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) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 151-160 of 1571. Previous|1...141516171819...158|Next Lot #151 J.W. Goldman, cricket author and collector. Single page handwritten letter written to George Neville Weston dated 29th June 1938 on Isadore Goldman & Son, Solicitors, headed paper. Goldman thanks Weston for his recent letter and is ‘Glad you liked the Illinois Brochure’. He continues, ‘I have collected a good many cricket items but mostly old plays 1750-1800 dealing with cricket’ and refers to boxiana, ‘I have obtained a rare Boxing Poem call the “Gymnasiad” by Paul Whitehead 1744 dedicated to B View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #152 Charles Pratt Green. Cricket collector and wine merchant. Two two-page handwritten wartime letters with very good cricket content from Pratt Green to George Neville Weston. In the first, dated 18th December 1941, he thanks Weston for ‘the Cardus book’ describing it ‘as the most fascinating I have read for years’, admiring his ‘choice of language’. He thanks Weston for the offer of ‘the loan of “Famous Victorians”’ and refers to A.G. Gardiner’s essay on W.G. Grace in ‘Pebbles on the Shore’ of whi View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #153 C. Stamper. Member of the Cricketana Society. Two two-page handwritten letters from Stamper to George Neville Weston. The first, dated 3rd July 1930, relates to his secretarial work for the Society during C.J. Britton’s ill health, and his own enjoyment of the first Test, being ‘four days of delight’. The second letter of 14th May 1931, comprises Stamper’s explanation for his ‘arrears of work’ due to an illness earlier in the year, and then damaging his arm ‘so that until this week I could use n View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #154 Cricketana Society correspondence 1929 & 1930. Two letters to George Neville Weston. One, a handwritten two page letter from R.J. Parker dated 17th October 1929, relates to his attempts to find hotel accommodation in London for C.J. Britton, and looks forward to meeting Britton the following week. The other single page handwritten letter is from a George Newey, dated 10th March 1930, who is pleased to become a member of the Cricketana Society and encloses his subscription of 5/- with a typed lis View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #155 Charles Pratt Green, cricket collector and wine merchant. Two two page handwritten letters from Pratt Green to George Neville Weston, the first dated 27th October 1941. Writing from his Malvern home, Pratt Green makes reference to an accompanying letter (not included) from E.H.D. Sewell (London County & Essex 1902-1904) who ‘played a lot of good cricket in his day and that Sewell’s autograph would be a good addition to Weston’s collection of autographs. Pratt Green has passed on Sewell’s enquiry View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #156 George Neville Weston, cricket collector. A selection of three letters, written in 1938, from Weston’s own archive comprising correspondence with The Worthington & Co. Brewery in Burton-on Trent. The first, dated 18th February 1938, is Weston’s original copy of a typed letter to the brewery enquiring about acquiring a ‘china ash-tray with a pictured design of Mr. Dumkins of Muggleston C.C. (Pickwick Papers) issued by you’. The reply from the brewery dated 21st February states that by sending Wes View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #157 Dennis Lillee on Zaheer Abbas 1986. Single page typed letter dated 5th August 1986 to Lillee from Pakistan cricket journalist and writer, Qamar Ahmed, requesting a ‘little piece on Zaheer Abbas’ for a booklet he is preparing for a function to mark Zaheer’s retirement from Test cricket. Accompanying the letter is a single page handwritten draft by Lillee and a two page article typewritten by Irving Rosenwater (with handwritten note by Rosenwater) in which Lillee describes Zaheer as ‘a great batsm View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #158 Graham Yallop and John Maguire. Australia. Two official two page contracts issued by Austin Robertson & Associates of Sydney as confirmation of the appointment of Austin Robertson as the cricketers’ agent/ manager in Australia for public appearances, advertising, marketing, interviews etc. The Yallop contract dated 4th July 1984, the Maguire contract undated but appears to be the same period. Both contracts signed by the respective player with the Maguire contract additionally signed by Carl Rac View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #159 Richard Parr Daft (Nottinghamshire, 1 match 1886) to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Two handwritten letters, originally from Gaston’s personal collection, written by Daft, son of Richard Daft (Nottinghamshire 1858-1891). In one, a three page letter dated 31st May 1900[?], Parr offers some letters ‘to fill your album. As my father has never gone in for collecting he thinks they will be better in your hands’. Slipped in is a fragment of an advertisement for ‘A Grand Matc View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #160 George Oswald Browning ‘Gubby’ Allen. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1922-1950. Three page typed letter, with good cricket content, on airmail paper dated 3rd February 1964, from Allen to Jim Swanton. At the time Allen was President of the M.C.C. and reports on a comfortable flight out to Bombay and how he ‘tried to settle some of our cricket problems on a very poor telephone line with the Secretary of the Pakistan Board of Control in Karachi’, resulting in him flying out to Karachi a View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...141516171819...158|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Next
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