Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia - Live Three Day Auction (#21) 31/10/2025 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 31/10/2025 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 101-200 of 1387. Previous|12345678...14|Next Lot #101 England v India, The Oval 1946. Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington Station four page menu card, dated 17th August 1946. Signed to front cover by four of the England players who played in the 3rd Test played at the Oval 17th- 20th August 1946. The four signatures are Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook, John Ikin in ink and James Langridge in pencil. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #102 Cricket Lovers’ Dinner Club 1948. Two official menus, one for the inaugural dinner held at the Hotel Metropole, Leeds, 5th May 1948, and the other for the second dinner, held at the Guildford Hotel, Leeds, 26th July 1948. Both menus signed by attendees. Signatures include Herbert Sutcliffe, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Godfrey Evans, A.E.R. Gilligan, Walter Hammond, Jim Laker, Neville Cardus etc. Some ageing and wear, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£50StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #103 India tour to England 1952. Official single sided menu for The Star Hotel, Worcester. Very nicely signed in black ink to the verso by thirteen members of the Indian touring party. Signatures include Hazare (Captain), Roy, Chowdhury, Sen, Manjrekar, Sarwate, Ramchand, Ghulam Ahmed, Divecha, Shinde, D.K. Gaekwad etc. The menu is undated, but the signature of Ghulam Ahmed is dated 6th May 1952, corresponding with the tour match played at Worcester 3rd- 6th May 1952. Very good condition. View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #104 M.C.C. tour to India, Pakistan & Ceylon 1951/52. Two original P&O folding menus. One, for a ‘Gala Night Dinner’ dated 18th March 1952 on board the ‘S.S. Chusan’ with floral colour illustration to the front of shamrocks, is signed to the inside ‘Autographs’ page in green and black inks by sixteen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are N. Howard (Captain), Carr, Brennan, Statham, Tattersall, Robertson, Lowson, Kenyon, Leadbeater, Ridgway, Graveney, Poole, Hilton, Watkins, Spooner and View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #105 West Indies tour to England 1973. Official folding menu for the Dinner given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society to the West Indies touring party, held at Sheffield 30th August 1973. Printed title to front, Menu and Toasts to inside. The rear cover is nicely signed in ink by fifteen attendees. Players’ signatures include Ishant Ali, Foster, Gibbs, Holder, Lloyd, Willett, Headley, Fredericks, David Murray, Boyce, Deryck Murray, Shillingford, also Tony Cozier and one other. View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #106 West Indies tour to England 1976. Official folding menu for the Tribute Dinner given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society to the West Indies touring team, held at City Hall, Sheffield, 30th June 1976. Printed title to front, Menu and Toasts to inside. The front cover nicely signed in ink by seventeen attendees. Players’ signatures include Lloyd (Captain), Gomes, Kallicharran, Holding, Daniel, Murray, Greenidge, Fredericks, Julien, King, Jumadeen, Roberts etc. Good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #107 Donald George Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. ‘Simpson’s Fish Ordinary [meal at fixed time and price], 76 Cheapside, E.C.2’. Small original two sided card menu for the Ordinary served ‘At 1 o’clock every day except Saturday’. Menu to face and ‘Cheese Competition’ to verso. Beautifully signed by Bradman in ink to verso, probably in the 1930s. Odd marks otherwise in good+ condition. A rare early signature of Bradman. View details Estimates£50 - £80StatusUnsold Lot #108 Norman Gifford. Worcestershire, Warwickshire & England 1960-83. ‘Benefit Year’ 1974. Four page folding card produced to commemorate Gifford’s Benefit Year. The front cover features a photograph of Gifford celebrating having hit the winning six in the B&H Competition v Warwickshire in June 1973. Signed to the inside full pages by the Worcestershire Playing staff of 1974. Twenty two signatures in ink including Gifford, Turner, D’Oliveira, Ron Headley, Imran Khan, Ormrod, Parker, Holder, Inchmore, View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£35StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #109 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 - £40Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #110 ‘Cricket Hall of Fame Celebration Lunch’ 1991. Official folding menu for the lunch held at Lord’s 14th June 1991. The menu signed in ink by twenty three attendees including England Test cricketers Denis Compton, Peter May, Donald Carr, Tony Lock, Ted Dexter, Fred Rumsey, Bob Barber, Peter Richardson, Dennis Amiss, Bob Woolmer etc., also Farokh Engineer (India), Leslie Crowther, Jeffrey Archer etc. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #111 ‘The Macquarie Fast Bowlers Dinner’ 2011. Official menu/ programme brochure for the dinner given by the Lord’s Taverners, London 21st September 2011, with accompanying invitation card and table plan. The brochure fully signed to the player biographies by all twenty two featured players. Signatures are Curtley Ambrose, Andrew Caddick, Colin Croft, Alan Davidson, Joel Garner, Darren Gough, Charlie Griffith, Richard Hadlee, Wes Hall, Michael Holding, Kapil Dev, Glenn McGrath, Devon Malcolm, Makhaya View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #112 ‘The Macquarie Legendary Test Captains Dinner’ 2013. Official menu/ programme brochure for the dinner given by the Lord’s Taverners, London 24th September 2013, with accompanying invitation card and table plan. The brochure signed to the player biographies by ten of the featured captains. Signatures are Mike Brearley, Ian Chappell, Ted Dexter, Andy Flower, Mike Gatting, David Gower, Mahela Jayawardene, Clive Lloyd, Shaun Pollock and Andrew Strauss. Very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£30StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #113 ‘The Captains’ Dinner’ 2009. Official menu/ programme brochure for the dinner given by the Lord’s Taverners, London 7th October 2009, with accompanying invitation card, table plan and booking form. The brochure fully signed to the player biographies by all thirty of the featured captains. Signatures are Carr, Dexter, Smith, Close, Graveney, Illingworth, Lewis, Denness, Edrich, Greig, Brearley, Boycott, Botham, Fletcher, Willis, Gower, Gatting, Emburey, Chris Cowdrey, Gooch, Lamb, Stewart, Athert View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #114 Joe Hardstaff and Bill Voce. MC.C. tour of Australia 1936/37. Original Greetings telegram handwritten from Sydney Post Office and post stamped 26th December 1936. The message reads to ‘Hardstaff, 27 Fisher Street, Nuncargate, Notts. Best Love Mum and Dad’ and signed ‘Joe and Bill’. Folds, good condition View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£25StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #115 West Indies tour of England 1939. Official folding card itinerary for the tour beautifully and fully signed in ink to the front colour cover by all seventeen members of the touring party. Signatures are Grant (Captain), Cameron, Gomez, J.B. Stollmeyer, Williams, Bayley, Sealey, Clarke, V.H. Stollmeyer, Johnson, Martindale, Barrow, Constantine, Hylton, Weekes, Headley and Kidney (Manager). The itinerary with title to centre and West Indian emblem above and decoration to lower corner. Fixtures to View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #116 M.C.C. tour of India & Ceylon 1933/34. Official players tour itinerary booklet for the ‘M.C.C. Tour in India and Ceylon 1933-1934’. Title and diagonal bands in M.C.C. colours to front cover, with team details, fixtures & travelling schedule, postal information etc. to inside pages. Nicely and fully signed in ink to the front cover by all seventeen members of the touring party. Signatures are Jardine (Captain), Elliott, Clark, Human, Langridge, Nichols, Marriott, Verity, Townsend, Barnett, Mitche View details Estimates£180 - £250Winning Bid£380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #117 Edward Henry ‘Ted’ Bowley. Sussex & England 1912-1934. M.C.C. Tour of Ceylon and Australia 1929/30. Official M.C.C. folding printed Christmas card for the tour with M.C.C. Greofrge and the dragon emblem to front cover, greeting and mono image of the team on the ship to inner pages. Nicely signed in black ink to the card ‘E.H. Bowley. Good/very good condition View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #118 M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1930/31. Official M.C.C. single sided ‘Greetings, 1930-31’ Christmas card with illustration of a cherub to the centre, printed poem below, emblems and flags above and below, surrounded by borders in red and gold. The card signed in black ink by nineteen members of the England and South African teams. Signatures are Chapman (Captain), White, Wyatt, Goddard, Leyland, Duckworth, Tate, Hammond, Hendren (England), Cameron, Taylor, Nupen, McMillan, Bell, Balaskas, Dalton, V View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #119 Bodyline. Harold Larwood. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1932/33. Official M.C.C. four page Christmas card with card wrappers. Title to front ‘Christmas Greetings from the M.C.C. in Australia’, attractive colour St. George and dragon emblem, and caricatures of the Touring party standing on an outline map of Australia. Signed in ink to the inside from ‘Harold [Larwood], to ‘Rachael & George’. Some foxing and minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£400 - £600Winning Bid£400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #120 Commonwealth tour to India & Ceylon 1950/51. Official Christmas card with team colours in stripes to front, printed team photograph to inside. Signed in ink by two members of the touring party, George Tribe and Bruce Dooland. Light creasing, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£30 - £50Winning Bid£28StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #121 Edwin Boaler Alletson. Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1906-1914. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) on which Alletson has made the following statement ‘For Notts at Brighton 1911 I scored 189 runs in 90 minutes of which the last 142 were scored in 40 minutes. 56 Runs were scored in two consecutive overs. 34 in one and 22 in the next. For the last wicket Riley and myself put on 152. I scored 142 and Riley made 10. I made the last 89 in 15 minutes. I was working for his Grace the Duke of Port View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #122 John Richmond Gunn. Nottinghamshire, London County & England 1896-1925. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) very nicely signed to the top of the page in ink by Gunn, giving his year and birth, day and month, he has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. These include ‘Notts County 1896 to 1926, Toured Australia 1901/02, Gents v Players matches 13, at Lord’s + Oval, All round first class cricket, Wickets 1,150 for Notts County, Runs, 28, thousand, Hat Trick first over at View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #123 John William Hitch. Surrey & England 1907-1925. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) very nicely signed to the top of the page in ink by Hitch, giving his year of birth ‘1886’, he has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. These include ‘Surrey County, 20 years, 1465 wickets, Vistied Australia 1911/12 and 20/21, Triangular Tournament, Manchester and Oval ... Centenary match at Lords 1914, First class Umpire, Test at Leeds, Lancashire League with Todmorden 1927.... Winner View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£85StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #124 Frank Rowbotham Foster. Warwickshire & England 1908-1914. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) very nicely signed to the top of the page in ink by Foster, giving the date I presume he wrote the piece ‘25th January 1951’ he has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. These include ‘Warwickshire C.C. 1908-1914, Captain 1911-1914, Captain M.C.C. in Tasmania 1911-12.... Third Test match, at Adelaide, Tiger Smith and self got Clem Hill, Captain of Australia, stumped first ball View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #125 Frederick Lloyd Bowley. Worcestershire 1899-1923. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with excellent head and shoulders pencil portrait of Bowley wearing Worcestershire cap, very nicely signed to the side ‘Yours faithfully Fred. L. Bowley’ he has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. These include ‘29 Seasons with Worcestershire County C.C., 19 in first class cricket, Record in First Class, 732 innings, highest score 276, total runs 26,000, average 31.80, Gents v Playe View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #126 West Indies tour of England 1939. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with excellent pen and ink caricatures portraits of Ken Weekes, Tyrell Johnson and George Headley running down the pages, two in batting pose and one in bowling pose, very nicely signed below each portrait by the players featured. Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #127 Arthur Alfred Mailey. New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with excellent head and shoulders self portrait of Mailey by Mailey, nicely signed in ink and dated 14th August 1948, being the first day of the Oval Test match, England v Australia. The sheet also signed below by Alan Fairfax of Australia. A excellent image, the page with gilt to page edges View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #128 Australian tour of England 1948. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with excellent pen and ink caricatures head and shoulders portraits of Arthur Morris, Don Tallon and Ray Lindwall running down the pages, very nicely signed below each portrait by the players featured. Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #129 William Albert Stanley Oldfield, New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with pencil and ink head and shoulders portrait of Bert Oldfield in Australian cap and blazer, very nicely signed below the portrait by Oldfield and dated 9th September 1896 (his birthday). Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #130 William Henry Patterson. Oxford University & Kent 1880-1900. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with ink and pencil portrait of Patterson seated holding a cricket bat, very nicely signed below the portrait by Patterson and dated 7th February 1938 (possibly the date he signed it). Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #131 Thomas Walter ‘Tom’ Hayward. Surrey & England 1893-1914. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with ink and pencil portrait of Hayward stood holding a cricket bat, very nicely signed below the portrait by Hayward with additional wording ‘Late Surrey & England XI’. Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #132 Frederick Robert Spofforth. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1874-1888. Excellent three page handwritten folding letter dated 29th September 1904 from Spofforth to F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Writing from an address in London, Spofforth is replying to an enquiry about a match in which he played. ‘As far as I remember it was played in Dec 1881 on a sheep [farm] and I don’t think it was ever published in any paper except the bare fact that I had taken all the wickets. I may say that with the exceptio View details Estimates£800 - £1,200Winning Bid£750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #133 William Lloyd ‘Billy’ Murdoch. New South Wales, Sussex, London County, Australia & England 1875-1904. Original and interesting two page ‘begging letter’ handwritten in black ink from Murdoch to ‘Dear Old Dick’, dated 3rd September 1909. Writing from Bayswater in London, Murdoch is asking for ‘a very great favour and lend me £25’. He has his wife are about to set off to Australia and ‘The large amount we have had to pay for our return tickets has left us very short indeed’, explaining that ‘Our T View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #134 Henry ‘Harry’ Moses. New South Wales & Australia 1881-1895. Short single page handwritten undated letter in ink from Moses replying to a request for signed photographs of himself, ‘which I am returning by this mail’. He continues ‘I scarcely knew it as it must have been taken fifty years ago, when I was playing cricket. I was known as Harry’. Nicely signed ‘Henry Moses’. The page trimmed and laid down. Very good condition. A rare letter from Moses. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #135 Hugh Trumble. Victoria & Australia 1887-1904. Single page handwritten letter in the form of a testimonial/ reference, neatly written in ink by Trumble in Melbourne, dated 5th February 1892. Trumble writes ‘Mr. White has been known to me for the last two years as a ground bowler in the services of the Melbourne Cricket Club. I have always found him most energetic and trustworthy and can recommend him as a first class bowler to anybody requiring his services. He has my best wishes’. Very nicely si View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #136 Clement ‘Clem’ Hill. South Australia & Australia 1892-1923. Two page handwritten folding letter in ink from Hill to ‘The Chairman, V.A.T.C. [Victoria Amateur Turf Club], Melbourne’. Dated 17th November 1937, Hill is applying for ‘the position of handicapper to your Club’ and quotes his previous experience stating ‘For 14 years I acted as a stipendiary steward in South Australia and for 9 years I have [been] handicapping for the S.A. [South Australia] Jockey Club & the Adelaide Racing Club, the t View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£170StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #137 Warren Bardsley. New South Wales & Australia 1903-1926. Single page handwritten letter from Bardsley on ruled paper, dated 2nd August 1953[?]. Writing from Sydney, Bardsley is replying to a request for his autograph, but states ‘I am wondering how you obtained my private address- perhaps through George Duckworth whose broadcasting of [the] Old Trafford Test was excellent and quite a treat to listen to after the others. I am afraid that cricket out here and in your country is at a very low standa View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£65StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #138 Charles George Macartney. New South Wales & Australia 1905-1926. Single page typewritten letter from Charles Macartney to a ‘P.T. Bailey’ of Leicester, replying to a request for his autograph, which he has done along with an autographed postcard of himself. The letter is sent from Chatswood, Sydney, dated 6th July 1948 and is very nicely signed in ink by Macartney. Horizontal and vertical folds, nick to lower edge, slight splitting to fold, otherwise in good/ very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #139 John ‘Jack’ Ryder. Victoria & Australia 1912-1932. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Ryder, written on The Grand Hotel, Birmingham headed note paper. Dated ‘Aug 6th [1926], the letter was written during the course of the tour match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston. Addressed to a ‘Mrs Jackson’, Ryder states he is ‘sorry to say I will not be able to pay you a visit as we don’t play in Manchester again’ and encloses an ‘autograph of the team which gives me much pleasure’. Nicely signed ‘ View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #140 Arthur Mailey, New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Mailey written on Hotel Metropole, Swansea headed note paper. Dated ‘Aug 3 1930’, the letter was written during the course of the tour match against Glamorgan, prior to the forthcoming 5th Test. Addressed to a ‘Mr. Wolfe’ (possibly E.G. Wolfe, brother in law of Sir Julien Cahn), Mailey says ‘I have forwarded your letter [requesting Test match tickets] to Mr Kelly [Australian tour manager] who has pro View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£42StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #141 Percival Mitchell ‘Percy’ Hornibrook. Queensland & Australia 1919-1934. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Mailey written on his ‘P.M. Hornibrook Dental Surgeon’ headed notepaper in Brisbane. Dated 20th July 1955, Hornibrook is enclosing two signed cards as requested, apologising for the ‘poor signature, the old hand is not as steady as years ago’. He is also sorry to ‘hear of Alan Fairfax having passed on as he was quite young’ (Fairfax died in 1955 aged 48). Nicely signed ‘P.M. Hornibr View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #142 William Albert Stanley ‘Bert’ Oldfield. New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Interesting two page typed letter from Oldfield on his ‘W.A. Oldfield’ sports outlet business letterhead in Sydney, dated 17th November 1927. Addressed to ‘J. Rowan’ of Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Oldfield writes ‘concerning my Australian Eleven Cricket Blazer, which I loaned to you when I was in England... in order that you might copy it for our future visits and I think I also sent you with the blazer a pair of trouse View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #143 Benjamin Arthur ‘Ben’ Barnett. Victoria & Australia 1929-1947. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 26th November 1969 from Barnett to Ron Yeomans, collector and Secretary of the Northern Cricket Society. Writing from his home in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, Barnett confirms his travel arrangements for attending an impending Society meeting. Nicely signed by Barnett. Light fold, otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£50 - £70StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #144 Donald George ‘Don’ Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. Single page handwritten letter from Bradman on his ‘Don Bradman & Co. Stock, Share and Investment Brokers’ official business letterhead. Dated 15th July 1949 and addressed to ‘Mr Ross’, Bradman expresses his ‘grateful thanks’ for congratulations on receiving his knighthood. Very nicely signed ‘Don Bradman’. Light folds otherwise in very good condition. View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #145 Ronald Arthur ‘Ron’ Hamence. South Australia & Australia 1935-1951. Single page handwritten letter on ruled paper from Hamence. Writing from Croydon, South Australia and dated 22nd December 1936, Hamence is writing to a newspaper he had recently visited with Frank Ward (South Australia & Australia 1935-1941) to order ‘some snaps of myself’, asking for ‘six copies of each- one practising at the nets, and the other is a group of six arriving at the station’. Light folds, minor wear, otherwise in g View details Estimates£50 - £80Winning Bid£90StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #146 Keith Ross Miller. Victoria, New South Wales, Nottinghamshire & Australia 1937-1959. Single page aerogramme letter from Miller in Australia, dated 10th October 1977, to ‘Dear Peter’ in Northern Ireland. Miller is replying to an enquiry about his ‘best moments in cricket’, saying he ‘enjoyed it all whether making a century or a “duck” or taking umpteen wickets or 0/100. I just liked playing cricket’. He remembers playing a match in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, during WWII when he was a pilot in the View details Estimates£50 - £70Winning Bid£48StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #147 Australia. Greg Chappell and Bob Simpson. Single page handwritten letter from Greg Chappell dated 11th September 1969. Written during the final County Championship match of the season, Chappell was playing for Somerset against Kent at Dover and is pleased with their performances, having ‘played far better than our position on the county table would suggest’. Nicely signed by Chappell. Also a single page typed letter from Bob Simpson dated 6th September 1978, who states that his ‘most gratifying’ View details Estimates£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #148 William Henry Cooper. Victoria & Australia 1878-1885. Very rare single page handwritten letter from Cooper, written on ruled paper, dated ‘Sept 15th [1936]’. Cooper is writing to ‘Mr. Hill’, being Les R. Hill, the cricket writer and collector base in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Cooper writes, ‘At 87 I am granted wonderfully good health’ and while he ‘cannot do anything in the way of cricket except looking at cricket’ he looks forward ‘to see something good in a short time’, presumably referr View details Estimates£600 - £800StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #149 John Barton King. Philadelphia. U.S.A. 1893-1912. Handwritten single page letter in ink from Barton King to ‘Dear Monty’, thanking him for his ‘kind wishes’ and reporting that his ‘hip is coming along very finely’. Nicely signed ‘J. Barton King’. Light horizontal folds, otherwise in very good condition. Rare. View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£70StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #150 Albert Ward. Yorkshire, Lancashire & England 1886-1904. Two page letter handwritten in ink from Ward, dated May 1893. Ward is replying to a request for a cricket bat from Charles Pratt Green. ‘I cannot oblige you with a bat this time. The one I have played with nearly all season and which has made me over 1000 runs in first class cricket this year for the first time in my career. I should like to keep in remembrance of it’. Very nicely signed ‘Albert Ward’. One side of the folding letter is laid View details Estimates£120 - £150StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #151 Richard Gorton ‘Dick’ Barlow’. Lancashire, Derbyshire & England 1871-1891. Two page handwritten folding letter in ink from Barlow to F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Dated 4th November 1912, on his personal letterhead in Blackpool, Barlow is replying to an enquiry about ‘a feat which you name’, of which he says he has ‘no recollection... and must say it is news to me’. He continues to say he always looks forward to cricket and is keeping well. Very nicely signed ‘R.G. Barlow’. Very good condition. A rare and View details Estimates£250 - £350StatusUnsold Lot #152 John Shuter. Kent, Surrey and England 1874-1909. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Shuter to the writer and administrator, Charles W. Alcock, dated ‘Dec. 4’, year unknown. Shuter writes to confirm his attendance ‘at No. 57 tomorrow Wednesday morning... to have a chat with you’ and is returning a ‘Burbridge Newham letter’. Nicely signed ‘John Shuter’. Horizontal folds and pin holes not affecting the signatures, otherwise in good condition. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #153 William ‘Billy’ Barnes. Nottinghamshire & England 1875-1894. Five-line poem handwritten in ink on neatly trimmed page and beautifully signed below ‘Wm Barnes’. The poem reads ‘Let prudence direct you/ Temperance chasten you/ Fortitude support you/ and justice be the guide/ Of all your actions’. The page measures 5.75”x4”. Very good condition. A fine example of this notorious cricketer’s signature. View details Estimates£200 - £300Winning Bid£550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #154 Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottinghamshire & England 1875-1902. Single page memorandum handwritten in ink by Shrewsbury on the beautifully ornate official letterhead of Shaw & Shrewsbury’s Nottingham sports equipment business. Dated 27th March 1889, Shrewsbury is writing to a lady in Bedford stating ‘It is with the greatest & most sincere pleasure that I wish all my success to the Bazaar in aid of your Cricket Club’. Very nicely signed ‘Arthur Shrewsbury’. Horizontal and vertical folds with slight split View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #155 Alfred Lyttleton. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1876-1887. Single page letter handwritten in ink by Lyttelton to ‘Dear Bruce’, dated 28th January 1890 from his office in London. Replying to a request, presumably to attend a function, Lyttelton writes ‘I am afraid cricket is on the 5th [which] makes it too uncertain for me to give any promise’. (Please to not placard me over Cambridge as you did last time when I had declined)’. Signed ‘A. Lyttelton’. Slight smudging to the signature, View details Estimates£120 - £160StatusUnsold Lot #156 Allan Gibson Steel. Lancashire, Cambridge University & England 1877-1893. Two page handwritten folded letter in ink dated London, 4th July 1906. Writing ‘To the Editor of Punch [Magazine]’ Steel states ‘May I as an old cricketer, who in days gone by, have played for Gents & Players & also for England, congratulate you on the excellently humorous lines in this week’s Punch entitled ‘Lines on Tomkins’ average’. I do not think I ever remember any satire so exquisitely comic, & withall so true. It h View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #157 William ‘Billy’ Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. Single page folded letter handwritten in ink by Gunn on his official business letterhead for ‘The County Cricket, Football, Lawn Tennis and British Sports Warehouse’ in Nottingham. Dated 18th April 1903, Gunn is writing to the collector, Charles Pratt Green, ‘I am sending you Monday a parcel containing the various shapes of bats during process of manufacturing’. Very nicely signed ‘W. Gunn’. Light horizontal folds, very good condition. View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #158 John Auger Dixon. Nottinghamshire 1882-1905. Two page letter handwritten in ink by Dixon in Nottingham to David Denton (Yorkshire & England 1894-1920) with good cricket content. Dated 2nd August 1900, Dixon has bought a bat of Denton’s and he writes ‘My first innings with your bat 177 not out has so pleased me that I cannot do less than send you another guinea. I shall still feel that I have got a good bargain. It is true I was caught at the wicket and given in [not out] and also missed 4 times View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #159 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Handwritten single page letter from Hobbs on his ‘Jack Hobbs Ltd.’ official business letterhead in Fleet Street, London, dated 15th April 1931. Writing to a ‘Mr. Marshall’ Hobbs has ‘selected the bat you ordered of me in Dublin last week and we send it herewith’, hoping he will be pleased with it and that it brings ‘the best of luck & many big scores’. He closes by saying how much he enjoyed his recent visit to Dublin. Nicely signed ‘J.B. Hobb View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£45StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #160 George Ernest Tyldesley. Lancashire & England 1909-1936. Two page folded letter handwritten in ink from Ernest Tyldesley to a Mr. Hunter. Dated 3rd November 1930, Tyldesley is writing to thank the correspondent ‘for your kind letter of sympathy received’ following the death of his brother, J.T. ‘Johnny’ Tyldesley (Lancashire & England 1895-1923). ‘The sudden death of my brother was a great shock, especially as he had recently been on the better side’. Very nicely signed, ‘Ernest Tyldesely’. Ligh View details Estimates£80 - £120StatusUnsold Lot #161 Elias Henry ‘Patsy’ Hendren. Middlesex & England 1907-1937. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Hendren, dated 18th February 1926 on the official letterhead of the ‘West London Indoor Cricket & Sports Club’ where Hendren was Manager. Hendren is replying to an invitation from ‘Mr. [John] Webber’, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods, to attend a week of promotional employment. ‘I am writing to confirm your offer to me at Harrods for one week... Hoping I shall be able to do some good View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #162 Charles Frederick ‘Fred’ Root. Derbyshire, Worcestershire & England 1910-1932. Two handwritten letters in ink from Root in Tipton, Staffordshire to Mr. John Webber, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods. In the first, a single page letter on ruled paper dated 14th March 1927, Root acknowledges receipt of an invitation to attend Harrods for promotional employment, but states he has to ‘get the permission of the Worcestershire County Cricket Club’. In the follow-up two page letter dated 23rd View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£155StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #163 Herbert ‘Bert’ Strudwick. Surrey & England 1902-1927. Single page handwritten folding letter in ink from Strudwick in London to John Webber, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods, dated 22nd March 1927. Strudwick is replying to an invitation of employment for promotional work at Harrods, ‘I called at the Oval this morning to obtain leave, but found Mr. R.N.C. Palairet [Secretary, Surrey C.C.C.] away until Monday next... I will write to you as soon as I hear from him’. Very nicely signed ‘H View details Estimates£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #164 Harold Larwood. Nottinghamshire, Europeans & England 1924-1938. Single page handwritten letter in ink on ruled paper from Larwood to John Webber, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods. The letter is undated but probably 1927. Larwood is replying to an invitation of employment for promotional work at Harrods saying ‘I have today received a reply from the Committee of the “Notts CCC” and they are willing to release [me] on the dates arranged’ and closes by enquiring ‘shall I require my crick View details Estimates£100 - £150StatusUnsold Lot #165 Douglas Robert Jardine. Oxford University, Surrey & England 1920-1934. Two page handwritten letter from Jardine to Ron Yeomans, collector and Secretary of the Northern Cricket Society. Written on ‘The Scottish Australian Company’ official letterhead and dated 26th March 1956, Jardine is writing to accept an invitation to attend a function in Leeds on 11th July and ‘propose the toast of the Australians’. He goes on to point out that ‘No doubt you know that the Australians are pretty strict about View details Estimates£120 - £160Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #166 Arthur Percy Frank Chapman. Cambridge University, Kent & England 1920-1938. Single page typed letter from Chapman, hand addressed in ink to a ‘Mr Hornsby’. Chapman had been dropped as captain (and player) for the last Test of the 1930 Ashes series against Australia. This letter is dated 23rd September 1930, one month after the series had finished. Chapman writes to say ‘I was, naturally, exceedingly disappointed to start with, but now it’s all over I think really I was lucky to be out of it!’. V View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #167 Alfred Shaw. Nottinghamshire, Sussex & England 1864-1897. Rare and early single page handwritten letter from Shaw to J.M. Cotterill (Sussex 1870-1888), dated 17th January 1879. Shaw is inviting Cotterill to play in his benefit match, ‘Will you favor me by consenting to have your name added to the list of players in the North v South match to be played at Lord’s on June 2nd, 3rd & 4th (Whit Monday etc) for my benefit’. Very nicely signed ‘Alfred Shaw’. The letter is laid down with, to the verso, View details Estimates£250 - £350Winning Bid£280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #168 Edward Ralph ‘Ted’ Dexter. Cambridge University, Sussex & England 1956-1968. Eight pages of notes written by Dexter for an article for the Sunday Mirror, 25th July 1976, reporting on the 4th Test, England v West Indies, at Headingley 22nd- 27th July 1976. Reporting on the third day’s play Dexter describes ‘a crazily unpredictable morning’s play. At the start Tony Greig was eleven short of his hundred, thirteen were needed to save the follow-on and there was the imminent threat of a new ball for View details Estimates£70 - £100StatusUnsold Lot #169 Hampshire cricket 1940s-1990s. Two binders comprising a good selection of ephemera relating to Hampshire. Included is an official scorecard for Hampshire’s final home match of the 1961 season v Derbyshire at Bournemouth, which Hampshire won by 140 runs to seal their first ever County Championship title, signed to the back by Mike Barnard, Jimmy Gray, Leo Harrison, Peter Sainsbury and David ‘Butch’ White. First day cover for the 1973 ‘Champion County’ match v M.C.C. at Lord’s. Signed typed letter View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #170 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) very nicely signed to the top of the page in ink by Barnes, he has then proceeded to write his date of birthday ‘19th April 1873’ to the left and then handwritten his career highlights below. These include ‘M.C.C. tours to Australia in 1901/02, 1907/08 and 1912/13 (should be 19111/12), South Africa in 1913/14 and home series against Australia in 1902, 1909 an View details Estimates£70 - £100Winning Bid£380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #171 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1907-08. Hallmarked 15 carat gold medal presented to Barnes following his performance for England against Australia in the second Test match played at Melbourne on the 1st to the 7th January 1908. The medal inscribed to face ‘Presented to Mr F.S. Barnes by Mr G.H. Wannenmacher, Melbourne’ and the verso ‘For his fine performance in the 2nd Test Match, Jan. 08’, with hallmarks below View details Estimates£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #172 Arthur Owen Jones. Nottinghamshire & England 1892-1914. Excellent studio portrait of Jones, the M.C.C. Captain, taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Jones is pictured wearing pin stripe suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Jones to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, some surface damage to the top right hand corner, rough irregular edge to the photograph othe View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #173 Frederick Luther Fane. Essex, London County & England 1895-1922. Excellent studio portrait of Fane taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Fane is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Fane to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, rough irregular edge to the photograph, slight silvering to image otherwise in good condition. A rare studio portrait o View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #174 Arthur Fielder. Kent & England 1900-1914. Excellent studio portrait of Fielder taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Fielder is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Fielder ‘yours sincerely’ to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, rough irregular edge to the photograph otherwise in good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the t View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #175 George Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1902-1932. Excellent studio portrait of Gunn taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Gunn is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Gunn ‘yours faithfully’ to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, some surface damage to the outer borders of the photograph, rough irregular edge to the photograph otherwise in goo View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #176 John Neville ‘Jack’ Crawford. Surrey, South Australia, Otago, Wellington & England 1904-1921. Excellent studio portrait of Crawford taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Crawford is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Crawford ‘yours sincerely’ to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, slight silvering to image, rough irregular edge to the photo View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #177 Colin Blythe. Kent & England 1899-1914. Excellent studio portrait of Blythe taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Blythe is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Blythe ‘yours truly’ to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, rough irregular edge to the photograph otherwise in good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour. For View details Estimates£140 - £180Winning Bid£200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #178 Ernest George Hayes. Surrey, Leicestershire & England 1896-1926. Excellent studio portrait of Hayes taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Hayes is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Hayes ‘yours sincerely’ to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, some surface damage to the outer borders of the photograph, rough irregular edge to the photograph View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #179 Joseph Hardstaff (Senior). Nottinghamshire & England, 1902-1924. Excellent studio portrait of Hardstaff taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Hardstaff is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Hardstaff ‘yours sincerely’ to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, silvering to the image and slight fading to the signature, rough irregular edge to the View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #180 Kenneth Lotherington Hutchings. Kent & England 1902-1912. Excellent studio portrait of Hutchings taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Hutchings is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Hutchings ‘yours sincerely’ to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, some dulling to the image and slight fading to the signature, surface damage to the outer bor View details Estimates£60 - £90Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #181 Joseph Humphries. Derbyshire & England 1899-1914. Excellent studio portrait of Humphries taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Humphries is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Humphries ‘yours sincerely’ to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, rough irregular edge to the photograph otherwise in good condition. A rare studio portrait of the pla View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #182 Richard Alfred Young. Sussex & England 1905-1925. Excellent studio portrait of Young taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Young is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Young ‘yours ever’ to the image. The photograph measures 5”x7.5”. The photograph appears to have been laid down in the past, so card and adhesive marks to verso, rough irregular edge to the photograph otherwise in good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour View details Estimates£100 - £150Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #183 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1911-12. Pair of oval hallmarked 15 carat gold cuff links, presumably, presented to Barnes following his performances for England against Australia in the second and third Test matches played at Melbourne and Adelaide on the 30th December 1911 and 1st - 3rd January 1912. One of the cuff links has the wording ‘Melbourne’ and ‘8 Wkts [wickets]’ to front and verso and the other has th View details Estimates£700 - £1,000Winning Bid£1,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #184 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. Exquisite studio portrait of Barnes taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Barnes is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Barnes below the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Minor marks, crease to lower right hand corner otherwise in g View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #185 Frank Rowbotham Foster. Warwickshire & England 1908-1914. Exquisite studio portrait of Foster taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Foster is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Foster below the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Small loss to the lower border of the mount and very minor loss to left hand corner otherwise View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #186 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. Exquisite studio portrait of a youthful Hobbs taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Hobbs is pictured wearing suit and a spotted tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Hobbs to the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Very minor wear with small loss to the top right hand corner of the mount otherwise View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #187 Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire & England 1898-1930. Exquisite studio portrait of Rhodes taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Rhodes is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Rhodes to the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Very minor marks to the mount otherwise in good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the to View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£130StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #188 Charles Philip Mead. Hampshire & England 1905-1936. Exquisite studio portrait of Mead taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Mead is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Mead to the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour. Formerly from the cricket collection of S View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #189 John William Hitch. Surrey & England 1907-1925. Exquisite studio portrait of Hitch taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Hitch is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Hitch to the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Minor wear to top left hand corner of the mount otherwise in good condition. A rare studio portrait of the pla View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #190 John William Hearne. Middlesex & England 1909-1936. Exquisite studio portrait of Hearne taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Hitch is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Hearne to the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Minor wear to top left hand corner of the mount otherwise in good condition. A rare studio portrait of t View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #191 Joseph ‘Joe’ Vine. Sussex & England 1896-1922. Exquisite studio portrait of Vine taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Vine is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Vine to the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour. Formerly from the cricket collection of Sydney View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£110StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #192 Herbert Strudwick. Surrey & England 1902-1927. Exquisite studio portrait of Strudwick taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Strudwick is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Strudwick to the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour. Formerly from the cricket colle View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #193 Ernest James ‘Tiger’ Smith. Warwickshire & England 1904-1930. Exquisite studio portrait of Smith taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Smith is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Smith to the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour. Formerly from the cricket co View details Estimates£130 - £160Winning Bid£220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #194 Tom Edward Pawley. Kent 1880-1887. Exquisite studio portrait of Pawley, the tour manager, taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Pawley is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Pawley below the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour. Formerly from the cricket coll View details Estimates£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #195 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. Gold and enamel medal presented to Barnes for his outstanding performance for Saltaire in the 1915 season. The medal was presented by ‘Yorkshire Sports’. To one side Bradford’s coat of arms with inscription to outer border ‘Presented by ‘Yorkshire Sports’ and to verso details of his achievements in the season ‘S.F. Barnes, Saltaire. Bradford League Bowing Prize. 108 overs, 40 maidens, 407 runs, 92 wickets. View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #196 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. Ornate hallmarked nine carat gold medal presented to Barnes for his outstanding performance for Saltaire in the 1917 season. The medal was presented by the ‘Bradford Cricket League’. To one side Bradford’s coat of arms with inscription to outer border ‘Bradford Cricket league’ and to verso ‘S.F. Barnes, Saltaire 1917. The medal made by Fattorini of Birmingham and fully hallmarked for Birmingham 1917. The m View details Estimates£300 - £400Winning Bid£600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #197 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. ‘80th Birthday’ 1953. Handwritten one page letter from Barnes to ‘The Editor of the Birmingham Post’ on the occasion of his 80th Birthday. The letter, dated on his 80th birthday, 19th April 1953, handwritten in ink in Barnes’ beautifully distinctive copperplate handwriting, gives his views on the future of cricket. The letter reads ‘Penkridge, Staffs. 19th April 1953. The Editor, The Birmingham Post. Sir, View details Estimates£150 - £250Winning Bid£400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #198 Australian tour of England 1899. Large album page very nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the Australian touring party to England. Signatures are Joe Darling (Cpt), Iredale, Victor Trumper, Gregory, E. Jones, Howell, McLeod, Laver, Kelly, Johns, Worrall, Trumble and Noble, only lacking Clem Hill from the full touring party. The page measures 6.75”x9”. An excellent album page showing the signatures of these early Australians. Very good condition View details Estimates£600 - £900Winning Bid£1,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #199 Australian tour of England 1905. Large album page beautifully signed in black ink by all fifteen playing members of the Australia touring party. The signatures are Joe Darling (Captain), Hill, Trumper, Laver, Hopkins, Newland, Cotter, Armstrong, Howell, Duff, Gehrs, Noble, Kelly, McLeod and Gregory. Handwritten title to right hand border ‘Australian team 1905’. The page laid down to card. Very minor soiling otherwise in good/very good condition. A rare sheet of early Australian touring team sign View details Estimates£500 - £800Winning Bid£500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot #200 Australian tour of England 1909. Album page signed in pencil by twelve members of the Australia touring party. The signatures are Hartigan, Ransford, Trumper, Gregory, O’Connor, Whitty, Hopkins, Armstrong, Cotter, Bardsley, McAllister and Carter. Handwritten title to top border ‘Australians 1909’. The page laid down to card. Good condition. 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