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 PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 41-50 of 1477. Previous|12345678...148|Next 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 Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...148|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148 Next
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