Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Harold Gimblett. Somerset & England 1935-1954. ‘Harold Gimblett’s Hundred’ 1935. Black album comprising nicely presented photographs, articles, copy scorecard, cards, letters and telegrams of congratulations all relating to Gimblett scoring a century on his debut in first-class cricket for Somerset v Essex at Frome, 18th- 21st May 1935. Gimblett scored 123 in Somerset’s only innings of 337, beating Essex by an innings and 49 runs. Contents include a copy head and shoulders photograph nicely signed... View full lot details

‘The Book of the Counties. A Cricket Anthology by Roger Mann’. 1948-1961. A large loose-leaf philatelic album comprising an ornately hand drawn title page followed by over nine hundred signatures of players from all seventeen first-class counties of the period, almost all in ink, signed to album pages, headed pages, pieces, the odd cigarette card and cutting images, all laid down to the album pages with neatly handwritten player biographies and numerous exquisite original illustrations... View full lot details

William Lloyd ‘Billy’ Murdoch. New South Wales, Sussex, London County, Australia & England 1875-1904. Original and interesting two page ‘begging letter’ handwritten in black ink from Murdoch to ‘Dear Old Dick’, dated 11th January 1904. Murdoch appears to be in some financial difficulty, asking for ‘a very good favour. I want you old man if you possibly can to lend me £35’. Murdoch expects to be able to repay the loan ‘next month, but failing... View full lot details

John Alfred ‘Jack’ Flavell. Worcestershire & England 1949-1967. Original two page handwritten letter, undated but late 1940s, from Flavell to Warwickshire C.C.C. Writing from army barracks in Oswestry, Flavell states that he has had an offer from Worcestershire to join their ground staff, ‘there[sic] terms are very good and... there is a good chance of getting straight into [their] County eleven... At the moment my chances of getting into your first eleven [as a fast... View full lot details

William George ‘Willie’ Quaife. Warwickshire & England 1894-1928. Two original single page typed letters from Quaife to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C., both on ‘Quaife and Lilley’ official business letterhead. In the first, dated 17th February 1949, Quaife is replying to a letter regarding rights to the sale of ‘Cricket material’ on the ground at Edgbaston. He is uncertain what the value of the arrangement would be, but offers the club £50 for the... View full lot details

George Oswald Browning ‘Gubby’ Allen. Middlesex, Cambridge University & England 1921-1950. Single page letter from Allen, handwritten in ink and dated 12th July 1950. Writing to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C., Allen states ‘I have passed on Gladwill’s name to Ronnie Aird [M.C.C. assistant secretary]. He says they often get inquiries & he will not forget him’. Nicely signed ‘Gubby Allen’. Staple holes to top left corner, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Douglas Robert Jardine. Oxford University, Surrey & England 1920-1934. Two page handwritten letter on ‘The Scottish Australian Company Limited’, London letterhead, in ink from Jardine to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C., the letter dated 3rd May 1955. Jardine is replying to a letter from Deakins regarding the ‘Association of Cricket Umpires appeal’, a cause which Jardine clearly supports having been ‘genuinely impressed (& vastly gratified) by the tremendous amount of hard voluntary work done... View full lot details

Brian Maurice Brain. Worcestershire & Gloucestershire 1959-1981. An interesting selection of eight handwritten and typed letters dated 1963 and 1966 from and about Brian Brain. The first is a handwritten letter dated 27th February 1963 from Brain to M.J.K. Smith, then captain at Warwickshire, asking whether he would be considered to join the playing staff. Smith replied on 7th March 1963 rejecting Brain’s request. On 17th June 1966, Brain wrote to Leslie Deakins, Secretary at... View full lot details

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Four letter comprising correspondence from 1965 between Sutcliffe and Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. In a two page handwritten letter in ink dated 26th April 1965 Sutcliffe states that he will be attending Edgbaston to adjudicate on a Gillette Cup match and, tongue in cheek, suggests this ‘will enable you to prepare the Red Carpet and engage the local band and also arrange with the Chief Constable for... View full lot details

Edgar John ‘Eddie’ Barlow. Transvaal, Eastern Province, Western Province, Derbyshire, Boland & South Africa 1960-1983. Three letters relating to Eddie Barlow in 1968. The first is dated 5th March from Leslie Deakins, General Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. to ‘The Members of the Cricket Sub-Committee’. Following the change in regulations enabling county sides to recruit one overseas player, Warwickshire had contacted Barlow by cablegram who had ‘just joined Stellenbosch Farmers Winery in Capetown’. The reply... View full lot details

Warwickshire players selected for England 1968-1970. Five typed letters received by Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. from the M.C.C./ T.C.C.B. at Lord’s, each advising that Warwickshire players had been selected to play for England in Test matches. Letters are dated 31st May 1968, David Brown, Dennis Amiss and Tom Cartwright selected for the Old Trafford Test v Australia. 16th June 1968, Tom Cartwright and Dennis Amiss for the Lord’s Test, both signed by Doug... View full lot details

Colin Everton Hunte Croft. Guyana, Demerara, Lancashire & West Indies 1971-1982. Single page handwritten letter from a young Colin Croft to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. Dated 7th August 1973, Croft thanks the Club for the award of a plaque following his attendance on a course with English Colts. Croft talks of his desire to play cricket in England, his frustration at not being selected to play for Guyana, and his job as an... View full lot details

John Major, Prime Minister, visit to Edgbaston 1994. Four typed letters relating to John Major visiting Edgbaston. The first, dated 8th March 1994 is a copy letter from M.J.K. Smith, Chairman of Warwickshire C.C.C., inviting the Prime Minister to attend two one day international matches at Edgbaston, v New Zealand on 19th May and v South Africa on 25th August. An official reply dated 29th March from Major’s Private Secretary at Downing Street states he... View full lot details

Warwickshire trialists 1950s-1980s. Eight letters, the majority from and/ or to Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C., relating to requests and invitations to attend trials etc. Correspondents include an invitation to Ken Higgs (Lancashire, Leicestershire & England 1958-1982) to attend a trial in 1953, with Higgs’ handwritten reply requesting a change of date as it clashes with his holidays. Typed letter from Alf Gover to Leslie Deakins, dated 10th August 1963 on ‘Sandham and Gover’... View full lot details

Commentators and journalists correspondence 1949-1967. Four letters to and from Leslie Deakins, Secretary of Warwickshire C.C.C. One is a single page typed letter from John Arlott, dated 23rd September 1967, which appears to relate to an (unknown) issue reported in ‘the leading dailies’. Arlott apologises ‘for my error’ but describes ‘indignant members going to your office to press for an official complaint’. Arlott closes with the regret that he was not able to made a... View full lot details

Cricketers’ Association 1967-1994. A collection of ten typed letters from the Cricketers’ Association relating to Committee meetings at Edgbaston, use of the grounds, proposed introduction of careers guidance for retiring players, termination of players’ contracts, lease of office space etc. Five earlier letters are signed by Fred Rumsey (Worcestershire, Somerset, Derbyshire & England 1960-1970). One letter, dated 9th February 1985, relates to the need for the improvement in design of batting helmets following ‘the serious... View full lot details

Warwickshire C.C.C. miscellaneous correspondence 1950s-1990s. A selection of approx,. twenty letters to and from Warwickshire Secretaries Leslie Deakins, Alan Smith and David Heath. Letters include J. Paul Getty Jr. offering to make a contribution towards the building of the R.E.S. Wyatt stand at Edgbaston, 1992. Typed copy letter from Deakins to Frank Chester on his retirement as a first-class umpire in 1955 with attached press cutting, and two handwritten replies from Chester. Dickie Bird sending... View full lot details

A.F. Wiren letter to Plum Warner 1940. Lengthy two page handwritten letter with good cricket content from Wiren at his home in Wellington, New Zealand, to Warner, editor of ‘The Cricketer’. Dated 14th October 1940, Wiren congratulates Warner on his article on ‘[Charles] Turner “The Terror”’ and makes numerous additional comments on Turner regarding him as a superior bowler to Giffen, referring to the ‘Red Lillywhite’ (John Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual) and Davis’s three books on... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England. 1865-1908. One page handwritten letter on ‘Gloucestershire C.C.C.’ ‘Thrissell House, Bristol’ headed paper from Grace to a Mr Green agreeing to propose him to be a member of the Sports & Athletic Club. Nicely signed by Grace and dated 16th February 1893. Mounted, framed and glazed. Good condition... View full lot details

George Edward Tribe. Victoria, Northamptonshire & Australia 1945-1959. Single page handwritten letter on Northamptonshire C.C.C. letterhead, dated 16th August 1956. Writing to the collector, Joe Goldman, Tribe is sending a copy of his testimonial brochure ‘with compliments’. Nicely signed by George Tribe. Sold with a National Westminster Bank cheque dated 9th May 1956, issued to Tribe, signed by Goldman, and countersigned to verso by Tribe. Qty 2. Adhesive mark to verso of the letter, otherwise... View full lot details

George Edward Tribe. Victoria, Northamptonshire & Australia 1945-1959. Single page handwritten letter in ink on Northamptonshire C.C.C. letterhead, dated 4th June [1956]. Writing to the collector, Joe Goldman, Tribe sends his thanks for a gift and apologies for ‘the delay in sending you the autographs of our team’. Nicely signed by Tribe. Sold with the accompanying Northamptonshire autograph sheet signed in ink by seventeen members of the team including Brookes (Captain), Broderick, Clarke, Livingston, Barrick,... View full lot details

Neil Radford and Basil D’Oliveira. Worcestershire C.C.C. Four letters relating to Worcestershire cricketers, including two invitations to Neil Radford, one to attend the Esso/ Mail on Sunday Cricketers of the Season award 1986, the other to play for M.C.C. v Middlesex at Lords 1986. Also a two page typed letter from Donald Carr, Secretary of the T.C.C.B., outlining the terms and conditions for those selected for the England tour to Australia 1986/87, and proposed itinerary... View full lot details

Cricket and sports writers signatures c.1930s onwards. A good selection of approx. forty signatures of writers, broadcasters, commentators, collectors, dealers etc. collected by Irving Rosenwater. Signatures on pieces, cards and the odd page include Alfred J. Gaston, Jim Coldham, Jim Swanton, K. Krishnaswamy, A. Baer, ‘Learie [Constantine]’, C.L.R. James, G.D. Martineau, Irving Rosenwater, ‘Neville [Cardus]’, John Arlott, Peter Walker, Desmond Eagar, Reg Hayter, Brian Johnston, David Frith, Gordon Ross, Mihir Bose, Henry Blofeld, Ray Robinson... View full lot details

International Test and County signatures 1930s onwards. A good selection of over sixty signatures, the majority signed to white cards with the odd signed cutting image, piece, receipt, label etc. collected by Irving Rosenwater 1960s-1990s, including some earlier Test cricketers. Signatures include Tiger Smith, Patsy Hendren, Godfrey Evans, ‘Gubby [Allen]’, Leslie Todd, Roger Prideaux, ‘APFC [Percy Chapman]’, Denis Compton, Jack Birkenshaw, Plum Warner, David Sheppard, George Mann, John Langridge (England), Don Bradman, Sid Barnes, Ross... View full lot details

Frank Holmes Tyson. Northamptonshire & England 1952-1960. Thirteen page handwritten manuscript of detailed notes for an article by Tyson written on ruled note paper, contained in an envelope annotated to verso ‘Original M.S. of Frank Tyson, written at Old Trafford, June 1968 (1st Test v Australia)’. Australia had just beaten a ‘complacent’ England by 159 runs and claims the Australians should not be underestimated ‘on the evidence of bad weather fortunes, English confidence after W.I.... View full lot details

J.M. Kilburn, cricket journalist and author. Two handwritten manuscripts for articles written by Kilburn for the Yorkshire Post. Kilburn is reporting on Oxford University v Yorkshire at The Parks, Oxford, 30th April & 1st May 1969. The first, comprising twelve pages of neatly written text, covers the first day’s play where ‘April uncertainty so infested the batting of Oxford University and Yorkshire that the first day... brought the fall of 17 wickets’. The second, of... View full lot details

Edward Ralph ‘Ted’ Dexter. Cambridge University, Sussex & England 1956-1968. Eight pages of notes written by Dexter for an article for the Sunday Mirror reporting on the 4th Test, England v West Indies, at Headingley 22nd- 27th July 1976. Reporting on the third day’s play Dexter describes ‘a crazily unpredictable morning’s play. At the start Tony Greig was eleven short of his hundred, thirteen were needed to save the follow-on and there was the imminent... View full lot details

World Series Cricket c.1978. Eight original questionnaires relating to players’ existing sponsorship obligations to companies or products. Each is signed by the player. Signatures are Ross Edwards (existing arrangement with St. Peters Cricket Gear and Puma), Richie Robinson (ditto), Barry Richards (Slazenger), Ian Davis (none), Dennis Amiss (Duncan Fearnley bats), Clive Rice (Stuart Surridge), Mike Procter (none), and Eddie Barlow (none). Some creasing and staples, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

England v Australia 1972. Australian boomerang signed by twelve members of the Australian touring party to England 1972. Signatures in ink include I.Chappell, Gleeson, Mallett, Walters, Marsh, Massie, Lillee, G.Chappell etc. Approx 23” long. Light fading to odd signature otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Cricket and Football autographs late 1940’s. Maroon A5 scrapbook containing many magazine and press pen pictures of players and teams, some signed. Cricket signatures include George Cox, Cornford, Oakes, Nye, Gimblett, Mitchell-Innes, Langdale, Lawrence, Buse, Barnett, Melville, Watkins etc. Football signatures include Shackleton, Woodward, Jimmy Milburn, G. Hodgson, Billy Short, Brolly, Dawes, Stan Williams, Norman Smith, Viv Woodward. Fifty three signatures in total. Faults to the scrapbook, some pages becoming loose and detached, only fair... View full lot details

Signed cricket ephemera. A varied selection including ink and pencil signatures on paper pieces of Harry Lambert, Bill Cockburn and Des Fitzmaurice, all former Victorian State cricketers late 1940’s, Fen Cresswell of New Zealand 1949-1951, Shane Warne, Tom Moody, Merv Hughes, Don Kenyon and other Worcestershire players, collectors cards signed by Joel Garner, Gower, Harmison, Vaughan etc, FDC’s signed by Dion Nash, Chris Cairns, Ken Rutherford, Herschelle Gibbs etc, two signatures of Geoff Boycott and... View full lot details

‘Cricket Lovely Cricket’ late 1940/ 1950’s. Card album/scrapbook, tied with cord to the right hand side containing signed press and magazine cuttings, original postcards, cigarette cards and other ephemera. Profusely signed to images. Signatures include Keith Miller, Bill Johnston, Willie Watson, Bill Edrich, Close, Bedser, Laker, Evans, N. Harvey, Davidson, Benaud, Morris, Tallon, Hill, signed cigarette cards of A. Fagg, F.R. Brown, Watkins, Graveney, the South African 1951, including Cheetham, McGlew, Nourse, Fullerton, Rowan, Chubb... View full lot details

England v Australia 1977. A small mounted presentation comprising of a Queen’s Silver Jubilee 1977 crown coin to centre of mount and signed in ink to left and right borders by eleven of the Australian and eleven of the England players who played in the 1977 Ashes series. Players include G. Chappell, Marsh, Lillee, Hookes, Walters, McCosker, O’Keefe, Brearley, Greig, Willis, Knott, Fletcher, Woolmer, Old, Randall etc. Framed and glazed. Overall 11.25”x10.5”. Good condition... View full lot details

Cricket scrapbook circa 1970’s. Scrapbook containing numerous signed press and magazine pictures, odd official autograph sheet of cricketers covering all the county cricket clubs at the time. Signatures include Swarbrook, Miller, Kirsten, Denness, Fletcher, Lever, Nash, Cordle, Cartwright, Hobbs, official autograph sheet for Gloucestershire 1977, signed by 15 players, Zaheer, Brain, Procter, Sadiq, Nicholas, Terry, Tavare, Rowe, Dilley, Woolmer, Asif Iqbal, Croft, Hayes, lloyd, Illingworth, Gower, Ward, Brearley, Radley, Lamb, Willey, Larkins, Sarfraz, Rice, Hadlee,... View full lot details

Modern England Test Players 1970s-2010s. Black file comprising seventy seven ‘England Test Player’ cards, each individually signed in ink, with the odd signature on piece laid down, of England Test players. Signatures include Saggers, Vaughan, Selby, Hussain, Jackman, Stewart, Caddick, Panesar, Sajid Mahmood, Strauss, Collingwood, Flintoff, Broad, Harmison, Swann, Cook, Knight, Adil Rashid, Bell, Trott, Onions, Plunkett, Morgan, Finn, Bresnan, Prior, Bairstow, Roy, Buttler etc. Odd duplication. VG.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Official M.C.C. Christmas card from the tour. With cover image of the emblem of M.C.C. and M.C.C. colours to corner, cord tie. To inside a picture of the team and the wording, ‘Wishing you a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year’. Signed from ‘Michael A. Green’, the tour manager. Good condition... View full lot details

Norman Preston, editor of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1952-1980. Official Christmas card from the M.C.C. tour of Australia and New Zealand 1954/55. With decorative front cover and tour title. To inside centre spread, pictures of the M.C.C. team and the Press team, with wording to the first page ‘With all Good Wishes for Christmas and the New Year from [Norman Preston]. With the M.C.C. team, Australia 1954-55’, signed by Preston. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Sir Leonard Hutton 1916-1990. Order of Service of Thanksgiving for Hutton held at York Minster on the 16th November 1990. Signed in ink to the front cover by nine cricketers. Signatures are Denis Compton, Dickie Bird, Fred Trueman, Vick Wilson, David [Sheppard, Bishop of Liverpool], Don Wilson, Brian Statham, Tom Graveney and Bob Appleyard. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Wilfred ‘Wilf’ Barber. Yorkshire & England 1926-1947. Original British passport issued to Barber on 19th August 1935 for the 1935/36 ‘Young’ M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand. Sold with the original Orient Line First Class Passengers’ Ticket issued to Barber for the outward voyage on the ‘Orion’, which departed from Tilbury on 28th September 1935 for Fremantle, Western Australia. The passport includes official stamps for arrival at Colombo on 19th October 1935, and Fremantle... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. ‘Minutes of the Eleventh Annual General Meeting of Jack Hobbs Limited’ 26th February 1931. Single page typed minutes listing those present including Hobbs, adoption of audited accounts, agreement of Directors’ Fees, and the reappointment of company auditors. Nicely signed in black ink by Jack Hobbs, D. Brown and A. Kempton. Sold with an original large ‘News Chronicle Cricket Scheme’ colour certificate with decorative border and image of... View full lot details

Test and County signatures 1970s onwards. Fifty one signatures on individual titled cards covering England (27 signatures), South Africa (5), Australia (2), Pakistan (2), Zimbabwe (1), Hampshire (1), Somerset (6), Surrey (2), Sussex (2), and Yorkshire (3). Signatures include C. Tremlett, Udal, Saggers, Solanki, Randall, Amiss, Foakes, G. Jones, Capel, Key, A. Stewart (England), Donald, Hall, de Bruyn, Willoughby (South Africa), Blewett, McKay (Australia), Houghton (Zimbabwe), Len Hutton (on piece laid down) etc. One... View full lot details

Cricket journalists, illustrators and authors. Seven nice signatures in ink signed to small Queens Hotel, Leeds, headed note paper. Signatures are E.M. Wellings, Roy Ullyett, Crawford White, Charles Bray, Alex Bannister, L.N. Baily, and J.M. Kilburn. Undated, probably c.1960. Small adhesive mark to verso with some show through, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Lillywhite’s tour to Australia 1876/77. First Test-playing tour of Australia by an English side. ‘Australian Match [tour]. Lillywhite & Hobgen’. Interesting pre-agreement draft of a document assumed to have been drawn up by solicitors in advance of the tour, dated 25th July 1876, comprising a single page manuscript legal folio page of the ‘forfeiture clause’ for the articles of agreement between Arthur Hogben and James Lillywhite, outlining the terms of Hogben’s financing of the proposed... View full lot details

Norman Stewart ‘Mandy’ Mitchell-Innes. Somerset, Oxford University & England 1931-1949. A selection of items signed by Mitchell-Innes. Includes a page nicely signed in ink by twelve players corresponding with the Oxford University team for the match v M.C.C. played at Lord’s 20th & 22nd June 1936, with scorecard for the match signed by Mitchell-Innes. Signatures to page are Mitchell-Innes (Captain), Singleton, Matthews, Belle, Murray-Wood, Walford, Darwall-Smith, Barton, Kimpton, Grover, Dyson and Mitchell. Other items signed... View full lot details

Yorkshire c.1950s. A tablecloth comprising thirty five embroidered signatures of Test and County cricketers and other sports personalities of the period, with Yorkshire white rose emblems to centre and four corners. The signatures were collected in pencil and later embroidered in different coloured threads with some original signatures visible below the embroidery, and the odd additional signature not embroidered. Yorkshire players’ signatures include Herbert Sutcliffe, Billy Sutcliffe, Len Hutton, Johnny Wardle, Vic Wilson, Norman... View full lot details

Lancashire c.1930. A large tablecloth comprising thirty four beautifully embroidered signatures in white thread of Test and County cricketers. The tablecloth appears to have been signed by the players then embroidered. To the central portion of the tablecloth each individual signature is contained within ruled pencil borders, with three signatures to the corners. Lancashire players’ signatures include Peter Eckersley (Captain 1929-1935), Johnny Tyldesley, Harry Makepeace, Cec Parkin, Archie Maclaren, Syd Barnes and George Duckworth, also... View full lot details

‘Australian & England Test Series 1926’. A tablecloth with intricate decorative lacework borders, signed in black ink by twenty eight England and Australia Test players. Handwritten title to centre with the signatures of the England captain, Arthur Carr, also Ernest Tyldesley, Greville Stevens and Australian, Warren Bardsley. To the borders the signatures of Frank Woolley, Herbert Sutcliffe, Percy Chapman, Herbert Strudwick, Maurice Tate, Roy Kilner, Jack Hobbs, Patsy Hendren, Arthur Gilligan (England), John Ellis, Charlie... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand 1936/37. Official M.C.C. Christmas card with title and M.C.C. colours to front cover, printed team photograph and greeting to centre. Signed ‘Jim [Sims]’. Complete with original envelope addressed to George Fenner in Kent, postmarked Sydney, 17th November 1936. Very good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia and New Zealand 1954/55. Official M.C.C. Christmas card with title and M.C.C. to front cover, printed team photograph and greeting to centre. Signed ‘Peter [May]’. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Centurions- Scorers of 100 First-Class Centuries’. Headed book insert by Boundary Books containing the signatures of ten players who have achieved the feat. Signatures, nicely signed in ink, by Don Bradman, Glenn Turner, Colin Cowdrey, Tom Graveney, Dennis Amiss, Geoff Boycott, John Edrich, Zaheer Abbas, Graham Gooch and Denis Compton. Sold with a further headed Boundary Books limitation page, nicely signed by Viv Richards and Bill Frindall. Both 8.75”x12.5”. Qty 2. Minor wear to... View full lot details

‘Complimentary Dinner to the South African Team’ 1929. Official folding menu for the dinner given by the M.C.C. at the Lord’s Hotel, London, 3rd June 1929. ‘The President, Field Marshall Lord Plumer, in the Chair’. The front cover with printed titles below caricatures of a British lion, Australian kangaroo and South African springbok each playing a musical instrument, borders in M.C.C. colours. Menu and toast list to centre pages. The date corresponds with the tour... View full lot details

Clarence Victor ‘Clarrie’ Grimmett. Victoria, South Australia & Australia 1918-1941. ‘Farewell Dinner to the Australian Cricket Team’ 1930. Excellent and rare 24pp menu for the dinner held at Merchant Taylors’ Hall, London on 8th September 1930. The front cover and some internal pages feature elaborate printed borders, recut on wood from a design used in ‘A Book of Hours’ by Geofroy Tory of Paris. The menu contains exquisite reproductions of pencil drawings of Merchant Taylors’... View full lot details

‘Visit of the M.C.C. Test Team to South Africa 1930/31. ‘Union Castle Line. R.M.S. Edinburgh Castle’. Pre-tour brochure for the tour with list of players, pen pictures and biographies, itinerary etc. Signed in ink to the title page by Denys Morkel of South Africa, and to rear ‘Autographs’ page by fifteen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Includes three signatures in ink of Chapman, Tate and Duckworth, others in fine pencil are Peebles, Hendren, Wyatt,... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to New Zealand 1946/47. Official menu for the ‘Complimentary Dinner’ given by the New Zealand Cricket Council for the M.C.C. touring party, held at Winter Garden, Christchurch, 24th March 1947 during the only Test match played on the New Zealand leg of the tour. The small folding menu with N.Z.C.C. emblem, M.C.C. colours and printed title to front, menu and toast list to inside. The front cover features to the top right corner... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Rare official folding luncheon menu for the ‘M.C.C. Visit’ to the Raylton Recreation Club, Bulawayo from January 29th- February 1st 1949. Decorative cover with title and colours. With menu to inside and nicely signed in ink to opposite inside page by sixteen playing members of the touring party. Signatures are Mann (Captain), Compton, Young, Griffth, Hutton, Washbrook, Crapp, Simpson, Watkins, Jenkins, Bedser, Tremlett, Evans, Bedser, Gladwin and Wright. Also... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Rare official menu for the luncheon given for the M.C.C. held at the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 11th March 1949, on the eve of the final tour match. The folding menu printed to one side in English and to the other (inverted) in Afrikaans with titles and images of the government building to the outside, and respective menus to inside. Signed in ink to the menu by sixteen... View full lot details

New Zealand tour to England 1949. Official folding menu for the dinner held at the close of the New Zealand tour at the Savoy Hotel, 21st September 1949. The front cover with silver New Zealand fern emblem and printed title, with menu and toast list to inside. Fully signed in ink to the front by all sixteen members of the touring party including the manager Phillips, plus Plum Warner. Players’ signatures are Hadlee (Captain), Wallace,... View full lot details

Australia tour to South Africa 1949/50. Official menu for the dinner held for the ‘Australian Visit’ at the Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo, 11th November 1949, held after the first day’s play of the tour match against Rhodesia. The folding menu with Australia and Rhodesia colours and printed title to front, menu to inside. Nicely and fully signed to the rear cover by all fourteen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Hassett (Captain), Morris,... View full lot details

South Africa Tour to England 1951. Official Union-Castle Line ‘R.M.S. Arundel Castle’ menu for dinner in the ‘First Saloon’ on which the touring party travelled to England. Signed by all fifteen members of the party. Signatures are Nourse (Captain), E. Rowan, Melle, Endean, McGlew, McLean, Waite, Chubb, Fullerton, Mann, Cheetham, Mansell, A. Rowan, McCarthy, van Ryneveld and Pegler (Manager). Previously sold by Knights in 2021. Some creasing and age toning, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

England 1953. Ashes winning team. Official menu booklet for the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society ‘Reunion Dinner for Members of the 1953 Ashes Winning Team’. Held at Cutlers Hall, Sheffield, 18th October 1980. Signed to rear cover autograph page by fifteen England players, including Hutton, Tattersall, Statham, Edrich, Simpson, Bailey, Kenyon, May, Trueman, Evans, Wardle, Graveney, Bedser, Compton etc. Additionally signed to first page and inside back cover by Sebastian Coe, and to centre page by... View full lot details

England Ashes Winners 1953. Celebration Dinner given by National Westminster Bank ‘to honour the players of the 1953 England teams which regained the Ashes’. Eight page colour menu for the Dinner held at The National Westminster Tower on 27th June 1983. The menu signed to the player pen pictures by each of the eighteen England players who played in the Tests including Hutton (Captain), Bailey, Brown, Compton, Edrich, Kenyon, May, Trueman, Wardle, Statham etc. Also... View full lot details

‘Re-union Dinner for Members of the 1953 Ashes Winning Team’. Official menu for the dinner given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society, Sheffield 18th October 1980. Signed to the rear autograph page by fifteen England players who played in the series. Signatures are Hutton, May, Tattersall, Edrich, Trueman, Simpson, Evans, Kenyon, Compton, Bedser, Statham, Wardle, Bailey, Graveney and Laker, also Sebastian Coe. Additionally signed to the centre ‘Toasts’ page by Brian Johnston and Nicholas Parsons.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1954/55. Orient Line R.M.S. Orsova folding menu for the ‘Book Dinner’ held on board 19th September 1954. Seventeen signatures in ink of members of the M.C.C. touring party to front cover. Signatures are Hutton (Captain), Bailey, Statham, May, Graveney, Wilson, Tyson, Appleyard, Cowdrey, McConnon, Bedser, Wardle, Evans, Edrich, Loader and Andrew (signed twice). Additional owner’s signature to rear. The menu with colour front cover featuring the ship which took the M.C.C.... View full lot details

South Africa Tour to England 1955. Official folding tour itinerary signed in ink to the centre fixture list by all sixteen playing members of the tour. Signatures are Cheetham (Captain), McGlew, Fuller, Heine, Endean, Smith, Tayfield, Murray, Mansell, Waite, Winslow, Duckworth, Goddard, McGlew, Adcock and Keith. Creasing and wear, overall in fair condition. Sold with an official pre-tour souvenir programme for the 1955 tour published by Playfair, edited by Gordon Ross in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Surrey County Cricket Club Championship Dinner’ 1955. Official menu for the Dinner held at The Grosvenor House, Park Lane on the 1st December 1955. The menu with raised silver club emblem of the Prince of Wales feathers and titles to front cover, inside pages with Toast List and Menu and photographs of the first and second XI teams. Page with Surrey emblem signed in ink by twelve members of the Surrey team loosely mounted to... View full lot details

India tour to England 1967. Official folding menu for the dinner given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society ‘to honour the Indian Touring Team of 1967’. Held at Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, 3rd July 1967. Signed in ink to the rear cover by eighteen attendees. Indian players’ signatures include Nawab of Pataudi (Captain), Borde, Guha, Venkataraghavan, Engineer, Saxsena, Wadekar, Kunderan, Sursti, Mohol, Chandresekhar, Prasanna, Bedi etc., also signed by Norman Yardley and Alan Gibson (journalist). Ownership... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1969. Official folding menu for the dinner given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society ‘to honour the West Indies Cricket Team of 1969’. Held at Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, 29th May 1969. Signed in ink to the front cover by over twenty attendees including Sobers (Captain), Butcher, Fredericks, Davis, Lloyd, Shepherd, Shillingford, Blair, Gibbs, Hendriks, Camacho, Walcott (Manager) etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

England v Australia. Centenary Test Match Reception. 26th August 1980. Official M.C.C. brochure produced for the event held at Lord’s with list of invited guests etc. Signed to front cover, inside pages and rear cover by sixty five Australian and England players. Signatures include Ponsford, a’Beckett, Walters, Loxton, Hassett, Lillee, I. Johnson, A. Morris, Massie, O’Reilly, Border, Lindwall, McCormick, Davidson, Benaud, R. Marsh, Hendrey, Larwood, Tyson, F.R. Brown, Bright, Luckhurst, Mallett, K. Hughes, Brearley, ... View full lot details

The Lord’s Taverners Centenary Test Dinner’ 1980. Official double sided menu card for the Dinner held at Grosvenor House on the 27th August 1980. Signed to face by twenty nine guests including Hassett, I. Johnson, O’Brien, O’Neill, Rigg, Ring, Redpath, A. Morris, Toshack, Harvey, Davidson, Chipperfield, Hawke, Renneberg, Redpath, Wellham, Kline, Edwards, Taber etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1985. Official British Sportsman’s Club Luncheon menu to the Australian Cricket Touring Team 1985. Held at the Savoy Hotel, 3rd May 1985. With cartoon to cover by Roy Ullyett. Signed to inside menu pages by thirteen members of the Australian team plus Roy Ullyett, Fred Titmus and R. Subba Row. Australian signatures include Border, Boon, McDermot, Wellham, Thomson, Lawson, Wessels, Gilbert etc. Sold with an official menu for the Friends of... View full lot details

‘Bicentenary of the Marylebone Cricket Club Dinner to the Pakistan Touring Team’ 1987. Official folding menu for the dinner held at Lord’s, 1st June 1987. Signed to the inside by eight of England and Pakistan. Signatures are Asif Mujtaba, Gubby Allen, Paul Downton, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Haseeb Ahsan (Manager), Ijaz Ahmed and John Carr. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire C.C.C. ‘150 Years of Cricket at Trent Bridge’ 1988. Official menu with cord tie for the dinner held at Trent Bridge, 28th May 1988. Signed to the rear autograph page by eighteen former players etc. Signatures include Eddie Hemmings, Tim Robinson, Chris Broad, John Birch, Franklin Stephenson, Kevin Cooper, Kevin Saxleby, Paul Pollard, Derek Randall, Andy Afford, Andy Pick etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1988. ‘Gala Celebrity Dinner with the West Indies Cricket Team’. Official menu/ brochure for the dinner given by the Leukaemia Research Fund at The Brewery, London, 21st June 1988. Signed to the rear cover by fifteen members of the West Indies touring party. Players’ signatures are Logie, Richards, Greenidge, Arthurton, Bishop, Marshall, Dujon, Benjamin, Patterson, Ambrose, Richardson, Haynes and Williams. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Signed menus 1988-2008. A good selection of thirteen modern signed menus. Alec Bedser 90th Birthday Celebration Lunch, The Oval, 4th July 2008, signed by Bedser and eight others including Alan Davidson, John Edrich, Neil Harvey, Graham Gooch, Dennis Amiss, Ted Dexter, Mike Brearley and Doug Insole. New South Wales Cricket Umpires Association dinner 13th August 1988 signed by Norman May and Stork Hendry. John Abrahams Testimonial dinner 19th October 1988, two copies, both signed by... View full lot details

‘The Centenary Banquet’. Official menu for the South African Cricket Centenary 1889-1989 Banquet held on the 8th March 1989. The menu, with cord tie, signed to inside pages by numerous guests and Test cricketers. Fifty one signatures including Don Bradman, K. Miller, Lindwall, Harvey, Johnson, Hassett, Marsh, Lawry, Lillee, I. Johnson, Massie, Endean, Rice, Reid, W.Hadlee, Sobers, Holding, Snow, Dexter, C. Walters, G. Allen, G. Mann, Hardstaff, Wright, Ames, Hutton, Trueman, May, Dexter, Graveney, Compton,... View full lot details

England v New Zealand. 1st Test, Trent Bridge 1990. Two official menus for Luncheon at Trent Bridge held during the first Test at Trent Bridge. One dated Thursday 7th June 1990 (first day’s play) signed in ink by twenty eight players and attendees, the other for Monday 11th June 1990 (fourth day), signed by sixteen. New Zealand players’ signatures include Martin Crowe, Martin Sneddon, Geoff Howarth, Andrew Jones, Trevor Franklin, Mark Priest, John Wright, Ian... View full lot details

England v India 1990. Official folding menu for lunch at Trent Bridge for the 2nd one day international played 20th July 1990. Signed to the front and inside by fifteen members of the India touring party. Signatures include Gavaskar, Sharma, Prabhakar, Kumble, Tendulkar, Azharuddin, Sidhu, Vengsarkar, Bedi etc. Sold with two official menus for lunches during the 2nd Test at Old Trafford, one dated Saturday 11th August 1990 signed to the front by John Edrich,... View full lot details

England v Australia 1993. Official menu for the Dinner held at the Chamberlain Suite, Swallow Hotel, Birmingham, 4th August 1993, on the eve of the 5th Test at Edgbaston. Signed in pencil by fifteen of the England Test squad. Signatures in pencil include Emburey, Gooch, Maynard, Stewart, Smith, Atherton, Thorpe, Ilott, Malcolm, Hussain, Such etc. ‘Judge’ annotated to top suggesting this might have been Robin Smith’s copy. Very good condition.... View full lot details

England v New Zealand 1994. Official menu for the lunch held in the M.C.C. Official Guests’ Marquee at Lord’s, Saturday 18th June 1994, during the 2nd Test match. Signed in ink to the centre pages by twenty six attendees including Eddie Leadbeater, Dennis Brookes, Ken Palmer, Deryck Murray, Fred Ridgway, Reg Simpson, Ken Taylor, Arthur McIntyre, Winston Place, Jim McConnon, Bob Blair etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

South African tour of England 1994. Official menu for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the South African cricket team in 1994 to welcome the team back to England after twenty nine years. Held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 22nd June 1994. The menu with cartoon cover illustration by Roy Ullyett. Signed to the front and inside by twenty two attendees. South African signatures include Wessels (Captain), G. Kirsten, P. Kirsten, Rhodes, de... View full lot details

England v South Africa 1994. Official menu for lunch at Lord’s, Thursday 21st July 1994, the first day of the first Test match. Signed in ink to the front and back by twenty seven attendees. Signatures include Clive Rice, Clive van Ryneveld, Godfrey Evans, Barry Richards, Alec Bedser, Donald Carr, Peter Pollock, Omar Henry, Roland Butcher, Bob Taylor, Jackie McGlew, Eric Bedser, Raman Subba Row, Jimmy Cook, Doug Insole etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

England v South Africa. South Africa’s return to Test cricket. Two official menus for lunch at Lord’s during the 1st Test, 21st- 24th July 1994, one for Friday 22nd July 1994 (second day), the other for Saturday 23rd July 1994 (third day). The first signed by twenty one attendees including Geoff Cope, Len Caldwell, Allan Donald, Collis King, Craig Matthews, Trevor Bailey, Bob Berry, Keith Fletcher, Godfrey Evans, David Lloyd, Robin Jackman, Clive Rice, Peter... View full lot details

The Lord’s Taverners. Official menu for a dinner held at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. The menu undated, probably 2001. Signed to the front cover by thirteen and inside front cover by ten attendees, twenty three in total. Signatures include Ashley Giles, Vic Marks, Sunil Gavaskar, John Major, Reg Simpson, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Derek Pringle, Mike Gatting, Ian Chappell, Angus Fraser, Bill Tidy (with caricature), David Gower, Michael Holding, Dilip Vengsarkar etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Ashes Dinner’ 2005. Original folding menu for the dinner given by the Lancashire C.C.C. Development Association, held at Old Trafford, 8th August 2005. Multi-signed to front cover and inside by forty five attendees. Signature include guest speaker, Dennis Lillee, also Geoff Arnold, Doug Insole, Alec Bedser, Mike Brearley, Ted Dexter, Tom Graveney, Harold Rhodes, Reg Simpson, Jack Birkenshaw, Mike Hendrick, Derek Randall, Bob Willis, Geoff Boycott, Ray Illingworth, Dennis Amiss, Tony Greig, Vic Marks,... View full lot details