Sporting
The West Country has been a popular destination for sporting men and women for centuries. During this time, houses have been furnished with silver sporting trophies, taxidermy, paintings, hunting jackets, riding boots, fishing rods, reels and tackle, shotguns, rifles and pistols amongst many other items.
At Charterhouse we have specialist sales dedicated to sporting items with hunting, shooting and fishing sections. We have had some amazing results. These have ranged from a pair of Holland & Holland coaching lamps which sold for £2,300, a Black Forest bear for £2,700, to a 19th century oil painting of horses for £5,000.
Over the years, our sporting auctions have produced a loyal following with bidders adding to their collections. We also sell lots to clients intending to use their purchases such as shotguns and fishing reels in their favourite pastimes.
If you have a sporting item or collection you are thinking of having valued, contact Richard Bromell ASFAV at our salerooms 01935 812277 or send a selection of images to rb@charterhouse-auction.com
All of our auctions use live internet bidding platforms to ensure that every lot, whether it is worth £20 or £500,000, reaches the widest possible market and sells for the best price possible. In the run-up to an auction, we receive 100s of emails requesting further information for lots in the sale. Attached to these email replies, we regularly send well over 1,000 digital images, such is the huge interest generated in our auctions.
Kauto Star Collection Comes to Charterhouse
A collection of Kauto Star memorabilia, which comes directly from the estate of the late Clive Smith owner of Kauto Star, is included in the Charterhouse Sporting Auction in Sherborne on Wednesday 1st April.
“Kauto Star is one of the best ever steeplechase horses having won the Cheltenham Gold Cup twice and the King George V Chase five times amongst a huge number of other races.” Commented Richard Bromell.
Clive Smith, a successful businessman from Surrey, bought Kauto Star in France and moved the horse to be trained by Paul Nicholls in Ditcheat, Somerset.
Included in the collection, which comes to Charterhouse in Sherborne from the late Clive Smith’s multi-million pound mansion house in Surrey, are Kauto State trophies, photographs, pictures, prints, porcelain and silver figures along with other memorabilia from this this racing legend.
Viewing for this auction, at The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne, is from Monday 30th March, with all the lots and live internet bidding on charterhouse-auction.com
Richard Bromell and the team at Charterhouse, The Long Street Salerooms, Sherborne are available for valuations on 01935 812277 or via rb@charterhouse-auction.com
A figure of Kauto Star, from the estate of the late Clive Smith, in the Charterhouse Sporting Auction Wednesday 1st April
