country sporting sale

6th October 2021

Lot 694

James Sinnott, a watercolour depicting Hound and Terrier in Lakeland landscape. 25 x 31 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £50

Lot 695

A collection of books, magazines etc to include Songs of the Fellpacks, The Working Terrier Yearbooks, A Tribute to Bobby Hudson - Huntsman of the Cumberland Foxhounds etc.

Sold for £65

Lot 696

Border Fine Arts, six figures to include Border Fine Arts Society "Riverside Dual", "Water Babies", "Woodland Ramble" and "Starry Eyed, together with a Country Characters figure "Watching and Waiting" and The Chiltern Collection "Fox".

Sold for £20

Lot 697

Border Fine Arts, four figures to include "Terrier and Rabbit" by Anne Wall dated '79, a "Fox" by David Watten, a standing fox model No. A7679 and another Watten fox.

Sold for £65

Lot 698

Border Fine Arts, Mari Laing Hunt, a bronze resin fox dated 1988, height 11.5 cm, together with a James Harvey model of a pheasant, dated 1985 and a Boyt otter, dated 1981.

Sold for £40

Lot 699

A Beswick terrier, a Russian badger, Coalport hunting mug and various other pieces of ceramics.

Sold for £12

Lot 700

A fox car mascot, brass 6 cm together with other pieces of brassware, silver plated fox etc.

Sold for £35

Lot 701

Beswick a large fox, together with three foxhounds and two terriers.

Sold for £22

Lot 702

A Victorian cockfighting vase, together with three cockfighting figures initialled RR and R89. Vase height 16 cm.

Sold for £380

Lot 703

A box of rosettes, Westmorland County Agricultural Show, Melbreak Hunt Open show etc, together with foxhunting ties, Lunesdale Foxhounds etc and a box of trophies.

Sold for £5

Lot 704

Two silver foxhound trophies, Vale of Rydal Sheepdog Trials, Robert Logan Memorial Trophy Champion Foxhound 1957, makers mark NMCW, London date letter S for 1873, height excluding stand 19.5 cm. Together with another Robert Logan Memorial Trophy Champion Foxhound Rydal 1958, makers mark HA, Birmingham , date letter U for 1937. Overall weight excluding bases 421 grams. Together with photographs of the winning dog "Welcome" from the Melbreak Foxhounds.

Sold for £130

Lot 705

Swaine & Adeney London, Proprietors of Kohler & Son hunting horn. Length 24 cm, 5.25 cm at the bell end.

Sold for £140

Lot 706

Four hunt badges and a hunt spoon, Colne Valley Beagles, Pennine Foxhounds and David Davies Hunt.

Sold for £75

Lot 707

Five fox hunt badges, Ullswater, Eskdale and Ennerdale Foxhounds, Coniston, Melbreak and Melbreak 1969-70 lapel badge.

Sold for £30

Lot 708

Six fox hunt badges, Cumberland Foxhounds, Ullswater, Blencathra, Melbreak and Melbreak 69-70 badge.

Sold for £60

Lot 709

A collection of photographs of the Melbreak Foxhounds.

Sold for £10

Lot 710

A scrap album of newspaper clippings, photographs etc. from the Melbreak Foxhounds hunting in Lochaber 1970.

Sold for £20

Lot 711

A collection of foxhunting postcards, Eskdale, Ennerdale, Blencathra, Melbreak etc together with a collection of reproduced photographs.

Sold for £20

Lot 712

Masons of Keswick, two hunt photographs Willie Irving of the Melbreak Foxhounds and The Blencathra Foxhounds Underskiddaw, 19 x 37 cm.

Sold for £160

Lot 713

Two hunt photographs of The Melbreak Foxhounds, the early black and white 24 x 19 cm, the colour photo 26 x 28 cm.

Sold for £10

Lot 714

Alfred William Strutt, two engravings depicting fox in farmyard. 29 x 51 cm and 22 x 40 cm.

Not Sold

Lot 715

G.P. Abraham of Keswick, two hunt photographs of The Melbreak Foxhounds at High Manor, Near Higham, December 1955. 15 x 20 cm.

Sold for £24

Lot 716

Border Fine Arts, a limited edition figure by Mari Laing Hunt, also initialled D.L.H. 1989, No. 119/750, depicting a hound with border terrier. Height including plinth 18 cm.

Sold for £190

Lot 717

Border Fine Arts, a limited edition figure "Hedge Laying" model JH65, modelled by Ray Ayres, No. 634/1750 from the James Herriot Series. Height including base 18 cm.

Sold for £95

Lot 718

Border Fine Arts, a limited edition figure "Moving Home", No. 1079/1500, dated 1990, together with a fox model No. 009A by Mari Laing Hunt, dated 1988 and raised on a plinth with plaque Lowther 1990. 22 cm and 17 cm.

Sold for £70

Lot 719

Two hazel shafted walking sticks with antler handles, together with an antler handle.

Sold for £14

Lot 720

Two walking sticks with horn handles, 122 cm and 116 cm.

Sold for £120

Lot 721

A pair of late 19th/early 20th century riding boots, with wooden shoe trees. Height to top of boot 43 cm. approximate Size 5.

Sold for £40

Lot 722

A ladies short mink coat, Size 12/14.

Sold for £35

Lot 723

An American carved decoy duck, in the form of a mallard, with label underneath Illinois Decoy in original paint, with lead weighted bottom. Beak to tail 43 cm, height 17 cm.

Sold for £300

Lot 724

A hazel shafted walking stick with metal collar and buffalo horn handle. Length 124 cm.

Sold for £14

Lot 725

WITHDRAWN - A hazel shafted walking stick with metal collar and buffalo horn handle. Length 124 cm.

Not Sold

Lot 726

A hazel shafted walking stick with metal collar and buffalo horn thumb section. Length 124 cm.

Sold for £15

Lot 727

A hazel shafted walking stick with metal collar and stag antler handle with combined whistle. Length 132 cm.

Sold for £14

Lot 728

A hazel shafted walking stick with metal collar and stag antler thumb section. Length 131 cm.

Sold for £20

Lot 729

A hazel shafted walking stick with metal collar and stag antler handle. Length 123 cm.

Sold for £14

Lot 730

A hazel shafted walking stick with buffalo horn collar, stag antler handle. Length 142 cm.

Sold for £18

Lot 731

A hazel shafted walking stick with metal collar and stag antler thumb section. Length 136 cm.

Sold for £16

Lot 732

A hazel shafted walking stick with metal collar and stag antler handle. Length 146 cm.

Sold for £24

Lot 733

A hazel shafted walking stick with horn handle with carved thistle. Length 127 cm.

Sold for £80

Lot 734

A hazel shafted walking stick with metal collar and buffalo horn handle. Length 142 cm.

Sold for £85

Lot 735

A late 19th century fox hunting silhouette. 34 x 39 cm in a birds eye maple frame.

Sold for £24

Lot 736

A pair of fox hunting silhouettes. 32 x 42 cm in birds eye maple frames.

Sold for £75

Lot 737

A late 19th/early 20th century crystoleum of the Cockermouth Beagles. 43 x 57 cm, framed.

Sold for £95

Lot 738

John Trickett, an oil on canvas of a spaniel. 49 x 39 cm, framed.

Sold for £320

Lot 739

A quantity of hunting badges, to include Belvoir Hunt Supporters Club 2005 and Fored, Barmere Bobbery Pack, Brays of Derwent Hunt Cattistock etc.

Sold for £50

Lot 740

Eleven hunt badges to include, Muskerry Hunt Club, Sennybridge Farmers Hunt, Cheshire Hunt Supporter etc.

Sold for £20

Lot 741

Eleven greyhound racing and hunting badges, to include Peterborough Stadium, Kenyon Coursing Club, Suffolk Stadium etc.

Sold for £60

Lot 742

Ten Liberty and Livelihood Countryside Alliance badges etc.

Sold for £16

Lot 743

Eighteen dog related badges, to include Northern Great Dane Club 1903, Wirral Alsation Training Society, Rother Valley Working Terrier Club, South Western Poodle Club etc.

Sold for £28

Lot 744

Twelve badges, mostly Mink Hounds, to include Mid Wales and Glamorgan, Kent and Sussex, Norfolk, Eastern Counties and West Wales.

Sold for £20

Lot 745

Eight badges, Crufts Dog Show enamel badge, Kennel Club Ladies Branch, British Field Sports Society etc.

Sold for £20

Lot 746

Twelve hunting badges, to include Bilsdale Hunt Supporters Club, Eskdale and Ennerdale Foxhounds, Tiverton Foxhounds, David Davis Hunt etc.

Sold for £50

Lot 747

Twelve hunt badges, to include Pennine Foxhounds, Cumberland Farmers Foxhounds, Border Counties Hounds, North Tyne Hunt etc.

Sold for £45

Lot 748

Twelve hunt badges, to include Monmouthshire Hunt Club, Border Counties Hound Club, Blencathra Foxhounds etc.

Sold for £50

Lot 749

Twelve hunt badges, to include The Barlow Foxhounds, Haydon Hunt, Bilsdale Hunt Supporters Club, Hound Association of Scotland etc.

Sold for £40

Lot 750

Twelve hunt badges, to include Hampshire Hunt Supporters, South Shropshire Hunt, Eskdale Ennerdale WE Porter 50 years service badge etc.

Sold for £60

Lot 751

Twelve Foxhound and Beagle badges, to include Swaffham Coursing Club, Catterick Beagles, Ullswater Foxhounds etc.

Sold for £45

Lot 752

Twelve beagle badges, to include Malborough and District Beagles, Pipwell Foot Beagles, Black Coombe Beagles etc.

Sold for £45

Lot 753

Twelve beagle badges, to include Norfolk Beagles, Catterick, Sandhurst and Aldershot, Radley College etc.

Sold for £65

Lot 754

Sixteen beagle badges, to include Wyre Forest Beagles, Cheshire Beagles, Shropshire Beagles, Cheshire, Norfolk and Dunston Harriers etc.

Sold for £80

Lot 755

An early 20th century spelter and cast iron stag. Height 48 cm.

Sold for £75

Lot 756

Eleven gun catalogues, pamphlets etc, to include G & S Holloway, Grant & Lang, Thomas Bland & Sons and Holland & Holland.

Sold for £40

Lot 757

A collection of vintage gun catalogues, pamphlets etc. to include AYA, Remington, Browning, Benelli, Savage, Milbro etc.

Not Sold

Lot 758

A set of wood and antler coat hooks. Length 50 cm.

Sold for £28

Lot 759

After Blinks a Victorian lithograph of a huntsman and foxhounds, 44 x 67 cm in a gilt frame.

Sold for £10

Lot 760

A Jackson, an oil painting on board of four chickens, 10 x 39 cm, in an ornate gilt frame.

Sold for £20

Lot 761

A pair of stag hunting lithographs, 45 x 68 cm in gilt frames.

Not Sold

Lot 762

A print of a foxhunting scene, 37 x 48 cm in an ornate gilt frame.

Sold for £10

Lot 763

An oak stick stand with apertures for 17 sticks. Height 95 cm, width 64 cm, depth 13 cm.

Sold for £45

Lot 764

A hazel shafted walking stick with twisted shaft topped with a red stag handle. Height 122 cm.

Not Sold

Lot 765

A hazel shafted walking stick with twist with a red stag handle. Height 130 cm.

Sold for £16

Lot 766

Eight lightweight foam greylag goose decoys, with bag.

Sold for £35

Lot 767

A tub containing 7.5 kg of hard shot by Shotwell Ltd, marked to the lid 3.

Sold for £40

Lot 768

An early to mid 20th century carved wooden pigeon decoy. Length 35 cm.

Sold for £360

Lot 769

Three books, "Pheaseants in Covert and Avery" by Frank Townend Barton, "Practical Game Preserving" by Carnegie and "British Game" by Brian Vesel-Fitzgerald.

Sold for £18

Lot 770

Twenty books, pamphlets etc, to include Eley Game Advisory Service, Field Sports magazine etc.

Not Sold

Lot 771

An early to mid 20th century carved wooden pigeon decoy, with hollowed body and showing signs of old paintwork. Beak to tail 35 cm.

Sold for £60

Lot 772

Archibald Thorburn, a pair of prints depicting grey partridge and bullfinch and pheasants. 30 x 50 cm, framed and mounted.

Sold for £40

Lot 773

Alec MacKay a pair of late 19th/early 20th century watercolours, depicting pheasants and mallard. 24 x 36 cm, framed and mounted, both with Frost & Reed Ltd London labels to the rear.

Sold for £55

Lot 774

An engraving titled "The Chiefs Return From Deer Stalking" painted by Sir Edwin Landseer RA, engraved by J.T. Willmore, with the sub heading Loch Laggan Scenery. 23 x 76 cm.

Sold for £22

Lot 775

Six coloured prints by K McLeay K.S.A. depicting various men in tartan, to include Her Majesty's Gamekeepers at Balmoral, Donald Stuart and Charles Duncan. 36 x 29 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 776

Two books "Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands" by Charles St John, published by John Murray, Albermarle Street, London 1847, first edition, leather bound, together with "The Art of Deer Stalking" by William Scrope, third edition, published by John Murray, Albermarle Street London 1847, rebound in leather.

Sold for £80

Lot 777

Four books, "Autumns in Argyllshire With Rod and Gun", by AE Gathorne-Hardy, illustrated by Archibald Thorburn, together with "Forest Sketches, Deer Stalking and Other Sports in the Highlands 50 Years Ago", published by Edmonston & Douglas Edinburgh, together with two volumes of "Field Notes and Tour in Sutherland" by Charles St John, published John Murray, Albermarle Street London 1849.

Sold for £22

Lot 778

"Countryman's Cooking" by M.W.W. Fowler, a signed review copy 1965, with various photographs, newspaper clippings from The Telegraph, together with a copy of "Game Cock and Countryman" by R.D. Humber, first edition 1966.

Sold for £30

Lot 779

Twelve pictures to include Archibald Thorburn engraving "A Labour of Love", together with a poem by A.M. Harbord, plus various Howitt engravings in Hogarth frames.

Sold for £15

Lot 780

A late 19th century oil on canvas, depicting a pair of English Setters looking into cover. 16 x 24 cm in an ornate gilt frame.

Sold for £40

Lot 781

Hugh Falkus, a leather bound signed copy of "Falkus and Bullers Freshwater Fishing", signed by both authors 1975, together with Hugh Falkus "A Life on the Edge" by Chris Newton, signed by the author.

Sold for £85

Lot 782

Book, "My Wild Goose Chase" by Bill Powell, with introduction by Peter Scott, published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954 first edition, signed by the author November 1956.

Sold for £95

Lot 783

Sir Ralph Payne Galwey, "The Fowler in Ireland", published by John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, London.

Sold for £28

Lot 784

Sir Ralph Payne Galwey, "The Book of Duck Decoys", published by John Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, London.

Sold for £75

Lot 785

A pigskin cartridge bag, marked to the rear 100.

Sold for £60

Lot 786

Two pairs of new press on leggings, three woollen hats, safety goggles, ear plugs etc.

Sold for £18

Lot 787

Six books on dogs, to include "Diseases of the Dog" by Muller and Glass, third edition and "Hunters All" by Brian Plummer.

Sold for £10

Lot 788

"Bobby Troughton and The Kendal Otterhounds", by George Stewart, Jean Gidman and Ron Black, second edition No. 30/50.

Sold for £22

Lot 789

Eight books on birds, to include "Wild Geese of the World" by Myrfyn Owen with forward by Sir Peter Scott.

Sold for £8

Lot 790

Nine engravings, game birds, cock fighting, dogs etc. all +/- 12 cm x 17 cm, mounted.

Sold for £22

Lot 791

Porthouse & Co photographers Carlisle, a photograph of hounds at kennels, possibly the Cumberland Foxhounds, 18 x 37 cm, framed and mounted.

Not Sold

Lot 792

Six engravings, parts 1-4 of stag hunting, horse racing etc.

Sold for £10

Lot 793

A hunt photograph of Walter Parkin and the Lunesdale Foxhounds, 8 x 13 cm, framed and mounted, marked to the rear Westmorland Gazette photo, together with a framed newspaper clipping of Tommy Dobson of Eskdale and Ennerdale Foxhounds.

Not Sold