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 401-500 of 1571. Previous|12345678...16|Next Lot #400 The Ashes. Geoff Lawson. Australia. Two individual cricket boots match worn by Lawson in the Ashes series of 1985 and 1989, both signed and presented to David Frith by Lawson. Puma ‘Ace’, signed ‘Geoff Lawson. The Ashes 1985’, the other by Reebok signed by Lawson with inscription ‘The Ashes 1989- what a win!!’. The 1985 boot with heavy glue repairs to the toe, the 1989 boot with large hole worn through at the big toe. Otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #401 Rodney Hogg. Australia. A pair of ‘Puma 100’ cricket boots match worn by Hogg, both signed and presented to David Frith by Hogg, date unknown. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #402 Max Walker. Australia. A pair of Puma cricket boots with leather uppers and soles, match worn by Walker. Both boots signed and presented to David Frith by Walker, one appears to be dated ‘75’. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #403 The Ashes. Terry Alderman. Australia. A pair of Puma ‘Lillee’ cricket boots with leather uppers and soles, match worn by Alderman. The boots unsigned, with handwritten note, ‘Terry Alderman’s end of 1981 tour’. Presented to David Frith by Alderman. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #404 John Edrich. Surrey & England. A pair of cricket boots with leather uppers and soles, match worn by Edrich. Maker unknown. Both boots signed, ‘Best wishes, John Edrich’. Presented to David Frith by Edrich. Some cracking and wear, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #405 Evelyn Maitland ‘Lyn’ Wellings. Oxford University & Surrey 1928-1931. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1958/59. Original holdall issued to Wellings. The black zip-up holdall with M.C.C. colours, ‘E.M. Wellings’ and ‘M.C.C. Australian Tour 1958-59’ to one side, and ‘Ansett-Ana Australia’s Major Airline M.C.C. Australian Tour 1958-59’ to the other. Maker’s name, ‘James Watt, Melbourne’ to inside. Presented to David Frith by Wellings. Some splitting, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #406 Cricket ties. A good selection of thirty ties including Cornhill Insurance Test match ties for 1980, 1980 (Centenary Test Tie), 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 (2), 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 etc, Texaco Trophy ties for the 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 etc.Some earlier Cornhill ties VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #407 Clarence Victor ‘Clarrie’ Grimmett. Wellington, Victoria, South Australia & Australia 1911-1941. Australian green wool Test cap with Australian emblem to front with kangaroo and emu embroidered in metal thread and coloured thread with the legend ‘Advance Australia’ in scroll worn by Grimmett in the 1924/25 Test series played in Australia. The cap, by Harding’s Mercury, Hunter Street, Sydney, with label inside with name handwritten ‘C.V. Grimmett’ in black ink. Some slight wear to brim and slight View details Estimates£12,000 - £15,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #408 Gilbert Roache Andrews Langley. South Australia & Australia 1945-1957. Australian green wool Test cap worn by Gil Langley during the Australian Test tour of England in 1953. The cap, by Farmers of Sydney, embroidered with the Australia emblem and below ‘1953’ in gold thread. His name ‘G. Langley’ handwritten in ink to the inside of the cap on the ‘Farmers, Sydney’ label. The cap has slight colour discolouration to the peak and back of the cap (probably due to sweat) otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£4,000 - £6,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #409 Jeffrey Robert Thomson. New South Wales, Queensland, Middlesex & Australia. 1972-1986. Australian green cloth Test cap, worn by Thomson during his Test career, with embroidered Australian emblem to front. The cap with ‘Australian Manufacture’ stamp to inside and handwritten presentation inscription ‘To David, love, Jeff Thomson, 1977’. David Frith wrote and published his biography ‘Thommo, The World’s Fastest Bowler’ in 1980. Very good condition View details Estimates£2,500 - £3,500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #410 William Albert Stanley Oldfield, New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. New South Wales blue wool state cricket cap with embroidered N.S.W. shield emblem to front of cap. Name handwritten to label ‘W.A. Oldfield’. Some wear to cap and wear and some loss of detail to the emblem, lacking the button to the crown of the cap, heavy wear to the cap lining with some tears otherwise in good condition. The cap was given to Frith by Oldfield many years ago when Frith lived in Australia, along with his 193 View details Estimates£700 - £1,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #411 Thomas Richardson. Surrey, London County, Somerset & England 1892-1904. Original England cloth Test cap presented to Richardson for his Test match appearances playing for England in between 1893 and 1898. The dark blue cap, with much smaller peak than later caps, with raised wired emblem of the three lions and crown of England to front, made by H. Ludlam & Co of Albemarle Street, London. Some minor wear to inside lining, odd tiny moth hole otherwise in good/very good condition. David Frith obtai View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #412 Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji. Sussex & England 1924-1932. M.C.C./England navy blue cloth Test touring cap, by E.C. Devereux of Eton, with excellent embroidered touring emblem of St. George & Dragon. His name ‘K.S. Duleepsinhji’ inscribed in black ink to the inner label of the cap. The cap has a broken inner peak but does not detract from the overall look of the cap. Some wear to inside lining, some wear and odd moth hole to cap otherwise in good condition. A rare touring cap from this most graceful o View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #413 Majid Jahangir Khan. Lahore, Punjab, PIA, Glamorgan & Pakistan 1961-1985. Pakistan green wool Test cap worn by Majid Khan on the Pakistan tour of England in 1982. The cap, by Shaheen Cap House of Karachi, with wired silver emblem of Pakistan and ‘1982’ to front of cap. Name ‘Majid Khan’ handwritten to inside of cap. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #414 Bishansingh Giansingh Bedi. Northern Punjab, Delhi, Northamptonshire & India 1961-1981. India black cloth Test cap, by Ad-Art of Bombay, with embroidered and wired emblem of India with wording ‘Indian Cricket Team’ in light blue and gold, ‘England 1979’ in wired thread beneath the front of cap. The cap has the inscription to label ‘For David, with best wishes for your cricketing pursuits’ Signed ‘B. Bedi’. Sold with one of Bedi’s cream coloured patkas often worn by Bedi during matches. The patka View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #415 Edward James Sheffield. Surrey & Kent 1930-1933. Surrey 2nd XI cap worn by Sheffield during his brief first-class cricket career curtailed due to a back injury. The chocolate brown cap, by E.C. Devereux of Eton, with the crown to top but appears to be lacking the shield, which the auctioneer believes was originally beneath it. Some wear and small repairs to the cap otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #416 Michael Andrew Atherton. Lancashire & England 1987-2001. Lancashire light blue Schools Cricket Association cap worn by Atherton during his early days as a cricketer. The cap, with embroidered Lancashire emblem of a rose to front in green, red and yellow and the intials ‘L.S.C.A.’ in red to front. The label signed by Atherton. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #417 William Albert Stanley Oldfield, New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Australian Test blazer worn by Oldfield on the Australian 1930 tour of England. The green blazer, by Harding’s Mercury of Sydney, with gold trimming to blazer edging, pocket and sleeves, embroidered gold and silver wire and coloured thread emblem of Australia to breast pocket with the wording ‘Advance Australia’ and ‘1930’ beneath. Name handwritten to label ‘W.A. Oldfield’. Odd small moth hole to the back of the blazer and s View details Estimates£5,000 - £8,000StatusUnsold Lot #418 Thomas Godfrey Evans. Kent & England 1939-1967. M.C.C. navy blue touring blazer worn by Evans on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1954/55. The blazer, by Simpson, Daks, embroidered with the M.C.C. emblem in white of St George & Dragon of England and below in scroll ‘1954 Australia 1955’ to breast pocket. Trimming to the blazer edges, pockets and sleeves in M.C.C. colours of yellow and red. Name ‘T.G. Evans’ to Simpson label in inner pocket. Some minor moth holes to blazer, minor wear and soiling View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #419 Robert George Dylan Willis. Surrey, Warwickshire & England 1969-1984. Official M.C.C. navy blue touring blazer worn by Willis on the tour of Australia in 1978-1979. The blazer, by Dak, Simpson of Piccadilly, with embroidered M.C.C. emblem in white of St George & Dragon of England and below in scroll ‘1978 Australia 1979’ to breast pocket. Trimming to pockets, sleeves and blazer edging in M.C.C. colours of yellow and red. Handwritten note in pocket reads ‘Bob Willis blazer, given to DF (David Fri View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #420 Sunil Manohar Gavaskar. Bombay, Somerset and & India 1966-1987. Official Indian navy blue touring blazer worn by Gavaskar on the tour of England in 1986. The blazer, by Em Aay of Madras, with beautifully embroidered gold wire and coloured thread Indian emblem and above and below in scroll ‘India. England 1986’ to breast pocket. Name printed to tailor’s label ‘Mr Sunil Gavaskar’. Very good condition View details Estimates£600 - £900Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #421 Donald George Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. A pair of batting gloves presented to David Frith by Don Bradman at the Lord’s Taverners reception and Dinner held at the London Hilton on the 13th May 1974. The white leather gloves, both with brown ‘sausage shaped’ finger and thumb protection are an odd pair of gloves in that the left hand glove has the label of Slazenger ‘Len Hutton‚‘ and the right hand glove has the label of ‘Grasshopper Sports Goods. By Frank Br View details Estimates£15,000 - £25,000StatusUnsold Lot #422 Craig John McDermott. Queensland & Australia 1983/84-1995/96. County full size cricket bat used by McDermott on the Australian tour of England in 1985. The bat has McDermott initials to top of the shoulder of the bat ‘CMcD’ and is inscribed ‘To David [Frith], Best Wishes Craig McDermott 1985 Test Series’ Some wear and repair to the bat’s rubber handle, good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #423 John Hugh Edrich. Surrey & England 1956-1978. County Sports ‘John Edrich’ Autograph cricket bat used by John Edrich whilst playing for England in Tests against both India and Pakistan in 1971. The bat inscribed to the shoulder of the bat by Edrich ‘I used this bat in Test matches against India and Pakistan in 1971, signed John Edrich’, The bat has a further inscription below presenting the bat ‘To Dave, Debbie and the family, good luck and best wishes from Judy and John, Cathryn and Jonathan Edr View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #424 William Arras Johnston, Victoria & Australia 1945-1955. Slazenger Australia ‘Sykes Don Bradman’ Autograph cricket bat used by Johnston on the Australian tour of England in 1953. The bat is inscribed and signed to one side of the bat shoulder by Johnston ‘Bill Johnston 1953’ and to the other in thicker marker pen (in later years) Bill Johnston 1953 (Averege] 102) !!’. The bat has a cloth tape to inside edge of the blade (Johnston being a left hander). Perishing and wear to bat rubber handle View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #425 Archibald Alexander ‘Archie’ Jackson. New South Wales & Australia 1926-1931. Gunn & Moore ‘William Gunn’ Autograph cricket bat used by Archie Jackson during his brief first-class playing career and was used by Jackson in two Test matches in England, three against West Indies and some Shield matches in Australia. The bat is signed by Jackson to the rear shoulder at the ownership position, also signed to back by the Australia and South Africa teams who played in the 4th Test at Adelaide on the 29t View details Estimates£4,000 - £6,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #426 Elias Henry ‘Patsy’ Hendren. Middlesex & England 1907-1937. Australia v England 1928/29. Warsop ‘Extra Special’ cricket bat used by Patsy Hendren in scoring 169 runs in the first Test match of the series played in Brisbane on the 30th November, 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th December 1928. The bat inscribed to the shoulder of the bat by Hendren ‘Used in Test match in Australia 1928-9 by me E. Patsy Hendren, First Test 159 runs’, Hendren has also printed his name to the other shoulder of the bat ‘Pat Hend View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #427 England v Australia 1921. Gunn & Moore ‘William Gunn’ Autograph cricket bat signed in ink to the back of the bat by the England and Australian teams who played in the Test series held in England in 1921. Sixteen signatures of the England players and fourteen signatures of the Australia team. Signatures include Douglas (Cpt), Tennyson, Hobbs, Fry, Woods, Fender, Mead, Woolley, Sandham, Brown, Hallows, Armstrong (Cpt), Gregory, Collins, Mailey, Hendry, Bardsley, Ryder, Taylor, Andrews, Macartney e View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #428 Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex & England 1892-1921. Gunn & Moore ‘William Gunn’ Autograph cricket bat. The bat is initialled with ‘CBF 4’ to the rear shoulder at the ownership position by Fry and to the other shoulder is inscribed ‘R. Kennerley, Rumford from C.B. Fry’. The bat has cloth tape to the blade in four different strips, loss to the bat handle rubber. Whether Fry used this bat in matches in which he played is unknown View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #429 John Thomas Brown. Yorkshire & England 1889-1904. Crawford’s ‘The Exceller’ cricket bat used by Jack Brown in scoring his only Test match century and scoring the fastest ever fifty in Test cricket in 28 minutes in the fifth Test match v Australia played at Melbourne on the 1st, 2nd, 4th to 6th March 1895. The bat is inscribed to the face of the bat ‘J.T. Brown made his 140 .. .. in the great England v Australia match at Melbourne 1895 with this Crawford bat’. There are two words missing from the View details Estimates£20,000 - £30,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #430 The Triangular Tournament 1912. England, Australia and South Africa. F.H. Ayres ‘Victor Trumper’ Autograph cricket bat signed by all three Test nations who played in the tournament. The Australians with fifteen signatures, the South Africans with fourteen signatures and England with a legible eight signatures. Sadly the wood of the bat has darkened and signatures have faded over the years and many signature are now illegible. Signatures that can be read are Gregory, Whitty, Webster, Minnett, Bar View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #431 Test match teams 1930’s. Gunn & Moore ‘William Gunn’ Autograph cricket bat signed to the face of the bat by the All Indian team of 1932, eighteen signatures including Nayudu, Colah, Ghulam Mahomed, Nissar, Singh, Wazir Ali, Jahangir Khan, Palia, Wazir Ali etc. The majority of the signatures legible, four a little faint, signed above these signatures by the West Indies touring team of 1939, seventeen signatures including Grant, Bayley, Williams, Stollmeyer, Headley, Clarke etc, some signatures le View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #432 Australian tour of England 1938. Stuart Surridge ‘Perfect’ cricket bat nicely signed to the back of the bat by all sixteen members of the touring party in ink. Signatures are Bradman (Cpt), McCabe, Waite, Fingleton, Barnes, Badcock, Ward, Walker, Barnett, Fleetwood-Smith, O’Reilly, Hassett, McCormick, Chipperfield, Brown and White. Jack Fingleton has also signed over the bat ‘treatment’ label on the shoulder of the bat. The signatures are all in good bright condition. The rubber handle has peris View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #433 England v Australia Services XI, Sheffield 1945. Gunn & Moore ‘William Gunn’ Autograph cricket bat signed to back by the England and Australian teams who played at Sheffield on 23rd-26th June 1945. Lacking one signature on each team, signed with ten signatures each, possibly due to fading. Signatures include Hammond (Cpt), Robertson, Edrich, Washbrook, Pope, Hutton, Pollard, Hassett (Cpt), Sismey, Carmody, Workman, Pepper, Miller, Price, Ellis etc. Some fading to the signatures but all legible View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #434 Australia and Surrey 1948. ‘County Sports. The Caerlulex’ cricket bat signed to face by fourteen members of the 1948 Australian touring team and twelve of the Surrey team of 1948. Signatures include Bradman (Cpt), Hassett, Morris, Harvey, Ring, Barnes, McCool, Miller, Holmes (Cpt), Squires, Fishlock, E&A. Bedser, Todd, Gover etc. To verso are faded signatures of an M.C.C. team, one legible of Valentine. The signatures of the Australian and Surrey teams are browned and have some spidering but ne View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #435 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1950/51. R.M. Crocker & Son National Choice ‘Lindsay Hassett’ cricket bat signed to the back by the Australian and M.C.C. teams. Sadly only seventeen signatures remain legible due to fading and include Hassett, Fingleton, Loxton, Johnson, Burke, Compton, Simpson, Statham, Hutton, Parkhouse etc. Below are the faded and fading signatures of the South African team and Sussex teams of 1951. The back also signed by Frank Woolley View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #436 Middlesex, Surrey and Vic Lewis XI c1959. Lillywhite Frowd ‘Jack Robertson’ Autograph cricket bat signed to face by the Middlesex and Surrey teams. Twenty-three signatures including Warr (Cpt), Robertson, Compton, Edrich, Titmus, Gale, Russell, May (Cpt), A&E. Bedser, Stewart, Constable, Laker, Lock etc and to reverse what appears to be a VIc Lewis XI, eleven signatures including Lewis, Edrich, Sharpe, Richardson, Russell, Cox etc. The signatures to the face of the bat a little faded, the signat View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #437 England 1972/73 and Bert Oldfield (New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938). Slazenger Australia ‘Bert Oldfield’ autograph cricket bat signed to the back by Oldfield and dated 1972 and by twelve members of the England 1972/73 Test team, signatures include Illingworth, Boycott, Roope, Knott, Arnold, Amiss, Hayes, Snow, Fletcher, Greig etc. Lacking rubber to handle, odd faults otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #438 ‘Double sided cricket bat’. An unusual double sided (flat on both sides) cricket bat produced in the 1990s by ‘The Classic Bat Company’. Good for reverse sweeps. Sold with a ‘Darbrook Limited Farokh Engineer autograph bat signed to the face by the M.C.C. and West Indies teams of 1976, some signatures faded, only twelve signatures now legible including Lloyd, Julian, Richards, Gomes, Greenidge, Amiss, Roope, Pocock etc. Further signatures to verso, again some faded including Edrich, Close, Brearl View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #439 England v South Africa 1947 and West Indies v England 1947-48. Split and hinged cricket stump nicely signed in ink to the top part of the stump by the England and South African teams who played in the 5th Test at The Oval in 1947. Twelve signatures of the England team and fifteen signatures of the South African touring party. Signatures include Yardley, Washbrook, Robertson, Wright, Evans, Compton, Copson, Gladwin, Melville, Nourse, Mann, Fullerton, Viljoen, Rowan, Dyer etc. Below these signatur View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #440 Bruce Nicholas French. Nottinghamshire & England 1976-1995. Original cricket stump used in the England v Australia Bicentennial Test match played at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 29th January to 2nd February 1988, the match was drawn. Bought by David Frith as lot 161 in the Bruce French Benefit auction of September 1991. Label from the auction attached, signed by French. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #441 Australia v England ‘The Birth of the Ashes’ 1882/1883. A George III Penny, dated 1773, siad to have been used by the Hon. Ivo Bligh with William Murdoch when the Ashes were regained by England in the Test Series in Australia. Apparently Bligh gave the coin to Fred Spofforth, the Australia fast bowler, known as ‘The Demon Bowler’, after losing a bet that Spofforth could not uproot a single stump with the coin atop it two out of three balls. Spofforth promptly proceeded to uproot a stump three ti View details Estimates£3,000 - £5,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #442 ‘Ranjitsinhji 3d Cigar’. Large heavy cast iron cigar cutter, the metal top with portrait of Ranjitsinhji, head and shoulders, wearing cap, blazer and tie with the wording ‘’Ranjitsinhji 3d Cigar’ to side. Wind-up mechanical mechanism beneath. ‘Patent number. Feb 19 1889’ to base, with grooved match striker to side. Made by the Erie Specialty Co, Erie, Pennsylvania USA. Workings rusted and broken. Wear and loss of colour to the wording and image of Ranjitsinhji otherwise in good original conditio View details Estimates£1,200 - £1,600StatusUnsold Lot #443 Frederick Robert Spofforth. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1874-1888. Rare silver hallmarked figure of Fred Spofforth, full length in cricket attire holding a cricket ball to waist. The figure, on circular base, measures approximately 4.75” tall and is hallmarked to base for Birmingham 1907. The makers marks are indistinct but are possibly ‘H.S’ for H. Samuel Ltd of Birmingham. Six small holes to underside of base suggest that the figure may well have been mounted previously. A rare silve View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #444 Thomas Richardson. Surrey, London County, Somerset & England 1892-1904. Original cricket ball with which Tom Richardson took all ten wickets for Surrey against Essex at The Oval in June 1894. The ball mounted on a silver metal stand with wooden base has a silver metal shield with the inscription ‘The ball with which Tom Richardson took all 10 wickets for Surrey against Essex at [the] Kennington Oval June 18th 1894’. Minor wear to the stand, the ball becoming loose from its mount otherwise in goo View details Estimates£700 - £1,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #445 Thomas Richardson. Surrey, London County, Somerset & England 1892-1904. Original cricket ball with which Tom Richardson took a career best eight wickets for ninety four runs for England against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1894. The ball mounted on a silver metal stand with wooden base has a silver metal shield with the inscription ‘The ball Tom Richardson obtained 8 wickets for 94 runs in the first innings of the 5th Test match against Australia. March 1898’. Some slight wear to View details Estimates£2,000 - £3,000Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #446 Australian tour of England 1926. ‘England’s Cricket Mascot’. Original lapel badge depicting a lion batsman, in red enamel, holding a cricket bat and standing in front of the wicket with ‘1926’ in a scroll below. The field in green enamel. The badge is complete as it would have been sold and is affixed to its original card sales label with the printed wording ‘England’s Cricket Mascot’ with the facsimile signature of England Captain Arthur Carr above. The badge measures approximately 1.75cm wide View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #447 Australian tour of England 1926. ‘Australia’s Cricket Mascot’. Original lapel badge depicting a kangaroo batsman, in brown enamel, holding a cricket bat and standing in front of the wicket with ‘1926’ in a scroll below. The field in green enamel. The badge is complete as it would have been sold and is affixed to its original card sales label with the printed wording ‘Australia’s Cricket Mascot’ with the facsimile signature of Australian Captain Herbie Collins above. The badge measures approximat View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #448 John Hugh Edrich. Surrey & England 1956-1978. West Indies v England 1967/68. ‘The Wisden Trophy’. Replica ‘Wisden Trophy’ presented to John Edrich, following England’s victory over West Indies in the 1967/68 Test match series played in the Caribbean. England won the series by one Test to nil, with four drawn matches. The silver metal trophy mounted on black wooden base has the raised figure of ‘John Wisden 1826-1884’ to side with metal plaque below ‘Wisden 1864-1963’. The trophy stands approx 6. View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsold Lot #449 James Charles Laker. Surrey, Essex & England 1946-1964. ‘In Honour of Regaining the Ashes 1953’. Ronson ‘Touch-Tip Octet’ metal table lighter with ‘Ashes’ inscription to one side, ‘In Honour of Regaining the Ashes 1953’ and to other side ‘J.C.L.’, Laker’s initials. A lighter was gifted to each player from the 1953 Ashes win by Captain Len Hutton. The lighter is lacking the removable ‘wand’, minor chip to base otherwise in good condition. It is thought that ‘only 18 lighters made for those player View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #450 James Charles Laker. Surrey, Essex & England 1946-1964. 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 was presented to Laker in the 1956 season when he took 19 wickets for England against the Australians and took 10 wickets for 88 runs for Surrey against the Australians in the tour match of that year. Good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #451 ‘The Final Salute. Sir Don Bradman 1908-2001’. Resin figure by Tanya Bartlett of Bradman wearing batting attire, standing full length, one hand resting on his bat, the other holding his cap aloft. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Based on the artist’s full size statue of Bradman, ‘The Final Farewell’ on display at the Bradman Museum in Bowral. Artist’s signature to bat, dated 1999. 14.5” tall. VG View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #452 ‘Cricketer in Cap’. Sherratt & Simpson cast resin figure of an Edwardian cricketer in batting pose playing an elegant attacking shot. Hand painted to replicate bronze. Series no. 57363. Maker’s label to underside of base. G/VG View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #453 ‘The First Ashes Test Match in Wales’ 2009. Commemorative pewter hip flask in the form of a cricket bat, made in Sheffield. Presented to David Frith to mark the inaugural Test match in Wales, England v Australia, 8th- 12th July 2009, in Cardiff. The bat handle forms the screw top, and an alternative standard screw top is enclosed. In original presentation box. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #454 Lord’s Tavern. A piece of concrete from the Old Tavern at Lord’s when demolished in 1968 to be replaced by the New Tavern Stand retrieved by David Frith. Sold with an original ticket for the Grand Stand balcony for the England v Australia Test match played at Lord’s on the 20th June 1964. Qty 2 View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #455 Whisky/pub flask c1860/70’s. Attractively shaped glass flask embossed with ‘Spiers & Pond. The Public Caterers’ to one side and floral decoration to the other. Approx 6.75” tall. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #456 Cricket bottle. Attractive early cricket glass lemonade bottle, with ‘Codd’s patent’ glass ‘marble’ ball stop, with ‘B. Noble of Birstall‚‘ with figure of a batsman, stumps and ball to side and to the other ‘Kilner Bros, Thornhill, Leeds’ to the other side of the bottle. Approx 9” tall. Generally good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #457 Cricket bottle. Attractive early cricket ginger beer bottle with ‘N.B.D. Watson & Co, Richmond‚‘ with figure of a batsman and ball to the side of the bottle. Approx 8” tall. Odd minor faults otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #458 Evelyn Maitland ‘Lyn’ Wellings. Oxford University & Surrey 1928-1946. Concave glass mug (with handle) with image of ‘Old Father Time’ to one side and the intials ‘E.M.W.’ to the other. circa 1950’s (?). 5” tall. Very minor chip to rim otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #459 Victor Trumper. Attractive early cricket glass lemonade bottle, with image of Trumper in batting pose to centre with ‘Lemonade’ printed above and the maker’s name ‘Alex Mather & Sons, Singleton’ to sides. Circa early 1900’s.Approx 9” tall. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #460 Australia v England. Centenary Test 1877-1977. Brown Bendigo Pottery character toby jug featuring the two Ashes captains for the game. Greg Chappell to one side, and to reverse Tony Greig with decorative cricket bat and ball. Limited edition number 21 of 300 produced. Bendigo Pottery stamp to base. Approx 6.5” tall. VG. Rare. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #461 W.G. Grace. Doulton Lambeth stoneware jug with pale body and dark brown rim, decorated with three portraits/roundels of W.G. Grace, K.S. Ranjitsinhji and George Giffen within scrolling foliage. Two tone brown strap handle. Produced in 1896. Approx 7” high. Impressed Doulton Lambeth stamp and factory mark to base ‘325’. Very good condition View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #462 ‘The Hope of his Side‚‘. Kinsella 5.5” caricature spill vase of a young boy in batting stance in front of the wickets. Printed title below wickets and bat. ‘Copyright’ stamp to base. German circa early 1900’s. Very minor chip to the boy’s hat otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #463 ‘Out First Ball‚‘. Kinsella 5.5” caricature spill vase of a young boy in batting stance in front of the broken wickets. Printed title below wickets and bat. ‘Copyright’ stamp to base. German circa early 1900’s. Two large chips to the boy’s hat otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #464 Sir Charles Aubrey Smith. Mono real photograph studio portrait postcard of Aubrey Smith dressed in formal suit smoking a pipe. Signed in black ink by Smith to the darker part of the photograph. Photo, Mannell. G/VG View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #465 Trevor Edward Bailey. Essex & England 1946-1967. Mono real photograph postcard of Bailey, head and shoulders, wearing M.C.C. sweater. Nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph by Bailey. Valentine & Sons ‘Real Photo Cricket Personalities Series’, no. R.P.50. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #466 Peter Barker Howard May, Surrey & England 1950-1963. Mono real photograph plainback postcard of May, head and shoulders, wearing blazer. Signed in black ink to lower white border by May. Publisher unknown. VG View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #467 Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex & England 1894-1908. Sepia real photograph postcard of Fry, half length in cricket sweater. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by Fry. Rotary series No. 3805. G/VG View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #468 Colin Blythe, Kent & England 1899-1914. Excellent sepia real photograph postcard of a youthful Blythe, full length, in batting attire, wearing England touring cap stood in front of the wicket holding a cricket ball. The postcard very nicely signed to image in black ink by Blythe. Foster of Brighton. Good/very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsold Lot #469 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Mono real photograph plainback postcard of Hobbs, full length, wearing Surrey sweater and England cap. Nicely signed in blue ink by Hobbs. Series unknown. Tape to corners, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #470 Pre-war cricket postcards. Mono real photograph postcard of Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) in batting pose in the nets, signed in ink to the photograph by Sutcliffe, publisher unknown. Also mono real photograph postcards of C.P. Mead (Hampshire) in batting pose, series no. 63 by Bailey of Bournemouth, and other mono postcards depicting J.T. Tyldesley, Lancashire, and T. Hayward, Surrey etc. Sold with a Barratt & Co. folding trade card No. 18 of the ‘M.C.C. Team Australasian Tour 1932-33’, thirty View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #471 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. Sepia real photograph postcard of Hobbs standing full length wearing cricket attire and cap. Nicely signed by Hobbs in black ink to the photograph and dated ‘1925’. To the verso, a handwritten message from Hobbs thanking the correspondent for ‘your congratulations & good wishes’. Signed by Hobbs and dated 1st November 1925. On 15th- 18th August 1925 at Taunton, Jack Hobbs scored his 126th and 127th first-class centuries to equal and then break View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #472 George Rubens Cox. Sussex 1895-1928. Mono real photograph postcard of Cox standing full length wearing cricket attire and Sussex cap. Very nicely signed in blue ink by Cox to iamge. Blind embossed stamp for Nias of Brighton to lower edge. Minor ink stain to image, adhesive marks to the corners on the back of card otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #473 Arthur Edward Robert Gilligan. Cambridge University, Surrey, Sussex & England 1919-1932. Mono real photograph postcard of Gilligan, standing full length, wearing a striped blazer. Signed in ink to the image by Gilligan. Nias of Brighton. Good/ very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #474 Jack Hobbs. Mono plain back postcard of Hobbs, half length, wearing England Test blazer. Nicely signed in blue ink by Hobbs to lower border. Sold with a small printed press picture signed by Hobbs and three postcard size photographs of Hobbs, head and shoulder, one in Surrey cap, dated 1925, one in England blazer and one in jacket, shirt and tie, dated 1926. Qty 5. Good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #475 George Herbert Hirst. Yorkshire & England 1891-1929. Mono ‘real photograph’ postcard of Hirst wearing Yorkshire cap, full length, in fielding pose at Trent Bridge. Nicely signed in black ink by Hirst. Title ‘Fielding’ to lower white border. Hartmann postcard no. 1375. Minor silvering to card edge otherwise in good/very good condition. An uncommon image View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #476 James Joseph Kelly. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1907. Laid down ink signature of Kelly on piece. Sold with a mono postcard of Kelly in wicket keeping pose. ‘Wrench Series’ no. 1397. Previously sold by Knights. Also a further mono postcard of Kelly in wicket keeping pose by Bolland. G/VG View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #477 John Richard Mason. Kent & England 1893-1919. Mono postcard of Mason in batting pose. Signed in black ink by Mason. Postally date stamped 1908. Hartmann series. Some marks and creasing to card, some fading to signature. Only fair condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #478 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. c.1955. Official mono real photograph postcard of the Nottinghamshire team. Printed title to lower border, ‘Reproduced by kind permission of Nottm Guardian Journal’. Signed to the verso in differant coloured inks by eleven members of the team (incorrectly annotated in pencil ‘1949’). Signatures are Simpson (Captain), Walker, Martin, Jepson, Smales, Dooland, Poole, Harvey, Giles, Rowe, Clay and Stocks. Creasing to two corners, some soiling, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #479 M.C.C. tour to India & Pakistan 1951/52. Original mono real photograph postcard of the M.C.C. touring party seated and standing in rows wearing tour blazers in in front of a pavilion. Players’ names neatly annotated in pencil to verso including Howard (Captain), Tattersall, Leadbeater, Lowson, Statham, Kenyon, HIlton, Ridgway, Shackleton, Graveney, Carr etc. Published by Gevaey of India. Postally unused. VG View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #480 ‘The Ashes’ England v Australia, 1926. Mono real photograph postcard featuring vignettes of thirteen England players for the third Test at Leeds, 10th-13th July 1926. Players featured are Carr (Captain), Root, Hobbs, Parker, Sutcliffe, Hendren, Kilner, Woolley, Macaulay, Chapman, Tate, Strudwick and Larwood. Postcard by J. Webb, Douglas Studio, Nottingham. Postally unused. G/VG View details Estimates£15 - £25Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #481 ‘The English Team, Test Match 1905’. Mono real photograph postcard of the England team seated and standing in rows wearing caps and blazers. Printed title and players’ names to lower border. Players featured are Jackson (Captain), Tyldesley, Fry, Bosanquet, Haywood, Hirst, Denton, Warren, Blythe, Lilley, Rhodes and Haigh. Some age toning, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #482 Hollywood Cricket Team 1938. Sepia real photograph postcard of the Hollywood C.C. team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, some in blazers. Players featured include C. Aubrey Smith, Ronald Colman, Desmond Roberts, Raymond Massey, Clive Brook, H.B. Warner etc. Details annotated in ink to verso. Publisher unknown. G/VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #483 Australia team postcards 1905-1956. Nine original mono real photograph postcards of Australian touring teams to England. Teams are 1905, players depicted in cameo (Philco Series 6003 F), 1905 (Ralph Dunn No. 1015), 1921 (Philip G. Hunt), 1921, 1930 (J. Smith Bookstall, Lord’s), 1934 (Photo-Work), and four ‘official’ team postcards for 1938, 1948, 1953 (with printed signatures to verso), and 1956. Also two mono postcards of teams for 1905 with printed fixtures to verso, and 1926 (Bolland). Odd mi View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #484 South Africa team postcards 1907-1955. Seven original mono real photograph postcards of South African touring teams to England. Teams are 1907 (J. Herbert Wilson), 1912 (Beagles no. 333.U), 1924 (Beagles/ C. Smith, Oval), 1929 (J. Smith Bookstall), 1935, 1947 (both A.W.S.), and 1955 (plainback, A. Wilkes & Son). Odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 7 View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #485 West Indies team postcards 1933-1963. Five original ‘official’ mono real photograph postcards of West Indies touring teams to England. Teams are 1933, 1939, 1950 (Bridge House no. S.20484), 1957 and 1963. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 5 View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #486 New Zealand team postcards 1931-1958. Four original ‘official’ mono real photograph postcards of New Zealand touring teams to England. Teams are 1931 (Angus Thomas Ltd.), 1937, 1949 (F.C. Dick, Oval Bookstall), and 1958. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 4 View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #487 India and Pakistan team postcards 1932-1954. Four original ‘official’ mono real photograph postcards of India and Pakistan touring teams to England. India teams are 1932 (Hills & Lacy), 1936 (Jarrolds’), 1952, and one Pakistan team for 1954. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 4 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #488 London cricket clubs postcards c.1910. Six original mono real photograph postcards of London cricket club teams, all taken at Chiswick Park C.C. Four have the featured club’s name annotated to the lower border. Named clubs are ‘Brondesbury C.C.’, ‘Royal V.C.’, ‘Ealing Dene’, and ‘Chiswick Park C.C.’. Two others unidentified. Photographer unknown. Minor soiling and age toning, rounding to corners of one, otherwise in good condition. Qty 6 View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #489 Surrey team postcards c.1926-1962. Four original ‘official’ mono real photograph postcards of Surrey teams. Teams are c.1926 (C.E. Smith, Oval Bookstall, repair to lower right corner), 1934, 1951 (plain back by A. Wilkes & Co.), and 1962 (F.C. Dick, Oval Bookstall). The 1962 postcard signed by five players, Willett, Stewart, Constable, Long and Edrich. Small damage to top right corner. Sold with a mono postacrd of the England team 1921 (trimmed to lower edge), and a mono photograph of the M.C.C. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #490 Surrey C.C.C. 1912-1958. Nine mono real photograph postcards. One depicts the match in progress, Surrey v South Africans, at The Oval in 1912. Individual player portrait postcards of May, Holmes, Clark, Fishlock, Strudwick and Surridge. Three team postcards for 1949, 1957 and 1958, and one mono postcard of the 1922 team. Publishers include Boots, F.C. Dick Oval Bookstall, ‘Force’ Bat Series, Sporting Handbooks etc. Odd faults to the 1949 team postcard, pin holes to the Strudwick card, otherwise View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #491 Leicestershire 1938. Mono plain back real photograph postcard of the Leicestershire team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. The postcard with official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich, with typed caption listing the players including Armstrong, Geary, Berry, Dawkes, Flamson, Lester, Adcock etc. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #492 Middlesex 1937. Mono plain back real photograph postcard of the Middlesex team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire and blazers. The postcard with official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich, with typed caption listing the players including Hendren, Owen-Smith, Robins, Edrich, Muncer, Sims, Gray, Compton etc. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #493 Derbyshire 1937. Mono plain back real photograph postcard of the Derbyshire team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. The postcard with official stamp to verso for Albert Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich, with typed caption listing the players including Buckston, Parker, Townsend, Worthington, Mitchell, D. Pope, G. Pope, Alderman etc. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #494 Lancashire 1939. Mono plain back real photograph postcard of the Lancashire team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. The postcard with official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich, with typed caption listing the players including Lister, Iddon, Farrimond, Hopwood, Paynter, Parkin, Washbrook, Oldfield, Nutter etc. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #495 English cricket grounds early 1900s onwards. Nine mono postcards, the majority real photographs, depicting cricket grounds. Subjects include ‘Nottingham, County Cricket Ground [Trent Bridge]’ with red city coat of arms 1905, Raphael Tuck “Town & City” series no. 2128. Kennington Oval, Lewis Levy ‘LL’ series no. 828, postmarked 1908. ‘Oundle School Cricket Pavilion’ with red coat of arms, Alfred King & Son. Others subjects include Edgbaston original pavilion, Fenners (Cambridge), Leyton, Ashby-de View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #496 Warwickshire. Willie Quaife Benefit match 1911. Mono plain back postcard of the Warwickshire team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire in front of the pavilion. Printed title ‘Warwickshire Eleven 1911’ to lower corner. The match v Surrey was played at Edgbaston, 3rd- 5th July 1911. Players featured include Quaife, Goodwin, Breedon, Baker, Lilley, Foster, Santall etc. VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #497 Walter Lancashire. Hampshire 1935-1937. Mono real photograph postcard of Hampshire, head and shoulders, wearing cricket attire. Stamps to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich, and ‘W.R. Lancashire. Hampshire 1937’. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #498 ‘Glamorganshire C.C.C. 1946’. Mono real photograph postcard of the 1946 Glamorgan team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. Official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich with overlaid typed caption with players names. Players include Dyson, Wooller, Clay, Matthews, E. Davies, James, H. Davies etc. VG View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #499 ‘Old England Team 1946’. Mono real photograph postcard of the Old England team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire and blazers. Printed title and players’ names to lower border. Players are Hendren, Jardine, Fender, Sutcliffe, Woolley, Knight, Freeman, Holmes, Allom, Tate, Brooks, Sandham, also Hobbs and Strudwick (umpires). F.C. Dick ‘Oval series’ no. 46. VG View details Estimates£20 - £30StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...16|Next12345678910111213141516 Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next
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