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A great catch will feature at Bonhams sporting sale in Edinburgh on November 7. A carved wooden model of a 64 pound salmon from the River Tay – the largest ever landed in Britain – will be offered. The fish was landed by woman angler Georgina Ballantine while fishing with her ghillie father using a Malloch rod and reel. Mallochs took a plaster cast of the fish. There has been later facsimile glass models. This wooden block model appears to date from the 1920’s and is estimated at £4,000-6,000.
The sale includes memorabilia from paintings of game birds, including an Archibald Thorburn ‘Partridge Dusting’ (£3,000-5,000), portraits of horses, many more mounted fish including a 21lb pike and a c1912 portrait – ‘The Right Man on the Wrong ‘Oss’ and ‘The Wrong Man on The Right ‘Oss’ by Charlie Johnson Payne, ‘Snaffles’ (British, 1884-1967). This is estimated at £800-1,000.

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