Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - 3 Day Auction (#7) 18/11/2022 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 18/11/2022 10:30 AM GMT 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 1482. Previous|12345678...15|Next Lot #1 Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the Dinner given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield from the 8th-10th May 1893. The highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and Lord Sheffield’s cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stumps View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #2 Lord Hawke’s Tour of North America, New Zealand and Australia 1902-03. ‘Dinner to The Members of Lord Hawke’s Cricket Team by The New South Wales Cricket Association. Held at Hotel Australia, Sydney, 21st March 1903. Original and rare menu for this early tour Dinner to Hawke’s touring party. The front cover with scene of the Sydney Cricket Ground with a match in progress with titles below and crossed bats, stumps, ball and glove emblem to left hand corner. Gold, dark and light blue ribbon tie to View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #3 ‘First’ M.C.C. tour to Australia 1903/04. Early official folding menu for the ‘Complimentary Banquet tendered to the English Cricket Team by the Queensland Cricket Association’ held on the Queensland Government Yacht ‘Lucinda’, 30th November 1903. Printed titles to front, menu to inside. Burning and loss to top right hand corner not affecting the text. Age toning and spotting, splitting to fold, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #4 Australian tour to England 1905. Early original concert programme card for a ‘Grand Concert’ held on the R.M.S. ‘Miowera’, 8th April 1905, on which the Australians were sailing to England for the 1905 tour. Monty Noble and ‘Mr. Clem. Hill & Coy.’ are listed to perform songs in both parts of the programme. Small stain to one corner, adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #5 Australian tour of England 1905. Official itinerary card with cameo pictures of the Australian team to face, and fixtures, both in New Zealand on the outward journey and in England, to the reverse. Minor loss and tear to right hand corner with tape repair to verso, minor staining, otherwise in good condition. Rare View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #6 ‘Kent County Cricket Champions 1906’. Rare official menu for the ‘Banquet to The Champion Team’ celebrating Kent winning their first ever County Championship in 1906. The Banquet held at the Corn Exchange, Maidstone on 10th October 1906 with the Mayor in attendance. Original raised and embossed decorative covers with Borough of Maidstone emblem to centre with purple ribbon tie, gilt to edges. Four printed pages to inside, the first being a title page with cameo portraits of members of the Kent t View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #7 ‘Kent County Cricket Champions 1906’. Rare official menu for the ‘Dinner to the Kent XI’ celebrating Kent winning their first ever County Championship in 1906. The Banquet held at Hotel Cecil on 11th October 1906. Original covers with embossed Kent emblem to centre with cream ribbon tie. Twelve printed pages to inside, the first being a photograph of the Kent team, ‘A Canterbury Week Ode’ by Major Philip Trevor, menu, toasts, programme of music, results and averages for the 1906 season etc to ot View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #8 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 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #9 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 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£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #11 Australian tour to England 1934. Official folding menu for the ‘Luncheon to Australian Cricket Team of 1934’ held at Forres, 14th September 1934. The menu with town emblem and title to front, menu and toast list to inside, and printed image ‘On the River Findhorn’ to back. Minor soiling, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #12 The Stoics Cricket Club. Official menu for the 75th Anniversary Dinner of this famous wandering club held at Simpsons Restaurant, London on 14th November 1952. 12pp menu with card wrappers and coloured cord, comprising history, photographs, menu, toasts etc. Some famous names feature. Very good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #13 Kent C.C.C. 1910. Early original Kent membership and fixture card no. 783 for 1910. The small folding card with brown leather covers and gilt titles and emblems to front and back. Pencil annotation to inside ‘Kent Champion County’. Adhesive marks to rear cover, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #14 Surrey v Lancashire 1908. Official match ticket for the third day’s play of the match scheduled to be played at Kennington Oval, 16th- 18th July 1908. The 1/- unreserved ticket for the East Stand is laid down to page and appears to have been slightly trimmed to one edge. Light folds, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #15 The Ashes 1938. Official ticket for the 1938 England v Australia Ashes series. Circular ticket with cord for admission to the Members’ Enclosures, Lord’s, 28th June 1938. Good condition. Sold with three official match tickets for England v West Indies, Trent Bridge, 20th- 25th July 1950, the tickets issued for play on the Thursday, Saturday and Monday. Some wear and neat tape repair to verso of two, otherwise good condition. Qty 4 View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #16 Eton v Harrow 1934. Official scorecard with incomplete printed scores, Mound Stand ticket and two members enclosure swing tickets in M.C.C. compliments slip folder for the Eton v Harrow match played at Lord’s, 13th- 14th July 1934. VG View details Estimates£15 - £25Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #17 Varsity cricket. Oxford v Cambridge, Lord’s 1953 and 1954. Two unused strips of three joined complimentary tickets for each day of the Varsity matches played at Lord’s, 4th- 7th July 1953 and 3rd- 6th July 1954. VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning 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 annoted 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 co View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #19 Club fixture cards 1914-1997. A good selection of original club fixture cards for Free Foresters C.C. 1914. London Hospital C.C. 1932. North London C.C. 1934. 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. Also three official handbooks for Lancashire Cricket League 1978, Middlesex Colts Cricket Associat View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #20 Cricket match tickets 1946-2016. A large collection of approx. three hundred official match tickets and passes, nicely presented in a thick album. The majority of tickets are for matches played at Lord’s and The Oval, with a good selection of others at home and abroad. Matches covered include Tests, one day internationals, County Championship, John Player League, Gillette Cup, Benson & Hedges Cup Finals, NatWest Trophy, AXA League, also I.C.C. Cricket World Cup in West Indies 2007, also J.T. Mur View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #21 County, schools and Club fixture and/ or membership cards 1894-1972. A selection of fixture/ members’ cards for the period. Cards are M.C.C. 1938, 1964, Gloucestershire C.C.C. 1951, 1952, 1960, 1972, Doric C.C. 1894, Royal Grammar School Newcastle-on-Tyne 1894, 1895, Mundania Athletic Club (Cricket Section) 1913, University College School C.C. 1915, The Harrow Association 1938, and Marlborough College C.C. 1941. Sold with two small booklets published by E.F. Hudson, Birmingham, ‘Cricket Facts & View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #22 Home and overseas match tickets 1952-2017. Album containing a good selection of seventy two official match tickets and guest passes. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #23 ‘A Correct Statement of the Grand Cricket Match, at Nottingham between Eleven of the Sherwood Forest Club [Nottingham], and Eleven of the Leicester newly established County Club, on the 12th, 13th, and 14th of July, 1825’. Original and early handbill with full scores and scorecard of the match printed by J. Plant of Wheat Sheaf Yard, Long Row. The handbill measures 6.75”x9.25”, mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 13.25”x16”. Minor creasing staining and wear otherwise in good overall condition. A View details Estimates£300 - £500StatusUnsold Lot #24 ‘CRICKET!!. The opening day of the Gateshead Borough Cricket Club will take place on Whit-Monday [8th June 1840] on their new ground near the flats on which occasion A Grand Match will be played between the Married and Single members. Wickets to be pitched at One o’clock precisely’. Original and early advertising broadside for the match, printed by M. Benson, No 3, Foot of Dean Street Newcastle with wood engraved vignette of the game at the head of the broadside. Advertising to the lower quarter View details Estimates£300 - £500StatusUnsold Lot #25 Lancashire C.C.C. posters 1974. Two original posters, one for the first Test, England v India at Old Trafford, 6th- 11th June 1974, the other an official Benson & Hedges Cup 1974 poster for Lancashire home matches v Nottinghamshire and v Derbyshire, and away matches v Minor Counties and v Yorkshire. Both posters measure 20”x30”, with horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #26 Trevor Chappell underarm bowling incident 1981. ‘O’Reilly on That Ball. How Low Can We Get?’. World Series Cup, Australia v New Zealand, Melbourne 1st February 1981. Original newspaper poster for The Sydney Morning Herald, dated 2nd February 1981, printed by John Fairfax & Sons, Sydney. 24”x16.5”. Horiztonal and vertical folds, some age toning, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #27 ‘S. Africa Tour. Border: ‘No’ to $500,000’. Original newspaper poster for the Daily Mirror (Sydney), dated 16th May 1985, printed by Nationwide News, Surrey Hills, NSW. 15”x24”. Horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #28 Don Bradman. ‘Bradman Writes For Us’. Original newspaper poster for The News (Adelaide), dated 7th December 1984, printed by Nationwide News, Adelaide. 16”x24”. Horizontal fold, some age toning, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #29 ‘Kim Hughes Axed’. Original newspaper poster for The Sun (Melbourne), dated 28th December 1984, printed by H.A. Gordon, Melbourne for The Sun-News Pictortial. 20”x26”. Horizontal and vertical folds, some creasing, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #30 ‘Why Envy? Learn Successful Methods and apply Them. Bill Jones’ 1928. Original colour motivational ‘life-coaching’ poster published by Parker-Holladay & Co., London, who created the character, Bill Jones, to encourage good workplace behaviour and improve productivity. The poster depicts two cricketers in the foreground looking on at an opposition player being carried on the shoulders of team mates surrounded by attractive ladies. An excellent example of graphic design from the 1920s. Printed in View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #31 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 View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #32 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£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #33 George Oswald Browning ‘Gubby’ Allen. Middlesex, Cambridge University & England 1921-1950. ‘The Badminton’ diary for 1937 comprising the ‘Annual Register of Sporting and Society Fixtures’. Original decorative card covers contained in red cloth case. This was Allen’s copy, presented with handwritten dedication to ‘Gubby, with love, Plum [Warner], Xmas 1937’. Contents comprise copius notes in pencil of social engagements, meetings, golf matches etc. throughout. Winter activities include almost dai View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #34 David Gower. Original foam rubber puppet of the head of David Gower made for the television series, ‘Spitting Image’, in the 1980s. Approx. 12” tall. Some wear and loss around the neck, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #35 Cricket cuttings 1926-1929. Album comprising magazine and newspaper cuttings for the period relating to M.C.C. tour to India 1926/27, West Indies in England 1928, M.C.C. to Australia 1928/29, South Africa in England 1929 etc. Images include teams, player profiles, match action, also English grounds at Tonbridge, Canterbury, Dover, The Oval, Headingley, Bramall Lane (Sheffield), Eastbourne, Southampton, Worcester, Fenners etc., and overseas grounds including Wellington (New Zealand), Queen’s Park View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #36 Cricket cuttings season 1897. Small album comprising an interesting collection of newspaper cuttings either laid down or loose, the majority reports of matches played by Leicestershire in the 1897 County Championship season, and end of season summaries by county. Also includes twelve pages, beautifully handwritten in ink, listing the batsmen who had scored first-class centuries through the season and the match in which it was achieved, including ‘Abel, Surrey v Leicestershire, 144, May 5th, Hayw View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #37 Cricket scrapbook 1930s-1940s. Scrapbook compiled by ‘J. Bonnyman Jones. Collector of Cricketana’, comprising magazine and newspaper cuttings relating to Brighton College, wartime cricket, and general cricket interest. Contents include images of Brighton College cricket teams of the 1930s, obituary articles on Maurice Turnbull, killed in action in 1944, four pages laid down of handwritten ‘Notes on Subsequent Careers of Brighton College XI 1901’, dated 1942, with the comment, ‘none of ‘em did mu View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #38 Cricket tour scrapbooks 1930-1955. Three scrapbooks containing a comprehensive selection of press cuttings, mainly from the Daily Telegraph, covering tours and domestic cricket for the period. The scrapbooks cover West Indies tour to Australia and the Australian domestic season 1930/31 including the Ryder Testimonial match with good Bradman and Constantine content, also M.C.C. in South Africa 1930/31, M.C.C. tour to Australia and West Indies in New Zealand 1954/55, and South Africa in England an View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #39 Cricket scrapbook albums 1960-1987. A collection of seven scrapbook albums comprising a comprehensive selection of magazine and newspaper cuttings for the period including over one hundred signatures with good County coverage, on pieces laid down and some pages, also printed autograph sheets, candid photographs etc. Articles relate to reviews of seasons, past and present player profiles, county performances, tours including India and Pakistan to England 1987 etc. Two pages are signed by Australi View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #40 Irving Rosenwater ephemera. Small box containing a mixed selection of match tickets, medallions, games etc. from the collection of Irving Rosenwater. Includes a good quantity of official match tickets and passes, some in envelopes inscribed by Rosenwater, for M.C.C. in West Indies 1973/74, Sydney 1980, 1985, Melbourne 1981/82, Adelaide Oval 1985, Benson & Hedges World Cup of Cricket 1985, exit pass for India v West Indies, Bombay 1974/75, unissued match tickets for Melbourne Cricket Ground etc. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #41 Australian state cricket correspondence 1950s-1990s. A collection of over one hundred and fifty original typed letters, mainly from the 1950s-1970s, originally received at the offices of the South Australian Cricket Association in Adelaide, acquired by Irving Rosenwater. Subjects covered include player selections, itineraries and receptions for touring teams, financial accounts, playing conditions and laws, David Hookes’ benefit year etc. G View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #42 ‘The Arabs C.C.’. E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. A good selection of ephemera relating to ‘The Arabs’ including newsletters, tour itineraries, fixture cards, articles etc. Contents comprise itinerary booklets for ‘E.W. Swanton’s XI in The West Indies 1961’ with official tour luggage labels slipped in, ‘E.W. Swanton’s Commonwealth XI in The Far East 1964’, and ‘E.W. Swanton’s (The Arabs) in Barbados’, January 1967. Fixtures and list of managers cards for seasons 1960 and 1964-1970, some annotated by Swanton View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #43 Charlton Park Cricket Club 1870-1895. Five large early ledgers comprising complete Club records of matches played in London and the south east, with scores, season results and averages, lists of officers and members. The albums with heavy card pages with details immaculately recorded in copperplate handwriting. All albums are lacking original boards and spines, with age toning to page edges, foxing and wear to endpapers, the odd page detached, staining to some pages but otherwise internally in g View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #44 H.H Armstrong. Hampshire 1882-1885. Very large ledger style scrapbook containing some large period mounted team photographs (not Hampshire) featuring Armstrong plus a number of book plate photographs taken from ‘Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds’ and laid down to pages. Also includes some loose ephemera including telegrams sent in 1885 and 1889 regarding Hmapshire matches ‘Armstrong bowled six wickets for eighteen runs. Many thanks for letting him come’. Also Southampton Cricket Club 1889 pr View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #45 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Two original ledgers/ journals relating to Hobbs’ sports business, ‘Jack Hobbs Limited’. One leather bound leather with brass clasp, comprises accounts for the period 4th October 1919 to 31st December 1926. pp 2-13 ‘have been taken out and destroyed by us [Hobbs’ accountant], as of no value or interest to Jack Hobbs Ltd’. Contents include handwritten indexes to endpapers, and sections relating to share issues, bank account deposits and withdra View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #46 John Bertram Payne to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Two handwritten letters in ink to Gaston from Payne. One, a two page letter dated 22nd February 1905, relates to Payne returning Wisden Almanacks for years ‘[18]64- 70’ with thanks for the loan. Payne has ‘now completed the yearly index to years 1864-87’ and hopes to add an appendix ‘giving [a]complete alphabetical list of matches played during the period... [which should be useful for reference’. In the second, four View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #47 E.B. Noel to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Two handwritten letters from Noel to Gaston. In one, a two page letter in ink 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. The letter appears to have been slightly trimmed to the lower edge. Sold with a further single page letter to Gasto View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #48 J.T. Henderson to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Four page handwritten letter in ink from Henderson to Gaston, on Legislative Assembly, Natal note paper, dated 27th July 1899. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #49 Richard Parr Daft (Nottinghamshire, 1 match 1886) to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Two handwritten letters, originally from Gaston’s personal collection, written by Daft, son of Richard Daft (Nottinghamshire 1858-1891). In one, a three page letter dated 31st May 1900[?], Parr offers some letters ‘to fill your album. As my father has never gone in for collecting he thinks they will be better in your hands’. Slipped in is a fragment of an advertisement for ‘A Grand Matc View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #50 Bernard Dale to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Two letters handwritten in ink from Dale to Gaston. One, a four page letter dated 1891, relates to Dale’s recent publication of his pamphlet, ‘Some statistics of cricket; or, The influence of the weather on the wicket with a method for its elimination in the comparison of averages’. Dale is grateful to ‘have received the praise of one who is known as a great authority on cricket literature’. Dale states he ‘should have lik View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #51 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 View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #52 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£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #53 No lot View details StatusUnsold Lot #54 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 Gasto, which he read with ‘gre View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #55 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£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #56 Henry Ling. Cricket writer. Interesting four page handwritten letter to Neville Weston from Ling at his home in Croydon, dated 22nd July June [19]34. In a lengthy letter, Ling writes in great detail about his collection of Lillywhite guides, all complete with original wrappers ‘excepting the 10th Edition which has been rebound without the covers & wants four pages at the end’, and that he is lacking the ‘1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 9th, & 14th Autumn’ editions. Ling is very interested in Weston’s descri View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #57 Arthur Langford. Assistant Editor, ‘The Cricketer’ Magazine. Four original wartime letters on official letterhead from Langford to Neville Weston. In the first, a handwritten letter dated 27th May 1941, Langford confirms that ‘The Cricketer’ will be ‘coming out, but [we] have had to restrict our print order’ and states he is unable to provide three May issues requested by Weston, but can send a copy of the Spring Annual and the issue of 3rd May. In a handwritten letter dated 24th November 1941 a View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #58 Dr. T.R. Hunter. Founder member of the Cricketana Society. Lengthy seven page typed letter, with excellent cricket content, from Hunter to George Neville Weston, dated 7th December 1933. Writing from his home in Wharfedale, Hunter covers subjects including the development of the Society and its membership, and intriguing opinions about the ‘Bodyline’ series of 1932/33. He opens by expressing his sympathy for an accident Weston had suffered to his hand, and apologises for being ‘a bad corresponde View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #59 J.W. Goldman, cricket author and collector. Single page typed letter written to George Neville Weston dated 19th June 1936 on Isadore Goldman & Son, Solicitors, headed paper with Goldman’s typed private address. Goldman thanks Weston for his letter and is ‘glad to know that we have two bonds between us: Law and Cricket. I am certain the former is more remunerative’. He states he has ‘joined the Cricketana Society: paid 10/-: after a long time got a lot of loose leaves sent to me; no receipt and View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #60 J.W. Goldman, cricket author and collector. Single page typed letter written to George Neville Weston dated 12th April 1938 on Isadore Goldman & Son, Solicitors, headed paper. Goldman thanks Weston for his letter saying, ‘I plead guilty to having sent you a copy of “Indian Cricket”. It is indeed strange that both you and the writer of the article should have a copy signed by Gaston and both numbered 4’, and refers Weston to the writer of the article, ‘A.C. McKay care of National Bank of India, M View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #61 Frederick A. Brooke, cricket writer and collector. Three page handwritten letter from Brooke to George Neville Weston dated 28th June 1933. Brooke is writing from his home in Yorkshire to thank Weston for the ‘Catalogue of the Colman Cricket Pictures’, finding it a ‘very interesting collection and I would like to see it’. Brooke states he had intended attending the Test match (England v Australia, Lord’s) and should have paid a visit to the Tate Gallery but unfortunately I was not well enough’. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #62 C.J. Britton, cricket writer and collector. Four page handwritten letter from Britton to George Neville Weston dated 2nd September 1933. Writing in his somewhat spidery hand, Britton opens with effusive thanks to Weston whom he believes has been the anonymous donor of at least one of three ‘tins of cream... in beautiful condition and... delectable’. He is keeping Weston’s copy of ‘Young Cricketers from Australia until you return as I have Wilmot’s and Lucas’s books aswell’, the latter he describ View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #63 C.J. Britton, cricket writer and collector. Two page handwritten letter from Britton to George Neville Weston dated 29th June 1935. Britton opens by thanking Weston for ‘details of Cpt.[?] Webb’s match with Berkshire’. The remaining content primarily relates to the death of F.S. Ashley-Cooper (in 1932), which has ‘left a tremendous gap’, and speculates as to who might fill his shoes, ‘Rockley Wilson could I fancy, if he would, but I doubt if he would have the energy to put so much work into it.. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #64 Gerald Harvey Humphries. Worcestershire 1932-1934 (two matches). Two page handwritten letter on ruled paper from Humhpries to George Neville Weston dated 4th February 1942. Writing from R.A.F. Andreas on the Isle of Man where he was stationed, Humphries is writing to thank Weston for sending a copy of ‘Cricket’ by Neville Cardus, ‘[I] enjoyed every chapter’. He goes on to describe his ‘tortuous’ four day journey to ‘this new station’ which has ‘no lights and a mile walk for water and food, also View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #65 Charles Pratt Green, cricket collector and wine merchant. Two page handwritten letter from Pratt Green to George Neville Weston dated 27th October 1941. Writing from his Malvern home, Pratt Green makes reference to an accompanying letter (not included) from E.H.D. Sewell (London County & Essex 1902-1904) who ‘played a lot of good cricket in his day and that Sewell’s autograph would be a good addition to Weston’s collection of autographs. Pratt Green has passed on Sewell’s enquiry ‘to a friend wh View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #66 Charles Pratt Green, cricket collector and wine merchant. Two page handwritten letter from Pratt Green to George Neville Weston dated 15th December [c.1942]. Writing from his Malvern home, Green acknowledges receipt of a book and reports, ‘I have just read the thrilling chapter on “The Champion” & it shone’. He also sends his thanks for ‘the kind mention of the copy of [the] original edition of “The Victorians” you gave in Great Queen Street’. He describes how his book collection continues to ac View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #67 A.C. McKay, cricket writer, to George Neville Weston. A series of four typed letters from McKay, all written in 1938 on airmail paper with letterhead for the National Bank of India Ltd., Madras. In the first letter dated 6th May, McKay is pleased that Weston is going to subscribe to ‘Indian Cricket’ for whom McKay was the contributor of the ‘Cricketer’s Library’ Series. He is pleased to accept the offer to purchase a copy of Weston’s ‘History of a Portrait’ of Felix, and regrets not obtaining We View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #68 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 [Willam 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 ar View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #69 George Neville Weston, cricket collector. A selection of three letters, written in 1938, from Weston’s own archive comprising correspondence with The Worthington & Co. Brewery in Burton-on Trent. The first, dated 18th February 1938, is Weston’s original copy of a typed letter to the brewery enquiring about acquiring a ‘china ash-tray with a pictured design of Mr. Dumkins of Muggleston C.C. (Pickwick Papers) issued by you’. The reply from the brewery dated 21st February states that by sending Wes View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #70 Paul Antony Gibb. Cambridge University, Yorkshire, Essex & England 1935-1956. Single page handwritten letter dated 27th July 1958 from Gibb to a Robin McConnell in New Zealand, with original envelope. Gibb is replying to a request for a signed photograph which he is unable to provide, but sends three signatures. Nicely signed ‘Paul A. Gibb’. Signed letters from Gibb not often seen. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #71 Stuart Surridge (Surrey 1947-1960). Single page typed letter on Surrey C.C.C. official letterhead, dated 3rd September 1954. Replying to congratulations sent by a Mr. Nicholson, Surrey having just won the County Championship for the third consecutive season, Surridge states, ‘It is wonderful to achieve the triple crown of championships and a great privilege to be their captain’. Very nicely signed in black ink ‘Stuart Surridge’. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #72 Australian Test cricketers signed letters. Three handwritten letters from Australian Test cricketers. In one from Sam Loxton, replying to a request for a signed photograph and dated 3rd October 1996, he states that he is now coaching and umpiring on the ‘Gold Coast’ south of Brisbane and is enjoying the warm climate. The others, both in response to request for autographs are from John Inverarity, dated 4th April 1983, and Allan Border, dated 17th February 1988. All three letters nicely signed. G View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #73 Midlands cricketers signed letters. Ten handwritten letters from players who represented Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire etc. Replying to requests for autographs, contributions to benefit funds etc. signatures are Dickie Bird, Peter Willey, Gerry Lester, Charles Palmer, John Jameson, Neil Abberley, Dennis Amiss, Steven Rhodes, Bob Taylor and Raman Subba Row. G View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #74 County and Test cricketers signed letters. Ten handwritten letters from cricketers replying to invitations to attend events, requests for autographs etc. Signatures are Bomber Wells, David Shepherd, Roy Virgin, Andy Caddick, Robert Croft, Colin Cowdrey, Bill Frindall, George Mann, Andy Flower, and Harry Pilling sending his old Lancashire cap. G View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #75 West Indies and South African Test cricketers signed letters. Three handwritten letters from Test cricketers including John Cameron (two Tests for West Indies 1939) offering one of his caps, and South Africans, Percy Mansell (13 Tests 1951-1955) replying to a request for his signature, and Neil Adcock (26 Tests 1953-1962) who is unable to send a cap but offers to send a Springbok tie. G View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #76 George Oswald Browning ‘Gubby’ Allen. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1922-1950. Three page typed letter, with good cricket content, on airmail paper dated 3rd February 1964, from Allen to Jim Swanton. At the time Allen was President of the M.C.C. and reports on a comfortable flight out to Bombay and how he ‘tried to settle some of our cricket problems on a very poor telephone line with the Secretary of the Pakistan Board of Control in Karachi’, resulting in him flying out to Karachi a View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #77 Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer. Trinidad & West Indies 1938-1957. Interesting two page letter from Stollmeyer, written in Trinidad and dated 17th September 1968, to Jim Swanton who, at the time, was editor of ‘The Cricketer’, regarding the recent decision taken by the International Cricket Council to recommend ‘to M.C.C. that a new Law of Cricket should be introduced, limiting the number of on-side fieldsmen allowed to be place behind the popping crease to two’. He states that the ‘suggestion won the View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #78 Robert Elliot Storey ‘Bob’ Wyatt. Warwickshire, Worcestershire & England 1923-1951. Three letters between Wyatt and Jim Swanton regarding the LBW law. In the first, a typed copy letter to Wyatt dated 31st October 1968, Swanton enquires about a ‘contraption’ Wyatt had built ‘showing by strings and pegs where the ball must pitch in order to satisfy the present law of LBW’ and wonders whether the device could be photographed for inclusion in an article examining ‘the case for an extension of the la View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #79 M.C.C. letters 1951-1978. Five letters on official Lord’s Cricket Ground letterhead. Includes one handwritten letter dated 2nd November 1951 from W. Findlay, President of M.C.C. in 1951, to ‘Dear Eric’ thanking him ‘for all you did yesterday’. Signed ‘Billy Findlay’. Also a typed letter signed by Findlay in his capacity as Secretary dated 1930, replying to a request for Test match tickets. Also three single page typed letters to Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, each nicely si View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #80 Pakistan. Two handwritten letters from Pakistan Test players. One, an undated letter to Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, from Intikhab Alam, on his business letterhead, stating he is unable to attend a function as he is returning ‘to Pakistan for good’. Signed ‘Inti’. The other, a single page handwritten letter dated 5th February 1976 on ‘Mushtaq Mohammed Benefit Year 1976’ letterhead in which Mushtaq thanks ‘My dear Gillian’ for her contribution to his benefit. Signed ‘Mushy View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #81 John Arlott. Official folding menu for a ‘Dinner and Tribute to John Arlott, O.B.E.’ given by the Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society on 14th April 1981. Signed to the front by Arlott. Sold with a typed letter from Arlott dated 19th March 1963, is to Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, enclosing a piece for ‘The Twelfth Man’, nicely signed in ink by Arlott. Qty 2. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #82 Anthony William ‘Tony’ Greig. Border, Sussex, Eastern Province & England 1967-1978. Single page handwritten letter dated 14th May 1969 from Greig to Jack Sokell, Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, replying to an invitation to attend a function. Nicely signed ‘Tony Greig’. VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #83 Learie Nicholas Constantine. Trinidad, Barbados & West Indies 1921-1939. Single page typed letter on his personal letterhead, dated 24th February 1969. Constantine thanks ‘Miss Stewart’ for her congratulations on his recent honour. Nicely signed in ink ‘Learie Constantine’. Folds, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #84 Gilbert Laird Jessop. Gloucestershire, Cambridge University, London County & England 1894-1914. Nice two page handwritten letter dated 16th April 1948 written to ‘Dear Arkell’. Jessop comments on an article on the ‘Old County’ which he found to be ‘most interesting, but then anything that R.C.R.S. [Robertson-Glasgow] writes never fails to be so’. He reminisces about Gloucestershire players of his era such as Charlie Townsend, ‘the best player in my time... for a couple of seasons the best leg br View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #85 John Thomas Hearne. Middlesex & England 1888-1923. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 24th September 1921 from Hearne who is returning ‘your list of names with mine added’. He adds, ‘It is a pity I hadn’t heard sooner, as I was playing on Thursday with J.W.H. [Hearne], Hendren & Durston & could have got them to sign. It is doubtful when I shall be seeing them again. Signed ‘J.T. Hearne’. With original envelope G/VG View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #86 Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex & England 1892-1921. Single page handwritten letter from Fry, dated 21st February 1911. Writing from the T.S. Mercury, Fry is enclosing ‘a photo of the Boy Driver[?] & a few particulars. I should like to have a copy of the “Morning Leader” when it comes out with the photo’, and asks for prompt return of the photograph. Nicely signed ‘C.B. Fry’. The letter laid down to large album page. G View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #87 Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1870-1895. Interesting early single page handwritten letter, dated 5th July 1875, written by Grace at Thornbury in Gloucestershire in his capacity as a county coroner, relating to the inquest into the drowning of a young man in the River Avon. Grace writes requesting ‘hooks and drags at that place’. Nicely signed ‘Edward Mills Grace’. Sold with a bookplate portrait image of Grace in cricket attire. VG View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #88 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. Single page letter handwritten in ink on Surrey C.C.C. headed note paper, dated 30th April 1932. Writing to a ‘Master Mason’, Hobbs states, ‘I believe that if your suggestion was adopted interest in cricket would be revived and that the matches would draw big gates. However, the M.C.C. has set its face against cups etc. and I am afraid you would have hard work to get the authorities to change their mind’. Nicely signed ‘J.B. Hobbs’. Soiling, a View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #89 William Albert Stanley ‘Bert’ Oldfield. New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Single page typed letter from Oldfield on his sports outlet business letterhead, dated 16th April 1928. Writing to ‘J.G. Rowan’ who ran his own sports shops in Glasgow, and published ‘Rowan’s Cricket Guide’, Oldfield thanks Rowan for sending two blazers to him in Australia, and wishes Rowan well with his new outlet in Birmingham. Very nicely signed ‘W.A. Oldfield’. Lights folds, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #90 Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Two page handwritten letter in ink dated 30th September 1946 from Sutcliffe to ‘Dear Mr [George?] Duckworth’. Sutcliffe reports he ‘did not hear Vernon Noble’s talk. Nieth er did I see any review in the Yorkshire papers... I am very surprised “Robinson Crusoe” [R.C. Robertson-Glasgow] was adversly critical. Maybe a certain amount of professional jealousy crept in’. He comments on Sydney Barnes, ‘I played against Barnes on one occasion only’, and View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #91 Pelham. F. Warner. Middlesex & England. Handwritten note from Warner in ink stating he knew C.J.B. Marriott. ‘He was at Tonbridge and Clare, Cambridge. Captain- Cambridge Univ XV. Played for England at Rugger and Captained England. Strong as a Bull!, Brave as a Lion!’. Signed in ink by Warner and dated 3rd September 1915. Note laid down to card. G View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #92 Sir Pelham Francis Warner. Middlesex and England 1894-1929. Single page typed letter on ‘The Cricketer’ letterhead, to ‘My Dear Ben’, dated 2nd October 1923. Warner is enquiring as to whether the correspondent can ‘get a good professional for the Liverpool Cricket Club’ following a request Warner had received from the Club Secretary, C.M. Kinnear’. Signed in ink ‘Plum’. File holes. Light folds and minor foxing, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #93 Walter Reginald ‘Wally’ Hammond. Gloucestershire & England, 1920-1951. Two page handwritten letter to ‘Kitty [Hall]’, a lady friend in Folkestone. Writing from Bristol, Hammond says how pleased he is to hear from her and hopes to ‘make a fuss of you in London’. Nicely signed ‘Wally Hammond’. The letter undated, but probably around 1925. G/VG View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #94 Walter Stuart Surridge. Surrey 1947-1959. Single page typed letter on Surridge’s business letterhead, dated 2nd February 1954. Surridge is replying to an invitation by Ron Yeomans of The Northern Cricket Society, which he is unable to fulfill as he has ‘a prior engagement with the M.C.C. to play Cricket at Wisbech’. Very nicely signed in ink by Surridge. Sold with five Surrey related items including signed cutting images of John Edrich and Ken Barrington, a postcard of The Oval signed by Jim Lak View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #95 Learie Nicholas Constantine. Trinidad & West Indies 1921-1939. Single page handwritten letter on ‘Sir Learie Constantine, London’ headed paper from Constantine to Raymond Glendenning, BBC Sports commentator, regarding invitations speak at ‘The Leadership Lunches’ at the Cafe Royal in the 1960’s, his peerage and ill health. Letter dated 28th March 1969 and nicely signed in full by Constantine. File holes. G/VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #96 W.G. Grace. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Grace, dated 8th March 1889’, to ‘Dear Teddy [E.G. Wynyard?]’. Writing from Thrissell House in Bristol, Grace writes, ‘I enclose one [signature] of E.M. [Grace] I cut off a letter. Hoping you will be in fine form next summer’. Very nicely signed, ‘W.G. Grace’. The letter mounted, framed and glazed, overall 8”x10.25”. Slight smudging not affecting the signature, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #97 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire, London County & England 1865-1908. Handwritten ‘London County Cricket Club’ postcard to A.H. Hamilton of Edinburgh. ‘Picture arrived all right. I think it good. Hope to see you Wednesday afternoon’. Dated and post marked 9th July 1906 and nicely signed by Grace. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #98 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Sussex & England 1895-1920. Four page handwritten letter from Ranjitsinhji requesting ‘your kind permission to fish in your splendid waters for grayling this winter. I have hired the Gilling Shoot this year..... So your kindness would enable me to spend a few most enjoyable days at one of my favourite pastimes when I come to Gilling or am in the neighbourhood’. The letter written on ‘The Rectory, East Gilling, York’ headed paper and nicely signed in ink by Ranjitsinhji. View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #99 Lord Hawke. Yorkshire & England, 1881-1911. Short hand written note in ink on Wighill Park headed notepaper. Hawke states to Miss Parlew ‘Very pleased to send the enclosed’. Nicely signed ‘Hawke’. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #100 Lord Harris, George Robert Canning, Kent & England 1870-1911. Short one page handwritten letter from Lord Harris on ‘India Office’ headed paper to Mr Garnet-Man. The letter dated October 21st 1886.. ‘Very many thanks for all your enclosures. The points of the question from both sides are most clearly put’ and nicely signed by Harris. G View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...15|Next123456789101112131415 Previous 123456789101112131415 Next Previous 123456789101112131415 Next
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