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 61-70 of 1482. Previous|1...5678910...149|Next 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. 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