

Oil painting on canvas, golden eagle chasing fox, signed "Billy". 43 cm x 58 cm, in gilt frame.

Not Sold

Lot 145

Oil painting on canvas, illegible signature, black Labrador flushing a cock pheasant. 48 cm x 58 cm, framed.

Not Sold

Lot 146

Oil painting on canvas, pair of cock pheasants fighting, signed Somkid. 44 cm x 55 cm.

Not Sold

Lot 147

Oil painting on canvas, black Cocker Spaniel and woodcock, signed Somkid. 59 cm x 49 cm.

Not Sold

Lot 148

3 piece hunting tea service, marked to the bottom "England", teapot, milk jug, sugar basin, teapot height 15 cm, and 3 jugs.

Sold for £30

Lot 149

Mike Hughes, signed Limited Edition print 6/50, hound trail. 13 cm x 55 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £10

Lot 150

Border Fine Arts Russell Willis white cockerel figure, on mahogany plinth. Height 31 cm.

Sold for £40

Lot 151

Hunting Meets card holder, with meet card for The Barlow Hounds. 23 cm x 31 cm, in gilt and mahogany frame.

Sold for £28

Lot 152

11 books/magazines, cock fighting, including "Cock Fighting Allover The World" by E.A. Finsterbusch.

Sold for £65

Lot 153

18 books/magazines, including "O for A Falconers Voice" by Roger Upton.

Sold for £15

Lot 154

Parker Hale catalogue, "Everything for Shooting" Edition 62, circa 1963, and a list of Recommended Retail Selling Prices.

Sold for £10

Lot 155

2 books, "From Foxes Earth to Mountain Tarn" by J.H. Crawford, with blind stamp "Review Copy" with John Lanes Compliments, published by John Lane, and "Lakeland Grey" by Richard Clapham 1947.

Sold for £28

Lot 156

10 books, wildlife, falconry, etc., including "Songs & Verses" by G.J. Whyte Melville.

Sold for £20

Lot 157

15 books, fox hunting, including "They Still Meet at 11" by Jim Meads.

Sold for £35

Lot 158

Collection of fox hunting ceramics, including Spode "The Hunt - First Over" biscuit barrel, height 21 cm, and an Oriental casket, cake stand, 4 jugs and sugar bowl.

Sold for £45

Lot 159

Border Fine Arts and Aynsley, BFA Wildlife Families RW2 Otter figurine, BFA Terrier and Mouse figure and Aynsley Red Fox.

Sold for £20

Lot 160

Beswick, 2 foxes, black Labrador and foal, and an English pewter stirrup cup in the form of a foxes head.

Sold for £35

Lot 161

Merle & Co. riding crop, with stags antler handle, silver coloured collar, malacca shaft and leather thong. Length excluding thong 47 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 162

Maysons of Keswick, handcoloured photograph, Willie Irving and The Melbreak Foxhounds at Crummock. 17 cm x 29 cm, framed.

Sold for £35

Lot 163

Dumfries Otter Hounds hunt photograph, at Ouse Bridge, Bassenthwaite Lake, 26th July 1955 which was the first meet of The Dumfries Otter Hounds in Cumberland West, with The Master Major Bell Irving, Deputy Master Captain J. Bell Irving, Huntsman Will Scott Jnr., and J.W. Tomlinson Chairman of The West Cumberland Otter Hounds. 16 cm x 21.5 cm.

Sold for £28

Lot 164

19th century carving set, large form, with stags antler handles, knife and fork engraved "J.P. Langley 1836", blade marked "Philips Sarun", in oak case with blue fitted interior. Blade length 12 ins.

Sold for £120

Lot 165

Roger McPhail, signed Limited Edition print 472/500, leaping salmon with grey wagtails. 51 cm x 40 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £70

Lot 166

Book plate, "Sketches of Highland Deer Stalking". 34 cm x 48 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £25

Lot 167

Life size resin cast salmon wall hanging. Length 84 cm.

Sold for £110

Lot 168

Lionel Edwards, "My Hunting Sketchbook" Volumes 1 & 2, reprint November 1928 and First Edition.

Sold for £50

Lot 169

"More Shires & Provinces", by Sabretache, illustrations by Lionel Edwards, printed in Great Britain by Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., His Majesty's Printers, London, E8.

Sold for £95

Lot 170

7 books, fox hunting, including "My Hunting Sketchbook" by Lionel Edwards and "Thoughts on Hunting" by Peter Beckford Esq., illustrations by G. Denholm Armor.

Sold for £35

Lot 171

Robin Furness print,The Blencathra Foxhounds, signed by the Hound & Terrier Judges and Johnny Richardson and Barry Todhunter for Lowther Show 1986. Image 28 cm x 42 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 172

Robin Furness, print of The Ullswater Foxhounds signed by the Hounds & Terrier Judges, The Master of The Ullswater Foxhounds and Dennis Barrow The Huntsman for Lowther 1985. Image size 28 cm x 42 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 173

3 copper and brass hunting horns, one curved stamped "Made in England", 25 cm, and two 22 cm.

Sold for £48

Lot 174

Beswick huntswoman on grey horse, Model No. 1730. 21 cm.

Sold for £120

Lot 175

Beswick, group of 7 Second Version hounds, fox and huntsman on brown horse.

Sold for £110

Lot 176

Border Fine Arts and Beswick, BFA pig figurine "Back Scratch", "All Creatures Great & Small Butttercup", "On the Farm Black & White Calf & Wellies", calf and pair of Beswick hounds.

Sold for £20

Lot 177

Crown Devon Fieldings John Peel musical jug. Height 19 cm.

Sold for £60

Lot 178

Rare Maysons of Keswick Blencathra Foxhounds in The Newlands Valley postcard. NOTE - The gentleman lying down to the right with terriers is not normally seen on the traditional photograph.

Sold for £22

Lot 179

Group of rare postcards of The Blencathra Foxhounds in around Keswick, Ashness Bridge, Royal Oak Hotel, etc. (14).

Sold for £135

Lot 180

Steven Townsend signed Limited Edition 255/400, barn owl, with blind backstamp. 25 cm x 20 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £28

Lot 181

Steven Townsend, signed Limited Edition print 21/500, "Daylight Vigil", with Northern Editions blind stamp. 45 cm x 35 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £38

Lot 182

Alan Keith Linley, signed Limited Edition print 3/500, barn owl family. 39 cm x 53 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 183

George W. Pickering, signed Limited Edition print 189/500, "Reflections of Bygone Days" barn owl, with Northern Editions blind stamp and Certificate of Authenticity verso. 37 cm x 29 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £48

Lot 184

J.S. Waide, Artists Proof 4/5, barn owl. 35 cm x 45 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 185

J.S. Waide, oil on board, barn owl. 39 cm x 34 cm signed and dated '97

Sold for £350

Lot 186

Late 19th/early 20th century horse fleam stamped "T.E. Bladon & Son Ltd., Birmingham". 36 cm.

Sold for £18

Lot 187

10 hunt and related badges and 2 cufflinks, Blackcombe Beagles, Farlow Hunt, British Field Sports Society, etc.

Sold for £50

Lot 188

Elizabethan fine bone china hunting plate and pair of Nanrich Pottery mugs.

Sold for £18

Lot 189

"The Nature of Game, United Kingdom, Europe, North American", with Holland & Holland by Ben Hoskyns.

Not Sold

Lot 190

Postcard of Neddy Swainson who in his 96th year ascended Coniston Old Man on July 7th 1914.

Not Sold

Lot 191

5 postcards, 3 of the Ullswater Foxhounds, one Coniston Foxhounds and one Blencathra Foxhounds.

Sold for £18

Lot 192

Swaine & Adeney, London, Hunting Fixtures board. 19 cm x 24.5 cm.

Sold for £40

Lot 193

Gold Hound Trailing Association medal engraved "Annual Trails Held at Threlkeld August 10th 1935 Hound Trail", stamped "375", in Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. box, weight 8 grams.

Sold for £80

Lot 194

Silver brooch with handpainted fox, stamped to rear "925, England". Length 75. cm.

Sold for £40

Lot 195

9 ct gold stick pin with fox head motif, weight 3 grams, in W. Batty & Sons, Manchester, box.

Sold for £100

Lot 196

15 ct gold and platinum brooch in the form of a grouse, rose gold, yellow gold and platinum, with ruby coloured eye, weight 8 grams, 6 cm, in Harrods of London box.

Sold for £300

Lot 197

6 books, fishing, including "Keeper of The Stream" by Frank Sawyer.

Sold for £12

Lot 198

7 books, fishing, including "Split Cane & Sable" by Robin Armstrong.

Sold for £12

Lot 199

7 books, including "Fowling Duck", and collection of Shooting Times magazine from 1960s.

Sold for £15

Lot 200

A. Benfield Limited Edition print 39/500, "Salmon Fishing". 32 cm x 45 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £28