Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘Lord Sheffield’s Eleven at Sheffield Park, August 26 & 27, 1881’. Early original sepia photograph of Lord Sheffield’s team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire for the match v A. Shaw’s XI, 26th- 27th August 1881. Players featured include Emmett, Pinder, Ulyett, Ellis, Greenfield (Captain), Lockwood, Gilbert, Peate, Butler etc. The photograph by Hennah & Kent, Brighton, measures 10”x8.75”, laid to official photographer’s mount with printed players’ names and title to lower border,... View full lot details

‘Alfred Shaw’s Eleven’ 1881. Early original sepia photograph of Shaw’s team, seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire for the match v Lord Sheffield’s XI at Sheffield Park, Uckfield on the 25th-27th August 1881. Players include Shaw (Captain) Gunn, Bates, Sherwin, Scotton, Wright, Oscroft, Selby, Clarke etc. The photograph laid down to original photographers mount with title and players names to lower border. Photograph by Hennah & Kent of Brighton. The photograph measures 10”x8”.... View full lot details

‘Lord Sheffield’s Eleven 1884’. Early original sepia photograph of Lord Sheffield’s team who played the Australians at Sheffield Park, Uckfield, East Sussex on the 12th & 13th May 1884, standing and seated in rows wearing caps and cricket attire, some in blazers. Label to verso lists the players, W.G. Grace, A. Shaw, A. Shrewsbury, G. Ulyett, W. Flowers, Rev F.F.J. Greenfield, J. Hide, W. Barnes, G.P. Harrison, H. Phillips and L. Hall. The photograph measures... View full lot details

‘Sheffield Park v St. Wilfrids, 1886’. Early original sepia photograph of the Sheffield Park team, seated and standing in rows, wearing cricket attire in front of the pavilion at Sheffield Park, Sussex, who played St. Wilfrid’s on the 25th August 1886. Players include Greenfield (Captain), Parris, Summers, W. Turner, A. Turner, Trentler etc. The photograph by E. Hawkins & Co, ‘Late Hennah & Kent’, Brighton, measures 11.5”x9.25”, laid to photographer’s mount with printed title to... View full lot details

‘St. Wilfrids Club, 1886’. Early original sepia photograph of the S. Wilfrids team, seated and standing in rows, wearing cricket attire in front of the pavilion at Sheffield Park, Sussex, who played the Sheffield Park team on the 25th August 1886. No record of the match can be found and the players cannot be identified. The photograph by E. Hawkins & Co, ‘Late Hennah & Kent’, Brighton, measures 11.5”x9.25”, laid to photographer’s mount with printed... View full lot details

‘The Australians 1886’. Original sepia photograph of the Australian team who played Lord Sheffield’s Eleven at Sheffield Park, East Sussex on the 13th- 15th May 1886, standing and seated in rows wearing blazers, caps and cricket attire. The Australian Manager, umpires and scorers are also featured on the photograph. The photograph laid down to official photographers mount with printed title and players names to lower border. Players include Scott (Captain), Bonnor, Giffen, Spofforth, Trumble, Blackham,... View full lot details

‘The Parsees’ (Bombay, India) 1886. Large original sepia photograph of the Parsees team who played the Sheffield Park team at Sheffield Park, East Sussex on the 24th & 25th May 1886, standing and seated, in rows wearing blazers, caps and cricket attire. The photograph laid down to official photographers mount with title, dates and players names to lower border. Players include Bhedwar, Major, Banajee, Khambatta, Patell, Framjee, Balla, Harvar, Morenas etc. The photograph measures 11.25”x... View full lot details

‘Sheffield Park v. Parsees [Bombay, India], 1886’. Large original sepia photograph of the Sheffield Park team who played the Parsees at Sheffield Park, East Sussex on the 24th & 25th May 1886, standing and seated, in rows wearing blazers, caps and cricket attire. The photograph laid down to official photographers mount with title, dates and players names to lower border. Players include Greenfield (Captain), Shaw, Coventry, Humphreys, Wyatt, Ellis, Payne, Cornish, Huggett etc. The photograph... View full lot details

Eastbourne v Lord Sheffield’s XI 1886. Inaugural match at The Saffrons, Eastbourne. Two rare and early original sepia photographs, one of Lord Sheffield’s XI, the other of both teams for the first match to be played at The Saffrons, Eastbourne, 12th May 1886. The players and officials depicted seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, blazers and assorted headgear. Both photographs laid down to official photographer’s mounts. Lord Sheffield fielded a very strong side,... View full lot details

‘Rev. W. Summers’ Team’ and ‘Mr. John Gilbert’s Team’ 1886. Two early original sepia photographs of each team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire in front of the pavilion at Sheffield Park, for a match played 13th September 1886. The photographs by E. Hawkins & Co., ‘Late Hennah & Kent’, Brighton, each measures approx. 11.5”x10”, laid to photographer’s mount with printed title and players’ names to lower border, overall 17.5”x13.5”. The Summers team... View full lot details

‘Lord Sheffield’s XI v. South Africans’ 1894. Early and large original sepia photograph of Lord Sheffield’s team who played the South Africans at Sheffield Park, East Sussex on the 22nd & 23rd May 1894, the players seated and standing in rows wearing caps and cricket attire. The Umpires, Thoms and Carpenter, also feature in the photograph as well as the scorer, Bates. The photograph laid down to official photographers mount with title and players names... View full lot details

‘Sussex Martlets’ 1894. Early original sepia photograph of the Sussex Martlets football team seated and standing in rows in front of the pavilion wearing football attire for the match v Nottingham Forest hosted by the Earl of Sheffield at Sheffield Park, East Sussex 10th October 1894. The Sussex Martlets team featured C.B. Fry and fellow Sussex cricketer Frank Gutteridge who also played football for Notts County. Other players are E.G. Wilson, W.P. Meates, F. Street,... View full lot details

‘Cricket Match between the Australian Eleven and the Earl of Sheffield’s Eleven 1896’. A sumptuous silk luncheon menu produced for the visit of the Prince of Wales to the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield on the 11th to 13th May 1896. The exquisite printed silk menu hand coloured and fringed in gold braid shows, to the front cover of the menu, a view of Sheffield Park within a hand coloured gold border entwined with... 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

Earl of Sheffield’s Eleven 1890. ‘Sheffield Park. Number of Foot People and Carriages admitted to Sheffield Park on the occasion of the Cricket Match between Lord Sheffield’s Eleven and The Australians, May 8th, 9th and 10th, 1890’. Original single page printed report of admissions to the ground by the three entrances at ‘Fletching Lodge’, ‘Station Gate’ and ‘Shepherd’s Lodge’ with ‘Totals’ listed below. The sheet shows that 6,209 people attended on Day 1, 3,727 on... View full lot details

‘Earl of Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893’. Rare original invitation card, ‘The Earl of Sheffield requests the honor of Mr Gaston’s [handwritten] company to Luncheon at Sheffield Park, May 9th 1893 at two o’clock precisely. Ticket to be presented on entering the tent. Tea and coffee will be served at five o’clock. The favour of an answer is requested’. The invitation card with Lord Sheffield crown emblem in gilt to top, wording on the card... View full lot details

South African tour of England 1894. ‘Earl of Sheffield’s XI v South Africa 1894’. Excellent original folding menu card for the Luncheon given by Lord Sheffield on the 22nd May 1894 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield from the 22nd to the 23rd May 1894. The highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a scene of Sheffield Park House and Grounds and Lord Sheffield’s cricket emblem with... View full lot details

The Ladies’ Pavilion, Sheffield Park, East Sussex 1886. Excellent large original sepia photograph of the Ladies Pavilion, which Lord Sheffield had built in the winter of 1885/86 and completed in time for the 1886 season when the touring Australians and Parsees played at Sheffield Park. The octagonal pavilion with cupola on the roof is depicted bedecked in flowers. Local reports described its setting with fine views of the cricket ground, the lakes and mansion, and... View full lot details

Sheffield Park, East Sussex 1890s. Three original sepia photographs depicting events taking place at the Earl of Sheffield’s seat at Sheffield Park. Subjects include a presentation of a prize giving ceremony in progress in front of the ornate pavilion with crowds watching on, c.1895. A lady wearing a white dress on the pavilion steps is believed to be Miss Mabel ‘May’ Attenborough. In 1895 Lord Sheffield (aged 63) took the unusual step of adopting May... View full lot details

‘Sheffield Park Winter Sports. January 17th 1891’. Excellent original sepia photographs of a cricket match being played on the ice of a frozen over Upper Women’s Way Pond near the cricket ground at Sheffield Park with spectators in attendance, some on the bridge in the background. The photograph by E. Hawkins & Co. of Brighton is laid down to official photographer’s mount with printed title to lower border. The photograph measures 11.5”x 9.5”, mounted overall... View full lot details

The Earl of Sheffield. ‘Illuminations & Fireworks in honour of the Australians’ 1893. Early large original sepia photograph of a spectacular firework display in progress at night over the lake at Sheffield Park, ‘Photographed specially for the Earl of Sheffield’ at ‘Sheffield Park, May 9, 1893’. The photograph by E. Hawkins & Co. of Brighton measures 11.5”x9.5”, laid to official photographer’s mount, overall 16”x13.5”. Minor foxing to the mount with odd nicks to the edges,... View full lot details

The Earl of Sheffield. Skating in the Park 1895. Early large original sepia photograph of two speed-skaters racing on the ice on the frozen lake at Sheffield Park. In February 1895 Lord Sheffield engaged two champion skaters, Lindahl of Norway and Smart, to give an exhibition of skating, held two weeks after a cricket match had been played on the ice. The untitled photograph, by E. Hawkins & Co. of Brighton, measures 11.5”x9.5”, laid to... View full lot details

The Earl of Sheffield. ‘”Volunteer Review” at “Sheffield Park”, July 18, 1891’. Two large early original sepia photographs depicting an event of military ‘manoeuvres’ held at Sheffield Park. The scenes depict large numbers of participants, reportedly comprising a thousand men, five guns and 34 horses, who carried out a mock battle against a defending force of around six hundred men. The photographs, both by E. Hawkins & Co. of Brighton, measure approx. 11.5”x9.5”, laid... View full lot details