Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia including the David Frith Collection- 2 Day Auction (#8) 18/03/2023 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 18/03/2023 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 1571. Previous|12345678...16|Next Lot #1 Harvard Cricket Club (Massachusetts, U.S.A.). Official membership certificate issued to R.P. Bass, and signed by A.J. Peters Jr., Secretary of the Club. The undated certificate with emblem of crossed bats and stumps to centre, and wax seal to lower left corner incorporating the date 1862, assumed to be the year the Club was formed. Mounted, framed and glazed in contemporary wooden frame, overall 9.25”x11”. G View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #2 South Africa v Australia. ‘Triangular Tournament’ 1912. Original ticket for the Test match played at Old Trafford on the 28th and 29th May 1912. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #3 Harold Thomas William ‘Wally’ Hardinge. Kent & England 1902-1933. Official menu and invitation card for the ‘Dinner in Honour of Cricket’ held at The Mansion House, London on the 12th October 1927. The invitation reads ‘The Lord Mayor requests the honour of the company of Mr W. Hardinge at Dinner on Wednesday October 12th at seven for half past seven o’clock’. Eveing or morning dress. The three page folding menu, with one third neatly detached has the name ‘Hardinge’ circled in ink. Folds and ni View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #4 ‘The Olympian Cricket Club. Seventh Season, 1884’. Official folding programme for the Annual Sports event held at Horning’s Field, Clapton, 27th September 1884. The four page programme with printed titles, list of officers and regulations to front, and list of sporting events to centre pages. Printed by Chardin of Clapton. Horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #5 South Africa 1935. ‘British Sportsman’s Club’ luncheon menu held for the South African team at the Savoy Hotel, 17th April 1935. 8pp and card wrappers with decorative front cover featuring a cartoon by Tom Webster of a lion dressed as an umpire with the caption ‘Greetings! South Africa the English umpire welcomes you. May your stumps be tiny - your bat large and the ball ever joyful for you’. Light vertical creasing to internal pages, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #6 Kensington Oval, Barbados. Two original large printed seating plans, one for the Kensington Stand measuring 40.5”x14”, the other for the George Challenor Memorial Stand, 24”x14”. Dates unknown, possibly 1950s/1960s. Some staining to the Challenor plan, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #7 Oxford University C.C. 1960. Two original handbills/ posters, one listing ‘Home Matches 1960’ at The Parks, 9”x13”, the other with information regarding membership, subscriptions privileges etc., 8.75”x11”. Also an official folding fixture card for the 1960 season. All three printed by the HOlywell Press, Oxford. Light creasing to the posters, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 3 View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #8 ‘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£250 - £350StatusUnsold Lot #9 Cricket patents 1935. An interesting selection of original official documentation for Patent No. 426150 issued to Francis Anderson and dated 10th January 1934 for ‘Improvements in Cricket Wickets’. Documents include official seal, Patent Specification, diagrams, description and diagram of ‘Additional improvements’ etc. Some ageing and wear, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #10 M.C.C. tour to West Indies 1974. Official players’ itinerary booklet issued to Derek Underwood for the tour, with his hand written annotations to pages. Previously sold by T. Vennett-Smith as lot 61 in the sale of 26th November 2013. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #11 Bodyline. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1932/33. Scarce original tour booklet issued on board the S.S. Orontes. Believed to be Freddie Brown’s copy with his handwritten match scores in ink to the Notes page. Previously sold as part of the Freddie Brown collection in November 2013 by T. Vennett-Smith. Rusting to staples, splitting to spine, and some age toning to wrappers, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #12 ‘Champion County [Nottinghamshire] v. Rest of England’ 1907. Official ticket for the second day of the match played at the Kennington Oval, 12th- 14th September 1907, for the East Stand, price 1s. 0d. The ticket is clipped to the left edge and lower corner, and laid down to a ruled page. Sold with a press cutting image of Warner and Hayward walking out to bat for The Rest in the same match, similarly laid down. G View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #13 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Large original ledger/ journal relating to Hobbs’ sports business, ‘Jack Hobbs Limited’. Accounts are for the period 1964-1980 and cover profit and loss accounts, sales, expenses, directors’ and staff salaries, audits, bad debts, carriage and postage, bank deposits, dividends, expenses, advertising in various sporting publications include Surrey C.C.C. fixture cards etc. Includes references to directors, J.D., L.E. and I.H. Hobbs, all relation View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #14 Australia tour to West Indies 1955. A large selection of over forty original newspapers with coverage of the 1955 Australian tour to West Indies. Newspapers include Guiana Graphic, The Daily Chronicle (Georgetown, British Guiana), Trinidad Guardian, The Star (Kingston, Jamaica), The Daily (and Sunday) Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) etc. The newspapers with significant age toning and very brittle to page edges, overall in very fragile condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #15 ‘The Standard’. 9th September 1880. Original complete copy of the broadsheet newspaper with a lengthy report, covering two and a half columns, on the first Test match between England and Australia to be played in England, at The Oval, 6th- 8th September 1880. England, with the three Grace brothers, W.G., E.M. and G.F., won by five wickets, W.G. Grace scoring 152 in England’s first innings, Murdoch 152no in Australia’s second innings following on. The newspaper is preserved flat in removable clea View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #16 Shane Warne and Dennis Lillee. Two original colour newspaper posters celebrating Shane Warne’s significant achievements. One copy with headline ‘500 Wickets’, Herald Sun, 13th March 2004 and the other with headline ‘Warne’s Magic Milestone’, Sydney Morning Herald, 27th December 2006. Sold with an original poster for the Daily Mirror (New South Wales) dated 9th August 1982 with the headline ‘Lillee. Row grows over bet’. Each measures approx. 16”x23”. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #17 ‘Henry Baker’s “Loafers” v Cotswold Magpies’ 1867-1879. Large original scorebook published by James Lillywhite, in which is recorded a series of annual matches played between the two teams, the majority written in ink in neat copperplate handwriting. The book appears to be lacking the first page from the 1867 match. Some pages include comments on the match such as ‘These birds visited Worcester on July 22 [1867], tho’ hardly fledged managed to pull off the match owing to the clipping innings of View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #18 Haresfield C.C., Gloucestershire 1882 & 1883. Two large original cloth bound scorebooks published by James Lillywhite comprising scores of matches played by Haresfield C.C. in seasons 1882 and 1883. Includes matches played against Gloucestershire 2nd XI in 1882, also Minchinhampton C.C., Frocester C.C., Frampton C.C., Churchdown C.C., etc. Wear to the covers of both scorebooks, breaking to page blocks, staining to some pages of the 1882 book, otherwise in generally good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #19 Cricket scrapbooks 1948 & 1949. Two scrapbooks, one comprising press cuttings covering the M.C.C. tour and Test series to South Africa 1948/49, the other for the New Zealand tour to England 1949. Both albums with cuttings laid down with accompanying handwritten details. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #20 Lord’s and World Cup 1999. An original Lord’s bar towel with rainbow colours sold with a section of ‘ICC Cricket World Cup England ‘99’ bunting comprising twenty two hanging cards with four repeating designs. G View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #21 Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott. Barbados, British Guiana & West Indies 1954-1960. Two official orders of Service of Thanksgiving for Walcott, one held at Wildey Heights, St. Michael, Barbados on 2nd September 2006, the other at St. John’s Wood Church, London on 7th December 2006. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #22 Cricketers’ orders of service. A selection of original orders of services of thanksgiving for Godfrey Evans held at Canterbury Cathedral, 21st September 1999, Bob Woolmer held at St. John’s Wood Church, 7th September 2007, Sir Alec Bedser, Southwark Cathedral, 12th July 2010, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 16th April 2013, also for the Service Commemorating the Centenary of the Death of Dr. W.G. Grace, Beckenham 23rd October 2015, with accompanying biographical anthology bookl View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #23 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 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #24 West Indies. Two original 78rpm records by Egbert Moore (Lord Beginner). ‘Victory Test Match- Calypso. England v West Indies, Lords 1950’ with the Calypso Rhythm Kings, Melodisc. ‘M.C.C. v West Indies Calypso’ 1949, accompanied by Gerald Clark and his Caribbean Serenaders, Brunswick Ltd. G View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #25 Irving Rosenwater archives 1959-2003. A collection of fourteen large envelopes containing copies of reports and articles and original press cuttings collected by Rosenwater, with his handwritten titles to the envelopes. Subjects covered include ‘Cricket Cartoons (cuttings)’ 1959. ‘G.A. Lohmann’s Grave at Matjiesfontein’. Fritz Joubert, with four original mono press photographs, 1965. ‘Regina v N. Gifford’ copy typescript of a ‘humorous’ article titled on the Benson & Hedges Cup Semi-final, Lanca View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #26 Irving Rosenwater archives. A collection of eighteen large envelopes comprising facsimile copies of early published articles collected by Rosenwater with his handwritten titles to the envelopes. Subjects covered include ‘Depiction of Cricket (drawn by Duncan) and Ramsgate Harbour’, Illustrated London News 22nd June 1850. ‘Copy of original letter- N. Felix to Edmond Wilder on death of Alfred Mynn. Nov. 5, 1861’. ‘Reviews. The English Games of Cricket by Charles Box (The Spectator, June 23, 1877), View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #27 Cricket Club histories c. 1930s. A large collection collected by Irving Rosenwater comprising typed and handwritten articles on club histories. Contained in four folio buff folders, the articles cover clubs nationally with particular emphasis on London, southern and south western clubs. Included are a good number of typescripts for a series of articles by ‘Greenmantle’ written for and published in the News Chronicle in the 1930s, with some cuttings of the published articles included. Clubs cover View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #28 Cricket club and league reports 1930s-1970s. Five buff folders from Irving Rosenwater’s collection. Subjects include a folder of original cuttings of club histories published in The Observer in 1932/33. Club cricket correspondence from 1960 including letters and press releases to ‘The Cricketer’, clubs include Cross Arrows, North Oxford, Old Ardinians, The Primary Club, Wanstead, Fulham Taverners etc., also covering cricket societies and charity events. A folder dedicated to Honor Oak C.C. compr View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #29 Minor Counties cricket 1960s. Envelope comprising five ‘Minor Counties Who’s Who’ extensive typed lists of contacts, early 1960s. Also Minor Counties Cricket Association folding membership cards for seasons 1964-1973, 1975 and 1989. Sold with a selection of approx. forty official M.C.C. tickets and passes for matches played at Lord’s in 1996. Ex Irving Rosenwater collection. G View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #30 Harold W. Dalton. England masseur. M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand 1954/55. ‘Ideal’ exercise book with daily diary entries handwritten in ink by Dalton recording travel, activities for each day, and his observations on conditions and his records of players’ injuries and treatments during tour and Test matches. Examples include ‘Feb 18-22 Tyson coming off with a strain... Loader with bruised h/string (he could have played)’, ‘Feb 26 Tyson clear. Loader clear. Bailey doubtful for Test... View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #31 Cricket prints, posters and programmes. Box comprising a selection including including a limited edition print of ‘The Oval’ signed by the artist, Alan Fearnley. A large selection of approx. 230 large original colour page book plates of players from ‘The Lord’s Taverners Fifty Greatest’. Four unsigned ‘Art of Sport Miniature Collection’ miniature bats. Signatures of Godfrey Evans, Carl Hooper and Phil DeFreitas each mounted with a photograph of the player. A large selection of modern Test match View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #32 Phillips auction catalogues 1978 to 1986. Collection of fifteen Phillips auction catalogues, some with results on printed sheets and others with results written to the pages. The collection features September 1978 (Anthony Baer collection), April 1979, September 1979, May 1980, July 1980, September 1980, May 1981, July 1981, September 1981, November 1982, May 1984, November 1984, May 1985, October 1985 and June 1986. Catalogues include the sale of Pelham Warner’s Library in 1980. Minor wear to o View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #33 Melbourne Cricket Club annual reports and newsletters 1966-1990/91. Folder comprising a collection of approx. fifty newsletters and annual reports issued by the Club for the period. Formerly the property of Irving Rosenwater. Newsletters include issue nos. 26, 28-32, 34, 35, 43, 44, 48, 49, 51, 53, 54, 57, 60, 61, 63-65, 67, 69, 71 and 80 for the period 1966-1988. Annual reports cover seasons 1974/75-1976/77, 1982/83-1985/86 and 1990/91. Some duplication of issues. Also includes a typed letter t View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #34 ‘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 #35 South African cricket statistical surveys 1960s/1970s. A collection of eight facsimile copies of handwritten statistical surveys compiled by Denys Heesom covering cricket in South Africa for seasons 1969/70-1975/76 and 1977/78. Also a similar survey, ‘South African First-Class Matches’, dated October 1971. The majority stored in plain buff folders and in original envelopes sent to Irving Rosenwater with correspondence between Heesom and Rosenwater. G View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #36 Cricket ephemera and memorabilia. Good selection of items, including ‘Rhyl cricket bottle, autographs including Graveney, Hadlee, Kenyon, Laker, May, Trueman, Bob Simpson, Larwood, Border etc. books, stamps, autograph sheets (Surrey 1990, New Zealand 1994 etc), scorecards, cigarette cards, brochures, first day covers, signed modern cricket menus, tour brochures, photographs etc. A good selection. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #37 ‘Eleven of England in Australia with Mr. Mallam’ 1861/62. Very rare and early large silk handkerchief commemorating England’s first cricket tour to Australia. The centre printed in sepia with an image of the eleven members of the touring party, all named, standing with the tour manager, Mallam, and title below, all within a wide yellow border. Players are H.H. Stephenson (Captain), Bennett, Iddison, Lawrence, Hearne, Mudie, Sewell, Mortlock, Caffyn, Griffith and E. Stephenson, with Mr. W.B. Mall View details Estimates£800 - £1,200Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #38 ‘To the Admirers of the Noble Game of Cricket‚‘. A large, colourful and striking printed cotton commemorative handkerchief, with the England XI of 1847 after the watercolour by Felix to centre. Wide red border with vignettes of the laws of cricket, a village game and of batsmen illustrating a variety of strokes including Forward, Leg half volley, Home block, The Draw etc. Surmounted by a cricketer riding a flying bat (mammal). Framed and glazed, overall 36”x29”. Various small holes, stitched rep View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #39 Cotton table cloth with over one hundred embroidered signatures of county players including the ‘Champion County 1904’ (Lancashire) with embroidered red rose emblem and title to the top, and a further nine county emblems and colours, the majority probably cap or blazer badges, for twelve counties, M.C.C., members of the 1904 South African touring party etc. ‘Signatures’ include A.C. Maclaren, R. Spooner, A.H. Hornby, J.T. Tyldesley, W. Brearley, A. Kermode (Lancashire), W.G. Grace, Snr. & Jnr., View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #40 Cricket books, scrapbook and scorecard. A mixed bag including ‘Cricket: A Handbook of the Game’, W.G. Grace, A.C. Maclaren, A.E. Trott etc., London 1907. Original limp decorative green cloth covers, with wear. ‘The Book of Cricket. A Gallery of Famous Players’. C.B. Fry. London 1899. Orginal green cloth pictorial boards. Wear to board extremities, breaking to internal hinges. Scrap book consisting of newspaper press cuttings for the period 1945-1948. Official wartime scoresheet for England v Aus View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #41 Cuttings, photograph, scorebook etc. 1910s-1980s. A mixed selection including a file of press cuttings from Illustrated News, Country Life 1940s/1950s covering The Ashes 1948, tennis, articles on W.G. Grace, George Hirst, Ranjitsinhji etc. Includes a collection of collectors’ cut-outs of ‘Eagle Gallery of Famous Sportsmen’ (Longacre Press) early 1950s, nos. 3, 6-11, 13-15, 17-36, 38-56, 59-62, 65, 66, 68, 72, 77-83, 86-88, and ‘Olympic Hopes’ nos. 1-5. An original and early (1930s?) photograph o View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #42 ‘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£700 - £1,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #43 Douglas Robert Jardine. Surrey & England 1921-1933. Official folding menu for The Sheffield Cricket League Annual Dinner held on the 1st December 1954. Signed by Jardine, a speaker at the Dinner, to front cover in ink. Minor soiling, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #44 ‘Dinner to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Eton v Harrow match of 1900’. Official four page folding menu for the dinner held in London, 13th July 1950, during the match played at Lord’s, 13th & 14th July 1950. The menu with titles to front, copy of the 1900 match scorecard and menu to inner pages. The menu signed in blue ink to inner pages by ten of the players who took part in the 1900 match. The signatures are H.K. Longman, E.W. Mann, D.J. Cassavetti, H.S. Kaye, E.G. Whatley, C.E. Lamber View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #45 England tour to Pakistan 1987. Official British Airways ‘Super Club’ menu for the return flight from Karachi to London via Kuwait. The eight page menu with decorative covers, breakfast and lunch menus printed in English and Urdu. Signed in blue ink to the inside front cover by nineteen members of the England touring party. Signatures are Gatting (Captain), Robinson, Cook, Athey, Fairbrother, Broad, Emburey, Gooch, DeFreitas, Foster, Russell, Dilley, Capel, French, Hemmings, Lush, Stewart (manage View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #46 Surrey C.C.C. 1992. Official folding menu for the ‘Ian Greig Benefit 1992 Celebrity Dinner’ held in London, 23rd March 1992. Signed to the inside by eleven attendees including Greig. Sold with a selection of thirty official colour photographs of the 1992 Surrey team and portrait images of the playing staff, including one signed by Grahame Clinton. All 6”x4”. VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #47 Australian tour to England 1953 ‘Coronation Tour’. Official menu for a function given by The Haymarket Development Corporation at Haymarket House, London, 2nd June 1953, the day of the Queen’s coronation. The folding menu fully signed in ink to the back page by all nineteen members of the Australian touring party. Signature are Hassett (Captain), Morris, Lindwall, Ring, Langley, Harvey, Craig, Benaud, Miller, Johnston, Hill, Tallon, McDonald, de Courcy, Hole, Davidson, Archer, Davies (manager) a View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #48 William Gilbert Grace. Handwritten one page letter in black ink to Donald John Knight (Surrey & England 1911-1937) ‘My Dear Knight, I shall be pleased to see Weigall [G.J.V. Weigall. Kent & Europeans 1891-1920] down to practice anytime he can come. We practice Tuesday and Fridays in the morning and Wednesdays and Saturdays in the afternoon. We shall begin regular practice in April. I am yours truly’. Nicely signed by Grace. The letter written on ‘London County Cricket Club, Crystal Palace’ lette View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #49 William Walter Keeton. Nottinghamshire & England 1926-1952. Original typewritten letter of selection from P.F. Warner, Chairman of the Selection Committee, to Keeton advising him of his selection to play for the North v South at Old Trafford on the 18th-21st June 1932. Details include remuneration for the match ( £15 plus 3rd class return railway fare), details of the match, press relations etc. The letter, on Lord’s Cricket Ground headed paper, dated 12th June 1932 and nicely signed in ink by W View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #50 Pelham Francis Warner. Middlesex & England 1894-1920. Two page handwritten letter with ‘The Cricketer’ magazine letterhead details crossed out and Warner’s personal address in Chelsea handwritten. Dated 15th May 1931, Warner is writing to R.C.N. ‘Dick’ Palairet regarding his resignation from the position of Secretary of Surrey C.C.C. ‘to say how very sorry I am to hear that you are leaving the Oval which will not seem the same place to me after you have gone’. Warner expresses his gratitude for View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #51 Don Bradman. Original one page handwritten letter from Bradman to Mr Caple (cricket writer). Bradman thanks Caple for his offer to send him his next publication. ‘I am enclosing a sheets of the teams autographs, as requested, for your son. Glad you are enjoying our cricket’. Nicely signed in ink by Bradman and dated 1938. The letter laid down to large album page with additional letter laid down to verso from R.W.V. Robins of Middlesex who talks about the possibility of winning the County Champio View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #52 Dr Edward Mills Grace, Gloucestershire and England 1870-1895. Single page handwritten letter on Park House, Thornbury headed paper, dated 20th October 1907. Writing to a ‘Mr Brooking, Grace enquires, ‘Is the enclosed quite correct. Kindly let me know.’ The letter nicely signed in ink ‘Edward Mills Grace’. Light horizontal fold otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #53 Lord Harris, Kent and England 1870-1911. Short typewritten letter stating ‘I was not at Agra in 1891, but am very glad to oblige you with my autograph’. Dated 18th July 1929. Nicely signed ‘Harris’. Light folds, otherwise in good/ very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #54 Edward George ‘Teddy’ Wynyard. Hampshire & England, 1878-1908. Three page handwritten letter in ink on M.C.C. headed notepaper from Wynyard to ‘Dear Bill, dated ‘26 IV [c.1907]’. Wynyard is enclosing ‘Three valuable autograph letters for you’ of Lord Alverstone, Alfred Lyttleton, and Lord Methuen ‘of S African fame’. He closes by stating, ‘My leg is so much better I mean to have a practice today’. Nicely signed ‘E.G. Wynyard’. VG View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #55 Charles Aubrey Smith. Cambridge University, Sussex & England, 1882-1896. Handwritten single page letter to Arthur Langford of The Cricketer, acknowledging receipt of two copies of the magazine. He also refers to a letter he had received the previous day ‘from ‘Plum’ (Warner), which was most interesting & will require a clear hour to answer’. Nicely signed ‘C. Aubrey Smith’. Dated 30th October 1934. G/VG View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #56 Levi George Wright. Derbyshire 1883-1909. Four page handwritten letter, dated 29th November 1898 to C.P. Green, collector providing information on the source of silk scorecards at Derby. He suggest A.J. Gaston as the best source of Wisdens. ‘I must assure you that it is no trouble to me to help you in any way in collecting your curiosities’. He is also pleased to have been able to supply Green with a bat to add to the collection, pleased to hear of the increase in the number of your cripples (o View details Estimates£120 - £160StatusUnsold Lot #57 Earl Bessborough [Frederick Ponsonby] in Ireland. Three page handwritten letter from Ponsonby, with addressed envelope (adhesive marks to verso) to the well known collector, Thomas Padwick, dated October 31st 1891. Very interesting comments to Padwick on Arthur Haygarth and his problems. Bessborough gave up answering the deluge of letters and queries sent by Haygarth, and Bessborough no longer hears from him. Remunerative offers have been made to him but Haygarth refuses to allow publication of View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #58 Henry Dudley Gresham ‘Shrimp’ Leveson-Gower. Oxford University, Surrey & England, 1893-1931. Two page hand written letter dated 18th September 1910. The letter to ‘My dear [William John] Abel’ congratulating Abel on ‘your having obtained - and deservedly so - your Surrey Cap. Apart from the great pleasure it gave me to give it to you, the pleasure was greatly increased by the fact that I knew how pleased your father would be and for him - to whom all supporters of Surrey Cricket must be for ever View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #59 County autographs 1947-1949. A selection of handwritten letters from a collector in Bristol asking for autographs. Each letter has been returned with signatures to the verso, the majority signed in ink. Counties are Glamorgan (13 signatures), Kent (13), Lancashire (9), Middlesex (5), Northamptonshire (11), Surrey (9), Sussex (9), Warwickshire (13), and Yorkshire (1). Sold with a further selection of signatures of the period on pieces, small pages etc, and four autograph sheets of printed signatu View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #60 W.G. Grace. Four page letter handwritten in ink from Grace on London County C.C. letterhead and dated 18th November 1900. Writing to ‘My dear Herbert’, Grace describes in some detail the success or otherwise of recent hunts referring to the Stanton Drew Harriers, Clifton Beagles, ‘Harris’ Hare Drive’, with comments on recent ‘poor scent’ due to the weather. Nicely signed ‘W.G. Grace’. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #61 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Single page letter handwritten in ink by Hobbs on his business letterhead in Fleet Street. Dated 28th September 1925, Hobbs is enclosing a photo card ‘for which you owe Jack Hobbs Ltd fourpence (4d)’. Nicely signed ‘J.B. Hobbs’. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #62 Irving Rosenwater. Cricket writer and collector. Single page typed letter from Rosenwater dated 17th April 1984. Writing from Sydney to a correspondent in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, Rosenwater apologises for ‘this terrible delay’ having received the original request for his autograph some two years after it being originally sent. Nicely signed in black ink by Rosenwater. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #63 Cricket correspondence 1980s-2010s. Four letters/ notes, each signed by the correspondent. A two page handwritten letter from Derek Pringle, dated 30th June 2012, to ‘Dear John’, in which he described Test cricket as ‘the Rolls Royce format of the game but I don’t share your enthusiasm for T20’, a typed letter from Ali Bacher to Jack Sokell, Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, dated 17th July 1991, replying to congratulations on South Africa being readmitted to the International Cricket Council, a View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #64 Cricketers’ correspondence 1990s. A selection of four signed letters of which two are handwritten, one from John Dewes (Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1948-1956), a two page handwritten undated letter recollecting memories of C.T. Studd, the other from Roly Jenkins (Worcestershire & England 1938-1958), two page handwritten letter dated 3rd March 1995 discussing the current state of cricket including covered pitches, the laws relating to bouncers, sledging etc. Also two single page typ View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #65 Kent C.C.C. correspondence 1973-1992. Six original handwritten and/or typed letters from Kent players, each signed by the player. Letters are Mike Denness to ‘Derek’ on his appointment as Captain of M.C.C. 1973, Brian Luckhurst regarding a book signing 1985, Chris Tavare replying to a request for a signed photograph 1988, two letters to Jack Sokell, Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, one from Derek Underwood 1987, the other from Colin Cowdrey 1992, and an undated letter from Alan Knott to ‘Una’ r View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #66 Yorkshire C.C.C. correspondence 1960-1984. Four original handwritten letters from Yorkshire players, each signed by the player. Includes three letters to Jack Sokell regarding invitations to attend Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society events, Ray Illingworth in 1960 stating ‘we are not allowed to speak on the tour for two years after our return’, Philip Sharpe in 1962, and Brian Close for the judging at a dance, undated. Also Geoff Boycott expressing thanks to a ‘Mr Dowling’ for a donation to his Te View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #67 Australia Test players’ correspondence 1974-2010. Five original handwritten and typed letters from Australian Test players, each signed by the player. Four relate to requests for autographs, from Peter Burge, undated, Bill Lawry 1974, Peter Burge 1990, and Richie Benaud returning a handkerchief signed by the ‘1998 BBC Commentary Team’ 2000. Also a letter from Neil Harvey c.2010 in which he refers to Sam Loxton, who ‘cannot be contacted as he is in a home- he is almost 91’. G/VG View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #68 England Test Captains correspondence 1970s-1990s. Eight original handwritten letters from England Test captains, each signed by the player, the majority undated. Two are from Ted Dexter (one to Jack Sokell, Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society) regarding attending events. Two others to Jack Sokell include one from Ray Illingworth who is unable to attend an event due to a golf engagement, and Mike Gatting in 1991 regarding an award. Others include Colin Cowdrey regarding signings, Graham Gooch in 199 View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #69 England Test players correspondence 1968-1990s. Fourteen original handwritten and typed letters from England Test players, each signed by the player, replying to requests for autographs, invitations to attend events, benefits and testimonials etc. Signatures are Jim Parks 1968, Colin Cowdrey 1970, Alan Knott 1976, Denis Amiss 1976, Bob Taylor 1981, David Steele 1982, Derek Randall 1983, John Jameson 1991, Mike Brearley 1995, also Tom Graveney, M.J.K. Smith, John Murray, David Gower and David Llo View details Estimates£60 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #70 Cricket letters. Selection of six letters/notes each from a cricketer replying to an autograph request in the 1980/90’s. The signatures on the letters are from F.L. Townsend, Joe Hardstaff, Hopper Levett, George Pope (2) and T.B. Mitchell (2). G View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #71 Middlesex. Bill Edrich and Denis Compton. Two letters relating to invitations to attend events. One is a single page handwritten letter dated 4th February 1957 from Bill Edrich to ‘Mr. Gutteridge’ replying to an invitation to attend a meeting of the Oxfordshire Association of Cricket Umpires. The other, a single page typed letter dated 6th March 1959 to Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society from Compton. Both letters signed in ink. G/VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #72 James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, President of M.C.C. 1923. A collection of nine handwritten notes and a letter from Ullswater to the M.C.C. secretary, Francis Lacey, and his assistant, William Findlay, all written in 1923 from 19th July to 27th November, on headed notepaper for Ullswater’s residences in Great Cumberland Place and Campsea Ashe in Suffolk. Subjects covered include the availability of the President’s motor car and parking arrangements, the provision of official stationery, gi View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #73 Frederick Ponsonby, 12th Earl of Bessborough. Single page typed letter on Stansted Park, Hampshire, letterhead, dated 3rd May 1975. Bessborough is replying an enquiry from the cricket writer and historian, Irving Rosenwater, about members of the Ponsonby family. ‘The Ponsonby to whom you refer was Sir Frederick Ponsonby (commonly known as ‘Fritz’), who wrote ‘very frank and outspoken memoirs’ published in 1951, and his daughter, Loelia, whose memoirs were published in 1962. Nicely signed in ink View details Estimates£15 - £25Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #74 David Charles Humphrey Townsend. Oxford University & England 1933-1948. Single page typed letter on Archer, Parkin & Townsend Solicitors letterhead dated 7th January 1976. Townsend is replying to a request from D.G. Crampton for his autograph. Nicely signed ‘David Townsend’. VG View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #75 Evelyn Rockley Wilson. Cambridge University, Yorkshire & England 1899-1923. Two page handwritten letter to George Hirst, Yorkshire & England 1891-1929. The letter dated 25th February 1945 and sent from Winchester. ‘My Dear George, Just a line to hope you are well. It is sad to think you are no longer on the Active List, but no man has served a county so long! As an old friend of our family I thought you might like to have this memoir of Clem. We think it is well and simply done. D.H.C. (D.H. Cri View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #76 Maurice Joseph Lawson Turnbull. Glamorgan, Cambridge University & England 1924-1939. Single page typed letter on Glamorgan C.C.C. letterhead, dated 13th April 1938. Writing in his capacity as Secretary, Turnbull is replying to an enquiry of which ‘we have no record here of an appearance by Mr. L. Smith of Neath for Glamorgan, but if this gentleman is of ripe old age he may have played for the County prior to 1921 when we joined the First Class ranks’. Nicely signed in black ink, ‘M.J. Turnbull’. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #77 Australia 1948. Official ‘P&O R.M.S. Strathaird’ souvenir brochure for the Australian tour of England 1948. Printed in Sydney. Pictorial wrappers. Brochure contains a list of tour fixtures and players profiles, with pen picture, of the touring party. Fully signed in ink to pen pictures by all eighteen members of the Australian touring team including the Manager, Johnson. Signatures include Bradman (Captain), Hassett, Miller, Harvey, Johnson, Lindwall, Barnes, Loxton, Morris, Ring, Toshack, Tallo View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #78 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1946/47. Original Dinner menu from the Union-Castle Line ‘M.V. Stirling Castle’ ship that took the M.C.C. team to Australia. The double sided menu dated Saturday, 31st August 1946, the day it sailed from Southampton, and features to front the ‘Union-Castle Line coloured flag with printed title and Dinner menu. To verso are the signatures of all eighteen members of the touring party, including the Manager Howard, in ink. Signatures include Hammond (Captain), Compton, Yard View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #79 ‘Hedley Verity 18th May 1905- 31st July 1943. The Story of a Gallant Cricketer’. All proceeds in aid of the Hedley Verity Memorial Fund’. Booklet published by the Yorkshire Observer 1945. Unusually, very nicely signed to the inside front wrapper in ink by the twenty five Yorkshire and Lancashire players who took part in the Hedley Verity Memorial match played on the 13th-15th August 1945 at the Park Avenue Cricket Ground, Bradford. Signatures include Sellers (Captain), Bowes, E.P. Robinson, Barb View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #80 Thomas Henry Clark’s Benefit Year 1961. ‘Autographs of Test Teams and County Cricketers’. Hardback album produced for his Benefit Year, with gold lettering and decoration to front board, biography and mono photograph of Clark to introduction, Foreword by Peter May. These Benefit books were originally signed by the teams to the inside pages, each with decorative borders and page to a team, from the year of the Benefit. The signatures consist of the Surrey team (14 signatures), Yorkshire (14), Mid View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #81 Surrey 1970s-1990s. A brown album comprising a good selection of signed Surrey related ephemera. Contents include ten signed original mono press photographs of Surrey players including Pat Pocock, Jack Richards, Grahame Clinton (3 different), Martin Bicknell (4), Ian Greig and David Ward. Also a colour print of Jack Hobbs signed by the artist Bob Bond, 2004, two official menus for the Championship Dinner, Hilton Hotel, 13th April 1972, one with ten, the other seven signatures including Geoff Arn View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #82 ‘Caricatures of the Australian XI. English Tour 1953’. Arthur Mailey. Sydney 1953. Original decorative wrappers. Twelve page tour souvenir with eleven pages of caricatures of all eighteen members of the Australian touring party to England 1953. This copy has been signed in ink to the front cover by Arthur Mailey and Bill O’Reilly, and further signed to the caricatures by thirteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Hassett, Miller, Morris, Tallon, Lindwall, Harvey, Ring, Hole, Craig, La View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #83 County and tour autographs 1965-1969. Autograph album comprising over ninety signatures in ink of Sussex players, touring teams and other counties, the majority of pages multi-signed and back-to-back. The signatures appear to have been collected at Sussex grounds including Hove, Eastbourne, Arundel etc. Players’ names annotated to the majority. Sussex signatures include A.E.R. Gilligan, J.H. Parks, Graves, Suttle, Lenham, Snow, Bates, Buss, Cooper, Greig etc. Others include Bacher, McKinnon, Bac View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #84 India, West Indies and County signatures 1930s. Two autograph albums, one in red boards, the other smaller leatherbound, comprising a total of over fifty signatures in pencil, the majority signed one to a page, some with accompanying cigarette card or cutting laid down or slipped in. The odd page multi-signed and signed back-to-back. Signatures include C.A. Roach (West Indies), S.R. Godambe, L. Singh, P.E. Palia, G. Mohamed, C.K. Nayudu, Naoomal Jaoomal (India), W.H. Livesey (Hampshire), A.E. Di View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #85 County, Australia & Pakistan autographs 1953 & 1954. Autograph album signed by counties and Test players of the period. Counties include Worcestershire 1953 (12 signatures), Kent (11), Essex (11 and 9), Northamptonshire (11), Derbyshire (9 and 11), Somerset (12), Yorkshire (9), Nottinghamshire (12), Gloucestershire (11), Warwickshire (12 and 10), Middlesex (9 and 12), Sussex (10), and Lancashire (12). Also the Australian touring party 1953, ten signatures including Morris, Davidson, Tallon, Lang View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #86 Thomas Walter Hayward. Surrey & England 1893-1914. Signature of Hayward nicely signed in ink to piece, laid down to card. Some age toning, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #87 Archibald Campbell MacLaren. Lancashire & England 1890-1914. Signature of MacLaren nicely signed in ink to piece, laid down to card. Some age toning and foxing, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #88 Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet. Somerset & England 1891-1909. Signature of Palairet nicely signed in ink to piece, laid down to card. Some foxing, good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #89 England Test cricketers autographs 1920s. Seven signatures in ink on pieces laid down to large album pages. Signatures are Maurice Tate, Patsy Hendren, Harold Larwood, Wilfred Rhodes, Herbert Sutcliffe, Arthur Carr and Fred Root. G View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #90 Lancashire 1924. Album page signed in pencil by twelve members of the Lancashire team including Sharp (Captain), Makepeace, Iddon, Parkin, Hopwood, McDonald, Duckworth, Hallows etc. The page laid down to a large image comprising a series of pencil drawings in cameo of Lancashire players of the 1924 season with names neatly written beneath. Mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 16”x18.5”. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #91 South Africa tour to England 1947. A postcard issued by J. Salmon of Sevenoaks signed in ink to the verso by all seventeen playing members of the South African touring party. Signatures are Melville (Captain), Nourse, Lindsay, Payn, Fullerton, Dyer, Smith, Tuckett, Plimsoll, Rowan, Mitchell, Mann, Viljoen, Ovenstone, Dawson, Harris and Begbie. The postcard is laid down to an album page with a printed photograph of the team laid down below. Some soiling to the postcard, otherwise in good conditio View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #92 South Africans c. 1949/50. Sixteen signatures in pencil of South African Test cricketers, each signed to piece laid down to a page with the players’ names annotated in pencil below each signature. Signatures are van der Bijl, A. Rowan, Wade, Dalton, Mann, Mitchell, E. Rowan, Nourse, Begbie, Wynne, Dawson, Tuckett, King, McCarthy, Smith and Hanley. The page measures 5.75”x5”. G View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #93 England and South Africa Test player autographs 1930s-1970s. Twenty three individual signatures, the majority on pieces, small cards etc. England signatures are Evans, Ames, Murray, Levett, Brennan, Duckworth, McIntyre, Underwood, Trueman, Hendren, D. Compton (on label), Edrich, Strudwick, Sandham, Sutcliffe, Hardstaff, Tyldesley and Paynter. Also Rowan, Waite, McLean, A.D. Nourse and Cameron of South Africa. The majority signed in ink with the odd signature in pencil. G View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #94 Test and County signatures 1930s-1980s. Thirty nine signatures on press pieces/ scraps, some laid down to card. Earlier signatures include L. Hutton, Yardley, Larwood, Washbrook, Tattersall, Pocock, Gladwin, Hollies, Geary, Bailey, Bowes, A. Bedser, Brown, Allen, Andrew, Denness, Jameson, P. Lever etc. Also Australians Bradman, Marsh, Dodemaide, Lillee etc. G View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #95 Test and County signatures 1930s-1980s. Forty seven signatures on press pieces/ scraps, cards etc. Earlier signatures include Larwood, Washbrook, Tyson, Graveney, Fender, L. Hutton, Fishlock, W. Edrich, Ames, Bowes, A. Bedser, Cowdrey, D’Oliveria, Underwood, Fletcher, Mortimore, Larter, Knott, Leadbeater, Hampshire, Arnold etc. Also Gerry Gomez, Clyde Walcott, Malcolm Marshall, Gus Logie, Joel Garner (West Indies), Ron Gaunt (Australia), Richard Hadlee, Martin Crowe (New Zealand), Denis Begbie ( View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #96 Overseas Test player signatures 1960s onwards. A collection of fifty one uniformly sized white cards, individually signed by international Test cricketers. The majority of cards with printed title and country emblem. Countries are Australia (9 signatures), New Zealand (7), India (5), Pakistan (8), West Indies (11), and South Africa (12). Signatures include Neil Harvey, Tom Veivers, Aaron Finch, Peter Siddle (Australia), Trent Boult, Jeetan Patel, Bill Playle, Barry Hadlee (New Zealand), Rahul Dr View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #97 England Test and County signatures 1950s onwards. Black file comprising over one hundred and sixty individually signed cards. Over one hundred have printed title ‘England Test Player’, the majority of the remainder with County title and emblem. Signatures of earlier Test players include Milton, Graveney, Mortimore, Berry, Oakman, Appleyard, M.J.K. Smith, Subba Row, Palmer, Swetman, Padgett, Gifford, Bolus, Richardson, Hampshire, Dexter, Arnold etc. Some duplication of signatures. VG View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #98 Lancashire. Ink signatures of Washbrook, Lister, R.H. Spooner, Green, and Paynter nicely signed in ink on uniform cream cards. Sold with a pencil signature of E. Tyldesley on similar card. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #99 Test players signatures. Ink signatures of Herbert Wade (South Africa), Bert Oldfield (Australia), J.W. Hearne, A.P.F. Chapman (England, both on paper pieces) and three members of the West Indies 1933 touring party, Christiani, Merry and Griffith nicely signed in ink on uniform cream cards. Minor soiling to odd card otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #100 Australian tour of England 1921. Mono postcard of the ‘Grand Arch, Jenolan Caves, N.S.W. Australia signed in ink to the reverse by fifteen players surrounding a pencil sketch, assumed to be by Arthur Mailey. Signatures are Armstrong (captain), Carter, Collins, Oldfield, Macartney, McDonald, Ryder, Hendry, Mayne, Mailey, Bardesley, Andrews, Gregory, Kelleway and Taylor. Good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...16|Next12345678910111213141516 Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next
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