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

Speedway. London and South East programmes 1948-2003. A good selection of over one hundred and twenty official programmes for speedway meetings of the period. Programmes are for meetings at Hackney 1963-1979 (Qty 90), Crayford 1968-1983 (48), Rye House 1971-1992 (Qty 40), Canterbury 1968-1981 (12), Wimbledon 1963-2004 (9), Eastbourne 1971-1991 (8), West Ham 1964-1969 (7), White City 1976 & 1977 (5), Romford 1969-1971 (3), and Wembley 1948 & 1952 (2). Minor duplication. The majority with annotations... View full lot details

Speedway. Eastern counties programmes 1958-2000. A good selection of over one hundred and ten official programmes for speedway meetings of the period. Programmes are for meetings at King’s Lynn 1967-1980 (Qty 44), Norwich 1958-1964 (22), Skegness 1988-1998 (15 including stock car racing), Boston 1971-1990 (10), Rayleigh 1965-1973 (9), Mildenhall 1975-2000 (5), and Peterborough 1971 & 1979 (3). The majority with annotations to results pages. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Ipswich Speedway programmes 1964-1983. A large selection of around two hundred and forty official programmes for Ipswich Witches speedway meetings of the period. Programmes are for seasons 1964 (Qty 2), 1969 (1), 1971 (13), 1972 (48), 1973 (35), 1974 (40), 1975 (31), 1976 (32), 1977 (17), 1978 (7), 1979 (2), 1980 (4), 1982 (6), and 1983 (2). Odd duplication. The majority with annotations to results pages. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Speedway. Southern and Welsh programmes 1958-2010. A good selection of over one hundred official programmes for speedway meetings of the period. Programmes are for meetings at Poole 1962-1978 (Qty 35), Exeter 1961-1987 (26), Newport 1964-2010 (19), Bristol 1977 & 1978 (8), Reading 1972-1996 (7), Southampton 1958 & 1959 (5), Weymouth 1974-2005 (4), Swindon 1972 & 1977 (2), and St. Austell 1997 & 2000 (2). The majority with annotations to results pages. Odd file holes, otherwise... View full lot details

Speedway. Midlands programmes 1952-2002. A good selection of over two hundred official programmes for speedway meetings of the period. Programmes are for meetings at Coventry 1963-2002 (Qty 103), Cradley Heath 1962-1982 (64), Wolverhampton 1961-1979 (27), Stoke 1961-1994 (10), Leicester 1952-1983 (4), Long Eaton 1963 (1), Nottingham 1980 (1), and Oxford 1984 (1). The majority with annotations to results pages. Odd duplication. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Speedway. Northern and Scottish programmes 1952-2006. A good selection of over one hundred and twenty official programmes for speedway meetings of the period. Programmes are for meetings at Belle Vue Manchester 1957-1985 (Qty 35), Halifax 1965-1983 (21), Sheffield 1962-1973 (17), Edinburgh 1960-1985 (10), Hull 1971-1978 (8), Bradford 1970-1985 (6), Ellesmere Port 1974-1981 (5), Workington 1970 & 1976 (4), Barrow 1974 & 1977 (3), Castleford 1979 (3), Crewe 1971 & 1975 (2), Linlithgow 1995 (2), Odsal... View full lot details

Speedway. International programmes 1963-1984. A good selection of fifty seven official programmes for international speedway meetings of the period. Includes two programmes for overseas meetings, one held at Ruhpolding (West Germany) 17th September 1972, the other at Ostrow Wielkopolski (Poland) 24th May 1989. Other programmes are for international meetings, World Championship Finals and heats at Wembley Stadium 1963-1976 (Qty 11), Coventry 1973-1982 (8), Ipswich 1970-1978 (15), Rayleigh 1970 & 1971 (3), King’s Lynn 1972 &... View full lot details

Athletics Programmes 1946-1968. A good selection of thirty nine original programmes for athletics meetings held at White City, London, covering international meetings, Olympic Trials, British Games, Inter-County Championships, Varsity, London Caledonian Games etc. Annotations to pages of some. Odd duplication. Minor faults, overall in good condition.... View full lot details

Olympic and Commonwealth Games 1958-1976. Five official programmes for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Wales covering athletics 19th, 22nd, 24th & 26th July, and boxing 25th July 1958, plus Souvenir Guide. Official Guide to the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh with official programmes for the Athletics and Closing Ceremony 25th July 1970. Four official programmes for the 1976 Montreal Olympics covering athletics, football, equestrianism and the Closing Ceremony, with two copies of... View full lot details

Olympics Games Munich 1972. Ten official programmes for the Games covering athletics, 31st August- 4th September, 7th, 8th and 10th September, gymnastics 1st September, boxing 3rd September, and equestrian sports 11th September. Sold with three official tickets for athletics events at the Olympic Stadium 7th, 8th & 9th September, and an Official Guide to the 1972 Games. The Guide with some warping, the programmes and tickets in good/ very good condition. Qty 14.... View full lot details

Sporting programmes 1950s-1980s. A selection of programmes and magazines including ‘St. Louis Hawks World Champions 1958’ American basketball magazine. Seven cricket scorecards and programmes including Gillette Cup Final 1967, 1971, Benson & Hedges Cup Final 1972 etc. Two Wimbledon Tennis Championships programmes 1966 & 1967. Ten wrestling programmes 1980s. Other sports include horse racing, showjumping, women’s hockey etc. Good condition. Qty 27.... View full lot details

Athletics. ‘The Miracle Mile’. Roger Bannister (England) and John Landy (Australia) 1954. Mono photographic image of Bannister and Landy approaching the finishing line in the final of the one mile race at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games at the Empire Stadium, Vancouver, Canada. The photograph, with unknown signature in bold black ink to lower portion of the image, mounted with signatures in pencil of Bannister and Landy window mounted below. Overall 12”x16”. Certificate... View full lot details

Signed sporting autobiographies. Four hardback titles, each signed by the author/ subject. Titles are ‘Unless I’m Very Much Mistaken’, Murray Walker 2002. ‘Paula. My Story So Far’, Paula Ratcliffe 2004. ‘Black, White & Gold’, Kelly Holmes 2005. ‘My Autobiography’, John Virgo 2017. All with good dustwrappers. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Sporting books. Six hardback titles. ‘Lawn Tennis’, H.W.W. Wilberforce, London 1895. ‘The “House” On Sport’, W.A. Morgan, Vol. I London 1898, and Vol. II 1899, staining to boards. Two volumes of ‘The Badminton Library of Sports & Pastimes’, ‘Football’ ‘New Impression’ 1908, and ‘Cricket’ ‘New Edition’ 1920. ‘With the Skin of their Teeth’, G.O. Nickalls, London 1951. Some faults as described, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Sporting histories and reference books. Three boxes comprising a good selection of over forty mainly modern hardback titles, some softbacks, covering rugby union (Qty 14), golf (8), cricket (7), motorsport (4), Olympics (3), tennis (1), baseball (1), snooker (1), and a selection of general interest, film, stage etc. (4). Titles include ‘Olympic Story’, Ernest A. Bland, London 1948. Dustwrapper with tear to head of spine. ‘The Olympic Games’, Lord Killanin & John Rodda, London 1976.... View full lot details

Sporting book, programmes and trade cards. A selection covering various sports including one signed book, ‘Foggy’, Carl Fogarty (World Superbike Champion), 2000, hardback signed to the title page by Fogarty, with good dustwrapper. Twenty two official programmes including five for American Football matches played in England at Villa Park 1985 (including original ticket) and 2013-2106 for matches at Wembley. Athletics ‘British Games’ programme for the meeting at White City 1938. Three Ice Hockey programmes for... View full lot details

Horse Racing. Dick Francis. ‘Blood Sport’. Michael Joseph, London 1967. First edition, first impression of Dick Francis’ sixth published novel. Original hardback with very good dustwrapper, signed in ink to the title page by the author. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Horse Racing. Four hardback titles. ‘The History of the English Turf 1904-1930’ in two volumes, T.H. Brown, Virtue & Co., London 1931. Both volumes bound in original full brown leather, gilt illustrations and titles to fronts and spine, green page edges. ‘Flat Racing’, Earl of Harewood & P.E. Ricketts etc., Lonsdale Library Vol. XXVIII, London c.1944, good condition with very good dustwrapper. ‘The Turf Who’s Who? 1932’, May Fair Press, London, blue cloth, some fading... View full lot details

‘The Fox Hound. A Monthly [Quarterly] Publication devoted primarily to Hound Breeding for the best interests of the Sport’. A full run of the magazine issued quarterly from November 1910 (first issue) to October 1914. Handsomely bound in eight volumes, lacking original paper wrappers, each volume in matching half leather and maroon cloth, raised bands and gilt titles to spines, gilts to top page edges. Titles to spines are ‘November 1910, April 1911, October 1911,... View full lot details

Athletics. Royal Air Force Athletic & Cross Country Association. Two excellent and impressive pre-war gold metal medals by F. Phillips of Aldershot, one dated 1938. One in original case. Sold with a further medal in case for the English Challenge Cup 1935, 440 yards relay (Ladies). Qty 3. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Olympic Games 1928-1996. Selection of collectors’ cards, medals, badges etc. Includes forty two German colour collectors’ cards for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games. An unusual cigarette tin for the Olympic Games Berlin 1936 with ‘1936’ and emblem to top and base and manufacturers name to the sides. Approx. 3”x2”, wear to decoration. Great Britain lapel badge for the Montreal Olympics 1976 and key ring for the Great Britain Olympic team at Atlanta 1996. Mars limited... View full lot details

Cycling autographs 1970s-1990s. A good selection of approx. sixty signatures of international cyclists, each signed to individual white cards and colour promotional cards. Signatures include Lance Armstrong, Roberto Pistore, Laurent Jalabert, Alex Zuille, Melchior Mauri, Neil Stephens, Maurizio Fondriest, Sean Yates, Kevin Livingston, Serge Baquet, Fabio Rosciolli, Frans Maassen, Heinz Imboden, Erik Dekker, Oscar Pellicioli, Arnaud Leroy, Alessio Galletti, Eric Boyer, Tony Doyle etc. Includes seventeen official colour Motorola Team 1996 cards, of which nine... View full lot details

Sporting signatures 1970s-2000s. A large selection of over 160 signatures on white cards from the sporting world with good coverage of horse racing, tennis, athletics and chess. Signatures include Richard Dunwoody, Jonjo O’Neill, Brough Scott, Pat Eddery, Willie Carson, Frankie Dettori, Lester Piggott, Richard Dunwoody, Bob Champion, Peter Scudamore, Richard Pitman, Dick Francis, Ginger McCain (horse racing), Linford Christie, Jamie Baulch, Sonia O’Sullivan, Brian Hooper, Leanda Cave, Darren Campbell, John Regis, Katherine Merry, Fiona May,... View full lot details

Sporting signatures 1970s-2000s. A good selection of over eighty signatures on white cards and the odd promotional card and printed image, from the sporting world with good coverage of snooker, athletics track and field, swimming, rugby, motorcycling, table tennis etc. Signatures include Ray Reardon, Kirk Stevens, Steve Davis (snooker), John Regis, Linford Christie, Colin Jackson, Tony Jarrett, Kathy Merry, Sally Gunnell (athletics), Sharron Davies, Duncan Goodhew (swimming), Gregor Townsend, Jeremy Guscott, Jason Leonard, Jonathan Davies... View full lot details

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

‘’Henry Cooper. An Autobiography’. London 1972. Hardback with good dustwrapper. Presentation copy to the sports journalist and author, Gordon Ross, signed with dedication to title page by Cooper. Bookplate of Ross to front endpaper. Sold with an original Christmas card with family portrait photograph to inside from Cooper and his family to Ross. Very good condition. Qty 2. Sold with a box of sporting books, histories, biographies, Wimbledon programme for 1976 and 1989, Henley Regatta... View full lot details

‘The Hamlyn Encyclopedia of Grands Prix. David Hodges 1988. Signed to pages and pictures by many of the drivers featured. Signatures include Berger, Brabham, Brooks, Hunt, Watson, Lauda, Mansell, Moss, Patrese, Piquet, Scheckter, Stewart, Surtees, Tyrrell, Warwick etc. Some duplicate signatures. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Ascot Toilet Soap’. Early decorative advertising box made by J. Margerison & Co of Preston. The box would have held the soap. Scene of Ascot Races to the lid and horses racing at Ascot to side panels. Registration no. 384433 for 1901. Minor staining to base otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Evander Holyfield v Larry Holmes. Large official colour poster for the Heavyweight Championship contest held at Caesars Palace, 19th June 1992. 40”x27”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Boxing programmes 1947-1974. Seven official fight programmes for Freddie Mills v Enrico Bertola 1947. Al Phillips v Ray Famechon 1947. ‘Featherweight Championship of the British Empire’ 1947. ‘60th Amateur Boxing Association Championships’ 1948. ‘Carnival of Champions’ 1951. Muhammad Ali v Jerry Quarry Viewsport stream 1972. Joe Bugner v Boone Kirkman 1974. Good condition.... View full lot details