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) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 111-120 of 1471. Previous|1...101112131415...148|Next Lot #111 Dr. T.R. Hunter. Founder member of the Cricketana Society. Interesting three page typed letter from Hunter to George Neville Weston dated 19th June 1934. Hunter opens with an apology for his late reply, and acknowledges receipt of a catalogue of pictures exhibited at the Tate Gallery, and a magazine on cigarette cards. He then reports that the second issue of the Society Journal is being posted out and how interesting he found Weston’s article on Lillywhite’s guides. Commenting on Society member View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #112 C.J. Britton, cricket writer and collector. Two two page handwritten letters from Britton to George Neville Weston, one dated 20th September, the other 2nd October 1933. The subject matter of both letters mainly concerns the loan of books to and from each other, however in the second letter Britton also discusses the issue of short length bowling in the context of ‘Bodyline’, ‘I still think that a short bumper of any direction & of any pace is a long hop & batsmen must cope with it as they had t View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #113 Cricket letters. Black file containing a quantity of letters, the majority from cricketers sent to the late vendor when he was Chairman of the Cricket Society Trust, some of the letters have replies and signatures from the cricketers to the lower part of his original letter to them. Signatures include Chandrakant Patankar, Arvind Apte, Rakesh Shukla and Farokh Engineer all of India, Australian cricketers include Philpott, Stackpole, Rutherford, Mayne, Simpson, Rod Marsh, Misson, B. Booth, A. Mor View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #114 England Test cricketers 1960-2000. A collection of seven typed and handwritten letters from England Test cricketers replying to invitations to events, request for photographs, signatures etc. Signatures are Colin Cowdrey (2 letters), Brian Close, Dennis Amiss, Geoff Boycott, David Gower, and ‘Chris [Balderstone]’. G/VG View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #115 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£30 - £50Winning Bid£18StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #116 Douglas Robert Jardine. Oxford University, Surrey & England 1920-1934. Single page typed letter dated ‘March 1956’ and addressed in ink to ‘George’. Writing from his business address for Scottish Australian Co. in London, Jardine is arranging the team for the ‘Tenth Annual Cricket Match between the Publishers and the Authors’ and has secured permission to play at Westminster School on 20th June. Very nicely signed in black ink ‘Douglas R. Jardine’. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #117 Paul Methuen. M.C.C. 1837. Signed free-front envelope to W. Long of Eton College, Windsor, dated and sent from ‘London, July fourteen 1837’. Signed ‘Paul Methuen’ in black ink. Rare early signature of Methuen who played one first class match for M.C.C., in 1816. G/VG. View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #118 William Ward. Surrey, Hampshire & M.C.C. 1810-1845. Signed undated and unstamped (c1830?) free-front envelope to ‘His Grace The Duke of Wellington, Apsley House’. Handwritten ‘private’ to top and signed ‘W. Ward’ in black ink to the lower left corner. A rare early signature of Ward, a right handed batsman and occasional lob-bowler who played 130 first class matches and was considered for many years one of the leading batsman in England. Small adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in good/ very good View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #119 Francis ‘Frank’ Marchant. Eton, Cambridge University & Kent C.C.C. 1883-1905. Very large album containing various photographs, scorecards and ephemera covering the cricketing career of former Kent Captain, Frank Marchant with comprehensive coverage. The album begins with his school cricket at Eton with original photographs of the Eton XI of 1882/1883 and individual photographs of ten of the teams players including Studd, Lucas, Pemberton etc. There are printed match reports and scorecards mainly View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£5,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #120 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1932/33. ‘Bodyline tour’. ‘The English Test Cricketers, 1932’. Large full page ‘Supplement to The Western Mail, Perth, Western Australia 20th October 1932’, published on the tourists’ arrival in Perth on the eve of the opening match of the tour. The supplement page, with title to top, shows the M.C.C. tourists in individual cameo portraits with name printed beneath. Each player featured, with the exception of Tate who joined the party later, has signed in ink across or b View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...101112131415...148|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148 Next
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