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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Henry Perkins. Cambridge University, Cambridgeshire & M.C.C. 1854-1868. Single page handwritten letter on M.C.C. letterhead, dated 29th June 1885. Writing in his capacity as Secretary of M.C.C., Perkins is inviting ‘My dear [F.M.] Lucas’ to play for Gentlemen v Players at Lord’s on 6th July. Very nicely signed ‘Henry Perkins’. Very good condition... View full lot details

Vyell Edward Walker. Middlesex 1859-1877. Three page folding letter handwritten in ink from Walker to the cricket author, W.A. Bettesworth, dated 29th May 1900 with good cricket content. The date of the letter corresponds with the publication in 1900 of Bettesworth’s book, ‘The Walkers of Southgate’. Walker appears to be writing about information he has provided, stating ‘For my own part I don’t think I should have produced the Statistics in print- they can be... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire, London County & England 1865-1908. Two page handwritten folding letter from Grace, written on London County C.C., Crystal Palace, headed paper, and dated 19th November 1899. Grace is replying to a request from ‘Mr Rammell’ regarding fixtures, presumably for the 1900 season, saying ‘I am sorry we cannot play on June 16th or July 7th. I think we can easily fix up a date after meeting of secretaries on the 5th... View full lot details

Thomas ‘Tom’ Emmett. Yorkshire & England 1866-1888. Rare four page folding letter with excellent cricket content from Emmett to the collector, Charles Pratt Green, dated 21st November 1891 with original envelope. Emmett is replying to a request for one of his bats to add to Green’s collection. Emmett is sorry that he had recently given away ‘the only old bat I had... And when I tell you that I gave it to some school boys... View full lot details

Lord Harris, George Robert Canning Harris, Kent & England 1870-1911. Single page handwritten letter to a ‘Mr Bell’, written on Belmont, Faversham, headed note paper and dated ‘26th’ (year unknown). Lord Harris writes ‘You are very welcome to the remains of my old bat if Philip[?] has not thrown it away... If you so instruct him before taking it away I will sign it’. Nicely signed ‘Harris’. Light vertical fold and creasing, otherwise in good... View full lot details

Charles William Wright. Nottinghamshire, Cambridge University & England 1882-1899. Single page letter handwritten in ink by Wright on Saxelby Park, Melton Mowbray headed paper to a T.B. Milne. Dated 23rd February 1935, Wright states ‘I am very sorry but I gave up cricket 20 years ago owing to the loss of an eye and every atom of my cricket tackle was given away long ago to the village club’. Very nicely signed ‘C.W. Wright’. Light... View full lot details

George Alfred Lohmann, Surrey, Western Province & England, 1884-1897. Single page undated handwritten note in black ink on trimmed plain paper. Lohmann writes to say he will be ‘most happy to look you up when I am near Tiverton’. Very nicely signed ‘Geo. A Lohmann’. The page with light horizontal fold and small tear to left edge is laid down to another page, adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in very good condition. A very nice... View full lot details

Andrew Ernest Stoddart. Middlesex & England 1885-1900. Two page folding letter handwritten in ink by Stoddart, undated. Writing to ‘Dear [A.W.] Rammell, Stoddart is handing in his resignation as President of The Stoics Cricket Club. He states, ‘What you want I am sure is a man who has time and ability to give to the club. I am afraid I have neither’. Very nicely signed ‘A.E. Stoddart’. Light horizontal fold, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Arthur Frederick Augustus ‘Dick’ Lilley. Warwickshire & England 1894-1911. Single page handwritten undated letter in ink from Lilley to an unknown correspondent. Lilley is writing in reply to a request for one of his bats, stating ‘I am sorry that I have not got an old bat left but if it would not be to [sic] late you shall have the first one I may have next season’. Very nicely signed ‘A.A. Lilley’. Light horizontal... View full lot details

Edward George ‘Teddy’ Wynyard. Hampshire & England 1878-1908. Three page handwritten folding letter in ink from Wynyard on M.C.C./ Lord’s Cricket Ground official letterhead with very good cricket content relating to the impending 1906/07 tour to New Zealand, which Wynyard was to lead. Dated 18th June 1906, Wynyard is writing to ‘Dear Magnay’ saying ‘The team for New Zealand is in no sense mine but one selected by M.C.C. They have asked me to go... View full lot details

John Richmond Gunn. Nottinghamshire, London County & England 1896-1925. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 25th June 1903 on Nottinghamshire C.C.C. headed paper. Gunn is writing, presumably to Lord’s, confirming he ‘shall be pleased to play Gentlemen v Players’. Very nicely signed ‘J. Gunn’. Some uneven trimming, adhesive mark to verso, small hole to top left corner, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Hon. Lionel Hallam Tennyson. Hampshire & England 1913-1935. Two page folding ‘In Memoriam’ letter handwritten in ink by Tennyson to ‘Dear Hugh [Pakenham]’. Dated 12th December 1916, Tennyson is writing to thank Pakenham for his ‘kind letter of sympathy’ following the death of his mother. Very nicely signed, Lionel H. Tennyson’. Light horizontal fold. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Arthur Lindsay Hassett. Victoria & Australia 1932-1953. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Hassett on The Worcestershire Brine Baths Hotel, Droitwich letterhead. Dated 3rd May 1956 while attending the tour match at Worcester, Hassett is writing to ‘The Hon. Secretary [Ron Yeomans], The Northern Cricket Society’ declining an invitation to attend a Society Dinner. Nicely signed ‘Lindsay Hassett’. Light fold. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Warren Bardsley. New South Wales & Australia 1903-1926. Single page handwritten letter on ruled paper from Bardsley to a ‘Mr Bailey’. Dated 16th October 1948, writing from Sydney, Bardsley is responding to a request for his autograph. He continues, ‘Very much regret the present great weakness in English cricket. Measured by past standards of visiting Australian teams to England our recent one was far from strong, although most successful’. Very nicely signed ‘Warren Bardsley’. Light... View full lot details

Donald George ‘Don’ Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. Single page handwritten letter from Bradman on his ‘Don Bradman & Co. Stock, Share and Investment Brokers’ official business letterhead. Dated 15th July 1949 and addressed to ‘Mr Ross’, Bradman expresses his ‘grateful thanks’ for congratulations on receiving his knighthood. Very nicely signed ‘Don Bradman’. Light folds otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

William Henry Cooper. Victoria & Australia 1878-1885. Very rare single page handwritten letter from Cooper, written on ruled paper, dated ‘Sept 15th [1936]’. Cooper is writing to ‘Mr. Hill’, being Les R. Hill, the cricket writer and collector base in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Cooper writes, ‘At 87 I am granted wonderfully good health’ and while he ‘cannot do anything in the way of cricket except looking at cricket’ he looks forward ‘to see something... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England, 1870-1899. Two page folding hand written letter, on London County Cricket Club letterhead, from Grace to ‘My dear Dick’ (presumably being Richard Moore ‘Dick’ Bell. London County 1902-1904) regarding his non appearance at a golf match possible arrangements for future game, the letter dated March 11th 1906 by Grace. ‘I expected to see you yesterday at Hurlingham. I hope nothing serious prevented you from turning up. We had a... View full lot details

Edward Wentworth ‘Ted’ Dillon. Kent & Oxford University 1900-1923. One page type written letter from Dillon to William Findlay, Secretary of M.C.C. The letter, dated 8th November 1923, on ‘H.W. Dillon & Sons, Steamship and Insurance Brokers’ headed paper. A brief message to Findlay ‘My Dear Billie, Ever so many thanks for your letter of yesterday and I much appreciate tour promise to do what you can to help’. Signed ‘Yours sincerely’ Ted Dillon. Light... View full lot details

Benjamin James ‘Ben’ Sealy. Trinidad & West Indies 1923-1941 (1 Test 1933). Also known as Ben Sealey. Single page handwritten letter in blue ink from Sealy, dated 12th November 1956, writing to a ‘Mr Ogden’ to say he will be travelling to England ‘next year... and should I be fortunate to be around the West Indies team, I hope to meet you personally when the team comes to Old Trafford’. Small adhesive marks to verso,... View full lot details

Alexander John ‘Sandy’ Bell. Western Province, Rhodesia & South Africa 1925-1939. Two page handwritten letter in blue biro on ruled paper from Bell with very good cricket content relating to ‘Bodyline”. Dated 22nd January 1971 and writing from East London in South Africa, Bell opens by correcting statistical details such as ‘I was O’Reilly’s first LBW victim, and not Cyril Vincent’, ‘My last wicket, in the mud, bowling off breaks off a two yard run,... View full lot details

Harold Larwood. Nottinghamshire, Europeans & England 1924-1938. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Larwood on plain ruled paper, dated 29th July 1977. Writing from the Victoria Hotel in Nottingham where Larwood was attending the 3rd Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, Larwood is replying to a request for his signature and arrangements for the collection from the hotel of a signed miniature bat. Light folds, Very good condition.... View full lot details

William ‘Bill’ Voce. Nottinghamshire & England 1927-1952. Single page handwritten letter from Voce writing from his home in Hucknall. The letter is undated but is a late reply to a letter of ‘Feb 76’ in which he was asked ‘which of the 27 Tests gave me the greatest pleasure’. His reply is ‘being asked to play in them... I enjoyed every match I played in weather [sic] I was getting good hiding or I giving... View full lot details

Walter Alexander Humphreys. Sussex & Hampshire 1871-1900. Single page handwritten letter/ note in ink from Humphreys to ‘Mr Padwick’ dated 24th October 1889. Humphreys appears to be replying to an offer to buy a picture from him, stating ‘I have been so very busy during the opening of the Exhibition here that I have not known hardly what to do first... Your offer for Picture not being sufficient must decline with thanks’. Nicely signed ‘Walter... View full lot details

Alfred Shaw. Nottinghamshire, Sussex & England 1864-1897. Rare and early single page handwritten letter with good cricket content from Shaw to an unknown correspondent in Nottingham, dated 27th April 1889. Writing from the Star & Garter Hotel, Brighton, on ‘in memoriam’ style paper with black borders, Shaw is replying to a request for information about players. ‘As I was not out in Australia with the last team I cannot give you any notes but Mr... View full lot details

John Shuter. Kent, Surrey and England 1874-1909. Two page handwritten letter in ink, dated 26th March 1889, from Shuter to a Miss Macdonald who is organising a fundraising bazaar. Shuter writes ‘I fear it is quite impossible to obtain notes from or even signatures of the Surrey Eleven at the present time’ but offers to try to obtain them later ‘if May is not too late’, and asks her to send him a reminder nearer... View full lot details

Richard Daft (senior). Nottinghamshire 1858-1891. Two page folding letter handwritten in ink with good cricket content from Daft, dated 30th June 1870, to the cricket administrator, R.A. Fitzgerald (Cambridge University, M.C.C. & Middlesex 1854-1874). Fitzgerald is arranging a team for North v South at Canterbury and Daft writes ‘I am sorry to say that through the continued illness of my wife I shall be unable to play in the forthcoming North & South match at... View full lot details

Walter William Read. Surrey & England 1873-1897. Two page handwritten folding letter in ink from Read to a ‘W. Moreton Esq’, dated 22nd July 1904. Read is sending his thanks ‘for your extreme kindness... As you know full well when any body is in temporary trouble so few in this world will lend a helping hand’. Nicely signed ‘W.W. Read’. Some foxing to folds, small hole to one corner, adhesive mark to verso, otherwise in... View full lot details

William Gunn, Nottinghamshire and England 1880-1904. Handwritten note on ‘Gunn & Moore’ headed memorandum sheet, undated, responding to a request from a lady collector for his signature. ‘I have much pleasure in responding to your wish to possess my autograph’. Beautifully signed ‘William Gunn’. Light folds, small adhesive mark to verso, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Willliam Brockwell. Surrey, Kimberley, London County & England 1886-1903. Two page handwritten folding letter from Brockwell to E.B.V. Christian. The undated letter, with good cricket content, appears to refer to a book being compiled by Christian. Brockwell states ‘Only mention my century v Gloucester being the first and the 106 not out v Notts... the others v Essex, Yorks & the North I would leave out & I wonder also if you think proper not... View full lot details

Albert Neilson ‘Monkey’ Hornby. Lancashire & England 1867-1899. Two page handwritten note in ink on ‘Parkfield, Nantwich, Cheshire’ headed paper from Hornby to ‘Dear Alice’, undated. Hornby writes ‘I am very sorry but I have given my tickets away, or else you could have had them. You had better write to Henry Perkins [Secretary of M.C.C. 1876-1898]... who I think will be able to let you have some. Use my name’. Nicely signed ‘A.N. Hornby’.... View full lot details

Samuel Moses James ‘Sammy’ Woods, Somerset, Cambridge University, England & Australia 1886-1910. Small two page handwritten note in ink dated ‘4th Sept’. Presumably writing to a publisher, Woods thanks them ‘for 6 copies of the Book. It reads quite well. I hope others will think the same’. A date is annotated in pencil ‘7/9/25’ to the first page, which corresponds with the publication of Woods’ autobiography ‘My Reminiscences’ in 1925. The note is nicely signed... View full lot details

Francis Eden Lacey. Hampshire & Cambridge University 1880-1897. Single page handwritten letter in ink on official M.C.C., Lord’s letterhead from Lacey to David Denton (Yorkshire & England 1894-1920). Dated ‘21 VI [19]04’, Lacey writes ‘The Committee of the M.C.C. have selected you to play for the Players v the Gentlemen at Lord’s on July 4th, 5th, 6th’ and awaits confirmation of his availability. Nicely signed ‘F.E. Lacey, Sec. M.C.C.’ The page appears slightly trimmed and... View full lot details

Edward Ferdinando Sutton Tylecote. Oxford University, Kent & England 1869-1886. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Tylecote, dated 2nd July 1934. Writing from his home in Hunstanton, Norfolk, to an unknown correspondent, Tylecote states ‘[Your letter] gives me far more pleasure than a score of notices from correspondents to the Star or any other paper coming from people who never saw me play 40 to 50 years ago’. Nicely signed ‘E.F.S. Tylecote’. Folds and... View full lot details

Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire, Gentlemen & England 1862-1896. Handwritten single page folding letter on Park House, Thornbury letterhead from Grace, dated 1st May 1901, to ‘Mr Hill’. Grace writes ‘I have put you down for certain to play. We commence at one o’clock and have no lunch’. Very nicely signed ‘Edward Mills Grace’. Some foxing, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Lord Martin Bladen Hawke, Yorkshire & England 1881-1911. A two page handwritten folding letter in ink from Lord Hawke, who was Captain of Yorkshire for many years, to ‘My dear Talbot’, dated 14th March 1900. Writing from his home at Wighill Park, Tadcaster, the letter appears to relate to some gossip about ‘the Club [Yorkshire?]’ asking ‘Do tell me... the whys and the wherefores re [the] enclosed’. Nicely signed ‘Hawke’. Light fold and minor foxing,... View full lot details

Gilbert Laird Jessop. Gloucestershire, Cambridge University, London County & England 1894-1914. Nice single page handwritten letter dated ‘Sept 4’ (year unknown, possibly 1930s), to ‘Dear Dr. Hunter’ with interesting cricket content. Jessop is arranging to meet for tea and ‘we can then settle the World’s Cricket affairs between us’. He continues by stating ‘Anything about Don Bradman bores me- a wonderful run getter but I don’t like him as a cricketer’. Nicely signed ‘Gilbert L.... View full lot details

Frederick Gale. Four page handwritten folding letter from Gale to ‘My dear Pardon’. In the undated letter the handwriting is difficult to decipher, but the overall theme of the content appears to relate to mistakes appearing in published articles and books, and he closes in a postscript complaining that someone has been ‘abusing me in all the papers’. Nicely signed ‘Fred Gale’. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Vyell Edward Walker. Middlesex 1859-1877. Single page handwritten note in ink from Walker to ‘Miss Burrows’, dated 10th May 1894. Written on Arnos Grove, Southgate headed paper, Walker writes ‘I have the pleasure to enclose my card to admit yourself & friends to Enclosure at Lords’. Very nicely signed ‘V. Edward Walker’. Very good condition. An excellent signature.... View full lot details

John Broadbridge. Marylebone Cricket Club 1840. Sussex v England. Rare and very early single page handwritten letter in ink from John Broadbridge at Lord’s Ground, dated 30th July 1840, to ‘Friend Wenman’ (Edward Gower ‘Ned’ Wenman, Kent 1825-1854). Broadbridge writes ‘I have engaged Cobbett, Bayley, & Hawkins, & I wish you consider that you are also engaged. They will be at Dover on Sunday next, & of course you will also. The arrangements I have... View full lot details

John Edward Kynaston Studd. Middlesex & Cambridge University 1878-1884. Single page typed letter on ‘The Polytechnic, London’ official letterhead, of which Studd was a founder and President. Dated 8th December 1913, Studd writes to confirm his attendance at a forthcoming event. Nicely signed in ink ‘J.E.K. Studd’. Light folds. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Elias Henry ‘Patsy’ Hendren. Middlesex & England 1907-1937. Single page handwritten letter on West London Indoor Cricket & Sports Club official letterhead, of which Hendren held the post of Manager. Dated 16th February 1926 to a ‘Mr Webber’, Hendren writes to confirm a visit ‘to you from April 19th for one week: My terms for the [visit] would be £25’. Nicely signed ‘E. Patsy Hendren’. Folds with some splitting, odd nick to edge, some age... View full lot details

Frank Edward Woolley. Kent & England 1906-1938. Single page handwritten letter from Woolley to a ‘Mr Webber’, dated 13th March 1927. Writing from his home in Southborough, Kent, Woolley states ‘I am sorry I cannot accept your offer to be present during your cricket exhibition as I am full up with coaching & other engagements in London’. Nicely signed ‘Frank E. Woolley’. Folds with small nick to one edge, some age toning, otherwise in good... View full lot details

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Pelham Francis ‘Plum’ Warner. Middlesex, Oxford University & England 1894-1920. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 15th October 1953. Writing soon after celebrating his 80th birthday, Warner is replying to a request from a ‘Mr Gillman’ for his autograph and photograph and sends his best wishes ‘noting you too will reach “80 not out”, it only needs a 4, a 3, a 2 and a single & you will be there!’. Signed ‘Pelham F.... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 19th December 1953. Writing from Hove, Sussex, to ‘Dear Johnny’, Hobbs sends his thanks for ‘giving me another birthday luncheon party... a right royal time- good food, wine and excellent company. You were a wonderful host’. Nicely signed ‘Jack Hobbs’. Light fold. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Richard Gorton ‘Dick’ Barlow’. Lancashire, Derbyshire & England 1871-1891. Two page handwritten folding letter in ink from Barlow to F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Dated 4th November 1912, on his personal letterhead in Blackpool, Barlow is replying to an enquiry about ‘a feat which you name’, of which he says he has ‘no recollection... and must say it is news to me’. He continues to say he always looks forward to cricket and is keeping well. Very nicely... View full lot details

Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex, Hampshire, Oxford University, Europeans & England 1892-1922. Double sided two page handwritten letter in ink from Fry at ‘Hamble, Hants’, to a Mr Stalworthy, dated 16th May 1922. Fry is replying to a request for advice on how best to grip a cricket bat. Fry goes into some detail, opening with ‘If you ground a bat near your right toe and keep it nearly upright between the first two fingers of... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Three handwritten letters/ notes signed by Indian Test cricketers responding to requests for their autographs. Signatures are Ajay Kumar Sharma (one Test 1987/88) undated, Arshad Ayub (13 Tests 1987/88-1989/90) undated, and Aashish Rakesh Kapoor (four Tests 1994/95-1996/97) dated 30th August 1995. Ajay Sharma also asks for advice on how to break in to County cricket. Light folds, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Three handwritten letters/ notes signed by Indian Test cricketers responding to requests for their autographs. Signatures are Thirumalai Echambadi ‘T.E.’ Srinivasan (one test 1980/81) dated 6th February 1982, Rakesh Chandra Shukla (one Test 1982/83) undated, and Ajay Kumar Sharma (one Test 1987/88) undated. Shukla describes playing ‘as a cricket pro in England with distinction for the last five years’, having played in the Lancashire League, North Yorkshire & South Durham League. Light... View full lot details

Jehangir Sorabji Warden. Parsis and India 1905/06 to 1925/25. Two page back to back handwritten letter on Portland Hotel, London headed paper from Warden to a William F Curtis of Leicester, the letter dated 3rd September 1923. The letter refers to Warden’s book on cricket entitled ‘Knotty Cricket Problems Solved’ which he published in 1923. Mr Curtis wanted to buy a copy but ‘I regret I have no copies here with me. All are lying... View full lot details

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England, 1870-1899. London County Cricket Club post card, the printed ‘Cricket’ being crossed through and replaced with ‘Bowls’, handwritten and sent by Grace to a ‘W.G. Gale’ regarding presumably Bowls ‘I am depending on you at [??] on Saturday at 3 O’clock, also at West Ealing on the 13th at same time and here on the 18th. Signed ‘W.G. Grace’. The postcard dated 4th July 1907 and postmarked a similar... View full lot details

John Tunnicliffe. Yorkshire 1891-1907. Plain postcard sent from a Bristol address by Tunnicliffe, dated 26th September 1913. Very nicely signed in blue ink ‘J. Tunnicliffe’. Horizontal and vertical folds with some wear, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Bishan Singh Bedi. Northern Punjab, Delhi, Northamptonshire & India 1961-1981. Single page handwritten letter from Bishan Bedi to the vendor, dated 7th August 1976. Bedi describes at some length the highlights of his career and his contributions to the success of the Indian team. Notable achievements listed include ‘Beating England at home in 1972, beating Australia in Delhi in 1969, beating West Indies in India twice (at Madras & Calcutta) in 1974, beating England at... View full lot details

Lord Martin Bladen Hawke, Yorkshire & England 1881-1911. Gilt edged card with printed text in gilt ‘Autographed in aid of the fund of the Royal Alexandra Infirmary Bazaar by’ The card has been signed ‘Hawke’ in black ink. The card measures 4.5”x3.5”. Very good condition... View full lot details

Yorkshire players signatures. Four excellent individual ink signatures of David Denton, George Hirst, Wilfred Rhodes and Herbert Sutcliffe. All of the signatures signed to paper pieces and laid down to individual ‘English Test Cricketers’ white cards., Very good condition... View full lot details

Yorkshire players signatures. Black file containing 110 white cards, each card either signed by a Yorkshire player or with a Yorkshire players signature signed to a paper piece and then laid down to the white card. Signatures include E. Robinson, Barber, Oldroyd, H. Verity, Brennan, Holmes, Leyland, Padgett, Yardley, A. E. Wood, Wardle, Bowes, R. Hutton, Bolus, Foord, Starc, I. Harvey, D. Martyn, Katich, S. Flaming, Silverwood, Root, Sachin Tendulkar, Gough, Boycott, Watson, Balderstone, D.... View full lot details

Charles Thomas Biass ‘Charlie’ Turner. New South Wales & Australia 1882-1910. Scrap of a letter on ruled paper very nicely signed in green ink by Turner. An excellent rare signature.... View full lot details

Charles Jesse Kortright. Essex 1894-1907. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”) with ink and pencil portrait of Kortright standing three quarter length wearing cap, blazer and tie, holding a cricket ball. Very nicely signed below the portrait ‘Chas J. Kortright’ and dated ‘1895 (Leyton)’, possibly the date he signed it. Artist unknown. An attractive original page with gilt to page edges. Very good condition.... View full lot details

David Denton and George Hirst. Yorkshire C.C.C. Two sheets of large ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”), each very nicely signed in ink to the top of the page by the featured player, with his date of birth, who has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. One sheet is for David Denton (Yorkshire & England 1894-1920), born 4th July 1874, with career highlights including 1010 innings for Yorkshire scoring 33,608 runs, average 33.27, 3 hundreds... View full lot details

Frederick Fane and Percy Perrin. Essex C.C.C. Two sheets of large ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”), each very nicely signed in ink to the top of the page by the featured player who has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. One sheet is for Frederick Luther Fane (Essex, Oxford University & England 1895-1922), with his career listed as Charterhouse School XI 1892-3-4, Oxford University XI 1897-9-8 [sic], Essex XI 1894-1921 Capt. 1904-06. West Indies... View full lot details

William George ‘Willie’ Quaife. Warwickshire, Griqualand West & England 1894-1928. Large sheet of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”), very nicely signed in ink to the top of the page by Quaife with his date of birth 17th March 1872, who has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. Quaife describes playing for Warwickshire 1893-1928, being a member of A.C. Maclaren’s team to Australia 1901-2 appearing in five Tests and two in England in 1899, scoring... View full lot details

George Brann and Billy Newham. Sussex C.C.C. Two large sheets of large ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”), each very nicely signed in ink to the top of the page by the featured player who has then proceeded to write his career highlights below. One sheet is for George Brann (Sussex 1883-1905), with his details including scoring 105 & 109 v Kent in 1892, tours to Australia with Shaw & Shrewsbury 1887, South Africa with Read 1891,... View full lot details

Northern County and Minor County autographs 1930s-1940s. A collection comprising over eighty autographs on ruled pages of cricketers of the period from northern Counties and Minor Counties including Northumberland, Durham and Staffordshire. Signed to ruled pages, the majority in ink, some individually to a page others multiple, mainly back-to-back with the odd press cutting laid down. Notable names include E. Paynter (Lancashire & England), J.H.G. Deighton (Lancashire), A. Townsend (Warwickshire), L.F. Townsend (Derbyshire & England),... View full lot details

William Deedes. Gentlemen of Kent 1853. Trimmed envelope front laid to card, signed to the lower left corner ‘Wm Deedes’. The envelope addressed to a Mr Rigden of Canterbury, postmarked 23rd July 1880. Small tear to top edge, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Early cricket signatures 1803-1839. A selection of eight free front envelopes, each signed by the correspondent. Signatures are Sir John Shelley, Brighton, M.C.C. etc., 1792-1795, signed ‘J. Shelley’ (faded) 1803. Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquis of Hertford, Surrey 1799 (2 matches), signed ‘Hertford’ 1824. Henry Cecil Lowther. M.C.C., Surrey, Hampshire, England etc. 1819-1843, signed ‘H. Lowther’ 1826[?]. Brownlow Brownlow-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter, 1 first-class match for W. Ward’s XI 1817, signed ‘Exeter’ 1830. Robert... View full lot details

Test and County cricket signatures 1950s-1980s. A good selection of over fifty signatures, the majority signed to magazine cuttings with the odd signature on card. Signatures include Tony Lewis, Kim Barnett, Jack Bond, Norman Gifford, Dennis Amiss, Pat Pocock, Barry Wood, David Steele, Trevor Jesty, Chris Old, Les Taylor, David Smith, Jack Simmons, Gehan Mendis, Derek Pringle, Colin Wells plus Keith Miller, Dirk Wellham (Australia), Dilip Doshi (India), Bruce Edgar (New Zealand) etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Australian Test captains 1920s-1930s. Herbie Collins and Bill Woodfull. Two signatures, one of Collins in ink, the other in pencil of Woodfull, each signature signed to piece and laid to small card. The Collins signature with accompanying press photograph of Collins walking out to bat for New South Wales, probably 1920s, 3.25”x7”. Both signatures tightly trimmed. Also two original sepia press photographs of Woodfull in batting action for Victoria in Sheffield Shield matches 1930s, and... View full lot details

South Africa tour to Australia 1931/32. Sixteen signatures in ink, each signed individually to tightly trimmed cutting piece and laid down to two joined album pages. Players’ signatures include Cameron (Captain), Mitchell, Curnow, Christy, Taylor, Viljoen, Dalton, Balaskas, Vincent, Brown, McMillan, Quinn, Bell etc. To the verso signatures in ink on pieces of seven ‘Former Australian] Test Umpires’ including Jones, Barwick, Scott, Barlow, Innes etc. Ink blots to some signatures, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

William Cafffyn. Surrey & M.C.C. 1849-1873. Excellent ink signature of William Caffyn on paper piece, laid down to large piece of blue album page. A very rare and desirable signature... View full lot details

Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu. India 1932-1936. Excellent ink signature of Nayudu with comment ‘Play Cricket and play it as it should be played’. Good condition... View full lot details

Jeoomai Makhija Naoomal. India 1932-1934. Mono postcard size photograph of Naoomal sitting with children with Sir Julian Cahn stood behind him in a park/garden. To verso the photograph is nicely signed by Naoomal with head and shoulders printed image of Naoomal, signed Indian Cricket Team and dated 16th September 1932. Good condition... View full lot details

Jahangir Khan. India 1932-1936 and Janardan Gyanoba Navle. India 1932-33. Excellent ink signatures of Khan and Navle on card pieces, both probably signed in later years. Good condition... View full lot details

Sorabji H.M. Colah. India 1932-1933, Nariman Darabsha Marshall, a member of the 1932 Indian tour who never played a Test match and Phiroze Edulji Palia. India 1932-36. Ink signatures of the three players on paper pieces laid down to cards. Good condition... View full lot details

Syed Wazir Ali. India 1932-1936, Mahomed Nissar. India 1932-1936 and Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai. India (one Test) 1933. Ink signatures of the three players on paper pieces laid down to cards. Good condition... View full lot details

Lala Amarnath Bhardwaj. India 1933-55, Morappakam Josyam Gopalan. India 1934 (one Test) and Dinkar Balwant Deodhar, legend of Indian cricket but did’nt play a Test for India. Excellent ink signatures of all three players on card pieces, all appear to have been signed in later years. Good condition... View full lot details

Vijaysingh Madhavji Merchant. Hindus, Bombay & India 1929-1952. Ink signature of the legendary Indian Test player, nicely signed. Good condition... View full lot details

Yadavindra Singh of Patiala. India 1934 (one Test). Rare ink signature. Good condition... View full lot details

Dilawar Hussain. India 1934-1936 and Maharajkumar Kumar of Vizianagram ‘Vizzy’. India 1936. Rarer ink signatures of the two players on paper pieces laid down to cards. Good condition... View full lot details

Mulvantrai Himmatlal Mankad India 1946-1959, Rustom Sorabji Cooper. not a Test player but a leading Parsee cricketer 1941-45, and Sriranga Wasudev ‘Ranga’ Sohoni, India 1946-1951. Excellent ink signatures of all three players on card pieces. Good condition... View full lot details

Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar. India 1936-1946, Abdul Hafeez Kardar. India 1946 and Pakistan 1952-1958 and Vinoo Mankad, India 1946-1959. Excellent ink signatures of all three players on paper pieces, laid down on card pieces. Good condition... View full lot details

Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi. 8th Nawab of Pataudi. India Captain 1946 and Gul Mohammad, India 1946-1952. Excellent ink signatures of the two players on card pieces. Good condition... View full lot details

Chandrasekhar Trimbak Sarwate. 1946-1951, Rustomji Sheriyar Modi. India 1946-1952 and Gogumal Kishenchand Harisinghani. India 1947-1952. Excellent ink signatures of the three players on card pieces. Good condition... View full lot details

Vijay Samuel Hazare. 1946-1953, Khanderao Moreshwar Rangnekar. India 1947-1948 and Syed Mushtaq Ali. India 1934-1952. Excellent ink signatures of the three players on card pieces. Good condition... View full lot details

Kanwar Rai Singh. 1948 (one Test), Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari. India 1948 and Amir Elahi. India 1947. Excellent ink signatures of the three players two signed on card pieces. one on paper piece laid down to card. Good condition... View full lot details

Cricket cuttings and autographs 1860s-1950s. A good collection of around two hundred original printed magazine and the odd newspaper cuttings trimmed and laid down to plain postcards. A good number are signed including some on individual snips, postcards, album pages etc. Over fifty signatures, the majority in ink, including Jack Hobbs, Laurie Fishlock, Hanif Mohammad, Frank Tyson, Gubby Allen, Peter May, Les Ames, Trevor Bailey, Bill Edrich, Alec Bedser, Joe Hardstaff, Roly Jenkins, Everton Weekes,... View full lot details

Hampshire C.C.C. signatures early 1900s-2000s. Two green binders comprising a comprehensive collection of approx. one hundred and ninety signatures of Hampshire players on pieces laid down, cigarette and collectors’ cards, postcards etc., All are nicely presented, each signature loose mounted to a page or pages dedicated to an individual player with printed biographical information, some duplication of signatures. Earlier signatures include George Brown, Phil Mead, Stuart Boyes, Sam Pothecary, Jim Bailey, Len Creese, Johnny Arnold,... View full lot details

County and Australian signatures 1930s-1900s. Two red binders comprising a comprehensive and nicely presented collection of over one hundred and sixty signatures of County players and six Australian Test cricketers. The majority are signed individually to piece laid down with accompanying trade or cigarette card(s) and printed biographical details to a loose mounted card. Counties featured are Derbyshire (4 signatures), Essex (11), Glamorgan (9), Gloucestershire (9), Kent (18), Leicestershire (8), Lancashire (5), Middlesex (17), Northamptonshire... View full lot details

The Ashes. Printed colour magazine page extract of the Ashes urn, window mounted to card. The mount signed by twenty two former England and Australian Test captains including Don Bradman. Other signatures are Ted Dexter, Graham Gooch, Mike Brearley, Colin Cowdrey, R.E.S. Wyatt, Bob Willis, Mike Gatting, David Gower, Mike Smith, Ray Illingworth, Allan Lamb, John Edrich, Mike Denness, Len Hutton, Ian Botham of England, Bob Simpson, Bill Lawry, Ian Chappell, Ricky Ponting, Richie Benaud... View full lot details

International Test and County cricketers 1930s-2000s. A large nicely presented album comprising over eighty individual signatures of Test and County cricketers, mainly modern 1970s-2000s with a few earlier. The majority are signed to white card or the odd label and mounted below a printed image or trade card of the featured player, with a few signed directly to postcard etc. Signatures include a good selection of England captains, Hussain, Gower, Gatting, Lamb, Botham, Willis, Atherton... View full lot details

Cricket miscellany. A selection of album pages, scorecards, programmes and collectors cards. Includes two earlier individual signatures each on piece laid down, one in ink of Dudley Nourse (South Africa), the other in pencil of J.W. Hearne (Middlesex & England). Two album pages c.1950s signed in ink back-to-back by W. Sutcliffe, R. Booth, W. Watson, F. Lowson, N. Yardley (Yorkshire), A. Fagg, D. Ufton, J. Spanswick (16 matches), C. Page (Kent). Three album pages signed... View full lot details

Test and County autographs 1930s-1960s. Two autograph albums with signatures to pages, some signed back-to-back. Over seventy signatures in total. One album comprises County and some South African Test players from the 1930s, including G.F.H. Heane, W. Voce, H. Larwood (Nottinghamshire), E.A. Watts, E.R.T. Holmes, H.G. Baldwin, R.J. Gregory, A. Sandham, J.N. Crawford (Surrey), M.S. Nichols, L.C. Eastman, J.W.A. Stephenson, A.V. Avery, A.G. Powell (Essex), B. Mitchell, A.D. Nourse, E. Rowan, A.J. Bell (South Africa)... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1950s-1980s. A selection of Surrey related ephemera, some signed. Includes an album page signed in ink by thirteen members of the Surrey team c.1955 including Surridge (Captain), Constable, A. & E. Bedser, Clark, Laker, Stewart, McIntyre, Lock, Pratt, Loader etc. ‘Six Golden Years, the Souvenir of Surrey’s Six Successive Championships’, booklet produced for the Eric Bedser Benefit Fund 1958. Signed to the player pen pictures by seven players, A. and E. Bedser, Constable,... View full lot details

Cricket signatures 1920s onwards. Album comprising one hundred individual Test and County signatures on cards, cuttings laid to card, postcards etc. The signatures mainly modern with some earlier including Patrick M. Hall (Oxford University & Hampshire 1919-1926, 14 matches), Roy Tattersall, Peter Lever, Mandy Mitchell-Innes, Tom Graveney, Alec Bedser, Raman Subba Row, Les Jackson, Trevor Bailey, Norman Gifford, Keith Fletcher, Geoff Arnold, Jack Bond, David Gower, Martyn Moxon, Alastair Cook, Graham Gooch, Alec Steward, Robin... View full lot details

Brian Lara. A selection of Lara related ephemera including two official scorecards, one for Lara’s record score of 501no, Warwickshire v Durham, 2nd- 6th June 1994 (unsigned), the other for the Axa Sunday League match at Lord’s, Middlesex v Warwickshire 29th May 1994, players listed at the start of play, signed in ink by Lara who was dismissed first ball. Also an A.C.B./ Futera ‘Supreme Team 95/96’ signed trade card of Lara, a colour print... View full lot details

New Zealand tours to England 1965 & 1969. Green binder containing a profuse collection of approx. 190 press and magazine cuttings signed by featured New Zealand players. Signatures include Dowling, Cameron, Reid, Collinge, Congdon, Motz, Pollard, Sutcliffe, Taylor, Vivian, Yuile, Turner, Hastings, Dayle and Richard Hadlee etc. also some England players’ signatures including Parks, Statham, Sharpe, Knott etc. Duplication of signatures. Good condition.... View full lot details

New Zealand tours to England 1973 & 1978. Black binder containing a profuse collection of over 130 press and magazine cuttings signed by featured New Zealand players. Signatures include Congdon, Pollard, Collinge, Dayle & Richard Hadlee, Turner, Edgar, G. Howarth, Burgess, Wright, Boock, Edwards, Troup etc., also some England players’ signatures including Illingworth, Amiss, Brearley, Taylor, Edmunds etc. Duplication of signatures. Good condition.... View full lot details

Kent C.C.C. 1905. Original one page menu for the end of season dinner held at the Conservative Club, London, given by George Marsham, uncle of the Kent Captain, C.H.B. Marsham. The menu with gold and blue borders with printed menu to centre. Signed to verso in pencil by ten attendees. Players’ and Guests signatures are C.H.B. Marsham (Captain), S.H. Day, E.W. Dillon, F. Marchant, E.C. Mordaunt, S. Christopherson, G.J.V. Weigall, and A.P. Day. Also signed... View full lot details

Kent. Official folding scorecard for Beckenham C.C. v A Kent C.C.C. XI 13th July 1958 (for Fred Ridgway’s Benefit fund). nicely signed to inside autograph page by twelve members of the Kent team. Signatures include Cowdrey, Pettiford, Pretlove, Dixon, Leary, Evans, Wilson, Page, Prodger, Ridgway, Brown, Halfyard etc. Good condition... View full lot details

Michael Colin Cowdrey. Kent, Oxford University & England 1950-1976. Large official menu for the ‘Tribute to Colin Cowdrey’ held at the Royal Star Hotel, Maidstone on the 17th July 1968. The Tribute was held by The Borough of Maidstone and comprised of eight pages with brief biography, tributes from The Duke of Norfolk and The Mayor of Maidstone, menu and a list of the contributors to the event. Blue cord tie to spine. Signed to... View full lot details

Kent County Cricket Club. Centenary Dinner 1870-1970. Official menu for the Dinner held at The Great Danes Hotel, Hollingbourne on the 24th April 1970. Printed details to front cover, menu and toast list to inner pages with Edward Heath MP, Colin Cowdrey, M.J.C. Allom and E.W. Swanton speaking and signed to the rear ‘Autographs’ page by seventeen past and present Kent players. Signatures include Edward Heath, Frank Woolley, Ames, Evans, Underwood, Knott,Valentine, Cowdrey, Luckhurst, Asif... View full lot details

Australian tour of the West Indies 1955. Official R.M.S. Rangitane four page folding menu card with drawing of the Staple Inn, Holborn by Joseph lee to front cover, dated the 12th July 1955. Details and menu to inside pages and the back cover ‘Autographs’ page signed by seventeen members of the Australian touring party including the manager, T. Burge in pencil. Signatures include I. Johnson (Cpt), Archer, Miller, Morris, Langley, Harvey. Flavell, Benaud, Lindwall, Burge,... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1936/37. Official Orient Line S.S. Orion brochure for the M.C.C. Australasian Tour 1936/37. Printed title to front wrapper with M.C.C. colours and Orient Line emblem. Signed in ink to pen pictures by all eighteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Allen (Captain), Ames, Barnett, Copson, Duckworth, Fagg, Farnes, Fishlock, Hammond, Hardstaff, Leyland, Robins, Sims, Verity, Voce, Worthington, Wyatt and Howard (Manager). Vertical fold, soiling to original wrappers, centre pages cleanly... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1964. Official P&O Orient Lines souvenir programme ‘Australian XI English Tour 1964’ with Australian emblem, cricket bat and ball to front cover. To inside pages are pen pictures of the Australian team, fully signed in ink by all nineteen members of the touring party including officials. Signatures include Simpson (Captain), Booth, Burge, Cowper, Grout, Hawke, Lawry, O’Neill, McKenzie, Redpath, Vievers etc. Initials ‘WG’ in ink to front wrapper suggest this was... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1935. Rare official folding menu card for the ‘Welcome Luncheon to The Springboks. The South African Cricket Team’ given by the Institute of Journalists, London District, held at the Criterion Restaurant, 26th April 1935. The menu with printed title and emblems to front, Menu and Toasts to inside pages. The rear cover has been very nicely signed in black ink by twelve members of the South African touring party. Signatures... View full lot details

Sri Lanka. ‘Centenary 1882- 1982 and First Official Test Sri Lanka v. England Feb 17- 22. 1982’. Two folding autograph cards, one signed in ink to the inside by fifteen members of the England touring party. Signatures are Gatting, Emburey, Richards, Underwood, Taylor, Dilley, Botham, Willis, Fletcher (signed twice), Gooch, Gower, Tavare, Cook, Lever and Allott. The other card with typed names of the twelve members of the Sri Lanka side for the inaugural Test... View full lot details

‘Wisden Dinner’ 1992. Official folding menu for the dinner held at the East India Club, London 8th April 1992. Signed to the rear page by thirteen attendees. Signatures are Graeme Wright (Editor of Wisden), John Stevenson, Alan Smith, Jim Swanton, Matthew Engel, Tim Rice, Jack Bailey, Keith Andrew, Tony Lewis, Trevor Bailey, Jonathan Agnew, Tony Pawson and Patrick Eagar. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘M.C.C. Australian Tour 1928-9’. Official ‘Orient Line, R.M.S. Ormonde’ souvenir brochure with decorative covers, M.C.C. colours to front. To inside pages a real mono photograph of the M.C.C. team laid down to the itinerary page, pen pictures and biographies of the M.C.C. team etc. Nicely signed in black ink to the front cover by fifteen members of the touring party. Signatures are White, Hendren, Sutcliffe, Freeman, Leyland, Geary, Larwood, Jardine, Tate, Chapman, Duckworth, Hobbs, Tyldesley,... View full lot details

M.C.C. Australian Tour 1928/29. Official Orient Line ‘S.S. Ormonde’ Dinner menu given on board ‘Wednesday 27th March 1929’ at the start of the return journey from Australia. The folding menu with photographic image of the ship to front cover, the inside has been signed in pencil by seventeen on board, including eleven England players, Duckworth, Tyldesley, Geary, Hobbs, Ames, Mead, Freeman, Hammond, Leyland, Tate and White. Tape repairs to tears, slight splitting to fold, light... View full lot details

‘Bodyline’. Iftikhar Khan Ali, Nawab of Pataudi. Oxford University, Worcestershire, India, England etc. 1928-1946. Official folding menu for the ‘Farewell Dinner to “Pat” [Pataudi]’ held at the 77 Club, Adelaide, 9th March 1933 to mark Pataudi’s departure midway through the 1932/33 tour to Australia due to ‘business reasons’. The card with printed title and cockerel motif to front, ‘Toasts’ and ‘Autographs’ to inside, coloured cord tie, gilt to edges. The autograph page has been beautifully... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1992. Official menu for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the Pakistan cricket team at the Savoy Hotel, London 1st May 1992. The menu with front cover cartoon by Roy Ullyett of Imran Khan and Graham Gooch holding up their respective ‘personalised coloured pyjamas’. Signed to the front by Edward Heath, and to the inside by eighteen members of the Pakistan touring party. Signatures include Javed Miandad (Captain), Saleem Jaffer,... View full lot details

South African tour of England 1994. Official menu for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the South African cricket team in 1994 to welcome the team back to England after twenty nine years. Held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 22nd June 1994. The menu with cartoon cover illustration by Roy Ullyett. Signed to the front by former players Ali Bacher and Peter van der Merwe, and inside by sixteen members of the South... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1934. Official programme for the F.A. Cup Final, Portsmouth v Manchester City, played at Wembley Stadium 28th April 1934. The programme signed in pencil (one in ink) to the centre ‘field of play’ pages by fourteen attendees including members of the Australian touring party. Australian players’ signatures in pencil are O’Reilly, Ponsford, Chipperfield, Ebeling, Barnett, Kippax, Woodfull, Bradman, Wall, McCabe and Darling. Also signed by Frank Swift of Manchester City, J.... View full lot details

The Ashes. Australia v England, Melbourne 1978/79. Official invitation card issued by the Victoria Cricket Association for admission to the V.C.A. Delegates Room for the 3rd Test at Melbourne, 29th December 1978- 3rd January 1979. The invitation dated 15th December 1978. Signed in ink by seventeen attendees including former Australia and England Test players. Signatures include Don Bradman, Gil Langley, Bill O’Reilly, Neil Hawke, John Inverarity, Les Flavell, Greg Chappell, Frank Tyson, Ashley Mallett, Eric... View full lot details

‘Surrey County Cricket Club Championship Dinner’ 1955. Official menu for the Dinner held at The Grosvenor House, Park Lane on the 1st December 1955. The menu with raised silver Club emblem of the Prince of Wales feathers and titles to front cover, inside pages with Toast List and Menu and photographs of the first and second XI teams. Page with Surrey emblem signed in ink by twelve members of the Surrey team loosely mounted to... View full lot details

Norman Gifford. Worcestershire, Warwickshire & England 1960-83. ‘Benefit Year’ 1974. Four page folding card produced to commemorate Gifford’s Benefit Year. The front cover features a photograph of Gifford celebrating having hit the winning six in the B&H Competition v Warwickshire in June 1973. Signed to the inside full pages by the Worcestershire Playing staff of 1974. Twenty two signatures in ink including Gifford, Turner, D’Oliveira, Ron Headley, Imran Khan, Ormrod, Parker, Holder, Inchmore, Cumbes, Pridgeon,... View full lot details

Hedley Verity and Maurice Leyland. Yorkshire & England. Official M.C.C. Christmas card from the M.C.C. tour of Australia 1936/37. With ‘M.C.C. Australian Tour 1936-37’ title and M.C.C. colours to cover. To inside a paper insert with picture of the M.C.C. team and the wording ‘With Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year’. Signed in Verity’s hand ‘from Maurice Leyland and Hedley Verity’. Previously sold by Knights in 2006. Good/ very good... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1928/29. Original and rare single sided printed card titled ‘A Message for the New Year’. The card, with borders in M.C.C. colours of red and gold, M.C.C. emblem to top, with illustration below depicting a lion playing the guitar in front of the Lord’s pavilion, with a kangaroo on drums and Springbok on saxophone either side. Below is the printed title and eight line poem looking forward to 1929, with the... View full lot details

‘Bodyline’. Official M.C.C. Christmas card from the M.C.C. ‘Bodyline’ tour of Australia 1932/33. Excellent decorative cover in M.C.C. colours, M.C.C. emblem of St. George & Dragon, caricatures, by Arthur Mailey, of the M.C.C. team stood on a outline map of Australia and printed detail ‘Christmas Greetings 1932 from The M.C.C. in Australia’. Paper insert to inside with printed message ‘With Sincere Wishes for a Bright and Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year’.... View full lot details

William McGregor Hemingway. Gloucestershire & Cambridge University 1893-1900. Bookplate photograph of Hemingway in batting pose at the wicket wearing cap, very nicely signed in black ink to lower border by Hemingway. Taken from the ‘Jubilee Book of Cricket’, Ranjitsinhji 1897, the bookplate measures 5.75”x8.75”. To the verso are the signatures in ink of eighteen members of the Indian touring party to Australia 1947/48. Signatures include Amarnath (Captain), Hazare, Mankad, Sohoni, Sarwate, Sen, Phadkar, Nayudu, Ranvirsinhji,... View full lot details

Sri Lanka inaugural Test match 1981/82. A selection of items relating to Sri Lanka’s first ever Test match, v England at Colombo, 17th- 21st February 1982. Includes two official press passes issued to V. and D. Selwood for the first day’s play, one signed to the verso by Bob Taylor. Three copies of the commemorative cover with accompanying leaflet issued in Sri Lanka 17th February 1982, one cover signed to the front by fifteen members... View full lot details

‘The Cricinfo Guide to International Cricket 2008’. Edited by Steven Lunch. Profusely signed to the individual player pages by over one hundred and sixty players, umpires and referees. Signatures include Razzak, Rehman, Amla, Anderson, Boucher, Bravo, Broad, Chanderpaul, Cook, De Villiers, Dhoni, Dilshan, Dravid, Gambhir, Ganguly, Gilchrist, Gillespie, Haddin, Harbhajan Singh, Hayden, Hoggard, Hussey, Inzamam, Jayawardene, Kallis, Laxman, Lee, Malinga, Yousuf, Morkel, Muralitharan, Nel, Ntini, Pietersen, Pollock, Ponting, Sammy, Sangakkara, Sarwan, Sehwag, Afridi, Akhtar, Steyn,... View full lot details

‘The Cricinfo Guide to International Cricket 2010’. Edited by Steven Lunch. Profusely signed to the individual player pages by over one hundred and sixty players, coaches, umpires and referees. Signatures include Razzaq, Amla, Anderson, Bell, Bravo, Broad, Butt, Chanderpaul, Cook, Keneria, De Villiers, Dhoni, Dilshan, Dravid, Gayle, Haddin, Harbhajan Singh, Hayden, Hussey, Jadeja, IJayasuriya, Jayawardene, Kallis, Laxman, Lee, Malinga, Yousuf, Morkel, Muralitharan, Ntini, Paine, R. Peterson, Ponting, Prasad, Sangakkara, Sarwan, Sehwag, Afridi, Sharma, Akhtar, Siddle,... View full lot details

‘The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2012’. Edited by Steven Lunch. Profusely signed to the individual player pages by over one hundred and forty players, umpires and referees. Signatures include Rehman, Amla, Anderson, Bairstow, Bell, Bravo, Broad, Chanderpaul, M. Clarke, Cook, De Villiers, Dhoni, Dilshan, Gambhir, Gayle, Haddin, P. Hughes, Hussey, Jayawardene, M. Johnson, Kallis, Kohli, Laxman, Lyon, McCullum, Malinga, Morkel, Ponting, Prior, Pujara, Sammy, Sangakkara, Sarwan, Sehwag, Afridi, Sharma, Siddle, S. Smith, Steyn,... View full lot details

‘The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2014’. Edited by Steven Lunch. Profusely signed to the individual player pages by over one hundred and thirty players, umpires and referees. Signatures include Rehman, Agar, Amla, Anderson, Ashwin, Bairstow, Best, Bravo, Broad, Buttler, Chanderpaul, Cook, Cummins, De Villiers, Dhoni, Dilshan, Elgar, Gambhir, Gayle, Haddin, Hales, Jadeja, M. Johnson, Kohli, Lyon, McCullum, Morkel, Prior, Pujara, Root, Sammy, Sangakkara, Sehwag, Sharma, Siddle, S. Smith, Starc, Swann, Gul, Wade, Williamson,... View full lot details

Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. ‘P.G.H. Fender Scrapbook’. Excellent original album, compiled personally by Fender covering his early cricket career from 1908 to 1911, comprising a comprehensive selection including fourteen official scorecards, also cuttings, letters, telegrams, membership cards, small original photographs etc., all extensively annotated in ink in Fender’s own hand. The album opens with letters and cuttings relating to Fender’s first-class debut for Sussex in 1910, with cuttings listing Fender... View full lot details