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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘C.B. Fry Batting’. Early colour postcard with an illustration of Fry depicted in batting pose on a green background, with decorative ‘Sussex’ title and emblem to side. Dainty series. Postally unused. Good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Early colour postcard of a watercolour sketch of Fry in batting pose, with colour title ‘C.B. Fry. Captain- Sussex County’ and Sussex county emblem. W. & A.K. Johnston of Edinburgh & London ‘Cricket Captains Series’ no. 388/3. Postally unused. Minor wear to corners and edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A scarce postcard.... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Early sepia real photograph postcard of Fry full length at the wicket in batting stance. Printed title ‘C.B. Fry’. Blind embossed stamp for Foster of Brighton to lower right corner. Postmarked 1905. Minor wear to corners and top edge, otherwise in very good condition. Excellent image.... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Early sepia real photograph postcard of Fry full length at the wicket in batting pose. Printed title ‘C.B. Fry’. E. Hawkins & Co., Brighton. Postally unused. Very good condition. A nice image.... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Fry depicted in later years, half length wearing a suit and trilby hat and smoking a pipe. Annotation in ink to verso describes Fry ‘at Worcester C.C.C. on occasion of the visit of The Australian Cricket team 1934’. Official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. Minor mount indentations to corners, otherwise in very... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Rare colour shield-shaped trade card by J. Baines Litho of Bradford c.1895 depicting Fry head and shoulders and named to centre, and image of a cricket match beneath. Advertising to verso. Some wear and creasing to edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Excellent large original lithograph of a pencil drawing of Fry by ‘Will R [William Rothenstein]’ printed by ‘T. Way, Impt’, London’. Taken from the book ‘Oxford Characters’ by Rothenstein published by John Lane in 1896, the image depicts Fry full length wearing jacket and shorts c.1893 when Fry was aged 21, and is accompanied by the biography page from the book describing Fry as... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex & England 1892-1921. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Fry. ‘Oxford Athletics’. April 19th 1894 by SPY. Nicely signed by Fry in black ink to lower right border. Odd foxing spot to border, slight nick to top page edge, slight browning to the signature caused through age otherwise in good condition. 10.5”x15.5”. Rarely seen in this signed form... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Mono real photograph studio portrait postcard of Fry, head and shoulders wearing Southampton F.C. jersey. Printed title to lower margin ‘C.B. Fry. Southampton & Corinthian’. Wrench Series of ‘Footballers’ (first series), no. 2162, issued 1903. Postally unused. Minor soiling, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. A superb studio portrait photograph of Fry, head and shoulders, wearing shirt, tie and three piece suit. Nicely signed in his initials ‘C.B.F.’ in black ink by Fry to the lower right hand corner of the image. The photograph, by Hills & Saunders of Oxford, measures 4”x6” and is laid to official photographer’s mount with gilt to all edges overall 8”x10”. Previously sold by... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. The Triangular Tournament 1912. England v Australia and v South Africa. Original press photograph of the three Captains, Frank Mitchell (South Africa), C.B. Fry (England) and Syd Gregory (Australia) standing full length with arms linked and smiling, Fry in cricket attire, the other two in suits and hats. The photograph by Press Association, London, with date annotated to verso for 2nd May 1912. 6”x8”.... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry and Lord Hawke. M.C.C. v Rest of England 1914. Original sepia photograph of C.B. Fry wearing cricket attire, standing with his back to the camera, and Lord Hawke, partially obscured by Fry, in conversation with King George V on the outfield at Lord’s. Standing behind the King are the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) and Prince Albert (later King George VI). Handwritten caption in ink below the photograph ‘Lord Hawke,... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Mono press photograph of C.B. Fry walking off the field of play wearing batting attire and England cap. Walking alongside him is Prince Albert of Schleswig Holstein with spectators in the background. Dated to verso 1919. Location and match unknown. Press Association Photos of London. 6”x8”. Very good condition. A nice image.... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Double sided two page handwritten letter in ink from Fry at ‘Hamble, Hants’, to a Mr Stalworthy, dated 16th May 1922. Fry is replying to a request for advice on how best to grip a cricket bat. Fry goes into some detail, opening with ‘If you ground a bat near your right toe and keep it nearly upright between the first two fingers of... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Two page double sided handwritten letter in ink from Fry to ‘Dear Dr. Jack’, written on ‘Nautical School T.S. Mercury, Hamble, Southampton’ letterhead, and dated 4th November 1935. Fry writes, ‘May I be allowed to say- or submit- that this of yours strikes me as just exactly what exceedingly needed to be emphasized. I’ve been seeking the 6oz “samples of tea” from all over... View full lot details