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

‘The Billiard Book’. New edition, enlarged and revised. By Captain Crawley & W. Cook. London 1877. Illustrated by Robin Proctor. Wonderfully decorative original boards showing a full size billiard table with cues and balls. Gilt to top edge. Some slight breaking to page block, minor staining to boards otherwise in good to very good condition with gilt titles bright. An early Billiard book... View full lot details

‘Billiards’. By Joseph Bennett. Ex Champion. Edited by Cavendish. Published by Thos. De La Rue & Co. London second edition 1873. Excellent decorative original boards. Gilt to all page edges. Minor wear to spine paper and board edges, slight dulling to gilt titles on spine, some wear to corners otherwise in good to very good condition with gilt titles bright to front board. An early Billiard book... View full lot details

‘Billiards’. By William Cook. Ex-Champion. Published by Burroughes & Watts, London 1884. Excellent decorative original boards. Minor wear to boards, lacking front end paper, some occasional light foxing internally otherwise in good to very good condition with gilt titles bright to front board and spine. An early Billiard book... View full lot details

‘Billiards for the Million’. Riso Levi. Manchester 1920. Excellent decorative original boards. Some occasional light foxing to first few pages and to page block edge otherwise in good to very good condition with gilt titles bright to front board and spine.... View full lot details

Billiards. Walter Lindrum. Mono real photograph postcard of Lindrum captioned ‘A Souvenir of my Australian tour in aid of the Red Cross and Comforts Fund, sponsored by the distributors of Black & White Cigarettes 1942’. Nicely signed in ink to the verso, ‘Walllie Lindrum’, with dedication. Some staining to the card otherwise in good condition. Sold with an original advertising postcard of Lindrum produced by ‘Janus’ billiard cloth. Old tape marks to edges and small... View full lot details

Fishing jug. Royal Doulton ‘Gallant Fishers’ Tudor shape jug. The jug features two sleeping fisherman sitting on a wall with the quote ‘The Gallant Fisher’s Life It Is The Best Of Any’ on the inside rim. 7” tall. Royal Doulton ‘Gallant Fishers’ backstamp and painted pattern reference to base... View full lot details

Fishing jug. Royal Doulton ‘Gallant Fishers’ Tudor shape jug. The jug features two fisherman sitting on a wall smiling as they have caught a fish, with the quote ‘Of Recreation there is none so free as fishing is alone’ on the inside rim. 8” tall. Royal Doulton ‘Gallant Fishers’ backstamp and painted pattern reference to base... View full lot details

Leaping Salmon. An attractive leaping salmon in bronze mounted on circular marble plinth, signed ‘Andre’ to back. Approximately 8” tall. Good condition... View full lot details

Royal Doulton ‘Burslem’ Isaac Walton biscuit barrel with silver plated handle and lid decorated with fisherman of various sizes to sides with floral decoration to top border. Doluton marks and number D2312 to base. Approximately 7” tall. Very good condition... View full lot details

Fishing Tyg. Large and impressive three handled tyg with scene of monks fishing. Rhyme to side reads ‘Tomorrow will be Friday, Every Brother his rod he took, Every rod had a line and a hook, every hook had a bait so fine, and thus they sang in the Evenshine, tomorrow will be Friday’. Rods, net and catch bag, grapes and floral decoration to inside border. Brown lined decoration to handles, rim and base. 5.5” tall,... View full lot details

Fishing Motto Plates. Five similar Wedgwood Pottery Plates all depicting scenes of Fishermen. Around the outside of each plate is an inspirational phrase or motto that coincides with the scene depicted. Mottos are ‘Be always as merry as ever you can, for none delight in a sorrowful man’, ‘When the wind is in the west, then the fishes bite the best’, ‘More rain more rest, fair weather isn’t always best’, ‘Man’s life’s a vapour &... View full lot details

Fishing Motto Plates. Two Royal Doulton ‘Gallant Fishers’ series Isaac Walton Ware plates, decorated with fishermen carrying their fishing rods within a willow tree border, each with motto below the border. Marks to base 10.5” diameter. Plus a smaller plate from the same series with pie crust shaped edge, marks to base 8.25” diameter and a further motto plate ‘Tomorrow will be Friday’ Royal Doulton mark and number to base. 10.5” diameter. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘The New Game of Badminton ‘Piladex’. Circa 1900- a cross between table tennis and badminton. A Victorian parlour game in original box with advertising label to box lid. The game appears complete with net, two bats, six balls and the instruction sheet. Some wear to the box and fading to the label. Good condition... View full lot details

Sydney Turf and Jockey Club membership gilt metal medals colour enamel decoration. Two Sydney Turf Club medals for 1954/55 and 1956/57 and two Sydney Jockey Club medals for 1954/55, one is a ladies brooch style medal. Formerly in the M.C.C. Cricket Collection. Odd faults, good condition... View full lot details

‘London Laughs. Derby Day. It bolted from the roundabouts’. Excellent and original pen and ink drawing artwork by artist Joseph Lee, showing the finishing line at the Derby at Epsom. A fairground horse appears to be winning the race much to the consternation of the jockeys on the horses and the packed crowd, the fairground horse with a big smile on its face. The artwork, signed by Lee, was published in the London Evening News... View full lot details

Sport and health in academia. A selection of fourteen mainly modern titles covering a range of histories and academic studies relating to politics in sport, health and social history, including Greek athletics, Victorian sport and health culture, business etc. Authors include Grant Jarvie & Joseph Maguire (Routledge), Bruce Haley, Peter Bailey, Neil Macfarlane, Neil Wilson, J.A. Mangan & R.B. Small, Stella Margetson, John Hargreaves etc. Five titles are hardbacks with dustwrappers (odd faults to dustwrappers).... View full lot details

TV and radio sporting broadcasters. Thirty one individual signatures on plain white cards of broadcasters covering boxing, cricket, horse racing, golf, football, darts etc. Signatures include Reg Gutteridge, Tony Gubba, Jim McGrath, Henry Blofeld, Bill McLaren, Julian Tutt, Jim Neilly, Ken Jones, Stuart Hall, Ray French, John Helm, Harry Gration, Martin Tyler, Ted Lowe, David Vine, Barry Davies, Don Mosey, Ray Stubbs, Peter Baxter, Tony Cozier, Mihir Bose etc. Odd duplication. Very good condition.... View full lot details

International sporting signatures. Over 160 individual signatures, the majority signed to plain white cards with some colour promotional cards. Signatures include Barry Sheene, Steve Hislop (motorcycling), Redgrave & Pinsent (rowing), Duncan Goodhew, Anita Lonsbrough, Adrian Moorhouse, David Wilkie, Jeff Rouse, Sharron Davies (swimming), Cliff Lazarenko, Eric Bristow, Bob Anderson, Jocky Wilson, Peter Evison (darts), John Pulman, Doug Mountjoy, Cliff Thorburn, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Tony Drago, Tony Knowles, Dennis Taylor, Alex Higgins, Steve Davis, Terry Griffiths, Eddie... View full lot details

Kaye Don. World Speedboat record 1932. Sepia real photograph postcard featuring a montage of Don and two of the boat, ‘Miss England III’, on which he set the world water speed record on Loch Lomond with a speed of 119.81 mph. The postcard titled ‘Holder of World’s Speed Boat Record 1932’. Sold with a similar postcard of two speedboats, ‘Miss America X’ and ‘Miss England III’, with printed title to centre ‘Harmsworth Race 1932’. Publishers... View full lot details

Sporting histories and reference books. A good selection of twelve mainly modern hardback titles covering Olympics, rugby union, golf, motorsport, and baseball. Titles include ‘Olympic Story’, Ernest A. Bland, London 1948. Dustwrapper with tear to head of spine. ‘The Olympic Games’, Lord Killanin & John Rodda, London 1976. ‘Centenary History of the Rugby Football Union’, U.A. Uttley & Ross McWhirter 1970. ‘Autocourse’ and Motorcourse’, two annuals for 2001/02. ‘World Series Baseball’, Thomas G. Aylesworth, London... View full lot details

Boxing postcards 1950s. Mono real photograph postcard of Howard Winstone full length in boxing pose, Commonwealth Games gold medal winner for Wales in 1958 at Bantamweight. Signed to the verso by Winstone. A mono postcard of Randolph Turpin, World Middleweight Champion, c.1951, seated three quarter length wearing Lonsdale Belt. Facsimile signature in blue to front, signed to verso ‘From Randy’. Wear to edges. Sold with an official double sided ‘Programme of the Royal Artillery Boxing... View full lot details

Boxing postcards 1930s-1990s. A good selection of over seventy mono and colour postcards of boxers, of which approx. sixty are signed by the featured boxer. Signatures include Micky O’Sullivan, Henry Cooper, Cliff Curtis, Des Rea, Wally Swift Jnr., Ron Barton, Terry Downes, Ronnie Clayton, Carlos Ortiz, Maurice Cullen, Enrico Urbinatti, Johnny Sullivan, Dave Charnley, Pat Butler, Tiger Al Philips, James Cook, Ricky Porter, Terry Marsh, Glen McCrory, Johnny Pritchett, Paul Weir, Sam Storey, Charlie Magri,... View full lot details

Jack Petersen. British and Empire (Commonwealth) Heavyweight Champion 1930s. Large original mono studio photograph of Peterson in boxing pose wearing his Lonsdale Belt. Nicely and boldly signed in gold ink by Peterson. Photographer’s signature in pencil to lower right corner for Chas. H. Farmer of Barry. The photograph measures 11”x14”, framed and glazed, overall 14.5”x18”. Slight wear and soiling to extremities, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details