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

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

England, Australia and New Zealand Test and tour postcards 1926-1948. Five team postcards including a real photograph postcard of the England team v Australia for the 3rd Test, Headingley 1926, the players featured in cameo, J. Webb, Douglas Studio, Nottingham. Two copies of mono postcards by T. Bolland, St. Leonards of the 1930 Australian touring party, one signed to the verso by Cyril Washbrook, the other by Keith Miller. Also a sepia real photograph postcard... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1935. Original mono postcard of the Union-Castle Line R.M.S. ‘Windsor Castle’ on which the team voyaged. Very nicely signed in black ink to the verso by twelve members of the touring party. Signatures are Wade (Captain), Langton, Rowan, Cameron, Mitchell, Dalton, Nourse, Viljoen, Vincent, Tomlinson, Balaskas and Siedle. Some age toning, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘M.C.C. South African Tour 1938-1939’. ‘Timeless Test’ tour. Sepia real photograph postcard of the M.C.C. touring party seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. Players include Hammond (Captain), Yardley, Farnes, Ames, Valentine, Edrich, Wright, Paynter, Verity, Hutton etc. Publisher unknown. Postally unused. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1932. Sepia real photograph postcard of the Nottinghamshire team seated and standing in rows wearing county blazers and caps, with the captain, Arthur Carr to the centre, also Larwood, S.J. Staples, A. Staples, Lilley, Voce etc. Photograph by C.H. Richards of Nottingham. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Derbyshire C.C.C. 1929. Original sepia postcard of the Derbyshire team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. Players’ names on typed label laid down to verso are Jackson (Captain), Storer, Elliott, Lee, Bowden, Hutchinson, Mitchell, Smith, Worthington, L.F. Townsend and Slater. A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. Postally unused. Small mark to front, adhesive marks to verso, minor soiling, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Lancashire C.C.C. 1909 & 1921. Two original mono/ sepia postcards of Lancashire teams seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, both with players’ names printed to lower border. The 1909 postcard features MacLaren (Captain), Hornby, J.T. Tyldesley, Poidevin, Kermode, Huddleston, Makepeace etc. Rival Photographic series no. 1601. The 1921 players include E., R. and J. Tyldesley, Cook, Hallows, Blomley, Dean etc. also M.C. Bird (Lancashire, Surrey & England 1907-1921). W.H.S. & S.M. series. Both... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1956. Original mono real photograph postcard of the Australian team for the tour match v T.N. Pearce’s XI at Scarborough 5th- 7th September 1956, the players standing in one row wearing cricket attire in front of the pavilion. Players listed in pencil to verso are Archer, Rutherford, Johnson, Miller, McKay, Davidson, Maddocks, Harvey, Craig, Benaud and Burke. Official stamp to verso for Walker’s Studios, Scarborough. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Comic and other cricket postcards 1907 onwards. An interesting and varied selection of humorous postcards. Includes two colour ‘Rajar Bromide’ real photograph birthday postcards, one of a young boy in bowling pose, the other of a toddler crouching in wicket-keeping stance, both appear to be by Rotary (one series no. R.15-57) with decorative embossed borders. Postmarked c.1925-1929. Also five humorous and other postcards, series include Living Picture Series, Philco, A. & G. Taylor ‘Orthochrome’, Cynicus... View full lot details

India. National Card Centre, Bombay, postcards 1990s/ 2000s. Eight colour postcards, of which five were produced for the World Cup, England 1999. Players featured are Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Ajit Agarkar, Sourav Ganguly (2 different), and Shaun Pollock (South Africa), all signed by the featured player, also Jadeja and another of Tendulkar unsigned. Sold with three further signed Indian colour postcards of Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh (both by ‘Paradise’) and Tendulkar (by ‘Brijbasi’). Good/ very... View full lot details

‘Australian Sporting Personalities’ 1981. Set of four colour first day of issue postcards produced from the stamps of the series, each featuring a different sportsman. Includes the scarcer card of Victor Trumper (cricket), also Norman Brookes (tennis), Darby Munro (horse racing) and Walter Lindrum (billiards). Each postcard with matching stamp applied to the front and date stamped 18th February 1981 at the Philatelic Sales Centre, Sydney. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket postcards and collectors’ cards. Green album comprising approx. one hundred and eighty mainly modern postcards, some earlier, of which over forty are signed or multi-signed. Signatures include Peter Parfitt, David Sheppard, Doug Wright, Peter May, Colin Cowdrey, Joe Hardstaff, Allan Border, Gubby Allen, Mike Brearley, Geoff Boycott, Alec Bedser, Bob Appleyard, Reg Simpson, Eddie Leadbeater, Fred Trueman, Ted Dexter, Len Hutton, Freddie Brown, Tom Graveney, Richard Hadlee etc. Odd duplication of signature. Subjects feature... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. Two Godfrey Phillips ‘Pinnace’ premium issue cabinet size mono real photograph plain back trade cards of [J.]W. Hitch (Surrey & England 1907-1925), half length wearing M.C.C. touring blazer, no. 18.C, and [H.]A. Peach (Surrey 1919-1931) in batting pose, no. 22.C. Each 4”x6”. Minor silvering to the Hitch card with adhesive marks to verso, light vertical crease to the Peach card, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket teams, players and grounds. Ten original postcards of which seven are real photographs. Individuals depicted are Ranjitsinhji in batting pose, Foster of Brighton, fading to image. G.L. Jessop in batting stance, Wrench Series no. 1688, postmarked 1902. F.W. Tate in bowling pose, Wrench no. 1384. A team postcard of Warwickshire c.1905 postmarked 1905, publisher unknown, and three of cricket grounds, Tunbridge Wells Higher Ground by E.A. Schwerdtieger of Berlin, Hastings Cricket Ground by Judges,... View full lot details