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‘Sussex v Surrey at Brighton 1854. Very early single sided scorecard printed by ‘Lillywhite’s Printing Tent by authority and under the Patronage of the Marylebone Club’ for the match played at the Royal Brunswick Ground, Hove on the 29th & 30th June & 1st July 1854. The scorecard showing the fully completed printed scores for the match. Below are printed an advertisement for Lillywhite’s Printing Tent’, ‘Ade’s Registered cricketing belt may be had at the... View full lot details

‘The Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of Hampshire on The Kent Cricket Ground, Canterbury’ 1857. Early single sided scorecard printed by ‘Jennings, Printers of Canterbury for the match played on the 29th and 30th June. The scorecard, with excellent vignette of a cricket match in progress, with fully completed printed scores. The scorecard measure 4.5”x6” and in remarkably good condition for its age. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Twelve of England v Twenty Four of Turnham Green and District’ 1868. Early official single sided scorecard for the match played at Turnham Green 14th- 16th September 1868. The scorecard with printed first innings scores, the Twelve of England being bowled out for 130, Turnham Green closing at 132/21. The England team (possibly the United South of England) featured some notable names including T. Humphrey, H. Jupp, E. Pooley, T. Hearne, T. Mantle, G. Hearne... View full lot details

M.C.C. and Ground 1874 & 1878. Two early original scorecards for M.C.C. matches played at Lord’s. Matches are v. South of England 18th & 19th May 1874, complete printed scores. South (145 & 139) beat M.C.C. (131 & 60) by 93 runs. The other is for the match v. England, 13th & 14th May 1878, incomplete printed scores. M.C.C. (93 & 58) lost to England (115 & 37/7) by three wickets, Alfred Shaw bowled throughout... View full lot details

Archibald Campbell MacLaren. Lancashire & England 1890-1914. ‘The County Cricket Record’. Rare large original commemorative silk scorecard for the Lancashire v Somersetshire Championship match played at Taunton on the 15th- 17th July 1895. Archie MacLaren made the record score of 424 runs, still the highest individual score by an Englishman, including 62 fours and a six and Lancashire made 801 all out, the first time a score of over 800 had been recorded in first-class... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1899. ‘The Australians v. an England XI’. Very rare official scorecard for the match played at Tremorvah, Truro, 7th & 8th July 1899. Players listed at start of play. The Australians batted first and reached 214, Joe Darling the top scorer with 55, Richardson and Peel taking four wickets each for the England XI. In reply, England were dismissed for only 87, Ernie Jones taking 7/31. Following on, the England XI... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1904 & 1905. Two original commemorative silk scorecards for Nottinghamshire matches played at Trent Bridge. One, for the match v. Yorkshire played 9th- 11th June 1904, was notable for three centuries from Arthur Jones (113) and John Dixon (135) of Nottinghamshire, John Tunnicliffe making 119 for Yorkshire. Originally from the collection of A.O. Jones, captain of Nottinghamshire in this match. The other is for the match v Middlesex 17th- 19th August 1905 in... View full lot details

‘Hambledon v. England played on Broadhalfpenny Down’ 1908. Rare early original scorecard for the first match to be played on Broadhalfpenny Down in over 100 years, 10th- 12th September 1908, with complete printed scores. The England XII elected to bat first and were bowled out for 124, Francis Ford top scorer with 33, George Dennett 28. Jack Newman took 8/54 for Hambledon who then scored 277 thanks to a career best 114no by William Jephson... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1909. ‘England v. Australia’. Fifth Test. Early original commemorative silk scorecard for the 5th Test, played at Kennington Oval, 9th- 11th August 1909. Australia batted first and reached 325, Bardsley scoring 136, Trumper 73 and Macartney 50, with Carr taking 5/146. In reply England made 352, (Sharp 105, Rhodes 66, Fry 62, Hutchings 59, Cotter taking 6/95). In their second innings Australia made 339/5 declared with a second century from Bardsley... View full lot details

Australia tour matches at Scarborough 1909 & 1912. Two early original scorecards for the tour matches, Earl of Londesborough’s [England] XI v. Australians, played at Scarborough 9th- 11th September 1909 and 5th- 7th September 1912. Both scorecards with complete printed scores. Lord Londesborough’s XI won the 1909 match by 133 runs, J.T. Tyldesley top scoring with 89 in the second innings. The 1912 match was drawn. Both programmes printed by J. Whitham of Scarborough with... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. 1911-1939. Fourteen scorecards, the majority for County matches, all with incomplete and/ or handwritten scores unless stated, except one, a commemorative silk. Matches are v. Essex, Leyton 1911, v. Rest of England (Champion County Match), Kennington Oval 1912, v. Warwickshire, Edgbaston 1912 (complete printed scores, ex David Denton collection who scored 200no), v. Warwickshire, Hull 1932, v. Somerset, Bramall Lane 1932, v. Essex, Hull 1934, v. Sussex, v. Lancashire, both Bramall Lane 1934,... View full lot details

M.C.C. [& Ground] 1912-1939. Twelve original scorecards for M.C.C. matches played at Lord’s (one exception), all with incomplete and/ or handwritten scores. Matches are v. Oxford University 1912, 1925, 1929, v. Cambridge University 1912, 1931, 1935, v. Yorkshire at Scarborough 1913, v. Yorkshire 1925, v. Surrey 1931, 1939, v. The Army 1931, v. Kent 1932. Odd folds and minor faults to some cards, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Scorecard selection 1919-1958. Six original scorecards for the period, the majority with complete printed and/ or handwritten scores. Matches are Surrey v Essex, Kennington Oval 24th & 26th May 1919, Eton v Harrow, Lord’s 12th & 13th July 1929, Gentlemen v Players, Lord’s 13th- 16th July 1927, Sussex v Hampshire, Horsham 11th- 14th June 1939 (Hampshire won by one wicket), South v North, Torquay 4th- 7th September 1954, Rottingdean v M.C.C. Rottingdean Bi-Centenary match at... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. 1922-1939. Nine original scorecards for Yorkshire matches, the majority with incomplete printed and/ or handwritten scores. Includes away County Championship matches v Hampshire, Bournemouth, 23rd- 25th August 1922 (2 copies), Durham v Yorkshire II, South Shields 25th & 26th June 1930, v Leicestershire, Leicester 7th- 9th August 1935, and v M.C.C., Lord’s 6th & 8th May 1939. Also a commemorative silk scorecard for M.C.C. v Yorkshire at Scarborough 4th- 7th September 1926, laid... View full lot details

‘Victoria v New South Wales’. World Record Score 1926/27. Official large commemorative souvenir scorecard for the Sheffield Shield match played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 24th- 29th December 1926, very nicely signed to the lower right corner ‘With Compts R.M. Bell’ (R.M. Bell, London County 1902-1904). The scorecard depicts New South Wales batting first and scoring 221, (Norbert Phillips 52), Victoria replying with an astonishing 1107 all out. The first wicket fell at 375,... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1929 & 1932. Two original Nottinghamshire scorecards, one for the Champion County match v Rest of England at Kennington Oval, 14th- 18th September 1929 with complete handwritten scores, The Rest winning by just eight runs. The other is a rarer scorecard for the remarkable match v Yorkshire at Headingley 9th- 12th July 1932 in which Yorkshire’s Hedley Verity took all ten wickets in Nottinghamshire’s second innings to return career best figures of 10-10... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire v Surrey 1933. Original commemorative silk scorecard for the match played at Trent Bridge 3rd- 6th June 1933. Signed in later years in ink by Percy Fender who scored 106 for Surrey in their first innings, listed on the scorecard as batting at number eight. C.B. Harris of Nottinghamshire top scored in the match with 132. The match was drawn. Printed on the ground by C.H. Richards of Nottingham. Some bleeding to the signature,... View full lot details

‘All-India vs. The Australians’ 1935/36. Rare original scorecard for the second unofficial ‘Test’ match played at Eden Gardens, Calcutta, 31st December 1935- 3rd January 1936. The scorecard with complete printed scores shows India bowled out for only 48 in their first innings, Oxenham and Macartney each taking five wickets. The Australians replied with 99 (Mohammad Nissar 6-35). India then made 127, the Australians knocking off the runs to win by eight wickets. Other notable players... View full lot details

‘Isle of Oxney XI v Two Players 1936’. Official folding programme and scorecard for the Centenary match where the Isle of Oxney XI took on ‘Two Players’ being W. Ashdown of Kent and A.F. Wensley of Sussex. The match was played at Wittersham in Kent on the 5th September 1936. Printed on the ground by J.A. Jennings of Canterbury. Very good condition.... View full lot details

World War II scorecards 1939-1945. Eleven original wartime scorecards including one overseas official folding scorecard for the wartime match, H.E. Governor’s XII v Major General D. Stuart’s XII, played at Eden Gardens, Bombay on the 6th- 8th January 1945. The match featured many Indian and the odd England Test player. Players included Compton, Hardstaff, Mankad, Mushtaq Ali, C.S. Nayudu, Chatterjee, Chowdhury, Amarnath etc. Some wear and soiling. Others include eight matches played at Lord’s, British... View full lot details

World War II scorecards 1941-1945. Seven scorecards including one signed for Army v R.A.F., Chalkwell Park, Westcliff-on-Sea, 26th July 1941, twenty four signatures to verso, the majority of players who took part in the match. Notable signatures of county cricketers include T.P.B. Smith, H.T. Bartlett, S.C. Griffith, R.F.H. Darwall-Smith, H.T. Barling, J.F. Parker, C.T. Ashton, R.N. Taylor, H. Yarnold etc. Others are for matches played at Lord’s including The Army v Civil Defence 12th June... View full lot details

Australian Imperial Forces XI 1941. Rare official double-sided wartime scorecard for the Gezira Sporting Club v Australian I.F. XI played at Gezira Sporting Club (Cairo, Egypt), 10th- 11th October 1941. One side shows the first innings with complete printed scores for Gezira (124), printed and handwritten scores for Australian I.F. (337). The verso with handwritten scores for the Gezira second innings (132). Australian I.F. won by an innings and 81 runs. The teams featured Freddie... View full lot details

Sind Cricket Tournament 1945. Europeans v Muslims. Official folding scorecard for the semi-final match played at Karachi, 27th & 28th October 1945. The scorecard with neatly handwritten scores in ink, shows the Europeans scoring 119 and 192 in their two innings, the Muslims scoring 328 for four wickets declared, the Muslims winning by an innings and seventeen runs. The Europeans were captained by ‘F/O Simpson’, very likely Reg Simpson (Sind, Europeans, Nottinghamshire & England 1944-1963)... View full lot details

Len Hutton. Yorkshire v Indians 1946. Official folding scorecard for the tour match played at Bradford Park Avenue, 3rd- 5th July 1946. Complete printed and handwritten scores in pencil. Yorkshire won by an innings and 82 runs, Hutton carrying his bat for 183no in Yorkshire’s only innings. Signed in ink by Hutton. Sold with official menus for the ‘”364” 50th Anniversary Dinner’, 21st July 1988, signed to the front by Hutton, and ‘The War of... View full lot details

South African tour of England 1947. Rarer official folding scorecard for the tour match, ‘Gentlemen of Ireland v. South Africa’ played at Dublin, 10th & 11th July 1947. Incomplete handwritten scores in ink. No play was possible on the first day and the match was drawn. Splitting to fold and some wear, otherwise in good condition. Sold with a double sided card titled ‘South African Cricket Tour 1947’ with cameo pictures of the players and... View full lot details

Australian tour of England 1948. Official scorecard for the famous Essex v Australia tour match where Australia scored a record 721 in a day. The match played at Southend on Sea, 15th- 18th May 1948. The Australians’ scores for their only innings are fully printed, the two Essex innings handwritten in ink. Bradman made 187, Brown 153, Loxton 120 and Saggers 105no. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Festival, tour and County scorecards 1948-1958. A selection of official scorecards including three for Kent matches from the Canterbury Cricket Week Centenary 1948, v Australia, 21st- 24th August, v Hampshire, 31st July- 3rd August, and v Nottinghamshire, 4th- 6th August 1948. Three Nottinghamshire matches at Trent Bridge, v Yorkshire 17th- 20th July 1948, v Derbyshire 7th- 10th August 1948, v West Indies 17th- 20th June 1950. Also Surrey v Australians, Kennington Oval 8th- 11th... View full lot details

Surrey v Australians 1956. Official scorecard for the tour match played at the Oval, 16th- 18th May 1956. Jim Laker took all ten Australian wickets in the first innings and finished with figures of 46 overs, 18 maidens, ten wickets for 88 runs. In the second innings he took 2-42. Complete printed scores. Surrey won by ten wickets. Signed in ink by Laker. Horizontal fold, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Essex v. Australians 1964. Official commemorative silk scorecard for the tour match played at Southend-on-Sea, 22nd- 25th August 1964. Essex (425/6 dec. & 109/4) beat the Australians (218 & 313) by six wickets. Barker (123) and Fletcher (125) both scored centuries in Essex’s first innings, and Phelan took ten wickets in the match. The scorecard loose mounted to card and in very good condition.... View full lot details

D.H. Robins XI tour to Sri Lanka 1977. ‘Derrick Robins’ XI vs C.P.C.A. President’s XI’. Official folding scorecard for the match played at St. Anthony’s College Grounds, Katugastota 15th- 17th October 1977. The centre pages with printed scorecard, the players listed at the start of play. Signed by all fifteen playing members of the touring party. Signatures are Denness (Captain), Intikhab Alam, Lever, Tolchard, Willey, Howarth, Smith, Carrick, Cowdrey, Emburey, Gurr, Jarvis, Gower, Pilling and... View full lot details

‘Centenary of Test Cricket England v Australia’ 1977. Two covers each with a set of six Australia Test Cricket Centenary commemorative stamps. One cover signed by eight England players, Hardstaff, Graveney, May, Dexter, Compton, Washbrook, Paynter and Barrington, the other by twelve England and Australia cricketers, Hardstaff, W. Edrich, Denness, Graveney, Yardley, Simpson, Harvey, Ryder, Paynter, Lawry, Parkhouse and Fingleton. VG... View full lot details

Surrey v Warwickshire 1982. ‘National Westminster Bank Trophy Cover No. 2’. Official commemorative cover for the Final played at Lord’s 4th September 1982. Signed to the front by six members of the B.B.C. commentary team including Tony Lewis, Fred Trueman, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Trevor Bailey and Jack Bannister. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Kent County Cricket Club Centenary 1870-1970’ commemorative cover, issued at Canterbury 30th May 1970, signed to the front by fourteen Kent players. Signatures are Underwood, Denness, Brown, Leary, Cowdrey, Shepherd, Luckhurst, Graham, Dye, Woolmer, Johnson, Knott, Asif Iqbal and Dixon. Sold with unsigned commemorative covers for M.C.C. Bicentenary match 1987, and two ‘Leaders of the World’ covers issued in St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1984. Qty 4. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Centenary of the Ashes 1982’. Official ‘Australia vs. England Test Cricket Series’ commemorative cover issued by Australia Post. Twenty five signatures to the front including England and Australian players Peter Burge, Ian and Greg Chappell, Len Hutton, Bob Simpson, Alan Davidson, Ray Lindwall, Don Tallon, Bruce Yardley, Jeff Thomson, Geoff Dymock, Ron Archer, Colin McCool, Sam Loxton, Bill Brown, Mike Denness, Bill Johnston, Frank Tyson, also Henry Blofeld, Alan McGilvray etc. and to the verso... View full lot details

M.C.C. Bicentenary 1987. Official commemorative cover issued for the Bicentenary match, M.C.C. v Rest of the World at Lord’s, date stamped 20th August 1987. Fully signed to the front by the eleven members of the M.C.C. team. Signatures are Gatting (Captain), French, Rice, Shastri, Marshall, Broad, Hadlee, Gooch, Emburey, Greenidge and Gower. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Auction catalogues 1950- 1978. Good and interesting selection of twenty six auction and dealer catalogues from the period stated. Catalogues for Christies, ‘The Parker Gallery’ and Sotheby & Co. Early catalogues featuring the Parker Gallery from 1950, Christie’s from 1951 and Sotheby & Co from 1951. Mixed selection, each sent to M.C.C. for their consideration, odd one with typed recommendation i.e. ‘Messrs Sotheby & Co beg to draw your attention to lot 339 in the... View full lot details

Auction catalogues 1991-2016. Two boxes comprising a large selection of over one hundred and sixty original auction catalogues including Phillips, Vennett-Smith, Tim Davidson, Mullock’s, Christies, Bonhams, International Autograph Auctions, Dominic Winter, Sportinggold, Star Wares on Main, Sports Auctions New York, Acorn, Trafford Books, Mackenzie Thorpe etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

England tour to Australia 1901/02. ‘Cricket Album With Photos and Records of Mr. A.C. MacLaren’s English Eleven containing programme, averages, and scoring sheets’. Published by Royal Advertising Co., Adelaide 1902. 40pp tour brochure comprising pen pictures of MacLaren’s touring party, results and scorecards to rear, with advertising throughout. Original wrappers. Light vertical fold, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Bringing Back The Ashes. A Complete and Accurate Review of the M.C.C. Tour of Australia 1903/04. Fully Illustrated by “Looker-On” of the Sheffield Telegraph’. James Hayton Stainton 1904. 96pp. Rare post-tour brochure. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Padwick 4432. Minor age toning and wear to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Famous Cricket Teams’. R. Scott & Co., Manchester 1904. 16pp booklet, appears to be the fifth in a known series of seven produced 1899-1907, this issue comprising ten pages of photographs of teams, statistics of the England tour to Australia 1903/04 and advertising. Padwick 7204. Original decorative paper wrappers detached with some soiling, otherwise in generally good condition.... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1909. ‘Cricket Sketches’. R. Scott, Manchester 1909. 16pp booklet. Original paper wrappers with portrait of Warren Bardsley to front cover, biographies and photographs of the touring party, tour fixtures, humorous articles. Padwick 6846. Rusting to staple, some splitting to spine, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The New South Wales Teachers on Tour. Xmas 1912. North Island, New Zealand’. Printed by McMillan & Goddard, Sydney. Rare and early post-tour booklet for the tour to New Zealand 1912. Described in the introduction as the Third Tour to New Zealand undertaken by the New South Wales Teachers having previously visited in 1907 and 1909. 32pp in original wrappers comprising full scores for the eight matches played in Wellington, Napier and Auckland, averages and... View full lot details

Australian tours to England 1920s. ‘Australian Cricket Teams in England’. A Brief History of the Fifteen Tours’. Supplement to the Marvel. 4th June 1921. J.N. Pentelow. 16pp booklet. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Padwick 4962. Foxing and ageing. ‘All About the Australians’, Daily Mirror 1926, pre-tour 12pp booklet in original pictorial paper wrappers. Padwick 5036. Wear and creasing, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1920/21. ‘The International Cricket Guide. Season 1920-21’. Compiled by R.H. Campbell. Farrow Falcon Press, Melbourne 1920. 40pp pre-tour booklet with pen portraits, tour fixtures, statistics, advertising etc. Padwick 4444. Original paper wrappers with some soiling to spine, rusting to staple, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Western Canada Cricket Association’ 1926. Rare and unusual official souvenir programme edited by George Dewe for the inaugural Interprovincial Cricket Tournament, held in Edmonton 2nd- 7th August 1926. 74pp. Original colour decorative wrappers. Presentation copy with dedication to inside front cover to ‘P.F. Warner Esq. with the author’s compliments’. Padwick 4131. Some age toning to wrappers, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Australian Cricket Team 1926’. Published by The British Australasian (1910) Ltd, London 1926. 92pp pre-tour booklet in original brown paper wrappers comprising articles, pen pictures, statistics, etc. Signed in ink (one in pencil) to the front cover by thirteen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures in ink are Collins (Captain), Mailey, Bardsley, Macartney, Woodfull, Ponsford, Gregory, Taylor, Ellis, Grimmett, Everett and Hendry, also Oldfield in pencil. Minor wear to spine, otherwise in very... View full lot details

‘Indian Cricket Tour To England 1932’. Large official pre tour brochure produced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, New Delhi. Printed by The Times of India Press, Bombay 1932. 48pp. Original decorative covers. Minor wear to wrapper edges, foxing to rear wrapper, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Australian Cricketers Goodwill Tour 1932’. Australian tour of Canada & America 1932. Scarce official brochure for the tour with pen pictures, biographies and itinerary. The tour started in Victoria, Canada on 17th June and finished in Hollywood on 28th August 1932. A very rare brochure from the tour organised by Arthur Mailey. Annotations to centre score sheet. Light vertical fold, rusting to staples and splitting to spine, adhesive marks to rear page, otherwise in good... View full lot details

‘Australian Cricketers Goodwill Tour 1932’. Australian tour of Canada & America 1932. Very rare variant of the official brochure for the tour comprising the original brochure (in itself scarce) with paper wrappers and pen pictures, biographies and itinerary. Unusually, this is bound in to an additional twelve pages and outer wrapper titled ‘Australian- Canadian Goodwill Cricket tour, 1932. Sponsored by Calgary & District Cricket League’. The additional pages feature scorecards for the two matches played... View full lot details

‘Australian Cricketers Goodwill Tour 1932’. Australian tour of Canada & America 1932. Scarce original folding scorecard for the ‘Exhibition Cricket Game. Australian Cricket Team versus Montecito Cricket Club’ played at the Peabody Stadium, Santa Barbara, California, 24th August 1932. In the one day match the full scores are annotated in ink to the centre pages, Australia scoring 387/6 declared (Bradman 121), the eighteen of Montecito being dismissed for 59, the Australians winning by 328 runs.... View full lot details

M.C.C. ‘Bodyline’ tour of Australia 1932/33. ‘Queensland Cricket Association Souvenir. Queensland v New South Wales 1932’. Official programme edited by Wallace R. Lloyd and H. Sandys McEntire. Printed by ‘Lloyd’s Almanack’, Brisbane 1932. 48pp. Not recorded in Padwick. Decorative printed paper wrappers with some nicks and wear to wrapper edges, internally in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Souvenir of Historic Cricket Match. Australia v. Daylesford [Victoria]’ 1880. Facsimile four page scoresheet in green wrappers for the match played between twenty two of Daylesford against an Australian eleven, played at Daylesford, 18th March 1880. Produced by the Daylsesford and District Cricket Association, 1935. The Australian eleven featured Murdoch, McDonnell, Bannerman, Blackham, Boyle, Bonnor, Spofforth and Palmer, who were all members of the 1880 tour to England that followed soon after this match. Very... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1936/37. Official Orient Line ‘S.S. Orion’ brochure for the ‘M.C.C. Australasian Tour 1936-7’. Decorative colour card front cover with M.C.C. colours. Team detail, itinerary, player profile and pen pictures etc. to inside pages. Slipped in is an official compliment slip from ‘The Managers of the Orient Line’. Some foxing to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in very good condition. Sold with an unofficial Souvenir Programme for the 3rd Test, Australia v... View full lot details

‘1936-37 Test Souvenir. Australia v. England Programme and Score Sheet’. Produced as a ‘Supplement to The Australian Cricketer’. Large format four page folding supplement comprising biographies and pictures of the England touring party and Australian players, scoresheet etc. Approx. 6”x8.5” folded. Some soiling and creasing, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘Souvenir Programme England v Australia 1936-1937’. Official pre-tour brochure produced by the Western Australian Cricket Association, Perth 1936. 44pp. Colour decorative wrappers, comprising fixtures, pen pictures of the M.C.C. touring party, scoresheets, advertising etc. Bookplate of Anthony Woodhouse to inside front cover. Padwick 4500. Light vertical fold, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Sir T.E.W. Brinckman’s tour to South America 1937/38. Rare and unusual large presentation folder with title to front ‘Argentine Cricket Tour 1938’, produced ‘With the compliments of the Buenos Aires Herald’. Comprises eighteen pages of reproductions of newspaper reports of matches played on the Argentine leg of the tour. Presumed to have been produced and presented to a member of the tour. Some wear to wrappers, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1938. ‘Bon Voyage to the Members of the Nineteenth Australian Team’. Official menu for the luncheon given by the Victorian Cricket Association to the outgoing Australian touring party to England, held at the Oriental Hotel, Melbourne on 7th March 1938. The menu with pale blue ribbon tie and decorative caricature front cover featuring the Australian team riding on a kangaroo. To inside pages the toasts, the menu, autograph page etc. The... View full lot details

Tour brochures and programmes 1939-1951. A selection of tour brochures, each bound in modern cloth with original wrappers. Official tour booklet for ‘West Indies Cricket Tour [to England] 1939’, edited by A.W. Simpson, bound in brown cloth. Official souvenir programme from the tour to New Zealand for M.C.C. v Canterbury at Lancaster Park 5th- 8th March 1955, bound in blue cloth. Extract from ‘Sporting Life Cricket Guide. Australian’s Team 1948 Tour of England’, pp21- 44,... View full lot details

Trinity Field Club, Cambridge 1947. Official folding programme for the ‘Ye Game of Cricket, on the occasion of the visit of Their Majesties, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth on the fourth centenary of the College June 3rd, 1947’. Sold with an original single sided flyer for ‘A Festival Cricket Match between United States Air Force and South Woodford Cricket Club’, Roding Lane North, 21st August 1960, and a small folding tent card for a... View full lot details

‘South African Cricket Tour 1947’. Official souvenir brochure for the South African tour of England. Edited by A.W. Simpson. Pictorial covers. Signed in different coloured inks to inside pen pictures by fourteen members of the South African touring party. Signatures are Nourse, Mitchell, Viljoen, Rowan, Lindsay, Tuckett, Begbie, Dyer, Plimsoll, Mann, Dawson, Harris, Smith, and Frames (Manager). Lacking Melville (Captain). Also signed by fifteen England ‘Probables’, Compton, Bedser, Washbrook, Roberts, Robertson, Young, Wright, Evans, Ikin,... View full lot details

Commonwealth Cricket Tour of India & Ceylon 1950-51’. George Duckworth. Published by Sport and Pastime, Madras 1951 with company compliment slip laid down to title page. Comprises twenty two reprints of match report articles from the tour written by Duckworth for Sport and Pastime. Bound in full leather with gilt title and ‘W.H.H. Sutcliffe’ to front cover. Presumed to have been produced and presented to members of the tour, this being Billy Sutcliffe’s copy. Some... View full lot details

Australia tour to India 1956. Rare official souvenir brochure for the Australia tour to India 1956 published by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Bound in blue cloth, gilt title to spine, original decorative wrappers retained. Signed to the original rear wrapper by Ray Robinson (Australia 1 Test 1936/37). Sold with ‘M.C.C. Cricketers. Visit to India 1961-62’ Sport & Pastime souvenir pre-tour brochure. Madras 1961. Bound in olive cloth, gilt title to front,... View full lot details

‘Cricketers from New Zealand’ 1958. Official tour souvenir programme for the tour by Playfair edited by Gordon Ross. Signed in ink to pen pictures by fifteen members of the touring party including Reid (Captain), Cave, Alabaster, Blair, D’Arcy, Harford, Hayes, Meale, Miller, Moir, Petrie, Playle, Sparling, Sutcliffe and Ward. Also signed by MacGibbon to label laid down, and by George Duckworth to rear wrapper. Ownership name to front wrapper. Heavy wear and old tape repairs... View full lot details

‘Cricketers from South Africa’ 1960. Official tour souvenir programme for the tour by Playfair edited by Gordon Ross. Signed in ink to pen pictures by fourteen playing members of the touring party. Signatures are McGlew (Captain), Goddard, Adcock, Carlstein, Duckworth, Fellows-Smith, Griffin, McLean, O’Linn, Pithey, Pothecary, Tayfield, Waite and Wesley. Some wear to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

English domestic cricket Cup Final programmes 1972-1984. Four volumes of bound official programmes for Finals played at Lord’s, all bound or tipped in with original wrappers retained. Includes two volumes of Benson & Hedges Cup Finals, one for seasons 1972-1975, the other 1976-1980. Two for the NatWest Bank Trophy Finals, one for Kent v Somerset, 3rd September 1983, the other Kent v Middlesex, 1st September 1984. All four volumes with the bookplate of the sports... View full lot details

World Cup 1983. Australia v West Indies. Official programme for the Group B match played at Lord’s 18th June 1983. Fully signed to the centre pages by all fourteen members of each of the touring parties. Australian signatures are Hughes, Border, Chappell, Hogan, Hogg, Hookes, Lawson, Lillee, Macleay, Marsh, Thomson, Wessels, Wood and Yallop. West Indians are Lloyd, Bacchus, Daniel, Davis, Dujon, Garner, Gomes, Greenidge, Haynes, Holding, Logie, Marshall, Richards and Roberts. Also signed to... View full lot details

England signed programmes 1984-2007. Eight official programmes for England home Test and one day internationals. England v West Indies, 1st Test, Edgbaston 1984 signed by Andy Lloyd, Derek Pringle (England) and Michael Holding (West Indies). 2nd Test, Lord’s 1984 signed by Chris Broad, Ian Botham, Geoff Miller, Allan Lamb (England) and Viv Richards (West Indies). v Sri Lanka, only Test, Lord’s 1984 signed by Graeme Fowler. v Australia, 3rd Test, Trent Bridge 1985 signed by... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1992. Official T.C.C.B. tour guide signed to the player profile pages by sixteen members of the Pakistan touring party. Signatures include Javed Miandad, Aamir Sohail, Aaqib Javed, Ijaz Ahmed, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Moin Khan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Salim Malik, Shoaib Mohammad, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Zahid Fazal, Asif Mujtaba etc. VG... View full lot details

Jesmond International Cricket Festival 1993. Official programme for the two one-day matches played between An England XI and Rest of the World XI, 13th & 14th July 1993. Signed to the centre team listing pages by twenty two players. Signatures are Atherton, Roseberry, Gatting, Ramprakash, Fairbrother, Rhodes, DeFreitas, Croft, Ilott, Munton, Such, Simmons, Aamir Sohail, Jones, Marshall, Harper, Donald, Walsh, Morrison, Berry, Ajay Jadeja and Gordon Greenidge. Very good condition.... View full lot details

England tour to West Indies 1993/94. Official ‘Cable and Wireless Tour Guide’ edited by Tony Cozier. Signed to the player profile pages by fourteen members of the England touring party and twelve West Indians. Signatures are Atherton, Stewart, Fraser, Hick, Igglesden, Lewis, Salisbury, Thorpe, Malcolm, Maynard, Russell, Smith, Tufnell, Watkin (England), Richardson, Adams, Ambrose, Arthurton, W. Benjamin, Cummins, Harper, Haynes, Hooper, Murray, Simmons and Walsh (West Indies). Very good condition.... View full lot details

England tour to South Africa 1995/96. Official souvenir tour guide signed by sixteen members of the England touring party and seven South Africans. England signatures are Atherton, Stewart, Cork, Crawley, Fraser, Gough, Hick, Richard Illingworth, Ilott, Malcolm, Martin, Ramprakash, Russell, Thorpe, Watkinson, Ray Illingworth (Manager), and South Africans Boje, Pringle, Liebenberg, Pollock, Smith, with Adams and Palframan signed on labels laid down. Sold with an unsigned official guide for the 2009/10 tour. Good/ very good... View full lot details

Cricket World Cup. England 1999. Full set of twenty one official programmes for the tournament held in England in 1999. Includes nine Group Match programmes, nine ‘Super Six’ matches, the two semi-finals, Pakistan v New Zealand, Old Trafford 16th June, and South Africa v Australia, Edgbaston 17th June, and the Final, Pakistan v Australia, Lord’s 20th June. Very good condition.... View full lot details

England tours to Sri Lanka 2000/01 and 2003/04. Two official souvenir tour guides published in Sri Lanka, one for the 2001 tour signed by nine members of the England touring party, the other for 2003 by fifteen. Signatures are Croft, Trescothick, Thorpe, White, Nixon, Neale, Giles, Knight, Alleyne, Vaughan, Anderson, Batty, Butcher, Clarke, Collingwood, Flintoff, Hoggard, Hussain, Johnson, Jones, Kirtley and Read. Very good condition.... View full lot details

England tour to New Zealand 2007/08. Official ‘Test Series Programme’ tour guide fully signed to the player profiles by the sixteen featured members of the England touring party and ten of New Zealand. England signatures are Vaughan, Collingwood, Ambrose, Anderson, Bell, Broad, Cook, Harmison, Hoggard, Mustard, Panesar, Pietersen, Shah, Sidebottom, Strauss and Swann. New Zealand signatures are Vettori, Fleming, Gillespie, How, McCullum, Martin, Mills, Oram, Patel and Taylor. Also signed by three match officials, Javagal... View full lot details

England tour to West Indies 2008/09. Official tour guide fully signed to the player profiles by the twenty featured members of the England touring party. Signatures are Strauss, Ambrose, Anderson, Bell, Bopara, Broad, Collingwood, Cook, Patel, Panesar, Prior, Rashid, Davies, Harmison, Flintoff, Mascarenhas, Shah, Swann, Sidebottom and Pietersen. Sold with an official souvenir programme for the celebrations in 1994 of the 40th Anniversary of Garfield Sobers’ Test debut 1994, signed to the front by Sobers,... View full lot details

Women’s Ashes. England v Australia 2015. Official programme for the Women’s Ashes series of 2015, signed to the player profiles by twelve England and twelve Australian players. Signatures are Edwards, Brunt, Cross, Elwiss, Greenway, Grundy, Jones, Marsh, Sciver, Shrubsole, Taylor, Winfield (England), Lanning, Beams, Blackwell, Bolton, Cameron, Coyte, Ferling, Healy, Jonassen, Osborne, Perry and Villani (Australia). Sold with an official scorecard for the Test match played at Canterbury 11th- 14th August 1995. Qty 2. Very... View full lot details

England v South Africa 1994. Official programme for the 1st Test, Lord’s, 21st- 25th July 1994. Signed to the pages by ten England players and two South Africans. Signatures are Atherton, Stewart, Crawley, Fraser, Gooch, Gough, Hick, Rhodes, Salisbury, White, Liebenberg and Procter. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket tour brochures 1938-1966. A good selection of official tour brochures for tours to England. Includes Australia 1938 and South Africa 1947, both edited by A.W. Simpson. Playfair brochures for India 1952, Australia 1953, both edited by Peter West, Pakistan 1954, South Africa 1955, Australia 1956, West Indies 1957, New Zealand 1958, India 1959, South Africa 1960, Pakistan 1962, West Indies 1963, Australia 1964, New Zealand & South Africa 1965 and West Indies 1966, all... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume II nos. 22-49 (16th February to 27th December 1883). Illustrated. Bound in later full green leather, gilt title to spine, complete with title and contents pages to front, lacking original wrappers. Odd nicks and minor foxing to page edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume III nos. 50-79 (31st January to 25th December 1884). Illustrated. Bound in later full green leather, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges, complete with title and contents pages to front, lacking original wrappers. Complete with the five supplement score sheets as issued. Slight breaking to page block, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume V nos. 110-139 (28th January to 30th December 1886). Illustrated. Bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges, complete with title and contents pages to front, lacking original wrappers. Complete with the three supplement score sheets as issued. Some breaking to front internal hinge, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume VI nos. 140-169 (27th January to 29th December 1887). Illustrated. Bound in publisher’s green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, replacement endpapers, complete with title and contents pages to front, lacking original wrappers. Complete with the six supplement score sheets as issued. Foxing to pages, small nick and wear to head and foot of spine, bumping to corners, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume VIII nos. 200-239 (24th January to 27th December 1889). Illustrated. Bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spine, marbled page edges, complete with title and contents pages to front, lacking original wrappers. Complete with seven of the eight supplement score sheets as issued, lacking 18th July. Very good condition with pages nice and bright.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XV nos. 410-439 (30th January to 31st December 1896). Illustrated. Bound in later green cloth, gilt title to spine, red page edges, complete with title and contents pages to front, lacking original wrappers. Complete with the three supplement score sheets as issued. Age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XVIII nos. 500-529 (26th January to 21st December 1899). Illustrated. Complete run of issues loosely inserted in later green binder. Lacking the poster supplement for 13th April. Title and contents pages included with final issue. Wrapper of first issue split and detached, wear and some loss to wrappers of first two issues, some age toning to pages, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XX nos. 560-589 (31st January to 19th December 1901). Illustrated. Complete run of issues loosely inserted in later green binder. Lacking the poster supplement for 11th April. Title and contents pages included with final issue. Some age toning to wrappers and pages, fading to the odd wrapper, wrappers of last issue detached, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXVII nos. 770-799 (30th January to 24th December 1908). Illustrated. Complete run of issues loosely inserted in later green binder. Lacking the Cricket Fixtures supplement for 9th April. Title and contents pages included with final issue. Fading to wrappers of the first and final issues, minor age toning, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume XXVIII nos. 800-829 (28th January to 21st December 1909). Illustrated. Complete run of issues loosely inserted in later green binder. Lacking the Cricket Fixtures supplement for 22nd April. Title and contents pages included with final issue. Contents page included at rear of final issue. Fading to wrappers of some issues, minor age toning, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Box comprising ten volumes of issues in various different bindings. Years covered are 1884-1885, 1888, 1892, 1894-1896, 1897, 1900, 1902, 1909-1912, 1910, and 1911. The majority lacking some issues, the bindings in generally poor condition, with age toning to contents. Sold with The Cricketer’ magazine Vol. I 1921. Edited by P.F. Warner. Complete run of issues from no. 1, 30th April (first) to no. 22, 24th September 1921... View full lot details

The Cricketer Magazine 1924-1960s. A good run of loose individual issues of over 170 copies of the magazine. Includes apparently complete runs for 1924 Vol. V nos. 1-25, 1925 Vol. VI nos. 1-18, 1926 Vol. VII nos. 1-18, 1927 Vol. VIII nos. 1-20, and 1928 Vol. IX nos. 1-20. Also incomplete runs for years 1949, 1950, 1952-1960 and 1968 with a selection of Winter and Spring annuals. Odd faults to some issues, otherwise in good... View full lot details

‘The Cricketer’ magazine Vol. I 1921. Edited by P.F. Warner. Complete run of issues from no. 1, 30th April (first) to no. 22, 24th September 1921 and the Winter Annual 1921/22, bound in official publisher’s green cloth, lacking original wrappers, red speckled page edges. Good condition. Sold with ‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’, three bound volumes in matching quarter maroon leather and cloth, each complete with title and contents page bound in to... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Field. An Illustrated Record and Review’ 1892-1895. Published by ‘Pastime’, London (later issues Horace Cox, London). Illustrated. Three bound volumes of the magazine. Vol. I nos. 1- 24, 7th May- 31st December 1892. Bound in dark cloth, gilt title to spine, complete with original front wrapper for the first issue, lacking other wrappers and appears to be lacking title page and index. Vol. II nos. 25- 52, 28th January- 30th December 1893. Bound... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Field: An Illustrated Record and Review’ 1892 & 1893. Two complete runs of the first two volumes of the magazine issued, bound together as one in dark blue/ green cloth, gilt title to spine (faded) and red page edges, lacking original wrappers. Vol. I nos. 1-24, 7th May- 31st December 1892, and Vol. II nos. 25-52, 28th January- 30th December 1893. Title pages and indexes for both volumes bound in. Edited by A.W.... View full lot details

‘The American Cricketer, a Journal Devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1880/81. Vol. IV nos. 100-150, 1st July 1880- 1st December 1881. Published by the Associated Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia 1881. Complete run of the magazine, with title page and index to front, bound in modern maroon cloth with gilt title to spine. Lacking original wrappers. Padwick 4050. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The American Cricketer, a Journal Devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1883. Vol. VI nos. 182-213, 25th January- 27th December 1883. Published by the Associated Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia 1883. Complete run of the magazine, with title page and index to front, bound in modern green cloth with gilt title to spine. Lacking original wrappers. Padwick 4050. Some wear and small tears to title, index and first pages of first and last issues, otherwise... View full lot details

‘The American Cricketer, a Journal Devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1884. Vol. VII nos. 214-246, 31st January- 25th December 1884. Published by the Associated Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia 1884. Complete run of the magazine, with title page and index to front, bound in later brown cloth with gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Lacking original wrappers. Ownership name in ink of the early collector, ‘Robert Stratton Holmes Wakefield 4.4.[18]91’ to front... View full lot details

‘The American Cricketer, a Journal Devoted to the Noble Game of Cricket’ 1885. Vol. VIII nos. 247-269 [incorrectly numbered 268], 30th April- 24th December 1884. Published by the Associated Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia 1885. Complete run of the magazine, with title page and index to front, bound in quarter leather and marbled boards, replacement leather spine with gilt title label to spine. Lacking original wrappers. ‘Property of Belmont Cricket Club’ annotated in ink to inside... View full lot details

‘The American Cricketer’ 1922. Vol. XLVI nos. 803-814, January- December 1922. Published by the Associated Cricket Clubs of Philadelphia. Complete run of the twelve monthly issues of the magazine, bound in modern green cloth with gilt title to spine, original wrappers retained. Light creasing to some issues, other odd minor faults, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details