Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Sachin Tendulkar. Bombay/ Mumbai, Yorkshire & India 1988-2014. Official scorecard for the Yorkshire v Kent, Benson & Hedges Cup match played at Headingley on the 30th April 1992. This was Tendulkar’s first game for Yorkshire having signed as their first ever overseas players. Signed by Tendulkar and by ‘Gold Award Judge’ David Lloyd. Tendulkar made seven runs before being run out and took 2 wickets for 21 with the ball from 11 overs. Kent beat... View full lot details

‘Hastings & St. Leonards Cricket Week, 1907. Gentlemen of South v. Players of South’. Jessop second fastest century. Early original double sided folded scorecard with complete printed scores for the match played at the Central Recreation Ground, Hastings, 2nd- 4th September 1907. Gentlemen of the South chose to bat first and posted 211 with Percy Perrin starring with the bat scoring 117. Bill Fairservice and George Dennett shared the wickets five apiece. Replying, the... View full lot details

Australia 1926. ‘Cricket 1926’. Official pre tour brochure with pictures of the Australian team, thirty leading English cricketers and the Test grounds. Pub by Barton & Co, London 1926. Original pictorial wrappers, some wear with small loss to wrappers extremities otherwise in good condition. Sold with ‘Australian Cricketers 1926. Portraits drawn from life and signed by each player’. Laurence East. London 1926. With seventeen full page illustrations of the 1926 touring team with printed signatures.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1928/29. ‘The Sporting Globe Cricket Book 1928/29. A book of averages and records’. Compiled by E.H.M. Baillie (Bail). Melbourne 1929. Original pictorial wrappers. Some soiling and age toning to wrappers, handwritten name of ownership to top border of the front wrapper otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia and New Zealand 1928/29. ‘England v Canterbury, Lancaster Park 24th-26th December 1929’. Official Souvenir Score book published by Sage & Wallace of Christchurch. 8pp and blue card covers. The book was designed to give spectators scoresheets to fill in with the centre spread having head and shoulders portraits of the tourists. Some soiling and staining to covers, creasing to front cover otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1932/33. The Bodyline tour’. Two brochures produced for the tour. ‘Special Test Souvenir- with careers of players to beginning of 1932/33 season’. Sixteen page brochure with pen pictures, biographies, scoresheet, records etc issued by ‘The Australian Cricketer’ magazine as a Supplement. Image of Don Bradman to front wrapper. Good condition. ‘The Sporting Globe Cricket Book 1932/33’. Compiled by E.H.M. Baillie (‘Bail’). With M.C.C. Itinerary, Ashes records, pictures of the Australian and... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of New Zealand 1935/36. Official tour programme with decorative wrappers in M.C.C. colours with picture of England Captain E.R.T. Holmes to centre and title above. The programme covering the M.C.C. v Wellington match played at the Basin Reserve, Wellington on the 20th-23rd December 1936 and also includes biographies of the players, itinerary, scorecards for the match, past tours etc. Signed to the front wrapper by twelve of the M.C.C. team including E.R.T. Holmes... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia and New Zealand 1946/47. Official souvenir programme for the ‘M.C.C. Team Australian Tour 1946-47’. Issued by the New South Wales Cricket Association. With itinerary, pen pictures etc. Original decorative covers. Sold with three other brochures ‘Pocket Book Cricket Guide 1946/47’, England-Australian Tests, ‘Sporting Globe Cricket Book 1946/47’ ‘Official Cricket souvenir England v Australia 1946/47, published just after the first tour match played in Perth and the ‘The M.C.C. in Australia, 1946-47’... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia and New Zealand 1946/47. Official souvenir programmes for the first Test match, England v Australia, played on the 29th-5th December 1946 in Brisbane, the only Test match played in New Zealand at Lancaster Park on the 21st-24th Match 1947 and the tour match against Auckland played at Eden Park, Auckland on the 28th-31st March 1947. Odd faults, age toning staple rusting otherwise in good condition. Qty 3... View full lot details

South Africa tour of England 1947. Six various brochures and programmes from the tour. Official souvenir brochure for the ‘South African tour of England’. Edited by A.W. Simpson, ‘Findon’ Cricket Annual 1947’, ‘The Springboks Here Again’ Ledbroke, Souvenir ‘pirate’ programme for England XI v South Africa XI (5th Test), The Oval 16th-20th August 194, ‘The South African Team in England 1947’. Cricket Book Society and official ship issue ‘’First Class Sports and Entertainment’ programme for... View full lot details

Australian tour of England 1948. ‘Australian XI v Tasmania 1948’. Official programme for the match played at Hobart on the 5th & 6th March 1948. The programme lists the England tour itinerary, fixtures in England, scorecard for the game and details and pen pictures of the Australian teams. Handwritten details of match to the scorecard in pencil. Sold with eight various booklets, brochures and programmes related to the Australian tour, ‘The Australian Tour 1948’ Simpson,... View full lot details

South African tour booklets. Two booklets, 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 printed in both English and Afrikaans and the other entitled ‘M.C.C. Cricket Tour of South Africa 1948’ and was issued by J.F. King Limited, sports specialists of Durban & Maritzburg 166pp, pen pictures... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa & Rhodesia 1948-1949. Official programme for the match Rhodesia v M.C.C. played at the Raylton Club, Bulawayo, 29th January- 1st February 1949. Comprises pen pictures of the M.C.C. team, scorecards, advertising etc. The 48pp programme in original wrappers. P. Mansell’ handwritten to top border of the front cover, so presumably his copy. Nicely signed by both teams in ink to the scorecard pages next to their printed names. Sixteen signatures... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa & Rhodesia 1948-1949. Souvenir of the M.C.C. tour of South Africa & Rhodesia 1948/49’, published by Donaldsons Publication of Johannesburg. Sold with an official programme for the Rhodesia v M.C.C. played at the Salisbury Sports Club Ground on the 4th to 7th February 1949. 96pp. The programme in original wrappers with the two Captains, Mann and Martin’s pen pictures to front wrappers. Odd faults, good condition... View full lot details

New Zealand tour to England 1949. Ten various brochures and programmes from the tour including ‘A Complete Record of the New Zealand Cricket Team in England 1949’ Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, ‘Halo for Hadlee. A lighthearted history of the New Zealand cricket team 1949’, G. Wycherley, Dunedin 1949 ‘New Zealand Tour 1949 (Simpson), ‘Cricketers from New Zealand’ 1949. (Playfair edited by Gordon Ross), England versus New Zealand. A complete Record 1930-1949 (Bedford, Findon), ‘Selected for... View full lot details