country sporting sale

13th April 2019

Lot 551

Thirteen books to include "The fell terrier" by Plummer and "Poultry for profit and pleasure" published by John Pattinson & Son Ltd, Beacon Mills, Whitehaven, Cumberland.

Sold for £25

Lot 552

Four walking sticks, the tallest with antler handle measuring 118 cm, the smallest with antler handle measuring 88 cm.

Sold for £28

Lot 553

A riding whip with antler handle and wrapped shaft, with thong and whip section, length excluding thong 63 cm, together with a coaching horn 126 cm, two deer slot handled walking sticks 131 cm and 108 cm, and another walking stick 92 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 554

Three horn handled walking sticks, the first with huntsman decoration 145 cm, next with trout decoration 115 cm, and another 112 cm.

Sold for £65

Lot 555

Three horn handled walking sticks, one with carved thistle decoration 120 cm, and two others 117 cm.

Sold for £40

Lot 556

Two walking sticks, the first with horn handle with carved fox, badger and deer decoration 130 cm, and another with horn handle 115 cm.

Sold for £32

Lot 557

A silver shooting trophy engraved with a gentleman shooting, makers mark GU for George Unite, Birmingham date letter M for 1896, height 20 cm weight 218 grams.

Sold for £95

Lot 559

Webb Corbett a limited edition crystal goblet, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Derby (Horse race), numbered 145 from 200 with box and certificate of authenticity dated 1979.

Sold for £20

Lot 560

A Beswick Matthew Gloag and Son Limited liqueur bottle, in the form of a red grouse, together with a Copeland Spode "The Huntsman" square dish, diameter 27 cm.

Sold for £60

Lot 561

A collection of Blencathra Foxhounds CD's, mugs, tankard, teapot stand etc, to include an Eskdale show 2008 champion foxhound awarded to Blencathra Trimmer.

Sold for £18

Lot 562

A brass and cast iron doorstop in the form of a fox head, height 36 cm.

Sold for £65

Lot 563

A brass and copper hunting horn, length 23 cm, diameter at the bell end 4.5 cm.

Sold for £22

Lot 564

A Royal Doulton figurine of a puppy feeding from a plate, model No. HN1158, height 8.5 cm.

Sold for £15

Lot 565

A brass door knocker in the form of a running fox, length nose to tail 13 cm.

Sold for £32

Lot 566

A brass and leather shot flask, the leather body embossed with hanging game, overall length 21 cm.

Sold for £32

Lot 567

Two books and a collection of magazines, "Old English Coaching Inns" by J.C. Maggs, "Old sporting Prints" by Ralph Neville and a bound collection of "Hounds" a bi-monthly publication for the hunting enthusiast.

Sold for £10

Lot 568

Two photographs of the Blencathra Foxhounds with Barry Todhunter, the first measuring 39 cm x 59 cm, framed and mounted and another 29 cm x 39 cm in a gilt frame.

Sold for £20

Lot 569

Godfrey Douglas Giles British 1857-1951, four signed engravings, printed in Paris and depicting the Quorn Foxhounds, 39 cm x 51 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £95

Lot 571

L.M. Clark two watercolours, the first depicting pheasants in a stubble field, 20 cm x 23 cm, the second grouse on a moorland, 20 cm x 25 cm.

Sold for £32

Lot 572

Brian Clarkson two watercolours, the first "Red deer stags Lochmhor", 19 cm x 28 cm and the second "Greylag geese in the mist Gorthleck", 25 cm x 37 cm.

Sold for £32

Lot 573

Two Blencathra Foxhounds hunt photographs, the first titled "Blencathra Foxhounds and Walla Crag" taken by James Stephenson of Keswick, 28 cm x 39 cm, together with another depicting Johnnie Richardson and Barry Todhunter 29 cm x 49 cm and mounted in a gilt frame.

Sold for £10

Lot 575

Wandless 19th century oil on canvas, Scottish gamekeeper loaded with black game together with hunting dogs. 108 cm x 72 cm, unframed.

Sold for £65

Lot 576

Large quantity of pamphlets relating to British deer, to include "Deer Control" by the British Deer Society, "Deer Stalking" by D.G. Moncrieff and "Field Guide to British Deer" edited by F.J. Taylor-Page.

Sold for £40

Lot 577

Three catalogues/programmes, to include "Waterloo Cup Course Meeting 2005 Third Day" programme, "Abu Tight Lines 1974" catalogue and "An Angling Guide to The Scottish Borders".

Sold for £8

Lot 579

Ralston Gudgeon, watercolour, leaping salmon. 19 cm x 28 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £70

Lot 580

Vintage shooting stick, with shepherds hook style handle, folding seat, wooden shaft and spike. Length 92 cm.

Sold for £75

Lot 582

Nigel Houldsworth, signed copy of "The Fishermans Map of Salmon Pools on the River Tweed". 34 cm x 99 cm, framed, mounted.

Sold for £42

Lot 583

Early 20th century harpoon, with 30 cm metal tip with 3 cm barbs, with leather wrapped sheath. Length 178 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 587

"The World of Shooting" by Peter Johnson and Alf Wannenburgh, Limited Edition 418/1000.

Sold for £190

Lot 588

2 books "Stanley Duncan Wild Fowler" by John Humphries signed by the author, First Edition 1983, and "Through The Lens with Stanley Duncan".

Sold for £35

Lot 589

4 books, "Wildfowl & Waders" by Southgate & Pollard, "Marsh & Mud Flat" by Dawson and 2 Peter Scott books, "Wild Chorus" and "Clouds Flying".

Sold for £18

Lot 590

Colin Willock 6 books, to include "Kenzie the Wild Goose Man" and "Town Gun".

Sold for £28

Lot 591

5 Shooting Times Library books, to include "Roe Stalking" by Richard Prior signed by the author, and cards, letters, etc.

Sold for £28

Lot 592

9 books on wildfowling, to include "Dee Wild Fowler", "The Last Professional Harold Gill" and "Fowlers Moon" by Nigel Thorneycroft.

Sold for £40

Lot 593

"A Rise to The Fly" by Bernard Venables, signed Limited Edition 92/100.

Sold for £42

Lot 595

5 books and Dermot Wilson 1981 fishing catalogue, to include "The Trout & The Fly, a New Approach" by Brian Clark and John Goddard, signed, "Dark Pools" by Charles Jardine, signed, "Sotheby's Guide to Fly Fishing for Trout" by Charles Jardine, signed, and "Chalk Stream Chronicle" by Patterson, signed.

Sold for £28

Lot 596

Photographic print of a red stag bellowing in Richmond Park. 56 cm x 39 cm, mounted.

Sold for £28

Lot 597

David Feather (1952-2005), oil on board, two badgers in snowy landscape. 24 cm x 29 cm, signed with black and white feather, framed.

Sold for £120

Lot 598

Sir Peter Scott, signed Limited Edition print, pink footed geese and wigeon, 68/850. 34 cm x 53 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £60

Lot 599

Five books on shooting, to include "Sporting Pigeon Shooting" by Michael Brander.

Sold for £15

Lot 600

Country Artists red stag "Majestic Presence". Height 29 cm.

Sold for £48

Lot 601

Border Fine Arts Country Characters roe buck "Unwelcome Guest", mounted on a mahogany plinth. Height 16 cm.

Sold for £65

Lot 602

Border Fine Arts Atlantic salmon, modelled by David Walton, Model No. 140, mounted on a mahogany plinth. Height 22 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 603

Border Fine Arts two cock pheasants "A Pair of Pheasants", mounted on mahogany plinth. Height 22 cm.

Sold for £120

Lot 604

Palissy (Member of The Royal Worcester Group) Game Series six place tea set, decorated with pheasants, grey partridge and mallard.

Sold for £28

Lot 606

Vintage fishing basket/creel, with leather carrying strap and buckle fastening. Height 31 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 607

Cast iron sheep doorstop, probably Victorian. Height 17 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 608

Wooden decoy duck, possibly early 20th century, with screw eyes and crudely painted body, weighted keel. Height 15 cm, overall length 43 cm.

Sold for £40

Lot 609

G. & J.W. Hawksley large and unusual Norfolk lyre game counter, nickel and brass, nickel side with dials for pheasants and hares, the brass side for partridge and rabbits. Length including hanging loop 10.5 cm, width 5 cm.

Sold for £1300

Lot 610

Pair of mid 20th century duck decoys (mallards), with weighted keels. Height including stands 22 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 611

A bullet mould, together with a T Bland & Sons London 12 bore chamber brush.

Sold for £42

Lot 612

Three folding Opinel knives, two riding crops, LED torch, a scope, arrow laser shot and a shot counter.

Sold for £35

Lot 613

An Evergreen collection gunsmith figurine, together with a David Hughes sculpture shotgun paperweight and a set of roe buck antlers.

Sold for £18

Lot 614

A Nigel Houldsworth fisherman's map of the salmon pools on River Tweed, unmounted, rolled in a tube.

Sold for £28

Lot 615

Two pig knife rests, stamped 925, together with four silver coloured napkin rings mounted with pheasant, fox, salmon and duck.

Sold for £60

Lot 616

A Cullen House Game book, dating from 1860-1884, mentioning various guns to include Lord Seafield, Lord Rudhaven etc, thought to be from Cullen House near Cullen, Moray, Scotland.

Sold for £150

Lot 617

"British Deer and their Horns" by J.G. Millais, published by Henry Sotheran & Co, London 1897.

Sold for £80

Lot 618

Mark Huskinson a watercolour gouache painting, of two gentleman fishing, signed and dated '82, 34 cm x 53 cm, together with a print titled "A man for all seasons" 27 cm x 19.5 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 619

Three pictures Masons of Keswick, a hand coloured photograph titled "Fox Hunting in the Newlands Valley The Blencathra", 30 cm x 38 cm, together with a Ross Goody signed limited edition print titled "Well Gentleman" number 387 of 500, 28 cm x 31 cm, and Peter Oliver and oil on board of a cock pheasant 19 cm x 29 cm.

Sold for £48

Lot 620

A pair of cuff links stamped 925, having salmon on one side and fly reels to the other, both also stamped "OA" the fish measuring approx 22 mm.

Sold for £32

Lot 621

A collection of eight pocket knives, to include a Victorinox red explorer knife and a J.H. Thompson Cutlery Ltd Sheffield military issue knife, stamped 1954.

Sold for £18

Lot 622

2 hunt and hunting related photographs, Tommy Dobson and W. Porter with The Eskdale Ennerdale Foxhounds and another marked verso "Westhead Hound Show?" showing Edward VII walking up a Lakeland track, with Maysons of Keswick stamp to right hand side. 11 cm x 16 cm, in gilt and black frames.

Sold for £28

Lot 624

2 Blencathra Foxhounds photographs by Wilkinson of Keswick, "Opening Hunt" dated '61 with a young Johnny Richardson and "Fra, Barkbeth", 13 cm x 9 cm, framed.

Sold for £20

Lot 625

2 Blencathra Foxhounds photographs, one near the Salutation Inn in Threlkeld by Howarth of Keswick, the other "Gone to Earth" by Wilkinson of Keswick. 15 cm x 20 xm, framed.

Sold for £60

Lot 626

Hazel shaft walking stick with buffalo horn handle. Length 137 cm.

Sold for £25

Lot 627

The Hunting Horn - what to blow and how to blow to blow it by, L.C.R. Cameron Kohler & Son, sole proprietors Swaine Adeney Brigg & Sons London, three copies.

Sold for £42

Lot 628

"The Coach Horn - what blow and how to blow it", Kohler & Son, sole proprietors Swaine Adeney Brigg & Sons London, three copies.

Sold for £32

Lot 629

A Chain of Bubbles - Otterhunts 1957-1977, and mink hunts 1977-1998 by Rod Adair, signed limited edition number 55 from 350.

Sold for £32

Lot 630

A Chain of Bubbles - Otterhunts 1957-1977, and mink hunts 1977-1998 by Rod Adair, signed limited edition number 3 from 350.

Sold for £30

Lot 632

A book "Reflections along a chain" by Rod Adair, numbered 28 from 600.

Sold for £28

Lot 633

Schott & Co successors to W Percival, St James Street London, a copper and silver plated hunting horn, 24 cm in length, 5 cm at bell end.

Sold for £350

Lot 637

Swaine & Adeney London proprietors of Kohler & Son, a copper and silver plated hunting horn measuring 24 cm in length and 5 cm at the bell end.

Sold for £160

Lot 640

A copper and silver plated hunting horn, stamped made in England, measuring 23 cm in length and 5 cm at the bell end.

Sold for £75

Lot 641

A Quorn copper and plated hunting horn, the copper body stamped DE and Quorn, the silver plated section stamped SC, 22 cm in length, 5 cm at the bell end.

Sold for £140

Lot 642

Champion Wilton Oxford Street London a copper and silver plated hunting horn, 24 cm in length and 5 cm at the bell end.

Sold for £150

Lot 643

Supplied by Paxman a copper and silver plated hunting horn, 22.5 cm in length, 4.5 cm at the bell end.

Sold for £150

Lot 644

Army and Navy a copper and silver plated hunting horn, engraved W.E. Bunhill Masham Yorks, 20 cm in length, 4.5 cm at the bell end.

Sold for £180

Lot 645

A leather hunting horn holder, stamped B.K.

Sold for £25

Lot 646

A set of four silver coloured hunt buttons, late 19th early 20th century, engraved with fox, hound, hare, fisherman. 2.5 cm in width.

Sold for £85

Lot 648

A Dumfries Otter Hounds evening tail coat belonging to Sandy Foster.

Sold for £50

Lot 649

A brass and copper coaching horn marked "Grand Hotel, G Eyre, landlord January 1853 The Strand London", overall length 118 cm and 8.5 cm at the bell end.

Sold for £40

Lot 650

Two walking sticks, one with stag antler handle with combined whistle 142 cm, the second with rams horn handle 120 cm.

Sold for £35

Lot 651

Two walking sticks, the first with rams horn handle with carved otter catching a fish length 120 cm, the second with ram horn handle 130 cm.

Sold for £55

Lot 652

Terence Cuneo two signed prints, "The Eastern Counties Otterhounds" (with key) 51 cm x 76 cm framed, together with another titled "Peterborough Royal Foxhound Show Society Centenary 1878-1978". 49 cm x 66 cm both signed by Terence Cuneo.

Sold for £40

Lot 653

John King two signed limited edition prints, the first titled "Dumfries Otterhounds" numbered 85 from 280 34 cm x 50 cm framed, and another titled "Unting is all that's worth living for", numbered 233 from 350, 40 cm x 55 cm framed.

Sold for £80

Lot 654

Tom Carr three prints, the first a signed limited edition numbered 266 from 300, 32 cm x 45 cm, another of the Dumfriesshire Otterhounds, 26 cm x 38 cm, and an another of the North Yorkshire Otterhounds, 26 cm x 37 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 655

A late 19th century hand tinted photograph of a huntsman with hounds, 28 cm x 21 cm, framed.

Sold for £15

Lot 656

Three otter hunting prints, the first after J.S. Noble titled "The Otter Hunt", dated 1874, 44 cm x 75 cm in a gilt frame, otter hunting hard pressed 50 cm x 38 cm and J.S. Noble three otterhounds in a river, 34 cm x 49 cm, framed.

Sold for £20

Lot 657

A vintage circular trap, diameter 13 cm.

Sold for £60

Lot 658

A vintage circular trap, 18 cm in diameter.

Sold for £42

Lot 659

A vintage wooden mole trap, length 15 cm.

Sold for £25

Lot 660

A late 19th early 20th century oak game carrier, with brass fittings, 41 cm.

Sold for £55

Lot 661

Two vintage traps, a wooden four aperture mouse trap together with a small leg hold trap.

Sold for £38

Lot 662

A Bergere and bamboo shooting stick, with oak shaft, height when closed 85 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 663

A box of eighteen "The big cheese" mousetraps.

Sold for £5

Lot 664

Two live catch rat traps, length 35 cm.

Sold for £10

Lot 666

A weather vane in the form a man fishing and a leaping fish, height 37 cm.

Sold for £60

Lot 667

Steel matchbox holder with foxhunting scene to lid, and a capper/decapper.

Sold for £10

Lot 668

Collection of Hardy items, to include a 1966 Anglers Guide, book "The Best of Hardys Anglers Guides", cloth badges, etc.

Sold for £38

Lot 670

Early 20th century Kukri knife, 10 1/2" blade stamped "Nepal", hardwood and brass handle and leather sheath.

Sold for £38