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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

John Richmond Gunn. Nottinghamshire, London County & England 1896-1925. Early original mono postcard of Gunn standing full length wearing cricket attire and Nottinghamshire cap in bowling pose at the wicket. Nicely signed in black ink ‘Yours faithfully John Gunn’ to the image. Printed title ‘John Gunn’. Wrench series no. 1691. Postmarked 18th May 1906. Small creases to corners, soiling and age toning, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Somerset C.C.C. 1905. Early sepia real photograph postcard of the Somerset team for the match v Sussex at Hove, 15th- 17th June 1905, the players seated and standing in rows wearing assorted blazers and headgear. Players are Woods (Captain), Lewis, Newton, Dunlop, Braund, Sellick, Brown, Lee, Poyntz, Martin and Cranfield. Sussex won by two wickets. Foster of Brighton. Postally unused. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Dennis Brian Close. Yorkshire, Somerset & England 1949-1977. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of a youthful Close, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Very nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph by Close. Official stamp for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich to verso. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet. Oxford University, Somerset & England 1890-1909. Mono postcard of Palairet in batting pose at the wicket. Beautifully signed in black ink to the lower margin ‘Lionel C.H. Palairet’. Printed title ‘Mr. L.C.H. Palairet’. Wrench series no. 2935. Postally unused. Minor wear to corners, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England, 1905-1934. Attractive mono real photograph postcard of Hobbs, full length, in cricket attire wearing M.C.C. touring cap. Very nicely signed in ink by Hobbs. Postally unused. The signature on the postcard was obtained by J.B. Hall (Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1935-1946). Sold with a letter to this effect from his Grandson. The postcard is displayed in the photographers folding card cover and has his name printed to front J.R. Broad,... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. Sepia real photograph postcard of Hobbs standing three quarter length wearing cricket attire and cap, leaning on his bat. Nicely signed by Hobbs in black ink to the photograph and dated ‘1925’. To the verso, a handwritten message from Hobbs thanking the correspondent for ‘your congratulations & lines of August 22nd. Believe me, your kind thoughts are much appreciated’. Signed by Hobbs and dated 18th November 1925.... View full lot details

Thomas ‘Tom’ Richardson. Surrey, Somerset & England 1892-1905. Early sepia real photograph postcard of Richardson standing full length at the wicket, wearing cricket attire, Surrey cap and holding a ball. Very nicely signed in black ink to the image by Richardson. Printed title ‘T. Richardson’. Hartmann R. Thiele series no. 7414. Postally unused. Minor wear to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Lord Dalmeny. Middlesex & Surrey 1902-1908. Early original advertising trade card from c.1905 in the form of a cricket ball issued by ‘The Sportsman’ newspaper. The front features a red ball with title ‘For best reports of all matches read The Sportsman’ and, to the verso, a head and shoulders mono image of Lord Dalmeny wearing Surrey cap from a photo by Foster of Brighton, titled ‘The Sportsman Cricket Celebrities. Lord Dalmeny’. 3” diameter. Minor... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. Two Godfrey Phillips ‘Pinnace’ premium issue cabinet size mono real photograph plain back trade cards of [J.]W. Hitch (Surrey & England 1907-1925), half length wearing M.C.C. touring blazer, no. 18.C, and [H.]A. Peach (Surrey 1919-1931) in batting pose, no. 22.C. Each 4”x6”. Minor silvering to the Hitch card with adhesive marks to verso, light vertical crease to the Peach card, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Peter James Loader. Surrey & England 1951-1963. Mono real photograph postcard of Loader, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Signed in blue ink to the photograph ‘Peter Loader’. Printed title to lower border, ‘P.J. Loader’. F.C. Dick, Oval Bookstall. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Walter Stuart Surridge. Surrey 1947-1960. Mono real photograph postcard of Surridge, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Signed in blue ink to the photograph ‘Best wishes, W. Stuart Surridge’. Printed title to lower border, ‘W.S. Surridge’. F.C. Dick, Oval Bookstall. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. ‘I always use Waterman’s’. Two different Jack Hobbs advertising postcards for Waterman’s Pens, both signed in blue ink to the front by Hobbs. Postally unused. Good condition.... View full lot details

Herbert Alan Peach. Surrey 1919-1931. Original mono real photograph postcard of Peach standing three quarter length in the doorway of a pavilion, wearing cricket attire and Surrey blazer. Signed in black ink to the photograph ‘Best wishes, A. Peach’. Appears to be by H. Walker of Scarborough. Postally unused. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Walter Scott Lees. Surrey, London County & England 1896-1911. Early original mono postcard of Lees standing full length wearing cricket attire and Surrey cap in bowling pose at the wicket. Nicely signed in black ink ‘Yours sincerely W. Lees’ to the image. Printed title ‘W. Lees (Surrey)’. Wrench series no. 617. Postmarked 6th July 1906. Loss to lower left corner, abrasion marks affecting the face of Lees, some soiling, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Sussex 1952. Mono real photograph plain back candid style postcard of the Sussex team entering the field of play from the pavilion with spectators looking on, for the match v Lancashire at Blackpool, 6th- 8th August 1952. The photograph signed in ink and biro by nine Sussex players. Signatures are James Langridge, John Langridge, Marlar, Suttle, Thomson, Oakman, Doggart, Webb and Oakes. The match was drawn. Publisher unknown. Very good condition.... View full lot details

George Cox Junior. Sussex 1931-1961. Mono real photograph postcard of Cox, three quarter length, wearing Sussex cap and blazer. Very nicely signed in black ink ‘George Cox’. Printed title ‘Geo Cox Jnr’. Deane, Wiles & Millar of Brighton. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Albert Frederick ‘Bert’ Wensley. Sussex, Auckland, Nawangar & Europeans 1922-1948. Mono real photograph postcard of Wensley standing full length wearing cricket attire and Sussex blazer. Nicely signed in ink by Wensley. Nias of Brighton. Postally unused. Some adhesive marks to corners on the verso otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Albert Edward Relf. Sussex, Auckland & England 1900-1921. Early original mono postcard of Relf standing full length at the crease in batting pose wearing Sussex cap. The postcard nicely signed in black ink to the lower margin by Relf. Wrench Series no. 1690 c.1903. Postally unused. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Henry Ridgen ‘Harry’ Butt. Sussex & England 1890-1912. Early original mono postcard of Butt standing full length in wicket-keeping pose at the wicket, wearing Sussex cap. Signed in black ink to lower margin ‘H. Butt’. Wrench Series no. 1385 c.1903. Postally unused. Minor wear to corners, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

Joseph ‘Joe’ Vine. Sussex & England 1896-1922. Early original mono postcard of Vine standing full length at the wicket in bowling pose, wearing Sussex cap. Signed in black ink to lower margin ‘Yours truly, Joe Vine’. Wrench Series no. 1383 c.1903. Postally unused. Some rounding to corners, small stain to right edge, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Edward Ralph ‘Ted’ Dexter. Cambridge University, Sussex & England 1956-1968. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Dexter, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Nicely signed in black ink to the lower margin, ‘E.R. Dexter’. Adhesive tape to verso, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Ernest Harry ‘Tim’ Killick. Sussex 1893-1913. Early original sepia postcard of Killick standing full length at the crease in batting pose wearing Sussex cap. The postcard very nicely signed to the image in black ink ‘Yours truly, E.H. Killick’. Wrench Series no. 1382 from a photograph by Foster. Postmarked 1906. Nick to edge, wear to corners, age toning, overall in generally fair condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Sussex C.C.C. Record first wicket stand 1933. Mono real photograph postcard of John Langridge and Ted Bowley standing in front of the scoreboard at Hove for the match Sussex v Middlesex, 5th- 8th August 1933. The printed title describes the scoreboard showing their record partnership of 490 for the first wicket, Langridge first to fall, for 195, with Bowley 281no (Bowley was out shortly after scoring 283). Sussex declared their innings at 512/3 and won... View full lot details

George Rubens Cox (George Cox Senior). Sussex 1895-1928. Sepia real photograph postcard of Cox standing full length wearing cricket attire and Sussex cap, hands in pockets. Very nicely signed in ink to the photograph ‘G.R. Cox. Official stamps to verso for Nias and A.G. Spalding of Brighton. Postally unused. Very good condition. An excellent image.... View full lot details

Maurice William Tate. Sussex & England 1912-1937. Sepia real photograph postcard of Tate standing full length wearing cricket attire and M.C.C. touring blazer, pipe in mouth, spectators in the background. Signed to the photograph ‘Maurice Tate’. Publisher unknown. Postally unused. Slight fading to the signature. Minor wear to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Albert Frederick ‘Bert’ Wensley. Sussex, Auckland, Nawanagar & Europeans 1922-1948. Mono real photograph postcard of Wensley standing full length wearing Sussex cap and blazer. Nicely signed to the photograph in black ink, ‘A.F. Wensley’. Nias of Brighton. Postally unused. Minor wear to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A nice image.... View full lot details

Douglas James ‘Jim’ Wood. Sussex 1936-1955. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Wood, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire and blazer. Nicely signed to the top left corner in black ink, ‘Jim Wood’. Official stamp to verso for A Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich, dated stamped 18th June 1953. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Dick Stanley Richards. Sussex 1927-1935. Early mono real photograph postcard of Richards standing full length wearing cricket attire and blazer. Signed in ink to the photograph ‘D.S. Richards’. Blind embossed stamp for Nias of Brighton to lower right corner. Postally unused. Very minor wear to corners, otherwise in very good condition. A nice image.... View full lot details

Robert Richard ‘Bob’ Relf. Sussex 1905-1933. Early sepia real photograph postcard of Relf standing full length at the wicket in batting pose, wearing Sussex cap. Signed in ink to the photograph ‘R.R. Relf’. Printed title ‘Relf R.R.’. Foster of Brighton. Postmarked 1910. Minor wear to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A nice image.... View full lot details

Reginald Allen ‘Reg’ Hollingdale. Sussex & Scotland 1925-1938. Mono real photograph postcard of Hollingdale, three quarter length, in Sussex cap and blazer. Signed in black ink to the photograph ‘R. Hollingdale’. Printed title ‘Reg Hollingdale’. Deane, Wiles & Millar of Brighton. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Walter Latter ‘Tich’ Cornford. Sussex & England 1921-1947. Sepia real photograph postcard of Cornford standing full length wearing wicket-keeping attire and Sussex cap. Nicely signed in ink to the photograph ‘W.L. Cornford’. Official stamps to verso for Nias and A.G. Spalding of Brighton. Postally unused. Minor age toning and slight rounding to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

George Hubert Graham Doggart. Cambridge University, Sussex & England 1948-1961. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Doggart, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Very nicely signed in blue ink by Doggart. Official stamp for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich to verso. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Sussex C.C.C. c.1905. Four early original mono real photograph postcards of Sussex players at the wicket, all Rival Photograph Series with printed titles. Three in batting pose of E.H. Killick (Series no. 1385), A.E. Relf (no. 1383), C.B. Fry (no. 1386), also G. Cox in bowling pose (no. 1384). All postally unused. Staining to the Fry postcard, general wear and light creasing, overall in good condition.... View full lot details

Maurice William Tate. Sussex & England 1912-1937. Early original sepia real photograph postcard of Tate standing three quarter length wearing cricket attire and M.C.C. tour blazer, pipe in hand. Signed in black ink ‘Maurice Tate’ to the image. Printed title ‘Maurice Tate’. B.C. Flemons of Tonbridge. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Sam Hargreave. Warwickshire 1899-1909. Excellent sepia real photograph postcard of Hargreave, standing full length at the wicket wearing cricket attire in bowling pose. Very nicely signed in black ink ‘Sam Hargreave’ to lower margin. Printed title ‘Hargreave (Warwickshire)’. Hartmann series no. 2913. Postally unused. Light creasing to top left corner, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rarely seen signature.... View full lot details

Tom Dollery, Warwickshire & England 1934-1955, and Derek Shackleton, Hampshire & England 1948-1969. Two mono real photograph postcards of each player, head and shoulders, with name and county printed to lower border. Signed in ink by both Dollery and Shackleton. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Thomas Leslie Pritchard. Wellington, Warwickshire & Kent 1937-1956. Original mono real photograph plain back postcard of Pritchard, head and shoulders in cricket attire and blazer. Signed in ink to the photograph by Pritchard, dated ‘1947’. Official stamp for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich to verso. Some staining to verso, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

William George ‘Willie’ Quaife. Warwickshire & England 1894-1928. Mono postcard of Quaife, full length in batting pose, wearing Warwickshire cap. Nicely signed in black ink to lower margin ‘W.G. Quaife’. Wrench series no. 2932. Printed title ‘W. Quaife’. Postmarked c.1906. Wear to corners, general soiling and foxing, overall in good condition.... View full lot details

Worcestershire C.C.C. 1947. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of the Worcestershire team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. Printed title and players’ names to lower border. Fully signed in blue ink to the photograph by all eleven featured players. Signatures are White (Captain), Perks, Bird, Wyatt, Jackson, F. Cooper, Kenyon, E. Cooper, Howorth, Jenkins and Yarnold. Official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. Small damage to top right... View full lot details

Worcestershire C.C.C. 1960s & 1970s. John Morton Parker (Worcestershire, Northern District & New Zealand 1971-1984) and Norman Gifford (Worcestershire, Warwickshire & England 1960-1988). Two mono real photograph plain back postcards. One of Parker in batting action, with official stamp to verso for Bill Smith of Stanmore. The other a head and shoulders photograph of a youthful Gifford, photographer unknown. Both signed to the photographs by the featured player. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Yorkshire Team 1903’. Early sepia real photograph postcard of the 1903 Yorkshire team seated and standing in rows wearing Yorkshire blazers and caps. Signed in ink to the photograph and border by three of the featured players. Signatures are F. Stanley Jackson, David Denton and David Hunter. Others featured include Lord Hawke (Captain), Taylor, Haigh, Hirst, Tunnicliffe, Rhodes etc. Printed title and players’ names to lower border. Rotary Series no. 3813. Postally unused. Very good... View full lot details

‘Yorkshire County C.C.’ c.1905. Early original mono printed postcard of the Yorkshire team seated and standing in rows wearing blazers and caps. Signed in ink to the postcard image by George Hirst (slightly faded), and to the verso by five of the twelve featured players. The signatures are Haigh, Hirst, Rhodes, W.H. Wilkinson and Hunter. Taken from a photograph by E. Hawkins & Co., Brighton, publisher unknown. Some wear to corners and minor soiling, otherwise... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. 1904. Early sepia real photograph postcard of the Yorkshire team for the drawn match v Sussex at Hove, 18th- 20th August 1904, the players seated and standing in rows wearing Yorkshire caps and blazers. Players are Lord Hawke (Captain), Haigh, Grimshaw, Denton, Lees-Whitehead, Hunter, Myers, Rhodes, Hirst, Smith, Wilkinson and Tunnicliffe. Foster of Brighton/ W.H.S. & S. Grosvenor Series. Postmarked 1905. Light creasing otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

William Eric ‘Bill’ Bowes. Yorkshire & England 1929-1947. Original mono real photograph postcard of Bowes depicted head and shoulders in cameo wearing cricket attire. Very nicely signed in ink below the image by Bowes. Thin paper strip attached to lower border with Bowes’s name, county and date of birth printed to it. The postcard appears to be by A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich but has at some point been laid down to card so... View full lot details

Hedley Verity. Yorkshire & England, 1930-39. Original mono real photograph postcard of Verity depicted head and shoulders in cameo wearing cricket attire and Yorkshire cap. Very nicely signed in ink below the image by Verity. Thin paper strip attached to lower border with Verity’s name, county and date of birth printed to it. The postcard appears to be by A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich but has at some point been laid down to card... View full lot details

Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire & England 1898-1930. Mono real photograph postcard of Rhodes standing three quarter length wearing Yorkshire blazer and cap leaning on the railings, assumed to be at Scarborough. Nicely signed in ink to the photograph Walker’s Studio, Scarborough. Adhesive marks to verso otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

Leonard Hutton. Yorkshire & England 1934-1955. Mono real photograph postcard of Hutton, half length, wearing his M.C.C. ‘South Africa 1938/39’ tour blazer and cricket attire. The postcard by Walter Scott of Bradford. The postcard very nicely signed by Hutton, is mounted in photographers folding card mount, the cover with impressed ‘White Rose’ emblem. Very good condition... View full lot details

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England and Jack Hobbs. Surrey & England. Two nicely signed real photograph postcards of the England opening batsman, each signed in black ink. Each nicely mounted, framed and glazed. Overall approximately 7”x9”. Sold with framed mono photographs of Colin Milburn and Basil D’Olivera, each signed to image, 8”x10.5” and 11”x13”. Very good condition... View full lot details

Schofield Haigh. Yorkshire & England 1895-1913. Mono real photograph postcard of Haigh full length in bowling pose. Nicely signed in black ink to lower border ‘Yours truly, Schofield Haigh’. Printed title ‘Haigh (Yorkshire) “Yorkshire Style”’. Hartmann series no. 1378. Postally unused. Light creasing, minor wear to edges and corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

John Tunnicliffe. Yorkshire 1891-1907. Mono real photograph postcard of Tunnicliffe catching a low ball, wearing Yorkshire cap. Very nicely signed in black ink to lower border ‘Yrs Very Truly, J. Tunnicliffe’. Printed title ‘Tunnicliffe (Yorkshire) “Caught, Sir”’. Hartmann series no. 1376. Postally unused. Minor silvering and soiling, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Frank Stanley Jackson. Cambridge University, Yorkshire & England 1890-1907. Early original mono postcard of Jackson standing full length in batting pose at the crease. Nicely signed ‘F. Stanley Jackson’ in black ink to the lower right corner by Jackson. Wrench series no. 1696 c.1903. Postally unused. Slight fading to the signature, light crease to top edge, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

John Thomas ‘Jack’ Brown. Yorkshire & England 1889-1904. Early original mono postcard of Brown standing full length at the wicket in batting pose, wearing Yorkshire cap. Signed in black ink to lower margin ‘Yours truly, J.T. Brown’. Wrench Series no. 1386 c.1903. Postally unused. Some browning to the signature. Minor wear to corners, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

Arthur Brian Sellers. Yorkshire 1932-1948. Mono real photograph postcard of Sellers, full length walking out to bat wearing Yorkshire cap, in cameo. Signed in blue ink to the lower border ‘A. Brian Sellers’. Dated in pencil to verso ‘1933’. Publisher unknown. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Fred Trueman and Mike Cowan. Mono real photograph postcard of Trueman (Yorkshire & England 1949-1969) and Cowan (Yorkshire 1953-1962) standing together, half length wearing cricket attire, Trueman with a blazer and holding a batting pad. Very nicely signed in ink to the photograph by both Trueman and Cowan. Publisher unknown. Postally unused. Minor bumping to corners, otherwise in very good condition. A nice image.... View full lot details

Abraham ‘Abe’ Waddington. Yorkshire & England 1919-1927. Mono real photograph postcard of Waddington in match bowling action. Nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph by Waddington. Official stamp for Walkers Studios, Scarborough to verso. Published by Baron-Hartley of Blackpool. Postmarked 1949. Some creasing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Mono real photograph postcard of Sutcliffe in batting pose in the nets, very nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph. Publisher unknown. Postally unused. Very good condition. An excellent image.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Bill Foord and Bill Bowes. Mono real photograph candid-style plain back postcard of Foord (Yorkshire 1947-1953) and Bowes (Yorkshire & England 1928-1947) seated together in conversation on a pavilion bench, c.1950. Signed in ink to the photograph by both Foord and Bowes. Publisher unknown. Postally unused. Some creasing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Emmott Robinson. Yorkshire 1919-1931. Original mono real photograph plain back postcard of Robinson walking off the field of play in batting attire, wearing Yorkshire cap. Nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph and to the verso by Robinson. Photographer unknown. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Maurice Leyland and Roy Kilner. Two mono advertising postcards, one of Leyland in batting pose with advertising to verso for the ‘Maurice Leyland Cricket Bat’ by Sykes. Signed in pencil to the front by Leyland. The other, of Kilner standing full length, is a similar ‘Roy Kilner Cricket Bat’ postcard of 1926 with facsimile signature to the front. Sold with a sepia real photograph plain back postcard of Kilner, head and shoulders wearing... View full lot details

Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire, Europeans, Patiala & England 1898-1930. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1903/04. A collection of nine picture postcards sent by Rhodes to ‘F.E. Davis’ in Halifax, Yorkshire while on his first overseas tour with England to Australia in 1903/04 (and one other dated 1930). Subjects include Paris, Pompeii, Port Said, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Tasmania, Glenelg and Melbourne. Each postcard is signed or initialled by Rhodes. The postcards loosely mounted to album pages. Minor wear... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Glass plate negative of Hobbs, full length, wearing M.C.C. blazer and in cricket attire holding a cricket bat to side. The plate was struck for the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1924/25 under the name Don Photo Series, produced by Rose Stenographic Company founded in Melbourne in 1880 and operated right up to 2020. Sold with two reproduction photographs taken recently from the negative. Good condition... View full lot details

Arthur Mailey, New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930. Glass plate negative of Mailey, full length, wearing cricket attire and in bowling pose. The plate was struck for the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1924/25 under the name Don Photo Series, produced by Rose Stenographic Company founded in Melbourne in 1880 and operated right up to 2020. Sold with two reproduction photographs taken recently from the negative. Good condition. Sold with a first edition copy of... View full lot details

England player postcards early 1900s. A selection of fifteen early postcards, all of a similar ‘pink’ printed series, each depicting an English cricketer in various poses, with printed player’s name to lower border. The majority are from photographs by E. Hawkins of Brighton featuring P.F. Warner (Middlesex), Tip Foster (Worcestershire), Len Braund, Sammy Woods (Somerset), Tom Hayward, Bobby Abel (Surrey), C.B. Fry, K.S. Ranjitsinhji (Sussex), W.G. Grace, Gilbert Jessop (Gloucestershire), Jack Mason (Kent), Wilfred Rhodes... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Three early mono/ sepia real photograph postcards of W.G. Grace. Images depict Grace in cricket attire and blazer, one of him seated postmarked 1904, another head and shoulders postally unused, the third standing with the ‘young’ Prince of Wales postmarked 1911. All Rotary series, nos. 3801, 3801B and 3801C respectively. Some creasing and pin hole to the postcard of Grace seated, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Force Bat Series’ advertising postcards c.1911. Five early mono real photograph postcards issued by Summers Brown & Co., London, each featuring a head and shoulders studio portrait of a player wearing cricket attire and cap, with printed signatures and titles to lower margins. Includes three Surrey players, Jack Hobbs titled ‘The “Force” bat is the best’, Herbert Strudwick ‘The “Force Gauntlet is invaluable’, and Ernie Hayes ‘The “Force” bat has no equal’, also Patsy Hendren... View full lot details

‘Force Bat Series’ advertising postcards c.1911. Four early mono postcards issued by Summers Brown & Co., London. Three are real photographs, featuring a head and shoulders studio portrait of a player wearing cricket attire and cap, with printed signatures and titles to lower margins. Players depicted are Jack Hobbs (Surrey) titled ‘The “Force” bat is the best’ postmarked 1912, Punter Humphreys (Kent) ‘Best Bat “Force” Best Ball’, and Frank Tarrant (Middlesex) ‘I always use... View full lot details

England Test and County cricketers early 1900s. Six Valentine’s Series colour postcards, each depicting a player wearing cricket attire, with printed name to front. Players are F.S. Jackson, Hirst (Yorkshire), Tyldesley (Lancashire), T. Hayward (Surrey), Lilley (Warwickshire), and C.B. Fry (Sussex & Hampshire). Three postally used with postmarks or dated 1906. Wear to some corners and edges, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Lady Coke’s XI v Mr J Bamford’s XI’ Uttoxeter 1914. Early sepia real photograph postcard of ‘Mr Bamford’s XI’ seated and standing in rows in front of the pavilion. The match was played at Uttoxeter Oldfields 27th July 1914 but no record of the result or who took part can be found. Sold with a similar postcard of a general view of the pavilion with players and spectators in attendance. Both by Alfred McCann of... View full lot details

Rupert Roopnaraine. Cambridge University 1964-1966. Mono real candid-style photograph plain back postcard of Roopnaraine depicted half length wearing cricket attire. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph, ‘Rupert Roopnaraine’. Typed title ‘R. Roopnaraine, Cambridge University’. Official stamp to verso for C. Goodman of Newmarket. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Entrance to The Oval, Kennington’ c.1910. Early original sepia real photograph postcard of the entrance to the Oval ground with the iconic gas holder in the background. Printed title to lower portion of the image. Published by Gale & Polden Ltd. Postally unused. Minor blemish and wear to corners, otherwise in very good condition. Excellent image.... View full lot details

Cricket postcards 1910s-1950s. A good selection of eleven original postcards, the majority real photographs unless stated. Includes team postcards of Yorkshire 1905 (printed) by Scott of Bradford, Northamptonshire of 1925, S.H. Greenway of Northampton, Sussex 1936, Deane Wiles of Brighton, and Kent 1950 by Flemons of Tonbridge. Others feature George Hirst in batting pose for Paddock C.C. (Huddersfield) and another of the Paddock team. Aerial view of match in play at Hastings, date unknown, Sussex... View full lot details

‘The Johnnie Walker Test Match Scoreboard’ 1934. Five mono/ sepia real photograph postcards depicting the scoreboard at various locations during the 1934 Ashes series. Locations are Great Yarmouth, 1st Test at Trent Bridge, showing Australia’s 1st innings total of 374, England at 52/1, Sutcliffe on 28, Hammond on 5. Published by Johnnie Walker. Brighton, 2nd Test at Lord’s, showing Australia’s second innings score of 118 all out, match result annotated in ink to front ‘England... View full lot details

‘The Excelsior Pictorial Post Card Co. Portraits of the complete English Team who brought home the Ashes’. Published by A.C. (Albert Craig) Cricket Rhymester. Blue card booklet with printed titles containing four postcards, two with three cricketers, two with four. Players include Lilley, Hayward, Fielder, Knight, Rhodes, Warner etc. Complete as issued. Adhesive mark to front wrapper, rusting to staple, otherwise in good condition. Rare in this form. Sold with ‘Kent Cricketers’, original envelope containing... View full lot details

Leslie John Todd. Kent 1927-1950. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Todd, three quarter length, wearing pads and gloves ready for batting. Signed and dedicated in black ink by Todd ‘To Martin, wishing you all the best of luck’. B.C. Flemons of Tunbridge. Good condition... View full lot details

Leon Hellmuth. Kent 1951-1952. Mono real photograph postcard of Hellmuth three quarter length wearing cricket attire. Nicely signed in ink to the photograph by Hellmuth. Printed title ‘L. Hellmuth, Kent’ to lower left corner. ‘Kent Cricket Series’ by J.D. Hunt of Tonbridge. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Bruce Stanley Darvell. Kent 1952, 1 match. Mono real photograph postcard of Darvell three quarter length wearing cricket attire and holding a ball. Nicely signed in ink to the photograph by Darvell. Printed title ‘B. Darval [sic], Kent’ to lower left corner. ‘Kent Cricket Series’ by J.D. Hunt of Tonbridge. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Brian Elvin Disbury. Kent 1954-1957. Mono real photograph postcard of Disbury three quarter length wearing cricket attire. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by Disbury. Printed title ‘B.E. Disbury, Kent’ to lower right corner. J.D. Hunt of Tonbridge. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Abraham ‘Abram’ Waddington. Yorkshire & England 1919-1927. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Waddington, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Signed in ink by Waddington. Official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Harold Beaumont. Yorkshire 1946-1947. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Beaumont, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire and cap. Nicely signed in ink by Beaumont. Official stamp for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich to verso, date stamped 1946. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Donald Vincent ‘Don’ Brennan. Yorkshire & England 1947-1955. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Brennan, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire and blazer. Nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph by Brennan. Official stamp for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich to verso. Very good condition.... View full lot details

John Henry ‘Johnny’ Wardle. Yorkshire & England 1946-1958. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Wardle, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Very nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph by Wardle. Official stamp for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich to verso. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire, Europeans, Patiala & England 1898-1930. Sepia real photograph postcard of Rhodes standing full length wearing cricket attire, Yorkshire cap, and leaning on a bat. The photograph by A. Robinson of Sheffield, taken at the back of Bramall Lane pavilion. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘Yours sincerely W. Rhodes’. Postally unused. Minor wear to top edge and corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A good image.... View full lot details

George Herbert Hirst. Yorkshire, Europeans & England 1891-1929. Early original mono postcard of Hirst standing full length wearing cricket attire and Yorkshire cap, ball in hand at the wicket. Very nicely signed in black ink ‘G.H. Hirst’ to the lower margin. Printed title ‘G.H. Hirst’. Wrench series no. 1391. Postally unused. Trimmed to top edge, minor foxing, adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

Sachin Tendulkar. ‘Yorkshire Television. Sponsors of Sachin Tendulkar, Bombay, India and Yorkshire C.C.C.’ Original sponsors advertising card with biography to verso, signed to front by Tendulkar. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Album, containing 36 artistic photo post cards of all the first class county teams, also Warners XI, 18 of the best Cricketers and the 1905 Australian team’. The Star Series. 3rd edition. Complete album of uncut postcards, bound in boards with title to front board, six to a page, printed in Bavaria for G.D. & D. London in original orange wrappers with printed title and postcard of the 1905 Australian team laid to... View full lot details

‘Vanity Fair Cartoons Series’ postcards early 1900s. Seven colour postcards of cricketers each with series title and player biography printed to margins, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, London. One features Ranjitsinhji, series no. 1548, the others, from series no. 1707, are of F.S. Jackson, Gilbert Jessop, Robert Abel, Plum Warner, George Hirst and L.C.H. Palairet. All postally unused. The Jessop postcard with small surface damage to front. Some wear to corners and odd minor... View full lot details

Victorian cricket Christmas cards c.1895. Four exquisite colour Christmas cards. One double-sided card features a pair of cut-out cricket boots with title to verso ‘May you be bo(w)le’d, And never sol(e)d’. Adhesive marks to verso where previously laid down. The other three folding cards each depict bats, balls and stumps to the front, with titles ‘Good Luck to you’, ‘A jolly Score be yours this merry Season’, and ‘With the season’s greetings’, the latter, dated... View full lot details

Victorian cricket Christmas, New Year and birthday greetings cards c.1895. Seven attractive colour greetings cards, each featuring cricketing scenes, some with humorous captions. Two are single-sided cards, one issued by Raphael Tuck & Sons with artwork by ‘Ellam’, the other similar. Captions are ‘Straight for the middle stump’ and ‘How’s that? Very uncomfortable’. Other titles include ‘Where the deuce has that gone?’, ‘Grace and Remembrance to you Shakespeare’ etc. One card appears to feature a... View full lot details

Victorian advertising trade cards. Seven late Victorian advertising trade cards featuring cricket scenes. Includes two Belgian cards, one for ‘Grand Maison de Blanc’, the other ‘Chocolaterie Marchal’, both of Brussels, and one French card, ‘Chocolat Martougin’ of Paris. Two are titled ‘Cricket Series’, one with caption ‘Puzzle: Find the Captain’ with advertising to verso for Brundle’s of South Lowestoft, the other ‘Puzzle Find Trumper’ for Dodd Bros. of Tunbridge Wells. Another is titled ‘Our Eleven.... View full lot details

Freeman, Hardy & Willis c.1900. Four early advertising cards featuring cricket scenes/ cartoons. One, titled ‘Cricket Cranks. Find the Doctor’, features a roundel of an illustration of F.S. Jackson with a humorous scene of a cricketer being charged by a bull, printed in red and black. Other cards, printed in colour, depict illustrations of cricketers at play, with titles ‘Middlesex v. Lancashire. Find W.G. Grace and a Lancashire Lad’, Petty series no. 8074, ‘Hitting Out.... View full lot details

Huntley & Palmers Biscuits 1878. Three original colour Victorian chromolithograph advertising cards with gold borders, each depicting a different cricket scene, titled ‘Huntley & Palmers Biscuits, Reading & London’. To verso, printed details of the company’s product range, with details in French for the ‘Grand Prix de L’Exposition Universelle de Paris 1878’. Each measures 3”x4.5”. Wear to edges, creasing to one, adhesive marks to verso of two, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Early cricket cards. Three 19th century colour chromolithograph cricket cards each with a different image of a boy cricketer, two wearing a red cap, the other with red and blue quartered cap. Two cards are titled ‘Batsman’ and ‘Fielder’, both overprinted in the top panel by advertisers, the other titled ‘Bowled’ has been trimmed, lacking the advertising panel. The ‘Batsman’ card with further printed advertising to verso, others plain back. All ‘Copyright 1881 by O.J.... View full lot details

Early cricket cards. Four 19th century colour chromolithograph plain back cricket cards, each depicting the same image of a sprawling boy with flying stumps, titled ‘Bowled Out’. Three are printed in blue, one in red, all with a gold coloured sky. Two cards overprinted by advertisers for American retail outlets, all ‘Copyright 1881 by Geo. M. Hayes’ (U.S.A.). Each card measures 3”x4.5”. Some wear to edges and corner of one card, minor age toning, otherwise... View full lot details

Cricket appointment postcard 1934. Plain postcard with interesting printed request for engagement as an amateur cricket player sent out to clubs by ‘J.R. Dixon’, who was living at the time at Ashmill Street, London NW1. Dixon describes himself as a ‘Late County Player... First Batsman, slow or steady or fairly sharp scorer... Bowling, Slow to Medium Leg Break with leg swerve’ and proposes terms for a trial period of four matches as an amateur for... View full lot details

Early cricket menu and Christmas card. Small original folding menu card for Jesus College, Cambridge, dated 9th November 1881. The elaborate front cover engraving depicts a winged insect (cricket) in batting stance at the wicket with college buildings in the background, titled ‘Cricket’. Adhesive marks to verso, slight splitting to fold. Sold with an early concertina fold Christmas card, the front titled ‘Cricket. Losing the Toss’ with cartoon of a boy being chased by a... View full lot details

Cricket trade card miscellany 1920s onwards. A mixed selection of trade cards, postcards, playing and fixture cards etc. Contents include ‘Juno Picture Books County Cricketers No. 1’ 1949. Godfrey Phillips miniature Pinnace card no. 163C of Storer c.1923. ‘Player’s Please’ advertising fixture booklet for 1939, and a Glamorgan C.C.C. Advertising fixture card for Rizla 1957. ‘Midget’ postcard of a boy cricketer ‘Presented with the “Red Letter”’. Small jigsaw puzzle for Procea Bread etc. Odd minor... View full lot details

Boy cricketer postcards c.1913. Six early colour postcards of photographic images of a young boy in various batting poses. ‘Series 1888’ printed in Saxony. Titles are ‘Ready for a run’, ‘The hope of his side’, ‘Well played Sir’, ‘A narrow squeak’, ‘Play’, and ‘Ready for the play’. Five postally used, two with postmarks for 1913. Wear to some corners, odd creasing and soiling, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Commonwealth tour to India & Ceylon 1950/51. Official Christmas card with team colours in stripes to front, printed team photograph to inside. Signed in ink by two members of the touring party, George Tribe and Bruce Dooland. Light creasing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia & New Zealand 1946/47. Official M.C.C. Christmas card with decorative covers and printed caricatures of the M.C.C. team by Mailey to rear page. Unsigned. Good condition... View full lot details

‘M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1938-1939’. Official unsigned M.C.C. Christmas card from the ‘Timeless Test’ tour with cover image of a map showing England and South Africa with emblem of M.C.C. and South Africa. To inside a photograph of the team and the wording, ‘The Managers and Members of the M.C.C. Cricket Touring Team 1938-39 Wish you a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year’. Good/ very good condition... View full lot details

‘The Official Collection of International Cricketer Postcards’. Full run of T.C.C.B./ Classic Cricket Cards ‘International Cricketers’ postcards, nos. 1-100. Published by Stamp Publicity, Worthing, West Sussex 1995. All the postcards are signed in ink by the player unless mentioned. Signatures include Atherton, Sobers, Arthurton, Lloyd, Ambrose, Hick, Hussain, John Major MP, Cork, Caddick, Cronje, Donald, Procter, Graveney, Trueman, Cullinan, Kirsten, Pollock, Rhodes, Cowdrey, Azharuddin, Sidhu, Tendulkar, Srinath, Mongia, Manjrekar, Venkat Raju, Kumble, Botham, Gower, Compton,... View full lot details

‘The Official Collection of International Cricketer Postcards’. Full run of T.C.C.B./ Classic Cricket Cards ‘International Cricketers’ postcards, nos. 101-200. Published by Stamp Publicity, Worthing, West Sussex 1995. All the postcards are signed in ink by the player unless mentioned. Signatures include Croft, A. and B. Hollioake, Butcher, Blewett, Ponting, Slater, Julien, Lara, Chanderpaul, Walsh, Ambrose, Adams, Hooper, Headley, Giles, Cowan, Edrich, Adams, Boucher, Kallis, Ntini, Jayasuriya, Ranatunga, De Silva, Fleming, Twose, Vettori, Parore, Hadlee,... View full lot details

‘Cornhill Insurance Test Series’ collectors’ cards Series ‘C’. Thirty seven original colour player cards from Series ‘C’, of which thirty two are signed by the featured player. Signatures are Allott, Athey, Capel (2 different), Childs, Cook, Cowans, Cowdrey, Curtis, DeFreitas, Downton, Edmonds, Ellison, Emburey, Fowler, French, Gatting (2), Gower, Larkins, Lamb (2), Lawrence, Lloyd, Moxon, Pocock, Radford, Robinson, Sidebottom, D. Smith, Terry, Thomas, Willey and Willis. Also three unsigned of J. Richards, Slack, and C.... View full lot details

‘Cornhill Insurance Test Series’ collectors’ cards Series ‘D’ and ‘E’. Thirty six original colour player cards, of which eight are from Series ‘D’, all signed by the featured player, and twenty eight from Series ‘E’ (twenty one signed). Series ‘D’ signatures are Barnett, Curtis, Gatting, Jarvis, Malcolm, Moxon, Stephenson and Tavare. Series ‘E’ signatures are Atherton, Bailey, Botham, Capel, DeFreitas, Fairbrother, Fraser, Gooch, Hemmings, Hick, Hussain, Illingworth, Lamb, Lewis, Malcolm, Pringle, Ramprakash, Russell, R. Smith,... View full lot details

‘Cornhill Insurance Test Series’ collectors’ cards Series ‘G’ to ‘K’. Over one hundred and fifty original colour player cards of which over sixty are signed by the featured player. Includes Series ‘G’, 21 cards of which thirteen are signed by Bicknell, Caddick, Fraser, Gatting, Gooch, Ilott, Illingworth, Lewis, McCague, Maynard, Such and Thorpe (2 copies). Series ‘H’ 20, eleven signed by Bolus, Crawley (2 copies), DeFreitas, Gough, Malcolm, Ramprakash, Rhodes, R. Smith, Taylor and White.... View full lot details

T.C.C.B., Middlesex and World Cup 1999 postcards. A selection, a good number signed, including T.C.C.B. ‘England Internationals in the 90s’, twenty eight postcards nos. 1, 3, 6, 8, 10-33, of which nineteen are signed by Gower, Lamb, Bailey, Capel, Fairbrother, Russell, Smith, Newport, Fraser, Atherton, Malcolm etc. Sixteen official Middlesex C.C.C. player postcards c.1993, of which eleven are signed by Gatting, Brown, Carr, Emburey, Feltham, Fraser, Haynes, Ramprakash, Roseberry, Tufnell and Williams. A full set... View full lot details

Indian trade, collectors’ cards and postcards 1990s. Album comprising approx. two hundred modern Indian trade cards and postcards covering individual players and teams, mainly India, also Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, England etc. Includes twenty cards from the ‘Cricket Superstar’ series including Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Dravid, Ganguly (India), Kallis, Pollock (South Africa), Muralitharan (Sri Lanka), Hayden, McGrath, Ponting (Australia), C. Cairns, Fleming (New Zealand), Lara (West Indies), Hussain (England), Inzamam-ul-Haq, Shoaib Akhtar (Pakistan) etc. Other... View full lot details

Test and County postcards 1970s-1990s. Large black binder comprising over 380 postcards, promotional cards and postcard size photographs covering Test and County players, cricket grounds, and modern reproduction postcards. Around eighty are individually signed by the featured player. Signatures include Mark Benson, Derek Underwood, Richard Ellison, Min Patel (all Kent), Alec Stewart, Wayne Larkins, Neil Foster, Dean Headley, Dominic Cork, Mike Gatting, Tony Greig, Neil Fairbrother, Ian Botham, Mike Brearley (England), Dean Jones, David Boon,... View full lot details

Scanlens ‘W.S.C. Super Series’ Australian issue 1981. Card nos. 1-28, 30-78 and 80-84 from the set of 84 player cards plus the six ‘Checklist’ cards, and some duplicates. Forty six of the cards are signed by the featured player, nos. 1-4, 6-9, 11-14, 16-18, 20, 22, 24, 39, 43, 45-47, 50-55, 57-59, 61-65, 67, 68, 71, 73, 75, 77, 78, 81 and 82. Signatures include Walker, Walters, Wood, K. Hughes (two different), Lillee, Border, Marsh,... View full lot details

Australian Dairy Corporation/ Australian Cricket Board ‘Kanga Cards’ 1985. Near complete set of sixty of the sixty three cards issued. Lacking nos. 20 Ian Botham and 33 Clive Lloyd from the ‘Facts’ cards and no. 9 Imran Khan from the ‘Tips’ cards. Includes the ‘Information’, ‘How To Play’ and ‘Rules’ cards, and the two different Benson & Hedges Sponsor cards. Twenty one cards are signed by the featured player. Signatures are Rackemann, Tavare, Marks, Wood,... View full lot details

Australian issue ‘Scanlens Stimorol 1989/90 Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka’. PBL Marketing. Near complete set of seventy nine of the eighty four cards issued. Lacking nos. 24 Ian Botham, 53 Martin Sneddon, 58 & 59 both Imran Khan, and 70 Wasim Akram. Twenty nine cards are signed by the featured player. Signatures are Border (2 different), Boon (2), Healy, Hohns, M. Hughes (2), G. Marsh, Matthews, May, Moody, Taylor, S. Waugh, Simpson (Australia), Bracewell... View full lot details

Australian issue ‘Scanlens Stimorol 1990/91 Australia, England, New Zealand’. PBL Marketing. Complete set of the eighty four cards issued. The majority of player cards are signed by the featured player. Those lacking signatures are nos. 10 Campbell, 14 I. Chappell, 18 Jones, 21 Holland, 23 & 24 both O’Donnell, 25 & 26 both Rackemann, 30 M. Waugh, 35 Hookes, 37 Bradman, 42 Lillee, 49 R. Marsh, 56 Mccosker, 58 Medlycott, 68 C. Cairns, 72 Greatbatch,... View full lot details

County Print Services modern cricket card sets. Binder comprising a nicely presented collection of eight complete sets of modern trade card issues with the odd card signed. Sets are ‘County Cricket Teams 1900-1914’ (48 cards). ‘Cricket’s Pace Partners’ (12), one signed by Malcolm Marshall, another by Courtney Walsh. ‘Spin Twins’ (12), one signed by John Emburey, another by Shane Warne. ‘First Knock (Cricket’s Opening Pairs) (12), one signed by Bob Simpson. ‘The Cricketing Knights’ (5),... View full lot details

‘Australian Sporting Personalities’ 1981. Set of four colour first day of issue postcards produced from the stamps of the series, each featuring a different sportsman. Includes the scarcer card of Victor Trumper (cricket), also Norman Brookes (tennis), Darby Munro (horse racing) and Walter Lindrum (billiards). Each postcard with matching stamp applied to the front and date stamped 18th February 1981 at the Philatelic Sales Centre, Sydney. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Hampshire C.C.C. 1990s-2010s. Two black binders comprising a large selection of modern official player and team collectors’ cards. Includes over one hundred and eighty official player postcards of which over sixty are signed by the player. Signatures include Adams, Kabir Ali, Bates, Briggs, Cork, Carberry, Dawson, Ervine, de Wet, S. Jones, Griffiths, Katich, Mascarenhas, Pothas, Rouse, Vince, R. Smith etc. T.C.C.B. ‘International Cricketers’ card no. 75, and Cornhill Insurance Series ‘K’ card, both signed by... View full lot details

Donald George ‘Don’ Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. Colour cigarette card of Bradman in batting pose from the Ogdens ‘Australian Test Cricketers’ series 1928-29. Nicely signed by Bradman. Good condition... View full lot details

Donald George ‘Don’ Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. Colour cigarette card of Bradman head and shoulders wearing Australia cap from the Players ‘Cricketers’ series 1934. Nicely signed by Bradman. Minor wear otherwise in good condition. Sold with a Morning Foods Ltd ‘Test Cricketers’ 1953 mono trade card of Jim De Courcy, N.S.W. & Australia signed in ink by De Courcy. Qty 2... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Australian Bicentenary 1788-1988 first day cover signed by Bradman to centre. Postdated ‘Headingley, Leeds’ with Bicentenary stamps for the 21st June 1988. Very good condition... View full lot details

Yorkshire cigarette and collectors’ cards early 1900s onwards. Album comprising a comprehensive collection of over two hundred and thirty cigarette and collectors’ card, each depicting a Yorkshire cricketer. Includes a good number of earlier issues, also modern reprint issues with some cards signed. Earlier issues include Ogden’s Guinea Gold ‘Cricketers Base I’ 1901, Hawke, Hirst, Hunter. W.D. & H.O. Wills ‘Cricketers’ 1901 with vignettes, Denton, Brown, Hirst, Jackson, ‘Capstan Prominent Australian and English Cricketers’ 1907... View full lot details

Yorkshire. Wills’s Cigarettes ‘Cricketers’ 1896. W.D. & H.O. Wills, Bristol & London. Two rare individual cards from the series of fifty, one of F.S. Jackson, the other Wainwright. Minor wear to corners, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire. Clarke’s Cigarettes ‘Cricketer Series’ 1901. Wm. Clarke & Son, Liverpool & London. Three rare individual cards from the series of fifty, series no. 10 W. Rhodes, no. 12 J. Tunnicliffe, and no. 28 Lord Hawke. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket books, stamps etc. Box of fourteen cricket books with Hampshire interest. Books include ‘Shane Warne. My Autobiography’. 2001 signed copy to the vendor, ‘Shane Warne. My Illustrated Career’. Shane Warne 2006 (two copies), ‘Gordon Greenidge. The Man in the Middle’. Gordon Greenidge, signed copy,’The Judge’. Robin Smith 2019, ‘On The Spot’ Biography of Derek Shackleton, signed copy, three Hampshire and cricket histories signed by their authors etc. Plus a full sheet of ten Australian... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1912. 49th edition. Original paper wrappers. ‘Sports Outfitters’ stamp to front wrapper, nick and wear to front wrapper edge, slight darkening to spine paper, slight warping to book block otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1920, 1921 and 1922. 57th to 59th editions. Original paper wrappers. Some wear and soiling to wrappers, the 1920 with detached rear wrapper, the other two editions with detached front wrappers, some loss to all three volumes to a greater or lesser extent to the spine papers, the 1920 and 1922 editions with breaking to the book block, all with soiling to page block edges otherwise in about good condition. Qty 3... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1923 and 1924. 60th & 61st editions. Original paper wrappers. The 1923 edition with heavy loss to the spine paper, breaking to the book block otherwise in good condition. the 1924 with faded and soiled wrappers, some loss to the spine paper otherwise in good condition. Qty 2... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1925. 62nd edition. Original paper wrappers. Some soiling to wrappers and spine, some minor wear and slight loss to spine paper otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1926 and 1927. 63rd & 64th editions. Original paper wrappers. The 1926 edition with almost detached front wrapper, some loss to the spine paper, slight breaking to page block otherwise in good condition. The 1927 edition with minor wear and very minor loss to spine paper, nick to edge of rear wrapper otherwise in good condition. Qty 2... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1928. 65th edition. Original paper wrappers. Some soiling to wrappers and spine otherwise in generally good/very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1929 and 1930. 66th & 67th editions. Original paper wrappers. The 1929 edition with wear and loss to the spine paper, the 1930 edition with total loss of the spine paper, some front wrapper corner loss to the 1930 edition, both books with breaking page blocks, some soiling to wrappers, good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1931. 68th edition. Original paper wrappers. Minor marks to wrappers, odd very minor faults otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1932. 69th edition. Original paper wrappers. Odd very minor faults otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1933. 70th edition. Original paper wrappers. Odd very minor faults otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1934. 71st edition. Original paper wrappers. Minor vertical crease to the front wrapper, odd very minor faults otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1935. 72nd edition. Original paper wrappers. Odd very minor faults to the spine paper otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1936. 73rd edition. Original paper wrappers. Very minor marks and very slight breaking to spine paper, odd very minor faults otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1937. 74th edition. Original paper wrappers. Very good condition... View full lot details

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1938. 75th edition. Original cloth covers. Very slight bowing to spine, some minor staining to spine paper otherwise in good+ condition... View full lot details