Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - 3 Day Auction (#13) 22/03/2024 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 22/03/2024 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 1477. Previous|12345678...15|Next Lot #1 ‘Cricket. Slow v. Fast’. Early and rare original advertising handbill for ‘A Grand Match’ at Lord’s, 5th July 1841 ‘and following day’. The handbill describes the teams as comprising ‘Eight Gentlemen and Players, with Three Slow Bowlers, against Eight Gentlemen and Players, with Three Fast Bowlers’. The ‘Slow’ team included Bayley, Cobbett, Lillywhite, Liddell, Hastings, Anson, Bentinck, Kynaston, Taylor, Guy and Wenman. The ‘Fast’ team was Mynn, Fenner, Redgate, Savile, Keate, Napier, Nethercot View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #2 ‘Cricket. The Marylebone Club & Ground, with Pilch, against the Northern Counties of England’. Early and rare original advertising handbill for ‘A Grand Match’ at Lord’s, 23rd June [1845] ‘and following day’. Listed are the two teams, including Bathurst, Bennett, Kynaston, Taylor, Barker, Dean, Dorrinton, Hillyer, Lillywhite, Pilch and Sewell for M.C.C., Hartopp, Noyes, Seddons, Williams, Butler, Clark, Dakin, Guy, Hunt, Parr and Redgate for Northern Counties. Advertising to lower portion for ‘M View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #3 ‘Cricket! Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington Oval’ 1853. Early original advertising handbill for ‘Grand Matches’ to be played at The Oval. Matches are ‘The Surrey Club with Two Players against the [Sevenoaks] Vine Club with Two Players’, 30th June, ‘The North against The South’, 7th July, ‘Twenty-two I Zingari against the Eleven of England for the Benefit of Beagley’, 14th July, and ‘Fourteen of the County of Surrey against the Eleven of England’, 1st August. 5”x7.25”. Printer unknown. Small hole View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #4 ‘Cricket! Yorkshire versus Surrey. The First Great Match of the Season’ 1873. Early original advertising handbill for the match played at Brammall[sic] Lane, Sheffield, 16th- 18th June 1873. Yorkshire players listed are Clayton, Greenwood, Emmett, Hall, Hill, Iddison, Lockwood, Pinder, Smith, Rowbotham and West, and for Surrey, Boult, Berrls, Strachan, Chester, T. Humphrey, R. Humphrey, Jupp, Pooley, Southerton, Street and Freeman. Details of admission to the ground below. Printed by J. Robertsh View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£350StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #5 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. ‘David Denton’s Benefit. Yorkshire v Lancashire, Headingley Ground, Leeds. August 5th,6th and 7th [1907]. Original hanging cardboard poster, printed navy blue and white background advertising the Benefit match ‘All Lovers of Cricket are cordially invited to co-operate in order to make the Benefit a great success’. It advertises seat prices, collecting books, hanging cards and cheap tickets with names and address of County Committee members to the lowe View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #6 Australian tour of England 1938. Large original ‘News Chronicle’ advertising and promotional poster and image of the Australian team to centre and the wording ‘Australian Team above and below ‘Exclusive art plate’. Banner to top and bottom reads ‘News Chronicle’. The poster printed in red and black on a pink background and measures 19”x30”. The lot includes the Test Team art plate printed picture of the team with title ‘The Australian Test Team 1938’ to top and players names to lower border. Sol View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #7 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£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #8 ‘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£120 - £160Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #9 ‘The Sportsman Almanac 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, Quaife, Blythe, Hayward, J View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #10 ‘Grand Cricket Match at Sheffield, E. Stephenson’s Benefit’ 1870. Early original Great Northern Railway handbill advertising train travel to Sheffield for the match, assumed to be United North of England XI v United South of England XI, played at Bramall Lane 1st & 2nd August 1870, for the benefit of Edwin Stephenson (Sheffield, M.C.C., Yorkshire & England 1854-1873). The handbill printed on pink paper, measures 5.5”x9”, and was issued at King’s Cross Station, London, July 1870. Binding holes to View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #11 Robert ‘Bobby’ Abel. Surrey & England 1881-1904. Original typed letter on ‘Tit-Bits’ magazine letterhead, hand dated 8th September 1890. The letter addressed to ‘Mr R. Abel’ reads, ‘On making up the batting average for the month of August, we find that you have the honour of being the best Batsman in the country, with an average for 10 innings of 49.1. We have therefore great pleasure, in accordance with the conditions laid down in the Tit’Bits cricketing competition, in sending you a cheque for View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #12 Fred Trueman. ‘Vitalis- Keeps even my hair neat all day’. Original 1960’s free standing card advertising sign/show card showing Trueman, half length, in England sweater holding and pointing at the bottle of Vitalis. Approx 19”x28”. Some wear, scratching, some loss to small parts of image otherwise in generally good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #13 ‘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£25 - £35Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #14 ‘The Times. MC.C. Number. London May 25th 1937’. Original 25 page supplement to the Times newspaper with front cover depicting Thomas Lord with various cricket scenes in borders around image commemorating the 150th anniversary of Lord’s. The contents with articles on the Lord’s Ground, tributes, Hambledon, M.C.C. etc. Good condition View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #15 ‘Frank Worrell of Barbados 1924-1967’. Order of Thanksgiving for Worrell held at Westminster Abbey on 7th April 1967 with official ticket for admission to the Choir for the service. Also an Order of Service for the memorial service held for Worrell, ‘Sometime professional Radcliffe Cricket Club’, at Radclife Parish Church, 9th April 1967. Very good condition. Sold with a mono studio photograph of Worrell, head and shoulders, wearing graduation robes. 6.25”x8.25”, photographer unknown. Light crea View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #16 Roy Kilner. Yorkshire, Europeans & England 1911-1927. Official single sided order of service sheet for the memorial service held for Kilner at Wombwell Church, 10th April 1928. 8”x10.5”. Horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #17 ‘In Memoriam. Charles Burgess Fry 1872-1956’. Eight page original memorial service booklet for Fry, the funeral was held at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church on the 18th September 1956. The address was made by Harry Altham. Rare View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #18 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£200 - £300StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #19 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£150 - £250Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #20 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. O View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #21 Yorkshire. ‘Dinner in honour of Hirst and Rhodes and on the occasion of the publication of A.A. Thomson’s fiftieth book’. Official menu for the dinner given by ‘The Cricketer’ held at Lord’s Tavern, 25th June 1959. The menu with Yorkshire white rose emblem and printed title to front, menu and speakers to inside. Minor soiling to front, adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #22 Lancashire C.C.C. 1873-1968. Five items relating to Lancashire including a Manchester C.C. 1873 folding member’s ticket with printed fixtures to centre, officers listed to rear. ‘Lancashire County, 1883, and Manchester Cricket Club’, three part folding membership card with black leather covers and gilt title, issued to and signed in ink to inside by Richard H. Gorton [Committee Member] of Eccles. Four page printed information sheet headed ‘Lancashire County and Manchester Cricket Club’ issued to View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #23 Albert Craig ‘The Surrey Poet’. Five items relating to Albert Craig, the cricket rhymester. Five page typescript for a B.B.C. Radio broadcast of ‘Cricket Lovely Cricket. A.C. Cricket Rhymester by John Arlott’. Recorded 3rd August 1961 for transmission 22nd August 1961. Originally David Rayvern Allen’s copy, bound in green cloth with leather title label to front. ‘The Cradle of Cricket. A Hambledon Souvenir’, W.R. Weir, published by Wright & Co., Paternoster Square 1908, with a preface by Albert View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #24 M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1922/23. Official menu for the dinner given to the M.C.C. team at The Grand Hotel, Port Elizabeth, 20th November 1922. The folding menu with printed title to front with M.C.C. colours to borders, toast list and menu to inside, attendees listed to rear page. Detached at fold. Age toning and some wear, two small holes to left edge of front cover, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #25 M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1922/23. Official menu for the ‘Farewell Banquet to the M.C.C. Team by the Natal Cricket Association’ held at the Durban Club, Durban, 20th February 1923. The menu with paper wrappers, red and yellow ribbon tie. Printed title and Natal emblem to front, toasts and menu to centre pages. Wear and staining, overall in fair condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #26 Australia tour to England 1926. ‘Australian Party embracing the Australian Cricket XI 1926. Tour of Europe’. Official Itinerary booklet ‘Organised by Pickfords’ for the Australian’s Tour of Europe en route from Australia. The itinerary describes the party’s arrival from Perth on the S.S. ‘Otranto’ at Naples on 7th April with a visit to Pompeii. April 8th in Rome to visit the Unknown Warrior’s Grave, St. Peters and the Vatican. April 9th train journey to Florence, April 10th Milan, April 11th to View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #27 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1928/29. Official ‘Orient Line, R.M.S. Otranto’ souvenir brochure for the ‘M.C.C. Australian Tour 1928-9’. Decorative covers with M.C.C. colours. To inside pages, pen pictures and biographies of the M.C.C. team, itinerary, fixtures etc. Scarce. Minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #28 ‘M.C.C. Australian Tour 1928-29’. Rare official 8pp tour itinerary with decorative card wrappers for the M.C.C. tour of Australia 1928-29. The front cover with bold decoration in M.C.C. colours. To inside pages, itinerary, list of players, fixtures, travelling schedule, postal dates etc. Some minor soiling to covers, rusting to staples otherwise in good/very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #29 M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1938/39. ‘Timeless Test Series’. ‘South African Tour 1938-1939’. Official players itinerary for the tour with titles and M.C.C. colours to front cover. To inside page, list of the M.C.C. touring party, match programme, hotels and travelling schedule, two full page map of the venues, postal information and playing conditions. Crease to front cover otherwise in very good condition. Includes a printed facsimile autograph sheet for the tour. Player unknown. A rarely seen View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #30 M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1948/49. Official folding menu for the ‘Civic Dinner in honour of the M.C.C. Touring Team’ held at the Commercial Hotel, Robertson, 3rd November 1948. The menu with decorative front cover and printed title, toasts and menu to inside. ‘Ex R.T. Simpson’ annotated in pencil to back cover. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #31 M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Rare official menu for the dinner given for the M.C.C. held at the Polleys- Hotel, Pretoria, 8th December 1948. The folding menu printed in both English and Afrikaans with titles to front, toast list and menu to inside. ‘Ex R.T. Simpson’ annotated in pencil to back cover. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #32 Yorkshire County Cricket Club archive circa 1860’s to 1960. A large and comprehensive coverage of Yorkshire County cricket covering the century comprising a large quantity of eighteen large ledgers and scrapbooks containing news cuttings and images recording matches and regarding the club in the period. Some original team photographs, postcards, letters to secretary etc and scorecards, all laid down to pages. Includes original photographs of the 1925, 1926 (large Wilkes photo), 1927, 1928 (large View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #33 Worcestershire C.C.C, Selection of club ephemera including ‘The Income and Expenditure Accounts and list of the Committee’ detailed for the Annual General Meeting of the club in 1931, Star Hotel, Worcester, Tom Graveney Benefit 1969 brochure, official menu for ‘A Dinner given by Sir George Dowty’ in April 1963 at The Star Hotel, Worcester (file hole to lower border), a Benson Hedges Cup Final programme, Worcestershire v Lancashire 1990, signed to pages by nineteen players from both sides includi View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #34 ‘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£50 - £80Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #35 Test and County match tickets 1990s-2010s. Box of four album binders comprising over seven hundred original modern match tickets covering Test series, one day internationals, County matches, World Cup etc. with some overseas series. A good number of Test match tickets are for multiple days of matches at Lord’s, Old Trafford, Headingley, Trent Bridge etc. Series include v West Indies 1995, 2000, 2007, India 1996, 2002, 2007, 2011, Australia 1997, 2001, 2005, South Africa 1998, 2003, 2008, New Zea View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #36 Cricket ephemera selection. Green presentation folder containing a miscellany of original and copy ephemera. Original items include an early printed page extract of a poem titled ‘Kipling on our Champions of English Pastimes “Flannelled Fools at the Wicket”; “Muddied Oafs at the Goal”’, a thirty line parody by Albert Craig, ‘The Surrey Poet’, of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Islanders’ of 1902. Printed scores of the first four Test matches of the 1934 Ashes series ‘Presented with the Compliments of the View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #37 Harold Gimblett. Somerset & England 1935-1954. ‘Harold Gimblett’s Hundred’ 1935. Black album comprising nicely presented photographs, articles, copy scorecard, cards, letters and telegrams of congratulations all relating to Gimblett scoring a century on his debut in first-class cricket for Somerset v Essex at Frome, 18th- 21st May 1935. Gimblett scored 123 in Somerset’s only innings of 337, beating Essex by an innings and 49 runs. Contents include a copy head and shoulders photograph nicely sign View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #38 ‘The Book of the Counties. A Cricket Anthology by Roger Mann’. 1948-1961. A large loose-leaf philatelic album comprising an ornately hand drawn title page followed by over nine hundred signatures of players from all seventeen first-class counties of the period, almost all in ink, signed to album pages, headed pages, pieces, the odd cigarette card and cutting images, all laid down to the album pages with neatly handwritten player biographies and numerous exquisite original illustrations and humor View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #39 William Lloyd ‘Billy’ Murdoch. New South Wales, Sussex, London County, Australia & England 1875-1904. Original and interesting two page ‘begging letter’ handwritten in black ink from Murdoch to ‘Dear Old Dick’, dated 11th January 1904. Murdoch appears to be in some financial difficulty, asking for ‘a very good favour. I want you old man if you possibly can to lend me £35’. Murdoch expects to be able to repay the loan ‘next month, but failing that, you would be sure to have it in June, when our m View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #40 John Alfred ‘Jack’ Flavell. Worcestershire & England 1949-1967. Original two page handwritten letter, undated but late 1940s, from Flavell to Warwickshire C.C.C. Writing from army barracks in Oswestry, Flavell states that he has had an offer from Worcestershire to join their ground staff, ‘there[sic] terms are very good and... there is a good chance of getting straight into [their] County eleven... At the moment my chances of getting into your first eleven [as a fast bowler] are very remote’. He View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #41 William George ‘Willie’ Quaife. Warwickshire & England 1894-1928. Two original single page typed letters from Quaife to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C., both on ‘Quaife and Lilley’ official business letterhead. In the first, dated 17th February 1949, Quaife is replying to a letter regarding rights to the sale of ‘Cricket material’ on the ground at Edgbaston. He is uncertain what the value of the arrangement would be, but offers the club £50 for the rights for a year, ‘to include View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #42 George Oswald Browning ‘Gubby’ Allen. Middlesex, Cambridge University & England 1921-1950. Single page letter from Allen, handwritten in ink and dated 12th July 1950. Writing to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C., Allen states ‘I have passed on Gladwill’s name to Ronnie Aird [M.C.C. assistant secretary]. He says they often get inquiries & he will not forget him’. Nicely signed ‘Gubby Allen’. Staple holes to top left corner, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #43 Douglas Robert Jardine. Oxford University, Surrey & England 1920-1934. Two page handwritten letter on ‘The Scottish Australian Company Limited’, London letterhead, in ink from Jardine to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C., the letter dated 3rd May 1955. Jardine is replying to a letter from Deakins regarding the ‘Association of Cricket Umpires appeal’, a cause which Jardine clearly supports having been ‘genuinely impressed (& vastly gratified) by the tremendous amount of hard volunt View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #44 Brian Maurice Brain. Worcestershire & Gloucestershire 1959-1981. An interesting selection of eight handwritten and typed letters dated 1963 and 1966 from and about Brian Brain. The first is a handwritten letter dated 27th February 1963 from Brain to M.J.K. Smith, then captain at Warwickshire, asking whether he would be considered to join the playing staff. Smith replied on 7th March 1963 rejecting Brain’s request. On 17th June 1966, Brain wrote to Leslie Deakins, Secretary at Warwickshire C.C.C. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #45 Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Four letter comprising correspondence from 1965 between Sutcliffe and Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. In a two page handwritten letter in ink dated 26th April 1965 Sutcliffe states that he will be attending Edgbaston to adjudicate on a Gillette Cup match and, tongue in cheek, suggests this ‘will enable you to prepare the Red Carpet and engage the local band and also arrange with the Chief Constable for an escort on the borders of View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #46 Edgar John ‘Eddie’ Barlow. Transvaal, Eastern Province, Western Province, Derbyshire, Boland & South Africa 1960-1983. Three letters relating to Eddie Barlow in 1968. The first is dated 5th March from Leslie Deakins, General Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. to ‘The Members of the Cricket Sub-Committee’. Following the change in regulations enabling county sides to recruit one overseas player, Warwickshire had contacted Barlow by cablegram who had ‘just joined Stellenbosch Farmers Winery in Capet View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #47 Warwickshire players selected for England 1968-1970. Five typed letters received by Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. from the M.C.C./ T.C.C.B. at Lord’s, each advising that Warwickshire players had been selected to play for England in Test matches. Letters are dated 31st May 1968, David Brown, Dennis Amiss and Tom Cartwright selected for the Old Trafford Test v Australia. 16th June 1968, Tom Cartwright and Dennis Amiss for the Lord’s Test, both signed by Doug Insole, Chairman of View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #48 Colin Everton Hunte Croft. Guyana, Demerara, Lancashire & West Indies 1971-1982. Single page handwritten letter from a young Colin Croft to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. Dated 7th August 1973, Croft thanks the Club for the award of a plaque following his attendance on a course with English Colts. Croft talks of his desire to play cricket in England, his frustration at not being selected to play for Guyana, and his job as an Assistant Air Traffic Control Officer. Signed ‘Colin View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #49 John Major, Prime Minister, visit to Edgbaston 1994. Four typed letters relating to John Major visiting Edgbaston. The first, dated 8th March 1994 is a copy letter from M.J.K. Smith, Chairman of Warwickshire C.C.C., inviting the Prime Minister to attend two one day international matches at Edgbaston, v New Zealand on 19th May and v South Africa on 25th August. An official reply dated 29th March from Major’s Private Secretary at Downing Street states he will be able to attend the August fixture. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #50 Warwickshire trialists 1950s-1980s. Eight letters, the majority from and/ or to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C., relating to requests and invitations to attend trials etc. Correspondents include an invitation to Ken Higgs (Lancashire, Leicestershire & England 1958-1982) to attend a trial in 1953, with Higgs’ handwritten reply requesting a change of date as it clashes with his holidays. Typed letter from Alf Gover to Leslie Deakins, dated 10th August 1963 on ‘Sandham and Gover’ l View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #51 Commentators and journalists correspondence 1949-1967. Four letters to and from Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. One is a single page typed letter from John Arlott, dated 23rd September 1967, which appears to relate to an (unknown) issue reported in ‘the leading dailies’. Arlott apologises ‘for my error’ but describes ‘indignant members going to your office to press for an official complaint’. Arlott closes with the regret that he was not able to made a withdrawal ‘on the basis o View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #52 Cricketers’ Association 1967-1994. A collection of ten typed letters from the Cricketers’ Association relating to Committee meetings at Edgbaston, use of the grounds, proposed introduction of careers guidance for retiring players, termination of players’ contracts, lease of office space etc. Five earlier letters are signed by Fred Rumsey (Worcestershire, Somerset, Derbyshire & England 1960-1970). One letter, dated 9th February 1985, relates to the need for the improvement in design of batting he View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #53 Warwickshire C.C.C. miscellaneous correspondence 1950s-1990s. A selection of approx,. twenty letters to and from Warwickshire Secretaries Leslie Deakins, Alan Smith and David Heath. Letters include J. Paul Getty Jr. offering to make a contribution towards the building of the R.E.S. Wyatt stand at Edgbaston, 1992. Typed copy letter from Deakins to Frank Chester on his retirement as a first-class umpire in 1955 with attached press cutting, and two handwritten replies from Chester. Dickie Bird send View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #54 A.F. Wiren letter to Plum Warner 1940. Lengthy two page handwritten letter with good cricket content from Wiren at his home in Wellington, New Zealand, to Warner, editor of ‘The Cricketer’. Dated 14th October 1940, Wiren congratulates Warner on his article on ‘[Charles] Turner “The Terror”’ and makes numerous additional comments on Turner regarding him as a superior bowler to Giffen, referring to the ‘Red Lillywhite’ (John Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual) and Davis’s three books on Australian cr View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #55 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England. 1865-1908. One page handwritten letter on ‘Gloucestershire C.C.C.’ ‘Thrissell House, Bristol’ headed paper from Grace to a Mr Green agreeing to propose him to be a member of the Sports & Athletic Club. Nicely signed by Grace and dated 16th February 1893. Mounted, framed and glazed. Good condition View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #56 George Edward Tribe. Victoria, Northamptonshire & Australia 1945-1959. Single page handwritten letter on Northamptonshire C.C.C. letterhead, dated 16th August 1956. Writing to the collector, Joe Goldman, Tribe is sending a copy of his testimonial brochure ‘with compliments’. Nicely signed by George Tribe. Sold with a National Westminster Bank cheque dated 9th May 1956, issued to Tribe, signed by Goldman, and countersigned to verso by Tribe. Qty 2. Adhesive mark to verso of the letter, otherwise View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #57 George Edward Tribe. Victoria, Northamptonshire & Australia 1945-1959. Single page handwritten letter in ink on Northamptonshire C.C.C. letterhead, dated 4th June [1956]. Writing to the collector, Joe Goldman, Tribe sends his thanks for a gift and apologies for ‘the delay in sending you the autographs of our team’. Nicely signed by Tribe. Sold with the accompanying Northamptonshire autograph sheet signed in ink by seventeen members of the team including Brookes (Captain), Broderick, Clarke, Livi View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #58 Neil Radford and Basil D’Oliveira. Worcestershire C.C.C. Four letters relating to Worcestershire cricketers, including two invitations to Neil Radford, one to attend the Esso/ Mail on Sunday Cricketers of the Season award 1986, the other to play for M.C.C. v Middlesex at Lords 1986. Also a two page typed letter from Donald Carr, Secretary of the T.C.C.B., outlining the terms and conditions for those selected for the England tour to Australia 1986/87, and proposed itinerary (Radford was not selec View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #59 Cricket and sports writers signatures c.1930s onwards. A good selection of approx. forty signatures of writers, broadcasters, commentators, collectors, dealers etc. collected by Irving Rosenwater. Signatures on pieces, cards and the odd page include Alfred J. Gaston, Jim Coldham, Jim Swanton, K. Krishnaswamy, A. Baer, ‘Learie [Constantine]’, C.L.R. James, G.D. Martineau, Irving Rosenwater, ‘Neville [Cardus]’, John Arlott, Peter Walker, Desmond Eagar, Reg Hayter, Brian Johnston, David Frith, Gord View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #60 International Test and County signatures 1930s onwards. A good selection of over sixty signatures, the majority signed to white cards with the odd signed cutting image, piece, receipt, label etc. collected by Irving Rosenwater 1960s-1990s, including some earlier Test cricketers. Signatures include Tiger Smith, Patsy Hendren, Godfrey Evans, ‘Gubby [Allen]’, Leslie Todd, Roger Prideaux, ‘APFC [Percy Chapman]’, Denis Compton, Jack Birkenshaw, Plum Warner, David Sheppard, George Mann, John Langridge View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #61 Frank Holmes Tyson. Northamptonshire & England 1952-1960. Thirteen page handwritten manuscript of detailed notes for an article by Tyson written on ruled note paper, contained in an envelope annotated to verso ‘Original M.S. of Frank Tyson, written at Old Trafford, June 1968 (1st Test v Australia)’. Australia had just beaten a ‘complacent’ England by 159 runs and claims the Australians should not be underestimated ‘on the evidence of bad weather fortunes, English confidence after W.I. [West Indi View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #62 J.M. Kilburn, cricket journalist and author. Two handwritten manuscripts for articles written by Kilburn for the Yorkshire Post. Kilburn is reporting on Oxford University v Yorkshire at The Parks, Oxford, 30th April & 1st May 1969. The first, comprising twelve pages of neatly written text, covers the first day’s play where ‘April uncertainty so infested the batting of Oxford University and Yorkshire that the first day... brought the fall of 17 wickets’. The second, of ten pages, covers the secon View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #63 Edward Ralph ‘Ted’ Dexter. Cambridge University, Sussex & England 1956-1968. Eight pages of notes written by Dexter for an article for the Sunday Mirror reporting on the 4th Test, England v West Indies, at Headingley 22nd- 27th July 1976. Reporting on the third day’s play Dexter describes ‘a crazily unpredictable morning’s play. At the start Tony Greig was eleven short of his hundred, thirteen were needed to save the follow-on and there was the imminent threat of a new ball for the West Indian f View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #64 World Series Cricket c.1978. Eight original questionnaires relating to players’ existing sponsorship obligations to companies or products. Each is signed by the player. Signatures are Ross Edwards (existing arrangement with St. Peters Cricket Gear and Puma), Richie Robinson (ditto), Barry Richards (Slazenger), Ian Davis (none), Dennis Amiss (Duncan Fearnley bats), Clive Rice (Stuart Surridge), Mike Procter (none), and Eddie Barlow (none). Some creasing and staples, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #65 England v Australia 1972. Australian boomerang signed by twelve members of the Australian touring party to England 1972. Signatures in ink include I.Chappell, Gleeson, Mallett, Walters, Marsh, Massie, Lillee, G.Chappell etc. Approx 23” long. Light fading to odd signature otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #66 Cricket and Football autographs late 1940’s. Maroon A5 scrapbook containing many magazine and press pen pictures of players and teams, some signed. Cricket signatures include George Cox, Cornford, Oakes, Nye, Gimblett, Mitchell-Innes, Langdale, Lawrence, Buse, Barnett, Melville, Watkins etc. Football signatures include Shackleton, Woodward, Jimmy Milburn, G. Hodgson, Billy Short, Brolly, Dawes, Stan Williams, Norman Smith, Viv Woodward. Fifty three signatures in total. Faults to the scrapbook, s View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #67 Signed cricket ephemera. A varied selection including ink and pencil signatures on paper pieces of Harry Lambert, Bill Cockburn and Des Fitzmaurice, all former Victorian State cricketers late 1940’s, Fen Cresswell of New Zealand 1949-1951, Shane Warne, Tom Moody, Merv Hughes, Don Kenyon and other Worcestershire players, collectors cards signed by Joel Garner, Gower, Harmison, Vaughan etc, FDC’s signed by Dion Nash, Chris Cairns, Ken Rutherford, Herschelle Gibbs etc, two signatures of Geoff Boyco View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #68 ‘Cricket Lovely Cricket’ late 1940/ 1950’s. Card album/scrapbook, tied with cord to the right hand side containing signed press and magazine cuttings, original postcards, cigarette cards and other ephemera. Profusely signed to images. Signatures include Keith Miller, Bill Johnston, Willie Watson, Bill Edrich, Close, Bedser, Laker, Evans, N. Harvey, Davidson, Benaud, Morris, Tallon, Hill, signed cigarette cards of A. Fagg, F.R. Brown, Watkins, Graveney, the South African 1951, including Cheetham, View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #69 England v Australia 1977. A small mounted presentation comprising of a Queen’s Silver Jubilee 1977 crown coin to centre of mount and signed in ink to left and right borders by eleven of the Australian and eleven of the England players who played in the 1977 Ashes series. Players include G. Chappell, Marsh, Lillee, Hookes, Walters, McCosker, O’Keefe, Brearley, Greig, Willis, Knott, Fletcher, Woolmer, Old, Randall etc. Framed and glazed. Overall 11.25”x10.5”. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #70 Cricket scrapbook circa 1970’s. Scrapbook containing numerous signed press and magazine pictures, odd official autograph sheet of cricketers covering all the county cricket clubs at the time. Signatures include Swarbrook, Miller, Kirsten, Denness, Fletcher, Lever, Nash, Cordle, Cartwright, Hobbs, official autograph sheet for Gloucestershire 1977, signed by 15 players, Zaheer, Brain, Procter, Sadiq, Nicholas, Terry, Tavare, Rowe, Dilley, Woolmer, Asif Iqbal, Croft, Hayes, lloyd, Illingworth, Gowe View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #71 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£25 - £35Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #72 M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Official M.C.C. Christmas card from the tour. With cover image of the emblem of M.C.C. and M.C.C. colours to corner, cord tie. To inside a picture of the team and the wording, ‘Wishing you a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year’. Signed from ‘Michael A. Green’, the tour manager. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #73 Norman Preston, editor of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1952-1980. Official Christmas card from the M.C.C. tour of Australia and New Zealand 1954/55. With decorative front cover and tour title. To inside centre spread, pictures of the M.C.C. team and the Press team, with wording to the first page ‘With all Good Wishes for Christmas and the New Year from [Norman Preston]. With the M.C.C. team, Australia 1954-55’, signed by Preston. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #74 Sir Leonard Hutton 1916-1990. Order of Service of Thanksgiving for Hutton held at York Minster on the 16th November 1990. Signed in ink to the front cover by nine cricketers. Signatures are Denis Compton, Dickie Bird, Fred Trueman, Vick Wilson, David [Sheppard, Bishop of Liverpool], Don Wilson, Brian Statham, Tom Graveney and Bob Appleyard. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #75 Wilfred ‘Wilf’ Barber. Yorkshire & England 1926-1947. Original British passport issued to Barber on 19th August 1935 for the 1935/36 ‘Young’ M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand. Sold with the original Orient Line First Class Passengers’ Ticket issued to Barber for the outward voyage on the ‘Orion’, which departed from Tilbury on 28th September 1935 for Fremantle, Western Australia. The passport includes official stamps for arrival at Colombo on 19th October 1935, and Fremantle on 29th Octob View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #76 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. ‘Minutes of the Eleventh Annual General Meeting of Jack Hobbs Limited’ 26th February 1931. Single page typed minutes listing those present including Hobbs, adoption of audited accounts, agreement of Directors’ Fees, and the reappointment of company auditors. Nicely signed in black ink by Jack Hobbs, D. Brown and A. Kempton. Sold with an original large ‘News Chronicle Cricket Scheme’ colour certificate with decorative border and image of Hobbs View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #77 Test and County signatures 1970s onwards. Fifty one signatures on individual titled cards covering England (27 signatures), South Africa (5), Australia (2), Pakistan (2), Zimbabwe (1), Hampshire (1), Somerset (6), Surrey (2), Sussex (2), and Yorkshire (3). Signatures include C. Tremlett, Udal, Saggers, Solanki, Randall, Amiss, Foakes, G. Jones, Capel, Key, A. Stewart (England), Donald, Hall, de Bruyn, Willoughby (South Africa), Blewett, McKay (Australia), Houghton (Zimbabwe), Len Hutton (on pie View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #78 Cricket journalists, illustrators and authors. Seven nice signatures in ink signed to small Queens Hotel, Leeds, headed note paper. Signatures are E.M. Wellings, Roy Ullyett, Crawford White, Charles Bray, Alex Bannister, L.N. Baily, and J.M. Kilburn. Undated, probably c.1960. Small adhesive mark to verso with some show through, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #79 Lillywhite’s tour to Australia 1876/77. First Test-playing tour of Australia by an English side. ‘Australian Match [tour]. Lillywhite & Hobgen’. Interesting pre-agreement draft of a document assumed to have been drawn up by solicitors in advance of the tour, dated 25th July 1876, comprising a single page manuscript legal folio page of the ‘forfeiture clause’ for the articles of agreement between Arthur Hogben and James Lillywhite, outlining the terms of Hogben’s financing of the proposed tour by View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #80 Norman Stewart ‘Mandy’ Mitchell-Innes. Somerset, Oxford University & England 1931-1949. A selection of items signed by Mitchell-Innes. Includes a page nicely signed in ink by twelve players corresponding with the Oxford University team for the match v M.C.C. played at Lord’s 20th & 22nd June 1936, with scorecard for the match signed by Mitchell-Innes. Signatures to page are Mitchell-Innes (Captain), Singleton, Matthews, Belle, Murray-Wood, Walford, Darwall-Smith, Barton, Kimpton, Grover, Dyson a View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #81 Yorkshire c.1950s. A tablecloth comprising thirty five embroidered signatures of Test and County cricketers and other sports personalities of the period, with Yorkshire white rose emblems to centre and four corners. The signatures were collected in pencil and later embroidered in different coloured threads with some original signatures visible below the embroidery, and the odd additional signature not embroidered. Yorkshire players’ signatures include Herbert Sutcliffe, Billy Sutcliffe, Len Hut View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #82 Lancashire c.1930. A large tablecloth comprising thirty four beautifully embroidered signatures in white thread of Test and County cricketers. The tablecloth appears to have been signed by the players then embroidered. To the central portion of the tablecloth each individual signature is contained within ruled pencil borders, with three signatures to the corners. Lancashire players’ signatures include Peter Eckersley (Captain 1929-1935), Johnny Tyldesley, Harry Makepeace, Cec Parkin, Archie Macl View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #83 ‘Australian & England Test Series 1926’. A tablecloth with intricate decorative lacework borders, signed in black ink by twenty eight England and Australia Test players. Handwritten title to centre with the signatures of the England captain, Arthur Carr, also Ernest Tyldesley, Greville Stevens and Australian, Warren Bardsley. To the borders the signatures of Frank Woolley, Herbert Sutcliffe, Percy Chapman, Herbert Strudwick, Maurice Tate, Roy Kilner, Jack Hobbs, Patsy Hendren, Arthur Gilligan (E View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #84 M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand 1936/37. Official M.C.C. Christmas card with title and M.C.C. colours to front cover, printed team photograph and greeting to centre. Signed ‘Jim [Sims]’. Complete with original envelope addressed to George Fenner in Kent, postmarked Sydney, 17th November 1936. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #85 M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand 1954/55. Official M.C.C. Christmas card with title and M.C.C. to front cover, printed team photograph and greeting to centre. Signed ‘Peter [May]’. Good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #86 ‘The Centurions- Scorers of 100 First-Class Centuries’. Headed book insert by Boundary Books containing the signatures of ten 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, Graham Gooch and Denis Compton. Sold with a further headed Boundary Books limitation page, nicely signed by Viv Richards and Bill Frindall. Both 8.75”x12.5”. Qty 2. Minor wear to page edges View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #87 ‘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£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #88 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£300 - £500Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #89 ‘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£100 - £150Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #90 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£100 - £150Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #91 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£100 - £150StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #92 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£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #93 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£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #94 Australia tour to South Africa 1949/50. Official menu for the dinner held for the ‘Australian Visit’ at the Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo, 11th November 1949, held after the first day’s play of the tour match against Rhodesia. The folding menu with Australia and Rhodesia colours and printed title to front, menu to inside. Nicely and fully signed to the rear cover by all fourteen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Hassett (Captain), Morris, Saggers, Archer, Johnson, Moroney, H View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #95 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£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #96 England 1953. Ashes winning team. Official menu booklet for the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society ‘Reunion Dinner for Members of the 1953 Ashes Winning Team’. Held at Cutlers Hall, Sheffield, 18th October 1980. Signed to rear cover autograph page by fifteen England players, including Hutton, Tattersall, Statham, Edrich, Simpson, Bailey, Kenyon, May, Trueman, Evans, Wardle, Graveney, Bedser, Compton etc. Additionally signed to first page and inside back cover by Sebastian Coe, and to centre page View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #97 England Ashes Winners 1953. Celebration Dinner given by National Westminster Bank ‘to honour the players of the 1953 England teams which regained the Ashes’. Eight page colour menu for the Dinner held at The National Westminster Tower on 27th June 1983. The menu signed to the player pen pictures by each of the eighteen England players who played in the Tests including Hutton (Captain), Bailey, Brown, Compton, Edrich, Kenyon, May, Trueman, Wardle, Statham etc. Also signed to the front cover by Br View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #98 ‘Re-union Dinner for Members of the 1953 Ashes Winning Team’. Official menu for the dinner given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society, Sheffield 18th October 1980. Signed to the rear autograph page by fifteen England players who played in the series. Signatures are Hutton, May, Tattersall, Edrich, Trueman, Simpson, Evans, Kenyon, Compton, Bedser, Statham, Wardle, Bailey, Graveney and Laker, also Sebastian Coe. Additionally signed to the centre ‘Toasts’ page by Brian Johnston and Nicholas Par View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #99 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£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #100 South Africa Tour to England 1955. Official folding tour itinerary signed in ink to the centre fixture list by all sixteen playing members of the tour. Signatures are Cheetham (Captain), McGlew, Fuller, Heine, Endean, Smith, Tayfield, Murray, Mansell, Waite, Winslow, Duckworth, Goddard, McGlew, Adcock and Keith. Creasing and wear, overall in fair condition. Sold with an official pre-tour souvenir programme for the 1955 tour published by Playfair, edited by Gordon Ross in very good condition. Qty View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...15|Next123456789101112131415 Previous 123456789101112131415 Next Previous 123456789101112131415 Next
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