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 51-60 of 1383. Previous|1...456789...139|Next Lot #51 Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone. President of Surrey C.C.C. One page handwritten letter to ‘Mr Humphreys’, dated 25th March 1899. Alverstone is replying to an invitation from the Saddlers’ Company, which he has to decline due to his commitments at the House of Commons. Nicely signed ‘Richard Webster’. Light folds otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #52 John Bayley. Hampshire, Middlesex, Surrey, M.C.C. and England. One page handwritten letter from Bayley turning down a request for him to stand as a member of the District Committee of George Lyall Esq. Nicely signed by Bayley and dated 9th February 1833. Bayley was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1822 to 1850. He was mainly associated with Surrey and was a member of the county team when Surrey County Cricket Club was founded in 1845. Bayley was employed by M View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #53 Charles William Alcock, Secretary Surrey C.C.C. 1872-1907. Nice single page lettercard handwritten in ink and addressed to Mr. C.P. (Charles Pratt) Green, Beresford House, Great Malvern, dated 16th April 1892. Writing from Richmond in Surrey, Alcock comments that ‘Daft’s reminiscences have made their first appearance’, possibly referring to the recent publication of the ‘opening instalment... Monday last’ of Richard Daft’s ‘Kings of Cricket’. He wonders who might be circulating them, ‘but suppos View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #54 Andrew Sandham, Surrey & England 1911-1937. Two page letter handwritten in ink from Sandham. Written on ‘Sandham, Strudwick & Brooke’ official letterhead, dated 3rd July 1934, Sandham is replying to a request for autographs, ‘I don’t make a habit of doing this, but I’ve a very soft corner in my heart for Cape Town’. He thanks the correspondent for the suggestion that he should play against the Australians ‘but my Test days are finished’, but goes on to say ‘Curiously enough I have just played an View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #55 Brian Johnston. Broadcaster and cricket commentator. Three handwritten letters from Johnston in the early 1990s, two to Mick Pope, the other to Jack Sokell, both of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society. The letters relate to requests for tributes, one to Johnston’s former broadcasting colleague, Trevor Bailey, another to ‘Godders’ (Godfrey Evans), and the third regarding Joe Lister (Yorkshire & Worcestershire 1954-1959). All signed by Johnston. Good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #56 Walter Reginald ‘Wally’ Hammond. Gloucestershire & England 1920-1951. Three page handwritten letter dated ‘Sunday’ and envelope postmarked 21st September 1925 from Hammond to his girlfriend ‘Kitty’ (Miss C.E. Hall) in Folkestone, written from his mothers house in Portsmouth. In a somewhat risque personal letter, Hammond is ‘very sorry and disappointed’ at not being able to visit her in Folkestone and expresses his jealousy of her attending ‘shows, dinners and dances’, and suggests a visit the fo View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£145StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #57 Verdun John Scott. Auckland & New Zealand 1937-1952. New Zealand tour to England 1949. Single page handwritten letter dated ‘Aug 25 [1949]’ with original envelope from Scott to a Miss Freda Williams in Liverpool. Writing on The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool headed notepaper, Scott is replying to an admirer, following a ‘good game at Aigburth’ and credit’s his teams fine fielding to ‘the outfield, which was like a billiard table’. He gives his height ‘6 ft 1 1/2 inches & Harry Cave is taller than Geof View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #58 Test and County cricketers signed letters 1980s/1990s. Seven letters each signed by the correspondent replying to requests for signed photographs. Signatures are Doug Insole (9 Tests 1950-1975), Ian Thomson (England 5 Tests 1964 & 1965), Geoff Cope (3 Tests 1977/78), Richard Blakey (2 Tests 1992/93), Colin Metson (Middlesex & Glamorgan 1981-1997), Brian Downing (cricket administrator), and David Munden (sports photographer). Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #59 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£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #60 Australia v England 1988. ‘Benson & Hedges Bicentennial Test and One Day International’. Official souvenir programme published by ‘Playbill Sport’. Signed to the front cover by fifteen members of the England touring party. Players’ signatures include Gatting (Captain), Broad, French, DeFreitas, Athey, Emburey, Richards, Fairbrother, Robinson, Moxon etc. Very good condition. 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