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 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 111-120 of 1482. Previous|1...101112131415...149|Next Lot #111 Leonard ‘Len’ Hutton. Yorkshire and England 1935-1955. One page handwritten letter from Hutton, dated 11 December 1947, to a Miss Nelson regarding an autograph request and also giving her the addresses of Cyril Washbrook and Norman Yardley. Nicely signed by Hutton G View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #112 Cyril Washbrook. Lancashire & England 1933-1959. Undated single page handwritten letter from Washbrook to a Mr. Parkins in which Washbrook describes the procedure for the presentation of caps to players. ‘The player is invited into the Committee Room and the President or Chairman awards the “Cap” with these words- “We hope you will uphold the tradition of Lancashire Cricket both on and off the field of play”’. Nicely signed by Washbrook. G/VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #113 Kenneth Frank ‘Ken’ Barrington. Surrey & England 1953-1968. Two undated letters from Barrington. One, a two page handwritten letter on Worcestershire C.C.C. headed note paper is to Jack Sokell (Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society), postponing a visit to the Society as he has been selected for an M.C.C. tour. The other, in a similar vein, is to ‘Ken’ whose invitation he is unable to commit as he is waiting to hear if he will be selected. Both letters nicely signed by Barrington. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #114 John David Benbow ‘Jack’ Robertson. Middlesex & England 1937-1959. Two handwritten single page letters from Robertson, one to Jack Sokell, Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, dated ‘10th March’, year unknown, confirming his arrival for an event. The other, dated ‘April 9th’, thanking the correspondent for a photograph. Both letters nicely signed by Robertson. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #115 Alec Bedser. Surrey & England 1939-1960. Three page handwritten letter from Bedser dated 7th February 1986 in which Bedser laments the trend of modern players not wearing cricket caps, ‘the cap does not appear to mean the same to them as it did to us’, and suggests that the number of Test matches played might be a factor, ‘When you think that Andrew Sandham of Surrey who got 109 centuries only played 14 times for England’. He also blames the length of some players’ hair, ‘the hair is so long tha View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #116 Northamptonshire cricketers’ letters 1961-1977. Three handwritten letters from Northamptonshire players. Two written to Jack Sokell, Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, one from Freddie Brown, dated 2nd June 1961, the other from John Dye dated 8th Feburary 1977, both replying to invitations to Society functions. The third letter is from David Steele, dated 22nd December 1975, thanking the correspondent for a donation to his benefit year. G View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #117 Glamorgan C.C.C. 1889. A selection of two handwritten letters and one telegram from players writing to the Club Secretary, William Yorath, informing him of their unavailability to play in a match at Swansea on 31st May 1889. The two letters are written and signed by W.T. Davies and H. Gale, the telegram is from [Hugh?] Ingledew. No record of a match played at Swansea on that date can be found, nor of the players Davies and Gale. Hugh Ingledew is known to have played matches for Glamorgan in 1891 View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #118 Graeme Hick. Worcestershire, Zimbabwe & England. A selection of correspondence relating to the award of Hick’s Worcestershire County Cap. The letters start with a ‘Specimen’ letter from a gentleman in Tenterden, Kent, comprising a request for views on the wearing of caps, ‘In these days of floppy hats and helmets it seems that the cricket cap is becoming an “endangered species”’. Hick’s mother replies from Zimbabwe on behalf of her son on 24th February 1987 explaining that floppy hats are ‘a ver View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #119 Glenn Maitland Turner. Worcestershire, Northern Districts, Otago & New Zealand 1964-1983. Single page handwritten letter on Worcestershire C.C.C. letterhead, dated 9th July 1968, to Jack Sokell, Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, declining an invitation to attend a Society function as he is returning to New Zealand. Nicely signed by Turner. Sold with an official ‘[West Bromwich] Albion News’ programme for the match v Manchester United, 25th October 1969, signed to the front by Tom Graveney and Ba View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #120 Geoff Boycott. Yorkshire & England. Single page handwritten letter dated 18th October 1984 from Boycott to ‘John & Mildred’, who writes to thank them for the gift of a W.G. Grace handkerchief, which ‘will be a prized possession in my own collection’. Sold with a typed flyer advertising events at The City Hall, Sheffield in 1974, one a Brass Band Concert, the other a Tribute Dinner to Geoff Boycott. In a handwritten note in ink by Boycott to the top margin he asks for support for the functions. 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