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 PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 101-110 of 1471. Previous|1...91011121314...148|Next Lot #101 Kent C.C.C. 1990s. Six handwritten letters/ card (one typed letter) written and signed by Kent players replying to invitations and arrangements for events etc. Signatures are Colin Cowdrey (2), Godfrey Evans, Derek Underwood, also Chris and Graham Cowdrey, both relating to Graham’s Benefit. Sold with a ‘Kent County Cricket Club Centenary 1870-1970’ commemorative cover, issued at Canterbury 30th May 1970, signed to the front by fourteen Kent players. Signatures are Underwood, Denness, Brown, Lear View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #102 Alfred Mynn. Kent, Sussex & Suffolk 1834-1959. A collection of eight original letters addressed to Mynn and his wife at their home in Bearsted, Kent. Each letter is beautifully handwritten in copperplate style by their daughters, all aged from 10 to 14. The letters date from 1840 to 1843 and are written from their school at Bearsted Seminary regarding school vacations and their education. Sold with a copy of ‘The Cricket Quarterly’, Vol. 2 No. 3, July 1964, which features an article by Patrick M View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£350StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #103 Charles Lucas Townsend. Gloucestershire & England 1893-1922. Interesting two page handwritten letter from C.L. Townsend, writing from his home in Stockton-on-Tees to Jim Coldham and dated 7th March 1946. Replying to Coldham’s ‘very charming letter’, Townsend is grateful for people’s continued enthusiasm for the game ‘in these terrible days’. He reports that his son, David, (Oxford University & England 1933-1935) ‘is running the Durham County Cricket... with unabated success’, has been invited to View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #104 Vyell Edward Walker. Middlesex 1859-1877. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Walker to an unknown correspondent. Dated 18th June 1904, Walker writes ‘Thank you very much for kindly sending to me a copy of your book of verse. I wish that I had been able to assist you. I will mention about your book to some cricketers’. Nicely signed ‘V. Edward Walker’. Horizontal fold, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #105 Autographed letters and photographs 1937-1988. Four letters/ notes with general cricket interest replying to requests for autographs, photographs etc. Signatures are M.J. Turnbull, Secretary of Glamorgan C.C.C., dated 21st April 1937, Herbert Sutcliffe 20th March 1951 (reporting he has two black eyes following a car accident), Greville Stevens 19th December 1968, and Jim Parks 15th March 1988. Sold with two original mono press photographs, one of Sutcliffe in batting action, the other of Maurice View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #106 Henry Ling. Cricket writer. Two handwritten letters to Neville Weston from Ling at his home in Croydon. In one, a two page letter dated 19th July 1936, Ling is enquiring whether Weston has heard from ‘Dr. [T.R.] Hunter. What a disappointment he has been’. Hunter was a founder member of the Cricketana Society and Ling refers to correspondence with Hunter in which ‘I told him that I thought the members got tired of waiting for the [Society] Journal and instalments of the Bibliography, and that it View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #107 Arthur Langford. Assistant Editor, ‘The Cricketer’ Magazine. Four original wartime letters/ notes on official letterhead from Langford to Neville Weston. All four letters appear to date from May 1943 (two dated), and all relate to enquiries made by Weston regarding the availability of back issues of ‘The Cricketer’, binding cases and title pages, as Weston appears to be arranging to have his collection bound. In one letter Langford also invites Weston for his opinion on the content of a recent i View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #108 Gerald Harvey Humphries. Worcestershire 1932-34 (two matches). Four handwritten letters from Humphries to Neville Weston. The first is a miniature facsimile copy of a letter dated 17th April 1944, written while on active duty in Burma, in which Humphries recollects borrowing a book from Weston’s library. An original two page follow-up letter dated 28th October 1944, complete with original envelope annotated ‘On Active Service’ and with official ‘R.A.F. Censor’ stamp, contains good cricket conte View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #109 Charles Pratt Green, cricket collector and wine merchant. Three wartime letters handwritten in ink to George Neville Weston from Pratt Green writing in his typical sloping style from his Malvern home. In a four page letter dated 2nd January 1942 Pratt Green refers to posting ‘the Kortwright Cane and the return of the delightful Cardus book’, reports on the receipt of an ‘avalanche’ of books at Christmas and recounts at length an anecdote about a west country match, ‘Who is the best bowler you e View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #110 Dr. T.R. Hunter. Founder member of the Cricketana Society. Two two page typed letters from Hunter to George Neville Weston. One dated 20th July 1933 relates to Hunter having written to Plum Warner to ask if Warner would be willing to continue to act as President of the Cricketana Society, but had received no reply. A further letter to ‘Mr [Arthur] Langford’ resulted in a reply that confirmed the date and location for a meeting regarding the work of the society. He also refers to ‘a nice letter.. 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