Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Frederick Robert Spofforth. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1874-1888. Vanity Fair. ‘The Demon Bowler’. Original colour chromolithograph of Spofforth by Spy, dated July 13th 1878. Beautifully signed in black ink to lower border by Spofforth. the print laid down to card measures 11”x16”. An original signature of the demon bowler is rarely seen and is an exceptional item, Knights have sold his signature on four occasions in over thirty years of trading, but to... View full lot details

Gilbert Laird Jessop, Gloucestershire & England 1894-1914. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Jessop. ‘The Croucher’. July 25th 1901 by SPY. Very nicely signed by Jessop in black ink to lower right border. Good condition. Rare in this signed form... View full lot details

Reginald Herbert Spooner. Lancashire & England 1899-1921. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Spooner. ‘Reggie’. July 18th 1906 by SPY. Very nicely signed by Spooner in black ink to lower right hand side of the image. The print laid down to board and in good condition. A rarer cricketers signature... View full lot details

Captain Edward George Wynyard, Hampshire & England 1894-1912. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Wynyard. ‘Hampshire’. August 25th 1898 by CG. Nicely signed by Wynyard in black ink to lower border. The signature has slight fading and the print is laid down to board but otherwise in good condition. Rare in this signed form... View full lot details

Reverend Frank Hay Gillingham. Essex 1903-1928. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Gillingham. ‘Cricketing Christianity’. 15th August 1906 by SPY. Nice bold signature of Gillingham with date ‘1906’ in black ink to lower corner of the image. The print is laid down to board but otherwise in good condition. Rare in this signed form... View full lot details

Lord Harris. Kent & England 1870-1911. ‘Kent’. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Harris. ‘Kent’. 16th July 1881 by SPY. Nicely signed by Harris in black ink to lower border. The print is laid down to board, odd minor foxing spot otherwise in good condition. Rare in this signed form... View full lot details

‘Sketches at Lord’s’. Large original lithograph sheet comprising four coloured lithographs of ‘Mr James Henry Dark, Proprietor of Lord’s Cricket Ground. Sketches at Lord’s No. 1, ‘The Umpire’ William Caldercourt. Sketches at Lord’s No. 2, ‘Hillyer. Born at Leybourne, Kent’. Sketches at Lords No. 3 and ‘Martingell. Born at Nutfield, Surrey 1818’. Sketches at Lords No. 4. Published by John Corbet Anderson and Frederick Lillywhite on 1st March 1852 and printed by John C. Anderson.... View full lot details

Frederick Peel Miller. Surrey 1851-1867. ‘F.P. Miller Esq’. Large hand coloured tinted lithograph by John Corbett Anderson of Miller in blue cap and cricket attire on the cricket pitch leaning on a bat. Published by Frederick Lillywhite, May 1856, printed by Stannard & Dixon. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 15”x19”. A rarer lithograph from the series. Minor age toning and light spotting to borders otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Joseph Guy. Nottinghamshire 1837-1854. ‘Joseph Guy of Nottingham’. Early large hand coloured tinted lithograph of Joseph Guy in cricket attire and top hat holding a cricket bat to his right hand side. John Corbett Anderson. Published by John Corbett Anderson on the 2nd April 1853, and F. Lillywhite, Islington. Printed by Richard Black. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 12.5”x17.5”. Minor mark, good condition... View full lot details

John Wisden. Sussex, Kent & Middlesex 1845-1863. ‘Wisden. Born at Brighton’. Large original lithograph, highlighted with colour, of Wisden full length holding ball, published by John Corbet Anderson and F. Lillywhite on the 1st April 1853 and printed by Richard Black. Mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 10.5”x14.5”. Minor marks and age toning otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

William Hillyer. Kent & All England 1835-1853. ‘Hillyer’. Sketches at Lord’s No 3. Large original sepia lithograph of Hillyer in cricket attire holding a cricket ball, wearing a top hat with large house and other cricketers to the background. Published by John Corbet Anderson and R. Dark, Lord’s Ground on 17th July 1850, Printed by Hullmandel & Walton. Window mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 15”19”. Good/very good condition. Excellent image... View full lot details

Alfred Diver. Cambridgeshire & All England 1857-1866. ‘Alfred Diver’. Large original colour lithograph by John Corbet Anderson, published by Lillywhite & Wisden on 13th July 1858 and printed by Stannard & Dixon. The lithograph mounted, framed and glazed, overall 16.5”x22”. Some foxing to image, mainly to the borders. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Lockyer’. Thomas Lockyer. Surrey 1849-1866. ‘Lockyer’. Large hand coloured tinted lithograph of in wicket keeping pose behind the stumps with tent and woodland to background. Published by Corbett Anderson 1st May 1853, printed by Richard Black. Odd marks, small pin hole to right hand border otherwise in good condition. Mounted, framed and glazed. 15.25”x18.5”. Some pencil annotation regarding Lockyer to lower border. Sold with two smaller original lithographs of Alfred Mynn and John Wisden.... View full lot details

Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925). Large sepia toned print, mounted to card, of a painting of Lord James of Hereford wearing robes sitting in a chair, presumably by Chevallier Tayler, the print with family crest to corner with the motto ‘Vim vi repellere licet’ (It is lawful to repel force with force). Signed to the lower border by Chevallier Tayler and also in ink on white card laid down by ‘James of Hereford’. Undated, but appears... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’s Nightmare’. Fred William Leist. Published by Lawrence & Jellicoe Ltd, Covent Garden. Excellent collection of a set of six colour limited edition chromolithographs featuring Leist’s distinctive and very imaginative watercolour paintings demonstrating the fears and worries of those who play cricket taken to a horrific extreme which were painted in 1909. The titles are ‘The Batsman, ‘Long field dropped it’, ‘How’s That’, ‘The Wicketkeeper’, ‘;Silly Point’ and ‘Run Out’. Each has the original... View full lot details

‘Dinner to Len Hutton and his Test Team. Savoy Hotel. October 30th 1953’. Unique original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon artwork used as the menu cover for the celebratory Dinner given by Claude R. Harper at the Savoy Hotel on the 30th October 1953, highlighted with some colour, by artist Tom Webster. The cartoon shows Len Hutton with the Ashes Urn in the form of a dustbin on his head pointing at the team with... View full lot details

‘Our football centre forward (no cricketer) headed an overthrow and saved the match’. Original pen and ink drawing of a cricket match in progress with crowd, scoreboard and church to background, by artist Lancelot Speed, circa 1920, signed by artist to lower left margin with title. Mounted. Overall 19.5”x14”. Also signed to verso with address. Good condition... View full lot details

Ian Botham. Three original artworks of Botham from his personal collection. Original watercolour of Botham in bowling action by Roger Harvey, undated, probably c.1980. Approx. 8.5”x12”. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 15.25”x19”. Head and shoulders portrait of Botham in black and white pastels, by J. Horley 1992. Approx. 12”x17”, mounted, framed and glazed, overall 18.5”x23” and ‘Drives from the front foot’’. A pen and ink portrait of Botham, artist unknown. Framed. Overall 15.5”x15”. VG. Previously... View full lot details

Royman Browne. Cricket artist and illustrator. Six original pen and ink cartoons by Browne. Subjects are W.G. Grace depicted batting in two poses, titled ‘...back play and forward...’ with ‘thought bubble’ of Grace saying ‘... that will look good on the Playfair tie! Heh-heh!’, 5.25”x4”. A fielder taking a high catch at full length while standing atop a step ladder, 8.5”x6.25”. An outstretched wicket-keeper diving full length to catch a Christmas pudding, typed caption reads... View full lot details

Royman Browne. Cricket artist and illustrator. Five small original pen and ink cartoons by Browne, each on small card laid to larger white sheet with handwritten caption below. Subjects are an umpire with devil’s horns and breathing smoke walking past a left handed batsman, captioned ‘Umpires have a great distaste of deformed cricketers who bat the wrong way round!’. A pair of illustrations mounted together, of batsmen, one walking off the pitch, stumps splayed in... View full lot details

Royman Browne. Cricket artist and illustrator. Seven small original pen and ink cartoons by Browne, each on small card laid to larger white sheet with handwritten caption below. Subjects are two captains tossing for innings, one burly holding a whip, the other cowering while flipping the coin, captioned ‘Some captains are of the bullying sort’. A batsman holding a bat inscribed ‘Le Grand Sport’ vertically behind him as the ball bounces away, ‘French cricketers are... View full lot details

Walter Reginald ‘Wally’ Hammond. Gloucestershire & England 1920-1951. Original pencil sketch portrait of Hammond depicted head and shoulders, signed in pencil by the artist, Juliet Somers and dated 1929, and in ink by Walter Hammond. The artwork measures approximately 7”x9.5”, mounted, framed and glazed in modern frame, overall 12.5”x15”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

The Ashes. England v Australia 2005. Set of eleven excellent original pastels by the renowned British sporting artist, Stephen Doig, of individual members of the England Ashes winning team of 2005. Each player is beautifully depicted in an iconic action pose including the captain, Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss, each with bat raised celebrating reaching a century, Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff, Matthew Hoggard, Steve Harmison, Ashley Giles and Simon Jones appealing for or celebrating taking a... View full lot details

‘The Batsman!. Portrait of Fuller Pilch. Dedicated to the lovers of the noble game by N. Felix’. Drawn from the life & on stone by G.F. Watts. Original colour lithograph after Felix. Published by S. Knights, Change Alley, c.1840. M. & N. Hanhart. Lith Printers, 64 Charlotte Street. Hand-tinted in sepia tones. Hand-printed title to lower mount border, ‘Fuller Pilch. Born at Horningtoft [Norfolk], 17th March, 1804. Died at Canterbury, 1st May, 1870’. The print... View full lot details

‘Captain of the Eleven’. Large Pears advertising cricket print of the boy cricketer batting in the garden, after the Mezzotint by Philip Calderon 1883. The print with ‘Pears’ printed to lower left corner and full printed titles to borders with ‘Presented with Pears’ Christmas Annual 1898’ to top margin. Framed and glazed, overall 34”x24”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Lords 1966’, coloured engraving. Henry Wilkinson (1921-2011), limited edition 22 of 150, signed by the artist and titled in pencil to lower margin. Wes Hall bowling with the Tavern stand and Pavilion well depicted in the image. Mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 29”x19.5”. Minor wear to the frame otherwise in good condition. Sold with a further Lord’s print. The Long Room’. Original mono print from the original pen and ink drawing of the Long Room... View full lot details

England v Australia. Centenary Test Match. Melbourne, 12th-17th March 1977. ‘The Northern Grandstand, Melbourne Cricket Ground 1877. Built 1876. Destroyed by fire 1884’’ by artist D. Watson. The large mono print of the Northern Grandstand is signed to the image by just under one hundred Test cricketers who attended the celebrations. The signatures of Australian and England, all in ink, include H.H. Alexander, Archer, Badcock, Benaud, Chappell, Chipperfield, Darling, Davidson, Ebeling, Gleeson, Grimmett, Grout, Harvey,... View full lot details

Sir Donald Bradman’ by Alan Fearnley. Excellent colour limited edition print of Bradman batting in England and wearing Australian cap. Published by ‘The Quorn Fine Art Co, Loughborough England 1980’. Nicely signed in pencil by Don Bradman and Alan Fearnley. Limited edition 126/850. Mounted, framed and glazed. 22.5”x28” overall. Sold with a further Alan Fearnley print of Lord’s signed by Denis Compton. Framed and glazed. Qty 2. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Sir Donald Bradman and Sir Garry Sobers’. Two limited edition prints in the ‘Legends of Cricket Series’ of prints by David Thomas, one of Don Bradman, LE 702/1500 and Garry Sobers, LE 104/550, both signed by the artist, the Sobers print signed by the player also. Mounted, framed and glazed. 23.5”x21.5” overall. Qty 2. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Sir Donald Bradman’. Large colour print of a portrait of Bradman, seated three quarter length wearing Australia Test blazer. Printed title to lower border with description, ‘The original was presented to the South Australian Cricket Association by the Trustees of George Adams (Tattersall) Hobart... November, 1949’. From the original by Ivor Hele. 18”x23”. Mounted, overall 23”x28”. Light wrinkling, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Hampshire C.C.C. Selection of prints, lithographs and ephemera relating to the club or players or officials from the club contained in an A3 black file. Items include three original Chevallier Tayler lithographs of W.H.B. Evans, W.H.V. Hesketh-Prichard and Captain E.G. Wynyard, all with printed biography, Original Vanity Fair lithograph of Captain Wynyard, Original Vanity Fair lithographs of three of the original Hampshire C.C.C. Committee being ‘West Hampshire’ William Wither Bramston Beach 1893, ‘Horseflesh’ The Earl... View full lot details

Brian Close, Ray Illingworth, Fred Trueman and Dickie Bird, Yorkshire. Four colour prints from originals by Ken Taylor (Yorkshire & England). The images depict Close batting, Illingworth and Trueman bowling, and Bird umpiring. Each print signed in ink by the artist and the featured player. Each measures 12.5”x19”. VG... View full lot details

Fred Trueman. Yorkshire. Two prints relating to Trueman. ‘Roy Ullyett Cartoon- 1961 Reproduced on the occasion of Fred Trueman’s 65th Birthday- 6th February 1996’, signed in ink by Trueman. Framed and glazed overall 15.5”x19.5”. ‘Fiery Fred’s Boots’ print from an original by John Blakey (1998) of the boots worn by Trueman when taking his 300th Test wicket in 1964. Limited edition by ‘Sporting gr8s’, no. 280/307, signed by Trueman. Framed and glazed overall 25.5”x18.5”. Very... View full lot details

Surrey. ‘The Foster’s Oval’. Terry Harrison. c.1997. Original colour print of a match in progress with the iconic gas holder in the background and large crowds in the stands. Signed by the artist, and to the lower mount border by fourteen members of the Surrey team. Signatures include Stewart, Thorpe, Benjamin, A. Hollioake, Ward, Lewis, etc. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 23.5”x18”. Good condition G... View full lot details

Victorian cricket prints c.1860s. A selection of eleven original full page prints from engravings of cricketers of the period. Four are extracts from The Illustrated Sporting News, each dated 1864, depicting Thomas Lockyer, James Grundy, Robert Carpenter and George Anderson. Each approx. 11”x16”. The other (similar) prints are of Richard Daft, Roger Iddison, John Lillywhite, William Mortlock, George Parr, H.H. Stephenson and George Tarrant. Each approx. 11”x15”. Also a colour print of an illustration of... View full lot details

‘Lady Cricketers: A Good Catch’ 1889. Drawn by Lucien Davis. Original and attractive hand coloured double page extract from the Illustrated London News, 14th September 1889, depicting a ladies match in progress, a fielder taking a fine outstretched catch, spectators in the foreground watching on. Handprinted title window mounted below. The print mounted, framed and glazed in modern frame, overall 26”x23.5”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket engravings 1863-1896. A good selection of eleven original full page extracts, the majority from ‘The Illustrated Sporting News’. Includes five full pages dated 1863-1866, each featuring an engraving of a notable cricketer. Players depicted are ‘Tarrant, The Well-Known Cricketer’, ‘Robert Carptenter, The Cambridge Cricketer’, ‘R.C. Tinley, The Celebrated Nottingham Cricketer’, ‘R. Iddison, The Cricket Celebrity’, and ‘James Grundy, The famous Nottingham Cricketer’. Sold with a further selection of full page extracts featuring engravings or... View full lot details