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Mixed glassware, including large stemmed wine glass engraved with a pheasant and at the foot 'The Shooting Party', 17cm high, another engraved Lewes and East Grinstead Railway Company, 'Presented to Robert Hardy 31.7.82', 16.5cm high, a pair of tumblers engraved 'Siegried Farnon, Skeldale House' and 'James Herriot, Skeldale House', 9.5cm high, plus other glassware The British film 'The Shooting Party' directed by Alan Bridges and based on the book by Isabel Colegate was released in 1985. Set in 1913 it demonstrated the life contrast between English aristocrats, gathered for pheasant shooting and the local rural poor, who served as 'beaters'. A terrible accident occured at the commencement of filming, where all the male lead actors, including Paul Scofield, Robert Hardy, Edward Fox & Rupert Frazer were thrown from a horse-drawn shooting-brake which had lost control and overturned. Rupert Frazer jumped off without great harm. The other actors were catapulted into a pile of scaffolding. Robert Hardy stood up and realised to his amazement that he was unhurt. He looked across to see Edward Fox stand up, "turn completely green and collapse in a heap". He had broken five ribs and his shoulder-blade. He then noticed that Paul Scofield was lying very still on the ground, "and I saw that his shin-bone was sticking out through his trousers". As the film took place in October due to the partridge-shooting season, the filmmakers had to make a choice to either delay filming for a year, or re-cast. James Mason was therefore subsituted to play Paul Scofield's part to enable filming to continue. (9)