Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Signed boxing postcards and photographs 1930s-1980s. A selection of ten mono promotional cards and postcards each signed by the featured boxer. Signatures on postcards and postcard size photos are Max Schmeling, Pat Butler, Enrico Urbinati, Maurice Cullen, Johnny Sullivan, Terry Downs (‘Boxing News’ Photos No. 74), Des Rea, Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini, and one other unidentified. Also one larger signed promotional card of John H. Stracey, 9”x10”. Odd minor faults, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

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B.B.C. TV golf ball. Titleist golf ball with ‘B.B.C. TV presents’ printed to it. Presumed to have been used either in the initial introduction or the ending of a golf television programme in the 1970’s?. Good condition... View full lot details

Henry Cotton. Original mono photograph of Cotton, head and shoulders wearing suit and tie. Signed in black ink ‘Henry Cotton’. The photograph probably taken in the 1940s. Photographer unknown. 5.5”x8” laid to trimmed card. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Signed golf cards and covers 1970s-2000s. Seven colour and one mono postcards/ promotional cards, each signed by the featured player. Signatures are Greg Norman, Lee Trevino (two different), Jack Nicklaus, Bernhard Langer, Fred Couples (two different) and Tom Watson. Sold with three individually signed commemorative covers including one ‘Arizona’ 1982 cover signed by Hale Irwin, and three for the Seve Trophy, Druids Glen 2002 tournament, signatures are Colin Montgomerie, Lee Westwood and one other. Very... View full lot details

Open Golf Championship 1974- 1980. Four official programmes for the Championships held at Royal Lytham & St. Annes 10th- 13th July 1974, St. Andrews 12th- 15th July 1978, Royal Lytham & St. Annes 18th- 21st July 1979 with official order of play fold out card for Friday 20th July, and Muirfield 17th- 20th July 1980. The 1978 programme with scribbled annotations throughout. Light wear and creasing to some, the 1979 programme in very good condition.... View full lot details

Open Golf Championship 1982-2003. Eight official programmes for the Championships held at Royal Troon 1982, Turnberry 1986, St. Andrews 1991, Royal St. Georges 1993, Royal Birkdale 1998, Carnoustie 1999, Muirfield 2002, and Royal St. George’s 2003. Includes staff admission ticket and fold out course map with the 1998 programme. Very good condition. Sold with two hardback golfing books, both with good dustwrappers, ‘The Modern Fundamentals of Golf’, Ben Hogan, 4th impression London1958, and ‘My Life... View full lot details

Golf signatures 1930s onwards. Album page with handwritten title ‘Ladies Amateur Golf Championship’, undated but appears to be 1934. The page has been signed by tournament officials and ten participants including Pam Barton (runner-up), Wanda Morgan, Bessie Gainford, Isobel Greenlee, Diana Plumpton etc. Two album pages very nicely signed in ink by eleven golfers of the 1940-1960s including John Panton, Reg Knight, Reg Horne, John Jacodb, Syd Scott, Max Faulkner etc. Also two commemorative covers,... View full lot details

Charles H. Kingsley. 1930s. Sepia real photograph postcard of Kingsley standing full length in tennis attire. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘Charles H. Kingsley’. Printed title ‘C.H. Kingsley’ to lower edge. Publisher’s blind embossed stamp to lower left corner for E. Trim of Wimbledon. Postally unused. A nice image in excellent condition.... View full lot details

George Patrick ‘Pat’ Hughes. 1930s. Sepia real photograph postcard of Hughes standing full length in tennis attire. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘G.P. Hughes’. Printed title to lower edge. Publisher’s blind embossed stamp to lower left corner for E. Trim of Wimbledon. Postally unused. A nice image in excellent condition.... View full lot details

Nigel G. Sharpe. 1930s. Sepia real photograph postcard of Sharpe standing full length in tennis attire. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘Nigel Sharpe’. Printed title to lower edge. Publisher’s blind embossed stamp to lower right corner for E. Trim of Wimbledon. Postally unused. A nice image in excellent condition.... View full lot details

Jean Laurent Robert Borotra. 1930s. Sepia real photograph postcard of Borotra standing full length in tennis attire. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘J. Borotra’. Printed title to lower edge. Publisher’s blind embossed stamp to lower right margin for E. Trim of Wimbledon. Postally unused. A nice image in excellent condition.... View full lot details

Gordon Rhind Oak Crole-Rees. 1930s. Sepia real photograph postcard of Crole-Rees standing full length in tennis attire. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘Gordon R.O. Crole-Rees’. Printed title to lower edge. Publisher’s blind embossed stamp to lower right corner for E. Trim of Wimbledon. Postally unused. A nice image in excellent condition.... View full lot details

Heinrich Kleinschroth. 1930s. Sepia real photograph postcard of Kleinschroth standing full length in tennis attire and striped blazer. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘H. Kleinschroth’. Printed title to lower edge. Publisher’s blind embossed stamp to lower right corner for E. Trim of Wimbledon, series no. A.115. Postally unused. A nice image in very good condition.... View full lot details

Winifred Alice ‘Freda’ James. 1930s. Sepia real photograph postcard of James standing full length in tennis attire at the net. Very nicely signed in blue ink to the photograph ‘Freda James’. Printed title to lower edge. Published by E. Trim of Wimbledon, series no. T60. Postally unused. Minor wear to corners, otherwise a nice image in very good condition.... View full lot details

Christian Boussus. 1930s. Sepia real photograph postcard of Boussus standing full length in tennis attire. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘Christian Boussus’. Printed title to lower edge. Published by E. Trim of Wimbledon, series no. W123. Postally unused. A nice image in very good condition.... View full lot details

Henry Wilfred ‘Bunny’ Austin. 1930s. Sepia real photograph postcard of Austin standing full length in tennis attire at the net. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘H.W. Bunny Austin’. Printed title to lower edge. Published by E. Trim of Wimbledon, series no. R100. Postally unused. A nice image in very good condition.... View full lot details

Ladies tennis player postcards 1920s/ 1930s. Four excellent original mono real photograph postcards of lady tennis players in a series issued by Edwin Trim & Co. of Wimbledon. Player’s and publisher’s name printed to lower margin of each. Includes two of ‘Mrs. F.S. [Helen Wills] Moody’, one standing on court, series no. T85, the other seated on a courtside bench, no. T86. Others are ‘Miss H. [Helen] Jacobs’ on court, no. T78, and ‘Miss A.... View full lot details

Tennis signed advertising trade/ postcards early c.1932. Four collector’s cards, each signed in ink by the featured player. Three are real mono photographs with printed caption to lower border, ‘A world famed Tennis Combination. F.H. Ayres’ “Davis Cup” Racket & “The Championship” (Redg.) Ball’. Each player is depicted standing at the net with printed players’ name to the photograph, each by E. Trim & Co. Players/ signatures are Miss B. Nuttall (series no. M2), H.G.N.... View full lot details

John Herbert ‘Jack’ Crawford. Mono real photograph postcard of Crawford, head and shoulders wearing tennis sweater and tie. Very nicely signed in ink to the photograph ‘Kind regards, Jack Crawford 1936[?]’. Printed title ‘Jack H. Crawford. Australia’. Publisher unknown. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Signed tennis cards 1970s-2010s. Five colour postcards/ promotional cards, each signed by the featured player. Signatures are John Newcombe, Ivan Lendl (two different), and Angelique Kerber two different, one a ‘2018 Wimbledon Champion’ promotional card. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Fred Perry and Pat Hughes c.1933. Mono ‘Famous Amateur Series’ advertising trade/ postcard for ‘Bow Brand’ tennis racquet strings. The front features a mono image of ‘F.J. Perry & G.P. Hughes’ standing together at the net wearing tennis attire. Signed to the top margin by both Perry and Hughes. To the verso is a printed itinerary for the British Team tour to South Africa, undated but 1932/33, with advertising, and biographical details of the players.... View full lot details

Francisco Olegario Segura Cano ‘Pancho Segura’. 1940s/1950s. Sepia real photograph plain back postcard of Segura standing full length in tennis attire at the net. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘Pancho Segura’ and dated 1947[?]. Printed title to lower edge. Published by S.M.A. Photos. Postally unused. A nice image in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Tennis by the Lake’ and ‘Girl Tennis player’. Pair of early Edwardian chromolithographic colour postcards of a man and a woman in tennis pose by a lake. Published by J.W. Berlin, Graficas, and numbered 199/4 and 199/6. Sold with ‘Girl Tennis player’, series of five attractive colour postcards of a young girl wearing a large straw hat and playing with a tennis racket and ball, various shots and poses. ‘Lutetia Series’. No. 152, European editions.... View full lot details

Tennis signatures 1930s- 1980s. A selection of nineteen signatures of tennis players to small cards or on pieces laid to card. Signatures include Bunny Austin, Don Budge, Pauline Betz Addie, Margaret Court, Sven Davidson, Ken Rosewall, Vic Seixas, Ted Schroeder, Rod Laver, Gardner Mulloy, Neale Fraser, Hana Mandlikova etc. Also an autograph album comprising a good number of tennis and other signatures of the 1950s/1960s including Hugh Stewart, Roger Becker, Don Butler, Don Black, Bryan... View full lot details

Rugby Union. ‘Scottish Rugby Union Squad’ 1995-2005. Six folding cards, each signed in ink (one in pencil) to the inside by members of Scotland teams. Matches are v Canada at Murrayfield 21st January 1995 (21 signatures in pencil), v France at Murrayfield 3rd February 1996 (21 in ink), v Wales at Cardiff 17th February 1996 (21), v Ireland in Dublin 7th February 1998 (16), v Ireland at Murrayfield 12th February 2005 (22), v Wales in... View full lot details