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 501-600 of 1482. Previous|1...456789...15|Next Lot #500 ‘The Cricketer Magazine’. Bound volumes for 1922 (2nd year), 1924, 1926 and 1932. Three of the volumes in original publishers green binding. Sold with some loose editions from the 1950’s. G View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #501 Benefit and testimonial brochures 1950s-1990s. Box comprising over forty benefit brochures and booklets, eleven signed. Signatures are Vic Wilson 1958, signature on piece laid down to front wrapper, Ghulam Abbas (c.1980?), Andy Stovold 1987, John Abrahams 1988, Richard Hadlee, c.1989, Tim Robinson 1992, Jack Russell 1994, Robin Smith 1996, Dermot Reeve 1996 (signature smudged), Cardigan Connor 1997 and Tim Munton 1998. Others earlier brochures are George Cox 1951, Alec Bedser 1953, Jim Pressdee View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #502 Benefit and Testimonial brochures 1961-2007. Box comprising forty nine official benefit and testimonial brochures. Two signed to the front cover, for Dennis Amiss 1987 and Kevin Jarvis 1987. Other earlier brochures include Brian Close 1961, Jimmy Binks 1967, Ken Taylor 1968, Don Wilson 1972, Chris Old 1979 (all Yorkshire), Stuart Leary 1967, Mike Denness 1974 (Kent), John Edrich 1977 (Surrey), Mike ‘Pasty’ Harris 1977, ‘Basher’ Hassan 1978 (Nottinghamshire), Tony Cordle 1977 (Glamorgan), Rohan K View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #503 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England. 1865-1908. Robinson & Leadbeater parianware bust of W.G. Grace. The bust with his name ‘W.G. GRACE’ to plinth with stamp ‘R&L’ for Robinson & Leadbeater to back. 8” tall. Circa 1880’s. Some chipping with small loss to the back of the base of the plinth otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare, not often seen View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #504 W.G. Grace. Continental, probably German, bisque figure of W.G. Grace in batting pose wearing pads and gloves and M.C.C. cap and belt. Approx 9.5” tall. Replacement wooden bat otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #505 ‘The Golly Cricketer’. Large handpainted ceramic figure of a golliwog batsman made by Carlton Ware. To the front of the base there are the intials ‘G.S.C.C.’ standing for Golden Shred Cricket Club. This figure was not made for general release and was a one-off trial piece of which 120 were produced, limited edition 6/120. Carlton Ware stamp to base with ‘Trial. No 6/120’. 8” tall. Very good condition. Sold with a paper Carlton Ware with details of the figure. Rare View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #506 Cricket plate. ‘Cadbury’s Cocoa. The Oldest and still the best. Absolutely Pure Cocoa’. An advertising plate for Cadbury’s printed to centre with a cricket scene of a boy serving a cup of cocoa to a batsman during a game, wicketkeeper and fielders plus crowd and tents to background. Made by Ridgway with backstamp and mark for 1880. 9” diameter. Previously sold by Christie’s with labels to verso. Hairline crack to edge otherwise in good original condition View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #507 Lladro, Spain. ‘Cricket Player’. Elegant porcelain figure of a cricketer playing a flowing drive, designed by the sculptor, Regino Torrijos. Maker’s mark to base, dated 2001, withdrawn from circulation in 2005. 17” tall. Sadly the bat has broken at the handle and is detached. In need of restoration. Very good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #508 ‘The Army and Navy Forever’ c.1890. Small Victorian Staffordshire ceramic mug printed in colour with amusing scenes of wounded army and navy veteran cricketers playing the game, the figures depicted with wooded legs, hand hooks and crutches. Title to lower rim edge. Gold lustre to handle and rim. Approx 2.5” high. Good/ very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #509 ‘Good for Fifty’ Royal Doulton Black Boy saucer, entitled ‘Good for Fifty’ printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat in batting pose in front of the wicket to centre. Green floral decoration to edge. 5.5” diameter. Doulton backstamp and number ‘E4336’ to base. c1907. Good/very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #510 ‘Out for a Duck’. A Royal Doulton Black Boy plate, entitled ‘Out for a Duck’ printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat swinging the bat and being bowled out, the wicket broken. Green floral decoration to outer rim. 8.5” diameter. Doulton backstamp and number ‘D2864’ to base. Circa 1907. Very good to excellent condition. A rarer ‘Black Boy’ title in lovely condition View details Estimates£700 - £900Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #511 ‘The Boss’. A Royal Doulton Black Boy miniature mug, entitled ‘The Boss’ printed, to one side, printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat, wearing an umpires’s coat and holding a bat to side, to verso, the crest ‘The All Black Team’. Green floral decoration to outer rim, green handle and rim. 3” tall. Doulton backstamp and number ‘E4336’ to base. Small hairline crack to rim otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #512 Westerwald cricket jug. Large and very attractive Westerwald cobalt blue stoneware cricket jug, moulded in relief with five cameo panels of a batsman, believed to be W.G. Grace, in different cricketing poses. The body decorated with vine and sprig decoration in cobalt blue on a grey background. The strap handle decorated with large leaf decoration. Approximately 10” high. The jug made in Germany circa 1890. Very good condition. Rare in this large and impressive shape. A magnificent example of View details Estimates£800 - £1,200Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #513 Withdrawn View details StatusUnsold Lot #514 Child’s plate/dish. Small early Victorian Staffordshire child’s plate with centre image vignette of a boy batsman holding a bat in the air in front of the wicket with fielder behind, speckled blue outer border. 3.5” diameter. Circa 1860. Circular mark impressed to base. Chip to lower right hand rim of plate otherwise in good condition. Rare. A similar dish was sold in the Crump sale 2006 as lot 443 View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #515 Julius Caesar and George Parr. A pair of original large Staffordshire cricketing figures, believed to be of Caesar and Parr. Both figures beautifully decorated, the figure of Caesar standing beside a set of brown cricket stumps holding a cricket bat, wearing a orange cap with blue peak, a pink bow tie to neck, white spotted shirt and orange sash with cricket blazer to right hand side. Parr standing beside a wicket holding a cricket ball in his right hand, wearing an orange cap, a pink bow tie to View details Estimates£700 - £1,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #516 Staffordshire figure. Original Staffordshire 19th century pottery figure of a child holding a cricket bat to side, wearing a white smock coat and bloomers with stumps behind. Approximately 6” tall. Some minor wear otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #517 Young cricketer. Pair of bisque figures, one of a young boy cricketer, standing with bat in his left hand, wearing a blue waistcoat, shoes and holding a cricket ball in his right hand to his chest. The other figure of a lady tennis player holding a tennis racket in her right hand and holding a ball in her left. Blue waistcoat and shoes. Both figures standing on naturalistic oval bases. Gold lustre to both figures. Each approx 10” tall. Circa 1870/1880’s. Rare as a pair. Minor wear to bases other View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #518 Burleigh Ware art deco ceramic cricket jug c1930’s. The jug with cricket field and pavilion design to body with moulded batsman handle. The batsman wearing a blue cap and yellow/blue sash. The jug is 7.5” tall with ‘beehive’ Burleigh stamp to base. Very good. A rare cricket jug View details Estimates£180 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #519 Century of Centuries commemorative plates. Three limited edition Century of Centuries plates in original presentation boxes. Two by Coalport for Colin Cowdrey and Les Ames, the other by Royal Grafton for Tom Graveney. VG View details Estimates£15 - £25Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #520 ‘The Cricketer’. Large stone ware resin figure of a batsman, thought to be of F.S. Jackson, wearing navy blue cap playing a shot with wooden stumps to plinth. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #521 ‘W.G. Grace’. Large stone ware resin figure of Grace wearing M.C.C. cap and belt playing a forward defensive shot. The figure mounted on a stained mahogany base. Title W.G. Grace’ to front edge. Dennis Fairweather Collection with makers stamps and initials to base. The figure stands 13” tall. Good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #522 The Bowler, the Batsman and the Wicketkeeper’. Set of three H.J. Wood ceramic toby jugs of cricketers c.1960s/1970s. 7” tall. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #523 W.G. Grace. Royal Doulton ceramic caricature toby jug of ‘The Champion’ W.G. Grace 1989. D6845. 4” tall. Limited edition no 6092/9500. G. Sold with an original Staffordshire 19th century pottery figure of a child holding a cricket bat to side, wearing a white smock coat and bloomers with stumps behind. Approx 6” tall. Break to back of figure, appears to have been restored poorly at some point, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #524 Staffordshire 4” waisted cricket mug with strap handle and beaded rim, with cream background and three raised figures of a batsman, bowler and wicket keeper, believed to be Lillywhite, Pilch and Box. c1870. Silver lustre floral decoration between figures. Some loss to lustre otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #525 ‘Jumbo’ nursery ware. Selection of a cup and saucer, a tankard, a small bowl and three further saucers each decorated with image of Jumbo playing cricket, tennis, hockey, skating etc. Gold lustre to edges. The tankard stands 3.5” tall, the saucers 3.5” diameter. Probably German manufacture. Some minor wear otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #526 Ronson ‘Whirlwind’ cigarette lighter engraved to one side ‘S.C.C.C.’ for Surrey County Cricket Club with band of colour to corner and to the verso ‘J.W. McMahon’. The lighter was presented to McMahon during his time playing for the club, odd surface marks otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #527 Surrey County Cricket Club ‘County Champions’ 1952. Baume & Mercier nine carat gold wrist watch presented to McMahon following the County Championship success in 1952. The watch, in working order, with 17-jewel hand-winding movement, original cream strap with circular inscription to back of watch ‘Champion County 1952. J.W. McMahon’ with Surrey emblem of the Prince of Wales feather to centre. The watch hallmarked to inner case London 1951, marks ‘DS & S. 206. 17 jewel’. Presented in original dar View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #528 Ernest Leslie ‘Ernie’ McCormick. Victoria & Australia 1929-1939. ‘Australian XI in England 1938’. Original players lapel pin badge produced for the 1938 Australian tour of England and issued to McCormick. The gold metal and green enamel badge made by Schlank of Adelaide features a map of Australia to centre with a kangaroo and lion shaking hands with wording to outer rim ‘Australian XI in England 1938’. A very attractive badge from the tour. VG View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #529 Rothmans World Cup 1966. Large silver medal presented to members of the World XI team who took part in the competition held at Lords 1966. The medal with ‘Rothmans World Cup 1966 and ‘World XI’ emblem to centre and to reverse ‘Rothmans emblem’ and ‘Presented to ........ at Lord’s September 1966’. Hallmarked. 2” diameter. In original case by John Pinches, London. G/VG View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #530 Harold Thomas William ‘Wally’ Hardinge. Kent & England 1902-1933. An impressive and beautifully decorated silver presentation paper knife in the form of a cricket bat, the handle exquisitely moulded with crossed bats and ball before a wicket, and the Kent emblem of the white horse in shield with motto ‘Invicta’ in scroll beneath, scrolling foliage to extremities of handle and the blade inscribed ‘The Kent County Cricket Club. Presented to H.T.W. Hardinge. Champion Eleven 1913’. Hallmarks for She View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #531 Cecil Geoffrey Howard. Middlesex 1930 (three matches). Attractive circular silver plate salver with pie crust edges and intricate floral design. Engraved inscription to centre, ‘Presented to C.G. Howard Esq. by the Committee & Members of S.&B.C.C. [Southport & Birkdale] Aug 1964’. Maker’s mark to verso. 12” diameter. Some tarnishing, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #532 John William Hearne. Middlesex & England 1909-1936. Attractive silver cigarette case, decorated to both sides in alternate line patterns, with initials ‘J.W.H.’ and ‘1925’ to circle at centre. The case, with gilt inner lining, measures approx 5”x3.25”. Hallmarked, Birmingham 1922. Good/very good condition. Previously sold by Knights on behalf of the Hearne family in March 2012 View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #533 Silver cricket cigarette case. Cigarette case decorated with an oblong celluloid image of a batsman, wearing cap, walking out to bat. The case is hallmarked Birmingham 1900. The case measures 2.5”x3.25”. Odd knock/dent otherwise in good condition. Previously sold by Knights in 2013. Sold with a Sheffield pewter hip flask with circular card inset of an illustration of a batsman and wicketkeeper by ‘H.H.’. 4.5” tall. Small dents to rim and replacement screw cap otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #534 Ronson ‘Whirlwind’ cigarette lighter engraved to one side ‘Surrey County Cricket Club’ with Surrey emblem, and to the verso ‘County Champions 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956. Under Captaincy of W. Stuart Surridge’. The lighter, with original cloth pouch and box, was issued for the David Fletcher Benefit Fund in 1957, with original leaflet, miniature cleaning brush, instruction booklet, and Benefit Fund card. The lighter in very good condition, appears unused View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #535 Gordon Ross.Ronson cigarette lighter inscribed to one side ‘Surrey County Cricket Club’ with Surrey emblem and name Gordon Ross to centre, and to the verso ‘County Champions 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956. Under Captaincy of W. Stuart Surridge’. From the collection of Gordon Ross, sports journalist and author. G View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #536 Victorian buttons. A collection of six silver metal buttons, each with enamel image of a cricketer. Two buttons depict a bowler, and one each of a batsman, wicketkeeper, slip fielder and another fielder taking an overhead catch. Maker unknown. VG View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #537 Cricket club medals 1893-1949. Fifteen cricket club medals of which eight are hallmarked silver, the majority with cricketing motifs. Engravings include ‘B.C.C. Bowling Average, J.E. Read 1893’, ‘S.R.J.C.L. A. Bothby 1911’, ‘East Leeds L.C.C. F. Rigler 1928’, ‘U.C.C.L. Div III Winners 1949’, ‘Standon R. Lee’, and ‘P.T. W.T./ F.B.A. C.C.C.’. G View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #538 ‘Centenary Of The Ashes 1882-1982’. Twenty one brand new gold metal medals designed and distributed by M.R. Roberts’ Wynyard Coin Centre, Sydney, Australia, unopened in original packaging. Mint condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #539 ‘Evening Standard Cricketer of the Month’. Large and heavy ‘float bronze’ sculpture of a of a batsman wearing cap in batting pose playing a forward defensive shot. The figure mounted on a marble plinth. The figure stands 10.5 tall. Similar trophies were apparently presented by the Evening Standard to the Cricketer of the Month some years ago. Maker’s mark for Thomas & Peters. An excellent sculpture. Crack to right leg and left pad, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #540 A pair of unusual Victorian brass sporting fire dogs/andiron figures. One depicts a footballer kicking a ball, the other a rugby player running with the ball, both players wearing caps. The figures stand on fireplaces each of which is decorated to centre with smaller images of crossed cricket bats, stumps and ball, rugby ball, football, football and rugby goal posts. Both approx 8.5” high. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #541 Australia v England 1974/75. Australian boomerang signed in ink by both the Australian and England teams who played for the Ashes in 1974/75, with title to middle and signatures to either side. Twenty four signatures including I. Chappell, Redpath, Marsh, Walters, G. Chappell, Lillee, Thomson, Walker, Mallett, Denness, Edrich, Greig, Cowdrey, Knott, Amiss, Arnold, Old, Underwood etc. Approx 15.5” wide. Minor fading to two signatures otherwise in good/very good condition. An unusual Ashes signed View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #542 Cricket ties 1960s onwards. A good selection of thirty two cricket ties including ‘Cricket Ties. An International Guide for Cricket Lovers’, Vic Lewis, London 1984 with Lewis’s signature on card laid down to endpaper. Ties include South Africa player’s tie c.1961, Western Province player’s tie c.1961, South Africa ‘Rebel’ tour tie, two Holland player’s ties, two Zimbabwe player’s ties (one blue, one green), Centenary Test England v Australia 1980, England v Australia 1981, M.C.C. Bientenary 1987 View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #543 South African tour of England 1970. Official green tour tie for the series with Springbok emblem and ‘Tour 1970’ in gold, white and red thread. The tour did not take place, it was cancelled due to political pressure over apartheid and a five match series v the Rest of the World was hastily set up to replace it. Rare. Sold with an Australia v England Centenary Test Tie 1977 by Kent & Curwen. Qty 2. VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #544 Graeme Hick. Worcestershire & England. England white short sleeve Test shirt worn by Hick during his England career. Shirt with England emblem and ‘Tetley Bitter’ to chest. Signed to the chest by Hick. Previously sold at Graeme Hick’s Benefit auction held by Knights in 1999. G View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #545 England Test cricketers c.2000 signed shirt. Short sleeve England shirt with three lions and crown emblem to chest, ‘Asics’ logo to sleeve. Signed to the front by fourteen members of the England team including Atherton, Stewart, Maddy, Thorpe, Swann, Mullally, Emburey, Tufnell, Hussain etc. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #546 Robert Alec ‘Bob’ Gale. Middlesex 1956-65. Middlesex First XI cricket blazer worn by Gale during his first class playing career with the club. The navy blue blazer with embroidered County emblem of three notched swords to chest pocket. ‘Robert A. Gale’ name label to inside. Maker unknown. Sold with three silk ties issued to Gale, two Middlesex ties and one M.C.C. VG View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #547 Mark Andrew Robinson (Northamptonshire, Canterbury, Yorkshire and Sussex 1987-2002). Northamptonshire 1st XI short sleeve woollen sweater by Fullers with Northamptonshire colours to waist and neck, and sponsor’s logo for Carling Black Label to chest. The sweater issued to and worn by Robinson during his player career. Very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #548 Leicestershire C.C.C. Two match worn Leicestershire Foxes one-day long sleeve shirts. Green shirt with red and yellow trim, county emblem and sponsors’ logos to front, player’s names and number ‘Masters 9’ (David Masters, Leicestershire 2003-2007) to reverse. Red shirt with black trim, county emblem and sponsors’ logos to front, ‘Thakor 57’ (Shiv Thakor, Leicestershire 2011-2013) to reverse. Qty 2. VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #549 Northamptonshire C.C.C. Two match worn Northamptonshire 1st XI white long sleeve shirts both with County emblem to chest and sponsor’s logos to front and reverse. One plain white shirt with player’s name and number ‘Wigley 14’ (David Wigley, Northamptonshire 2006-2010), the other with red trim and ‘Daggett 10’ (Lee Daggett, Northamptonshire 2009-2013) to reverse. Qty 2. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #550 Derbyshire C.C.C. A match worn Derbyshire 1st XI white short sleeve shirt with blue trim, County emblem to chest and sponsor’s logos to front and reverse. Player’s name and number ‘Groenewald 12’ (Tim Groenewald, Derbyshire 2009-2014)) to reverse. Sold with a blue Derbyshire one-day sleeveless sweater with County embem to front, sponsors’ logos to front and reverse, player’s name and number ‘Park 9’ (Garry Park, Derbyshire 2009-2012) to reverse. Qty 2. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #551 Robert William ‘Bob’ Taylor. Derbyshire & England 1960-1988. M.C.C. navy blue touring blazer, by ‘Daks’ for Simpson of Piccadilly, worn by Taylor on the M.C.C. tour of Pakistan and New Zealand in 1977/78. View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold Lot #552 Alec James Stewart. Surrey & England 1981-2003. Marylebone Cricket Club navy blue cloth Test cap with embroidered M.C.C. emblem to cap, issed to Stewart during his playing career. Nicely signed to inside label by Stewart. Previously sold by Knights in November 2011. Very good condition View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #553 Club cricket caps. An interesting selection of five, probably mid-20th century woollen cricket caps. One with the colours of Free Foresters C.C. by Foster of London. Four others each with the owner’s name of ‘D.J. Newton’ handwritten to inside includes one, by Walters of Oxford, in red, gold and navy colours similar to I Zingari C.C. Also a cream cap with ‘bleeding pelican’ emblem on green front panel and green trim to peak, a pale blue cap with narrow bands of yellow and white to crown, maker u View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #554 The Ashes. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1924/25. A full size Paget’s ‘County Match’ bat fully signed in ink to the verso by all seventeen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are Gilligan (Captain), Douglas, Bryan, Chapman, Hobbs, Woolley, Freeman, Whysall, Strudwick, Hearne, Sutcliffe, Tate, Hendren, R. Tyldesley, Kilner, Howell, Sandham, and, presumably signed later, the signatures of Harold Larwood, Ernest Tyldesley, Wilfred Rhodes, George Geary and Percy Holmes. Also signed by thirtee View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #555 County and representative signed bat 1923. Full size Andrew Sandham ‘Suprex’ bat by R.G. Paget & Son of London. Signed in ink to verso with ninety two signatures including the teams for Gentlemen v Players, probably the match played at Lord’s, 18th- 20th July 1923. Signatures include Mann, Gilligan, Chapman, Wood, Carr, Louden, Hobbs, Hearne, Woolley, Tate, Sandham, Kilner, Sutcliffe etc. Also signatures of County teams for Lancashire (11 signatures including Tyldesley, Watson, Duckworth View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #556 Kent v Gloucestershire 1950. Split and hinged cricket stump signed to the inside face by the two teams who played their County Championship match at Mote Park, Maidstone, 29th July- 1st August 1950. Twenty four signatures in ink including, for Kent, Clark (Captain), Ames, Shirreff, Pawson, Fagg, Ridgway, Edrich, Hearn, Wright, Dovey, Evans and Lucas. Gloucestershire signatures are Allen (Captain), Goddard, Crapp, Emmett, Cook, Scott, Lambert, Wilson, Young, J.K.R. Graveney, Milton and T.W. Grave View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #557 M.C.C. tour to West Indies 1959/60 and South Africa in England 1960. Full size Gradidge ‘Cyril Washbrook Autograph’ bat signed in ink to the verso by fourteen members of the M.C.C. touring party and fifteen West Indies players. England signatures are May (Captain), Cowdrey, Statham, Trueman, Subba Row, Moss, Swetman, Barrington, Smith, Illingworth, Dexter, Greenhough, Andrew and Pullar. West Indies signatures include Alexander (Captain), Sobers, Kanhai, Hunte, Hall, Nurse, Butcher, Singh, Griffi View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #558 Australia tour to England 1968. Full size Stuart Surridge ‘Perfect’ cricket bat with printed title ‘Australia 1968’. Fully signed in ink to the face by the seventeen playing members of the touring party. Signatures are Lawry (Captain), Jarman, Connolly, McKenzie, Joslin, Freeman, Hawke, Redpath, Renneberg, Mallett, Taber, Cowper, Sheahan, Chappell, Walters, Gleeson and Inverarity. A protective film has been applied to the signatures. G/VG View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #559 M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1948/49. Full size Sykes ‘Super Selected’ cricket bat fully signed in ink to the face by all sixteen playing members of the M.C.C. touring party, and twelve of the South African team. England signatures are Mann (Captain), Griffith, Palmer, Simpson, Hutton, Washbrook, Compton, Gladwin, Crapp, Tremlett, Jenkins, Wright, Watkins, Evans, Young and Bedser. South Africans are Nourse, Mitchell, Viljoen, Wade, Begbie, Tuckett, Cowan, McCarthy, Mann, Markham, Rowan and Harris View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #560 England v South Africa 1960. Full size Gunn & Moore ‘The County’ cricket bat signed in ink to the face by eleven members of the England team, and all sixteen of the South African touring party. England signatures are Cowdrey (Captain), Statham, Trueman, Parks, Subba Row, Illingworth, Barrington, Moss, Dexter, Smith and Walker. South Africans are McGlew (Captain), Waite, Goddard, Adcock, Duckworth, McLean, Wesley, Fellows-Smith, Carlstein, Tayfield, McKinnon, Pithey, Griffin, O’Linn, Pothecary an View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #561 Benson & Hedges ‘World Championship of Cricket’ 1985. Full size cricket bat fully signed to the face by all of the fourteen-player squads for all seven participating teams for the tournament to celebrate the 150th anniversary of European settlement in Victoria, held in February and March 1985. Teams are Australia, England, West Indies, New Zealand, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Signatures include Border, Hogg, Lawson, Alderman, Gower, Lamb, Fowler, Lloyd, Richards, Dujon, Garner, Haynes, Howart View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #562 Bicentennial Test Match. Australia v England. Sydney Cricket Ground 29th January to 2nd February 1988. Official Gray Nicholls ‘Benson & Hedges’ (sponsors) full size bat with printed details and scorecard of the game to face. To reverse are the ink signatures of both the Australian, twelve signatures, and the England teams, sixteen signatures, who competed in this historic match. Twenty eight signatures including Border, Marsh, S. Waugh, McDermott, M. Hughes, Jones, Boon, Taylor, Sleep, Gatting, View details Estimates£120 - £160StatusUnsold Lot #563 The Ashes. Australia tour to England 1993. Full size Gray Nicholls bat signed by thirteen members of the Australian touring party for the third Test, Trent Bridge, 1st- 6th July 1993. Signatures are Border (Captain), Taylor, M. Waugh, S. Waugh, Healy, Slater, Holdsworth (signed twice), Reiffel, May, Martyn, Warne, Boon and Rundle (Manager). ‘Athers’ inscribed to rear shoulder, suggesting this was Mike Atherton’s bat. G/VG View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #564 England v Rest of the World XI 1970. Gray Nicholls ‘Colin Milburn’ autograph full size cricket bat very nicely signed by all twenty two members of the England and Rest of the World teams corresponding to the fifth unofficial Test match played at The Oval’, 13th- 18th August 1970. Signatures are Illingworth, Cowdrey, Boycott, Snow, Lever, Fletcher, Knott, Luckhurst, Old, Wilson, Amiss (England), Sobers, Barlow, Pollock, Lloyd, Mushtaq Mohammad, Intikhab Alam, Kanhai, McKenzie, Procter, Richards a View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #565 John David Benbow ‘Jack’ Robertson. Middlesex & England, 1937-1959. Lillywhite Frowd ‘Jack Roberston Autograph’ bat, assumed to have been used by Roberston. Previously sold with other bats and a cricket bag used by Robertson and previously sold by Knights Auctioneers. VG - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #566 South Africa tour to England 1994. Stuart Surridge ‘Turbo Supreme’ full size cricket bat fully signed by all twenty members of the South African players and officials with printed names. Signatures include Wessels (Captain), Cronje, Donald, Cullinan, De Villiers McMillan, Matthews, Rhodes, Procter (Coach) etc. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #567 Kent ‘Gillette Cup Winners’ 1967. Gray Nicolls ‘Crusader’ cricket bat signed to face by fifteen members of the victorious Kent team. Signatures include Cowdrey (Cpt), Dixon, Luckhurst, Denness, Graham, Knott, Underwood, Shepherd, Johnson, Ealham etc. Signatures include Godfrey Evans. Signed to back by four counties, Surrey, Leicestershire, Sussex and Yorkshire. Signatures include Stewart, Barrington, Edrich, Storey, Lock, Norman, Tolchard, Parks, Greig, Buss, Bates, Trueman, Illingworth, Bolus, View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #568 ‘West Indies 1985’. Full size Gunn and Moore ‘Maestro’ cricket bat signed in thick black ink by fifteen West Indies players, Wes Hall (Manager) and one other, seventeen in total. Players’ signatures are Richards (Captain), Holding, Garner, Greenidge, Marshall, Dujon, Richardson, Haynes, Gomes, Logie, Harper, Best, Payne, Gray and Walsh. G View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #569 Lancashire C.C.C. 1982-2009. Three full size bats, each signed by Lancashire players. Gunn & Moore ‘The County’ bat signed to the face by nineteen Lancashire players and twelve of Warwickshire, dated 1982. Signatures include C. Lloyd, D. Lloyd, Hayes, Fowler, Allott, Simmons, Abrahams, Willis, Amiss, Adif Din, A. Lloyd, Small, Humnpage etc. Some smudging to signatures. A Lancashire 1986 bat nicely signed by twenty six Lancashire players including C. Lloyd, Simmons, Fowler, Allott, Mendis, Watkin View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #570 South Africa tours to England 1965 and 1994. A Warsop Stebbing ‘The Sterling Barry Knight Autograph’ full size bat fully signed to the face in ink by the sixteen members of the 1965 touring party. Signatures include van der Merwe, Barlow, G. Pollock, Gamsy, Bacher, Lance, Botten, Bland, Lindsay, P. Pollock, Plimsoll (Manager) etc. Also a Gray Nicholls full size bat signed to the face by all fifteen members of the 1995 touring party including Wessels, P. Kirsten, Cronje, Donald, McMillan, G. Kirs View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #571 England tour to Australia 1982/83. Duncan Fearnley full size bat fully signed in ink to the face by all sixteen members of the England touring party. Signatures include Willis (Captain), Gower, Botham, Gould, Randall, Cook, Taylor, Miller, Hemmings, Cowans, Marks, Fowler, Tavare etc. Also signed by twelve members of the Australia Test team including Chappell, Hughes, Lillee, Marsh, Thomson, Yardley, Lawson, Border etc. G View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #572 Gloucestershire v Sri Lanka 1988. Full size bat with Gloucestershire C.C.C. emblem signed in ink to the face by fifteen Gloucestershire players and fourteen members of the Sri Lanka touring party. Gloucestershire signatures include Graveney (Captain), Bainbridge, Curran, Wright, Jarvis, Ball, Lloyds, Alleyne, Russell, Greene etc. Sri Lanka signatures include Madugalle (Captain), Ranatunga, Tillekeratne, Mendis, Ramanayake, Labrooy, Kuruppu, Mahanama etc. G/VG View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #573 Andrew Strauss. The Ashes. England v Australia 2009. Full size Gray Nicholls bat used by Strauss in England’s victorious 2009 Ashes series. Signed to the face by Strauss and presented in display case with colour copy photograph of Strauss in batting action and caption mounted below. Acquired by the vendor at a fundraising auction held at the time. VG View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #574 West Indies 1996/97. Original Gunn & Moore stump used in the fourth Test, West Indies v India, Antigua 4th- 8th April 1997. The stump with Cable & Wireless sponsor’s logos is signed by fourteen members of the West Indies team. Signatures include Courtney Walsh (Captain), Brian Lara, Ian Bishop, Roland Holder, Carl Hooper, Sherwin Campbell, Stuart Williams, Courtney Browne, Curtly Ambrose etc. Previously won by the vendor in a silent auction. G/VG View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #575 ‘England Select XI. The Ashes’. Miniature souvenir bat comprising twelve printed handwritten ‘signatures’ of the names of the eleven members of the England team who beat Australia in the fifth Ashes Test by 289 runs at The Oval, 14th- 18th August 1926. The bat, measuring 18”, is darkened with age, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #576 Signed miniature bats c.1990s. A selection of ten miniature multi-signed bats of various sizes. Includes one measuring 11.75”, Surrey c.1995 (10), seven 15”, Yorkshire c.1992, Gloucestershire 1993 (11), Yorkshire v Sussex 1993 (22), Durham 1993/94 (11), South Africa 1994 (16), and two similarly signed ‘Crusader’ bats including Graeme Hick etc., one 16”, ‘1993 President’s XI’ (11) including Dean Jones, Mudassar Nazar, Jimmy Adams, and one 17”, Lancashire 1994 (10). G View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #577 Signed miniature cricket bats. Four signed miniature bats including a Stuart Surridge ‘S.S. Turbo Grand Prix’ signed to the face by fourteen members of the England touring party ot New Zealand 1991/92 including Gooch, Stewart, Lamb, DeFreitas, Russell, Smith, Fairbrother, Reeve, Hick etc. 16.75”. Fading to signatures, protective plastic applied. Gray Nicholls ‘Nitro’ from the Lady Taverners Founders Day, signed to the face, edge and reverse by cricketers and celebrities including Chris Tarrant, View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #578 Warwickshire County Champions 1972. Large miniature bat with hand printed title and pewter shield with the county emblem of the bear and ragged staff. Nicely signed to the face in ink by thirteen members of the Warwickshire team including A. Smith (Captain), M.J.K. Smith, Amiss, Jameson, Kanhai, Gibbs, Murray, Rouse, Blenkiron, Willis, Kallicharran etc. 28.5”. Sold with a further large miniature bat, ‘Glamorgan 1973’ with similar pewter shield with the Glamorgan daffodil emblem, signed in ink to View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #579 Miniature cricket bats 1960-1993. A selection of thirteen signed miniature bats of various sizes, including two with printed signatures. Larger bats, all 17” unless stated, include England 1979 (6 signatures), West Indies 1979/80 (14), Nottinghamshire NatWest Final 1985 (13), Australia at Lord’s 1985, 18” (18), Sussex 1991 (17), Yorkshire 1993 (12), and one with printed signatures of ‘English Test Veterans’. Smaller 11.5” bats are South Africa 1960 (printed signatures), England 1979 (13), Zimbab View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #580 Leather cricket bag c.1930s. Original early leather cricket bag with hanging ownership label for Arthur Tollemache of Helmingham Hall in Suffolk. London and North Eastern Railway luggage label appears to date the bag to the early 1930s. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #581 Tom Webster. Sporting cartoonist. Large original pen and ink artwork by artist Tom Webster, probably for the Daily Mail, reporting at the close of play on the first day of the second Test, England v Australia, at Lord’s, 27th June- 1st July 1930. The cartoon comprises a series of illustrations with captions describing the Surrey supporters’ disappointment of Hobbs being dismissed for one run having been at the wicket for 15 minutes, and Middlesex supporters ‘telling the Surrey crowd what they th View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #582 Tom Webster. Sporting cartoonist. Original pen and ink artwork with blue highlights by artist Tom Webster, produced in advance of the first post-war M.C.C. tour, to Australia and New Zealand in 1946/47. The artwork comprises nine caricatures with captions relating to who will make up the touring party. In particular, the vexed question of who will be the fast bowler, and the realisation that ‘England would never have a fast bowler. And then Arthur Mailey added to our troubles by coming to see us View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #583 Tom Webster. Sporting cartoonist. ‘A Cavalcade of Sportsment’ c.1940. Very large original pencil artwork by Tom Webster. The cartoon comprises a panoramic view of caricatures of five notable cricketers, ‘W.G’ Grace in batting pose with a bird having apparently flown out of his beard, ‘The Demon’ Spofforth in bowling pose, ‘”Archie” Maclaren’ flipping a coin, ‘Victor Trumper’ playing a flowing drive, and the diminutive ‘”Bobby” Abel’ in forward defensive pose holding an oversize bat with dispropo View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #584 ‘The War of the Roses 1906’. Early and original pen and ink artwork on artists board by artist Tom Webster, for publication the Sports Argus in Birmingham. The artwork depicts Yorkshire Captain F.S. Jackson, wearing a crown, cooking up a pot of Yorkshire relish stirring it with a spoon labelled ‘Hirst’ and Lancashire Captain Archie MaClaren wearing cap holding a bowl out for a helping View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #585 ‘Kent C.C.C. ‘County Champions 1906’. Early and original pen and ink artwork on artist board by artist Tom Webster, for publication the Sports Argus in Birmingham. The artwork depicts Cloudesley Henry Bullock Marsham, the Kent Captain, wearing trademark floppy white sunhat and riding triumphantly with bat raised in the air, on the ‘White Horse [Rampant]’, emblem of Kent. ‘Championship’ handwritten in ink below. The artwork is signed to top left hand corner by Webster and dated 1906, a very early View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #586 Robert Elliott Storey ‘Bob’ Wyatt. Warwickshire, Worcestershire & England 1923-1951. Contemporary small colour pencil caricature of Wyatt in batting pose playing an attacking shot to the leg. Inscribed ‘RES Wyatt. Warwickshire’. Probably 1930s, artist unknown but appears to be R. Shimwall[?]. Approx. 3.25”x6”. Mounted, framed and glazed in modern frame, overall 10”x13.5”. Some creasing, otherwise in good condition - cricket View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #587 Australia v South Africa 1950s & 1960s. Three original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon artworks highlighted with colour, for ‘The Age’ newspaper by artist Samuel Wells. One cartoon relates to the Australia tour to South Africa, 1957/58, 2nd Test at Newlands, ‘It’s a “Sweet and Sour” Affair’, with Australian captain Ian Craig having won the toss and electing to bat first, but then making a duck, Burke scoring 189, and a ‘hungry African Lion who cleaned up our tail in quick time’. Also coverage of View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #588 Victoria in the Sheffield Shield 1950s & 1960s. Two original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon artworks for ‘The Age’ newspaper by artist Samuel Wells. The first cartoon, from the 1958/5 season is ttiled ‘Telescopic View of Q’land’s Score’, Sheffield Shield match, Victoria v Queensland, ‘Drawn on Asbestos to prevent it going up in flames with the heat’, Queensland having made 370 in their first innings with Burge who ‘decided to celebrate Australia Day... with his highest century of the season [17 View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #589 Victoria in the Sheffield Shield 1949/50 & 1964/65. Two original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon artworks with highlighting, for ‘The Age’ newspaper by artist Samuel Wells. ‘Cricket- Ah what a restful word!’ Dated to verso 19th December 1949, the cartoon reports on the slow, drawn match, Victoria v Queensland, in which ‘There were too many dead bats about’, with Prime Minister Robert ‘Bob’ Menzies attending, and comments on Iverson’s bowling, Tallon’s wicketkeeping for Victoria, Johnson (6/71) a View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #590 Victoria in the Sheffield Shield 1963/64 & 1964/65. Two original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon artworks for ‘The Age’ newspaper by artist Samuel Wells. ‘Cyclone Bill “slashes” The Slasher’, date stamped 15th December 1963, reports on Bill Lawry’s ‘cyclonic batting’ display for Victoria, scoring 130no against Ken Mackay’s Queensland bowlers, Victoria winning by 119 runs. Queensland’s ‘newies’ are shown being lectured by Victoria’s Bill Lawry, ‘L-L-Learn from Lawry!’. 21”x14.25”. From the 1964/6 View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #591 ‘Boy Cricketer’. Charming study in oil of a young cricketer, wearing suit, white shirt and bow tie holding a bat in his left hand with his hand on the wicket to side, rather extra tall and narrow stumps and bails. View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #592 ‘Trap Ball’. From an original picture in the collection of George Watson Esq’. Mono engraving a child player with bat in hand about to hit the trap/ball with naturalistic views to fore and background. Printed in London, 2nd January 1809 by the engraver, 9 Norton Street, Marylebone. Painted by H. Thomson and engraved by W. Say, Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester. The engraving measures 14.5”x20”. Mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 22”x26”. A rare and unusual engraving, in good condition, View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #593 ‘Situation of HM Ships Fury and Hecla, at Igloolik, 1822-23’. Original engraving by Edward Finden from the original drawing by Captain G.F. Lyon depicting cricket being played on the ice, with the two ships locked in ice off Igloolik. Originally published in William Edward Parry’s ‘Journal of a Second Voyage for the discovery of a North-west Passage’, London, 1824. The engraving measures approx 9”x7”. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 12”x10.5”. Light foxing otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #594 ‘The Laws of the Noble Game of Cricket’. Printed laws sheet with mono engraving of an early cricket scene, published by John Wallis, 16 Ludgate Street, printed by L. Binns, London, 17th September 1785. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 15”x18.75”. Some wear, ageing and soiling otherwise in overall good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #595 ‘The Founding of Australia’ 1878. Algernon Talmage 1937. Large colour print of the famous painting showing the First Governor and Captain-General of New South Wales, Captain Arthur Phillip, R.N. about to propose the health of King George III after the hoisting of the Union Jack and the Guard of Marines’ salute at Sydney Cove. Published by The Medici Society, London 1937. Presented to Lord’s, with handwritten inscription in ink to lower border ‘Presented by,- the Author- D. Hope Johnston (of Sydn View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #596 ‘Cricket at Lord’s in 1822’. Coloured print published by the Leadenhall Press, 1894, Attractively mounted, framed and glazed, overall 20”x18”. Sold with ‘The Cricket Match’. Colour print published by Dean & Munday 1824. Framed and glazed, overall 22”x13”, ‘The Game of Cricket’ Racliffe & Cox engraving 1843, framed and glazed. Overall 12”x9.5” and a framed print of ‘The Surrey Eleven’ probably taken from the Illustrated London News’ or similar. Qty 4. Good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #597 ‘Key Plate to Messrs. Dickinson & Foster’s painting of “Lord’s” on a “Gentlemen v. Players” day’. A pair of original keyplates of the original engravings identifying all players and spectators in the picture. One titled ‘Before The Match’, the other ‘Stumps Drawn’. Originally published 1895. Both mounted, framed and glazed in matching frames, overall approx. 30”x20”. Some age toning, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #598 ‘Ashes 89. The Lord’s Test’ by renowned cricket artist, Sherree Valentine Daines (1956-date). Large colour wide angled panoramic view of Lord’s cricket ground with the Test match in progress in the artist’s noted style. From the original oil painting painted by Valentine-Daines, this being a limited edition print no. 169/850 of the painting. Signed to lower border by the artist in pencil, and the captains, David Gower and Allan Border. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 39.5”x26”. An excellent View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #599 Peter Millage. Metal artist. A large and impressive decorative figure of a batsman playing a shot to the leg. The figure is worked in highly polished steel and mounted on a green hessian background. Signed by the artist, ‘P.J. Millage’. Framed, overall approx. 27”x49”. VG View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...456789...15|Next123456789101112131415 Previous 123456789101112131415 Next Previous 123456789101112131415 Next
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