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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Brian Elvin Disbury. Kent 1954-1957. Mono real photograph postcard of Disbury three quarter length wearing cricket attire. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by Disbury. Printed title ‘B.E. Disbury, Kent’ to lower right corner. J.D. Hunt of Tonbridge. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Abraham ‘Abram’ Waddington. Yorkshire & England 1919-1927. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Waddington, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Signed in ink by Waddington. Official stamp to verso for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Harold Beaumont. Yorkshire 1946-1947. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Beaumont, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire and cap. Nicely signed in ink by Beaumont. Official stamp for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich to verso, date stamped 1946. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Donald Vincent ‘Don’ Brennan. Yorkshire & England 1947-1955. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Brennan, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire and blazer. Nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph by Brennan. Official stamp for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich to verso. Very good condition.... View full lot details

John Henry ‘Johnny’ Wardle. Yorkshire & England 1946-1958. Mono real photograph plain back postcard of Wardle, head and shoulders wearing cricket attire. Very nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph by Wardle. Official stamp for A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich to verso. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire, Europeans, Patiala & England 1898-1930. Sepia real photograph postcard of Rhodes standing full length wearing cricket attire, Yorkshire cap, and leaning on a bat. The photograph by A. Robinson of Sheffield, taken at the back of Bramall Lane pavilion. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘Yours sincerely W. Rhodes’. Postally unused. Minor wear to top edge and corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition. A good image.... View full lot details

George Herbert Hirst. Yorkshire, Europeans & England 1891-1929. Early original mono postcard of Hirst standing full length wearing cricket attire and Yorkshire cap, ball in hand at the wicket. Very nicely signed in black ink ‘G.H. Hirst’ to the lower margin. Printed title ‘G.H. Hirst’. Wrench series no. 1391. Postally unused. Trimmed to top edge, minor foxing, adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

Sachin Tendulkar. ‘Yorkshire Television. Sponsors of Sachin Tendulkar, Bombay, India and Yorkshire C.C.C.’ Original sponsors advertising card with biography to verso, signed to front by Tendulkar. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘The Cricket Album, containing 36 artistic photo post cards of all the first class county teams, also Warners XI, 18 of the best Cricketers and the 1905 Australian team’. The Star Series. 3rd edition. Complete album of uncut postcards, bound in boards with title to front board, six to a page, printed in Bavaria for G.D. & D. London in original orange wrappers with printed title and postcard of the 1905 Australian team laid to... View full lot details

‘Vanity Fair Cartoons Series’ postcards early 1900s. Seven colour postcards of cricketers each with series title and player biography printed to margins, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, London. One features Ranjitsinhji, series no. 1548, the others, from series no. 1707, are of F.S. Jackson, Gilbert Jessop, Robert Abel, Plum Warner, George Hirst and L.C.H. Palairet. All postally unused. The Jessop postcard with small surface damage to front. Some wear to corners and odd minor... View full lot details

Victorian cricket Christmas cards c.1895. Four exquisite colour Christmas cards. One double-sided card features a pair of cut-out cricket boots with title to verso ‘May you be bo(w)le’d, And never sol(e)d’. Adhesive marks to verso where previously laid down. The other three folding cards each depict bats, balls and stumps to the front, with titles ‘Good Luck to you’, ‘A jolly Score be yours this merry Season’, and ‘With the season’s greetings’, the latter, dated... View full lot details

Victorian cricket Christmas, New Year and birthday greetings cards c.1895. Seven attractive colour greetings cards, each featuring cricketing scenes, some with humorous captions. Two are single-sided cards, one issued by Raphael Tuck & Sons with artwork by ‘Ellam’, the other similar. Captions are ‘Straight for the middle stump’ and ‘How’s that? Very uncomfortable’. Other titles include ‘Where the deuce has that gone?’, ‘Grace and Remembrance to you Shakespeare’ etc. One card appears to feature a... View full lot details