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Australian tour of England 1930. Four original real photograph postcards of the Australian team, two identical published by Bolland, one by F.J. Bookstall and the other an advertising postcard for Jaegar, sports clothing. Three are window mounted, framed and glazed. Frames measure 9”x7”. Sold with a mono printed postcard of the Australian team entering the field at Crystal Palace in 1905 (Star Series) and a four page folding ‘Chief Cricket Fixtures for 1899’ featuring all... View full lot details

Australia tours to England 1934-1956. Four original sepia/ mono real photograph postcards by Walkers Studios of Scarborough, each of Australian players taking the field in tour matches played at Scarborough. One from the 1934 tour depicts Bill Woodfull leading the team out with Bromley, Darling, Fleetwood-Smith etc. Others feature players walking out to bat, one of Hassett and Davidson, another of Morris and Hole, both 1953, also Rutherford and Burke in 1956. All postally unused.... View full lot details

Australia. The Ashes 1936/37. Ten original sepia toned postcards of head and shoulders images of members of the Australian team. Issued by Amalgamated Press in 1936, each card is printed to verso ‘This is a real photogravure portrait’ with biographical details of the featured player. Players are Bradman (Captain), McCabe, Grimmett, Fingleton, Chipperfield, O’Reilly, Oldfield, Darling, Fleetwood-Smith and Brown. All postally unused. Light creasing to the Oldfield card, minor wear to corners, otherwise in good/... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1938. Nine mono real photograph postcards, of which eight are of an individual member of the Australian touring party in various cricketing poses, all Raphael Tuck ‘Australian Cricketer’ series no. 3839 with printed player’s name to lower border. Players featured are Bradman (card ‘H’ in the series), Fleetwood-Smith (‘A’), Barnett (‘B’), O’Reilly (‘C’), McCabe (‘D’), Badcock (‘E’), Chipperfield (‘F’), and Fingleton (‘G’). The Fingleton card with correspondence in ink to verso,... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1953. Five sepia real photograph postcards of members of the Australian team. Four players, depicted head and shoulders, are Lindsay Hassett, Ray Lindwall, Bill Johnston and Keith Miller, the other of Ian Craig ‘padding up’. Each card with facsimile signature to the photograph, printed title to lower margin and, to verso, the message ‘Greetings from the 1953 Australian Team in England’. Published by Playfair Books Ltd. All postally unused. Creases to... View full lot details

Warwick Windridge Armstrong. Victoria & Australia. 1898-1921. Tinted colour printed postcard of Armstrong, full length, in batting pose wearing Australian cap at Lord’s during the Australian tour of England in 1909. Nicely signed in black ink by Armstrong. Printed details to lower border ‘W. Armstrong, Victoria’. This card is from an anonymous series which comprised all sixteen members of the 1909 Australian tourists. An identical series was issued by R Empson & Co but these... View full lot details

Vernon Seymour Ransford. Victoria & Australia 1903-1928. Sepia real postcard of Ransford depicted head and shoulders in cameo on a white background, wearing Australia tour cap and blazer. Printed title to lower border ‘V.S. Ransford (The Australian Cricket Team 1909)’. Nicely signed in black ink by Ransford. Davidson Bros, London & New York. Postally unused. Small tear to right edge, light creasing, scribbles to verso, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Albert John Young Hopkins. New South Wales & Australia 1896-1915. Early original mono postcard of Hopkins standing full length wearing cricket attire, Australia Test cap and leaning on his bat. Very nicely signed in black ink by Hopkins to the image. Printed title ‘A.J. Hopkins’. T. Bolland of Hanwell & Southall. Postally unused. Minor wear to corners and edges, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Sidney Hand Emery. New South Wales & Australia 1908-1913. Excellent sepia real photograph postcard of Emery, full length, wearing Australian sweater and cap and taken on the 1912 Australian tour of England for the Triangular Series with England and South Africa. The postcard very nicely signed to image in black ink ‘Faithfully yours, S.E. Emery’. E. Hawkins & Co, Brighton. Very good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Charles George Macartney. New South Wales & Australia 1905-1926. Mono plain back postcard of Macartney playing an expansive drive with printed facsimile signature to front. To verso a presentation inscription from Macartney ‘To Tom Glossop Jnr with best wishes’ and nicely signed by Macartney and dated 30/5/1928. Good condition... View full lot details

Donald George Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. Excellent plain back sepia real photograph postcard of Bradman, head and shoulders, wearing Australian touring cap and sweater. The postcard very nicely signed by Bradman in ink. This is card number 3 from a series of fifteen cards produced for the Australian 1930 tour of England by B.D.V. cigarettes (Godfrey Phillips of London), number printed to lower right hand corner of card. Minor creasing... View full lot details

Clement ‘Clem’ Hill. South Australia & Australia 1892-1925. Sepia real photograph postcard of Hill standing full length at the wicket, leaning on his bat, wearing Australia tour cap. Photograph by E. Hawkins & Co., Brighton. Postally unused. Minor wear to corners, otherwise in very good condition. Excellent image.... View full lot details

Herbert Leslie Collins. New South Wales & Australia 1909-1926. Phillips ‘Pinnace’ premium issue cabinet size mono plain back real photograph trade card of Collins, full length in batting pose at the wicket, taken at Lord’s. No. 9.C. Printed title to lower border ‘H. Collins Australian Team’. 4”x6”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Donald George Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. ‘Records Broken or Equalled by Don Bradman, Australia’. Real photograph postcard of Bradman depicted head and shoulders wearing tour cap. Barton Pictorial series. The records quoted imply that the postcard was published following the 3rd Ashes Test v England at Headingley in 1930, during which Bradman reached the record highest individual Test score of 334, passed 1000 runs in Test matches, passed 2000 first-class... View full lot details

The Ashes. W.G. Grace’s final Test match. England v Australia 1899. Very early and rare sepia real photograph postcard of the ‘England XI’ seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, assorted blazers and caps, the Trent Bridge stands and pavilion in the background. Printed title and players’ names to lower portion of the image. The photograph taken for the 1st Test, England v Australia, Trent Bridge 1st- 3rd June 1899. Players featured are Grace... View full lot details

The Ashes. England v Australia 1902. First Test match played at Edgbaston. Early sepia real photograph postcard of the England team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire and caps, the Edgbaston pavilion in the background. Printed title ‘English Test Team’ and players’ names to lower portion of the image. The photograph taken for the 1st Test, Edgbaston 29th- 31st May 1902. Players featured are MacLaren (Captain), Fry, Jackson, Ranjitsinhji, Jessop, Hirst, Lilley, Lockwood,... View full lot details

England tour to Australia 1902/03. Two early original postcards of the England touring party seated and standing in rows wearing tour caps and blazers. One is a real photograph sepia postcard with printed title ‘Warner’s Ashes’ and players’ names to lower border. Photo by T. Bolland. J.B. & Co. series no. 288. The other is a mono postcard of the team by Bolland of Southall, signed in ink to the image by Arnold and Tyldesley.... View full lot details

The Ashes. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1903/04. Four Star Series mono postcards featuring members of the M.C.C. touring party. Cards feature Warner, Bosanquet & Foster (staining and pin holes), Tyldesley, Rhodes & Hirst (annotated to front ‘Ashes Team 1903-4’), Arnold, Relf, Fielder & Knight, and Strudwick, Hayward, Braund & Lilley. Two postally used. Faults to one as described, others in generally good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1903/04. Ten early original sepia real photograph postcards of English cricketers, each depicted full length at the wicket in various poses. Nine appear to be from the same (unknown) series with the player’s name printed to the lower margin. Players are P.F. Warner, R.E. Foster, Knight, A.A. Lilley, Hayward, J.T. Tyldesley, E. Arnold, B.J.T. Bosanquet and A.E. Relf. Sold with an excellent sepia real photograph postcard of W.G. Grace in batting... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia, 1903/04. Full set of fourteen mono postcards of the “Warner’s Team Series” published by John Walker & Co., London. Postcards are Warner (Captain), Arnold, Bosanquet, Braund, Fielder, Foster, Hayward, Hirst, Knight, Lilley, Relf, Rhodes, Strudwick and Tyldesley. Five are postally used, four with postmarks for 1904. Some light soiling and wear, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘The England XI in Australia 1904’. Early sepia real photograph postcard of the England team on board ship, with title and players names printed to lower border. Signed in black ink to the front by A.E. Relf, and to verso by Tom Hayward. Others featured include Warner (Captain), Foster, Tyldesley, Bosanquet, Lilley, Braund, Fielder, Hirst, Strudwick etc. Rotary Photographic Series. Postally unused. Minor wear to corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

England Test teams 1905-1909. Five early mono/ sepia postcards of England teams of the period. Postcards/ teams are 1905 v Australia, printed postcard by Rosemont Photo, Leeds. Two similar of the team v South Africa 1907, one a real photograph postcard by J.J. Samuels, London, series no. J.S-96, the other printed, publisher unknown. A printed postcard titled ‘The English Eleven 1907-8’ for the tour to Australia, publisher unknown, horizontal crease. Plain back real photograph postcard... View full lot details