Taxidermy tops the lots at Cockermouth sporting sale – Times & Star

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Over 50 lots of traditional and modern taxidermy fetched top prices at Mitchells Country Sporting Sale.
The most valuable lot in the Cockermouth sale was a Van Ingen of Mysore Leopard shoulder mount which sold for £2,000.
A tiger skin rug with mounted head made £550 and a leopard skin rug with mounted head sold for £420.
A female sparrowhawk by H Murray of Carnforth mounted in a picture frame five-sided glazed case also did well making £440 against an estimate of £250-£350.
A World War II German Third Reich police dagger frog marked 1938 with leather sheath considerably exceeded its £350-£450 estimate selling for £1,200 to a private collector bidding online. The vendor instructed that the proceeds go to Cancer Research.
The dagger was originally acquired by a dispatch rider from the Fifth Royal Enniskillen Dragoon Guards when he visited Bergen Belsen Prisoner of War Camp just just after it was liberated. It belonged to one of the officers who had been guarding the camp.
Top lot in the fishing section was a Hardy The Perfect slmon fly reel, duplicatred Mk2 with 4.5 inch wide drum which sold for £400 against an estimate of £180-£220.
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