Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia - Live Three Day Auction (#17) 21/03/2025 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 21/03/2025 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 301-400 of 1168. Previous|12345678...12|Next Lot #301 England v Australia 1905. Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914 and Archibald Campbell MacLaren. Lancashire & England 1890-1923. Scarce Staffordshire mug, printed in dark turquoise, with figures of Trumper and MacLaren in batting pose, each within a cartouche with the title ‘Australia’ and ‘England’ printed above. To centre an image of crossed bats, stumps, bails and a ball and below this a shield with kangaroo and lion facing each other with title to shield ‘Australia Eng View details Estimates£2,000 - £3,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #302 Village cricket bowl. Staffordshire 19th century bowl, transfer printed in sepia with three scenes of village cricket, with church and tents to background, to sides, floral and oak leaf inner rim decoration. Hand coloured in green and burgundy. Approx 6.5” diameter and 3.75” tall. c1860. Some wear to rim and firing fault to the edge of the base otherwise in good condition for its age View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #303 Cricket jug. Unusual early Staffordshire blue cream/milk cricket jug with strap handle, three raised figures of cricketers on a mid blue background. c1870/80. 4” tall. Some firing faults to jug surface otherwise in good/very good condition. Sold with a Staffordshire waisted cricket mug with strap handle and beaded rim, with three raised figures of a batsman, bowler and wicket keeper on a cream background, believed to be Lillywhite, Pilch and Box hand decorated in colour, silver lustre floral dec View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #304 Dartmouth Pottery. Two blue and white tankards, one of cricket with a batsman and wicket -keeper to one side and bowler to the other and the other, football with player kicking the ball to one side and ball and part of the goal to the other. The football tankard with football themed handle. Both stand 5” tall. Dartmouth (Devon) Pottery marks to base. Qty 2 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #305 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£40 - £60Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #306 ‘Celebrating the 3 W’s’. Dinner plate with transfer image of Frank Worrell, Cylde Walcott and Everton Weekes with facsimile signatures and title. Gold lustre to rim. Registration mark to underside, ‘100’. Maker unknown. 10” diameter. Very good condition. View details Estimates£20 - £30StatusUnsold Lot #307 Brian Close Benefit Year 1961. Two items of Sandland items produced to commemorate Close’s Benefit featuring the transfer printed image of ‘Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The Pavilion, Headingley, Leeds’ and Close’s printed signature. Items are a large cup and saucer and a tankard 6” tall. Crack to the tankard, some wear to lustre to rim of the cup, otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40StatusUnsold Lot #308 Cricketing pot-lid. Original circular pot-lid printed in black with crossed bats, stumps and balls within a cartouche. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #309 German beer stein. A striking German-made stein circa 1880s. Classic German stoneware with a pewter lid and decorated with colourful images in panels of cricket, football, tennis, croquet and hockey. Around the base is the German motto ‘Maass und Ziel das Beste Spiel’. This rhyming couplet loses some of its punch in direct translation but means roughly “Moderation and Goal gives the best game” A typical Victorian games ethic and a very unusual item. 10” tall View details Estimates£180 - £250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #310 ‘Cricket & Croquet’. A unusual pair of nineteenth century unglazed terracotta earthenware figures. One of a boy batsmen, wearing broad banded boater, wearing pads and with bat and stance ready to receive the ball and the other of a young woman wearing dress and feathered hat playing a croquet shot. The cricket figure stands approximately 15” tall and the lady 14.5”. The boater of the batsman has a couple of chips to it, possible restoration observed by the auctioneer to the hands and bat area of View details Estimates£1,200 - £1,800Winning Bid£2,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #311 ‘Boy Cricketer’. Excellent Parian ware figure of a boy cricketer resting against a tree stump holding a cricket bat to left hand. The figure is of a very high quality and with exceptionally good detailing. Approximately 11” tall. Circa 1860’s. A rare figure in very good condition. Sold with an original sepia carte de visite photograph showing the figure and entitled to lower border ‘The Cricketer’. Pencil inscription to back ‘To Frank Byrne from his teacher, Alice J. Church’. 2.5”x4” View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #312 ‘Box and Pilch’. A Victorian tobacco jar and lid, applied with raised figures of Thomas Box and Fuller Pilch in white, on a light puce ground with title ‘Tobacco’ and floral decoration to sides and lid. The jar with lid stands approximately 5” tall. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #313 ‘Cricket at Windsor Castle meat dish’. A very large oval shaped Goodwin & Harris ‘Metropolitan Scenery’ meat dish printed in blue and embellished with a scene of Windsor Castle and the Thames to foreground featuring a cricket match to the foreground with trees and foliage to sides. Surrounding borders highly decorated with flowers, leaves and various foliage, patterned rim. Printed mark in blue to base ‘Metropolitan Scenery, Windsor Castle’ and number ‘81’. The dish measures 19.95” wide by 15.5” View details Estimates£1,800 - £2,500Winning Bid£1,900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #314 Doulton Lambeth stoneware mug in art nouveau style, with three moulded relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, bowler and wicket keeper, Abel, Woods and McGregor in white on a brown background, with floral leaf decoration above and below in green and green/blue. Strap handle in brown glaze. 5” tall. Incised to base with Doulton Lambeth, number ‘172’ and makers marks, one being Helena Pennett. Undated but around 1880/90’s. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #315 Doulton Lambeth stoneware tyg. Large, than normal, 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 with blue circular surround, the sides highly decorated in a small floral pattern on a brown background, the handles unusually rectangular and decorated with an attractive and unusual brown and green. 6.5” tall. Incised to base with Doulton Lambeth and number 8235 and makers marks for Fan View details Estimates£400 - £600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #316 Doulton Lambeth stoneware beaker, moulded in relief with three figures in roundels of a batsman (W.G. Grace) in different poses and impressed star shaped motif on a brown background. Doulton Lambeth impressed marks to base, date 1881, and makers marks to base of Mary A. Good. 5.5” tall. Gilt metal mount to rim. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #317 Westerwald stoneware cricket beaker, moulded in relief with three cameo panels of a batsman, after W.G. Grace, in different poses. The body highly decorated with vine and sprig decoration in cobalt blue on a grey background, with the figures highlighted in black. Cobalt blue rings to rim and to foot. Approx 5.5” tall. German circa 1890. ‘Germany’ and number ‘486’ impressed to base. Very good condition. Rare View details Estimates£350 - £450Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #318 Westerwald cricket jug. Large and very attractive Westerwald cobalt blue stoneware cricket jug, moulded in relief with six cameo panels of a batsman, fielder and wicket-keeper, believed to be W.G. Grace, in different cricketing poses. plus two smaller cameo panels nearer to the base of the handle of cricketers. The body decorated with vine and sprig decoration in cobalt blue on a grey background. The handle decorated with in the same blue. Approximately 9.5” high. ‘Germany’ and the number ‘319’ View details Estimates£600 - £900Winning Bid£650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #319 Westerwald. Large and impressive Westerwald stoneware tapering cricket jug, moulded in relief with five cameo panels all believed to be modelled on W.G. Grace, in different poses, coloured in cobalt blue on a grey background. The body decorated with vine and sprig decoration with decorative pewter lid with clasp to top of the handle. 13” high. German circa 1890. Number ‘239’ impressed to base. Dent to the pewter lid otherwise in very good condition A large and impressive example of this German p View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£860StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #320 Hampshire white 1st XI long sleeved fleece overtop/sweater with trimming to collar, waist and cuffs in club colours, Hampshire emblem and sponsors logo ‘Fearnley’ to chest. Size ‘Large’. Player unknown. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #321 Lancashire white 1st XI sleeveless sweater, by Luke Ayres, with trimming to collar and waist in club colours, Lancashire emblem and sponsors logo ‘Bass’ to chest. Size 40”. Player unknown. Good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #322 Middlesex white 2nd XI sleeveless sweater, by F.A.B. Knitwear, with trimming to collar and waist in club colours, Middlesex emblem and ‘II’ to the centre and sponsors logo ‘Austin Reed’ of chest. Size 44”. Player unknown. Good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #323 Northamptonshire white 1st XI long sleeved sweater, by Merlin, with trimming to collar and waist in club colours, Northamptonshire emblem and sponsors logo ‘Dr Martens’ to chest. Size 48”. Player unknown. Good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #324 Somerset white 1st XI sleeveless sweater with trimming to collar and waist in club colours, Somerset emblem and sponsors logo ‘Ecar Insurance’ to chest. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #325 Norman Gifford. Worcestershire, Warwickshire & England 1960-83. Warwickshire white 1st XI sleeveless sweater with trimming to collar and waist in club colours, Warwickshire emblem and sponsors logo ‘M&B’ to chest. Size 44”. Gifford’s initials ‘N.G.’ to neck label. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #326 Cornwall white 1st XI sleeveless fleece overtop/sweater with trimming to collar, waist and cuffs in county colours, Cornwall emblem and sponsors logo ‘agame’ to chest. Size ‘Large’. Player unknown. Good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35StatusUnsold Lot #327 Shropshire white 1st XI sleeveless sweater, by ‘Brian Shantry Knitwear’, with trimming to collar and waist in club colours, Shropshire emblem to chest. Size 42”. Player unknown. Good condition View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #328 West Indies Test cap. Newer style maroon Test cap with West Indies emblem embroidered to front. Player unknown. G View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #329 Northamptonshire C.C.C. maroon cloth 1st XI cricket cap. Earlier cap with attached wired Northamptonshire emblem. Possibly 1950’s. Good condition. Player unknown View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #330 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, Tasmania, Derbyshire & England 1961-1984. Tasmania Cricket Association 1st XI cricket blazer worn by Hampshire when playing for Tasmania. The green blazer with Tasmanian emblem of a lion in red on a white background to chest. Minor wear and the odd small moth hole to blazer otherwise in good condition. A rarely seen State cricket blazer. The blazer was obtained by the vendor from Hampshire in 2010. Hampshire died in 2017 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #331 Wicket keeping gauntlet’s through time. Four different gloves showing the progression of protection given from the 1890’s to the 1920’s. The first is an early example of a single white kid leather wicket-keeping glove used in the period, made by Geo. G. Bussey & Co of Peckham offering more protection to the wrists and improved ventilation. Some staining and wear otherwise in good condition. The second is a pair of white kid leather wicket-keeping gloves used in the same period, made by Geo. G. B View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #332 Arthur Percy Frank Chapman. Cambridge University, Kent & England 1920-1938. Batting protector formerly used by Chapman during his playing career. The aluminium protector has a covering of white leather and is secured by straps and buckles around the waist and between the legs. It was found in the kitbag of Kent team mate W.H.V. Levett and is inscribed to the back ‘A.P.F.C.’. Chapman played for Kent between 1924 and 1938, captaining the county from 1931 to 1936. He played for England in 26 Test m View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #333 Arthur Percy Frank Chapman. Cambridge University, Kent & England 1920-1938. A pair of tubular leather open palmed batting gloves formerly used by Chapman during his playing career. The gloves were found in the kitbag of Kent team mate W.H.V. Levett and according to the vendors notes inscribed to the right hand his initials ‘A.P.F.C.’ which seem to have worn completely away barring one mark. Chapman played for Kent between 1924 and 1938, captaining the county from 1931 to 1936. He played for Engl View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #334 Batting gloves 1890-1950’s. Five pairs or single gloves showing the progression and evolution of the glove over the years. The first, a single wrap around batting glove from the 1890’s, the second a pair of tubular open palmed gloves from the 1920’s manufactured by Stuart Surridge, the third a pair of open palmed , elastic wristed and rubber spiked protective gloves from the 1930’s produced by Frank Bryan Ltd, the fourth a single open palmed, rubber spiked protective glove from the 1940’s produc View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #335 Cricket stumps circa 1790’s to 1820. Three oval, rather than circular, cricket stumps used during this early period. The stumps each have a narrow binding about an inch from the top, although one is now missing. The stumps measures 24” (above the ground) and flare noticeably towards the toe measuring 1.25” wide at the base and finish 0.87” at the top, The three stumps had wooden tongues to allow them to be set into the ground, one stump has lost this feature. During this period, the wicket was s View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #336 Cricket stumps circa early 1820’s. Six oval, rather than circular, cricket stumps used during this early period. Four of the stumps are marked ‘Clapshaw’ (maker). and each of these stumps feature three metal bands, one set at the top, one set centrally in the middle of the stump and one should be set at the bottom of each stump but all four are missing, some of the bands present are insecure. The other two stumps have no bands but have each been bound one inch from the top. These may not be the View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #337 Cricket stumps circa 1870’s. Six circular cricket stumps used during this early period. All six of the stumps are marked with the makers name E.J.Page, Kennington Oval, Surry [sic]. The stumps are capped by a brass band with four small engraved channels below. These stumps measures 27” (above the ground) and measure 1.19” wide. At this stage in cricket’s history, the rules of the game stated that stumps should measure 27” and that the wicket be 8”. Each measurement being one inch lower than stat View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #338 Nineteenth century cricket shirt and trousers circa 1880’s. The ‘Sports’ shirt was made by Storanco in the 1880’s. It is made from taffeta and labelled as ‘all wool’. It buttons down the front and has a long back which passes between the wearers legs and buttons at the front. This long back was designed to save the wearer from using underpants and having to wash two garments instead of one. It also provided a convenient pouch for his abdominal protector. The trousers are made from a heavy canvas View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #339 Cricket Boots used in the 1880’s. Canvas boots were the first traditional cricket boots to manufactured in the 1880’s. Most first class cricketers up until that point wore brown shoes or boots. These boots have a bonded surface of jute rope material, as used in modern espadrilles and compared with later styles offered little ankle support. Sold with a pair of cricket boots from the 1930’s. These leather boots were advertised as being ‘built on a wide last, ensuring every comfort’ and detailed at View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #340 A Benjamin Warsop bat of 1884. ‘Rev. W.H. Churchill’s Warsop Conqueror’. Impressed to the face on each shoulder, ‘B. Warsop, Marylebone’. Below the splice, the impressed mark in circular motif of ‘B. Warsop Conqueror Patent Spring Handle Trade Mark’ and below that ‘Registered’. Alongside the splice, handwritten in ink the inscription ‘Churchill Cambridge 1884’, and similarly to the back, faintly inscribed ‘Churchill’. The face of the bat is a little convex, the back slightly humped, the blade th View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #341 ‘A Warsop Triangular Bat circa 1890’. A triangular practice cricket bat made by Benjamin Warsop of St. John’s Wood, London. The triangular shaped bat’s blade is only 2.5” in width and has ‘B. Warsop, Marylebone’ stamped across the splice and below a faded trade mark and ‘B. Warsop’ impressed to the cap of the bat. The back of the blade rises sharply from the splice into an acutely angled ridge before sharply falling away at the last moment towards the toe. The thickness of the blade is almost co View details Estimates£140 - £180StatusUnsold Lot #342 James Cobbett ‘Gutta Percha Driver’ cricket bat c1890. Stamps for ‘Richardson of Liverpool’ to the bat in several places. ‘Cobbett’ impressed twice to the cap of the handle and the initials ‘W.D.R.’ and number D23045 run down the splice. The back of the bat is gently rounded rather than ridged. Little is known of James Cobbett because he died of consumption in 1842, aged 38. He kept a workshop near to Lord’s cricket ground and his business thrived after his death. Sold with the late vendors res View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #343 John Barlett ‘compressed’ cricket bat 1892. Stamps for ‘Bartlett, Waterloo Road (the makers address)’ to the bat. Silver coat of arms shield to back engraved ‘Thornton C.C. won by Spencer Lambert for best batting. Average Season 1892. The back of the bat is almost flat as the front, but rises slowly to a low rounded ridge. The handle is formed from nine slips of cane. Little is known of John Bartlett’s bat making business except that he began working in Lambeth in about 1850 and he relied upon t View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #344 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. Brown made 64 in the first innings and the match was drawn. The bat with silver metal shield to splice on the back of the bat is inscribed ‘Cricket. England v B View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£330StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #345 Jack Brown’s century bat (117 v. New South Wales) 1894. A ‘Crawford The Exceller Patent’ bat by H.C. Crawford of Plumstead, Kent. Impressed ‘Crawford The Exceller Patent’ to face over splice, ‘J. Wisden and Co London’ to both shoulders, and ‘Crawford’ to handle cap. Below the splice to the face is an inscription in ink in Brown’s own hand, ‘J.T. Brown 117 Sydney Nov 24- 1894’ from Stoddart’s tour to Australia 1894/95. The back of the blade is gently humped, flattening towards the toe. The bound View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #346 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Stuart Surridge ‘Rapid Driver’ cricket bat used by Denton in the 1905 cricket season scoring over 2405 runs, becoming one of Wisden’s ‘Five Cricketers of the Year’ [Wisden 1906], and making 52 and 153 not out against the Australians at Bradford in June 1905. The bat is inscribed clearly in black ink in Denton’s hand ‘Scored over 2000 runs with this bat including 52 and 153 not out versus Australians at Bradford June 5,6 & 7th 1905’. Additionally insc View details Estimates£1,500 - £2,500Winning Bid£1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #347 Samuel Meston’s ‘Special Selected’ Breeden Bat 1906. The bat by W.J. Breedon of Leyton, Essex. Impressed to the front shoulders ‘W.J. Breedon’, across the splice ‘Special Selected’ and ‘Leyton Essex’, below ‘Roberts Bristol’ and ‘Extra Spring’. The back shoulder inscribed in ink ‘S.P. Meston 1906’, the inscription barely legible, affected by what appears to be a large scorch mark. The back is steeply rounded rather than ridged, falling away to the toe, the shoulders sloping. The bound handle app View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #348 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Gunn & Moore ‘The Autograph’ cricket bat used by Denton in the 1908 cricket season scoring two consecutive centuries for Yorkshire against M.C.C. at Scarborough in August and September 1908. The bat is inscribed clearly in black ink in Denton’s hand ‘Scored 121 and 133 with this bat against M.C.C. at Scarborough. August 31st + September 1st and 2nd 1908’. The bat in good original condition and has some tape bound to the blade View details Estimates£1,200 - £1,600StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #349 Gunn & Moore ‘Nonjar’ cricket bat c1910. Stamps for ‘Gunn & Moore Nonjar’ to front and impressed ‘Reblade’ stamp to back. The blade is ‘reblade’ provided by the manufacturer, a service often used in those days. The handle is made of a mixture of many canes and rubber strips, hence the brand name ‘Nonjar’. In his early days with Gunn & Morre, the great cricketer and bat maker, William Sherwin was in charge of the Company’s reblading division. Sold with the late vendors research notes giving furth View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #350 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. A Summers Brown ‘Force’ cricket bat used by Jack Hobbs in making 154no for the Players versus the Gentlemen at Lord’s in 1911. The face of the bat has the standard Summers Brown wording impressed to it and below this is the signature of Hobbs. Beneath this are the following words inscribed in ink ‘Record Force Bat. Gents v Players, Lord’s 1911. J.B. Hobbs went in first with this bat and played right through the innings scoring 154 not out cons View details Estimates£2,000 - £3,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #351 Bussey ‘Demon Driver’ cricket bat circa 1920. Impressed to blade Bussey, London, the trademark GGB and lower down and centrally ‘Demon Driver’ in circular format. The handle is formed from two slips of cane with a combination of rubber and canvas glued to them, the handle is fitted with an original ‘Busseys Grip’. George Bussey was a very successful entrepreneur fro whom cricket bat making was only one of his business interests. The Bussey ‘Demon Driver’ is one of the most famous of all cricket View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #352 The M.C.C. All Cane cricket bat circa 1925. Impressed to blade M.C.C. Company Ltd, Bedford and across the slice ‘All Cane’ and below the splice ‘Loyd & Son, Lewes & Horsham (retailers stamp). The handle is formed from thirteen split canes, one of which is now missing. Geirge Bussey was a very successful entrepreneur fro whom cricket bat making was only one of his business interests. The blade is bound in two areas. Sold with the late vendors research notes giving further information on the bat. View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #353 Lambert’s Super Club Grade ‘Learie Constantine. West Indies XI Autograph’ cricket bat circa 1929. Inscribed to blade ‘Walter Lambert & Sons, Nelson England’ This is probably a size 6 bat. William Lambert left his employment as a cabinet maker in Nelson in 1877 to become a bat maker. Three generations of Walter Lambert’s have run the business ending in 2002 Sold with the late vendors research notes giving further information on the bat. Good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #354 Breedon ‘Nonpareil Extra Special’ cricket bat circa 1930. Inscribed to blade ‘W.J. Breedon, Leyton, Essex’. Impressed into the rubble handle, near to the top are the words ‘W.J. Breedon, Cricket Bat Maker, Near County Ground, Leyton, Essex. The company made bats in Leyton from 1878 to 1978. The Nonpareil Extra Special was the top of the range bat for many years. Sold with the late vendors research notes giving further information on the bat. Good condition View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #355 Australia tour to England 1930. A full size ‘Jack Hobbs The Oval’ cricket bat signed to the face and back in ink by members of the England, Australia, Sussex, Surrey and Gloucestershire teams, also by Jack Hobbs to the ownership position on the shoulder of the back. Twelve England signatures to the bat face of Chapman, Hobbs, Hendren, Robins, Larwood, Hammond, Tyldesley, Duckworth, Tate, Woolley, Sutcliffe and White. To the verso, thirteen Australian signatures of Woodfull, Richardson, Kippax, F View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #356 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 fading View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #357 England Test and Counties 1963. Full size Stuart Surridge ‘Ken Barrington Autograph’ bat very nicely signed in ink to the face by twelve members of the England Test team, and to the verso by twelve players from each County of Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Yorkshire, Somerset and Warwickshire, over eighty in total. England signatures are Dexter, Cowdrey, Trueman, Statham, Barrington, Titmus, Allen, Close, Edrich, Andrews, Stewart and Bolus. County signatures include Ingleby-McKenzie, Marshall, Shack View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #358 England v West Indies 1984. Gray-Nicolls GN500 cricket bat signed to face by the England and West Indies team who played at Lord’s in the second Test. Twenty one signatures including Gower, Willis, Pringle, Downton, Broad, Lamb, Fowler, Llloyd, Richards, Marshall, Walsh, Garner, Greenidge etc. Some fading to the signatures and two of the England signatures are faded and the signature of Milton Small on the West Indies team also faded otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #359 ‘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 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #360 England v Australia 1985. Duncan Fearnley cricket bat signed to the face by twelve of the England and fifteen members of the Australian teams. Signatures include Gower, Botham, Gatting, Lamb, Gooch, Downton, Willey, Robinson, Border, Lawson, O’Donnell, Thomson, Boon, Wellham etc. Fading to the last Australian and the last England signature otherwise in good/very good condition with excellent signatures View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #361 Australia v England Bi-Centennial Test Match, Sydney 1988. Gunn & Moore ‘Maxi’ cricket bat signed to the face by sixteen of the England and twelve members of the Australian teams. Signatures include Gatting, Emburey, Radford, Athey, French, Dilley, Capel, Moxon, Robinson, Border, Marsh, Waugh, Jones, Hughes, Boon, Sleep etc. Slight fading to odd signature otherwise in good condition, all legible. Signature of Mike Gatting to the back shoulder of the bat suggesting he obtained the signatures View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #362 England v Australia 1989. Duncan Fearnley ‘Supreme’ cricket bat signed to the face by twelve of the England and seventeen members of the Australian teams. Signatures include Gower, Russell, Gooch, Broad, Dilley, Lamb, Smith, Foster, Jarvis, Border, Marsh, Boon, Lawson, Jones, Taylor, Moody, Hughes, Alderman, May, Healy etc. Good/very good condition with excellent signatures View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #363 Gary Ross O’Sullivan. New South Wales Country 1988 to 1997. Norstar ‘Autograph’ cricket bat signed to face by the Zimbabwean team who played N.S.W. County on the 26th December 1994. Fourteen signatures including Flower, Campbell, Streak, Strang, Brain, Whittall etc, slight fading to signatures. This was O’Sullivan’s bat, appears unused. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #364 ‘Brian Lara. 501 not out’. Full size unbranded cricket bat assumed to have been produced to commemorate Brian Lara’s record individual score of 501no for Warwickshire v Durham at Edgbaston 1994. The bat face features a hand painted head and shoulders colour portrait of Lara and another of Lara in batting action below. Signed in full by Lara to the centre of the bat, and to the toe by the (unknown) artist. Good depictions in very good condition. View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #365 Lancashire C.C.C. 1999. Full size cricket bat signed to face by twenty members of the Lancashire playing staff. Signatures include Crawley, Atherton, Fairbrother, Watkinson, Muralitharan, Hegg, Martin, Schofield, Yates, Ridgway, Flintoff etc. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #366 ‘Yorkshire Cricketers’. Slazenger Panther cricket bat signed by twenty one players past and present. Signatures include Moxon, Bird, Richardson, Hartley, Close, Silverwood, Gough, Sidebottom, McGrath etc. Good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #367 Jacques Rudolph. Northerns & South Africa 1997-2004. Gray Nicholls ‘Gladius’ cricket bat signed to face by the South African team of 2003. Twelve boldly signed signatures including Smith, Gibbs, Hall, Rudolph, Nell, De Villiaers, Pollock etc. This was Rudolph’s bat, appears unused. Good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #368 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£60 - £90Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #369 Signed miniature cricket bats. Seven miniature bats of various sizes including a Gradidge ‘Jack McGlew Autograph’ bat signed by twelve South Africans c.1950, bats individually signed by Garry Sobers, Alec & Eric Bedser, Graham Corling, Andrew Strauss & Angus Fraser, and Mark Ramprakash, and a ‘Leicestershire C.C.C. 2006 Squad’ bat with facsimile signatures. Good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #370 Signed cricket balls. Six cricket balls, each individually signed. Signatures are James Pattinson, Geoff Miller, Alvin Kallicharran, Ashley Giles, Richard Stemp, and Liam Plunkett. Sold with five unsigned miniature balls. Good condition. Qty 11. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #371 Australian Captains. Three split varnished cricket ‘half’ bails signed individually in black pen by Don Bradman, Greg Chappell and Arthur Morris. Sold with a Kookaburra cricket ball with emblem for the Adelaide Centenary Test 1884-1984, signed in black ink by Don Bradman. Qty 4. Very good condition. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #372 Australian Captains. Three split varnished cricket ‘half’ bails signed individually in black pen by Don Bradman, Richie Benaud and Bill Lawry. Very good condition. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #373 Derek Leslie Underwood. Kent & England 1963-1987. Two cricket coffins, one in brown decorated in M.C.C./ England colours with ‘D. Underwood M.C.C. Team’ stencilled to lid. Luggage identity tag attached to handle with Underwood’s name ‘c/o International Wanderers’. Airline labels applied for tours to New Zealand, Adelaide (Australia), and Durban (South Africa) etc. The other coffin with stencilled title ‘Derek Underwood. Kent C.C.C.’ and County Invicta emblem to lid. Contains a collection of boot View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #374 Wasim Raja. Pakistan 1972-1985. Original tour holdall used by Wasim Raja for the ‘Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket 1985’ one-day international tournament held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of European settlement in Victoria, Australia. The brown leatherette bag with tour titles and emblems to the sides, and name of ‘Wasim Raja. Pakistan Cricket Team’ in window to one end. Very good condition. Sold with two glass souvenirs related to Pakistan cricket, a goblet for the 1996 tou View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #375 ‘The Laws of the Noble Game of Cricket’. Printed laws sheet with mono engraving of an early cricket scene, published by John Wallis, 13 Warwick Street London, printed by L. Binns, London, 17th September 1785. The printed broadsheet setting out the laws of cricket across three columns beneath an engraved rural scene of the game of cricket with hand colouring. Printed on laid paper with pot & crescent watermark to paper. Framed and glazed, overall 12”x17.25”. Minor marks and slight discolouration View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #376 ‘W.G.’. Original Stevengraph of W.G. Grace wearing M.C.C. cap and standing in batting pose at the wicket, miniature picture woven in silk. Produced in 1895 on the occasion of Grace making his hundredth hundred. In window mount, framed and glazed. Overall 5.75”x7.75”overall. Excellent condition with colours bright View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #377 ‘Captain Edward George Wynyard, Hampshire & England 1894-1912. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Wynyard. ‘Hampshire’. August 25th 1898 by CG. Nicely signed by Wynyard in black ink to lower border. The signature has slight fading and the print is laid down to board but otherwise in good condition. Rare in this signed form View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #378 Pelham Francis Warner, Middlesex & England 1894-1929. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Warner. ‘Plum’. September 3rd 1903 by SPY. Nicely signed by Warner in blue ink to lower right border. Good condition. 10.5”x15.5”. Rare in this signed form View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #379 Frederick Peel Miller. Surrey 1851-1867. ‘F.P. Miller Esq’. Large hand coloured tinted lithograph by John Corbett Anderson of Miller in blue cap and cricket attire on the cricket pitch leaning on a bat. Published by Frederick Lillywhite, May 1856, printed by Stannard & Dixon. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 15”x19”. A rarer lithograph from the series. Minor age toning and light spotting to borders otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #380 Joseph Guy. Nottinghamshire 1837-1854. ‘Joseph Guy of Nottingham’. Early large hand coloured tinted lithograph of Joseph Guy in cricket attire and top hat holding a cricket bat to his right hand side. John Corbett Anderson. Published by John Corbett Anderson on the 2nd April 1853, and F. Lillywhite, Islington. Printed by Richard Black. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 12.5”x17.5”. Minor mark, good condition View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #381 William Hillyer. Kent & All England 1835-1853. ‘Hillyer’. Sketches at Lord’s No 3. Large original sepia lithograph of Hillyer in cricket attire holding a cricket ball, wearing a top hat with large house and other cricketers to the background. Published by John Corbet Anderson and R. Dark, Lord’s Ground on 17th July 1850, Printed by Hullmandel & Walton. Window mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 15”19”. Good/very good condition. Excellent image View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #382 Lord’s Taverners. ‘The Old Tavern Lord’s’, Jack Russell, 1993. Large limited edition print no. 10/500 of a view of the Old Tavern, with a fielder standing in the outfield and a large crowd in attendance. The print is signed by the artist Jack Russell, Sir John Mills and Sir Harry Secombe, both past Presidents of Lord’s Taverners, and Denis Compton. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 23.5”x25.5”. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #383 ‘Moment in History’. Jack Russell 1995. ‘England’s historic win in Barbados 1994’. Jack Russell 1995. Large colour limited edition print no. 177/350 of play in the Test showing England taking the last wicket to beat the West Indies for the first time in Barbados since 1935. Excellent image. Signed in pencil to the lower border by all eleven members of the winning team including Stewart, Atherton, Caddick, Fraser, Smith, Hick, Thorpe, Lewis, Russell etc. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 39”x25 View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #384 ‘Captain of the Eleven’. Large Pears advertising cricket print of the boy cricketer batting in the garden, after the Mezzotint by Philip Calderon 1883. The print with ‘Pears’ printed to lower left corner and full printed titles to borders with ‘Presented with Pears’ Christmas Annual 1898’ to top margin. Framed and glazed, overall 34”x24”. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #385 Don Bradman, Len Hutton and Garry Sobers. Three full page colour bookplate prints from originals by Ivan Rose for the book, ‘The Lord’s Taverners Fifty Greatest’ published 1983. Each print is individually mounted with ink signature of the featured player window mounted below. Each mounted print measures approx. 12”x16” overall. Very good condition. Sold with an early hand coloured engraving of an ‘International Cricket Match at Kennington Oval’ printed by William Mackenzie, London, and a reprodu View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #386 ‘St. Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, Kent, 1996’. Large colour limited edition print of the St. Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, by Hugh Cushing. A large crowd in attendance with the famous tree prominent. Limited edition no. 13/850. Signed to the lower border in pencil by the artist and eighteen Kent players, including Taylor, Ward, Igglesden, Llong, Patel, Benson, Marsh, Fleming, G. Cowdrey etc. Mounted framed and glazed, overall 29”x23”. Chip to frame, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #387 ‘Kent v Lancashire at Canterbury 1906’. Albert Chevallier Tayler. Large colour print of the famous painting of Colin Blythe bowling to Tyldesley with the attacking fielders around the bat. Printed title to lower border ‘The Kent Eleven. Champions 1906’, with the printed names of each player who are featured in the painting. Framed and glazed. Overall 42” x 28”. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #388 ‘Cockington Court, Manor House, Devon’. Extremely large 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 painting View details Estimates£300 - £500Winning Bid£480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #389 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Grace wearing batting attire and M.C.C. cap entitled ‘Cricket’ and dated June 9th 1877 by artist SPY. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 14.5”x20.5”. Good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #390 ‘Lord Sheffield’s Eleven at Sheffield Park, August 26 & 27, 1881’. Early original sepia photograph of Lord Sheffield’s team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire for the match v A. Shaw’s XI, 26th- 27th August 1881. Players featured include Emmett, Pinder, Ulyett, Ellis, Greenfield, Lockwood, Gilbert etc. The photograph by Hennah & Kent, Brighton, measures 10”x8”, laid to photographer’s mount with printed players’ names and title to lower border, overall 16”x13”. Ex Lord’s collectio View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #391 ‘St. Wilfred’s Club, 1886’. Early original sepia photograph of the St. Wilfred team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire in front of the pavilion at Sheffield Park, Sussex. The photograph by E. Hawkins & Co, ‘Late Hennah & Kent’, Brighton, measures 11.5”x9.5”, laid to photographer’s mount with printed title to lower border, overall 17.5”x13.5”. Light foxing to mount, otherwise in very good condition. An excellent image. View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #392 ‘Mr. John Gilbert’s Team’ and ‘Rev. W. Summers’ Team’ 1886. Two early original sepia photographs of each team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire in front of the pavilion at Sheffield Park, for a match played 13th September 1886. The photographs by E. Hawkins & Co., ‘Late Hennah & Kent’, Brighton, each measures 11.5”x9.5”, laid to photographer’s mount with printed title and players’ names to lower border, overall 17.5”x13.5”. Both photographs in very good condition and nice images View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #393 A.C. Maclaren and F.S. Jackson. ‘Harrow [Football] Eleven 1888’. Early original sepia photograph of the Harrow School football team seated and standing in rows wearing football attire. The photograph laid to official photographer’s mount with hand printed title and colour school emblem to top margin, and players’ names to lower margin. The players featured include two future England Test cricket captains, Archibald Campbell ‘Archie’ MacLaren (Lancashire & England 1890-1914) and Francis Stanley J View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #394 ‘Gentlemen versus Players. At Lord’s, July 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1901’. A wonderfully evocative original mono photograph of the Gentlemen XI seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire and assorted blazers. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #395 ‘Yorkshire County Cricket Team. Season 1905’. Excellent early official mono photograph of the Yorkshire team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, caps and blazers. Players are Lord Hawke (Captain), Jackson, Hirst, H. Wilkinson, Tunnicliffe, Denton, Haigh, Grimshaw, W.H. Wilkinson, Rhodes, Hunter and Myers. The photograph by Walter Scott of Bradford, measures 11.25”x9.25”, laid to official photographer’s mount with printed title and player’s names to borders. Overall 18”x14”. Minor View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #396 ‘Cambridge University v New Zealand Cricket 1927’. Excellent official mono photograph of the two teams together seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire and blazers, for the match played at Fenner’s 18th- 20th May 1927. New Zealand players featured include Lowry (Captain), Blunt, Mills, Dempster, Bernau, Merritt, Blundell etc. Notable names who appeared for Cambridge include Dawson (5 Tests), Morgan, Killick (2 Tests), Longrigg, Robins (19 Tests), Seabrook, Longfield, Allom (5 Tests), View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #397 Robert ‘Bobby’ Abel. Surrey & England 1881-1904. Two excellent images of Abel. One is a studio portrait of Abel, head and shoulders wearing formal attire and a straw boater, laid to tightly trimmed original mount. 9.5”x12”. The other is of Abel with fellow Surrey players J.M. Read and Brockwell. 5.5”x8”. Photographers unknown. Nice images in very good condition. View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #398 Bodyline. ‘England v Australia. 1st Test Sydney 1932-3’. Original mono panoramic photograph depicting the match in progress with huge crowds looking on from packed stands. Originally from the collection of Hedley Verity (Yorkshire & England 1930-1939) with a letter of provenance signed by Verity’s son, Douglas, dated 26th July 2001. The photograph was taken on the second day’s play, the scoreboard showing Australia having been dismissed for 360 in their first innings, England’s reply at 13/0 (Wy View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #399 M.C.C. tour of Australia (Bodyline) 1932/33. Large and original mono action photograph from the 2nd Test match played at Melbourne on the 30th December 1932- 3rd January 1933. The photograph, which is laid down to photographer’s mount, with handwritten title to lower mount border, ‘Taking the shine off the new ball, shortly after the commencement of the match. Woodfull and Jardine playing tip and catch while the crowd roars with laughter’. The photograph, by ‘Kodak’ with green label to corner of View details Estimates£130 - £160StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #400 M.C.C. Tour to Australia, 1932/33 ‘Bodyline’. ‘Marylebone Cricket Team, Toronto, Canada. April 26th 1933’. Original sepia photograph of members of the M.C.C. team standing in front of a large building in the centre of Toronto with crowd to background. Players noted include Jardine (Captain), Hammond, Paynter, Ames, Sutcliffe, Mitchell, Duckworth, Voce, Bowes, Wyatt, Brown, Warner, Palairet etc. Printed title to lower portion of the image. 10.75”x6.75”. Tear to left hand border, repaired with tap View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...12|Next123456789101112 Previous 123456789101112 Next Previous 123456789101112 Next
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