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Yorkshire. Wilfred Rhodes 1877-1973. Printed four page brochure for the Memorial Service to Wilfred Rhodes held at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, 4th August 1973. Published by the Northern Cricket Society, stamped no. 89. Padwick 7995. Good condition. Sold with a double sided printed broadsheet, ‘Wilfred Rhodes. A Great Cricketer. An Appreciation. Special for the “Praja Mitra”’, printed and published by M.P. Madan at the Praja Mitra Printing Works, Girgaum, Bombay, c.1922/23. 11.5”x17”. Horizontal and vertical folds,... View full lot details

Cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service for former cricketers. Gubby Allen, St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster 2nd April 1990. Graham Anthony Richard Lock, St George’s Cathedral, Perth 7th April 1995, Christopher Martin-Jenkins MBE, St Pauls Cathedral 16th April 2013 and Brian Johnston, Westminster Abbey, 16th May 1994. Good condition.... View full lot details

Cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service for former cricketers. Wilfred Rhodes, Bramall Lane, Sheffield, 4th August 1973. Sir Leonard Hutton, York Minster 16th November 1990. David Stuart Sheppard. The Right Reverend Lord Sheppard of Liverpool. Liverpool Cathedral, 23rd May 2005 and Brian Johnston, Westminster Abbey, 16th May 1994. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘West Indies 1984. ‘West Indies are back in Town’ (A side) and ‘Skipper Lloyd (Have Mercy) (B side). Official 45rpm record for the tour in original decorative cover. Signed to the back cover by Joel Garner and Thelston Payne who sung on the B side track. The 45rpm disk inside is however for another similar record ‘Here come the West Indies’ A side and ‘I call it Home’. produced in 1983. Both tracks sung by... View full lot details

‘The Altham-Bradman Letters’. A collection of twenty three original typed, copy and handwritten letters between Harry Altham and Don Bradman covering the period August 1958 to June 1963, and three other documents including minutes of meetings running up to, and after, the Imperial Cricket Conference in July 1960, when Altham was President of the M.C.C. and Bradman was an Australian delegate. Seven original letters from Bradman are signed ‘Don’ or ‘Don Bradman’ with copy letters... View full lot details

William Henry Moule. Victoria & Australia 1878-1886. Handwritten two page letter in ink to Hugh Trumble. the letter dated 26th October 1925. The letter headed ‘Law Courts, Melbourne’ in ink. Moule is writing to Trumble, on behalf of his wife, if the Melbourne Cricket Club would donate some bats and balls to Bundoora Park, a convalescent home for shell shocked soldiers. Nicel;y signed by Moule ‘Yours sincerely’. Clipped to the letter is a letter from... View full lot details

Edward Lambert ‘Ted’ a’Beckett. Victoria & Australia 1927-1932. Single page handwritten letter from a’Beckett to E.G. Wolfe, brother-in-law of Sir Julien Cahn. Written on Midland Grand Hotel, London headed notepaper, the letter is undated but likely to be 1930 when a’Beckett toured England for the only time. He apologises for not collecting autographs of all the Australian team. Nicely signed ‘E.L. a’Beckett’. Horizontal fold, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Michael Joseph ‘Roger’ Hartigan. New South Wales, Queensland & Australia 1903-1921. Single page typed letter from Hartigan to Hugh Trumble (Victoria & Australia 1887-1904) on the official letterhead of ‘The Queensland Primary Producers Co-operative Agency Ltd.’. Dated 1st November 1924. Hartigan is asking Trumble for a copy of the Melbourne Club Annual Report, and enquires whether temporary membership can be arranged at Melbourne and Sydney for friends to attend Test matches. Very nicely signed in... View full lot details

John Lillywhite. Sussex, Middlesex & England 1850-1869. Early one page handwritten letter in ink, on John Lillywhite’s Cricket Warehouse, Euston Square letter head, dated October 10th 1860. Lillywhites writes ‘Sir, I have a chimney that smokes very much. I should like one of your ‘Patent Wind Guards’ if you can warrant it to stop the smoking’, signed ‘Yours very truly’ John Lillywhite. Folds, centre repair to small hole (repair to the back of the letter),... View full lot details

Hon. Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley. Cambridge University, Kent & England 1877-1883. Single page handwritten letter on Cobham Hall headed paper dated 25th April 1911. Bligh is replying to F.S. Ashley-Cooper for a request for cricket records with a polite brush-off ‘I will write you a line about the Best English Eleven... but I am doubtful if I shall have any such opportunity’. Nicely signed ‘Darnley’. Horizontal fold. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Neville Cardus and Irving Rosenwater, 1955. Two handwritten letters. The first, from Rosenwater to Cardus, dated 16th May 1955 and written on two sides of small ruled note paper, refers to Cardus’ appreciation of Gilbert Jessop. Rosenwater asks for the source relating to Jessop’s ‘famous innings of 104 at the Oval in 1902 [in which] Jessop “scored 50 in 55 minutes”: while in no way wishing to doubt the accuracy of this statement, I would... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Oxford University, Sussex, Hampshire, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Original undated handwritten manuscript by Fry comprising nineteen numbered pages plus covering letter and postscript, both or which are signed by Fry. In the manuscript, Fry discusses batting styles using a referencing system of ‘A’ as the method of performing batsmanship and ‘E’ as the effect it causes. He acknowledges L.C.H. Palairet, stating ‘To call LCHP a supreme stylist means “being what I am,... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Three page handwritten letter, on black bordered ‘In Memoriam’ style paper from Grace, dated 6th December [c.1880]. Grace is writing in his capacity as a doctor to an insurance company regarding the outstanding claim for a life policy being made by a Mr. W.D. Moore, whose wife, a patient of Grace, has recently passed away. It appears that payments of premiums have been missed, and Grace states, ‘I... View full lot details

William Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. Single page handwritten letter from Gunn, dated 23rd June 1916. Written on official letterhead for ‘The County Cricket, Football, Lawn Tennis and British Sports Warehouse, Carrington St., Nottingham’, Gunn states, ‘It is with very much regret my daughter and self learn the sad news of the irreparable loss of your dear husband’, offering his ‘sympathy and regret in your sad bereavement’. Very nicely signed, ‘Yours faithfully, William Gunn’. The... View full lot details

Lord Martin Bladen Hawke, Yorkshire & England 1881-1911. A two page handwritten letter in ink from Lord Hawke, who was Captain of Yorkshire for many years, to Shirley Slocombe, the (male) artist who was commissioned in 1903 to paint Hawke’s portrait. Dated 6th September 1917, and written on official Yorkshire C.C.C. headed paper, Hawke is replying to Slocombe who has sent his price for painting another portrait, presumably that of Hawke’s wife, the Yorkshire committee... View full lot details

Walter William Read. Surrey & England 1873-1897. Single page handwritten letter in black ink on the official business letterhead of Read’s firm of auctioneers, surveyors and land agents. Dated 3rd October 1899, Read is writing to a Mr. Edward Deering confirming that ‘[George?] Griffith did hit Benwell for 4 consecutive 6’s in the Surrey v Kent [match] at the Oval but cannot say for certain what year it was’. Very nicely signed ‘W.W. Read’. Horizontal... View full lot details

Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1870-1896. Handwritten two page letter on Park House, Thornbury letterhead from Grace to a Mr. Palmer, dated 30th June 1896. Grace is writing regarding the arrangements for a Thornbury match, ‘I have put down our match as fixed for Tuesday July 21st at eleven o’clock. We always have luncheon Salmon- Cold chicken, meats etc., & ordinary, drinks included at 2/6 per head. This at the Ship adjoining our ground... View full lot details

Heathfield Harman ‘H.H.’ Stephenson. Surrey & England 1853-1871. A selection of ephemera relating to Stephenson, collected by Irving Rosenwater and contained in a large yellow envelope neatly annotated by Rosenwater to the front. Contents include an original two page letter to ‘Dear Daft’ dated 13th July 1896, the year Stephenson died. Writing from Uppingham, Stephenson refers to arrangements for Uppingham’s upcoming ‘match with the Americans’, being Haverford College who were touring England schools and universities... View full lot details

Edward Wentworth ‘Ted’ Dillon. Kent & Oxford University 1900-1923. One page type written letter from Dillon to William Findlay, Secretary of M.C.C. The letter, dated 8th November 1923, on ‘H.W. Dillon & Sons, Steamship and Insurance Brokers’ headed paper. A brief message to Findlay ‘My Dear Billie, Ever so many thanks for your letter of yesterday and I much appreciate tour promise to do what you can to help’. Signed ‘Yours sincerely’ Ted Dillon. Light... View full lot details

John Masefield. Poet Laureate 1930-1967. ‘Eighty Five To Win’. Two page handwritten letter in ink from Masefield, written on both sides of his ‘Burcote Brook, Abingdon’ headed note paper. Dated ‘May the 25th 1956’, Masefield is writing to a Mrs Martin at The Times newspaper, thanking her for sending galley proofs for checking prior to the publication of his poem on the Oval Test of 1882 when England’s last five wickets fell to the Australians... View full lot details

Percival King. Surrey 1871 (one match). Single page manuscript handwritten in ink by Percival, titled ‘Cricket Records’. Written on the reverse of King’s official business letterhead, King describes various cricketing records. ‘For the long period of 13 years the score of 404 not out by E.F.S. Tylecote made at Clifton College in May 1868 held the place of premium score for an individual cricketer’. He goes on to describe this record being surpassed by W.N.... View full lot details

Alfred Lyttelton. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1876-1887. Two page handwritten letter on House of Commons note paper from Lyttelton to ‘My dear Billy’, dated 6th February 1913. Very nicely signed ‘A. Lyttelton’. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Vijaysingh Madhavji Merchant. Hindus, Bombay & India 1929-1952. Single page typed letter from Merchant to P.N. Sundaresan, Editor of ‘Sports Cine’. Dated 21st October 1975 on his personal letterhead, Merchant states he is unable to contribute an article as he is contracted to broadcasting a programme titled ‘Cricket with Vijay Merchant’ sponsored by the Thackersey Group of Mills. He is also unable to place an advertisement ‘as last year our Company made a very big... View full lot details

Syed Mushtaq Ali. India 1933/34-1951/52. Single page typed letter from Mushtaq Ali in Indore, dated 23rd March 1986 to ‘Mr. Khadim Hussain [Kim Baloch]’. Ali writes to ‘convey my heartiest thanks to you and express the feeling of my joy and pleasure to receive your letter’. He continues by rating some of the players he knew including S. Wazir Ali, C.K. Nayudu, Nissar, Imran, Jack Hobbs, Tate, Grimmett and Gavaskar. He closes with a request... View full lot details

Lieutenant Colonel Chandrasekhar Vaman Gadkari (Retd). Regiment of Artillery (Maharashtra, Services and India, six Test matches, 1953-1955). Typewritten letter, dated 20th June 1986, on personal printed letterhead to a cricket collector regarding a request for autographs, talking of cricket past and present and mentioning obtaining old players addresses. Signed ‘Sincerely Yours’ by Gadkari. Light folds, good condition... View full lot details

Ivan Julian ‘Jack’ Siedle. Natal & South Africa 1922-1937. Three page handwritten letter in ink from Siedle, written on Anglo-African House, Durban letterhead, dated 10th November 1932. The letter, with original envelope, is addressed to Colonel Harry Sparks of Sydenham, Durban. Siedle writes expressing his concern ‘that your nephew Dudley is reported to have signed for Berea. I wonder if you could throw any light on the matter’. Siedle is concerned ‘that the only thing... View full lot details

‘Rare Cricket Letters and Photographs. Ex-Neville Weston 1938’. Half morocco leather green scrapbook compiled by Weston on the collector Charles Pratt Green. This album appears to have been one of Weston’s scrapbooks with the binding put on by a later owner. Weston has handwritten a very short biography of Pratt Green to the front end paper and dated this 1949. This is followed by a list of photographs which have been given by Pratt Green,... View full lot details

Norman Preston, Irving Rosenwater and the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1971. Envelope comprising a selection of items from Rosenwater’s personal collection relating to a lunch held in the Committee Room at Lord’s, 2nd April 1971 to celebrate ‘Norman Preston’s 21st Birthday as Editor of Wisden’. Contents include a typed letter inviting Rosenwater to attend, signed by Haddon Whitaker of Sporting Handbooks Ltd. A handwritten note by Rosenwater stating that Neville Cardus was unable to attend, the... View full lot details

‘Genealogy of Lillywhite Family compiled by F.S. Ashley-Cooper’. A small collection of letters, notes and facsimiles relating to the history of the Lillywhite family, all contained within an envelope annotated to the front by Irving Rosenwater. Included is a single page handwritten letter in ink from James Lillywhite Jun. dated 6th December 1916. Writing from Westerton, Chichester in Sussex, he refers to various family members, ‘Capt. Robt. John Lillywhite was killed in Yorkshire on the... View full lot details

‘My Cricket Collection and Cricket Literature by G. Neville Weston. 1929. Letters’. A scrapbook compiled by Weston relating to his book which had just been printed and sent out to collectors. There were eighteen copies produced, all signed and numbered. The scrapbook contains an extraordinary collection of letters to Weston, from collectors thanking him and telling him of other books he might like to have. There are letters from collectors, bookshops and dealers offering him... View full lot details

‘Bibliography of the work of the late F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Correspondence, Lists etc.’. A large ‘Newspaper Cuttings’ scrapbook album compiled by G. Neville Weston, with handwritten title label to front cover, comprising research material for, and the publication of, ‘A Bibliography of the Works of F.S. Ashley-Cooper’, which Weston published privately in 1933 as a limited edition of 100 copies (Padwick 42). Loosely inserted to the front is a typed numbered list of those who received... View full lot details

Don Bradman. A fascinating collection of correspondence between Bradman and Christopher Martin-Jenkins, then editor of ‘The Cricketer’ magazine relating to short-pitch bowling. The first letter is a response to an editorial in the October 1984 issue of ‘The Cricketer’, written by Christopher Martin-Jenkins, in which the subject of intimidatory short pitched bowling was raised, including the possible introduction of measures such as increasing the length of the pitch, painting a line on the pitch, restricting... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Pakistan 1977/78. A good selection of invitations, tickets, letters, passes etc. relating to the tour from the collection of Irving Rosenwater, all contained in a buff envelope with his distinctive handwritten titles to the front in different coloured inks. Items include an official M.C.C. tour Christmas card fully(?) signed by nineteen members of the touring party including Gatting, Downton, Miller, Randall, Boycott, Botham, Roope, Taylor, Brearley, Old, Hendrick, Lever, Barrington (Manager) etc.,... View full lot details

Henry ‘Harry’ Alfred Musgrove. Victoria & Australia 1881-1888. Ink signature of Musgrove, clipped from the end of a letter. Signed in ink ‘Yours Truly H. Musgrove’. Good condition... View full lot details

Allan Gibson Steel. Lancashire, Cambridge University & England, 1877-1893. Ink signature of Steel on piece laid down to larger white card with short biography handwritten to the card. Some age toning, good... View full lot details

Charles William Alcock. M.C.C., 1 match 1862. Large page with ornate watercolour border of flowers and ferns, boldly inscribed in ink ‘C.F. Pardon. Cricket Reporting Agency from C.W.A. 15/5/[18]89’. The page measures 8.5”x11”. Some wear to right edge where previously bound, minor age toning to page edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Richard Daft. Nottinghamshire 1858-1891. Single page note written in ink on small stiff card from Daft to the dealer and collector, Alfred Gaston. Dated 19th January 1899, Daft states ‘I regret to say that I have no cricket prints or annuals to dispose of... I was very sorry to hear of poor Mr. Padwick’s death’. Signed ‘Yours faithfully, Rich Daft’. Adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Alan Kippax. New South Wales & Australia. 1918-36 and Archibald ‘Archie’ Jackson. New South Wales & Australia 1926-1931. Large album page very nicely signed in ink by the two Australian batsman. pencil annotation of players names, nicks to edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Sussex & England. 1895-1920. Excellent ink signature of Ranjitsinhji on trimmed ‘Lord’s Cricket Ground, London’ headed paper, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji. Sussex, Cambridge University & England 1924-1932. Excellent ink signature of Duleepsinhji on white card. The card is mounted with a mono half length real photograph postcard of Duleepsinhji wearing England blazer and cricket attire and a 6”x8” mono press photograph of Duleepsinhji bowling in the nets. Bottom right hand corner trimmed. Good condition... View full lot details

India. Maharajkumar Kumar of Vizianagram ‘Vizzy’. Very nice signature in ink of Vizzy on piece laid down to card. Sold with a mono press photograph of Vizzy, head and shoulders in cricket attire and India cap. 6.5”x8.5”. Central Press Photos, London. Very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Ernest Jones. South Australia, Western Australia & Australia 1892-1908. Pencil signature of Jones on paper piece, laid down. Slight soiling, good condition... View full lot details

Reginald Alexander Duff. New South Wales & Australia 1898-1908. Pencil signature of Duff on paper piece, laid down. Slight soiling, good condition... View full lot details

Albert Edwin Trott. Victoria, Middlesex, London County, Australia & England 1892-1910. Excellent ink signature of Trott, signed ‘Yours truly’, on paper piece, laid down. Rare early signature... View full lot details

John James Ferris. Gloucestershire, New South Wales, South Australia, Australia and England 1886-1898. Good ink signature of Ferris on paper piece laid down to larger white card with handwritten biography... View full lot details

Thomas (Tom) Emmett, Yorkshire & England, 1866-1888. Excellent ink signature of Emmett on paper piece laid down to larger white card with handwritten biography. Sold with a sepia copy photograph of the player.... View full lot details

Test and County cricketers autographs 1990’s. A hardback book signed by over 700 players and officials from all eighteen county teams, the two Universities, Oxford and Cambridge, test teams, West Indies, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Australia 1993, West Indies U19 1993, South Africa 1994, some earlier signatures of Surrey and Sussex players and umpires. The majority of signatures of the teams are signed over two pages and non back to back. Signatures include Dexter, Barclay,... View full lot details

Thomas Henry Clark’s Benefit Year 1961. ‘Autographs of Test Teams and County Cricketers’. Hardback album produced by Surrey C.C.C. for Clark’s Benefit Year, with gold lettering and decoration to front board, biography and mono photograph of Clark to introduction, foreword by Peter May, signed by May. These Benefit books were originally signed by the teams to the inside pages, each page with decorative borders and page to a team, from the year of the Benefit.... View full lot details

Hugh Trumble. Victoria & Australia 1887-1904 and Vernon Ransford. Victoria & Australia 1903-1928. ‘Melbourne Cricket Club. Nomination of new member’. Original printed membership form for a Mr P. Reilly dated 16th March 1920 [?] very nicely signed in ink by the proposer and club secretary, Hugh Trumble, and by the seconder, Vernon Ransford. Excellent ink signatures of the two Australian cricketers. Nick to corner otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

Gloucestershire. Large card page taken from a scrapbook with title ‘Gloucester’ to top edge with the ink signatures of four Gloucestershire players on pieces and laid down to the page. The signatures are William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908, Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire, M.C.C. & England 1870-1896, Herbert Vivian Page. Gloucestershire, 1883-1895 and William Albert Woof. Gloucestershire 1878-1902. Minor age toning otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

India Test cricketers 1950s-2000s. A large selection of eighty signatures of Indian Test cricketers, mainly modern, signed to cards or on pieces laid down, the majority with accompanying cutting image of the featured player. From the collection of Krish Reddy. Signatures include Gupte, A. Gaekwad, Venkataraghavan, Hanumant Singh, Madan Lal, Patankar, Gavaskar, Bedi, Doshi, Manjrekar, Mongia, Maninda Singh, V.V.S. Laxman, Srikkanth, Ganguly etc. Odd duplication of signatures. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Pakistan Test cricketers 1950s-2000s. A large selection of over one hundred and sixty signatures of Pakistan Test cricketers, mainly modern, signed to cards of various sizes or on pieces laid down, the majority with accompanying cutting image of the featured player. From the collection of Krish Reddy. Signatures include Hanif Mohammad, Intikhab Alam, Majid Khan, Ijaz Butt, Aftab Gul, Javed Burki, Nasim-ul-Ghani, Imtiaz Ahmed, Younis Ahmed, Mudassar Nazar, Mushtaq Ahmed, Sikander Bakht, Zaheer Abbas, Wasim... View full lot details

West Indies Test cricketers 1950s-2000s. A large selection of over one hundred and twenty signatures of West Indies Test cricketers, mainly modern, signed to cards of various sizes or on pieces laid down, the majority with accompanying cutting image of the featured player, and the odd photograph. From the collection of Krish Reddy. Signatures include Bynoe, Findlay, Hall, Walcott, C. Smith, Nurse, Gibbs, Foster, V. Holder, Lloyd, Kallicharran, Gayle, Logie, Simmons, Gibson, Garner, Richardson, Walsh... View full lot details

Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe cricketers 1980s-2020s. A large selection of over one hundred and sixty signatures of international cricketers signed to plain cards of various sizes or on pieces laid down with accompanying cutting image of the featured player, and the odd photograph and trade card. From the collection of Krish Reddy. Signatures include Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi (Afghanistan), Aftab Ahmed, Akram Khan, Alok Kapali, Junaid Siddique, Khaled Mahsud, Litton Das, Mashrafe Mortaza, Adbur Razzak,... View full lot details

Sri Lanka cricketers 1970s-2020s. A large selection of over one hundred and thirty signatures of international Sri Lankan cricketers signed to plain cards of various sizes or on pieces laid down with accompanying cutting image of the featured player. From the collection of Krish Reddy. Signatures include Duleep Mendis, Dias, Madugalle, Mahanama, Tillakaratne, A. Ranatunga, A. de Dilva, Arnold, Atapattu, Pushpakumara, Dharmasena, Wickramasingha, Ratnayeke, Vaas, Zoysa, Tharanga, Maharaoof, Kuruppu, Chandimal, Herath, Jayawardene, Jayasuriya, Mathews, Malinga,... View full lot details

New Zealand Test and international cricketers 1930s-2010s. A comprehensive selection of over two hundred and forty signatures of international New Zealand cricketers signed to plain cards of various sizes or on pieces laid down with accompanying cutting image of the featured player and the odd photograph. From the collection of Krish Reddy. Earlier signatures include Kerr, Weir, W. Hadlee, Mooney, Cowie, Wallace, Blair, E. Dempster, Hough, Meale, Reid, Cave, Blair, Hastings, McGregor, Guy, Miller, MacGibbon,... View full lot details

South Africa Test and international cricketers 1930s-2010s. A large selection of over one hundred and eighty signatures of international South African cricketers signed to plain cards of various sizes or on pieces laid down with accompanying cutting image of the featured player, with some signed photographs and letters. From the collection of Krish Reddy. Earlier signatures include Viljoen, E. Rowan, D. Nourse, Newson, Langton, Harvey, Balaskas, Bell, van der Merwe, Cheetham, Dyer, Nel, O. Dawson,... View full lot details

Australia Test and international cricketers 1930s-2010s. A large selection of over one hundred and twenty signatures, mainly modern, of international Australian cricketers signed to plain cards of various sizes or on pieces laid down with accompanying cutting image of the featured player, with the odd signed photograph. From the collection of Krish Reddy. Earlier signatures include Hurwood, Freer, Hamence, Kline, Noblet, C. McDonald, Burge, Simpson, Craig, Hole, Allan, Hoare, Stackpole, Jarman, Misson, Corling, Booth, Redpath,... View full lot details

Old England v Lord’s Taverners 1962. Large white card with handprinted titles, ‘An Old England XI against The Lord’s Taverners at the late Mr. Thomas Lord’s Cricket Ground, Saint John’s Wood, Saturday the 16th day of June 1962’ in different coloured inks. The card signed in ink by twenty two who took part in the match. Signatures are Brown, Compton, Ikin, Robertson, Washbrook, A. Bedser, Wright, Gover, Evans, Edrich, Insole (Old England), Bennett, Subba Row,... View full lot details

Test and first-class cricketers’ signatures. Blank postcard with heading ‘Rye Golf Club’, signed in pencil to both sides by eight cricketers accompanied by their telephone number(s). The signatures, assumed to have collected at a golf day, are A.J. Evans, A.E.R. Gilligan, J.R. Mason, ‘Gubby’ Allen, John Lowe, Erroll Holmes, Leonard Crawley and Osmund Scott. Date unknown, possibly 1930s. Small tears to edges, one affecting the signature of Crawley, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire, London County & England 1865-1908. Original bookplate photograph of Grace in batting pose taken from Ranjitsinhji’s ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. The image titled ‘W.G. Grace Playing Half-Cock’. Very nicely signed in ink to lower border by Grace. Signed in ink to the verso by the eleven members of the South African team for the drawn 2nd Test against Australia, 12th- 14th November 1921 at Old Wanderers, Johannesburg. Signatures are Taylor... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to India 1926/27. Official menu for the dinner given by the Calcutta Cricket Club to the M.C.C. touring team on 30th December 1926. The four page menu with card wrappers, ribbon ties in M.C.C. and Calcutta Club colours, with raised colour motifs of a lion and tiger to the front cover. The menu has been profusely signed in pencil to the front cover and inside pages by some sixty attendees including ten members... View full lot details

‘Dunnikier Cricket Club Centenary Dinner 1856-1956’. Original folding menu for the dinner held at Anthony’s Hotel, Kirkcaldy, 6th April 1956. The front cover is signed by the Guest of Honour, Douglas Jardine, surrounded by the signatures in different coloured inks of some forty other attendees. Includes the signatures of those listed on the toast list including Dr. D.M. McIntosh (Director of Education for Fife), Provost D. Wright, John Blyth (President of Dunnikier C.C.), Bailie J.W.M.... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Oxford University, Sussex, Hampshire, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Original five page handwritten manuscript written in ink, unsigned but in Fry’s own hand on foolscap paper. Titled ‘Memo’, Fry covers aspects of his cricketing life in chronological order starting in 1898 by opening, ‘In my earlier time I was sitting with Spoff and Sammy Woods at Lord’s and Spoff remarked “I wouldn’t have run thro’ these moderns like I used to in... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Official autograph sheet fully signed in ink by all seventeen members of the touring party including the Manager, Green. Players’ signatures are Mann (Captain), Griffith, Palmer, Hutton, Washbrook, Evans, Tremlett, Gladwin, Watkins, Bedser, Knight, Simpson, Compton, Crapp, Young and Jenkins. Fold marks, adhesive marks to verso, minor age toning, slight smudge to the ink of the Simpson and Gladwin signatures otherwise in good condition. Rare... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to West Indies 1959/60. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all sixteen listed members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are May (Captain), Cowdrey, Allen, Andrew, Barrington, Dexter, Greenhough, Illingworth, Moss, Pullar, Smith, Statham, Subba Row, Swetman, Trueman and Robins (Manager). Light folds with small split to one fold, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand 1962/63. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all sixteen listed playing members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are Dexter (Captain), Cowdrey, Allen, Barrington, Coldwell, Graveney, Illingworth, Knight, Larter, Murray, Parfitt, Pullar, Sheppard, Smith, Statham, Titmus and Trueman. Light folds otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Rothmans Cricket Tour. England Tour to New Zealand 1978’. Official autograph sheet with Rothmans emblem, printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all nineteen listed members of the England touring party. Players’ signatures are Boycott (Captain), Willis, Botham, Cope, Downton, Edmonds, Gatting, Hendrick, Lever, Miller, Old, Radley, Randall, Roope, Rose and Taylor. Light horizontal folds, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Australian Test players 1902-1905. Album page nicely signed in black ink signed to both sides of the page by seven Australian Test cricketers and three others. Four Australian signatures to one side of Joe Darling (34 Tests 1894-1905), Hugh Trumble (32 Tests 1890-1904), Charlie McLeod (17 Tests 1894-1905), Bill Howell (18 Tests 1898-1904). Also signed by George Bull (? Hampshire 1900, two matches), and one other unidentified. To the verso, signatures of Australians Frank Laver... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1921. Album page laid to trimmed card, nicely signed in black ink by twelve members of the Australian touring party. Handwritten title ‘Australians 1921’. Signatures are Armstrong (Captain), Collins, Ryder, Bardsley, Hendry, Gregory, Mayne, Taylor, Andrews, Carter, Mailey and Pellew. The card measures 3.5”x6”. Some browning to the signatures otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1926. Small album page nicely signed in ink by eleven members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Andrews, Macartney, Mailey, Gregory, Richardson, Woodfull, Grimmett, Ryder, Ellis, Everett and Oldfield. The page laid down to slightly larger card with the signature in ink of Les Berry (Leicestershire 1924-1951) and two others in pencil to verso. Adhesive mark and some smudging to the signature of Andrews, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Bodyline. Australia v England 1932/33. Page on Hotel Windsor, Melbourne headed paper, nicely signed in black ink by seven Australian players, six of whom played in the 2nd Test at Melbourne, 30th December 1932- 3rd January 1933. Signatures are Armstrong (Captain), Grimmett, Fingleton, Ironmonger, Wall, O’Reilly and Oxenham. Slight smudging to the Grimmett signature. Light folds, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Australia tour to South Africa 1949/50. ‘Australian XI, South Africa, 1949-50’. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in different coloured inks by all sixteen listed members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Hassett (Captain), Morris, Archer, Harvey, Johnson, Johnston, Lindwall, Loxton, McCool, Moroney, Noblett, Saggers, Langley, Walker, Dwyer (Manager) and Miller. The page appears trimmed, not affecting the signatures. Age toning, horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Australia v South Africa 1952/53. Ruled page on official ‘South Africa Touring Team’ headed paper, nicely signed in black ink by twelve members of the Australian team who took part in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Tests of the 1952/53 Test series in Australia. Signatures are Hassett (Captain), Ring, Lindwall, Benaud, Hole, Langley, McDonald, Morris, Miller, Harvey, Craig and Johnston. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia tour to South Africa 1957/58. Official Australian Board of Control for International Cricket autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in black and blue inks by all sixteen listed members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Craig (Captain), Harvey, Benaud, Burge, Burke, Davidson, Drennan, Favell, Grout, Jarman, Mackay, Kline, Meckiff, McDonald, Simpson and Gaunt. The page with narrow pink border to the edges. Minor age toning and horizontal folds, otherwise... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1964. Official Australian Board of Control for International Cricket autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all seventeen listed playing members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Simpson (Captain), Booth, Burge, Connolly, Corling, Cowper, Grout, Hawke, Jarman, Lawry, McKenzie, Martin, O’Neill, Potter, Redpath, Sellers and Veivers. Vertical and horizontal folds, light creasing, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia. ‘MRF World Series for the Jawaharalal Nehru Cup’ 1989. Official autograph sheet with printed title and names signed in ink by the Australian team who took part in the series. Seventeen signatures including Border (Captain), Waugh, Marsh, M. Taylor, M. Hughes, Alderman, Healy, Boon etc. Pakistan won the series overall in 1989. Good condition... View full lot details

Australia ‘Rebel’ tour to South Africa 1985/86. Official autograph sheet with ‘SA Tour 85/87’ emblem and printed players’ names, fully signed in ink by all seventeen listed members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Hughes (Captain), Yallop, Alderman, Dyson, Faulkner, Haysman, Hogan, Hogg, Hohns, Maguire, McCurdy, Rackemann, Rixon, Shipperd, Smith, Taylor and Polese (team doctor). Cuttings of player portraits laid down to verso. Some age toning, light folds, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Queensland, Australia 1984/85- 1990/91. Two official Queensland Cricket Association autograph sheets for matches played at Brisbane with the majority of players’ names annotated in pencil below each signature. Matches are Queensland v Western Australia 14th- 17th December 1984, and v New South Wales 4th- 7th January 1991. Signatures include Border, Thomson, Wessels, Hohns, McDermott, Ritchie, Rackemann, Hick, Law, Taylor (Queensland), K. Hughes, Hogan, Alderman, G. Marsh, Veletta, Zoehrer (Western Australia), Lawson, Bayliss, Emery, M. Waugh,... View full lot details

Australia state tours to Zimbabwe 1995/96 & 1987/88. Two official autograph sheets for tours, both fully signed by the listed tour members. One for the Tasmania tour to Zimbabwe on Bulawayo Athletic Club letterhead, 14 signatures including Boon (Captain), Tucker, Di Venuto, Ponting, Young, Atkinson, Cooley, Hodgson etc. Also the New South Wales tour 1987/88, 15 signatures including Wellham (Captain), Bayliss, Dyer, Gilbert, Lawson, Matthews, M. & P. Taylor, Tucker, M. Waugh, Whitney etc. Sold... View full lot details

Pakistan Eaglets tour to England 1952. Page nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the Pakistan Eaglets touring party. Signatures include a good number of players who went on to represent Pakistan at Test level including Hanif Mohammad (55 Tests 1952-1970), Imtiaz Ahmed (41, 1952-1962), Mahmood Hussain (27, 1952/1962), Waqar Hasan (21, 1952-1960), Khan Mohammad (13, 1952-1958), Nazar Mohammad (5, 1952), Anwar Hussain (4, 1952), also Mohammad Saaed, Mohammad Sultan, Kurshid Ahmed, Khalid Qureshi... View full lot details

Pakistan first official tour to England 1954. Autograph card with printed title ‘Pakistan Tourists 1954 Autographs’ to lower right corner. The card nicely signed in ink by fifteen members of the Pakistan touring party. Signatures include A.H. Kardar (Captain), Fazal Mahmood, Maqsood Ahmed, Wazir Mohammad, Imtiaz Ahmed, Mahmood Hussain, Shakoor Ahmed, Mohammad Aslam, Waqar Hassan, Zulfiqar Ahmed, Khalid Hassan, Alim-ud-Din, Khan Mohammad etc. Horizontal fold, minor soiling, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to West Indies 1957/58. Page on The Queen’s Park Hotel, Port of Spain, Trinidad official letterhead, signed in ink by sixteen members of the Pakistan touring party. Signatures include Kardar (Captain), Fazal Mahmood, Wazir Mohammad, Hanif Mohammad, Waqar Hasan, Wallis Mathias, Nasim-ul-Ghani, Ijaz Butt, Mushtaq Mohammad etc. Horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Pakistan Eaglets tour to England 1957. Page nicely signed in ink by seventeen members of the Pakistan Eaglets touring party. Signatures include a good number of players who went on to represent Pakistan at Test level including Hanif Mohammad (55 Tests 1952-1970), Javed Burki (25, 1960-1970), Shujauddin Butt (19, 1954-1962), Agha Saadat Ali (1, 1955/56) etc. Light horizontal fold, small adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to India 1960/61. Rare official autograph sheet with printed title, ‘Pakistan Cricket Team Touring India’ and players’ names. Fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed members of the Pakistan touring party. Signatures include Fazal Mahmood, Hanif Mohammad, Saeed Ahmad, Ijaz Butt, Nasim-ul-Ghani, Mahmood Hussain, Intikhab Alam, Imtiaz Ahmed, Mushtaq Mohammad, Wallis Mathias, Alimuddin, Javed Burki, Jahangir Khan etc. Light fold, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Pakistan Eaglets tour to England 1963. Ruled page with handwritten title and players’ names, nicely signed in ink by all sixteen listed members of the Pakistan Eaglets touring party, the majority of whom went on to represent Pakistan at Test level. Signatures include Wazir Mohammad, Mushtaq Mohammad, Shafqat Rana, Intikhab Alam, Mohammad Munaf, Asif Iqbal, Naushad Ali, Afaq Hussain, Antao D’Souza, Sadiq Mohammad, Haseeb Ahsan, Farooq Hameed, Majid Khan etc. Light horizontal folds, file hole... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1967. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names fully signed in different coloured inks by all eighteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Hanif Mohammad (Captain), Saeed Ahmed, Javed Burki, Mushtaq Mohammad, Intikhab Alam, Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan, Pervez Sajjad, Arif Butt, Mohammad Ilyas, Salahuddin, Faqir Aizazuddin, Ghulam Abbas, Saleem Altaf, Wasim Bari, Fasihuddin, Waqar Ahmed and Niaz Ahmed. Folds and a few creases otherwise in very... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand 1972/73. Rare official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, signed in ink by eighteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Intikhab Alam (Captain), Asif Iqbal, Saeed Ahmed, Nasimul Ghani, Mushtaq Mohammad, Majid Khan, Mohammad Ilyas, Perfez Sajjad, Saleem Altaf, Wasim Bari, Asif Masood, Sarfraz Nawaz, Sadiq Mohammad, Talat Ali, Majid Usman, Masood Iqbal, M.E.Z. Ghazali (Manager), and Zafar Altaf (Assistant). Lacking one signature... View full lot details

Pakistan team for the Prudential World Cup, England 1975. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in different coloured inks by all fifteen of the listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Asif Iqbal (Captain), Majid Khan, Mushtaq Mohammad, Wasim Bari, Asif Masood, Sarfraz Nawaz, Zaheer Abbas, Sadiq Mohammad, Imran Khan, Wasim Raja, Shafiq Ahmed, Naseer Malik, Pervez Mir, Javed Miandad, and Zafar Altaf (Manager). Slight smudge to the signature... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1978. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in different coloured inks by all nineteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Wasim Bari (Captain), Wasim Raja, Sarfraz Nawaz, Sadiq Mohammad, Talat Ali, Liaqat Ali, Javed Miandad, Sikandar Bakht, Mudassar Nazar, Iqbal Qasim, Haroon Rashid, Abdul Qadir, Mohsin Khan, Masood Iqbal, Aamer Hameed, Arshad Pervez, Naeem Ahmad, Mahmood Hussain (Manager) and Imtiaz Ahmad (Assistant). Horizontal and... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1979. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in different coloured inks by all fifteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Asif Iqbal (Captain), Majid Khan, Wasim Bari, Sarfraz Nawaz, Wasim Raja, Zaheer Abbas, Sadiq Mohammad, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Sikandar Bakht, Mudassar Nazar, Iqbal Qasim, Haroon Rashid, Hassan Jamil and Javed Burki (Manager). Folds and creasing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to India 1979/80. Rarer 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 Asif Iqbal (Captain), Majid Khan, Wasim Bari, Wasim Raja, Zaheer Abbas, Sadiq Mohammad, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Iqbal Qasim, Mudassar Nazar, Sikandar Bakht, Taslim Arif, Abdul Raqeeb, Ehtesham ud Din, Talat Mirza, S.S. Jan (Manager), A. Sanjrani (Assistant) and one other unidentified signed... 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). Also signed by one other,... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to India 1983. Rarer official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, signed in ink by thirteen of the listed members of the touring party and one other. Signatures are Zaheer Abbas (Captain), Wasim Bari, Javed Miandad, Wasim Raja, Iqbal Qasim, Mudassar Nazar, Mohsin Khan, M. Nazir (Jr.), Saleem Malik, Taheer Naqqash, Jalal-ud-Din, Qasim Umar, Shoaib Mohammad and Azeem Hafeez. Also signed by Iqbal Sikander(?). Lacking the signatures of Sarfraz Nawaz and... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1987. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names and images, signed in ink by seventeen listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Imran Khan (Captain), Javed Miandad, Mudassar Nazar, Abdul Qadir, Tauseef Ahmed, Mansoor Akhtar, Saleem Malik, Saleem Yousuf, Shoaib Mohammad, Mohsin Kamal, Manzoor Elahi, Wasim Akram, Zakir Khan, Asif Mujtaba, Saleem Jaffar, Ijaz Ahmed and Iqbal Qasim. Lacking the signatures of Rameez Raja and the manager, Haseeb... View full lot details

Pakistan World Cup tour to Australasia 1992. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all fifteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Imran Khan (Captain), Javed Miandad, Aamir Sohail, Aaqib Javed, Ijaz Ahmed, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Iqbal Sikander, Moin Khan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Rameez Raja, Saleem Malik, Wasim Akram, Wasim Haider, Zahid Fazal and Intikhab Alam (Manager). Horizontal fold, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with an original... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1996. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed by all twenty members of the touring party. Players’ signatures are Wasim Akram, Aamir Sohail, Saleem Malik, Waqar Younis, Rashid Latif, Saeed Anwar, Moin Khan, Asif Mujtaba, Ijaz Ahmed, Mushtaq Ahmed, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Attur Rahman, Saqlain Mushtaq, Mohammad Akram, Shahid Anwar, Shadab Kabir and Shahid Nazir. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Sri Lanka v M.C.C. 1976/77. Official autograph card with colour Sri Lanka emblem, printed title ‘M.C.C. Tour 1977 Sri Lanka Players’ and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all sixteen listed members of the Sri Lanka team. Signatures are Tennekoon (Captain), Fernando, Warnapura, D.S. de Silva, Mendis, Opatha, Kaluperuma, G.R.A. de Silva, Dias, Abeynaike, Paranthala, Wettimuny, Illangaratnam, Ranasinghe, Gunatilleke and Perera (Manager). Very good condition.... View full lot details

Sri Lanka tour to Australia, Singapore and Bangladesh 1984/85. Large official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed members of the Sri Lanka touring party. Players’ signatures are Mendis (Captain), Dias, S. de Silva, Madugalle, Wettimuny, de Mel, Ranatunga, John, Ravi Ratnayeke, Silva, Kuruppu, Von Hagt, Rumesh Ratnayeke, A. de Silva, G. de Silva and Karnain. Folds and some soiling to page edges, otherwise in good... View full lot details

Sri Lanka tours to Australia and Bangladesh (Asia Cup) 1987/88. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed members of the touring party. Players’ signatures are Madugalle (Captain), Ranatunga, Amalean, de Alwis, Asoka de Silva, Aravinda de Silva, Gurusinha, Jeganathan, Kaluperuma, Kuruppu, Labrooy, Mahanama, Ramanayake, Ratnayeke, Samarasekara, and Tillakaratne. Light horizontal folds, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Sri Lanka. ‘South African Tour to Sri Lanka 1993’. Official Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names. Signed by sixteen of the listed members of the Sri Lanka team and the manager, Duleep Mendis. Players’ signatures are Ranatunga (Captain), de Silva, Mahanama, Hathurusinghe, Gurusinghe, Tillekaratne, Jayasuriya, Ramanayake, Wickramasinghe, Dassanayake, Kalpage, Muralitharan, Warnaweera and Chandana. Lacking one signature of Wijetunga. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Sri Lanka tour to South Africa 1997/98. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all nineteen listed members of the Sri Lanka touring party. Players’ signatures are Ranatunga (Captain), A. de Silva, Atapattu, Mahanama, Jayasuriya, Tillekeratne, Kaluwitharana, Dharmasena, Muralitharan, Vaas, S. de Silva, Pushpakumara, Chandana, Arnold, Jayawardena and Wickramasinghe. Light folds, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Sri Lanka tour to Zimbabwe 1999/2000. Official Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka autograph sheet with printed title, players’ names and colour portrait images. Signed by twenty of the listed members of the Sri Lanka team and officials. Players’ signatures are Jayasuriya (Captain), M. Jayawardena, Wickramasinghe, Muralitharan, Kaluwitharana, Vaas, Atapattu, Arnold, Zoysa, Perera, Dilshan, De Seram, Silva, P. Jayawardena, Gallage, and additionally signed by S. de Silva, Pushpakamura and Chandana. Lacking one signature... View full lot details

Sri Lanka tour to South Africa and New Zealand 2000/01. Official Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka autograph sheet with printed title, players’ names and colour portrait images. Fully signed by all nineteen listed members of the Sri Lanka team and officials. Players’ signatures are Jayasuriya (Captain), Atapattu, Jayawardena, Wickramasinghe, Vaas, Muralitharan, Kaluwitharana, Arnold, Chandana, Zoysa, Dilshan, Gunawardena, Sangakkara, Weeraratne, Pushpakamura and Fernando. Some trimming, minor creasing, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

South Africa 1952/53. Large official autograph sheet for the South African tour of Australia and New Zealand 1952/53. Fully signed with sixteen signatures in ink including Cheetham (Captain), McLean, McGlew, Tayfield, Endean, Mansell, Fuller, Innes, Keith, Norton, Murray, Funston, Melle etc. Light folds, very good condition. A rarely seen autograph sheet... View full lot details

South Africa v Australia 1957/58. South African Cricket Association sheet signed by the South African team who played Australia in South Africa. Twelve signatures, nicely signed in ink and biro, including Van Ryneveld (Cpt), McGlew, Tayfield, Adcock, Heine, Goddard, Endean, Burger, Funston, Carlstein, Viljeon (Manager) etc. Light folds, some browning to paper otherwise good condition... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1960. Official autograph sheet fully signed in ink and biro by all sixteen members of the South Africa touring party. Players’ signatures include McGlew (Captain), Goddard, Adcock, Duckworth, Fellows-Smith, Pithey, Pothecary, Tayfield, Waite, Wesley, Nourse (Manager) etc. Light folds and slight creasing otherwise in good/ very good condition. Good signatures... View full lot details

South Africa v New Zealand 1961/62. Album page signed by the eleven members of the South Africa team for the 5th Test at Port Elizabeth, 16th- 20th February 1962. Signatures are McGlew (Captain), Adcock, Barlow, Waite, McLean, Bland, Pollock, Bromfield, Lawrence, Lance and Farrer. Very good condition.... View full lot details

South Africa v England 1964/65. Official South African Cricket Association autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed by the twelve members of the South Africa team for the 2nd Test at the Wanderers, Johannesburg 23rd- 29th December 1964. Signatures are Goddard (Captain), McLean, Barlow, Lindsay, Pithey, Seymour, Varnals, P. Pollock, G. Pollock, Partridge, Bland and Carlstein. Horizontal folds, some wear and creasing to edges, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

England ‘Rebel’ tour to South Africa 1982. Official ‘Press Release’ sheet signed in ink by eleven members of the South African team with names annotated in pencil below each signature. Signatures are Procter, Kirsten, Kourie, Rice, Pollock, Cook, van der Bijl, Richard, Le Roux, Jennings and Jefferies. Sold with an official South African Cricket Union autograph sheet signed by twelve South Africans for the 1985/86 ‘rebel’ home series against Australia. Signatures are Rice, Cook, Fotheringham,... View full lot details

South Africa tour of New Zealand 1995 (Centenary Celebrations). Official autograph sheet fully signed in ink by all seventeen members of the South Africa touring party. Players’ signatures include Cronje (Captain), Matthews, de Villiers, Cullinan, Donald, Rhodes, Kirsten, Richardson, Hudson etc. Good condition... View full lot details

South African provincial cricket 1979/80- 1982/83. Five official Western Province Cricket Association autograph sheets. Three are of Western Province teams for seasons 1979/80 (9 signatures), 1981/82 (13) and 1982/83 (16). Players’ signatures include P. Kirsten, Allan Lamb, Ackerman, Seeff, Bruce, le Roux, Hobson, McEwan, Nel, Jefferies, Henry, Emburey, Pienaar, Gooch, Du Toit etc. Also two ‘away’ team sheets for Orange Free State 1981/82, 11 signatures including Hartley, Griessel, Humpage, van der Merwe, Prideau etc. and... View full lot details

West Indies v Australia, Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, 14th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th May 1955. Typed autograph sheet with ink signatures of the two team in vertical rows to either side of the sheet. Twenty six ink signatures, fifteen of the Australians and eleven of the West Indies team. Signatures include Johnston, Morris, Harvey, Davidson, Langley, Archer, Miller, Benaud, Lindwall, Burge, Atkinson, Worrell, Walcot, Weekes, Ramadhin, Dewdney, Depeiaza etc. Some slight fading to signatures, folds... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1966. Page on Hampshire C.C.C. headed paper, signed in ink by fourteen members of the West Indies touring party. Signatures are Sobers (Captain), Gibbs, Allan, Kanhai, Cohen, Griffith, Nurse, Brancker, Solomon, Carew, Butcher, Hall, Lashley and Stollmeyer (Manager). Light folds otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

West Indies tour to Australia 1991/92. Autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all sixteen listed members of the West Indies touring party. Signatures are Richardson (Captain), D. Haynes, Ambrose, Anthony, Arthurton, Best, Bishop, Cummins, R. Haynes, Hooper, Lara, Marshall, Patterson, Wallace, Williams and Murray (Manager). Light folds otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

West Indies tour to New Zealand 1994/95. Official New Zealand Cricket autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all seventeen listed members of the West Indies touring party. Players’ signatures are Walsh (Captain), Lara, Adams, Ambrose, Arthurton, K. Benjamin, W. Benjamin, Campbell, Chanderpaul, Cummins, Dhanraj, Holder, Murray and Williams. Light folds otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

New Zealand tour to England 1969. Official New Zealand Cricket Council autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all seventeen listed members of the New Zealand touring party. Signatures are Dowling (Captain), Pollard, M. Burgess, Collinge, Congdon, Cunis, Hadlee, Hastings, Howarth, Milburn, Motz, Murray, Taylor, Turner, Wadsworth, Yuile and G.C. Burgess (Manager). Light folds otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

New Zealand tour to England 1978. Official New Zealand Cricket Council autograph sheet with printed title and players’ names, fully signed in ink by all sixteen listed members of the New Zealand touring party. Signatures are Burgess (Captain), Parker, Anderson, Boock, Bracewell, Cairns, Congdon, Edgar, Edwards, D. Hadlee, R. Hadlee, Howarth, McIntyre, Wright, Thomson and Paterson (Manager). Light folds otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

New Zealand home Test and one-day international matches 1991/92 to 1995/96. Four official autograph sheets, all fully signed by the listed players. Matches are 2nd Test v England, Eden Park, Auckland 30th January- 3rd February 1992 (12 signatures), only Test v India, Hamilton 19th- 23rd March 1994 (15), Test series v West Indies 1994/95 (15), and the one-day International v Zimbabwe, Eden Park 28th January 1996 (17). Players’ signatures include M. Crowe, C. Cairns, Hartland,... View full lot details

New Zealand tours to England 1994 & 1999. Two official autograph sheets, one for the 1994 tour fully signed by all twenty members of the New Zealand touring party, the other for the 1999 tour fully signed by twenty one. Signatures include Rutherford, Larsen, Crowe, Doull, Fleming, Greatbatch, Morrison, Nash, Parore, Pocock, Pringle, Allott, Astle, Cairns, McMillan, Nash, Twose, Vettori etc. Horizontal folds to the 1999 sheet, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

New Zealand tours 1994/95 to 2002. Three official autograph sheets, all fully signed, some with additional signatures to originally named tour members. Tours are 1994/95 to India & South Africa (20 signatures), 1997/98 to Australia (20), and 2002 to Pakistan & Sharjah (14). Players’ signatures include Rutherford, M. Crowe, Doull, Fleming, Germon, Harris, Nash, Parore, Pringle, Su’a, Allott, Astle, C. Cairns, McMillan, Pocock, Vettori, Sinclair, Styris, Tuffey etc. Horizontal and vertical folds to the 2002... View full lot details

New Zealand tour of Kuala Lumpur 1998. Official autograph sheet for the New Zealand tour to the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur 1998. Nineteen signatures including Allott, Astle, Fleming, Vettori, Parore, Bell, O’Connor etc. Plus another official autograph sheet for the One Day International series v Zimbabwe and Australia 1998. Sixteen signatures including Astle, Cairns, Doull, Fleming, Nash, Parore, Harris etc. Qty 2 Good condition... View full lot details