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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1907/08. A selection of fourteen colour postcards published by the Melbourne Sports Depot, Melbourne. One features a montage of the members of the touring party titled ‘The Visiting English Cricket Team 1907/08’, with twelve individual player postcards of Barnes, Blythe, Braund, Crawford, Fane, Fielder, Hayes, Hobbs, Humphries, Hutchings, Rhodes, and Young, also one of the manager, Major Philip Trevor. Twelve postally unused. Some wear and creasing to card extremities, otherwise in... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1913/14. Six original mono postcards of members of the M.C.C. touring party. Each player is depicted full length, the majority wearing cricket attire, tour cap and blazer, with black outline set on a patterned background. Players are Booth, Woolley, Smith, Hearne, Rhodes and Mead. Publisher unknown. All postally unused. Good/ very good condition. A rarer series.... View full lot details

M.C.C./ England tours to Australia 1924/25-1936/37. Four mono/ sepia postcards of England touring teams of the period. Tours are 1924/25 printed card with printed Christmas greetings to verso. 1928/29 real photograph with printed title ‘The Team Who Brought Back The Ashes’, and another, slightly smaller real photograph postcard card titled ‘M.C.C. Australian Tour 1928-29’. 1932/33 ‘Bodyline’ real photograph postcard of the R.M.S. Orontes with cameos of the members of the touring party and facsimile signatures,... View full lot details

The Ashes. England v Australia 1930. Official mono real photograph postcard of the England team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire and assorted blazers. Printed title ‘First Test Team’ and players’ names to lower border. Players featured include Chapman (Captain), Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hammond, Woolley, Hendren, Larwood, Tate, Duleepsinhji etc. Nice handwritten correspondence to verso, dated ‘London 3/7/30’ presumably to an addressee in Australia. ‘You would all be very delighted at home with the... View full lot details

The Ashes. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1936/37. Ten original sepia toned postcards of head and shoulders images of members of the M.C.C. touring party. 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 Allen (Captain), Robins, Hardstaff, Hammond, Worthington, Fishlock, Duckworth, Verity, Fagg and Leyland. All postally unused. Small stain to the Hardstaff card, minor wear to... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1954/55. Mono real photograph postcard of the Orient Line R.M.S. Orsova which took the team to Australia. Signed to card face by twenty members of the touring party including Hutton (Captain), Wardle, Graveney, Loader, Statham, May, Tyson, Edrich, Appleyard, Cowdrey, Simpson etc. Slight fading to the odd signature, otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1956/57. Rarer real photograph sepia postcard of the Union-Castle Line R.M.S. Edinburgh Castle which took the team to South Africa. Signed to card face by nineteen members of the touring party including May (Captain), Compton, Laker, Wardle, Statham, Brown, Evans, Cowdrey, Bailey, Lock etc. Good condition... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1907. Mono postcard of the South African touring party seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, blazers etc. Printed title and players’ names to lower edge. Postcard by F. Bustin of Bristol. Signed in pencil (two in ink) to verso by fourteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Sherwell (Captain), Nourse, Vogler, White, Smith, Sinclair, Schwarz, S.D. Snooke, Shalders, Kotze, Tancred, S.J. Snooke, Faulkner and Allsop (Manager). Some... View full lot details

South Africa tours to England 1907-1947. Seven mono/ sepia postcards of South Africa touring teams, each with players seated and standing in rows. Includes five real photograph postcards for the tours of 1907, 1912, 1929, 1935 and 1947, and two mono printed postcards of the 1907 and 1912 teams. Players featured include Sherwell, Tancred, Schwarz, Shalders, Nourse, Hathorn, Mitchell, Pegler, Taylor, Ward, Deane, Siedle, Ochse, Morkel, Christy, Cameron, Bell, Dalton, Viljoen, Melville, Rowan etc. Publishers... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1929. Sepia printed advertising postcard published by Jaeger of ‘The South Africa Team 1929 in Jaeger Shirts and Sweaters, Trousers, etc. specially supplied for the present tour’. Nicely signed in ink by seventeen members of the touring party. Signatures are Deane, Siedle, Mitchell, Quinn, Bell, Morkel, Christy, Ochse, Dalton, Vincent, Taylor, Catterall, Owen-Smith, van der Merwe, McMillan, Frielinghaus (Manager) and Frames (Secretary). Lacking one signature of Cameron. Photo by Hana,... View full lot details

Walter A. Shalders. Griqualand West, Cape Colony, Transvaal, London County & South Africa 1897-1907. ‘South African tour of England 1907’. Excellent real photograph sepia postcard of Shalders, full length, at the wicket in batting pose at Lord’s. E. Hawkins & Co, Brighton. Postally unused. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

South Africa. Roy McLean and Trevor Goddard 1950s. Two similar mono real photograph plain back postcards, one of R.L. McLean (Natal & South Africa 1949-1966), the other T.L. Goddard (Natal, North East Transvaal & South Africa 1955-1970), both depicted head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Small handwritten name label laid to lower right corner of each. Publishers unknown. Appear to have been taken on the 1955 tour to England. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

West Indies tours to England 1906-1963. Seven mono/ sepia postcards of West Indies touring teams, each with players seated and standing in rows. Includes one mono printed postcard of the 1906 team and six real photograph postcards for the tours of 1928, 1933, 1939, 1950, 1957 and 1963. Players featured include Austin, Olliviere, Constantine, Challenor, Rae, Hoad, Nunes, Grant, Roach, Da Costa, Achong, Valentine, Headley, Weekes, Walcott, Ramadhin, Worrell, Sobers, Gibbs etc. Publishers include R.... View full lot details

West Indies tours to England 1923 & 1939. Sepia real photograph postcard of the 1923 West Indies touring party with printed title and players’ names to margins. Players seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire and include Austin (Captain), Nunes, Challenor, Pascal, Holt, Browne, Constantine etc. Raphael House, London. Very good condition. Sold with a rarer real photograph plain back postcard of the 1939 touring team. Players’ names neatly annotated in ink to verso,... View full lot details

Cecil Beaumont Williams. Barbados 1947-1957. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Williams, head and shoulders wearing suit and tie. Nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph by Williams. Annotation in ink to verso ‘Autographed September 1950’. Official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. Very good condition.... View full lot details

New Zealand touring team postcards 1927-1973/74. Six postcards of New Zealand touring teams including five mono real photograph postcards for tours to England 1927, 1931, 1937, 1949 and 1958, and one colour postcard of the 1973/74 touring party to Australia. Players featured include Lowry, Dacre, Dempster, Merritt, Allcott, Kerr, Page, Weir, W. Hadlee, Lamason, Moloney, Wallace, Donnelly, Rabone, Reid, Sutcliffe, Alabaster, Playle, Meale, R. Hadlee, Coney, Morrison, Turner etc. Publishers include Topical, Angus Thomas, F.C.... View full lot details

Derbyshire C.C.C. mid 1930s. Two sepia real photograph plain back postcards of Derbyshire teams of the 1930s, the players seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. Players include Arthur Richardson, Stan Worthington, Tommy Mitchell, Alf and George Pope, Bill Copson etc. Both postcards with official stamps to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Derbyshire C.C.C. 1904-1946. One early mono postcard of the Derbyshire team of 1904 by B.&H. of Derby. Postmarked 17th July 1905. Also two mono real photograph postcards, one of the 1935 team, publisher unknown, the other of the 1946 team with official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. Players featured include Lawton, Ollivierre, Richardson, Lee, Elliott, Storer, Worthington, Alderman, Townsend, Copson, Carter, Fullwood, Rhodes, Gladwin etc. Good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details

Derbyshire C.C.C. 1953 & 1954. Two mono real photograph plain back postcards of the Derbyshire teams of 1953 and 1954, both with printed title and players’ names, with official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. Players featured include Willett (Captain), Carr, Dawkes, Gladwin, Revill, Kelly, Rhodes, Hamer, Jackson, Smith etc. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Derbyshire C.C.C. 1955-1959. Three mono real photograph postcards (one plain back) of the Derbyshire teams of 1955, 1958 and 1959, all three with printed title and players’ names, each with official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. Players featured include Carr (Captain), Gladwin, Dawkes, Revill, Jackson, Smith, Hamer, Lee, Kelly, Wyatt, Berry, Rhodes etc. Postally unused. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Donald Bryce Carr. Derbyshire, Oxford University & England 1946-1963. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Carr, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph, ‘D.B. Carr’. Typed title ‘D.B. Carr, Oxford University’. Good condition.... View full lot details

David John Green. Derbyshire & Cambridge University 1953-1960. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Green entering the field of play for Cambridge University followed by Roger Prideaux. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph, ‘David Green’. Typed title ‘D.J. Green, Cambridge University’. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. Don Wilson & John Hampshire. Two mono real photograph plain back postcards, one of Wilson (Yorkshire & England 1957-1974), the other John Hampshire (Yorkshire, Tasmania, Leicestershire, Derbyshire & England 1961-1984). Both players depicted head and shoulders wearing Yorkshire sweater and signed in black ink to the fronts by the respective player. The Wilson postcard publisher unknown. The Hampshire postcard with faint typed title to front and, to verso, official stamp for The Yorkshire... View full lot details