country sporting sale

27th April 2021

Lot 300

A Gunmark leather cartridge bag, together with a 410 shotgun cleaning kit.

Sold for £22

Lot 301

Two shotgun slips and a gun bag.

Sold for £5

Lot 302

Vincent Balfour-Browne 1880-1963, three signed limited edition prints titled "The Rendezvous", "Still That Tap Tap Behind" and "Youth and Innocence", all singed in pencil and numbered 72. 27 x 38 cm and 38 x 28 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £16

Lot 303

W Forbes a signed limited edition print titled "The Grouse of Mount Keen", numbered 155/750, 38 x 57 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 304

David E Wardle, two watercolours titled "Pink Feet Over Rockcliffe Marsh" and "Morning Mist", 23 x 34 cm and 30 x 41 cm.

Sold for £35

Lot 305

Seven books, to include Good Gun Dogs by HFH Hardy illustrated by Vernon Stokes first edition 1930, together with Peter Scott Morning Flight, The Zoo - A Sketchbook by AW Peters etc.

Sold for £14

Lot 306

Wilson (American?) an engraving of three ducks, signed by the artist and with illegible title, 22 x 29 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 307

Wilson (American?) an engraving of eider ducks in flight, signed by the artist, 35 x 42 cm.

Not Sold

Lot 308

A large Anglo Indian brass plaque, decorated with lions, mythical beasts and military men on horseback, diameter 75 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 309

Pooley Sword a FS (Fairbairn Sykes) 2nd Pattern Commando dagger, to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Falklands War. Limited edition No. 071 from 200, with a blued handle and blade, one side of the blade marked Pooley Sword London, 25th Anniversary 1982-2007 and the other side marked Falklands Campaign 1982, cased.

Sold for £380

Lot 310

Wilkinson Sword London the FS Fighting Knife (Fairbairn Sykes), limited edition Operation Desert Storm 3rd Pattern Commando dagger. Serial No. 088, marked to one side Her Majesty's Armed Forces Defending World Freedom and to the other Operation Dessert Storm 17th January 1991, by Appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Sword Cutlers Wilkinson Sword, Made in England, in a presentation case.

Sold for £420

Lot 311

The decoys of Lem and Steve Ward, signed limited edition print by Paul W Shertz, Remark No. 2 from 25 to Doctor John Levinson, signed by Lem Ward and Paul Shertz, dated 4/25/78 and depicting Pintail, Canvas Back, Black Duck, Redhead, Wigeon, Blue Bills, Canadian Goose and Mallards. 47 cm x 59 cm, framed with various labels to the rear.

Not Sold

Lot 312

Maisie Robertson for Rowland Ward, Nairobi and London, a silk scarf depicting lions, zebras, giraffes, together with a map of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika etc. 84 x 90 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 313

A photographic print of The West Cumberland Otter Hounds near Aspatria, together with a photograph depicting otter hounds, the first 11 x 15 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 314

Box of shooting and fishing books, to include "An Alphabet of Shooting" by Eric Parker, "The Wild Sports of The Highlands" by Charles St. John, "Coarse Fishing" by Claypoole, "Enchanted Days with Rod & Gun" by Captain Alban Bacon, etc. (32).

Sold for £20

Lot 315

Three books on Aberdeenshire and The Highlands, "Crathie & Braemar" by John Stirton (1925), "The New Statistical Account of Scotland (Aberdeen)" (1845), "More Leaves from The Journal of A Life in The Highlands" (1884).

Sold for £22

Lot 316

A large Beswick spaniel horseshoe primula, +/- 14 cm in height.

Sold for £26

Lot 317

Beswick a graduated set of three flying pheasants. Model No. 661.

Sold for £85

Lot 318

Beswick a pair of Red Grouse. Model No. 2063

Sold for £65

Lot 319

A silver stag makers mark MM, dated Birmingham 2001, height 4.5 cm.

Sold for £16

Lot 320

Crown Staffordshire coffee set decorated with pheasants, mallard, Canadian geese and quail, 6 cups, saucers, milk, sugar and coffeepot, coffeepot height 20 cm.

Sold for £30

Lot 321

Quantity of Holland and Holland catalogues, to include the last 600 bore double rifle and the set of six Wildfowl and Wader Guns by Holland and Holland 1983.

Sold for £24

Lot 322

Houghton Butcher Manufacturing Co Ltd sniper scope, for the No 4 Enfield rifle, marked to the top Tel. Stg. No 32 Mk 1 H.B.M. Co OS 466A Registered Design No. 3793 and with a military broad arrow stamp, fitted with Parker Hale scope mounts and with post and hair cross hairs. Length 28 cm.

Sold for £950

Lot 323

Four Border Fine Art figurines, to include two Ayres butterflies, two owlets, a robin (AF) and a Russell Willis long eared owl.

Sold for £20

Lot 324

Four Border Fine Art figures, to include hedgehog, fox, terrier and pair of badgers titled "Forest Friends".

Sold for £10

Lot 325

Border Fine Arts two otter figures, one signed Boyt and dated '81, the other titled "Late Four" model No. 53007.

Sold for £35

Lot 326

Border Fine Arts, three figures to include wren and chicks signed A Wall '78 on a mahogany plinth, a dipper marked Ayres dated '80 and a grey wagtail signed Laing dated '78.

Sold for £45

Lot 327

Border Fine Arts a kestrel with mouse figure, signed Hayton '77, height 24 cm.

Sold for £75

Lot 328

A.T.N. two doormats, measuring 85 cm x 121 cm and 31 cm x 131 cm.

Sold for £12

Lot 329

Webley and Scott two doormats, measuring 85 cm x 121 cm and 31 cm x 131 cm.

Sold for £65

Lot 330

Webley Air Guns, a doormat measuring 85 cm x 121 cm.

Sold for £26

Lot 331

John Silver, signed limited edition print, "Heroes of the Hills", with Washington Green blind stamp, 57/750 and with Certificate of Authenticity. 40 cm x 33 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £35

Lot 332

Masons of Keswick a hand coloured hunt photograph of The Blencathra Foxhounds in the Newlands Valley, 51 x 79 cm, framed, together with an engraving of a fox hunt.

Sold for £50

Lot 333

An oak plaque mounted with a brass flintlock sporting gun, a fishing net, riding crop, hunting horn, bow and arrow. The shield length 25.5 cm.

Sold for £5

Lot 334

Five Beswick first version fox hounds, together with two foxes - one gloss one matt.

Sold for £55

Lot 335

A French M 1874 bayonet, marked to the spine 1877 with sheath, together with a hexagonal barrelled percussion pistol, a leather bodied shot flask and a horn powder flask.

Sold for £85

Lot 336

Trevor Boyer (b. 1948) a pair of watercolour goache 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.

Not Sold

Lot 337

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

Not Sold

Lot 338

Winnifred Austen RI RE British 1876-1964, an aquatint engraving "Widgeon" 22 x 29 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £120

Lot 339

Sid Bruce, a watercolour cartoon depicting foxes saying "What a Goodun", 47 x 32 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 340

Nine books on guns, to include "One Hundred Great Guns" by Merrill Lindsay and "Gun Owners Book of Care, Repair and Improvement".

Sold for £10

Lot 341

An early 20th century Dyak, New Guinea bow, with attached label Bow 100 Years Old Dyaks Indians New Guinea Bubinga Wood, strung with palm. Overall length 180 cm.

Not Sold

Lot 342

A pair of modern figures of leaping deer, having metal look bodies and mounted on wooden stands. Height 52 cm.

Not Sold

Lot 343

A modern cast iron figure of a North American elk, mounted on a wooden plinth. Height 47 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 344

A Military box for a Bren gun, cal 303 with fitted interior, length 124 cm. together with a metal box containing twelve Mk I Bren gun magazines.

Sold for £280

Lot 345

Three powder tins EC3 Patent smokeless sporting powder, Schultze gunpowder, ICI Noble smokeless powder and and Asprey of London empty cartridge box.

Sold for £18

Lot 346

Five military projectiles from 6 - 31 cm in height.

Sold for £60

Lot 347

A French military Lebel Cruciform bayonet, blade length 20 1/2".

Sold for £50

Lot 348

Three pistol powder flasks, steel and copper bodied, one decorated with an Eagle on top of a revolver, lengths 9 - 12 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 349

Three bullet moulds stamped 30, 16 and 15, together with a large projectile.

Sold for £75

Lot 350

Kynoch Smith & Wesson cal .32 blank revolver cartridge box, containing four spent cases and a packing label together with three large shell cases, length 21.5 cm, diameter 4.5 cm.

Sold for £15

Lot 351

Puma Germany 265 folding pocket knife, with 3" blade in a Whitby knives leather holster.

Sold for £100

Lot 352

A cal 22 ammunition display board, Rimfire and Centre Fire, framed, 195 x 14 cm. No licence required.

Sold for £40

Lot 353

Eight Archibald Thorburn prints, all numbered 124/400 depicting Black Cock, Ptarmigan, Snipe, Grey Partridge, Red Grouse, Capercaillie, Pheasant and Woodcock, published by Malcolm Innes Gallery London and Edinburgh 1986, 28 x 45 cm, frames.

Sold for £22

Lot 354

Five prints, two by Beresford Hill signed limited editions of Pheasants and Grey and Red Partridge, 29 x 40 cm, framed, C.S. Todd signed print of Golden Eagles 36 x 26 cm, framed and mounted and two by Archibald Thorburn Kestrels and Peregrine 26 x 17 cm, framed.

Not Sold

Lot 355

Six lightweight Greylag foam silhouette decoys.

Sold for £10

Lot 356

Ten books on Dogs and Terriers to include "Breaking Through" by Johnny Bluck.

Sold for £60

Lot 357

Lyn Harber "Try Back Lads, Reminiscences of Northern Hunting Folk" volumes I & II, signed, together with "Hunters of the Welsh Hills".

Sold for £60

Lot 358

"The Fell and Morland Working Terrier Club" year club book and history, 14 volumes from '84/85 - '99/2000 together with a copy of the "Working Terrier Year Book" volume I 1978.

Sold for £40

Lot 359

Of stick making interest - Four Buffalo horns, the largest tip to base 36 cm, smallest 29 cm.

Sold for £60

Lot 360

Of stick making interest - Five Tup horns.

Not Sold

Lot 361

Of stick making interest - Five Tup horns.

Not Sold

Lot 362

Of stick making interest - Three Tup horns.

Not Sold

Lot 363

Of stick making interest - Three Buffalo horns and a partially shaped Buffalo horn crook handle.

Sold for £60

Lot 364

Of stick making interest - Miscellaneous lot of antlers, horns etc.

Not Sold

Lot 365

An Ameristep dog house pack in blind.

Sold for £22

Lot 366

A collection of fox hunting books, to include - Hunting by Ear recorded by Ludwig Koch (the record is missing), Songs of the Fell Packs, Reminiscences of Joe Bowman, The John Peel Story, Five volumes of Baileys Hunting Directories, to include 1910-1911, 1911-1912, 1917-1918, 1921-1922 and 1922-1923, together with a Jack Russell figure.

Sold for £65

Lot 367

Mark Huskinson, a signed print "Wrong Scent" dated '92, 18 x 26 cm, together with Keith Proctor, a signed print "All for One" with a foxhound to the mount dated 1992, 29 x 19 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £40

Lot 368

A Border Fine Arts Red Kite figure, model No. B0794, signed Roberts and numbered 28/600, height +/- 38 cm.

Sold for £180

Lot 369

Border fine Arts a limited edition figure of Mallards by R Roberts 2002, numbered 1125/1250, model No. A1872.

Sold for £150

Lot 370

Border Fine Arts a Labrador and Pheasant figure "One for the Bag", model No. B1086A, height 19 cm, number 6/500.

Sold for £50

Lot 371

Eight foxhunting engravings, two by Robert Houston RSW after J Pollard, 31 cm x 43 cm and a series of six titled "Bachelors Hall", 26 cm x 35 cm.

Sold for £10

Lot 372

Heinz Schroder 3 lino cuts, 2 watercolours and print, depicting hawks, falcons, eagle etc. Overall sheet size 60 cm x 45 cm.

Not Sold

Lot 373

Stewart Males, two wooden carved decoy ducks, Pochard, the first 33 cm tail to beak marked to bottom 1985, the second 32 cm marked to bottom 1986.

Sold for £80

Lot 374

Stewart Males, a composition Mallard decoy duck, 33 cm tail to beak marked to bottom 2002, Number 283.

Sold for £50

Lot 375

Stewart Males, two wooden carved decoy ducks, Eider, 38 cm tail to beak marked to bottom 1995, and a Tufted Duck, beak to tail +/- 28 cm marked to bottom 1986.

Sold for £140

Lot 376

An early 20th century wooden carved Pigeon decoy, tail to beak 38 cm, together with a wooden carved duck decoy, tail to beak 30 cm.

Sold for £420

Lot 377

A Priest / riding whip having a weighted leather wrapped end, with leather wrapped shaft leading to a thong and whip section, length excluding thong 33 cm, together with a riding crop with antler handle, metal collar and rope wrapped shaft leading to a thong section, length excluding thong 49 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 378

Four copper and brass powder flasks, one decorated with American flags and cannons, varying in size from 20 cm to 18 cm.

Sold for £50

Lot 379

A collection of powder and shot flasks, to include two horn flasks, three leather bodied shot flasks and a military war department stamped brass oil dispenser.

Sold for £55

Lot 380

A brass and copper pistol powder flask, with fluted body, length 9 cm.

Sold for £85

Lot 381

G & JW Hawksley Sheffield, a pair of fluted powder flasks, length 21 cm.

Sold for £55

Lot 382

G & JW Hawksley Sheffield, a copper and brass rope twist or net design powder flask, length 21 cm.

Sold for £75

Lot 383

Eley Bros Ltd early 20th century superior brown centre fire cartridge box, 100 Number 12, together with a Walkers Parker & Co of Chester Patent shot bag, Number 4.

Sold for £130

Lot 384

Tegetmeier on pheasants, third edition hardback published 1897.

Sold for £10

Lot 385

Seventeen books, to include British Birds by The Reverend F.O. Morris and Diary of a Hunter by Brian Plummer.

Not Sold

Lot 386

Fifteen books on shooting and animals, to include Hunters Fen by John Humphreys and Hides, Calls and Decoys by John Humphreys.

Sold for £15

Lot 387

Nineteen books on shooting, to include Going to the Moors by Ronald Eden and The Practical Gun by Stellan Andersson and Yan Ackerman.

Sold for £12

Lot 388

Twelve books on gun dog training, shooting etc, to include Training the Retriever by J.A. Kersley.

Sold for £10

Lot 389

Neil McReddie two plates from Richard Prior's book Deer Watching, Fallow Deer and Roe Deer, 11.5 cm x 16.5 cm, framed and mounted with Keyser Gallery at Farlows labels to the rear, Pall Mall, London.

Sold for £10

Lot 390

Seven watercolours, prints etc, fox hunting, horse racing, game birds etc. to include a watercolour by G.A. Short, 27 cm x 37 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 391

A Hunting Trip to Melton Mowbray, a series of lithographs depicting the journey and hunt, 18 cm x 55 cm, in six gilt frames.

Sold for £50

Lot 392

Roger McPhail b. 1953,a watercolour, depicting a pheasant shoot in snow, 35 cm x 49 cm, signed, framed and mounted.

Sold for £340

Lot 393

Shirley Shackleton, an original pastel "Blencathra Fox Hounds", 36 x 54 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 394

Snaffles limited edition print "Merry England and Worth a Guinea a Minute", numbered 257/750, 41 x 38 cm.

Sold for £22

Lot 395

After Sanderson Wells, a pair of prints "Gone to Ground" and "Full Cry", 25 x 45 cm, framed.

Sold for £20

Lot 396

Mick Cawston, a limited edition print "Some Terriers", number 281/350, 43 cm x 58 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £40

Lot 397

D Winskill? a pair of oil on canvas Terrier portraits, dated 2012, 18 x 24 cm in gilt frames.

Sold for £220

Lot 398

Frederick Haycock, a signed limited edition print "Pure Satisfaction" number 33/395, depicting Foxhounds, 25 x 33 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £30

Lot 399

Dorothy Hardy, a print "A Dangerous Competitor", 30 x 51 cm, framed and mounted, together with Gilbert Holliday, a limited edition print "Hold Hard for Gods Sake", numbered 1/500, 32 x 47 cm, framed and Basil Nightingale, a limited edition print "All Brandy", numbered 189/850, 30 x 48 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold