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 PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 71-80 of 1529. Previous|1...67891011...153|Next 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...67891011...153|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153 Next
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