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 401-500 of 1471. Previous|12345678...15|Next Lot #401 Essex C.C.C. 1st XI black cricket blazer, by Guard’s of London, with wired Essex emblem of three gold seaxes on a red background with ‘Essex’ beneath attached to chest pocket. Good condition. Player not known View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #402 Saleem Malik. Lahore, Essex & Pakistan 1981-1999. Two cricket shirts, an Essex 1st XI white shirt and a yellow, red and black one day shirt, both with club emblem and sponsors logo to chest, ‘Malik’ to the back of the one day shirt. The shirts issued to Malik but unworn, signed to both shirts by Malik. Donated to a Benefit auction at Essex in the early 1990’s and previously sold by Knights auctions. Very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #403 Cricket ties. Large box of over seventy ties including India tour of England 1979, India ‘Golden Jubilee Test’ series 1982, West Indies and Sri Lankan Test ties, M.C.C. touring tie, World Cup 1979 tie, Benefit ties, Cornhill Insurance ties etc. Good selection View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #404 A mid eighteenth century circa 1740-1750 cricket bat of light wood, possibly willow, with right-handed curve and distinctive hook-shape to base, no shoulders, made by William Pett of Sevenoaks with two impressed marks ‘W. Pett 4’ on top of handle and ‘Will. Pett Sevenoaks Kent’ on the base of the bat. The overall length of the bat is 38.25”, the width at the centre of blade is just over 4” and the maximum width of the base of the bat is 2.5” and weighs almost 2lb. The curved shape of this bat a View details Estimates£10,000 - £15,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #405 ‘Tom Walker’s Skyscraper’. A late 18th Century cricket bat purportedly used by Tom Walker to make 95 not out for the White Conduit Club v Kent at Canterbury in 1786. The bat, with fading ink inscription to the top of the blade ‘Walker/Innings 95/86’, was made by William Yalden (1740-1824), a friend of Walker’s, who played for Hampshire and Surrey. Impressed marks ‘Wm. Yalden’ on the top of the bat handle, some loss to the edges of the impressed marks, unspliced, narrow shoulders with angled edge View details Estimates£10,000 - £15,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #406 ‘A home made cricket bat of the 1780’s. An early carved home made bat from the period. The bat carved from one piece of wood with the blade widening from 2.75” where it meets the handle to 3.5” at its toe. The ridge has been shaved off at the top and the bottom of the blade to make it conform, loosely, with bats of more up to date designs. The blade is not spliced and only slightly shouldered. The handle is longer than professionally made bats of the period The bat is topped by a button cap and View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #407 An early presentation cricket bat. An mid to late 19th Century cricket bat from 1874 made by William Page of Dulwich. The bat is slim and slightly humped. The bat is topped by a button cap and is not sprung. There is a silver metal shield to the back of the bat which reads ‘Lausanne Cricket Club. Presented to Jno. S. Walker Esq, for highest average- 26. Season 1874. An early and rare bat. Good condition. Sold with the late vendors research notes giving further information on the bat View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #408 Kingsmill James Key. Surrey & Oxford University 1892-1904. ‘Record Partnership Bat 1887’. A Gradidge ‘Imperial Driver’ cricket bat used by Key when scoring 281 runs in a record stand with Hylton Philipson of 340 runs for the seventh wicket for Oxford University in their first innings against Middlesex at Chiswick on 23rd-25th June 1887. This was the highest first class score recorded The bat signed to the shoulder of the bat K.J. Key. The bat came from the family by descent and the bat and a bal View details Estimates£300 - £400StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #409 John Thomas Brown. Yorkshire & England 1889-1904. ‘A.E. Stoddart’s tour of Australia 1894/1895’. ‘Pilling & Briggs of Manchester ‘Lancashire Spring Handle’ cricket bat presented to Jack Brown for making the highest score in the tour match between eighteen of Ballarat and Stoddart’s team, the match played at Ballarat 5th-7th January 1895. View details Estimates£500 - £800StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #410 A ‘Lancashire Witch’. An innovative shoulderless cricket bat. The bat was made by Frank Sugg of Liverpool around 1896 and impressed to the front of the blade under the splice. Because the blade has no shoulders, the width of its face flares gradually from on 5.2” at its top to 9.4” at its toe. The back of the blade rises steadily to a high ridge and slopes quickly down to the toe is topped by a button cap and is not sprung. The handle is made from 12 canes and was patented by Sugg in 1896. The b View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #411 Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet. Oxford University, Middlesex & England 1898-1919. Stuart Surridge ‘Rapid Driver. Extra Special ‘ cricket bat believed to have been used by Bosanquet on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1903/04. The bat originally belonged to and was used by George Drummond who was an emergency call up on the tour and played in two tour matches in 1904 and was then given to Bosanquet to use. The bat is signed to the shoulder of the bat by Drummond and Bosanquet has scratched his nam View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #412 Arthur Frederick Augustus ‘Dick’ Lilley. Warwickshire & England 1888-1911. ‘Dick Lilley’s Record Bat’. A Gradidge of Woolwich ‘Imperial Driver’ cricket bat used by Lilley in the 1907 season playing county and Test cricket, The bat is inscribed to the should er of the bat ‘To my dearest friend,, F. Taylor, A.A. Lilley Sept 8/07 and indistinctly signed to the other shoulder by Lilley. This bat was, almost certainly used by Lilley during the 1907 Test series against South Africa and for his highest View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #413 Frederick Charles Holland. Surrey 1894-1908. Stuart Surridge ‘Extra Special’ cricket bat . The bat marked to the front by the maker ‘For the express use of Fred Holland, Oundle’. After Holland retired from Surrey in 1909 he became the cricket coach at Oundle School. Binding to blade, good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #414 ‘A fine example of a Gradidge Imperial Driver’ 1912’. The back of the blade of the bat slowly rises until suddenly arching to its highest point creating an effect of humping before it then fall sharply to the toe. The handle formed from one cane is split four weighs and in each section is inserted cork and rubber. This bat was presented in 1912 and there is a silver metal shield to the back of the bat which reads ‘Tendering Hundred Cricket League. Presented to R. Scott for best bowling analysis View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #415 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. William Gunn ‘Autograph’ match used cricket bat circa 1920’s signed by Jack Hobbs to the ownership position on the shoulder of the back of the back possibly indicating it may have been used by Hobbs. Binding to blade and wear to the rubber handle otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #416 George Geary. Leicestershire & England 1912-1938. ‘What a Bat’. A Gunn & Moore ‘Autograph’ cricket bat used by Geary during his playing career, the vendor suggests around 1925 in his notes. The bat was presented to William Sherwin, bat maker of Nottingham, son of the former England wicket keeper Mordecai Sherwin. It is inscribed boldly to the length of the blade ‘Dear Mr Sherwin. What a bat. No-one could wish for better one. In fact, one could not find a more perfect one. Can you do anything wit View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #417 William Walter Keeton. Nottinghamshire & England 1926-1952. A Gunn & Moore ‘Autograph’ bat used by Keeton in scoring 1162 runs in August 1933. The face of the bat is inscribed ‘1162 in August 1933’ and below is a label which details the innings played with the bat in August 1933. The original writing has faded a little and has been overwritten at a later date. The bat rubber has begun to perish and the blade is cracked to the back otherwise in good original condition. Sold with the late vendors View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #418 ‘‘A Western Samoan Kirikiti bat’. A Kirikiti bat used in the 1930’s The bat is one piece and blade is three sided with the two flat striking faces being 2” wide flaring to 3” at the toe. Kirikiti is the Samoan version of cricket and is popular with the islanders, The rules of Kirikiti or Kilikiti are flexible. Indeed, the majority of reports written on the game simply say that the rules can only be known by those playing. The game is the national sport of Samoa and is played in many other Paci View details Estimates£200 - £300StatusUnsold Lot #419 ‘Tom Barling Six Centuries bat’. Gunn & Moore ‘Autograph’ bat used by Barling in the 1946 and 1947 seasons playing for Surrey. Inscribed to the bat face in ink ‘During the seasons 1946 and 1947 I scored over 2000 runs with this bat including 233 not out v Notts, 172 v Oxford University, 164 v Northamptonshire, 129 v Middlesex, 129 v Warwickshire and 148 not out v Combined Services. Signed below the inscription Tom H. Barling (Surrey XI). Old tape to centre of bat, some darkening to wood otherwi View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsold Lot #420 Geoff Boycott. Yorkshire & England 1962-1986. A Slazenger cricket bat, pads and batting gloves all made to his specification and used by Boycott in his illustrious cricket career playing for Yorkshire and England. The equipment is sold with a letter of provenance from Boycott detailing the specifications for him on each item. The Slazenger V12 bat, weighing 2lb 8oz, eight grains to blade with special protective sheet to the blade and the handle shaped for his bottom hand as specified by Boycott, View details Estimates£1,500 - £2,500Winning Bid£1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #421 Arthur Mitchell. Yorkshire & England 1922-1945. Mounted cricket stump used in the fifth and final Test match, England v South Africa, played at The Oval in August 1935. The stump was obtained by Mitchell after the match. The stump is mounted into a wooden block and has a silver metal shield to the stump with ‚‘England v South Africa 1935. Presented to D.O. Smith by A. Mitchell’. There is a silver metal plaque to the base of the stump with details of the match and the players names/line ups from View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #422 England v Rest of the World 1970. Gray Nicolls ‘Colin Milburn Autograph’ cricket bat signed to the face by the England and Rest of the World teams of 1970 and to the back by four counties Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire and the Yorkshire teams of 1970. Fading to some the Rest of the World team signatures to the front and to some of the Northamptonshire signatures to the back otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #423 South African tour of England 1935. John Wisden ‘Union Driver’ cricket bat signed to face by eleven of the South African tourists. Signatures include Wade (Cpt), Cameron, Mitchell, Nourse, Bell, Williams, Balaskas, Tomlinson etc. Some slight spidering to the ink signatures otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #424 England v Australia, Headingley 1953. Stuart Surridge ‘Herbert Sutcliffe Autograph’ size 6 cricket bat signed to the back of the bat by both teams plus Don Bradman and other England players. Thirty one signatures in total including Hassett, Miller, Harvey, Ring, Benaud, Hutton, Bedser, Compton, Wyatt, Leyland, Watson, Lock etc. Some fading to signatures otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #425 England v Australia, Lord’s 1997. Gunn & Moore cricket bat signed to the face by the England team who played Australia at Lord’s in June 1997. Twelve signatures including Atherton (Cpt), Hussain, Gough, Thorpe, Crawley, Caddick, Malcolm etc. Very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #426 ‘Lord Taverners 1985’. Full size cricket bat, presented in framed wooden display case, signed by the England (12 signatures) and Australian (16) teams who played in the Lord’s Test match of 1985. In addition to these signatures there are also thirty three signatures of former cricketers, guests, celebrities and English Prime Ministers. Signatures include Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Harold Wilson, John Mills, Cliff Morgan, Peter Alliss, Leslie Crowther, Henry Cooper, Compton, Edrich, Hutton, C View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #427 Australia 2001. Gray Nicholls full size cricket bat signed to face by sixteen members of the Australian touring team to England 2001. Signatures include S.Waugh, Warne, Gilchrist, McGrath, M.Waugh, Ponting, Langer etc. Warne’s signature incomplete. Mounted in bat case. G View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #428 England Test cricketers. Duncan Fearnley ‘Supreme’ cricket bat signed to the face of the bat by over sixty, mainly post war, Test players in two vertical rows. Signatures include F.R. Brown, May, Bowes, Paynter, Akin, Washbrook, Wardle, Hardstaff, Laker, Cowdrey, Voce, W.Edrich, Compton, Close, Fishlock, C.J. Barnett, Shuttleworth, Dewes, Bedser, Dexter, Tyson etc. Further signatures to the back of the bat but these are mainly faded but include clear signatures of Australians Cosier, Walters, G. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #429 ‘England Test Captains’ 1947-1991. Full size unbranded bat with printed title to top with players’ names to the face of twenty seven England Test captains for the period. Signature to the face of each captain beside the name. Two are signed to label laid down, of Sheppard and Greig, and one of Brown (possibly facsimile) to clear tape. Others all signed to the face include Cranston, Mann, May, Cowdrey, Dexter, Smith, Close, Graveney, Illingworth, Lewis, Denness, Brearley, Botham etc. Slight fadin View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #430 Don Bradman. Australia tour to England 1938. Gunn & Moore ‘The Autograph’ Size 5 cricket bat with additional stamp to face for Lillywhites Ltd. The bat with dedication in ink written in Bradman’s hand, ‘To Alec Duthie[?] with best wishes from...’, dated 22nd May 1938 and fully signed below by Bradman and all the other fifteen members of the Australian touring party, sixteen signatures in total of Bradman, McCabe, Hassett, Chipperfield, O’Reilly, Barnett, Ward, Brown, Badcock, Fingleton, White, W View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #431 Kent C.C.C. Gillette Cup Winners 1967. Full size Slazenger ‘Colin Cowdrey’ autograph bat with handwritten title in ink to face ‘Kent 1967. Gillette Cup Winners. Championship Runners-up’ and signed by fifteen members of the Kent team. Signatures are Cowdrey, Dixon, Wilson, Luckhurst, Denness, Sayer, Underwood, Graham, Ealham, Brown, Knott, Prodger, Johnson, Hooper and Nicholls. Initials ‘MCC [Colin Cowdrey?]’ to rear shoulder. Sold with a Hunts County ‘Autograph’ full size bat signed to the face View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #432 England v Australia 2005. First International T20 Match in England. Two Centurion Bat Company full size bats. One nicely signed in ink to the face by fourteen members of the England team, the other by eleven of the Australian team. Signatures include Vaughan, Trescothick, Harmison, Flintoff, G. Jones, Pietersen, Collingwood (England), Ponting, McGrath, Gillespie, Gilchrist, Martyn, Katich, Hogg, Hussey (Australia) etc. Good signatures. Sold with two copy scorecards for the T20 match played at Th View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #433 Jack Russell. Gloucestershire & England 1981-2004. Pair of Kookaburra batting gloves worn by Russell whilst playing for England in the Test series v West Indies in 1994. The left hand glove signed by Russell with West Indies 1994 below. Sold with a note of authentication from Russell stating ‘My batting gloves from West Indies tour 1994’ and signed by Russell. Some wear to the gloves, rips to the leather on the palms, additional padding and protection taped to the fingers of the gloves, good con View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #434 Kevin Pietersen. Nottinghamshire, Surrey and England 2001-2016. A pair of match worn personalised Adidas ‘22YDS’ cricket boots/shoes made expressly for Pietersen. The white boots with three blue stripes across the front of the foot, his England number 626 in Roman numerals to side, his initials ‘KP’ to each toe, signed by Pietersen to each heal. Good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #435 Denys Paul Beck Morkel. Western Province, Transvaal & South Africa 1919-1932. Leather tour suitcase used by Morkel on the South African cricket tour of England in 1929 and the tour to Australia in 1931. The suitcase lid decorated with his initials and name in black ‘D.P.B. Morkel’ with cricket colours in striped bands around the case. Some wear and ageing but in good condition considering. A rare survivor View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #436 ‘The Gentlemen of Leicestershire v M.C.C. 1934. Presentation cricket ball with silver band encircling it with the engraved inscription ‘Hugh Beresford. The Gentlemen of Leicestershire v M.C.C. 9 wickets for 57 runs, August 15th 1934’. Presented on a square wooden display stand. M.C.C. beat the Gentlemen of Leicestershire by three wickets in the match. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #437 Major Robert Montagu Poore. Europeans, Hampshire & South Africa 1892-1906. Large heavy leather cricket bag used by Poore during his cricketing career playing for the 7th Hussars and presumably for Hampshire and other teams. The bag has central handles, is sealed using buckles and metal clips at each end and measures 36” long. The bag decorated with crossed painted colour stripes of navy blue and yellow, the colours of the Queen’s Own 7th Hussars (and also Hampshire C.C.C.). The bag has a Souther View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #438 England’s Champions’. Early and complete leather belt with excellent brass belt buckle inscribed ‘England’s Champions’ c1860. With portrait of the grouped cricketers, the England 1859 touring team to North America surmounted by two sprays of laurel, in raised relief to buckle. Makers mark for ‘Edward Ade of London’ to verso. Some understandable wear to the belt, the buckle in very good condition. Sold with a copy of an original advertisement for the belt stating ‘Ade’s Champion Belt. Commemorati View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #439 ‘Depot for Gunn & Moore’s Cricket Bats’ circa 1910/1920’s. Original glass oval advertising sign for Gunn & Moore bats. Mid blue background, mirrored finish silver lettering with black edging. silver and black decorative border, 13” wide. Some wear to border, adhesive marks to outer rim on the rear otherwise in very good condition for its age. Rare View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #440 Victorian smokers table with cricket theme. A novelty cricket smoking table, circa 1920/30. The table in three-section elm and beech table, with three wooden matchstick holders and one ashtray, in the form of cricket balls, ashtray attached to two crossed sycamore cricket bats, with brass striker and three legs, in the form of stumps. 35.75” high. Good condition. An unusual item View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #441 W.G. Grace. An unusual and rarely seen life size bronze hand of Grace holding a cricket ball. The stump of the arm impressed with Grace’s signature. The hand and arm measure approximately 11’ long. The hand and ball, which was apparently produced to commemorate W.G. Grace’s 41st Birthday, July 18th 1889, is beautifully and very skilfully sculptured showing the finger and thumb nails, the wrinkles around the finger joints and palm, the knuckles and veins in the back of the hand with a lovely pati View details Estimates£3,000 - £5,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #442 W.G. Grace. Original cast iron circular public house table with circular wooden top, supported by three legs, moulded with portrait busts of Grace wearing cricket cap to top of each leg with imprinted initials ‘W.G’ above, and decorative pierced apron centred by rosettes, lacking one rosette. Circular pierced iron shelf attached to legs. Maker’s name and registration mark to inside of each leg evident but indecipherable. Probably c.1890’s. The table stands 29.5” tall and the wooden top is 24” di View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #443 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England. 1865-1908. Large and attractive heavy brass metal figure of Grace, full length, playing a forward defensive shot and wearing M.C.C. cap, mounted on a marble plinth. ‘W.G. Grace’ inscribed to base of figure at the front. Approx 11.5” tall with base. The figure lacking backing screw to plinth, so loose from plinth. Good View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #444 Derek William Randall. Nottinghamshire & England 1972-1993. ‘Wilkinson Sword- Sun Award 1979 Fielder of the Year’. Presentation dagger awarded to Randall. The dagger by Wilkinson Sword measures 16” in length, in original presentation case. Accompanied by a handwritten note of authenticity, ‘This Wilkinson Sword was given to me as Field of the Yr. 1979’, signed ‘Derek Randall’. Very good condition. View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsold Lot #445 Ian Terence Botham. Somerset, Worcestershire, Durham, Queensland & England 1974-1993. ‘The Walter Lawrence Trophy’. Silver medal with 925 sterling stamp, inscribed ‘1985. I.T. Botham. Somerset v Warwickshire at Birmingham. 50 balls’. 2” diameter with original red, yellow and white striped ribbon. In original presentation case. Sold with a copy of a letter to Botham, dated 12th October 2004, from Brian Thornton, Trustee of The Walter Lawrence Trophy enclosing this medal and another awarded to Bot View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #446 ‘Board of Control for Cricket in India’. A silver metal ashtray with India Board of Control emblem to side. In presentation box. Made by G.R. Thanga Maligai Jewellery of Madras. The Ashtray 3.75” diameter View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #447 Cricket toast rack c1900. A Victorian silver plated, six division toast rack with five pairs of crossed cricket bats, with a set of angled cricket stumps and bails at each end, the handle of the rack in the form of a cricketer’s belt and buckle on a cricket ball. The rack mounted on four cricket ball feet. Makers/plate marks to two of the bat. 7” long x 3” wide, 6” high. G View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£62StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #448 M.C.C. Centenary 1814-1914. Original medal presented to A. Kitchener to mark 100 years of Lord’s Cricket Ground. The bronze metal medal with ‘M.C.C. 1814-1914, with cricket bat and stump decoration’ and below in scroll ‘A. Kitchener’ (unknown) and to verso ‘Lord’s Ground Centenary 1914’ to outer ring and to inside ‘To commemorate the 100th Year as a Cricket Ground’. 1.25” diameter. Ring suspension. In presentation box. A rare item. G/VG View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #449 Errol Reginald Thorold Holmes, Surrey & England 1924-1955. Silver cigarette case presented to Holmes in 1949. The silver cigarette case, with machine floral decoration to exterior, has a raised plain oval plaque to centre engraved with inscription which reads:- ‘E.R. Holmes 1949’. The silver case was made by Robert Pringle & Sons, is hallmarked Birmingham 1918... and measures approx 2.75” by 3.25”. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #450 Alfred Richard ‘Alf’ Gover. Surrey & England 1928-1948. Ronson cigarette lighter inscribed to one side ‘Surrey County Cricket Club’ with Surrey emblem, and to the verso ‘County Champions 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 Under Captaincy of W. Stuart Surridge’. These lighters were presented to the players by Surridge. Previously sold as part of the Alf Gover collection by Phillips as lot 261, 29th October 1998. VG View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #451 Surrey County Cricket Club. Ronson cigarette lighter produced to commemorate Surrey’s County Championship win in 1956. With Surrey emblem, club name and initials ‘D.C.’ (Dennis Cox?) to one side. To the other ‘County Champions 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956. Under Captaincy of Stuart Surridge’. These lighters were presented to the players by Surridge. G/VG - cricket View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #452 Kenneth Frank Barrington, Surrey & England 1953-1968. An attractive white metal slaver with four figures of cricketers, bowler, batsman, fielder and wicket-keeper, raised in relief, enamelled emblems of England and India to sides with decorative surround and central inscription ‘With the Best Compliments of The Board of Control for Cricket in India to Mr K.F. Barrington- member M.C.C. Cricket touring Team in India 1961/62. M.A. Chidambaram- President’. The salver measures 11”x8.5”. Good conditio View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #453 George Gibson Macaulay. Yorkshire & England 1920-1935. Yorkshire ‘County Champions’ 1925. Silver presentation salver on three feet presented by George Macaulay to Melton Vasy, the well known racehorse trainer of the 1920’s. The salver engraved with title to top border ‘Yorkshire XI 1925’ and below are engraved the eleven signatures of the Yorkshire team including Lupton, Sutcliffe, Macaulay, Waddington, Rhodes, Kilner, Leyland Holmes etc. ‘To Melton from Mac 1925 engraved to lower border. Hallma View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #454 Australia tour of England 1926. An oval colour Thorne’s Super Extra Creme Toffee tin ‘A Souvenir of the Australian’s Visit in 1926’. With named cameo images/pictures of the Australian team to the sides and portrait of the Oval cricket ground to lid. Players featured include Collins (Cpt), Macartney, Ponsford, Mailey, Gregory, Bardsley, Oldfield etc. 5.5” wide. Minor wear otherwise in good/very good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #455 Cricket cigarette case. Silver oblong cigarette case presented by ‘Ellesmere C.C. Batting Award. J.T. Shipman 1911’. The case hallmarked ‘Birmingham 1901’. Sold with a small newspaper cutting referring to Joe Shipman of Ellesmere C.C. taking eight wickets for one and winning a bat as ‘performance of the week’. Ellesmere is a town in Shropshire View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #456 ‘Sport in Miniature’ cricket figures. Selection of four miniature figurines, each on wooden plinth, of W.G. Grace, Len Hutton, Wilfred Rhodes and Godfrey Evans. Each approx. 4.5” tall. Sold with a selection of cricketing ceramics and metalware including a set of eighteen County pin badges issued by the Cricketer 2000, in presentation case, a Coalport figure of Paddington playing cricket, two pairs of cricket cufflinks, a printers stamp of a batsman, a small ivory cricket bat, cricket thimble, Sh View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #457 Cricket snuff box. A black lacquered papier mache oval snuff/pill box with hinged lid, believed to be circa 1870’s. The lid painted with a cricketing scene of boys playing cricket with trees in background. The box measures approx 2.75” x 2”x 1.25” deep. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #458 Cricket, golf and sporting metalware and ceramics. Selection including a enamel and gold metal pin badge with the wording ‘CAB 3rd [Test] 1984. India vs England’ with a further hanging part on chain ‘Player. England’, five brass Victorian cricket buttons (some wear), a figure of a boy batsman on wooden plinth (worn), a brass cigarette/cigar ashtray with crossed bats, a split cricket ball brass lined tin and a figure of W.G. Grace by Fine Art Miniatures. Sold with a complete box of Dunlop 65 Gold View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #459 Horse shoe. Turn of the century leather shoe believed to have been worn by a horse whilst pulling the heavy roller on the wicket at Lord’s. The shoe with three spikes to sole, a little worn but still in good condition. An unusual item of memorabilia View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #460 ‘The Catch’. Zaglo full lead crystal glass decanter with cricket scenes etched/engraved to all four sides plus the stopper. Limited edition 112/500 produced, with original certificate. An attractive decanter View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #461 Australia 1956. Rare commemorative glass one pint glass produced to commemorate the Australian tour of England in 1956. With ‘Australian Cricket Tour Great Britain 1956’ in red below a Kangaroo in brown, gold lustre to rim. In blue around the glass are the signatures of the touring party including Johnson, Miller, Harvey, Davidson, Benaud, Lindwall, Burge etc. Produced by ‘The Studios of Decoramics Ltd of Worthing. These glasses were given to members of the team as a memento by the company. Some View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #462 William Voce. Nottinghamshire & England 1927-1952. Attractive glass tumbler commemorating the ‘M.C.C. visit to the Crown Crystal Glass Pty Ltd, Sydney on the 27th February 1947. W.E. Voce’. Drinking glass, with colourful printed title and floral decoration to sides and gold lustre to surround and rim. With titles and Voce’s name printed below presented to Voce as a member of the M.C.C. touring party to Australia in 1946/1947, the first tour after the second World War. Sold with a similarly decor View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #463 ‘The Right Spirit’. Original Teachers Whisky wooden box with image of boys playing cricket and Teacher’s Whisky advertising printed to inside boards. 16.75”x10.5”. 4” deep. Sold with a transfer printed, 4” jug, with boy cricketers to one side and ‘Teachers Whisky’ to the other. Some wear to both, the jug with some loss to the images. Qty 2. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #464 Cricket wines. A selection of eleven unopened bottles of wine, port and champagne. Includes nine Australian wines, Wyndham Estate ‘Benson & Hedges Bicentennial Test’ Bin 555 (red) and Bin 777 (rose) 1985. Rosemount ‘M.C.C. Shiraz’ 1990 (Qty 2). Jim Barry ‘Cover Drive’ Cabernet Sauvignon 2005. Tyrell’s Cricketer’s Selection’ Shiraz Cabernet and Chardonnay, both undated. James S. White ‘Testimonial Port’, Emu Cricket Club, undated. Mann ‘Methode Champenoise’ 1993 with inscription ‘From Mann to Man View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #465 Club colours. Five fragments of cloth club colours of varying sizes. Colours are black and pale blue, possibly Cambridge University, 27.5”x4”, Black, red and yellow, possibly I Zingari, 16.5”x5’, and three smaller strips in the red and yellow ‘egg and bacon’ colours of M.C.C. Sold with nine South African ‘Springbok’ gold metal lapel pins badges, c.1950s, each 2” long. G/VG. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #466 ‘The Boss’. A Royal Doulton ‘Black Boy’ bone china Burke beaker, entitled ‘The Boss’ printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat, wearing an umpires’s coat and holding a bat, ‘The All Black Team’ crest to verso. Green floral decoration to top rim. 4” tall. Doulton backstamp and ‘E4336’ to base. Circa 1907. Very good condition. A rarer shaped ‘Black Boy’ item View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£660StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #467 ‘The Boss’ Royal Doulton Black Boy small plate, entitled ‘The Boss’ printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat, wearing an umpires’s coat and holding a bat. Green floral decoration to edge. 5.25” diameter. Doulton backstamp and number ‘E4336’ to base. Very good condition. A rarer ‘Black Boy’ title View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #468 ‘I was’nt Ready’. A Royal Doulton ‘Black Boy’ bone china dinner plate, entitled ‘I was’nt ready’ printed with a boy in red shirt, yellow waistcoat and a floppy hat looking glum with his wicket broken behind him. Green floral decoration to inner and outer rim. 10.25” diameter. Doulton backstamp and number ‘D2864’ to base. Very minor loss to green band otherwise in very good condition. A rare ‘Black Boy’ plate View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #469 Cricketing jug. A large and impressive Doulton Lambeth stoneware tapering jug, moulded in relief with six raised figures, three of batsman, two of fielders and a wicket keeper in roundels, all different and in various positions. With two further smaller raised figures of cricketers to either side. Overall impressed floral motif decoration and darker brown bands to top and base of the jug. The handle modelled with cricket bats and a ball with a straw boater to top. 9.5” tall. Doulton Lambeth impr View details Estimates£500 - £800StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #470 Doulton Lambeth stoneware jug, of ovoid form, moulded with relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, bowler and wicket keeper, Abel, Woods and McGregor in white on a brown background. With stylised daisy and floral leaf Art Nouveau decoration to top and sides in green, blue and brown glaze. Strap handle in brown glaze. Approximately 6” tall. Incised to base with Doulton Lambeth and number ‘163’ and makers mark for Junior Assistant Fanny Sayers, c1880/90’s. Excellent example of this rare cricke View details Estimates£300 - £400StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #471 Doulton Lambeth stoneware tyg. Large and impressive three handled tyg with three moulded relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, a fielder and wicket keeper in white on a green cameo background, the sides highly decorated in a small floral pattern in brown, the handles in the form of cricket bats, ball, each with a boater to top. Approximately 6” tall. Incised to base with Doulton Lambeth and makers marks for Ella H. Adams, junior assistant and dated ‘1881’. Very good condition. A lovely and View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #472 Doulton Lambeth stoneware jug, of ovoid form, moulded with relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, bowler and wicket keeper, Abel, Woods and McGregor in white on a brown background. With stylised floral leaf and flower Art Nouveau decoration to top and sides in green, blue and brown glaze. Strap handle in brown glaze. Approximately 6” tall. Incised to base with Doulton Lambeth and number ‘156’ and makers mark for Assistant Nellie Harrison, c1880/90’s. Excellent example of this rare cricketing View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #473 ‘Young England and Young England’s sister’. Very large pair of continental bisque figures of a boy, wearing white and green cap holding a cricket ball and a young girl, also wearing a white, green and brown cap, dressed in three-quarter dress holding a cricket bat, both on naturalistic bases. Both around 12.5” tall. ‘Made in Germany’ stamped to the inner edge of the figure of the girl. Small firing crack to base of the figure of the boy. Both figures seem more highly decorated and in different c View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #474 Ian Terence Botham. Somerset, Worcestershire, Queensland, Durham and England 1974-1993. ‘Arlott’s Immortals’. Excellent porcelain hand decorated action figure of Botham in batting pose in mahogany plinth, sculptured and produced in Alderney in 1982 by Count Andre D’Aquino, based upon the selected cricketers of John Arlott. The figure stands high 11” and is marked to base ‘No.85 D’Aquino’. Sold with a ‘Limited Edition Guarantee certifying that the figure is number 85 of a limited edition of 100 s View details Estimates£150 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #475 ‘How’s That’ and ‘The Hope of his Side’. Two Kinsella porcelain caricature spill vases of the young boy as a wicket-keeper and a batsman. Printed titles to base of the wicket on each. ‘Copyright’ stamp impressed to base. German, circa early 1900’s. Approximately 5.5” tall. Each spill vase has a small chip to the peak of the boys hat otherwise in good condition Qty 2 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #476 ‘A Yorkshire batsman’. A glazed pottery figure of batsman modelled full length, wearing Yorkshire cap, in batting pose. Incised to base ‘R. Underwood’ (indistinct). 7.5” tall. Issued apparently in a limited edition number. Sold with a similar taller figure of a batsman putting on his gloves, bat underarm wearing white cap. Incised to base ‘Tony Mitchell-Smith /53’. 9” tall. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #477 W.G. Grace. Royal Doulton china figure of W.G. Grace. Grace is depicted in batting mode wearing M.C.C. cap with bat raised about to drive. Approx. 9” tall. Limited edition no. 432/9500. Produced in 1995. Sold with a pair of Royal Doulton toby jugs of W.G. Grace and Len Hutton. Both limited edition and standing approximately 4” tall. Very good condition. Qty 3 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #478 William Gilbert Grace. Original Coalport porcelain plate commemorating W.G. Grace’s Century Of Centuries 1895, decorated in blue with central portrait of Grace and dates of each individual century and who scored against radiating out from the centre with semi-gadrooned rim. 9” diameter. Coalport stamp in blue to the back of the plate, ‘In Commemoration of Dr W.G. Grace’s Century of Centuries 1866-1895’ in blue. Very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #479 Don Bradman. Large limited edition plate produced to commemorate the Australian ‘50th Anniversary 1948 England Tour’. The plate with scene of the team to centre with cameo images of each player running around the rim. Limited edition number 2772 of 4950 plates produced by The Bradford Exchange. Approximately 12.5” diameter. In original presentation box with certificate. Sold with a further smaller plate depicting Bradman in various images wearing N.S.W. cap. Entitled ‘452 not out’. Plate no. 641 View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #480 Cricket figures. A pair of early continental bisque cricketing figures c1880’s, one of an early bowler wearing a white cap, white with blue spotted shirt, white trousers, colourful sash, standing with a blue blazer to one side and wickets and bat to the other, gloves on the ground, bowling underarm and the other a similar bisque figure of a batsman in batting pose. Both 8” tall. Odd minor faults otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #481 Cricket mugs. A pair of Staffordshire blue ground waisted mugs with strap handle and beaded rim. With three relief moulded figures of a batsman, bowler and wicket keeper in white, believed to be Lillywhite, Pilch and Box. c1860. Rare. Odd marks otherwise in good/very good condition. Sold with the original invoice for the pair bought on the November 9th 1967 from an antique shop in Bath View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #482 Cricket figures. Selection of three figures. A Continental bisque figure of a batsman, wearing blue cap, yellow shirt, blue cravatte and sash holding a bat to side on a naturalistic oval base. 10” tall. The second a Staffordshire 19th century pottery figure of a child holding a cricket bat to side, wearing a white smock coat and bloomers with stumps behind. 6” tall and the third a German bisque figure of a boy batsman holding cricket bat and ball. Stamp to back ‘Germany No. 4183’. 5” tall. All View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #483 Cricket ceramics and metalware. A good selection including an attractive pair of wooden bookends, various cricket novelties and merchandise, signed cricket caps, Northamptonshire C.C.C. paperweight, a carved wooden cricket ball and stand signed by Richard Hadlee, Courage Old England XI pewter tankard engraved 1981, cricket ball money-box, cricket ball clock, cricket ball key ring, cricket ball signed by Derek Underwood, batsman and umpire salt and pepper pots, pewter cricket hip flask, cricket b View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #484 Cricket ceramics and metalware. A good selection including a Ashes win 2005 and History of the Ashes commemorative ceramic tankards, ‘Tom Graveney, Worcester’ commemorative limited edition mug in box, W.G. Grace doorstop, ‘Cricketing Heroes’ plate, large figure of a batsman playing a shot, resembling W.G. Grace, metal display of batsman and wicket keeper by Evergreen Studio, two miniature bats with facsimile signatures of England and Australia 1953, a set of eighteen County pin badges of limited View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #485 ‘Century of Centuries’ plates. Twelve limited edition Coalport and Royal Grafton china plates, each commemorating a player achieving a ‘hundred hundreds’ during his first class career. The plates are for Don Bradman, Wally Hammond, Len Hutton, Geoffrey Boycott, Viv Richards, Dennis Amiss, Graham Gooch, Dennis Compton, John Edrich, Jack Hobbs, Herbert Sutcliffe and Les Ames. Lacking presentation boxes. Good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #486 ‘County Championship winning plates’. Excellent and almost complete collection of commemorative County Championship china plates as issued for Hampshire 1973 (1st), Worcestershire 1974, Middlesex 1976, Kent/Middlesex 1977, Kent 1978, Essex 1979, Middlesex 1980, Nottinghamshire 1981, Middlesex 1982, Essex 1983, Essex 1984, Middlesex 1985, Essex 1986, Nottinghamshire 1987, Worcestershire 1988 and 1989, Middlesex 1990, Essex 1991, Essex 1992 and Middlesex 1993. All limited edition by Coalport and R View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #487 Cricket plates. Selection, two limited edition plates ‘Gloucestershire Cricket: A Golden Year’ 1973, ‘Centenary Test’ plate 1980, ‘Centenary of The Ashes’ plate 1982 (both Coalport), ‘County Championship winnings plates for Essex 1979, Middlesex 1980 and Nottinghamshire 1981 (Coalport), ‘Somerset C.C.C. 100 Years of Championship Cricket’ 1991 etc. Qty 11. Sold with a brass ashtray with an early image of a cricketer to centre and a crystal glass tankard presented to Les Ames as a founder member o View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #488 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. A pair of commemorative side plates with colour transfer printed vignette of Barnes wearing cap, stood at the wicket with ball in his hand and in bowling pose next to the wicket to centre, with inscription ‘Syd. F. Barnes-Famous International Bowler’. Both plates with ribbed outer border. 7.25” diameter. Minor wear, staining to edge and some firing marks otherwise both in good condition. Qty 2 View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #489 Cricket tobacco jar. A Fielding & Co brown tobacco jar and lid printed to sides with a vignette of a batsman in blue striped cap and to the other side a boy in a floppy hat similar to the Kinsella boy, interspersed with a tree design. The jar being hermetically sealed by a rotating brass clip attached to the top of the lid. Approximately 5” tall and 4.5” diameter. S.F. & Co’ to base with red makers mark. This series was made between 1880 and 1917. Some staining to sides, possibly tobacco smoke o View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #490 Withdrawn View details StatusUnsold Lot #491 Melbourne Cricket Club. Centenary Test Match Dinner 1977’. Two ceramic tankards and ashtray with titles and details and image of the Melbourne Cricket Ground 1877 to centre. One tankard standing 4.75”, the other 4”, the ashtray approximately 5”x4”. Made by the Elischer factory to commemorate the Centenary Test. Qty 3. Good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #492 M.C.C. Bicentenary 1787-1987. Spode china two handled loving tankard with decoration and titles to front and back, gold lustre to handles, rim, and base. 4.5” tall. Sold with a commemorative plate for ‘Sussex 1839-1989. The first County Cricket Club’ made by Royal Grafton and limited edition of 150 plates, this being number 63, a Colin Cowdrey Century of Century plates, limited edition 88/2500 and a small ivory cricket bat with ‘Jubilee 1887’ inscribed to shoulder of the bat. Qty 4 View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #493 Worcestershire C.C.C. Two limited edition bone china commemorative mugs by Bronte Porcelain, ‘Tom Graveney Worcestershire Career 1961 to 1970’ limited edition no. 35/200, and ‘Graeme Hick Worcestershire Career 1984-2008’, no. 165/250, both in original presentation boxes. ‘Is it Cricket?’ ceramic bonbonniere in the form of a cricket ball by Halcyon Days, in presentation box. Sold with a ‘Worcestershire C.C.C. County Champions 1964’ Jasper Ware tankard, Worcestershire paper weight and metal car ba View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #494 Worcestershire C.C.C. Centenary 1899-1999. Limited edition Royal Worcester decorative porcelain figurine with title to base, ‘Worcestershire County Cricket Club 100 years as a first class county 1899-1999’. The piece comprises two figures depicted under a pear tree with a bumper crop of black pears, the 1899 figure seated on a chair in typical dress of the period wearing Free Foresters blazer and panama hat, the other a modern batsman in attacking batting pose. Limited edition no. 25 of 100 prod View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #495 Cricket souvenirs, ceramics etc. Two boxes comprising a mixed selection of commemorative plates, modern cricket figures, souvenirs, tea pot, cricket mugs etc. Includes commemorative County Championship plates for 1974 Worcestershire, 1975 Leicestershire, 1976 Middlesex, 1977 Kent & Middlesex, 1988 Worcestershire, also ‘Centenary of Test Cricket at Old Trafford’ 1984, ‘The Ashes Tankard 1882-1982’ Franklin Porcelain etc. Also modern scorecards, Scarborough Festival commemorative covers and repor View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #496 ‘Cockington Court, Manor House, Devon’. Extremely large colourful and impressive original oil painting on canvas by artist Gerry Wright, comprising a wide panoramic full study looking up to Cockington Manor with a cricket match in progress to centre with avenues of trees casting shadows over parts of the ground and scenic panorama to background, with spectators on the raised banks to sides. A very colourful and attractive image very nicely painted. Signed by Wright to left hand lower corner. The View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #497 Ian Botham. Three original artworks of Botham from his personal collection. Original watercolour of Botham in bowling action by Roger Harvey, undated, probably c.1980. Approx. 8.5”x12”. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 15.25”x19”. Head and shoulders portrait of Botham in black and white pastels, by J. Horley 1992. Approx. 12”x17”, mounted, framed and glazed, overall 18.5”x23” and ‘Drives from the front foot’’. A pen and ink portrait of Botham, artist unknown. Framed. Overall 15.5”x15”. VG. Pr View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #498 ‘He’s not a soccer fan on the rampage- he’s a Hampshire Supporter’. Amusing original pen and ink cartoon artwork depicting an ecstatic Hampshire fan jumping for joy, Hampshire having won the County Championship, with boater flying into the air with two policemen behind him. The cartoon by William John Philpin Jones and signed to the top border of the artwork by him ‘JON’. The cartoon was published in the Daily Mail on the 22nd August 1973. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 10.5”x15.5”. Sold wi View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #499 ‘Dinner to Len Hutton and his Test Team. Savoy Hotel. October 30th 1953’. Unique original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon artwork used as the menu cover for the celebratory Dinner given by Claude R. Harper at the Savoy Hotel on the 30th October 1953, highlighted with some colour, by artist Tom Webster. The cartoon shows Len Hutton with the Ashes Urn in the form of a dustbin on his head pointing at the team with the wording and illustration ‘In the cloak-room is the cap that did not drop on Len’s View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #500 Furnival. ‘Too Much Spring Bok!’ England v South Africa, 4th Test, Headingley 1955. Original pen and ink cartoon by the artist Furnival depicting a batsman leaping in the air, bat held aloft with England’s aggregate score of ‘447’, and a Springbok floating above a cloud with a banner showing South Africa’s aggregate score of ‘671’. ‘4th Test’ in the cloud. South Africa (171 & 500) beat England (191 & 256) by 224 runs. Signed by the artist ‘Furnival’ to lower right corner. Probably produced for t View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...15|Next123456789101112131415 Previous 123456789101112131415 Next Previous 123456789101112131415 Next
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