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Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Cricket cigar box. An attractive wooden oblong cylindrical cigar box with a horizontal 19th century cricket scene to the side, in colour, of a bowler about to bowl to batsman, cricket tent and trees to background. The scene entitle ‘Play’ to lower border. This appears to be a pocket sized box which probably held around five cigars. 5”x2.5”. Date unknown. An unusual and interesting item... View full lot details

Cricket cigar box. An attractive wooden oblong cylindrical cigar box with a vertical 19th century mono scene of a batsman in front of the wicket to the pull out lid and a shooting scene to the main body and running dog to the end of the lid. This appears to be a pocket sized box which probably held around three cigars. 5”x2.25”. Date unknown. An unusual and interesting item... View full lot details

Cricket snuff box. Circular early Victorian black lacquered papier mache snuff box. Hinged lid painted with a colour cricketing scene, after Hayman’s painting of 1740. The box measures 2.75” diameter. Minor wear to image and extremities of the box otherwise in good condition. Rarely seen... View full lot details

Cricket snuff box. An oblong wooden snuff box. The hinged lid painted with an early colour cricketing scene. Date unknown. The box measures 3.25”x2.25. Very minor wear otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Cricket snuff box. Wooden oblong snuff box with hinged lid, the lid with a mono cricketing scene of a match in progress. The box measures approximately 3.25” x 1.75”. Minor wear otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Cricket snuff box. Small oblong early Victorian black lacquered papier mache snuff box. The hinged lid painted with an early colour cricketing scene. The box measures 2.5”x1”. Minor wear otherwise in good condition. Rarely seen... View full lot details

Cricket snuff box. An oval black lacquered papier mache snuff box with hinged lid, believed to be circa 1870’s. The lid painted with a cricketing scene of boys playing cricket with trees in background. The box measures approx 2.75” x 2”x 1.25” deep. Good condition... View full lot details

Cricket snuff box. An oval black lacquered papier mache snuff box with hinged lid, believed to be circa 1870’s. The lid painted with a cricketing scene of boys playing cricket with trees in background. The box measures approx 2.5” x 1.75”x .75” deep. Some wear to top edge with loss to the image edge otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Cricket pencil case. A black laquered papier mache oblong pencil case with hinged lid, believed to be circa 1870/80’s. The lid painted with a cricketing scene of boys playing cricket with trees in background. Still containing some of its contents. The case measures approximately 8”x2.25”x1” deep. Some wear to painted image on lid and all surfaces otherwise in good condition. A rarely seen pencil case... View full lot details

Cricket pencil case. A black laquered papier mache oblong pencil case with hinged lid, believed to be circa 1870/80’s. The lid painted with a comical cricketing scene of men playing cricket with tent and spectators to background. The case measures approximately 8”x2.25”x1” deep. Some wear to painted image on lid and all surfaces otherwise in good condition. A rarely seen pencil case... View full lot details

Cricket and Sporting jigsaw.

A Victorian colour jigsaw entitled ‘Health’ in wooden box, the lid of the box is a cricket scene with a bowler about to bowl to the batsman, tent and players to background, various sports equipment portrayed to lower border, title to the top border. The jigsaw comprising forty four pieces, in colour, is complete and is entitled ‘Fair Play’. The main centre feature is of the ‘International Boat Race’, British and American... View full lot details

Wooden pipe rack. Nice pipe rack with slots for four pipes and intricate fret work, the design featuring two cricket bats and balls with turned finials. Hand written date ‘1914’ to base. Small loss to one finial, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Cricketing vesta case. An oblong shaped silver metal vesta case with oval colour enamel image of a batsman to centre. Some wear to the case and image otherwise in good condition. 2.5”x1.25”. Sold with a small hallmarked silver cricket medal with central colour image of a batsman in enamel. Good condition... View full lot details

Cricketing silver pocket watch 1897. An exquisite colourful watch face with an 18th century cricket scene of a bowler about to bowl a ball with the batsman stood in front of two stumps and bails, two fielders are also featured within floral and tree decoration to border, centre watch dial. To inside of outer casing a label for ‘W. Johnson, clock & watch maker of High Wycombe’, To the back of the watch is inscribed... View full lot details

Cricket themed egg coddler. Large and impressive silver plated circular domed egg coddler supported on ball ended legs. The top of the dome with cricket bat, ball and wicket finial, crossed bats and ball warming pan beneath. Approximately 10” tall. Registration no and marks to base. Unusual. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Cricket themed egg cup presentation piece. A unique set of four silver-plated egg cups with accompanying spoons on an ornate square based stand with ball feet. The centre piece holding the spoons with crossed bats, ball and wicket decoration. The shield says ‘Presented by the Cahirlorke Cricket Club to Miss Agnes Knox on her marriage Dec 13th 1894’. Makers mark and EPNS to base. Approximately 8.5” tall. The centre piece needing a little... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England. Large and impressive silver plated full length figure of Grace wearing cap and pads and carrying a bat to right hand, his left hand is holding a very large cricket ball with a circular hole to the top which was intended for use as a pen holder. The figure stands 10” tall and was manufactured by W.W. Harrison of Sheffield in 1885. Full set of marks to base. An... View full lot details

Cricket pipe. Early clay pipe with batsman stood at the wicket to one side and to the other aset of three stumps with a bat leaning against them. The pipe was made by William Luckett of Plumstead. With ‘Luckett’ and ‘Plumstead’ impressed to the stem of the pipe. Circa 1880/90’s. 5” long. Good condition... View full lot details

Cricket pipe. Rosewood smoking pipe comprising a stem shaped cricket bat and the bowl shaped as a cricket ball. The pipe was produced by Lowe & Co of London, with emblem ‘L & Co’ in oval to stem of the pipe. Circa 1890’s. 4.5” long. Good condition... View full lot details

W.G. Grace smoking pipe 1895. Vulcanite cricket pipe with cricket bat shaped stem and ‘Grace head’ pipe bowl with ball foot to base. Stamped ‘W.G.G. ET.47. A.D. 1895’. ‘Centuplico’ and ‘Made abroad’ to back of the bat. 5.5” long. Good condition... View full lot details

Meerschaum smoking pipe. Beautifully carved pipe with bearded head looking a lot like W.G. Grace but by the tilt of his cap could equally be a American civil war soldier. Silver band to stem. 5.5” long. Good condition... View full lot details

Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire, Europeans, Patiala & England 1898-1930. Original twelve piece fish knife and fork canteen of cutlery presented to Wilfred Rhodes in recognition of being a member of the Championship winning team of 1908. The canteen of cutlery, lined in blue, made by W. Greenwood of Briggate, Leeds, in original box with clasp fitting has a gilt metal plaque to the centre of the lid which reads ‘Presented to Mr W, Rhodes by the... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. A silver plated tulip vase cast in the form of W.G. Grace, full length standing in classic pose with cricket bat in front of a tree. With original glass flute in holder to top of tree. Circa 1900 with number ‘11445’ to base and makers marks to base. Approx 12” high with the glass flute. Rare... View full lot details

Cricket locket. Silver base metal oval shaped opening locket with enamelled (?) figure of a batsman playing a shot to lid, decorative floral back. Date unknown circa 1940/50’s (?). Minor signs of wear otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Cricket spoons. A pair of silver plated spoons each with a similar figure of a batsman at the wicket to top of handle. Sold with a small ceramic cricket cup with image of a batsman and a golfing saucer, cracks to the saucer. G... View full lot details

Cricket toast rack c1900. A Victorian silver plated, six division toast rack with five pairs of crossed cricket bats, with a set of angled cricket stumps and bails at each end, the handle of the rack in the form of a cricketer’s belt and buckle on a cricket ball. The rack mounted on four cricket ball feet. Makers/plate marks to two of the bat. 7” long x 3” wide, 7” high. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Cricket clock. A Victorian brass mantel clock. The case in the form of a set of stumps with silver base metal crossed bats and ball on an oval naturalistic case base with bun feet. Professionally restored modern workings and dial. Approximately 6.5” high by 5” wide. Good condition. Full working order... View full lot details

Cricket clock. A Victorian brass mantel clock. An attractive late Victorian/ Edwardian brass clock of cricketing interest, formed with a central drum form enamelled dial and workings attached two sets of cricket stumps and bails with cricket bats leaning against the clock and a cricket ball to centre of the marble plinth to which the clock and display is mounted. ‘British Union Clock Company’ stamp impressed to back and reg no. 129446, which dates to... View full lot details

‘Board of Control for Cricket in India’. A silver metal ashtray with India Board of Control emblem to side. In presentation box. Made by G.R. Thanga Maligai Jewellery of Madras. The Ashtray 3.75” diameter... View full lot details

Surrey County Cricket Club. Ronson cigarette lighter produced to commemorate Surrey’s County Championship win in 1956. With Surrey emblem, club name and initials ‘D.C.’ (Dennis Cox?) to one side. To the other ‘County Champions 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956. Under Captaincy of Stuart Surridge’. These lighters were presented to the players by Surridge. G/VG - cricket... View full lot details

Kenneth Frank Barrington, Surrey & England 1953-1968. An attractive white metal slaver with four figures of cricketers, bowler, batsman, fielder and wicket-keeper, raised in relief, enamelled emblems of England and India to sides with decorative surround and central inscription ‘With the Best Compliments of The Board of Control for Cricket in India to Mr K.F. Barrington- member M.C.C. Cricket touring Team in India 1961/62. M.A. Chidambaram- President’. The salver measures 11”x8.5”. Good condition. Previously sold... View full lot details

Kenneth Shuttleworth. Lancashire, Leicestershire & England 1964-1980. John Player League ‘Winners’ 1977. Bronze metal medal presented to Shuttleworth as a member of the Leicestershire winning team. The medal with image of a bowler and title ‘John Player League’, to verso ‘Winner. K. Shuttleworth’ 1977. In original presentation case. Very good condition... View full lot details

Jeff Thomson. New South Wales, Queensland & Australia. The Prudential Trophy 1980. A silver convex medal presented to Thomson whilst playing for Australia v England in the competition held in England in 1980. The medal with relief of cricket ball seam to centre and engraved ‘The Prudential Trophy. England v Australia 1980’. Hallmarked. In original presentation case.Previously sold by Knights in 2004... View full lot details

Ian Terence Botham. Somerset, Worcestershire, Durham, Queensland & England 1974-1993. ‘The Walter Lawrence Trophy’. Silver medal with 925 sterling stamp, inscribed ‘1985. I.T. Botham. Somerset v Warwickshire at Birmingham. 50 balls’. 2” diameter with original red, yellow and white striped ribbon. In original presentation case. Sold with a copy of a letter to Botham, dated 12th October 2004, from Brian Thornton, Trustee of The Walter Lawrence Trophy enclosing this medal and another awarded to Botham.... View full lot details

Ian Terence Botham. Somerset, Worcestershire, Queensland, Durham and England 1974-1993. ‘Arlott’s Immortals’. Excellent porcelain hand decorated action figure of Botham in batting pose in mahogany plinth, sculptured and produced in Alderney in 1982 by Count Andre D’Aquino, based upon the selected cricketers of John Arlott. The figure stands high 11” and is marked to base ‘No.85 D’Aquino’. Sold with a ‘Limited Edition Guarantee certifying that the figure is number 85 of a limited edition of... View full lot details

Cricket, golf and sporting metalware and ceramics. Interesting selection including a enamel and gold metal pin badge with the wording ‘CAB 3rd [Test] 1984. India vs England’ with a further hanging part on chain ‘Player. England’, five brass Victorian cricket buttons (some wear), a figure of a boy batsman on wooden plinth (worn), a brass cigarette/cigar ashtray with crossed bats, a split cricket ball brass lined tin and a figure of W.G. Grace by Fine... View full lot details

Sri Lanka v England ‘First Test Match. 100 Years’. Rare commemorative plate, by Lanka Porcelain, produced to mark the first Test match between Sri Lanka and England, played at Colombo 17th-22nd February 1982. 8” diameter. Sold with a larger plate commemorating the ‘Bangladesh Cricket Control Board. Beximco Asia Youth Cricket Tornament played in Bagladesh in December 1989’. Flags of the participating nations to rim including India, Pakistan, Singapore etc. Qty 2. Good condition... View full lot details

Halcyon Days cricket key ring. Gold metal disc on chain, set with circular enamel design of cricket bats, balls and stumps. ‘Halcyon Days Enamels’ stamped to verso. In original presentation box. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Frederick Sewards ‘Fred’ Trueman. Yorkshire & England 1949-1968. ‘M.C.C. tour of Australia 1962/63’. Sterling silver boomerang presented to ‘F.S. Trueman. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1962/63 by the New South Wales Cricket Association’. The 5.25” boomerang with raised star shaped mount to centre set with an Australian oval opal stone. Inscriptions engraved to either side. The boomerang made by Prouds of Sydney with maker’s mark and ‘sterling silver’ to back of the boomerang, presented in original... View full lot details

Geoffrey Pullar. Lancashire, Gloucestershire & England 1954-1970. ‘M.C.C. tour of Australia 1962/63’. Sterling silver boomerang presented to ‘G. Pullar. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1962/63 by the New South Wales Cricket Association’. The 5.25” boomerang with raised star shaped mount to centre set with an Australian oval opal stone. Inscriptions engraved to either side. The boomerang made by Prouds of Sydney with maker’s mark and ‘sterling silver’ to back of the boomerang. Lacking original presentation box.... View full lot details

Cricket plaques. Three early 20th century hanging wall plaques. One is a rectangular weighty lead alloy plaque with bronze finish in relief of a cricketer in batting stance at the wicket. Maker’s marks and date stamps to front, ‘Copyright C.B. & S.’, ‘R.S. Douglas fecit’ and ‘1924’. 3.75”x5.5”. The second, a circular plaque, depicts a batsman playing a shot with the wicket-keeper behind the stumps, pavilion in the background, 4.5” diameter. The other is shaped... View full lot details

Cricket wines. A selection of eleven unopened bottles of wine, port and champagne. Includes nine Australian wines, Wyndham Estate ‘Benson & Hedges Bicentennial Test’ Bin 555 (red) and Bin 777 (rose) 1985. Rosemount ‘M.C.C. Shiraz’ 1990 (Qty 2). Jim Barry ‘Cover Drive’ Cabernet Sauvignon 2005. Tyrell’s Cricketer’s Selection’ Shiraz Cabernet and Chardonnay, both undated. James S. White ‘Testimonial Port’, Emu Cricket Club, undated. Mann ‘Methode Champenoise’ 1993 with inscription ‘From Mann to Mann’. Also a... View full lot details

‘E.C.B. Special Award 2002 Winner. Benson & Hedges. Large crystal glass rosebowl with ECB emblem and details to side. The rosebowl 7” tall by 10” diameter. Warwickshire won the 2002, the last year of the competition beating Essex in the Final by 5 wickets. Formerly in the M.C.C. Collection. Very good condition... View full lot details

Signed champagne bottle c.1990. Large Jeroboam (3 litre) bottle of Laurent-Perrier Brut Champagne. Sixteen signatures to the bottle, possibly attendees for a charity match, probably early 1990s. Signatures are Ray Illingworth, Tim Rice, Paul Getty, Brian Statham, Ian Botham, Bob Willis, Hansie Cronje, Geoff Boycott, Allan Donald, David Gower, Richie Benaud, Clive Lloyd, Michael Holding and Barry Richards. The bottle has been opened and contents consumed, but retains the original cork, muselet (wire cage) and... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1994. Return to Test cricket. Very large Methusalah (6 litre) bottle of Laurent-Perrier Brut Champagne. Signed to the bottle by seventeen members of the touring party. Signatures are Gary Kirsten, Tim Shaw, Richard Snell, Craig Matthews, Andrew Hudson, Peter Kirsten, Daryll Cullinan, Jonty Rhodes, Allan Donald, Gerhardus Liebenberg, Pat Symcox, Brian McMillan, Hansie Cronje, Fanie de Villiers, Dave Richardson, Fritz Bing (Manager) and Mike Procter (Coach). Lacking the signature of... View full lot details

England v Australia 1905. Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914 and Archibald Campbell MacLaren. Lancashire & England 1890-1923. Scarce Staffordshire mug, printed in dark turquoise, with figures of Trumper and MacLaren in batting pose, each within a cartouche with the title ‘Australia’ and ‘England’ printed above. To centre an image of crossed bats, stumps, bails and a ball and below this a shield with kangaroo and lion facing each other with title... View full lot details

Village cricket bowl. Staffordshire 19th century bowl, transfer printed in sepia with three scenes of village cricket, with church and tents to background, to sides, floral and oak leaf inner rim decoration. Hand coloured in green and burgundy. Approx 6.5” diameter and 3.75” tall. c1860. Some wear to rim and firing fault to the edge of the base otherwise in good condition for its age... View full lot details

Cricket jug. Unusual early Staffordshire blue cream/milk cricket jug with strap handle, three raised figures of cricketers on a mid blue background. c1870/80. 4” tall. Some firing faults to jug surface otherwise in good/very good condition. Sold with a Staffordshire waisted cricket mug with strap handle and beaded rim, with three raised figures of a batsman, bowler and wicket keeper on a cream background, believed to be Lillywhite, Pilch and Box hand decorated in colour,... View full lot details

Dartmouth Pottery. Two blue and white tankards, one of cricket with a batsman and wicket -keeper to one side and bowler to the other and the other, football with player kicking the ball to one side and ball and part of the goal to the other. The football tankard with football themed handle. Both stand 5” tall. Dartmouth (Devon) Pottery marks to base. Qty 2... View full lot details

Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. A pair of commemorative side plates with colour transfer printed vignette of Barnes wearing cap, stood at the wicket with ball in his hand and in bowling pose next to the wicket to centre, with inscription ‘Syd. F. Barnes-Famous International Bowler’. Both plates with ribbed outer border. 7.25” diameter. Minor wear, staining to edge and some firing marks otherwise both in good condition. Qty 2... View full lot details

‘Celebrating the 3 W’s’. Dinner plate with transfer image of Frank Worrell, Cylde Walcott and Everton Weekes with facsimile signatures and title. Gold lustre to rim. Registration mark to underside, ‘100’. Maker unknown. 10” diameter. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Brian Close Benefit Year 1961. Two items of Sandland items produced to commemorate Close’s Benefit featuring the transfer printed image of ‘Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The Pavilion, Headingley, Leeds’ and Close’s printed signature. Items are a large cup and saucer and a tankard 6” tall. Crack to the tankard, some wear to lustre to rim of the cup, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Cricketing pot-lid. Original circular pot-lid printed in black with crossed bats, stumps and balls within a cartouche (Christie;’s label to back of lid). 2.5” diameter. Sold with a crew top bakelite-type ladies powder container by Dubarry c1950’s with cricket image by Hayman to lid and an old printers block which appears to have no reference to cricket. Qty 3. G... View full lot details

German beer stein. A striking German-made stein circa 1880s. Classic German stoneware with a pewter lid and decorated with colourful images in panels of cricket, football, tennis, croquet and hockey. Around the base is the German motto ‘Maass und Ziel das Beste Spiel’. This rhyming couplet loses some of its punch in direct translation but means roughly “Moderation and Goal gives the best game” A typical Victorian games ethic and a very unusual item.... View full lot details

‘Cricket & Croquet’. A unusual pair of nineteenth century unglazed terracotta earthenware figures. One of a boy batsmen, wearing broad banded boater, wearing pads and with bat and stance ready to receive the ball and the other of a young woman wearing dress and feathered hat playing a croquet shot. The cricket figure stands approximately 15” tall and the lady 14.5”. The boater of the batsman has a couple of chips to it, possible restoration... View full lot details

‘Boy Cricketer’. Excellent Parian ware figure of a boy cricketer resting against a tree stump holding a cricket bat to left hand. The figure is of a very high quality and with exceptionally good detailing. Approximately 11” tall. Circa 1860’s. A rare figure in very good condition. Sold with an original sepia carte de visite photograph showing the figure and entitled to lower border ‘The Cricketer’. Pencil inscription to back ‘To Frank Byrne from his... View full lot details

‘Box and Pilch’. A Victorian tobacco jar and lid, applied with raised figures of Thomas Box and Fuller Pilch in white, on a light puce ground with title ‘Tobacco’ and floral decoration to sides and lid. The jar with lid stands approximately 5” tall. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket at Windsor Castle meat dish’. A very large oval shaped Goodwin & Harris ‘Metropolitan Scenery’ meat dish printed in blue and embellished with a scene of Windsor Castle and the Thames to foreground featuring a cricket match to the foreground with trees and foliage to sides. Surrounding borders highly decorated with flowers, leaves and various foliage, patterned rim. Printed mark in blue to base ‘Metropolitan Scenery, Windsor Castle’ and number ‘81’. The dish measures... View full lot details

Doulton Lambeth stoneware mug in art nouveau style, with three moulded relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, bowler and wicket keeper, Abel, Woods and McGregor in white on a brown background, with floral leaf decoration above and below in green and green/blue. Strap handle in brown glaze. 5” tall. Incised to base with Doulton Lambeth, number ‘172’ and makers marks, one being Helena Pennett. Undated but around 1880/90’s. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Doulton Lambeth stoneware tyg. Large, than normal, and impressive three handled tyg with three moulded relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, a fielder and wicket keeper in white on a green cameo background with blue circular surround, the sides highly decorated in a small floral pattern on a brown background, the handles unusually rectangular and decorated with an attractive and unusual brown and green. 6.5” tall. Incised to base with Doulton Lambeth and number 8235... View full lot details

Doulton Lambeth stoneware beaker, moulded in relief with three figures in roundels of a batsman (W.G. Grace) in different poses and impressed star shaped motif on a brown background. Doulton Lambeth impressed marks to base, date 1881, and makers marks to base of Mary A. Good. 5.5” tall. Gilt metal mount to rim. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Westerwald stoneware cricket beaker, moulded in relief with three cameo panels of a batsman, after W.G. Grace, in different poses. The body highly decorated with vine and sprig decoration in cobalt blue on a grey background, with the figures highlighted in black. Cobalt blue rings to rim and to foot. Approx 5.5” tall. German circa 1890. ‘Germany’ and number ‘486’ impressed to base. Very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Westerwald cricket jug. Large and very attractive Westerwald cobalt blue stoneware cricket jug, moulded in relief with six cameo panels of a batsman, fielder and wicket-keeper, believed to be W.G. Grace, in different cricketing poses. plus two smaller cameo panels nearer to the base of the handle of cricketers. The body decorated with vine and sprig decoration in cobalt blue on a grey background. The handle decorated with in the same blue. Approximately 9.5”... View full lot details

Westerwald. Large and impressive Westerwald stoneware tapering cricket jug, moulded in relief with five cameo panels all believed to be modelled on W.G. Grace, in different poses, coloured in cobalt blue on a grey background. The body decorated with vine and sprig decoration with decorative pewter lid with clasp to top of the handle. 13” high. German circa 1890. Number ‘239’ impressed to base. Dent to the pewter lid otherwise in very good condition A... View full lot details