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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

John Briggs. Lancashire & England 1879-1900. Rare ink signature of Briggs, nicely signed on paper piece, signed ‘yours faithfully’, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

William Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. Excellent ink signature of Gunn on paper piece, signed ‘yours faithfully’, laid down. A little age toning otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Albert Ward. Yorkshire, Lancashire & England 1886-1904. Excellent ink signature of Ward on paper piece, signed ‘yours faithfully’, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

Frederick George Bull. Essex 1895-1900. Excellent ink signature of Bull on paper piece, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

Samuel Moses James ‘Sammy’ Woods. Cambridge University, Somerset, Australia & England, 1891-1910. Excellent ink signature of Woods on paper piece, signed ‘yours sincerely’, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

Frank Howe Sugg. Derbyshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire & England 1884-1899. Excellent ink signature of Sugg in red ink on paper piece, signed ‘yours truly’, laid down to large paper piece with short biography. Good condition... View full lot details

George Robert Baker. Yorkshire (1884, 7 matches, Lancashire 1887-1899, 228 matches). Excellent ink signature of Baker on paper piece, signed ‘yours truly’, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

Robert ‘Bobby’ Abel. Surrey & England 1881-1904. Excellent ink signature of Abel on paper piece, signed ‘yours truly’, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Excellent ink signature of Grace on paper piece, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

John Thomas Tyldesley. Lancashire & England 1895-1923. Short handwritten note from Tyldesley headed ‘Molton, Eccles’ Dear Sir, Delighted to oblige, yours sincerely’. Signed by Tyldesley, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

Alec Hearne. Kent & England 1884-1906. Excellent ink signature of Hearne on paper piece, signed ‘Yours Respectfully’, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

John Thomas Hearne. Middlesex & England 1888-1923. Excellent ink signature of Hearne on paper piece, laid down to irregular shaped paper piece. Good condition... View full lot details

Hugh Glendwr Palmer Owen. Essex 1894-1902. Excellent ink signature of Owen on trimmed Essex County Cricket Club, Leyton, headed paper with Essex emblem to corner, laid down. Minor folds, good condition... View full lot details

William Henry Lockwood. Nottinghamshire, Surrey & England 1886-1904. Excellent ink signature of Lockwood on trimmed Surrey County Cricket Club, Kennington Oval headed paper , laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

Gilbert Laird Jessop, Gloucestershire & England 1894-1914. Excellent ink signature of Jessop on trimmed ‘Century Club, Bristol’ headed paper, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

Pelham Francis Warner, Middlesex & England 1894-1929. Excellent ink signature of Warner, signed ‘yours truly and dated 1899, on trimmed ‘Lord’s Cricket Ground, London’ headed paper, laid down. Light folds, good condition... View full lot details

Arthur Jervois Turner. Essex 1897-1910. Excellent ink signature of Turner, signed ‘Sincerely yours’, on trimmed ‘The Camp, Woolwich’ headed paper, laid down. Light fold, good condition... View full lot details

Frank Stanley Jackson. Yorkshire & England 1890-1907. Excellent ink signature of Jackson on trimmed ‘Clifton Club, Bristol’ headed paper, laid down. Folds, good condition... View full lot details

William Brockwell. Surrey, London County & England 1886-1903. Excellent ink signature of Brockwell, signed ‘very truly yours’ on paper piece, laid down. Folds, good condition... View full lot details

John Richard Mason. Kent & England 1893-1919. Excellent ink signature of Mason on paper piece, laid down. Very slight smudge to ink, folds, good condition... View full lot details

Edward Wainwright, Yorkshire & England 1888-1902. Excellent ink signature of Wainwright, signed ‘Yours truly’, on paper piece, laid down. Folds, good condition... View full lot details

Francis Gilbertson Justice Ford. Middlesex, Cambridge University & England 1886-1899. Excellent ink signature of Ford on paper piece, laid down. Light folds, good condition... View full lot details

Willis Robert Cuttell, Lancashire & England 1896-1906. Short handwritten note from Cuttell. ‘Dear Sir, Delighted to oblige you, yours truly’. Signed by Cuttell, laid down. Folds, good condition... View full lot details

John Tunnicliffe. Yorkshire 1891-1907. Excellent ink signature of Tunnicliffe, signed ‘your truly’ on paper piece, laid down. Light folds, good condition... View full lot details

William Storer. Derbyshire, London County & England 1887-1905. Excellent ink signature of Storer, signed ‘your truly’ on paper piece, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

Percival Albert ‘Percy’ Perrin. Essex & London County 1896-1928. Short handwritten note from Perrin ‘Dear Sir, Enclose autograph, yours truly’. Signed by Perrin and dated 12th May 1899, laid down. Light folds, good condition... View full lot details

William George Quaife. Warwickshire & England 1894-1928. Excellent ink signature of Quaife on paper piece, laid down. Good condition... View full lot details

Archibald Campbell MacLaren. Lancashire & England 1890-1914. Ink signature of MacLaren, signed ‘Yours truly’ on paper piece, laid down. Slight fading, good condition... View full lot details

William Peter Howell. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1905. Excellent ink signature of Howell on paper piece, laid down. Very good condition. Rare early signature... View full lot details

Hugh Trumble. Victoria & Australia 1887-1904 and Secretary of Melbourne Cricket Club 1912-1932. Excellent ink signature of Trumble on paper piece, laid down. Very good condition. Rare early signature... View full lot details

Ernest Jones. South Australia, Western Australia & Australia 1892-1908. Excellent ink signature of Jones on paper piece, laid down. Slight crease otherwise in very good condition. Rare early signature... View full lot details

Montague Alfred Noble. New South Wales & Australia 1893-1920. Excellent ink signature of Noble on paper piece, laid down. Slight creasing otherwise in very good condition. Rare early signature... View full lot details

Albert Edwin Trott. Victoria, Middlesex, London County, Australia & England 1892-1910. Excellent ink signature of Trott, signed Yours truly’, on paper piece, laid down. Slight creasing otherwise in very good condition. Rare early signature... View full lot details

Clement ‘Clem’ Hill. South Australia & Australia 1892-1923. Excellent ink signature of Hill on paper piece, laid down. Very good condition. Rare early signature... View full lot details

Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Short handwritten note from Trumper ‘Dear Sir, I have very much pleasure in acceding to your modest request. I remain, your truly’. Nicely signed by Trumper, laid down. Some folds, very good condition... View full lot details

Arthur Harwood “Affie” Jarvis. South Australia & Australia 1877-1901. Large note in Jarvis’s handwriting stating ‘Received from the [?, perhaps M. (Melbourne?)] C.C. the sum of two shillings and sixpence’. Signed and dated by Jarvis (1894? 1896?). A rare Australian signature... View full lot details

William Cafffyn. Surrey & M.C.C. 1849-1873. Excellent ink signature of William Caffyn on paper piece, laid down to large piece of blue album page. A very rare and desirable signature... View full lot details

Richard Pilling. Lancashire & England 1877-1889 Excellent ink signature of ‘Dick’ Pilling on card piece. A very rare and desirable signature... View full lot details

Alfred Shaw. Nottinghamshire, Sussex & England 1864-1897. Excellent ink signature of Alfred Shaw on paper piece, laid down to large piece of lined paper. A rare and desirable signature... View full lot details

William Attewell. Nottinghamshire & England 1881-1900.. Excellent ink signature of Attewell, ‘I remain, yours sincerely’ on paper piece which appears to be from the bottom of a handwritten letter.... View full lot details

Edward Harbottle Grimston. Oxford University 1834-1837. Nice ink signature of Grimston on piece laid to slightly large piece. Sold with a signature in thick black ink of Geoffrey George Lockwood Hebden (Hampshire 1937-1951, six matches), signed to a pre-printed page, with accompanying letter from a collector dated 1998 requesting his autograph. Qty 2. Good/very good condition.... View full lot details

John Tunnicliffe. Yorkshire 1891-1907. Signature in pencil of Tunnicliffe on piece laid down to small trimmed page. Sold with a colour postcard of Tunnicliffe in batting pose, Valentine’s Series, postmarked 1905. The two items loosely mounted to a printed page with biographical details. The postcard with small tear to top edge and some wear, the signature in good condition.... View full lot details

England Test player autographs 1950s onwards. Album comprising one hundred individual signatures, mainly modern, on ‘England Test Player’ cards, the majority signed to the card, some on piece laid down. Earlier signatures include Geoff Arnold, Trevor Bailey, Alec and Eric Bedser, Geoff Boycott, Mike Denness, John Edrich, Keith Fletcher, Tom Graveney, Doug Insole, Robin Jackman, Peter Parfitt, Eric Russell, Ken Shuttleworth, Fred Titmus etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia Test player autographs 1950s onwards. Thirty individual signatures, mainly modern, on ‘Australia Test Player’ cards, the majority signed to the card, some on piece laid down. Signatures include Bob Simpson, Wally Edwards, Des Hoare, Ashley Woodcock, Tim May, Greg Matthews, Jason Gillespie, Phil Jaques, Josh Hazlewood, Matthew Wade, Peter Siddle, Adam Voges etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket signatures 1950s. Autograph album comprising over sixty signatures. One page is fully signed in ink by all sixteen playing members of the South Africa touring party to England 1955. Signature are Cheetham (Captain), McGlew, Endean, Smith, Tayfield, Adcock, Murray, Waite, Hine, Fuller, McLean, Marshall, Keith, Duckworth, Goddard and Winslow. Other pages comprise a number of England Test and County players’ signatures with good Surrey interest, individually signed to pieces laid down, including Surridge, Strudwick,... View full lot details

England, New Zealand, India, Pakistan and West Indies 1940s onwards. A selection of mainly modern individual signatures on cards and signed ephemeral items including scorecard, photographs, cuttings, pages etc. Signatures include Les Ames, F.R. Brown, Bob Woolmer, Norman Yardley, Geoff Boycott, Gubby Allen, Len Hutton (England), Geoff Howarth, Walter Hadlee, John Reid (New Zealand), Javed Miandad, Imran Khan (Pakistan), Kapil Dev (India), Conrad Hunte, Chester Watson, Wes Hall (West Indies) etc. Odd duplication of signatures.... View full lot details

South Africa and Zimbabwe 1920s onwards. A good selection of over sixty signatures of South African Test cricketers, the majority signed individually on cards, pieces, photographs, cuttings etc. Earlier signatures include Tayfield, Adcock, Waite, Procter, Trimborn, Crisp, E. Rowan, Bacher, Owen-Smith, Dumbrill, Fullerton, Mansell, J. Lindsay, Westcott, A.D. Nourse, Griffin, Endean etc. Sold with seven official autograph sheets for Zimbabwe teams and other odd signatures including v Young Australians 1983, ICC Trophy 1986, Natal v... View full lot details

Australia 1930s onwards. A selection of some twenty five signatures of Australian Test cricketers signed to small cards, cuttings, photographs etc. Earlier signatures include Bill O’Reilly, Keith Miller, Wally Grout, Barry Jarman, Peter Burge, Graham McKenzie, Frank Misson, Brian Booth, Bob Simpson, Norman O’Neill, Alan Davidson, also I. Chappell, S. Waugh etc. Some duplication of signatures. Generally good condition.... View full lot details

Sri Lanka 1980s-1990s. A selection of twenty eight individual signatures of Sri Lanka Test cricketers signed to small cards, photographs, cuttings etc. Signatures include Ratnayeke, Aravinda de Silva, Gurusinha, Kaluwitharana, Kuruppuarachchi, Mahanama, Madurasinghe, Kuruppu, Labrooy, de Mel, S. Jayasuriya, G. Mendis etc. Sold with six official autograph sheets for Sri Lanka tours to Australia & Bangladesh 1984/85 (18 signatures), Zimbabwe 1988 (17), New Zealand 1990/91(2 copies, 18 & 14 signatures), England 1991 (18), New Zealand... View full lot details

M.C.C. Tour of Australia 1903/04. Early, large and impressive official menu to the victorious M.C.C. team who returned home with the ‘Ashes’ having won the series by three Tests to two. The Dinner was held at The Trocadero, London on 22nd April 1904. The large (originally folding) menu, with elaborate cover design by G. Hillyard Swinstead, depicts Warner and his team wearing tour blazers and caps and carrying cricket bags, each player named, with two... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1920/21. Official ‘Orient Line S.S. Osterley’ card with central colour image of the ship at sea with printed title ‘Visit of M.C.C. team to Australia 1920/21’ and dates of voyages from London and Australia in 1920/21. The card has been very nicely and fully signed in ink by the seventeen members of the M.C.C. touring party and five of the ship’s officers, twenty two signatures in total. The top border has... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1928/29. Official four page menu with card wrappers and ribbon tie, for the Luncheon held on the 6th March 1929 ‘To Wish Bon Voyage to the members of the M.C.C. English Team. Luncheon given by Mr Donald Mackinnon, Members Pavilion, Melbourne Cricket Ground’. The front cover with printed caricature drawings by Wells of each member of the team plus to centre a larger caricature image of a lion and kangaroo having... View full lot details

Australia tour of England 1930. Official ‘Australian XI English Tour 1930’ brochure for the tour. Title to front cover ‘With the compliments of the Orient Line’ with Orient Line emblem and Australian colours of gold and green running diagonally through the centre of the cover. The brochure lists the members of the touring party, fixtures and biographies with pen pictures of each of the seventeen members of the Australian touring party, each nicely signed in... View full lot details

Australia tour of England 1934. Official ‘Australian XI English Tour 1934 Orient Line R.M.S. “Orford”’ brochure. The front cover features the Ashes urn with lion and kangaroo to either side in green and gold. The brochure is fully and nicely signed in black ink to the biographies by all eighteen members of the touring party including the management. Signatures are Woodfull, Bradman, Barnett, Bromley, Brown, Chipperfield, Darling, Ebeling, Fleetwood-Smith, Grimmett, Kippax, McCabe, Oldfield, O’Reilly, Ponsford,... View full lot details

Australia tour to South Africa 1935/36. Official double sided menu card for the Civic Luncheon held at City Hall, Cape Town, 20th March 1936. The menu printed in English and Afrikaans with titles and menu to front, toast list to verso. Signed in ink to the front by nine members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Richardson (Captain), Chipperfield, O’Brien, Fleetwood-Smith, Fingleton, Sievers, McCabe, Grimmett and Rowe (Manager). Minor foxing and light horizontal folds,... View full lot details

Australia tour of England 1938. Official ‘Australian XI English Tour 1938 Orient Line R.M.S. “Orontes”’ brochure. The front cover with printed title. The brochure lists the members of the touring party, fixtures and biographies with pen picture of each of the members of the touring Australian team. Fully signed in ink to the pen pictures by the sixteen playing members of the tour. Signatures are Bradman (Captain), McCabe, Badcock, Barnes, Barnett, Brown, Chipperfield, Fingleton, Fleetwood-Smith,... View full lot details

England v India, The Oval 1946. Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington Station four page menu card, dated 17th August 1946. Signed to front cover by four of the England players who played in the 3rd Test played at the Oval 17th- 20th August 1946. The four signatures are Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook, John Ikin in ink and James Langridge in pencil. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket Lovers’ Dinner Club 1948. Two official menus, one for the inaugural dinner held at the Hotel Metropole, Leeds, 5th May 1948, and the other for the second dinner, held at the Guildford Hotel, Leeds, 26th July 1948. Both menus signed by attendees. Signatures include Herbert Sutcliffe, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Godfrey Evans, A.E.R. Gilligan, Walter Hammond, Jim Laker, Neville Cardus etc. Some ageing and wear, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

India tour to England 1952. Official single sided menu for The Star Hotel, Worcester. Very nicely signed in black ink to the verso by thirteen members of the Indian touring party. Signatures include Hazare (Captain), Roy, Chowdhury, Sen, Manjrekar, Sarwate, Ramchand, Ghulam Ahmed, Divecha, Shinde, D.K. Gaekwad etc. The menu is undated, but the signature of Ghulam Ahmed is dated 6th May 1952, corresponding with the tour match played at Worcester 3rd- 6th May 1952.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to India, Pakistan & Ceylon 1951/52. Two original P&O folding menus. One, for a ‘Gala Night Dinner’ dated 18th March 1952 on board the ‘S.S. Chusan’ with floral colour illustration to the front of shamrocks, is signed to the inside ‘Autographs’ page in green and black inks by sixteen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are N. Howard (Captain), Carr, Brennan, Statham, Tattersall, Robertson, Lowson, Kenyon, Leadbeater, Ridgway, Graveney, Poole, Hilton, Watkins,... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1973. Official folding menu for the Dinner given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society to the West Indies touring party, held at Sheffield 30th August 1973. Printed title to front, Menu and Toasts to inside. The rear cover is nicely signed in ink by fifteen attendees. Players’ signatures include Ishant Ali, Foster, Gibbs, Holder, Lloyd, Willett, Headley, Fredericks, David Murray, Boyce, Deryck Murray, Shillingford, also Tony Cozier and one other.... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1976. Official folding menu for the Tribute Dinner given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society to the West Indies touring team, held at City Hall, Sheffield, 30th June 1976. Printed title to front, Menu and Toasts to inside. The front cover nicely signed in ink by seventeen attendees. Players’ signatures include Lloyd (Captain), Gomes, Kallicharran, Holding, Daniel, Murray, Greenidge, Fredericks, Julien, King, Jumadeen, Roberts etc. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Donald George Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. ‘Simpson’s Fish Ordinary [meal at fixed time and price], 76 Cheapside, E.C.2’. Small original two sided card menu for the Ordinary served ‘At 1 o’clock every day except Saturday’. Menu to face and ‘Cheese Competition’ to verso. Beautifully signed by Bradman in ink to verso, probably in the 1930s. Odd marks otherwise in good+ condition. A rare early signature of Bradman.... View full lot details

Norman Gifford. Worcestershire, Warwickshire & England 1960-83. ‘Benefit Year’ 1974. Four page folding card produced to commemorate Gifford’s Benefit Year. The front cover features a photograph of Gifford celebrating having hit the winning six in the B&H Competition v Warwickshire in June 1973. Signed to the inside full pages by the Worcestershire Playing staff of 1974. Twenty two signatures in ink including Gifford, Turner, D’Oliveira, Ron Headley, Imran Khan, Ormrod, Parker, Holder, Inchmore, Cumbes, Pridgeon,... View full lot details

Hampshire C.C.C. Official menu for the ‘Committee Dinner to celebrate the winning of the Benson & Hedges Cup 1988’ held at The County Club, Southampton, 7th September 1988. The folding menu signed to the back page by the twelve members of the Hampshire team that beat Derbyshire at Lord’s by seven wickets. Signatures are Nicholas (Captain), Cowley, Turner, Connor, C. Smith, R. Smith, Terry, Jefferies, Parks, Andrew, Ayling and James (12th man). Good/ very good... View full lot details

‘Cricket Hall of Fame Celebration Lunch’ 1991. Official folding menu for the lunch held at Lord’s 14th June 1991. The menu signed in ink by twenty three attendees including England Test cricketers Denis Compton, Peter May, Donald Carr, Tony Lock, Ted Dexter, Fred Rumsey, Bob Barber, Peter Richardson, Dennis Amiss, Bob Woolmer etc., also Farokh Engineer (India), Leslie Crowther, Jeffrey Archer etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Macquarie Fast Bowlers Dinner’ 2011. Official menu/ programme brochure for the dinner given by the Lord’s Taverners, London 21st September 2011, with accompanying invitation card and table plan. The brochure fully signed to the player biographies by all twenty two featured players. Signatures are Curtley Ambrose, Andrew Caddick, Colin Croft, Alan Davidson, Joel Garner, Darren Gough, Charlie Griffith, Richard Hadlee, Wes Hall, Michael Holding, Kapil Dev, Glenn McGrath, Devon Malcolm, Makhaya Ntini, Mike Procter,... View full lot details

‘The Macquarie Legendary Test Captains Dinner’ 2013. Official menu/ programme brochure for the dinner given by the Lord’s Taverners, London 24th September 2013, with accompanying invitation card and table plan. The brochure signed to the player biographies by ten of the featured captains. Signatures are Mike Brearley, Ian Chappell, Ted Dexter, Andy Flower, Mike Gatting, David Gower, Mahela Jayawardene, Clive Lloyd, Shaun Pollock and Andrew Strauss. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Captains’ Dinner’ 2009. Official menu/ programme brochure for the dinner given by the Lord’s Taverners, London 7th October 2009, with accompanying invitation card, table plan and booking form. The brochure fully signed to the player biographies by all thirty of the featured captains. Signatures are Carr, Dexter, Smith, Close, Graveney, Illingworth, Lewis, Denness, Edrich, Greig, Brearley, Boycott, Botham, Fletcher, Willis, Gower, Gatting, Emburey, Chris Cowdrey, Gooch, Lamb, Stewart, Atherton, Hussain, Butcher, Vaughan, Trescothick, Flintoff,... View full lot details

Joe Hardstaff and Bill Voce. MC.C. tour of Australia 1936/37. Original Greetings telegram handwritten from Sydney Post Office and post stamped 26th December 1936. The message reads to ‘Hardstaff, 27 Fisher Street, Nuncargate, Notts. Best Love Mum and Dad’ and signed ‘Joe and Bill’. Folds, good condition... View full lot details

West Indies tour of England 1939. Official folding card itinerary for the tour beautifully and fully signed in ink to the front colour cover by all seventeen members of the touring party. Signatures are Grant (Captain), Cameron, Gomez, J.B. Stollmeyer, Williams, Bayley, Sealey, Clarke, V.H. Stollmeyer, Johnson, Martindale, Barrow, Constantine, Hylton, Weekes, Headley and Kidney (Manager). The itinerary with title to centre and West Indian emblem above and decoration to lower corner. Fixtures to inside... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of India & Ceylon 1933/34. Official players tour itinerary booklet for the ‘M.C.C. Tour in India and Ceylon 1933-1934’. Title and diagonal bands in M.C.C. colours to front cover, with team details, fixtures & travelling schedule, postal information etc. to inside pages. Nicely and fully signed in ink to the front cover by all seventeen members of the touring party. Signatures are Jardine (Captain), Elliott, Clark, Human, Langridge, Nichols, Marriott, Verity, Townsend, Barnett,... View full lot details

Edward Henry ‘Ted’ Bowley. Sussex & England 1912-1934. M.C.C. Tour of Ceylon and Australia 1929/30. Official M.C.C. folding printed Christmas card for the tour with M.C.C. Greofrge and the dragon emblem to front cover, greeting and mono image of the team on the ship to inner pages. Nicely signed in black ink to the card ‘E.H. Bowley. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1930/31. Official M.C.C. single sided ‘Greetings, 1930-31’ Christmas card with illustration of a cherub to the centre, printed poem below, emblems and flags above and below, surrounded by borders in red and gold. The card signed in black ink by nineteen members of the England and South African teams. Signatures are Chapman (Captain), White, Wyatt, Goddard, Leyland, Duckworth, Tate, Hammond, Hendren (England), Cameron, Taylor, Nupen, McMillan, Bell, Balaskas, Dalton, Vincent,... View full lot details

Bodyline. Harold Larwood. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1932/33. Official M.C.C. four page Christmas card with card wrappers. Title to front ‘Christmas Greetings from the M.C.C. in Australia’, attractive colour St. George and dragon emblem, and caricatures of the Touring party standing on an outline map of Australia. Signed in ink to the inside from ‘Harold [Larwood], to ‘Rachael & George’. Some foxing and minor soiling to wrappers, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Commonwealth tour to India & Ceylon 1950/51. Official Christmas card with team colours in stripes to front, printed team photograph to inside. Signed in ink by two members of the touring party, George Tribe and Bruce Dooland. Light creasing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Edwin Boaler Alletson. Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1906-1914. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) on which Alletson has made the following statement ‘For Notts at Brighton 1911 I scored 189 runs in 90 minutes of which the last 142 were scored in 40 minutes. 56 Runs were scored in two consecutive overs. 34 in one and 22 in the next. For the last wicket Riley and myself put on 152. I scored 142 and Riley made... View full lot details

John Richmond Gunn. Nottinghamshire, London County & England 1896-1925. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) very nicely signed to the top of the page in ink by Gunn, giving his year and birth, day and month, he has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. These include ‘Notts County 1896 to 1926, Toured Australia 1901/02, Gents v Players matches 13, at Lord’s + Oval, All round first class cricket, Wickets 1,150 for Notts... View full lot details

John William Hitch. Surrey & England 1907-1925. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) very nicely signed to the top of the page in ink by Hitch, giving his year of birth ‘1886’, he has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. These include ‘Surrey County, 20 years, 1465 wickets, Vistied Australia 1911/12 and 20/21, Triangular Tournament, Manchester and Oval ... Centenary match at Lords 1914, First class Umpire, Test at Leeds, Lancashire League... View full lot details

Frank Rowbotham Foster. Warwickshire & England 1908-1914. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) very nicely signed to the top of the page in ink by Foster, giving the date I presume he wrote the piece ‘25th January 1951’ he has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. These include ‘Warwickshire C.C. 1908-1914, Captain 1911-1914, Captain M.C.C. in Tasmania 1911-12.... Third Test match, at Adelaide, Tiger Smith and self got Clem Hill, Captain of... View full lot details

Frederick Lloyd Bowley. Worcestershire 1899-1923. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with excellent head and shoulders pencil portrait of Bowley wearing Worcestershire cap, very nicely signed to the side ‘Yours faithfully Fred. L. Bowley’ he has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. These include ‘29 Seasons with Worcestershire County C.C., 19 in first class cricket, Record in First Class, 732 innings, highest score 276, total runs 26,000, average 31.80, Gents v Players,... View full lot details

West Indies tour of England 1939. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with excellent pen and ink caricatures portraits of Ken Weekes, Tyrell Johnson and George Headley running down the pages, two in batting pose and one in bowling pose, very nicely signed below each portrait by the players featured. Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges... View full lot details

Arthur Alfred Mailey. New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with excellent head and shoulders self portrait of Mailey by Mailey, nicely signed in ink and dated 14th August 1948, being the first day of the Oval Test match, England v Australia. The sheet also signed below by Alan Fairfax of Australia. A excellent image, the page with gilt to page edges... View full lot details

Australian tour of England 1948. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with excellent pen and ink caricatures head and shoulders portraits of Arthur Morris, Don Tallon and Ray Lindwall running down the pages, very nicely signed below each portrait by the players featured. Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges... View full lot details

William Albert Stanley Oldfield, New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with pencil and ink head and shoulders portrait of Bert Oldfield in Australian cap and blazer, very nicely signed below the portrait by Oldfield and dated 9th September 1896 (his birthday). Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges... View full lot details

William Henry Patterson. Oxford University & Kent 1880-1900. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with ink and pencil portrait of Patterson seated holding a cricket bat, very nicely signed below the portrait by Patterson and dated 7th February 1938 (possibly the date he signed it). Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges... View full lot details

Thomas Walter ‘Tom’ Hayward. Surrey & England 1893-1914. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with ink and pencil portrait of Hayward stood holding a cricket bat, very nicely signed below the portrait by Hayward with additional wording ‘Late Surrey & England XI’. Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges... View full lot details

Frederick Robert Spofforth. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1874-1888. Excellent three page handwritten folding letter dated 29th September 1904 from Spofforth to F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Writing from an address in London, Spofforth is replying to an enquiry about a match in which he played. ‘As far as I remember it was played in Dec 1881 on a sheep [farm] and I don’t think it was ever published in any paper except the bare fact that... View full lot details

William Lloyd ‘Billy’ Murdoch. New South Wales, Sussex, London County, Australia & England 1875-1904. Original and interesting two page ‘begging letter’ handwritten in black ink from Murdoch to ‘Dear Old Dick’, dated 3rd September 1909. Writing from Bayswater in London, Murdoch is asking for ‘a very great favour and lend me £25’. He has his wife are about to set off to Australia and ‘The large amount we have had to pay for our return tickets... View full lot details

Henry ‘Harry’ Moses. New South Wales & Australia 1881-1895. Short single page handwritten undated letter in ink from Moses replying to a request for signed photographs of himself, ‘which I am returning by this mail’. He continues ‘I scarcely knew it as it must have been taken fifty years ago, when I was playing cricket. I was known as Harry’. Nicely signed ‘Henry Moses’. The page trimmed and laid down. Very good condition. A rare... View full lot details

Hugh Trumble. Victoria & Australia 1887-1904. Single page handwritten letter in the form of a testimonial/ reference, neatly written in ink by Trumble in Melbourne, dated 5th February 1892. Trumble writes ‘Mr. White has been known to me for the last two years as a ground bowler in the services of the Melbourne Cricket Club. I have always found him most energetic and trustworthy and can recommend him as a first class bowler to anybody... View full lot details

Clement ‘Clem’ Hill. South Australia & Australia 1892-1923. Two page handwritten folding letter in ink from Hill to ‘The Chairman, V.A.T.C. [Victoria Amateur Turf Club], Melbourne’. Dated 17th November 1937, Hill is applying for ‘the position of handicapper to your Club’ and quotes his previous experience stating ‘For 14 years I acted as a stipendiary steward in South Australia and for 9 years I have [been] handicapping for the S.A. [South Australia] Jockey Club &... View full lot details

Warren Bardsley. New South Wales & Australia 1903-1926. Single page handwritten letter from Bardsley on ruled paper, dated 2nd August 1953[?]. Writing from Sydney, Bardsley is replying to a request for his autograph, but states ‘I am wondering how you obtained my private address- perhaps through George Duckworth whose broadcasting of [the] Old Trafford Test was excellent and quite a treat to listen to after the others. I am afraid that cricket out here and... View full lot details

Charles George Macartney. New South Wales & Australia 1905-1926. Single page typewritten letter from Charles Macartney to a ‘P.T. Bailey’ of Leicester, replying to a request for his autograph, which he has done along with an autographed postcard of himself. The letter is sent from Chatswood, Sydney, dated 6th July 1948 and is very nicely signed in ink by Macartney. Horizontal and vertical folds, nick to lower edge, slight splitting to fold, otherwise in good/... View full lot details

John ‘Jack’ Ryder. Victoria & Australia 1912-1932. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Ryder, written on The Grand Hotel, Birmingham headed note paper. Dated ‘Aug 6th [1926], the letter was written during the course of the tour match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston. Addressed to a ‘Mrs Jackson’, Ryder states he is ‘sorry to say I will not be able to pay you a visit as we don’t play in Manchester again’ and encloses an... View full lot details

Arthur Mailey, New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Mailey written on Hotel Metropole, Swansea headed note paper. Dated ‘Aug 3 1930’, the letter was written during the course of the tour match against Glamorgan, prior to the forthcoming 5th Test. Addressed to a ‘Mr. Wolfe’ (possibly E.G. Wolfe, brother in law of Sir Julien Cahn), Mailey says ‘I have forwarded your letter [requesting Test match tickets] to Mr... View full lot details

Percival Mitchell ‘Percy’ Hornibrook. Queensland & Australia 1919-1934. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Mailey written on his ‘P.M. Hornibrook Dental Surgeon’ headed notepaper in Brisbane. Dated 20th July 1955, Hornibrook is enclosing two signed cards as requested, apologising for the ‘poor signature, the old hand is not as steady as years ago’. He is also sorry to ‘hear of Alan Fairfax having passed on as he was quite young’ (Fairfax died in 1955... View full lot details

William Albert Stanley ‘Bert’ Oldfield. New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Interesting two page typed letter from Oldfield on his ‘W.A. Oldfield’ sports outlet business letterhead in Sydney, dated 17th November 1927. Addressed to ‘J. Rowan’ of Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Oldfield writes ‘concerning my Australian Eleven Cricket Blazer, which I loaned to you when I was in England... in order that you might copy it for our future visits and I think I also sent... View full lot details

Benjamin Arthur ‘Ben’ Barnett. Victoria & Australia 1929-1947. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 26th November 1969 from Barnett to Ron Yeomans, collector and Secretary of the Northern Cricket Society. Writing from his home in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, Barnett confirms his travel arrangements for attending an impending Society meeting. Nicely signed by Barnett. Light fold, otherwise in very good condition.... 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

Ronald Arthur ‘Ron’ Hamence. South Australia & Australia 1935-1951. Single page handwritten letter on ruled paper from Hamence. Writing from Croydon, South Australia and dated 22nd December 1936, Hamence is writing to a newspaper he had recently visited with Frank Ward (South Australia & Australia 1935-1941) to order ‘some snaps of myself’, asking for ‘six copies of each- one practising at the nets, and the other is a group of six arriving at the station’.... View full lot details

Keith Ross Miller. Victoria, New South Wales, Nottinghamshire & Australia 1937-1959. Single page aerogramme letter from Miller in Australia, dated 10th October 1977, to ‘Dear Peter’ in Northern Ireland. Miller is replying to an enquiry about his ‘best moments in cricket’, saying he ‘enjoyed it all whether making a century or a “duck” or taking umpteen wickets or 0/100. I just liked playing cricket’. He remembers playing a match in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, during WWII... View full lot details

Australia. Greg Chappell and Bob Simpson. Single page handwritten letter from Greg Chappell dated 11th September 1969. Written during the final County Championship match of the season, Chappell was playing for Somerset against Kent at Dover and is pleased with their performances, having ‘played far better than our position on the county table would suggest’. Nicely signed by Chappell. Also a single page typed letter from Bob Simpson dated 6th September 1978, who states that... View full lot details

William Henry Cooper. Victoria & Australia 1878-1885. Very rare single page handwritten letter from Cooper, written on ruled paper, dated ‘Sept 15th [1936]’. Cooper is writing to ‘Mr. Hill’, being Les R. Hill, the cricket writer and collector base in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Cooper writes, ‘At 87 I am granted wonderfully good health’ and while he ‘cannot do anything in the way of cricket except looking at cricket’ he looks forward ‘to see something... View full lot details

John Barton King. Philadelphia. U.S.A. 1893-1912. Handwritten single page letter in ink from Barton King to ‘Dear Monty’, thanking him for his ‘kind wishes’ and reporting that his ‘hip is coming along very finely’. Nicely signed ‘J. Barton King’. Light horizontal folds, otherwise in very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Albert Ward. Yorkshire, Lancashire & England 1886-1904. Two page letter handwritten in ink from Ward, dated May 1893. Ward is replying to a request for a cricket bat from Charles Pratt Green. ‘I cannot oblige you with a bat this time. The one I have played with nearly all season and which has made me over 1000 runs in first class cricket this year for the first time in my career. I should like to... View full lot details

Richard Gorton ‘Dick’ Barlow’. Lancashire, Derbyshire & England 1871-1891. Two page handwritten folding letter in ink from Barlow to F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Dated 4th November 1912, on his personal letterhead in Blackpool, Barlow is replying to an enquiry about ‘a feat which you name’, of which he says he has ‘no recollection... and must say it is news to me’. He continues to say he always looks forward to cricket and is keeping well. Very nicely... View full lot details

John Shuter. Kent, Surrey and England 1874-1909. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Shuter to the writer and administrator, Charles W. Alcock, dated ‘Dec. 4’, year unknown. Shuter writes to confirm his attendance ‘at No. 57 tomorrow Wednesday morning... to have a chat with you’ and is returning a ‘Burbridge Newham letter’. Nicely signed ‘John Shuter’. Horizontal folds and pin holes not affecting the signatures, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

William ‘Billy’ Barnes. Nottinghamshire & England 1875-1894. Five-line poem handwritten in ink on neatly trimmed page and beautifully signed below ‘Wm Barnes’. The poem reads ‘Let prudence direct you/ Temperance chasten you/ Fortitude support you/ and justice be the guide/ Of all your actions’. The page measures 5.75”x4”. Very good condition. A fine example of this notorious cricketer’s signature.... View full lot details

Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottinghamshire & England 1875-1902. Single page memorandum handwritten in ink by Shrewsbury on the beautifully ornate official letterhead of Shaw & Shrewsbury’s Nottingham sports equipment business. Dated 27th March 1889, Shrewsbury is writing to a lady in Bedford stating ‘It is with the greatest & most sincere pleasure that I wish all my success to the Bazaar in aid of your Cricket Club’. Very nicely signed ‘Arthur Shrewsbury’. Horizontal and vertical folds with... View full lot details

Alfred Lyttleton. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1876-1887. Single page letter handwritten in ink by Lyttelton to ‘Dear Bruce’, dated 28th January 1890 from his office in London. Replying to a request, presumably to attend a function, Lyttelton writes ‘I am afraid cricket is on the 5th [which] makes it too uncertain for me to give any promise’. (Please to not placard me over Cambridge as you did last time when I had declined)’. Signed... View full lot details

Allan Gibson Steel. Lancashire, Cambridge University & England 1877-1893. Two page handwritten folded letter in ink dated London, 4th July 1906. Writing ‘To the Editor of Punch [Magazine]’ Steel states ‘May I as an old cricketer, who in days gone by, have played for Gents & Players & also for England, congratulate you on the excellently humorous lines in this week’s Punch entitled ‘Lines on Tomkins’ average’. I do not think I ever remember any... View full lot details

William ‘Billy’ Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. Single page folded letter handwritten in ink by Gunn on his official business letterhead for ‘The County Cricket, Football, Lawn Tennis and British Sports Warehouse’ in Nottingham. Dated 18th April 1903, Gunn is writing to the collector, Charles Pratt Green, ‘I am sending you Monday a parcel containing the various shapes of bats during process of manufacturing’. Very nicely signed ‘W. Gunn’. Light horizontal folds, very good condition.... View full lot details

John Auger Dixon. Nottinghamshire 1882-1905. Two page letter handwritten in ink by Dixon in Nottingham to David Denton (Yorkshire & England 1894-1920) with good cricket content. Dated 2nd August 1900, Dixon has bought a bat of Denton’s and he writes ‘My first innings with your bat 177 not out has so pleased me that I cannot do less than send you another guinea. I shall still feel that I have got a good bargain. It... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Handwritten single page letter from Hobbs on his ‘Jack Hobbs Ltd.’ official business letterhead in Fleet Street, London, dated 15th April 1931. Writing to a ‘Mr. Marshall’ Hobbs has ‘selected the bat you ordered of me in Dublin last week and we send it herewith’, hoping he will be pleased with it and that it brings ‘the best of luck & many big scores’. He closes by... View full lot details

George Ernest Tyldesley. Lancashire & England 1909-1936. Two page folded letter handwritten in ink from Ernest Tyldesley to a Mr. Hunter. Dated 3rd November 1930, Tyldesley is writing to thank the correspondent ‘for your kind letter of sympathy received’ following the death of his brother, J.T. ‘Johnny’ Tyldesley (Lancashire & England 1895-1923). ‘The sudden death of my brother was a great shock, especially as he had recently been on the better side’. Very nicely signed,... View full lot details

Elias Henry ‘Patsy’ Hendren. Middlesex & England 1907-1937. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Hendren, dated 18th February 1926 on the official letterhead of the ‘West London Indoor Cricket & Sports Club’ where Hendren was Manager. Hendren is replying to an invitation from ‘Mr. [John] Webber’, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods, to attend a week of promotional employment. ‘I am writing to confirm your offer to me at Harrods for one week...... View full lot details

Charles Frederick ‘Fred’ Root. Derbyshire, Worcestershire & England 1910-1932. Two handwritten letters in ink from Root in Tipton, Staffordshire to Mr. John Webber, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods. In the first, a single page letter on ruled paper dated 14th March 1927, Root acknowledges receipt of an invitation to attend Harrods for promotional employment, but states he has to ‘get the permission of the Worcestershire County Cricket Club’. In the follow-up two page... View full lot details

Herbert ‘Bert’ Strudwick. Surrey & England 1902-1927. Single page handwritten folding letter in ink from Strudwick in London to John Webber, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods, dated 22nd March 1927. Strudwick is replying to an invitation of employment for promotional work at Harrods, ‘I called at the Oval this morning to obtain leave, but found Mr. R.N.C. Palairet [Secretary, Surrey C.C.C.] away until Monday next... I will write to you as soon as... View full lot details

Harold Larwood. Nottinghamshire, Europeans & England 1924-1938. Single page handwritten letter in ink on ruled paper from Larwood to John Webber, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods. The letter is undated but probably 1927. Larwood is replying to an invitation of employment for promotional work at Harrods saying ‘I have today received a reply from the Committee of the “Notts CCC” and they are willing to release [me] on the dates arranged’ and closes... View full lot details

Douglas Robert Jardine. Oxford University, Surrey & England 1920-1934. Two page handwritten letter from Jardine to Ron Yeomans, collector and Secretary of the Northern Cricket Society. Written on ‘The Scottish Australian Company’ official letterhead and dated 26th March 1956, Jardine is writing to accept an invitation to attend a function in Leeds on 11th July and ‘propose the toast of the Australians’. He goes on to point out that ‘No doubt you know that the... View full lot details

Arthur Percy Frank Chapman. Cambridge University, Kent & England 1920-1938. Single page typed letter from Chapman, hand addressed in ink to a ‘Mr Hornsby’. Chapman had been dropped as captain (and player) for the last Test of the 1930 Ashes series against Australia. This letter is dated 23rd September 1930, one month after the series had finished. Chapman writes to say ‘I was, naturally, exceedingly disappointed to start with, but now it’s all over I... View full lot details

Alfred Shaw. Nottinghamshire, Sussex & England 1864-1897. Rare and early single page handwritten letter from Shaw to J.M. Cotterill (Sussex 1870-1888), dated 17th January 1879. Shaw is inviting Cotterill to play in his benefit match, ‘Will you favor me by consenting to have your name added to the list of players in the North v South match to be played at Lord’s on June 2nd, 3rd & 4th (Whit Monday etc) for my benefit’. Very... View full lot details

Edward Ralph ‘Ted’ Dexter. Cambridge University, Sussex & England 1956-1968. Eight pages of notes written by Dexter for an article for the Sunday Mirror, 25th July 1976, reporting on the 4th Test, England v West Indies, at Headingley 22nd- 27th July 1976. Reporting on the third day’s play Dexter describes ‘a crazily unpredictable morning’s play. At the start Tony Greig was eleven short of his hundred, thirteen were needed to save the follow-on and there... View full lot details

Hampshire cricket 1940s-1990s. Two binders comprising a good selection of ephemera relating to Hampshire. Included is an official scorecard for Hampshire’s final home match of the 1961 season v Derbyshire at Bournemouth, which Hampshire won by 140 runs to seal their first ever County Championship title, signed to the back by Mike Barnard, Jimmy Gray, Leo Harrison, Peter Sainsbury and David ‘Butch’ White. First day cover for the 1973 ‘Champion County’ match v M.C.C. at... View full lot details