Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - 3 Day Auction (#6) 08/07/2022 11:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 08/07/2022 11:30 AM BST Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 1529. Previous|12345678...16|Next Lot #1 'Cambridge v. Australians' 1886. Penny card written by 'A. Craig' (Albert Craig, Surrey Poet) and published by J. & F. Wood, Printers, Facing Kennington Church, London, S.E.. Poem in four stanzas of six lines each, written 'To Mr. [C.W.] Rock, the famous Cricketer' who scored 75 runs in the first innings of the match Cambridge University Past and Present v Australians, Leyton, 23rd- 25th August 1886. 5"x6.25". Foxing to the card, adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #2 'To Dr. Grace on his 41st birthday. July 18th 1888'. Original printed poem by 'A.C.' (Albert Craig, Surrey poet) comprising five stanzas of six lines each, extolling the virtues of Grace. Publisher unknown. 5"x7.75". The page is laid to slightly unevenly trimmed card with neat cut to lower left corner, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #3 'On the brilliant defence of Dr. W.G. Grace and Captain Shuter, against the Australians at Lord's, on May 28th, 1888'. Original printed poem by 'A.C.' (Albert Craig, Surrey poet) comprising four stanzas of six lines each. The poem describes Grace and Shuter's efforts in the match Gentlemen of England v Australians at Lord's 28th- 29th May 1888, in which 'Mr. Shuter secured 71 runs in fine style, Dr. Grace obtained 150 not out, in his old form'. Printed at the Caxton Press, Kennington Park, Londo View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #4 'In Memoriam of the late G.F. Grace, Esq. The Celebrated Gloucester Cricketer' 1880. Poem by 'B.W.', assumed to be Billy Whittam, printed on card comprising seven stanzas of six lines each. Publisher unknown. 5.5"x9", the card trimmed. Age toning and some staining, otherwise in good condition - cricket<br><br>According to Tony Laughton's biography of Albert Craig, 'Captain of the Crowd', William 'Billy' Whittam 'should be regarded as the only and very limited predecessor to Craig ['The Surrey Po View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #5 'Kent too good for Surrey at the Oval, 15th June, 1906... Most respectfully dedicated to George Marsham, Esq.'. Folding rhyme sheet comprising a forty line poem by 'A.C., Cricket Rhymster' (Albert Craig, Surrey poet) and advertisements, for the match played 14th & 15th June 1906 in which 'Fielder took 8 wickets, 6 in the first innings for 30 runs. Woolley took 8 wickets, 5 in the second innings for 82 runs'. Publisher unknown. Horizontal and vertical folds, some foxing, slight splitting to the f View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #6 'Take Heart Middlesex! The Sun Will Shine Again.' 1902. Single page rhyme sheet comprising a poem in four stanzas of six lines each by 'A.C., Cricket Rhymster' (Albert Craig, Surrey poet) and advertisements. It is not known to which match the poem refers, possibly Middlesex's ten wicket defeat to Surrey at Lord's, 17th- 19th July 1902. The leaflet includes an advertisement for Thomas Hayward's Benefit Match to be played at the Oval, Surrey v Yorkshire, 31st July- 2nd August 1902. Publisher unkno View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #7 'An Ideal Cricket Eleven Series'. Stamina Trousers trade issue ink blotter No. 6 Hugh Trumble (Victoria 1867-1938). The blotter features a portrait of Trumble with biography and advertising below. 3.75"x8". Excellent condition - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #8 Australian tour of England 1926. Official invitation to W.P. Howell to attend a 'Garden Party at Government House, Newlands on the 10th Nov'. With gold embossed crest to top of invitation card. Minor foxing, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #9 M.C.C. tour to Australia 1920/21. Original commemorative silk theatre handbill for the production of 'Chu Chin Chow' at the Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne, Saturday 1st January 1921, attended by the Australian and English cricketers on the evening following the second day's play of the second Test. 7.5"x13.5". Some red staining, creasing, tears to centre vertical fold, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #10 Australia tour to England 1926. Rare official 'Programme of Return Journey London to Sydney'. 44pp booklet, assumed to have been issued to the players. Illustrated throughout with detailed itineraries for various points on the return journey, commencing with the departure on the S.S. Montrose from Birkenhead, Liverpool, on the 1st October, bound for Quebec, Canada, then from Vancouver by sea to Sydney via Honolulu and Auckland. Original paper wrappers with Australian green and gold colours to fr View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #11 Alfred Percy 'Tich' Freeman. Kent & England 1914-1936. Official Kent County Cricket Club Benefit postcard issued inviting contributors to take a collecting book or make a donation to Freeman's Benefit fund, probably 1929. Printed return address of 'Mr. Lancaster, Secretary, K.C.C.C., Canterbury'. G/VG - cricket<br><br>Freeman received two Benefits from Kent C.C.C., the first in 1929, and another in 1934 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #12 Australia tour to England 1964. Official P&O Orient Lines souvenir programme 'Australian XI English Tour 1964'. Small 16pp booklet with decorative card wrappers, Ashes emblem and cricket bat and ball motif to front cover. Very good condition - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #13 'The Premier Club- The M.C.C. Team Visiting South Africa 1922-3'. Large hanging advertising card produced by Ohlssons beer, featuring a mono image of the M.C.C. touring party to centre, with printed titles in black and red, players' names, past Test match results and tours, tourists's averages, and fixture list for the 1922/23 tour. 12.5"x20". The card has been neatly split horizontally in two places with modern tape repair. Foxing and age toning, staple holes, otherwise in good condition - cric View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #14 'Expenses for All India Team' 1936. Original typed sheet listing expenses incurred by members of the All India touring party prior to the tour to England in 1936. The page lists train, hotel and allowances for twelve players, including C.K. Nayadu, C.S. Nayadu, Amar Singh, Nissar, Amarnath & servant, Amir Elahi, M. Hussain etc. An additional note below states, 'M. Nissar [and] Amir Elahi have charged double fare instead of single fare from Lahore, this should be reported'. Pencil annotation to v View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #15 A.C. Maclaren's tour to Australia 1901/02. A piece of a fabric hat band from material used on the 1901/02 tour. Navy blue background with central section of red and white checks. VG - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #16 A.C. Maclaren's tour to Australia 1901/02. An original telegram received at the New South Wales Post and Telegraph Line office from Ranjitsinhji to A.C. Maclaren, date stamped 17th December 1901. The message reads, 'Congratulations repeat it'. England had just completed victory over Australia by an innings and 124 runs in the first Test at Sydney, 13th- 16th December 1901, Archie Maclaren scoring 116 in England's only innings. Tape repairs to split folds to verso, otherwise in good condition - c View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #17 Official match tickets and passes 1968-2004. Album comprising one hundred official match tickets and ground passes for Test, tour and County matches, some overseas. Earlier tickets include England v Australia, Lord's 1968, Gillette Cup third round, Lord's 1968, Hampshire C.C.C. season ticket 1969, England v Australia 4th Day, Trent Bridge 24th June 1968, England v India, Edgbaston 1974, Prudential Cup, The Oval, 20th June 1979, Benson & Hedges Quarter-final and Semi-final, Chelmsford 1985 etc. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #18 Close House C.C. Northumberland. Two original small folding membership cards dated 1933 and 1937 with printed fixtures for the Tyneside and Northumberland cricket leagues respectively. Also includes nineteen original mono candid style photographs of Club members in batting and bowling poses at the wicket and a match in progress, two of the smaller photographs are annotated in ink to the verso, 'Closehouse v Wallsend 15 June [19]29'. The photographs measure 4"x6" and 3.25"x2.25". Staining to the View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #19 'Cricket Scoring Book' 1914-1935. A scorebook published by A.G. Spalding & Bros., London, comprising handwritten scores in pencil for the period, assumed to have been compiled by a cricket follower. The book bound in original brown boards with gilt title to front. Includes scores for a series of matches played in June 1914 at Catford for what appears to be a works tournament including teams such as 'Claims', 'Ordinary', 'Registry', 'Policy', 'Audit & Agency', 'Stores & Stat' etc. Also incomplete View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #20 Club fixture cards 1914-1997. A good selection of original club fixture cards including Free Foresters C.C. 1914. Hampton Wick C.C. 1914, 1920 & 1921. London Hospital C.C. 1932. Wardley Welfare C.C. (Gateshead) 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 & 1940. Gidea Park C.C. 1936 & 1937. Heworth St. Mary's C.C. (Gateshead) 1945-1949, 1952-1959, plus rules for 1954. Optimists C.C. (Bristol) 1962-1976, 1978-1981, 1983-1991, 1994-1997 etc. Qty 61. G - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #21 Club cricket ephemera 1884-1950s. Green folder comprising a selection of over forty fixture cards, menus, club meeting invitations, official receipts, tickets, concert programmes etc. Early fixture cards include Merchant Taylors' School C.C. fixtures cards for 1884-1886 & 1888, Sawbridgeworth C.C. 1886 & 1887, United Hospitals C.C. 1887-1889, University College Hospital C.C. 1887-1890, Thames Ditton Junior C.C. 1888, United Service (Bristol) C.C. 1911 etc. Other early items include official rece View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #22 M.C.C. tour to India 1976/77. A collection of press passes issued to Alex Bannister, journalist for the Daily Mail, to grounds in India for matches covered by Bannister on the 1976/77 tour. Matches include 1st Test Delhi, 17th- 22nd December, 2nd Test Calcutta, 1st- 6th January, 3rd Test Madras, 14th- 19th January, 4th Test Bangalore, 28th January- 2nd February, 5th Test Bombay, 11th- 16th February, and tour matches v West Zone, 29th November- 1st December, v Central Zone, Jaipur, 3rd- 5th Decem View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #23 Yorkshire C.C.C. members' tickets/ coupon booklets. Fifteen original member's tickets issued for seasons 1933-1938, 1946, 1948, 1953-1957, 1969 and 1970. The six pre-War tickets are all issued to J.G. Lupton, who may have been related to Arthur Lupton who captained Yorkshire 1925-1927. G/VG - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #24 Glamorgan C.C.C. ephemera 1930s-2000s. A good selection of ephemera from the Glamorgan C.C.C. archives, mainly 1970s-2000s, including Club fixture cards, menus, event tickets, the odd programme, official match tickets for Gillette Cup, NatWest Trophy, Benson & Hedges Cup etc. Includes an early tour itinerary for the Nomads Cricket Club (Neath) 'Bank Holiday Tour' to France, 2nd-12th August 1934. A South Wales and Monmouthshire Cricket Association official handbook 1962, also a good selection of View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #25 Cassell's Magazine. Early 1900s magazine extracts. Five original magazine articles, each tightly bound in a modern card wrapper. Articles are 'The Lancashire Captain A.C. MacLaren', Percy Cross Standing, Cassell's Magazine 1904. 'The Australian Eleven. Will It Beat England?', M. Randall Roberts 1905. 'Where the "Ashes" Have Been Won. The English Test Match Grounds', Harold MacFarlane, Cassell's Magazine 1905. 'Souvenirs of Cricket Exploits', Harold MacFarlane 1907, and 'Concerning C.B. Fry', una View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #26 Surrey C.C.C. 1888. Original early folding official membership and fixture card for the 1888 season. Red leather covers with gilt titles to front and back. Membership no. 2485 issued to and signed to the inside by C. Fairbank[?]. Fixtures list 'Chief Matches at the Oval' including matches against the touring Australians and the Test match commencing 13th August. Officers listed include C.W. Alcock, Secretary. Some soiling to covers, wear to spine, otherwise in good condition - cricket<br><br>Sur View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #27 Andre-Jacques Garnerin balloon flight 1802. Original four page copy of the Morning Chronicle newspaper dated 22nd September 1802. The centre spread comprises a lengthy report of 1 1/2 columns describing Andre-Jacques Garnerin's balloon flight from Saint George's Parade, Grosvenor Square, London. The article describes the event in detail, with a reference to Lord's, 'There was not such a crowd collected in any part as formerly in the fields, near Lord's Cricket Ground'. The newspaper is laid to a View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #28 William Quaife. Warwickshire, London County & England 1894-1928. 'William Quaife. Warwick's Wonder! An appreciation by F.S.G. Calthorpe' 1927. Large original poster for 'The Midlander' magazine advertising an article on Quaife to appear in the magazine. Printed by Geo. H. Powell of Birmingham. 30"x20". Sold with an original copy of the magazine dated June 1927, in which the article appeared on p.13 to promote Quaife's benefit. The poster with horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in very good View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #29 Neville Cardus. Original poster for 'Everybody's' magazine announcing 'Neville Cardus on Cricket Every Week'. 1950s. 20"x30". VG - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #30 Don Bradman. 'The Don. Our Final Farewell'. Original poster for a special edition of 'The Australian' newspaper, dated 26th March 2001. 16"x23.5". Light folds, otherwise in very good condition - cricket View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #31 W.G. Grace. Original large advertising notice, 'William C. Neate has received instructions to sell by auction at the Horse Shoe Hotel, Downend on Wednesday, July 22nd The Old-World Period House where the late W.G. Grace was born... Downend House, 112 North Street, Downend'. Year unknown, probably c.1950. Printed by H.H. Phillips & Son, Fishponds Road, Bristol. 15"x20". Odd nicks and old tape repairs to verso, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #32 Cricket World Cup England and Wales 2019. Three official Lord's posters for group stage matches played in the 2019 World Cup. Pakistan v South Africa, 23rd June (Pakistan won by 49 runs), England v Australia 25th June (Australia won by 64 runs), and New Zealand v Australia 29th June 2019 (Australia won by 86 runs). Each measures approx. 23"x39". VG - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #33 Cricket posters. A selection of posters from the collection of Irving Rosenwater including an original newspaper poster for The Sun (Sydney), 'Chappell Slams Fans "Cricket Gorillas"' dated 18th January 1979, probably relating to Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket that was in progress at the time. A book launch poster for 'Sussex Cricket' by John Marshall, published in 1959. 'England Counties XI V Barbados', Kensington Oval, 14th-16th and 18th-20th February (year unknown), and ten laminated post View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #34 Cricket posters. Two large posters, one for the Old Surrey v Lord's Taverners' 1965. Original poster for the match played 22nd August 1965 in aid of the National Playing Fields Association and the other for The Lord's Taverners Celebrating their Twenty First Birthday' 1971. Original poster produced for the match v An Old England XI at Lord's, 31st July 1971, 'played in the costume and with the equipment of 1884'. Notable names who took part in the matches include May, Barton, Subba Row, A. Bedse View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #35 Cricketers' orders of service. Three original orders of services of thanksgiving for Sir George 'Gubby' Allen held at Westminster Abbey, 2nd April 1990, Ken Cranston, Aughton, 15th January 2007, and Colin Walker, Lancashire C.C.C., 20th August 2008. G - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #36 Arthur Alexander 'Tommie' Thomson. Cricket writer 1894-1968. Official order of service for the memorial held for Thomson, 24th July 1968 at St. Mark's, St. John's Wood, London. Some soiling, overall in good condition - cricket<br><br>Thomson was an English writer best known for his books on cricket, for which he used the byline "A.A. Thomson". He wrote nearly sixty books in all, including plays, novels, verse, humour and travel books View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #37 Cricket orders of service. Three original orders of service of thanksgiving for David Sheppard (Sussex & England), Chichester Cathedral, 3rd August 2005, Doug Insole (Essex & England), St. John's Wood Church, 23rd February 2017, and Derek Ufton (Kent C.C.C. and Charlton Athletic F.C.), Canterbury Cathedral 24th February 2022. VG - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #38 'The Dawn of Cricket'. An early colourful and wonderfully striking printed cotton commemorative handkerchief, featuring eight cricketers from the 19th century in scrolled mono cartouches on a vivid red and bordered background. The images of the cricketers appear to have been taken from Charles Basebe's drawings which were produced in aquatints by Charles Hunt and often engraved by W.H. Mason in the 1840's. The cricketers featured are Fuller Pilch, William Lillywhite, Thomas Box, Jas Cobbet, Alfr View details Estimates£500 - £700Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #39 Victorian scrapbook albums 1858-1912. Three albums comprising a good selection of cuttings from periodicals of the period. One large format album covers the period 1858-1912, another 1878-1912, and the third 1900. Subjects covered include Lord Hawke's tour to Australia 1892, Australia tour to England 1899, West Indians' tour to England 1900, Anglo-American cricket, the state of the game, batting and bowling techniques, analysis of the County game, articles titled 'John Bull and his Cricket' by C View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #40 M.C.C. tour scrapbooks 1960s. Two large format scrapbook albums covering M.C.C. tours in the 1960s captained by M.J.K. Smith. One album (lacking covers) the 1963/64 tour to India, also South Africa in Australia 1963/64, 1963 Commonwealth Tour to Pakistan, M.C.C. to East Africa 1963/6 etc., the other the 1965/66 M.C.C. tour to Australia including matches played in Ceylon, tour and Test matches in Australia and New Zealand. Both albums with a comprehensive selection of pictorial cuttings from the View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #41 The Ashes 1929 and 1930. Two scrapbook albums covering the 1929/30 M.C.C. tour to Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand and the return Ashes series in England, 1930. The albums comprise a comprehensive collection of press cuttings of images of England and Australia players who took part in the Ashes series and tour matches, articles profiling players, and detailed coverage of both tours and Test matches, and Australia's return home following their 2-1 series victory in 1930. Some cuttings images are View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #42 Cricket scrapbook albums 1920s-1940s. Three albums comprising press cutting images of tour matches, Test and county teams, players and grounds covering Australia in England 1926, New Zealand in England 1927, M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1927/28, University, County, Gentlemen and Players teams etc. Sold with a further album comprising cuttings of press reports from the 1948 Australian tour of England. Some faults, overall in generally good condition. Qty 4 - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #43 Cricket scrapbook albums 1948-1952. Five softback scrapbook albums comprising press cutting images and reports of Test series in England v Australia 1948, v New Zealand 1949, v West Indies 1950, v South Africa 1951, M.C.C. tours to South Africa 1948/49, Australia 1950/51 etc. also County cricket for the period, and coverage of the Olympic Games, London 1948. G - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #44 Cricket scrapbooks 1960s-1980s. Nine large format softback scrapbooks (one hardback) including two albums covering the 1965/66 M.C.C. tour to Australia, also Australia tour to South Africa, M.C.C. to Ceylon and Far East, Glamorgan to Caribbean 1969/70, England's Ashes victory in Australia 1970/71, and other general cricket related articles covering laws, technique, sponsorship, politics in cricket etc. G - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #45 Harold Henry Marriott. Leicestershire & Cambridge University 1894-1902. Cuttings album compiled by Marriott comprising newspaper and magazine articles, cartoons and illustrations, covering his playing career at university, and a good selection of cuttings from American newspapers covering Mitchell's tour to America in 1895 and Warner's in 1897, both of which Marriott was a member. G - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #46 E.B. Powell. Cuttings album compiled by Powell comprising newspaper cuttings of matches played by The Rifle Brigade 1912-1924 in India, including a good number of matches recorded in Powell's own hand. Includes one original printed scorecard for The Green Jackets, 69th Rifles v Rifle Brigade, date and location not known. Signature in ink of Powell to front endpaper. G - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #47 John Reginald Head. Middlesex 1892-1898. Original folio scrapbook album compiled by Head from Warner's tour to America 1897, of which Head was a playing member. The album comprises a comprehensive collection of cuttings of newspaper reports, cartoons and illustrations, original photographs etc. covering the team's arrival in New York, matches played in New York and Philadelphia, excursions to Niagara Falls etc. The album bound in half morocco, with gilt initials to front cover, 'J.R.H.' and 'Ame View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #48 Cecil Headlam. Oxford University & Middlesex 1895-1906. Original large 'News Cuttings' album of newspaper and magazine cuttings compiled by Headlam covering his playing career from 1898 playing for Middlesex, Free Foresters, M.C.C. and Ground, Oxfordshire, Falconhurst, Butterflies and Ishmaelites. He was a member of the 1902 Oxford University Authentics tour to India, and the album includes cuttings from the Indian Sporting News relating to the tour, and some handwritten notes. Wear to the board View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #49 Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire & England 1898-1930. Large album comprising newspaper and magazine cuttings relating to the cricket career of Rhodes, and his contemporaries, compiled by the cricket historian, G. Neville Weston, with annotations to the pages in Weston's hand. Apparently compiled in the 1960s, the contents include a handwritten letter laid down to Weston from Irving Rosenwater, dated 18th November 1967. Rosenwater writes, 'I hope this will do. It doesn't show the beautiful arm action or View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #50 T. Peter Thomas. Cricket writer and historian. A collection of ephemera including typescripts and research material compiled by Thomas in the 1960s and 1970s. Contents include a typescript for a book written by Thomas, 'The Smile on the Face of Cricket', being a biography of Thomas Emmett (Yorkshire & England 1866-88) comprising a series of recollections of Emmett by the likes of E.V. Lucas, W.G. Grace, Lord Hawke, Lord Harris etc. Accompanying the script is a letter of rejection from the publis View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #51 Cricket scrapbooks 1935-1959. Two large, very thick and heavy albums comprising an extensive and nicely presented collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings for the period. The first album, with pages with neatly typed captions, covers the period 1935-1940/41 including County Championship, Varsity, Gentlemen v Players, Sheffield Shield (Australia) etc. The second album comprises comprehensive coverage of the 1958/59 M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand. VG - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #52 Cricket miscellany. A selection of ephemera including an official 1978 testimonial brochure for Graham McKenzie (Western Australia, Leicestershire & Australia 1959-1975), and printed card signed by McKenzie. Two Cricket Memorabilia Society limited edition phone cards, No. 1 W.G. Grace, and No. 3 Denis Compton. 'The Magnet Album of Test Match Cricketers. 1930 Tour'. Sixteen page collectors' album of pictures and text from the magazine, 'The Magnet', published 12th July 1930 for the Australia tour View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #53 Cricket selection. Box comprising a selection of ephemera. Contents are two official England ties for Test series v Pakistan and India 1996, and NatWest Series 2009. A silver plate 'Presidents Cup' trophy, 11" tall. Three hardback books, 'Lord's Taverners Sticky Wicket Book', Tim Rice & Willie Rushton 1979, bound in cream cloth with gilt title '1880-1980 Lord's Taverners Centenary Test Dinner, Grosvenor House August 27th 1980'. Official invitation taped in to inside front cover. 'Time To Declare View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #54 Miscellaneous cricket selection. Box comprising a selection of cricket ephemera including signatures on cards of Gooch, Metalfe, Jarvis (with duplication), a Christmas card signed by Don Bradman, letters, also ceramics, plaques, prints, postcards, modern signatures, Yorkshire C.C.C. membership cards etc. Other contents include three Don Bradman video cassettes, a black leather holdall bag issued to Graeme Hick for the 'G.R. Vishwanath Testimonial 1993', a clothes brush in the form of a bat, a pa View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #55 Mixed cricket ephemera. Box comprising a selection of ephemera including six books, three signed by the author and others, 'Parson's Pitch', David Sheppard 1964, 'Learn Cricket With Geoff Boycott' 1994, 'A Who's Who of Yorkshire C.C.C.', Tony Woodhouse 1992, signed by the author and Geoff Boycott, Ken Taylor, Vic Wilson, Eddie Leadbeater. Scarborough Festival signed limited edition print by Peter Watson no. 67/500, '150th Anniversary 1999' and book, 'The Scarborough Cricket Festival', William A. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #56 'Some Cricket Records Saved'. C.J. Britton c.1925. Original 4pp typescript in which Britton recounts the discovery amongst a recently purchased set of 'Lillywhite's Scores & Biographies', newspaper cuttings detailing three matches played in 1811 and 1814 in the Portsmouth area of Hampshire, that weren't recorded in Scores & Biographies. Britton writes, 'some of the players engaged were the greatest then playing', including E.H.Budd, Osbaldeston and Beauclerk. The typescript is bound in to modern View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #57 Cricket material/ fabric. An original roll of printed fabric, possibly 'Liberty' or similar. The material with printed repeating pattern of cricket figures based on original illustrations of Nicholas Wanostrocht ('Felix') by George Frederick Watts, with Felix depicted in five different poses, 'The Draw', 'Play', 'Leg Volley', 'The Cut', and 'Forward', on a red background with floral decoration. The roll of extensive length on original cardboard tube, measures approx. 48" wide. VG - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #58 Alfred Lawson Ford to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Two page handwritten letter in ink to Gaston from Alfred Lawson Ford, dated '13/10/[18]94', originally from Gaston's own collection. Ford is returning loaned 'firework photos' and is enclosing two copies of 'a ladies' match here, one for yourself & one for [Charles Pratt?] Green, with whom Gaston has been corresponding. Signed 'A.L. Ford'. Adhesive mark to one edge where the letter appears to have been previously lai View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #59 Bob Thoms, umpire, to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Three page handwritten letter in ink to Gaston from Thoms, dated '11/1/[18]99', originally from Gaston's own collection. The first page with black 'In Memorium' borders. Thoms is thanking Gaston for sending a copy of a book and compliments him on 'the style in which you have joined the incidents together... it is most interesting having been "behind the sticks" in dozens of the matches'. Thoms recalls playing in his View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #60 Robert Arthur 'Bob' Thoms, umpire. Three pages of handwritten notes by Thoms, titled 'Richard Daft's Benefit Match [1876] described by Robert Thoms' who gives a detailed description of the scene for the match North v South at the 'Old Trent Bridge Ground', 17th- 19th July 1876, in which he stood as umpire. He describes the 'commotion' in the town and the 'stream of pedestrians' making their way to the ground. 'I have during the past 20 years been planted in some big rings, but never before saw a View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #61 Pelham Frances 'Plum' Warner, Oxford University, Middlesex & England 1894-1920, to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Single page handwritten letter in ink to Gaston from Warner, written on Caring House, Leeds, Nr. Maidstone letterhead, dated '19/6/[19]10?', originally from Gaston's own collection. Warner is writing to inform Gaston of ticket prices for Lord's, '2/6 Reserved Seat including admission... and a few tickets which include admission & a seat in the pavilion'. Si View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #62 Philip Christian William Trevor to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Small plain postcard addressed to Gaston, date stamped 1905, with handwritten note thanking Gaston for 'kindly sending the newspaper cutting relative to my little wicket keeping incident in 98'. Nicely signed' Philip Trevor. Originally from Gaston's own collection. Adhesive marks to the address side of the card, otherwise in good condition - cricket<br><br>Major Trevor was a useful wicket-keeper (not fir View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #63 A.W. Shelton to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Two page handwritten letter from Shelton on his estate agency letterhead in King Street, Nottingham, dated 24th September 1907. Shelton is replying to a letter thanking Gaston for 'particulars of the Wisdens of the earlier years... I could not afford to make up the set so I will let the matter pass'. Nicely signed by Shelton. Originally from Gaston's own collection. Some folds and adhesive mark to verso, otherwise in good View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #64 E.B. Noel to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Two page handwritten letter from Noel on Queen's Club, West Kensington letterhead, dated 'Aug 14'. Noel writes to say 'I have duplicate Wisdens of 1896, 1901, 1905, 1908 & 1911 [and] a number of the ordinary cricket books & some of the rarer ones' and offers to send a list. Signed 'E.B. Noel'. Originally from Gaston's own collection. The letter appears to have been slightly trimmed to the lower edge. Adhesive mark to verso an View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #65 C.W. Alcock to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Single page handwritten letter from Alcock on Surrey C.C.C. letterhead, dated 'Aug 29 1901'. Alcock writes enclosing 'portraits' of Burbidge, Caffyn and one other and also refers to Martingell, Felix, Pooley etc. Signed 'C.A. Alcock'. Originally from Gaston's own collection. The letter has been trimmed, and with adhesive marks - cricket<br><br>Charles William Alcock served as Secretary of Surrey, 1872 to 1907. He arranged t View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #66 Richard Parr Daft (Nottinghamshire, 1 match 1886) to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. An interesting collection of correspondence, originally from Gaston's personal collection, written by Daft, son of Richard Daft (Nottinghamshire 1858-1891), relating to the preparation for publication in 1899 of 'Seventy-one not out: the reminiscences of Willliam Caffyn', which Daft was editing under his pseudonym 'Mid-on'. The selection comprises four handwritten letters from his home View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #67 Harold Aubrey Tate, writer, to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. A four page handwritten letter from Tate to Gaston, dated 17th March 1892. Writing from St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, Durham, Tate is enquiring on the availability of duplicate copies of annuals including 'Green Lillywhites' and Wisden almanacks as we wishes to supplement his own collection, and to assist a collector in Canada. Tate refers to an article in 'Cricket' written by Gaston, which he read with 'gr View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #68 Bernard Dale, writer, to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. A three page handwritten letter from Dale to Gaston, dated 17th January 1891, written from his home in Wimbledon. Dale thanks Gaston for his 'kind letter of encouragement... and express approval of my cricket brochure'. He describes spending 'a very enjoyable morning... the other day reading through "Wisden" for 1892 and had no idea until I read your "Bibliography" that so much had been written on cricket'. Nicely View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #69 Clarence P. Moody to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. A two page handwritten letter from Moody to Gaston, dated 10th November 1895. Writing from Adelaide, Moody is sending copies of a newly published book by F.J. Ironside, of which he says, 'The only fault about his new book is that as a work of reference for present day writing it is so incomplete. Signed by Moody. Originally from Gaston's personal collection. Adhesive mark to verso with trimming to one edge slightly af View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #70 Harry Surtees Altham. Oxford University, Surrey & Hampshire 1909-1923. Single page handwritten letter to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector, on Royal York Hotel, Brighton letterhead, dated 5th August 1926. Altham writes to thank Gaston for the loan of some Wisdens, 'but simply had not time to write a letter before leaving early to play at Bognor... I wish I could have stayed longer and seen more of your interesting "collection"'. Nicely signed 'H.S. Altham'. Originally from View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #71 Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson Gower (Oxford University, Surrey & England 1893-1920). Two page handwritten letter from Leveson Gower to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector, dated 21st March 1927, enquiring whether Gaston has any copies of Wisdens for the 1860s and 1870s and to offer copies of his own to sell or exchange. Nicely signed by Leveson Gower. Originally from Gaston's personal collection. Adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in good condition - cricket<br><br>Leveson Go View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #72 F.S. Ashley-Cooper to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. A plain postcard and a letter, both with Ashley-Cooper's home address at Milford, Surrey, each with a short note of thanks in his own hand, the letter nicely signed, the card unsigned, but dated 15th March 1927. Also included is an original cutting from 'Cricketer' dated 3rd May 1930 detailing the gift of the library of the late Alfred Lawson Ford to the M.C.C. Library at Lord's. The items contained within a brown fi View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #73 Robert Gordon Menzies. Prime Minister of Australia 1939-1941 and 1949-1966. Single page typed letter from Menzies on 'Prime Minister, Canberra' official letterhead, written 'In London', 5th June 1959. Writing to 'Mr [Henry] Grierson', thanking him for the congratulations on Menzies' election to the 'Forty Club' as an Honorary Life Member, and hopes to make his acquaintance of fellow members at Lord's, but doubts whether a visit will be feasible. Very nicely signed by Menzies. File holes and ligh View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #74 Norman Gale. Poet and cricket writer. A collection of four handwritten letters from Gale to Weston, dated March and April 1930. All four letters relate to the impending publication of Gale's, 'Messrs Bat and Ball'. In the first letter, dated 18th March, Gale acknowledges receipt of payment for a copy of the book, and also thanks him for printed information about the 'Cricketana Society', of which Gale is hoping to become a member. The following letters primarily comprise a defence by Gale of his View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #75 Charles Pratt Green. Cricket collector and wine merchant. Two page handwritten letter from Pratt Green to Weston dated '18th July', year unknown. He opens with an apology, 'I have been confined to the house for several days', and continues expressing his '[greatest] regret of your illness... surely you have far more than your fair share of human ills'. He discusses the 'loss of dear friends' and that he has not had much time for cricket, and closed stating that E.V. Lucas had already told him th View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #76 Rowan Rait Kerr. Secretary of M.C.C. 1936-1952. Single page typed letter on M.C.C. letterhead to Neville Weston. Dated 21st August 1937, Rait Kerr thanks Weston for his letter, 'which has helped me considerably in dating without doubt the first edition of Lambert [William Lambert's 'Instructions and rules for playing the noble game of cricket' first published 1816]. I think Ashley Cooper's letter to you of the 30th of October probably satisfactorily explains how some of the unnumbered editions a View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #77 Henry Ling. Cricket writer. Two page handwritten letter to Neville Weston from Ling, dated 24th June 1934. Ling writes saying he cannot send the '29th Vol. of Cricket you ask for. | sold it to Dr. Hunter some weeks ago. I have not a spare copy of Vol. 28'. He also sends his thanks for Weston sending an article written for 'Cigarette News', 'I had no idea a set of cricket cigarette cards was issued in 1895'. He comments on '"Willow Leaves" [magazine of the Cricketana Society, only three issues pu View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #78 Dr. T.R. Hunter. Founder member of the Cricketana Society. Four page typed letter with good cricket content from Hunter to George Neville Weston, dated 21st August 1934. Hunter writes to thank Weston 'for your generous and thoughtful gift' of a copy of Weston's bibliography of 'Nyren', published in 1933, of which only twenty copies were printed. Hunter compliments Weston 'on the excellent manner in which it is written... What with your article "Felix on the Bat", "The Fred Lillywhite's Guides", View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #79 J.W. Goldman, cricket author and collector. Single page typed letter written to George Neville Weston. The letter dated 16th June 1936 on Isadore Goldman & Son, Solicitors, headed paper. Goldman thanks Weston for his letter and is 'extremely interested with the contents. I did not know you had produced a book in 1934 limited to twenty copies [probably Weston's short biography of Nyren]... I should be terribly keen to procure one'. Goldman states he has 'neither the 9th nor the American edition o View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #80 C.J. Britton. Cricket collector and writer. Two page handwritten letter to George Neville Weston, dated 26th April 1935, assumed to be shortly after the publication of Britton's biography of Gilbert Jessop. Britton thanks Weston for his 'kind appreciation. I quite agree with you that it takes a solicitor to produce good work and that Townsend's letter is a gem... but dear old George Hirst's pleases me more... for when we remember how he suffered at Jessop's hands and how he must have been chafed View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #81 E.V. Lucas. Writer and publisher. Single page typed letter on the letterhead of the publisher, Methuen & Co., London, of which Lucas was Chairman. In the letter, dated 12th August 1937, from Lucas to George Neville Weston, Lucas is writing to arrange to meet at Lord's. 'If the day is not wet I am hoping to get to Lord's at about 4.15 next Wednesday, August 18th... Perhaps you would approach the door keeper of the Pavilion (opposite the Tennis Court)... It would be interesting if you were able to View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #82 Frederick Ponsonby, 12th Earl of Bessborough. Single page typed letter on Stansted Park, Hampshire, letterhead, dated 3rd May 1975. Bessborough is replying an enquiry from the cricket writer and historian, Irving Rosenwate, about members of the Ponsonby family. 'The Ponsonby to whom you refer was Sir Frederick Ponsonby (commonly known as 'Fritz'), who wrote 'very frank and outspoken memoirs' published in 1951, and his daughter, Loelia, whose memoirs were published in 1962. Nicely signed in ink ' View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #83 Dennis Brookes. Northamptonshire & England 1934-1959. Single pages handwritten letter in ink on Northamptonshire C.C.C. letterhead, dated 19th April 1956. Writing to 'Mr. Savill', Brookes states that he joined Northamptonshire in April 1933 and played my first County game at Bradford in 1934 scoring 1 and 19 not out. Incidentally I played with a chipped fracture of the left thumb'. Nicely signed, Dennis Brookes'. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition - cricket View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #84 Gerald John Villiers Weigall. Cambridge University, Kent & Europeans 1891-1920. Single page hand written note on Kent C.C.C. letterhead, dated 3rd June 1926'. Weigall is replying to a request for his signature. Nicely signed 'G J V Weigall'. The letter is laid down to an album page, and to the reverse is a short note from George Hirst in Huddersfield, 'Sorry not able to oblige. Hardly able to keep anything myself in that line'. Nicely signed 'G.H. Hirst'. G - cricket<br><br>Kent's tour to Americ View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #85 Cricketers' correspondence. Five handwritten letters including one from John Inverarity (Australia), dated 1st February 1977, responding to an invitation to speak at a dinner at Tonbridge School, three from Athol Rowan (South Africa) 4th December 1989, Ken Biddulph (Somerset), 28th September 1992, and Bob Blair (New Zealand) 15th May (year unknown), all replying to requests for autographs, and a good two page letter dated 'Jan 1992' from John Cameron (West Indies) in which he recalls a school ma View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #86 Judge James John Alexander Parfitt. Surrey & Somerset 1881-1885. Single page handwritten letter in ink, dated 16th April 1921, from Parfitt to the book dealer, Gaston, thanking him for sending a copy of the Wisden Almanack for 1882. Parfitt also remembers Vernon Royle (Oxford University, Lancashire & England 1875-1891), 'the most graceful cover fielder I ever saw'. Nicely signed 'J.J. Parfitt'. VG - cricket<br><br>Parfitt, a County Court judge, played in eight matches for Surrey 1881-1882, and s View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #87 Hamilton Ross. Middlesex & Somerset (1876-1891). Two page handwritten letter in ink, dated 20th November 1933, from Ross to 'Mr Weston'. Ross is writing to correct a reference he had previously made to a letter from the comedian, George Robey, published in the Daily Telegraph, not the Morning Post, in which Robey had defended 'honest vulgarity'. Signed 'Hamilton Ross'. G - cricket<br><br>Ross played one first-class match for Middlesex in 1876, and five for Somerset 1883-1891 View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #88 Michael Vyvyan Spurway. Somerset 1929 (three matches). An excellent four page handwritten letter from Spurway to Barry Phillips, co-author of the 'Somerset Cricketers' series of biographical histories, a typed reply from Phillips, a copy of a draft of an article on Somerset Stragglers C.C. written by Spurway, and an original cutting of Spurway's 2007 obituary from the Daily Telegraph. In the letter dated 5th January 2000, Spurway is replying to a request for his reminiscences of playing for Some View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #89 Somerset C.C.C. Two page handwritten letter from John Hemsley Cameron (Cambridge University, Somerset, Jamaica & West Indies 1934-1947) to a Mr. Baker, dated 22nd February 1996, providing details of a possible contact for a visit to Barbados to watch England play in the West Indies. Also an undated letter from Peter Bernard Wight (British Guiana, Somerset & Canterbury 1950-1965) describing running his Bath indoor cricket school in the winter, and first-class umpiring in the summer. Both letters View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #90 New Zealand Test cricketers 1940s-1950s. A good selection of twelve original handwritten letters from New Zealand Test cricketers to the autograph collector, Robin McConnell. The letters are generally in response to requests for autographs and photographs, some writing at length about cricket matters. Correspondents are John Reid, Verdun Scott, Eric Petrie, John Beck, Frank Mooney, Tom Burtt, Geoff Rabone, Ross Morgan, Bill Playle, Harry Cave, John Sparling and Cecil Burke. Some letters with ori View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #91 Australian tour of England 1926. 'Welcome Luncheon to the Australian Cricket Team'. Large and very scarce official menu for the luncheon given by John McEntee Bowman, President, Westchester Biltmore Country Club, Rye, New York, 10th October 1926. The splendid 12pp menu, bound in decorative wrappers with colour art deco style colour illustration laid down to front and cord tie, features pages with photographic images of the country club 'Loggia' and other scenes, a welcome to the Club from the Pr View details Estimates£300 - £500StatusUnsold Lot #92 Centenary Cricket Dinner' 1977. Official menu for the dinner given by Fitzroy Football Club at the Melbourne Hilton, 10th March 1977. Signed to the rear 'autographs' page by seven attendees. Signatures are Lou Richards (compere), Frank Tyson, Max Walker, Keith Stackpole, Tony Greig, Keith Miller and Greg Chappell. G - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #93 Eric Alfred Meads. Nottinghamshire 1939-1953. Original folding 'Autographs and Photograph' card produced by Nottinghamshire C.C.C. for Meads' Benefit Fund 1953. The inside autograph page signed by twelve members of the Nottinghamshire team, opposite an official mono photograph of the team. Signatures are Meads, Simpson, Jepson, Dooland, Poole, Stocks, Butler, Hardstaff, Giles, Clay, Martin and Goonesena. Tape repair to spine, old tape marks to inside corners, some age toning and nick to lower ed View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #94 Signed programmes and menus. A selection of mainly modern programmes and menus including an official programme for England v West Indies, Lord's 16th- 21st June 1988, signed to the player profile pictures by ten England and ten West Indies players. Signatures are Emburey, Gooch, Broad, DeFreitas, Dilley, Gower, Jarvis, Lamb, Moxon, Pringle, Richards, Greenidge, Arthurton, Benjamin, Bishop, Dujon, Hooper, Marshall, Patterson and Williams. Two signed official menus, one for the John Abrahams Testi View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #95 M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand 1954/55. Official Christmas card with M.C.C. colours and printed title to front, printed team photograph to centre. Signed in ink by George Duckworth who was scorer and baggage master on the tour. Some wear and light creasing, otherwise in good condition. Sold with a non-cricketing Christmas card signed by 'Geoff [Boycott]'. VG. Qty 2 - cricket View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #96 Marylebone Cricket Club, Lord's Cricket Ground 1882. Official membership subscription receipt issued to J.H. Ward Esq., dated 14th June 1882, and signed in ink by J.A. Murdoch, then Assistant Secretary of the M.C.C. Sold with three pages of typed notes and a letter to Nevill Weston, with information about Ward and Murdoch, two signed by Irving Rosenwater, both dated 1974. G - cricket<br><br>At the time the receipt was issued, John Hubert Ward was only twelve years old. He was educated at Eton an View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #97 Jack Hobbs. Original certificate for 'The Star Cricket Scheme... for Schoolboys together with an autographed Jack Hobbs bat to L. Stratton, Pretoria School, Canning Town, for the best batting performance during the week ended May 20, 1939'. Nicely signed in ink by Hobbs. 13"x18". 16.5"x12.75". Vertical fold, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 - cricket View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #98 George Neville Weston. W.G. Grace biographer. Six scrapbooks compiled by Weston in the 1960s, consisting of nearly seventy letters, handwritten notes, cuttings, the odd photograph etc. following the publication of an article in New Zealand, 'I Played Cricket with W.G. Grace' by Warwick J. Smeeton, in which Smeeton recollects playing in a match with Grace at Eltham C.C. in 1914. The majority of letters, many lengthy, are to Weston from Smeeton. Signed letters include Weston, Smeeton, Sir Arthur S View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #99 Australia. Ricky Ponting. Official invitation issued to Ponting and his wife for a reception for the Australian cricket team at Australia House in London, 16th July 2013, signed in thick black pen by Ponting. Sold with an official menu for the 'Luncheon to Welcome the [returning] Australia Ashes Touring Team 1989' held in Sydney, 28th September 1989. Qty 2. VG - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #100 Middlesex C.C.C. c.1980s. Official Christmas card signed in ink to the front by Eric Russell, John Murray, Alan Moss and John Emburey. Sold with a personal Christmas card signed by Basil D'Oliveira, and an M.C.C. Christmas card signed by Richard Hadlee. Also an official mono press photograph of the 1987 Middlesex team. Qty 4. VG - cricket View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...16|Next12345678910111213141516 Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next
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