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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

South Africa Tour to England 1951. Official pictorial pre-tour souvenir programme for the 1951 tour published by Playfair, edited by Peter West. Fully signed to the pen pictures by all fifteen original members of the touring party. Signatures are Nourse (Captain), E. Rowan, Chubb, Melle, A. Rowan, Fullerton, Endean, van Ryneveld, Cheetham, McGlew, McCarthy, McLean, Mann, Waite and Mansell. Also signed by Hugh Tayfield who joined the tour late. Minor wear otherwise in good/very good... View full lot details

‘Commonwealth Silver Jubilee XI tour of India 1953’. Large official Souvenir programme published by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Pen pictures, biographies, fixtures, results etc. Original decorative covers. Good condition... View full lot details

South Africa Tour to England 1955. Official pictorial pre-tour souvenir programme for the 1955 tour published by Playfair, edited by Gordon Ross. Signed to the pen pictures by sixteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Cheetham (Captain), McGlew, Adcock, Duckworth, Endean, Goddard, Heine, Keith, Mansell, McLean, Murray, Smith, Tayfield, Waite and Winslow. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricketers from New Zealand. Tour of India 1955-56’. Sport & Pastime Publication. Pen pictures, biographies, fixtures etc. Rarer tour brochure, name ‘Don Neely’ to first advertising page suggesting this was his copy. Good condition... View full lot details

Australian tour to England 1956. ‘Cricketers from Australia’. Official souvenir tour brochure edited by Gordon Ross, published by Playfair. Signed in ink to the pen pictures by thirteen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Johnson (Captain), Miller, Archer, Benaud, Burke, Burge, Craig, Crawford, Langley, Lindwall, Mackay, Maddocks, McDonald and Rutherford Plus W.J. Dowling, the tour manager. Wrappers detached, internally good... View full lot details

West Indies 1957. Official souvenir Playfair brochure for the West Indies tour of England. Edited by Gordon Ross. Pictorial covers. Signed in ink to pen pictures by all seventeen members of the West Indies touring team plus the two Managers Pierce and De Caires. Signatures include Goddard, Atkinson, Sobers, Hall, Weekes, Kanhai, Walcott, Alexander, Worrell, Gilchrist, Valentine, Ramadhin etc. Also signed by the joint tour managers Peirce and de Caires. Spine taped, covers worn and... View full lot details

‘Cricketers from New Zealand’ 1958. Official tour souvenir programme for the tour by Playfair edited by Gordon Ross. Signed in ink to pen pictures by all sixteen members of the touring party, Reid (Captain), Cave, Alabaster, Blair, D’Arcy, Harford, Hayes, MacGibbon, Meale, Miller, Moir, Petrie, Playle, Sparling, Sutcliffe and Ward. Good condition... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Argentina & Brazil 1958/59’. Official souvenir for the visit to Brazil. 12pp, paper wrappers. Published by the Brazilian Cricket Association. Itinerary and pen pictures of the players. Four matches were played two in Rid De Janiero and two in Sao Paulo. After that the tour moved to Argentina. Good condition. A rarer tour programme... View full lot details

Australian tour of Malaya 1959. Rare official programme. 40pp, excellent pictorial wrappers, Printed by Central Printers, Singapore. Signed to their pictorial biographical picture by all fourteen of the touring party with the exception of Gavin Stephens who was apparently ill at the time. Signatures are Richie Benuad (Captain), Harvey, Favell, McDonald, O’Neill, Lindwall, Davidson, Mackay, Grout, Jarman, Kilne, Rorke, Meckiff and Burge. Also signed by McDonald’s brother. There were two matches played, against MCA President’s... View full lot details

‘Official Programme commemorating the Visit of the Australian Cricketers to America, Sept & Oct 1912’. 16pp official pre tour brochure with front cover printing in yellow and green, tipped in to modern green cloth, gilt title to spine. Comprises details of the seven matches to be played in the USA, Bermuda and Canada and scores of games played on tours in earlier years, portraits of players including Bardsley, Carkeek, Kelleway, Gregory (Captain), Whitty, blank scoresheets,... View full lot details

‘Official Programme commemorating the Visit of the Australian Cricketers to America 1913’. 8pp official pre-tour brochure with front cover printing in red and black, containing details of the thirty matches to be played in the USA, Bermuda and Canada from May to September 1913, portraits of the team, players including Mailey, Crawford, Macartney, Mayne, Collins, Bardsley, Arnott etc. Recorded but not seen by Padwick 5325. Some wear and nicks to wrappers and pages, slight splitting... View full lot details

Australian tour of Malaya 1927 ‘W.A. Oldfield’s XI’. Rare official large souvenir brochure ‘Australians Visit to Malaya 1927’. 56pp with colour pictorial covers featuring the emblem of Malaya and illustrations of a tiger and kangaroo, with printed title to centre. The front cover is beautifully signed in black ink by eleven members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Macartney, Mayne, Woodfull, Rofe, Adams, Bardsley, Sullivan, Everett, Gamble, Andrews and Oldfield. Contents comprise photographs, player... View full lot details

Australian tour of Malaya 1927 ‘W.A. Oldfield’s XI’. Large official four page folding programme for the North Malaya v Australian XI match played at The Esplanade, Penang on 17th and 18th June 1927. Printed in blue and red, title to front ‘The Greatest Cricket Season in Malaya. The first Australian cricket tour to this country’, with double page picture to centre pages of the Australian and Singapore C.C. teams that played earlier in the tour,... View full lot details

Australian tour of Malaya 1927 ‘W.A. Oldfield’s XI’. Rare souvenir tour brochure printed and published by ‘The Malayan Daily Express’. 44pp with original pictorial wrappers featuring a Malay tiger and Australian kangaroo to the front, and title ‘Souvenir of Australian Cricketers’ Visit May- June 1927’. Contents include player biographies by ‘Not Out’, photographs, statistics etc. Annotations in ink to front wrapper. Wear and soiling with expert repairs to wrappers and some pages, otherwise in good... View full lot details

Australia. E.L. Waddy’s tour to Queensland 1935. A tour brochure and match programme from the tour made up by a team of prominent Australian cricketers captained by Stan McCabe, with other Test players including Ernest Bromley, Clarrie Grimmett, Bill Brown and Ray Robinson. The 48pp tour brochure ‘Produced for the Cairns Cricket Association by H. Smallwood Esq., Cairns’, lacking original wrappers, comprising team images, statistics, blank scoresheet, advertising etc. Also a ‘Souvenir Programme. The E.L.... View full lot details

Australia Tour to Ceylon and India 1935/36. ‘Official Souvenir of the Visit to India of H.H. the Maharajadhiraj of Patiala’s Team of Australian Cricketers 1936’. 30th Nov. to 8th Dec. 1935’. Official brochure compiled by C.D. Parthasarathy, edited and published by ‘The Field- Madras (An All-Sports Journal)’, Madras. Bound in cloth boards, gilt title to spine, with original decorative colour wrappers retained. Lavishly illustrated with portraits and text on members of the opposing teams. Indian... View full lot details

M.C.C. tours to India 1961-1977. Three souvenir pre-tour brochures published by C.K. Haridass of Madras covering M.C.C./ England tours to India. Issues are ‘India vs England 1961-62’ thirteenth year of publication, ‘M.C.C. vs India 1964’ fourteenth issue, and ‘M.C.C. in India 1976-77’ twentieth issue. Clear tape reinforcement to spines of all three, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

India. Bombay ‘Quadrangular Cricket Tournament’ 1925/26. ‘Bombay Gymkhana Official Scorecard’. 8pp booklet in original decorative paper wrappers comprising scorecards of the first two matches played in the 1925/26 tournament, Europeans v Muslims (Europeans won by eight wickets) and Hindus v Parsees (Hindus won on first innings) and, to the centre pages, a blank scorecard for the Final, Europeans v Hindus played at Bombay 7th- 10th December 1925 (Hindus won by four wickets). A previous owner... View full lot details

England v All-India 1946. ‘Pirate’ four page ‘Pictorial Souvenir Programme’ for the third Test, Kennington Oval 17th- 21st August 1946. Printed by G.P. Abbott for Programme Publications, London. Light creasing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. tour to Jamaica 1935/36. ‘Jamaica Cricket Association Official Programme’ compiled by C.A. Lopez and issued by the Jamaica Cricket Board of Control. 88pp pre-tour booklet comprising tour itinerary, player profiles, three blank fold-out scorecards to rear and advertising. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor age toning to wrappers otherwise a nice copy in very good condition throughout. A scarce tour brochure, does not appear to be listed in Padwick and not previously seen by Knights.... View full lot details

‘A Bit of a Test’. Ben Travis 1933. Official theatre programme for the production staged at the Aldwych Theatre, dated 20th March 1933. The play was the final production in a series of twelve ‘Aldwych farces’ and was a take on the controversial ‘Bodyline’ Ashes series in which the England cricket captain attempted to keep his star batsman out of trouble. The original production starred the legendary farceur, Ralph Lynn, whose picture is featured on... View full lot details

Horsham v Arsenal 1951. Official football programme for the friendly match played at Horsham on the 3rd September 1951. The match was played on behalf of cricketer George Cox in his Benefit Year. Four page folding programme with titles to front cover. There were four cricketers who played in the Arsenal team being Leslie Compton, Arthur Milton, Don Bennett and Don Roper. Annotation to the back cover otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume II nos. 22-49 (16th February to 27th December 1883). Illustrated. Bound in modern green cloth, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Pages complete with title and contents pages to front, lacking original wrappers. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume III nos. 50-79 (31st January to 25th December 1884). Illustrated. Original publisher’s cloth, with titles in gilt, red speckled page edges. Pages complete with title and contents pages to front, lacking original wrappers. Complete with the five supplement score sheets as issued. Bookplate of Gordon Ross to front endpaper. Some rubbing to board extremities, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game’. Volume IV nos. 80-109 (31st January to 24th December 1885). Illustrated. Bound in maroon quarter leather, gilt title to spine, red speckled page edges. Pages complete with title and contents pages to front, lacking original wrappers. Lacking the one supplement score sheet issued for 23rd July. Loss to spine, wear to boards, breaking to front internal hinge. Pages in very good condition.... View full lot details