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Auction date Wednesday 26 February 2025 10:30 - 17:30 GMT

Head of Sale: 

Julian Smith


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Lots per page:

Total lots: 387

Lot 265 Sold
*JOHN C HARRISON (1898-1985) A study of a kingfisher
depicted above water on a horizontal branch with bull rushes in the background, signed lower left, watercolour, 17cm x 12cm
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £150 - £300
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 266 Sold
MANNER OF SAMUEL HOWITT (c.1765-1822) Four shooting scenes
A series of four lithographs, published by 'T. Tegg', titled 'Grouse Shooters', 'Partridge Shooters', 'Pheasant Shooting', and 'Wood Cock Shooting', 15cm x 19cm (4)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £30 - £50
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 267 Sold
A. THIELE (1841-1919) 'The Highlands Monarch'
a ten-point stag in a mountainous scene, lithographic print by 'E. Albert', 56cm x 38cm; together with a lithographic print after Ernest Walbourn, 55cm x 28cm; and two other prints (4)
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £20 - £40
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 268 Unsold
FRENCH SCHOOL (20TH CENTURY) A hunter and his dog
depicted in sepia tones with foliated background, indistinctly signed lower left, watercolour and oil pastel, 50cm x 36cm
Estimate: £50 - £100
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 269 Unsold
MANNER OF HENRY BARNARD CHALON (1770-1849) An English Pointer Spots a Rabbit
within a countryside scene, oil on panel, 35cm x 42cm
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 270 Sold
ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 18TH CENTURY STYLE A Hare Coursing Scene
black and tan greyhounds pursuing a hare within a countryside scene, oil on canvas, 37cm x 47cm
Hammer price: £440
Estimate: £300 - £500
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 271 Sold
*NICHOLAS MACE (b. 1949), 'High Pheasants'
signed lower right, oil on canvas, 28cm x 38cm

Provenance: Purchased from Duke's, 2007.
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £100 - £200
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 272 Sold
GERMAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY A Pair of Bird Studies
'Merlin' and 'Minor', coloured lithographic prints, 35cm x 25cm (2)
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £50 - £100
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 273 Unsold
20TH CENTURY SCHOOL A study of a woodpecker
signed lower right "H.Lawless", watercolour, 23cm x 17cm
Estimate: £80 - £150
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 274 Sold
ENGLISH SCHOOL, CONTEMPORARY, A Portrait of a Black Labrador
monogrammed lower right 'GH', acrylic on board, 28cm x 24cm
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £50 - £100
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 275 Unsold
*BERNARD VENABLES (1907-2001) A scene of the Fish Inn
with figures to foreground, signed lower left, watercolour, 45cm x 63cm
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 276 Sold
KYNOCH LTD, LION WORKS, WITTON, BIRMINGHAM: A PRESENTATION COPY OF AN 1882 CATALOGUE
with various illustrations of ammunition, no. 160/250

Provenance: A private Shropshire sporting collection.
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £50 - £100
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 277 Sold
DALLAS, DONALD: "BOSS & CO.: BUILDERS OF BEST GUNS ONLY"
Marco E. Nobili 'Il Grande Libro Delle Incisioni' (Modern Engravings Real Book); Marco E. Nobili "F.Lli Piotti Italian Fine Gun Maker"; "The Shooting Field since 1835 with Holland and Holland"; and Christopher Austin "Modern Sporting Guns" (5)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 278 Sold
EDWARDS, LIONEL AND WALLACE, HAROLD FRANK: "HUNTING AND STALKING THE DEER"
"The Pursuit Of Red Fallow And Roe Deer In England And Scotland" with eight coloured plates and numerous black and white plates from drawings by the authors
Hammer price: £45
Estimate: £30 - £50
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 279 Sold
HAWKER, PETER: 'INSTRUCTIONS FOR GUNS AND SHOOTING'
10th edition; together with 'Wild Sports and Natural History of The Highlands' by Charles St. John, illustrated by GD Armour and Edwin Alexander (2)
Hammer price: £15
Estimate: £30 - £50
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 280 Sold
'FUR FEATHER AND FIN SERIES'
by Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy, and others, including 'The Grouse', 'The Rabbit', 'The Red Deer', 'Trout', 'Pike & Perch', 'The Partridge' x 2, 'The Hare', 'Wild Fowl' (10)
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £50 - £100
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 281 Sold
THE HAY CASTLE GAME DIARY 1906-1955
with handwritten details of shooting and fishing days on the Hay-on-Wye Castle Beat, with map of the River Wye beat, scale 6 inches:1 mile

Provenance: A private Shropshire sporting collection.
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £30 - £50
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 282 Sold
JONES, THOMAS: 'THE COURSER'S GUIDE'
'An illustrated Record of Names, Pedigrees, Performances and Running Weights of the Principal Greyhounds That Have Run for the last Fifty Years', first edition, 1896; and 'The Courser's Companion', by Thomas Thacker, 2nd edition, 1834, two volumes of hare coursing with greyhounds (3)

Provenance: A private Shropshire sporting collection.
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £30 - £50
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 283 Sold
AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY WHIP RACK
in the form of a five-bar gate, with brass hooks for five riding crops on each side, 25cm x 46cm
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £200 - £400
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 284 Unsold
A GENTLEMAN'S RIDING CROP
with antler handle, two hallmarked silver collars and leather grip, plaited leather shaft and thong, by Champion & Wilton, Oxford, 52cm long
Estimate: £80 - £150
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 285 Unsold
A GENTLEMAN'S RIDING CROP
with antler handle, two hallmarked silver collars, leather grip, plaited leather shaft and thong, 56cm long
Estimate: £80 - £150
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 286 Sold
A LADY'S HUNTING CROP
with antler handle, hallmarked silver collar, plaited leather shaft and thong, by Swaine & Adeney, London, with engraved inscription to the silver collar 'Bunny 1918', 50cm long
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £80 - £150
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 287 Sold
A LADY'S LEATHER RIDING CROP
with antler handle, two hallmarked silver collars, leather grip and plaited shaft, by Swaine & Adeney, London, 58cm long
Hammer price: £70
Estimate: £80 - £150
26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Lot 288 Sold
AN EDWARDIAN BEAGLING WHIP
with a hound's head whistle, silver-plated collar and Malacca shaft, plaited leather thong, 18cm long
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £50 - £100
26 February 2025
26 February 2025

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