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Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Golf snuff box. An oblong black lacquered papier mache snuff box with hinged lid, believed to be circa 1870/80’s. The lid painted with an early golfing scene golfers with caddie’s playing golf. The box measures approx 4” x 1.5”x 1.5” deep, silver metal clasp. Some minor wear otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Carltonware stoneware circular match holder c.1906 printed with a colour illustration of two men playing golf and caddie holding the bag. Maker’s stamp to base with registration no. 333948. 2.5” tall, 2.75” diameter. Good condition... View full lot details

Royal Doulton Lambeth Golf jug. An attractive Royal Doulton Lambeth stoneware jug with strap handle, of bulbous form, with art nouveau design with scrolled foliate borders, enriched in green, blue and brown glazes, with three golfing scenes in white relief. The designs are based on models by John Broad and are ‘Lost Ball’ and ‘The Drive’. The base of the jug is stamped ‘Doulton Lambeth England’ the number ‘159’. 6” tall. Some browning to the... View full lot details

Royal Doulton ‘Golfing series’ milk jug, the body decorated with a continuous scene of cavalier figures (Crombie) of golfers and caddies playing golf with proverb inscription ‘He that complains is never pitied’, decorated with green line decoration to extremities. Approximately 3.5” tall. With Royal Doulton stamp and number D3395 to base. Produced by Royal Doulton from 1911-1930. Good/very good condition. A rare golfing milk jug... View full lot details

Royal Doulton ‘Golfing series’ jug, the body decorated with a continuous scene of cavalier figures (Crombie) of golfers playing golf with top border scene of golf course border with proverb inscription ‘All fools are not knaves but all knaves are fools’, decorated with green line decoration to extremities.. Approximately 4.75” tall. With Royal Doulton stamp and number D3395 to base. Produced by Royal Doulton from 1911-1930. Good/very good condition. A rare golfing item... View full lot details

Royal Doulton. Two ‚ ‘Golfing series’ plates, decorated to face in colour with cavalier figures (Charles Crombie) playing golf, one with proverb inscription ‘Give losers leave to speak and winners to laugh’, the other with ‘He that always complains is never pitied’. Colour golf course border to top border of plate. 9.5” and 8.5” diameter. With Royal Doulton stamp and ref no D3395 to base. Produced by Royal Doulton from 1911-1930. Good/very good condition. Qty... View full lot details

A large Royal Doulton ‘Airbrush Brown’ Kingsware lemonade jug with a golf scene of cavalier golfer with caddie (Charles Crombie) to one side and a smaller group playing golf to verso. Royal Doulton mark and No. 5716 is on the bottom of the jug. 9.5” tall. Circa 1930’s. Very good condition... View full lot details

A large Royal Doulton Kingsware pitcher with a golf scene of cavalier golfer with caddie (Charles Crombie) to one side and a smaller group playing golf to verso. Royal Doulton mark to the bottom of the jug. 9” tall. Circa 1930. Very good condition... View full lot details

Royal Doulton Kingsware brown mug/tankard with a golf scene of cavalier golfer with caddie (Charles Crombie) to one side and a smaller group playing golf to verso. Royal Doulton mark to the bottom of the mug. 5.5” tall. Circa 1930. Very good condition... View full lot details

Royal Doulton ‘Airbrush Brown’ Kingsware mug/tankard with a golf scene of cavalier golfer with caddie (Charles Crombie) to one side and a smaller group playing golf to verso. Royal Doulton mark and No. 5716 to the bottom of the mug. 5.5” tall. Circa 1930. Very good condition... View full lot details

Burleigh Ware ‘Golfer’ jug of tapering shape with handle moulded as a golfer playing a shot, the jug with a golf course painted in colours against a bright yellow ground, 7.75”, This is a reproduction of the 1930’s pieces made in 2000 by Burgess Dorling and Leigh. Mark to base is a Burleigh printed factory mark with B.D & L to centre. Good/very good condition. Sold with a Copeland Spode ‘Fortuna’ golf jug in light... View full lot details

An earthenware figure of a boy golfer, circa 1937. Made by Stefan Dakon,Austria, 1904-1992 for Keramos. 9” tall. Printed factory marks and ‘Dakon’, impressed numbers ‘2121/32/L to base. Very good condition. Sold with a brown vase with figure of a boy golfer playing a shot. 7.75” tall. Similar to a Royal Doulton Kingsware, no marks to base. Good condition. Qty 2... View full lot details

‘Proverbs’. Royal Doulton Series ware plate transfer printed with a panel of a golfer, inscribed Proverbs, If at first you don’t succeed try again. A miss is as good as a mile, the base stamped Royal Doulton, 10” diameter. Sold with four golf dinner plates with humorous golfing cartoon images by ‘JAK’ to centre with cartoon wording above and date of cartoon publication and in which newspaper published to lower border. Wedgwood marks to base.... View full lot details

Golf ceramic figures. Three golf figures, two driving, one entitles ‘Teeing Off’ Royal Doulton 1990. HN3276. the other unmarked on wooden plinth. Plus another ceramic golf scene of a golfer puzzled by a rabbit appearing out of the hole on the green, bag laying on the green to side. Unknown signature to base. Made in Italy stamp. 9” tall. Sold with three small Carlton Ware golf figures with golf ball faces c1960’s?, in red, yellow... View full lot details

Golf ceramics. Selection of golfing ceramics, a tall and decorative hand painted golfing tankard with lid, golf scenes to sides in yellow and brown with caddie handle, the lid decorated with small golfer and caddie,10” tall, a caddie spill holder, a little worn, 5.5”, ‘a limited edition ‘The Golf Tankard’, Royal Doulton 1992, a figure of a boy caddie carrying a very large golf bag, ‘Wooden Spoon Society Wentworth 1995’ to bag, a comical... View full lot details

‘Ryder Cup. The Belfry 1985’. An Aynsley China prototype plate, one of thirty made, apparently the other plates were presented to the players, Aynsley pottery mark to base. 10.5” diameter. This plate was originally sold in 2015 by Hanson’s and part of the lot description stated that ‘The vendor’s husband worked at Aynsley China in the 1980’s. Good condition. A rare plate... View full lot details

‘Golf counter bell. A cast brass counter bell in the form of a comical figure of a golf caddie with a golf ball for his head, standing on a larger golf ball. It dates to approximately the 1940/50s and was designed by the popular artist John Hassall in the 1930’s. The figure was used to advertise Dunlop golf balls and also appeared as a car hood ornament. This example has been mounted onto a marble/stone... View full lot details

Golf paintings. Two modern paintings, a canvas of a group of golfers at the tee for the 18th hole, one teeing off, good wooded background. Signed ‘Stephen Park 94’. Framed and glazed. Overall 29”x23”. Sold with a further canvas of a golf scene with golfer putting, clubhouse to the right and the course spread out to the left. Signed John Horsewell. Framed and glazed. Overall 36”x24”. Sold with two large framed prints of golf scenes... View full lot details

‘Wood-Milne Motor Tyres & Golf Balls’. Interesting early silver base metal vesta case advertising their products, with unusual slide out cylindrical opening. 2.25” long by 1.25”. Some wear and ageing to case.... View full lot details

Lee Trevino. ‘673-1973 Ely’s 13th Centenary Celebrations’. Official programme for the charity match, Lee Trevino v Hugh Baiocchi played at Ely City Golf Course 4th July 1973. The 8pp programme with course and event details, to the centre pages the scorecard with scores annotated in pencil. Signed in pencil to the front cover by Trevino and Baiocchi. Vertical fold and minor creasing, otherwise in good condition. Sold with four mono plain back real photograph postcards... View full lot details

Royal Doulton Two ‘Golfing series’ large dinner plates, decorated to face in colour with cavalier figures (Charles Crombie) playing golf with proverb inscriptions ‘Every dog has his day, and every man his hour’ and ‘Give losers leave to speak and winners to laugh’. Colour golf course border to top border of plate. 10.5” diameter. With Royal Doulton stamp and ref no D3395 to base. Produced by Royal Doulton from 1911-1930. Minor chip to left hand... View full lot details

James Braid. ‘Jimmy’. Original colour chromolithograph of Braid by Spy, dated 26 June 1907. Laid down to board. 10.5”x16”. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Pressure Putt’. Norman Hood. Excellent and original humourous watercolour cartoon showing a nervous looking golfer about to take a crucial putt on the final hole with the scores level, surrounded by a large crowd, commentary box, cameras and even the caterers. Signed by Hood to right hand border. Framed and glazed. Overall 24”x13”. Very good condition... View full lot details

‘International tennis players 1970s. Twenty nine original mono press photographs of players, the majority in match action with some portraits. Players include Brian Gottfried, Marita Redondo, Peter Fleming, John Lloyd, Frew McMillan, Tim Gullikson, Maria Bueno, Barbara Potter, Kathy Harter, Ilana Kloss, Diane Fromholtz, Ross Case, Evonne Cawley, Manuel Santana, Clark Graebner etc. Agencies include Universal Pictorial Press, Central Press, A. Nesbit etc. All approx. 6”x4”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

International ladies tennis players 1990s. Twenty two original press photographs of players in match action, mainly colour with the odd mono. Players include Camille Benjamin, Martina Navratilova, Lorna Woodfroffe, Rennae Stubbs, Helena Sukova, Yayuk Basuki, Judith Wiesner, Zena Garrison, Monica Seles, Mary Joe Fernandez, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario etc. Agencies include Universal Pictorial, Sport & General, Steve Hale, Associated Sports, Sportsphoto etc. 10”x8” and smaller. Very good condition.... View full lot details

International tennis players 1970s-1990s. Twenty nine original press photographs of players in match action, mainly mono with the odd colour. Players include Tony Roche, Buster Mottram, Bob Carmichael, Guy Forget, John Lloyd, Tom Gullikson, Adriana Panatta, Ivan Lendl, Jo Durie, Leila Meshki, Judith Weisner, Helena Sukova, Ann Grossman, Manuela Maleeva, Kathy Jordan etc. Photographers/ agencies include Bob Thomas, Action Pictures, Steve Hale, Photosport, Sporting Pictures, Mark Leech etc. 10”x8” and smaller. Very good condition.... View full lot details