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Indian Test cricketers. Excellent ink signatures of Vijay Merchant, Mustaq Ali and Lala Armanath. The Merchant and Armanath signatures date 1980 to the vendor and the Mustaq Ali dated 1945. Good condition... View full lot details

Cotah Ramaswami. India 1936. Picture of Ramaswami extracted from a book he wrote and nicely signed by him and dated July 1985. He played for India in two Tests against England in 1936 and managed post-war Indian teams. 4.25”x6.25”. Good condition... View full lot details

Rustomji Sheriyar ‘Rusi’ Modi. Parsees, Bombay & India 1941-1953. Single page typed letter from Modi replying to a request in 1963 for a photograph of himself. The letter signed ‘R.S. Modi’. Enclosed is the accompanying photograph of Modi in batting pose, signed in ink by Modi. The photograph by ‘The Hindu’, Madras measures 4”x6.25” with adhesive marks to verso. The letter trimmed, slightly affecting the signature. Age toning, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Three handwritten letters signed by Indian Test cricketers responding to requests for their autographs. Signatures are Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekar [Sekhar] (two Tests 1982/83) dated 3rd March 1983, Adwai Raghuram Bhat (two Tests 1983/84) dated 7th November 1983, and Lalchand Sitaram ‘Lalu’ Rajput (two tests 1985) dated 12th May 1987. Light folds, otherwise in good/very good condition.... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Three handwritten letters signed by Indian Test cricketers responding to requests for their autographs with some interesting cricket detail. Signatures are Dhiraj Devshibhai Parsana (two Tests 1978/79) dated 12th May 1981, Dilip Rasiklal Doshi (33 Tests 1979/80-1983/84) dated 20th January 1984, and Roger Michael Humphrey Binny (27 Tests 1979/80-1986/87) dated 18th June 1982. Parsana notes he his currently working as the cricket professional at Chester-le-Street in Durham, Doshi recalls enjoying playing cricket... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Three good ink signatures of Vijay Merchant, C.S. Nayudu and C.D. Gopinath on paper and card pieces. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Sarbindu Banerjee, Sadashiv Shinde, Syed Hussain and Kamal Bhandarkar on paper and card pieces, two on pieces laid down to card. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Three good ink signatures of Polly Umrigar, Keki Tarapore and ‘Hemu’ Adhikari on paper and card pieces, one signature on piece laid down to card. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Subhash Gupte, Ghulam Ahmed, Pankaj Roy and Ramesh Divecha on paper and card pieces. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Datta Gaekwad, Madhav Mantri, Hiralal Gaekwad and Hemchandra ‘Bal’ Dani on paper and card pieces. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Nawab of Pataudi (Jnr), S. Venkataraghavan, B. Chandrasekhar and Farokh Engineer on paper and card pieces. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Kapil Dev, Roger Binny, Pranab Roy and Dilip Vensarkar on paper pieces and cards. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Rahul Dravid, Harbhajan Singh, V.V.S. Laxman and Saurav Ganguly on cards. Good condition... View full lot details

Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Mohammad Azharuddin, Chandrakant Pandit, Manoj Prabhakar and Narendra Hirwani on cards. Good condition... View full lot details

India 1940s onwards. A selection of signatures of Indian and some Pakistan cricketers on pieces, colour and mono photographs and cuttings. Thirty three signatures in total. Earlier signatures on pieces include D.K. Gaekwad, P. Roy, R.V. Divecha, C.T. Sarwate. Others include Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Kumble, Dravid, K.L. Rahul, Vensarkar, Srikkanth, Chetan Sharma etc. Pakistan signatures include Billy Ibadulla, Abdul Razzaq, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Sami (Pakistan) etc. 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

Robert ‘Bobby Abel’. Surrey & England 1881-1904. Ink signature of Abel on strip of paper, signed ‘Robt Abel, Surrey, Good condition... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1930s. Five small white cards, four of which are very nicely signed individually in ink by a Nottinghamshire player. Signatures are Walter Keeton, Joe Hardstaff Jnr., Harold Larwood, and Bill Voce. The other signature is Bill Copson of Derbyshire. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Test and County cricket autographs 1930s-1950s. A good selection of nice signatures, the majority on small white cards. Most are signed individually in ink include Harold Gimblett, Wally Luckes, F.S. Lee, Dai Davies, Cyril Washbrook, Mlcolm Hilton, Willie Watson, Len Hutton, Bill Edrich, Leslie Ames, Frank Woolley, Denis & Leslie Compton, Alec & Eric Bedser, Jack Hobbs, Trevor Bailey, Jim Parks etc. also James Langridge, Arthur Fagg etc. in pencil. Also include a card signed... View full lot details

Yorkshire C.C.C. 1920s-1950s. Eight individual signatures of Yorkshire cricketers on plain white cards. Signatures are David Denton, Herbert Sutcliffe, Ken Fiddling, Frank Dennis, Arthur Wood, Percy Holmes, Harry Halliday and Len Hutton. Sold with another plain white card signed by twelve members of the 1947 Yorkshire team including Sellers, Brennan, Coxon, Wardle, Aspinall, Smailes, Bowes, Smithson etc. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Sydney Francis Barnes. Warwickshire, Lancashire & England 1894-1930. Exquisite copperplate signature in black ink of ‘S.F. Barnes’ on ruled card with Barnes’ teams ‘Warwick, Lancs, Staffs, England’ similarly annotated below. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Derbyshire C.C.C. c.1900. Nine excellent signatures of Derbyshire cricketers, each individually signed in ink to piece, all lightly laid to one side of a large album page. Signatures are Levi G. Wright, E. Maynard Ashcroft, Joseph W. Hancock, Harry Bagshaw, William Bestwick, William Storer, George Porter, and the rarer Frank Davidson (14 matches 1897-1899) and J. Albert ‘Alf’ Berwick (16 matches 1895-1901). Slight damage to the Bestwick and Porter signatures, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

Essex C.C.C. and others c.1900. Eleven excellent signatures of Essex and other cricketers, each individually signed in ink to piece, all lightly laid to one side of a large album page. Essex signatures are Percival A. ‘Peter’ Perrin, Charles P. McGahey, George W. Ayres, Frederick G. Bull, and the rarer Jesse Littlewood (one match 1905). Others include Hugh R. Bromley-Davenport (Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1892-1899), Arthur J. Paish (Gloucestershire 1898-1903), Frederick G. Roberts (Gloucestershire... View full lot details

Kent and Yorkshire c.1900. Twenty two excellent signatures in ink, comprising thirteen of Kent players, seven of Yorkshire, and two others, each individually signed in ink to piece, all lightly laid to both sides of a large album page. Kent signatures are Eustace B. Shine, Gerald J.V. Weigall, Frederick ‘Nutty’ Martin, Frederick H. Huish, Alec Hearne, Cuthbert J. Burnup, Samuel H. Day, Robert O’H. Livesay, William H. Patterson, John R. ‘Jack’ Mason, Walter M. ‘Bill’... View full lot details

Lancashire C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising a total of thirty very nice individual signatures in ink on pieces lightly laid down to both sides. Twenty seven signatures are of Lancashire players of the period. Signatures are William J. Hibbert, Lees Radcliffe (two signatures), Thomas Lancaster, Albert W. Hallam, Sidney Webb, Charles R. Hartley, Charles H. Benton, James Hallows, Alexander Eccles, Arthur G. Paul, Albert Ward, John T. Tyldesley, Jack Sharp, Johnny Briggs, Willis Cuttell,... View full lot details

Leicestershire C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising eleven excellent individual signatures in ink of Leicestershire players of the period on pieces lightly laid down to one side. Signatures are Cecil J.B. Wood, Samuel Coe, Lewis Brown, John H. King, Frederic Geeson, Charles E. de Trafford, A. Dick Pougher, Harry Whitehead, John P. Whiteside, Albert E. Knight, and the rarer Charles Agar (23 matches 1898-1900). Very good condition.... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising fourteen excellent signatures in ink of Surrey players (one exception) of the period on six pieces lightly laid down to one side. Signatures are E.G. ‘Ernie’ Hayes, William H. ‘Bill’ Lockwood, Henry ‘Harry’ Wood, Robert ‘Bobby’ Abel, Charles Marshall, Thomas W. ‘Tom’ Hayward, Tom Richardson, Frederick C. ‘Fred’ Holland, William ‘Bill’ Brockwell, Edwin J. Diver, Kingsmill J. Key, Digby L.A. Jephson, the rarer Harold B. Richardson (22 matches... View full lot details

Warwickshire C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising ten beautiful signatures in ink of Warwickshire players of the period on eight pieces lightly laid down to one side. Signatures are Frank E. Field, Tom S. Fishwick, Walter Quaife, William G. ‘Willie’ Quaife, Sydney Santall, Crowther Charlesworth, Arthur F.A. ‘Dick’ Lilley, John H.G. ‘Jack’ Devey, Alfred C.S. Glover, and Frederick Dickens. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Joseph Darling. South Australia & Australia 1893-1908. Good ink signature of Darling on paper piece. Signed ‘Yours Sincerely’. Adhesive marks to verso otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Australian Test players. Selection of six ink signatures of Australian Test cricketers all on paper pieces and laid down to a grey/blue card. Signatures are Herbert Ironmonger, Queensland, Victoria & Australia 1909-1936, William Arras Johnston, Victoria & Australia 1945-1955, Hunter Scott Thomas Laurie Hendry. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1918-1936, Percival Mitchell Hornibrook. Queensland & Australia 1919-1934, William A. ‘Bill’ Brown, New South Wales & Australia 1932-1950 and the rarer signature of Kenneth... View full lot details

Australian Test players. Selection of seven ink signatures of Australian Test cricketers all on paper pieces and laid down to a grey/blue card, back to back,four to one side and three to the other. Signatures are William Albert Stanley Oldfield. New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938, Arthur Mailey, New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930, Warwick Windridge Armstrong. Victoria & Australia. 1898-1921 and Stanley Joseph McCabe. New South Wales & Australia 1928-1942 to one side and... View full lot details

International Test and County signatures 1920s-1980s. File containing over three hundred signatures, mainly of cricketers with the odd footballer, in ink and pencil, the majority on individual pieces, with the odd small multi-signed album page. Signatures include Tom Graveney, Roly Jenkins, Harold Larwood, Mandy Mitchell-Innes, Doug Wright, Bill Bowes, Joe Hardstaff, Jack le Fleming, Reg Sinfield, Ernest Remnant, John Hampshire, Denis and Leslie Compton, Norman Yardley, Bill Edrich, Brian Statham, Roy Kilner, Bob Woolmer, Tony... View full lot details

Australia Test signatures 1940s-1970s. Album comprising a collection of thirty one mainly individual signatures, each nicely presented on cutting laid to card with biographical details. Signatures include Walters, Cowper, Saggers, de Courcy, Loxton, Hassett, Hole, Harvey, Simpson, Morris, Sellers, Simpson, Lindwall, Johnson, Sheahan, Johnson, Benaud, Craig, G. Chappell etc. Odd duplication of signature. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Test cricketers’ autographs 1920s-1980s. A nicely presented album comprising twenty six signatures of international Test cricketers signed to photographs, postcards, pieces laid to card, cutting images, cards etc. Earlier signatures include an original real photograph postcard of and signed by Jack Hobbs, and others including Les Ames, Jim Laker, Roy Marshall, Peter May, Colin Milburn, Nawab of Pataudi, David Sheppard, Garry Sobers, Herbert Strudwick, Frank Tyson, Rohan Kanhai, John Edrich, Zaheer Abbas, Bishan Bedi, four... View full lot details

Australian cricketers 1910s-1950s. Six individual signatures in ink on card or small page. Signatures include Test players, Charlie Macartney, Stork Hendry, and Ian Craig, also Stan Sismey, Bob Christofani, and Cec Pepper, who played for Australian Services in World War II. Also eight signatures nicely signed in ink back-to-back on three album pages, the majority dated June/ August 1919. Signatures include three players who appeared for Australian Imperial Forces in England in 1919, H.S.B. ‘Hammy’... View full lot details

New Zealand 1930s-1990s. A good selection of signatures of New Zealand cricketers, of which twenty four are individually signed pieces laid to ‘New Zealand Test Player’ white cards covering the period 1930s-1970s. Signatures include F.B. Smith, J.C. Alabaster, R.W. Blair, M.G. Burgess, T.B. Burtt, H.B. Cave, R.O. Collinge, J.W. D’Arcy, G.T. Dowling, W.A. Hadlee, B.F. Hastings, J.A. Hayes, A.M. Moir, F.L.H. Mooney, B.A.G. Murray, J.M. Parker, E.C. Petrie, V. Pollard etc. Sold with two official... View full lot details

Pakistan tour to England 1962. Sixteen signatures of members of the 1962 Pakistan touring party, nicely signed in blue biro to plain ‘Autograph’ postcards with two or three signatures to each card. Signatures are Mushtaq Mohammad, A. D’Souza, Javed Burki, Asif Ahmed, Imtiaz Ahmed, Alimuddin, Javed Akhtar, Intikhab Alam, Nasim-ul-Ghani, Munir Malik, Saeed Ahmed, Fazal Mahmood, Mahmood Hussain, Shahid Mahmood, Wallis Mathias, Afaq Hussain. Adhesive marks to the verso of each card. Sold with a... View full lot details

Pakistan 1950s-2010s. A collection of approx. sixty signatures on album pages, cards, cuttings, pieces (some laid down) and the odd photograph. Earlier signatures include Hanif Mohammad, Javed Burki, Munir Malik, Afaq Hussain, Javed Akhtar, Javed Miandad, Mushtaq Mohammad, Wasim Raja, Zaheer Abbas etc., also Inzamam-ul-Haq, Sadiq Mohammad, Mushtaq Ahmed, Shahid Nazir, Ijaz Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Moin Khan, Rashid Latif etc. Slight duplication of signature. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

South Africa 1920s onwards. Thirty three signatures on pieces, label, cutting etc. Includes the earlier signatures of Herbie Taylor and Alex ‘Sandy’ Bell, also Ian Smith, Bacher, Winslow, McLean, Adcock, Cronje, Liebenberg, Ackerman, Donald, Symcox, Rhodes, R. Steyn, Strydom, Kleinveldt, Eksteen, Pothas etc. Sold with an official scorecard for England v South Africa, 2nd Test, Lord’s 2003, signed by three South Africans, Makhaya Ntini (ten wickets in the match), and centurions Graeme Smith (259) and... View full lot details

West Indies 1930s onwards. A good selection of over fifty signatures of West Indies players, mainly Test cricketers, on pieces, small cards, cuttings etc. Signatures include Constantine, Cameron, Dewdney, Findlay, Fredericks, Richards, Ramadhin, Scarlett, Greenidge, Roberts, Patterson, Baptiste, Ambrose, Harper, Dillon etc. Odd duplication of signatures. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

County cricket signatures 1920s-1950s. A collection of album pages and pieces including two Warwickshire pages, one signed by eight the other seven including , M.J.K. Smith, Cartwright, Horner, Townsend, R. Thompson, Bridge, Wolton and Spooner etc. Also a further twenty signatures on pages and pieces including John and James Langridge, A.E.R. Gilligan, J. Cornford, J. Parks, E.H. Bowley (Sussex), W.E. Astill (Leicestershire), A. Watkins (Glamorgan), R.T. Simpson (Nottinghamshire), G. Dews, D. Kenyon, M.J. Horton (Worcestershire),... View full lot details

Percy Melville Thornton. Cambridge University, Middlesex etc. 1864-1872. Nice signature of ‘Percy M. Thornton’ in ink on piece laid to slightly large card. Fold affecting the signature, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Frank Hay Gillingham. Essex 1903-1928. Excellent signature in ink of ‘F.H. Gillingham’, laid to slightly large card. Very good condition.... View full lot details

India. ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’. An extensive collection of almost one hundred signatures very nicely presented in one binder. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book of the same title (originally published in 1983) and other sources, with others signed to ‘India Test Player’ white cards, and additional collectors’ cards, cuttings, album pages etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier... View full lot details

Pakistan. ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’. An extensive collection of seventy five signatures very nicely presented in one binder. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book of the same title (originally published in 1983) and other sources, with others signed to ‘Pakistan Test Player’ white cards, cuttings, album pages, the odd match ticket etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures... View full lot details

New Zealand. An extensive collection of over one hundred and thirty signatures very nicely presented in two black binders. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player mainly taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’ (originally published in 1983), with others signed to ‘New Zealand Test Player’ white cards, cuttings, album pages etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Albaster, Anderson, Barber,... View full lot details

South Africa. An extensive collection of over one hundred and ten signatures very nicely presented in one red binder. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player mainly taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’ (originally published in 1983), with others signed to white cards, cuttings etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Heine, Murray, Winslow, Keith, Balaskas, Dalton, Bell, A. Rowan,... View full lot details

Test and international cricketers 1930s onwards. Album comprising an excellent selection of over five hundred signatures, mainly modern with some earlier, the majority signed on pages back-to-back, the odd signature on piece laid down, many with small cutting image of the player laid down to the signature. The signatures, collected by the vendor, cover England, West Indies, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, India etc. Earlier signatures include Roy Tattersall, Tony... View full lot details

West Indies. An extensive collection of over one hundred and sixty signatures very nicely presented in two binders. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player mainly taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’ (originally published in 1983), with others signed to white cards, cuttings, postcards etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Achong, Alexander, Atkinson, Barrow, Browne, Challenor, Christiani, Clarke, Depeiza,... View full lot details

Sri Lanka. A good selection of forty signatures very nicely presented in one black binder. The majority of signatures are signed to ‘Sri Lanka Test Player’ cards, some on pieces laid down, others to pieces, cuttings and the odd photograph etc., the majority with biographical cuttings. The odd signature duplicated. Signatures include Malinga, Jayasuriya, Dilshan, Chandana, Perera, Dias, Tillakaratne, Jayawardene, Vaas, Ratnayeke, Arnold, Madugalle, Duleep Mendis, Ranatunga, Wettimuny, Gurusinha etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia 1940s onwards. A good selection of over forty signatures very nicely presented in one red binder comprising ‘Australia Test Player’ cards, some on pieces laid down, also to pieces, cuttings, the odd trade card, photograph, match ticket etc., the majority with accompanying biographical cuttings. The odd signature duplicated. Signatures include Tribe, Brown, Harvey, McKenzie, Meckiff, Davidson, Simpson, Redpath, Hassett, I. & G. Chappell, Stackpole, Inverarity, Miller, Livingston, Benaud, Lindwall, Wessels, Marsh, Lillee, Thomson, S,.... View full lot details

England Test and County signatures. An extensive collection of over two hundred and thirty signatures, mainly English players with the odd overseas including Australian and West Indies, very nicely presented in two binders. The majority are signed to pieces laid down, also white cards, collector’s cards, cuttings, the odd letter etc., with accompanying biographical extracts of each player. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include E.R.T. Holmes, Sutcliffe, Woolley, Spooner, Ames, O’Connor, Sims, Sandham, Townsend,... View full lot details

Test and County signatures. An extensive collection of over two hundred and twenty signatures, covering mainly modern English Test and County players, and overseas players from Australia, West Indies, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka etc. All very nicely presented in two red binders. Signatures are to pieces laid down, white cards, collector’s cards including official County issues, cuttings, magazine extracts, photographs etc. The odd signature duplicated. Includes earlier signatures in pencil on piece of Albert... View full lot details

England Test Cricketers 1930s onwards. A good selection of over one hundred and thirty signatures, the majority of England Test players, very nicely presented in two binders. Signatures are to pieces laid down, white cards, cuttings, magazine extracts etc. and a good number of trade/ collectors’ cards. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Hammond, Ames, Barnett, Oldfield, Sinfield, Verity, Wellard, Levett, Wright, Pollard, Hutton, Place, Watson, Trueman, Appleyard, Oakman, Spooner, Pope, May, Compton, Bailey,... View full lot details

Hanson ‘Sammy’ Carter. New South Wales & Australia 1897-1925. Signature in ink of Carter to top corner of a fragment of an envelope loose mounted to small white card. The signature partially overprinted by a Sydney postmark, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

George Alfred Lohmann. Surrey, Western Province, England etc. 1884-1898. Nice signature in ink of Lohmann on small piece laid to tightly trimmed card and loose mounted to white card. Very good condition.... View full lot details

William Shepherd. Surrey 1864-1865 (13 matches). Four lines on a fragment of a ruled page in ink in the hand of Shepherd, including the signature ‘W. Shepherd’ followed by details of his playing career with Surrey, Dulwich College and the ‘1st Australians 1868’. Some uneven trimming, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

George Giffen. South Australia & Australia 1881-1904. Nice signature in ink on piece loose mounted to white card. The piece clipped to one corner, sadly affecting the signature, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Victor Alexander ‘Vic’ Barton. Kent, Hampshire & England 1889-1902. Excellent signature in ink of Barton on small piece laid to tightly trimmed card and loose mounted to white card. Very good condition. Rare.... View full lot details

Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottinghamshire & England 1875-1902. Nice signature in ink of Shrewsbury on small piece loose mounted to blue card with typed biographical label below. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire, Europeans, Patiala & England 1898-1930. Excellent signature in black ink of Rhodes on small album page. Sold with two further signatures in ink of England Test players, each on piece loose mounted to small white card. Signatures are George Duckworth (Lancashire, England etc. 1923-1947) and Edgar Thomas ‘Tom’ Killick (Middlesex, Cambridge University, England etc. 1926-1946). Minor faults to the Duckworth signature, otherwise in very good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details

Australia Test cricketers 1930s-1980s. Fifteen signatures of Australian Test cricketers signed to pieces or cards. Signatures are Len Darling, Ernie McCormick, George Tribe, Ron Archer, Ian Craig, Gil Langley, Jack Moroney, John Rutherford, Lindsay Kline, Neil Harvey, Geoff Noblet, Tom Veivers, Terry Jenner, Bruce Laird and David Hookes. Sold with twenty modern colour photographs, each signed by the featured player. Signatures include Tony Mann, Phil Carlson, Jeff Hammond, Brad Hodge, Ryan Harris, Travis Head, Usman... View full lot details

Donald George Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. One page typewritten letter from a Mr S.A. [Boffin] secretary to a lady, the letter dated 21st September 1948 and sent from the Piccadilly Hotel, London. The letter reads ‘Dear Madam, Mr Bradman has asked me to inform you that it was quite impossible, in view of the departure of the Australian Cricket Team on Thursday, to obtain the signatures of the other members... View full lot details

William Lloyd Murdoch. New South Wales, Sussex, London County, Australia & England 1875-1904. Original and interesting two page folding letter handwritten in black ink from Murdoch to ‘Musgrave’, [Harry Musgrove played one Test match for Australia against England in 1885 and was manager of the 1896 Australian touring party], dated 10th July 1896. Writing from Hove in Sussex, Murdoch is writing to ask for a Test match ticket for an acquaintance from Cornhill,... View full lot details

Arthur Alfred Mailey. New South Wales & Australia 1912-1931. Original four page handwritten letter in ink from Mailey to the Australian journalist and editor of ‘The Referee’ newspaper in Sydney, J.C. Davis. Written on Hotel Cecil, London, letterhead and dated 19th May 1921, on his first tour to England Mailey is writing during the match against Essex at Leyton and opens by stating ‘Although we are not allowed to write for newspapers... I don’t think... View full lot details

Laurence John ‘Laurie’ Nash. Tasmania, Victoria & Australia 1929-1937. Single page letter handwritten in ink from Nash to ‘Dear Mr Bailey’. The note is undated but possibly written in 1954. Replying to a request for his autograph, Nash apologises for the delay and looks forward to the impending Ashes Test series against England, ‘As a matter of fact I will be writing for one of our own papers during the series. May the games be... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Single page handwritten letter from Bradman, dated 12th February 1979, written at Kensington Park, South Australia, replying to a request for his autograph ‘because you are a disabled person’. He continues, ‘Normally I would not answer because the stamps you send me are useless in this country & I don’t think it reasonable that I should pay to send my autograph to those who seek it. Thank you for your good wishes’. Very... View full lot details

Charles George ‘Charlie’ Macartney. New South Wales & Australia 1905-1926. Single page typewritten letter from Macartney to a collector, ‘Mr Hill’. Dated 14th February 1940, Macartney is replying to a request for six copies of his autograph, which he has provided. It appears the collector required one signature for each of the tours in which Macartney took part and he points out ‘you have overlooked the one to the East (Malaya) in 1927... I have... View full lot details

John Walter Rutherford. Western Australia & Australia 1952-1961. Two page hand written aerogramme letter from Rutherford to Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society. Dated 6th April 1956, Rutherford is writing from the S.S. Himalaya on the voyage to England for the 1956 Ashes tour. He thanks Sokell for the congratulations on his selection for the tour and notes that one of the patrons of the Society is the classical conductor, Sir John Barbirolli,... View full lot details

Richard Smallpiece ‘Dick’ Whitington. South Australia 1932-1946. Two double-sided hand written aerogramme letters from Whitington to Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society. In the first letter, dated 8th September 1954, Whitington opens by thanking Sokell for ‘the kindness you all showed me at Wombwell’. He comments on the impending Ashes tour, ‘I was surprised that Fred Trueman was not chosen and the tour will lose popular appeal’. The second letter, dated 9th March... View full lot details

Hunter Scott Thomas Laurie ‘Stork’ Hendry. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1918-1936. Single page handwritten letter to ‘Dear Anthony’ dated 5th July 1985. Hendry describes a luncheon given to him by the Cricketers Club of New South Wales to celebrate his ninetieth birthday, at which ‘100 sat down & another 100 were turned away. Lack of accommodation’. He names some of the dignitaries present, and telegrams from the likes of Australian Prime Minister ‘Mr.... View full lot details

Percival Mitchell ‘Percy’ Hornibrook. Queensland & Australia 1919-1934. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Mailey written on his ‘P.M. Hornibrook Dental Surgeon’ headed notepaper in Brisbane. Dated 20th July 1955, Hornibrook is enclosing two signed cards as requested, apologising for the ‘poor signature, the old hand is not as steady as years ago’. He is also sorry to ‘hear of Alan Fairfax having passed on as he was quite young’ (Fairfax died in 1955... View full lot details

Benjamin Arthur ‘Ben’ Barnett. Victoria & Australia 1929-1947. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 26th November 1969 from Barnett to Ron Yeomans, collector and Secretary of the Northern Cricket Society. Writing from his home in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, Barnett confirms his travel arrangements for attending an impending Society meeting. Nicely signed by Barnett. Light fold, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

C.W. Alcock to probably E.B.V. Christian 1902. Single page handwritten letter from Alcock on Surrey C.C.C. letterhead, dated ‘February 21st 1902’. Alcock writes ‘Christian, More proofd, A.C. says he has not counted England v 22 of Surrey...etc’ . I presume this is in connection with the history of Surrey Cricket, which he co-wrote, this had chapters by Ashley-Cooper and was published in 1902. Signed with his initials ‘C.W.A.’. Good condition... View full lot details

James Lillywhite jun. Sussex & England 1862-1883. Single page handwritten letter with cricket content in ink from Lillywhite to A.J. Gaston, dated 21st November 1894. Writing on ‘Wheatsheaf Commercial Hotel, Chichester, James Lillywhite Proprietor’ letterhead, Lillywhite is replying to a request from Gaston to make a cricketing contribution to the Cricket Club Bazaar that was to take place in Brighton in December of the same year to raise funds. ‘Dear Sir, From time to time... View full lot details

Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji. Sussex, Cambridge University & England 1924-1932. One page typewritten letter, on Cricket Club of India’ headed paper, dated 18th May 1946 to ‘Rotarian McKay’ of the National Bank of India. Duleep is responding to a request to speak on cricket to the Rotary club ‘I am a little terrified at your kind invitation to speak on Cricket to my brother Rotarians on June 11th. I am afraid I am not a good... View full lot details

Douglas Robert Jardine. Oxford University, Surrey & England 1920-1934. Two page handwritten letter, on ‘The Scottish Australian Company Limited’, London letterhead, in ink from Jardine to Jack Sokell, the letter dated 13th September 1954. Jardine is replying to an invitation to a function being held at Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society, possibly to speak. ‘I told you in my letter that we should be driving up to Scotland , so there will not be any need... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Handwritten letter from Hobbs to L. Dentith, a Steward aboard the P.O. R.M.S. Ranpura, and written on Vizianagram Palace, Benares headed paper. Hobbs has handwritten c/o Maharaja Kumar of Vizianagram above the printed address. The letter states ‘I had quite a shock when I realised that I left the ‘Ranpura’ without thanking you for looking after me so well on the voyage out. Please accept the enclosed... View full lot details

Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. A typewritten letter from the Manager of the Portland Arms Hotel, St John’s Wood to Barnes dated 12th May 1955. The manager writes ‘Dear Mr Barnes, Thank you for your letter. We shall be pleased to reserve a room for you, but I think there is a mistake in the dates you ask for. The Lords Test takes place on the 23rd to 28th and... View full lot details

John Carpenter Garnier. Oxford University and M.C.C. (two matches). Handwritten two page letter from Garnier on ‘House of Commons Library’ headed mourning (black edges) paper, dated July 1880 and written from 42 St. James Place, London. Garnier is writing to a Mr Stills [?], he thanks him, for his letter and for getting flowers, the account to be dealt with by his wife, he then goes on to give his condolences .. Signed ‘J. Carpenter... View full lot details

W.G. Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Two page handwritten letter from W.G. Grace, written on London County Cricket Club headed paper (the cricket lined through and ‘Bowling’ added) to Sugden regarding him playing bowls. The letter dated 21st June 1908, ‘Dear Sugden, I want you to play on Thursday at Norwood [London] and on Saturday at Castle Bar Park v Great Western Railway. I was sorry you were not bale to play on Saturday and... View full lot details

John Thomas ‘Jack’ Brown. Yorkshire & England 1889-1904. Stoddart’s tour to Australia 1894/95. Original three page folding letter handwritten in ink from Brown to his family while on tour in Australia. Writing from Melbourne, the letter is undated but probably written during the course of the tour match v Victoria around 18th November 1894. He describes the voyage by ship, which he enjoyed, visiting sites en route at Gibraltar, Naples, Port Said and Colombo, with... View full lot details

Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire, Europeans, Patiala & England 1898-1930. Single page handwritten folding letter from Rhodes to ‘Dear Johnny’. Writing from his home at Marsh Grove Road, Huddersfield, and dated 16th September 1930, Rhodes is asking for a new golf bag he has selected to be sent to him at his home address as ‘I shall be at home during the next week’. Nicely signed ‘W. Rhodes’. Good condition.... View full lot details

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Single page letter handwritten in ink from Hobbs to ‘Dear Mr Harvey’. Dated 5th August 1963 and writing from Hove just four months before his death, Hobbs is replying to a request for information about some ‘gramophone recordings... I regret to say that nothing has come to my assistance, which is not surprising when we remember it is perhaps 40 or 50 years when these recordings took... View full lot details

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Interesting single page typed letter from Sutcliffe to ‘Messrs’ Rowan & Co.’ in Glasgow. Written on Sutcliffe’s ‘Sports Agent’ business letterhead, Sutcliffe is confirming terms for ‘permission to assist you... £20 and all expenses’. He continues, ‘I informed Myers Hall [cricket bat maker] that you would place a further order if they agreed to let me off... I would suggest a far larger order of the XXX bats in... View full lot details

Stanley Christopherson. Kent & England 1883-1890. Single page handwritten letter in ink. Dated 18th June (year unknown), Christopherson writes ‘Please understand that unofficially I am all out to do what I can, & to work with you will be an added pleasure’. Nicely signed ‘Stanley Christopherson’. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Donald John Knight. Surrey, Oxford University & England, 1911-1937. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 6th February 1955 from Knight agreeing to meet Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society. Signed ‘Donald Knight’. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Elias Henry ‘Patsy’ Hendren. Middlesex & England 1907-1937. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 11th June 1925. Writing from Lord’s Cricket Ground Hendren thanks a publisher for sending a copy of the book ‘Gilligan’s Men’ by R.A. Noble. Very nicely signed ‘E. Patsy Hendren’. Adhesive mark to verso, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Charles Aubrey Smith. Cambridge University, Sussex & England, 1882-1896. Amusing two page handwritten letter in ink dated 5th August 1939. Smith is replying to a ‘Mrs Furness’ and writes ‘The enclosed has taken some time reaching me, as I do not live in Hollywood and only occasionally do I go to the Hollywood P.O. to see if any letters are lying there for me’. In the following postscript he adds ‘It was apparently forwarded by... View full lot details

Lord Martin Bladen Hawke. Yorkshire, Cambridge University & England 1881-1911. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Lord Hawke to ‘Dear Mr. Payne’. Hawke writes ‘Glad you got the job & ... you will succeed & bring Worcester finances up to good standard’. Nicely signed ‘Hawke’. The letter is dated ‘Tues’, year unknown but probably around 1927 when John Bertram Payne was elected President of Worcestershire C.C.C. and oversaw the organisation and stabilisation of the... View full lot details

Nottinghamshire C.C.C. Harold Larwood and Bill Voce. Two short single page handwritten letters, one from Harold Larwood, dated 11th December 1978, replying to a request for a signed photograph, the other from Voce, undated, regarding arrangements for the signing of two cricket bats. Both letters signed by the player. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Vyell Edward Walker. Middlesex, 1859-1877. Four page handwritten letter in ink to the Sussex cricketer and author, W.A. Bettesworth, dated ‘26th May [1900]’ with good cricket content. Walker suggests some amendments and corrections to proofs of the book, ‘The Walkers of Southgate’. One amendment refers to ‘Crawley [which] is wrong as printed & should be “Mr. C.D. Crawley [who] was the brother of Mr. G.B. Crawley the hero of the historical match against the Town... View full lot details

Timothy Arthur Dent ‘Tim’ Bevington. Middlesex 1900-1904. Two page handwritten folding letter in ink from Bevington to a school boy. Dated 28th October 1953 from his home in Vancouver, Canada, Bevington writes ‘I am glad you are in your school XI & wish you all sorts of luck & remember that the great secret of cricket is practice, you can’t have too much. I used to spend hours in the nets at Lord’s’. He closes... View full lot details

John Daniell. Somerset & Cambridge University 1898-1927. Two page handwritten letter in ink from Daniell to ‘Dear [Francis] Lacey’, Secretary of M.C.C. dated 13th September 1923. Daniell is writing to recommend a player, J.M. Mackie, ‘as a playing member for next season’ having already been proposed for membership, seconded by Daniell. ‘He was asked several times to play for Somerset by Murray-Anderson [Secretary] but I don’t know if he can manage it’. Nicely signed ‘John... View full lot details

Sir Courtenay Edmund Boyle. Oxford University 1865-1867. Single page folding handwritten letter in ink on 13, Portman Street, London letterhead to a Mr Maxwell, dated 17th July 1871. Boyle is enclosing a ‘paper on Lords Cricket, which I hope will be worth its space... I have avoided... certain technicalities which in Oxford and Cambridge may be acceptable to male readers of Belgravia’. Nicely signed ‘Courtenay Boyle’. Some soiling and light creasing, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

James Douglas. Cambridge University & Middlesex 1892-1913. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Douglas, writing from Dulwich College. Writing to a Mr. Hodgson, Douglas states ‘I had a letter from my uncle Rev. R.H. Douglas asking me if I would write a testimonial for a Bacton man named Holmes who, I believe, played against Thrumpton about 8 years ago... [I] have written the enclosed in case it may be of any use’. Nicely signed... View full lot details

Henry Grey Tylecote. Oxford University, M.C.C. etc. 1874-1886. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Tylecote to ‘Dear [Francis] Lacey’, Secretary of M.C.C., dated 30th June 1923. Tylecote is enquiring after spare tickets for the Eton v Harrow match for a Mrs Wood. He closes by stating ‘I am playing cricket today’ (a few weeks before his 70th birthday!). Nicely signed ‘H.G. Tylecote’. Light folds, file holes, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Henry Knollys ‘Harry’ Foster. Oxford University & Worcestershire 1894-1925. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Foster to Charles Pratt Green. The letter on Foster’s Land Agency letterhead of Worcester, dated 7th July 1937. Foster writes to inform Green that he will be visiting his elderly mother in Malvern and attending meetings at the college, and hopes to ‘run up to see you’. Nicely signed ‘H.K.’. Light folds. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Lord Sheffield 1896. Rare single page folding letter handwritten in ink from Lord Sheffield to the Sussex cricket historian, Alfred J. Gaston. Dated 21st May 1896, and written at Sheffield Park, Lord Sheffield writes ‘The volume of the “Biographies” reached me safely—and I am exceedingly obliged to you for so kindly and promptly ordering it to be sent to me. I am afraid I cannot say that the “notice” of myself is satisfactory- or even... View full lot details

Lord Sheffield 1905. Rare original three page folding letter handwritten in ink from Lord Sheffield to the Sussex cricket historian, Alfred J. Gaston. Dated 4th May 1905, and written on Sheffield Park headed paper with monogram, Lord Sheffield is writing to thank Gaston for the ‘kind remarks and references you made to me personally in your “midwinter lectures” and which are reported fully in the “Sussex Advertiser... I was rather surprised to see how much... View full lot details

Percy Holmes. Yorkshire & England 1913-1933. Original single page handwritten letter in Holmes’ neat hand. Dated 20th March 1946, writing from Huddersfield, Holmes is replying to a request for his autograph. Nicely signed ‘Percy Holmes’. Adhesive marks to verso where previously laid down, some age toning, folds and wrinkling, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Edward Humphrey Dalrymple Sewell. India, London County, Essex & M.C.C. 1892-1922. An entertaining single page letter handwritten in ink from Sewell to a ‘Mr Hill’. Dated 18th June 1946, Sewell is writing from his publisher’s office in Fleet Street on M.C.C. headed paper, in reply to a request for an autograph. He states ‘You have mixed me up with C.O.H. Sewell, a much better cricketer, who played for Gloucestershire. I played for Essex, & for... View full lot details

Maurice Tompkin. Leicestershire 1938-1956. Single page handwritten letter in pencil from Tompkin. Dated 20th June 1939, Tompkin is writing from the Leicestershire ground at Aylestone Road, replying to a request for players’ autographs. Signed ‘M. Tompkin’. The page tightly trimmed with folds and some creasing, otherwise in generally good condition.... View full lot details

Arthur Edward Newton. Oxford University & Somerset 1885-1914. Single page typed letter from Newton to a collector, ‘Mr Hill’. Dated 19th June 1934, Newton is writing from his home in Taunton, replying to a request for his autograph. He hope to see the Australians play at Taunton and reports that he is still playing in club matches ‘in spite of being over 70’. Very nicely signed in ink ‘A.E. Newton’. Minor adhesive marks to... View full lot details

Albert Ward. Yorkshire, Lancashire & England 1886-1904. Two page letter handwritten in ink from Ward, dated May 1893. Ward is replying to a request for a cricket bat from Charles Pratt Green. ‘I cannot oblige you with a bat this time. The one I have played with nearly all season and which has made me over 1000 runs in first class cricket this year for the first time in my career. I should like to... View full lot details

Alfred Lyttleton. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1876-1887. Single page letter handwritten in ink by Lyttelton to ‘Dear Bruce’, dated 28th January 1890 from his office in London. Replying to a request, presumably to attend a function, Lyttelton writes ‘I am afraid cricket is on the 5th [which] makes it too uncertain for me to give any promise’. (Please to not placard me over Cambridge as you did last time when I had declined)’. Signed... View full lot details

George Ernest Tyldesley. Lancashire & England 1909-1936. Two page folded letter handwritten in ink from Ernest Tyldesley to a Mr. Hunter. Dated 3rd November 1930, Tyldesley is writing to thank the correspondent ‘for your kind letter of sympathy received’ following the death of his brother, J.T. ‘Johnny’ Tyldesley (Lancashire & England 1895-1923). ‘The sudden death of my brother was a great shock, especially as he had recently been on the better side’. Very nicely signed,... View full lot details

Elias Henry ‘Patsy’ Hendren. Middlesex & England 1907-1937. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Hendren, dated 18th February 1926 on the official letterhead of the ‘West London Indoor Cricket & Sports Club’ where Hendren was Manager. Hendren is replying to an invitation from ‘Mr. [John] Webber’, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods, to attend a week of promotional employment. ‘I am writing to confirm your offer to me at Harrods for one week...... View full lot details

Herbert ‘Bert’ Strudwick. Surrey & England 1902-1927. Single page handwritten folding letter in ink from Strudwick in London to John Webber, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods, dated 22nd March 1927. Strudwick is replying to an invitation of employment for promotional work at Harrods, ‘I called at the Oval this morning to obtain leave, but found Mr. R.N.C. Palairet [Secretary, Surrey C.C.C.] away until Monday next... I will write to you as soon as... View full lot details

Harold Larwood. Nottinghamshire, Europeans & England 1924-1938. Single page handwritten letter in ink on ruled paper from Larwood to John Webber, Manager of the Sports Department at Harrods. The letter is undated but probably 1927. Larwood is replying to an invitation of employment for promotional work at Harrods saying ‘I have today received a reply from the Committee of the “Notts CCC” and they are willing to release [me] on the dates arranged’ and closes... View full lot details

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

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

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

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

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

Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1870-1896. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Grace to ‘Fredk. J. Warden’, on Park House, Thornbury headed note paper, dated 27th July 1898. In his capacity as Secretary, Grace writes ‘Gloucestershire will play the strongest team they can on Monday’. Nicely signed ‘Edward Mills Grace’. The letter with old tape repairs to tears, some foxing and wear, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

John Richard ‘Jack’ Mason. Kent & England 1893-1914. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Mason to ‘My dear Shrimp’ (H.D.G Leveson Gower). Dated 19th March 1903, Mason writes to say he is ‘sorry I shall have no time to get up matches this season [possibly for the Scarborough Festival]. I wish I could, but I should like to play sometimes for Old Wykehamists’. Very nicely signed ‘J.R. Mason’. Light horizontal folds, old tape to... View full lot details

John Thomas ‘Johnny’ Tyldesley. Lancashire & England 1895-1923. Single page handwritten folding letter in ink from Tyldesley dated 29th September 1898. Writing to the collector, Charles Pratt Green, Tyldesley is sending his thanks for the receipt of a cheque ‘value 18/6’. Nicely signed ‘J.T. Tyldesley’. Light laid down to the inside is a bookplate image of Tyldesley. Light horizontal fold. Good condition.... View full lot details

Walter Reginald ‘Wally’ Hammond. Gloucestershire & England 1920-1951. Single page letter handwritten in blue ink by Hammond to ‘Dear Mr Morris’. Dated 21st June (year unknown), Hammond is replying to requests for a meeting, ‘On August 12th I hope to be playing in the Festival Week at Edgbaston, on August Bank Holiday Monday I also hope to be playing at Lord’s’. Nicely signed ‘W.R. Hammond’. Light horizontal fold and creasing,otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Single page handwritten letter in ink on Yorkshire C.C.C. official letterhead. Dated 18th June 1925, Sutcliffe is writing to the publisher, Messrs Chapman & Hall in London to thank them for ‘Mr Noble’s book “Gilligan’s Men”. It is exceptionally interesting’. Nicely signed ‘Herbert Sutcliffe’. Light fold, adhesive marks to verso where previously laid down, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Andrew ‘Andy’ Sandham. Surrey & England 1911-1937. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Sandham to ‘Dear Mr. Wolfe’, presumed to be the collector and brother-in-law of Sir Julien Cahn, E. George Wolfe. Written on Surrey C.C.C. official letterhead at the Oval and dated 3rd July 1934, Sandham sends his ‘thanks for the birthday present & I will certainly smoke your health on the 6th’. Nicely signed ‘Andy Sandham’. Light fold. Very good condition.... View full lot details

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Wykeham Stanley (Lord) Cornwallis. Kent 1919-1926. Single page handwritten letter on Lord Cornwallis’ official letterhead at Ashurst Park, Tunbridge Wells. In an undated letter to a ‘Mr Wells’, Cornwallis is replying to a request for his photograph, but is unable to find one with ‘a real cricket flavour. I therefore am signing this letter and also sending a further signature’. Nicely signed ‘Cornwallis’. Below, Cornwallis lists his playing career, ‘Kent XI 1919-1926. Capt. Kent XI... View full lot details

M.C.C. Tour of Australia & New Zealand ‘Bodyline’ 1932/33. New Zealand leg of the tour. Three handwritten letters to Douglas Crampton (an autograph collector) from Fred Badcock, Jack Newman and Paul Whitelaw, all New Zealand Test cricketers who played against the M.C.C. during the 1932/33 Test tour. One letter dated 1943 and the other two 1978. Also an original photograph of M.C.C. tourists Maurice Leyland and Bill Voce attending Canterbury Racecourse near Christchurch and... View full lot details

Glenn Maitland Turner. Worcestershire, Northern Districts, Otago & New Zealand 1964-1983. Single page typed letter from Turner to ‘Dear Peter’ dated 31st August 1976. Writing from New Road, Worcester, Turner has been asked for his opinion on his best performance and writes, ‘I must choose the test against Australia in Christchurch (1974) which we not only won, but I managed a 100 in each innings in a reasonably low scoring game’. Nicely signed in blue... View full lot details

Martin Paterson Donnelly. Wellington, Canterbury, Oxford University, Middlesex, Warwickshire & New Zealand etc. 1936-1961. Single page handwritten letter from Donnelly to a collector, ‘Mr Hill’. Dated 22nd August 1946, writing from his Oxford college, Donnelly apologises for the delay in sending requested autographs and looks forward to the coming Test series, presumably the 1946/47 Ashes series in Australia. Nicely signed ‘Martin Donnelly’. Light adhesive marks to verso where previously laid down, folds and minor wrinkling,... View full lot details

Walter Arnold Hadlee. Canterbury, Otago & New Zealand 1933-1952. Single page typed letter on Hadlee’s business letterhead in Christchurch with original envelope. Dated 20th May 1958, Hadlee is replying to a request for a photograph for inclusion in the correspondent’s scrap books. Very nicely signed in ink ‘Walter Hadlee’. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

William Russell Endean. Transvaal & South Africa 1945-1964. Single page handwritten letter in ink on ‘S.A. Cricket Touring Team Great Britain 1955’ letterhead. Dated 20th July [1955] on the eve of the 4th Test against England at Headingley, Endean is replying to an admirer, ‘Dear Mollie’, thanking her for her good wishes ‘and all the good luck your champagne cork can bring me!’ and also returns signed photographs. He closes saying ‘Thanks for wishing me... View full lot details

Derek John ‘Jackie’ McGlew. Natal & South Africa 1947-1967. Two page handwritten letter in ink on McGlew’s personal letterhead, dated 10th May 1996. Writing to ‘Dear Don’ in a letter with good cricket and other content, McGlew opens with a despairing description of the horror of the recent mass killings in Port Arthur, Tasmania. He then moves to sporting matters, looking forward to the F.A. Cup Final at Wembley between the ‘Reds [Liverpool’ and the... View full lot details

Learie Nicholas Constantine. Trinidad, Barbados, West Indies etc. 1921-1945. Excellent signature in ink on page of Learie Constantine. The small page loosely mounted to large album page with typed letter from Constantine similarly mounted below. The letter, dated 23rd August 1948, is in response to a request for his autograph, nicely signed ‘L. Constantine’. Light folds to the page and the letter, otherwise in very good condition.... View full lot details

George Copeland ‘Jackie’ Grant. Cambridge University, Rhodesia, Trinidad & West Indies 1928-1935. Two page double-sided handwritten letter in ink with good cricket content from Grant to ‘Mr Brooking’ dated 11th December 1936. Written on Grenada Secondary School ‘Head Master’ letterhead, he opens by commenting on England’s success in the first Ashes Test in Australia and states ‘They are doing much better than I anticipated’. His describes his own cricket, including playing for the school in... View full lot details

Esmond Seymour Maurice Kentish. Jamaica, Oxford University & West Indies 1947-1957. Two page handwritten letter in ink on lightweight paper, dated 24th November 1985. Writing from Jamaica to ‘Mr Stone’, Kentish is replying to a request for him to acquire the autographs of other West Indies cricketers, George Moodie, R.L. Fuller and A.G. Barrett, which he will try to do. He also offers to send the addresses of A.P. Binns and A.P.H. Scott ‘who now... View full lot details

Ghulam Ahmed. Hyderabad, Muslims & India 1939-1959. Three page typed aerogramme letter from Ghulam Ahmed with handwritten corrections in green ink in Ahmed’s own hand. Dated 6th February 1953, Ahmed is writing from Hyderabad to Ron Yeomans of The Northern Cricket Society in Yorkshire. Ahmed opens by explaining his decision not to tour West Indies ‘because I was terribly stale... I might have become a liability’. He continues with comments on the ‘Latest developments in... 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

Intikhab Alam Khan. Surrey, Pakistan etc. 1957-1977. Single page handwritten letter from Intikhab Alam, undated but replying to a letter from the vendor dated 1976. Intikhab writes ‘The greatest pleasure of my Test career was when I scored my first Test hundred against M.C.C. in Pakistan and also completing my hundred Test wickets against England at the Oval’. Signed ‘Initkhab Alam’. Folds. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Donald George ‘Don’ Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. ‘Australian Cricket Society Adelaide Branch. 5th Annual Dinner’ held at the Rex Hotel, Marleston, near Adelaide on the 24th September 1982. Official folding menu for the Annual Dinner signed to front cover by Don Bradman. Good condition... View full lot details

England v India, The Oval 1946. Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington Station four page menu card, dated 17th August 1946. Signed to front cover by four of the England players who played in the 3rd Test played at the Oval 17th- 20th August 1946. The four signatures are Len Hutton, Cyril Washbrook, John Ikin in ink and James Langridge in pencil. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to India, Pakistan & Ceylon 1951/52. Two original P&O folding menus. One, for a ‘Gala Night Dinner’ dated 18th March 1952 on board the ‘S.S. Chusan’ with floral colour illustration to the front of shamrocks, is signed to the inside ‘Autographs’ page in green and black inks by sixteen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are N. Howard (Captain), Carr, Brennan, Statham, Tattersall, Robertson, Lowson, Kenyon, Leadbeater, Ridgway, Graveney, Poole, Hilton, Watkins,... View full lot details

‘Cricket Hall of Fame Celebration Lunch’ 1991. Official folding menu for the lunch held at Lord’s 14th June 1991. The menu signed in ink by twenty three attendees including England Test cricketers Denis Compton, Peter May, Donald Carr, Tony Lock, Ted Dexter, Fred Rumsey, Bob Barber, Peter Richardson, Dennis Amiss, Bob Woolmer etc., also Farokh Engineer (India), Leslie Crowther, Jeffrey Archer etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Australia Cricket Team in England 1961. Official Australian Board of Control programme and itinerary for the tour to England. Decorative cover in green and gold with Australian emblem. To inside pages are the programme of matches to be played on the tour and the back cover is an autograph card with names of the touring Australians listed. This is signed by all members of the touring party in ink. Seventeen signatures including Benaud, Harvey, Booth,... View full lot details

Australian tour of England 1972. Official National Sporting Club menu for the ‘Dinner to honour the Australian Touring Team 1972’. The Dinner held at The Safe Royal, London on the 27th June 1972. Signed in ink to inside pages by twelve of the guests present, both Australian and English. Signatures include Len Hutton, J. Gleeson, R. Marsh, D. Walters. G. Chappell, D. Lillee, B. Luckhurst, L. Ames, D. Insole, B. D’Oliveira etc. Very good condition... View full lot details

Geoff Boycott. England & Yorkshire. Official menu for the dinner to celebrate Boycott attaining one hundred centuries in first class cricket, held at City Hall, Leeds, 14th November 1977. The menu with decorative covers, very nicely signed in ink by Boycott to front cover. The centre pages with diagrammatic representation of Boycott’s centuries and a small mono photograph of Boycott, Sutcliffe and Hutton taken on the occasion of Boycott reaching his hundredth first class century... View full lot details

‘The Yorkshire Evening News. Sutcliffe Shilling Fund Dinner’ 1925. Official menu for the Dinner held at the Griffin Hotel, Leeds on the 23rd May 12t to honour Sutcliffe’s three consecutive centuries in a row against Australia on the 1924/25 Ashes tour. The menu signed by many Yorkshire players, cricketers and guests who attended the event. Signatures in ink and in pencil include Sutcliffe, Robert ‘Bobby’ Peel, William Blackburn, E. Oldroyd, Leyland, Macaulay, Dolphin, Holmes, Waddington,... View full lot details

‘The Yorkshire Cricket League’ Second Annual Dinner 1937. Official menu for the Dinner held at he Griffin Hotel, Leeds on the 5th November 1937. Signed to front cover by the League President Col. R.C. Chichester-Constable, who played for Yorkshire in 1919, George Hirst and A. Sellers (Yorkshire 1890-1899). Sold with a further menu for the ‘Yorkshire Cricket Council 27th Annual Dinner held at The Town Hall, Wakefield on the 19th May 1947, signed to front... View full lot details

Yorkshire. ‘Dinner in honour of Hirst and Rhodes and on the occasion of the publication of A.A. Thomson’s fiftieth book’. Official menu for the dinner given by ‘The Cricketer’ held at Lord’s Tavern, 25th June 1959. The menu with Yorkshire white rose emblem and printed title to front, menu and speakers to inside. Multi-signed to the rear cover by thirty two of the guests present. Signatures include Wilfred Rhodes, Wyatt, Allen, Sydney Barnes, Pelham Warner,... View full lot details

‘Surrey County Cricket Club. Dinner to celebrate the 2nd Veteran’s Match played at Kennington Oval in aid of Centenary Appeal Fund’. Official menu for the Dinner held at the Albany Club, Savile Row on the 12th June 1947. The menu with titles and Surrey colours to front cover, menu to inner pages, nicely signed by thirteen players and guests in ink to inside pages and back cover by Surrey players, past and present and guests... View full lot details

‘The Triangular Tournament 1912’. ‘Dinner to the Colonial Cricketers, on the occasion of the Test Match, Australia v South Africa, at Old Trafford’. Original official menu for the post match Dinner held at the Queen’s Hotel, Manchester on Tuesday 28th May 1912. The folding menu with colour coat of arms/ emblem depicting the Springbok of South Africa and the Kangaroo of Australia with motto below ‘Wait and See’ in scroll to centre. To top border... View full lot details

Arthur Mailey. Australia tour to England 1930. Original folding menu for the ‘Visit of the Australian Cricket Team’ for the dinner held at Oatlands Park Hotel, Weybridge, Surrey, 25th May 1930 on the rest day of the tour match v Surrey at Kennington Oval. The menu, with printed title to front, green and gold ribbon tie, features to the inside a hand drawn cartoon of a lady in pencil by Arthur Mailey. On the facing... View full lot details

Kent C.C.C. 1970s & 1980s. A selection of signed Kent-related menus. Club ‘Dinner’, Maidstone, 18th April 1975 (six signatures), Les Ames 80th birthday 1985 Dinner menu (unsigned) and invitation to a reception at the House of Lords, 11th December 1985 signed by Ames. Godfrey Evans 70th birthday 1990 Dinner menu signed by sixteen, plus invitation. ‘70’s Reunion Dinner Autograph Sheet’ 2000 signed by ten. ‘40th Anniversary Dinner. County Champions 1970’ 2010 signed by ten plus... View full lot details

‘England v. Australia 1880-1980 Centenary Dinner’ 1980. Official M.C.C. folding menu for the Dinner held at Lord’s 26th August 1980. Signed to the centre pages by fourteen attendees. Signatures include Greg Chappell, Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, Doug Ring, Don Tallon, Dickie Bird, Frank Tyson, Gil Langley, Ernie Toshack, Peter May, Trevor Bailey, Bob Appleyard etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘M.C.C. Anniversary and South African Touring Team Dinner’ 1998. Official M.C.C. folding menu, invitation card and table plan booklet for the Dinner held at Lord’s 12th May 1998. The menu boldly signed to the centre and rear pages by nineteen attendees. Signatures include Ted Dexter, Trevor Bailey, Fred Trueman, Brian Taylor, Alan Oakman, Bob Willis, Bob Taylor, Reg Simpson, Tony Lewis, Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, Jim Swanton, Tim Rice, Roger Knight etc. The invitation card signed by... View full lot details

‘M.C.C. Lunch to the West Indies Touring Team commemorating the 100th Test Match at Lord’s and the Centenary of the first West Indies Tour to England’. 2000. Official M.C.C. folding 8pp menu booklet for the Lunch held at Lord’s 20th June 2000. Contents include scorecards of the West Indies first match at Lord’s v Gentlemen of M.C.C. 1900 and West Indies first Test victory at Lord’s 1950, menu, toasts and results of Test matches at... View full lot details

‘M.C.C. Dinner to the West Indies Touring Team’ 2004. Official M.C.C. folding menu for the Dinner held at Arundel 14th July 2004. The menu signed to the front and inside by thirty three attendees including members of the West Indies touring party. Signatures include John Shepherd, Simon Jones, John Barclay, Hubert Doggart, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Paul Terry, Gus Logie, John Emburey, Matthew Hoggard, Martyn Moxon, Alastair Cook, Tim Rice, Darren Maddy, Brian Lara etc. Very good... View full lot details

Don Bradman. Official Anglo-American Sporting Club Dinner menu with Guest of Honour ‘Sir Don Bradman in recognition of his unique and unforgettable contribution to world cricket’ held at The London Hilton on 13th May 1974. The menu with pictorial cover showing a colour caricature of Bradman batting by artist Roy Ullyett. To inside pages, menu, toasts and programme of boxing for the evening. Nicely signed to front cover by Bradman. From the collection of Alan... View full lot details

Signed cricket menus 1953-1955. Five signed menus for cricket dinners. West Wickham C.C. Annual Dinners, 16th January 1953 and 12th February 1954, one signed to the inside by John Warr, Leslie Ames, Leslie Todd and two others, the other signed to the back by Alec and Eric Bedser, Ray Dovey and Stuart Surridge. Wallington C.C. Annual Dinners 14th November 1953 and 12th November 1955, one signed to back by Stuart Surridge and Tony Lock with... View full lot details

Signed cricket & sporting menus 1954-1957. Three signed menus for dinners. ‘Sporting Record “Sportsman of the Year” Trophy Presentation to Gordon Pirie’, Savoy Hotel 12th April 1954. Signed to the front by Pirie (Athletics), also by cricketers George Duckworth, Laurie Fishlock, Patsy Hendren, Alec and Eric Bedser, Douglas Jardine, Leslie Ames, plus Sam Bartram, Tommy Lawton, Alf Ramsey (football), Pat Smythe (show jumping), Freddie Mills (boxing) etc. Horizontal fold. Sold with two menus for the... View full lot details

Brian Lara. West Indies tour to England 2004. Official folding menu for the Dinner to the West Indian Touring Team held at Arundel during the course of the tour match v M.C.C. on 14th July 2004. Signed in bold black ink to the front cover by Brian Lara. Also signed in ink to the back by Shiv Chanderpaul, and to the inside by a further thirteen attendees including members of the M.C.C. team, Dale Benkenstein,... View full lot details

Northern Ireland cricket and other sporting menus 1947-1995. A selection of twelve menus including a folding menu for the ‘Complimentary Dinner in honour of Mr. Sydney F. Jackson’, President of the Irish Cricket Union, held at Donegall Place, Belfast, 31st January 1947. Nicely signed to the centre pages by Jackson and twenty four other attendees. Lisburn C.C. Annual Dinner 1980 signed by Fred Trueman and 1986 signed by Colin Milburn. Instonians C.C. ‘David Gower Dinner’... View full lot details

Cricket Club signed annual dinner menus 1947-1994. A good selection of eight menus, each signed by attendees. Dinners are Amersham Hill C.C. Annual Dinner 1947, signed by Bill Edrich. Central Lancashire Cricket League Annual Dinner 1978, signed by Jim Laker. Four Cross Arrows C.C. Annual Dinners for 1989 signed to back by Alec Bedser, Lord Bramall, John Stephenson and John Jameson, 1993 signed to the front by Clive Radley, Tom Graveney and John Jameson, 1994,... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1973. Official folding menu for the Dinner given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society to the West Indies touring party, held at Sheffield 30th August 1973. Printed title to front, Menu and Toasts to inside. The rear cover is nicely signed in ink by fifteen attendees. Players’ signatures include Ishant Ali, Foster, Gibbs, Holder, Lloyd, Willett, Headley, Fredericks, David Murray, Boyce, Deryck Murray, Shillingford, also Tony Cozier and one other.... View full lot details

West Indies tour to England 1976. Official folding menu for the Tribute Dinner given by the Sheffield Cricket Lovers’ Society to the West Indies touring team, held at City Hall, Sheffield, 30th June 1976. Printed title to front, Menu and Toasts to inside. The front cover nicely signed in ink by seventeen attendees. Players’ signatures include Lloyd (Captain), Gomes, Kallicharran, Holding, Daniel, Murray, Greenidge, Fredericks, Julien, King, Jumadeen, Roberts etc. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Donald George Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. ‘Simpson’s Fish Ordinary [meal at fixed time and price], 76 Cheapside, E.C.2’. Small original two sided card menu for the Ordinary served ‘At 1 o’clock every day except Saturday’. Menu to face and ‘Cheese Competition’ to verso. Beautifully signed by Bradman in ink to verso, probably in the 1930s. Odd marks otherwise in good+ condition. A rare early signature of Bradman.... 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

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

Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell. Barbados, Jamaica and West Indies 1941-1964. Official menu for the Dinner and Presentation given for Sir Frank Worrell by the National Sporting Club at the Cafe Royal, London, 24th June 1964. The menu with decorative cover and yellow cord tie, signed and dated in ink to the front cover ‘Headingley 4.7.64. Best wishes from Frank Worrell’. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Yorkshire. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1928/29. Official folding menu for the ‘Complimentary Dinner and Welcome Home to the Yorkshire Members of the M.C.C. Australian Tour Team, 1928-9’ given by the Yorkshire Cricket Council, held at the Griffin Hotel, Leeds, 23rd April 1929. Signed to the rear ‘Autographs’ cover by eight attendees including, in ink, Maurice Leyland, F.C. Toone (tour Manager) and Herbert Sutcliffe, also in pencil William Worsley and others. Ownership name of C. Derbyshire(?)... View full lot details

Bodyline. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1932/33. Official folding menu for the ‘Complimentary Dinner and Welcome Home to the Yorkshire Members of the M.C.C. Australian Tour Team, 1932-3’ given by the Yorkshire Cricket Council, held at the Griffin Hotel, Leeds, 21st June 1933. Nicely signed in black ink to the rear cover by ten attendees including tour members, R.E.S. Wyatt, Bill Bowes, Herbert Sutcliffe, Hedley Verity, and Maurice Leyland, also Brian Sellers (Captain of Yorkshire 1933-1948)... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1920/21. Official menu for the ‘Complimentary Smoke Concert to the Hon. D. Mackinnon, President, Victorian Cricket Association on the occasion of his visit to Europe’. Held at the Masonic Hall, Melbourne, 14th February 1921. The four page menu with card wrappers and cord tie features a colour illustration to the front cover by Arthur Mailey of Mackinnon depicted wearing kilt, VCA blazer, bat in one hand, duck in the other. The... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour to Australia & New Zealand 1954/55. Official large folding menu for the ‘Farewell Dinner’ on board the R.M.M.V. Stirling Castle, dated 1st April 1955. The front cover with attractive colour illustration of Stirling Castle and the Wallace Monument. Signed in ink to back cover by Jack Hobbs. Some staining, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

South Africa tour to England 1951. Original menu for the ‘Dinner in honour of the South African Cricket Team in the Harcourt Rooms of the House of Commons’ held on 26th June 1951. The menu with decorative covers, to inside menu, toasts and guest list including names of government attendees, notably Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden, Selwyn Lloyd, Harold Macmillan etc. The inside back and rear covers have been profusely signed in ink by attendees, over... View full lot details

India tour to England 1967. Official folding menu for the dinner given by the Northern Cricket Society to ‘The Indian Cricketers’ held at Leeds, 7th June 1967. Signed to the centre Menu and Toasts pages by seventeen attendees, including sixteen of the Indian tourists. Signatures include Nawab of Pataudi (Captain), Engineer, Prasanna, Wadekar (signed twice), Borde, Mohol, Sardesai, Venkataraghavan, Chandrasekhar, Surti, Subranamyam, Bedi, Kunderan, Saxena, Hanumant Singh and Chinnaswamy (Treasurer). Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Grand Cricket Match for Tom Goddard’s Benefit. Sir Julien Cahn’s Eleven v Mr B.H. Lyon’s Eleven 1936’. Official folding card programme with scorecard to centre pages for the match played at The Stinchcombe Stragglers Ground at Stinchcombe (Gloucestershire) on the 13thand 14th September 1936. Signed in ink to the teams scorecard page by both teams. Signatures include L.G. Crawley, R.J. Crisp, C.S. Dempster, D.P.B. Morkell, I. Peebles, P. Vaulkard, B.H. Lyon, T. Goddard, B.O. Allen,... View full lot details

New Zealand XI v Commando XI 1945. Single sheet card war-time programme for the match played at Bognor Cricket Club Ground on the 6th September 1945. The card card with printed details of the team in blue, signed by all the players featured in ink. For New Zealand signatures include James, Donnelly, Vincent, Badcock, Pritchard, Jacobs, Brierley etc and for the Commando XI, Trevor Bailey, Alf Gover, W.G. Graham (WI), J. Knowles (Notts), E. Tinkler... View full lot details

Australian Tour of England 1926. Official Orient Line ‘R.M.S. Otranto’ folding menu for Luncheon given on board ‘Thursday, February 16th 1926’, the ship bringing the Australian touring team to England for the Ashes tour. The folding menu with photographic image of the ship to front cover, the inside with printed menu, and beautifully signed to the opposite side by sixteen of the touring party. Signatures are H.L. Collins (Cpt), Bardsley, Grimmett, Andrews, Taylor, Mailey,... View full lot details

Australia tour of England 1934. Official ‘Australian XI English Tour 1934 Orient Line R.M.S. “Orford”’ brochure. The front cover features the Ashes urn with lion and kangaroo to either side in green and gold. The brochure is fully and nicely signed in black ink to the biographies by all eighteen members of the touring party including the management. Signatures are Woodfull, Bradman, Barnett, Bromley, Brown, Chipperfield, Darling, Ebeling, Fleetwood-Smith, Grimmett, Kippax, McCabe, Oldfield, O’Reilly, Ponsford,... View full lot details

Australia tour to South Africa 1935/36. Official folding card with colour illustration to front of the S.S. ‘Themistocles’ ship on which the touring party returned to Australia from South Africa. Signed in ink to the inside ‘Autographs’ page by all fifteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Richardson (Captain), McCabe, McCormick, Chipperfield, Sievers, O’Reilly, Barnett, Grimmett, O’Brien, Fleetwood-Smith, Brown, Fingleton, Darling, Oldfield, and Rowe (Manager). Heavy wear to the card, adhesive marks to verso,... View full lot details

Australian Tour of England 1938. Original ten shilling bank note signed in ink to one side by fifteen members of the touring party. Signatures are, reading roughly left to right Don Bradman (Cpt), Waite, Fingleton, McCormick, Hassett, Barnes, Fleetwood-Smith, Badcock, White, Walker, Brown, Barnett, McCabe, Chipperfield, Ward, O’Reilly and W.H. Jeanes (Manager). Title ‘Australian Cricket Team 1938’ to top border. To the other side of the note are the signatures of W.A. Woodfull (former Captain),... View full lot details

Australia tour to South Africa 1957/58. Official folding card issued on board the Shaw Savill Line Q.S.M.V. ‘Dominion Monarch’ at Cape Town. The front cover with colour illustration of a pair of kingfishers. The inside front cover with printed title, ‘Australian Cricket Team South African Tour 1957-58 Autographs’ with the printed names of the Australian touring party, fully signed in ink by all sixteen listed players and one other. Players’ signatures are Craig (Captain), Harvey,... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of India, Burma and Ceylon 1926/27. First English cricket tour of the sub continent since 1902/03. Large format mono real photograph postcard of the P&O liner, ‘R.M.S. Ranpura’. Published by the Ocean Trading Co., Southampton. Signed in black ink to the skyline above the ship by fourteen members of the touring party. Signatures are Gilligan (Captain), Tate, Astill, Boyes, Geary, Parsons, Earle, Wyatt, Eckersley, Hill, Sandham, Chichester-Constable and Mercer. 10.5”x5.5”. Smudge to the... 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

Walter Latter ‘Tich’ Cornford. Sussex & England 1921-1947. M.C.C. Tour of Ceylon and Australia 1929/30. Official M.C.C. folding printed Christmas card for the tour with M.C.C. George and the dragon emblem to front cover, greeting and mono image of the team on the ship to inner pages. Signed in black ink to the card ‘Tich’ Good/very good condition... 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

Hugh Tryon Bartlett. Surrey, Cambridge University & Sussex 1933-1949. Official M.C.C. 1938/39 Christmas card from the ‘Timeless Test’ tour with cover image of a map showing England and South Africa with emblem of M.C.C. and South Africa. To inside a photograph of the team and the wording, ‘The Managers and Members of the M.C.C. Cricket Touring Team 1938-39. Wish you a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year’. Signed ‘Wonderful trip with the most tremendous... View full lot details

M.C.C. tour of the West Indies 1947/48. M.C.C. folding Christmas card with M.C.C. emblem in red to cover and image of ‘Old Father Time’ to inside, signed ‘From Lord’s Cricket Ground’ in ink to inside. The card is folded into four and to the inside, once unfolded, the card has the typed tour detail, fixtures and results and has been signed by all fifteen members of the touring party plus Pelham Warner who travelled with... View full lot details

World Series Cricket World XI. Australia 1977/78. Official Christmas card with a colour photograph of the World XI in cricket attire to front, ‘Seasons Greetings’ printed to centre. Fully signed in ink to the verso by the fourteen featured players. Signatures are Tony Greig, Eddie Barlow, Derek Underwood, Alan Knott, Dennis Amiss, John Snow, Imran Khan, Mushtaq Mohammad, Asif Iqbal, Barry Richards, Majid Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Bob Woolmer and Mike Procter. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

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Australia. Three large sheets of ‘ledger’ size paper (9.5”x15.5”), one with excellent head and shoulders self portrait of Mailey by Mailey, nicely signed in ink and dated 14th August 1948, being the first day of the Oval Test match, England v Australia, the sheet also signed below by Alan Fairfax of Australia, the second with excellent pen and ink caricatures head and shoulders portraits of Arthur Morris, Don Tallon and Ray Lindwall running down the... 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

Test and county team signatures 1948. Large green autograph book containing the nicely signed ink signatures of the England and Australia Test teams, the Gentlemen and Players teams and eight county teams from 1948. The England page signed by twelve players and appears to be the team who played the 2nd Test at Lords, signatures include Yardley (Cpt), Wright, Edrich, Dollery, Hutton, Compton, Coxon, Laker, Evans, Emmett (12th man) etc, the Australian page signed by... View full lot details

Cricket ephemera. Selection of signed and unsigned ephemera including photographs, programmes, trade cards, magazine pictures, stamps, paper pieces etc. Signatures include Haynes Walcott, Gavaskar, Zaheer, Boycott, J. Anderson, Cowdrey, S&M Waugh, M. Taylor, M. Slater, B. Simpson, B. Bedi, P. May, G. Sobers, Trueman, Statham, Lillee, Thomson, Engineer, R. Smith, M. Ahmed etc. Includes a Denis Compton ltd edition phonecard. G... View full lot details

Century of Centuries. Ten original Bank of England £10 bank notes with consecutive serial numbers, each individually signed in black ink by a player who has achieved the feat of one hundred first-class centuries. Signatures are Tom Graveney, John Edrich, Geoff Boycott, Glenn Turner, Zaheer Abbas, Dennis Amiss, Viv Richards, Graham Gooch, Graeme Hick and Mark Ramprakash. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket authors, journalists, illustrators and broadcasters signatures 1960s/ 1970s. A small page of Queens Hotel, Leeds, headed note paper nicely signed in ink by seven including E.M. Wellings, Roy Ullyett, Crawford White, Charles Bray, Alex Bannister, L.N. Bailey and J.M. Kilburn. Sold with loose pieces individually signed by R.C. ‘Crusoe’ Robertson-Glasgow, Brian Johnston, Henry Blofeld (heavily trimmed), Jim Swanton (laid down) etc. Also a signed colour photograph of Richie Benaud, and one of the Conservative... View full lot details

Leicestershire C.C.C. 1960s-1980s. Black folder comprising a large selection of signed magazine extracts, cuttings, pages, odd photograph etc. of Leicestershire teams and players. Over three hundred signatures with heavy duplication. Signatures include Illingworth, Higgs, McKenzie, Davison, Booth, Birkenshaw, Tolchard, Spencer, Dudleston, Knight, Jayasinghe, Bird, Hallam, Munden, Norman, Inman, Haywood, Gower, Boon etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Hampshire C.C.C. 1960s-1980s. Black folder comprising a large selection of signed magazine extracts, cuttings, pages etc. of Hampshire teams and players. Over one hundred and fifty signatures with heavy duplication. Signatures include Gilliatt, Sainsbury, Holder, Lewis, Jesty, Stephenson, Richards, O’Sullivan, Greenidge, Turner, Rice, Shackleton, Cottam, Keith, Barnard, Marshall, Ingleby-Mackenzie etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Middlesex C.C.C. 1950s-1980s. Black folder comprising a large selection of signed magazine extracts, cuttings, pages etc. of Middlesex teams and players. Over three hundred and fifty signatures with heavy duplication. Signatures include Warr, Moss, Clark, Russell, Gale, Brearley, Radley, Emburey, Selvey, Murray, Gale, Parfitt, Barlow, Price, Featherstone, Titmus, Selwood, Daniel, Herman, Edmonds, Gatting, Gould, Butcher, van der Bijl, Maru, James etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1960s-1980s. Black folder comprising a large selection of signed magazine extracts, cuttings, pages, the odd press photograph etc. of Surrey teams and players. Approx. five hundred signatures with heavy duplication. Signatures include Arnold, Skinner, Jackman, Long, Knight, Storey, Younis Ahmed, M. Stewart, Howarth, Edwards, Pocock, Intikhab Alam, Harman, D. Smith, Owen-Thomas, Wilson, Edrich, Skinner, Butcher, Clinton, Payne, Jefferson, Willis etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Warwickshire C.C.C. 1950s-1980s. Blue folder comprising a large selection of signed magazine extracts, cuttings, pages etc. of Warwickshire teams and players. Over two hundred and eighty signatures with heavy duplication. Signatures include Horner, Barber, Wheatley, Whitehouse, Humpage, D. Smith, Amiss, M.J.K. Smith, Rouse, McVicker, Hemmings, Oliver, Jameson, A. Smith, Blenkiron, Perryman, Flower, Abberley, Ibadulla, Gibbs, Brown, Bannister, Cartwright, Willis, Flick etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

County signatures c.1948. Autograph album comprising pages signed by County teams. Over seventy signatures in total comprising Sussex (10 signatures), Worcestershire (15), Northamptonshire (10), Glamorgan (13), Yorkshire (4), Surrey (6), Middlesex (10), Essex (8), and Hampshire (1). Each county is signed to one page, not back-to-back. One other page is signed by Percy Holmes (Yorkshire & England) and the umpire Frank Chester. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘Indian Cricket Team World Cup 1979’. Official greetings card with printed title to the front and mono Stamp Publicity team postcard laid down to inside. Signed to the inside ‘Autographs’ page by fifteen members of the touring party. Signatures include Venkataraghavan (Captain), Kapil Dev, Gaekwad, Vishwanath, Bedi, Reddy, Chandrasekhar, Yavindra Singh, Sharma, Gavaskar etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket advertising and promotional cards. Large blue file comprising nine items, some signed. Signed items include a limited edition print of the Warwickshire team, winners of the 1980 John Player League, signed to the borders by twenty players (fading and blurring to some signatures), a Steve Marsh Benefit Year poster depicting five generations of Kent wicket keepers, signed by Marsh, and a Ray Lindwall Testimonial Year Gala Dinner poster signed by Lindwall. Other contents include... View full lot details

England and Lancashire 1948. Lined note book signed to internal pages by the England team who played the Australians at Old Trafford in the 3rd Test of 1948 to one page and the Lancashire team of 1948 to the other. Signatures include Norman Yardley (England Test Captain), Compton, Emmett, Young, Edrich, Washbrook, Evans, Bedser, Pollard, Wardle, Crapp, Dollery, Cranston, Place, Ikin, Wharton, Howard, Greenwood, (signed twice), G.A. Edrich, Roberts etc. The ink signatures of... View full lot details

Leonard Litton Wilkinson. Lancashire & England. Mounted, framed and glazed photographic image of Wilkinson bowling with ink signature on paper piece attached. 7.5”x11”. Sold with a modern postcard of the pavilion at Trent Bridge signed by Wilkinson to the front and wording to the verso recalling that he thought he was the last player that Harold Larwood got out before he retired in 1937. He states he was 28not out. Wilkinson’s memory was incorrect. He... View full lot details

Famous Test Cricketers. A colour image of Garry Sobers batting, signed by him, similar to the The Lord’s Taverners Fifty Greatest’ image, a large colour limited edition print of David Gower batting, entitled ‘The Batsman’, signed by him and the artist Mandy Shepherd and a colour photographic limited edition print of Jeff Thomson of Australia bowling, signed by him. All mounted, framed and glazed. Various sizes... View full lot details

Australia signed ephemera 1970s-1990s. Official Western Australian Cricket Association autograph sheet for the ‘Appealathon Centenary Challenge’, Australia v England 1988, fully signed by the eleven members of the Australian team, Chappell (Captain), McCosker, Cosier, Hookes, Walters, Gilmour, O’Keefe, Lillee, Walker, Marsh etc. Sold with a selection of signed cuttings and photographs. Signatures include S. Waugh, Border, Marsh, I. Chappell, Higgs, K. Hughes, Sheahan, Ponting, Lawson, Alderman, Langer, Law, Hussey etc. Over sixty signatures in total.... View full lot details

England One Day internationals 1971-2001. A selection of disbound pages nos. 53-86 from ‘Who’s Who in One Day Internationals (1971-2001)’ signed to their pen portraits images by over 130 featured players. Signatures include Amiss, Atherton, Athey, Barnett, Boycott, Botham, Brearley, C. Broad, Close, Cowans, Chris Cowdrey, Denness, Dilley, D’Oliveira, Edrich, Flintoff, Gatting, Giles, Gough, Gower, Hick, Hussain, Jackman, Larkins, D. Lloyd, Pringle, Old, Rose, R. Smith, Stewart, Taylor, Titmus, Underwood, Willis, Woolmer etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Ken Barrington, Surrey & England, Benefit Year 1964. A Daily Express ‘Cricketers’ Autographs’ card nicely signed by eighteen Surrey players. Signatures include Barrington, Edrich, Willett, Sydenham, Tindall, Stewart, Smith, Long, Edwards, McIntyre, Roope, Constable, Storey, Pocock etc. Printed cartoon to verso by Roy Ullyett with tribute by Crawford White of the Daily Express. Light creasing otherwise in good condition. Sold with an unsigned official souvenir programme for the benefit match, Eastwick Park President’s XI v... View full lot details

Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt. Warwickshire, Worcestershire, England etc. 1923-1957. Official order of service for the Service of Thanksgiving held at St. John’s Wood Church, 6th September 1995. Signed to the front cover by John Major, J. Paul Getty and Robert Runcie, and to the back cover by Bill Brown, Alan Davidson and Ray Lindwall. Sold with an official admission ticket. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Pelham Francis ‘Plum’ Warner. Middlesex, Oxford University & England 1894-1920. Plain postcard from Warner to the collector, Joe Goldman, dated 19th December 1956. In a very poignant message, Warner begs forgiveness for sending ‘a postcard but writing tires me’ and thanks Goldman for ‘your interest & most original present’. He recollects his early playing days ‘3 generations ago, including [playing against] E.M. Grace. I began in 1894 in first-class cricket- very little that year- so... View full lot details

‘The Cricinfo Guide to International Cricket 2009’. Edited by Steven Lynch. Profusley signed to the individual player pages by over one hundred and fifty five players, umpires and referees. Signatures include Razzak, Rehman, Amla, Anderson, Bell, Bollinger, Bravo, Broad, Chanderpaul, Clarke, Cook, Kaneria, De Villiers, Dhoni, Dilshan, Dravid, Edwards, Gayle, Gillespie, Haddin, Harbhajan Singh, Hoggard, Hussey, Jaffer, Jaques, Jayasuriya, Jayawardene, M. Johnson, Kallis, Laxman, Lee, McCullum, Malinga, Yousuf, Morkel, Muralitharan, Nel, Ntini, Pietersen, Ponting, Prasad,... View full lot details

‘The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2011’. Edited by Steven Lynch. Profusley signed to the individual player pages by over one hundred and forty five players, umpires and referees. Signatures include Amla, Anderson, Ashwin, Bell, Bollinger, Bravo, Broad, Chanderpaul, Cook, Dhoni, Dilshan, Dravid, Edwards, Gambhir, Gayle, Gibbs, Haddin, Hazelwood, P. Hughes, Hussey, Jadeja, Jayawardene, M. Johnson, Kallis, Katich, Kohli, Hafeez, McCullum, Malinga, Morkel, Muralitharan, Ponting, Prior, Ramdin, Butt, Sammy, Sangakkara, Sarwan, Sehwag, Afridi,... View full lot details

‘The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2013’. Edited by Steven Lunch. Profusley signed to the individual player pages by over one hundred and forty five players, umpires and referees. Rehman, Amla, Anderson, Ashwin, Bairstow, Bell, Best, Boult, Bravo, Broad, Chanderpaul, Cook, Cummins, Dhoni, Dilshan, Edwards,Gayle, Guptill, Haddin, Hales, Hussey, Kohli, Jayawardene, M. Johnson, Kallis, Lyon, McCullum, Malinga, Morkel, Ponting, Ramdin, Root, Sammy, Sangakkara, Sehwag, Afridi, Sharma, Siddle, S. Smith, Starc, Steyn, Strauss, Swann, Trott,... View full lot details

Irving Rosenwater. Single page typed poem by Rosenwater in the style of a sonnet comprising one stanza of fourteen lines. The poem is untitled and opens ‘To tour, or not to tour; that is the question:/ Whether ‘tis wiser for Morgan now to say/ We will not play/ Against a half-strength side’. Nicely signed by Rosenwater and dated 6th October 2004. Horizontal fold. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Leo Patrick Joseph O’Brien. Victoria & Australia 1929-1938. Short handwritten note in blue biro from O’Brien to ‘Dear Mr Bailey’. The note is undated but probably written in 1954. Replying to a request for his autograph, O’Brien writes ‘Am looking forward to seeing Hutton & Co in our country next season, and am sure it will be a terrific battle’. Nicely signed L.P. O’Brien’. Adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in 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

Alexander Josiah Webbe. Middlesex, Oxford University & England 1875-1900. Single page handwritten note in ink dated 25th January 1902. Webbe is replying to a request for his autograph. Nicely signed ‘A.J. Webbe’. The page trimmed, some age toning, adhesive marks to verso where previously laid down, otherwise in good condition. A nice signature.... View full lot details

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