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Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

A Durtnall ‘Skyscraper’ bat c.1795. Early one-piece cricket bat with plain convex face and ridged back, bound handle, measuring 35” long and weighing 2lbs 8 oz. The unspliced bat was made for a right handed batsman. The top of the handle impressed with ‘H Durtnall’, and ‘H Durtnall Peckham Kent’ to toe. Sold with the late vendor’s research notes giving further information on the bat. Some worm holes, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

A Thomson of Windsor ‘plain match’ bat of 1847. The one piece bat with ‘Batchelor & Revel August 17th 1847’ imprinted with decorative borders in faded gold lettering and black highlighting to face across shoulders. ‘Thompson Windsor’ impressed to top of handle and to toe. The bat, with flat back becoming slightly humped to lower middle, measures 33.3”, weighing 1lb 14oz, bound handle. Sold with the late vendor’s research notes giving further information on the... View full lot details

A late one-piece cricket bat. A mid 19th Century one-piece cricket bat made by John Thompson of Windsor and dated 1848. The bat is unspliced, narrow and straight shouldered with an unusually slightly convex face and the back of the blade is humped. The bat was made for a right handed batsman and measures 34.25”, weighing 2lbs 9oz, bound handle. There is what appears to be an old museum label to the back of the... View full lot details

An Edward J. Page ‘Superior Cane Handle’ bat of 1862. The bat with ‘Kennington’ and ‘Surrey’ impressed to shoulders of an otherwise plain face. To the rear shoulders ‘Edward J. Page’ and Superior’ across the splice. On the back is a silver shield engraved ‘Presented by the President of the Newtown Cricket Club, To Mr. Thomas Galvin, As highest scorer for the First Eleven for 1862-3’. The bat measures 34.25” and weighs 2 lbs. The... View full lot details

A one piece bat from Eton 1863. The bat with ‘Scarlett’ and ‘Windsor’ impressed to top shoulders of the face with hand painted inscription below, ‘Brocas Eton Aug. 27th 1863’, in gold lettering and black highlighting with decorative borders. To the back, the inscription in ink of ‘T. Mayne Eton’. The back of the bat is slightly concave rather than ridged, flattening towards the toe. The bat measures 33.5”, weighing 1lb 7oz, with bound handle.... View full lot details

Aquila Clapshaw cricket bat 1875. An early cricket bat made by Clapshaw and exported to Australia. The bat is typical of this period, the blade is slim and the back almost flat at the top, becoming slightly humped as it reaches the toe. The handle made from four strips of cane glued together. Small repair and restoration to the toe and string binding at the top and lower middle of the blade. The top of... View full lot details

A John Fensom split cane handled bat of 1877. Impressed to the front shoulders and on the front and back of the splice are the names ‘J. Fensom’, repeated to the top of the central cane of the handle. On the back is a silver shield engraved ‘Presented to B. Dawson by his friends for his score of 47, Yeadon v. Otley 6th Aug.t. 1877’. The back rises to a shallow hump from the splice,... View full lot details

A Frowd’s Patent Presentation bat of 1884. The bat with impressed makers’ Trade Marks depicting an elephant to the shoulders of the face, with ‘Frowd’s Patent Extra Spring Anti-concussive Handle’ across the splice and maker’s details for ‘James Lillywhite, Frowd & Co. Manufacturers’ of Newington Causeway, Borough, London below. The remainder of the slightly convex face is plain. The back is slightly humped, the toe modelled for a right-handed batsman. To the back is a... View full lot details

A Benjamin Warsop bat of 1884. ‘Rev. W.H. Churchill’s Warsop Conqueror’. Impressed to the face on each shoulder, ‘B. Warsop, Marylebone’. Below the splice, the impressed mark in circular motif of ‘B. Warsop Conqueror Patent Spring Handle Trade Mark’ and below that ‘Registered’. Alongside the splice, handwritten in ink the inscription ‘Churchill Cambridge 1884’, and similarly to the back, faintly inscribed ‘Churchill’. The face of the bat is a little convex, the back slightly humped,... View full lot details

Kingsmill James Key. Surrey & Oxford University 1892-1904. ‘Record Partnership Bat 1887’. A Gradidge ‘Imperial Driver’ cricket bat used by Key when scoring 281 runs in a record stand with Hylton Philipson of 340 runs for the seventh wicket for Oxford University in their first innings against Middlesex at Chiswick on 23rd-25th June 1887. This was the highest first class score recorded The bat signed to the shoulder of the bat K.J. Key. The bat... View full lot details

‘A Warsop Triangular Bat circa 1890’. A triangular practice cricket bat made by Benjamin Warsop of St. John’s Wood, London. The triangular shaped bat’s blade is only 2.5” in width and has ‘B. Warsop, Marylebone’ stamped across the splice and below a faded trade mark and ‘B. Warsop’ impressed to the cap of the bat. The back of the blade rises sharply from the splice into an acutely angled ridge before sharply falling away at... View full lot details

A bat with solid cane handle c.1890. Impressed to the face below the splice ‘All Cane’. The back of the blade is gently humped, flattening out towards the toe. The blade is bound in four places. The bound handle is solid unsplit cane. Maker unknown. 34.25” in length, weighing 2lbs 3oz. Sold with the late vendors research notes giving further information on the bat. Good condition.... View full lot details

Jack Brown’s century bat (117 v. New South Wales) 1894. A ‘Crawford The Exceller Patent’ bat by H.C. Crawford of Plumstead, Kent. Impressed ‘Crawford The Exceller Patent’ to face over splice, ‘J. Wisden and Co London’ to both shoulders, and ‘Crawford’ to handle cap. Below the splice to the face is an inscription in ink in Brown’s own hand, ‘J.T. Brown 117 Sydney Nov 24- 1894’ from Stoddart’s tour to Australia 1894/95. The back of... View full lot details

G.O. Smith’s Crawford Exceller’ bat c.1896 by H.C. Crawford of Plumstead, Kent. Impressed to the shoulders of the face ‘J. Wisden & Co. London’ and below the splice ‘Crawford Patent Exceller’. Also inscribed in ink to the front shoulder ‘G.O. Smith’. Below the splice is the remnant of a typed label which identified the bat in the collection of Charles Pratt Green. On the back shoulder, the ink inscription ‘116’ (Pratt Green’s catalogue number) and... View full lot details

A Dark & Sons bat with a ‘Cork Cased’ handle 1900. The bat by Dark & Sons of Lord’s Cricket Ground with impressed marks to front shoulders, ‘Dark & Sons Patent Cork Handle Lord’s’, and, across the splice ‘Dark’s Patent (No. 7842) Cork-Cased Handle’. To the back, below the splice, impressed ‘P. Need- Lord’s’, and to the shoulder the handwritten inscription in ink ‘J.C.D.P. 1907’. ‘Dark’s Patent’ impressed to handle cap. The back of the... View full lot details

Samuel Meston’s ‘Special Selected’ Breeden Bat 1906. The bat by W.J. Breeden of Leyton, Essex. Impressed to the front shoulders ‘W.J. Breeden’, across the splice ‘Special Selected’ and ‘Leyton Essex’, below ‘Roberts Bristol’ and ‘Extra Spring’. The back shoulder inscribed in ink ‘S.P. Meston 1906’, the inscription barely legible, affected by what appears to be a large scorch mark. The back is steeply rounded rather than ridged, falling away to the toe, the shoulders sloping.... View full lot details

A Jack Hobbs ‘Oval’ bat 1922. The Harrow sized bat face impressed to both shoulders ‘Jack Hobbs Ltd, 59 Fleet Street, London’, across the splice in a roundel ‘Specially Selected’, and below at an angle ‘The Oval’, ‘Specially Selected’ and the impressed signature ‘J.B. Hobbs’. On the back to one shoulder a handwritten ownership name in ink of J. Boarde, Spillay C.C., and to the other shoulder the ink signature of Hobbs, ‘Harrow’ impressed below... View full lot details

William Walter Keeton. Nottinghamshire & England 1926-1952. A Gunn & Moore ‘Autograph’ bat used by Keeton in scoring 1162 runs in August 1933. The face of the bat is inscribed ‘1162 in August 1933’ and below is a label which details the innings played with the bat in August 1933. The original writing has faded a little and has been overwritten at a later date. The bat rubber has begun to perish and the blade... View full lot details

‘A Western Samoan Kirikiti bat’. A Kirikiti bat used in the 1930’s The bat is one piece and blade is three sided with the two flat striking faces being 2” wide flaring to 3” at the toe. Kirikiti is the Samoan version of cricket and is popular with the islanders, The rules of Kirikiti or Kilikiti are flexible. Indeed, the majority of reports written on the game simply say that the rules can only... View full lot details

Tom Barling Six Centuries bat’. Gunn & Moore ‘Autograph’ bat used by Barling in the 1946 and 1947 seasons playing for Surrey. Inscribed to the bat face in ink ‘During the seasons 1946 and 1947 I scored over 2000 runs with this bat including 233 not out v Notts, 172 v Oxford University, 164 v Northamptonshire, 129 v Middlesex, 129 v Warwickshire and 148 not out v Combined Services. Signed below the inscription Tom... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. William Gunn ‘Autograph’ match used cricket bat circa 1920’s signed by Jack Hobbs to the ownership position on the shoulder of the back of the back possibly indicating it may have been used by Hobbs. Binding to blade and wear to the rubber handle otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

South African tour of England 1935. John Wisden ‘Union Driver’ cricket bat signed to face by eleven of the South African tourists. Signatures include Wade (Cpt), Cameron, Mitchell, Nourse, Bell, Williams, Balaskas, Tomlinson etc. Some slight spidering to the ink signatures otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

England v Australia, Headingley 1953. Stuart Surridge ‘Herbert Sutcliffe Autograph’ size 6 cricket bat signed to the back of the bat by both teams plus Don Bradman and other England players. Thirty one signatures in total including Hassett, Miller, Harvey, Ring, Benaud, Hutton, Bedser, Compton, Wyatt, Leyland, Watson, Lock etc. Some fading to signatures otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

West Indies 1963. Gunn & Moore ‘County’ cricket bat signed to face by the West Indies team. Sadly, some of the original signatures have faded and there are only eleven legible signatures remaining being Worrell, Hunte, Sobers, Valentine, Gibbs, Butcher, Soloman, Allan, Griffith, King and manager Berkeley Gaskin. Signed to verso by six county sides of 1963, Gloucestershire (8 legible signatures), Somerset (12), Middlesex (9), Kent (7), Warwickshire (9) and Northamptonshire (7). Again, some fading... View full lot details

England v Rest of the World 1970. Gray Nicolls ‘Colin Milburn Autograph’ cricket bat signed to the face by the England and Rest of the World teams of 1970 and to the back by four counties Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire and the Yorkshire teams of 1970. Fading to some the Rest of the World team signatures to the front and to some of the Northamptonshire signatures to the back otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

England v Australia 1972. Slazenger cricket bat signed to the face by ten of the England and seventeen members of the Australian teams. Signatures include Illingworth, Edrich, Snow, Greig, Parfitt, Hampshire, Old, Arnold, I. Chappell, Stackpole, Lillee, Walters, Gleeson, Massie, G. Chappell, Marsh, Taber, Colley, Edwards etc. Two of the England signatures sadly faded otherwise in good condition. Signed to the back of the bat by Godfrey Evans... View full lot details

England v Australia 1975. Stuart Surridge ‘Ken Barrington Autograph’ cricket bat signed to the face by sixteen of the Australian and eleven members of the England teams. Signatures include I. Chappell, G. Chappell, Mallett, Laird, Gilmour, Pascoe, Marsh, Lillee, Walters, Walker, Higgs, Denness, Edrich, Snow, Old, Knott, Gooch, Amiss, Underwood etc. Very good condition with excellent signatures. Signature of Ken Barrington to the back shoulder of the bat suggesting he obtained the signatures... View full lot details

England v Australia 1985. Duncan Fearnley cricket bat signed to the face by twelve of the England and fifteen members of the Australian teams. Signatures include Gower, Botham, Gatting, Lamb, Gooch, Downton, Willey, Robinson, Border, Lawson, O’Donnell, Thomson, Boon, Wellham etc. Fading to the last Australian and the last England signature otherwise in good/very good condition with excellent signatures... View full lot details

Australia v England Bi-Centennial Test Match, Sydney 1988. Gunn & Moore ‘Maxi’ cricket bat signed to the face by sixteen of the England and twelve members of the Australian teams. Signatures include Gatting, Emburey, Radford, Athey, French, Dilley, Capel, Moxon, Robinson, Border, Marsh, Waugh, Jones, Hughes, Boon, Sleep etc. Slight fading to odd signature otherwise in good condition, all legible. Signature of Mike Gatting to the back shoulder of the bat suggesting he obtained... View full lot details

England v Australia 1989. Duncan Fearnley ‘Supreme’ cricket bat signed to the face by twelve of the England and seventeen members of the Australian teams. Signatures include Gower, Russell, Gooch, Broad, Dilley, Lamb, Smith, Foster, Jarvis, Border, Marsh, Boon, Lawson, Jones, Taylor, Moody, Hughes, Alderman, May, Healy etc. Good/very good condition with excellent signatures... View full lot details

England v Australia, Lord’s 1997. Gunn & Moore cricket bat signed to the face by the England team who played Australia at Lord’s in June 1997. Twelve signatures including Atherton (Cpt), Hussain, Gough, Thorpe, Crawley, Caddick, Malcolm etc. Very good condition... View full lot details

Lancashire C.C.C. 1999. Full size cricket bat signed to face by twenty members of the Lancashire playing staff. Signatures include Crawley, Atherton, Fairbrother, Watkinson, Muralitharan, Hegg, Martin, Schofield, Yates, Ridgway, Flintoff etc. Good condition... View full lot details

Denys Paul Beck Morkel. Western Province, Transvaal & South Africa 1919-1932. Leather tour suitcase used by Morkel on the South African cricket tour of England in 1929 and the tour to Australia in 1931. The suitcase lid decorated with his initials and name in black ‘D.P.B. Morkel’ with cricket colours in striped bands around the case. Some wear and ageing but in good condition considering. A rare survivor... View full lot details

Graeme Hick, Worcestershire & England. Pair of Duncan Fearnley batting gloves worn by Hick in his playing career. Each glove signed in black ink by Hick. Previously sold by Knight’s at the Graeme Hick Benefit Year auction held in September 1999. Minor wear, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

John Thomas ‘Jack’ Hearne. Middlesex & England 1888-1923. Cricket ball presented to Jack Hearne following his highly successful cricket season in 1896 where he finished top of the bowling average for the season. The ‘Cobbett ‘Best Match’ cricket ball with details of his achievement in gilt lettering and numbers reads ‘1898. 222 Wickets. Av[erage] 14.05’. hearne bowled 1802.3 overs of which 781 maidens, conceded 3120 runs, taking 222 runs with the average of 14.05. The... View full lot details

Miniature cricket bats. Nine miniature bats including one multisigned, five individually, and three with facsimile signatures. Signed bats are ‘Kalli’ signed by ten England players v West Indies 1995 including Atherton Knight, Emburey, Thorpe, Cork, Fraser, Russell etc. 17”. ‘Art of Sport Signature Collection’, one signed by Alec Stewart 17”, another to verso by Mike Atherton 16.5”. ‘AF Academy’ signed by Darren Maddy 14.5”. ‘Lord’s’ signed by Clive Lloyd 15”. Woodworm ‘The Flame’ by Bill... View full lot details

‘Yorkshire Cricketers’. Slazenger Panther cricket bat signed by twenty one players past and present. Signatures include Moxon, Bird, Richardson, Hartley, Close, Silverwood, Gough, Sidebottom, McGrath etc. Good condition... View full lot details