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 81-90 of 1529. Previous|1...789101112...153|Next 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. 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