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 PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 121-130 of 1571. Previous|1...111213141516...158|Next Lot #121 England cricket Christmas cards. Two official cards sent on England tours, both with a colour photograph of the England touring parties to inside. Cards are ‘England Tour of India and Australia 1984/85’, signed ‘Bernie [Thomas, physio]’, and ‘England Tour to Australia 1986/87’ signed ‘Peter [Lush, tour manager] and all the lads’. G/VG View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #122 Eric Alfred Meads. Nottinghamshire 1939-1953. Original folding ‘Autographs and Photograph’ card produced by Nottinghamshire C.C.C. for Meads’ Benefit Fund 1953. The inside autograph page signed by eleven members of the Nottinghamshire team, opposite an official mono photograph of the team. Signatures are Meads, Simpson, Jepson, Dooland, Butler, Clay, Poole, Stocks, Giles, Goonesena and Harvey. Very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #123 Leonard ‘Len’ Hutton. Yorkshire & England 1934-1955. ‘Early Days’. Very interesting nine page manuscript handwritten by Hutton and entitled ‘Early Days’, and a similarly titled single page typescript, originally from Hutton’s personal collection. The manuscript written on lined paper and describing Hutton’s early life in Pudsey. He mentions his Father, a builder, recently called to be a munitions worker due to his medical category, his grand father a builder too. ‘Cricket also was in the blood, View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsold Lot #124 Keith Stackpole. World Championship of Cricket 1985. Three page handwritten manuscript for an article by Stackpole with accompanying handwritten note by Irving Rosenwater. Stackpole anticipates the Championship as the ‘biggest cricket extravaganza ever staged’, notes that the Australian players had undertaken a ‘rigorous training programme... to help us match and hopefully overcome the mighty West Indies’. He describes the group structure of the tournament and believes ‘it seems obvious that the View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #125 Allan Border. ‘Pakistan 1980-1982’. A fifteen page handwritten manuscript and a further three pages of typescript by Border for a chapter for a book, possibly his autobiography. In a single page accompanying handwritten letter to ‘Dear Ock’, dated 28th May 1986, Border states he was happy with the original ‘so have tried to write another’. Regarding his current form he states ‘I’m still batting like a busted arse’. The chapter opens with Border’s ‘mixed feelings about touring and playing cricket View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #126 Test Match Special. A single page typed letter on B.B.C. letterhead from Brian Johnston to a sixteen year old Christopher Martin-Jenkins (CMJ), dated 20th November 1961. Johnston is replying to a request from Martin-Jenkins at Marlborough College for advice on getting in to the B.B.C. to become a commentator to which Johnston states, ‘Most commentators today have either been experts at the game they describe or have had a lot of ground-work in radio and television technique before they become co View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #127 Christopher Martin-Jenkins 1971-2002. A selection of eight letters and notes written to Martin-Jenkins. Correspondents and subjects include Robert Hudson, B.B.C. Head of Outside Broadcasts, regarding a successful commentary audition 1971. Arthur McIntyre inviting CMJ to play for Surrey 2nd XI 1971[?]. Peter May offering to umpire in a match 1981. Max Hasting’s pleasure with CMJ’s cricket coverage for The Daily Telegraph 1991. Colin Cowdrey on CMJ becoming chairman on ‘The Johnners Appeal’ 1994[? View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #128 Keith Ross Miller. Victoria, New South Wales, Nottinghamshire & Australia 1937-1959. Single page aerogram letter from Miller in Australia to Christopher Martin-Jenkins, dated 27th July 1992. Miller thanks CMJ for the ‘wonderful surprise’ to receive a letter, ‘better than a doctor’s pill’, as he has been unwell following a stroke and a hip replacement ‘that went wrong’, which led to him missing the Ashes series in England and being at home in winter for the first time in ‘about 40 years!!’. Signe View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #129 Christopher Martin-Jenkins. ‘Sportsnight: England Cricket Tour’. Original three page typescript for a ‘CMJ Piece to Camera from Nets at Lords’, dated 14th January 1981, on cricket in the Caribbean and England’s impending tour of the West Indies. The script, with annotations in Martin-Jenkins’ own hand, describes previous tours with references to teams led by Len Hutton, Peter May, Colin Cowdrey and Tony Greig, and to West Indies greats including Frank Worrell, Rohan Kanhai, Sonny Ramadhin, Garry View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #130 E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. ‘Editorial. India and Pakistan’. Three page handwritten editorial by Swanton for ‘The Cricketer’, undated but written for the January 1971 issue. Swanton opens with an introduction stating this issue is to be the first of three devoted ‘in part to different cricket- playing countries of the Commonwealth’. He reports that preparations for this issue, focussing on India and Pakistan, were well underway before war broke out between the two nations and prays for a speedy end to h View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...111213141516...158|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Next
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