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

Clarence Victor ‘Clarrie’ Grimmett. Wellington, Victoria, South Australia & Australia 1911-1941. Original sepia plain back postcard of Grimmett, head and shoulders wearing Australia Test cap. Nicely signed in ink to the photograph by Grimmett. No. 9 in the series produced by B.D.V. cigarettes of Godfrey Phillips of London, as part of their advertising campaign for the 1930 Australian tourists. Postally unused. Very light creasing to one corner, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

David Hunter. Yorkshire 1888-1909. Mono real photograph postcard of Hunter in wicket keeping pose with title ‘Well Thrown In’. Signed in ink to lower border by Hunter. Hartmann 1377. Postally unused. Some creasing and silvering, otherwise in good condition. Sold with another copy of the same postcard with annotation to lower border, and a mono postcard of Frank Mitchell (Yorkshire, Cambridge University, England & South Africa 1894-1912) standing full length in cricket attire. Dainty Series.... View full lot details

David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Mono real photograph postcard of Denton standing full length wearing cricket attire and Yorkshire cap, leaning on his bat. Signed in black ink to lower border by Denton. Durhams of Leeds. Postally unused. Minor silvering, otherwise a nice image in very good condition.... View full lot details

Lees Whitehead. Yorkshire 1889-1904. Mono real photograph postcard of Whitehead standing full length wearing cricket attire and Yorkshire cap, leaning on his bat. Signed in black ink to lower border by Whitehead. Durhams of Leeds. Postally unused. Some silvering, otherwise in good condition. A rarer signature.... View full lot details

Schofield Haigh. Yorkshire & England 1895-1913. Mono real photograph postcard of Haigh in bowling pose with title ‘Yorkshire Style’. Signed in black ink by Haigh to lower border. Hartmann 1378. Postally unused. Minor age toning, small blemish affecting the signature, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

William Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. Mono real photograph postcard of Gunn standing full length in cricket attire and cap, leaning on his bat. Signed in black in by Gunn to lower border. R. Thiele series no. 7258. Printed in Berlin. Postally unused. Some silvering, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire. Geoff Millman and John Springall. Two player portrait postcards one of Millman (Nottinghamshire & England 1957-1965), the other of Springall (Nottinghamshire 1955-1063), depicted head and shoulders. Both postcards with printed name and county to lower border. Signed in ink by the featured player. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. Postally unused. Mount marks to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire. Cyril Poole and John Cotton. Two player portrait postcards one of Poole (Nottinghamshire & England 1948-1962), the other of Cotton (Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire 1958-1969), depicted head and shoulders. Both postcards with printed name and county to lower border. Signed in ink by the featured player. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. Postally unused. Mount marks to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire. Reg Simpson, Mervyn Winfield and Norman Hill. Three player portrait postcards, one of Simpson (Sind, Europeans, Nottinghamshire & England 1944-1963), Winfield (Nottinghamshire 1954-1966), and Hill (Nottinghamshire 1953-1968), each depicted head and shoulders. All three postcards with printed name and county to lower border. Each signed in ink by the featured player. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. Postally unused. Creasing to corners of the Simpson and Winfield postcards, mount marks to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire. Brian Close and Ray Illingworth. Two player portrait postcards, one of Close (Yorkshire, Somerset & England 1949-1977), the other of Illingworth (Yorkshire, Leicestershire & England 1951-1983). Both postcards with printed name and county to lower border. Each signed in ink by the featured player. Sporting Handbooks Ltd. Postally unused. Slight creasing to corners of both postcards, mount marks to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Surrey. Peter May, Alec Bedser and Micky Stewart. Three player portrait postcards. One of May (Surrey, Cambridge University & England 1950-1963) by Sporting Handbooks Ltd. The others of Bedser (Surrey & England 1939-1960) and Stewart (Surrey & England 1954-1972), both by F.C. Dick, Oval Bookstall. All three postcards with printed name to lower border. Each signed in ink by the featured player. Postally unused. Mount marks to corners of the May postcard, otherwise in very... View full lot details

Surrey. Jim Laker and Ken Barrington. Three signed player portrait postcards. Includes two by Sporting Handbooks Ltd. one of Laker (Surrey, Essex & England 1946-1964), the other Barrington (Surrey & England 1953-1968), both with printed name and county to lower border and signed by the featured players. Minor mount marks to corners. Also a similar signed postcard of Laker by F.C. Dick, Oval Bookstall. Sold with a further ten unsigned player postcards by F.C. Dick.... View full lot details

Hampshire. Four signed player portrait postcards. Includes one of Derek Shackleton (Hampshire & England 1948-1969) by Sporting Handbooks Ltd. Also three plain back postcards of Butch White (Hampshire, Glamorgan & England 1957-1972), Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie (Hampshire 1951-1965), and Peter Sainsbury (Hampshire 1954-1976). Publisher unknown. All four postcards signed by the featured player. All postally unused. Adhesive marks to verso of the three plain back postcards, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Hampshire. Three signed player portrait postcards. Includes two by A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich, of Derek Shackleton (Hampshire & England 1948-1969) and Peter Sainsbury (Hampshire 1954-1976). Also one plain back postcards of Jimmy Gray (Hampshire 1948-1966), publisher unknown. All three postcards signed by the featured player. All postally unused. Adhesive marks to verso of the Shackleton and Gray postcards, other odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Gloucestershire and Somerset. Two signed player portrait postcards. One of Arthur Milton (Gloucestershire & England 1948-1974), the other of Bill Alley (New South Wales & Somerset 1945-1968). Both by Sporting Handbooks Ltd. with player name and county to lower border. Each signed by the featured player. Minor mount marks to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Rarer sepia postcard of the Union-Castle Line ‘Durban Castle’ which took the team to South Africa. Signed in ink to card face by fifteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Mann (Captain), Evans, Palmer, Hutton, Simpson, Watkins, Crapp, Jenkins, Bedser, Wright, Young, Washbrook, Gladwin, Compton, and the manager, Green. Postally unused. Some age toning and creasing to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1956/57. Rarer sepia postcard of the Union-Castle Line R.M.S. ‘Edinburgh Castle’ which took the team to South Africa. Very nicely signed in ink to card face by nineteen members of the touring party. Signatures include May (Captain), Laker, Duckworth, Evans, Lock, Parks, Oakman, Brown, Compton, Bailey, Tyson, Cowdrey, Richardson, Loader, Insole, Wardle, Taylor etc. Postally unused. Ink annotation to verso, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1950/51. A collection of seventeen mono plain back postcards of members of the M.C.C. touring party. Each is depicted head and shoulders wearing tour blazer and is signed to the image or the lower border by the featured player. Signatures are Brown (Captain), Bailey, Bedser, Berry, Close, Compton, Dewes, Evans, Hollies, Hutton, McIntyre, Parkhouse, Sheppard, Simpson, Washbrook, Wright and Warr. The postcards with deckled edges, the Bedser and Simpson cards slightly... View full lot details

Derbyshire and Worcestershire. Two signed player portrait postcards. One of Donald Carr (Derbyshire, Oxford University & England 1946-1963), the other of Dick Richardson (Worcestershire & England 1952-1967). Both by Sporting Handbooks Ltd. with player name and county to lower border. Each signed by the featured player. Minor mount marks to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with a signed mono press portrait photograph of Doug Insole, and a signature in ink on piece... View full lot details

David William Jennings. Kent 1909-1914. Sepia real photograph postcard of Jennings in batting pose wearing Kent cap. Kingsway Real Photo Series no. S11393. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Hon. Lionel Hallam Tennyson. Hampshire & England 1913-1935. Phillips ‘Pinnace’ premium issue cabinet size mono real photograph trade card of Tennyson standing three quarter length wearing cricket attire and blazer, holding a pipe. No. 97.C. 4”x6”. Plain back. Small adhesive mount marks to verso, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Somerset County Cricket Team, 1909’. Sepia real photograph postcard of the Somerset team, featuring John Daniell (Captain) and Sammy Woods, seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire and assorted blazers. Publisher unknown. Postally unused. Minor wear to edges and corners, light vertical crease, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Team and player postcards 1900s-1950s. Ten postcards of which seven are real photographs including ‘Kent v. Essex, Brentwood May 31st 1934’. Record score. Mono real photograph postcard depicting Bill Ashdown, Les Ames and Frank Woolley standing in front of the scoreboard, Kent having recorded their record County Championship score of 803 for four wickets declared, winning the match by an innings and 192 runs. Printed details of the scores achieved by the three batsmen, Ashdown... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1906. Early mono postcard of the West Indies touring party, depicted seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, blazers and assorted headgear. Players’ names printed to margins of Austin (Captain), Harrigan, Goodman, Learmond, Ollivierre, Morrison, Constantine, Challenor, Parker, Burton, Layne, Cumberbatch, Bancroft and Smith. Photo by R. Scott & Co., Manchester. Postally unused. Good condition.... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1925. Original sepia real photograph postcard of the Nottinghamshire team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, caps and blazers. Players are Carr (Captain), Matthews, Oates, J. Gunn, Payton, Barratt, Richmond, G. Gunn, Walker, Whysall, Staples, Lilley and Flint. Douglas Studio, Nottingham. Postally unused. An excellent image. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Kent player and team postcards. A selection of mono real photograph postcards of Kent players c.1927. Includes nine of players depicted in cricket attire, Frank Woolley (2 different), Tom Longfield, George Collins, John Evans, Geoffrey Legge, Les Ames (2), all by Flemons of Tonbridge, and Bill Ashdown by Fisk-Moore of Canterbury. Also three team postcards for 1928, 1929 and 1949 (all Flemons) and a mono postcard of the 1906 team by De’Ath & Dunk... View full lot details

Team and player postcards 1918 onwards. A mono real photograph postcard of Victor Trumper, Thiele Series no. 1001, postmarked 1918. Real photograph team postcards of New Zealand 1931 A.T. Ltd (loss to corner), West Indies 1933 (photographer unknown), two of Middlesex teams 1929 (J. Smith Bookstall, Lord’s) and 1947 (Bridge House), and a mono West Indies 1928 ‘Jaeger’ advertising postcard. Sold with Three Kinsella colour postcards by Pangsdorff & Co., and an Ardath Cigarette ‘Photocard’... View full lot details

‘The Official Collection of International Cricketer postcards’. Endorsed by the T.C.C.B. / E.C.B. Black album housing 280 postcards published by Stamp Publicity Ltd. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Graham Thorpe. A Cornhill Insurance collectors’ card Series ‘J’ of Thorpe, signed by Thorpe. Sold with a flyer for the County Championship match, Middlesex v Surrey, Uxbridge, 9th- 11th September 1981 signed in ink by eighteen players. Signatures include Brearley, Knight, Jackman, Roope, Downton, Pocock, Gatting, Intikhab Alam, Daniel, Butcher, Hughes etc. Some staining to the poster, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Cigarette and trade cards 1926-1997. Album comprising eleven complete sets of cards. Series are John Player & Sons ‘Cricketers Caricatures by “Rip”’ 1926 (full set of 50), ‘Cricketers 1930’ (50), ‘Cricketers, 1934’ (50, minor creasing to the odd card), and ‘Cricketers 1938’ (50). W.D. & H.O. Wills ‘Wills’s Cricketers 2nd Series of 50’ 1928 (50). Major Drapkin & Co. ‘Australian and English Test Cricketers’ 1928 (40 real photographs). Ogden’s Ltd ‘Prominent Cricketers of 1938’ (50).... View full lot details

Godfrey Phillips ‘Cricketers’ cigarette cards ‘Pinnace’ miniature series 1923-1925. A complete set of all 199 known cards issued, including variations, of the ‘Pinnace Series’ of miniature cards. Numbers are 16-45, 47-58, 60-83, 84 (2 versions), 85-88, 90-111, 114-175, 176 (2 versions), 177-217, plus some duplicates. Sold with all six cards of cricketers from the Amalgamated Press ‘The Champion’ series of ‘Sporting Champions’ 1922, nos, 21-27. Also Boys’ Realm ‘Famous Cricketers’ 1922 nos. 1, 5, 9,... View full lot details

Lord Hawke. Yorkshire & England. Rare early shield shaped trade card with cameo of Hawke, named, to left hand side and image of a cricket match to right. ‘National’ in strip below. J. Baines Litho, Bradford 1890’s. With advertising to reverse. Minor soiling, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details