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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Marylebone Cricket Club. Official M.C.C. membership card for season 1913. The leather bound folding card with beautiful gilt decoration to covers, printed fixtures at Lord’s to inside. Membership no. 4382 issued to Major E.G. Waymouth. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1886. Lord March’s XI v The Australians. Charlie Howard’s Benefit. Rare large photographic admission ticket for the match played at The Priory Park, Chichester 28th- 30th June 1886. The match was played for Charlie Howard’s (Sussex) Benefit and the admission ticket has images of Howard, Priory Park, Chichester Cathedral and Cross. Printed detail to centre reads ‘Lord March’s Eleven v The Australians. Charlie Howard begs respectfully to announce that the above... View full lot details

Warwickshire C.C.C. 1933. Original folding membership/ fixture card for the 1933 season issued to a ‘J.R. Hetherington’, no. 566. The card with blue cloth covers and printed titles. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Earl of Sheffield’s Eleven 1884. ‘Cricket Match between the Australian Eleven and the Earl of Sheffield’s Eleven in Sheffield Park on May 12th & 13th [1884]’. Rare original shield-shaped folding admission ticket ‘to the Private Marquee’. The front with ornate colour design with ‘Advance Australia’ emblem to centre, crossed bats, stumps and ball motifs to top corners, and Lord Sheffield crown emblem below, floral decoration in gold. The ticket appears to be un-issued and is... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. fixture cards 1954-2025. Thirty official club printed fixture cards for 1954-1956, 1958, 1959, 1983-1988, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013-2025. Good condition in small red folder. Sold with a larger folder containing fixture lists/location maps of county teams mainly in 1999 all produced by Sun Life of Canada... View full lot details

South American Cricket team in England 1932. Official folding fixture card with shield to front incorporating the emblems of the three nations of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, fixtures and tour details to centre, list of playing members to rear. ‘Ex libris’ label for Alan James Richards laid down to rear. Sold with an official mono photograph of the team seated and standing in rows wearing tour blazers for the match v Sussex at The Saffrons,... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1904. An original, unusual and possibly unique ‘List of Matches’ card produced in the style of a membership/ fixture booklet and issued to the ‘Hon. J.D. Logan’ as a pass to allow Logan entrance to cricket grounds for all matches on the 1904 tour, which Logan had financed. The folding card with cloth covers and printed title to front ‘South African Cricket Team 1904’, printed tour fixtures to centre and... View full lot details

South African cricket membership tickets 1897-1901. Two original Western Province Cricket Club membership card/ fixture list booklet for seasons 1897/98 and 1900/01, leather covers with gilt title. Sold with a similar membership booklet for the Western Province Amateur Athletics Association 1898. All three issued to ‘The Hon. J.D. Logan’, South African cricket patron (see previous lot). Very good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details

Somerset, Dorset and Yeovil County and regional cricket 1950s/1960s. Box comprising a comprehensive collection of correspondence relating to Yeovil Area committee meeting minutes and correspondence addressed to committee secretaries ‘Mr. Masters’ and ‘Mr. Brewer’ including arrangements for Somerset C.C.C. County Championship matches at Yeovil, County Club membership fundraising campaigns, area and youth knockout competitions etc. Also contains material relating to Dorset cricket, Compton House C.C. (Sherborne, Dorset), including a selection of nine Club scorebooks for... View full lot details

‘Langbourne Cricket Club. Programme of the Second Grand Annual Bohemian Concert’ 1895. Official four page programme for the concert held at The Surrey Masonic Hall, Camberwell (then part of Surrey), 25th April 1895. The floral decorated front cover with printed titles, ‘Sir J. Blundell Maple, M.P., L.C.C.’ was the Club Patron. Programme of musical entertainments to centre pages, list of ‘Stewards’ to rear page. Printed by A. Constance of Walworth Road. Horizontal folds, some splitting... View full lot details

Leicestershire v South Africa 1924 ‘Opening match of the tour’. Small official menu for the Dinner given by Leicestershire to the tourist held at the Royal Hotel, Leicester on Saturday May 3rd 1924. The two page folding card menu with titles, dates and menu to front, Names of the two teams, South Africa and Leicestershire to inside the front cover and the ‘Toast List’ to the facing page. The Chairman of the club and the... View full lot details

‘A Supper Dance to welcome home the N.S.W. Members of the 1930 Australian Cricket Team at David Jones’, Saturday 22nd November 1930. Tickets 7/6. Proceeds in aid of Sydney Industrial Blind Association. Three similar tickets for the supper numbered 651 to 653. The New South Wales members of the team were Don Bradman, Alan Fairfax, Archie Jackson, Alan Kippax, Stan McCabe and Bertie Oldfield whom attended the Supper. Odd very minor faults otherwise in very... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1911/12. ‘The M.C.C. Dinner’. Small and beautifully ornate folding menu for the Dinner given for the M.C.C. touring party to Australia held on the 27th February 1912 at the Hotel Wentworth, Sydney. The menu, on cream card with pink blush colour, has raised stylish art nouveau floral decoration with title to centre. The inside has a poem from Shakespeare and Menu ‘On a good wicket’ to left and right hand sides.... View full lot details

Lord Harris, George Robert Canning, Kent & England 1870-1911. ‘Complimentary Dinner to Lord Harris. By a few of his cricketing friends, on his leaving England for India as Governor of Bombay 1890’. Scarce exquisite one page card menu held in honour of Lord Harris held at The Limmer’s Hotel, Conduit Street on the 4th February 1890. The menu card with gold and red floral decoration to borders with detail printed to centre. Light horizontal crease... View full lot details

‘Kent County Cricket Champions 1906’. Rare official menu for the ‘Dinner to the Kent XI’ celebrating Kent winning their first ever County Championship in 1906. The Banquet held at Hotel Cecil on 11th October 1906. Original covers with embossed gilt Kent emblem to centre with cream ribbon tie. Twelve printed pages to inside, the first being a photograph of the Kent team, ‘A Canterbury Week Ode’ by Major Philip Trevor, menu, toasts, programme of music,... View full lot details

Kent C.C.C. County Champions 1906. Official menu for ‘The Blackheath Village Commemoration Cricket Banquet In Honor of our Local Champions’, held at the Three Tuns Hotel, Blackheath, 1st November 1906. The menu with pale blue borders and scalloped edges, printed titles and Kent ‘Invicta’ emblem to front cover. Programme of toasts and musical entertainments to centre pages, including the Response by the Club Chairman, Malcolm Christopherson. Printed menu to rear cover. From the collection of... View full lot details

‘Bodyline’. Official Orient Line ‘S.S. Orontes’ brochure for the ‘M.C.C. Australasian Tour 1932-33’. Pictorial front cover with team detail and photographs, itinerary, player profiles etc. to inside pages. Light soiling to covers, some splitting to spine, rusting to staples, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Scarborough Cricket Club Annual Reports. Two official four page printed reports for Annual General Meetings held in 1915 and 1918. Odd folds, creasing and nicks to edges, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Australia v England ‘Bodyline’ 1932/33. A collection of nine original copies of The Sydney Mail magazine, four complete, others lacking wrappers or with pages detached. Each issue has at least one article of coverage from the tour and Ashes Test series, the majority written by Dr. Eric P. Barbour with interesting and extensive reports and comment on the Bodyline controversy. 28th September 1932 pp 8-9 two page article on Bradman. 19th October p8 ‘Greatest Batsmen... View full lot details

South African tour booklets. Two booklets both printed in both English and Afrikaans. One issued for the M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49 by the United Tobacco Co. Cape Town 1948. 32pp. Very small pre tour booklet comprising pen pictures, map, fixtures etc with original decorative colour paper wrappers and the other for the Australian tour of South Africa in 1949/50 ‘A Shell Guide to the Australian Cricket Tour 1949-50’ folding tour guide card. The... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Official M.C.C. Christmas card from the tour. With cover image of the emblem of M.C.C. and M.C.C. colours to corner, cord tie. To inside a picture of the team and the wording, ‘Wishing you a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year’. Unsigned but from the Doug Wright, Kent and England, collection. Very good condition... View full lot details

Centenary of the Marylebone Cricket Club 1787-1887. Original ‘Plan of Tables’ for the Centenary Anniversary Dinner held at Marylebone Cricket Club, Lord’s Cricket Ground on the 15th June 1887. Hon. E. Chandos Leigh, President. Folding table plan with attractive and decorative front cover. This was Isaac Donnithorne Walker’s copy (Middlesex 1862-1884) and has his name, ‘Mr I.D. Walker’ handwritten to lower border of the front cover. Printed by Jas. Truscott & Son of Suffolk Lane.... View full lot details

‘The “Interlock” Plywood Zig-Zag Puzzle. Volume 4 The Test Match at Lords’. Original 200 piece wooden jigsaw by Raco (Richards Art Company) c.1920s/ 1930s. No. 4 in a series of twelve listed. In original box in the form of a book with cloth covers, colour illustration of a match in progress at Lord’s to lid. Not previously seen by the auctioneer. Some splitting and wear to box, otherwise in very good condition. Appears complete.... View full lot details

Worcestershire C.C.C. Small box comprising a selection of Worcestershire related items including a Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack for 1989, limp cloth covers, signed to photo plate by Phil Neale, one of the ‘Five Cricketers of the Year’. Commemorative ‘Worcestershire County Cricket Champions’ plate for 1974 by Coalport (cracked). Three mono press photographs of Basil D’Oliveira, Graham Dilley and the 1982 team. Four County ties including a Basil D’Oliveira Testimonial tie 1990. Benefit brochure for Ted Hemsley... View full lot details

George Bean. Nottinghamshire, Sussex & England 1885-1898. Albert Craig. ‘Cricket Rhymester’ 1891. Original double sided card of a poem in four stanzas by Craig titled ‘Good Old Bean. Secured 145 runs not out against Notts, in his usual slashing style at Brighton, 9th July, 1891. In the second innings Bean got 92 runs’. In the final line Craig states ‘Men like Bean will make Sussex rise higher and higher’. Advertisement to verso for F.H. Ayres... View full lot details

Walter Quaife. Sussex & Warwickshire 1884-1901. Albert Craig. ‘Cricket Rhymester’ 1887. Original single sided card of a poem in four stanzas by Craig titled ‘Surrey v. Sussex at Brighton. Quaife secured his century in fine style, Aug. 1887’. Quaife scored 111, his maiden first-class century, in the first innings for Sussex in the match played at Hove 8th- 10th August 1887. Craig describes Quaife batting ‘in brilliant style... A prettier bat or a neater, I... View full lot details

‘Sussex v. Gloucester at Brighton, Whit-Monday, June 1st , 1903’. Albert Craig. ‘Cricket Rhymester’ 1891. Original double sided broadsheet poem in four stanzas by Craig, ‘Respectfully dedicated to the popular Gloucestershire Captain, G.L. Jessop, Esq.’. The poem is headed, unusually, with portrait images of ‘Prince Ranji’, Ranjitsinjhi, and ‘The Gov’nor’, Bobby Abel. Craig looks forward to the match describing ‘Around the ever welcome Sussex chief [Ranji]/ Are gathered sturdy braves to “do or die”, with... View full lot details

‘Kent against All England played in the Artillery Ground, London 1746’. Albert Craig. ‘Cricket Rhymester’ c.1891. Double sided broadsheet with six lines of verse and the scorecards of two historic matches, Kent v All England ‘1746’ (actually 1744) and ‘Cricket Oddity. Single wicket match at Newenden, in Kent, October 5th 1825’. The poem reads, ‘Here’s to our rare old Summer sport/ Long may our Pastime last/ Long may we prize the tie that binds/ The... View full lot details

Robert ‘Bobby Abel’. Surrey & England 1881-1904. Albert Craig. ‘Cricket Rhymester’ 1891. ‘Robert Abel. Surrey’s Pride. Brighton, July 13th, 1891’. Double sided broadsheet poem comprising two stanzas and chorus. Craig is referring to Abel’s performance in the match Sussex v Surrey at Hove 13th & 14th July 1891 in which Abel scored 197 in Surrey’s only innings of 387 before bowling out Sussex twice for 116 & 92. Surrey won by an innings and 179... View full lot details

Henry Perkins. Cambridge University, Cambridgeshire & M.C.C. 1854-1868. Single page handwritten letter on M.C.C. letterhead, dated 29th June 1885. Writing in his capacity as Secretary of M.C.C., Perkins is inviting ‘My dear [F.M.] Lucas’ to play for Gentlemen v Players at Lord’s on 6th July. Very nicely signed ‘Henry Perkins’. Very good condition... View full lot details

Vyell Edward Walker. Middlesex 1859-1877. Three page folding letter handwritten in ink from Walker to the cricket author, W.A. Bettesworth, dated 29th May 1900 with good cricket content. The date of the letter corresponds with the publication in 1900 of Bettesworth’s book, ‘The Walkers of Southgate’. Walker appears to be writing about information he has provided, stating ‘For my own part I don’t think I should have produced the Statistics in print- they can be... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire, London County & England 1865-1908. Two page handwritten folding letter from Grace, written on London County C.C., Crystal Palace, headed paper, and dated 19th November 1899. Grace is replying to a request from ‘Mr Rammell’ regarding fixtures, presumably for the 1900 season, saying ‘I am sorry we cannot play on June 16th or July 7th. I think we can easily fix up a date after meeting of secretaries on the 5th... View full lot details

Thomas ‘Tom’ Emmett. Yorkshire & England 1866-1888. Rare four page folding letter with excellent cricket content from Emmett to the collector, Charles Pratt Green, dated 21st November 1891 with original envelope. Emmett is replying to a request for one of his bats to add to Green’s collection. Emmett is sorry that he had recently given away ‘the only old bat I had... And when I tell you that I gave it to some school boys... View full lot details

Lord Harris, George Robert Canning Harris, Kent & England 1870-1911. Single page handwritten letter to a ‘Mr Bell’, written on Belmont, Faversham, headed note paper and dated ‘26th’ (year unknown). Lord Harris writes ‘You are very welcome to the remains of my old bat if Philip[?] has not thrown it away... If you so instruct him before taking it away I will sign it’. Nicely signed ‘Harris’. Light vertical fold and creasing, otherwise in good... View full lot details

Charles William Wright. Nottinghamshire, Cambridge University & England 1882-1899. Single page letter handwritten in ink by Wright on Saxelby Park, Melton Mowbray headed paper to a T.B. Milne. Dated 23rd February 1935, Wright states ‘I am very sorry but I gave up cricket 20 years ago owing to the loss of an eye and every atom of my cricket tackle was given away long ago to the village club’. Very nicely signed ‘C.W. Wright’. Light... View full lot details

George Alfred Lohmann, Surrey, Western Province & England, 1884-1897. Single page undated handwritten note in black ink on trimmed plain paper. Lohmann writes to say he will be ‘most happy to look you up when I am near Tiverton’. Very nicely signed ‘Geo. A Lohmann’. The page with light horizontal fold and small tear to left edge is laid down to another page, adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in very good condition. A very nice... View full lot details

Andrew Ernest Stoddart. Middlesex & England 1885-1900. Two page folding letter handwritten in ink by Stoddart, undated. Writing to ‘Dear [A.W.] Rammell, Stoddart is handing in his resignation as President of The Stoics Cricket Club. He states, ‘What you want I am sure is a man who has time and ability to give to the club. I am afraid I have neither’. Very nicely signed ‘A.E. Stoddart’. Light horizontal fold, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Arthur Frederick Augustus ‘Dick’ Lilley. Warwickshire & England 1894-1911. Single page handwritten undated letter in ink from Lilley to an unknown correspondent. Lilley is writing in reply to a request for one of his bats, stating ‘I am sorry that I have not got an old bat left but if it would not be to [sic] late you shall have the first one I may have next season’. Very nicely signed ‘A.A. Lilley’. Light horizontal... View full lot details

Edward George ‘Teddy’ Wynyard. Hampshire & England 1878-1908. Three page handwritten folding letter in ink from Wynyard on M.C.C./ Lord’s Cricket Ground official letterhead with very good cricket content relating to the impending 1906/07 tour to New Zealand, which Wynyard was to lead. Dated 18th June 1906, Wynyard is writing to ‘Dear Magnay’ saying ‘The team for New Zealand is in no sense mine but one selected by M.C.C. They have asked me to go... View full lot details

John Richmond Gunn. Nottinghamshire, London County & England 1896-1925. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 25th June 1903 on Nottinghamshire C.C.C. headed paper. Gunn is writing, presumably to Lord’s, confirming he ‘shall be pleased to play Gentlemen v Players’. Very nicely signed ‘J. Gunn’. Some uneven trimming, adhesive mark to verso, small hole to top left corner, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Hon. Lionel Hallam Tennyson. Hampshire & England 1913-1935. Two page folding ‘In Memoriam’ letter handwritten in ink by Tennyson to ‘Dear Hugh [Pakenham]’. Dated 12th December 1916, Tennyson is writing to thank Pakenham for his ‘kind letter of sympathy’ following the death of his mother. Very nicely signed, Lionel H. Tennyson’. Light horizontal fold. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Arthur Lindsay Hassett. Victoria & Australia 1932-1953. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Hassett on The Worcestershire Brine Baths Hotel, Droitwich letterhead. Dated 3rd May 1956 while attending the tour match at Worcester, Hassett is writing to ‘The Hon. Secretary [Ron Yeomans], The Northern Cricket Society’ declining an invitation to attend a Society Dinner. Nicely signed ‘Lindsay Hassett’. Light fold. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Warren Bardsley. New South Wales & Australia 1903-1926. Single page handwritten letter on ruled paper from Bardsley to a ‘Mr Bailey’. Dated 16th October 1948, writing from Sydney, Bardsley is responding to a request for his autograph. He continues, ‘Very much regret the present great weakness in English cricket. Measured by past standards of visiting Australian teams to England our recent one was far from strong, although most successful’. Very nicely signed ‘Warren Bardsley’. Light... View full lot details

Donald George ‘Don’ Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. Single page handwritten letter from Bradman on his ‘Don Bradman & Co. Stock, Share and Investment Brokers’ official business letterhead. Dated 15th July 1949 and addressed to ‘Mr Ross’, Bradman expresses his ‘grateful thanks’ for congratulations on receiving his knighthood. Very nicely signed ‘Don Bradman’. Light folds otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details