Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

The Rugby Football Annual 1913/14. Edited by the Secretary of the R.F.U. Printed by Williams & Walker of Twickenham. This was the first year of issue. Front wrapper cleanly detached, some loss to spine paper otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

John Wisden’s Rugby Football Almanack 1923-24. Edited by C. Stewart Caine. Scarce first edition of the Almanack. Bound in blue boards, with original paper wrappers, with gilt titles to spine. Good+ condition... View full lot details

John Wisden’s Rugby Football Almanack 1924-25. Edited by C. Stewart Caine. Scarce second edition of the Almanack lacking original paper wrappers and advertising pages, bound in card boards. Breaking to book block, some page detached, some wear and damage to page edges towards the back of the book otherwise in generally good condition... View full lot details

John Wisden’s Rugby Football Almanack 1925-26. Edited by C. Stewart Caine. Scarce third and final edition of the Almanack with original paper wrappers. Black adhesive tape to spine, some wear to wrappers otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

The Rugby Football Annual 1921-22 (5th edition), 1923-24 to 1939-40 (22nd edition). Original decorative wrappers/boards. An almost complete run of seventeen editions of this rarer annual for the period. Some faults, some breaking of internal hinges, two editions with broken spine blocks, odd ink annotation otherwise in good overall condition.... View full lot details

The Rugby Almanack of New Zealand’. Edited by A.H. Carman. Twenty right editions for 1940, 1948 to 1974. Odd faults otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

The Playfair Rugby Football Annual. Complete run from 1948/49-1972/73, all large issue and Rothman’s Rugby Union Handbook 1972/73 to 1999/2000. Qty 53. Plus four smaller pocket size Playfair Rugby Football Annuals for 1996-97 to 1999-2000. Sold with International Rugby Board ‘IRB World Rugby Yearbook’. A run of fourteen issues of the yearbook for 2001/02 to 2014/15. Odd faults, good condition... View full lot details

Rugby Union. ‘Northampton [Rugby] Football Club, Season 1928-29’. Large original mono photograph of the Northampton team seated and standing in rows wearing rugby attire. The photograph by S.H. Greenway of Northampton measures 11.5”x9”, laid to official photographer’s mount, overall 14”x12”. Players’ names, title and season statistics ‘Record: Played 38 Won 32 Lost 6, Points for 552. Points against 228’ printed to lower mount border. Players featured include Weston (Captain), Loverock, Webb, Harris, Coley, Haselmere, Vaughan,... View full lot details

Rugby Union. ‘Northampton [Rugby] Football Club. Season 1933-34’. Large original mono photograph of the Northampton team seated and standing in rows wearing rugby attire. The photograph by The Greenway Studio of Northampton measures 11.5”x9.5”, laid to official photographer’s mount, overall 20”x15.5”. Players’ names and title printed to lower mount border. Players featured include Longland, Dicks, Treen, Weston, Harris, York, Bradley, Baillon, Garratt, Chorlton, Stimpson, King, Percival etc. The mount with loss to one corner, wear... View full lot details

Rugby Union. ‘Scotland v. Wales played at Murrayfield 1st February 1936. Scottish XV’. Excellent official sepia photograph of the Scottish team seated and standing in rows wearing rugby attire. The photograph, by Alex Ayton of Edinburgh, measures 14”x9.5”, laid to official photographer’s mount, overall 22”x17”. Printed title, players’ names and match result to mount borders. Players featured are Dick (Captain), Logan, Burnet, Shaw, Beattie, Waters, Grieve, Fyfe, Murdoch, Marshall, Cooper, Duff, Murray, Druitt and Shaw.... View full lot details

Rugby Union. ‘The British Isles Rugby Tour of New Zealand 1950’. Printed brochure and itinerary for the tour, pen pictures etc. 20pp. Original decorative colour wrappers. Published by Travel Guides of Timaru, New Zealand. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Rugby Union. ‘Cardiff Athletic Club Rugby Section’ 1924/25-1926/27. Four official programmes for ‘home’ matches played at Cardiff. Matches are v Gloucester 18th October 1924, v Penarth 14th March 1925, v Barbarians 11th April 1925, and v Exeter 22nd January 1927. Some wear to wrappers, rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details