Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji. Sussex, Cambridge University & England 1924-1932. ‘Duleepsinhji’ Original pencil and coloured crayon caricature drawing of Duleepsinhji in cricket attire and holding a cricket bat. Title to lower border. The drawing by Francis Perachio, a London based caricaturist of the 1920’s. Previously sold at Phillips Auction at lot 190 on the 21st October 1987. The drawing measures 5.75”x9”. Old tape mark to top border otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

‘The Test’ England v Australia 1909. Excellent large original pen and ink artwork by artist ‘A.S.M.’, showing the two opposing Captain’s Archie Maclaren of England and Monty Noble of Australia depicted running in a cross country race, both wearing athletics attire with spiked boots but wearing their Test caps on their heads, Maclaren, who has a large lion emblazoned to his running vest, appears to be in the lead with Noble following, two flags to... View full lot details

‘The Cricketers’. Pavlina Samwellova 2000. Excellent original pastel painting of a cricket scene with helmeted batsman playing a shot to leg with the wicket-keeper and slip in close attendance. Signed to lower left hand border ‘Pavlina Samwellova 2000’. Mounted, framed and glazed. Overall 23”x17.5”.Artist unknown. Very good condition... View full lot details

England v Australia 1938. Don Bradman. Printed cartoon by Tom Webster, dated 1938, depicting an Australian kangaroo sitting at a dining table with a England lion waiter attending him. The kangaroo asks ‘Waiter! what’s on the menu? and the lion answers ‘Just all the good wishes of the British People Sir!’. Signed by Bradman in pencil, one other unknown pencil signature below the table. Framed and glazed, overall 8”x10”. Good condition... View full lot details

‘The Pavilion of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s’, Andrew Ingamells (British, b.1956). Aqua tint copper etching of the famous pavilion designed by Thomas Verity in 1889, including close-up views of the terracotta heads which support the consoles on the upper Terrace. Legend, limited edition 104/195 and signed in pencil to lower margin by Ingamells. Mounted, framed and glazed overall 31”x21”. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Famous Cricketers’ circa 1890. Very large and beautifully presented colour lithograph featuring W.G. Grace to centre, full length at the crease, wearing M.C.C. cap, surrounding Grace are the cameo images of R. Abel, J.T. Brown, A. Shrewsbury. Prince Ranjitsinhji, Lord Hawke, A.E. Stoddart, A.C. Maclaren, W.L. Murdoch, S.M.J. Woods, T. Richardson, W. Chatterton, J. Briggs, R. Peel and W.W. Read with title to lower border. Mono images within a olive and brown background with floral... View full lot details

M.C.C. cricket prints. A nice collection of five large limited edition colour oleographic reproductions of famous paintings which hang in the Long Room at Lord’s. From the M.C.C. Portfolio of prints. Attractively mounted, framed and glazed. ‘Cricket Match at Christchurch’, Thomas Musgrave Joy c1850, ‘Sophisticated Village Cricket at Moulsey Hurst’, English School, ‘Thomas Hope of Amsterdam’, J.F. Sablet and ‘Cricket at Eton’, English School and ‘A Rustic Village Cricket Game of 1790’. Excellent images. Various... View full lot details

England v West Indies 1991. ‘The Oval’ by Alan Fearnley. Colour print of the Surrey Test ground. The borders of the print nicely signed in pencil by members of the England and the West Indies teams of 1991. Signatures for England include Gooch, Atherton, Hick, Lamb, Watkin, Malcolm, Russell, Illingworth, Smith, Ramprakash etc and for the West Indies, Vivian Richards, Marshall, Haynes, Lara, Logie, Dujon, Walsh, Hooper, Anthony. Ambrose, Richardson etc. Twenty eight signatures in... View full lot details

England v West Indies, Cornhill Insurance 100th Test, Old Trafford 1995. Special limited edition display sheet produced for this historic test. The sheet comprises of titles in colour to top, two mounted colour postcards of the teams, mounted first day cover for the 4th Test and two mounted autograph cards signed by the two teams. Twenty two ink signatures including Hooper, Lara, Richardson, Ambrose, Adams, Arthurton, Atherton, Knight, Cork (who took a hat trick in... View full lot details

England and West Indies Test players. ‘The Lord’s Pavilion’. Colour print from the original watercolour by David Gentleman 1986. Signed to the image borders in pencil by twenty nine former Test players from both teams. Signatures include Garry Sobers, Viv Richards, Michael Holding, Charlie Griffiths, Colin Croft, Keith Boyce, Wes Hall, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Lance Gibbs, Rohan Kanhai, Seymour Nurse, Graham Gooch, Geoff Boycott, Bob Willis, David Gower, M.J.K. Smith, Jon Snow, Keith Fletcher,... View full lot details

‘South African First-Class Cricket Grounds’. Richie Ryall. Set of individual limited edition colour prints of cricket grounds, Boland Park, Buffalo Park, Centurion Park, Kingsmead, Newlands, Springbok Park, St. Georges Park and the Wanderers Stadium. All number 308 of 375 prints produced. All measure approx 22”x18”. Each signed by Ryall. In official folder. G... View full lot details

‘John Wisden’. Original hand coloured llithograph of Wisden standing full length in ‘round arm’ bowling pose, wearing straw boater and blue neck tie, church and buildings in the background. Published by W.H. Mason of Brighton and Robert Dark, Lord’s Ground, 5th May 1849. ‘C.J. Basebe Delt.’, T. Fairland Litho.’, ‘M. & N. Hamhart Impt.’. 9.75”x13.5”. Small nicks to edges, minor soiling, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

‘Rugby School as it appear’d in the Year 1809’. Original early colour aquatint of a scene depicting boys gathered for cricket in the grounds of Rugby School. Subtitled ‘Is by permission respectfully dedicated to the Honorable the Trustees, By their much Obliged and Obedient Servant, E. Pretty’. Drawn and etched by E. Pretty, aquatinted by R. Reeve. Published in Rugby by E. Pretty, Drawing Master, June 1811. 19”x11”. Mounted, overall 21.5”x13.5”. Some foxing and ageing... View full lot details

International Cricket at Mitcham Green 1876. An extremely rare hand coloured original printed Broadside of a verse in twenty four-line stanzas by the well known cricket author, ‘F.G.’ (Frederick Gale). The poem describes the news that James Lillywhite’s England team had lost by two wickets to the New South Wales team at the Albert Cricket Ground, Sydney, 11th December 1876, in the second match of the tour. Above the poem is a large imaginary scene... View full lot details

‘The Warwickshire Cricket Club (Sketches at the County Ground)’ by E.C. Mountford. Original double page supplement to ‘The Dart’ magazine 22nd June 1888, featuring illustrations of Shilton, Mr. H.C. Maul, Mr. L.C. Docker, The Pavilion, Mr. Ansell Hon. Sec., and ‘Shaking hands with Grace’. Laid to mount, overall 17”x13.5”. Sold with an original double page extract from the Illustrated London News, 26th August 1882, of an engraving of ‘The Australian Cricketers’ including Murdoch, Bannerman, Bonner,... View full lot details

Alan Fearnley cricket prints c.1980s. Six limited edition prints of pencil drawing of pavilions at English Test grounds, each limited to five hundred copies and signed by the artist, Alan Fearnley. Subjects are The Oval, Trent Bridge, Old Trafford, Lord’s, Edgbaston and Headingley. Each measures 16.5”x12”. Sold with a print of a pen and ink drawing of ‘The Cricket Stone and the “Bat and Ball”, Hambeldon’ by Bob Morris 1977. 11.75”x8.25”. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Mansoor Ali Khan, Nawab (‘Tiger’) of Pataudi. Oxford University, Sussex, Hyderabad & India 1957-1976. Colour print of ‘The Nawab of Pataudi’ from the ‘Captains Portfolio’ series by artist Denise Dean, signed by Pataudi and the artist, limited edition number 42 of 100 prints produced. 8.25”x11.75”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

‘England Test Cricketers’. Denise Dean 2004-2006. Black binder comprising a good selection of sixteen prints from the series, each limited to 100 copies and signed by the artist. Thirteen are signed by the featured player. Signatures are Larter (2 copies), Allen, Arnold, Barber, Brown, Denness, Higgs, Jones, Snow, Price, Pocock and Russell, also Knight, D’Oliveira and Boycott unsigned by the player. Sold with a further twelve prints from other series, all signed by the artist,... View full lot details

‘Wisden Five Cricketers of the Year’. Denise Dean 2004-2006. Black binder comprising thirty five prints from the series, each limited to 150 copies and signed by the artist. Various limitation numbers. Twenty seven are signed by the featured player. Signatures are Bailey, Simpson (1950), Insole, Tyson (1956), Richardson (1957), Stewart (1958), Subba Row (1961), Parfitt, Sharpe, Titmus (1963), Murray (1967), Virgin (1971), Gifford (1975), Steele (1976), Hendrick (1978), Radley (1979), Rose (1980), Jackman (1981), Hadlee... View full lot details

‘Astor’ c.1913. Nine original watercolour caricatures of cricketers after the Vanity Fair prints of Spy and Ape, all signed by the artist, Astor. Cricketers featured are Frederick Spofforth, J.T. Tyldeseley, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, B.J.T. Bosanquet, L.C.H. Palairet, Lord Dalmeny, H. Philipson, G.L. Jessop and G.J. Bonnor. Each measures 8”x12”. Some soiling to board edges where previously framed, otherwise in good condition.... View full lot details

Cricket portraits and cartoons. A selection of eight modern prints. Subjects are John Arlott, large portrait in pencil by Bonelli[?], limited edition print no. 2/300, mounted overall 14.25”x17.5”. Two signed colour prints of cartoons of Graham Roope, one by Roy Ullyett, the other unidentified, both ‘Artist’s Proof’ nos. 14/25, each 16”x11”. Modern colour reproduction prints of ‘The Bowler’ and ‘The Batsman’ by H. Adlard, each 12.5”x18.5”. Print from an original painting by Roger Marsh of... View full lot details

Joe Hardstaff Jr. (Nottinghamshire & England 1930-1955) and Stan Worthington (Derbyshire & England 1924-1947). Two nice original pencil caricatures by an artist named ‘Sheffield’ in 1936, one of Hardstaff, the other Worthington, both in batting poses. Each image very nicely signed in ink by the featured player. Both measure 4”x5.25” and are loosely mounted together on a large album page. Light horizontal folds to both, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

‘My Greatest England XI’. Harold Dennis ‘Dickie’ Bird. Yorkshire & Leicestershire 1956-1964. In October 2006 ‘Dickie’ Bird was asked to name his greatest England team. This large mounted display contains a copy of the original listing he made including the 12th man, a printed card featuring each player and Bird’s signature below. Bid’s team was Hobbs, Hutton, Sutcliffe, Hammond, May, Botham, Knott, Laker, Trueman, Underwood and Bedser with Wilfred Rhodes 12th man. Attractively mounted, framed... View full lot details

‘County Captains 2006’, Keith Fearon, Limited edition 60/100, signed in pencil by each of the eighteen County Captains, signatures include Rikki Clarke, Dale Benkenstein, David Hemp, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Robert Key, Stuart Law, Paul Nixon, Ed Smith, Nicky Boje, Chris Read, Justin Langer, Mark Butcher, Chris Adams, Vikram Solanki & Darren Gough etc. Issued by the ECB/PCA. Mounted, overall 24”X17”. Sold with ‘Leading Gloucestershire into the Nineties’. Large colour limited edition print, by David Stallard 1996,... View full lot details

Cricket painting. An attractive original oil on canvas of village cricket scene, a fielder appears to be taking a catch to foreground with village, village pub with ‘Whitbread sign, rising scenery with church on the hill to background. Framed 32”x26”. Ten assorted prints and pictures, some framed, including ‘Master of the M.C.G.’. Original ‘The Age Sport Extra’ newspaper advertising poster dated 24th December 1984 with image of Viv Richards batting to left hand side. The... View full lot details