Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia including the David Frith Collection- 2 Day Auction (#10) 06/08/2023 10:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 06/08/2023 10:30 AM BST 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 1689. Previous|12345678...17|Next Lot #1 Cricket and sporting equipment catalogues and price lists 1881-1898. Six original catalogues. ‘A Few Selections. Benetfink & Company’s Sport and Games Catalogue’, April 1898. 4pp tipped in to blue cloth. G.W. Fallas & Co., Wakefield, ‘Price List for 1893. Manufacturers of Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Golf, Football, and other kinds of Athletic Goods’. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #2 Cricket and sporting equipment catalogues and price lists 1901-1956. Seven original catalogues. C. Ward, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, illustrated price list of 1901 for a wide range of sporting goods. 40pp with order form, original paper wrappers, tipped in to blue cloth. The Asbestos & Rubber Co., Hull, ‘Summer Sports Catalogue 1909, original decorative wrappers. Mick Simmons Ltd., Haymarket, Sydney, ‘Cricket price list season 1927-28’. S.M. Wainwright, Headingley, ‘Craftsman-Made Cricket Bats for View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #3 Australia tour to England 1896. The Times of London newspaper. Four original and complete copies of issues dated 26th and 27th May 1896 with coverage of the Australians tour match against Yorkshire. Also 22nd June 1896, page 13 with confirmation of the England team for the 1st Test at Lord’s commencing that day, and a report of the conclusion of the Australian’s tour match v Midland Counties at Edgbaston. 23rd June 1896, page 14 with a lengthy full column report on the first day’s play of the fi View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #4 Bodyline. Scrapbook comprising a collection of press cutting articles and scores reporting on each day’s play in the 1932/33 Ashes Test series in Australia, also scores from tour matches. The scrapbook continue with cuttings of statistics for the English domestic season 1933-1950. G. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #5 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1924/25. Official players itinerary for the tour, the front cover with title to centre and M.C.C. colours to top left hand corner. Red cord tie. The itinerary lists the members of the touring party, tour programme including matches, time table etc. Minor age toning to card wrappers otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #6 M.C.C. tour Christmas cards 1972/73 and 1976/77. Two official unsigned Christmas cards, one for the 1972/73 tour to India, Pakistan & Ceylon with mono team photograph to inside, the other for the 1976/77 tour to India, Sri Lanka & Australia with colour photograph to inside. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #7 Somerset C.C.C. 1950s-2000s. Box comprising a selection of mainly Somerset cricket related ephemera, the odd item signed. Contents include ‘Somerset County Cricket Club Players, Photographs and Statistics 1891-2002’, Eddie Lawrence 2002. Limited edition no. 307/500, signed by Lawrence. Dustwrapper. Official scorecard and match tickets for Viv Richard’s Benefit match, Somerset v West Indies, 15th September 1982, the first ever floodlit game on an English county cricket ground. Official brochure f View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #8 ‘England Tour of India 1981-82’ souvenir tour brochure published by D.R. Bhupathy, with facsimile autograph sheet and signed unofficial autograph sheet of the England touring party slipped in. Also a ‘Newbery’ miniature bat with typed label ‘England Tour to India & Australia 1984-85’, signed to the face by sixteen members of the England touring party, 14.5”. Sold with a selection of eight official scorecards 1967-1980 for Test, one day internationals county matches at Lord’, The Oval etc., unoff View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #9 Cricket games early 1900s- 1960s. Box comprising a selection of table top indoor cricket games, the majority in original boxes. ‘Table Cricket’, unknown, early 1900s. ‘Run-it-out or Card Cricket’ Kum-Bak Sports, Toys & Games, 1930s. ‘Googly’ card game, Smith & Hallam, c1932. ‘Cricketelle’ (bagatelle), Chad Valley c.1946. ‘Balyna Discbat Cricket’ c.1950 (Qty 2). ‘Cricket Game’, Waddington’s 1968. ‘Kriket’, K.G.W. Products, Birmingham c.1960s etc. Some incomplete. Mixed condition, generally good. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #10 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£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #11 Derek Shackleton. Hampshire & England 1948-1969. Large black file comprising a very good and comprehensive collection of correspondence and personal items spanning Shackleton’s life from wartime army service, his playing career and later as an umpire through to 1982 and his retirement. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #12 England cricketers’ letters 1960s-1990s. Seven handwritten letters from England players, the majority to Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society replying to invitations to attend events, some undated, each signed by the correspondent. Signatures are Philip Sharpe, Brian Close, Ken Higgs, Geoff Boycott (Yorkshire), Tom Graveney (Gloucestershire), Brian Statham (Lancashire), and Bob Taylor (Derbyshire). G/VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #13 England cricketers’ letters 1960s-1980s. Seven handwritten letters from England players replying to invitations to attend events, requests for signatures, thanks for gifts etc., each signed by the correspondent. Signatures are Ted Dexter, Jim Parks (Sussex), Colin Cowdrey (Kent), Tom Graveney (Gloucestershire), Dennis Amiss (Warwickshire), Tony Lewis (Glamorgan), and David Gower (Leicestershire). G/VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #14 England cricketers’ letters 1980s-2010s. Six handwritten letters/ cards from England players, replying to requests for signatures, thanks for gifts etc., each signed by the correspondent. Signatures are Mike Brearley (Middlesex), Trevor Bailey, Graham Gooch (Essex), Colin Cowdrey, Mike Denness, and Derek Underwood (Kent). G/VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #15 England Test cricketers 1960-2000. A collection of eleven typed and handwritten letters from England Test cricketers replying to invitations to events, request for photographs, signatures etc. Signatures are Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, John Murray, Brian Close, Dennis Amiss, Tony Lewis, Geoff Boycott, Derek Underwood, Brian Statham, David Gower, and ‘Chris [Balderstone]’. G/VG. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #16 Charles Aubrey Smith. Cambridge University, Sussex & England, 1882-1896. Handwritten single page letter to a ‘Mrs Hoaglin’, dated 3rd December 1944. Writing from Beverly Hills, Californie, Smith is replying to a request for a photograph ‘for the theatre lobby’. Nicely signed ‘C. Aubrey Smith’. Horizontal fold, light creasing and age toning, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #17 Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley. Cambridge University, Yorkshire & England, 1935-1955. Handwritten two page letter to a London estate agent dated 19th November 1947. Following a recommendation from Ronnie Aird, Assistant Secretary of the M.C.C., Yardley is looking for suitable accommodation in the St. John’s Wood area. Nicely signed ‘N.W.D. Yardley’. Very good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #18 Harold Larwood. Nottinghamshire & England 1924-1938. Handwritten single page letter dated 4th October 1953 with original envelope. Written on airmail paper and sent from Sydney, Larwood is replying belatedly to a request for his autograph, the original letter having been forwarded via Trent Bridge and the New South Wales Cricket Association. Signed ‘H. Larwood’. Light folds, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #19 Sunil Manohar Gavaskar. Bombay, Somerset and & India 1966-1987. Single page handwritten letter from Gavaskar dated 9th March 2010 on his personal letterhead, replying to a request for autographs. Signed by Gavaskar. Light folds, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #20 Surrey C.C.C. players’ letters 1950s onwards. Five letters from Surrey players responding to requests for autographs, invitations to events etc. Each letter signed by the featured player. Signatures are Peter [May], Tony Lock, Jim Laker, Ken [Barrington] and Alec Bedser. Odd faults, overall in good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #21 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£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #22 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£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #23 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£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #24 Pelham Francis ‘Plum’ Warner. Oxford University, Middlesex & England 1894-1920. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1911/12. Two pages on official Victoria Government letterheads, one for Government House, Melbourne, the other Government Cottage, Macedon Upper. The pages very nicely signed in ink by various government officers, their families and guests. Sixteen signatures in total including Lord Denman, his wife, Gertrude, and their six year old son, Thomas, also Norman McLeod, John Fuller, Roland Vernon, View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #25 Pelham Francis ‘Plum’ Warner. Oxford University, Middlesex & England 1894-1920. Four handwritten airmail letters from Warner to his son ‘Es’ (Esmond Warner) who is posted in Cairo, written in 1950 and 1951. Warner writes at some length about family and cricket, and reports that the Duke of Edinburgh has invited him to be the next President of the M.C.C., quoting the Duke as saying ‘I feel sure that all cricket minded people in the country will agree with my choice’. He looks forward to the visit View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #26 South Africa Tour to England 1929. Early and rare folding printed card itinerary with fixture list to centre pages and list of tour party members to last page. Nicely signed in ink to the front cover by fourteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Deane (Captain), Catterall, Taylor, Morkel (signed twice), Cameron, Dalton, Ochse, Siedle, Vincent, Owen-Smith, van der Merwe, Christy and Frames (Manager). Originally from the collection of Denys Morkel. Adhesive marks to verso where previous View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #27 ‘Visit of the M.C.C. Test Team to South Africa 1930/31. ‘Union Castle Line. R.M.S. Edinburgh Castle’. Pre-tour brochure for the tour with list of players, pen pictures and biographies, itinerary etc. Signed in ink to the title page by Denys Morkel of South Africa, and to rear ‘Autographs’ page by fifteen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Includes three signatures in ink of Chapman, Tate and Duckworth, others in fine pencil are Peebles, Hendren, Wyatt, Farrimond, Sandham, Hammond, Leyland, God View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #28 M.C.C. tour of Australia and New Zealand 1950/51. Official players itinerary booklet very nicely signed in ink to the inside front cover and first page by sixteen members of the touring party, with the ownership name of Eric Hollies in ink to the top margin of the inside cover. Signatures are Brown (Captain), Dewes, Berry, Close, Evans, Parkhouse, McIntyre, Hollies, Wright, Simpson, A. Bedser, Bailey, Warr, Hutton, Sheppard and Compton. Ex Eric Hollies collection. Previously sold by Knights. VG. View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #29 India tour to England 1952. Official typed menu card for a dinner held at the Imperial Hotel, Bournemouth, 31st August 1952, the rest day during the tour match against Hampshire. Signed in pencil to the verso by thirteen members of the India touring party. Signatures are Chowdhury, Adhikari, D.K. Gaekwad, Shinde, Sarwate, H.G. Gaekwad, Umrigar, Roy, Phadkar, Sen, Mantri, Gulam Ahmed and Divecha. Light creasing and age toning, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #30 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1954/55. Orient Line R.M.S. Orsova folding ‘Luncheon Menu’ signed to menu page by seventeen members of the touring party. Signatures are Hutton (Captain), Bailey, Statham, May, Simpson, Evans, Cowdrey, Wardle, Edrich, Bedser, McConnon, Wilson, Tyson, Graveney, Loader, Andrew and Appleyard. The menu, with colour cover featuring the ship which took the M.C.C. team to Australia, is dated 2nd October 1954. Small minor tear to bottom corner of the front cover otherwise in goo View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #31 South Africa Tour to England 1955. Official folding tour itinerary signed in ink to the centre fixture list by all sixteen playing members of the tour. Signatures are Cheetham (Captain), McGlew, Fuller, Heine, Endean, Smith, Tayfield, Murray, Mansell, Waite, Winslow, Duckworth, Goddard, McGlew, Adcock and Keith. Creasing and wear, overall in fair condition. Sold with an official pre-tour souvenir programme for the 1955 tour published by Playfair, edited by Gordon Ross in very good condition. Qty View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #32 ‘Indian World Cup Side 1983’. Blue envelope with typed title and handwritten names, signed by the fifteen members of the India touring party for the 1983 Cricket World Cup in England 1983. Signatures are Kapil Dev (Captain), Armanath, Binney, Kirmani, Madan Lal, Sandip Patil, Yashpal Sharma, Vengsarkar, Valson, Srikkanth, Shastri, Gavaskar, Azad, Sandhu and Man Singh (Manager). VG. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #33 ‘Invitation Dinner to celebrate the 150th Year of the Melbourne Cricket Club’ 1988. Official folding guest list for the dinner held 3rd February 1988, signed in ink to the front by sixteen England players. Signatures are Ken Palmer, David Capel, Richard Hutton, Charles Palmer, Peter Walker, Jim Parks, Tom Graveney, Tim Robinson, Geoff Arnold, Brian Bolus, John Emburey, Eddie Leadbeater, Bob Appleyard, Neil Mallender, Les Jackson and Geoff Miller. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #34 ‘Legends of India. Test Cricketers 1933-1993’. ‘The Cricket Club of India Limited’ letterhead signed by twenty two former India Test cricketers who attended a dinner at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai in September 1993. Signatures are Mantri, Wadekar, Solkar, Contractor, Hanumanth Singh, Patil, Gopalan, Amre, Mankad, Umrigar, Bedi, Kulkarni, Raman, Vengsarkar, Sardesai, Patankar, Pandit, Kulkarni, Apte, Sekar, Rajput and Kapoor. Light creasing, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #35 India Test players. ‘Hotel Furama’, Singapore headed stationary signed by twenty Indian Test cricketers. Signatures are Chopra, Sivaramakrishnan, Chauhan, Srikkanth, Chandrashekar, Jadeja, Razdan, Sukhla, Sharma, Sanghavi, Sehwag, Bhandari, Kanitkar, Patankar, Madan Lal, Hirwani, Arun, Gambir, Sarandeep Singh and Milka Singh. The page laid to black album page. G. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #36 ‘One Test Wonders’. The following selection of signatures are those of players who made only one Test match appearance in their career. Rev Vernon Peter Fanshawe Archer Royle. Oxford University, Lancashire & England 1875-1891. Excellent ink signature of Royle on paper piece. Rare. VG. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #37 Francis Alexander MacKinnon of MacKinnon, Cambridge University, Kent & England, 1870-1885. Excellent ink signature of MacKinnon on piece. VG. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #38 William ‘Billy’ Newham. Sussex & England, 1881-1905. Handwritten letter in ink from Newham, dated 26th July 1903. Writing from the County Cricket Ground, Hove, Newham is enqiring about the hire of a skating rink. Nicely signed by Newham. VG. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #39 England ‘One Test Wonders’ 1879-1892. Four individual signatures of players who made only one Test appearance, each laid down to ‘England Test Player’ printed card. Two signatures in ink of Alexander Josiah Webbe (Oxford University, Middlesex & England 1875-1900, 1 Test 1879), Stanley Christopherson (Kent & England 1883-1890, 1 Test 1884), and two in pencil of Charles Aubrey Smith (Cambridge University, Sussex & England 1882-1896, 1 Test 1889), Alec Hearne (Kent & England 1884-1910, 1 Test 1892) View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #40 England ‘One Test Wonders’ 1892-1902. Four individual signatures in ink of players who made only one Test appearance, each laid down to ‘England Test Player’ or similar card. Signatures are Victor Alexander Barton (Kent & Hampshire, 1 Test 1892), Walter Mead (Essex, 1 Test 1899), Frederick William Tate (Sussex, 1 Test 1902) and Arnold Warren (Derbyshire, 1 Test 1905). G/VG. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #41 England ‘One Test Wonders’ 1909-1924. Thirteen individual signatures, the majority in ink, of players who made only one Test appearance, each laid down to ‘England Test Player’ card. Signatures are John Herbert King (Leicestershire 1895-1925, 1 Test 1909), Douglas Ward Carr (Kent, 1 Test 1909), Neville Charsley Tufnell (Cambridge University & Surrey 1906-1924, 1 Test 1909), Evelyn Rockley Wilson (Cambridge University & Yorkshire, 1 Test 1921), Arthur Dolphin (Yorkshire & Patiala, 1 Test 1921), F View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #42 England ‘One Test Wonders’ 1931-1939. Thirteen individual signatures, the majority in ink, of players who made only one Test appearance, each laid down to ‘England Test Player’ card. Signatures are Henry William ‘Harry’ Lee (Middlesex, 1 Test 1931, two signatures, one in ink, the other in pencil), Johnny Arnold (Hampshire, 1 Test 1931), Charles Stowell ‘Father’ Marriott (Lancashire & Cambridge University, 1 Test 1933), William Howard Vincent ‘Hopper’ Levett (Kent, 1 Test 1934), Norman Stewart ‘M View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #43 England Post-War ‘One Test Wonders’ 1946-2013. Thirty four individual signatures, the majority in ink, of players who made only one Test appearance, each laid down to ‘England Test Player’ card. Earlier signatures are T.F. Smailes (1946), C. Cook, D. Brookes, G.H. Pope, J.W. Martin (1947), A. Coxon, G.M. Emmett (1948), A. Wharton (2) (1949), C.H. Palmer (1953), D.W. Richardson (1957), K.E. Palmer (1964) etc. G/VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #44 Australia Post-War ‘One Test Wonders’ 1946-2009. Twenty three individual signatures, the majority in ink, of players who made only one Test appearance, each on ‘Australia Test Player’ card. Some signed to the card, others on piece or label laid down. Earlier signatures are John Rutherford (1956), Des Hoare (1961), Peter Allan (1965, 2 signatures), Les Joslin (1968), Ken Eastwood (1971), Ashley Woodcock (1974), Mick Malone (1977), Jeff Moss (1978) etc. G/VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #45 South Africa ‘One Test Wonders’ 1922-2008. Eleven individual signatures, the majority in ink, of players who made only one Test appearance, each on ‘South Africa Test Player’ card. The majority on piece or label laid down, some signed to the card. Earlier signatures are Dalton Conyngham (1922), Denis Tompinson (1935), Jack Plimsoll (1947), Scotch Taylor (1956), Grahame Chevalier (1970, 3 signatures), also Robert Harvey (1935, 2 Tests), and three modern New Zealand and one Zimbabwe signature. Qty View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #46 West Indies ‘One Test Wonders’ 1939-2008. Seven individual signatures, the majority in ink, of players who made only one Test appearance, each on ‘West Indies Test Player’ card. The majority on piece or label laid down, some signed to the card. Signatures include Vic Stollmeyer (1939), Andy Ganteaume (1948), Lance Pierre (1948), Tony Howard (1972), Thelston Payne (1986), Gareth Breese (2002) etc. G/VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #47 India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka ‘One Test Wonders’ 1932-2011. Fourteen individual signatures, the majority in ink, of players who made only one Test appearance, each on printed ‘Test Player’ card. The majority on piece or label laid down, some signed to the card. Includes eight India signatures of Lall Singh (1932), Hiralal Gaekwad (1952), Chandrakant Patankar (1956), Arvind Apte (1959), Kenia Jayantilal (1970), Ghulam Parkar (1982), and Saba Karim (2000). Four Pakistan signatures of Shahid Saeed View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #48 Australian Test cricketers 1920 onwards. Black file comprising a comprehensive collection of over two hundred individual signatures, mainly post-war, on white cards, the majority signed in ink with printed ‘Australia Test Player’ title and borders. Some signatures on labels laid down. Earlier signatures include Don Bradman, Kippax, Oldfield, McCormick, √† Beckett, Harvey, McCabe, Miller, Ring, Lindwall, Hamence, Morris, Johnston, Maddocks, Tribe, Davidson, Higgs, Kline, Jarman, Burge, Meckiff, M View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #49 West Indies Test cricketers 1928 onwards. Black file comprising a comprehensive collection of one hundred and twenty five individual signatures on white cards, mainly post-war, the majority signed in ink with printed ‘West Indies Test Player’ title and borders. Also an album page signed in ink by twelve members of the 1950 touring party to England. Some signatures on labels laid down. Earlier signatures include Asgarali (2 Tests), R. Marshall, R. Christiani, Collie Smith, Alexander, Constantine, View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #50 South Africa 1893 onwards. Black file comprising a comprehensive collection of approx. 140 signatures of Test and first-class South African cricketers. The majority of signatures are in ink on white cards with printed ‘South Africa Test Player’ title and borders. Some signatures on labels laid down. Earlier signatures of Test players include H. Wade, ‘Tip’ Snooke, E. Rowan, Cameron, K. Viljoen, Balaskas, Vincent, Dalton, B. Mitchell, Siedle, A. Rowan, H. Taylor, Conyngham (1 Test), Crisp, A.D. N View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #51 Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe 1980s onwards. Blue file comprising a collection of twenty signatures on printed cards of Test and first-class Sri Lanka cricketers, and twenty Zimbabwe players. Some signatures on labels laid down. Sri Lanka signatures include Vaas, Ranatunga, Madugalle, D. Samaraweera, Asoka de Silva, Muralitharan, Aravinda de Dilva, Malinga, Dilshan, Kaluperuma, Jayawardene etc. Zimbabwe signatures include Campbell, Olonga, Nkala, Goodwin, A. Flower, G. Flower, Houghton, Streak, Price, View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #52 Pakistan 1950s onwards. Collection of sixty eight signatures on printed cards of Test and first-class Pakistan cricketers. Some signatures on labels laid down. Signatures include Intikhab Alam, Ijaz Butt, Alimuddin, Abdul Qadir, Mushtaq Mohammad, Ijaz Ahmed, Saleem Yousuf, Moin Khan, Javed Miandad, Imran Khan, Salim Malik, Mudassar Nazar, Zaheer Abbas, Qasim Omar, Umar Gul, Abdful Razzaq, Daish Kaneria, Waqar Younis, Asif Iqbal, Hanif Mohammad, Khan Mohammad, Shoaib Akhtar etc. Odd duplication. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #53 India 1930s onwards. Black file comprising a good selection of 112 signatures in ink or pencil on printed cards of Test and first-class Indian cricketers. Some signatures on labels laid down. Earlier signatures include Amar Singh, Sorabji Colah, Jahangir Khan, Nazir Ali, Wazir Ali, Palia, C.K. Nayudu, Sarwate, Umrigar, Sen, Hazare, Phadkar, Mantri, V. Manjrekar, Baig, Borde, Ramchand etc. Some duplication. VG. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #54 New Zealand 1930s onwards. Black file comprising a good selection of ninety signatures in ink or pencil on printed cards of Test and first-class New Zealand cricketers. Some signatures on labels laid down. Earlier signatures include Dempster, Playle, Tindill, Bolton, N. Harford, Alabaster, Sparling, Blair, Hayes, Cave, D’Arcy, R. Harford etc., also Turner, Edgar, R. Hadlee, G. Howarth etc. Some duplication. VG. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #55 Autographed ephemera 1970s-2010s. Two files comprising a selection of collectors cards, trade cards, cutting images, the odd menu, match ticket, commemorative covers etc., some signed. Includes signed cigarette cards of Hutton, Washbrook, A. Bedser, J. Cornford (Sussex), Lindwall, postcards signed by Azharuddin, Geoff Boycott, Malcolm Marshall, Ray Booth, David Shepherd etc. ‘The Ashes England Winners 2005’ cover signed by seven England players including Collingwood, Tresocthick, Bell, Pietersen View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #56 Cricket autograph albums. Two autograph albums comprising over 120 autographs of international Test cricketers and other odd sports personalities. Cricket signatures include Peter May, Alec and Eric Bedser, Ted Dexter, Colin Cowdrey, Alan Oakman, David Steele, Brian Close, Bob Willis, John Snow, Mike Brearley, Michael Atherton, Nasser Hussain, Ian Botham, David Gower, Mike Gatting, Graham Gooch, Angus Fraser, Michael Vaughan (England), Richie Benaud, Kim Hughes (Australia), Mushtaq Ahmed (Pakist View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #57 Cricket autograph albums 1970s-2000s. Two autograph albums comprising over four hundred signatures in ink of Test and County players and umpires. Some signed individually to the page, mainly back to back, others multi-signed, some with teams to a page. The majority of signatures with player’s name annotated in ink. Includes the odd earlier signature in pencil from the 1920s/1930s including Russell, O’Connor (Essex), Peach (Surrey) etc. Individual Test players include Rodney Marsh, Greg Blewett, View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #58 Test cricketers autograph album 1940s-2000s. Autograph album bound in wooden boards with decorative scene of Jerusalem to front. Approx. one hundred signatures of Test cricketers signed to pages by team titled in pencil. The odd signature on white label laid down. Teams and signatures include Dennis Brookes, Raman Subba Row, Ray Illingworth, Tony Lewis, John Snow, Alan Oakham, Graham Dilley, Reg simpson, Donald Carr, England (5 pages), Bill Lawry, Doug Walters, Dennis Lillee, Ashley Mallett, Rod View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #59 Yorkshire C.C.C. Legends’ 1920s/ 1930s. Three signatures in ink of Yorkshire players Arthur Dolphin, Roy Kilner and Hedley Verity, each signed to piece and window mounted below accompanying photographs of each player, and team photographs/ postcards of the 1922 and 1936 Yorkshire teams. Framed and glazed, overall 19”x17”. G/VG. View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #60 ‘Yorkshire C.C.C. Legends’ 1927-1928. Montage comprising individual real photograph postcards of George Macaulay and Maurice Leyland, each signed in ink to the photograph by the featured player, an album page signed by eleven members of the 1928 Yorkshire team including Worsley, Rhodes, Macaulay, Oldroyd, Robinson, Mitchell, Leyland, Sutcliffe, Dennis, Wood, and the rarer Harry Bedford (only five first-class matches). Also two postcards of the 1927 and 1928 teams. All window mounted with printed View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #61 Charles Burgess Fry. Oxford University, Sussex, London County, Hampshire, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Excellent large signature in pencil of Fry to a page, the signature with a pencil doodle below by Fry, possibly of a horse. The page measures 6.75”x5.5”. G/VG. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #62 Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1862-1896. Official Gloucestershire C.C.C. receipt handwritten by E.M. Grace, issued to a H.S. Simpson for donations ‘for Wrathall’s Benefit’. Very nicely signed in black ink by Grace as ‘Secretary for Treasurer’ and dated 17th January 1905. Very good condition. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #63 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Nice signature in black ink of Grace, dated 1907, on piece laid to tightly trimmed card, and loosely attached to a printed ‘England Test Player’ card. VG. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #64 William Gilbert Grace junior. Gloucestershire & Cambridge University 1893-1903. Signature in pencil of Grace on page. Some wear and small loss to page edges with expert repair, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #65 Charles Burgess Fry. Oxford University, Sussex, Hampshire, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Excellent signature of Fry in black ink on piece laid to printed ‘England Test Player’ card. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #66 Hugh Richard Bromley-Davenport. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1892-1899. Nice signature of Bromley-Davenport in black ink on piece, loosely attached to printed ‘England Test Player’ card. VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #67 John William Henry Tyler ‘Johnny’ Douglas. Essex & England 1901-1930. Nice signature of Douglas in black ink on piece, loosely attached to printed ‘England Test Player’ card. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #68 Sydney Francis Barnes. Warwickshire, Lancashire & England 1894-1930. Lovely signature of Barnes in black ink on piece, loosely attached to printed ‘England Test Player’ card. VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #69 Yorkshire and England signatures. Five early signatures in ink of players who represented Yorkshire and England. Three signatures each on piece laid down to ‘England Test Player’ card, of Lord Hawke, David Denton, Schofield Haigh, and a further two on pieces loosely attached to cards, of Arthur Mitchell and Percy Holmes. VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #70 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£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #71 Derbyshire C.C.C. 1940s-1980s. A selection of four items with signatures of Derbyshire players including an Albert E. Alderman (Derbyshire 1928-1948) Testimonial Souvenir booklet 1948 very nicely signed in blue ink to the first page by Alderman. Ownership name of F.G. Peach (Derbyshire 1907-1925, 12 matches) and ‘Complimentary’ handwritten to front wrapper. Wear to spine. Printed image of the 1947 Derbyshire team signed by twelve players. Signature in ink on card of L.F. Townsend mounted below a View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #72 Cricket miscellany 1930s onwards. Black file comprising an extensive collection arranged by county of individual signatures on album pages, pieces laid down, cutting images, also official and unofficial autograph sheets/ cards, scorecards, letters etc. The majority from the 1960s-1990s, some earlier. Includes official autograph sheets for Durham 1992, Glamorgan 1983, 2000, Kent 1990, Leicestershire 1996, Surrey 1984, 1989, Warwickshire 1985, Worcestershire 1993, 1996, Yorkshire 1994, and 1998. S View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #73 Australia Test cricketers 1900s-1930s. A selection of signatures, postcards and cigarette cards laid down to black album pages. Includes twenty eight signatures of Australian Test players from the 1930s in ink and pencil on album pages and pieces. Signatures include ‘Pud’ Thurlow, Bill Ponsford, Jack Nitschke, Percy Hornibrook, Don Bradman, Bill Woodfull, Tim Wall, Arthur Chipperfield, Alan Kippax, Hans Ebeling, Bill O’Reilly, Len Darling etc. Also a selection of early postcards depicting indivi View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #74 Australia 1940s-2000s. Black file comprising a comprehensive collection of ephemera signed by Australia cricketers. Over 250 signatures including signatures on pieces, signed photographs, cigarette cards, press photograph postcard, cutting images, magazine page extracts, album pages etc. Earlier individual signatures on small cards include Lindsay Hassett, George Tribe, Jack Moroney, Fred Freer, Neil Harvey, Ken Meuleman, Doug Ring, Colin McCool, Sam Loxton etc. Signed cigarette cards (various s View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #75 County autographs 1960s. Two small autograph books with a good selection of county signatures. One signed either to single or double pages by members of twelve county sides, the majority dated 1964. Teams are Kent (11 signatures), Lancashire (12), Derbyshire (10), Leicestershire (10), Somerset (12), Surrey (12), Glamorgan (9), Worcestershire (14), Nottinghamshire (12), Surrey (15), Gloucestershire (7) and Sussex (13). The other similarly signed by members of seven county sides, mid-1960s. Teams View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #76 Australian players’ signatures 1990s to date. Black file comprising one hundred and ten signatures, the majority signed to white cards and postcards, some signed to labels laid down. Signatures include Brad Hogg, Michael Hussey, Michael Clarke, Brad Haddin, Nathan Hauritz, Philip Hughes, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Simon Katich, Brett Lee, Peter Siddle, Shane Watson, Adam Voges, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, Steve Smith, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Starc, Ashton Agar, Adam Zampa, M View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #77 Alec and Eric Bedser. Page nicely signed in blue ink twice each be Alec and Eric Bedser. File holes not affecting the signatures. Horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #78 Test captains. Lancashire C.C.C. Conference Centre folding card signed by thirty one England and forty three other Test captains to the front, inside and rear of the card. England signatures include Sheppard, May, Mann, Denness, Graveney, Hussain, Colin and Chris Cowdrey, Gower, Atherton, Brearley, Gatting, Cranston, Botham, Flintoff, Carr, Dexter, Willis, Gooch, Greig etc. Other signatures include Benaud, Taylor, Border, I. Chappell (Australia), W. Hadlee, M. Crowe, Reid, Rutherford (New Zealan View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #79 ‘England v. Australia 1861-1938’. Very large blue album with gilt title to front cover, comprising a comprehensive selection of facsimile photographs, illustrations, articles, scorecards and postcards, also a good quantity of original and some reproduction cigarette and trade cards including Ogdens, Wills’s, Godfrey Phillips etc. All loosely laid down to pages with typed and printed captions covering England and Australia home and away tours of the period. Includes original ink signatures on pie View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #80 A.J.W. McIntyre Benefit Year 1955. ‘Autographed Cricket Album’. Hardback Benefit album produced for his Benefit, with signed mono action photograph of McIntyre in wicket-keeping pose to title page and very nicely signed to inside pages, page to a team. View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #81 Surrey C.C.C. c.1965. Official mono image of the Surrey team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire and County blazers. Signed to the borders twelve of the featured players. Signatures are Stewart (Captain), Arnold, Edwards, Edrich, Storey, Tindall, Willett, Barrington, Sydenham, Long, Harman and Gibson. Heavy fold to centre, pin holes to corners, creasing and wear, overall in fair condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #82 ‘Harold Larwood’s Benefit’ 1936. Original large poster advertising the match, Forest Hill XI v. Mr. C.J.E. Jones’ XI, held at Forest Hill Cricket Club, Rubens Street, Perry Hill, Catford, London, 28th June 1936. The poster announces that C.J.E. Jones’ team ‘will be selected from the following Notts County C.C. players’ and lists Gunn, Hardstaff, Harris, Heane, Keaton, Knowles, Lilley, Rhodes, Staples, Voce, Walker, Woodhead and Larwood, with the invitation to ‘Come and see Harold Larwood at his View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #83 Yorkshire C.C.C., Test and County autographs 1990s/2000s. Three Yorkshire C.C.C. pocket diaries for 1998 (17 signatures), 2000 (25) and 2001 (22). Twenty three Yorkshire Phoenix official team and player cards for seasons 1999 and 2000, the majority signed by the featured player, and a further approx. one hundred individual signatures on white cards including some earlier players. Signatures include Old, Lester, Hampshire, Tendulkar, Taylor, Watson, Wilson, Bird, Birkenshaw, Trueman, Appleyard, B View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #84 Test and County autographs. Two Yorkshire C.C.C. autograph albums comprising over one hundred autographs of mainly modern Test and county players. Signatures include C. Lloyd, A. Knott, D. Bairstow, L. Gibbs, D. Haynes, T. Bailey, G. Boycott, G. Evans, R. Benaud, T. Dexter, B. Leadbeater, G. Logie, M. Atherton, B. Lara, V. Richards, M. Marshall, R. Shastri, J. Edrich, N. Radford, P. Neale, I. Botham, G. Dilley, T. Moody, S. Tendulkar, Wasim Akram etc. Some duplication of signatures. G/VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #85 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£200 - £300Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #86 E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. ‘E.W.S. at Lord’s’. Three page handwritten article for ‘The Cricketer’. The article is undated, but was written shortly after Australia’s victory by four wickets over M.C.C. at Lord’s on the 1972 tour to England, ‘For the second time in a week the Australians have won against a declaration, this victory over M.C.C. being less spectacular but naturally more significant than that over Hampshire’. Following their victory, Swanton states ‘the Australians must have left Lord’s mig View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #87 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£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #88 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. ‘Minutes of a Board Meeting of the Company.. October 9th 1919’. Two pages of minutes written in ink in immaculate copper handwriting for a meeting which appears to relate to the formation of Hobb’s company, detailing the appointment of officers, setting up bankers and auditors, issue of shares etc. Signed to the second page by Hobbs. G/VG. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #89 Australia tour to England 1956. Official autograph sheets fully signed in ink by all seventeen listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Johnson (Captain), Miller, Archer, Benaud, Burge, Burke, Craig, Crawford, Davidson, Harvey, Langley, Lindwall, Maddocks, Mackay, McDonald, Rutherford and Wilson. Some folds, minor old tape marks to sheet edges otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #90 Australia tour to India & Pakistan 1956/57. ‘Autographs of the players of the Australian Cricket Team 1956’. An autograph sheet with handwritten title and players’ names, fully signed by all eighteen listed members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Johnson (Captain), Miller, Archer, Benaud, Burge, Burke, Craig, Crawford, Davidson, Harvey, Langley, Lindwall, Maddocks, Mackay, McDonald, Rutherford, Wilson and Manager Dowling. Some minor wear and odd nick to sheet edges otherwise in g View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #91 Australian tour of Pakistan and India 1959/60. Official autograph sheet fully signed in ink by seventeen members of the touring party including Benaud (Captain), Harvey, Davidson, Grout, Lindwall, McDonald, O’Neill, Burge, Mackay etc. Lacking the signature of Gordon Rorke who missed the fourth and fifth Tests against India because of food poisoning and had to return home. The sheet appears to have been trimmed, horizontal and vertical folds, two pin holes to right hand edge otherwise in good con View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #92 Australian tour of England 1961. Official autograph sheet signed in ink by eighteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Benaud (Captain), Harvey, Booth, Burge, Davidson, Gaunt, Jarman, Kline, Lawry, Mackay, McDonald, McKenzie, Misson, O’Neill, Quick, Simpson and Webb (Manager). Minor marks otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #93 Australia tour to England 1968. Official autograph sheet fully signed by the seventeen playing members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Lawry (Captain), Jarman, Chappell, Connolly, Cowper, Freeman, Gleeson, Hawke, Inverarity, Joslin, Mallett, McKenzie, Renneberg, Redpath, Sheahan, Taber and Walters. Light horizontal and vertical creasing otherwise in good/very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #94 Australia tour to India 1969/70. Official autograph sheet fully signed in ink by all fifteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Lawry (Captain), Chappell, Connolly, Freeman, Gleeson, Irvine, Jordon, McKenzie, Mallett, Mayne, Redpath, Sheahan, Stackpole, Taber and Walters. Light folds otherwise in good/ very good condition. A rarer tour sheet. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #95 Australia tour of the West Indies 1973. Official autograph sheet signed in ink by fourteen playing members of the touring party. Signatures include I. Chappell (Captain), Stackpole, Benaud, G. Chappell, Lillee, O’Keefe, Walker, Walters, Watkins etc. Lacking the signature of Marsh. Good condition. Rarer sheet. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #96 Australian tour to England 1977. Official autograph sheet fully signed in ink by all seventeen members of the touring party. Signatures are Chappell (Captain), Marsh, Bright, Cosier, Davis, Dymock, Hookes, Hughes, McCosker, Malone, O’Keeffe, Pascoe, Robinson, Serjeant, Thomson, Walker and Walters. Light horizontal fold otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #97 Australia v India 1977/78. Official Australian Cricket Board autograph sheet signed by twelve members of the Australian team. Signatures include Simpson, Hughes, Thomson, Toohey, Rixon, Cosier, Serjeant, Clark, Dyson, Gannon, Mann etc. Good/very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #98 Australian tour of India 1979. Official autograph sheet fully signed in ink by fourteen members of the touring party including Hughes, Border, Hogg, Whatmore, Wood, Yallop, Yardley, Hilditch, Darling, Higgs, Sleep etc. Lacking the signature of Wright. Light folds otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #99 Australia tour to England 1980. Centenary Test tour. Official autograph sheet fully signed by the fourteen members of the Australia touring party. Signatures are Chappell (Captain), Hughes, Border, Bright, Dymock, Dyson, Laird, Lillee, Mallett, Marsh, Pascoe, Thomson, Wood and Yallop. Light creasing otherwise in good/very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning BidN/AStatusSold Lot #100 Australian tour to England and Sri Lanka 1981. Official autograph sheet fully signed in black and blue ink by twenty members of the Australian touring party. Players’ signatures include Hughes (Captain), Marsh, Alderman, Border, Bright, T. Chappell, Dyson, Hogg, Lawson, Lillee, Wood, Yallop etc. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning BidN/AStatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...17|Next1234567891011121314151617 Previous 1234567891011121314151617 Next Previous 1234567891011121314151617 Next
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