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 401-500 of 1509. Previous|12345678...16|Next Lot #400 Cricket ceramics and metalware. A selection including reproduction Staffordshire figures (five including Grace), four childs cricket egg cups, two cricket mugs (1950/60’s) including Arthur Wood series, a cricket plate, two cricket bottle stops, a silver plated tray inscribed ‘Prudential County Cup 1978’, 12.5” long, World Cup 2019 ‘Official Fifty Pence Collection, card containing five 50p pieces, each with cricket theme, two ‘Cricketers’ Tape’s, one in leather case, original measuring tape with View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #401 Charles Inglis Thornton. Kent, Cambridge University & Middlesex 1867-1885. Silver hallmarked tankard with scroll shaped handle and glass bottom presented to Thornton for coming second in ‘Throwing the Cricket Ball’ at his school Eton in 1866. The tankard with Eton school emblem, the inscription reads ‘Second in the cricket ball 1866’ and ‘Floreat Etona’ (May Eton Flourish) and below his name ‘C.I. Thornton’. Some minor wear to the emblem and inscription. Worn hallmarks. The tankard stands 4.75” View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£310StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #402 ‘Hubbard’s Cricket Ground. The Greyhound Loughborough’ Early brass [?] disc admission ticket/token with name of the ground impressed to one side with centre image of two bats, stumps and ball and to the other impressed name of the public house and town, the price of entry 2d and the token makers name ‘T. Pope of Birmingham’. Hole pressed out to the disc presumably on entry to the ground. Un-dated but probably around 1840/1860’s [?]. Approximately 1” diameter. An early form of entry ticket. Some View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£330StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #403 M.C.C. ivory Life Membership badge/token presented to and used by Cyril Stacey from around 1888 onwards. The badge/token has the M.C.C. emblem to one side with membership number 32 to lower border and to the verso his name ‘Cyril Stacey’ and ‘Not Transferable’ to outer border. M.C.C. collection number to edge ‘M0055-2’ to edge. good/very good condition. A rare early item View details Estimates£350 - £450Winning Bid£350StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #404 Victoria cricket buckle. Excellent complete brass buckle with impressed images of cricket bats, pads, stumps, gloves, ball. Clasp and bar to verso. Very good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #405 ‘American Eagle’. Early exquisite Victorian brass belt buckle featuring an eagle holding cricket stumps in its talons and cricket cap, gloves, boots, ball, bails hanging off ends of cricket bat in its beak with beaded decoration to edges. The buckle measures 2.75”x2.25”. The buckle worn and a little blackened, lacking clasp and flat hook to back otherwise in generally good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #406 ‘Health & Exercise’. Early exquisite Victorian raised oval brass belt buckle featuring a batsman to centre with borders decorated with crossed bats, stumps, scoring tent, two hands shaking with the wording to each side border. The buckle measures 1.75”x2.25”. The buckle lacking clasp and flat hook to back otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #407 ‘Our Play’. Early exquisite Victorian raised oblong brass belt buckle featuring a pair of hands about to catch a cricket ball to centre, to side borders are a cricket bat to one side and stumps to the other, the wording to the top corners. The buckle measures 2”x2.5”. The buckle with clasp and flat hook to back. Good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #408 Cricket buckle. Early Victorian raised square brass belt buckle featuring crossed bats, stumps, bails and ball to centre panel, lined decoration to borders. The buckle measures around 2.25” with clasp and flat hook to back. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #409 Cricket buckle. Early Victorian curved oblong silver metal belt buckle featuring a wicket to centre with two cricket bats leaning in to wicket, curved decoration to borders. The buckle measures around 2.75 x2.25” with clasp and flat hook to back. Good condition. Sold with a worn brass smaller buckle with crossed bats and wicket with scoring tent to background to centre, 1”x1.75” and a silver metal cricket medal (?) with inscription ‘Liverpool & District Teachers Association’. G View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #410 Cricket belt and buckle. Decorative late 19 century cricket full belt and buckle. The two piece brass metal buckle of oval design with bats, ball and stump to centre. The decorative belt with yellow and cream stripes running along it. Very good condition. Rare to see the original belt still attached to the buckle of a belt dating from this period. An attractive item View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #411 Cricket belt and buckle. Brass cricket full belt and buckle. The brass buckle of oblong design with inscription ‘Presented by The Bermondsey Albion Cricket Team to A. Coughtrey. January 8th 1881. The belt in plain blue cloth. Very good condition. Rare to see the original belt still attached to the buckle of a belt dating from this period. An attractive item View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #412 ‘Advance Australia’. Early exquisite Victorian embossed oblong brass belt buckle, with clasp and flat hook to back, featuring the Australian emblem to centre with a batsman and a bowler to either side with the wording ‘Advance Australia’ beneath, decorative border to edge. The buckle measures 2.5”x2” and is in remarkably good condition. Not previously seen by the auctioneer View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #413 Cricket belt buckle. A large curved Victorian heavily decorated silver belt buckle awarded to John Dorrinton in 1878 for best bowling average. The buckle circular with additional side extensions bearing floral designs. To centre the buckle is inscribed ‘Presented to John Dorrington for the best bowling average 1878’ and to outer belt shaped rim ‘Brunswick Wheel Works Cricket Club. Wednesbury’. The buckle, with clasp and flat hook to back, measures 3.75” wide by 2.5” tall. Very good original cond View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #414 Richard Green Hardstaff. Nottinghamshire 1887-1899. Three hallmarked silver medals presented to Hardstaff, all three attached to a silver hallmarked chain. One medal with intricate pierced design surmounted by a crown, engraved ‘Presented to R.G. Hardstaff by a Friend at Notts July 1893’. The other two engraved ‘S.T.C.C., N.C.L. [Nottinghamshire Cricket League] 1901’ and ‘R.G. Hardstaff, N.C.L. 1903’. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #415 Melbourne Cricket Club metal and enamel membership medal for 1907-08. Number 4361 to back. Minor wear, good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #416 Victorian cricket buttons. Four Victorian cricket buttons. Each button having a colour image of a cricketer. Two of a fielder, one a bolwer and one a batsman. Sold with a linked pair of buttons making cufflinks with images of batsman to each. c1880/90’s. Good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #417 Sporting Mustard tin c1880/90’s. Taylor Brothers of London hexagonal mustard tin with scenes of various sports to the six sides and lid. Sports featured are cricket, tennis, rugby, fishing, sailing and shooting, with hunting to lid. Images patented by Bryant and May, the match makers. 3.5” tall. Some minor wear otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #418 Cricket snuff box. A black lacquered papier mache kidney shaped snuff/pill box with hinged lid, believed to be circa 1870/80’s. The lid painted with a cricketing scene of boys playing cricket with trees in background. The box measures approximately 2.5”x1.75”x.75”. Some damage with loss to the centre of the lacquered surface of the lid otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #419 No lot. View details StatusUnsold Lot #420 Cricket vesta. Silver vesta case with engraved image of a cricketer playing an expansive shot at the wicket. Hall marks worn and difficult to read. Approximately 1.5”x2”. Minor wear and slight dent otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #421 Cricket vesta. Silver vesta case with engraved presentation inscription ‘Presented to Mr Geo Bott. by his fellow players in the Wadsley Cricket Team 1907. Hallmarks for Sheffield 1906. Approximately 1.5”x1.75”. Minor wear and two small slight dents otherwise in good condition. Sold with a smaller silver vesta case which appears to have had a small circular gilt metal image of a cricketer affixed at some point in the past. Hallmarks for Birmingham 1901. 1.25”x1.5. Good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #422 Cricket locket. Silver/gilt shield shaped opening locket with batsman at the wicket with keeper behind. Not hallmarked but appears to be silver/gilt. Minor signs of wear otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #423 Cricket medals. A lovely selection of fourteen silver medals, all displayed on a circular fabric covered base. The medals, all hallmarked barring one, seem to date from the 1890’s to the 1940’s. Various designs and shapes and many with inscriptions to front or back, four decorated with enamel, some silver/gilt. The largest to the centre is for the ‘Stoke Victoria Cricket Club’ and is unmarked to back. An attractive display with the medals in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #424 Cricket medals. A lovely selection of nineteen silver medals, all displayed on a circular fabric covered base. The medals, all hallmarked barring one, seem to date from the 1890’s to the 1930’s. Various designs and shapes and odd one with inscriptions to front or back, four decorated with enamel, some silver/gilt. One for the Derbyshire Cricket League 1890. An attractive display with the medals in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #425 Cricket tie or scraf clip. Small brass tie or scarf clip with impressed image of a set of a wicket with crossed bats within an oblong beaded surround. The clip open with catch to back. Approximately .75” tall by .75” wide. Date unknown. Very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #426 Cricket kettle and stand with burner. Large, attractive and unusual Victorian silver plated cricket kettle on stand with spirit burner beneath. The detachable kettle with naturalistic branch handle with mounted finial of a batsman wearing cap. The spirit burner beneath beautifully decorated with sets of stumps and bails and two cricket bats to either side supported by four cricket ball feet. Approximately 12” tall and in good/very good condition. An excellent example of Victorian craft View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #427 Cricket desk set. Large and impressive silver plated cricket ink stand consisting of a central detachable section with figure of a batsman posed in front of the wicket to lid, two glass ink pots with plated lids on a oblong stand with pen rests to both sides. The stand engraved with inscription ‘Presented to Capt. C.H. Richards, Hon. Sec. G.J.C. from Part Mutual Clerks. 25-12-[19]06’. The oblong stand measures 10”x5x7”. Silver plate marks to base. Plated lid to one pot loose otherwise in good co View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #428 Cricket cigarette case. Silver oblong cigarette case presented by ‘Ellesmere C.C. Batting Award. J.T. Shipman 1911’. The case hallmarked ‘Birmingham 1901’. Sold with a small newspaper cutting referring to Joe Shipman of Ellesmere C.C. taking eight wickets for one and winning a bat as ‘performance of the week’. Ellesmere is a town in Shropshire View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #429 Cricket card holder. Slim brass card holder with raised cricket bat decoration to lid. Sold with a brass bottle stop, a brass figure of a batsman with wooden/cork stopper. This is placed in a circular glass upright holder for when not in use. 5.5” tall. Breakage to stopper. Date unknown. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #430 Cricket cruet stand. Edwardian silver plated cruet stand comprising of three crossed cricket bats with cricket ball legs. The handle in the form of a cricketer’s belt and buckle, as are the circular fittings for holding the pots. Approx. 5” high. Lacking condiment pots. Sold with a smaller pair of silver/gilt condiment pots, two pots to each with two original spoons, crossed bats and cricket ball handles and cricket ball feet. Hallmarked. Qty 3 View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #431 Brass cricket ball shaped ashtray mounted on three crossed cricket bats on circular metal base with lip. 5.5” tall. Sold with three small silver presentation cricket cups, two are similar for the ‘Chesterfield & District Minor Cricket Association’, hallmarked 1934 and 1936, 3” and another with three cricket bat decoration below the bowl, ‘The Sir Sidney Lea Cup 1934’, hallmarks worn, 4”. Qty 4. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #432 Lancashire circa 1890’s. Circular picture pin badge/button of the Lancashire team, standing and seated in rows. Players featured include Mold, Smith etc. Minor rusting to verso, minor wear otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £50Winning Bid£95StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #433 Cricket bat display. Wooden display stand with velvet lined base displaying eight miniature carved cricket bats with stringed (thread) handles, a set of stumps and bails to centre and three red cricket ball in front of the stumps. perspex dome covers the display. The display stand was probably made for a sporting goods shop, date unknown, maybe 1930/50’s. Label to base for the ‘Glass Warehouse, Lisson Grove, London’. The display in good condition, the dome with crudely repaired break to it. An u View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #434 Cricket ball inkwell. Leather cricket ball ink well, well made with seam and stitched quarters. The ball is split and hinged and opens to reveal a brass liner with an original glass ink well. Approximately 2.5” circumference. Some wear to ball otherwise in good working condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #435 Cricket ball inkwell. The leather cricket ball mounted to wooden base with ink well inserted to the top of the ball, silver opening lid. The ink well was presented as ‘A Token of appreciation from the members of Epps Cricket Club 1932’. The lid and inkwell hallmarked Birmingham 1923. Some wear otherwise in good working condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #436 Cricket bottles. Attractive cricket glass lemonade bottles c1870/90’s with ‘Codd’s patent’ glass ‘marble’ ball stop and ‘Rylands Bulb patent’ glass ‘marble’ ball stop. One for ‚ÄòB. Noble of Birstall’ with figure of a batsman, stumps and ball to side of bottle and one for ‚ÄòJ. Smith of Accrington’ with stumps and ball to side of bottle. Approximately 9” tall. Good condition View details Estimates£60 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #437 Oxford v Middlesex 1887. The cricket ball used during the Oxford innings of 555 and the record breaking third wicket stand of 340 runs for the 6th wicket stand between Kingsmill Key and Hylton Philipson for Oxford University v Middlesex in the match played at Chiswick Park, Chiswick on the 23rd to 25th June 1887. The ball with silver metal band with inscription ‘Oxford v Middlesex. June 23rd, 24th, 25th. Oxford scored 555 with this ball. K.J. Key 281. H. Philipson 150. 340 runs for the 6th wicke View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #438 Australian tour of England 1884. Antique block Meerschaum Pipe in original ‘pipe shaped’ brown leather case lined with red velvet with clasp, hinged lid and brass hinges presented to an Australian reporter on the 1884 tour. Gilt inscription to the case reads ‘Presented to Frank Irving esq, special reporter to the Australian Eleven by a few friends that met him during his stay at The Saracens Head Hotel, Snow Hill, London 1884’. The pipe and case measure 7” long. Good/very good condition. An unus View details Estimates£140 - £180StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #439 A late one-piece cricket bat. An mid 19th Century one-piece cricket bat made by John Thompson of Windsor and dated 1848. The bat is unspliced, narrow and straight shouldered with am unusually slightly convex face and the back of the blade is humped. The bat was made for a right handed batsman. There is what appears to be an old museum label to the back of the bat which reads ‘Bat dating 1848. Belonging to G. Mellor. Given to his great grandson Raymond by his uncle P.H. Mellor, August 1933’ in i View details Estimates£300 - £500StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #440 An early presentation cricket bat. An mid to late 19th Century cricket bat from 1874 made by William Page of Dulwich. The bat is slim and slightly humped. The bat is topped by a button cap and is not sprung. There is a silver metal shield to the back of the bat which reads ‘Lausanne Cricket Club. Presented to Jno. S. Walker Esq, for highest average- 26. Season 1874. An early and rare bat. Good condition. Sold with the late vendors research notes giving further information on the bat View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #441 Aquila Clapshaw cricket bat 1875. An early cricket bat made by Clapshaw and exported to Australia The bat is typical of this period, the blade is slim and the back almost flat at the top, becoming slightly humped as it reaches the toe. The handle made from four strips of cane glued together, small repair and restoration to the toe and string binding at the top and lower middle of the blade. The top of the handle has impressed Aquila Clapshaw & Sons, City Road, London’ and under the toe is impres View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #442 ‘Lady Isabella’s bat 1875’. Aquila Clapshaw cricket bat used by Lady Isabella Georgina Ketherine Cecil of Burghley House in Stamford, Lincolnshire, the daughter of William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter, and one of the leading lady cricketers of the day. The bat was specially made for a ladies use and the weight reduced to suit her, it weighs 1lb 12 ozs. The blade is very slim, the blade is not spliced and the bat is a ‘plain match’ type made in one solid piece. The top of the handle has impresse View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #443 Charles Absolon. 1884. A W.J.Page cricket bat presented to Absolson for batting 1884 The bat has a silver metal shield to the back of the bat which reads ‘The Tufnel Park Holloway United C.C.- presented by Mr A. Stewart- Vice President- to Mr C. Absolon for batting 1884- 28 innings- average 17’. Sold with the late vendors research notes giving further information on the bat. A cricket bat presented to a legendary figure of 19th century cricket View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #444 Richard Gorton ‘Dick’ Barlow, Lancashire & England, 1871-1891. ‘My Favourite Bat’. A very historic bat used by Barlow during the 1886 cricket season and abroad on tour with the England team in Australia in 1886-1887. The bat, which a beautiful patina, is a Warsop ‘Conqueror’ of St. John’s Wood, London and is slim with a slightly convex face and a hanging hook has been inserted into the top of the handle for display purposes in the past. ‘R.G. Barlow. 285 Stretford Road’, Manchester’ impressed in View details Estimates£6,000 - £9,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #445 A Bartlett ‘Reprercussive’ cricket bat. An late 19th Century cricket bat made by J.D. Barlett of Waterloo Station, London and dating from around 1888. The bat is has a plugged splice the words ‘Bartlett’ and Waterloo’ are impressed to the back and below this ‘Superior Spring’. The face of the bat a little convex and the blade is noticeably thicker at the toe than the shoulder, the handle is formed from a single cane with rubber insert and two plugs have been inserted into the splice for strength View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #446 ‘A Warsop Triangular Bat circa1890’. A triangular practice cricket bat made by Benjamin Warsop of St.John’s Wood, London. The triangular shaped bat’s blade is only 2.5” in width and has ‘B. Warsop, Marylebone’ stamped across the splice and below a faded trade mark and ‘B. Warsop’ impressed to the cap of the bat. The back of the blade rises sharply from the splice into an acutely angled ridge before sharply falling away at the last moment towards the toe. The thickness of the blade is almost cons View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #447 William Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. A Warsop ‘Conqueror’ cricket bat used by William Gunn in making 228, the highest individual against the Australians in England, for for the Players of England team who played the Australians at Lord’s in 1890. The bat formed part of the Charles Pratt Green of Malvern famous cricket bat collection The face of the bat has the standard Warsop wording impressed to it and back of the bat has been painted gold and inscribed in black painted wording to View details Estimates£3,000 - £5,000Winning Bid£5,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #448 Thomas Walter Hayward. Surrey & England 1893-1914. ‘Champion of all’ bat. A H.C. Crawford of Kent cricket bat used by Walter Hayward in the 1899 cricket season, making two Test centuries, four county cricket centuries and a century for the Gentlemen v Players.. The bat formed part of the Charles Pratt Green of Malvern famous cricket bat collection and eventually Lord’s museum and was sold by Christie’s in the M.C.C. Bicentenary Sale of 13th April 1987 as lot 674. The face of the bat has the word View details Estimates£6,000 - £9,000Winning Bid£9,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #449 Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottinghamshire & England 1875-1902. ‘Arthur Shrewsbury’s last bat...’. A Shaw & Shrewsbury of Nottingham cricket bat used by Shrewsbury in his final season of cricket in 1902. The face of the bat has the wording ‘Arthur Shrewsbury’s last bat. Given by him to W.F. Grundy. With it he scored:-’ then follows a list of matches and scores finalising in his last match. The scores recorded include 106 v Leicestershire, 101 & 127no v Gloucestershire (same match), 108 v Derbyshire etc. View details Estimates£4,000 - £6,000Winning Bid£4,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #450 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. A Summers Brown ‘Force’ cricket bat used by Jack Hobbs in making 154no for the Players versus the Gentlemen at at Lord’s in 1911. The face of the bat has the standard Summers Brown wording impressed to it and below this is the signature of Hobbs. Beneath this are the following words inscribed in ink ‘Record Force Bat. Gents v Players, Lord’s 1911. J.B. Hobbs went in first with this bat and played right through the innings scoring 154 not out c View details Estimates£5,000 - £8,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #451 George Geary. Leicestershire & England 1912-1938. ‘What a Bat’. A Gunn & Moore ‘Autograph’ cricket bat used by Geary during his playing career, the vendor suggests around 1925 in his notes. The bat was presented to William Sherwin, bat maker of Nottingham, son of the former England wicket keeper Mordecai Sherwin. It is inscribed boldly to the length of the blade ‘Dear Mr Sherwin. What a bat. No-one could wish for better one. In fact, one could not find a more perfect one. Can you do anything wit View details Estimates£500 - £800StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #452 Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. ‘Sutcliffe’s 1935 bat’. A Stuart Surridge ‘Herbert Sutcliffe Autograph’ cricket bat used by Sutcliffe during the 1935 cricket season. The bat was sold to R.D. French at the conclusion of the season. The bat is inscribed by Sutcliffe to the back of the bat ‘For R.D. French. Used during season 1935 in county cricket and versus South Africa’, signed below Herbert Sutcliffe. Sold with a postcard from Sutcliffe to French, dated 16th September 1935 wit View details Estimates£3,000 - £5,000Winning Bid£2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #453 Clement Arthur Milton. Gloucestershire & England 1948-1974. Stuart Surridge cricket stump presented to and used in the England v New Zealand Test match played at Leeds in 1958 where Arthur Milton made his test debut and scored a century for England in his first Test opening the batting with Mike Smith. The stump split and hinged and has the following handwritten inscription ‘Authentic Match Stump of England v New Zealand played at Leeds 1958. Presented to C.A. Milton who made his Test debut in t View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #454 ‘Cricket Australia. npower Ashes Series 2009 England v Australia’. Full size Duncan Fearnley bat with printed title and players’ names, fully signed by all sixteen listed members of the Australian team. Signatures are Ponting (Captain), M. Clarke, S. Clark, Haddin, Hauritz, Hilfenhaus, Hughes, Hussey, Johnson, Katich, Lee, Manou, McDonald, North, Siddle and Watson. VG. View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #455 ‘England v Australia npower Test Match 16th- 20th July 2009. England Squad’. Full size Lord’s autograph bat with printed title and players’ names, fully signed by all fourteen listed members of the England team. Signatures are Strauss (Captain), Bell, Broad, Cook, Onions, Pietersen, Swann, Anderson, Bopara, Collingwood, Flintoff, Panesar, Prior and Harmison. VG. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #456 ‘100th Test (1932-2011) England v India npower Test Match 21st- 25th July 2011. England Squad’. Full size Lord’s autograph bat with printed title and players’ names, fully signed by all twelve listed members of the England team. Signatures are Strauss (Captain), Anderson, Bell, Bresnan, Broad, Cook, Morgan, Pietersen, Prior, Swann, Tremlett and Trott. VG. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #457 ‘England v Australia. Investec Ashes Test Series 2013’. Full size autograph bat issued by the E.C.B. with printed title and players’ names, fully signed by all twelve listed members of the England team and the seventeen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures include Cook, Anderson, Bairstow, Bell, Broad, Pietersen, Prior, Root, Trott, Swann (England), Clarke, Hughes, Khawaja, Lyon, Pattinson, Siddle, Smith, Starc, Warner, Watson (Australia) etc. With E.C.B. certificate of authentica View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #458 ‘M.C.C. v. Rest of the World 5th July 2014’. Lord’s Bicentenary 1814-2014. Full size ‘Lord’s 200 Years’ autograph bat with printed title and players’ names, fully signed by all twelve listed members of the England team and the twelve members of the Rest of the World team. M.C.C. team signatures are Tendulkar (Captain), Saeed Ajmal, Chanderpaul, Dravid, Finch, Umar Gul, Lara, Lee, Read, Tait, Vettori and Gatting (Manager). Rest of the World team signatures are Warne (Captain), Shahid Afridi, Best View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #459 First Twenty/20 century. Ian Harvey, Gloucestershire & Australia. Full size Kookaburra ‘Kahuna Twister LE’ bat used by Harvey in his playing career. Boldly signed to the face in black ink by Harvey below the handwritten inscription, ‘With this bat I scored the first ever 100 in “20-20” competition’, achieved while playing for Gloucestershire’. Harvey donated the bat to Jack Russell for his benefit year, and Russell has inscribed to the rear shoulder, ‘Ian Harvey gave me this bat, which he used t View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #460 ‘England Test Captains’ 1947-1991. Full size unbranded bat with printed title to top with players’ names to the face of twenty seven England Test captains for the period. Signature to the face of each captain beside the name. Two are signed to label laid down, of Sheppard and Greig, and one of Brown (possibly facsimile) to clear tape. Others all signed to the face include Cranston, Mann, May, Cowdrey, Dexter, Smith, Close, Graveney, Illingworth, Lewis, Denness, Brearley, Botham etc. Slight fadin View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #461 ‘Test Players Scoring Over 5000 Runs as at 1st June 1991’. Full size unbranded bat with title and players’ names to printed labels to face listing twenty nine Test cricketers to have achieved over 5000 career Test runs. Signatures include Sunil Gavaskar, Allan Border, Viv Richards, Geoff Boycott, David Gower, Javed Miandad, Garry Sobers, Colin Cowdrey, Don Bradman, Denis Compton, Ian Botham etc. Some players have signed in places where the originally listed player had died or was not available, View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #462 West Indies tour to England 1928. Full size ‘Phil Mead [Bournemouth] Autograph’ bat signed in ink to the face by fourteen members of the West Indies touring party and profusely to the face and verso by counties. West Indies signatures are Nunes (Captain), Browne, Wight, Challenor, Roach, Fernandes, Martin, Neblett, St. Hill, Constantine, Griffith, Scott, Hoad and Bartlett. Counties are Essex (11 signatures), Leicestershire (12), Somerset (11), Warwickshire (12), Northamptonshire (11), Yorkshire View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #463 West Indies tour to England 1963. Full size Gray Nicholls ‘Crusader’ bat signed in ink to the face by seventeen members of the West Indies touring party and eleven ‘England Players 1963’. West Indies signatures include Worrell (Captain), Hunte, Solomon, Valentine, Sobers, Butcher, Kanhai, Griffith, Allan, Murray etc. England signatures include Bailey, Cowdrey, Richardson, Trueman, Graveney, Shackleton, Knight etc. Also profusely signed to verso by county teams including Kent (12 signatures), War View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #464 West Indies tour to England 1966. Full size Stuart Surridge ‘County Driver’ bat signed in ink to the face by seventeen members of the West Indies touring party and eleven England players. West Indies signatures include Sobers (Captain), Hunte, Holford, Butcher, Griffith, Hall, Gibbs, Solomon, Brancker, Nurse, Hendrick etc. England signatures include Cowdrey, Graveney, Parks, Titmus, Boycott, Milburn, Higgs, Snow, D’Oliveira etc. Also signed to verso by four county teams including Glamorgan (11 s View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #465 Lancashire and Nottinghamshire 1968. Ken Higgs Benefit year. Harrow size Slazenger Gradidge bat with stamp for ‘Jack Sharp, Liverpool’. Signed in ink to the face by twelve Lancashire and eleven Nottinghamshire players. Lancashire signatures include Bond (Captain), Higgs, Shuttleworth, Statham, Savage, Engineer, Pilling, Oldfield etc. Nottinghamshire signatures include Sobers (Captain), Bolus, Moore, Frost, White, Parkin, Taylor etc. Signed additionally to verso for Higgs’ benefit year by the Lan View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #466 England v. Rest of the World 1970. Full size Stuart Surridge ‘Standard Driver’ bat nicely signed in ink to the face by the eleven members of the England team and the eleven of the Rest of the World team for the 1970 ‘Test’ series. England signatures are Illingworth (Captain), Cowdrey, Edrich, Snow, D’Oliveira, Brown, Underwood, Greig, Fletcher, Luckhurst and Knott. rest of the World signatures include Sobers (Captain), Barlow, Gibbs, Kanhai, Lloyd, Intikhab Alam, P. Pollock, Richards, Protcter e View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #467 Victoria vs. Queensland 1990/91. Split and hinged Grey Nicholls stump signed to the inside in thick black pen by the teams for the Sheffield Shield match played at St. Kilda, Melbourne, 14th- 17th March 1991. Seven Victoria signatures are Phillips, Berry, Reiffel, Dodemaide, Sutherland, Parker and Fleming. Eleven Queensland signatures of Barsby, Hohns, Hick, Cantrell, Law, Rackemann, Anderson, Tazelaar, Muller, Henschell and Goggin (12th man). Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #468 West Indies and Zimbabwe c.1999/2000. Full size Newbury ‘Caduceus Extra Cover’ bat signed to the face by fifteen West Indies players and fourteen from Zimbabwe. West Indies signatures include Jimmy Adams (Captain), Sherwin Campbell, Courtney Walsh, Curtley Ambrose, Brian Lara, Ridley Jacobs, Franklyn Rose, Chris Gayle etc. Zimbabwe signatures include Andy Flower (Captain), Heath Streak, Murray Goodwin, Grant Flower, Alistair Campbell, Dirk Viljoen, Brian Murphy etc. Very good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #469 West Indies tour to South Africa 2003/04. Full size B.A.S. (Beat All Sports) ‘Vampire’ bat, signed in thick black ink to the face by fifteen members of the West Indies touring party, each signature with printed player name below. Signatures are Lara (Captain), Sarwan, Chanderpaul, Gayle, Drakes, Jacobs, Dillon, Powell, Collymore, Smith, Edwards, Rampaul, Wilkinson, Hurley and Bradshaw. Further thirteen signatures to verso. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #470 New Zealand 2004. Full size bat from the tri-nation one day international series between England, New Zealand and West Indies, held in England in 2004. Title label ‘New Zealand Cricket. The NatWest Series’ and printed players’ name strip to face. Fully signed in ink by the fifteen named New Zealand players. Signatures are Fleming (Captain), Astle, Butler, Cairns, Franklin, Harris, Hopkins, Marshall, McCullum, McMillan, Oram, Papps, Styris, Tuffey and Vettori. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #471 ‘20-20 World Cricket Classic’ 2006. Full size Slazenger bat signed to the face by thirteen members of the South Africa team and twelve of Bermuda. Signatures include Kirsten, Jack, Page, Davids, Strydom, Pringle, Kuiper (South Africa), Romaine, Tucker, Hurdle, Borden, Hurdle, Minors, Smith (Bermuda) etc. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #472 ‘England v New Zealand Investec Test Series 2015’. ‘England Cricket’ autograph bat, slightly smaller than full size, with printed title and players’ name labels, signed by sixteen England players and fifteen of New Zealand. England signatures include Cook, Moeen Ali, Anderson, Bell, Broad, Buttler, Root, Stokes, Wood (England), McCullum, Boult, Bracewell, Guptill, Latham, Ronchi, Rutherford, Southee, Watling, Williamson (New Zealand) etc. The bat measures 31”. With certificate of authentication. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #473 Australia tours to England 1961-1977. Four full size bats relating to Australian tours. Gradidge ‘Colin Cowdrey Autograph’ England v. Australia 1961. Ten England and ten Australia signatures to verso. Redmayne & Todd ‘Les Berry Autograph’ Leicestershire v. Australians 1964, signed to verso by 14 Australians and 12 of Leicestershire. Ben Warsop ‘Club Match’ England v. Australia 1975, 10 Australians (the majority faded) to face, 13 of England to verso. Gray Nicholls ‘Clive Lloyd Autograph’ Austral View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #474 Gunn & Moore. Three Gunn & Moore miniature cricket bats with facsimile autographs printed to them. The teams are All India 1936, Australia v England 1936-37 Ashes and the West Indies team of 1939. Each bat is wrapped in original Gunn & Moore paper package bag and each are in their original box as issued. The bats are in beautifully pristine condition as when produced. A wonderful collection View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #475 John Edrich. Surrey & England 1958-1978. A pair of ‘St. Peter’ batting gloves, worn in his playing career, and signed by Edrich to each glove. Good condition. Previously sold by Knights in 2017 View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #476 Sachin Tendulkar. India. Bombay Cricket Association ‘Kanga League’ white cricket ball signed by Tendulkar in black ink. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #477 Brian William Luckhurst. Kent & England 1958-1976. England ‘home’ sleeveless Test sweater, by Kent & Curwen, worn by Luckhurst during his England Test playing career. The sweater with England emblem of the three lions and crown to chest. The vendor bought the sweater direct from Luckhurst in the 1990’s. Luckhurst died in 2005. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #478 Brian William Luckhurst. Kent & England 1958-1976. M.C.C. sleeveless touring sweater, by Kent & Curwen, worn by Luckhurst whilst playing for England on tours abroad. The sweater with trimming in M.C.C. colours of red, gold and black to neck and waist. The vendor bought the sweater direct from Luckhurst in the 1990’s. Luckhurst died in 2005. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #479 Joseph Ravindran Ratnayeke. Central Province & Sri Lanka 1992-1990. Sri Lankan sleeveless Test sweater worn by Ratnayeke whilst playing for Sri Lanka in Test matches. The sweater, by ‘Silver Fleece of Australia’, with trimming in Sri Lanka colours of tangerine yellow and dark blue to neck and waist with the national emblem of a golden lion with a sword bearing on the right arm. ‘Ravi’ handwritten to label. The vendor was given the sweater by Ratnayeke in the 1990’s. Sri Lankan Test sweaters are View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #480 Brian Charles Lara. Trinidad & Tobago, Warwickshire & West Indies 1987-2008. I.C.C. World XI sleeveless cricket sweater worn by Lara View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #481 ‘Australian Youth XI’ sleeveless cricket sweater, by ‘Silver Fleece of Australia’, The sweater with trimming in Australian green and gold to neck and waist. Embroidered emblem of a running kangaroo and the wording ‘Australia Youth XI’ above and below in green. Player unknown. A rarely seen sweater. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #482 Matthew Hayden. Queensland & Australia 1991- 2008. ‘Young Australia England Tour 1995’ sleeveless cricket sweater, by ‘Silver Fleece of Australia’, The sweater with trimming in Australian green and gold to neck and waist. Embroidered A.C.B. emblem and the wording ‘Young Australia England Tour 1995’ below in blue. The vendor believes the sweater was worn by Hayden. A rarely seen sweater. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #483 Worcestershire & England. Selection of items relating to the club and country including a Graeme Hick 405 holdall, two Worcestershire replica green one day shirts, cap, minature cricket bats, Lord’s sweatshirt, Ashes tee-shirts 1993, 2010/11, tour tee-shirt 1994 (SA) etc. G View details Estimates£10 - £20Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #484 Worcestershire C.C.C. ties 1965-2000. Thirty six official ties including members, Benefit and testimonial, League wiiners ties etc. Worcestershire C.C.C. Centenary tie 1965, John Player [Sunday] League winners tie 1971, County Championship winners tie 1974, Members’ tie c.1976 etc. Benefit ties include Tom Graveney 1969, Norman Gifford 1974, Alan Ormrod 1977, Glenn Turner 1978, Vanburn Holder 1979, Ted Hemsley 1982, John Inchmore 1985 (2 different) etc, County Championship winners 1988 and 1989 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #485 John Berry Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. Surrey brown county 1st XI cricket cap, by E.C. Devereux of Eton, with silk crest of the Prince of Wales feathers above the county emblem embroidered to front. The inner label inscribed in ink ‘Hobbs’. Odd minor faults otherwise in good/very good condition. An ironic cap View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #486 Arnold Long. Surrey and Sussex 1960-1980. Surrey C.C.C. chocolate brown county 1st XI cricket cap by Jack Hobbs Ltd, with crest of the Prince of Wales feathers above the county emblem embroidered to front. Some wear to peak with small hole and some wear, some staining to lower part of the emblem, small moth hole to edge of cap at the side otherwise in good condition. Previously sold by Knights in 2010 View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #487 Younis Ahmed Mohammad. Surrey, Worcestershire & Pakistan 1965-1983. Surrey chocolate brown county 2nd XI cricket cap with county 2nd XI emblem embroidered to front. ‘Younis’ hand written to cap label. Cap by Jack Hobbs Ltd of Fleet Street. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£125StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #488 Alec James Stewart. Surrey & England 1981-2003. England navy blue cloth Test cap, by Albion C&D of Australia, with embroidered three lions and coronet emblem of England to cap, worn by Stewart during his Test career. Signed to inside label by Stewart and given to the vendor who sold it in 2011 through Knights, the previous vendor was Keith Attree, the famous Perth collector. Very good condition View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£560StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #489 Adam Hollioake, Surrey & England. England navy blue cloth Test cap, by Michael of Chatham, with embroidered three lions and crown emblem of England to cap, worn by Hollioake during his Test career. Signed (worn) to inside label by Hollioake and given to the vendor who sold it in 2012 through Knights, the previous vendor was Keith Atree, the famous Perth collector. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£365StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #490 Robert George Dylan Willis. Surrey, Warwickshire & England 1969-1984. M.C.C. navy blue touring cap, by Michael of Chatham, issued to Willis during his Test career. The cap, with England emblem of St. George and the Dragon embroidered to front, has an official typed label to inside with his name ‘R.G.D. Willis’. The cap appears to have been unworn. Very good condition. Sold with a press photograph of Willis trying on his first M.C.C. cap having been called up to replace Alan Ward on the England t View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #491 Benjamin Caine Hollioake. Surrey & England 1996 to 2001. England ‘A’ navy blue touring blazer, by James Barry, worn by Hollioake during his playing career. The blazer with embroidered red England emblem of three lions and coronet to chest pocket. Very good condition. To chest pocket there is a Emirates boarding pass in the name of B. Hollioake for flight EK418 and dated 11th January. The blazer was obtained by the previous vendor direct from the Holliaoke family View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #492 Peter John Parnell Burge. Queensland & Australia 1952-1968. ‘Australian tour of New Zealand 1967’. Australian dark myrtle green wool test blazer worn by Peter Burge during the Australian tour of New Zealand in February and March 1967. The blazer beautifully embroidered with the Australia emblem to breast pocket and below ‘N.Z. Tour 1967’ in gold thread, with gold trimming to blazer pocket and sleeves. The blazer is in wonderfully good condition with the emblem bright. A rarely seen blazer for th View details Estimates£300 - £500StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #493 Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex & England 1892-1921. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Fry in athletics attire entitled ‚ÄòOxford Athletics’ and dated April 19th 1894 by artist SPY. Beautifully signed by Fry in black ink to the image. Handsomely mounted, framed and glazed with short title and biography of Fry window mounted to lower border, overall 18.5”x28”. Very rare to see in this signed form. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #494 Samuel Moses James Woods, Somerset, England & Australia 1886-1910. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Woods in fielding pose entitled ‚ÄòSammy’ and dated August 6th 1892 by artist STUFF. Very nicely by Woods in black ink to lower area of the image. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 13”x19”. Very rare to see in this signed form. Good condition View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #495 Gilbert Laird Jessop, Gloucestershire & England 1894-1914. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Jessop in batting attire entitled ‚ÄòThe Croucher’ and dated July 25th 1901 by artist SPY. Very nicely signed by Jessop in black ink to lower border of the image. Handsomely mounted, framed and glazed with short title and biography of Jessop window mounted to lower border, overall 18.5”x28”. Very rare to see in this signed form. Very good condition View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #496 Robert Abel, Surrey & England 1881-1904. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Abel in fielding pose entitled ‚ÄòBobby’ and dated June 5th 1902 by artist SPY. Very nicely signed by Abel in black ink to lower border of the image. Nicely mounted, framed and glazed, overall 17”x22.5”. Very rare to see in this signed form. Very good condition View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #497 Frank Stanley Jackson. Yorkshire & England 1890-1907. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Jackson in batting pose at the wicket entitled ‚ÄòThe Flannelled Fighter’ and dated August 18th 1902 by artist SPY. Very nicely signed by Jackson in black ink to lower border of the image. Handsomely mounted, framed and glazed with short title and biography of Jackson window mounted to lower border, overall 18.5”x28”. Very rare to see in this signed form. Very good condition View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #498 George Herbert Hirst. Yorkshire & England 1891-1929. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Hirst in bowling pose holding the ball entitled ‚ÄòYorkshire’ and dated August 120th 1903 by artist SPY. Very nicely signed by Hirst in black ink to lower border of the image. Handsomely mounted, framed and glazed with short title and biography of Hirst window mounted to lower border, overall 18.5”x28”. Very rare to see in this signed form. Very good condition View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #499 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Grace wearing batting attitre and M.C.C. cap entitled ‚ÄòCricket’ and dated July 9th 1877 by artist SPY. Nicely mounted, framed and glazed, 13.5”x19”. Good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...16|Next12345678910111213141516 Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next
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