There were 19 of these Doulton Lambeth groups in total - the largest offering of its kind in recent memory - and all but a couple were exhibited at pioneering London exhibitions held in the '70s by ceramics expert and author Richard Dennis.
Most carried a degree of restoration but there were some rarities among them and estimates in the hundreds put little pressure on what in recent years has proved a strong but occasionally volatile market.
Collectively they carried an upper estimate of £12,000 but sold at £66,000, predominantly to the trade.
A trio of bids of £4800 topped the selection.
Sharing the honours were Steeple Chase - mice being ridden by frogs over a water jump); Wait Water - a group of three musicians about to have a jug of water thrown over them; and The Wheelwright - a mouse mending a wheel watched by his apprentice.
