Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - 3 Day Auction (#14) 26/07/2024 10:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 26/07/2024 10:30 AM BST Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 1471. Previous|12345678...15|Next Lot #1 Hampshire C.C.C. ‘The Kentish Gazette’. Original early newspaper for 27th July 1792 printed in Canterbury. Page one column 1 features a small advertisement for ‘Cricket. A Grand Match of Cricket will be played in Cobham Hall Park August 13th and the following days, Kent with two given men out of Surry against Hampshire... A good ordinary provided on the Cricket Ground, each day of playing, by Heath of the Bull Inn, Rochester’. On the back page column 4 is a small report on another Hampshire matc View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #2 Hampshire C.C.C. ‘The Farmer’s Journal and Manfacturer’s and Trader’s Register 1807’. Early, original and interesting eight page newspaper for Saturday May 30th 1807. With five line paragraph on page 46. ‘Cricket. The Grand Match in Lord’s Ground, on Monday last, between nine of Hampshire, with Lambert and Hampton against eleven of All England, for one thousand Guineas a side, was decided on Wednesday, in favour of England, by 47 runs’. The paper previously bound, some folds, wear to edges, slig View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #3 ‘The Great Match of Cricket. Yorkshire & Norfolk’ 1834. Original four page broadsheet copy of the ‘The Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette’ newspaper dated 7th June 1834. Page three features an advertisement for the match to be played ‘at Norwich, Wednesday 18th June and following days for 100 Sovereigns a-side. The match will include the celebrated Marsden & Dearman, the Three Pilches and the best players of the two counties’. Duty stamp to top right corner of front page. Some wear and loss t View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #4 Original newspapers 1860s-2000s. A comprehensive collection of over eighty home and overseas newspapers, the majority complete copies, with good cricket coverage. Issues include ‘The Daily Gleaner’, Kingston, Jamaica, June 1955 ‘Cricket Souvenir’ for ‘West Indies vs. Australia 1955’. ‘The Birmingham Post Supplement in Commemoration of Edgbaston Test Match’ 30th May 1957. Two complete issues of ‘The Referee Edited by Pendragon’, 21st June and 28th June 1885. ‘The Daily News’ 14th August 1926 with View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #5 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£120 - £160Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding 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£50 - £70Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history 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£80 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #8 The Ashes 1930. Original ‘L.N.E. M. & G.N. Rlys’ railway handbill titled ‘Divisional Labour Party Corridor Express Excursion to Blackpool, Sheffield & Manchester’ and ‘See Third Test Match. England v. Australia, Old Trafford Ground, Manchester. Saturday, 26th July [1930]’. The handbill measures 7.5”x9.75”. Small white label laid to top right corner. Light folds, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #9 ‘Cricket. Follow the Game with the King-Pins of Cricket, West Indians v Spartans, Sunday May 27th & Decoration Day May 30th [19]23’. Unusual and intriguing handbill for cricket matches played at Commercial Field, Brooklyn, New York. The handbill features lists of two teams, with short biographies of each player. Players for the ‘West Indians’ include Dr. W.O.B. Gibbs (Captain), F. Hinds, O. Layne, E. Holder, R. Allder, A. Dash etc. Players listed for ‘The Dreadnoughts’ include A. Walcott (Captai View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #10 Victorian Ladies’ cricket. Early small original handbill for ‘A Grand Female Cricket Match, between 11 of Surrey and 11 of Hampshire for 500 Guineas’ at Robert Thornton Esq.’s Park, Clapham, 30th September 1811, printed by Grant of Borough, and a sepia plain back real photograph postcard of a reproduction of an engraving of a humorous depiction of the match in progress. The handbill with heavy staining measures 4”x5.75”, laid to page. Sold with an original advertising handbill for ‘A Lawn-Tennis View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #11 ‘The Hampshire Giants’. John Arlott 1945. An original seven page typescript written and narrated by John Arlott for a radio programme broadcast 6th May 1945 on the B.B.C. Home Service. Arlott writes about the ‘Bat and Ball’ inn on Broadhalfpenny Down, home of the Hambledon Cricket Club, ‘the greatest single club in the history of cricket’. He describes the speeds that the underarm bowlers of the time, such as David Harris, achieved, and the significant roles played by Richard and John Nyren in t View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #12 Michael Parkinson on Greg Chappell. Original four page typescript with handwritten corrections and annotations of an article written by Parkinson for a book on Chappell. Ex Irving Rosenwater collection with handwritten note in Rosenwater’s hand, ‘Michael Parkinson [while in Sydney] copy for Greg Chappell picture book. 1982’. VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #13 Sunil Manohar Gavaskar. Bombay, Somerset & India. 1967-1987. Seven page handwritten manuscript written on ‘Vacation Hotels New Zealand’ note paper of an article by Gavaskar reviewing India’s 1980/81 tour to Australia. Ex Irving Rosenwater collection with handwritten annotation to first page, ‘Sunil Gavaskar original copy’. VG. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #14 Imran Khan. Lahore, Worcestershire, Oxford University & Pakistan 1969-1992. Seven page handwritten manuscript for an article written by Imran Khan, accompanied by a three page typescript version with handwritten annotations and corrections by Imran and Irving Rosenwater. Imran reviews the 1983/84 Pakistan Test and one day international series in Australia and looks forward to the impending 1984/85 tour to New Zealand followed by the World Championship of Cricket series in Australia 1985, stating View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #15 Maxwell Henry Norman ‘Max’ Walker. Victoria & Australia 1968-1982. ‘Javed Miandad by Max Walker’. Five page handwritten article by Walker in which he describes Miandad as ‘cheeky’ and ‘full of fun’, and who was ‘indirectly responsible for my taking what was a “career best” catch’ at the Manuka Oval, Canberra ‘in the second year of World Series Cricket’. He describes taking an ‘absolute screamer [of a catch]’ to dismiss Miandad, only regretting ‘that it wasn’t in front of 50,000 at the M.C.G. ins View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #16 Australia. The Chappell brothers. Seven page handwritten article in pencil titled ‘My three sons from a parent’s point of view’ written by Martin Chappell, father of the brothers Ian, Greg and Trevor, with an accompanying note in ink to ‘Dear Austin [Robertson?]’ dated 22nd August 1982. Chappell describes his delight of seeing his three sons playing together for South Australia, and at Lord’s for Australia in ‘1972 (Ian & Greg), 1977 (Greg), 1981 (Trevor)’. He describes his own passion for crick View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #17 ‘S.F. Barnes- Master Bowler’. Leslie Duckworth. A comprehensive collection of typed and handwritten correspondence from 1965 to 1967 between Duckworth and Irving Rosenwater contained in a large envelope with title handwritten to front in Rosenwater’s hand with the annotation, ‘How the book came to be published’. Contents include Duckworth’s description of being let down in 1965 by the publisher, Epworth Press, then by Eyre & Spottiswoode, and Rosenwater’s encouragement and efforts to find an alt View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #18 Irving Rosenwater archives 1959-2003. A collection of fourteen large envelopes containing copies of reports and articles and original press cuttings collected by Rosenwater, with his handwritten titles to the envelopes. Subjects covered include ‘Cricket Cartoons (cuttings)’ 1959. ‘G.A. Lohmann’s Grave at Matjiesfontein’. Fritz Joubert, with four original mono press photographs, 1965. ‘Regina v N. Gifford’ copy typescript of a ‘humorous’ article titled on the Benson & Hedges Cup Semi-final, Lanca View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£125StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #19 J.W. Goldman. ‘Cricket on the Hearth’ c.1890 to early 1900. Three scrapbook albums compiled by Goldman in matching volumes bound in red cloth (Vol. I smaller), each with leather title label to spine. The contents comprise a nice and comprehensive collection of magazine extracts of cartoons, printed photographs of players and matches, teams etc. mainly relating to English first-class and some Test cricket of the period including the Australian tour of 1902, many annotated with captions in ink by View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #20 ‘The Life of W.G. Grace’. Large format scrapbook comprising a good selection of newspaper cuttings relating to Grace’s childhood and playing career, with reports of his achievements and anecdotes, and also his brothers Edward Mills Grace and George Frederick Grace. The book with brown paper wrappers and handwritten title to front with ‘Book compiled of news cuttings acquired in March 1905’. Good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #21 England Test series 1962-1979. Ten scrapbook albums comprising an extensive collection of newspaper cuttings covering England home and away Test series and tours. Each album is dedicated to a specific series/ tour and bound uniformly in green cloth with gilt title to spine. Series are England v Australia 1962/63, v West Indies 1963, v Australia 1972, v West Indies 1973, v Australia & New Zealand 1974/75, v Australia 1975, v West Indies 1975/76, v West Indies 1976, v Australia 1977, and v Austral View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #22 Pre-war cricket scrapbooks. Two scrapbooks of newspaper and magazine cuttings, one pre-World War I featuring England Test and County cricketers C.B. Fry, W.G. Grace, W. Rhodes, Ranjitsinhji, Plum Warner, Gilbert Jessop, Lord Hawke, also the Australian tours to England 1909 and 1911 including Victor Trumper etc. The other, with newspaper and some magazine cuttings, relates to the seasons 1928-1930 including the M.C.C. tour to Australia 1928/29 and Australia to England 1930. Tape repair to spine o View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #23 ‘Rev. R.S. Holmes. Cricket Literature and some Cricket Notches. Illustrated’. Compiled by George Neville Weston 1933. Large format scrapbook handsomely rebound in brown quarter leather and tan cloth, raised bands and gilt title to spine, with gilt on black leather title label to front, and what appears to be the original title label laid down to inside front cover. Comprises 92 numbered leaves (186 pages in total), the majority being original extracts from ‘Cricket a Weekly Record’, some hand co View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #24 Melbourne Cricket Club annual reports and newsletters 1966-1990/91. Folder comprising a collection of approx. fifty newsletters and annual reports issued by the Club for the period. Formerly the property of Irving Rosenwater. Newsletters include issue nos. 26, 28-32, 34, 35, 43, 44, 48, 49, 51, 53, 54, 57, 60, 61, 63-65, 67, 69, 71 and 80 for the period 1966-1988. Annual reports cover seasons 1974/75-1976/77, 1982/83-1985/86 and 1990/91. Some duplication of issues. Also includes a typed letter t View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #25 South African cricket statistical surveys 1960s/1970s. A collection of eight facsimile copies of handwritten statistical surveys compiled by Denys Heesom covering cricket in South Africa for seasons 1969/70-1975/76 and 1977/78. Also a similar survey, ‘South African First-Class Matches’, dated October 1971. The majority stored in plain buff folders and in original envelopes sent to Irving Rosenwater with correspondence between Heesom and Rosenwater. G. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #26 Original Patents. Parlour & Outdoor Games 1884-1903. Folder comprising six original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects are ‘Apparatus for Playing Outdoor and Indoor Games’ A.S. King 1884, ‘Miniature Automatic Cricket Players’ T. Cloke & W.A. Ellis 1884, ‘A New or Improved Parlour Game’ M.F. Bailey 1885, ‘A New Out Door Game with Requisites for Playing the same’ E. Flemons 1886, ‘An Indoor Game in Imitation of Cricket, and Apparatus therefore’ H. Lamplough 1895, and ‘A View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #27 Original Patents. Cricket Equipment & Accessories 1885-1903. Folder comprising seventeen original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects include ‘Improvements in Leg Guards’ F.H. Ayres 1885, ‘A Groin Protector or Shield for Cricketers’ A.M. Palmer 1888, ‘Improvements in or relating to Hand Guards or Protectors...’ H. Hayley 1888, ‘Improvements in Batting Gloves’ P.B. & D. Cow, J. Crump 1892, ‘’...Pad or Protector for the Abdomen Hips and Thighs...’ R.H. Fish & H. Peace 19 View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #28 Original Patents. Cricket Equipment & Accessories 1876-1904. Folder comprising nineteen original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects include ‘Apparatus for Scoring Games’ W. Walton 1876, ‘Improvements in Cricket Stumps or Wickets’ W.G. Boorn-Thompson 1884, ‘Improvements in Machinery for Making Cricket-bats’ W.H. Cook 1888, ‘Improved Cricket Sight Boards’ W. Browning 1897, and others relating to wickets, bails, umpires’ counters, pitch measurement and marking etc. Docum View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #29 Original Patents. Cricket Bats 1876-1885. Folder comprising twenty four original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents, all relating to the construction of cricket bats, bat and tennis racquet handles and covers ‘and other Implements of the like kind’. Includes patents applied for by notable manufacturers of the day including G.W. Frowd of Lillywhite & Frowd 1881, R. Slazenger Moss of Slazenger & Sons 1884, W.R. Lake (for Cady of U.S.A.) 1884, W.H. Cleave of Clapshaw & Cleave 1885 View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #30 Original Patents. Cricket Bats 1886-1895. Folder comprising twenty four original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents, all relating to the construction of cricket bats, including ‘An Unbreakable Bat’, bat and tennis racquet handles and covers and others ‘of the like’. Includes patents applied for by notable manufacturers of the day including S.M. Wainwright 1886, G.H. White of Aquila Clapshaw, White & Co. 1886, H.S. Dark of F. Dark (Lord’s) 1886, L.J. Nicholls 1889, A.W. Trimming View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #31 Original Patents. Cricket Bats 1885-1903 and Cricket Balls 1876-1898. Folder comprising twenty original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents, all relating to the construction of cricket bats and balls, including blade protectors, handles, tennis, footballs, ball coverings etc. Includes patents applied for by notable and international manufacturers of the day including J. Malings of Jeffries & Malings 1876, A. Ashton (U.S.A.) 1895, H.A. Cook 1895, W.A. Jewell (New Zealand) 1896, H View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #32 Black Hats v White Hats 1880-1901’. Official menu and toast list for ‘The Twenty First Annual Dinner and Meeting of the members and friends of the Ilkley Tradesmen’s Cricket Teams held at The Lister’s Arms Hotel, Ilkley on Wednesday 18th September 1901’. Cover with details to front, menu, toast list and presentation details to inner pages with ‘Captains of the teams from 1880 to 1901 cameo images to verso. Some wear. folds and soiling to covers, two adhesive marks to top of the rear cover. A rar View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #33 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£150 - £250Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #34 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£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #35 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£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #36 Australia tour of England 1930. Attractive original folding ‘Programme of Australian Matches 1930’ advertising fixture card by Battersby Hats of London. The front with decorative colour illustration of a match in progress and title, fixtures to inside, list of the Australian team to rear. Minor soiling, otherwise in good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #37 ‘Sussex County Cricket Club Bazaar, Clarence Rooms, Hotel Metropole, Brighton, December 4th, 5th & 6th, 1894. A descriptive catalogue of the Unique Collection of Cricket Trophies, Curios, Historic Bats, Balls, Early Cricket Pictures, Engravings, and Prints. Arranged by W.L.Murdoch, Esq., & Mr. Alfred J. Gaston. Exhibited in aid of the funds of the Sussex County Cricket Club. 1894’. 16 pages including printed paper wrappers. Articles for exhibition included the Earl of Sheffield, W.L. Murdoch, Ch View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #38 ‘Mead’s Hundreds: a note’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Milford, Surrey: [printed as a Christmas card], 1927. 4pp. Printed details of Hendren’s hundred hundreds, chronological history of his achievements, his highest innings and list of scorers of 100 centuries to that point in time. Original white embossed wrappers, printed in red with title and woodcut vignette of a cricket scene. Edges of wrappers slightly soiled otherwise in good condition. Padwick 7865 View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #39 ‘The Deanery Cricket Club, Southampton’. ‘A Deanery Diary. An Account of the Eastbourne Cricket Tour 1927 of The Deanery Tourists (A Band of jovial Fellows)’. Tour diary with details of matches, players biographies etc. Good condition. Sold with ‘Deanery C.C. Diamond Jubilee 1931’. A two page paper from the Committee announcing dates of matches, Dinners etc, and asking for subscriptions to be paid, to celebrate the Jubilee. Some folds, wear and a tear to edge. Qty 2 View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #40 Hampshire C.C.C. Selection of ephemera relating to the club or players or officials from the club contained in a green file. Items includes an official menu for the Dinner held in 1961 having won the County Championship, ‘The Summer of Triumph 1961’, a four page Southern Evening Echo’ souvenir, a signed ‘Supplement to Topical Times of Neil McCorkell, a early booklet ‘System of Instruction in the Jhansi Brigade. May 1918’ written by Brig. Gen R.M. Poore, a photocopy of the Speech delivered by Irv View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #41 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 - £60StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #42 Cricketers’ orders of service. A selection of three original memorial service booklets for Harold Larwood, Kingsford 28th July 1995, Robert (Bob) Berry, Oldham, 11th December 2006, and Roy Tattersall, Stourbridge 21st December 2011. G/VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #43 Cricketers’ orders of service. A selection of three original memorial service booklets for Graham Anthony Richard (Tony) Lock, Perth 7th April 1995, and two Australian Test cricketers, Raymond Russell (Ray) Lindwall, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane, 27th June 1996, and Leslie Ernest (Les) Flavell, Adelaide 17th June 1987. G/VG View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #44 Club fixture cards, photographs etc. 1866 onwards. A selection of mainly early original Club fixture/ rules cards, photographs, menus etc. Folding fixture cards include Alliance C.C. (Nunhead) 1866 (Qty 3), 1871, 1872, Rusholme C.C. (Lancashire) 1887, Royal Agricultural College C.C. 1893, Bass & Co.’s London Cricket Club 1894, 1896, Northumberland C.C. 1894, C.E.Y.M.S. C.C. (Cambridgeshire) 1901 and Teddington C.C. (Middlesex) 1913. Also two official menus, one for a ‘Dinner to L.W. Newman’, Caf View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #45 Lancashire C.C.C. 1873-1926. A selection of Lancashire and Manchester cricket ephemera including a printed letter from H. Swire, Hon. Sec., dated 19th April 1873, announcing the opening fixture for the 1873 season, ‘Married v. Single’ on 26th April, with small blue double sided fixture card for ‘The County of Lancaster Cricket Club 1873’. Two folding fixture cards, one for ‘Lancashire & Yorkshire County Fixtures 1895’ issued by ‘Alec Watson (23 years Lancashire Eleven)’, Sports Outfitter, Manche View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #46 ‘Womens Cricket. The First Inter-County Match. Leicestershire v Notts’ 1930. A selection of items relating to the first ever Ladies’ County match, Leicestershire v. Nottinghamshire, played at the Aylestone Ground, Leicester, 4th August 1930. Items include an album page fully signed in ink by both teams, also the umpires and scorers (foxing and some creasing), an original mono photograph of the Leicester team and another printed image, also an original photograph of a view of the ground with the View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #47 ‘The Batsman’s Bride’. Percy Heywood and Donald Hughes. Original handwritten musical score bound in cloth covers of songs for an operetta in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan written in the late 1940s and first performed at Rydal School Colwyn Bay in 1948. The score, comprising over fifty pages, is handwritten in ink with additions and alterations in pencil, and typed lyrics laid down to the pages. Included is an original programme for a performance given by the Manx Gilbert and Sullivan Society View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #48 Frederick Sewards ‘Fred’ Trueman. Yorkshire & England 1949-1969. Eight original Lord’s ‘Honorary Life Member’ folding membership card booklets issued to Trueman for seasons 1970 and 1994-2000. The cards for 1995 and 2000 both signed by Trueman. Sold with an official M.C.C. gold metal press badge stamped ‘F.S. Trueman’ to verso. 1” diameter with red cord tie. Qty 9. Very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #49 Cricket club ephemera 1860s-1980s. An eclectic selection of items relating to club cricket. Earlier items include a Broxbourne C.C. (Hertfordshire) four page printed report and accounts dated 20th May 1862. Gravesend C.C. team photograph 1884, 6”x4”, laid to card. ‘Brixworth [Workhouse] Guardians’ cricket team photograph for a match v. Northampton Guardians 1907, 3.75”x5.75”, laid to card. Two original sepia photographs of Midhurst C.C. (Sussex), one a team photograph, the other a match in progr View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #50 Mixed cricket ephemera. Box comprising a selection of ephemera including signed autograph sheets and pages, signed cricket balls, Gough, King etc, signed print, Western Australia v Rest of Australia 1987 signed by both teams, two commemorative printed handkerchiefs with scorecards for the England v Australia Test match where Boycott scored his 100th century and the 1981 Test match at Headingley (Botham and Willis’s Test), books, trade cards, signatures of players from the England v South Africa View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #51 Sussex , Surrey & Gloucestershire. Box comprising a selection of ephemera including photographs, books, newsletters, scorecards and prints with good Sussex, Surrey & Gloucestershire interest. Includes ten original mono Sussex related photographs laid to card, the majority featuring Sussex players attending invitation matches at Three Bridges C.C. 1950s, functions etc. including Dexter, A.E.R. Gilligan, Parks etc. Also Surrey handbooks for 1949 & 1950, histories and biographies, Gloucestershire s View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #52 England Test match tickets 1963-2016. A collection of original match tickets, the majority window mounted, framed and glazed in groups. Includes an original individual match ticket for the 4th day, 4th Test, England v. West Indies, Lord’s, 24th June 1963 in small ornate metal frame. Sold with four complete sets of five match tickets, one for each day’s play, for England overseas Test matches. West Indies v. England, 4th Test, Bridgetown, Barbados 8th- 13th April 1994, England won by 208 runs. Sr View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #53 ‘W.G. Grace. Champion Cricketer of the World’. Large cotton handkerchief commemorating a Century of Centuries by Grace. The handkerchief has a central portrait of Grace three quarter length in cricket attire holding a cricket bat, with biography and record of each individual score and opponents to outer border. Decorated with cricket bats and balls in a floral outer border. Produced in 1895 the handkerchief is printed in black print. Framed and glazed, overall 23”x22.5”. Minor soiling to folds, View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #54 Australian tour of England 1926. Rarely seen official folding tour itinerary for the Australian tour of England 1926. The front cover with gold and green decorative stripes to top corner and title ‘Australian Board of Control for International Cricket’ and ‘16th Australian XI. English Tour 1926’. To inside pages details of the Australian team and list of matches to be played on the tour. Nicely and fully signed to back cover in ink by the sixteen playing members of the touring party. Signatures View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #55 Australia tour of England 1930. Official ‘Australian XI English Tour 1930’ brochure for the tour. Title to front cover ‘With the compliments of the Orient Line’ with Orient Line emblem and Australian colours of gold and green running diagonally through the centre of the cover. The brochure lists the members of the touring party, fixtures and biographies with pen picture of each of the seventeen members of the Australian touring party. Each biography has been nicely signed in ink by the player fe View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #56 Australia tour of England 1934. Official ‘Australian XI English Tour 1934 Orient Line R.M.S. Orford’ brochure. The front cover features the Ashes urn with lion and kangaroo to either side. The brochure is fully and nicely signed in black ink by all eighteen members of the touring party including the management. Signatures are Woodfull, Bradman, Barnett, Bromley, Brown, Chipperfield, Darling, Ebeling, Fleetwood-Smith, Grimmett, Kippax, McCabe, Oldfield, O’Reilly, Ponsford, Wall, Bushby (Manager) View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #57 Australia tour of England 1938. Official ‘Australian XI English Tour 1938 Orient Line R.M.S. “Orontes”’ brochure. The front cover features an Ashes urn emblem, printed title and Australian green and gold colours. The brochure lists the members of the touring party, list of fixtures and biographies with pen picture of each of the members of the touring Australian team. The pen pictures have been individually signed in ink by the player featured. Fully signed with seventeen signatures of Bradman ( View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #58 Australia tour of England 1948. Official ‘P&O R.M.S. Strathaird’ souvenir brochure for the Australian tour of England 1948. Printed in Sydney. Front cover with printed title, ‘Australian XI’s English Tour’ and ‘1948 Tests’ emblem. Signed in ink to pen pictures by fourteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Bradman, Hassett, Brown, Hamence, Harvey, Johnston, Lindwall, Loxton, McCool, Miller, Ring, Tallon, Toshack and Johnson (Manager). The Barnes signature hand stamped as usual. The sig View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #59 Australia tour of England 1953. Official souvenir brochure for the Australian tour of England. Compiled by A.W. Simpson. Pictorial covers. Fully signed in ink to pictures by all eighteen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Hassett (Captain), Morris, Johnston, Tallon, Lindwall, Miller, Ring, Archer, Benaud, Harvey, Craig, Davidson, de Courcey, Hill, Hole, Langley, McDonald and Davies (Manager). Rusting to staples, some pages detached, otherwise in good condition. Sold with an View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #60 ‘Australian XI Coronation Tour 1953’. Official Australian Board of Control folding programme and itinerary for the tour to England. Decorative cover with green and gold colours and Australian emblem. To inside pages is the programme of matches to be played on the tour and the back cover is an autograph card with names of the touring Australians listed. Nicely signed by sixteen members of the touring party in ink. Signatures are Hassett (Captain), Morris, Archer, Benaud, Craig, Davidson, de Courc View details Estimates£140 - £180StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #61 Australia tour to England 1956. Official P&O souvenir tour programme for the 1956 tour. The programme with fixtures, travel details and pen pictures and biography of all members of the Australian team to pages. Signed to pen pictures by all seventeen playing members of the team. Signatures are Johnson (Captain), Miller, Archer, Benaud, Burge, Burke, Craig, Crawford, Davidson, Harvey, Langley, Lindwall, Mackay, Maddocks, McDonald, Rutherford and Wilson. Also signed by the Manager W.J. Dowling. Th View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #62 Australia tour to South Africa 1957/58. Rarer official Shaw Savill Line ‘Q.S.M.V. “Dominion Monarch”’ folding post tour souvenir programme for the 1957/58 tour to South Africa. The programme with decorative colour front cover illustration of kingfishers. To inside is an autograph page to one side, and results of the Test series to the other. Nicely and fully signed in ink to the autograph page by all sixteen listed members of the Australian touring party and one other. Players’ signatures are Cr View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #63 Australia tour to England 1961. Official P&O Orient Lines ‘S.S. Himalaya’ souvenir tour booklet for the Australian tour of England. Original decorative wrappers. Printed in Sydney. Fully signed in ink to pen pictures by all nineteen members of the Australian touring party including the two officials. Signatures are Benaud (Captain), Harvey, Booth, Burge, Davidson, Gaunt, Grout, Jarman, Kline, Lawry, Mackay, McDonald, McKenzie, Misson, O’Neill, Quick, Simpson, Webb (Manager) and Steele (Treasurer View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #64 Australia tour to England 1964. Official P&O Orient Lines ‘S.S. Orcades’ souvenir tour booklet for the Australian tour of England. Original decorative wrappers. Printed in Sydney. Fully signed in ink to pen pictures by all seventeen playing members of the Australian touring party and the manager, Steele. Players’ signatures are Simpson (Captain), Booth, Burge, Connolly, Corling, Cowper, Grout, Hawke, Jarman, Lawry, Martin, McKenzie, O’Neill, Potter, Redpath, Sellers and Veivers. Wear and soiling View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #65 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£50 - £70Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #66 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£50 - £80Winning Bid£105StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #67 ‘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£30 - £50Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #68 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£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #69 England v Australia. Centenary Test Match Reception. 26th August 1980. Official M.C.C. brochure produced for the event held at Lord’s with list of invited guests etc. Signed to front cover, inside pages and rear cover by sixty five Australian and England players. Signatures include Ponsford, a’Beckett, Walters, Loxton, Hassett, Lillee, I. Johnson, A. Morris, Massie, O’Reilly, Border, Lindwall, McCormick, Davidson, Benaud, R. Marsh, Hendrey, Larwood, Tyson, F.R. Brown, Bright, Luckhurst, Mallett, View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #70 India ‘World Cup Winners’ 1983. Extremely large Birthday card fully signed to the blank inside left of the card by all fourteen members of the victorious Indian World Cup squad, the majority with dedications to ‘Mary’. Signatures are Kapil Dev (Captain), Sandhu, Binny, Kirmani, Sharma, Vengsarkar, Gavaskar, Madan Lal, Valson, Amarnath, Srikkanth, Sandip Patil, Azad and Shastri. The signature of Roger Binny signed to album page laid down. The card measures 32.5”x25” when open. Good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #71 West Indies tour to England 1988. ‘Gala Celebrity Dinner with the West Indies Cricket Team’. Official menu/ brochure for the dinner given by the Leukaemia Research Fund at The Brewery, London, 21st June 1988. Signed to the rear cover by fifteen members of the West Indies touring party. Players’ signatures are Logie, Richards, Greenidge, Arthurton, Bishop, Marshall, Dujon, Benjamin, Patterson, Ambrose, Richardson, Haynes and Williams. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #72 England v Australia 1993. Official menu for the Dinner held at the Chamberlain Suite, Swallow Hotel, Birmingham, 4th August 1993, on the eve of the 5th Test at Edgbaston. Signed in pencil by fifteen of the England Test squad. Signatures in pencil include Emburey, Gooch, Maynard, Stewart, Smith, Atherton, Thorpe, Ilott, Malcolm, Hussain, Such etc. ‘Judge’ annotated to top suggesting this might have been Robin Smith’s copy. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #73 Australian tour of England 1905. Small black autograph book containing the ink signatures of the 1905 Australian tourists and many prominent Test and county players from the period. View details Estimates£600 - £900Winning Bid£1,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #74 South Africa tour to Australia 1931/32. Small leather bound autograph album comprising very nice signatures in ink of twelve Australian players and sixteen members of the South African touring party. Each team signed to two pages, back to back. Australian signatures are Grimmett, Woodfull, Wall, Oldfield, Ironmonger, Bradman, Rigg, Lee, Nitschke, McCabe, Ponsford and Fingleton. South Africans include Cameron, Vincent, Bell, Viljoen, Quinn, van der Merwe, Brown, Morkel, Christy, Mitchell, Curnow, View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #75 Autograph albums 1950-1954. Two autograph albums, comprising over two hundred and thirty signatures in ink and pencil. The majority are County teams collected at various Kent and other grounds including Canterbury, Tunbridge Wells, Gravesend, Gillingham, Maidstone, Blackheath and Dover, also some football. One album, dated 1953 with signatures of Kent (27 on two pages), Gloucestershire (6), Sussex (11), Surrey (6), Worcestershire (1), Middlesex (8), Somerset (8), Leicestershire (7), Hampshire (8 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #76 Test and County cricket autographs 1950. Autograph album comprising almost two hundred signatures signed to pages in ink of Test and County cricketers from the 1950 season. Each team signed to one side of a page, not back to back. Includes signatures of the teams for the 4th Test, England v. West Indies at Kennington Oval 1950. England signatures are Brown (Captain), Compton, Wright, Dewes, Bailey, Bedser, Simpson, Coxon, Hilton, McIntyre, Sheppard and Hutton. West Indies signatures include Godd View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #77 Cricket autographs 1956 & 1957. Autograph album comprising over fifty signatures in ink, the majority signed to pages and a further twelve, mainly Yorkshire signed to pieces laid down. Signatures include members of the 1956 Australian touring team including Johnson, Miller, Langley, Harvey, Archer, Davidson, Mackay, Benaud, Burke, Craig etc. and the 1957 West Indian touring party including Gilchrist, Sobers, Walcott, Hall, Asgarali, Ramadhin, Alexander, Ganteaume, Valentine, Weekes etc. Other si View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #78 Kent C.C.C. c.1975. Autograph album comprising six signatures in ink of Kent players signed to pages back to back, and an official Kent C.C.C. printed autograph sheet laid down to page, fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed players. Signatures include Cowdrey, Denness, Johnston, Ealham, Luckhurst, Jarvis, Clinton, Elms, Hills, Asif Iqbal, Knott, Laycock, Page, Topley, Underwood, Woolmer etc. Very good condition. Sold with a later (early 1990s) zip-up autograph album with pictorial cover, pr View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #79 Test and County cricket autographs 1980s/1990s. Leather bound autograph album comprising over two hundred signatures to pages in ink and pencil. Signatures include members of Australian touring parties to England 1980, 1981, 1985, 1989 and 1993, also West Indies in Australia 1984/5. Australian signatures include Border, Laird, Lilley, Pascoe, Chappell, Bright, K. Hughes, Marsh, Yallop, Thomson, Bright, Lawson, Alderman, Wellham, Wessels, Hookes, Moody, Rackemann, Zoehrer, Healy, M. Hughes, S. Wa View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #80 ‘England Ashes Tour Australia 2002-03’. Official spiral bound Sky Sports media guide comprising approx. fifty signatures to pages, including all thirty featured members of the England men’s touring party playing members and coaching staff. Players’ signatures to profile pages include Hussain (Captain), Butcher, Caddick, Crawley, Flintoff, Foster, Giles, Harmison, Hoggard, Key, Stewart, Trescothick, Vaughan, Collingwood, Irani, White etc. Also signed by three members of the Sky commentary team, D View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #81 England tour to New Zealand 2008. ‘Media Guide New Zealand Winter Tour 2008’. Official spiral bound Sky Sports media guide comprising approx. fifty signatures to pages, including all twenty three featured members of the England men’s touring party playing members and coach. Players’ signatures to profile pages include Vaughan (Captain), Collingwood, Anderson, Bell, Bopara, Broad, Cook, Harmison, Hoggard, Mascarenas, Panesar, Pietersen, Strauss, Swann, Tredwell etc. Also signed by four umpires an View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #82 England tour to South Africa 2009/10. ‘Media Guide South Africa Winter Tour 2009-2010’. Official spiral bound Sky Sports media guide comprising forty seven signatures to pages, including all twenty one featured members of the England men’s touring party playing members and coach. Players’ signatures to profile pages include Strauss (Captain), Cook, Anderson, Bell, Bresnan, Broad, Collingwood, Denly, Morgan, Pietersen, Plunkett, Prior, Adil Rashid, Swann, Trott etc. Also signed by members of the View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #83 England tour to Australia 2010/11. ‘Ashes Media Guide. England Ashes Tour 2010-11’. Official spiral bound Sky Sports media guide comprising approx. eighty signatures to pages, including all seventeen featured members of the England men’s touring party playing members and coach, also members of the England Performance Programme, commentators, former players and other celebrities. England players’ signatures to profile pages include Strauss (Captain), Cook, Anderson, Bell, Bresnan, Broad, Collingw View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #84 England tour to Australia 2013/14. ‘The Ashes Tour Australia 2013/14 Media Guide’. Official spiral bound Sky Sports media guide with pictorial card wrapper comprising eighty seven signatures to pages, including all seventeen featured playing members of the England men’s touring party, thirteen of the women’s touring party, also members of the England Performance Programme, commentators and former players. England men’s team signatures to profile pages include Cook (Captain), Prior, Anderson, Bai View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #85 Jack Hobbs. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1928/29. Official M.C.C. Christmas card sent by Hobbs. Decorative covers with M.C.C. emblem and trimming in M.C.C. colours, photograph of the team to inside with Christmas greeting. Signed ‘Mr. & Mrs. Jack Hobbs’. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #86 Alec Victor Bedser. Surrey & England 1939-1960. M.C.C. tour of Australia & New Zealand 1946/47. Official M.C.C. Christmas card with decorative covers and printed caricatures of the M.C.C. team by Mailey to rear page. Signed in ink ‘Alec Bedser’ to inside. Some creasing and soiling, otherwise in generally good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #87 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£20 - £30Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #88 M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand 1954/55. Official M.C.C. Christmas card with title and M.C.C. colours to front cover, printed team photograph and greeting to centre. Signed ‘Peter [May]’. Good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #89 Colin Cowdrey. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1962/63. Official M.C.C. Christmas card sent by Cowdrey. Decorative covers with M.C.C. emblem and trimming in M.C.C. colours, photograph of the team to inside with Christmas greeting. Signed ‘Colin’. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #90 ‘England tour of Australia 1978-79’. Official England Christmas card with colour photograph of the M.C.C. touring party to inside. Nicely signed in ink to inside by twenty members of the touring party. Players’ signatures include Brearley (Captain), Botham, Edmonds, Willis, Hendrick, Boycott, Radley, Randall, Gower, Lever, Gooch, Taylor, Old, Tolchard etc. Lacking the signature of Dilley. VG. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #91 ‘England tour of Australia and New Zealand 1982-83’. Official England Christmas card with colour photograph of the M.C.C. touring party to inside. Nicely and fully signed in ink to inside by all nineteen members of the touring party. Players’ signatures include Willis (Captain), Botham, Tavare, Gower, Jackman, Lamb, Marks, Cowans, Randall, Taylor, Miller, Cook, Hemmings etc. Minor staining to inside, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #92 Douglas Robert Jardine. Surrey & England 1921-1933. Typed circular letter on ‘The Association of Cricket Umpires’ headed paper appealing to local newspapers to publicise the Association’s aim to improve the standard of umpiring and raise funds to do so. ‘Date as postmark [1955]’ and signed by Jardine, President of the Association. Horizontal folds, wear to edges and staple holes to corner, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #93 William George ‘Willie’ Quaife. Warwickshire & England 1894-1928. Original single page handwritten letter in ink from Quaife to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C., on ‘Quaife and Lilley’ official business letterhead. Dated 13th October 1950, Quaife writes enclosing a cheque for the rights to sell his sporting goods at the County Ground (Edgbaston). ‘Sales are not what we should like them to be & profit does not cover outlay, but consider is a very good advertisement & will continue View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #94 William George ‘Willie’ Quaife. Warwickshire & England 1894-1928. Two original single page letters to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C., both on ‘Quaife and Lilley’ official business letterhead. One dated 24th September 1951 is handwritten by W.G. Quaife enclosing a £50 cheque for the ‘right of sale’ of goods at Edgbaston, signed by W.G. Quaife. The other, dated 4th December 1952 is a typed letter from Quaife’s son, Bernard, stating that after costs the right of sale ‘is not a so View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #95 Harold Dennis ‘Dickie’ Bird. Yorkshire & Leicestershire 1956-1964. Three handwritten letters from Bird to Doug Insole (Essex, Cambridge University & England 1947-1963). One, dated 6th March 1986, is a two page letter dated 6th March 1986 addressed to ‘Dear Chairman’, accompanying a signed presentation copy of Bird’s recently published book, ‘That’s Out’, London 1985, with handwritten dedication to ‘Mr Insole’. In the letter Bird thanks Insole for his ‘help and kindness’, and comments on the succ View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #96 Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex & England 1892-1921. Large double sided handwritten letter from Fry, dated 12th August 1919. Writing from the T.S. Mercury Naval School to ‘Ward’, Fry is writing an endorsement for ‘Sinfield’, assumed to be Reg Sinfield (Gloucestershire & England 1924-1938), who he describes as ‘an exceptionally good all round cricketer as a boy here- one of the two best here in my time... I should say he would succeed as a professional’. Fry describes how Sinfield will probably ‘come View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #97 Earl of Dalkeith, 7th Duke of Buccleuch. Single page handwritten letter to ‘[Teddy?] Wynyard, dated ‘8 June 31[?]’. Dalkeith writes to say that due to his workload and parliamentary duties he ‘cannot play in either of your matches. I rang up Lucas and he is very glad to play’. Nicely signed ‘Dalkeith’. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #98 Arthur William Fitzroy Somerset. Sussex 1892-1905. Four page handwritten letter in ink, dated 22nd October 1912, to ‘Dear Mr. Littlejohn [sic]’ (Arthur Litteljohn, Middlesex 1905-1914). Somerset is writing to invite Litteljohn to join the M.C.C. party to tour the West Indies in 1912/13, departing Southampton ‘Jan 15 [1913]... The cost of the fare is £30 [which] includes inter island voyages... carriages provided for necessary driving, the other expenses are small. I shall be very glad if you cou View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #99 Yorkshire C.C.C. players’ letters 1970s-1990s. A selection of twelve letters, the majority written and signed by Yorkshire players replying to invitations to attend events, requests for photographs, autographs etc. Signatures include Dickie Bird, Ken Taylor, Michael Cowan, Ashley Metcalfe, Don Wilson, Brian Close, Ray Illingworth, Bill Harbord, Simon Dennis, also Ken Meuleman (Australia 1 Test, 1945/46) etc. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£58StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #100 Hanif Mohammad. Karachi & Pakistan etc. 1951-1976. Single page typed letter on Hanif’s personal letterhead, dated 22nd March 2008, replying to a request for autographs. Nicely signed by Hanif. Horizontal fold, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...15|Next123456789101112131415 Previous 123456789101112131415 Next Previous 123456789101112131415 Next
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