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Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire, Europeans, Patiala & England 1898-1930. ‘King Wilfred Dies’. Original Daily Mirror advertising poster with the handwritten inscription, announcing Wilfred Rhodes death, retrieved from the main entrance at Headingley Cricket Ground on Monday 9th July 1973. The poster measures 19”x30”. Fold marks, odd nicks, tears and small loss to edges otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1926. Seven original complete copies of the ‘Daily Graphic’ newspaper reporting on the opening of the Australian’s tour, set in the backdrop of the General Strike. Issues are 29th April 1926 ‘How the Australians were defeated by the weather’, front page photographs reporting on the washed out first day’s play of the opening match of the tour v Minor Counties at H.M. Martineau’s Ground, Holyport. 30th April ‘Minor Counties on top... View full lot details

Don Bradman. ‘Bradman Writes For Us’. Original newspaper poster for The News (Adelaide), dated 7th December 1984, printed by Nationwide News, Adelaide. 16”x24”. Horizontal fold, some age toning, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Hampshire C.C.C. ‘The Farmer’s Journal and Manfacturer’s and Trader’s Register 1807’. Early, original and interesting eight page newspaper for Saturday May 30th 1807. With five line paragraph on page 46. ‘Cricket. The Grand Match in Lord’s Ground, on Monday last, between nine of Hampshire, with Lambert and Hampton against eleven of All England, for one thousand Guineas a side, was decided on Wednesday, in favour of England, by 47 runs’. The paper previously bound, some... View full lot details

England v Australia 1921. Official complete admission ticket for the fourth day of the first Test match played at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on May 31st 1921. Good condition. A rare early ticket, seldom seen... View full lot details

Australia v West Indies 1931. Official Grandstand admission ticket for the 2nd Test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground January 1st to 6th 1931. N.S.W. Cricket Association. Very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

South Australia 1934-35 to 1951-52 seasons. Thirteen South Australia Junior members tickets for the Adelaide Oval Cricket Ground. The seasons being 1934-35, 1936-37, 1937-38, 1939-40, 1940-41, 1941-42, 1943-44, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1948-49, 1949-50, 1950-51 and 1951-52. Good condition... View full lot details

South Australia 1948-49 to 1975-76 seasons. Eleven South Australia Lady members tickets for the Adelaide Oval Cricket Ground. The seasons being 1948-49, 1949-50, 1950-51, 1951-52, 1953-54, 1954-55, 1955-56, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74 and 1975-76. Good condition... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1914-1996. A selection of twenty original membership tickets and rule booklets for the period. Includes ‘Rules and List of Members’ 1914, Lady Member tickets for seasons 1949, 1950, 1956, 1958, 1961 & 1962, Juvenile/ Junior Member tickets for seasons 1965-1972, Gentlemen Member tickets for 1974 & 1996, Country ‘B’ membership tickets for 1975 & 1965, and a ‘Rules’ booklet for 1946. Also four small original undated admission tickets including one for Ilkeston Cricket... View full lot details

Frederick Sewards ‘Fred’ Trueman. Yorkshire & England 1949-1969. Eight original Lord’s ‘Honorary Life Member’ folding membership card booklets issued to Trueman for seasons 1970 and 1994-2000. The cards for 1995 and 2000 both signed by Trueman. Sold with an official M.C.C. gold metal press badge stamped ‘F.S. Trueman’ to verso. 1” diameter with red cord tie. Qty 9. Very good condition.... View full lot details

K.A. Auty Annual Christmas Card Series, 1947-1958. Photograph album comprising a complete collection of original Christmas Cards and/ or inserts from Auty in Chicago. The 1947 is annotated by Auty in pencil ‘Reprint of Contents of my 1947 card, K.A.A.’. The 1948 comprises similar reprints of Parts 1 & 2, with Auty’s annotation. 1949-1959 are original cards, each annotated by Auty. Also included are original letters to G. Neville Weston from Auty, one a lengthy... View full lot details

Victorian Christmas cards. Two delightful late Victorian circular colour lithograph Christmas cards, each in the form of a cricket ball with a cricket scene in a country setting to the centre. One depicts a batsman preparing to play a stroke, with title in gold lettering to lower edge, ‘Every Christmas Joy be Thine’ and handwritten dedication in ink to verso dated 1889. The other depicts a bowler in his action, similarly titled ‘With Best Wishes... View full lot details

‘The Taverners Song’. Original manuscript music score with libretto by Percy S. Robinson, sold with a typewritten sheet with the words to the music from Percy S. Robinson, Balham, London. Sold with ‘Down Went The Wicket!’. Humourous Cricket Song. Written by Rowland Colborn and composed by A.G. Colborn. Dedicated by permission to Dr. W.G. Grace’. c1890/1900. Original six page printed sheet music with cover featuring W.G. Grace, full length, at the wicket wearing M.C.C. cap.... View full lot details

‘The Batsman’s Bride’. Percy Heywood and Donald Hughes. Original manuscript music score bound in cloth covers of an operetta in one act in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan written in the late 1940s and first performed at Rydal School Colwyn Bay in 1948. A batsman and his bride are illustrated to the front cover. Sold with a printed music score ‘Six Concert Songs, with words by Edward Oxenford. Number one is entitle ‘Our Cricket... View full lot details

‘The Hobbs Cricketers Calendar 1928’. W. Curran-Reedy. London 1927. With a foreword by J.B. Hobbs. Original pictorial wrappers featuring Hobbs in batting pose. Anecdotes and humorous sketches for each week of the year. Printed by Delgado Ltd. An unusual item in very good condition in original box. Sold with an original Gunn & Moore cricket calender showing a view of ‘A Cricket Match at Brading ‘ Lacking the calender beneath, so date unknown, maybe circa... View full lot details

Sussex C.C.C. 1935-1939. A selection of ephemera relating to Sussex cricket including an original business card for Alfred J. Gaston, “Leather Hunter” of the Sussex Daily News, ‘Publicity Agent Sussex County Cricket’. Two original official scorecards for matches played at Hove, both with complete printed scores, one for the County match Sussex v Lancashire 28th- 30th July 1937, Eddie Paynter scoring 322 for Lancashire in their victory by an innings and five runs, the other... View full lot details

M.C.C. Tour of Australia 1911/12. Early and impressive official menu for the dinner to the victorious M.C.C. team who returned home with the ‘Ashes’ having won the series by four Tests to one. The dinner was held at the Hotel Cecil, London on 1st May 1912. The large menu with elaborate cover design by G. Hillyard Swinstead depicts Warner and his team wearing tour blazers and caps and carrying cricket bags in ‘The Court of... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1911/12. ‘The M.C.C. Dinner’. Small and beautifully ornate folding menu for the Dinner given for the M.C.C. touring party to Australia held on the 27th February 1912 at the Hotel Wentworth, Sydney. The menu, on cream card with pink blush colour, has raised stylish art nouveau floral decoration with title to centre. The inside has a poem from Shakespeare and Menu ‘On a good wicket’ to left and right hand sides.... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1938. Official menu for the ‘Complimentary Dinner to Mr E.R.T. Holmes and the Surrey Cricket Team 1938’. Minor foxing, small adhesive mark to rear page, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Bodyline’. Surrey C.C.C. 1932. Official folding menu for the dinner given to D.R. Jardine and F.R. Brown, being the two Surrey players about to depart for the 1932/3 ‘Bodyline’ Ashes series in Australia. Held at The Oval, 13th September 1932. Some age toning/ fading, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Frank Worrell of Barbados 1924-1967’. Order of Thanksgiving for Worrell held at Westminster Abbey on 7th April 1967 with official ticket for admission to the Choir for the service. Also an Order of Service for the memorial service held for Worrell, ‘Sometime professional Radcliffe Cricket Club’, at Radcliffe Parish Church, 9th April 1967. Good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Cricket ephemera. Selection of cricket ephemera to include original menu to Dinner to welcome the M.C.C. Australasian team 1954/55, Dorchester Hotel June 19555, order of service for Denis Compton, Westminster Abbey 1997, souvenir programme Lord’s Taverners Centenary Test Dinner 1980, West Indies tour brochure 1963 (Irving Rosenwater), copy of the Laws of Cricket M.C.C. 1932, M.C.C. list of matches 1951 and 1955, Middlesex Fixture list 1955, ‘Alex Thompson and Harry Sharp (Middlesex) folding Benefit card... View full lot details

South African cricket statistical surveys 1960s/1970s. A collection of eight facsimile copies of handwritten statistical surveys compiled by Denys Heesom covering cricket in South Africa for seasons 1969/70-1975/76 and 1977/78. Also a similar survey, ‘South African First-Class Matches’, dated October 1971. The majority stored in plain buff folders and in original envelopes sent to Irving Rosenwater with correspondence between Heesom and Rosenwater. G.... View full lot details

Robert ‘Bobby’ Abel. Surrey & England 1881-1904. Original typed letter on ‘Tit-Bits’ magazine letterhead, hand dated 8th September 1890. The letter addressed to ‘Mr R. Abel’ reads, ‘On making up the batting average for the month of August, we find that you have the honour of being the best Batsman in the country, with an average for 10 innings of 49.1. We have therefore great pleasure, in accordance with the conditions laid down in the... View full lot details

Australian tour to England 1948. Official souvenir brochure for the Australian tour of England. Edited by A.W. Simpson. Pictorial covers. Sold with an official brochure for the ‘20th Australian XI Tour in Great Britain 1948’ issued by the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket Matches, ex Anthony Woodhouse collection. Good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Durham C.C.C. 1915-1919. Two official Annual Report booklets, one covering the seasons 1915-1918 (34th- 37th years of issue), the other for 1919 (38th year). Both in original paper wrappers. Rusting to staples, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Scarborough Cricket Club Annual Report’. Five official four page printed reports for Annual General Meetings held in 1903, 1909, 1913, 1915 and 1918. Odd folds and nicks to edges, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket games and puzzles, early/ mid 20th century. Box comprising a selection of ten cricket board and table games. Games include ‘Stumpz’ Thos. de La Rue & Co. Ltd circa 1930’s, ‘Run-it-out or Card Cricket’ Kum-Bak Sports, Toys & Games, ‘Test Match’, ‘Pocket Cricket’, ‘Test Match’, ‘Cricket Wizard’, ‘Knockout Cricket’, ‘Gillette Cup’, Balyna Cricket Game’ etc. Uncertain whether all games are complete. Boxes in mixed condition... View full lot details

Marylebone Cricket Club. Selection of pennants presented to or acquired by M.C.C. over the years. Includes beautifully embroidered ‘B.C.C.I. Indian Schools 1967’ , Newcastle & Regions (Australia) Cricket Tour 1983, 1984 & 1985’, Javea (Las Palmas) Cricket Club 1995’, ‘B.B.S. England Cricket World Cup India 1998’, Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur’, ‘France Cricket’ and Singapore Cricket Association. Various sizes. Sold with various banners given to Lord’s by groups, advertising etc. ‘Bangladesh Spirit of Cricket’ (handmade... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Champion Cricketer of the World’. Large cotton handkerchief commemorating a Century of Centuries by Grace. The handkerchief has a central portrait of Grace three quarter length in cricket attire holding a cricket bat, with biography and record of each individual score and opponents to outer border. Decorated with cricket bats and balls in a floral outer border. Produced in 1895 the handkerchief is printed in black print. Framed and glazed, overall 23”x22.5”. Minor... View full lot details

Cricket handkerchiefs. Two handkerchiefs, the first for the ‘South African Touring Cricket Team 1951’ with printed tour title to top and Springbok emblem to centre in dark green surrounded by the printed signatures of the touring party. The second for the New Zealand tour of England 1958, with printed tour title, images and printed signatures of the Captains John Reid and Peter May with Test emblems. Both around 17”x17”. Sold with a modern M.C.C./ Lord’s... View full lot details

‘England’s Champion Batsman. J.B. Hobbs. Surrey & England XI’ 1922. Large linen handkerchief with printed headings and five images of Hobbs in various batting poses plus total runs and average in first class cricket up to 1922. Listed to outer border are details of centuries scored by Hobbs. 17”x17”. Framed and glazed. Overall 19”x19”. Some staining/ foxing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Deanery Cricket Club, Southampton’. ‘A Deanery Diary. An Account of the Eastbourne Cricket Tour 1927 of The Deanery Tourists (A Band of jovial Fellows)’. Tour diary with details of matches, players biographies etc. Good condition. Sold with ‘Deanery C.C. Diamond Jubilee 1931’. A two page paper from the Committee announcing dates of matches, Dinners etc, and asking for subscriptions to be paid, to celebrate the Jubilee. Some folds, wear and a tear to edge.... View full lot details

Charterhouse School 1898. Official folding scorecard/ programme for ‘Old v Present Carthusians’ 7th July 1898. Thirteen players per side are listed, notable names who played first-class cricket include F.L. Fane (Essex, Oxford University & England 1895-1922), E.O. Powell (Cambridge University, Hampshire & Surrey 1883-1885), C. Wreford-Brown (Gloucestershire & Oxford University 1886-1898), O.E. Wreford-Brown (Gloucestershire 1900), C.C.T. Doll (Cambridge University 1901), and G. Crosdale (Middlesex 1905). Splitting to fold, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Talking Cricket’. Six long playing 12” vinyl records, each side comprising a narration by the cricket commentator, Martin Young, on the subject of international Test grounds. Produced by the South African Broadcasting Corporation, date unknown, probably late 1960s/ early 1970s. Each record in original decorative sleeve. Titles are No. 1 Lord’s, London, No. 2 Gabba, Brisbane, No. 3 Old Trafford, Manchester, No. 4 Old Lords and Kingsmead, Durban, No. 5 Sydney, No. 6 Kennington Oval,... View full lot details

‘R. Peels Reminiscences’ and ‘M.W. Tate’s Reminiscences’. A large newspaper cutting book with cutting on the two players. To the back of the book are J.A.H. Catton (Tityrus) J.A.H. Catton (Tityrus) on various players. Sold with a similar cuttings book entitled ‘ Lord Hawke’s Reminiscences’. These books were sold as lot 318 in the M.C.C. Bicentenary Auction of 1987. Sold in addition with two other cuttings books compiled by George Neville Weston, the first on... View full lot details

‘The Scarborough Cricket Festival. Being an account, year by year of the matches played on the Marine Ground’. Written by W.S. Conder of Kew Gardens, Surrey. Original 92 page typescript on the festival concluding with the 1959 T.N. Pearce’s XI match against the touring Indian team of 1959 the conclusion of the seventy third annual festival. Pages loose in card folder. It is not known if this typescript was ever published. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Yorkshire County Cricket Club 1919-1939’. Written by W.S. Conder of Kew Gardens, Surrey. Original 160 page typescript on this inter war period of the club’s history, details of each season and statistics etc. Pages loose in card folder. It is not known if this typescript was ever published. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Herbert Sutcliffe. His Cricket and Cricketing Times’. Written by James Savage of Bradford. Original 296 page typescript covering Sutcliffe’s early cricket, county and Test match progression to its send in 1939. Pages bound in card folder. It is not known if this typescript was ever published. Good condition... View full lot details