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Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Sir John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs 1924-1967. Order of Thanksgiving for Hobbs’ Memorial Service held at Southwark Cathedral on 20th February 1964. Some age toning to edges, light creasing to top corner, otherwise in good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

‘W.G. Grace 1848-1915: to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death, 23 October 1965’. Andrew Neville Burn Sugden. Privately published 1967. Reprint of an address delivered at a service held at Elmers End Cemetery, when a plaque was unveiled on the grave in 1965. Sold with an official order of service and accompanying booklet compiled by Canon Derek. G.E. Carpenter, Rector of Beckenham, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Grace’s death, 22nd October 1990, both... View full lot details

‘Frank Worrell of Barbados 1924-1967’. Order of Thanksgiving for Worrell held at Westminster Abbey on 7th April 1967. Some age toning to front wrapper, otherwise in good condition. Also an Order of Service for the memorial tribute service held for Worrell at Brixton Hill Church, 16th April 1967. Good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Yorkshire. Wilfred Rhodes 1877-1973. Printed four page brochure for the Memorial Service to Wilfred Rhodes held at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, 4th August 1973. Published by the Northern Cricket Society, no. 7. Good condition.... View full lot details

Kent cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service of thanksgiving including three former Kent cricketers. Les Ames 11th May 1990, Godfrey Evans 21st September 1999, both at Canterbury Cathedral, and Colin Cowdrey, Westminster Abbey, 30th March 2001. Also Jim Swanton, Canterbury Cathedral 29th March 2000. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Kent cricketers’ orders of service. Three original orders of service of thanksgiving for former Kent cricketers. Graham Dilley, Worcester Cathedral 9th November 2011. Mike Denness, Canterbury Cathedral 1st July 2013, with official invitation. Derek Ufton, Canterbury Cathedral 24th February 2022. Sold with an order of service with accompanying biographical booklet and luncheon menu for the Rededication of the Colin Blythe Memorial 8th November 2017, and the Thanksgiving Service for the 150th Anniversary of Kent C.C.C.... View full lot details

Lancashire cricketers’ orders of service. Seven original orders of service for former Lancashire cricketers. Brian Statham, Manchester Crematorium 16th June 2000. Winston Place 31st January 2002. Bob Berry, Oldham Crematorium 11th December 2006. Ken Cranston, Aughton Church 15th January 2007. Harry Pilling, Little Lever Church 8th October 2012. Jack Bond, Blackley Crematorium 23rd July 2019. Peter Eckersley Memorial Dedication, Old Trafford 6th September 2022. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Sussex cricketers’ orders of service. Seven original orders of service for former Sussex cricketers. George Cox, booklet published by the Sussex Cricket Society 1985. David Sheppard, Liverpool Cathedral 23rd May 2005. Tony Greig, St. Martin-in-the-Fields 24th June 2013. Hubert Doggart, Chichester Cathedral 27th April 2018. Derek Semmence, Hurstpierpoint College Chapel 6th August 2021. Jim Parks, Worthing Crematorium 25th June 2022. Robin Marlar, St. John’s Wood Church 17th April 2022. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Essex cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service for former Essex cricketers. Trevor Bailey, Chelmsford Cathedral 17th May 2011. Kenneth Farnes dedication of memorial plaque at Hogg End, Chipping Warden 20th October 2013. Brian Taylor, Southend-on-Sea Crematorium 5th July 2017. Doug Insole, St. John’s Wood Church 23rd February 2018. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service for former Yorkshire cricketers. Len Hutton, York Minster 16th November 1990. David Bairstow, Ripon Cathedral 27th February 1998. Fred Trueman, Bolton Abbey Church 6th July 2006. Vic Wilson, East Riding Crematorium 12th June 2008. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service for former Yorkshire cricketers. Bob Appleyard, Bolton Abbey Church 31st March 2015. Brian Close, Headingley Church 30th September 2015. John Hampshire, Rotherham Minster 17th March 2017. Ray Illingworth, Farsley Church 26th January 2022. Also an official order of service for the 150th Anniversary of the Yorkshire C.C.C., York Minster 14th June 2013. Qty 5. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire cricketers’ orders of service. Three original orders of service for former Nottinghamshire cricketers. Reg Simpson, West Bridgford Church 23rd April 2014. Eric Martin, Lambley Church 22nd October 2105. Bob White, East Bridgford Church 7th December 2023. Also Peter Wynne-Thomas, Wilford Hill Chapel 11th August 2021. Qty 4. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Harold Larwood. Nottinghamshire & England 1924-1938. Two official orders of service including one rarer for the Memorial Service held for Larwood at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Kingsford, Sydney, Australia 28th July 1995, the other for the Service of Thanksgiving held at West Bridgford Church 12th September 1995. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Surrey cricketers’ orders of service. Seven original orders of service for former Surrey cricketers. Jim Laker, Southwark Cathedral 11th July 1986, signed in ink to the front by Richie Benaud and Pat Pocock. Freddie Brown, Bryanston Square Church 18th October 1991. Stuart Surridge, Southwark Cathedral 16th June 1992. Tony Lock, Perth Cathedral 7th April 1995. Alf Gover, Kennington Oval Church 23rd January 2002. Ben Hollioake, Southwark Cathedral 15th July 2002. Alec Bedser, Southwark Cathedral 12th... View full lot details

Middlesex cricketers’ orders of service. Four original orders of service for former Middlesex cricketers. Bill Edrich, St. Clement Danes Church 3rd October 1986, with original invitation. Tagge Webster, St. John’s Wood Church 6th October 1986. Gubby Allen, St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster 2nd April 1990. Denis Compton, Westminster Abbey 1st July 1997. Good condition.... View full lot details

Worcestershire cricketers’ orders of service. Three original orders of service for former Worcestershire cricketers. Bob Wyatt, St. John’s Wood Church 6th September 1995. Basil D’Oliveira, Worcester Cathedral 27th January 2012. Tom Graveney, Worcester Cathedral 29th April 2016. Also a Service of Thanksgiving for the centenary of the election of Worcestershire C.C.C. to the County Championship, held at the County Ground 4th July 1999. Qty 4. Very good condition.... View full lot details

South West cricketers’ orders of service. Three official orders of service for John Arlott, Alresford Church 20th January 1992, Bill Alley, Taunton Church 6th December 2004, and David Sheppard, Westbury-on-Trym Church 26th November 2009. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Brian Johnston. Broadcaster and cricket commentator. Official order of service for the Service of Celebration of the Life of Brian Johnston held at Westminster Abbey, 16th May 1994, with original admission ticket and accompanying large card signed by eighteen attendees. Signatures include Ted Dexter, Roger Bannister, David Gower, Fred Trueman, Tom Graveney, Hubert Doggart, Peter West, Bob Taylor, Richie Benaud, Keith Fletcher, Raman Subba-Row, Colin Ingleby-MacKenzie, Jonathan Agnew etc. Very good condition. Sold with a... View full lot details

West Indies cricketers’ orders of service. Two original orders of service for former West Indies cricketers. One for the Unveiling Ceremony for the Malcolm Marshall Memorial Trophy held at Lord’s 29th August 2000. The other for the Service of Thanksgiving for Clyde Walcott, St. John’s Wood Church 7th December 2006. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Australian cricketers’ orders of service. Five original orders of service for former Australian cricketers. Bill O’Reilly, Blakehurst Church October 1992. Alan McGilvray, Darling Point Church 22nd July 1996. David Hookes, Adelaide Oval 27th January 2004. Ian Craig, Bradman Oval, Bowral 28th November 2014. Phillip Hughes, Macksville High School 3rd December 2014. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Don and Jessie Bradman. Two original orders of service held at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide, one for the memorial service for Bradman’s wife, Jessie, held on 28th September 1997, the other for Bradman’s memorial service 25th March 2001. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket and other orders of service. Seven original orders of service for Cedric Settle Rhodes 1920-1990 (Lancashire Chairman 1960/70’s), Derrick Robins 1914-2004 (Warwickshire), Eddie Barlow 1940-2006 (Derbyshire & South Africa), Vic Lewis 1919-2009 (musician), Christopher Martin-Jenkins 1945-2013 (writer and commentator) with original invitation, Ian Riddington 1937-2017 (son of Leicestershire player, Tony Riddington), and John Woodcock 1926-2021 (writer and journalist). Very good condition.... View full lot details

Original Patents. Parlour & Outdoor Games 1884-1903. Folder comprising six original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects are ‘Apparatus for Playing Outdoor and Indoor Games’ A.S. King 1884, ‘Miniature Automatic Cricket Players’ T. Cloke & W.A. Ellis 1884, ‘A New or Improved Parlour Game’ M.F. Bailey 1885, ‘A New Out Door Game with Requisites for Playing the same’ E. Flemons 1886, ‘An Indoor Game in Imitation of Cricket, and Apparatus therefore’ H. Lamplough 1895, and... View full lot details

Original Patents. Cricket Equipment & Accessories 1885-1903. Folder comprising seventeen original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects include ‘Improvements in Leg Guards’ F.H. Ayres 1885, ‘A Groin Protector or Shield for Cricketers’ A.M. Palmer 1888, ‘Improvements in or relating to Hand Guards or Protectors...’ H. Hayley 1888, ‘Improvements in Batting Gloves’ P.B. & D. Cow, J. Crump 1892, ‘’...Pad or Protector for the Abdomen Hips and Thighs...’ R.H. Fish & H. Peace 1903, and others... View full lot details

Original Patents. Cricket Equipment & Accessories 1876-1904. Folder comprising nineteen original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects include ‘Apparatus for Scoring Games’ W. Walton 1876, ‘Improvements in Cricket Stumps or Wickets’ W.G. Boorn-Thompson 1884, ‘Improvements in Machinery for Making Cricket-bats’ W.H. Cook 1888, ‘Improved Cricket Sight Boards’ W. Browning 1897, and others relating to wickets, bails, umpires’ counters, pitch measurement and marking etc. Documents include Patent Specification, description and some with diagrams. Three are bound... View full lot details

Original Patents. Cricket Bats 1876-1885. Folder comprising twenty four original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents, all relating to the construction of cricket bats, bat and tennis racquet handles and covers ‘and other Implements of the like kind’. Includes patents applied for by notable manufacturers of the day including G.W. Frowd of Lillywhite & Frowd 1881, R. Slazenger Moss of Slazenger & Sons 1884, W.R. Lake (for Cady of U.S.A.) 1884, W.H. Cleave of Clapshaw &... View full lot details

Original Patents. Cricket Bats 1886-1895. Folder comprising twenty four original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents, all relating to the construction of cricket bats, including ‘An Unbreakable Bat’, bat and tennis racquet handles and covers and others ‘of the like’. Includes patents applied for by notable manufacturers of the day including S.M. Wainwright 1886, G.H. White of Aquila Clapshaw, White & Co. 1886, H.S. Dark of F. Dark (Lord’s) 1886, L.J. Nicholls 1889, A.W. Trimmings 1890,... View full lot details

‘Souvenir of Warwickshire Team and Photographs of County Captains’. Printed by the Shakespeare Press, Birmingham 1911. Four page large format souvenir brochure in original green paper wrappers with title to front. The centre pages feature printed mono images of the County Championship winning team of 1911 and the captain, F.R. Foster. The first and last pages depict mono images of twelve other County captains including Dillon (Kent), Douglas (Essex), Bird (Surrey), Jessop (Gloucestershire), Warner (Middlesex),... View full lot details

Warwickshire Gentlemen Cricket Club 1890s-1920s. An excellent selection of original club fixtures cards, membership tickets etc. contained in a ‘Best Steel Deed Box’ with the name ‘Warwickshire Gentlemen Cricket Club’ painted to the front. A good number of fixture cards relate to the Warwickshire Gentlemen C.C. for seasons 1900, 1902 and 1904-1913 (some years duplicated), and ‘List of Members’ booklets for seasons 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1906. Additional folding cards and leaflets provide information relating... View full lot details

‘Souvenir of the Middlesex Team 1896’. Folding card with title to front, printed image of the Middlesex team with ‘List of Matches Played with Results’ up to 29th June and ‘Matches to be Played’ to centre, advertisement for F.H. Ayres cricket and sports equipment to back. Published at the ‘Cricket’ Office, London. Padwick 2423. Minor soiling and wear, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Scottish cricket membership tickets 1901. Original Perthshire C.C. folding membership card/ fixture list for season 1901, leather covers with gilt title, issued to ‘The Hon. J.D. Logan’. Sold with a similar folding membership ticket for Dunkeld & Birnam C.C. 1901, gilts faded. Good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

South African cricket membership tickets 1903-1905. Original Cape Town C.C. membership card/ fixture list booklet for season 1904/05, leather covers with gilt title. Sold with a similar membership booklet for Western Province C.C. 1904/05. Both issued to ‘The Hon. J.D. Logan’. Good condition. Qty 2.... View full lot details

Cricket and sporting ephemera. Good selection of ephemera including ‘Kent County Cricket Club’ printed photograph of the 1967 Gillette Cup winning team standing and seated in rows wearing blazers, signed to the borders by all sixteen featured players, signed modern cricket scorecards and cards, Hampshire C.C.C. shirt and training top, ‘Ashes Tankard 1982’, Alan Fearnley limited edition cricket prints of Hove, Taunton, The Oval and Lord’s, all signed by the artist and one by Denis... View full lot details

England tour itineraries 1991-1997. Three official players’ tour itinerary booklets for the tours to New Zealand and the World Cup 1991/92, Zimbabwe 1996 and New Zealand 1997. Player unknown. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket games and beer pump badges c.1970s onwards. Box containing an assortment of table top and card cricket games. Titles include ‘International Cricket’ (Godfrey Evans Games), ‘Subbuteo Table Cricket Display Edition’, ‘The Gillette Cup’, (Ariel), ‘Run Chase’ (Games Unlimited), ‘Test Match Replay’ (Lambourne Games), ‘Marston’s Top Stumps’ etc. Sold with a collection of over one hundred and forty beer pump clip badges for cricket related beers with names such as ‘Fiery Fred’, ‘Absolutely Marvellous’, ‘Blower’s... View full lot details

Cricket and football 1905-1907. Leather bound scrapbook album comprising a good collection of newspaper cuttings covering cricket and football matches and players of the period and other non-sporting content of a light-hearted nature. Cricket references include the Australia tour to England 1905, South Africa in 1907, county cricket etc. Includes a series of poems in a series titled ‘En Passant’ on individual cricketers including Clem Hill, Victor Trumper (Australia), W.J. Wallace, D. Gallaher, J. Hunter,... View full lot details

Brian Johnston. Broadcaster and cricket commentator. An interesting selection in two matching folders comprising poetry, scripts and letters from the estate of Brian Johnston. Contained in one folder is a large collection of original poems about spin bowlers, ‘Unforgettable Men of Mystery’ by Les Bailey, each neatly handwritten on forty six numbered pages and additional title page dedicated to Brian Johnston, introductory page dated 1976 (both signed by Bailey) and index, all pages with file... View full lot details

‘The Kentish Gazette’. Original early newspaper for 19th July 1791 printed in Canterbury. Page one column 1 features a small advertisement with an engraved vignette of a cricket scene. The advertisement reads ‘Cricketing. On Thursday, July 21, 1791, will be played at Deal, a match of Cricket, between the Gentlemen of Deal and the Gentlemen of Sandwich, with five men picked, for One Guinea a man’. The newspaper has been trimmed to the lower edge,... View full lot details

‘The English Chronicle’. Original early newspaper for 10th July 1794. Page three column 1 features a report on the ‘Grand match of cricket... between two Select Elevens of England, for One Thousand Guineas’, R. Leigh’s XI v G. Louch’ XI played at Lord’s 30th June- 2nd July 1794. The full scorecard is printed showing Leigh’s XI scoring 219 (T. Walker 102) and 138, Louch’s XI scoring 138 and 87, Leigh’s XI winning by 132 runs.... View full lot details

‘The English Chronicle’. Original early newspaper for 21st August 1800. The rear page column 1 features a report on ‘a Grand Match of Cricket [was] played, on Marshe’s New Ground, Rochester, between Twelve Gentlemen of England, against Nineteen Gentlemen of Kent, for One Thousand Guineas’, 18th- 21st August 1800. The printed scorecard shows the England innings of 58 and 150, and Kent scoring 132 and 77/17, Kent winning by one wicket. Notable players for England... View full lot details

‘The Traveller’. Original early newspaper for 7th July 1801. The rear page column 2 features a report on ‘a Grand Match of Cricket at Hommerton [sic]between Eleven Gentlemen of the Hommerton Club against Eleven select Gentlemen of Hackney, for 500 guineas’. The printed scorecard shows the Homerton Club scoring 91 and 116, Hackney Gentlemen replying with 52 and 60, Homerton winning by 95 runs. The match does not appear to be recorded on cricketarchive.com. A... View full lot details

‘The Observer’. Original early newspaper for 7th June 1841. The front page columns 2 and 3 features a lengthy report on the match between ‘Marylebone Club and Ground against the Five Northern Counties [North]’ at Lord’s 31st May- 2nd June 1841, North won by 66 runs. The M.C.C. team comprised notable players including Tom Sewell, Charles Whittaker, Charles Taylor, James Cobbett, William Hillyer, John Bayley and Billy Good. The North team was made up of... View full lot details