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‘Australia in England 1953’. White card with printed title, signed in ink by thirteen members of the 1953 Australian touring party. Signatures are Davidson, Miller, McDonald, Archer, Hole, Lindwall, Langley, Benaud, Ring, Harvey, Morris, de Courcey and Hassett. Additionally signed by Peter Burge, Alan Turner and Ian Chappell. Sixteen signatures in total. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Australia in England 1961’. White card with printed title, signed in ink by thirteen members of the 1961 Australian touring party. Signatures are Lawry, Simpson, Davidson, McKenzie, Kline, Booth, McDonald, Benaud, Harvey, Misson, O’Neill, Jarman and Burge. Additionally signed by Neil Hawke, Keith Miller and Ian Chappell. Sixteen signatures in total. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1961. Album page signed in ink by twelve members of the 1961 Australian touring party. Signatures are Mackay, Simpson, Kline, Misson, Harvey, O’Neill, Lawry, Davidson, Grout, Quick, McKenzie and Booth. The page appears to be slightly trimmed, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Australia in England 1968’. White card with printed title, fully signed in ink by all seventeen members of the 1968 Australian touring party. Signatures are Lawry (Captain), Joslin, Connolly, McKenzie, Inverarity, Taber, Walters, Hawke, Cowper, Freeman, Chappell, Jarman, Mallett, Gleeson, Redpath, Renneberg and Sheahan, also Bob Simpson. Eighteen signatures in total. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Australia in England 1972’. White card with printed title, signed in ink by sixteen members of the 1972 Australian touring party. Signatures are I. Chappell (Captain), G. Chappell, Colley, Marsh, Lilley, Taber, Francis, Massie, Stackpole, Hammond, Watson, Gleeson, Sheahan, Mallett, Walters and Edwards, also signed by Neil Harvey. Seventeen signatures in total. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Australia in England 1975’. White card with printed title, fully signed in ink by all sixteen playing members of the 1975 Australian touring party. Signatures are I. Chappell (Captain), G. Chappell, Higgs, Robinson, Gilmour, Lilley, Marsh, Laird, Walker, Thomson, Turner, Hurst, McCosker, Mallett, Walters and Edwards. Slight creasing to corners otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Australia in England 1977’. White card with printed title, fully signed in ink by all eighteen members of the 1977 Australian touring party. Signatures are G. Chappell (Captain), Hughes, Marsh, Malone, Cosier, Pascoe, Walters, Bright, Dymock, Walker, Thomson, O’Keefe, Hookes, Davis, McCosker, Robinson, Sergeant and Maddocks (Manager). Also signed by Ian Chappell and Neil Harvey. Twenty signatures in total. Minor wear to lower edge affecting one signature, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Australia Test Captains 1940-1990’. Card with printed title and named signature boxes, fully signed by the eighteen listed Australia Test captains. Signatures are Brown, Bradman, Hassett, Morris, Johnson, Lindwall, Craig, Benaud, Harvey, Simpson, Booth, Lawry, Jarman, I. Chappell, G. Chappell, Yallop, Hughes and Border. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 16.5”x14.5”. Fading to some signatures, all legible, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia 1920s- 2000s. Six autograph cards/ pages including five, each with printed titles and named signature boxes. Four are titled ‘Australia Test Players’, each with twelve signatures, and one ‘Australia Centurions- One Day Internationals 1971-1992’ with eleven signatures. Sold with a further page with laid down title ‘Past & Present Test Cricketers- Aust’ on decorative background (17 signatures). Signatures, including odd duplication, include Pellew, Langley, Hole, Jarman, Turner, G. & T. Chappell, Wessels, Border, Wood,... View full lot details

Australia v India 1991. Official Queensland Cricket Association autograph sheet for the 1st Test played at Brisbane, 29th November- 3rd December 1991. Signed by twelve members of the Australian team and fourteen of India. Signatures include the captains, Border and Azharuddhin, Marsh, Boon, Hughes, Whitney, Waugh, Healy, Taylor, Tendulkar, Vengsarkar, Manjrekar, More, Ganguly, Kapil Dev etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Derek Randall. Nottinghamshire & England Testimonial Year 1993’. Official autograph sheet for the one day Testimonial match, England XI v Australia XI at Trent Bridge, 12th June 1993. Signed in ink by all eleven listed Australians and the ten listed England players. Signatures are Redpath, Edwards, T. & G. Chappell, Hookes, Walters, Gilmour, Rixon, Bright, Thomson, Massie (Australia), Woolmer, Brearley, Underwood, Randall, Amiss, Fletcher, Taylor, Old, Lever and Hendrick (England). Very good condition.... View full lot details

New Zealand v Australia 1946. Official Wellington Cricket Museum ‘1946 Reunion’ autograph sheet signed by fourteen players who attended the reunion in 1997. Signatures are Hadlee, Butterfield, Tindill, Wallace (New Zealand), Brown, Hamence, Johnson, Meuleman and Miller (Australia) and additional guests, Martin Donnelly, Bert Sutcliffe, Alan Davidson and Neil Harvey. Lacking the signature of Ernie Toshack. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Australian tour of England 1968. Surrey C.C.C. headed paper signed by twelve members of the Australian team. Signatures include Lawry, Taber, Hawke, McKenzie, Mallett, Freeman, Walters, Cowper etc. Minor marks otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1981. Official Australian Cricket Board autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all twenty listed members of the Australian touring party. Players’ signatures are Hughes (Captain), Marsh, Alderman, Beard, Border, Bright, Chappell, Dyson, Hogg, Kent, Lawson, Lillee, Rixon, Wellham, Wood and Yallop. Sold with an official Surrey C.C.C. autograph sheet for the 6th Test at The Oval, signed by ten members of the England team.... View full lot details

All India tour to England 1932. Album page very nicely signed in ink by eleven members of the 1932 India touring party. Signatures are Limbdi, Amar Singh, Navle, Ghulam Mohammad, Kapadia, Joginder Singh, Lall Singh, Jahangir Khan, Nissar (signed in pencil), Naoomal Jaoomal and Colah. The page laid down to larger album page. Very good condition.... View full lot details

All India tour to England 1936. Album page signed in ink by eleven members of the 1936 India touring party. Signatures are Wazir Ali, V.M. Merchant, C.K. Nayudu, C.S. Nayudu, Mushtaq Ali, S.N. Banerjee, L.P. Jai, C. Ramaswamy, D.D. Hindelkar, Jahangir Khan, and S.M. Hadi. Staining, age toning and file holes, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

India ‘Under 25’ tour to Zimbabwe 1984. Official autograph sheet with typed players’ names in red, fully signed in ink by the fifteen listed members of the touring party. Includes some who went on to represent India at Test level including Ravi Shastri (Captain), Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Lalchand Rajput, Mohammad Azharuddin, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Raju Kulkarni, Sadanand Viswanath, Manoj Prabhakar, Maninder Singh etc. The page torn neatly to lower edge and laid to larger white page,... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1982. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all eighteen of the listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Imran Khan (Captain), Zaheer Abbas, Majid Khan, Wasim Bari, Javed Miandad, Sarfraz Nawaz, Wasim Raja, Sikander Bakht, Iqbal Qasim, Haroon Rashid, Mudassar Nazar, Abdul Qadir, Mohsin Khan, Mansoor Akhtar, Tahir Naqqash, Saleem Malik, Saleem Yousuf, and Intikhab Alam (Manager). The sheet originally collected by... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1950. Two joined album pages fully signed in ink by the seventeen members of the West Indies touring party. Signatures are Goddard (Captain), Valentine, Christiani, Johnson, Jones, Gomez, Rae, Pierre, Ramadhin, Williams, Walcott, Marshall, Trestrail, Worrell, Weekes, Stollmeyer and Ferguson (baggage). Also signed in ink to verso by Leslie Todd (Kent) and Roly Jenkins (Worcestershire). Good condition.... View full lot details

West Indies tour of England 1950. ‘The Cavendish, Eastbourne’ headed paper nicely signed in different coloured inks by fourteen members of the West Indies touring party including the Manager J.M. Kidney. Players’ signatures, with names annotated in ink to side, are Goddard (Captain), Worrell, Valentine, Marshall, Ramadhin, Williams, Gomez, Walcott, Jones, Stollmeyer, Rae, Weekes and Pierre. The page laid down to album page with additional signatures to verso of Australian cricketers, Ken Grieves and Ben... View full lot details

New Zealand tour to England, India and Pakistan 1969. Official New Zealand Cricket Council autograph sheet signed by all seventeen members of the touring party. Signatures include Dowling (Captain), Pollard, Burgess, Collinge, Congdon, D. Hadlee, Howarth, Milburn, Motz, Turner, Yuile, Burgess (Manager) etc. A rarer sheet. Very good condition... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1929. Album page fully and nicely signed in ink and pencil by the seventeen original members of the touring party. Signatures are Dalton, Christy, Mitchell, Bell, Cameron, Owen-Smith, McMillan, Ochse, Catterall, Siedle, Quinn, Deane, Vincent, Morkel, van der Merwe, Taylor and the manager, Frielinghaus. Very good condition.... View full lot details

South Africa and county signatures 1946 & 1947. Four album pages, one signed in ink by eleven members of the 1946 Essex team. Signatures are Wade, Bailey, Price, Eve, R. Smith, Insole, Pearce, Cray, Vigar, P. Smith and Dodds. Another with nine signatures of the South African touring party 1947, Mitchell, Fullerton, Viljoen, Harris, Nourse, Dyer, Rowan and Smith. Two smaller pages, with eleven Kent signatures including Jones, Evans, Dixon, Sayer, Halfyard, Phebey, Brown, Prodger,... View full lot details

‘England Tour to Australia 1978-79’. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names. Fully signed in ink by all twenty listed members of the touring party. Sold with another unofficial sheet for the same tour with handwritten title, fully signed by all sixteen playing members, also Ken Barrington and Doug Insole (managers). Players’ signatures include Brearley, Willis, Botham, Boycott, Gooch, Gower, Hendrick, Lever, Old, Randall, Taylor etc. The sheets originally collected by Chris Tavare... View full lot details

England v India and Pakistan 1982. Two official autograph sheets, one for the 2nd Test v India at Old Trafford 24th- 28th June 1982, the other on Warwickshire C.C.C. letterhead for the 1st Test v Pakistan at Edgbaston, 29th July- 1st August 1982. Both sheets fully signed by the twelve listed members of the England team. Sold with a further sheet titled ‘England Team 1982’ fully signed in different coloured inks by twelve England players,... View full lot details

England home Test matches 1982-1989. Five official autograph sheets fully signed by the listed members of England Test teams. Matches are 2nd Test v Pakistan, Lord’s 1982 (incorrectly titled ‘1983’, 12 signatures), 3rd Test v New Zealand, Lord’s 1983 (11), 4th Test v New Zealand, Trent Bridge 1983 (12), v Sri Lanka (only test), Lord’s 1984 (12), and 3rd Test v Australia, Edgbaston 1989 (signed by the 11 who played). Players include Gower, Botham, Gatting,... View full lot details

Kent and Somerset county autograph sheets 1980-1993. Six official autograph sheets including two for Kent on official Club letterhead. One undated for 1980 signed by sixteen players, the other dated 1985 with printed players’ names, signed by twenty three. Also four Somerset sheets, two for 1992, both signed by twenty five players, the others for 1993, one signed by twenty two, the other by twenty. Kent signatures include Ealham, Tavare, Asif Iqbal, Benson, Woolmer, Kemp,... View full lot details

Gentlemen v Players, The Oval 1934. Three album pages nicely signed in ink by all twenty two players for the match played at The Oval, 11th- 13th July 1934, each loose mounted to black page. Gentlemen’s signatures are Case, Baring, Fairfax, Lord Tennyson, Moore, Morkel, Holmes, Garland-Wells, Baxter, Machin and Fender. Players’ signatures are Kennedy, Sandham, Arnold, Brooks, Squires, Wellard, Mercer, Gregory, Gover, Lee and Duckfield. Minor ink smudge to the signature of Gregory, otherwise... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1926. Small album page nicely signed in ink (one in pencil) by twelve members of the Surrey team. Signatures are Geary (signed twice), Jeacock, Shepherd, Peach, Fenley, Gregory, Ducat, Cook, Lock(?), Brooks, Baldwin, and Hobbs (signed in pencil). Good condition.... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1968. Large autograph sheet, with printed title and decorative border, signed by the team. Fourteen signatures in ink including Barrington, Stewart, Pocock, Roope, Arnold, Edrich, Mohammad Younis, Marriott etc. Horizontal fold, light creasing and file holes, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Test Cricket Captains’. Page with printed title, signed by twenty one Test captains. Signatures are Haynes, Gatting, Reid, Gooch, Fletcher, Howarth, Greenidge, Morris, Harvey, Jarman, Venkataraghavan, Mushtaq Mohammad, Hughes, Goddard, Lindwall, Emburey, Brown, Imran Khan, Rutherford, Azharuddin and Crowe. Small tear with tape repair and light creasing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Kent C.C.C. signatures c.1920. Large album page signed in pencil by five Kent players, Frank Woolley, Punter Humphreys, Bill Fairservice, Wally Hardinge and Tich Freeman, also the scarcer signature of Jack Crawford (Surrey, South Australia, England etc. 1904-1921) and one other. Some soiling and wear to the page edge, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Hampshire C.C.C. 1934. Album page very nicely signed in pencil by eleven members of the 1934 Hampshire team. Signatures are Boyes, Moore, Paris, Arnold, Kennedy, Mead, Pothecary, Hill, Creese, Herman and McCorkell. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1950s-2000s. Green file comprising signatures, fixture card, cuttings, collectors’ cards, scorecards, benefit brochure, programme etc. relating to Surrey and cricket at The Oval. Includes an album page signed by eleven of the team c.1951, and other signatures of May, A. Bedser, Loader, Laker, Lock, Insole, Waqar Younis, I. Grieg, Ward, Lynch, Bicknell, Brown, Batty etc. Official Surrey C.C.C. folding fixture card 1965. Five T.C.C.B. ‘International Cricketers’ cards of Thorpe, Stewart, Knight, Bicknell and... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1886-1887. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1887. Some light wear, age toning and odd mark otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare tenth issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1887-1888. Hardback ‘blue book’. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1888. Some light wear, age toning and odd mark otherwise in good/very good condition. Eleventh issue of the ‘blue book’... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1905 to 1908. Four editions of the hardback ‘blue book’, all printed by Cross & Jackman, Canterbury. Original decorative boards, gilt to page edges. Gilt titles and Kent emblem in gilt to centre. Light fading to the spines of all four editions to a greater or lesser degree, some discolouration to the boards of the 1905 edition, minor faults to the boards of the other three editions otherwise in good/very... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1909 to 1911 and 1913. Four editions of the hardback ‘blue book’, all printed by Cross & Jackman, Canterbury or The Kentish Gazette Office, Ashford. Original decorative boards, gilt to page edges. Gilt titles and Kent emblem in gilt to centre. Light fading to the spines of all four editions to a greater or lesser degree, minor faults to boards, some breaking to the internal hinges of the 1913 edition... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1910 to 1913 and 1915. Five editions of the hardback ‘blue book’, all printed by Cross & Jackman, Canterbury, The Kentish Gazette Office, Asford and Gibbs and Sons, Canterbury. Original decorative boards, gilt to page edges. Gilt titles and Kent emblem in gilt to centre. Light fading to the spines of all four editions to a greater or lesser degree, minor faults to boards, the 1915 edition with worn boards,... View full lot details

‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. ‘Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe’ edition bound in black half leather, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original black boards with gilt lettering, appears to have had new spine with original spine leather with gilt titles applied, tape repairs to internal hinges at front and rear, hand stamp of Kent C.C.C. to front end paper. Limited de luxe edition of 652 numbered copies, signed by the author Grace, this being... View full lot details

‘The Noble Game of Cricket. Illustrated and described from Pictures, Drawings and Prints in the Collection of Sir Jeremiah Colman at Gatton Park, Surrey. With an introduction by Clifford Bax’. Published for the collector by B.T. Batsford, London. 1941. 105 plates, some coloured and mounted. Original green buckram with gilt lettering and decoration, with top edge gilt with original dustwrapper, some tape repairs to underside edges of the dustwrapper. Published in an edition of... View full lot details

‘Imperial Cricket’. P.F. Warner. London 1912. Original faded red morocco, gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Limited subscribers edition of 900 copies, this being an un-numbered edition. Padwick 83. Some minor wear and slight bowing to boards otherwise in good condition. Sold with three oversize hardback titles, ‘British Sports and Sportsmen’. Compiled and edited by ‘The Sportsman’, London 1917. Volume 1. Cricket & Football. Leather bound limited edition no. 657/1000, gilt to page edges.... View full lot details

Britcher’s Scores 1790-1805’. A boxed set of the fifteen issues in facsimile, with a commentary by David Rayvern Allen. Christopher Saunders, Newnham on Severn 2003. Published in a limited edition of 212, each set signed by Sir Tim Rice, President of M.C.C., this copy being number 193. Before Britcher, scores were notched on sticks of wood. He was among the first to put them down on paper and between 1790 and 1803 he produced an... View full lot details

‘The Force. Bat Series’ postcards. Seven real photograph sepia postcards issued by Summers Brown, London c.1911, of players depicted head and shoulders wearing cricket attire and caps, printed titles and facsimile signatures to lower margins. Players are Bill Hitch, Jack Hobbs, Ernie Hayes, Herbert Strudwick of Surrey, J.W. Hearne of Middlesex (2 copies), and Phil Mead of Hampshire. Photos by C. Debenham, London. Sold with a mono postcard of the 1905 Surrey team from a... View full lot details

‘The Force. Bat Series’ postcards. Five real photograph sepia postcards issued by Summers Brown, London c.1911, of players depicted head and shoulders wearing cricket attire and caps, printed titles and facsimile signatures to lower margins. Players are Frank Tarrant, Patsy Hendren, J.W. Hearne of Middlesex, Jack Hobbs of Surrey, and Phil Mead of Hampshire. Photos by C. Debenham, London. All postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1909. Four original sepia real photograph postcards of members of the Australian touring party. Each player is depicted standing full length in batting attire at the wicket with player’s name and ‘The Australian Cricket Team 1909’ printed to lower margin. Players are W.W. Armstrong, V.T. Trumper, C.G. Macartney and M.A. Noble. Published by Davidson Bros. London 1909. Sold with two colour postcards of Australians, one of S.E. Gregory, the other W.... View full lot details

England Test cricketers c.1909. Seven original colour postcards of England players depicted full length in cricket attire. Includes four ‘National Series’ No. 773 of A. Lilley, G.[sic] Hobbs, G. Hirst and G.L. Jessop, and three Series No. 828 of A.C. Maclaren, Hayward, and C.B. Fry. All postally unused. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket postcards, photographs early 1900s. A selection of original postcards, photographs, printed supplements etc. Real photograph postcards include ‘Razor’ Smith in bowling pose by Woodland-Fullwood, D. Denton in batting pose, B.H. Spooner at the wicket, both Rival Photographic Series nos. 1378 & 1407, G. Gunn, head and shoulders wearing Nottinghamshire cap and blazer, publisher unknown. Also two real photograph postcards of unknown cricketers and ground, and nine Star Series mono postcards of Test and County... View full lot details

‘The West Indies Touring Team [to England] 1950’. Official mono printed photograph of the team with printed title players’ names and facsimile signatures to borders. Signed in ink to verso by twelve members of the touring party. Signatures are Weekes, Christiani, Trestrail, Marshall, Valentine, Williams, Goddard, Walcott, Jones, Gomez, Ramadhin and Pierre. 7.75”x5.5”. Some soiling and creasing, otherwise in generally good condition.... View full lot details

South Africa early 1900s. Mono real photograph studio portrait of V.C. Robbins (Natal 1919-1927), depicted head and shoulders wearing military attire. Signed in ink to the lower, darker part of the photograph by Robbins and dated 9th April 1917. 3.5”x5.5”. Sold with an original sepia photograph of the ‘Durban Team 1910’, seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. Players named in pencil below include South African Test cricketers Horace Chapman, Len Tuckett, Herbie Taylor... View full lot details

Arthur Conan Doyle. Brighton College v M.C.C. 1908. Original mono panoramic photograph of the M.C.C. team standing in one row wearing cricket attire on the pitch at Brighton College Ground, Brighton, for the match played 18th June 1908. The players’ names are listed in pencil to verso, and feature Arthur Conan Doyle, and other first-class cricketers including John Rawlin, Alec Hearne, Campbell Hulton, Evelyn Metcalfe, Hugh Poyntz etc. 10.5”x4”. Photographer unknown. Very good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tours to Devon 1911-1913. Four early original sepia photographs of M.C.C. teams depicted seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, some in boaters and caps, one in formal attire. Two are annotated to verso in ink, one ‘MCC XI Devon Tour 1911’, another similarly for 1912, and a third is dated to the front 1913. The other photograph is annotated to verso ‘MCC v Fareham [Hampshire]’, undated but of the same period. Some... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1928/29. Original mono photograph of the M.C.C. and opposing teams and officials in a joint photograph set behind a pavilion. The players are wearing cricket attire and blazers and feature Chapman (Captain), Jardine, Ames, Freeman, White, Hammond, Mead, Tate, Larwood, Duckworth, Tyldesley and the tour manager, Toone. Missing from the M.C.C. group are Hobbs and Sutcliffe and research suggests the location may be for the tour match v Newcastle and Hunter... View full lot details

Kent. Official ‘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. Signatures are Cowdrey (Captain), Denness, Sayer, Leary, Dixon, Wilson, Brown, Prodger, Dye, Luckhurst, Ealham, Graham, Underwood, Shepherd, Nicholls and Knott. Overall 11.25”x9”. Good condition. Sold with official tour brochures for India to England 1946 and Australia to England 1953, both edited by A.W. Simpson,... View full lot details

The Ashes. England v Australia 1926. Full size ‘Warren Bardsley Specially Selected’ cricket bat by Duke and Son, Penshurst. Signed in ink to the face by all sixteen playing members of the Australian touring party and thirteen members of the England team for the deciding 5th ‘Timeless’ Test at the Kennington Oval, 14th- 18th August 1926. Australian signatures are Bardsley (Captain), Collins, Ryder, Andrews, Hendry, Ponsford, Gregory, Grimmett, Oldfield, Everett, Macartney, Taylor, Woodfull, Richardson, Mailey... View full lot details

England 1981 & 1998. Stuart Surridge ‘Perfect’ full size bat signed to the front by twelve members of the England team. Signatures are Brearley (Captain), Willis, Hendrick, Boycott, Gatting, Tavare, Emburey, Knott, Larkins, Allott, Botham and Parker. Also nicely signed to the back by seventeen members of the 1981 Kent team including Ealham, Asif Iqbal, Woolmer, Johnson, Jarvis, Dilley, Underwood, Baptiste, Taylor, Ellison, Benson, Spelman etc. Ownership name of Alan Ealham to rear shoulder. The... View full lot details

The Ashes 2009. Full size Duncan Fearnley ‘Cricket Australia’ bat for the ‘npower Ashes Series 2009 England v Australia’. Printed title and players’ name labels to face, nicely signed in ink by all sixteen listed members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Ponting (Captain), Clarke, Clark, Haddin, Hauritz, Hilfenhaus, Hughes, Hussey, Johnson, Katich, Lee, Manou, McDonald, North, Siddle and Watson. Perishing to handle rubber and slight toning to the blade, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

The Ashes 2009. Full size Duncan Fearnley ‘Cricket Australia’ bat for the ‘npower Ashes Series 2009 England v Australia’. Printed title and players’ name labels to face, nicely signed in ink by all sixteen listed members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Ponting (Captain), Clarke, Clark, Haddin, Hauritz, Hilfenhaus, Hughes, Hussey, Johnson, Katich, Lee, Manou, McDonald, North, Siddle and Watson. Very good condition.... View full lot details

South Africa Women’s tour to England 2000. Full size Gunn and Moore ‘Autographing’ bat with players’ name labels for the England and South Africa teams. Fully signed by the fourteen listed England players and fifteen South Africans. England signatures in thick black ink include Connor (Captain), Edwards, Harper, Leng, Pearson, Reynard, Shaw, Claire Taylor, Clare Taylor etc. South African signatures include Price (Captain), Eksteen, Davies, Hodgkinson, Kuylaars, Lewis, Ndzundzu, Scheepers, Terblanche, van der Merwe, Viljoen... View full lot details

South Africa Women’s tour to England 2008. Full size Duncan Fearnley bat with printed title and players’ name labels for the England and South Africa teams. Fully signed in ink by the fifteen listed England players and fourteen South Africans. England signatures include Edwards (Captain), Atkins, Brunt, Greenway, Guha, Marsh, Rainford-Brent, Shaw, Shrubsole, C. Taylor, S. Taylor etc. South African signatures include Brits (Captain), Terblanche, Anderson, Chetty, Fritz, Kilowan, Letsoalo, Loubser, Minny, van der Westhuizen... View full lot details

England ‘NatWest Women’s Series 2012’. Full size ‘England Cricket’ bat with printed title and players’ name labels for the England team. Signed in thick black ink by fourteen of the listed England players. Signatures are Edwards (Captain), Beaumont, Brunt, Brindle, Colvin, Elwiss, Greenway, Gunn, Hazell, Knight, Marsh, Rowe, Taylor and Wyatt. Lacking the signature of Shrubsole. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Signed miniature bats 1938/39- 1990s. A selection of nine miniature bats. Four are signed including one from the M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1938/39 by Geo. Dalton & Son, Durban ‘Zephyr’ 14”, signed in ink to the face by fifteen members of the M.C.C. touring party including Hammond (Captain), Yardley, Valentine, Ames, Farnes, Goddard, Paynter, Wilkinson, Edrich, Verity, Hutton, Perks, Bartlett, Wright and Gibb. Also signed to the back by ten members of the South... View full lot details

‘England v Pakistan Test Tour 2005’. England short sleeve white shirt with three lions and crown emblem to chest, and sponsor’s logos to chest and sleeves. The shirt fully signed to the front by the sixteen playing members of the England touring party. Signatures are Vaughan (Captain), Anderson, Bell, Collingwood, Flintoff, Giles, Harmison, Hoggard, Jones, Loudon, Pietersen, Plunkett, Prior, Strauss, Trescothick and Udal. The shirt framed and glazed with players’ names and ‘Professional Cricketers’ Association’... View full lot details

‘England v Sri Lanka ODI Series 2006’. England blue short sleeve shirt with red sleeves and trim, three lions and crown emblem to chest, and sponsor’s logos to chest and sleeves. The shirt fully signed to the front by the fifteen playing members of the England team with printed names of each player below the signature. Signatures are Strauss (Captain), Bell, Bresnan, Chapple, Collingwood, Cook, Dalrymple, Harmison, Jones, Joyce, Loudon, Sajid Mahmood, Pietersen, Plunkett and... View full lot details

Cricket plate and tankards. Three items including a Royal Albert ‘England v Australia July 1981. Howzat?’ (Botham and Willis’s Test) plate in original presentation box. 8.25” diameter. Two identical Franklin Porcelain ‘The Ashes [Centenary] Tankard 1882-1982’ tankards, one with additional inscription in gold lustre to base, ‘Visit of Leek Cricket Club/ 1982’. Both 6.5” tall. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Colin Blythe. Kent & England 1899-1914. Kent navy blue cloth cricket cap with raised embroidered county emblem of the white horse, the Kent emblem, to front. The cap, with small peak typical of a pre first world war cap, from the Sankey family collection and previously sold by Knights as lot 570 in October 1995, it was bought by well known collector Mike Smith and sold by Knights after his death in an auction held... View full lot details

Colin Blythe. Kent & England 1899-1914. England navy blue cloth cricket cap with raised wired emblem of the three lions and crown to front. The cap, by H. Ludlam & Co of Albemarle Street, London, with small peak typical of a pre first world war cap has been in the collection of Kent County Cricket Club for many years. The cap has wear and breaking to the inner lining of the cap otherwise in good... View full lot details

‘Kent County Cricket Club 1906’. Very wide panoramic style oil painting on canvas by renowned artist Albert Chevallier Tayler, the painting finally completed in 1906 as a companion piece to the larger and famous painting of ‘Kent v Lancashire at Canterbury 1906’. The portrait panel painting with central image and title, in banner, depicting portraits of Lord Harris and George Marsham, head and shoulders, within decorative cameo panels with title below. To the right and... View full lot details

‘W.G. Grace at the Wicket’. Original sepia photogravure, after Archibald Stuart Wortley 1890, of the famous painting of Grace in batting pose at Lord’s, which hangs in the Long Room at Lord’s. Published by Manson, Swan and Morgan, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st May 1891, printed in Berlin, with cricket ball remarque to lower border. Signed in pencil to lower border by the subject, W.G. Grace, and by the artist, Wortley and limited to 100 copies.... View full lot details

The Ashes. England v Australia 2005. ‘Kasprowicz, Caught Jones, Edgbaston 2005’. Large limited edition print from the original by Jack Russell depicting England wicket-keeper Geraint Jones about to take the catch down the leg side to dismiss Kasprowicz off the glove to give England victory by two runs in the nail-biting 2nd Test at Edgbaston, 4th- 7th August 2005. The print, limited to only twenty five copies, was produced for Geraint Jones’ Benefit Year in... View full lot details

Clarence Victor ‘Clarrie’ Grimmett. Wellington, Victoria, South Australia & Australia 1911-1941. Original sepia plain back postcard of Grimmett, head and shoulders wearing Australia Test cap. Nicely signed in ink to the photograph by Grimmett. No. 9 in the series produced by B.D.V. cigarettes of Godfrey Phillips of London, as part of their advertising campaign for the 1930 Australian tourists. Postally unused. Very light creasing to one corner, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

David Hunter. Yorkshire 1888-1909. Mono real photograph postcard of Hunter in wicket keeping pose with title ‘Well Thrown In’. Signed in ink to lower border by Hunter. Hartmann 1377. Postally unused. Some creasing and silvering, otherwise in good condition. Sold with another copy of the same postcard with annotation to lower border, and a mono postcard of Frank Mitchell (Yorkshire, Cambridge University, England & South Africa 1894-1912) standing full length in cricket attire. Dainty Series.... View full lot details

David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Mono real photograph postcard of Denton standing full length wearing cricket attire and Yorkshire cap, leaning on his bat. Signed in black ink to lower border by Denton. Durhams of Leeds. Postally unused. Minor silvering, otherwise a nice image in very good condition.... View full lot details

Lees Whitehead. Yorkshire 1889-1904. Mono real photograph postcard of Whitehead standing full length wearing cricket attire and Yorkshire cap, leaning on his bat. Signed in black ink to lower border by Whitehead. Durhams of Leeds. Postally unused. Some silvering, otherwise in good condition. A rarer signature.... View full lot details

Schofield Haigh. Yorkshire & England 1895-1913. Mono real photograph postcard of Haigh in bowling pose with title ‘Yorkshire Style’. Signed in black ink by Haigh to lower border. Hartmann 1378. Postally unused. Minor age toning, small blemish affecting the signature, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

William Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. Mono real photograph postcard of Gunn standing full length in cricket attire and cap, leaning on his bat. Signed in black in by Gunn to lower border. R. Thiele series no. 7258. Printed in Berlin. Postally unused. Some silvering, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire. Geoff Millman and John Springall. Two player portrait postcards one of Millman (Nottinghamshire & England 1957-1965), the other of Springall (Nottinghamshire 1955-1063), depicted head and shoulders. Both postcards with printed name and county to lower border. Signed in ink by the featured player. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. Postally unused. Mount marks to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire. Cyril Poole and John Cotton. Two player portrait postcards one of Poole (Nottinghamshire & England 1948-1962), the other of Cotton (Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire 1958-1969), depicted head and shoulders. Both postcards with printed name and county to lower border. Signed in ink by the featured player. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. Postally unused. Mount marks to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire. Reg Simpson, Mervyn Winfield and Norman Hill. Three player portrait postcards, one of Simpson (Sind, Europeans, Nottinghamshire & England 1944-1963), Winfield (Nottinghamshire 1954-1966), and Hill (Nottinghamshire 1953-1968), each depicted head and shoulders. All three postcards with printed name and county to lower border. Each signed in ink by the featured player. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. Postally unused. Creasing to corners of the Simpson and Winfield postcards, mount marks to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire. Brian Close and Ray Illingworth. Two player portrait postcards, one of Close (Yorkshire, Somerset & England 1949-1977), the other of Illingworth (Yorkshire, Leicestershire & England 1951-1983). Both postcards with printed name and county to lower border. Each signed in ink by the featured player. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. Postally unused. Slight creasing to corners of both postcards, mount marks to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Surrey. Peter May, Alec Bedser and Micky Stewart. Three player portrait postcards. One of May (Surrey, Cambridge University & England 1950-1963) by Sporting Handbooks Ltd. The others of Bedser (Surrey & England 1939-1960) and Stewart (Surrey & England 1954-1972), both by F.C. Dick, Oval Bookstall. All three postcards with printed name to lower border. Each signed in ink by the featured player. Postally unused. Mount marks to corners of the May postcard, otherwise in very... View full lot details

Surrey. Jim Laker and Ken Barrington. Three signed player portrait postcards. Includes two by Sporting Handbooks Ltd. one of Laker (Surrey, Essex & England 1946-1964), the other Barrington (Surrey & England 1953-1968), both with printed name and county to lower border and signed by the featured players. Minor mount marks to corners. Also a similar signed postcard of Laker by F.C. Dick, Oval Bookstall. Sold with a further ten unsigned player postcards by F.C. Dick.... View full lot details