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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Nottingham Forest Football Club 1898 to 1939. From the Collection of James Wilmer. Two files containing copy images, cuttings, photographs, Newspaper supplement photographs of the clubs history and players from 1898, when they won the F.A. Cup defeating Derby County in the Final at Wembley to the start of the second World War in 1939. There are cabinet style photograph portraits of Frank Forman, who played for Forest and England between 1894 and 1905, two... View full lot details

Henry Wilfred ‘Bunny’ Austin. Original pencil caricature of Austin depicted full length carrying two tennis rackets and a towel. Very nicely signed in blue ink ‘H.W. “Bunny” Austin’. Artist and date unknown. 4.25”x7.75”. Light horizontal folds. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Nottingham Forest Football Club 1950/51 to 1958/59 seasons. From the Collection of James Wilmer. Black file containing press photographs, copy images, signed press cuttings, photographs, newspaper supplement photographs, trade cards of the clubs history and players in this period. The file includes an official menu to a luncheon at the Council on the 10th July 1951 to mark the promotion to the Football League Second Division, signed album pages of the team and press cuttings... View full lot details

Nottingham Forest Football Club F.A. Cup Winners 1958/59 season. From the Collection of James Wilmer, who was Vice Chairman of Nottingham Forest at the time of the Final. Black file containing press photographs, copy images, signed press cuttings, programmes, tickets of the clubs progress from the 3rd round to winning the Final beating Luton Town at Wembley on the 2nd May 1959. Programmes include all the Cup Matches including replays and the Final, letters to... View full lot details

Nottingham Forest Football Club 1960/61 to circa 1974/75 seasons. From the Collection of James Wilmer. Brown file containing press photographs, copy images, signed press cuttings, signed press photographs, postcards, trade cards, signed and unsigned, of the clubs history and players in this period. The file includes an official itinerary for the club’s tour of Czechoslovakia in May 1961, an official itinerary for the Inter-Cities Fairs Match in October 1961 (with printed word in English and... View full lot details

Nottingham Forest F.A. Cup winners 1897/98. ‘City Sketches’ Vol 1. no. 2, 25th May 1898. 32pp magazine plus advertisements, published in Nottingham. Original decorative wrappers with additional titles to front ‘Forest Banquet Illustrated’ and ‘Pictures of Attewell at Play’. p8 features an article reporting on the ‘Forest Banquet’, held to celebrate Nottingham Forest’s 3-1 victory over Derby County at Crystal Palace, 16th April 1898, their first F.A. Cup victory. The humorous and celebratory article opens... View full lot details

Manchester United. Hornby R.053 LNER Class B17 locomotive 00 Gauge scale model train in green livery with name plate ‘Manchester United’. Running number 2862. Originally released 1980-1982 in original box complete with crew and vacuum pump figures. Some wear to box, the train in very good condition.... View full lot details

Nottingham Forest F.C. Large blue album containing full page magazine pictures and copy photographs of the players, the majority signed by the player features. Signatures include Pearce, Hart, Wigley, Procter, Joe Baker, Fairclough, Hodge, Davenport, Wallace, Gray, O’Neill, Metgod, N. Clough, Carr, Birtles, Shilton, Robertson, Crosby, Bowyer, Anderson, McGovern, Lloyd, Withe, Woodcock, Keane, Fashanu, Gemmill, Jemson, Black, Walker, Sheringham, Barnwell etc. Some duplication of signature but not image. Good condition... View full lot details

Nottingham Forest F.C. 1952-1956. Ruled page signed in ink by nine members of the Nottingham Forest playing staff and manager, and an album page signed in ink and pencil by eleven members of the 1952/53 team. Signatures include Jack Hutchinson, Tot Leverton, Jack French, Colin Collindrigde, Bill Whare, Alan Moore, Wally Ardron etc. Sold with an original official mono photograph of the 1955/56 team by A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich. G/VG... View full lot details

Nottingham Forest F.C. 1955/56 and 1957/58. Ruled page signed in ink by twenty one members of the 1955/56 Nottingham Forest team, and two album pages signed in ink by twenty eight members of the 1957/58 team. Signatures include Eric Jones, Bill Farmer, Ron Farmer, Fred Scott, Tom Wilson, Bill Whare, Harry Nicholson, Bill Morley, Frank Knight, Johnny Langford, Eddie Bailey, John Quigley, Calvin Palmer, Colin Platts, Stuart Imlach etc. G/VG... View full lot details

Notts County F.C. 1949/50-1951/52. Three album pages each signed in ink by members of the Notts County playing staff and officials for seasons 1949/50, nineteen signatures nicely signed to page, 1950/51, thirteen signatures (plus three to verso) on small page loose mounted to larger page, and 1951/52, fourteen signatures on page laid down to larger page. Players’ signatures include Jack Sewell, Tommy Lawton, Harry Brown, Tommy Deans, Leon Leuty, Frank Broome, Bill Baxter, Tom Johnston,... View full lot details

Everton v Liverpool. F.A. Cup Final 1986. Official programme for the Final played at Wembley Stadium, 10th May 1986. Official match ticket stapled to inside front cover. The programme signed to the front and rear pages by fourteen footballers and other sports and entertainment personalities. Signatures are Gordon Honeycombe, Tommy Cannon, John Conteh, Stan Boardman, Steve Cram, David Pleat, Samantha Fox, Ray Clemence, Henry Cooper, Andy Gray, Cilla Black, Emlyn Hughes, Willie Thorne and Mick... View full lot details

England v Georgia 1997. Official programme for the World Cup Qualifying Match played at Wembley Stadium 30th April 1997, with official match ticket for the Royal Box and car park ticket. Fourteen signatures to pages including Phil and Gary Neville, Jamie Rednapp, Robbie Fowler, Gary Pallister, Steve McManaman, Nicky Butt, Gareth Southgate, Ian Wright, Sol Campbell, Martin Keown, David Beckham, Arsene Wenger and Stefan Edberg (tennis). Very good condition.... View full lot details

John Kelly. Leeds United F.C. 1933-1935. Mono plainback player card/postcard of Kelly, head and shoulders, in Leeds shirt. Name printed to lower border. Photo by Lonnergan, Leeds. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

John ‘Jack’ Milburn. Leeds United F.C. 1928-1939. Mono plainback player card/postcard of Milburn, head and shoulders, in Leeds shirt. Name printed to lower border. Photo by Lonnergan, Leeds. Good/very good condition... View full lot details

Frank Raymond Osborne. Tottenham Hotspur 1924-1931. Mono real photograph postcard of Osbourne, half length, in Spurs shirt. Name to lower border. W.J. Crawford of Edmonton. Good condition Postally unused... View full lot details

Tottenham Hotspur ‘League Champions’ Division II 1920’. Early mono real photograph postcard of the playing staff and officials, with printed title to lower border. W.J. Crawford. Postally unused. Odd minor faults otherwise in good condition. Rare... View full lot details

Tottenham Hotspur Cup Team 1921-22. ‘Hotspur Team’. Early mono real photograph postcard of the team and trainer, Minter, standing and seated in rows on the pitch with printed title and players names printed beneath, to lower border. Appears to be W.J. Crawford postcard. Postally unused. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Handbook 1949-50 to 1954-1955 and 1959-60 to 1969-70. A total of seventeen handbooks official club handbooks. Original wrappers. Sold with ‘The Spurs of 1950’ printed by Thomas Knight, ‘The History of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club 1882-1946’. G. Wagstaffe Simmons. Published by the Club 1947, some staining and wear to the board covers and ‘Royal Insurance Company Record of Sports for 1905’ in fair/good condition. Good condition... View full lot details

Halifax Town v Tottenham Hotspur. F.A. Cup 5th round match played at The Shay on the 14th February 1953. Official programme for match signed to the centre page ‘field of play’ by the Spurs team who played in the match and other squad players. Seventeen signatures in ink (nine signatures) and pencil (eight signatures) including Ditchburn, Alf Ramsey, Ron Burgess, Withers, Bennet, Duquemin, Bailey, Willis, Britton, Nicholson, Walters, Medley, Clarke etc. Also signed by Arthur... View full lot details

Thomas Edwin Reed ‘Tommy’ Cook. Sepia real photograph plain back postcard of Cook head and shoulders wearing Brighton & Hove Albion football shirt. Printed title ‘T. Cook, Brighton & Hove Albion 1925-26’. Signed in ink to photograph by Cook. Brighton Camera Exchange. Postally unused. Minor wear to corners and edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Robert ‘Bobby’ Farrell. Dundee, Brighton & Hove Albion 1926-1939. Mono real photograph postcard of Farrell, head and shoulders in profile, wearing Brighton football shirt. Very nicely signed in ink to the photograph by Farrell. Publisher unknown. Postally unused. Some silvering to the darker parts of the image, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Liverpool Football Club 1933-1934’. Sepia real photograph postcard of fifteen members of the Liverpool team, each depicted in cameo on a black background with printed titles. Players featured include Bradshaw, English, Wright, McDougall, Done, Steele, Morrison etc. Published by Carbonara Co. of Liverpool. Postally unused. Small creases to two corners, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Humorous football postcards early 1920s. Five colour postcards depicting cartoons of humorous football scenes. Captions are ‘Our Associations were most cordial’, Angus Thomas Ltd. series no. 70. ‘The Referee “In the Hands of the Philistines”’, Millar & Lang National Series, ‘A Lucky Save’, National Series. ‘A Nice Quiet Game’, (postmarked 1919) and ‘A Goal!’, Valentine’s Series. Postally unused with one exception. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Rothmans Football Yearbook. 1970/71 (volume 1) to 2002/03 (volume 33) and Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2003/04 (volume 34) to 2020/21 (Volume 50). Complete run of this publication to 2020/21. Qty 51. Good condition.... View full lot details

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Denis Law and George Best. Manchester United. Two colour copy photographs of Law and Best both in match action. Each photograph nicely signed in black ink by the featured player. Each measures 11.5”x8”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Queen’s Park Football Club 1st Eleven- Season 1922-23’. Original mono photograph of the Queen’s Park playing staff and officials seated and standing in rows wearing football attire. The photograph by R. McFarlane of Glasgow measures 11”x8.25”, laid to official photographer’s mount, overall 18”x14”. Players’ names and title printed to lower mount border. Players featured include Crawford, Chalmers, Moreland, McAlpine, Dickson, Scott, Pirie etc. Foxing to the mount, the photograph in very good condition. An excellent... View full lot details

William Ambrose ‘Billy’ Wright. Wolverhampton Wanderers & England 1939-1959. Original mono photograph of Wright c.1960 seated beside a table with trophies, jerseys, pennants etc. from his playing career. Hanging on the wall behind are seventy one England international caps awarded to Wright. The photograph measures 9.5”x4.25”, laid to photographer’s mount, overall 10”x8”. The mount signed in blue ink by Wright to the lower mount border. Photograph by L. Sharratt of Wolverhampton. Creasing to mount, the... View full lot details

Ernest Prater (Fl. 1897-1914). Excellent original watercolour heightened with body colour of a footballer performing an athletic high kick of a football. The player is depicted wearing a bright red jersey, white shorts with blue belt, green and pink topped socks, and ankle length boots of the period. Signed by the artist to the lower right corner, undated but probably early 1900s. The artwork measures 9.25”x11.5”, mounted, framed and glazed in later frame with hand-printed... View full lot details

‘The Captain’. Early plaster figure of a boy in football attire holding a brown football to side with hand on his hip. The boy is wearing a green jersey, yellow shorts, green socks and green cap. ‘Captain’ inscribed to the chest of the boy’s jersey. To base ‘Slip it to Joe’ in black letters (maybe a later edition). The figure was produced by E.P. Kinsella in 1907. Some wear and knocks to the plaster, small... View full lot details

England World Cup 1966 autographs. Nine paper pages individually signed by members of the England squad. Signatures are J. Charlton, B. Charlton, Hunt, Stiles, Wilson, Banks, Ball, Cohen and Peters. Sold with a mono copy photograph of Geoff Hurst scoring England’s fourth goal, signed in silver pen by Hurst. Also a large press cutting of a photograph of Bobby Moore, signed by Moore. Together the eleven signatures comprise the full England team who played in... View full lot details

Notts County Football Club. Season 1948-49. Blue file containing an almost full run of home and away League and Cup programmes for the season, with the exception of four programmes being league programmes for Port Vale (home) and Northampton Town, Port Vale and Southend United (away). Some folds, odd annotation, minor faults otherwise in good condition. Qty 42... View full lot details

Notts County Football Club. Season 1950-51. Green file containing an almost full run of home and away League and Cup programmes for the season, with the exception of two programmes being league programmes for Manchester City (home) and Leicester City (away). Includes the home friendly match v F.C. Austria (10/5/51). Some folds, odd annotation, minor faults otherwise in good condition. Qty 42... View full lot details

Aston Villa F.C. Season 1965/66 to 1969/70. Almost complete runs of away programmes for the five seasons, including League and Cup matches. Season 1965/66 (26 programmes), 1966/67 (24), 1967/68 (22), 1968/69 (23) and 1969/70 (23). Includes a reserve match programme for West Bromwich Albion v Manchester United (1965/66 season). Some faults to odd programme including creasing and some wear otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

F.A. Cup Final programmes 1954-1958. Five official match programmes for F.A. Cup Finals played at Wembley Stadium. Preston North End v West Bromwich Albion 1954, Manchester City v Newcastle United 1955, Birmingham City v Manchester City 1956, Aston Villa v Manchester United 1957, and Bolton Wanderers v Manchester United 1958. Also one international programme for England v Scotland, Wembley Stadium, 9th April 1949. Odd annotations to field of play pages, fold to one, otherwise in... View full lot details

Football programmes 1950s. A mixed bag of forty match programmes including Celtic v Partick Thistle, Scottish League Cup Semi-final, Ibrox, 1st October 1958. Others, all English League, include Newcastle United, Everton, Hull City, Notts County, Bristol City, Bournemouth & Boscombe, Birmingham City, Norwich City, Crystal Palace, Shrewsbury Town, Leicester City, Watford etc. Odd faults, generally good condition.... View full lot details

Fulham F.C. 1951/52-1958/59. Fifty six official home match programmes for Football League Division 1 and 2 matches. Seasons are 1951/52 (Qty 1), 1954/55 (11), 1955/56 (21), 1956/57 (11), 1957/58 (7), and 1958/59 (5). Light vertical folds to some, odd minor nicks, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Football programmes 1960s. A mixed selection of 120 official match programmes, the majority Football League matches with the odd F.A. Cup, League Cup and one testimonial, Ken Brown Testimonial Match, West Ham United v Select XI, Upton Park 15th May 1967. Others include Stoke City (Qty 17), Leicester City (16), West Bromwich Albion (13), Nottingham Forest (11), West Ham United (10), Wolverhampton Wanderers (10), Northampton Town (9), Lincoln City (8), Port Vale (6), Derby... View full lot details