Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia (#11) 25/11/2023 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 25/11/2023 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 1-100 of 1509. Previous|12345678...16|Next Lot #1 W.G. Grace. ‘Souvenir of the National Testimonial to Dr. W.G. Grace, July 22nd 1879, with Photograph and Record of Performances. Sixpence.’ Printed by the Cricket and Football Times, Ludgate Circus, London. [1879], Attractive printed card with title within chromolithographed border of flowers, holly etc. To inside pages is a mounted portrait photograph of Grace, with a record of his averages in first class matches, averages in county matches and scores over 100 in first class matches from 1864 t View details Estimates£300 - £400StatusUnsold Lot #2 W.G. Grace. ‘Banquet held on Monday, June 24th 1895 at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton to Mr W.G. Grace in celebration of his One Hundredth Century, completed on Gloucestershire County Ground in match Somersetshire v Gloucestershire, on Friday May 17th 1895’. Original three page folding card menu for the Banquet, the cover with excellent pictorial colour decoration showing crossed bats, ball and stumps, titles to centre and to lower border an image of a cricket match in progress with Grace batting w View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #3 ‘Farewell Dinner to Dr W.G. Grace 1898’. Original menu card for the Dinner, given by the Clifton Foot Beagles, held at the Clifton Down Hotel on December 6th 1898. Decorative and colourful front cover, with green ribbon tie, with images of hunting horn, whistle, riding cap and whip and titles, menu and toast list to inside pages with further decorative hunting images to rear cover. Printed by ‘W. Bennett, 43 Broad Street’. The toast list includes, His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, W.G. Grace etc. View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #4 ‘Player’s Please’ c.1930s. Unusual free-standing colour advertising display card produced by John Player and Sons depicting the raised figures of an England batsman (possibly Wally Hammond) and Australian(?) fielder. In the background is a full grandstand and scoreboard showing the score at 225 for 3, batsman no. 4 having scored 100. In the sky, the face of W.G. Grace looks down on the scene. 9.25”x12”. Minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #5 ‘Two Great Players’ c.1930s. Original colour advertising display card produced by for John Player & Sons Navy Cut cigarettes depicting a partially cut-out figure of Frank Woolley in batting pose beside a cigarette packet, on a green background. Issued by Imperial Tobacco Co., series no. 3923.P. 8”x13”. The bat detached with tape repair to verso and some wear, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #6 ‘Craven ‘A’ for me says England’s fastest bowler Freddie Trueman’ c.1950. Original colour advertising showcard depicting a youthful figure of Trueman in bowling pose. Series no. C.A. 562/4. Stand-up flap to verso. 8.75”x14”. Slight creasing and minor wear to extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #7 ‘Player’s Please. Favourite Through the Years’ c.1940/50s. Large original colour advertising showcard published by The Imperial Tobacco Company. The card depicts a c.1850s cricket match with batsman, wicket keeper and fielders, with only two stumps and one long bail. Town houses and spectators to background. Stand-up flap and hanging cord to verso. Issue no. 13578. 12”x17”. Minor bumping to corners, otherwise in very good condition. A nice image. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #8 ‘Drink Seymour’s Dry Ginger’ 1925. Original advertising showcard published by Wm. Seymour & Co., Mineral Water Manufacturers, Sherbourne in 1925. The card depicts a mono image of a smiling Hobbs with printed dedication and signature, produced to celebrate Hobbs’ achievement of equalling and breaking W.G. Grace’s record of 126 first-class centuries. Printed extracts relating to the product and Hobbs’ achievement below. 9.5”x14”. Hanging cord to top. Surface wear and damage with tape repairs to fr View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #9 Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire. ‘Record Makers’. Original large mono advertising card of Holmes and Sutcliffe standing full length wearing ‘Style 555 Wetherdair “Olympix” Weather Coats’ standing in front of a scoreboard showing their record opening partnership of 555 for Yorkshire in 1932. 16”x20”. Stand-up flap to verso. Some ageing, wear and small loss to edges, otherwise a good image. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #10 ‘Hobbs’ 100 Centuries’. Large original newspaper poster for the ‘Late Extra’ edition of the [London] Evening News, dated 8th May 1923. The poster measures approx. 20”x30”, framed and glazed overall 22”x32”. Horizontal and vertical folds, some light creasing, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #11 ‘Hornibrook 6 for 5 Essex Rout’. Large original newspaper poster for the ‘Home’ edition of the [London] Evening News, dated 8th May 1930. The poster measures approx. 20”x30”, framed and glazed overall 24”x34”. Horizontal and vertical folds, with small loss to right edge and top corner, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£150 - £180StatusUnsold Lot #12 ‘W.G.’s Son Drops Dead at Cricket’. Large original newspaper poster for the Daily Herald, dated 7th June 1938. The poster measures approx. 20”x30”, framed and glazed overall 22.5”x33”. Horizontal and vertical folds, with apparent old tape repairs to verso, otherwise in good, very good condition. View details Estimates£180 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #13 ‘The Sportsman Alamanac 1902. ‘The Sportsman’ is the Oldest, Largest and Leading Sporting Daily Paper’. Large original rare poster for 1902 season. Printed by Merritt & Hatcher, London. The colourful poster features to the top half of the poster a large printed panel with cameo images of various sizes of members of ‘Australian Tour 1901-02. Mr A.C. Maclaren’s English Eleven. Players featured include Maclaren, Ranjitsinghi, McGregor, Jephson, Lord Hawke, Barnes, J. Gunn, Quiafe, Blythe, Hayward, View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #14 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£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #15 ‘England’s Champion Batsman. J.B. Hobbs. Surrey & England XI’ 1922. Large linen handkerchief with printed headings and five images of Hobbs in various batting poses plus total runs and average in first class cricket up to 1922. Listed to outer border are details of centuries scored by Hobbs. 17”x17”. Laid down to red mount and framed and glazed. Overall 20”x23”. Sold with a large framed Original certificate for ‘The Star Cricket Scheme... for Schoolboys together with an autographed Jack Hobbs ba View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #16 ‘Groves Cricket & General Sporting News Agency, Sheffield’. Two four page ‘Final Revised List of Cricket Fixtures for 1887’, one printed on white paper, the other blue. The front pages detail the terms and prices of the services provided to customers of the agency, with slightly differing versions. Sold with two similar lists published by Ashley & Smith’s Sporting News Agency, London, for ‘The Cricket Season’ 1887 and 1892. Some wear and tears to folds, otherwise in good condition. Qty 4. View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #17 ‘Cricket Notes and Scores’ 1902-1904. Five large scrapbook albums in matching leather bindings (one album larger) with raised bands to spines and gilts to all page edges. All nicely compiled and presented by ‘Allan W.G. Campbell’, each album with handwritten title to inside front cover or first page. Contents comprise magazine and newspaper cuttings of articles, match reports, player biographies, cartoons and images with ten original scorecards laid down. One album is dedicated to the Australian View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #18 Sussex cricketers’ orders of service. A selection of four original memorial service booklets for George Cox, Hove 7th May 1985, Hugh Tryon Bartlett 15th September 1988, Peter John Eaton, Brighton 18th February 2000, and David Stuart Sheppard, Chichester 3rd August 2005. G/VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #19 West Indies. Four colourful greetings cards, each featuring a reproduction of oil paintings by David Skinner, produced in 1994. Subjects are ‘Sir Gary[sic] offdrives’, ‘Greenidge Hooking’, ‘Dessie [Haynes]’ and ‘Master Blaster’. Very good condition. Sold with an original mono postcard of the R.M.S.P. Trent, on which Lord Brackley’s 1905 touring party sailed from Jamaica to Barbados via Trinidad. F.G.O. Stuart series no. 623. Tear to top edge and some staining. Qty 5. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #20 Cricket books, programmes, scorecards etc. Box comprising a selection of ephemera with Gloucestershire interest. Includes ‘Gloucestershire Cricket and Cricketers 1919-1939’, Reg Pogson, Lytham 1939. Scorecards and official programmes including Jack Russell’s Gloucestershire Greats XI v. Rest of the World XI’ 1994, signed by Russell. Modern Cheltenham Cricket Festival programmes etc. Sold with a Cricket Memorabilia Society limited edition phonecard No. 3 of Denis Compton, plus magazine issue nos. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #21 M.C.C. tour to Australia 1924/25. Official menu card for breakfast on the ‘P.& O. R.M.S. Maloja’, dated 13th April 1925, on which the main touring party returned to England. Fully signed in ink to verso by the sixteen members of the touring party who were on board. Signatures are Gilligan (Captain), Douglas, Kilner, Hobbs, Wysall, Woolley, Hearne, Howell, Freeman, Tate, Strudwick, Tyldesley, Sutcliffe, Hendren, Sandham and Toone (Manager). Wear, fold and creasing, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #22 ‘Complimentary Dinner to the South African Team’ 1929. Official folding menu for the dinner given by the M.C.C. at the Lord’s Hotel, London, 3rd June 1929. ‘The President, Field Marshall Lord Plumer, in the Chair’. The front cover with printed titles below caricatures of a British lion, Australian kangaroo and South African springbok each playing a musical instrument, borders in M.C.C. colours. Menu and toast list to centre pages. The date corresponds with the tour match v. M.C.C. at Lord’s. Sig View details Estimates£130 - £160StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #23 M.C.C. tour to Australia 1929/30. Official menu for the dinner given ‘In honour of the M.C.C. Australian Team’ at the Mansion House, London, 18th July 1929, with the Lord Mayor presiding. The four page menu bound in to wrappers with decorative floral borders and white cord tie. Menu, toast list, England team and musical entertainment to inside pages. Nicely signed in black ink to the front cover by twenty three attendees including listed England touring party members, Chapman (Captain), White, H View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #24 Clarence Victor ‘Clarrie’ Grimmett. Victoria, South Australia & Australia 1918-1941. ‘Farewell Dinner to the Australian Cricket Team’ 1930. Excellent and rare 24pp menu for the dinner held at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, London on 8th September 1930. The front cover and some internal pages feature elaborate printed borders, recut on wood from a design used in ‘A Book of Hours’ by Geofroy Tory of Paris. The menu contains exquisite reproductions of pencil drawings of Merchant Taylors’ Hall and articles View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #25 New Zealand tour to England 1931. Official menu for the farewell dinner given to the New Zealand team at the Mayfair Hotel, 22nd September 1931. The large folding menu has been laid down to card with the centre pages displayed, original silk tie retained. The menu comprises cartoons by Tom Webster depicting caricatures of dignitaries and notable sporting guests, and the menu with humorous captions by Webster depicting members of the New Zealand touring party plus odd additional cartoons drawn by View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #26 M.C.C. tour of India & Ceylon 1933/34. Official single sided card menu for a Dinner held for the Marylebone Cricket Club Touring Team in India on the 30th November 1933 in Rajkot. The menu with title and raised floral decoration to top with menu printed below, to corner ‘Rajkot 30-11-1933’. Signed to borders in black ink by fifteen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are D.R. Jardine (Captain), Valentine, Levett, Mitchell, Nicholls, Townsend, Langridge, Barnett, Marriott, Human, Elli View details Estimates£120 - £180Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #27 M.C.C. tour of India & Ceylon 1933/34. Official menu for the ‘Calcutta Cricket Club Dinner to the Marylebone Cricket Club Touring Team in India on Wednesday, January 3rd 1934’. The cover of the menu with titles to centre and decorated with the raised colour images of a lion and tiger and ribbons ties in M.C.C. and Calcutta Cricket Club colours. To inside pages details of the Calcutta officials, names of the M.C.C. team, menu and toasts and music. Printed by Thacker & Spink of Calcutta. Signed to View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #28 ‘A Welcome to the Australian Cricketers from the Savage Club’ original one page menu for a Dinner given to the Australian team on the 28th May 1938. A cricket cartoon depicting a kangaroo batsman by Tom Webster to the front cover, menu to verso. The menu cover signed to face in pencil by twelve Australian cricketers, not all cricketers from the touring party. Signatures are S. Barnes, W.J. O’Reilly, A.G. Chipperfield, W.A. Woodfull, E.L. McCormick, C.W. Walker, B.A. Barnett, J.H. Fingleton, C.G. View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #29 M.C.C. tour to New Zealand 1946/47. Official menu for the ‘Complimentary Dinner’ given by the New Zealand Cricket Council for the M.C.C. touring party, held at Winter Garden, Christchurch, 24th March 1947 during the only Test match played on the New Zealand leg of the tour. The small folding menu with N.Z.C.C. emblem, M.C.C. colours and printed title to front, menu and toast list to inside. The front cover features to the top right corner a hand drawn self-portrait caricature in ink of and by Ar View details Estimates£140 - £180StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #30 South Africa tour to England 1947. F.A. Cup Final Charlton Athletic v. Burnley. Official menu for the lunch held at The Empire Stadium, Wembley, 26th April 1947 which was attended by the South African touring party. The menu is nicely signed in ink to the verso by the full South African touring party. Signatures include Melville (captain), Nourse, Mitchell, Viljoen, Harris, Smith, Plimsoll, Rowan, Mann, Begbie etc. Sold with an official match programme for the F.A. Cup Final. Previously sold by View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #31 Australian tour to England 1948. Official folding menu for the luncheon given by the Institute of Journalists London District to welcome the Australian touring party, held at Grosvenor House, London, 21st April 1948. The four page menu with printed titles to front, menu, toasts and a printed cartoon by Giles of Bradman with a long beard to the inside and caption, ‘News Item 1998- It is expected that Don Bradman will retire from International Cricket this year as usual’. The rear page has been si View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #32 M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1948/49. Large official folding menu for the ‘Farewell Luncheon to the M.C.C. Cricket Team’ held on board the Union Line ‘R.M.M.V. “Durban Castle”’ on which they voyaged to South Africa, at Southampton, 7th October 1948. The front cover with colour illustration of a Cape Scops Owl and printed title, wine list and menu to centre. Fully signed in ink to the back page by all eighteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Mann (Captain), Griffith, Simpson, Hutton, View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #33 M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Rare official folding luncheon menu for the ‘M.C.C. Visit’ to the Raylton Recreation Club, Bulawayo from January 29th- February 1st 1949. Decorative cover with title and colours. With menu to inside and nicely signed in ink to opposite inside page by sixteen playing members of the touring party. Signatures are Mann (Captain), Compton, Young, Griffth, Hutton, Washbrook, Crapp, Simpson, Watkins, Jenkins, Bedser, Tremlett, Evans, Bedser, Gladwin and Wright. Also View details Estimates£140 - £180StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #34 M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Rare official menu for the luncheon given for the M.C.C. held at the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 11th March 1949, on the eve of the final tour match. The folding menu printed to one side in English and to the other (inverted) in Afrikaans with titles and images of the government building to the outside, and respective menus to inside. Signed in ink to the menu by sixteen members of the touring party including the manager, Green, plus one other. Players’ View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #35 New Zealand tour to England 1949. Large official folding menu for the luncheon given for ‘The New Zealand Cricket Team 1949’ by the British Sportsman’s Club at the Savoy Hotel, 12th April 1949. To the front is a cartoon by Tom Webster depicting a New Zealand player being welcomed by a badly bruised ‘British M.C.C. Lion’ in his hospital bed with the caption, ‘I am indeed glad to see you although I’m only just getting over a visit from another dear relative’. Signed in ink to the top by the artis View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #36 New Zealand tour to England 1949. Official folding menu for the dinner held at the close of the New Zealand tour at the Savoy Hotel, 21st September 1949. The front cover with silver New Zealand fern emblem and printed title, with menu and toast list to inside. Fully signed in ink to the front by all sixteen members of the touring party including the manager Phillips, plus Plum Warner. Players’ signatures are Hadlee (Captain), Wallace, Sutcliffe, Burtt, Burke, Mooney, Scott, Cave, Cowie, Smith, R View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #37 West Indies tour to England 1950. Large official folding menu for the luncheon given to welcome ‘The West Indies Cricket Team 1949’ by the British Sportsman’s Club at the Savoy Hotel, 18th April 1950. To the front is a cartoon by Tom Webster depicting a series of humorously captioned caricatures of past England greats ‘and regret we can’t supply the following opposition’, including Hobbs & Sutcliffe, Hendren, Tate, Woolley, Duckworth, Jardine, Larwood, Strudwick, Leyland etc. Signed in ink to th View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #38 South Africa Tour to England 1951. Official Union-Castle Line ‘R.M.S. Arundel Castle’ menu for dinner in the ‘First Saloon’ on which the touring party travelled to England. Signed by all fifteen members of the party. Signatures are Nourse (Captain), E. Rowan, Melle, Endean, McGlew, McLean, Waite, Chubb, Fullerton, Mann, Cheetham, Mansell, A. Rowan, McCarthy, van Ryneveld and Pegler (Manager). Previously sold by Knights in 2021. Some creasing and age toning, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #39 The Cricket Writers’ Club Fourth Annual Dinner 1951. Official menu for the Dinner held at The Press Club, London on the 23rd June 1951, the Dinner included a presentation to ‘The Best Young Cricketer of 1950’, Roy Tattersall. The menu is signed to the front cover and inside page by nineteen guests at the Dinner. Signatures, including several of the South African tourists, Reg Simpson, Norman Yardley, Denis Compton, Eric and Alec Bedser, L. Green, George Duckworth, Len Hutton, Jack Ikin, Brian St View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #40 India tour to England 1952. Official folding menu for the Northern Cricket Society ‘Dinner in honour of the Indian Cricketers’ held at the Guildford Hotel, Leeds, 6th June 1952. Very nicely signed in ink to the front page by fourteen attendees and one to the rear, including members of the Indian touring party. Indian signatures include Shinde, Sarwate, Ghulam Ahmed, D.K. Gaekwad, Phadkar, Ramchand, Mantri, Gopinath, Gupta (Manager), also Len Hutton, Sir William Worsley (Lord Mayor of Leeds), Rex View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #41 ‘Complimentary Dinner to Len Hutton and his Test team in acknowledgement of their success in winning the Ashes’. Official menu booklet for Claude R. Harper’s Dinner held at the Savoy Hotel on the 30th October 1953. Front cover caricature illustration by Tom Webster. Pages comprise a printed photograph of the team, toasts, menu, table plan, guest list etc. Maroon and white cord tie to edge. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #42 M.C.C. tour of the West Indies 1953/54. Fyffes Line ‘S.S. Ariguani’ official dinner menu with printed detail of menu to inside pages, dated 19th April 1954. Nicely signed in ink to front by Sonny Ramadhin, and to rear by fifteen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are Hutton (Captain), Evans, Palmer, Bailey, Suttle, Moss, May, Statham, Compton, Watson, Trueman, Graveney, Lock, Wardle and Spooner. Small crease to one corner, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #43 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1954/55. Orient Line R.M.S. Orsova folding menu for the ‘Book Dinner’ held on board 19th September 1954. Seventeen signatures in ink of members of the M.C.C. touring party to front cover. Signatures are Hutton (Captain), Bailey, Statham, May, Graveney, Wilson, Tyson, Appleyard, Cowdrey, McConnon, Bedser, Wardle, Evans, Edrich, Loader and Andrew (signed twice). Additional owner’s signature to rear. The menu with colour front cover featuring the ship which took the M.C.C. View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #44 Australian Tour to England 1956. Official folding menu for ‘Dinner to the Australian Touring Team’ held at British Timken Limited, Duston, 13th June 1956, during the tour match against Northamptonshire. The menu with printed title to front, Australia and Timken flags to rear, menu and toasts to centre pages. Twenty three signatures in ink to centre pages including members of the Australian touring party, Northamptonshire players etc. Australian signatures include Lindwall, Harvey, Davidson, Ruth View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£141StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #45 M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1956/57. Official menu card for Luncheon held at The Victoria Falls Hotel, 20th November 1956. The single sided card with typed menu to front, is signed in ink to verso by seventeen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are May (Captain), Statham, Insole, Laker, Brown, Lock, Cowdrey, Oakman, Richardson, Loader, Compton, Wardle, Bailey, Evans, Taylor, Tyson and Duckworth (bagman). Creasing and age toning, otherwise in generally good condition. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #46 Brian Taylor, Doug Insole and Trevor Bailey, Essex & England. Copy menu for the ‘Presentation Dinner to record the profound wisdom of the M.C.C. selection committee in honouring Doug Insole, Trevor Bailey and Brian Taylor of Essex’. The Dinner originally held at Garon’s Banqueting Hall, 7th August 1957, following the 1956/57 England tour to South Africa. Signed in later years to inside and rear pages by twenty five Test players. Signatures include Hassett, Hutton, Howarth, Inverarity, O’Neill, T View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #47 New Zealand tour to England 1965. Small original folding menu for the ‘Northern Cricket Society’s Test Match Dinner to the New Zealand Cricketers’ held at the Guildford Hotel, Leeds, 7th July 1965. Eleven signatures in blue ink to the rear autographs page including ten members of the New Zealand touring party. Signatures are Pollard, Sutcliffe, Dowling, Cameron, Vivian, Taylor, Yuile, Morgan, Sinclair and Motz, also the television presenter, Corbet Woodall. Some creasing, otherwise in good condi View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #48 Australia tour to England 1968. Official menu for the Anglo-American Sporting Club ‘Boxing-Dinner Evening in honour of The Australian Test Cricketers’ held at the Hilton Hotel, London, 6th May 1968. The four page menu inserted into card covers and cord tie. Nicely signed in ink to the title page of the menu insert by Alan Connolly of the Australian touring party, and with his initials to the top corner of the front cover. Additionally signed in ink to the back cover by eleven members of the tour View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #49 Len Hutton 1968. Official menu for the Anglo-American Sporting Club ‘Boxing Dinner Evening in honour of Sir Leonard Hutton’ held in Mayfair, London, 19th January 1970. The four page menu inserted into card covers and cord tie. Nicely signed in ink to the back cover by eighteen attendees including cricketers and celebrities. Cricketers’ signatures are Jack Robertson, Ted Dexter, Roy Swetman, Reg Simpson, Alf Gover, Godfrey Evans, Alec Bedser, Peter May, Ken Barrington, Fred Trueman, Len Hutton, J View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #50 E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. Small official folding menu for a dinner at 10 Downing Street, 15th October 1970, hosted by the Prime Minister, Edward Heath. Sold with an accompanying folding table plan. Both issued to and signed by Jim Swanton who attended the dinner. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #51 Garry Sobers. West Indies. Official folding menu for the dinner for the presentation of ‘The Lawrence Challenge Trophy’ to Sobers, held at Quaglino’s Restaurant, London, 28th April 1975. Signed to the back in ink by Sobers. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #52 West Indies tour to England 1976. Official folding menu for the ‘Tribute Dinner’ given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society to the West Indies Touring Team, held at City Hall, Sheffield, 30th June 1976. Twenty one signatures to the back page including eighteen members of the West Indies touring party. Players’ signatures are Lloyd (Captain), Gomes, Murray, Richards, Holder, Fredericks, Daniel, Findlay, Jumadeen, Kallicharran, Holding, King, Padmore, Greenidge, Julien, Rowe, also Walcott (Man View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #53 England tour to Australia 1978/79. Official menu for in-flight meals on the Qantas flight to Sydney, Australia via Bahrain and Singapore. The 8pp menu with colour artwork and Qantas logo to front, inside with a menu to a page for each leg of the flight. Fully signed in ink to the borders of the front cover by all twenty players and officials of the England touring party. Players’ signatures are Brearley (Captain), Tolchard, Randall, Hendrick, Lever, Miller, Edmonds, Old, Taylor, Willis, Gooch, E View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #54 Sri Lanka tour to Zimbabwe 1982. Official folding menu for the ‘Celebrity Dinner in honour of the Sri Lankan Tour 1982’ held at the Jameson Hotel, Harare, 12th November 1982. Signed in ink to the rear ‘Autographs’ page by seventeen members of the Sri Lanka touring party. Signatures include Dias, Ranatunga, D.S. de Silva, M. Wettimuny, Mendis, S. Wettimuny etc. Light creasing, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #55 ‘The Forty Club’. Official menu for the ‘Annual Dinner’ held at the London Hilton, Park Lane, 23rd October 1992. The 16pp menu in card wrappers with lists of attendees, menu, toast list etc. to pages. Nicely signed in ink to front cover by fourteen attendees including Denis Thatcher, E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton, Peter May, Bob WIllis, Tom Graveney, John Emburey, Colin Cowdrey, Tony Lewis, Brian Johnston, George Mann, Dennis Silk etc. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #56 Hampshire C.C.C. 1930s-1980s. A selection of autographs in ink on pieces and pages of Hampshire players. Signatures are H. Horton (2), D. O’Sullivan, R. Moore, B. Richards (3), I. McCorkell (2), also an official menu for the Hampshire C.C.C. Committee Dinner at Southampton to celebrate winning the Benson & Hedges Cup 1988, signed in pencil to back page by eight attendees including Connor, C. Smith, R. Smith, Terry, Parks etc. Sold with a set of twenty four ‘Hampshire C.C.C. Sunday League Era’ co View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #57 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Single page handwritten letter written in ink from Hobbs to Arthur Wellard (Somerset & England 1927-1950), dated 6th October 1933. Hobbs thanks Wellard ‘for playing in my team at Wimbledon’ and encloses the gift of a pen. Nicely signed by Hobbs. Folds with some foxing and creasing, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #58 Charles Aubrey Smith. Cambridge University, Sussex & England, 1882-1896. Three page handwritten letter from Smith, dated 29th June 1938, replying to a request for a photograph, with good content relating to the ongoing 1938 Ashes series and the recently completed Lord’s Test that Smith had attended. He states ‘England came out of it well’ despite Ames and Hammond being ‘crippled’ (Ames had fractured a finger keeping wicket). He bemoans Bradman not being given out LBW on 98, and ‘could only imagi View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #59 Charles Burgess Fry. Oxford University, Sussex, London County, Hampshire & England 1892-1922. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Fry, dated 5th February 1904. Writing from Glenbourne Manor in Hampshire, Fry encloses ‘a couple of the little pictures you said you would like’ and thanks the correspondent for his assistance. Nicely signed ‘C.B. Fry’. Horizontal and vertical folds. Good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #60 Lord Henry Francis Montagu-Douglas Scott. Four page handwritten letter from Scott to ‘Parker’, dated 10th October 1935, turning down an invitation to write an article, and to provide a lengthy character reference for his niece, Lady Alice Scott, who had become engaged to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in August 1935. They were subsequently married on 6th November 1935 when she acquired the title Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. Scott states in his letter, ‘I am certain that the King & Q View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #61 Alexander J. Webbe. Middlesex & England 1875-1900. One page handwritten letter, on ‘M.C.C. Lord’s Cricket Ground’ headed paper, from Webbe to Mr Denham regarding playing for Middlesex 2nd XI. Dear Mr Denham, We shall be very glad if you will play for Middlesex 2nd XI at Kensington Park on June 5- 6. Greatorex is going to Captain the side and the Beldams are playing, so I think you will be pretty strong’. The letter dated 26th May 1896 and nicely signed in ink by Webbe. VG. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #62 William George Quaife. Warwickshire & England 1894-1928. Three page airmail letter, handwritten in ink to the cricket historian and writer, J.D. Coldham, and dated 2nd March 1946 with good cricket content. Quaife describes scoring centuries on his Warwickshire debut in 1893 and in his last match in 1928, playing matches with W.G. Grace at Crystal Palace claiming him to be ‘the greatest cricketer of all time’ and treasuring a signed bat of Grace’s in his possession. Quaife believes that ‘we old o View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #63 Thomas Bignall ‘Tommy’ Mitchell. Derbyshire & England 1928-1939. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Mitchell to a collector. The undated letter written in later years, probably c.1990. Mitchell is replying to a request to sign a collection of cigarette cards which he is duly returns and hopes the collector is able to acquire the signatures of other members of the ‘bodyline team’. Signed ‘T.B. Mitchell’. G View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #64 Hon Alfred Lyttelton. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1876-1887. Short handwritten note on small ‘Great College Street, Westminster’ headed card, dated 28th October 1906. Lyttelton writes to confirm the date of a dinner engagement. Nicely signed in ink ‘A. Lyttelton’. Crease and small adhesive mark, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #65 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Single page neatly handwritten letter on ‘Woodthorpe, Clapham Park’ letterhead from Hobbs, dated 19th January 1930. Writing to ‘Colonel Wynyard’, Hobbs states ‘You may depend upon Struddy [Herbert Strudwick] & myself turning up at Seer Green on Tuesday next... we are looking forward to a good game’. It is not known to what game this refers. Very nicely signed ‘J.B. Hobbs’. Horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #66 Francis George Mann. Middlesex, Cambridge University & England 1937-1954. Single page handwritten letter from Mann, dated 5th July 1957, in which Mann states he has been in London ‘for the past six months and am enjoying the few games of cricket I have been able to play’. Signed ‘George Mann’. The letter is unevenly trimmed, with horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£15 - £25StatusUnsold Lot #67 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£25 - £35Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #68 Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford. Original signed free-front envelope date stamped 28th September 1825. Nicely signed ‘Hertford’ in black ink. An early signature of Hertford who was an English amateur cricketer 1797-1799. He was mainly associated with Surrey and was a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. He was a British Tory politician and art collector. Small holes to two corners, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #69 Jack Hobbs. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1928/29. Official M.C.C. Christmas card sent by Hobbs. Decorative covers with M.C.C. emblem and trimming in M.C.C. colours, photograph of the team to inside with Christmas greeting. Signed ‘Mr. & Mrs. Jack Hobbs’. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #70 Colin Cowdrey. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1962/63. Official M.C.C. Christmas card sent by Cowdrey. Decorative covers with M.C.C. emblem and trimming in M.C.C. colours, photograph of the team to inside with Christmas greeting. Signed ‘Colin’. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #71 Len Hutton. Original Christmas card from the Hutton family from their home in Pudsey. Signed in ink ‘Dorothy, Leonard, Richard and John Hutton’, which probably dates the card to c.1960 when Richard and John were still living at home. VG. View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #72 Thomas ‘Tom’ Richardson, Surrey, London County, Somerset & England, 1892-1905. Excellent pencil signature of Richardson on piece. VG. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #73 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Sussex & England 1893-1920. Excellent signature of Ranjitsinhji in ink on piece laid down to album page, with to verso another excellent signature in ink on piece laid down of John Richmond Gunn (Nottinghamshire, London County & England 1896-1925). VG View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #74 Neville Alexander Knox. Surrey & England 1904-1910. Nice small signature in ink of Knox to one corner of an album page. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #75 Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire, Europeans & England 1898-1930. Excellent signature in black ink of Rhodes on piece laid down and window mounted below a mono postcard of Rhodes in batting pose at the crease. Publisher unknown. Very good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #76 Francis Alexander MacKinnon of MacKinnon. Cambridge University, Kent & England 1870-1885. Nice signature in pencil of MacKinnon on piece laid down to ‘England Test Player’ card. VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #77 Walter Mead. Essex & England 1894-1913. Excellent signature in ink of Mead on piece laid down to ‘England Test Player’ card. VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #78 England ‘One Test Wonders’ 1931-1946. Four individual signatures in ink or pencil of players who made only one Test appearance, each laid down or loosely attached to ‘England Test Player’ card. Two signatures of John Arnold (Hampshire, 1 Test 1931), and Charles Stowell Marriott (Lancashire & Cambridge University, 1 Test 1933). Two pencil signatures of Henry William Lee (Middlesex, 1 Test 1930/31), and Thomas Francis Smailes (Yorkshire, 1 Test 1946). VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£18StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #79 South Africa Test Players 1927-1951. Eight individual signatures in ink (one in pencil) of players who played Test cricket for South Africa, each signed to piece and laid down to ‘South Africa Test Player’ card. Signatures in ink are Bruce Mitchell, Ken Viljoen (two), Dudley Nourse (two), Athol Rowan and Eric Rowan, and in pencil, Jock Cameron. VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #80 Modern England Test Players 1970s-2010s. Black file comprising seventy seven ‘England Test Player’ cards, each individually signed in ink, with the odd signature on piece laid down, of England Test players. Signatures include Saggers, Vaughan, Selby, Hussain, Jackman, Stewart, Caddick, Panesar, Sajid Mahmood, Strauss, Collingwood, Flintoff, Broad, Harmison, Swann, Cook, Knight, Adil Rashid, Bell, Trott, Onions, Plunkett, Morgan, Finn, Bresnan, Prior, Bairstow, Roy, Buttler etc. Odd duplication. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #81 Australia cricketers 1950s- 2000s. Thirty nine white cards, each individually signed by an Australian Test or first-class cricketer and the odd official. Signatures include Massie, Gilmore, Bright, I. Chappell (2), Hookes, Holdsworth, Zoehrer, Lillee, Alderman, Burge, Dodemaide, Inverarity, Healy, Thomson, Boon, Law, Moody, Blewett, Simpson, Lawry, R. Marsh, Sleep, Slater, Lawson, Benaud, McGrath, Langer, Ponting, Warne, M. Waugh, Taylor, Gilchrist etc. VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #82 England cricketers 1950s- 2000s. Thirty three white cards, each individually signed by an England Test or first-class cricketer. Signatures are Alec & Eric Bedser (signed together), M. Ealham, Aftab Habib (2), Willis, Gower, Barnett, M. Smith, Knight, Radley, Dexter, Wells, Birkenshaw, DeFreitas, Lewis, Fleming, Willey, Malcolm, Headley, D. Smith, Jarvis, Randall, Caddick, Irani, Lynch, Close, Larkins, Dilley (2), Jackman, and Marks (3). VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #83 New Zealand cricketers 1950s- 2000s. Twenty four white cards, each individually signed by a New Zealand Test or first-class cricketer and the odd official. Signatures are M. Sinclair (3), Smith (2), Bracewell, Wright (2), Sandland, B. Young, Reid, C. Cairns, Pocock, Rutherford, G. Howarth, Larsen, M. Hart, Greatbatch, Owens, M. Crowe, Hartland, D. Morrison, Pringle, and Rixon. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£18StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #84 South Africa cricketers 1960s- 2000s. Twenty seven white cards, each individually signed by a South African Test or first-class cricketer and the odd official. Signatures include P. Pollock, Procter (2), Short, Snell, Rhodes, Donald, Bacher, P. Kirsten, McMillan, G. Kirsten, Cronje, Cullinan, Hudson, Symcox, Wessels, Liebenberg, van der Merwe, S. Pollock, Richardson, F. de Villliers, Shaw, Richards etc. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #85 Pakistan cricketers 1950s- 2000s. Thirty six white cards, each individually signed by a Pakistan Test or first-class cricketer and the odd official. Signatures include Abdul Qadir, Ijaz Ahmed (2), Imran Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Mudassar Nazar (2), Waqar Younis, Shahid Mahmood, Mushtaq Mohammad, Yawar Saeed, Ata-ur-Rehman (3), Aamer Sohail, Nazim-ul-Ghani, Saqlain Mushtaq (2), Javed Burki, Manzoor Elahi, Ijaz Ahmed, Asif Mujtaba, Asif Iqbal, Rameez Raja, Zahoor Elahi (2), Wasim Akram etc. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #86 India cricketers 1970s- 2010s. Twenty seven white cards, each individually signed by an Indian Test or first-class cricketer. Signatures include Dravid, Srinath (2), Ramesh, Azharuddin, Kumble, Ganguly, Tendulkar, Gavaskar, Sandeep Patil (2), Shastri, Chetan Sharma, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Ajay Jadeja, Hirwani, Lamba, Srikkanth, Engineer, Prabhakar, Jaffer etc. VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #87 West Indies cricketers 1950s- 2000s. Thirty seven white cards, each individually signed by a West Indies Test cricketer. Signatures are Ramadhin, Hall, Walcott, C. Smith, Adams, Kallicharran, Richards, King (2), Deryck Murrary, Lambert (2), Bishop, Croft (2), Cuffy, Haynes (2), Lloyd, Ambrose, Roberts, Harper, Hooper, Richardson, Simmons, Walsh, Marshall, Wallace, Thompson, Holding, Arthurton, Gibson, Garner, Cummins, Campbell, Greenidge and Holder. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #88 Zimbabwe cricketers 1980s- 2000s. Twenty four white cards, each individually signed by a Zimbabwe international cricketer and the odd coach. Signatures are Curran, P. Strang (3), B. Strang, Bryceland, Carlisle, Brent, Mbangwa, Campbell, Gripper (2), Olonga (2), A. Flower, Nkala, Taibu, Pycroft, Johnson, Murphy, Whittall, Streak, Goodwin and Viljoen. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #89 ‘The Centurions- Scorers of 100 First-Class Centuries’. Headed book insert by Boundary Books containing the ink signatures of nine players who have achieved the feat. Signatures, nicely signed in ink, by Don Bradman, Glenn Turner, Colin Cowdrey, Tom Graveney, Dennis Amiss, Geoff Boycott, John Edrich, Zaheer Abbas and Graham Gooch. 8.75”x12”. Sold with a further headed Boundary Books limitation page, nicely signed by Viv Richards and Bill Frindall. Qty 2. G/VG View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #90 Arundel Castle C.C. 1995. Individual limitation page produced for the Deluxe Limited Edition of ‘Cricket at the Castle. One hundred years of cricket at Arundel 1895-1995’ by Sir Michael Marshall published by Boundary Books in 1995, of which only 100 copies were published. The page is very nicely signed in ink by Sir Colin Cowdrey, Hubert Doggart and an impressive array of former captains of the Duke and Duchess’ teams - Mike Denness, Ted Dexter, Paul Parker, Rev. David Sheppard, Tony Lewis, Roge View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #91 England tour to West Indies 1981. Two Cable and Wireless Press Telegram sheets, one signed in ink by sixteen members of the England touring party, the other by thirteen members of the West Indies team. Both sheets annotated in ink ‘[For] David Frith’. England signatures are Botham, Miller, Willey, Jackman, Emburey, Dilley, Gatting, Old, Boycott, Bairstow, Downton, Stevenson, Butcher, Gooch, Gower and Athey. West Indies signatures include Lloyd, Gomes, Holding, Greenidge, Haynes, Garner, Croft, M View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #92 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1936/37. Official Orient Line S.S. Orion official brochure for the M.C.C. Australasian Tour 1936/37. Signed in ink to pen pictures by all eighteen members of the touring party. Signatures include Allen, Ames, Duckworth, Farnes, Hammond, Leyland, Verity, Voce, Worthington etc. Some foxing and soiling to original wrappers, centre pages cleanly detached. Slight fading to the odd signature, otherwise in good condition. Sold with an original sepia ‘Orient Line S.S. “Orion”’ p View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #93 ‘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£120 - £160StatusUnsold Lot #94 Don Bradman circa 1950’s. Original large poster for the ‘Daily Mail’ with colour banner headline, ‘Bradman on the Tests. Exclusive’, and mono head and shoulders image of Bradman. Signature in ink of Bradman to label laid down to lower portion of the poster. Printed by Gibbs & Bamforth Ltd., St. Albans, Herts. Framed and glazed, overall 21”x31”. Light folds, some fading to the signature, crease to the label, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #95 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. ‘Minutes of a Board Meeting of the Company... December 4th 1919’. Two pages of minutes written in ink in immaculate copper handwriting for a meeting which appears to relate to the buying of ‘Cricketing, Sporting and Athletic articles from Summers Brown & Sons Ltd and in return shall manufacture items bearing the name of Mr Jack Hobbs’, also terms of the lease at 59 Fleet Street, London, share applications and certificates etc. Signed to the se View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #96 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, by the Surrey team of 1955 (15 signatures), Yorkshire (16), Derbyshire (11), Middlesex (14), Lancashire (21), Worcestershire (15), Leicestershire (12), Northamptonshire (11), Glamorgan (14), Kent (11), Gloucestershire (13), Warwickshire (13), Nott View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #97 ‘American Cricket (1930 on)’ and Charles Aubrey Smith. Very large black binder comprising an excellent collection of photographs, magazine images, press cuttings, letters etc. relating to North American cricket in the 1930s- 1950s with a good selection of content relating to the Hollywood actor and former cricketer Charles Aubrey Smith and Hollywood Cricket Club, which Smith founded in the early 1930s. The album, with handwritten title label to spine, comprises approx. thirty original mono press View details Estimates£800 - £1,200Winning Bid£2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #98 Autographed cricket ephemera. A miscellany of signed programmes, scorecard, booklets, bookplates etc. Items include ‘A Hundred Years of County Cricket’. John Arlott. 1973. Souvenir brochure issued by the Post Office in 1973 with three mint County cricket stamps and signed to the first page by Arlott. A limited edition print of a cartoon by ‘Worth’ titled ‘The First Battle of the Roses took place on May the Twenty Second 1455’, no. 2/70, signed by Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook, Brian Statham and Fr View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #99 All India tour to England 1936. Two album pages nicely signed in black ink (one in pencil) by twenty one members of the India touring party. Players’ signatures include Amarnath, Palia, Wazir Ali, Merchant, Mushtaq Ali, Banerjee, Nayudu, Jai, Meherhomji, Amir Elahi, Ramaswamy, Golpalan etc. One page also signed in ink to verso by [Nawab of] Pataudi. Smudging to one signatures, some wear, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #100 ‘Indian Cricket Team in Australia, 1947-48’. Two trimmed album pages laid down to an official autograph sheet, fully signed by all seventeen members of the India touring party. Signatures are Amarnath (Captain), Hazare, Nayudu, Gul Mohammad, Elahi, Rai Singh, Kishenchand, Sohoni, Ranvirsinhji, Mankad, Sarwate, Adhikari, Irani, Phadkar, Rangnekar, Sen and Rangachary. Horizontal fold and some creasing, otherwise in good condition. 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