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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Nawab of Pataudi (Jnr), S. Venkataraghavan, B. Chandrasekhar and Farokh Engineer on paper and card pieces. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Kapil Dev, Roger Binny, Pranab Roy and Dilip Vensarkar on paper pieces and cards. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Rahul Dravid, Harbhajan Singh, V.V.S. Laxman and Saurav Ganguly on cards. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Mohammad Azharuddin, Chandrakant Pandit, Manoj Prabhakar and Narendra Hirwani on cards. Good condition... View full lot details

India 1940s onwards. A selection of signatures of Indian and some Pakistan cricketers on pieces, colour and mono photographs and cuttings. Thirty three signatures in total. Earlier signatures on pieces include D.K. Gaekwad, P. Roy, R.V. Divecha, C.T. Sarwate. Others include Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Kumble, Dravid, K.L. Rahul, Vensarkar, Srikkanth, Chetan Sharma etc. Pakistan signatures include Billy Ibadulla, Abdul Razzaq, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Sami (Pakistan) etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Syed Wazir Ali. India 1932-1936, Mahomed Nissar. India 1932-1936 and Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai. India (one Test) 1933. Ink signatures of the three players on paper pieces laid down to cards. Good condition... View full lot details

Robert ‘Bobby Abel’. Surrey & England 1881-1904. Ink signature of Abel on strip of paper, signed ‘Robt Abel, Surrey, Good condition... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1930s. Five small white cards, four of which are very nicely signed individually in ink by a Nottinghamshire player. Signatures are Walter Keeton, Joe Hardstaff Jnr., Harold Larwood, and Bill Voce. The other signature is Bill Copson of Derbyshire. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Test and County cricket autographs 1930s-1950s. A good selection of nice signatures, the majority on small white cards. Most are signed individually in ink include Harold Gimblett, Wally Luckes, F.S. Lee, Dai Davies, Cyril Washbrook, Mlcolm Hilton, Willie Watson, Len Hutton, Bill Edrich, Leslie Ames, Frank Woolley, Denis & Leslie Compton, Alec & Eric Bedser, Jack Hobbs, Trevor Bailey, Jim Parks etc. also James Langridge, Arthur Fagg etc. in pencil. Also include a card signed... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. 1920s-1950s. Eight individual signatures of Yorkshire cricketers on plain white cards. Signatures are David Denton, Herbert Sutcliffe, Ken Fiddling, Frank Dennis, Arthur Wood, Percy Holmes, Harry Halliday and Len Hutton. Sold with another plain white card signed by twelve members of the 1947 Yorkshire team including Sellers, Brennan, Coxon, Wardle, Aspinall, Smailes, Bowes, Smithson etc. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Sydney Francis Barnes. Warwickshire, Lancashire & England 1894-1930. Exquisite copperplate signature in black ink of ‘S.F. Barnes’ on ruled card with Barnes’ teams ‘Warwick, Lancs, Staffs, England’ similarly annotated below. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Derbyshire C.C.C. c.1900. Nine excellent signatures of Derbyshire cricketers, each individually signed in ink to piece, all lightly laid to one side of a large album page. Signatures are Levi G. Wright, E. Maynard Ashcroft, Joseph W. Hancock, Harry Bagshaw, William Bestwick, William Storer, George Porter, and the rarer Frank Davidson (14 matches 1897-1899) and J. Albert ‘Alf’ Berwick (16 matches 1895-1901). Slight damage to the Bestwick and Porter signatures, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Essex C.C.C. and others c.1900. Eleven excellent signatures of Essex and other cricketers, each individually signed in ink to piece, all lightly laid to one side of a large album page. Essex signatures are Percival A. ‘Peter’ Perrin, Charles P. McGahey, George W. Ayres, Frederick G. Bull, and the rarer Jesse Littlewood (one match 1905). Others include Hugh R. Bromley-Davenport (Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1892-1899), Arthur J. Paish (Gloucestershire 1898-1903), Frederick G. Roberts (Gloucestershire... View full lot details

Kent and Yorkshire c.1900. Twenty two excellent signatures in ink, comprising thirteen of Kent players, seven of Yorkshire, and two others, each individually signed in ink to piece, all lightly laid to both sides of a large album page. Kent signatures are Eustace B. Shine, Gerald J.V. Weigall, Frederick ‘Nutty’ Martin, Frederick H. Huish, Alec Hearne, Cuthbert J. Burnup, Samuel H. Day, Robert O’H. Livesay, William H. Patterson, John R. ‘Jack’ Mason, Walter M. ‘Bill’... View full lot details

Lancashire C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising a total of thirty very nice individual signatures in ink on pieces lightly laid down to both sides. Twenty seven signatures are of Lancashire players of the period. Signatures are William J. Hibbert, Lees Radcliffe (two signatures), Thomas Lancaster, Albert W. Hallam, Sidney Webb, Charles R. Hartley, Charles H. Benton, James Hallows, Alexander Eccles, Arthur G. Paul, Albert Ward, John T. Tyldesley, Jack Sharp, Johnny Briggs, Willis Cuttell,... View full lot details

Leicestershire C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising eleven excellent individual signatures in ink of Leicestershire players of the period on pieces lightly laid down to one side. Signatures are Cecil J.B. Wood, Samuel Coe, Lewis Brown, John H. King, Frederic Geeson, Charles E. de Trafford, A. Dick Pougher, Harry Whitehead, John P. Whiteside, Albert E. Knight, and the rarer Charles Agar (23 matches 1898-1900). Very good condition.... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising fourteen excellent signatures in ink of Surrey players (one exception) of the period on six pieces lightly laid down to one side. Signatures are E.G. ‘Ernie’ Hayes, William H. ‘Bill’ Lockwood, Henry ‘Harry’ Wood, Robert ‘Bobby’ Abel, Charles Marshall, Thomas W. ‘Tom’ Hayward, Tom Richardson, Frederick C. ‘Fred’ Holland, William ‘Bill’ Brockwell, Edwin J. Diver, Kingsmill J. Key, Digby L.A. Jephson, the rarer Harold B. Richardson (22 matches... View full lot details

Warwickshire C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising ten beautiful signatures in ink of Warwickshire players of the period on eight pieces lightly laid down to one side. Signatures are Frank E. Field, Tom S. Fishwick, Walter Quaife, William G. ‘Willie’ Quaife, Sydney Santall, Crowther Charlesworth, Arthur F.A. ‘Dick’ Lilley, John H.G. ‘Jack’ Devey, Alfred C.S. Glover, and Frederick Dickens. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Joseph Darling. South Australia & Australia 1893-1908. Good ink signature of Darling on paper piece. Signed ‘Yours Sincerely’. Adhesive marks to verso otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Australian Test players. Selection of six ink signatures of Australian Test cricketers all on paper pieces and laid down to a grey/blue card. Signatures are Herbert Ironmonger, Queensland, Victoria & Australia 1909-1936, William Arras Johnston, Victoria & Australia 1945-1955, Hunter Scott Thomas Laurie Hendry. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1918-1936, Percival Mitchell Hornibrook. Queensland & Australia 1919-1934, William A. ‘Bill’ Brown, New South Wales & Australia 1932-1950 and the rarer signature of Kenneth... View full lot details

Australian Test players. Selection of seven ink signatures of Australian Test cricketers all on paper pieces and laid down to a grey/blue card, back to back,four to one side and three to the other. Signatures are William Albert Stanley Oldfield. New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938, Arthur Mailey, New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930, Warwick Windridge Armstrong. Victoria & Australia. 1898-1921 and Stanley Joseph McCabe. New South Wales & Australia 1928-1942 to one side and... View full lot details

International Test and County signatures 1920s-1980s. File containing over three hundred signatures, mainly of cricketers with the odd footballer, in ink and pencil, the majority on individual pieces, with the odd small multi-signed album page. Signatures include Tom Graveney, Roly Jenkins, Harold Larwood, Mandy Mitchell-Innes, Doug Wright, Bill Bowes, Joe Hardstaff, Jack le Fleming, Reg Sinfield, Ernest Remnant, John Hampshire, Denis and Leslie Compton, Norman Yardley, Bill Edrich, Brian Statham, Roy Kilner, Bob Woolmer, Tony... View full lot details

Australia Test signatures 1940s-1970s. Album comprising a collection of thirty one mainly individual signatures, each nicely presented on cutting laid to card with biographical details. Signatures include Walters, Cowper, Saggers, de Courcy, Loxton, Hassett, Hole, Harvey, Simpson, Morris, Sellers, Simpson, Lindwall, Johnson, Sheahan, Johnson, Benaud, Craig, G. Chappell etc. Odd duplication of signature. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Test cricketers’ autographs 1920s-1980s. A nicely presented album comprising twenty six signatures of international Test cricketers signed to photographs, postcards, pieces laid to card, cutting images, cards etc. Earlier signatures include an original real photograph postcard of and signed by Jack Hobbs, and others including Les Ames, Jim Laker, Roy Marshall, Peter May, Colin Milburn, Nawab of Pataudi, David Sheppard, Garry Sobers, Herbert Strudwick, Frank Tyson, Rohan Kanhai, John Edrich, Zaheer Abbas, Bishan Bedi, four... View full lot details

Australian cricketers 1910s-1950s. Six individual signatures in ink on card or small page. Signatures include Test players, Charlie Macartney, Stork Hendry, and Ian Craig, also Stan Sismey, Bob Christofani, and Cec Pepper, who played for Australian Services in World War II. Also eight signatures nicely signed in ink back-to-back on three album pages, the majority dated June/ August 1919. Signatures include three players who appeared for Australian Imperial Forces in England in 1919, H.S.B. ‘Hammy’... View full lot details

New Zealand 1930s-1990s. A good selection of signatures of New Zealand cricketers, of which twenty four are individually signed pieces laid to ‘New Zealand Test Player’ white cards covering the period 1930s-1970s. Signatures include F.B. Smith, J.C. Alabaster, R.W. Blair, M.G. Burgess, T.B. Burtt, H.B. Cave, R.O. Collinge, J.W. D’Arcy, G.T. Dowling, W.A. Hadlee, B.F. Hastings, J.A. Hayes, A.M. Moir, F.L.H. Mooney, B.A.G. Murray, J.M. Parker, E.C. Petrie, V. Pollard etc. Sold with two official... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1962. Sixteen signatures of members of the 1962 Pakistan touring party, nicely signed in blue biro to plain ‘Autograph’ postcards with two or three signatures to each card. Signatures are Mushtaq Mohammad, A. D’Souza, Javed Burki, Asif Ahmed, Imtiaz Ahmed, Alimuddin, Javed Akhtar, Intikhab Alam, Nasim-ul-Ghani, Munir Malik, Saeed Ahmed, Fazal Mahmood, Mahmood Hussain, Shahid Mahmood, Wallis Mathias, Afaq Hussain. Adhesive marks to the verso of each card. Sold with a... View full lot details

Pakistan 1950s-2010s. A collection of approx. sixty signatures on album pages, cards, cuttings, pieces (some laid down) and the odd photograph. Earlier signatures include Hanif Mohammad, Javed Burki, Munir Malik, Afaq Hussain, Javed Akhtar, Javed Miandad, Mushtaq Mohammad, Wasim Raja, Zaheer Abbas etc., also Inzamam-ul-Haq, Sadiq Mohammad, Mushtaq Ahmed, Shahid Nazir, Ijaz Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Moin Khan, Rashid Latif etc. Slight duplication of signature. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

South Africa 1920s onwards. Thirty three signatures on pieces, label, cutting etc. Includes the earlier signatures of Herbie Taylor and Alex ‘Sandy’ Bell, also Ian Smith, Bacher, Winslow, McLean, Adcock, Cronje, Liebenberg, Ackerman, Donald, Symcox, Rhodes, R. Steyn, Strydom, Kleinveldt, Eksteen, Pothas etc. Sold with an official scorecard for England v South Africa, 2nd Test, Lord’s 2003, signed by three South Africans, Makhaya Ntini (ten wickets in the match), and centurions Graeme Smith (259) and... View full lot details

West Indies 1930s onwards. A good selection of over fifty signatures of West Indies players, mainly Test cricketers, on pieces, small cards, cuttings etc. Signatures include Constantine, Cameron, Dewdney, Findlay, Fredericks, Richards, Ramadhin, Scarlett, Greenidge, Roberts, Patterson, Baptiste, Ambrose, Harper, Dillon etc. Odd duplication of signatures. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

County cricket signatures 1920s-1950s. A collection of album pages and pieces including two Warwickshire pages, one signed by eight the other seven including , M.J.K. Smith, Cartwright, Horner, Townsend, R. Thompson, Bridge, Wolton and Spooner etc. Also a further twenty signatures on pages and pieces including John and James Langridge, A.E.R. Gilligan, J. Cornford, J. Parks, E.H. Bowley (Sussex), W.E. Astill (Leicestershire), A. Watkins (Glamorgan), R.T. Simpson (Nottinghamshire), G. Dews, D. Kenyon, M.J. Horton (Worcestershire),... View full lot details

Percy Melville Thornton. Cambridge University, Middlesex etc. 1864-1872. Nice signature of ‘Percy M. Thornton’ in ink on piece laid to slightly large card. Fold affecting the signature, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Frank Hay Gillingham. Essex 1903-1928. Excellent signature in ink of ‘F.H. Gillingham’, laid to slightly large card. Very good condition.... View full lot details

India. ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’. An extensive collection of almost one hundred signatures very nicely presented in one binder. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book of the same title (originally published in 1983) and other sources, with others signed to ‘India Test Player’ white cards, and additional collectors’ cards, cuttings, album pages etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier... View full lot details

Pakistan. ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’. An extensive collection of seventy five signatures very nicely presented in one binder. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book of the same title (originally published in 1983) and other sources, with others signed to ‘Pakistan Test Player’ white cards, cuttings, album pages, the odd match ticket etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures... View full lot details

New Zealand. An extensive collection of over one hundred and thirty signatures very nicely presented in two black binders. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player mainly taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’ (originally published in 1983), with others signed to ‘New Zealand Test Player’ white cards, cuttings, album pages etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Albaster, Anderson, Barber,... View full lot details

South Africa. An extensive collection of over one hundred and ten signatures very nicely presented in one red binder. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player mainly taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’ (originally published in 1983), with others signed to white cards, cuttings etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Heine, Murray, Winslow, Keith, Balaskas, Dalton, Bell, A. Rowan,... View full lot details

Test and international cricketers 1930s onwards. Album comprising an excellent selection of over five hundred signatures, mainly modern with some earlier, the majority signed on pages back-to-back, the odd signature on piece laid down, many with small cutting image of the player laid down to the signature. The signatures, collected by the vendor, cover England, West Indies, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, India etc. Earlier signatures include Roy Tattersall, Tony... View full lot details

West Indies. An extensive collection of over one hundred and sixty signatures very nicely presented in two binders. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player mainly taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’ (originally published in 1983), with others signed to white cards, cuttings, postcards etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Achong, Alexander, Atkinson, Barrow, Browne, Challenor, Christiani, Clarke, Depeiza,... View full lot details

Sri Lanka. A good selection of forty signatures very nicely presented in one black binder. The majority of signatures are signed to ‘Sri Lanka Test Player’ cards, some on pieces laid down, others to pieces, cuttings and the odd photograph etc., the majority with biographical cuttings. The odd signature duplicated. Signatures include Malinga, Jayasuriya, Dilshan, Chandana, Perera, Dias, Tillakaratne, Jayawardene, Vaas, Ratnayeke, Arnold, Madugalle, Duleep Mendis, Ranatunga, Wettimuny, Gurusinha etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia 1940s onwards. A good selection of over forty signatures very nicely presented in one red binder comprising ‘Australia Test Player’ cards, some on pieces laid down, also to pieces, cuttings, the odd trade card, photograph, match ticket etc., the majority with accompanying biographical cuttings. The odd signature duplicated. Signatures include Tribe, Brown, Harvey, McKenzie, Meckiff, Davidson, Simpson, Redpath, Hassett, I. & G. Chappell, Stackpole, Inverarity, Miller, Livingston, Benaud, Lindwall, Wessels, Marsh, Lillee, Thomson, S,.... View full lot details

England Test and County signatures. An extensive collection of over two hundred and thirty signatures, mainly English players with the odd overseas including Australian and West Indies, very nicely presented in two binders. The majority are signed to pieces laid down, also white cards, collector’s cards, cuttings, the odd letter etc., with accompanying biographical extracts of each player. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include E.R.T. Holmes, Sutcliffe, Woolley, Spooner, Ames, O’Connor, Sims, Sandham, Townsend,... View full lot details

Test and County signatures. An extensive collection of over two hundred and twenty signatures, covering mainly modern English Test and County players, and overseas players from Australia, West Indies, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka etc. All very nicely presented in two red binders. Signatures are to pieces laid down, white cards, collector’s cards including official County issues, cuttings, magazine extracts, photographs etc. The odd signature duplicated. Includes earlier signatures in pencil on piece of Albert... View full lot details

England Test Cricketers 1930s onwards. A good selection of over one hundred and thirty signatures, the majority of England Test players, very nicely presented in two binders. Signatures are to pieces laid down, white cards, cuttings, magazine extracts etc. and a good number of trade/ collectors’ cards. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Hammond, Ames, Barnett, Oldfield, Sinfield, Verity, Wellard, Levett, Wright, Pollard, Hutton, Place, Watson, Trueman, Appleyard, Oakman, Spooner, Pope, May, Compton, Bailey,... View full lot details

Hanson ‘Sammy’ Carter. New South Wales & Australia 1897-1925. Signature in ink of Carter to top corner of a fragment of an envelope loose mounted to small white card. The signature partially overprinted by a Sydney postmark, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

George Alfred Lohmann. Surrey, Western Province, England etc. 1884-1898. Nice signature in ink of Lohmann on small piece laid to tightly trimmed card and loose mounted to white card. Very good condition.... View full lot details

William Shepherd. Surrey 1864-1865 (13 matches). Four lines on a fragment of a ruled page in ink in the hand of Shepherd, including the signature ‘W. Shepherd’ followed by details of his playing career with Surrey, Dulwich College and the ‘1st Australians 1868’. Some uneven trimming, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

George Giffen. South Australia & Australia 1881-1904. Nice signature in ink on piece loose mounted to white card. The piece clipped to one corner, sadly affecting the signature, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Victor Alexander ‘Vic’ Barton. Kent, Hampshire & England 1889-1902. Excellent signature in ink of Barton on small piece laid to tightly trimmed card and loose mounted to white card. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottinghamshire & England 1875-1902. Nice signature in ink of Shrewsbury on small piece loose mounted to blue card with typed biographical label below. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire, Europeans, Patiala & England 1898-1930. Excellent signature in black ink of Rhodes on small album page. Sold with two further signatures in ink of England Test players, each on piece loose mounted to small white card. Signatures are George Duckworth (Lancashire, England etc. 1923-1947) and Edgar Thomas ‘Tom’ Killick (Middlesex, Cambridge University, England etc. 1926-1946). Minor faults to the Duckworth signature, otherwise in very good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details

Australia Test cricketers 1930s-1980s. Fifteen signatures of Australian Test cricketers signed to pieces or cards. Signatures are Len Darling, Ernie McCormick, George Tribe, Ron Archer, Ian Craig, Gil Langley, Jack Moroney, John Rutherford, Lindsay Kline, Neil Harvey, Geoff Noblet, Tom Veivers, Terry Jenner, Bruce Laird and David Hookes. Sold with twenty modern colour photographs, each signed by the featured player. Signatures include Tony Mann, Phil Carlson, Jeff Hammond, Brad Hodge, Ryan Harris, Travis Head, Usman... View full lot details

Donald George Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. One page typewritten letter from a Mr S.A. [Boffin] secretary to a lady, the letter dated 21st September 1948 and sent from the Piccadilly Hotel, London. The letter reads ‘Dear Madam, Mr Bradman has asked me to inform you that it was quite impossible, in view of the departure of the Australian Cricket Team on Thursday, to obtain the signatures of the other members... View full lot details

William Lloyd Murdoch. New South Wales, Sussex, London County, Australia & England 1875-1904. Original and interesting two page folding letter handwritten in black ink from Murdoch to ‘Musgrave’, [Harry Musgrove played one Test match for Australia against England in 1885 and was manager of the 1896 Australian touring party], dated 10th July 1896. Writing from Hove in Sussex, Murdoch is writing to ask for a Test match ticket for an acquaintance from Cornhill,... View full lot details

Arthur Alfred Mailey. New South Wales & Australia 1912-1931. Original four page handwritten letter in ink from Mailey to the Australian journalist and editor of ‘The Referee’ newspaper in Sydney, J.C. Davis. Written on Hotel Cecil, London, letterhead and dated 19th May 1921, on his first tour to England Mailey is writing during the match against Essex at Leyton and opens by stating ‘Although we are not allowed to write for newspapers... I don’t think... View full lot details

Laurence John ‘Laurie’ Nash. Tasmania, Victoria & Australia 1929-1937. Single page letter handwritten in ink from Nash to ‘Dear Mr Bailey’. The note is undated but possibly written in 1954. Replying to a request for his autograph, Nash apologises for the delay and looks forward to the impending Ashes Test series against England, ‘As a matter of fact I will be writing for one of our own papers during the series. May the games be... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Single page handwritten letter from Bradman, dated 12th February 1979, written at Kensington Park, South Australia, replying to a request for his autograph ‘because you are a disabled person’. He continues, ‘Normally I would not answer because the stamps you send me are useless in this country & I don’t think it reasonable that I should pay to send my autograph to those who seek it. Thank you for your good wishes’. Very... View full lot details

Charles George ‘Charlie’ Macartney. New South Wales & Australia 1905-1926. Single page typewritten letter from Macartney to a collector, ‘Mr Hill’. Dated 14th February 1940, Macartney is replying to a request for six copies of his autograph, which he has provided. It appears the collector required one signature for each of the tours in which Macartney took part and he points out ‘you have overlooked the one to the East (Malaya) in 1927... I have... View full lot details

John Walter Rutherford. Western Australia & Australia 1952-1961. Two page hand written aerogramme letter from Rutherford to Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society. Dated 6th April 1956, Rutherford is writing from the S.S. Himalaya on the voyage to England for the 1956 Ashes tour. He thanks Sokell for the congratulations on his selection for the tour and notes that one of the patrons of the Society is the classical conductor, Sir John Barbirolli,... View full lot details

Richard Smallpiece ‘Dick’ Whitington. South Australia 1932-1946. Two double-sided hand written aerogramme letters from Whitington to Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society. In the first letter, dated 8th September 1954, Whitington opens by thanking Sokell for ‘the kindness you all showed me at Wombwell’. He comments on the impending Ashes tour, ‘I was surprised that Fred Trueman was not chosen and the tour will lose popular appeal’. The second letter, dated 9th March... View full lot details

Hunter Scott Thomas Laurie ‘Stork’ Hendry. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1918-1936. Single page handwritten letter to ‘Dear Anthony’ dated 5th July 1985. Hendry describes a luncheon given to him by the Cricketers Club of New South Wales to celebrate his ninetieth birthday, at which ‘100 sat down & another 100 were turned away. Lack of accommodation’. He names some of the dignitaries present, and telegrams from the likes of Australian Prime Minister ‘Mr.... View full lot details

Percival Mitchell ‘Percy’ Hornibrook. Queensland & Australia 1919-1934. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Mailey written on his ‘P.M. Hornibrook Dental Surgeon’ headed notepaper in Brisbane. Dated 20th July 1955, Hornibrook is enclosing two signed cards as requested, apologising for the ‘poor signature, the old hand is not as steady as years ago’. He is also sorry to ‘hear of Alan Fairfax having passed on as he was quite young’ (Fairfax died in 1955... View full lot details

Benjamin Arthur ‘Ben’ Barnett. Victoria & Australia 1929-1947. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 26th November 1969 from Barnett to Ron Yeomans, collector and Secretary of the Northern Cricket Society. Writing from his home in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, Barnett confirms his travel arrangements for attending an impending Society meeting. Nicely signed by Barnett. Light fold, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

C.W. Alcock to probably E.B.V. Christian 1902. Single page handwritten letter from Alcock on Surrey C.C.C. letterhead, dated ‘February 21st 1902’. Alcock writes ‘Christian, More proofd, A.C. says he has not counted England v 22 of Surrey...etc’ . I presume this is in connection with the history of Surrey Cricket, which he co-wrote, this had chapters by Ashley-Cooper and was published in 1902. Signed with his initials ‘C.W.A.’. Good condition... View full lot details

James Lillywhite jun. Sussex & England 1862-1883. Single page handwritten letter with cricket content in ink from Lillywhite to A.J. Gaston, dated 21st November 1894. Writing on ‘Wheatsheaf Commercial Hotel, Chichester, James Lillywhite Proprietor’ letterhead, Lillywhite is replying to a request from Gaston to make a cricketing contribution to the Cricket Club Bazaar that was to take place in Brighton in December of the same year to raise funds. ‘Dear Sir, From time to time... View full lot details

Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji. Sussex, Cambridge University & England 1924-1932. One page typewritten letter, on Cricket Club of India’ headed paper, dated 18th May 1946 to ‘Rotarian McKay’ of the National Bank of India. Duleep is responding to a request to speak on cricket to the Rotary club ‘I am a little terrified at your kind invitation to speak on Cricket to my brother Rotarians on June 11th. I am afraid I am not a good... View full lot details

Douglas Robert Jardine. Oxford University, Surrey & England 1920-1934. Two page handwritten letter, on ‘The Scottish Australian Company Limited’, London letterhead, in ink from Jardine to Jack Sokell, the letter dated 13th September 1954. Jardine is replying to an invitation to a function being held at Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society, possibly to speak. ‘I told you in my letter that we should be driving up to Scotland , so there will not be any need... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Handwritten letter from Hobbs to L. Dentith, a Steward aboard the P.O. R.M.S. Ranpura, and written on Vizianagram Palace, Benares headed paper. Hobbs has handwritten c/o Maharaja Kumar of Vizianagram above the printed address. The letter states ‘I had quite a shock when I realised that I left the ‘Ranpura’ without thanking you for looking after me so well on the voyage out. Please accept the enclosed... View full lot details

Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. A typewritten letter from the Manager of the Portland Arms Hotel, St John’s Wood to Barnes dated 12th May 1955. The manager writes ‘Dear Mr Barnes, Thank you for your letter. We shall be pleased to reserve a room for you, but I think there is a mistake in the dates you ask for. The Lords Test takes place on the 23rd to 28th and... View full lot details

John Carpenter Garnier. Oxford University and M.C.C. (two matches). Handwritten two page letter from Garnier on ‘House of Commons Library’ headed mourning (black edges) paper, dated July 1880 and written from 42 St. James Place, London. Garnier is writing to a Mr Stills [?], he thanks him, for his letter and for getting flowers, the account to be dealt with by his wife, he then goes on to give his condolences .. Signed ‘J. Carpenter... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Two page handwritten letter from W.G. Grace, written on London County Cricket Club headed paper (the cricket lined through and ‘Bowling’ added) to Sugden regarding him playing bowls. The letter dated 21st June 1908, ‘Dear Sugden, I want you to play on Thursday at Norwood [London] and on Saturday at Castle Bar Park v Great Western Railway. I was sorry you were not bale to play on Saturday and... View full lot details

John Thomas ‘Jack’ Brown. Yorkshire & England 1889-1904. Stoddart’s tour to Australia 1894/95. Original three page folding letter handwritten in ink from Brown to his family while on tour in Australia. Writing from Melbourne, the letter is undated but probably written during the course of the tour match v Victoria around 18th November 1894. He describes the voyage by ship, which he enjoyed, visiting sites en route at Gibraltar, Naples, Port Said and Colombo, with... View full lot details

Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire, Europeans, Patiala & England 1898-1930. Single page handwritten folding letter from Rhodes to ‘Dear Johnny’. Writing from his home at Marsh Grove Road, Huddersfield, and dated 16th September 1930, Rhodes is asking for a new golf bag he has selected to be sent to him at his home address as ‘I shall be at home during the next week’. Nicely signed ‘W. Rhodes’. Good condition.... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Single page letter handwritten in ink from Hobbs to ‘Dear Mr Harvey’. Dated 5th August 1963 and writing from Hove just four months before his death, Hobbs is replying to a request for information about some ‘gramophone recordings... I regret to say that nothing has come to my assistance, which is not surprising when we remember it is perhaps 40 or 50 years when these recordings took... View full lot details

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Interesting single page typed letter from Sutcliffe to ‘Messrs’ Rowan & Co.’ in Glasgow. Written on Sutcliffe’s ‘Sports Agent’ business letterhead, Sutcliffe is confirming terms for ‘permission to assist you... £20 and all expenses’. He continues, ‘I informed Myers Hall [cricket bat maker] that you would place a further order if they agreed to let me off... I would suggest a far larger order of the XXX bats in... View full lot details

Stanley Christopherson. Kent & England 1883-1890. Single page handwritten letter in ink. Dated 18th June (year unknown), Christopherson writes ‘Please understand that unofficially I am all out to do what I can, & to work with you will be an added pleasure’. Nicely signed ‘Stanley Christopherson’. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Donald John Knight. Surrey, Oxford University & England, 1911-1937. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 6th February 1955 from Knight agreeing to meet Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society. Signed ‘Donald Knight’. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Elias Henry ‘Patsy’ Hendren. Middlesex & England 1907-1937. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 11th June 1925. Writing from Lord’s Cricket Ground Hendren thanks a publisher for sending a copy of the book ‘Gilligan’s Men’ by R.A. Noble. Very nicely signed ‘E. Patsy Hendren’. Adhesive mark to verso, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Charles Aubrey Smith. Cambridge University, Sussex & England, 1882-1896. Amusing two page handwritten letter in ink dated 5th August 1939. Smith is replying to a ‘Mrs Furness’ and writes ‘The enclosed has taken some time reaching me, as I do not live in Hollywood and only occasionally do I go to the Hollywood P.O. to see if any letters are lying there for me’. In the following postscript he adds ‘It was apparently forwarded by... View full lot details

Lord Martin Bladen Hawke. Yorkshire, Cambridge University & England 1881-1911. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Lord Hawke to ‘Dear Mr. Payne’. Hawke writes ‘Glad you got the job & ... you will succeed & bring Worcester finances up to good standard’. Nicely signed ‘Hawke’. The letter is dated ‘Tues’, year unknown but probably around 1927 when John Bertram Payne was elected President of Worcestershire C.C.C. and oversaw the organisation and stabilisation of the... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire C.C.C. Harold Larwood and Bill Voce. Two short single page handwritten letters, one from Harold Larwood, dated 11th December 1978, replying to a request for a signed photograph, the other from Voce, undated, regarding arrangements for the signing of two cricket bats. Both letters signed by the player. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Vyell Edward Walker. Middlesex, 1859-1877. Four page handwritten letter in ink to the Sussex cricketer and author, W.A. Bettesworth, dated ‘26th May [1900]’ with good cricket content. Walker suggests some amendments and corrections to proofs of the book, ‘The Walkers of Southgate’. One amendment refers to ‘Crawley [which] is wrong as printed & should be “Mr. C.D. Crawley [who] was the brother of Mr. G.B. Crawley the hero of the historical match against the Town... View full lot details

Timothy Arthur Dent ‘Tim’ Bevington. Middlesex 1900-1904. Two page handwritten folding letter in ink from Bevington to a school boy. Dated 28th October 1953 from his home in Vancouver, Canada, Bevington writes ‘I am glad you are in your school XI & wish you all sorts of luck & remember that the great secret of cricket is practice, you can’t have too much. I used to spend hours in the nets at Lord’s’. He closes... View full lot details

John Daniell. Somerset & Cambridge University 1898-1927. Two page handwritten letter in ink from Daniell to ‘Dear [Francis] Lacey’, Secretary of M.C.C. dated 13th September 1923. Daniell is writing to recommend a player, J.M. Mackie, ‘as a playing member for next season’ having already been proposed for membership, seconded by Daniell. ‘He was asked several times to play for Somerset by Murray-Anderson [Secretary] but I don’t know if he can manage it’. Nicely signed ‘John... View full lot details

Sir Courtenay Edmund Boyle. Oxford University 1865-1867. Single page folding handwritten letter in ink on 13, Portman Street, London letterhead to a Mr Maxwell, dated 17th July 1871. Boyle is enclosing a ‘paper on Lords Cricket, which I hope will be worth its space... I have avoided... certain technicalities which in Oxford and Cambridge may be acceptable to male readers of Belgravia’. Nicely signed ‘Courtenay Boyle’. Some soiling and light creasing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

James Douglas. Cambridge University & Middlesex 1892-1913. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Douglas, writing from Dulwich College. Writing to a Mr. Hodgson, Douglas states ‘I had a letter from my uncle Rev. R.H. Douglas asking me if I would write a testimonial for a Bacton man named Holmes who, I believe, played against Thrumpton about 8 years ago... [I] have written the enclosed in case it may be of any use’. Nicely signed... View full lot details