Knight's Sporting Auctions 'Close of Play'. Items from the cricket collection of Chris Saunders (#20) 13/09/2025 10:30 AM BST Closed Starts Ending 13/09/2025 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 11-20 of 500. Previous|12345678...50|Next Lot #11 ‘The Edinburgh Evening Courant’. Original early four page newspaper for 11th July 1772. Printed for R. Fleming, Edinburgh. Page two column 2 features a twelve line report of a dispute at a cricket match. ‘The Prince of Wales was lately playing at cricket in Kew Gardens, with Lord Herbert, two sons of the Bishop of Chester, and others. A dispute, in the course of their play, happened to rise between two of the party, and it went so far that the Lie was exchanged between them; upon which the Princ View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #12 ‘The Morning Post and Daily Advertiser’. Original early four page broadsheet newspaper for 10th August 1786. Printed by P. Stuart, Strand London. Page two column 4 features a cricket report, ‘Thursday last the match of cricket between the Earl of Winchelsea and Sir Horace Mann’ at Molesey Hurst, Surrey, and finished on Saturday, the latter beating the former [by] twenty three runs’. The full scorecard is printed below. The match appears to be that recorded on cricketarchive.com as ‘A to C v Rest View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #13 ‘The London Chronicle’. Original early eight page newspaper/ magazine for 7th- 9th June 1787. Sold by T. Wilkie, St. Paul’s Churchyard, London. A report on page 547 columns 1 & 2 states ‘Tuesday [5th June 1787] a grand match commenced at the new Cricket ground near Paddington [Lord’s Old Ground], between eleven gentlemen of the White Conduit Club, and eleven gentlemen picked from the county of Middlesex’, with the players listed below. The report records Middlesex scoring ‘131 notches in the fir View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #14 ‘The London Chronicle’ 1789. Early and original tabloid size eight page newspaper for 25th to 28th July 1789. Volume LXVI, No. 5119, published by T. Wilkie of St Paul’s Churchyard. With one and a half columns recording ‘Laws of the Game’ of cricket together with rules on betting on the game, an early record of the laws. ‘Cricket. This game, at present fashionable, and at all times, so creditable and manly will, it is feared, receive a check from the variable state of the weather’. The newspaper View details Estimates£300 - £500StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #15 ‘The Times’. Original early four page broadsheet newspaper for 12th August 1789. Printed by R. Nutkins, Blackfriars, London. An amusing 33 line report on page 3 column 2 records ‘On Wednesday last a match of cricket was played at Hackney, between the gentlemen of the Club at that place, and the young Gentlemen of a school in the neighbourhood. The former, consisting of two grandfathers, four fathers, and such as had passed their prime, offered a challenge to an equal number of the latter, which View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #16 ‘The Kentish Gazette’. Original early four page broadsheet newspaper for 2nd- 6th July 1790. Printed by Simmons and Kirkby of Canterbury. Page one column 2 features a ‘Cricketing’ announcement with an attractive woodcut image of a match, often seen in Kent newspapers of the period. ‘On Thursday the 8th Instant, will be played a Match of Cricket on Aldington Frith [near Ashford, Kent], for One Guinea a Man, between the Gentlemen of the Aldington Club, and the Gentlemen of Rolvenden. A Good Ordina View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #17 ‘The Morning Post’. Original early four page broadsheet newspaper for 19th June 1793. Printed by J. Norris, Strand, London. Page three column 3 reports ‘On Monday last and Yesterday was played a Grand Match, in Lord’s Ground, Mary-le-bone’, between the Gentlemen of the Mary-le-bone Club, and the County of Essex, for 500 Guineas’. Full scores are listed below with M.C.C. scoring 133 & 78, Essex 118 & 95/7, Essex winning by three wickets. The M.C.C. team featured notable players including the Earl View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #18 ‘The London Chronicle’. Original early eight page newspaper/ magazine for 9th- 11th August 1796. Sold by T. Wilke, Paternoster Row, London. Page 139 column 1 features an intriguing and amusing 23 line report on a cricket match. ‘Tuesday a curious cricket match was played at Montpelier Gardens [Walworth, London], between 11 of the Greenwich pensioners, wanting an arm each, against the same number of their fellow sufferers with each a wooden leg. Not fewer than 5000 people were assembled on the oc View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #19 19th Century cricket. A collection of 107 original newspapers covering the period 1802 to 1894, a time when cricket’s popularity was growing at home and overseas. The collection starts with twenty seven copies of the English Chronicle from 13th May to 30th September 1802, the first reporting a match between Eleven Gentlemen of Woolwich and Eleven Gentlemen of Bromley for 500 guineas. Most of the reports from 1802 relate to clubs in London and the suburbs, but also some from Brighton where the Pr View details Estimates£1,200 - £1,800StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #20 Cricket scraps. Three late Victorian colour chromolitho cut out pictures (scraps), one of a batsman, stumps and wicket keeper. 11.5” tall with stand-up flap to verso. Tape repair to verso of batsman’s head, otherwise in very good condition. The others are of a boy in batting pose, 9” tall, and boys playing cricket in a rural setting, 6” tall. Very good condition with nice, bright colours. 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