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Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia

British Empire Games 1930-1938. Five items from the first three Games held in Hamilton, Ontario (1930), London (1934) and Sydney (1938). Items include a purple tie with embroidered ‘British Empire Games 1930’ and leaf emblem. Booklet of ‘Programme and General Regulations’ for the 1934 Games held at White City Stadium, 4th- 11th August 1934. Official programme for the Swimming and Diving events held at the Empire Pool and Sports Arena, Wembley, 1934. Souvenir folder of... View full lot details

Sixth British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Cardiff 1958. A set of official programmes for the opening ceremony and the nine sporting events, athletics, boxing, cycling, fencing, lawn bowls, rowing, swimming, weightlifting, and wrestling. All bound together in red cloth, gilt title to spine. Sold with official handbooks for the England, Scotland and Wales teams, history of the games booklet, general information leaflet, and a ‘Ticket and Accommodation Reservation Folder’. Good/ very good condition. Qty 7.... View full lot details

British Empire Games, Auckland, New Zealand 1950. Four publications relating to the 1950 Games. ‘The Story of the British Empire Games. Auckland 1950’. Official report of the Games published by the Organising Committee, in blue cloth. ‘Canada at the British Empire Games 1950’ official report in original decorative red wrappers. An official souvenir programme published by the Organising Committee. ‘The New Zealand Sportsman’ magazine souvenir issue for the 1950 Empire Games. Odd faults, overall in... View full lot details

‘XIVth Commonwealth Games Auckland, New Zealand 1990’. Complete set of Team Manuals, Vols 1-10 covering athletics, badminton, bowls, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, judo, shooting, swimming and weightlifting. Also an official ‘VIP Handbook’ and ‘Village Handbook’. Sold with an official commemorative bronze medal in original presentation case, ‘Official History’ hardback with dustwrapper, official opening and closing ceremony programmes, magazine, tickets, passes etc. Very good condition. Qty 23.... View full lot details

Olympic Games. Melbourne 1956. Complete set of eight official programmes for the athletics events held in the Main Stadium (Melbourne Cricket Ground), 23rd November- 1st December 1956. All with ink annotations to pages, rusting to staples, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with thirty original mono press photographs of track and field gold medal winners in action, published by Track and Field News. Seventeen measure 10”x8”, thirteen 4”x5”, each with printed caption to lower... View full lot details

Olympic Games. ‘XV Olympia Helsinki 1952’. Complete set of eight official programmes for the athletics events held 20th- 27th July 1952. All with ink annotations to pages, minor wear, otherwise in good condition. Sold with sixteen rare issues of the Official News-Service bulletin published by the Organising Committee for the Helsinki Games 1952, nos. 1-16, January 1950- July/ August 1951. Loss to the front wrapper of issue no. 1, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘A Hard Road to Glory. A History of the African- American Athlete’. Arthur Ashe, Jr., ‘New Edition’ New York 1993. Three hardback volumes covering the periods ‘1619-1918’, ‘1919-1945’ and ‘Since 1946’. All three with good original dustwrappers. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Olympic Games. Barcelona 1992. Complete set of twenty eight official ‘Explanatory Booklets’ covering each of the Olympic sports at the 1992 Games. Issued by the Organising Committee. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Olympic Games. Los Angeles 1932. ‘Die Olympischen Spiele in Los Angeles 1932’. German post Olympic postcard album for the Summer Olympics, with reports and articles on all aspects and history of the games produced by H.F. & PH.F. Reemtsma. With full set of mounted paper photographic postcards of the Olympic stars and events. Decorative blue cloth cover with gold Olympic symbol of the games. Good dustwrapper. Printed in Germany. Minor faults to dustwrapper, otherwise in... View full lot details

Olympic Games 1948-1960. Sixteen official programmes for London 1948 Athletics 30th, 31st, 2nd- 6th August, Helsinki 1952 Athletics 23rd & 27th July, Swimming 27th July, Rome 1960 Athletics 6th, 7th, 8th September, Gymnastics 5th- 10th September (2 copies), Closing Ceremony 11th September. Annotations to pages to some programmes. Wear and age toning, overall in generally good condition.... View full lot details

University athletics 1870s. Original sepia real photograph carte de visite of ‘Cambridge University Athletes 1873’ with sixteen athletes depicted in cameo. By Hills & Saunders of Cambridge. 2.5”x4”. Sold with a silver metal shield plaque awarded to W. Packford of Oriel College, Oxford, for the Strangers Race 300 Yds Handicap 1878. 1.5”x1.75” with three mount holes. Very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Oxford and Cambridge University athletics 1900s- 1950s. Four original candid style sepia photographs depicting athletics at Iffley Road, Oxford c.1912. Athletes are depicted in a running race, hurdles, and high jump. Each 3.5”x2.5”. Photographer unknown. Official mono photograph of the Cambridge University Athletic team c.1912. The photograph by ‘Messrs Stearn Photos Cambridge’ measures 11”x8.5”, laid to tightly and unevenly trimmed original mount. Some loss and damage to corners, otherwise in good condition. Original sepia photograph... View full lot details

‘The H Book of Harvard Athletics 1852-1922’. Edited by John A. Blanchard. Published by the Harvard Varsity Club, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1923. Original red cloth with gilt title and emblem to front and spine. Minor wear to covers and spine, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Commonwealth Games 1970-1986. A selection relating to the Commonwealth Games including an Edinburgh 1970 official’s enamel pin badge with blue thistle emblem on white background and pale blue ribbon. Brisbane 1982 Team Handbook for England, Isle of Man, Jersey, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. ‘Australia at the Commonwealth Games, Brisbane 1911-1982’, Australian Commonwealth Games Association. ‘The Official Commonwealth Games Book 1986 [Edinburgh 1986 England Team Handbook. Sold with three further softback publications, ‘The Story of... View full lot details

Commonwealth Games 1966-1974. Three hardback ‘Official History’ reports for the 8th Games, Kingston, Jamaica 1966, 9th Games, Edinburgh 1970, and 10th Games, Christchurch, New Zealand 1974. The latter with dustwrapper with some wear. Slight breaking to page block of the 1974 title, minor staining to boards of the 1970, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Gerald Claude Eugene ‘G.C.’ Foster. Kingston, Jamaica. Early sepia real photograph postcard of Foster standing full length in running attire, probably 1908. Photograph by George Greenhalgh, Weaste (Salford). Postally unused. Very good condition. Sold with four further early mono real photograph sporting postcards including ‘The Cambridge Crew [Rowing] 1907’. ‘Boys Farm School, Standon Bridge, Stafford’ football team 1913/14, publishers unknown. Toboggan racing at Klosters, Switzerland, by ‘Bestes Moment Atelier’ of Munich. ‘I.K.S. 2nds Junior [Basketball]... View full lot details

Edinburgh Athletic Club World Record 1974. Original silk hanging pennant with Club emblem to centre, printed title to top detailing the record ‘24 hr. 10 man by 1 mile relay at Meadowbank Stadium on 28th- 29th September 1974. Distance 297 miles 1146 yards 9 inches’. Printed signatures of participants to lower left portion. Minor staining, slight wear to verso, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Olympic Games 1952-1972. Five original embroidered cloth Great Britain team vest badges for the Olympic Games held in Helsinki 1952, Melbourne 1956, Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968 and Munich 1972. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Olympic Games. ‘Lasse Viren’ bronze metal medal in presentation case produced to commemorate Viren winning both the 5,000m and 10,000m races at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games. 2” diameter. Very good condition. Sold with a promotional Olympic postcard of Viren with printed(?) signature. Some creasing, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Olympic Games 1972-2000. Six official head scarves produced for the Summer games at Munich 1972, Seoul 1988 (2 similar), Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, and the Winter Olympics, Calgary 1988. Very good condition.... View full lot details

European Athletic Championships 1971-1982. Four complete sets of official programmes for championships held at Helsinki 1971 nos. 1-6, Rome 1974 nos. 1-6, Prague 1978 nos. 1-6, and Athens 1982 nos. 1-7 plus one duplicate of no. 5. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Athletics 1920s-1940s. Single page handwritten letter to ‘Dear Woods’ from S.G. [Sydney] Wooderson ‘The Mighty Atom’, dated 21st August 1936. Wooderson reports on an operation to repair a fracture to his leg and muscle damage, and hopes to ‘be able to run again next year’. Nicely signed by Wooderson. Sold with a mono real photograph postcard of A.R. Mills ‘Marathon Champion 1920-21-22’, in vignette standing full length in England jersey and shorts. Signed in ink... View full lot details

Swimming, early 1900s. Mono real photograph postcard of ‘Prof. J.A. Jarvis, Ex-Amateur Champion Swimmer of the World’ depicted with his vast array of trophies and medals. Signed in ink to verso ‘J. Jarvis. Once a swimmer’. Mono postcard of ‘Professor Harry Harper “The Human Submarine”’, signed by Harper to verso, postmarked 1912. Publishers unknown. Sold with a plain postcard signed by T.W. ‘Bill’ Burgess, the second person to successfully swim the English Channel, and a... View full lot details

Raymond Carl Glendenning. Black album containing a collection of photographs taken during his broadcasting career, many B.B.C. photographs, four pieces of artwork drawn and painted by Glendenning,two are original artworks and two are prints, one signed by him plus a letter to Glendenning regarding his artwork. Thirty seven photographs, many taken whilst he was broadcasting include broadcasting 1956, digging on an allotment in 1942 ‘Radi Allotment’, meeting the Queen Mother, ‘The British Army Team in... View full lot details

Sporting first day covers. Four covers, each signed by the sportsman featured. Signatures are Linford Christie, A.A.A. Centenary cover 1980, Henry Cooper, A.B.A. Centenary cover 1980, Greg Norman, British Open 1994 cover and Greg Norman, Royal St George’s cover 1994. The two golf covers are limited edition covers. VG... View full lot details

Speedway programmes 1973-1979. A good selection of over sixty official programmes for speedway meetings of the period. Programmes are King’s Lynn 1973-1977 (Qty 24), Wolverhampton 1975-1979 (9), Halifax 1973-1978 (8), Birmingham 1976-1977 (5), Bristol 1978 (4), Leicester 1979 (4), Swindon 1979 (4), Newport 1974 (3), and Poole 1978-1979 (3). Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

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