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

Albert Nielson Hornby, Lancashire & England 1867-1899. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Hornby. ‘Monkey’. August 15th 1891 by STUFF. Nicely signed by Hornby in black ink to lower right border. Some foxing to border otherwise in good condition. 10.5”x15.5”. Rarely seen in this signed form... View full lot details

Andrew Ernest Stoddart. Middlesex & England 1885-1900. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Stoddart. ‘A Big Hitter’. July 9th 1892 by STUFF. Nicely signed by Stoddart in black ink to lower right border and dated by him 30/07/[19]03. Some foxing to border and to a lesser extent the image, nick to right hand side page edge, slight browning to the signature caused through age otherwise in good condition. 10.5”x15.5”. Rarely seen in this signed form... View full lot details

Lord Hawke, Cambridge University, Yorkshire & England 1882-1912. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Hawke. ‘Yorkshire Cricket’. 24th September 1892 by SPY. Nicely signed by Hawke in black ink to lower right border. Some foxing to border and to a lesser extent the image, nick to left hand side page edge with small loss to edge otherwise in good condition. 10.5”x15.5”. Rarely seen in this signed form... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex & England 1892-1921. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Fry. ‘Oxford Athletics’. April 19th 1894 by SPY. Nicely signed by Fry in black ink to lower right border. Odd foxing spot to border, slight nick to top page edge, slight browning to the signature caused through age otherwise in good condition. 10.5”x15.5”. Rarely seen in this signed form... View full lot details

Gilbert Laird Jessop, Gloucestershire & England 1894-1914. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Jessop. ‘The Croucher’. July 25th 1901 by SPY. Nicely signed by Jessop in black ink to lower right border. Laid down to mount board, some fading to the signature otherwise in good condition. 10.5”x15.5”. Rarely seen in this signed form... View full lot details

Frank Stanley Jackson. Yorkshire & England 1890-1907. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Jackson. ‘A Flannelled Fighter’’. August 18th 1902 by artist SPY Nicely signed by Jackson in black ink to lower right border. Odd foxing spot to border, slight nick to right hand page edge, slight browning to the signature caused through age otherwise in good condition. 10.5”x15.5”. Rarely seen in this signed form... View full lot details

John Richard Mason, Kent & England 1893-1914. ‘Supplement to the World’ magazine 3rd May 1910. Signed original colour chromolithograph of Mason by SPY. Nicely signed by Mason in black ink to lower right border. The chromolithograph trimmed and laid down to card. Some foxing spots to upper border, some age toning to borders otherwise in good condition. Overall 11.25”x16”. Rarely seen in this signed form... View full lot details

Walter William Read. Surrey & England 1873-1897. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Read. ‘W.W.’. 28th July 1888 by LIB. Nicely signed by Read in black ink to lower right border. Odd foxing spots to image and border, minor repair to two corners, slight browning to the signature caused through age otherwise in good condition. 10.5”x15.5”. Rarely seen in this signed form... View full lot details

Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Sussex & England 1893-1920. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Ranjitsinhji. ‘Ranji’. 26th August 1897 by SPY. Nicely signed by Ranjitsinhji in black ink to lower border. Some foxing spots to image and border, minor repair to small tear to edge and to one corner, slight browning to the signature caused through age otherwise in good condition. 10.5”x15.5”. Rarely seen in this signed form... View full lot details

‘Kent v Lancashire at Canterbury 1906’. Albert Chevallier Tayler. Large mono photogravure of the famous painting of Colin Blythe bowling to Tyldesley with the attacking fielders around the bat. Title ‘Kent Champions 1906’ to top border and to the lower border are the printed names of each player who are featured in the painting. The lower border also features a small inset cameo image of Lord Harris, signed by Lord Harris and by artist Albert... View full lot details

‘Captain of the Eleven’. Large Pears advertising cricket print of the boy cricketer batting in the garden, after the Mezzotint by Philip Calderon 1883. The print with ‘Pears’ printed to lower left corner and full printed titles to borders with ‘Presented with Pears’ Christmas Annual 1898’ to top margin. Framed and glazed, overall 34”x24”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Kinsella Boy Cricketers’. Full set of six colour postcards depicting boy cricketers by E.P. Kinsella c1906. Each card with boy cricketer in different position with title to lower border. Published by Langsdorff & Co. Series no. 675. Attractively mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 14.5”x14.5”. Sold with three large original framed prints of the Kinsella boy cricketers two depicting ‘Out First Ball’ and the other ‘The Hope of his Side’. One with full original mount. Various... View full lot details

‘The Hope of his Side’. Original oil painting on board by Federico Vitale, Italian School, late nineteenth century, after E.P. Kinsella of the urchin boy batsman in batting pose in front of the stumps. Signed ‘F. Vitale’ to lower right corner. Attractively presented in wooden frame, overall 13”x18”. Good condition. Rare. Previously sold by Knights in 2017, now being re-offered by the vendor... View full lot details

‘Out First Ball’. Original oil painting on board by Federico Vitale, Italian School, late nineteenth century, after E.P. Kinsella of the urchin boy batsman with broken wickets having been bowled out. Signed ‘F. Vitale’ to lower right corner. Attractively presented in wooden frame, overall 13”x18”. Good condition. Rare. Previously sold by Knights in 2017, now being re-offered by the vendor... View full lot details

Jocelyn Galsworthy. Artist. Kevin Peter Pietersen MBE. Nottinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey & England 2001-2015. Large and impressive original pastel and pencil portrait of Kevin Pietersen, head and shoulders, wearing cricket shirt and sweater with England emblem to chest. Drawn from life by Galsworthy in 2005, when England finally regained the Ashes, it is signed and dated by the artist and by the sitter, Pietersen. Attractively framed and glazed in heavy wooden frame. The overall measurements are... View full lot details

Ian Botham. Somerset and England. Original pen and ink caricature of Botham, head and shoulders, by Gerald Broadhead. This caricature was published in the Cricketer magazine in the 1980’s. Titled and signed by Broadhead. Mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 14”x16.5”. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Representation of the Noble Game of Cricket as played in the celebrated Cricket Field near White Conduit House 1787’. Early hand tinted engraving depicting a match in progress with spectators looking on. Printed title to lower border. Artist/ engraver unknown. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 16”x15”. Sold with an engraving of ‘The Game of Cricket as played in the Artillery [sic] Ground London’, laid to modern mount, overall 15.25”x10.5”, an original mono watercolour of ‘The... View full lot details

‘Forward Play’ No. 5. Large original colour lithograph by John Corbet Anderson published by F. Lillywhite on 1st May 1860 and printed by Stannard & Dixon. The lithograph measures 9”x11.5”, set in a modern mount overlay, overall 15.5”x18”. Some soiling, staining and surface wear to the lithograph. Very small loss to lower left hand corner not affecting image, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘At Lords: Eton v. Harrow’. Large supplement print published for the ‘Christmas Number of The World 1889’. The image depicts large crowds dressed in their finery attending Lord’s, the match in progress in the background, with two roundel insets, one of W.G. Grace, the other of a wicket-keeper breaking the stumps for a run-out. Printed title to lower border. 20.5”x14.5”, mounted, overall 22”x16” with official stamp for ‘Manley Sims Eton Collection’ to lower right corner... View full lot details

Glass cricket panel. Attractive and unusual 18th century cricket scene hand painted in colour to a narrow pane of glass. The scene depicts a batsman standing with curved bat in front of a wicket comprising two stumps and a single bail, facing the bowler about to bowl, fielders and wicket-keeper looking on. The glass is set in a wooden frame, overall 18.75”x3.5”. Artist unknown. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Joseph Guy. Nottinghamshire 1837-1854. ‘Joseph Guy of Nottingham’. Early large hand coloured tinted lithograph of Joseph Guy in cricket attire and top hat holding a cricket bat to his right hand side. John Corbett Anderson. Published by John Corbett Anderson on the 2nd April 1853, and F. Lillywhite, Islington. Printed by Richard Black. Window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 16”x20”. Very minor foxing, otherwise in very good condition with nice bright colours. Excellent image. Sold... View full lot details

William Hillyer. Kent & All England 1835-1853. ‘Hillyer’. Sketches at Lord’s No 3. Large original hand coloured tinted lithograph of Hillyer in cricket attire holding a cricket ball, wearing a top hat with large house and other cricketers to the background. Published by John Corbet Anderson on 17th June 1850 and R. Dark, Lord’s Ground, Printed by Hullmandel & Walton. Window mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 15”x19”. Very good condition with nice bright colours. Excellent... View full lot details

‘The Batsman! Portrait of Fuller Pilch. Dedicated to the lovers of the noble game by N. Felix’. Drawn from the life & on stone by G.F. Watts. Full-length portrait of Pilch in batting stance wearing a top hat. Believed to be a hand coloured print, c.1900, possibly silver gelatin, taken from the lithograph by Watts originally published by S. Knights, Change Alley, and printed by M. & N. Hanhart. Lith Printers, 64 Charlotte Street c.1840.... View full lot details

Robert Elliott Storey ‘Bob’ Wyatt. Warwickshire, Worcestershire & England 1923-1951. Contemporary small colour pencil caricature of Wyatt in batting pose playing an attacking shot to the leg. Inscribed ‘RES Wyatt. Warwickshire’. Probably 1930s, artist unknown but appears to be R. Shimwall[?]. Approx. 3.25”x6”. Mounted, framed and glazed in modern frame, overall 10”x13.5”. Some creasing, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘St. Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, Kent, 1996’. Large colour limited edition print of the St. Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, by Hugh Cushing. A large crowd in attendance with the famous tree prominent. Limited edition no. 13/850. Signed to the lower border in pencil by the artist and eighteen Kent players, including Taylor, Ward, Igglesden, Llong, Patel, Benson, Marsh, Fleming, G. Cowdrey etc. Mounted framed and glazed, overall 29”x23”. Chip to frame, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘England v Australia, Centenary Test, Lord’s 1980’. Arthur Weaver 1980. Large colour print of the Test at Lord’s, limited edition no. 358/850. Signed to lower border by eleven England Test Captains including May, Cowdrey, Hutton, Allen, Wyatt, Brown, Dexter, Yardley, Denness etc. Also signed by the artist. Some fading to the image and odd signature. Framed and glazed, overall 32”x23.5”. ‘Lord’s’ by Martin Speight. A fine study of the Lord’s pavilion produced as a colour... View full lot details

‘The First Competitive Day/Night Match. AXA Life League- Warwickshire v Somerset’ 1997. Large limited edition colour print from the original by the artist C.B. Flinders of the first official day/ night match to be played in England, depicting the match in progress at Edgbaston 23rd July 1997. Limited edition no. 36/250, signed in pencil to the lower border by the artist and eleven members of the Warwickshire team including Giles, Brown, Moles, Penney, Munton, Welch,... View full lot details

‘Visions of a Hat Trick’ and ‘A Century for England’. A pair of large prints published ‘To commemorate one hundred years of Test matches- England v Australia in England’ 1880-1980, from original paintings by A.L. Grace. Published by ‘Spica Prints, Laxton, Newark. Notts’. The prints are titled, with a printed scorecard to lower border, one for the 1880 England v Australia Test match, the other for the 1980 Test match. Both prints nicely signed by... View full lot details

England ‘Cricket Characters. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland’ 1987 & 2000. Thirteen bookplate prints of caricatures of England Test cricketers by John Ireland, each print individually mounted with signature of the featured player laid down. Prints/ signatures are Phil Edmonds, Geoff Boycott, Jack Russell, Angus Fraser, Nasser Hussain, David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd, Darren Gough, Dermot Reeve, Phil Tufnell, Alec Stewart, Graham Gooch, Graeme Hick and Mike Atherton. Each measures overall 11”x14”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

England ‘Cricket Characters. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland’ 1987 & 2000. Thirteen bookplate prints of which ten are caricatures of England Test cricketers by John Ireland, each print individually mounted and signed or with signature of the featured player laid down. Includes one signed to the print of Cyril Washbrook, six with signatures laid down to the print of Derek Randall, Mike Gatting, Bob Willis, Allan Lamb, David Gower and Bob Taylor, and three... View full lot details

Australia ‘Cricket Characters. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland’ 1987 & 2000. Thirteen bookplate prints of caricatures of Australia Test cricketers by John Ireland, each print individually mounted with signature of the featured player laid down or mounted below. Prints/ signatures are Ian Healy, Dennis Lillee, Richie Benaud, Jeff Thomson, Rodney Marsh, Shane Warne, David Boon, Allan Border, Dean Jones, with the following signatures window mounted below the print of Merv Hughes, Steve and Mark... View full lot details

South Africa, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka ‘Cricket Characters. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland’ 1987 & 2000. Nine bookplate prints of caricatures of Test cricketers by John Ireland, each print individually mounted with signature of the featured player laid down or window mounted below the print. Prints/ signatures are Allan Donald, Sean Pollock, Jonty Rhodes, Paul Adams, Lance Klusener, Henry Olonga, Arjuna Ranatunga, Muttiah Muralitharan, and Duleep Mendis. Various sizes, the majority overall 11”x14”. Very... View full lot details

New Zealand ‘Cricket Characters. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland’ 1987 & 2000. Seven bookplate prints of caricatures of New Zealand Test cricketers by John Ireland, each print individually mounted with signature of the featured player laid down or window mounted below the print. Prints/ signatures are Chris Cairns, Daniel Vettori, Martin Crowe, Jeremy Coney, Richard Hadlee, and Lance Cairns (window mounted below). Various sizes, the majority overall 11”x14”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Pakistan ‘Cricket Characters. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland’ 1987 & 2000. Eight bookplate prints of caricatures of Pakistan Test cricketers by John Ireland, each print individually mounted with signature of the featured player laid down to the print. Prints/ signatures are Waqar Younis, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Sarfraz Nawaz, Abdul Qadir, Shoaib Akhtar, Javed Miandad, Wasim Akram, and Zaheer Abbas. Each overall approx. 11”x14”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

India ‘Cricket Characters. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland’ 1987 & 2000. Eight bookplate prints of caricatures of India Test cricketers by John Ireland, each print individually mounted with signature of the featured player laid down to the print or window mounted below. Prints/ signatures are Sachin Tendulkar (signed to match ticket window mounted below with certificate of authenticity to verso), Sunil Gavaskar, Mohammad Azharuddin, Syed Kirmani, and Kapil Dev. Various sizes, approx. 11”x14” and... View full lot details

West Indies ‘Cricket Characters. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland’ 1987 & 2000. Eight bookplate prints of caricatures of West Indies Test cricketers by John Ireland, each print individually mounted with signature laid down to the print or window mounted below. Prints/ signatures are Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd, Brian Lara (signed to Test match ticket window mounted below), Courtney Walsh, Curtly Ambrose, Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding, and Joel Garner (signed to 1988 T.C.C.B. Commemorative cover... View full lot details

Commentators and umpires ‘Cricket Characters. The Cricketer Caricatures of John Ireland’ 1987 & 2000. Seven bookplate prints of caricatures of cricket commentators and umpires by John Ireland, each print individually mounted, six with signature laid down to the print. Prints/ signatures are Fred Trueman, Brian Johnston, John Arlott, Dickie Bird, David Shepherd, and Steve Bucknor, plus one of Swaroop Kishen lacking signature. Each approx. 11”x14” and larger. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket Greats’. Three bookplate prints or copy photographs of notable Test cricketers, each with signature on card/ piece window mounted below or laid down to the print. Players/ signatures are Harold Larwood, Jack Hobbs, and Don Bradman. Each 10”x13”, one smaller. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Mounted dustwrapper for Don Bradman’s book ‘Farewell to Cricket’ with mono printed head and shoulders image of Bradman window mounted below, signed by Bradman (fading to signature). Sold with a selection of individual mounted bookplate prints, photographic images and book extracts of Australian Test cricketers, each signed by the featured player(s). Signatures are Ray Lindwall, Arthur Morris, Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath, Mitchell Starc, Rod Marsh and Geoff Marsh, also a limited edition print... View full lot details

England Test cricketers and writers. A selection of mounted bookplate prints, photographic images and book extracts of England Test cricketers and writers, each with signature of the featured player(s) on piece laid down or window mounted. Signatures are Gubby Allen, Len Hutton (Qty 2, one framed), Basil D’Oliveira, Alec and Eric Bedser, John Edrich and Denis Compton, Herbert Sutcliffe, Cyril Washbrook and Peter May, Derek and Peter Richardson, also commentators/ writers John Arlott, and Jim... View full lot details

‘England Test Cricketers 1950s’. Denise Dean. Nine individual colour prints by artist Denise Dean from the series of 1950s ‘England Test Cricketers’. Each signed by the artist and limited to 100 prints produced, various limitation numbers. Six of the prints are signed by the feature player, David Sheppard, M.J.K. Smith, Ted Dexter, Tom Graveney, Roy Tattersall, and Peter Loader. Others are Willie Watson, Colin Cowdrey and Tony Lock. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘England Test Cricketers 1970s’. Denise Dean. Twelve individual colour prints by artist Denise Dean from the series of 1970s ‘England Test Cricketers’. Each signed by the artist and limited to 100 prints produced, various limitation numbers. Seven of the prints are signed by the feature player, Derek Randall, Peter Willey, Peter Lever, John Lever, Chris Old, Bob Taylor, and David Gower. Others are Phil Edmonds, Graham Roope, Geoff Miller, Brian Luckhurst, and Graham Dilley. Very... View full lot details

‘England Test Cricketers 1980s’. Denise Dean. Thirteen individual colour prints by artist Denise Dean from the series of 1980s ‘England Test Cricketers’. Each signed by the artist and limited to 100 prints produced, various limitation numbers. Nine of the prints are signed by the feature player, Neil Foster, Chris Tavare, Paul Allott, Bill Athey, Nick Cook, Wayne Larkins, Graeme Fowler, Martyn Moxon, and David Capel. Others are Robin Smith, Eddie Hemmings, Chris Broad, and Gladstone... View full lot details

Australian Test Cricketers. Denise Dean. Sixteen individual colour prints by artist Denise Dean of Australian Test Cricketers, each signed by the artist. Includes eleven prints from the series ‘Wisden Five Cricketers of the Year’, each limited to 150 copies produced. Five are signed by the featured player, Neil Harvey, Merv Hughes, Alan Davidson, David Boon, and Rod Marsh. Others are Allan Border, Keith Miller, Keith Stackpole, Rick McCosker, Terry Alderman and Kim Hughes. Also a... View full lot details

West Indies Test Cricketers. Denise Dean. Seventeen individual colour prints by artist Denise Dean of West Indies Test Cricketers, each signed by the artist. Includes fifteen prints from the series ‘Wisden Five Cricketers of the Year’, each limited to 150 copies produced. Five are signed by the featured player, Richie Richardson, Alvin Kallicharran (two copies), John Shepherd, and Sonny Ramadhin. Others are Frank Worrell, Viv Richards, Andy Roberts, Roy Fredericks, Lance Gibbs, Joel Garner, Larry... View full lot details

India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka Test Cricketers. Denise Dean. Ten individual colour prints by artist Denise Dean of Test Cricketers, each signed by the artist. Includes five prints from a series limited to 100 copies each, one signed by B.S. Chandrasekhar, and others of Imran Khan, Abdul Qadir, Javed Miandad, and Arjuna Ranatunga. Also five prints from the series ‘Wisden Five Cricketers of the Year’, each limited to 150 copies produced, of Kapil Dev, Sunil... View full lot details

New Zealand Test Cricketers. Denise Dean. Eight individual colour prints by artist Denise Dean of New Zealand Test Cricketers, each signed by the artist. Includes four prints from the series ‘Wisden Five Cricketers of the Year’, each limited to 150 copies produced. One is signed by the featured player, Richard Hadlee, others are Bev Congdon, Martin Crowe, and Jeremy Coney. Also a further four prints from series limited to 100 copies each, two signed by... View full lot details

South Africa Test Cricketers. Denise Dean. Six individual colour prints by artist Denise Dean of South Africa Test Cricketers, each signed by the artist. Includes five prints from the series ‘Wisden Five Cricketers of the Year’, each limited to 150 copies produced. Four are signed by the featured player, Peter Pollock, Clive Rice, Kepler Wessels, and Barry Richards, the other of Neil Adcock. Also one further print of Hansie Cronje from a series limited to... View full lot details

‘Bodyline- The Ashes 1932-33’. Denise Dean. Eight individual colour prints by artist Denise Dean of players who took part in the Bodyline series, each signed by the artist and limited to 100 copies produced. Players are Harold Larwood, Hedley Verity, Herbert Sutcliffe of England, and Australians Bert Oldfield, Clarrie Grimmett, Phil Lee, Len Darling and Bill Ponsford. Very good condition.... View full lot details