Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia - Live Three Day Auction (#16) 29/11/2024 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 29/11/2024 10:30 AM GMT Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 41-50 of 1383. Previous|12345678...139|Next Lot #41 Maurice John Dauglish. Middlesex & Oxford University 1886-1890. ‘Eton v Harrow 1886’. Nicely presented file comprising a collection of six original and other facsimile copies of letters written to Dauglish by notable cricketing Old Harrovians. Dauglish was appointed Captain of the Harrow team for the 1886 season, and the letters date from 1882 when he was a 14 year old Colt, up to and immediately following the annual fixture at Lord’s against Eton in 1886, in which Harrow were surprisingly defea View details Estimates£800 - £1,200StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #42 R. Walker. Cricketer with no hands. An unusual single page letter, neatly handwritten in ink. ‘Written by Rd [Richard] Walker who lost both his hands at Burneside Paper Mill [Kendal] Aug 9th 1843. Signed ‘Rd. Walker, Sine Manibus [without hands]’. He continues ‘R.W. can play at cricket, is a very good batsman and can bowl very well, has occasionally partly shaved himself and has often mowed a swaith [sic] in rank with other mowers- and can do any thing almost than any one else can- And has taugh View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #43 W. Methven Brownlee. Biographer of W.G. Grace. Original three page letter handwritten in ink to ‘My Dear Green’, dated 15th August 1892 on ‘The Century Club, Bristol’ letterhead. Brownlee writes to say he cannot accept an invitation to meet and describes his plans to spend ‘a whole day Thursday travelling with W.G.’, but hopes to meet Green and ‘Padwick’ with Grace, and looks forward to ‘have a long chat with you both’. He refers to ‘a stroke of luck losing the toss today, assumed to be the matc View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #44 E.W. Hornung. Two page handwritten letter in ink dated 4th March 1898. Writing from Rome to an unknown correspondent, Hornung is replying to a request to reproduce his work and states ‘It is my intention to republish “Kenyon’s Innings”... in a selection of my own short stories, that I fear it is impossible for me to consent to its reappearance elsewhere’. He continues with recommendations for ‘collecting the right kind of material for the projected volume’, suggesting a ‘sketch of mine called “O View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #45 Henry (Harry) Luff. Two page original handwritten letter in ink from Luff to Charles Pratt Green, dated 29th January 1907. Written on official ‘John Wisden & Co.’ letterhead with attractive green circular emblem, Luff is pleased Green likes ‘the book [presumably the Wisden Almanack] as usual, they were all sold in 10 days & a lot of orders could not be executed’. He continues, ‘about 6 months ago I got a [18]75 from an old collector. I paid him £5 for it but it completes a set as I was short o View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #46 Arthur E.R. Gilligan. Surrey, Sussex & England 1920-1932. Two page handwritten letter in ink from Gilligan to Jack Sokell with excellent cricket content. He talks of meeting up with Arthur Mailey ‘it will make the evening doubly glorious and memorable’. Also talks of watching the Australians at Hove ‘I honestly think England (unless our batting breaks down) should retain the Ashes’, and broadcasting with Alan McGilvary and Freddie Brown for the Australian Commercial Station for all five Tests. T View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #47 Pelham Francis Warner. Middlesex, Oxford University & England 1894-1920. Two page handwritten letter from Warner, dated 10th April 1907, regarding his ability to sing or recite. ‘I have never sung a song in my life or recite, also I have five or six men staying in the house for the match next week I shall have to look after.’ Nicely signed in full ‘Pelham F. Warner’. Very good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #48 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. This copy addressed to the Sports Editor of the Liverpool Echo, dated 9th May 1955 and is signed by Jardine, President of the Association. Horizontal folds otherwise good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #49 Younis Ahmed Mohammad, Surrey, Worcestershire & Pakistan, 1961-1987. Single page handwritten letter to Jack Sokell, replying to messages of congratulations on his recent marriage. Signed in a rare earlier name ‘Mohd Younis’ and dated 1st May 1966. G/VG. Unusual. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #50 Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1870-1896. Handwritten two page letter on Park House, Thornbury letterhead from Grace to his son Edgar Mervyn, dated 16th February 1910. Grace is informing Edward that he has contacted M.C.C. with regards to Edgar’s membership and mentions the physicality of playing later on. ‘I have written to Lacey Secretary of the M.C.C. to ask him about when you would likely to be elected a member of the M.C.C, I saw sometime since that they were very near closin View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...139|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139 Next
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