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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘East v West 1892’. Attractive original joint team photograph of the two teams who played the match on the 5th-7th September 1892 at Portsmouth. Players include Palairet, Fird, Croome, Needham, Woods, Brann, Vernon, The photograph by George Glanville of Tunbridge Wells, title and players names to lower border and details of the players and scores to lower border. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 22”x21”. Good condition... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1892. Rare and impressive official sepia photograph of the Surrey team, two umpires and scorer, seated and standing in rows wearing caps and blazers. The photograph is laid down to official photographers mount with title ‘Surrey, 1892’ and players names printed to lower border. Players featured include J. Shuter, Lockwood, Henderson, Wood, Abel, Streatfield, Lohmann, Richardson etc. The photograph by E. Hawkins & Co of Brighton. The photograph measures approx 11.5”x9.25” and is... View full lot details

Players v Gentlemen 1894. Large early original sepia photograph of the Players team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, some in caps and blazers. The photograph taken for the match played at Kennington Oval, 5th- 7th July 1894. Players featured are Abel (Captain), Lockwood, Gunn, Brockwell, Ward, Hearne, Mold, Wainwright, Hunter, Briggs and Baker, also the umpires Watts and Wood, and the scorer, Boyington. The photograph measures 11.5”x9.5”, laid to original photographer’s mount,... View full lot details

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Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1903. Nice early original sepia photograph of the Nottinghamshire team seated and standing in rows in front of a pavilion, wearing cricket attire, some in caps and blazers. Players include J.A. Dixon, Gunn, Jones, Shrewsbury, Iremonger etc. Small printed title to lower right corner ‘Notts County 1903’. Photograph by S. Kirk, 8.25”x.6.25”. Adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sussex County Cricket 1908’. Mono photographic print of fifteen members of the 1908 Sussex team, signed in black ink by twelve of the featured players. Signatures are K.S. Ranjitsinhji, C.B. Fry, H. Killick, G. Cox, C.L.A. Smith, R.R. Relf, E.B. Dwyer, A.E. Relf, R.A. Young, J. Vine and G. Leach. Slight fading to the odd signature. The image measures 11.5”x8.5”. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 16”x11.5”. Good condition.... View full lot details

‘Northamptonshire 1911’. Excellent cabinet card photograph of the Northamptonshire team, standing and seated in rows, wearing assorted blazers, some in Northamptonshire caps. Title ‘Northampton 1911’ to top border. Players include Vials (Cpt), Denton, Boswell, Thompson, Haywood, Seymour, Walden, East etc. The photograph by E. Hawkins of Brighton with advertising to verso. Good condition... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. ‘County Champions’ 1914. Large sepia photograph of the team, standing and seated in rows, the majority wearing Surrey blazers and caps. Players featured include Tom Hayward (Cpt), Hobbs, Sandham, Ducat, Fender, Hayes, Hitch, Abel, ‘Razor’ Smith, Strudwick etc. A nice image. Mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 20”x17”. Surface damage to the image and some fading to the image otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Oxford University 1914. Excellent original mono photograph of the Oxford team, standing and seated in rows wearing University C.C. blazers. This was the team that played Cambridge at Lord’s in July 1914. Players featured include F.H. Knott (Cpt), D.J. Knight, M. Howell, F.C.G. Naumann, O.C. Bristowe, W.G.K. Boswell, E.A. Shaw, B.G.V. Melle, G.R.R. Colman etc. Many went onto play first class cricket, two sadly perished in the first World War, Shaw and Boswell, both in... View full lot details

Blackheath Cricket Club 1920. Official mono photograph of the Blackheath C.C. team, seated and standing in rows in front of the pavilion, wearing an assortment of blazers. Notable Kent players featured include R.N.R. Blaker, J.R. Mason, A.P. Day and B.S. Cumberlege. The photograph by Wayland of Blackheath measures 11.25”x9.5”, laid to official photographer’s mount with printed title and players’ names to borders, overall 18”x14”. Some silvering to photograph edges, foxing and slight wear to mount,... View full lot details

South v North 1922. Photograph album comprising thirty three original small candid photographs, all taken at the match played at The Saffrons, Eastbourne, 20th & 21st September 1922. The photographs depict the teams, players entering and leaving the field of play, at the ground etc. Fifteen of the photographs are very nicely signed by the featured player(s), sixteen signatures in total. Signed photographs feature A.E.R. & A.H.H. Gilligan, two signed individually by A.H.H. Gilligan, two... View full lot details

Gentlemen v Players, Lord’s 1930. Original mono photographs of both the Gentlemen and Players teams, standing and seated in rows wearing various blazers, the match played at Lord’s in July 1930. Players featured include Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Larwood, Woolley, Hammond, Tate, Freeman, Leyland, Duckworth, Hendren, Chapman, Duleepsinhji, Allen, Wyatt, Lyon, Allom, White, Parsons etc. The photographs measures 11.75”x7.75”. Adhesive marks to verso otherwise in good condition. Qty 2. Excellent images... View full lot details

‘Gentlemen XI 1934. Large official photograph of the Gentlemen team that played the Players at Lords in July 1934. The team photographed wearing cricket attire, some with caps. Players include Wyatt (cpt), Levett, Holmes, Melville, Baxter, Valentine, Walters, Allen, Turnbull etc. Photograph by ‘The Sport & General Press Agency Ltd’ laid down to official mount with printed photographers details to corner. Framed and glazed. Overall 21”x16”. G... View full lot details

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Surrey County Cricket Club circa1950. Good mono press photograph of the Surrey team, standing and seated in rows, wearing club blazers. The photograph, by Barratt’s Photo Press Ltd, nicely signed in ink by twelve of the players featured including Barton (Cpt), Squires, Fishlock, E. Bedser, McIntyre, Barling, Fletcher, McMahon, Watts, Strudwick (coach) and Sandy Tait (physio) etc. Only lacking the signatures of Laker and Alec Bedser from the full group of fourteen players. 8”x6”. Odd... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England. 1865-1908 and Henry ‘Harry’ Jupp, Surrey & England 1862-1881. Original sepia photograph of the two players full length stood side by side, Grace holding a cricket ball and Jupp a cricket bat, both wearing cricket attire 1870’s. Photograph by Elliott & Fry of 55 Baker Street. The photograph measures 7.5”x9.25”, laid down to photographers mount overall 11.75”x15”. Some wear, staining and discolouration to image, tear to left hand border... View full lot details

Test and County cricketers c.1880s-1890s. Five excellent early original sepia photographs of individual players of the period. Three are by E. Hawkins & Co., Brighton, C.L. Townsend (Gloucestershire & England 1893-1922) in bowling pose, L.C.H. Palairet (Oxford University, Somerset & England 1890-1909), and S.M.J. Woods (Cambridge University, Somerset, England & Australia 1886-1910), both in batting pose. Other images, assumed also to be by Hawkins, are studio images of E.M. Grace (Gloucestershire & England 1862-1896) three... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. c.1880s-1890s. Nine excellent early original sepia photographs of individual Yorkshire players of the period. Four are by E. Hawkins & Co., Brighton, Lord Hawke, George Hirst, both in batting pose at the wicket, Schofield Haigh, Wilfred Rhodes, both in bowling pose at the wicket. Other images, assumed also to be by Hawkins, feature Jack Brown, F.S. Jackson, both in batting poses, Robert Peel in bowling pose, and three-quarter length studio images of George... View full lot details

Charles Hamlin Smith. Sussex 1861-1874. Early carte de visite sepia studio photograph card of Smith in cricket attire holding bat to side. The photograph by ‘Monsieur A. Boucher of Brighton, with advertising to verso. Overall 2.5”x4.25” Minor speckling to image otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Somerset v Yorkshire. August 26th 1892’. Original and official photograph to commemorate Lionel Palairet and Herbie Hewett setting the then record opening partnership in first-class cricket of 346 in Somerset’s only innings in the match played at Taunton. The two players are stood in front of the scoreboard with the scores displayed. Title to top border and details of the players and scores to lower border. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 17”x19”. Very slight tear/split... View full lot details

Lord Martin Bladen Hawke. Yorkshire & England 1881-1911. Splendid sepia cabinet card photograph of Hawke, head and shoulders, wearing suit, shirt and tie. Nicely signed in black ink by Hawke, towards the lower right hand corner of the image, and dated ‘1894’. The cabinet card photograph by J.Burke & Co of India [Murree, Peshawar, Northern India]. The card measures 4.25”x6.5”. Minor foxing and minor wear to card extremities and corners, gilt to all edges otherwise... View full lot details

Percy Melville Thornton. Cambridge & Middlesex. Original sepia cabinet card photograph of Thornton in later life as MP for Clapham. Photograph by Webster Bros of Clapham. Card measures approx 4.25”x6.5”. Minor marks, rounding to one card corner otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘W.G. Grace at the Wicket’. Original sepia photogravure, after Archibald Stuart Wortley 1890, of the famous painting of Grace in batting pose at Lord’s, which hangs in the Long Room at Lord’s. Published by Manson, Swan and Morgan, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st May 1891, printed in Berlin, with cricket ball remarque to lower border. Signed in pencil to lower border by the subject, W.G. Grace, and by the artist, Wortley and limited to 100 copies.... View full lot details

Frank William Marlow. Sussex 1891-1904. Signed full page mono illustration plate of Marlow in fielding pose, ‘F.W. Marlow catching the ball low down’ taken from The Jubilee Book of Cricket by K.S. Ranjitsinhji 1897. Nicely signed ‘Yours Faithfully’ in black ink by Mason. Slight fading to the end of the signature otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

James Cranston. Gloucestershire 1976-1899. Excellent mono studio photograph of Cranston, sat wearing cricket attire with bat to side, the photograph laid down to card. Nicely signed in ink to lower border of the card by Cranston. 5”x7”. Some slight fading to image, the signature strong. Good condition... View full lot details

Thomas Walter ‘Tom’ Hayward. Surrey & England 1893-1914. Excellent extra large ‘Imperial’ size cabinet sepia card photograph of Hayward standing, full length, in batting pose at the wicket wearing Surrey county cap. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘Yours Truly, T. Hayward. The photograph by Herbert Tear of Clapham Road, London c1899. The photograph is laid down to photographers card mount with photographer’s name to lower left hand border and measures approximately... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Large impressive sepia photograph of Grace, three quarter length, wearing cricket whites and holding a cricket bat under his arm. W&S Ltd. Barraud of Oxford Street, London 1888. Produced as part of a series of photographs of famous actors, authors etc. The photograph laid down to photographers mount card with modern overmount, framed and glazed and overall 17.5”x21.5”. Excellent image. Good condition.... View full lot details

Ernest George Hayes. Surrey, Leicestershire & England 1896-1926. Early original mono photograph of Hayes standing full length at the wicket in batting attire, leaning on his bat. Photograph by E. Hawkins & Co., Brighton. 4”x5.75”. Wear to corners, small adhesive mount marks to verso, otherwise an excellent image in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

W.G. Grace at the cricket early 1900s. Large early original sepia photograph of a large group of cricketers, friends, ladies, gentlemen and dignitaries seated and standing in rows in and in front of the Crystal Palace cricket pavilion in the early 1900s. Grace is depicted in the centre of the first row, with a child sitting between his legs, wearing cricket attire and a blazer. Match unknown. The photograph, by J. Russell & Sons of... View full lot details

Henry Knollys ‘Harry’ Foster. Oxford University & Worcestershire 1894-1925. Original mono cabinet card photograph of Foster in batting pose wearing cap. Signed to lower border by Foster. The card by Foster of Brighton. Some wear to edges, some surface wear, tiny ink stain otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

William Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. Mono bookplate photograph of Gunn in batting pose playing the ‘Forward Drive’, nicely signed to lower border ‘Yours Faithfully’ by Gunn. The bookplate taken from the ‘Jubilee Book of Cricket’, Ranjitsinhji 1897. Mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 11.5”x15.5”. Good condition... View full lot details

Bertram Lewis Bisgood. Somerset 1907-1921. Original sepia studio photograph of Bisgood, in batting pose, wearing cricket attire. Signed to lower border in ink by Bisgood and dated June 1907. The card by Jas Bacon and Sons of Leeds 1907. 5”x7.5”. The photograph with slightly uneven borders. Good condition... View full lot details

Gregor MacGregor. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1888-1907. Original sepia cabinet card photograph of MacGregor standing full length wearing wicket-keeping attire at the wicket and wearing Middlesex cap. E. Hawkins & Co. of Brighton. Card measures 4.25”x6.5”. Some adhesive marks to verso otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Robert Bagehot Porch. Somerset 1895-1910. Original sepia cabinet card photograph of Porch, wearing suit and tie. Signed to lower border in ink by Porch and dated 1908. The card by Norman May & Co Ltd of Malvern. Some fading to image, the signature strong. Good condition... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. George Beldam, pioneer of action photography, the first action photographer of sport in Britain, specialising in cricket and golf. Very rare original sepia photograph of Grace playing an on-drive, being one of nine action photographs of William Gilbert Grace, Gloucestershire & England, taken between 1901 and 1904 taken by George Beldam, of which only two sets of original prints were contemporaneously produced. One set was for reproduction in the books ‘Great Batsman, Their... View full lot details

John Tyldesley. Lancashire & England 1895-1923. Excellent original mono photograph of Tyldesley in batting pose standing at the crease wearing a Lancashire cap. Photograph laid down to original photographer’s mount with handwritten title to lower border ‘J. Tyldesley. 1910’. 9.5”x11.5”, overall 13.5”x18”. Photographer unknown. Annotation in pencil to verso ‘Mr R.H. Spooner’ of Metheringham in Lincolnshire, presumably Reggie Spooner (Lancashire and England 1899-1921). Adhesive damage to a 0.25” border around the image, odd worm holes... View full lot details

Charles Philip Mead. Hampshire & England 1905-1936. Exquisite studio portrait of Mead taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Mead is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Mead to the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour... View full lot details

Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe. Original mono photograph of Hobbs and Sutcliffe walking out to bat at Scarborough. Very nicely signed in ink to the photograph by both players. Date and photographer unknown, probably 1920s. 6.5”x8.5”. Pin holes to extreme top corners, adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in very good condition. An excellent image with nice signatures.... View full lot details

Alfred Percy Freeman. Kent & England 1914-1936. Excellent studio portrait photograph of Freeman, full length, wearing cricket attire and Kent cap. The photograph, by Hedgeland of Maidstone, measures overall £7”x10”. Good condition... View full lot details

Four Middlesex Centurions 1920’. Excellent and attractive original mono photograph of the four Midddlesex batsman who scored a century v Sussex at Lord’s in the first innings of the match played 22nd-24th May 1920. Midddlesex scored 543-4 declared with Pelham Warner (139), Henry Lee (119), Jack Hearne (116no) and Nigel Haig (131). The photograph, by Sport & General, shows the four players stood in line in similar pose, wearing caps, with bats under their... View full lot details

Vernon Tickell Hill. Somerset 1891-1912. Excellent mounted photograph of Hill posed at the wicket, wearing Oxford University cap. The photograph laid down to photographers mount and signed by Hill to lower border. Overall 9.75”x12”. Good condition... View full lot details

Scarborough 1921 & 1922, Middlesex v Essex 1910. Three original mono photographs laid to an album page. To one side is a photograph of the M.C.C. touring team to South Africa 1922 seated and standing in rows in front of the pavilion. Players are Mann (Captain), Woolley, Fender, Jupp, Carr, Macaulay, Kennedy, Mead, Sandham and Dolphin. Below is a photograph of the 1921 Australian tourists being led onto the field by Armstrong (Captain), Ryder, Collins,... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1924/25. Two original candid style mono photographs, both taken while on tour on an excursion to a woodland lake. One depicts Roy Kilner standing full length wearing a cap, the other similar with A.E.R. Gilligan and Maurice Tate. Photographer unknown. Each measures 3.5”x5.75”. Small adhesive mount marks to verso, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1924/25. Six original mono candid photographs of Australian players departing from the Australian mainland and on board the ‘Miramar’ to visit Launceston, Tasmania for the tour match in late January 1925. Players featured include Warren Bardsley, Eddie Mayne, Arthur Richardson, Clarrie Grimmett, Bill Ponsford etc. Each photograph, measuring approx. 6”x3.5”, is lightly laid down to black disbound album page, or with light adhesive marks where previously laid down, with pencil annotations... View full lot details

Mr A.W. Carr. Captain. Notts County C.C. and England XI. Trent Bridge 1926. Original photograph of Carr, taken at Trent Bridge. The photograph by J. Webb, Douglas Studio, Nottingham. Laid down to card. 6”x8”. Adhesive marks to card back otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

James Langridge. Sussex, Auckland & England 1924-1953. Good mono photograph of Langridge, full length, in batting pose at the wicket wearing Sussex cap, nicely signed in ink by Langridge ‘Yours Sincerely’. The photograph, by John Whewell of Hove, measures 6”x8”. Irregular edge to the right hand side otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji. Sussex, Cambridge University, Hindus & England 1924-1932. Large original sepia photograph of Duleepsinhji standing in front of the scoreboard having scored 254no in Cambridge University’s second innings total of 366/5 declared in the match v Middlesex at Fenner’s, 7th- 10th May 1927. The photograph measures 9.5”x11.5”, laid to photographer’s mount, overall 10.75”x12.75”. Photographer unknown. Wear to the mount, the photograph in very good condition.... View full lot details