Scottish Auction 2021

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Your Scottish Auction dinner can be ordered and Chairman’s Welcome 3 delivered to your door UK wide (see pages 9 & 10). Executive Chairman Scotland’s Welcome 5 Timetable Acknowledgements 7 The 2021 Scottish Auction will run online, with a Dinner Arrangements 9 catalogue full of generous contributions from many varied supporters, and this year we are lucky enough to be Scottish Auction Committee 11 including several auction lots contributed from our GWCT committees in England. GWCT Events Calendar 13 The important dates are: How to Bid 14

23 April Place your orders for dinner and wine Saffery Champness specialise in accountancy, tax and business advisory services to onward www.gwct.org.uk/dinnerbox see page 9 for details Shooting 15 farms and estates across Scotland. We are here to help you and your business through Fishing 23 30 April, Bidding opens online at www.gwctscottishauction.co.uk these difficult times. 6pm Stalking 36 5 May Orders close for cases of wine Contact us or visit www.saffery.com to find out how we can support you. Art & Jewellery 46 9 May Dinner orders close midnight Something for Everyone 52 Max Floydd, Edinburgh Susie Swift, Inverness 12/13 May Dinner and wines delivered Food & Drink 63 T: +44 (0)131 221 2777 T: +44 (0)1463 246300 13 May Watch a short video from GWCT Scotland from 6.30pm www.gwct.org.uk/scotland/auction/ E: [email protected] E: [email protected] How to Bid (more information) 72 Enjoy your own Scottish Auction dinner at home, relax and bid! Ts&Cs 73

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“Many of our supporters have themselves faced t gives me great pleasure to introduce this year’s GWCT a very difficult Chairman’s IScottish Auction catalogue. twelve months, Welcome I, for one, was nervously sceptical about being able to put together a reasonable list of auction lots and the fact that we have achieved so their it is a reflection of the extraordinary generosity of our donors. Many of our supporters have themselves faced a very difficult participation twelve months, so their participation is even more appreciated to is even more help fund the GWCT’s continued projects. As with many charities the past year has taken a hefty toll on appreciated to the GWCT’s finances, potentially compromising many of its programmes. I hope the continued commitment of those who help fund have helped to compile this excellent and diverse list of lots will the GWCT’s not be lost on you, the bidders! Elsewhere you will see a more detailed analysis of where your support is directed. continued Obviously I am sorry that, once again, we cannot meet up for projects.” the usual convivial gathering but I hope you will participate by ordering our special Scottish Auction Dinner Box (see page 9) and enjoy your own gathering at home, whether in the virtual company of friends or not. You will all have established imaginative methods of circumventing the wretched restrictions which have blighted all of our lives for so long, and I have no doubt will do so without compromising the bidding process on which the auction obviously depends. Thank you in anticipation. Have a great evening, good luck in pursuit of your lots and thank you for your support. Never has it been more necessary.

Bryan Johnston Chairman, Scottish Auction Scottish Auction 2021 4 Scottish Auction 2021 5

GWCT Executive Chairman, Scotland’s Welcome

Where our This is the second year that the Scottish Auction has had to There will be an additional High Four shoot and other raffles Scottish income 7% take place without us all meeting at Prestonfield House and announced later in the year so please look out for them and 14% Subscriptions enjoying each other’s company. We are all the poorer for that. give them your support. came from The Scottish However, Bryan and his committee have not only brought Auction together another wonderful collection of auction lots for But GWCT’s work is not all about reacting to political events in 2020 (Net) you, but also an innovative and interesting way of enabling and fundraising, far from it. Our efforts to support the us to enjoy at least some feeling of togetherness. I highly recovery of grey partridges, a key part of our work for over recommend their home delivered dinner (details of which 80 years, has received a further boost in the creation of the you can find on page 9), and introductory video which will be Strathmore Wildlife Cluster. This is a group of farms and 11% 63% 5% available from 6.30 on the evening of 13 May. If your computer estates around Coupar Angus, covering more than 10,000 Regional group Donations, grants Grand Grouse skills allow do tune in, and perhaps share the auction and your acres, that are working together on a landscape scale to dinner with friends over Zoom. improve grey partridge numbers. fundraising (Net) & contracts Draw (Net) Since the last auction, much has happened. Mountain hares Our Demonstration Farm at Auchnerran in Aberdeenshire may now be culled only under licences the details of which are has welcomed back its nesting curlew and lapwings and All figures are provisional, based on still to be agreed with NatureScot. The Scottish Government continues it valuable studies into these and other farmland year to end November 2020 and budget has also declared its desire to license Scottish grouse moors in projects. Its farming operation is run on a commercial the next Parliament, along with a raft of deer and moorland basis while adapting to make space for conservation and management regulation. These changes could have far research activities. In addition to developing Natural Capital reaching effects on whether our uplands can continue to be accounting systems and carbon sequestration measurement sustainably managed through game conservation. As a result, methods, the research side is also planning a variety of other How your GWCT, with its 30 years of prior research and data, and new research projects which will start in the near future. Do 46% 22% working closely with other organisations, are undertaking two consider a visit and, with some notice, our staff there will be support was new vital pieces work. The first is to inform the introduction of delighted to show you what is going on. Research & Advice, used in 2020 any future grouse moor regulation so that it is both practical demonstration policy & and proportionate, and the second is to conduct new research Finally, your participation in this Scottish Auction is hugely education into mountain hare culling which will provide the licensing important to us, especially this year as once again we are authority with the necessary evidence when considering the not able to run so many of our normal fundraising events. granting of licences. So please be generous, knowing that you are supporting 11% the necessary scientific research that informs the difficult Admin On a happier note, we are delighted to announce that the decisions that governments have to take concerning our much-loved GWCT Scottish Game Fair will take place on countryside and our interaction with it. 24th to 26th September; I do hope you will be able to join us. 13% 9% Other GWCT events are also planned later this year, thanks David Noble, Membership & communications Fundraising to the work of our invaluable Regional Committees. GWCT Executive Chairman, Scotland Scottish Auction 2021 7

Acknowledgements

We are extremely grateful to our sponsor, Saffery Champness for sticking with us in a tricky year. Living accommodation changes. Is your farm or estate affected?

From 6 April 2021 the rules that allow a concession ‘Customarily provided’ means it is normal practice for farm and estate staff who are provided with living to provide living accommodation to at least 50% of accommodation as ‘representative occupiers’ change, employees of that class. HM Revenue & Customs Thank you to the following for their support and contributions: and farm and estate businesses need to ensure they (HMRC) has agreed that many farm workers should be are not caught out. They should review their situation covered by the ‘necessary for the proper performance urgently if they have not done so already. of duties’ exemption, but there could be issues for other positions such as resident agents, chief The current concession relates to posts that existed executives, estate and farm managers and workers, before 6 April 1977, and to successors to those gamekeepers and property maintenance staff. posts. It provides relief from a taxable benefit in kind for employees required to live in the property as a For any assistance on this issue, and to find out how condition of their employment. we can help you, contact either: for Chef’s menu, time for generously donating the and inspiration venison in the dinner boxes Employers providing such accommodation under this concession should consider whether that accommodation becomes a taxable benefit from next month, or whether it continues to qualify as a tax-free Max Floydd, Edinburgh benefit under one of the statutory exemptions. HOW TO USE THE GIVERGY PLATFORM T: +44 (0)131 221 2777 MOBILE - BIDDING Those statutory exemptions are where the employer- E: [email protected] for co-ordinating, preparing and for the provided living accommodation is either: 1 2 3 for offering a special delivering dinner across the UK bidding system GWCT wine package • Necessary for the proper performance of duties; or • Customarily provided for the better performance of duties; or Susie Swift, Inverness • Visit Auction Site Browse Items• Place Bid • Required for the personal security of the employee. Enter the auction URL in your smart Start by having a look through the All those who have generously The English counties whoEnter the amount you want to bid T: +44 (0)1463 246300 phone’s browser or click the link in the auction items. For more info and an image and then press ‘Place Bid’. E: [email protected] made donations, whether SMS you receive. ofhave each item contributedsimply tap the auction item. some auction lots or money. of the auction lots. 4 5 6

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Thursday 13 May - Dinner at Home

The Head Chef at Prestonfield The venison has again been generously Each box provides dinner for House Hotel has created a donated by Highland Game. This two, easily finished at home. delicious menu for us, as a one-off year your dinner will be prepared From 6.30pm on Thursday 13th, opportunity, in the spirit of the by The Cook School and delivered have a drink, watch a short Scottish Auction annual dinner. to you in a box anywhere in the UK, video from GWCT Scotland, to enjoy on Thursday 13 May. and enjoy your dinner. Last bids 10pm!

Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Scottish Auction Dinner Menu Raise • Braehead Salmon Beetroot cured Loch Fyne salmon, horseradish crème fraiche, wholemeal the soda bread, cabernet sauvignon pickled shallots, fresh radish East Coast Shellfish steaks Bisque, thermidor flavoured sour cream Highland Game Venison Farce and loin en croûte, spring onion purée, golden raisin, bitter leaves, Jersey Royals with wild garlic, Grand Veneur sauce UK’s No1 for Venison Highland Fine Cheeses Order details www.highlandgame.com A selection of artisan cheeses from Tain on the Dornoch Firth with Arran Oatcakes on p.10 •

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How to Order Dinner Scottish Auction Committee Chairman: Bryan Johnston

Order your dinner at www.gwct.org.uk/dinnerbox between 23 April and & midnight on Sunday 9 May. Committee: Billy Birse-Stewart Charles Graham-Campbell The options are: Angus Cheape Camilla Harden Angus Crow James Oliver ◆ Scottish Auction Dinner for 2 £110 Keith Falconer James Osborne Iain Gale Oliver Pile ◆ Scottish Auction Dinner for 2, with red and white wine, Anna Gardiner The Lord Matthew Sinclair (1 bottle each of Macon Uchizy 2019 and Chateau La Rory Gibson Hugo Straker Grande Maye, Cotes de Castillon 2015) £130 Christopher Godfrey-Faussett

◆ Scottish Auction Dinner for 2, with champagne, red and white wine, (1 bottle each of J&B Sarcey Brut Private Justerini & Brooks are also offering a special GWCT Auction Manager: Cuvee NV, Macon Uchizy 2019 and Chateau La Grande 10% discount on case or mixed case orders of the Angela Walker Maye, Cotes de Castillon 2015) £150 following wines (delivery UK wide) ordered by 5 May.

Delivery (UK wide) will be on either 12 or 13 Please email your order to: May, in time for dinner on 13 May. [email protected] and [email protected] quoting GWCT Scottish Auction.

Justerini & Brooks, Sarcey, Brut, Private Cuvée, NV, 12x75cl: £238.90 (discounted from £265.44)

Mâcon Uchizy, Gerald et Philibert Talmard, 2019, 6x75cl: £61.94 (discounted from £68.82)

Château La Grande Maye, Côtes de Castillon, 2015, Chairman: Chief Executive: Executive Chairman Scotland: 12x75cl: £146.56 (discounted from £162.84) Sir Jim Paice Teresa Dent David Noble

(minimum order 1 case, free delivery over £300) Registered Charity No: SC038868 NEW SH GA M 13 TI E Scottish Auction 2021 T F DATES A O I C R

S Recent and Forthcoming Events

2-23 April: Northern Auction online, 8 October: Golf and Clay Day at Gleneagles (sold Rory Donaldson 07718 780 700 out), Rory Donaldson 07718 780 700

30 April -13 May: Scottish Auction online, November: East Tayside Dinner & Auction, Angela Walker 07594 929783 Rory Donaldson 07718 780 700

13 May: Scottish Auction Dinner at Home November: Edinburgh & South East Scotland Christmas Drinks, Rory Donaldson 07718 780 700 September: Edinburgh & South East Scotland Clay Day (sold out), Rory Donaldson 07718 780 700 Advisory Courses: to book bespoke advisory courses please contact [email protected] 24-26 September: Scottish Game Fair, Scone Palace, www.scottishfair.com Details of Future events and scheduled courses will be published on www.gwct.org.uk/events/calendar/ when available.

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1 2 3 100 bird day at 1 Altyre, Forres

Provided by: 100 (up to 150 if you can hit them!) bird pheasant day Visit Auction Site Browse Items Place Bid Sir Alastair Gordon for 8/9 guns on the Altyre Estate, near Forres. The gullies Cumming and and woodlands of Altyre offer a varied terrain where you Enter the auction URL in your smart Start by having a look through the Airlie Bruce Jones can enjoy a unique day’s sport. You are rewarded with the Enter the amount you want to bid phone’s browser or click the link in the auction items. For more info and an image challenge of high flying quality birds. Feature drives include and then press ‘Place Bid’. SMS you receive. of each item simply tap the auction item. Date: Daisies, Bruntlands, The Burn, The Ruins, Squirrel Wood Midweek in January and Situation Point. 2022 by arrangement The day begins in the club room where you will be greeted 4 5 6 Guide price: by Sir Alastair Gordon Cumming and his team. There are £5,000 three drives before lunch and one drive in the afternoon. (£4,000 reserve) A homemade lunch using locally sourced ingredients is provided as part of the day. At the end of the last drive it is back to the club room where the bag is counted and everyone can reflect on their excellent day’s shooting on an old highland estate.

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125-150 bird day 100 bird driven day Walked up 250 bird for 8 guns in the GWCT Allerton grouse shooting, partridge day, 2 Lammermuir Hills 3 Project, Leicestershire 4 Perthshire 5 Wiltshire or Angus

Provided by: This is an exciting opportunity for a team Game & Wildlife of eight guns to shoot at the GWCT’s Conservation Trust demonstration farm at Loddington in Leicestershire, where rolling topography Date: provides challenging shooting. The Wednesday shoot, which was created and is managed 19 January 2022 by the Trust, encourages thriving wildlife alongside productive farming and the Provided by: An exciting driven day with both Guide price: interaction between them has been Mark Tyndall pheasants and partridges for 8 guns £4,500 carefully monitored for 26 years. During on the Horseupcleugh Estate in the (£4,500 reserve) the day, your team will get the chance Provided by: A walked-up grouse day for 2 guns Lammermuirs. This shoot offers a to learn about the pioneering research Mr & Mrs A Seldon at either Glenturret, near Crieff, Date: variety of very challenging drives with carried out by GWCT and the part it or Glenlethnot by Edzell, with an Tuesday 30 an anticipated bag of 125-150 birds plays in modern wildlife management. Date: anticipated bag of 4-5 brace per gun. Provided by: A day’s partridge shooting for 250 November 2021 (depending on the guns). During the Guns should bring their own picnic. Barney Stratton birds on the Stockton Shoot in the Elevenses will be provided along with 2021 season by Wylye Valley in south Wiltshire for Guide price: Lunch is not included but there is a very an excellent two course lunch and tea arrangement Date: 8 to 10 guns. The shooting is classic £5,500 impressive lunch hut available and the and cake to finish. Accommodation Wednesday downland partridges, transport is in Estate are happy to suggest local chefs. for all, and any catering for additional Guide price: 15 September 2021 a state-of-the-art Gunbus, lunch is guests and spectators (all welcome), will £1,250 on top of the downs in a panoramic If accommodation is required then there be at the bidder’s expense. Should you Guide price: lunch spot and camp followers are is a very good quality shooting lodge wish to stay locally, the Allerton Project £8,000 actively encouraged. To be taken on which has 8 bedrooms and sleeps up to 16 office can supply suitable options. The (£7,000 reserve) Wednesday 15 September 2021 subject available to let by separate arrangement anticipated bag will be around 100 birds. to current covid restrictions. with the Estate. Alternatively there are local hotels nearby. All guns must have their own shooting insurance and use fibre wad cartridges, well behaved dogs are welcome to join in the fun. Scottish Auction 2021 - Shooting 18 Scottish Auction 2021 - Shooting 19

A day’s ferreting Clays over Walked up Father & son or and rabbit shooting Corsehope, grouse, Cumbria daughter to join a 6 for three guns 7 Heriot, Midlothian 8 9 family shoot near Auchterarder

Provided by: A day’s simulated game shooting on Provided by: Matthew Walgate Corsehope, near Heriot. The format The Brown Family An opportunity for a father and son will be exactly as a day’s game shooting: or daughter to join the Brown family Date: 8-10 guns, shooting in pairs, will Date: shoot at Fordoun, Auchterarder for a May to August 2021 meet at 9.15 for coffee and a briefing. During the day in the 2021/22 season. Expected There will be 3 drives in the morning 2021/22 season bag 100 birds, lunch will be provided. Guide price: (including a break for elevenses), and £2,500 after lunch a final competition drive Guide price: (£2,000 reserve) followed by tea and medals. £750

You should provide your own guns and cartridges, though further Provided by: A day’s walked up grouse shooting at cartridges could be supplied at cost Charles Bull - Dufton Fell in Cumbria for 4 or 5 guns on the day if required. Corsehope has Just Cartridges on a date to be agreed in August or Provided by: A chance for three to help protect the the topography to produce the real September 2021. At 2,300 feet, Dufton is Game & Wildlife crops and fill the boot with rabbits at deal in the simulation of game birds Date: one of the highest driven grouse moors Conservation the GWCT’s demonstration farm at and ground game. A light lunch and August or September in the UK with spectacular views on Trust, Scotland Auchnerran, Aberdeenshire. To be refreshments will be provided. 2021 date to be agreed the right day. Lunch and drinks will be taken September to February 2021/22 provided. Expected bag 15 – 25 brace. Date: on an agreed date. A hot hearty meal This lot is subject to sufficient grouse Between September of local produce will be provided and Guide price: stocks and weather and, if necessary, 2021 and February an optional farm tour with Marlies £1,500 will be rolled over. It is a severe off-road 2022 by arrangement Nicolas from our research and farm driving experience to get up the hill shoot team is included. and the purchaser should have suitable Guide price: vehicles to gain access. £450 As part of GWCT policy, we encourage (£250 reserve) guns who visit Auchnerran to complete our short test to become an Accredited Game Shot. Details of where and how to complete the accreditation will be included in the voucher provided to the winning bidder. Scottish Auction 2021 - Shooting 20 Scottish Auction 2021 - Shooting 21

Walked up grouse The Lunan McNab at Candacraig Wild partridge 10 11 12 in the Cotswolds

Provided by: One gun to join David MacRobert’s Provided by: Provided by: The Lemhill and Green Hill shoot is offering a day’s wild David MacRobert team on a 20 brace walked up grouse Duncan Gray George Ponsonby partridge shooting for 1, to join a team of 7 on a date day at Candacraig on the Glorious A sporting day with a difference: your to be confirmed. A full-time keeper has been employed Date: 12th August 2021, including overnight Date: McNab 3 will be a bucket of mackerel, a Date: on this Cotswolds shoot since March 2017. No birds are 12th August 2021 accommodation the night before in 1 July to 30 Soay lamb and a rabbit! During the 2021/22 released and wild greys and wild red legs have been driven Tomintoul, the Highland’s highest September 2021 season (or 2022/23 over guns for the last two seasons. Expected bag of 75-100. Guide price: village. Date is, of course, subject to First of all a small boat is launched if postponed) The last time this happened on these farms was nearly £700 grouse numbers. Guide price: off the shingle beach at Ethie Haven 50 years ago. £400 in pursuit of mackerel, then a stalk Guide price: (£300 reserve) along the Ethie Cliffs may produce a £2,500 The successful bidder will have the chance to experience the Soay Lamb, and finally a fat rabbit may great sight and sport of a bygone era, where sportsmanship be brought to book amongst the sand as well as marksmanship are the order of the day. They will land dunes of New Barns or Lunan. be tested by the greatest of all quarries as they burst over the The size of the boat limits your party immaculately kept hedges on this Gloucestershire farm. N.B. to 2, but you are guaranteed fun. The if the estate does not have a partridge day this season, it will expedition is best when the the weather be postponed until the following year. is settled and the wind westerly or south westerly. Phone to arrange a date a few days in advance when the weather forecast is more accurate.

To get a flavour of the day have a look at the article in Scottish Field November 2014 edition, pp 128-133. Scottish Auction 2021 - Shooting 22 Scottish Auction 2021 - Fishing 23 Evening duck Pigeon shooting Fishing flight at for 4 guns north of 13 Makerstoun, Kelso 14 Dundee One week (6 days) fishing for

Provided by: Pigeon towers: an afternoon for 4 guns 2 rods at Grimersta on the Mr & Mrs B W P Kaye to shoot in the tree tops from scaffold 15 Isle of Lewis towers at sporting pigeons. Date: Late February or early March 2022 Provided by: Grimersta is predominantly a loch Grimersta Estate fishery, although the rivers and streams Guide price: connecting the lochs can be prolific. £500 Date: Salmon, grilse and sea trout enter the (£400 reserve) During the 2022 system from late May, and although season by arrangment the main run is traditionally in mid- July, fresh run fish are caught up to Guide price: the end of the season in mid-October. £4,000 There is also excellent brown trout (£3,000 reserve) fishing on innumerable lochs. There is an experienced and excellent team of ghillies. Provided by: An evening duck flight at Makerstoun Lord Biddulph for 2 guns. Keeper and dog to assist The changeover is always on a with pick-up. Covid restrictions Wednesday evening at 6pm, with Date: permitting Lord Biddulph will host fishing from Thursday to the following 2021 season, date a delicious dinner afterwards in his Wednesday. Dates in the 2022 season to be agreed lovely family seat at Makerstoun. to be arranged with the Estate Office, however rods in 2021 may become Guide price: available at short notice. £400 The offer includes all board (breakfast, a picnic lunch, afternoon tea and dinner) and accommodation at Grimersta Lodge. Not included are costs of travel, drinks or sundries.

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A day’s salmon A week for Two days’ fishing April, May or June fishing for 4 rods 2 rods on for two rods on the week for 6 rods 16 on the Stracathro 17 the Findhorn 18 Ballindalloch beat 19 on the Lyon beat of the River of the River Avon Provided by: North Esk Provided by: Hughie Campbell Mark & Robert Laing Provided by: Two days’ salmon and seatrout fishing Adamson 1 day for 4/5 rods on the prolific Ballindalloch Trust for two rods on the Ballindalloch Trust Stracathro Beat. October is traditionally Date: beat of the River Avon during the 2021 Date: the best month with autumn salmon During September Date: season. The Avon’s pools and runs offer Saturday 16th joining the summer grilse. 24 were 2021 By 30 September 2021 excellent stocks of fish, depending on October 2021 caught in the month last year. Success the time of year and the height of water. cannot be guaranteed, but should this Guide price: Guide price: Guide price: year’s team fail to catch a fish, Hughie £1,000 £240 A delight to fish, there is something £600 Campbell Adamson has kindly offered for every fishermen in the variety of to host them again in 2022 free of challenges which the river presents. charge! The fishing is almost entirely double Provided by: One week’s salmon fishing on the 2 rods are being offered the opportunity bank; there are basic huts; and a ghillie Charlie Ramsay South Chesthill beat of the River Lyon There is no ghillie, but rods will be to fish the Findhorn at Logie and is shared between the 6 rotating beats. for up to 6 rods, to be taken in either shown the water. Fish can be kept (if Relugas for a week (middle beat fishes Date: June 2021, or April, May or June 2022. they must be!), and a comfortable, Tues, Thurs, Sat, and top beat Mon, www.ballindallochhighlandestate.com June 2021 or April The June 10 year average is 9.6 salmon warm, bank-side fishing hut is available Weds, Fri). The beats have a variety to June 2022 by per week. for lunch. Fly only. of pools with some suitable for most arrangement heights of water. Little wading is Accommodation at Chesthill House stracathro.com necessary and there is vehicle access Guide price: for up to 16 is optionally available by to within about half a mile of all pools. £990 separate arrangement at 30% discount River paths are reasonable, however the (normal price £4,500; discounted price fishing is within the Findhorn gorge £3,150). and access to some of the pools is quite steep. There is no ghillie, but the beats www.southchesthill.com will be explained to you beforehand. Scottish Auction 2021 - Fishing 26 Scottish Auction 2021 - Fishing 27

1 day coarse Loch and river A day’s salmon 4 rods for 3 days’ fishing in Fishing on Dunan fishing for 2 rods salmon & sea trout 20 East Lothian 21 Estate 22 on the Lyon 23 fishing on the Spey

Provided by: Saul Gardiner, Provided by: 1 day’s salmon fishing for 2 rods, SG Fisheries Roro Estate exclusively, on the Roro beat of the River Lyon in Perthshire during the Date: Date: 2021 season. The beat consists of By end May 2022 During the approximately 2.5 miles of beautiful fly 2021 season by water with 11 named pools. Guide price: arrangement £200 A delightful cottage may be available (£100 reserve) Provided by: Two days’ fishing for 4 rods, including Guide price: by separate negotiation. A member of McCorquodale 2 nights’ accommodation in an £200 staff will show you the water on the day. One day coarse fishing for 2 on a private Family estate cottage at the west end of Loch fishery on East Fenton Farm, East Rannoch. 1 day fishing on the River Provided by: The House of Bruar has most generously Lothian. Coaching can be included by Date: Gaur and another on Loch Sron House of Bruar donated 3 days’ fishing for 4 rods on the qualified coaches if required (and where Summer 2021 by Smeur. Loch Sron Smeur is stocked Kincardine beat of the River Spey. The Covid restrictions allow). In this new, arrangement with rainbow trout but also has a good Date: beat offers 2 miles of fly only fishing private 2 acre fishery, the species are carp showing of wild brown trout. The River Ideally during 2021, with excellent sea trout fishing in early (to 5lb) and tench. Methods used are float Guide price: Gaur offers good trout and pike fishing, but up to May 2022 summer followed by the salmon in July fishing and ledgering (tackle and bait can £485 with the very odd salmon. Access to a onwards. There is no ghillie, but the be provided), and the best months tend to boat and engine on the loch. Additional Guide price: water will be shown to rods on the first be April and May. You are also welcome numbers and a longer stay can be £750 day. There are good local B&B’s at the to fish for carp on the fly (bank only) but organised by private arrangement. bidder’s own expense. would need your own tackle. The fishery is an active irrigation reservoir so water dunan-estate.co.uk levels can vary. Scottish Auction 2021 - Fishing 28 Scottish Auction 2021 - Fishing 29

A week for 2 rods Fishing on 3 days’ fishing on 3 days for 2 rods on the Lyon the Upper Tay the South Esk on the River 24 25 for 4 rods 26 27 Thurso

Provided by: Thurso River Ltd.

Date: 30 August to 1 September 2021 Here is a great opportunity for 2 rods Provided by: A week in newly refurbished Riverside Guide price: to fish for 3 days on the River Thurso Mrs B J Malim, Cottage with salmon fishing for 2 rods £1,600 from Monday 30 August to Wednesday Meggernie Estate on the river Lyon. Provided by: A day’s salmon fishing on the River Tay Provided by: 3 consecutive days salmon & sea trout (£950 reserve) 1 September 2021, along with 2 nights David & Squibbs (Cloichfoldich or Findynate Beat) for 4 Airlie Estates fishing for 2 or 3 rods on the Cortachy bed & breakfast in a premium twin or Date: The wonderfully located cottage sleeps Noble rods. The 4 rods and up to 3 spouses Beat of the River South Esk at a time double room at the Ulbster Arms in Between 11 up to 4 in 2 bedrooms. The fishing is will be given dinner, bed and breakfast Date: to be mutually agreed with the Estate Halkirk on the Monday and Tuesday. September and 16 on 4 beats which rotate daily and you Date: for two nights at Cloichfoldich as During the Office. October 2021 by will be shown the water by the resident During 2021 season guests of GWCT Scotland’s Chairman 2021 season by The River Thurso extends 26 miles arrangement ghillie. If you wish his further input David Noble and his wife Squibbs, arrangement The Cortachy beat covers approximately from Loch More to Thurso East, and is during the day that will be by separate Guide price: including a picnic lunch on the river. 1.25 miles of double bank fishing with divided into 12 beats which are fished Guide price: negotiation directly with him. £1,000 (Accommodation in two double beds, Guide price: 14 named pools and has 2 fishing huts. in rotation. Fishing is fly only, you will £1,200 (£750 reserve) one twin and one single). To be taken £350 be accompanied by a ghillie and catch www.meggernie-estate.com during the 2021 season, dates to be Accommodation and ghillie may be and release policy applies. Further mutually agreed. available through the estate by separate fishing and accommodation may be arrangement. available by separate negotiation.

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3 days’ fishing for A day’s fishing A day’s salmon 2 days’ salmon 4 rods on the Earn on the Nith fishing for 4 rods fishing for 2 rods 28 29 30 on the Teith 31 on the Findhorn

Provided by: Glenferness Estate offer 2 consecutive Glenferness Estate days’ fishing for 2 rods during the 2021 season. The beautiful and exciting Date: Glenferness beats of the River Findhorn Before end September vary from narrow rocky gorge pools to 2021 by arrangement small runs, deep pools and wide open pools: pools to suit all heights of water. Guide price: Provided by: 3 day’s fishing for 4 rods on the Kinkell £425 Accommodation is not included, but Mr & Mrs J M beat of the River Earn in Perthshire. The Provided by: One day’s fishing for salmon and self catering may be available on the Osborne beat consists of 2 miles of mostly double Lanrick Estate or sea trout for 4 rods on the Lower estate. If not the donor will be happy to bank fishing, with 32 named pools, fished Provided by: A day’s salmon & sea trout fishing for Lanrick Beat of the River Teith. The advise on options nearby. Date: on a rotational basis by 8 rods. Each rod Buccleuch Estates 2 rods on the exclusive Lower Castle Date: beat has 12 pools, mainly double bank, Thursday 2 will have the chance to cover the entire Beat of the River Nith at Drumlanrig By end August 2021 and has been described as a miniature glenfernessestate.com/sporting to Saturday 4 beat in one day, there is easy access to all Date: Castle, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. by arrangement Dee with streamy water in a beautiful September 2021 pools and two fishing huts. August to November One night’s accommodation for 2 setting. There is a comfortable fishing 2021 subject to people (self-catering) is included in Guide price: hut with BBQ. Guide price: 5 year averages are 152 salmon and availability one of Drumlanrig Castle’s stableyard £450 £1,000 202 sea trout. No accommodation is apartments. Further fishing and Fly only, catch and release, a ghillie included but the donor would be happy Guide price: accommodation may be available by with 4x4 vehicle will be provided. Book to suggest options nearby. £280 separate negotiation. early to avoid disappointment. Within easy reach of Edinburgh, Glasgow and www.kinkellfishing.co.uk www.drumlanrigcastle.co.uk Perth the Teith is one of Scotland’s well kept angling secrets - come and share the secret.

Sadly not included, but worth considering if you need somewhere to stay, the estate has 5 beautiful treehouses close to the river.

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3 days for 2 rods A week for Trout fishing A day for 2 rods on the Tweed at 2 rods on on Black Corries on the Birgham 32 Ladykirk 33 the Annan 34 Estate 35 Dub on the River Tweed

Provided by: The owners of Black Corries Estate

Date: May to July 2021

Guide price: Photo: Glyn Satterly £200 Enjoy a day’s rainbow trout fishing for 2 with a boat and ghillie (if required) on a loch on the Black Corries Estate, Provided by: 6 consecutive days’ fishing for 2 rods in Glencoe. To be taken between May Annandale Estates on the Annandale Estate’s beat of the and July this year. When this auction Provided by: A great opportunity for 2 rods to enjoy Annan. This 5.5 mile attractive beat of lot was last taken 2 years ago the The Earl of Home an early autumn day on the Lower Provided by: 3 days’ salmon fishing for 2 rods at Date: lightly fished water is relatively narrow biggest rainbow landed on the day was Tweed. Birgham Dub consists of 1 mile Ladykirk Estate Ladykirk on the Lower Tweed. The beat By 16 November 2021 and shallow, so responds well to the 51/2 lbs, and the winning bidders also Date: of double bank fishing and is a 2 rod, 2 comprises 3 miles of left bank fishing and stealthy fisherman who wades as little landed three other large rainbows, as Wednesday boat beat, with two full time boatmen. Date: the five year average after an excellent Guide price: as possible. The spring months are good well as dozens of brownies. 1 September 2021 The Dub has a wide variety of pools and Thursday 23 2020 season is 277 salmon/grilse and 20 £240 for large wild brown trout, sea trout are streams for both high and low water to Saturday 25 sea trout. present in good numbers from June Guide price: conditions. Not only the Dub with September 2021 onwards and the best salmon fishing is £750 its pools named the Corbie, Cundy, Its position next to the tidal waters often to be had from September. Galoshan Point, Hens Leg and the Guide price: allows large quantities of fish to build Nick; but also (above and below) are the £1,100 up as they are forced to wait for higher streaming waters known as the Brose, water. There is good access to the main Magrie, the Cradle, the Weil and Jilly’s pools, and you will be accompanied Cast. The beat is very well maintained, by a ghillie. Fishing is generally from with fishing hut and other facilities. either boat or bank depending on river Birgham Dub is owned by Douglas & conditions, however this year the use of Angus Estates and forms part of the boats and access to the fishing hut will be Hirsel Estate at Coldstream. dependent on Covid19 restrictions at the time. All hen fish to be released. www.dandaestates.co.uk Scottish Auction 2021 - Fishing & Fishing Plus 34 Scottish Auction 2021 - Fishing Plus 35 Salmon fishing on Fishing Plus Explosive Derbyshire the upper or lower staycation in a windy spot 36 beat of Makerstoun Mixed sport 38 on the River and comfort Tweed 37 in Strathardle, Provided by: Robert Shields DL, Provided by: 3 consecutive days’ fishing for 2 rods Perthshire Sir Andrew Walker- Lord Biddulph on this beautiful stretch of the River Okeover Bt and Tweed at Makerstoun during the Longcliffe Quarries Date: month of February 2022 (subject to During February availability – book early to get the best Date: 2022 choice of dates). Rods are to release all During fishing season salmon. Fly or spinner (at Boatman’s in 2021 or 2022 Guide price: discretion), subject to Tweed £350 Regulations. Good riverside fishing Guide price: huts and the Boatman is shared with £2,000 A 2 day/3 night trip for 2 people to the the other Beat (half day on each Beat). Provided by: 2 days of relaxed fun for two couples (£1,500 reserve) Derbyshire dales. On day 1, climb a 60 Aidan Petrie with options for hill loch fishing for metre wind turbine situated on top of a www.tweedbeats.com/beats/upper_makerstoun wild brownies, accompanied stalking dolomite quarry, with views, on a clear www.tweedbeats.com/beats/lower_makerstoun Date: for roe, fallow or red deer and even day, to five counties (lessons in how to Between 20 and 24 cast for salmon on the River Ardle. climb a short ladder will be given but an September 2021 Fabulous walking. 2 nights self-catered internal lift does most of the rest! You are by arrangement accommodation in newly refurbished harnessed at all times). Lunch in a local Woodhill Log Cabin, Strathardle hostelry (included), followed by pressing Guide price: in Highland Perthshire. Date to be the button on a 20,000 tonne blast at £850 arranged during week beginning 20 Longcliffe Quarries Ltd, Brassington. September 2021, excluding Saturday. On day 2 you will be fishing the River Dove on one of the six prime beats of the Okeover Estate, courtesy of Sir Andrew Walker-Okeover Bt, guide provided, packed lunch included. Three overnight stays are included at the Charles Cotton Hotel in Hartington (including breakfasts and dinners, but not drinks). Scottish Auction 2021 - Stalking 36 Scottish Auction 2021 - Stalking 37 Stalking 5 nights on the Red stag Rahoy Estate with day on 41 a day’s stag stalking 42 Balmoral Stag stalking Stalking for

with an open sight Sika hinds Provided by: An extremely rare and special 39 double rifle in 40 in the Borders Balmoral Estate opportunity to have a day’s stalking for a red stag at Balmoral. One rifle will Glenlyon Date: be accompanied by a Balmoral stalker, Either Monday with the added pleasure of seeing the 18, Tuesday 19 Balmoral garrons at work. Your picnic or Wednesday 20 lunch will be provided. To be taken October 2021 on either Monday 18th, Tuesday 19th or Wednesday 20th of October 2021. Guide price: £800 Photo: Peter Keyser

Provided by: A full day on Innerwick Estate for one Provided by: A morning and evening outing stalking Provided by: A 5 night self-catering stay in Caorann Robert Dalglish stag to be taken in September/October Stobo Estate Sika hinds around Stobo in the Upper Rahoy Estate on the Rahoy Estate for up to 8, with a 2021. Tweed Valley. There is a large local day’s stag stalking included. (A second Date: Date: population of sika, and stalking is Date: stag at £500 may be available by separate September or October There will be an opportunity to use November or usually from high seats and is at all Sunday 3 to Friday negotiation with the estate). Caorann is 2021 date to be agreed a MacNaughton “round action” .375 December 2021 times accompanied. It is over an area of 8 October 2021 a stunning recently built house with all double rifle with open sights. While by arrangement 330 acres of woodland with some high mod cons, in an enviable position on the Guide price: we will endeavour to get close enough seats situated on the moorland fringe. Guide price: shores of Loch Teacuis on the Morvern £800 to use it, there will be a conventional Guide price: £2,000 peninsula. scoped rifle if this is not possible. £200 www.rahoy-estate.com One night’s self-catered accommodation in a centrally heated bothy is included. The one bedroom bothy contains a king size and single bed providing an opportunity for the stalker to bring a partner and/or son or daughter to share the experience. Scottish Auction 2021 - Stalking 38 Scottish Auction 2021 - Stalking 39

Stalking at 2 days’ hind Morning or A day’s hind Invergeldie stalking on evening stalk in stalking for 43 44 Dunlossit 45 Lincolnshire 46 1 rifle in Speyside Estate, Islay

Provided by: An accompanied stalking session Easton Estate (morning or evening) for one stalker on The Easton Estate near Grantham, to Date: be taken before 31 October 2021. Fallow By 31 October 2021 buck or muntjac.

Guide price: Photo: Peter Keyser £250

Provided by: Stalking for 1 red stag, during the Invergeldie Estate rut, on the accessible and exciting stalking country of Invergeldie Estate Date: near Comrie in Perthshire. No Between 11-20th accommodation included, but the Provided by: A day’s hind stalking for one rifle on the October 2021 by estate are happy to advise on local John & Marina beautiful Speyside estate of Dunachton. arrangement options. Forbes-Leith Accommodation is provided for up to two guests on one night in Dunachton Guide price: Provided by: 2 days’ hind stalking for 2 rifles on Date: Lodge, and the carcass may be taken £500 Dunlossit Estate the Dunlossit Estate on Islay. The During 2021 season away if required. estate stalker, Alan Macdonald, will Date: expertly guide the guests on the Guide price: 2021/22 season by Dunlossit hill ground. A packed lunch £400 arrangement will be provided each day, moderate fitness required. Accommodation and Guide price: extra stalking can be made available £1,250 separately.

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A day’s stalking on A day’s stalking on A day’s hind Fallow buck stalk Aberuchill Estate Aberuchill Estate stalking for one on on Murthly Estate, 47 48 49 Atholl Estates 50 Dunkeld

Provided by: An opportunity to stalk for a Fallow Bidwells Buck on the magnificent Murthly Estate by Dunkeld in Perthshire. Murthly is Date: renowned for the quality of its fallow October 2021 stalking in a beautiful landscape. To be taken in October 2021. Guide price: £550

Provided by: A day stalking for a stag on the Aberuchill Estate Aberuchill Estate in Perthshire during the last week of September. Iain Provided by: Atholl Estates are offering a day’s hind Date: Fridge, the head keeper, will be your Atholl Estates stalking for 1 rifle, with 2 head per day. During week stalker, and you will go to the target in This is traditional stalking with pony in a beginning 27 the morning before going to the hill. Date: particularly beautiful part of Perthshire. September 2021 An estate rifle is available if required. During 2021/22 season www.athollestatessport.co.uk Guide price: £400 Guide price: Provided by: A day stalking for a stag on the £450 Aberuchill Estate Aberuchill Estate in Perthshire during the first week of October. Iain Fridge, Date: the head keeper, will be your stalker, During week and you will go to the target in the Photo: Photoasa.com beginning 4 morning before going to the hill. An October 2021 estate rifle is available if required.

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A Day’s stalking for Sika stalking for 3 Morning and A stag at Braemore, a stag on Auchlyne stags in Strathbran evening stalk, Ullapool 51 & Suie Estate 52 53 East Lothian 54

Provided by: A morning and evening stalk for either John & Ben Gray roe or fallow buck in East Lothian, probably at Smeaton Estate. The outings Date: will be with either the donor or ‘keeper, In season, by 20 trophy may be retained, and the donors October 2021 will be able to advise on B&B nearby if required. Guide price: £200 (£150 reserve) Provided by: A day’s stalking for a stag on the Provided by: A day’s accompanied stalking for a red Braemore Estate, Braemore Estate, near Ullapool, to be Mrs Emma Paterson stag on Auchlyne and Suie Estate, in Wester Ross taken in the first half of September late September 2021. The Estates are 2021. The early stag season at Braemore Date: situated in Glen Dochart, 5 miles west Date: is on very challenging ground; steep Between 20-24 of Killin, Perthshire. Accommodation Provided by: An opportunity for 1 rifle to shoot up Between 23 and rocky in places, but the views September 2021 either in Killin, or B&B at Innishewan Strathbran Estate to 3 sika stags in the woodlands and on August and 18 from the high ground on a clear day Farmhouse on the estate by separate the woodland margins at Strathbran September 2021 are breathtaking. No accommodation Guide price: arrangement (Covid permitting). Date: in Wester Ross. It may well be possible is included but the estate has some £550 Between 13-25 to shoot all 3 on one day as the Sika Guide price: newly refurbished self-catering (£500 reserve) www.auchlyne.co.uk September 2021 will be at the height of the rut, but it £550 accommodation. If this is not available may be best to allow 2 consecutive on your dates they would be happy to days. You will be accompanied by suggest other options nearby. Guide price: David Bennett the estate stalker at £750 all times, and be asked to prove your

competence at the target before setting Photo: Peter Keyser out. Accommodation is not included; the estate can loan a rifle if required. Scottish Auction 2021 - Stalking 44 Scottish Auction 2021 - Stalking 45

2 roe stalking Muntjac at A sika stag outings, near Luton Hoo in the Borders 55 Grantown on Spey 56 57

Provided by: Wayne Whitcher

Date: July or early August 2021

Guide price: £240

Provided by: An opportunity to shoot a sika stag on an Stanhope Estate evening and an early morning stalk in a Provided by: Two high seats for Muntjac on a very picturesque part of the Upper Tweed Edward Phillips, mutually agreed day in 2021 on the Date: valley. You will be accompanied by a Luton Hoo Estate Luton Hoo Estate, Bedfordshire August 2021 gamekeeper and can have the use of an courtesy of Edward Phillips. This is estate rifle if desired. Accommodation A chance for one rifle to take two Date: an opportunity for experienced guns. Guide price: is not provided but can be arranged by accompanied outings probably the last During 2021 The Estate farms over 1200 acres in £250 separate negotiation. week in July or first week of August, hand and is easily assessable just off around the Roe rut. An early morning Guide price: junction 10 of the M1. outing of around 4-5 hours and an £250 evening outing of around 3 hours on (£250 reserve) approx 300 acres of hill and similar low ground within 12 miles of Grantown on Spey. An estate rifle can be used or the guest can bring their own. Accommodation is not included, but the donor can assist in arranging. A trophy fee of £35 per buck would be payable separately if required. Scottish Auction 2021 - Art 46 Scottish Auction 2021 - Art 47 Art Family & A set of silver pet portrait peg markers 59 photography 60 “Three Snipe”by Rodger McPhail 58 29.2 x 36.8cm unframed size

Provided by: Rodger McPhail

Guide price: £4,250 Provided by: A set of sterling silver peg markers Hayward and Stott (hallmarked in Edinburgh) with gold plated thistle tops, engraved numbering Provided by: Have a photographic portrait of your Guide price: 1-10. Their bespoke leather wallet fits Caroline Trotter family, and/or your pet(s), or horses. £475 them perfectly and has an additional Photography Caroline’s emphasis is on taking inner sleeve in which to store game photographs ‘on location’, away from cards. Thrown in as a complimentary Date: the confines of the studio, using natural bonus will be a set of silver dress shirt By end of 2021 light to create classic and relaxed collar stiffeners. portraits with a mixture of posed and Guide price: spontaneous images. www.haywardandstott.com £140 The session will be at a venue to suit you (within an hour of Upper Largo, “Three Snipe”, oil on paper by Rodger McPhail, the well known countryman, or further with expenses payable, by cartoonist, wildlife artist and long time supporter of the GWCT. His portrayals of arrangement). The lot includes an hour’s all British birds, particularly game birds, are eagerly sought after. He is currently sitting, one 10”x8” mounted print and recognised as the finest bird artist in Britain, whether working in oils or watercolours. an on-line gallery of 30-40 images from The painting is signed and framed. which to view and purchase further photographs, with advice on framing The Rountree Tryon Gallery will arrange and fund shipping anywhere within the UK. and wall display.

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Mounted A3 “The Original Ostrich” Bronze rutting “Gentiana sino- pastel portrait of a by Annabel Pope stags by ornata” framed 61 horse or dog 62 approx 60x40cm unframed 63 Michael Simpson 64 watercolour by Emma Tennant

Provided by: Provided by: Annabel Pope’s paintings are known 24.7 x 23.2cm, incl. frame Sophie Harden Annabel Pope worldwide. She has been artist in & GWCT resident in Kenya with Jonathan Scott, Provided by: Date: BBC Big Cat Diary and official artist Emma Tennant By May 2022 Guide price: for Ralph Lauren Children’s stores in £500 China, Hong Kong and New York. She Guide price: Guide price: works closely with Conservation and £500 £425 Charity projects in the UK and abroad. (£450 reserve)

Sophie has worked as a professional Her work is unique in its spirit and artist for 5 years, exhibiting in London, energy, captured from her travels and the Edinburgh Art Festival, and many her knowledge of the subject matter. local galleries. She specialises in animal subjects and takes on a limited number She has had numerous Solo and group of portraits of horses and dogs each year, Exhibitions and commission work offering one of these here. range from people’s pets, horse racing, British and African wildlife. Her contemporary, fluid technique allows movement to flood the painting, www.annabelpope.com from the explosive energy and grace of Provided by: Denzil Skinner & Partners are delighted Borders artist Emma Tennant has once horses to the small details that capture Denzil Skinner to continue their support of the GWCT again generously donated one of her a moment. Often using a contrast of & Partners Scotland, through the Scottish Auction, exquisite paintings to the auction. This colours, Sophie works to accentuate the at this critical time in our need for charming watercolour in antique frame adaptation of light, making the viewer Guide price: science based conservation practices to is of “Gentiana sino-ornata” a flower perceive a 3D object from often just £540 be developed. introduced to the UK from China small marks and brushstrokes. by plant collector George Forrest in The auction lot depicts two stags rutting 1910. Emma started her artistic career Costs of both mileage for photography in bronze, sculpted by Michael Simpson. painting the plants and flowers that and framing will be extra. Height: 130mm Overall length: 235 mm. she had grown as a child, and now as artist, gardener, botanist and historian www.sophieharden.co.uk describes herself as a painter who gardens. Scottish Auction 2021 - Art 50 Scottish Auction 2021 - Art 51

Walnut Pencil portrait of A pair of Patrick Whitethroat 8”x12” your dog Mavros sterling 65 66 67 silver cufflinks

Provided by: Iona Godfrey- Faussett

Date: During 2021

Guide price: Provided by: This charming whitethroat, carved £200 Anthony Woodd from walnut, is by Ralph Williams. Having worked in the Department of Guide price: Ornithology at the Natural History £150 Museum, Ralph became self-employed (£120 reserve) in forestry and woodcarving, working A pencil portrait of a single dog (head Provided by: A pair of Patrick Mavros sterling silver exclusively in wood which he collects only) by Iona Godfrey-Faussett. This Patrick Mavros handcrafted buffalo skull cufflinks. In and seasons himself. This close will be completed from photographs, A3 African culture, this powerful beast has understanding of his medium is evident in size, and unframed. Iona decided to Date: always been given the greatest respect in the unusual and surprising use of set up her small commissions business During 2021 for its cunning and courage. The Cape grain, colouration and other natural to make use of her love of drawing while Buffalo is ranked with the ‘Big Five’, and features unique to each piece of wood. studying languages at University. Guide price: for good reason. At Patrick Mavros the His carvings have been commissioned £230 family is passionate about bringing the by the RSPB, the BBC, the Hawk and www.ionagfportraits.com/ beauty of Africa to the world. Every one Owl Trust and the organisers of the of their pieces is designed by a member Wildlife Photographer of the Year of the family. Award. www.patrickmavros.com He is based in Cornwall, but his work has been exhibited all over the world, and presented to HRH Princess Anne and purchased by the late Queen Mother. He became an elected member of the Society of Wildlife Artists in 1977. Scottish Auction 2021 - Something for Everyone 52 Scottish Auction 2021 - Something for Everyone 53 Something for Everyone A 25kg bag of A week’s work daffodil bulbs experience for 70 71 an enterprising 6 1:1 dog Dog training, youngster with the training lessons, Dorset Hampden Group 68 Peeblesshire 69

Provided by: Provided by: Eshiels Gundogs Margaret Allen

Date: Date: Provided by: A wonderful opportunity for a young Weekdays By July 2022 Hampden Group person aiming for a career in finance during 2021 to gain valuable insight into various Guide price: Date: aspects of the Hampden Group’s Guide price: £45 By end 2022 business in London. During your £180 (£45 reserve) week time will be spent in each of Eshiels Gundogs, owned and run by Ian Guide price: private banking, Lloyd’s of London, and Andrea Mitchell, is offering a block Provided by: All our lives need a little extra £750 Private Office and Peer to Peer lending of 6 one to one dog training lessons, David MacRobert brightness just now - why not brighten companies. tailored to your needs. They offer your spring 2022 by planting the professional gundog and pet training Date: contents of this 25kg sack of daffodil The last time this was offered the person including their new service training September or bulbs (approx 450 bulbs)? They will be who took it up actually secured a job dogs to mountain bike trails. They love A training session with Margaret October 2021 available in September/October 2021. with the group once they left university. what they do. Their fully heated and Allen for handler and dog in West licensed Dog Boarding Kennels are Dorset, lasting approximately one hour. Guide price: suitable for all breeds and They attract Margaret Allen is a respected breeder and £75 customers from Peebles, Edinburgh, author of “In the Bag! Labrador Training Glasgow, Lothians, Scottish Borders, from Puppy to Gundog”. Your dog must Fife, Perthshire and Newcastle. They are be a retriever or spaniel and between ten based near Peebles, 30 minutes south of months and two years of age. Edinburgh and have plenty of quality ground to train and exercise their dogs on, including rivers and ponds for water work.

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Two week Valuation of a Private tour Signed copy of internship with house contents of Stevenson “Sixty Glorious 72 Nelsons in London 73 74 Brothers rocking 75 Seasons” horse workshop

Provided by: A Private Tour of Stevenson Brothers, Robert Wilson The Rocking Horses makers in and Nelsons Bethersden, Kent with Marc Stevenson. Followed by Lunch for two at the Date: Rocking Horse Workshop Dining Room May to September at the Pig & Sty public house. Date to be 2022 Nelsons is the largest producer of The Rocking Horse Makers arranged in advance. natural medicines in the UK, including Guide price: the famous Rescue Remedy and Stevenson Brothers have been hand £1,000 Arnicare, and has been providing Provided by: making rocking horses for 38 years quality products for 160 years. It sells Marc Stevenson for a discerning global clientele and its products all over the world and is were honoured by a recent visit from offering a two week internship in the Date: HRH The Princess Royal. The range is company’s Marketing and Product Image: William McTaggart ‘On the Esk’, During 2021 available in four different sizes and each Development departments for work Provided by: estimate £20,000-30,000 to be sold 13 May at rocking horse is hand made to order and experience. This would be particularly Bonhams Bonhams Scottish Picture Sale, Edinburgh Guide price: can be built to your exact wishes. relevant to any young person who £200 is interested in following a career Date: A Bonhams valuer will provide you www.stevensonbros.com Provided by: This evocative book is the diary of the in marketing, advertising, public During 2021 with a fully illustrated valuation of your Richard Sidgwick late Finlay Mackintosh, ghillie and relations or the creative industries.The Scottish house contents. This can be for stalker on several highland estates. two week assignment will be based Guide price: insurance, market or tax purposes and Guide price: Written in the 1960s, shortly before his at the Company’s Headquarters in £1,400 will cover the wide variety of works of £25 death, the diary has only recently been Wimbledon, London and can be taken (£500 reserve) art in which Bonhams specialise. brought to print having been compiled during the summer of 2022. and edited by Richard Sidgwick. It This lot covers a one day visit, any provides a fascinating insight of a life www.nelsonsnaturalworld.com additional days or specialist valuers to from childhood in the Highlands at be arranged and charged by agreement. the turn of the 19th century, to active service the First World War, to his many www.bonhams.com years working as a stalker, during a time in which there were great changes to that way of life and sport. Your copy will be signed by Richard Sidgwick. Scottish Auction 2021 - Something for Everyone 56 Scottish Auction 2021 - Something for Everyone 57

Handmade Muntjac Fly storage with a 2 tickets, with A Week at Manse hide clutch bag difference hospitality, for the Cottage, Dallas 76 77 78 150 th Open at St 79 Andrews in 2022

Provided by: Provided by: Charlotte Sykes Mrs Angela Munro

Guide price: Date: £185 Between October 2021 and April 2022 by arrangement

Guide price: A week at Manse Cottage, near Dallas in £400 Morayshire. This charming traditional (£350 reserve) cottage near the River Lossie sleeps Handmade muntjac hide clutch bag with a rust interior suede. 4 (1 twin, 1 double), welcomes up to Tan leather lace work/ interior leather, double antler toggle two dogs, has an enclosed garden, and and solid brass hardware. Approximate measurements: is close to the River Lossie. The long width 23cm, height 11.5cm. sandy beaches of the Moray Firth, golf courses, hills, the Spey valley’s Whisky All of our buckskyn hides are sourced through ethical or Trail, and plenty of castles are all within conservation hunting practices. We are a small workshop Provided by: A fly box with a difference: a unique Provided by: Be there at the Home of Golf to see easy reach of a morning’s outing. based in rural Northamptonshire. We hand tan each skin Taylor & Mason cartridge magazine now fitted by St Andrews golf’s oldest major played for the 150th before trimming, dyeing and crafting using traditional Taylor & Mason as a fly box, holding Links Trust time over the world famous Old Course leatherworking and stitching techniques into our own bag Guide price: two lift-out trays with removable at St Andrews Links. This prize will and accessory designs. Handmade by Charlotte Sykes £2,500 dividers, 40cm x 30cm x 13.5cm (flies Date: allow you to be part of a truly unique not included as the nice men at Taylor 14, 15 or 16 July 2022 historical event and to walk in the www.buckskyn.com & Mason need them ...). The ultimate footsteps of the giants of the current present for the piscomaniac closest to Guide price: game as well as the heroes of yesteryear. your heart or the perfect object of self- £2,000 You will have individual admission indulgence. (£1,800 reserve) tickets for two people for either the 14, 15 or 16 July 2022 and these will www.taylorandmason.co.uk be accompanied by two reserved stand seats for one of the stands near the ‘home end’. The tickets also come with full day-hospitality passes for two in a luxury hospitality suite. Scottish Auction 2021 - Something for Everyone 58 Scottish Auction 2021 - Something for Everyone 59

Golf for four at 2 nights in a Jetcut Firebox 500 10 barrow Castle Stuart luxury treehouse bags of well- 80 81 near Doune 82 83 seasoned logs

Provided by: Provided by: Keep your home or holiday cottages - Jetcut Ltd The Lord Sinclair or your brand new Firebox (Lot 82) - fuelled up with 10 barrow bags of well- Date: Date: seasoned, barn-dried, mixed firewood During 2021 By September 2021 logs. Maximum log length 30cm. Mixed sizes and shapes. The bags are Guide price: Guide price: 45x45x90cm, and the logs are ideal for £275 £450 wood burners or for use in fire pits/ barbecues during the summer months. If easier will supply equivalent quantity in net bags. Provided by: A superb round of weekday golf for Moray Estates four at Castle Stuart Golf Links near Delivery included within 50 mile Inverness. This championship, par Provided by: A two night stay for two people in The FireBox with cooking plate is a radius of Edinburgh, or further afield Date: 72, links course, home to the 2016 The Treehouses a luxury self catering treehouse in large 500mm Firebox with a square at the buyer’s expense. Weekday by 20 Scottish Open, overlooks the Moray at Lanrick Perthshire. Set amongst the ancient cooking plate around the rim. The November 2021 Firth with several holes literally on woodland on the banks of the River FireBox can be tailor-made in a range the sea and others on a sea cliff with a Date: Teith, this secluded and stunningly of designs and can even be bespoke (at Guide price: stunning panorama. The course, which 1 October 2021 beautiful landscape makes for an an additional cost of £50). Both the box £800 is open this year until 20 November, to 1 April 2022 incredible wilderness retreat or and the cooking plate can be collapsed has attracted international acclaim romantic get-away. Complete with and easily stored when not being used. for its design, location and ability to Guide price: log burning stove, kitchen, BBQ and The cooking plate is ideal for cooking be playable yet challenging for both £550 outside bath you will be cozy and both meat and vegetables (£40 delivery professionals and amateurs. All comfortable in your treetop escape. charge is extra). bookings will be subject to Scottish Government Covid guidance. www.lanricktreehouses.co.uk Why not also bid for Lot 83, a supply of logs to start you off?

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3 night stay in A pair of 2 nights for 2 Homemover’s Cardross Estate’s Meindl Dovre people in a beautiful appraisal by Janefield 84 Arnvicar self- 85 Extreme boots 86 shepherd’s hut 87 Consulting catering cottage

Provided by: Provided by: Provided by: Game & Country James Evans-Freke Janefield Consulting

Guide price: Date: Date: £290 By end September 2021 During 2021

Guide price: Guide price: An appraisal with Janefield Consulting, £200 £350 specialists in providing practical advice and support to homemovers in need of assistance. Every homemover is unique with different objectives and timescales. Whether downsizing your property, relocating, or simply short of The Meindl Dovre Extreme boot is Blackbird Shepherd’s Hut is nestled on time, Janefield Consulting offers clients a benchmark high leg boot for field a rural estate in Sussex, well located a range of services tailored to personal sports and recognised as so throughout for Lewes, The South Downs and requirements. the market. Glyndebourne. A natural habitat for wilderness, the spectacular landscape, Are you someone looking to move house The high quality leather upper provides dark night skies and breath-taking in the near future? Not sure where to Provided by: 3 night stay on Cardross Estate in their protection and durability for all types wildlife provide a truly inspirational start or who to contact? Would you Sir Archie and comfortable Arnvicar self-catering of terrain which is enhanced by a full escape. like some support and impartial advice Lady Orr Ewing farmhouse. Cardross is ideally located rubber rand which protects the upper from a property expert with over 20 right on the foothills of the Trossachs, against heather and stones. The Goretex Its charm is to enjoy simple off-grid years experience? Janefield Consulting Date: The cottage has two main bedrooms (a lining means it is waterproof and the living in a secluded location. There is a can offer you help from start to finish. 30 October 2021 twin and a double) and a bunkbed; two Vibram sole provides stability and grip. gas-heated hot water outdoor shower, a – 31 March 2022 bathrooms, a kitchen / dining area and fire to cook on, and solar lamps to read www.janefieldconsulting.com (excluding 17 a living room, private parking. An equivalent priced piece of footwear by. Bedding and towels provided. On December 2021 – from Game & Country’s extensive range request breakfast, tea and real coffee 6 January 2022), Arnvicar is situated in the heart of could be chosen instead if preferred. are provided. A small cool box provides subject to availability. Cardross with views to the Campsie ice packs and milk. Kindling, matches Hills and Ben Lomond. www.gameandcountry.co.uk & logs are provided. Guide price: £400 blackbirdhouse.co.uk Scottish Auction 2021 - Something for Everyone 62 Scottish Auction 2021 - Food & Drink 63 Quick loading Antiques Food & Drink cartridge pouch appreciation 88 89 course for 6-8 A case of Château A case of

Provided by: Provided by: du Champ des Ardnamurchan Calibre Leather Jeremy Gow, 90 Treilles ‘Le Petit 91 Single Malt and Gow Antiques & Guide price: Restoration Ltd Champ’ 2015 Distillery tour £65 Guide price: Provided by: Provided by: During 2021 Mark Tennant Château du Champ des Treilles is owned Adelphi Distillery Ltd and run by one of the brilliant minds Guide price: Date: behind the success of Pontet-Canet Date: £800 During 2021 and the Pauillac estate. The vineyard During 2021, is run to the rhythms of nature with Covid restrictions Guide price: everything done by hand and no tractors permitting A leather pouch which slides onto a belt £200 allowed. Biodiversity is encouraged and to hold 30-50 cartridges for easy access. no chemicals are used at any point. Guide price: Calibre Leather are a small young This wine is an intriguing blend of £430 company based in Shropshire where 63% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc with Adelphi Distillery Limited was founded they hand-make bespoke products the remainder split between Cabernet in 1992 as an independent bottler of ranging from belts and bags to gunslips Sauvignon and Petit Verdot. It begs you Scotch whisky and, since 2014, has and cartridge bags. This pouch can be to drink it, a classic Bistro red, perfect also been operating its own distillery embossed with initials free of charge if An antiques appreciation day for 6-8 with good steak and roasts. Drink now, in Ardnamurchan. Built on an you wish. people with Jeremy Gow of Gow Antiques or cellar for another 5-8 years. ethos of quality and sustainability, & Restoration near Forfar, to include the distillery launched its first Instagram: calibre_leather_uk lunch in the walled garden. Jeremy has Single Malt whisky in 2020 which Facebook: Calibre Leather been restoring antique furniture for over sold out on release. 30 years, having worked extensively in Adelphi is delighted to offer a Europe before establishing his business case of 6 bottles of its current in Scotland in 1992. He has worked for Ardnamurchan Single Malt many museums, royal palaces and stately along with the opportunity for homes and will give you a fascinating day. 4 people to take the ultimate Manager’s Tour at the distillery. www.gowantiques.com Further information on the distillery, whisky and tour at

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6 bottles of 12 Virtual wine 6 bottles KellyBronze Year Old Syndicate tasting for 6 of 8 Vodka Christmas turkey 92 58/6 Scotch 93 94 95 Whisky

Provided by: Provided by: Provided by: Syndicate 58/6 GWCT Thomas & Scotch Whisky Susannah Pate Guide price: Date: £150 Date: During 2021 For Christmas 2021

Guide price: Guide price: £200 £130

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas A case of 6 bottles of 8 Vodka. 8 Vodka without a good old-fashioned tasting is distilled in Ecuador, uniquely 8 bird. This phenomenal free range fowl, Provided by: A professional tutored wine tasting times distilled to remove more of the a favourite of Delia Smith, Nigella 6 bottles of this award winning Billy Birse-Stewart for 6, conducted by expert Billy Birse- impurities than a single distillation can. Lawson, Jamie Oliver and others, is Oloroso sherry cask matured Scotch Stewart, covering 6 wines of a themed This process produces a cleaner and lovingly reared in the outdoors on a whisky which has consistently won the Date: choice. better taste, and with fewer impurities family farm in Angus and game hung annual gold awards at the International 2021 by agreement it is easier on your body! 70cl bottles for maximum flavour. Super quick and Wine & Spirits Competition, since Billy, who has passed the Master of at 40% ABV. easy to cook, at 10kg (22lb), it will feed first entering the competition in 2013. Guide price: Wine tasting, will take you through a party of 20+ with enough to stuff the In 2014 the Syndicate 58/6 won the £400 each wine over Zoom in the comfort buns for the Boxing Day shoot. And we Gold Outstanding Award and in 2017 of your own home. This is an excellent promise it will fit into a standard sized Syndicate won the trophy - the highest format to ask questions and learn oven! This KellyBronze turkey will be accolade. In 2018 yet another gold was something about this enjoyable subject. available for collection from South awarded in what has been described as You will discuss and choose the theme Powrie Farm near Dundee, Pittormie the Oscar’s of the wine & spirits world! with Billy; for example, “Wines of the Farm Shop near Cupar, Balmakewan The Syndicate 58/6 whisky contains Loire Valley” or another area, or “New Farm Shop near Laurencekirk and 18 single malts and 4 single grains World styles of red”; there are many various locations in Edinburgh. which go through a ‘Solera’ system and other possibilities. are then finished for a year in hand- southpowrie.co.uk selected Oloroso sherry butts. A case of the 6 wines together with detailed instructions and tasting sheets www.syndicate58-6.com will be sent to you. Invite your guests, sit back, sniff and sip ! Scottish Auction 2021 - Food & Drink 66 Scottish Auction 2021 - Food & Drink 67

Tea for 2 at Easton A bottle of 18yo A box containing a A kilo of Leonard’s Walled Gardens, Macallan Single whole Hebridean Hemp Seed Tea 96 near Grantham 97 Malt 98 lamb 99

Provided by: Two adult admission tickets and a tea Provided by: Provided by: The Easton Estate for two voucher includes entry to the Lt Col G S Johnston Leonard Harper Gow gardens, tea for two and a slice of cake Date: each. The gardens are open from March Date: Date: By end October 2021 to October each year, Wednesday- 2021 by agreement During 2021 Sundays, 11-4, and also have holiday Guide price: accommodation on site. Guide price: Guide price: £25 £300 £100 www.visiteaston.co.uk (£200 reserve)

A Bottle of Macallan 18yo Single Leonard will send you one kilo of Malt, single cask (No 19540), part of Provided by: Keith Howman has generously donated his delicious and nutritious Hemp a private bottling labelled for Lt Col Keith Howman a Hebridean lamb, raised on Borland Seed Tea, (roasted hempseeds/mint/ G S Johnston, HM Lord-Lieutenant of Farm in Perthshire, butchered and lavender/rose petals) with a tea pot! Moray (now retired), and from one of Date: packaged ready for the freezer. The box For more information about the tea, only 2 remaining cases. Distilled in By end December will contain 2 whole gigots, 2 boned look at his website. (The auction office November 1991 and bottled in 2010. 2021 and rolled shoulder joints, double loin agree - it’s delicious!) The bottle can be signed or not, as the chops, 2 racks of lamb, 4 lamb shanks buyer wishes. Guide price: and either approx 0.5kg of mince or www.leonardshempseedtea.com £160 diced lamb. Scottish Auction 2021 - Food & Drink 68 Scottish Auction 2021 - Food & Drink 69

Pentland Hills Steaks for 2 at Smoked salmon and A rib of Beef Gin, glass and fly The Balgove Larder smoked meats 100 brooch 101 Steak Barn 102 103

Provided by: Provided by: Pentland Hills Gin Martin Baird Butchers Guide price: £70 Date: During 2021

Guide price: £120 Martin Baird Butchers in Melrose are offering a rib of beef; Aberdeen Angus, farmed locally near Jedburgh and hung Provided by: A wonderful selection of smoked food for 5 weeks. It would feed 10 people. Oliver Nohl-Oser from Cumbrian artisan food company and James Alexander James Alexander Foods. You will receive Fine Foods 1kg rope hung smoked salmon and a Phil & Tabatha (plus Panza) have smoked meat box containing Penrith offered this wonderful lot of an award Guide price: sausage, pancetta, duck breast, chicken winning Navy strength gin, distilled in Provided by: Balgove Larder, the farm shop, Steak £90 breast and wild venison pastrami. honour of Phil’s grandfather who was Balgove Larder Barn and cafe just outside St Andrews, lost during the Battle of the Java Sea in is a hub for top notch, locally reared, www.jamesalexanderfoods.co.uk 1942, a hand finished gin ballon glass Date: grown, stalked, caught, handmade, etched with the wonderful Panza, and By May 2022 and prepared foods. Come and enjoy a hand tied salmon brooch, crafted by wood fired steak for two with a bottle of Nigel Hargreaves, in the Pentland Hills Guide price: wine at the Balgove Larder Steak Barn. www.martinbairdbutchers.co.uk Gin colours. The gin is presented in its £100 Bookings are not required; check the refill box and bottle and represents a website for opening times. unique opportunity to acquire not just an outstanding gin but the prefect glass www.balgove.com to serve it in, more’s the point you get to look ‘Panza smart’ with the brooch - woofingly brilliant!

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A case of A case of A box of Château La Grande Domaine Talmard Pitscandly Farm 104 Maye 2015 105 Macon-Uchizy 2019 106 venison

Provided by: Provided by: Provided by: A box containing a selection of various Justerini & Brooks Justerini & Brooks Jeremy Gow, cuts of venison from Pitscandly Farm Pitscandly Farm which may include steaks, fillet, Date: Date: Venison casserole, burgers and sausages. It could During 2021 During 2021 be either fresh or frozen depending on Date: the season. Delivery included to any Guide price: Guide price: During 2021 UK address. £160 £70 Guide price: www.pitscandlyfarm.co.uk £85

Produced from 85% Merlot and 15% This is a classic white Burgundy from Cabernet Sauvignon, this offers up a Macon. It is harvested to obtain a very really impressive bouquet of flowers, fresh, precise wine. A style enhanced smoke, dark spice, loganberry and by fermentation and ageing sur lie liquorice. The mid-palate has good in steel tanks. This is buttery and depth, with plenty of dark fruit and rewarding with a racy freshness that hints of cranberry. There is a velvety keeps it alive and vital to the long plushness to the fruit and sleek, finish, notes of apple, conference pear, granular tannins. It is a mighty citrus and peach, beautifully balanced impressive wine, the best in its decade. and incredibly moreish. 6x75cl. The final blend spends a year in 1/3 new oak barrels and with its ripeness of fruit and complexity offers a value for money the rest of the world would be hard pushed to beat. 12 x 75cl. Scottish Auction 2021 72 Scottish Auction 2021 - Food & Drink 73

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Bidding on-line will open at 6pm on Friday 30 April 2020 at Lots can be paid for direct to GWCT by Cheque, BACS or We would like to thank the following for supporting this 1. Purchasers must take the sport being offered on the dates www.gwctscottishauction.co.uk credit card, or online through Givergy (at a 2.5% cost to the year’s auction by giving us a cash donation: stated, unless these are subject to change as a result of the buyer). We can email you an invoice if required. current pandemic. • Start by having a look at the items on offer by clicking on The Anderson Group the ‘Auction Lots’ tab on the left-hand side. Scroll through Cheques should be made out to "GWCT Scottish Auction”; E A Bayne-Jardine 2. All lots can be bid for on-line from 6pm on Friday 30 April the list and tap on the item you want to look at for more Arrangements for delivery of auction lots to be made through M M Brooks until 10pm on Thursday 13 May. Details on this process can information or to make a bid. the Auction Manager, Angela Walker, once full payment has J Carson be found on p.72 Additional information is available at www. • Detailed descriptions and images will be available for been made ([email protected] , 07594 929783). N J F Dalrymple-Hamilton gwct.org.uk/scotland/auction following links to Terms and each of the items. To make a bid, enter the amount and J G De Pree Conditions. click on the ‘Place Bid’ button. A Fleming-Smith • In order to place a bid for the first time, click on the Gift Aid J M S Forrest 3. The winning bidder for each lot will be notified by text register button. Complete the registration form and click Gully Partnership and/or email at the close of the auction, with a follow up on ‘Register’. In cases where auction lots have been provided by individuals J Hamer email in the following days. • You can now place a bid on any lots you wish. Enter the it may be beneficial from a tax perspective for these auction R Herbert amount you would like to bid in the box and click on lots to be sold on behalf of the providers of the lots, and The Earl of Inchcape 4. Any statement as to authorship, attribution, origin, date, ‘Place Bid’ or ‘Anonymous Bid’. although they will be given 21 days in which to ask for the Sir Ian Lowson age, provenance and conditions is a statement of opinion, • Once you have placed your bid, you can keep track of proceeds of sale to be sent to them it is believed that they will R Maclachlan and is not to be taken as a statement or representation of fact. your winning bids via the ‘My Account’ tab on the left- not do so and by not doing so that they will gift the proceeds D Maclure hand side. You will receive a text or email notification to GWCT under GiftAid, thus adding 25% to the hammer S Miller 5. The highest bidder shall be the buyer. If any dispute arises (depending on the details provided) should you be outbid proceeds. For this reason some of the lots are in fact being A G Mitchell the chairman shall have the absolute discretion to settle it. on any items on which you have placed bids. sold for the providers of the lots. A Parrott • The online auction will close at 10pm on Thursday 13 May Dr P O Pern 6. The chairman reserves the right to refuse any bid less than 2020 In the remainder of cases, where the successful bid exceeds C Plowden 70% of the guide price for lots contained within the Auction. the known reasonable market value of the Lot, the purchaser, G Reed To make a bid by mail or email: please contact Angela by signing a Gift Aid Declaration (you must be a UK taxpayer W D Stewart 7. Payment must be made either by cheque, credit card or Walker: [email protected], call 07594 929783, or and have tax paid or payable equivalent to the relief being C Strang Steel bank transfer direct to GWCT, or at a 2.5% cost to the buyer write to 2 Coltbridge Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 6AE claimed), will be able to enhance the value of their donation. A M Stevenson through the link provided by Givergy. GiftAid allows the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, being Teases Estate Ltd Privacy Policy: We’ll use your details to fulfil your request. a Charity, to claim an addition 25% on the difference between W G R Thomson Cheques should be made payable to “Game & Wildlife For more about how we protect your personal data see our the market value and the winning bid. The Committee urge B Trentham Conservation Trust Scottish Auction”. Details for Bank Privacy Policy on our website www.gwct.org.uk you to help them maximise funds generated by their auction E & F Troughton Transfer will be provided to successful bidders. for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in this way. This Troutsdale Charitable Trust is at no additional cost to yourself, and if you are a higher rate J Turner taxpayer you may be able to claim further tax relief via your Weatherall Foundation Trust self-assessment tax return of a further 25% of the difference. W S Wilson Charitable Trust R J & J M Wotherspoon At the time of payment you will be advised which case applies and where appropriate asked to sign a Gift Aid Declaration form. Scottish Auction 2021 74

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8. All lots are sold with all faults, imperfections and errors 13. Lots are donated with the expectation that purchasers of descriptions. Neither the organiser nor the donor can be will respect the donors’ generosity and abide by local rules held responsible for errors of description or for genuineness and conditions. All purchasers will abide by all Health and or authenticity of any lot, or for any fault or defect in it Safety conditions imposed by the donor. howsoever caused. No warranty whatever is given by the organisers or donor to any buyer in respect of any lot and any 14. Privacy Policy: We’ll use your details to fulfil your implied conditions or warranties, and all lots are sold subject request. For more about how we protect your personal data to no return. The Successful bidder/purchaser of a lot has no see our Privacy Policy on our website www.gwct.org.uk. right to sell on to third parties, sublet or assign without the prior agreement of both the chairman and donor. A full set of the Auction Terms and Conditions can be obtained at www.gwct.org.uk/scotland/auction. 9. Except in so far as other arrangements may have been made with the organisers of the sale, the buyer shall pay the purchase price within seven days of the sale. If at the expiration of a further seven days the lot is not paid in full, the sale may be rescinded without any notice being given to the buyer. Ownership of a lot purchased shall not pass to the buyer until he has made payment in full. Nevertheless, every lot shall be at the sole risk of the buyer from the fall of the hammer.

10. For this sale the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (Scotland) will charge no vendor’s commission nor will the buyer’s premium apply.

11. Purchasers of shooting days are required to ensure that any person who takes part in the shoot is a safe and experienced shot and is fully covered by Third Party Insurance. The donors reserve the right to see evidence of insurance cover and to ask anyone who shoots dangerously to leave the shooting field immediately. We feel sure that prospective purchasers will appreciate the sense of this condition.

12. All guns must possess up-to-date Firearm Certificates or Shot Gun Licences and be insured.

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