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The Ashes. Australia ‘Coronation Tour’ to England 1953. An excellent collection of over one hundred and thirty original mono press photographs and the odd postcard including match action, player portraits, official team photographs, crowd scenes, on board ship, functions etc. Images of the Australians include a youthful Richie Benaud in the nets, Keith Miller in batting and bowling action, player portraits of Graeme Hole, Alan Davidson, Arthur Morris, Neil Harvey, Lindsay Hassett, Ron Archer, Ian... View full lot details

Pakistan inaugural tour to England 1954. A good selection of forty original mono press photographs, including the odd candid, featuring team and player portraits, match action, ground scenes etc. Includes portrait photographs of the Pakistan captain, A.H. Kardar (signed), Fazal Mahmud, the team being greeted by H.S. Altham on their arrival at Southampton, an attempted stumping in the opening tour match v Indian Gymkana at Osterley, captains Kardar and Sheppard tossing for innings at Trent... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1955. A good selection of over seventy original mono press photographs featuring team and player portraits, match action, ground scenes, excursions, functions etc. Includes official team photographs, two signed by South African team, one signed by five, the other by four, including McGlew, Endean, Waite, Adcock etc., player portraits of Jack Cheetham, Headley Keith, Paul Winslow, John Waite, Neil Adcock in bowling pose, the team entering the field for the... View full lot details

The Ashes. Australia tour to England 1956. A good selection of over seventy original mono press photographs, the majority featuring match action, also player portraits, teams, ground scenes, functions etc. Includes player portraits of Jack Wilson, Alan Davidson, Pat Crawford, two signed (copy) photographs of Richie Benaud and Ian Craig, the Australian team’s arrival at Tilbury on the ‘Himalaya’, Len Hutton and David Sheppard walking out to bat in the opening tour match at Arundel,... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1957. A good selection of over sixty original mono press photographs with the odd restrike photograph from the 1957 tour of match action from the Test series, team photographs, player portraits, travelling, functions etc. Two photographs are signed, one by Sonny Ramadhin in bowling action, the other by Everton Weekes batting and Godfrey Evans, England wicket-keeper. Other West Indians featured individually include John Goddard (Captain), Garry Sobers, Clyde Walcott, Alf... View full lot details

New Zealand tour to England 1958. A good selection of over forty original mono press photographs and one postcard from the 1958 tour including match action from the Test series and the tour match v Surrey, team photographs, player portraits, travelling, functions etc. Four photographs are signed by the featured player, signatures are Bob Blair, Bill Playle, John Sparling, also John Beck (not on the tour). Other New Zealanders featured individually include John Reid (Captain),... View full lot details

India tour to England 1959. A good selection of thirty six original mono press photographs from the 1959 tour including match action from the Test series and the tour matches v Indian Gymkhana at Osterley, and v Lancashire at Old Trafford, team photographs, player portraits, travelling etc. Individual players featured include D.K. Gaekwad (Captain), Polly Umrigar, Surendranath, R.G. Nadkarni, Nari Contractor, Pankaj Roy, Chandu Borde, N.S. Tamhane, captains Gaekwad and Peter May tossing for innings... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1960. A good selection of over seventy original mono press photographs from the 1960 tour including match action from the Test series and the tour match v M.C.C. at Lord’s, also team photographs, player portraits, travelling, training etc. Includes an official team photograph taken at Worcester, signed in ink by four members of the touring party. Signatures are Neil Adcock, Tony Pithey, Sid O’Linn and John Waite. Other individual players... View full lot details

The Ashes. Australia tour to England 1961. An excellent selection of over one hundred and ten original mono press photographs from the 1961 tour including match action from the Test series and the tour matches v Worcestershire and v Surrey, also a team photograph of the Australians, player portraits, travelling, excursions etc. Individual players featured include Richie Benaud (Captain), Neil Harvey, Wally Grout, Barry Jarman, Ron Gaunt, Lindsay Kline, Colin McDonald, Alan Davidson, Graham McKenzie,... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1962. A good selection of over one hundred original mono press photographs from the 1962 tour including match action from the Test series and the tour matches v Duke of Norfolk’s XI at Arundel, v Essex, v M.C.C., and v Worcestershire, also a team photograph of the Pakistanis at Arundel, player portraits, travelling etc. Individual players featured include Javed Burki (Captain), Imtiaz Ahmed, Alim-ud-Din, Nasim-ul-Ghani, Shahid Mahmood, Antao D’Souza, Mahmood Hussain,... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1963. An extensive and excellent selection of over one hundred and fifty original mono press photographs including some copies and restrikes from the 1963 tour. Images include match action from the Test series and the tour matches v Duke of Norfolk’s XI at Arundel, and v M.C.C. at Lord’s, also team photographs of the West Indian and England teams, player portraits, travelling etc. Individual players featured include Frank Worrell (Captain),... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1966. An extensive selection of over one hundred and ten original mono press photographs including the odd copy and restrike from the 1966 tour. Images include match action from the Test series and the tour matches v M.C.C., v Lancashire, and v Cambridge University, also team photographs of the West Indian team at Worcester, player portraits, crowd scenes, travelling etc. Individual players featured include Garry Sobers (Captain), Rohan Kanhai, Conrad... View full lot details

India tour to England 1967. A good selection of forty five original press photographs from the 1967 series. Images include match action from the Test series, also a team photograph of the Indian team at Worcester, player portraits, travelling etc. Individual players featured include Nawab of Pataudi (Captain), Venkataraghavan, Chandrasekhar, Bishen Bedi, Prasanna, Wadekar, Hanumant Singh, Borde, Sardesai, Kunderan, Engineer, Subramanya, Saxena, Surti, Mohol, Guha, and the manager, Tarapor. General views include arriving at Heathrow... View full lot details

Pakistan tours to England 1967 and 1971. A good selection of forty six original press photographs from the 1967 series, and thirteen from 1971. Images from 1967 include match action from the Test series, also official team photographs of both the Pakistan and England teams, travelling etc. Players featured include Hanif Mohammad and Asif Iqbal walking off the field at tea on the third day in the Lord’s Test whilst being applauded by Colin Milburn... View full lot details

The Ashes. Australia tour to England 1968. An excellent selection of seventy six original mono press photographs from the 1968 tour including match action from the Test series, also team photographs of the Australians, player portraits, travelling, functions etc. Individual players featured include Barry Jarman, Ian Redpath, Doug Walters, Dave Renneberg of Australia, also Derek Underwood being mobbed by spectators after taking 7/50 in the fifth Test at The Oval, and Geoff Boycott and John... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1969. A good selection of sixty original mono press photographs (with some copies) from the 1969 tour including match action from the Test series, players, presentations, travelling etc. Individual players featured include Clive Lloyd (one signed), Michael Findlay, Roy Fredericks, Joey Carew, Charlie Davis, John Shepherd, also the West Indian team being presented to the Prince of Wales at Lord’s etc. General views include the players disembarking at Heathrow Airport,... View full lot details

New Zealand tour to England 1969. A good selection of fifty four original mono press photographs from the 1969 tour including match action from the Test series, player portraits, travelling etc. Individual players featured include Dayle Hadlee (one signed), Richard Collinge, Dick Motz, Vic Pollard, Ken Wadsworth, Bruce Taylor etc. General views include the players disembarking at Heathrow Airport, enjoying coffee on their hotel terrace in London, fielding practice prior to the opening tour match... View full lot details

England v Rest of the World 1970. A good selection of forty three original mono press photographs from the 1970 unofficial Test series including match action and team photographs. General views feature captains Ray Illingworth and Garry Sobers holding the Guinness Trophy, team photographs of the both teams at Lord’s and Rest of the World at Headingley, the captains tossing for innings at Edgbaston, and both teams lined up for a minute’s silence in memory... View full lot details

‘England’s Twelve Champion Cricketers’. Photographed on board ship at Liverpool Sep 7, 1859 by T.H. Hennah (Hennah & Kent, Brighton)’. Early and original sepia photograph of George Parr’s team for the first England overseas cricket tour photographed on the morning of their departure for America. The photograph features the players in cricket attire, standing and sitting, holding bats and balls on the deck of the Nova Scotian at Liverpool on the 7th September 1859. Players... View full lot details

Australian tour to England 1888. Rare original sepia cabinet card of the Australian touring party, standing and seated in rows in cricket attire, the majority wearing caps. The photograph by London Stereoscopic Co. Printed title to left hand border ‘The Australian Cricketing Team 1888’ with players’ names printed to lower border. Players featured are McDonnell (Captain), Bonnor, Ferris, Blackham, Edwards, Jarvis, Turner, Bannerman, Worrall, Lyons, Boyle, Jones and Trott, also Beal (Manager). The card measures... View full lot details

Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Excellent photomechanical process print photograph of Australian legend Victor Trumper, ‘jumping out to drive’, taken from the original action photograph by George William Beldam based on a photograph taken at the Oval during the 1902 tour. Nicely signed to lower border by both Victor Trumper and George William Beldam in pencil. Published by the Swan Electric Engraving Company on 1st August 1905. The photograph has... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1924/1925. Original mono real photograph of the S.S. Ormonde, the ship which took the M.C.C. team to Australia in 1924. The photograph, laid down to photographer’s mount, has handwritten title ‘M.C.C. Australian Tour 1924’ to top border. Nicely signed to top and side borders by all eighteen members of the touring party including the Manager Toone. Signatures are A.E.R. Gilligan (Cpt), Douglas, Hobbs, Bryan, Chapman, Whysall, Freeman, Sutcliffe, Tate, Tyldesley, Woolley,... View full lot details

The 17th Australians. Australia tour of England 1930. Exceptionally large and impressive official mono photograph of the full Australian touring party, seated and standing in rows in cricket attire and blazers. Nicely signed in ink to lower border by all fifteen players and the two officials. Players’ signatures are Woodfull (captain), Jackson, Wall, a’Beckett, Hornibrook, Hurwood, Grimmett, Fairfax, Ponsford, Richardson, Kippax, Bradman, Walker, McCabe and Oldfield. Also signed by Kelly (manager) and Howard (treasurer). The... View full lot details

Bodyline’. ‘M.C.C. Team- Australian Tour- 1932-33’. Large and impressive official mono photograph of the M.C.C. touring party who toured Australia in 1932/33. The team, standing and seated in rows, wearing M.C.C. touring blazers and cricket attire. The photograph laid down to official photographers mount with title to top border and names of players printed to lower border. Players include Jardine (Captain), Duckworth, Nawab of Pataudi, Leyland, Larwood, Paynter, Ames, Verity, Voce, Bowes, Brown, Tate, Sutcliffe,... View full lot details

Australian tour of England 1938. Large official mono photograph of the Australian touring team to England 1938, standing and seated in rows at Lord’s, wearing tour blazers and cricket attire. The photograph is signed by all sixteen playing members of the touring party, and the manager Jeanes, to the lower portion of the image. Seventeen signatures in total. Players’ signatures are Bradman (Captain), Barnes, Brown, Fingleton, Waite, McCormick, White, McCabe, O’Reilly, Barnett, Walker, Fleetwood-Smith, Ward,... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1938/39 ‘Timeless Test Series’. ‘The Union-Castle Royal Mail Motor Vessel. Athlone Castle, 25,550 tons. Union-Castle Line to South and East Africa’. Official mono photograph of the R.M.M.V. Athlone Castle, the ship which took the M.C.C. team to South Africa in October 1938. The photograph has been laid down to photographer’s mount and the photograph has been nicely and fully signed in ink by all sixteen members of the touring party.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1946/47. Official Union-Castle Line R.M.V. ‘Stirling Castle’ photograph of the ship that took the M.C.C. to Australia for the 1946/47 tour. Signed to the verso in ink by all seventeen playing members of the touring party. Signatures are Hammond (Captain), Evans, Yardley, Hutton, Wright, Voce, Washbrook, Pollard, Langridge, Ikin, Gibb, Compton, Smith, Bedser, Hardstaff, Fishlock and Edrich. 7.75”x6”. Horizontal crease, some foxing to verso, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia & New Zealand 1946/47. Excellent and original mono press photograph of the M.C.C. team walking out to field in the tour match against Wellington, with a portly looking Wally Hammond, as Captain, leading them out in front of the pavilion. The match was played at the Basin Reserve, Wellington on the 10th-12th March 1947. The photograph has been signed to the image by all eleven members of the team in black... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Original mono postcard size candid style photograph of Hobbs standing full length holding a pipe, wearing suit, overcoat and hat. Nicely signed in ink to the photograph by Hobbs. Annotation to verso describes Hobbs in Australia on the 1924/25 tour, ‘waiting to board the “Miramar” visiting Launceston in Tasmania’. Small adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in very good condition. Sold with three small album pages, each nicely... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. County Champions 1971. Large original mono photograph of the Surrey team wearing club blazers, seated and standing in rows at The Oval. Photograph laid down to board with separate board signed by twelve players featured. Players’ signatures include Stewart (Captain), Jackman, Arnold, Waller, Willis, Edrich, Roope, Howarth etc. The photograph measures 17”x10.5”. Smudging to two signatures, the photograph in generally good condition.... View full lot details

John William Hitch. Surrey & England 1907-1925. Early sepia photograph of Hitch depicted full length in bowling pose, wearing M.C.C. touring cap, boldly signed to the photograph ‘Yours sincerely J.W. Hitch’. The photograph measures 4.5”x6.5”. Photographer unknown. Some age toning to photograph, wear with loss to right hand border, lower corner damage with loss otherwise in generally good condition.... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1921. Original mono press photograph of the Surrey team, seated and standing in rows in front of the pavilion at The Oval, wearing cricket attire and blazers. Players featured are Fender (Captain), Hobbs, Reay, Howell, Strudwick, Hitch, Peach, Sandham, Ducat, Harrison, Shepherd and Rushby. The photograph 8”x6” set in mount, overall 11.5”x8”. Small tear to top edge, otherwise in good condition. A nice image.... View full lot details

Surrey County Cricket Club. Stewart Storey Benefit Year 1973. Benefit card with caricature drawing of the Oval by Jack Dunkley, with photographic cameo image of Storey, head and shoulders to centre. Signed by thirteen members of the Surrey team including Edrich, Roope, Arnold, Storey, Younis Ahmed etc. 14.5”x10”. Light creasing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Lord Dalmeny (Surrey) and Lord Hawke (Yorkshire) c1905/1907. Original sepia press photograph of Dalmeny tossing for innings with Hawke looking on padded up ready to bat. Signed by both players to the photograph. 4.75”x7”. Slight fading to the signatures, adhesive damage to verso, otherwise a nice image in good condition. Rare to see a signed photograph of Dalmeny.... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1901. Original sepia photograph of the Surrey team seated and standing in rows in cricket attire and blazers. Players featured include Abel, Hayward, Jephson, Leveson-Gower, Crawford, Stedman, Lockwood etc. The photograph measures 9.5”x7.75”, laid to official photographer’s mount, printed players’ names and title to lower border. Signed in ink to top border of mount by Bobby Abel. Overall 12”x11.5”. The mount, which appears to have been trimmed, with some foxing, the photograph in... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1922. Official mono photograph of the Surrey team for the match played v Gloucestershire at Bristol 27th- 30th May 1922. The players are seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, set in front of the pavilion with spectators looking on. Players are Fender (Captain), Hitch, Hobbs, Strudwick, Sandham, Bovington (scorer), Ducat, Shepherd, Harrison, Redgewell, Watts, Abel and Peach. Handwritten title in ink to lower edge. Blind embossed stamp for the Western Mail,... View full lot details

‘Surrey Eleven 1937’. Large original mono photograph of the Surrey team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, some in caps. In the background is the pavilion with a sprinkling of spectators. Very nicely signed in black ink by all twelve Surrey players. Signatures are Holmes (Captain), Brooks, Knight, Sandham, Gregory, McMurray, Fishlock, Squire, Watts, Gover, Parker and Barling. Also signed by Herbert Strudwick (Manager) and to the darker portion of the photograph by... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1934. Large original sepia press photograph of Bill Woodfull and Bill Brown walking out to bat for Australia in the 2nd Test, Lord’s 22nd- 25th June 1934. The photograph very nicely signed in ink by both Woodfull and Brown. Sport & General, London. 8”x10”. ‘J.W. Goldman’ and his London address annotated in ink to verso. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Adhesive marks to verso where previously laid down, otherwise in very good... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. 1929. Original sepia photograph of the Yorkshire team standing in front of the pavilion in cricket attire for the match Yorkshire v M.C.C., Scarborough, 11th-13th September 1929. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by nine players. Signatures are Robinson, Dennis, Rhodes, Hirst, Leyland, Macaulay, Mitchell, Wood and Barber. The photograph by Walkers Studio of Scarborough measures 10.5”x5.25”, laid to brown album page with handwritten title and players’ names to margins, with... View full lot details

‘Yorkshire XI versus M.C.C. Scarborough 1927’. Two original mono photographs depicting each of the two teams lined up in front of the pavilion at Scarborough with crowds in the background for the match played 31st August- 2nd September 1927. The M.C.C. team photograph signed in black ink by ten of the players. Signatures are Enthoven, Clay, Haig, Kennedy, Leveson-Gower, Crutchley, Douglas, A.E.R. Gilligan, F.W. Gilligan and Crawley. The Yorkshire team photograph with title and players’... View full lot details

Harold Geoffrey Owen ‘Tuppy’ Owen-Smith. Western Province, Oxford University, Middlesex & South Africa 1927-1950. Mono candid photograph of Owen-Smith walking off the field with Sandy Bell having just been dismissed for 129 in South Africa’s second innings at Headingley during the 3rd Test, England v South Africa, 13th- 16th July 1929. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by Owen-Smith and dated ‘July 16th’. 2.5”x4.25”. Sold with two small candid photographs taken at... View full lot details

H.D.G. Leveson-Gower’s XI v M.C.C. Australian Touring Team. Scarborough 1932. Original mono photographs depicting the Leveson-Gower team lined up in front of the pavilion at Scarborough with crowds in the background for the match played 3rd- 6th September 1932. Signed by three players, Bowes, Keeton and Iddon. 10.25”x5”. Official stamp for Walkers’ of Scarborough to verso. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Adhesive marks verso where previously laid down, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire v. M.C.C. Scarborough 1937. Original mono photograph of the Yorkshire team lined up in front of the pavilion at Scarborough with crowds in the background for the match played 1st- 3rd September 1937. Fully and very nicely signed in ink by all eleven featured players. Signatures are Verity, Bowes, Yardley, Sellers, Sutcliffe, Smailes, Barber, Wood, Leyland, Turner and Hutton. 10.75”x5.25”. Official stamp for Walkers’ Studio of Scarborough to verso. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Very... View full lot details

Lord Hawke’s XI v. M.C.C. Australian Touring Team, Scarborough 1929. Original mono photograph depicting Lord Hawke’s XI lined up in front of the pavilion at Scarborough with spectators in the background for the match played 7th- 10th September 1929. Fully signed in ink by the eleven featured players. Signatures are Jupp, Allen, Gilligan, Duleepsinhji, Haig, Dawson, Rhodes, Peach, Wyatt, Whysall and Sandham. Official stamp for Walkers’ Studio of Scarborough to verso. 10.25”x5.5”. Ex J.W. Goldman... View full lot details

‘Peach & Sandham’ Surrey 1929. Original sepia real photograph plain back postcard of Alan Peach and Andy Sandham standing side by side on the outfield wearing cricket attire at Scarborough with the pavilion in the background. Both players appeared for Lord Hawke’s XI in the match v M.C.C. Australian Touring Team, 7th- 10th September 1929. Signed in ink to the photograph by both players. Includes a trimmed handwritten caption from the original album page dated... View full lot details

New Zealanders v. H.D.G. Leveson-Gower’s XI, Scarborough 1937. Original mono photograph of the New Zealand team lined up in front of the stands at Scarborough with crowds in the background for the match played 8th- 10th September 1937. Fully and very nicely signed in ink by all eleven featured players. Signatures are Lowry, Lamason, Roberts, Cowie, Moloney, Gallichan, Donnelly, Wallace, Hadlee, Kerr and Weir. 10.75”x5.25”. Official stamp for Walkers’ Studio of Scarborough to verso. Ex... View full lot details

Gentlemen v Players, Scarborough 1931. Original mono photograph of the Gentlemen team lined up in front of the crowded pavilion for the match played 5th- 8th September 1931. Very nicely signed in ink to the photograph by ten of the featured players. Signatures are Allen, Brown, Robins, Dawson, Jupp, Haig, Stevens, Gilligan, Kemp-Welch and Wyatt. The other player featured is Enthoven. Official stamp to verso for Walker’s Studio of Scarborough. 10.25”x5.25”. Included is a trimmed... View full lot details

George Herbert Hirst. Yorkshire & England 1891-1929. Large and impressive mono studio photographic portrait of Hirst, full length, in batting pose wearing Yorkshire cap. Printed by H. Lindley & Co, Nottingham. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 23”x29”. An excellent image. Slight discolouration to image otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

Charlie Barnett and Laurie Fishlock. H.D.G. Leveson-Gower’s XI v. M.C.C. Australian Touring Team, Scarborough, 4th- 7th September 1937. Original mono photograph of the M.C.C. opening batsmen, Barnett (Gloucestershire) and Fishlock (Surrey) walking out to bat, the packed stand in the background. Very nicely signed in ink to the photograph by both Barnett and Fishlock. 6”x8.25”. Official stamp for Walker’s Studio of Scarborough to verso. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Includes a trimmed handwritten caption from the... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Two mono photographs featuring Bradman, one head and shoulders and the other with Bradman standing with Ronnie Aird in the nets. Both signed in later years by Bradman, the Aird photograph also signed by Aird. 7”x9” and 10”x8”. Good condition... View full lot details

Donald George Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. Original sepia press photograph of Bradman, wearing Australian cap, playing a late cut with a fielder diving, and failing, to stop the ball. Very nicely dedicated and signed by Bradman ‘To Bert Sayer, with many thanks for his kindness, Sincerely yours Don Bradman. Mounted, framed and glazed. The photograph measures 7.5”x9.5” and overall 11”x13”. An excellent original image with inscription. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Sepia candid style photograph of Bradman wearing Australia touring blazer and carrying his bat and pads under his arm, taken at Scarborough in 1930. The photograph measures approx. 3.5”x5.5”, window mounted with printed title and career details above, and a ‘Cootamundra, Birthplace of Bradman’ commemorative cover signed in ink by Bradman below. Frames and glazed, overall 10.5”x17”. The photograph faded, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

William Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England. Large and impressive original photograph of Gunn in batting pose at the wicket at Trent Bridge. The photograph laid down to original photographers mount and nicely signed to lower right border in black ink ‘Yours Faithfully William Gunn’. Photographers name and address to lower left border ‘E. Hawkins & Compy’ of Brighton. The photograph measures 9.5”x11”, mounted, framed and glazed overall 19”x22”. An excellent image in very good condition.... View full lot details

Indian tour of England 1959. Original large press photograph of the Indian touring team prior to the opening match of the tour against Indian Gymkhana played at Osterley, London on the 23rd and 24th April 1959. Players include Gaekwad (Cpt), Contractor, Roy, Manjrekard, The Mararajah of Baroda, Borde, Desai, Apte, Tamhane, Nadkarni, Gupte etc. 11.5”x8”. Press stamps to back with players listed on page. Good condition... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire, Monday July 20th 1931. Original and humourous original photograph of a group of travelling Yorkshire supporters sitting entertaining themselves in the stands at Trent Bridge. The caption reads ‘Heads or Tails whether we go or stay. Visitors from Stocksbridge who waiting patiently all day for the resumption of play’. From the Nottingham Guardian. Mounted. 13.5”x11”. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘Northamptonshire v Northumberland 1897’. Original sepia photograph of the Northumberland team who played Northamptonshire at Northampton on the 8th and 9th July 1897. The photograph, laid down to mount, of the players, stranding and seated in rows, some wearing blazers and caps. The photograph, by Draycott Photos, measures overall 18”x17.25”. Title and players names to upper and lower borders. Some wear with damage to lower edge of the mount, odd foxing and soiling to photographs... View full lot details

Old Collegians C.C. 1923-1955. Original photograph album comprising over one hundred and thirty mono candid photographs covering the period 1923-1926 depicting teams, players at grounds, excursions, team photographs etc. including matches v. Mill Hill 1923, ‘N. Middlesex’ 1925, and annual tours to Devon including matches v. University College Exeter, Bovey, Newton Abbott, Exminster, Paignton etc. and a nice selection of photographs of ‘Some of our Pavilions’ including Mill Hill, Beckenham, Radlett, Ealing, Teddington, Twickenham etc.... View full lot details

South Africa 1940s-1960s. Four large official team photographs, each laid to photographer’s mount with printed titles and players’ names to mount borders. Three are ‘South Africa versus England 1948-49’, ‘South Africa versus Australia 1949/50’, and ‘South Africa vs England 1956-7’, all by Rembrandt Studios of Port Elizabeth. Each measures approx. 14”x11”, mounted overall approx. 20”x16”. The fourth, titled ‘”Sprinboks”- First Test vs. England, Johannesburg, December 1956’, 11.5”x9.75”, mounted overall 18”x15”, photographer unknown. Some faults to... View full lot details

South Africa and Zimbabwe Test and provincial cricketers press photographs 1960s- 1990s. A good selection of over one hundred and thirty original mono and colour press photographs, with the odd copy, depicting South African and Zimbabwe players in match action, player portraits, presentations etc. South African players featured include Mike Procter, Jimmy Cook, Ray Jennings, Graeme Pollock, Garth Le Roux, Clive Rice, Alan Kourie, Trevor Madsen, Brian Whitfield, Brian McMillan, Peter Kirsten, Paul Rayner, Lee... View full lot details

Australia Test signed photographs 1940s onwards. Two files containing a good selection of approx. one hundred and fifty original and copy photographs of Australia players, the majority modern colour photographs, some mono, with the odd magazine extract, each signed by the featured player(s). Includes a good selection of signatures of earlier players signed in later years, including Hassett, Meckiff, C. McDonald, Thomas, Hoare, N. Harvey, Booth, McKenzie, Corling, Gleeson, W. Watson, also Mayne, McCosker, J.... View full lot details

Scottish teams and player photograph 1930s. A selection of fourteen original mono press photographs of Scottish teams and players. Teams featured include the Fifeshire players walking on to the pitch at Perth, Perthshire v Heriots at North Inch match in progress 1939, and a Stirling C.C.C. team photograph. Individual players, depicted in various poses, include Alma Hunt (Bermuda, Aberdeen & Scotland 1938), D.C.L. Stevenson (Carlton C.C.), J.S. Drummond, J. Kerr, Greenock (Glenpark C.C.), T.W. Morris,... View full lot details

‘Land & Water Supplement’ 1888-1892. Large black file comprising a very nice selection of thirteen original full page ‘photo-prints’ of teams of the period, the majority by Waterlow & Sons. Each image with title ‘Land & Water Supplement’ and date of issue printed to top margin, team and players’ names printed below. Teams depicted are Surrey, Australians, Lancashire, Kent, Gloucestershire, Yorkshire, ‘Oxford & Cambridge (Past and Present)’ at Portsmouth, Sussex, Nottinghamshire (all 1888), Cambridge University,... View full lot details

‘E.W.S. Thomson’s Argentine Cricket Team in Chile 1925-1926’. Modern black file comprising a nicely presented collection of twenty four original sepia candid and official team photographs, loose mounted to black pages, taken on the tour by the Argentine Cricket Team to Chile in December 1925, captained by Thomson. Photographs cover the journey to Chile on the Trans-Andine Railway, the teams for the three matches v Valparaiso at Vina del Mar, the match in progress and... View full lot details

‘Cricket in Argentina 1930-1942’. An excellent selection of ninety two photographs, of which eighty eight are original mono press photographs by South American photo agencies, depicting teams, matches in progress, players, officials, spectators etc., some with press cuttings laid to the photograph. The majority depict matches at the Hurlingham Club, Buenos Aires, including teams and matches from Sir Julian Cahn’s tour to South America March/ April 1930, also Hurlingham Club v Old Etonians and v... View full lot details

Scarborough Cricket Festival 1949-1966. Seven original official mono group photographs of the Festival Committee members taken at Scarborough for seasons 1949, 1952, 1954, 1961, 1962, 1965 and 1966. All by Walkers Studios, Scarborough, each is laid to official photographer’s mount with printed titles and members’ names to borders (the 1949 hand written). All 12”x10” overall (the 1949 smaller). Notable names featured include Sir William Worsley, H.D.G. Leveson-Gower, T.N. Pearce, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Norfolk,... View full lot details

Test and County cricketers late 1940s-1960s. A good selection of forty three original mono press photographs including the odd copy and restrike photograph including player portraits, match action, team and tour photographs etc. Includes two signed photographs, one by Reg Simpson (Nottinghamshire), the other M.J.K. Smith (Warwickshire). Other subjects include Fred Trueman being congratulated by Colin Cowdrey on the field having just taken his 300th Test wicket. Images from the Test series in England v... View full lot details

Test and County cricket 1970s-1980s. A good selection of forty five original mono press photographs of player portraits, match action, team photographs etc. Includes two signed photographs, one by Godfrey Evans holding a water ski in later years, the other by Colin Cowdrey. Other subjects include action photographs of Jack Russell, David East, Damian D’Oliveira, Graham Roope, Dilip Doshi, Paul Downton, Geoff Arnold, Charles Rowe, Peter Roebuck, Glenn Turner, Brian Statham (taking his last first-class... View full lot details

Moors v Rifle Brigade 1884. Excellent original sepia photograph of the two teams taken as a group with scoreboard and scoring tent to background. The two teams are dressed in an assortment of coloured blazers and caps and three dogs appear in the photograph. The photograph, measuring 8.25”x6.25”, is laid down to a large photograph album page. Location and photographer unknown. An excellent evocative image in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Incapables’. Two excellent original sepia photographs of the team, both laid down to one large photograph album page. Both photographs are taken in the garden of a house with players laying on the grass, in chairs and standing. The top photograph features the Incapables team of 1882, with the majority of the players in cricket attire, blazers and the odd cap with one lady present, the photograph below this features the Incapables team of... View full lot details

Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj. Haryana, Northamptonshire & India 1975-1994. Original mono press photograph of Kapil Dev taken while bowling for India at Old Trafford 1986. Nicely signed in ink by Kapil Dev to the right edge of the image. Photograph by All-Sport Photographic. 8”x10”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

H.D.G. Leveson-Gower’s XI at Scarborough 1935 & 1936. A pair of large original mono photographs of teams. One for Leveson-Gower’s team v M.C.C. West Indian Touring Party, 11th- 13th September 1935. Players featured are Verity, Townsend, Bowes, Baxter, Sellers, Wellard, Smith, Mitchell, Brown, Sutcliffe and Wood. The other for the team v M.C.C. Australian Touring Party, 5th- 8th September 1936 featuring Smailes, Gover, Nichols, Wellard, Hendren, Sellers, Brown, Smith, Griffith, Mitchell and Sutcliffe. Both photographs... View full lot details

Lord Harris’ tour to Australia 1878/79. Two original sepia photographs of the touring party. The photographs each feature twelve of the thirteen players who made up the tour, which comprised Lord Harris (Captain), Charles Absolom, Tom Emmett, Leland Hone, Alfred Hornby, Alfred Lucas, Francis MacKinnon, Henry Maul, Frank Penn, Vernon Royle, Sandford Schultz, George Ulyett and Alexander Webbe. One depicts the players prior to the tour with three ladies, seated and standing in rows in... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Three magic lantern slides, one showing W.G. Grace sitting on a bench with another cricketer at a cricket ground, the other two are of pupils at Oundle school, wearing blazers, caps and cricket attire, one near the cricket pitch and the other boy cricketers at the tuck shop, this one labelled 30/12/05 (1905). All three are stored in a Ilford Contact Lantern Plate card box. Formerly in the M.C.C. Collection. Odd faults, good... View full lot details

Ipswich School v Beccles. Whit Monday 1892. Three glass lantern slides showing photographic images from the match. Sold with a further glass lantern slide showing cricket practise in front of the school. Qty 4. G... View full lot details

Yorkshire at Somerset, Taunton 1957. Twelve original small candid mono photographs, all apparently taken at the match played at Taunton 24th- 27th August 1957. Images depict players entering the field, arriving at the ground, signing autographs etc. Each photograph annotated to verso with the featured player(s) names and include Yorkshire players Wilson, Appleyard, W. Sutcliffe, Illingworth, Cowan, Stott, Close, Watson, Padgett, Pickles etc., also the captains Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) and Tremlett (Somerset) walking off the field.... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1950. Original mono photograph of the West Indies team lined up in one row at Scarborough for the match v H.D.G. Leveson-Gower’s XI, 9th- 12th September 1950. Large crowds are seen in the grandstand and pavilion in the background. The photograph loose mounted to black album page with title and player’s names annotated to the page. Players are Ramadhin, Weekes, Williams, Valentine, Rae, Gomez, Christiani, Stollmeyer, Johnson, Walcott and Marshall.... View full lot details

New Zealand tour to England 1927. Three very nice head and shoulders portraits of members of the New Zealand touring party wearing cricket attire. Players are Roger Blunt (wearing tour blazer), Stewie Demptster (both 4”x5.75”), and Bill Cunningham (4”x5.25”). Each photograph with stamp to verso for Harris Picture Agency, London. Small adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1922/23. Original mono postcard size candid style photograph of Tich Freeman and Maurice Tate with one other, all dressed in suits and seated on a rock by a lake while on tour. Photographer unknown. Ex Freeman collection. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Original mono photograph of Bradman seated next to Bob Hawke, Australian Prime Minister with their backs to the camera, at a dinner to honour Bradman held at the Regent Hotel, Sydney, 13th October 1989. Signed in ink by Bob Hawke and his wife, Hazel, and Don Bradman and his wife Jesse. The photograph, laid to trimmed card, measures 8.5”x6”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Original 1930s mono photograph of Bradman wearing cricket attire and Australia cap, standing in conversation with two gentlemen, a marquee in the background. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph, ‘Sincerely yours, Don Bradman’. Photographer, location and date unknown. The photograph measures 6”x8.25”, laid to photographer’s mount, framed and glazed, overall 10.5”x12.5”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Middlesex C.C.C. c.1928. Magazine/ newspaper extract of the Middlesex team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire and assorted blazers. Signed in black ink to the image by ten of the eleven featured players. Signatures are Mann (Captain), Hearne, Haig, Allen, Hendren, Lee, Price, Peebles, Durston and Killick. The image set in modern mount, overall 13.5”x11”. Good condition.... View full lot details

Maurice Allom, Cambridge University, Surrey & England 1926-1938. M.C.C. tour to Australia & New Zealand 1929/30. Five original mono photographs from the tour on which Maurice Allom was a member. Photographs include the team on board ship with four of the ship’s officers, matches in progress on the New Zealand leg of the tour with nice views of the surrounding scenery etc. One photograph with title to mount ‘The Christchurch Ground, New Zealand’ shows the... View full lot details

Maurice Allom, Cambridge University, Surrey & England 1926-1938. M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1930/31. Original large sepia photograph taken at the drawn second Test played at Newlands, Cape Town, 1st- 5th January 1931, from the tour on which Maurice Allom was a member. The image depicts Percy Chapman and Hubert ‘Nummy’ Deane, respective captains of M.C.C. and South Africa, standing full length in the sunlight at the back of the pavilion in cricket attire, Chapman... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1935. A good selection of original mono press photographs from the 1935 tour. Images are Eric Rowan and Bruce Mitchell walking out to bat in the tour match v Scotland, Forthill, Dundee, 22nd & 23rd June 1935. Star Photos of Perth, 9”x7”. Two excellent portrait images of Mitchell and Wade, both full length in batting poses, The Times, 8”x10”. Action from the practice match at Hampstead C.C. 20th April, tour... View full lot details

Evelyn Rockley Wilson. Cambridge University, Yorkshire & England 1899-1923. Two page handwritten letter to George Hirst, Yorkshire & England 1891-1929. The letter dated 25th February 1945 and sent from Winchester. ‘My Dear George, Just a line to hope you are well. It is sad to think you are no longer on the Active List, but no man has served a county so long!. As an old friend of our family I thought you might like... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1930. Contemporary sepia copy of the original signed photograph of the Australian team visiting Lord and Lady Forster at their home during the tour match v Hampshire at Southampton, 31st May- 2nd June 1930. Unusually, the photograph has been mounted to a brass metal free-standing rectangular convex display with the image wrapped around all edges, measuring 8”x5.75”. The image depicts the group seated and standing in rows in front of the... View full lot details

Cricket photographs. Selection including a framed mono photograph of Bill Edrich and Denis Compton walking out to bat, signed by Edrich, a mono mounted print of Don Bradman and Ted Dexter walking out as Captains, signed by both players, a mounted photograph of the M.C.C. team who played the Champion County Essex in April 1987, a mounted photograph of the M.C.C. team who played Melbourne C.C. in July 2001 etc. Good condition... View full lot details

Australian cricket press photographs 1980s/1990s. A good selection of approx. one hundred original colour and mono press photographs of Australian players in Tests and one day internationals played in England and Australia. Images depict match action, team celebrations, net practice, supporters etc. Players featured include Border, Alderman, Thomson, Hohns, Wellham, M. Hughes, S. Waugh, Jones, Lawson, McDermott, Reid, Warne, Healy, Boon, Taylor, Julian, M. Waugh, Slater, McGrath, Kasprowicz, Blewett, Moody, MacGill, Fleming, Law, Bevan, Ponting... View full lot details

Test and County press photographs ‘A-M’ 1970s-1990s. An extensive selection comprising well over five hundred mainly mono original press photographs of Test, County and international players depicted in match action, player portraits etc. Players featured include Ian Botham, Mike Brearley, Neil Briers, Nick Cook, Bob Cowper, Phil DeFreitas, Mike Denness, Ted Dexter, Tony Dodemaide, Damian D’Oliveria, Graham Dowling, Paul Downton, David East, Ray East, Phil Edmonds, John Edrich, Richard Ellison, John Emburey, Neil Fairbrother, Keith... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1970/71. Official mono tour photograph of the M.C.C. party, sitting and seated in rows, wearing cricket attire and M.C.C. blazers. The photograph laid down to official photographer’s mount with title to top and players names to lower border. M.C.C. colour band to corner of mount. Photograph by Frank Boase of Malvern, South Australia. Overall 13”x12”. Wear and creasing to mount, vertical crease to photograph, very minor damage to mount edge otherwise... View full lot details

Test cricketers photographs 1970s-2000s. A collection of eighteen original press photographs, the majority colour action photographs, some portraits, of which sixteen are signed. Signatures include Dennis Amiss, Mike Hendrick, Ken McEwan, Chris Old, Mark Butcher, James Anderson, Angus Fraser, Michael Atherton, Alastair Cook, Phil DeFreitas, Andrew Caddick, also Lance Gibbs, Brian Lara (West Indies), Sunil Gavaskar (India) etc. Photographers/ agencies include PA News, Patrick Eagar, Keystone, Bill Smith etc. Very good condition. Sold with an... View full lot details

‘Garfield Sobers. Cricket Legend’. Large mono photograph image of Garry Sobers in batting action for West Indies, window mounted with his signature on white card below. Framed and glazed overall 15.5”x19.5”. Good condition.... View full lot details

Australia Test cricketers. Eight colour press photographs of Australian Test players, each signed to the image by the featured player. Signatures are Shane Warne, Darren Lehmann, Jason Gillespie, Justin Langer, Alex Doolan, Tom Moody, Ashton Agar and Josh Hazlewood. 10”x8” (one larger). Very good condition.... View full lot details

The Ashes. England tour to Australia 1998/99. An excellent selection of one hundred colour press photographs from the tour. Images depict Test, one day international and tour match action, net practice, press conferences etc. Players featured include Alex Stewart, Graham Thorpe, Mark Ramprakash, Dominic Cork, Alan Mullally, Adam and Ben Hollioake, Darren Gough, Mike Atherton, Graeme Hick, Nasser Hussain, Dean Headley, Peter Such, Angus Fraser (England), Shane Warne, Mark Taylor, Mark Waugh, Brad Hodge, Stuart... View full lot details

The Ashes. England tour to Australia 1994/95. An excellent selection of forty colour press photographs from the tour. Images depict Test, one day international and tour match action, net practice, press conferences, crowd scenes etc. Four photographs are signed by the featured player, signatures are Mike Atherton, Craig White, Graham Thorpe and Steve Rhodes. Other players featured include Graeme Hick, Darren Gough, Graham Gooch, Mike Gatting, Neil Fairbrother, Alec Stewart, Mark Ilott, John Crawley (England),... View full lot details

The Ashes. Australia tour to England 1993. A good selection of twenty one colour press photographs from the tour. Images depict Test match action, practice sessions etc. One photograph is signed by three of the featured players, Paul Jarvis, Graeme Hick and Chris Lewis, and another by Graham Gooch. Other players featured include Shane Warne, Merv Hughes, Damian Martyn, Allan Border, Ian Healy (Australia), Mike Atherton, Robin Smith, Devon Malcolm, Ted Dexter (England) etc. The... View full lot details