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 51-60 of 1571. Previous|1...456789...158|Next 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...456789...158|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158 Next
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