A FINE PAIR OF .450 CALIBRE PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLES MADE FOR CARL-THEODOR, DUKE IN BAVARIA (1839-1909), BY I. ADAM KUCHENREUTER IN REGENSBURG, CIRCA 1865 with browned octagonal barrels rifled with eight grooves, stamped with the gold-lined maker`s stamp (Neue Støckel 624) enclosed by the gold maker`s name and the inscription `Guss Stahl`, inlaid with a pair of slender gold lines at the breech, engraved case-hardened breeches and bolsters, engraved case-hardened breech tangs numbered `1` and `2` respectively, flush-fitting folding adjustable peep-sights, engraved stepped flush-fitting case-hardened locks decorated with scrolls on the tails, a pair of chamois and a stag respectively, double set triggers, figured walnut half-stocks (minor scratches and bruising), cut with a shaped panel of fine chequering over the grips, the butts with raised cheek-pieces carved with the full crowned ducal arms behind on the left and with patch boxes fitted with engraved case-hardened steel covers decorated with differing alpine hunting scenes on the right, carved scrolling trigger-guards with engraved case-hardened steel forward portions, engraved case-hardened steel mounts comprising shaped side-plates with neo-rococo ornament, butt-plates, three ramrod-pipes, escutcheons with the owner`s gilt initials, and barrel bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, a pair of sling swivels, with much original finish throughout, and each with its German silver-tipped ramrod 59.5cm; 23 1/2in barrels (2)
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A 15 BORE AUSTRIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY AUGUSTIN SCHÖFEL IN WIENN, CIRCA 1750 with two-stage sighted barrel, tang engraved with the numbers `10` and `no. 24 (rubbed), signed bevelled lock engraved with a water fowl hunting scene, figured walnut half-stock (probably an early working replacement) with raised cheek-piece, brass mounts (rubbed, repairs) including solid side-plate decorated with a staghunting scene, trigger-guard, butt-plate and rear ramrod-pipe each decorated with a standing hunter enclosed by rococo scrolls, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod 100.5cm; 39 1/2in barrel Augustin Scheffel is recorded in Vienna and Bohemia circa 1728-59.
A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY EDWARD 1 NORTH, LONDON, CIRCA 1750 with brass barrel formed in two stages, swelling towards the muzzle, inscribed `London`, stamped with the barrelsmith`s mark, engraved with foliage and moulded at the breech, engraved steel tang, signed border-engraved rounded lock, figured walnut full stock carved with a scallop moulding behind the tang (fore-end cracked), brass mounts comprising pierced trophy-of-arms side-plate, butt-plate engraved with rococo ornament and a trophy-of-hunting, trigger-guard with early acorn finial and a rococo flower on the bow, vacant escutcheon with a green man mask beneath, two moulded ramrod-pipes and contemporary horn-tipped wooden ramrod 80.5cm; 31 3/4in Edward 1 North (died 1761) was made free of the Gunmaker`s Company in 1729 and became Master in 1753. He is recorded behind the Royal Exchange at Threadneedle Street and was Member and Armourer of the Honourable Artillery Company from 1733.
Green (Thomas). The Universal Herbal second edition 2 vols. engraved frontispieces additional titles and 110 engraved plates of which 2 are hand-coloured some browning leaf of text in vol. 2 crudely repaired with sellotape half roan rubbed 4to [1824] - British Sports and Sportsmen: Hunting one of 1000 copies original roan gilt folio [c.1930]; sold not subject to return (3)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
Hunting - Aldin (Cecil). Ratcatcher to Scarlet no 89 of 100 copies with an original pencil and crayon sketch of a foxhound signed on the verso of the half-title ownership signature to half-title original quarter vellum gilt boards slightly soiled 4to [1926]* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
Hunting - Chapman (Abel). First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling original cloth 1896; Duncan (Stanley) & Guy Thorne The Complete Wildfowler original cloth 45o [1911] - and approx. 42 others similar on hunting (approx. 43)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
Hunting - Edwards (Lionel). Seen from the Saddle plates by Lionel Edwards inscribed on the front endpaper `from Uvedale` original cloth 4to 1937; Ogilvie (W. H.) Galloping Shoes plates by L. Edwards inscribed on paste down original cloth gilt 4to 1922 - and 7 others similar (9)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
Hunting - St. John (Charles W. G.). Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands original cloth dust-wrapper bookplate 1927; Hawkes (Lt. Col. P.) Instructions to young Sportsmen eighth edition modern cloth bookplate 1835 - and approx. 23 others similar including a worn copy of St. John`s Tour in Sutherland (approx. 25)* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
English School c. 1800 Coaching; Hunting A pair both pen ink and watercolour Each 19 x 28cm; 7½ x 11in (2)++Slight fading otherwise good condition* All lots marked with an asterisk are subject to VAT on the hammer price.‡ All marked lots may be subject to Droit de Suite / Artist`s Resale Right.For details please see www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk department page.All condition reports are a guide only and should be used as such.
An early 20th century gold hunting cased quarter repeating keyless lever pocket watch and watch chain The white enamel dial with Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds, the movement with compensated balance, with twin hammers repeating the hours and quarters; and a 9ct gold curb-link watch chain, gross weight 24.0 grm. View on Christie's.com
Charles Johnson Payne 'Snaffles' (1884-1967) Swagger - but a workman; Soldiers 'Nasty steeple chasin devils'; The Huntsman 'The 'oss loves the 'ound but I loves both'; Tonnage "And when hounds really run, can show How sixteen stone should o'er a country go"; The Gent in Ratcatcher 'I have my man cleaning my 'osses not my breeches'; Foxcatchers - for the love of it; and The Gunner 'Good hunting old sportsman' all signed in pencil 'Snaffles' photo-lithographs, all with blind stamp, six touched with white bodycolour S. 16½ x 14½in. (420 x 370mm.) (7) View on Christie's.com
An Indian Illuminated Manuscript Leaf, 19th century, depicting three figures, hunting scene, ink, gold and opaque colour, 25x16cm: together with another Indian Illuminated Manuscript Leaf, depicting a scene of falconry and an Indian Miniature Painting, a traveller standing under a tree, 24.5x13.5 and 13x16.5cm., respectively, (3).
An Art Deco silver twin handled trophy cup, Walker & Hall, Birmingham 1935, the flared cup with applied handles upon a waisted stem with circular base upon a black plinth base, total height 25 cm, together with a Mappin & Webb silver twin handled trophy cup with cover, Sheffield 1912, the knopped octagonal domed cover above an octagonal body with applied handled upon a tapering pedestal with octagonal base upon a black plinth, total height 24.5 cm, two silver capped tapering cylindrical glass hunting flasks, with a case containing two silver handled manicure items, a silverplated muffin dish with cover, a Epns pierced dish, a oval silverplated entree dish with cover, and further silverplated miniature trophy cups, four silver peppers, a silver bud vase, a silver plated sandwich box, a silverplated coffee pot, (a Lot).
Postcards loose in box including real photographs, Isleham Quoits Team 1912, Prickwillow Womens Institute 1927, silk cards, military, camp Sutton Park 1907, hunting, Southwold, Orford, horse and carriage, group photographs, windmills, social history, German submarine washed ashore at Hastings etc (qty)
A reproduction of a rare powder flask, the original by James Dixon & Son, `Hunting We Will Go`, the patinated copper body embossed with allegorical scene of a hunters prowess, trees part the flask into four scenes each decorated differently, the first with a mother and child asleep above a hunter shooting waterfowl, the second with a mother and child in a vineyard as hunter aims at a fleeing fox and a rabbit on its hind legs, next is the mother and child seated above the hunter taking aim at fleeing boar, and lastly the mother and child sleeps above the hunter blowing his horn in victory of felling a stag, (557) (losses and later additions). N.B. See `The Powder Flask Book` by Ray Riling, Bonanza Books, New York, page 303.
A Victorian silver hunting horn, by George Unite, Birmingham 1867, with foliate band, presentation inscription `Presented to George Boxall on his retirement as Huntsman of the North Warwickshire Hounds by the Farmers and other Friends, as a slight acknowledgement of his uniform, servility and good nature, 1868`; together with 57 sovereigns, 9 1/2in. (24cms), 3.5oz.
An Edward VII 1888 pattern bayonet, the double edged 12in. blade stamped with crowned E.R., complete with leather and metal scabbard; together with a British dagger, the 7 in. double edged fullered blade stamped `Mk.I.42 M.I.L K6`, complete with leather and metal scabbard, and leather frog; and a German hunting knife, with deer hoof handle, in leather scabbard. (3)
Aitken (E.H.) The Tribes on my Frontier, an Indian Naturalist`s Foreign Policy, Seventh Edition, 12mo, original cloth gilt, plates & illustrations, London, Calcutta & Simla, 1909; Miller (H.) The Old Red Sandstone, 8vo, cloth, folding coloured frontispiece, plates, Edinburgh, 1871; Miller (H.) The Testimony of the Rocks, 8vo, cloth, frontispiece, illustrations, Edinburgh, 1873; Kingdon-Ward (F.) Plant Hunting in the Wilds, 8vo, cloth, plates, n.d., and 3 others (7).
A fine Indian three piece tea service by C. Krishniam Chetty and Son, Bangalore with elephant head and trunk chased handles, the teapot with a standing elephant finial, the spout an elephant`s head and trunk. The body of each decorated in relief with jungle scenes showing the hunting of wild animals, bun feet. Maker`s mark for each piece.
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