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 61-70 of 500. Previous|1...5678910...50|Next Lot #61 John Masefield. Poet Laureate 1930-1967. ‘Eighty Five To Win’. Two page handwritten letter in ink from Masefield, written on both sides of his ‘Burcote Brook, Abingdon’ headed note paper. Dated ‘May the 25th 1956’, Masefield is writing to a Mrs Martin at The Times newspaper, thanking her for sending galley proofs for checking prior to the publication of his poem on the Oval Test of 1882 when England’s last five wickets fell to the Australians for eleven runs, watched by 20,000 spectators, ‘The c View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #62 Percival King. Surrey 1871 (one match). Single page manuscript handwritten in ink by Percival, titled ‘Cricket Records’. Written on the reverse of King’s official business letterhead, King describes various cricketing records. ‘For the long period of 13 years the score of 404 not out by E.F.S. Tylecote made at Clifton College in May 1868 held the place of premium score for an individual cricketer’. He goes on to describe this record being surpassed by W.N. Roe (415 in 1881 for Emmanuel College), View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #63 Alfred Lyttelton. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1876-1887. Two page handwritten letter on House of Commons note paper from Lyttelton to ‘My dear Billy’, dated 6th February 1913. Very nicely signed ‘A. Lyttelton’. Very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #64 Vijaysingh Madhavji Merchant. Hindus, Bombay & India 1929-1952. Single page typed letter from Merchant to P.N. Sundaresan, Editor of ‘Sports Cine’. Dated 21st October 1975 on his personal letterhead, Merchant states he is unable to contribute an article as he is contracted to broadcasting a programme titled ‘Cricket with Vijay Merchant’ sponsored by the Thackersey Group of Mills. He is also unable to place an advertisement ‘as last year our Company made a very big loss, and for the first time in View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #65 Syed Mushtaq Ali. India 1933/34-1951/52. Single page typed letter from Mushtaq Ali in Indore, dated 23rd March 1986 to ‘Mr. Khadim Hussain [Kim Baloch]’. Ali writes to ‘convey my heartiest thanks to you and express the feeling of my joy and pleasure to receive your letter’. He continues by rating some of the players he knew including S. Wazir Ali, C.K. Nayudu, Nissar, Imran, Jack Hobbs, Tate, Grimmett and Gavaskar. He closes with a request for ‘4 pair of thick white cricket socks for me... we do View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #66 Lieutenant Colonel Chandrasekhar Vaman Gadkari (Retd). Regiment of Artillery (Maharashtra, Services and India, six Test matches, 1953-1955). Typewritten letter, dated 20th June 1986, on personal printed letterhead to a cricket collector regarding a request for autographs, talking of cricket past and present and mentioning obtaining old players addresses. Signed ‘Sincerely Yours’ by Gadkari. Light folds, good condition View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #67 Ivan Julian ‘Jack’ Siedle. Natal & South Africa 1922-1937. Three page handwritten letter in ink from Siedle, written on Anglo-African House, Durban letterhead, dated 10th November 1932. The letter, with original envelope, is addressed to Colonel Harry Sparks of Sydenham, Durban. Siedle writes expressing his concern ‘that your nephew Dudley is reported to have signed for Berea. I wonder if you could throw any light on the matter’. Siedle is concerned ‘that the only thing which would keep him from View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #68 ‘Rare Cricket Letters and Photographs. Ex-Neville Weston 1938’. Half morocco leather green scrapbook compiled by Weston on the collector Charles Pratt Green. This album appears to have been one of Weston’s scrapbooks with the binding put on by a later owner. Weston has handwritten a very short biography of Pratt Green to the front end paper and dated this 1949. This is followed by a list of photographs which have been given by Pratt Green, which will be found in the album. This is headed ‘Photog View details Estimates£2,000 - £3,000StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #69 Norman Preston, Irving Rosenwater and the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1971. Envelope comprising a selection of items from Rosenwater’s personal collection relating to a lunch held in the Committee Room at Lord’s, 2nd April 1971 to celebrate ‘Norman Preston’s 21st Birthday as Editor of Wisden’. Contents include a typed letter inviting Rosenwater to attend, signed by Haddon Whitaker of Sporting Handbooks Ltd. A handwritten note by Rosenwater stating that Neville Cardus was unable to attend, the to View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #70 ‘Genealogy of Lillywhite Family compiled by F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. A small collection of letters, notes and facsimiles relating to the history of the Lillywhite family, all contained within an envelope annotated to the front by Irving Rosenwater. Included is a single page handwritten letter in ink from James Lillywhite Jun. dated 6th December 1916. Writing from Westerton, Chichester in Sussex, he refers to various family members, ‘Capt. Robt. John Lillywhite was killed in Yorkshire on the 26th Nov View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...5678910...50|Next1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Previous 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Next Previous 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Next
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