Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia - Live Three Day Auction (#19) 04/07/2025 10:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 04/07/2025 10:30 AM BST Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 1369. Previous|12345678...14|Next Lot #1 Sir John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs 1924-1967. Order of Thanksgiving for Hobbs’ Memorial Service held at Southwark Cathedral on 20th February 1964. Some age toning to edges, light creasing to top corner, otherwise in good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #2 ‘W.G. Grace 1848-1915: to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death, 23 October 1965’. Andrew Neville Burn Sugden. Privately published 1967. Reprint of an address delivered at a service held at Elmers End Cemetery, when a plaque was unveiled on the grave in 1965. Sold with an official order of service and accompanying booklet compiled by Canon Derek. G.E. Carpenter, Rector of Beckenham, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Grace’s death, 22nd October 1990, both signed by Carpenter and other a View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #3 ‘Frank Worrell of Barbados 1924-1967’. Order of Thanksgiving for Worrell held at Westminster Abbey on 7th April 1967. Some age toning to front wrapper, otherwise in good condition. Also an Order of Service for the memorial tribute service held for Worrell at Brixton Hill Church, 16th April 1967. Good condition. Qty 2. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #4 Yorkshire. Wilfred Rhodes 1877-1973. Printed four page brochure for the Memorial Service to Wilfred Rhodes held at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, 4th August 1973. Published by the Northern Cricket Society, no. 7. Good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #5 Kent cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service of thanksgiving including three former Kent cricketers. Les Ames 11th May 1990, Godfrey Evans 21st September 1999, both at Canterbury Cathedral, and Colin Cowdrey, Westminster Abbey, 30th March 2001. Also Jim Swanton, Canterbury Cathedral 29th March 2000. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #6 Kent cricketers’ orders of service. Three original orders of service of thanksgiving for former Kent cricketers. Graham Dilley, Worcester Cathedral 9th November 2011. Mike Denness, Canterbury Cathedral 1st July 2013, with official invitation. Derek Ufton, Canterbury Cathedral 24th February 2022. Sold with an order of service with accompanying biographical booklet and luncheon menu for the Rededication of the Colin Blythe Memorial 8th November 2017, and the Thanksgiving Service for the 150th Anni View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #7 Lancashire cricketers’ orders of service. Seven original orders of service for former Lancashire cricketers. Brian Statham, Manchester Crematorium 16th June 2000. Winston Place 31st January 2002. Bob Berry, Oldham Crematorium 11th December 2006. Ken Cranston, Aughton Church 15th January 2007. Harry Pilling, Little Lever Church 8th October 2012. Jack Bond, Blackley Crematorium 23rd July 2019. Peter Eckersley Memorial Dedication, Old Trafford 6th September 2022. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #8 Sussex cricketers’ orders of service. Seven original orders of service for former Sussex cricketers. George Cox, booklet published by the Sussex Cricket Society 1985. David Sheppard, Liverpool Cathedral 23rd May 2005. Tony Greig, St. Martin-in-the-Fields 24th June 2013. Hubert Doggart, Chichester Cathedral 27th April 2018. Derek Semmence, Hurstpierpoint College Chapel 6th August 2021. Jim Parks, Worthing Crematorium 25th June 2022. Robin Marlar, St. John’s Wood Church 17th April 2022. Very good View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #9 Essex cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service for former Essex cricketers. Trevor Bailey, Chelmsford Cathedral 17th May 2011. Kenneth Farnes dedication of memorial plaque at Hogg End, Chipping Warden 20th October 2013. Brian Taylor, Southend-on-Sea Crematorium 5th July 2017. Doug Insole, St. John’s Wood Church 23rd February 2018. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #10 Yorkshire cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service for former Yorkshire cricketers. Len Hutton, York Minster 16th November 1990. David Bairstow, Ripon Cathedral 27th February 1998. Fred Trueman, Bolton Abbey Church 6th July 2006. Vic Wilson, East Riding Crematorium 12th June 2008. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #11 Yorkshire cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service for former Yorkshire cricketers. Bob Appleyard, Bolton Abbey Church 31st March 2015. Brian Close, Headingley Church 30th September 2015. John Hampshire, Rotherham Minster 17th March 2017. Ray Illingworth, Farsley Church 26th January 2022. Also an official order of service for the 150th Anniversary of the Yorkshire C.C.C., York Minster 14th June 2013. Qty 5. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #12 Nottinghamshire cricketers’ orders of service. Three original orders of service for former Nottinghamshire cricketers. Reg Simpson, West Bridgford Church 23rd April 2014. Eric Martin, Lambley Church 22nd October 2105. Bob White, East Bridgford Church 7th December 2023. Also Peter Wynne-Thomas, Wilford Hill Chapel 11th August 2021. Qty 4. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #13 Harold Larwood. Nottinghamshire & England 1924-1938. Two official orders of service including one rarer for the Memorial Service held for Larwood at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Kingsford, Sydney, Australia 28th July 1995, the other for the Service of Thanksgiving held at West Bridgford Church 12th September 1995. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #14 Surrey cricketers’ orders of service. Seven original orders of service for former Surrey cricketers. Jim Laker, Southwark Cathedral 11th July 1986, signed in ink to the front by Richie Benaud and Pat Pocock. Freddie Brown, Bryanston Square Church 18th October 1991. Stuart Surridge, Southwark Cathedral 16th June 1992. Tony Lock, Perth Cathedral 7th April 1995. Alf Gover, Kennington Oval Church 23rd January 2002. Ben Hollioake, Southwark Cathedral 15th July 2002. Alec Bedser, Southwark Cathedral 1 View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #15 Middlesex cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service for former Middlesex cricketers. Bill Edrich, St. Clement Danes Church 3rd October 1986, with original invitation. Tagge Webster, St. John’s Wood Church 6th October 1986. Gubby Allen, St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster 2nd April 1990. Denis Compton, Westminster Abbey 1st July 1997. Good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #16 Worcestershire cricketers’ orders of service. Three original orders of service for former Worcestershire cricketers. Bob Wyatt, St. John’s Wood Church 6th September 1995. Basil D’Oliveira, Worcester Cathedral 27th January 2012. Tom Graveney, Worcester Cathedral 29th April 2016. Also a Service of Thanksgiving for the centenary of the election of Worcestershire C.C.C. to the County Championship, held at the County Ground 4th July 1999. Qty 4. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #17 South West cricketers’ orders of service. Three official orders of service for John Arlott, Alresford Church 20th January 1992, Bill Alley, Taunton Church 6th December 2004, and David Sheppard, Westbury-on-Trym Church 26th November 2009. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #18 Brian Johnston. Broadcaster and cricket commentator. Official order of service for the Service of Celebration of the Life of Brian Johnston held at Westminster Abbey, 16th May 1994, with original admission ticket and accompanying large card signed by eighteen attendees. Signatures include Ted Dexter, Roger Bannister, David Gower, Fred Trueman, Tom Graveney, Hubert Doggart, Peter West, Bob Taylor, Richie Benaud, Keith Fletcher, Raman Subba-Row, Colin Ingleby-MacKenzie, Jonathan Agnew etc. Very go View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #19 West Indies cricketers’ orders of service. Two original orders of service for former West Indies cricketers. One for the Unveiling Ceremony for the Malcolm Marshall Memorial Trophy held at Lord’s 29th August 2000. The other for the Service of Thanksgiving for Clyde Walcott, St. John’s Wood Church 7th December 2006. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #20 Australian cricketers’ orders of service. Five original orders of service for former Australian cricketers. Bill O’Reilly, Blakehurst Church October 1992. Alan McGilvray, Darling Point Church 22nd July 1996. David Hookes, Adelaide Oval 27th January 2004. Ian Craig, Bradman Oval, Bowral 28th November 2014. Phillip Hughes, Macksville High School 3rd December 2014. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #21 Don and Jessie Bradman. Two original orders of service held at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide, one for the memorial service for Bradman’s wife, Jessie, held on 28th September 1997, the other for Bradman’s memorial service 25th March 2001. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #22 Cricket and other orders of service. Seven original orders of service for Cedric Settle Rhodes 1920-1990 (Lancashire Chairman 1960/70’s), Derrick Robins 1914-2004 (Warwickshire), Eddie Barlow 1940-2006 (Derbyshire & South Africa), Vic Lewis 1919-2009 (musician), Christopher Martin-Jenkins 1945-2013 (writer and commentator) with original invitation, Ian Riddington 1937-2017 (son of Leicestershire player, Tony Riddington), and John Woodcock 1926-2021 (writer and journalist). Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsold Lot #23 Original Patents. Parlour & Outdoor Games 1884-1903. Folder comprising six original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects are ‘Apparatus for Playing Outdoor and Indoor Games’ A.S. King 1884, ‘Miniature Automatic Cricket Players’ T. Cloke & W.A. Ellis 1884, ‘A New or Improved Parlour Game’ M.F. Bailey 1885, ‘A New Out Door Game with Requisites for Playing the same’ E. Flemons 1886, ‘An Indoor Game in Imitation of Cricket, and Apparatus therefore’ H. Lamplough 1895, and ‘A View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #24 Original Patents. Cricket Equipment & Accessories 1885-1903. Folder comprising seventeen original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects include ‘Improvements in Leg Guards’ F.H. Ayres 1885, ‘A Groin Protector or Shield for Cricketers’ A.M. Palmer 1888, ‘Improvements in or relating to Hand Guards or Protectors...’ H. Hayley 1888, ‘Improvements in Batting Gloves’ P.B. & D. Cow, J. Crump 1892, ‘’...Pad or Protector for the Abdomen Hips and Thighs...’ R.H. Fish & H. Peace 19 View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #25 Original Patents. Cricket Equipment & Accessories 1876-1904. Folder comprising nineteen original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects include ‘Apparatus for Scoring Games’ W. Walton 1876, ‘Improvements in Cricket Stumps or Wickets’ W.G. Boorn-Thompson 1884, ‘Improvements in Machinery for Making Cricket-bats’ W.H. Cook 1888, ‘Improved Cricket Sight Boards’ W. Browning 1897, and others relating to wickets, bails, umpires’ counters, pitch measurement and marking etc. Docum View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #26 Original Patents. Cricket Bats 1876-1885. Folder comprising twenty four original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents, all relating to the construction of cricket bats, bat and tennis racquet handles and covers ‘and other Implements of the like kind’. Includes patents applied for by notable manufacturers of the day including G.W. Frowd of Lillywhite & Frowd 1881, R. Slazenger Moss of Slazenger & Sons 1884, W.R. Lake (for Cady of U.S.A.) 1884, W.H. Cleave of Clapshaw & Cleave 1885 View details Estimates£120 - £160StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #27 Original Patents. Cricket Bats 1886-1895. Folder comprising twenty four original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents, all relating to the construction of cricket bats, including ‘An Unbreakable Bat’, bat and tennis racquet handles and covers and others ‘of the like’. Includes patents applied for by notable manufacturers of the day including S.M. Wainwright 1886, G.H. White of Aquila Clapshaw, White & Co. 1886, H.S. Dark of F. Dark (Lord’s) 1886, L.J. Nicholls 1889, A.W. Trimming View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #28 ‘Souvenir of Warwickshire Team and Photographs of County Captains’. Printed by the Shakespeare Press, Birmingham 1911. Four page large format souvenir brochure in original green paper wrappers with title to front. The centre pages feature printed mono images of the County Championship winning team of 1911 and the captain, F.R. Foster. The first and last pages depict mono images of twelve other County captains including Dillon (Kent), Douglas (Essex), Bird (Surrey), Jessop (Gloucestershire), Warn View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #29 Warwickshire Gentlemen Cricket Club 1890s-1920s. An excellent selection of original club fixtures cards, membership tickets etc. contained in a ‘Best Steel Deed Box’ with the name ‘Warwickshire Gentlemen Cricket Club’ painted to the front. A good number of fixture cards relate to the Warwickshire Gentlemen C.C. for seasons 1900, 1902 and 1904-1913 (some years duplicated), and ‘List of Members’ booklets for seasons 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1906. Additional folding cards and leaflets provide informati View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£370StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #30 ‘Souvenir of the Middlesex Team 1896’. Folding card with title to front, printed image of the Middlesex team with ‘List of Matches Played with Results’ up to 29th June and ‘Matches to be Played’ to centre, advertisement for F.H. Ayres cricket and sports equipment to back. Published at the ‘Cricket’ Office, London. Padwick 2423. Minor soiling and wear, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #31 Scottish cricket membership tickets 1901. Original Perthshire C.C. folding membership card/ fixture list for season 1901, leather covers with gilt title, issued to ‘The Hon. J.D. Logan’. Sold with a similar folding membership ticket for Dunkeld & Birnam C.C. 1901, gilts faded. Good condition. Qty 2. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #32 South African cricket membership tickets 1903-1905. Original Cape Town C.C. membership card/ fixture list booklet for season 1904/05, leather covers with gilt title. Sold with a similar membership booklet for Western Province C.C. 1904/05. Both issued to ‘The Hon. J.D. Logan’. Good condition. Qty 2. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #33 Cricket and sporting ephemera. Good selection of ephemera including ‘Kent County Cricket Club’ printed photograph of the 1967 Gillette Cup winning team standing and seated in rows wearing blazers, signed to the borders by all sixteen featured players, signed modern cricket scorecards and cards, Hampshire C.C.C. shirt and training top, ‘Ashes Tankard 1982’, Alan Fearnley limited edition cricket prints of Hove, Taunton, The Oval and Lord’s, all signed by the artist and one by Denis Compton, ‘Surre View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #34 England tour itineraries 1991-1997. Three official players’ tour itinerary booklets for the tours to New Zealand and the World Cup 1991/92, Zimbabwe 1996 and New Zealand 1997. Player unknown. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #35 Cricket games and beer pump badges c.1970s onwards. Box containing an assortment of table top and card cricket games. Titles include ‘International Cricket’ (Godfrey Evans Games), ‘Subbuteo Table Cricket Display Edition’, ‘The Gillette Cup’, (Ariel), ‘Run Chase’ (Games Unlimited), ‘Test Match Replay’ (Lambourne Games), ‘Marston’s Top Stumps’ etc. Sold with a collection of over one hundred and forty beer pump clip badges for cricket related beers with names such as ‘Fiery Fred’, ‘Absolutely Marve View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #36 Cricket and football 1905-1907. Leather bound scrapbook album comprising a good collection of newspaper cuttings covering cricket and football matches and players of the period and other non-sporting content of a light-hearted nature. Cricket references include the Australia tour to England 1905, South Africa in 1907, county cricket etc. Includes a series of poems in a series titled ‘En Passant’ on individual cricketers including Clem Hill, Victor Trumper (Australia), W.J. Wallace, D. Gallaher, View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #37 Brian Johnston. Broadcaster and cricket commentator. An interesting selection in two matching folders comprising poetry, scripts and letters from the estate of Brian Johnston. Contained in one folder is a large collection of original poems about spin bowlers, ‘Unforgettable Men of Mystery’ by Les Bailey, each neatly handwritten on forty six numbered pages and additional title page dedicated to Brian Johnston, introductory page dated 1976 (both signed by Bailey) and index, all pages with file hol View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #38 ‘The Kentish Gazette’. Original early newspaper for 19th July 1791 printed in Canterbury. Page one column 1 features a small advertisement with an engraved vignette of a cricket scene. The advertisement reads ‘Cricketing. On Thursday, July 21, 1791, will be played at Deal, a match of Cricket, between the Gentlemen of Deal and the Gentlemen of Sandwich, with five men picked, for One Guinea a man’. The newspaper has been trimmed to the lower edge, otherwise in very good condition for its age. A ra View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #39 ‘The English Chronicle’. Original early newspaper for 10th July 1794. Page three column 1 features a report on the ‘Grand match of cricket... between two Select Elevens of England, for One Thousand Guineas’, R. Leigh’s XI v G. Louch’ XI played at Lord’s 30th June- 2nd July 1794. The full scorecard is printed showing Leigh’s XI scoring 219 (T. Walker 102) and 138, Louch’s XI scoring 138 and 87, Leigh’s XI winning by 132 runs. The teams featured notable representatives from Kent, Surrey, Sussex an View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #40 ‘The English Chronicle’. Original early newspaper for 21st August 1800. The rear page column 1 features a report on ‘a Grand Match of Cricket [was] played, on Marshe’s New Ground, Rochester, between Twelve Gentlemen of England, against Nineteen Gentlemen of Kent, for One Thousand Guineas’, 18th- 21st August 1800. The printed scorecard shows the England innings of 58 and 150, and Kent scoring 132 and 77/17, Kent winning by one wicket. Notable players for England include T. & H. Walker, W. Beldham View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #41 ‘The Traveller’. Original early newspaper for 7th July 1801. The rear page column 2 features a report on ‘a Grand Match of Cricket at Hommerton [sic]between Eleven Gentlemen of the Hommerton Club against Eleven select Gentlemen of Hackney, for 500 guineas’. The printed scorecard shows the Homerton Club scoring 91 and 116, Hackney Gentlemen replying with 52 and 60, Homerton winning by 95 runs. The match does not appear to be recorded on cricketarchive.com. A number of Homerton players played firs View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #42 ‘The Observer’. Original early newspaper for 7th June 1841. The front page columns 2 and 3 features a lengthy report on the match between ‘Marylebone Club and Ground against the Five Northern Counties [North]’ at Lord’s 31st May- 2nd June 1841, North won by 66 runs. The M.C.C. team comprised notable players including Tom Sewell, Charles Whittaker, Charles Taylor, James Cobbett, William Hillyer, John Bayley and Billy Good. The North team was made up of predominantly Nottinghamshire players includ View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #43 ‘XL The Forty Club’ 1967-2002. Twelve original signed menus, the majority multi-signed, for annual Club dinners held at the London Hilton, Park Lane in 1967, 1970, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988 (2 copies), 1992, 1995, 1997 (2), and 2002 (held at The Savoy). Each booklet comprises menu and toast list to centre with the remaining pages listing attendees and table plans. Some with original invitations loosely slipped or clipped in. Cricketers’ signatures include Frank Woolley, Herbert Sutcliffe, Gubby All View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #44 ‘The Playfair Club [Cricketer Magazine Club]’ 1961-1977. Eleven original signed menus, for annual Club dinners held at the Royal Air Force Club, London, in 1961 and 1968-1977. Each folding menu with ribbon tie and multi-signed to rear autographs page or inside. Signatures include Alec Bedser, Neville Cardus, Colin Cowdrey, Geoff Boycott, Brian Bolus, Roger Prideaux, Stuart Surridge, Mike Denness, Ray Illingworth, Micky Stewart, Peter Parfitt, Jackie Bond, Graham Roope, Reg Simpson, Basil D’Olive View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #45 New Zealand tour of England 1937. Official menu for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the New Zealand Cricket team in 1937. The luncheon was held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 6th May 1937. The menu with cartoon cover by Tom Webster, menu and toasts to inside and rear pages. Minor soiling and age toning otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #46 India tours to England 1946 and 1952. Two official menus for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheons given to the India cricket teams, both held at The Savoy Hotel, London, one on 1st May 1946, the other 29th April 1952. Both menus with cartoon covers by Tom Webster, menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. Minor soiling and age toning, horizontal folds to the 1952 menu, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #47 New Zealand tour to England 1949. Official menu for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the New Zealand Cricket team held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 12th April 1949. The menu with cartoon cover illustration by Tom Webster. To inside and rear pages, poem by A.P. Herbert, menu and toasts. The menu page signed in ink by thirteen players from the England and New Zealand teams including Reid, Scott, Rabone, Hadlee, Scott, Compton, G.O. Allen, Mann, Evans, Young, Bedser etc. Additionally View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #48 West Indies tours to England 1950 & 1957. Official menu for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the West Indies Cricket team held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 18th April 1950. The menu with cartoon cover illustration by Tom Webster. To inside and rear pages, poem by A.P. Herbert, menu and toasts. The menu page signed in ink by ten of the West Indies team including Weekes, Stollmeyer, Walcott, Pierre, Williams, Gomez, Marshall, Christiani etc. and Bill Voce. The back cover signed in i View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #49 Australia tour to England 1953. Official menu for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the Australian Cricket team held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 16th April 1953. The menu with cartoon cover by Tom Webster. To inside and rear pages menu, toasts and an Australian cricket poem by A.P. Herbert. Signed in pencil to front cover by two Australian players, Gil Langley and Arthur Morris, and to rear cover by Arthur Mailey in ink with original caricature by Mailey, also in pencil by Brian J View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #50 Australia tour to England 1956. Official menu and table plan for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the Australian Cricket team held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 30th April 1956. The menu with cartoon cover by Tom Webster. To inside and rear pages menu, toasts and an Australian cricket poem by A.P. Herbert. Good/very good condition. Qty 2. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #51 South Africa tours to England 1960 and 1994. Two official menus for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheons given to the South African cricket teams. Both held at The Savoy Hotel, London, one on 21st April 1960, the other 22nd June 1994. The 1960 menu with cartoon cover by Tom Webster, the 1994 by Roy Ullyett. Menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. The 1994 menu signed in ink to the front cover by Edward Heath. Some soiling and age toning to the 1960 menu, the 1994 in very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #52 Australia tours to England 1961 and 1964. Two official menus with accompanying table plans for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheons given to the Australian cricket teams. Both held at The Savoy Hotel, London, one on 24th April 1961, the other 22nd April 1964. The 1961 menu with cartoon cover by Tom Webster, the 1964 by Roy Ullyett. Menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. The 1964 menu signed in ink to the front cover by Brian Booth. Light creasing to the 1961 menu, otherwise in good/ very g View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #53 Pakistan tours to England 1962 and 1992. Two official menus for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheons given to the Pakistan cricket teams. Both held at The Savoy Hotel, London, one on 26th April 1962, the other 1st May 1992. The 1962 menu with cartoon cover by Tom Webster and accompanying table plan, the 1992 by Roy Ullyett. Menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. The 1992 menu signed in ink to the front cover by Edward Heath. Good/ very good condition. Qty 3. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #54 West Indies tours to England 1963-1995. Three official menus for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheons given to the West Indies cricket teams. Held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 17th April 1963, 10th May 1976, and 12th May 1995. All three menus with cartoon covers by Roy Ullyett, the 1963 and 1976 with accompanying table plan, and an additional table plan for the luncheon held 13th June 1973. Menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. The 1995 menu signed in ink to the front cover by Edward Hea View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #55 New Zealand tours to England 1965, 1969 and 1973. Two official menus for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheons given to the New Zealand cricket teams held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 26th April 1965 with original table plan, and 27th April 1973. Both menus with cartoon covers by Roy Ullyett. Menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. Also an original table plan for the luncheon held 23rd June 1969. The 1965 menu and table plan with folds and scribbles to fronts, otherwise in good condition. Q View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #56 India tours to England 1967 and 1974. Two official menus and accompanying table plans for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheons given to the India cricket teams held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 24th April 1967 and 25th April 1974. Both menus with cartoon covers by Roy Ullyett, menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. The 1967 menu and table plan with some age toning, otherwise in good condition. Qty 4. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #57 Australia tours to England 1968 and 1972. Two official menus for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheons given to the Australia cricket teams held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 29th April 1968, with accompanying table plan, and 24th April 1972. Both menus with cartoon covers by Roy Ullyett, menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. The 1968 table plan signed in ink to the front by Colin Cowdrey, John Gleeson and Bill Lawry. The 1972 menu signed to the front by Ian Chappell, Colin Cowdrey and the View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #58 Australia tour to England 1972. Official menu for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the Australia cricket team held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 24th April 1972. The menu with cartoon cover by Roy Ullyett, menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. Signed in blue ink to the front by sixteen playing members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Colley, I. Chappell, Marsh, Watson, Mallett, Gleeson, Inverarity, Stackpole, Walters, Lillee, Taber, Sheahan, Massie, G. Chappell, View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #59 New Zealand tours to England 1983 and 1986. Two official menus for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheons given to the New Zealand cricket teams held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 29th June 1983 (with accompanying table plan) and 18th June 1986. The menus with cartoon covers by Roy Ullyett, menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. The 1983 menu signed in ink to the inside by fourteen members of the New Zealand touring party. Signatures are Howarth, Hadlee, Coney, Lees, Turner, Bracewell, Frank View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #60 Australia tours to England 1975-1989. Three official menus for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheons given to the Australia cricket teams held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 2nd June 1975, 26th April 1977 and 3rd May 1985. All three with accompanying table plans, and an additional table plan for the luncheon held 2nd May 1989. The menus with cartoon covers by Roy Ullyett, menus and toasts to inside and rear pages. The 1977 menu signed to the inside by Ian Davis in ink and Greg Chappell in pencil View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #61 Wombwell Crickets Lovers’ Society 1960-2006. Red binder comprising a selection of almost fifty official menus and the odd letter with a good selection of signatures, many multi-signed. Menus cover annual dinners including a 40th Anniversary dinner profusely signed to the front by thirty seven attendees, and tribute dinners to and signed by Ray Illingworth, Denis Compton, John Arlott, Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook, Dickie Bird, Martyn Moxon, Derek Underwood, Geoff Boycott, Don Wilson, Kevin Sharp, View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #62 Nottingham menus 1956-1964. Three official folding menus, each signed in ink to the front. Menus are England v Australia, 1st Test, Trent Bridge, 5th June 1964, ten signatures of Gubby Allen, Peter West, Reg Simpson, Donald Carr, Len Hutton, Willie Watson, Norman Yardley, Denis Compton, Brian Johnston and Doug Insole. Wollaton C.C. Annual Dinner Dance, Welbeck Hotel, Nottingham 24th February 1956, three signatures of Herbert Sutcliffe, Johnny Wardle and Norman Yardley. Old West Bridgfordians’ C. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£38StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #63 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. ‘Bestwood Park Cricket Club Centenary Dinner 1868-1968’. Official folding menu for the dinner held at Daybrook House, Nottingham 26th April 1968. Signed in ink to the front by fourteen Nottinghamshire players. Signatures are Garry Sobers, Brian Bolus, Deryck Murray, Dave Halfyard, Mike Taylor, Ian Moore, Mike Smedley, Harold Larwood, Basher Hassan, Graham Frost, Chris Grant, Bob White, John Parkin and Carlton Forbes. Very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #64 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. signed menus 1981-1989. Six signed original menus. Includes two dinners held for Richard Hadlee’s testimonial fund, one for the Test Match Dinner at The Albany Hotel, Nottingham 9th August 1986, signed in ink to the front by Mike Brearley, Ken Taylor and Hadlee, the other a Sportsmans Dinner at The Grand Hotel, Jersey 20th September 1986, signed to the inside by Hadlee, Steven Rhodes and Tommy Docherty. A dinner held for Garry Sobers, Commodore International, Nottingham 23 View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #65 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. signed menus 1986-1991. Five multi-signed original menus. Includes the Sportsmans Dinner held for Richard Hadlee’s testimonial fund, at The Grand Hotel, Jersey 20th September 1986 signed to the front and back by Hadlee, Arnie Sidebottom, Tommy Docherty, Basher Hassan, Graham Roope, Steven Rhodes, Chris Broad, Eddie Hemmings etc. Other are ‘150 Years of Cricket at Trent Bridge’, Royal Moat House, Nottingham 28th May 1988, twenty nine signatures to the centre pages, Test Mat View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #66 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. signed menus 1991-1993. Five multi-signed original menus. Includes the Nottingamshire C.C.C. Annual Dinner Dance 20th September 1991 (9 signatures) and Sportsmans’ Dinner 20th May 1992 (6). Nottingham Cricket Lovers Society ‘A Night of Knights’ dinner 11th May 1993 (3) signed by the three featured knights, Colin Cowdrey, Richard Hadlee and Garry Sobers. ‘Eve of Challenge Match Gala Dinner’ 12th June 1993 (15). ‘Luncheon to mark the official opening of the New Mound Stand, View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #67 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. signed menus 1992-2006. Eight signed original menus relating to Nottinghamshire and Trent Bridge cricket. Includes Caythorpe C.C. ‘Sportsmen’s Dinner’ 2nd November 1992 (5 signatures), Cricket Memorabilia Society 10th Anniversary Lunch 5th April 1997 (3), M.C.C. Club Dinner at Lord’s 11th November 1998 signed by Derek Randall with official invitation (both laid to white page), Mick Newell Benefit Year ‘World Cup Dinner’ 24th May 1999 (6), Nottinghamshire C.C.C. ‘Cricket Di View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #68 Australia tour to England 1956. Official menu for a ‘Dinner to Welcome the Australian Touring Side’ given by Worcestershire C.C.C. at the Guildhall, Worcester, 2nd May 1956. The folding menu signed in ink to the inside and rear cover by eighteen attendees. Signatures include Roy Booth of Worcestershire, Colin McDonald (Australia), A.E. James (masseur), also guests, ‘Mervyn’ Bishop of Worcester, Sir Richard Gale etc. Some soiling, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #69 West Indies tour to England 1957. Official menu for a ‘Dinner to Welcome the West Indies Touring Side’ given by Worcestershire C.C.C. at the Guildhall, Worcester, 1st May 1957. The folding menu signed in ink to the inside and rear cover by thirty five attendees. West Indians’ signatures include Goddard (Captain), Asgarali, Gilchrist, Sobers, Weekes, Hall, Ganteaume, Dewdney, Alexander, Pairaudeau, Kanhai, Ramadhin etc. Worcestershire players’ signatures include P. Richardson (Captain), Horton, D View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #70 New Zealand tour to England 1958. Official menu for a ‘Dinner to Welcome the New Zealand Cricket Touring Side’ given by Worcestershire C.C.C. at the Guildhall, Worcester, 30th April 1958. The folding menu signed in ink to the rear cover by nineteen attendees. New Zealand signatures include Reid (Captain), Sutcliffe, Cave, Alabaster, Hayes, D’Arcy, Sparling, Miller, Harford, Meale, Blair, Petrie, Playle, Moir, Ward, MacGibbon, also by ‘Mervyn’ Bishop of Worcester etc. Smudge to the Harford signat View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #71 India tour to England 1959. Official menu for a ‘Dinner to Welcome the India Touring Side 1959’ given by Worcestershire C.C.C. at the Guildhall, Worcester, 29th April 1959. The folding menu signed in ink to the rear cover and inside by eleven attendees. Worcestershire signatures include Broadbent, Outschoorn, Richardson, Booth, Aldridge, Kenyon, Flavell etc. Minor soiling, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #72 South Africa tour to England 1960. Official menu for a ‘Dinner to Welcome the South African Touring Side’ given by Worcestershire C.C.C. at the Guildhall, Worcester, 4th May 1960. The folding menu signed in ink to the rear cover and inside by twenty three attendees. Players’ signatures include Pothecary, Wesley, C.F. Walters of Worcestershire, and South African players including Dews, Kenyon, Flavell, Coldwell, M. Horton, Outschoorn and others including John Woodcock etc. Minor soiling, otherwis View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #73 Hampshire C.C.C. Official menu for the ‘Committee Dinner to celebrate the winning of the Benson & Hedges Cup 1988’ held at The County Club, Southampton, 7th September 1988. The folding menu signed to the back page by the twelve members of the Hampshire team that beat Derbyshire at Lord’s by seven wickets. Signatures are Nicholas (Captain), Cowley, Turner, Connor, C. Smith, R. Smith, Terry, Jefferies, Parks, Andrew, Ayling and James (12th man). Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50StatusUnsold Lot #74 West Indies v England 1953/54. Garry Sobers’ Test debut. Original blank menu card for the South Camp Road Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica, very nicely signed in ink to the verso by the thirteen members of the West Indies team for the 5th Test played at Sabina Park, Kingston, 30th March- 3rd April 1954. Signatures are Stollmeyer (Captain), Worrell, Weekes, Gomez, Walcott, Ramadhin, Pairaudeau, Sobers, King, Atkinson, Holt, Valentine and McWatt. Minor age toning, otherwise in very good condition. Excelle View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #75 Signed cricket menus 1971-2014. Blue binder comprising nine official signed menus. ‘Cricket Society Tour of Australia Dinner’, Melbourne 1971, twenty one signatures to rear page, cricketers include Ben Brocklehurst, Ray Robinson, Jim Swanton, Rad Grace (Australian race walker) etc. Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society ‘Special Dinner & Tribute to Don Wilson and Philip Sharpe’ 1999, signed by Wilson and Sharpe, with official ticket. Luncheon given by Lancashire C.C.C. ‘To Honour the Retirement of Nea View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #76 England 1953 Ashes winning team. Official menu booklet for the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society ‘Reunion Dinner for Members of the 1953 Ashes Winning Team’. Held at Cutlers Hall, Sheffield, 18th October 1980. Signed to rear cover autograph page by fifteen England players including Hutton, Tattersall, Edrich, Statham, Kenyon, Trueman, Laker, May, Evans, Bedser, Wardle, Graveney, Simpson, Compton and Bailey. Additionally signed to the centre pages by Brian Johnston, Sebastian Coe and Nicholas Par View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #77 ‘The Greats of ‘48’. 32pp brochure published by The Primary Club of Australia 1979. Sixteen of the seventeen players on the 1948 tour of England have signed the brochure to his individual page with picture and biography, the exception being Sid Barnes who died in 1973 prior to the brochure’s publication. Signatures in ink are Don Bradman, Hassett, Ring, Morris, Miller, Lindwall, Toshack, Johnston, Harvey, Tallon, Brown, Johnson, Loxton, Saggers, McCool and Hamence. Minor wear to covers otherwise View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #78 Thomas Godfrey Evans. Kent & England 1939-1967. Nine original elaborate Christmas cards sent to Evans from Sir Paul Getty, each signed by Getty and/or his wife. Sold with an original order of service booklet for Getty’s Memorial Mass held at Westminster Cathedral, 9th September 2003 with official invitation issued to Evans’ wife, Mary. Also a collection of modern newspaper extracts and cuttings from the estate of Evans. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£15StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #79 Cricketer’s signed letters 1960s-1990s. Ten original letters signed by Colin Cowdrey (Qty 2), Dennis Amiss, Chris Balderstone, Brian Close, David Gower, also Australians Alan Davidson and Ian Johnson, Ezra Mosely (West Indies), and one other signed on behalf of Rachel Heyhoe Flint. Sold with a Geoff Boycott ‘Facts & Figures’ leaflet signed twice by Boycott, and a large page signed in ink by eleven members of the Essex team c.1970. Signatures are Taylor, Hobbs, Fletcher, Turner, East, Lever, Savi View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #80 Henry Cecil Lowther. M.C.C., Surrey, Hampshire & England 1819-1843. Original signed free-front envelope to a Henry Stephenson, dated and sent from Penrith ‘October Eleven 1824’. Nicely signed by Lowther in black ink. A rare early signature of Lowther whose long political service as a conservative M.P. saw him become the Father of the House. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£20 - £30Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #81 William Ward. Surrey, Hampshire & M.C.C. 1810-1845. Signed free-front envelope to ‘Mifs Chapman of Cowes’ stamped with date 27th January 1830. Signed ‘W. Ward’ in black ink to the lower left corner. A rare early signature of Ward, a right handed batsman and occasional lob-bowler who played 130 first class matches and was considered for many years one of the leading batsman in England. Some wear to corners otherwise in good condition View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #82 Edward Harbottle Grimston. Oxford University 1834-1837. Nice ink signature of Grimston on piece laid to slightly large piece. Sold with a signature in thick black ink of Geoffrey George Lockwood Hebden (Hampshire 1937-1951, six matches), signed to a pre-printed page, with accompanying letter from a collector dated 1998 requesting his autograph. Qty 2. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£18 - £25StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #83 David Cecil Fowler Burton. Yorkshire & Cambridge University 1907-1921. Single page letter from Burton handwritten in ink to a school boy. Dated ‘July 14th’ (year unknown but probably early 1950s), Burton asks whether the boy is a batsman or bowler, and suggests he attends his cricket school in the winter months, ‘I shall have Jack O’Connor [Essex & England 1921-1939] the England Essex cricketer with me’. Nicely signed ‘D.C.F. Burton’. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #84 Charles Stewart ‘Stewie’ Dempster. Wellington, Leicestershire, Warwickshire & New Zealand 1921-1948. Single page handwritten letter from Dempster on his business letterhead in Wellington, to a schoolboy in England, dated 15th April 1952. Dempster is replying to a request for his autograph, stating ‘Your letter arrived in time to catch another N.Z. cricketer in my office, so this gives you two instead of one’. Nicely signed ‘C.S. Dempster’ and also by Ken James (Wellington, Northamptonshire & New View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #85 John Morris ‘Johnny’ Taylor. New South Wales & Australia 1913-1927. Single page handwritten letter from Taylor in Australia, to a schoolboy in England, dated 5th May 1952. Taylor is replying to a request for his autograph, and wishes the correspondent well with his cricket and his school. Nicely signed ‘J.M. Taylor’. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #86 Ernest Asplan Beldam. Middlesex 1903-1907. Single page handwritten letter from Beldam from his home in Surrey, to a schoolboy ‘Mr Thom[?]’, dated 12th November 1953. Beldam is replying to a request for his autograph, and wishes the correspondent well with his school cricket. Nicely signed ‘Ernest A. Beldam’. Light fold, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #87 Richard Parr Daft. Nottinghamshire 1886 (1 match). Two page handwritten letter in ink from Daft to the collector and dealer, A.J. Gaston. Dated 4th March 1905, Daft is offering ‘a few letters... for your scrapbook’ and wishes to sell some ‘old annuals’ of which he has duplicates, listing green Lillywhites for 1866 & 1878, Lillywhite’s Guide for 1864, and Wisden almanacks for 1868, 1876, 1882 and 1883. Nicely signed ‘R.P. Daft’. One page unevenly trimmed to left edge with some loss to the text, l View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #88 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£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #89 Ian William Geddes Johnson. Victoria & Australia 1935-1957. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 22nd December 1947 from Johnson to a correspondent in South Africa who had congratulated Johnson on his ‘performances against the M.C.C. team last year [1946/47]’. Nicely signed by Johnson. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£10StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #90 Richard ‘Richie’ Benaud. New South Wales & Australia 1948-1964. Two page typed tribute to Keith Miller and Denis Compton, written by Benaud with covering typed letter dated 18th December 1995 from Benaud to Mick Pope of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society. Benaud is ‘delighted the Society is offering Keith Miller and Denis Compton a tribute’, and Benaud recollects playing with Miller and against Compton, ‘two great names in cricket’ who both had ‘flair’. Both the letter and tribute signed in in View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #91 Frederick Edward ‘Fred’ Rumsey. Worcestershire, Somerset, Derbyshire & England 1960-1970. Four typed letters from Rumsey to the comedian, Eric Morecambe, from Morecambe’s personal collection. All the letters relate to Morecambe attending a Lords Taverners function at Burghley Park, Stamford with content relating to his availability, followed by details for accommodation, travel arrangements, payment etc., closing with thanks for his attendance. All signed ‘Fred’. File holes, otherwise in very go View details Estimates£25 - £35Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #92 Charles Bowmar Harris. Nottinghamshire 1928-1951. Official 1949 ‘Benefit Souvenir’ folding card for Harris. Signed to the front in ink by Harris, and to the internal autograph page by a further nine Nottinghamshire players. Signatures are Sime, Butler, Hardstaff, Woodhead, Winrow, Voce, Harris, Giles and Harvey. Additional players’ names annotated in ink to front and rear. Some soiling otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£20StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #93 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. Benefits 1948 & 1950. Three official Benefit booklets/ folding cards, one signed. One booklet for the 1948 benefit to Joe Hardstaff Jnr. (Nottinghamshire, Europeans, Auckland & England 1930-1955). Very good condition. Also two folding booklets for the 1950 benefit to Harold Butler (Nottinghamshire & England 1933-1954), one signed to the rear page by four Nottinghamshire players, Reg Simpson, Frank Woodhead, Fred Winrow and Eddie Rowe. Light creasing/ fold, otherwise in goo View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #94 Eric Alfred Meads. Nottinghamshire 1939-1953. Original folding ‘Autographs and Photograph’ card produced by Nottinghamshire C.C.C. for Meads’ Benefit Fund 1953. The inside autograph page signed by sixteen members of the Nottinghamshire team and staff, opposite an official mono photograph of the team. Players’ signatures are Simpson, Meads, Hardstaff, Dooland, Hill, Clay, Jepson, Kelly, Poole, Matthews, Butler, Giles, Stocks, Goonesena and Harvey. Minor wear, otherwise in good/ very good conditio View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£32StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #95 No lot £0/0 View details StatusUnsold Lot #96 Cricket autographs. Selection of signed album pages, paper pieces, scraps etc. Gubby Allen, Norman Oldfield, Maurice Tate, Wilfred Rhodes, Herbert Sutcliffe, John Gunn and Reggie Spooner and Johnny Douglas all dated 1920, Andrew Sandham, C.B. Fry, Arthur Gilligan, Ted Bowley, Warwickshire c1950’s, three small album pages with the signatures of the West Indies touring party 1933, the signatures on smaller paper pieces laid down to album pages and all back to back etc. Odd faults, good View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #97 ‘Yorkshire v Lancashire 1849-1949. Outstanding Performances and Records during one hundred years’. Compiled by E.R. Wilson for the Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Folding card comprising batting, bowling and other notable performances. Tipped in to green cloth with gilt title to spine, this was Wilson’s personal copy with his ownership signature in ink and instructions to the book binder in pencil to the front. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. Very good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #98 Marylebone Cricket Club membership and fixture card 1896. The folding leather (?) card with letters ‘M.C.C.’ to one side and to the other in gilt shield the year ‘1896’. The card belonged to cricketer and noted cricket writer and historian Arthur Haygarth, he has printed and signed his name to card. Some wear and fading to the card covers, some loss of printed surface to the inside of the card. G View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #99 John Tunnicliffe. Yorkshire 1891-1907. Signature in pencil of Tunnicliffe on piece laid down to small trimmed page. Sold with a colour postcard of Tunnicliffe in batting pose, Valentine’s Series, postmarked 1905. The two items loosely mounted to a printed page with biographical details. The postcard with small tear to top edge and some wear, the signature in good condition. View details Estimates£40 - £60StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #100 South Africa tour to England 1955. Trimmed section of a scorecard nicely signed in ink by twelve members of the South African touring party. Signatures are Goddard, McLean, Cheetham, Endean, Winslow, Murray, Mansell, Heine, Smith, Fuller, Keith and Duckworth. Vertical fold, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £40Winning Bid£22StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...14|Next1234567891011121314 Previous 1234567891011121314 Next Previous 1234567891011121314 Next
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