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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘Fog’s Weekly Journal’ 1730. Original early four page tabloid-size newspaper for Saturday 4th July 1730. Printed by J. Wilford near St. Paul’s, London. Page 3 column 1 features a ten line report on a cricket match. ‘On Monday last a great Cricket Match was play’d on Micklam [sic] Downs in Surrey, for 50l. between three men of Sussex and three men of Surrey, esteem’d the best Players in the respective Counties, which was won by... View full lot details

‘The London Evening-Post’ 1746. Early original four page broadsheet newspaper for Tuesday 8th July to Thursday 10th July 1746. Printed by J. Meres, Ludgate, London. Column 2 on the back page features a fourteen line article announcing a cricket match to be played on the Artillery Ground ‘the second great Match at Cricket, between the Gentlemen of Bromley and Addington against the Counties of Kent and Surrey’. It continues with a report of the first... View full lot details

‘Drewry’s Derby Mercury’ 1771. Early original four page broadsheet newspaper for Friday 30th August 1771. Printed and sold by J. Drewry of Derby. The newspaper features two cricket references, one on page 2 column 4, five lines, ‘On Tuesday and Wednesday the 13th and 14th of August, a great Match at Cricket was played between the Gentlemen of Stanstead Abbots and the Gentlemen of Walden, which was won by the latter by 41 Notches’. Also... View full lot details

‘The General Advertiser’ 1788. Early original four page broadsheet newspaper for Friday 25th July 1788. Printed by J. Almon of Fleet Street, London. Page 3 column three features an article describing ‘The Match of Cricket- the Hampshire Club against All England, for one thousand guineas each side, began playing yesterday, at Seven Oaks Vine, Kent’. The players of both teams are listed, comprising some notable names, for All England Mr. Louch, Aylward, Ring, Clifford, Bullen,... View full lot details

‘The London Chronicle’ 1789. Early original eight page newspaper/ magazine for Saturday 11th April to Tuesday 14th April 1789. Sold by T. Wilkie, St. Paul’s Churchyard, London. Column 2 of the final page features an eight line article, ‘We are informed, that Sir Henry St. John’s park keeper, at Dogmersfield park near Odiham, Hants, who shot six pigeons flying, out of ten, with a single ball, has since to decide a bet [to] hit a... View full lot details

‘The St. James’s Chronicle or British Evening Post’ 1789. Early original four page broadsheet newspaper for Thursday 25th June to Saturday 27th June 1789. Printed by H. Baldwin at the Britannia Printing Office, Blackfriars, London. Column 3 of the final page features a ten line article, reporting ‘Thursday the Cricket Match between 11 of the Hambledon Club and 13 of All England for 1000 guineas aside, commenced at Marybonne [sic]. The players for England went... View full lot details

‘The Star’ 1793. Early original four page broadsheet newspaper for Saturday 27th July 1793. Printed by J. Mayne, Temple Bar, London. Page 4 column 2 features a five line report and scorecard for the match between Surrey and Hampshire. ‘On Monday last and the two following days, was played a Grand Match of Cricket on Dartford Brimp [Brent], two Select Elevens, between Surry [sic] and Hants, for 1000 guineas. This match was made between Earl... View full lot details

Cricket reports in newspapers 1853-1894. Three original and complete copies of newspapers. ‘The York Herald’, 1651Saturday 10th December 1853. p6 columns 3-5 carries a lengthy report on the ‘Annual Dinner of the York Cricket Club’. Duty stamp to lower right corner of front page. ‘Sporting Gazette’, Saturday 6th January 1872. p13 columns 1-2 with cricket article ‘Cricket on the Hearth’ covering cricket in Croydon, cricket reform and the conservative attitudes of the M.C.C., appreciations of... View full lot details

‘Bodyline’. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1932/33. Two original and complete copies of ‘The Sporting Globe’ newspaper published by the Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, for Wednesday 14th December 1932 and Wednesday 25th September 1935. The front page of the 1932 issue reports on the aftermath of the 1st Test, which England won by ten wickets, with the headline ‘Problem of Our Test Match batting: Do not change our opening pair’ and a large cartoon of... View full lot details

Langbourne Cricket Club. Programme of the Second Grand Annual Bohemian Concert’ 1895. Official four page programme for the concert held at The Surrey Masonic Hall, Camberwell (then part of Surrey), 25th April 1895. The floral decorated front cover with printed titles, ‘Sir J. Blundell Maple, M.P., L.C.C.’ was the Club Patron. Programme of musical entertainments to centre pages, list of ‘Stewards’ to rear page. Printed by A. Constance of Walworth Road. Horizontal folds, some splitting... View full lot details

M.C.C. ‘114th Anniversary Dinner’ 1901. Excellent official menu for the M.C.C. Dinner held at Lord’s Hotel on the 1st May 1901. The four page card menu with decorative front cover showing the M.C.C. emblem to centre in black and titles in red. Menu, wines and Toast list to centre pages, programme of music to rear page. ‘D.M. Sherwill, Manager’ printed to lower border. Small splitting to fold, otherwise in very good condition. A rare and... View full lot details

Kent C.C.C. County Champions 1906. Rare official menu for the dinner for the Ninth Annual Dinner of the ‘Association of Men of Kent & Kentish Men’ with ‘Guests: Kent County Cricket Team (Champions 1906)’, held at The Holborn Restaurant, London, 6th November 1906. Printed titles to front cover, menu and toast list to centre pages, programme of Association events for 1906-7 to rear cover. Foxing, otherwise in good condition. Another rare item from this Championship... View full lot details

Kent C.C.C. County Champions 1906. Rare official ‘Band of Brothers Cricket Club’ menu for the dinner to ‘The Amateurs Kent XI (The Cricket Champions)’, held at The Grand Hotel, Trafalgar Square, 10th December 1906. The menu with ‘We Are a Band of Brothers’ emblem and titles to front cover, The Earl of Dartmouth in the chair, black and white silk tie and gilt edges. Printed menu to inside. Minor soiling to covers otherwise in very... View full lot details

‘Dinner to the Australian Imperial Force 1919 Cricket Team’. Original folding menu for the end of tour Dinner held at the Cafe Monico, London, on the 15th September 1919. The Dinner was organised by John Wisden & Co. to celebrate the tour. The menu with attractive printed cartoon by Alick P.F. Ritchie and titles to front cover, to inside pages ‘Menu’ and ‘Toast List’ and to rear cover ‘Programme of Music’. Lord Harris chaired the... View full lot details

‘A Supper Dance to welcome home the N.S.W. Members of the 1930 Australian Cricket Team at David Jones’, Saturday 22nd November 1930. Tickets 7/6. Proceeds in aid of Sydney Industrial Blind Association. A ticket for the supper numbered 649. The New South Wales members of the team were Don Bradman, Alan Fairfax, Archie Jackson, Alan Kippax, Stan McCabe and Bertie Oldfield whom attended the Supper. Odd very minor faults otherwise in very good original condition... View full lot details

Australia tours to England 1934, 1938 & 1948. Three double sided menu cards from the Maynard Arms, Grindleford, each with blank menu with hotel emblem to one side and, to the verso, printed facsimile signatures of the Australian touring parties. The menus are dated 12th- 18th July 1934, 28th June- 7th July 1938, and 21st- 30th June 1948. Each card measures approx. 6”x9.5”. Minor wear, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with an unused... View full lot details

Warwickshire C.C.C. 1950-1953. Three official menus for dinners including a folding menu for ‘The President’s Invitation Dinner to Welcome the West Indies Touring Team’ held at Edgbaston, 9th August 1950. Official menu booklet for the ‘Dinner in honour of the President of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club and the Captain and Members of the County Eleven, Winners of the County Championship, 1951’. The booklet with card wrappers, ribbon tie, Menu, Toasts and table plans to... View full lot details

Cricket related ship menus 1950s. Two official Union-Castle Line four page menus, both featuring a decorative front cover in colour of a village cricket scene. One for the R.M.S. ‘Edinburgh Castle’ dated 17th December 1953, signed to back page in ink by twenty three passengers (non cricket), the other for the R.M.S. Arundel Castle dated 14th March 1954. Good condition. Sold with a card menu featuring a colour aerial view of a match in progress... View full lot details

Robert Arthur Thoms, Umpire. ‘Earl of Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893’. Rare original invitation card, ‘The Earl of Sheffield requests the Honor of Mr Thoms company to Luncheon at Sheffield Park, May 9th 1893 at two o’clock precisely. Ticket to be presented on entering the tent. Tea and coffee will be served at five o’clock. The favour of an answer is requested’ The invitation card with Lord Sheffield ‘crown’ emblem in gilt to top, wording... View full lot details

Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the Luncheon given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield from the 8th-10th May 1893. The highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and Lord Sheffield’s cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre... View full lot details

Australia tour to England 1893. ‘Lord Sheffield’s XI. v Australians’. Early original single sided scorecard with printed and handwritten scores in pencil for the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield, 8th- 10th May 1893. In the opening match of the 1893 tour, a strong Lord Sheffield’s XI elected to bat first and posted 258, W.G. Grace (63) and Arthur Shrewsbury (62) making an opening stand of 101. For the Australians George Giffen and Arthur Coningham... View full lot details

Earl of Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893. Albert Craig. ‘England v Australia, at Lord Sheffield’s Picturesque County Seat’. His Lordship, with his usual unbounded generosity, grants free admission to the General Public. Monday May 8th 1893’. Original broadsheet poem entitled ‘The Opening Struggle’. ‘Let us hope this opening struggle, will so entertain and please, that you’ll live to talk it over, when you’re seated at your ease’. Printed by Mitchell Jackson of Woolwich. The... View full lot details

Scarborough Cricket Club v The Parsees (Bombay, India) 1888. Early and original handbill for the match played at the Cricket Ground, North Marine Road, Scarborough on the 27th August 1888. Title ‘Grand Cricket Match at Scarborough’ to top border and below ‘The Parsees (from Bombay) versus the Scarborough Club. This Grand Match will be played on the Cricket Ground, North Marine Road This Day. Wickets pitched at 12 o’clock. The match bill printed in black... View full lot details

Australia tour of England 1934. Original advertising laundry sheet featuring head and shoulders images of the sixteen members of the Australian touring party. Title ‘Australia’s Cricket Test Team. Well laundered sportswear gives confidence. Send us your cricket & tennis flannels & ladies sports frocks’. Players featured include Woodfull, Bradman, Ponsford, Grimmett, McCabe, Kippax, Oldfield, Barnett, Darling, Ebeling etc. 19.75”x10”. Light creasing, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Henry Phillips. Sussex 1868-1891. ‘H. Phillips’ Benefit’ 1886. Small original admission ticket for Phillips’ benefit match, Sussex v Gloucestershire at Hove 7th- 9th June 1886. Annotation in ink to verso, ‘1886. Match Receipts £356.17.0 (this included £100 from Lord Sheffield)’. 3.5”x2.5”. Tape to top and bottom edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with an original carte de visite sepia photograph of Phillips, half length wearing cricket attire and cap 2.5”x4.26”. Photographer unknown. Adhesive... View full lot details

Tom Hayward. Surrey C.C.C. Penny card written by A.C. Albert Craig ‘Cricket Poet and Rhymester’, and published by Wright & Co, 23 Paternoster Square. 1906. Image of Hayward batting to front cover. Very minor foxing otherwise in good/very good condition... View full lot details

Albert Craig. ‘Cricket Rhymester’ c.1900s. Original single page broadsheet of a poem in four six-line stanzas by Craig titled ‘A kindly token of esteem and admiration to Harry Butt, the fearless Sussex wicket-keeper’. The page, with light horizontal and vertical folds, is laid to page, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Sussex County Cricket Club. Bazaar Souvenir, Sussex Cricket Historical Sketch’. Alfred D. Taylor. The Sussex Bazaar Committee 1904. Pictorial front wrapper. Wrappers cleanly detached otherwise in good condition. A scarcer A.D. Taylor publication... View full lot details

South African cricket membership tickets 1897-1901. Two original Western Province Cricket Club membership card/ fixture list booklet for seasons 1897/98 and 1900/01, leather covers with gilt title. Sold with a similar membership booklet for the Western Province Amateur Athletics Association 1898. All three issued to ‘The Hon. J.D. Logan’, South African cricket patron. Very good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details

‘Principal Cricket Fixtures 1910’. Original fixture card published by John H. Puttick (Sports Hosier Outfitters) of Fleet Street, London, featuring a portrait of Jack Hobbs to the front cover. Minor rusting to staple otherwise in good/ very good condition... View full lot details

England v Australia 1921. Official complete admission ticket for the third day of the first Test match played at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on May 31st 1921. The blue ticket in three joined sections was never used as the Test match only lasted for the first two days. A rare early ticket, seldom seen. Some wear otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Warwickshire C.C.C. 1933. Original folding membership/ fixture card for the 1933 season issued to a ‘J.R. Hetherington’, no. 566. The card with blue cloth covers and printed titles. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Gilbert Laird Jessop. Gloucestershire, Cambridge University & England 1894-1914. Selection of postcards and correspondence sent to, received by or owned by G Jessop. There are three postcards with correspondence to Jessop, one a postcard from a admirer on Jessop’s Birthday 19th May recalling various innings played by Jessop in the past dated 1940, a Christmas greeting postcard from James Thorpe, the illustrator and cricket author dated 1944 and a further postcard from a Sydney ??... View full lot details

West Indies. ‘Intercolonial Cricket Matches 1871-1950’. Scrap/ exercise book comprising a comprehensive statistical analysis, both handwritten and cuttings laid down, of matches played between West Indies countries for the period, including a list of century makers by year. Some wear and ageing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket scrapbook 1880s/1890s. Early original scrapbook collected by ‘J.A.C’. comprising a selection of cuttings, photographs, fixture cards etc. including a good number of magazine article extracts covering County Championship match reports and statistics, instructional articles by W.G. Grace, cricket at Epsom 1880-1881 and schools cricket for the period. Some illustrations are hand coloured. Laid down to pages are six small original sepia photographs, including a small bookplate style image of ‘The Australian Team, 1882’ with... View full lot details

Original Patents. Two green folders containing original cricket and games patents. The first ‘Cricket Equipment & Accessories 1876-1904’ comprising nineteen original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects include ‘Apparatus for Scoring Games’ W. Walton 1876, ‘Improvements in Cricket Stumps or Wickets’ W.G. Boorn-Thompson 1884, ‘Improvements in Machinery for Making Cricket-bats’ W.H. Cook 1888, ‘Improved Cricket Sight Boards’ W. Browning 1897, and others relating to wickets, bails, umpires’ counters, pitch measurement and marking etc. The second... View full lot details

Original Patents. Two green folders containing original cricket patents for cricket bats. The first ‘Cricket Bats 1876-1885’ and the second ‘Cricket Bats 1886-1895’ comprising forty eight original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. all relating to the construction of cricket bats, bat and tennis racquet handles and covers ‘and other Implements of the like kind’. Includes patents applied for by notable manufacturers of the day including G.W. Frowd of Lillywhite & Frowd 1881, R. Slazenger Moss... View full lot details

Frank Worrell of Barbados 1924-1967’. Order of Thanksgiving for Worrell held at Westminster Abbey on 7th April 1967 with official ticket for admission to the Choir for the service. Also two copies of an Order of Service for the memorial service held for Worrell, ‘Sometime professional Radcliffe Cricket Club’, at Radclife Parish Church, 9th April 1967. Very good condition. Sold with a mono studio photograph of Worrell, head and shoulders, wearing his Commonwealth tour of... View full lot details

Lancashire cricketers orders of service 2011-2026. Six original orders of service for former Lancashire cricketers. Roy Tattersall, Stourbridge Crematorium 21st December 2011. Harry Pilling, St. Matthews Church, Little Lever 8th October 2012. Kenneth Higgs, South Leicestershire Crematorium 5th September 2016. Jack Bond, Blackley Crematorium 6th May 2019. Kenneth Shuttleworth, Lach Dennis Cheshire 10th September 2025. Peter Lee, Nene Valley Crematorium 27th February 2026. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. Large album comprising eighteen original school certificates/ reports issued to Fender in his time at St. George’s College, Weybridge for the academic years 1902/03-1905/06. Includes nine ornately printed examination certificates with marks entered in copperplate handwriting, each loose mounted individually to a page, the remainder loosely inserted. Handwritten title in ink to first page in Fender’s own hand ‘Percy George Herbert Fender. Commenced his education at... View full lot details

Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. Five large original sepia St. Paul’s School team photographs featuring Percy Fender. Teams are ‘St. Paul’s School First Eleven 1908’, ‘St. Paul’s School First Eleven 1909’, ‘St. Paul’s School Fives Four 1910’, all by Elliott & Fry, London, ‘St. Paul’s School E. Club. Winners of Club Championship, 1908-9’, Fender Captain of cricket, by C.G. Haigh, London, and one smaller photograph with ornate hand printed title ‘Mr.... View full lot details

Kent C.C.C. Benefits 1950s-1980s. Box comprising a collection of benefit plaques and other Kent related prints. Benefit plaques are for Norman Graham 1977, 6.5”x9.5”, John Shepherd 1979 and David Nicholls 1980, both 11”x7”, also a framed and glazed signed print of Graham Johnson for his 1983 benefit, 13”x9.5”. Sold with eight caricatures by artist D. Waugh of Kent & England players, each signed to the print. Subjects and signatures are Derek Underwood, Asif Iqbal, Bob... View full lot details

England v Australia 1948. Cotton table cloth, with decorative edging, embroidered in a variety of coloured threads, with the signatures of members of the England and Australian teams who played in the 1948 series held in England. Signatures include Yardley and Bradman (the two Captains), Washbrook, Hutton, Compton, Wright, Edrich, Dollery, Barnett, Gladwin, Cranston, Harvey, Miller, Brown, Barnes, Morris, Toshack, Loxton, Hassett, Lindwall, Hamence, McCool etc. Odd very minor marks otherwise in very good condition... View full lot details

The Australian Eleven 1884’. Gunn & Moore calendar/ advertising show card c1920s. Excellent original colour advertising card/board featuring a colour lithograph laid to the card with vignettes of the captain W.L. Murdoch, surrounded by slightly smaller vignettes of the Australian team superimposed on Gunn and Moore bats with cricket scenes and local attractions in the background. Players’ names are listed to lower border. Printed advertising slogan ‘For Over 50 Years, leading players, the world over,... View full lot details

‘W.G. Grace. Champion Cricketer of the World’. Large cotton handkerchief commemorating a Century of Centuries by Grace. The handkerchief has a central portrait of Grace three quarter length in cricket attire holding a cricket bat, with biography and record of each individual score and opponents to outer border. Decorated with cricket bats and balls in a floral outer border. Produced in 1895 the handkerchief is printed in black print. Framed and glazed, overall 27” square.... View full lot details

‘England’s Champion Batsman. J.B. Hobbs. Surrey & England XI’ 1922. Large linen handkerchief printed in black with printed headings and five images of Hobbs in various batting poses plus total runs and average in first class cricket up to 1922. Listed to outer border are details of all first class centuries scored by Hobbs. Framed and glazed, overall 27” square. Odd faults otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details