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)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 51-60 of 500. Previous|1...456789...50|Next Lot #51 Hon. Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley. Cambridge University, Kent & England 1877-1883. Single page handwritten letter on Cobham Hall headed paper dated 25th April 1911. Bligh is replying to F.S. Ashley-Cooper for a request for cricket records with a polite brush-off ‘I will write you a line about the Best English Eleven... but I am doubtful if I shall have any such opportunity’. Nicely signed ‘Darnley’. Horizontal fold. Very good condition. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #52 Neville Cardus and Irving Rosenwater, 1955. Two handwritten letters. The first, from Rosenwater to Cardus, dated 16th May 1955 and written on two sides of small ruled note paper, refers to Cardus’ appreciation of Gilbert Jessop. Rosenwater asks for the source relating to Jessop’s ‘famous innings of 104 at the Oval in 1902 [in which] Jessop “scored 50 in 55 minutes”: while in no way wishing to doubt the accuracy of this statement, I would be most grateful if you could give me the source of where View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #53 Charles Burgess Fry. Oxford University, Sussex, Hampshire, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Original undated handwritten manuscript by Fry comprising nineteen numbered pages plus covering letter and postscript, both or which are signed by Fry. In the manuscript, Fry discusses batting styles using a referencing system of ‘A’ as the method of performing batsmanship and ‘E’ as the effect it causes. He acknowledges L.C.H. Palairet, stating ‘To call LCHP a supreme stylist means “being what I am, knowin View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #54 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Three page handwritten letter, on black bordered ‘In Memoriam’ style paper from Grace, dated 6th December [c.1880]. Grace is writing in his capacity as a doctor to an insurance company regarding the outstanding claim for a life policy being made by a Mr. W.D. Moore, whose wife, a patient of Grace, has recently passed away. It appears that payments of premiums have been missed, and Grace states, ‘I think as it seems to be partly the agen View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #55 William Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. Single page handwritten letter from Gunn, dated 23rd June 1916. Written on official letterhead for ‘The County Cricket, Football, Lawn Tennis and British Sports Warehouse, Carrington St., Nottingham’, Gunn states, ‘It is with very much regret my daughter and self learn the sad news of the irreparable loss of your dear husband’, offering his ‘sympathy and regret in your sad bereavement’. Very nicely signed, ‘Yours faithfully, William Gunn’. The l View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #56 Lord Martin Bladen Hawke, Yorkshire & England 1881-1911. A two page handwritten letter in ink from Lord Hawke, who was Captain of Yorkshire for many years, to Shirley Slocombe, the (male) artist who was commissioned in 1903 to paint Hawke’s portrait. Dated 6th September 1917, and written on official Yorkshire C.C.C. headed paper, Hawke is replying to Slocombe who has sent his price for painting another portrait, presumably that of Hawke’s wife, the Yorkshire committee wishing to present him with View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #57 Walter William Read. Surrey & England 1873-1897. Single page handwritten letter in black ink on the official business letterhead of Read’s firm of auctioneers, surveyors and land agents. Dated 3rd October 1899, Read is writing to a Mr. Edward Deering confirming that ‘[George?] Griffith did hit Benwell for 4 consecutive 6’s in the Surrey v Kent [match] at the Oval but cannot say for certain what year it was’. Very nicely signed ‘W.W. Read’. Horizontal and vertical folds. very good condition. View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #58 Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1870-1896. Handwritten two page letter on Park House, Thornbury letterhead from Grace to a Mr. Palmer, dated 30th June 1896. Grace is writing regarding the arrangements for a Thornbury match, ‘I have put down our match as fixed for Tuesday July 21st at eleven o’clock. We always have luncheon Salmon- Cold chicken, meats etc., & ordinary, drinks included at 2/6 per head. This at the Ship adjoining our ground at Alveston. The landlady would like to know View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #59 Heathfield Harman ‘H.H.’ Stephenson. Surrey & England 1853-1871. A selection of ephemera relating to Stephenson, collected by Irving Rosenwater and contained in a large yellow envelope neatly annotated by Rosenwater to the front. Contents include an original two page letter to ‘Dear Daft’ dated 13th July 1896, the year Stephenson died. Writing from Uppingham, Stephenson refers to arrangements for Uppingham’s upcoming ‘match with the Americans’, being Haverford College who were touring England sc View details Estimates£600 - £800StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #60 Edward Wentworth ‘Ted’ Dillon. Kent & Oxford University 1900-1923. One page type written letter from Dillon to William Findlay, Secretary of M.C.C. The letter, dated 8th November 1923, on ‘H.W. Dillon & Sons, Steamship and Insurance Brokers’ headed paper. A brief message to Findlay ‘My Dear Billie, Ever so many thanks for your letter of yesterday and I much appreciate tour promise to do what you can to help’. Signed ‘Yours sincerely’ Ted Dillon. 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