Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Cricket ephemera from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. An interesting collection of signed letters to Curtis from officials at various cricket, rugby and football clubs including Geoffrey Howard, Surrey 1966, Billy Griffth, Lords 1967, Jack Wood, Lancashire 1968, Leslie Deakins, Warwickshire 1967, Jimmy Hill, Coventry City F.C. 1966. Matthew Engel, Editor, Wisden 1997 etc. Also a good selection of Curtis’ typed ‘crib sheets’, scripts, articles photographs and cuttings, some... View full lot details

Cricket and actors orders of service 1976-2011. Four orders of service for Ken Barrington, Southwark Cathedral 1981, Brian Johnston, Westminster Abbey 1994 (with accompanying printed poem eulogy by Richard Stilgoe), and two actors, Martin Boddy, founder of The Lord’s Taverners, St. John’s Wood Church 1976, and Trevor Bannister, Putney Vale Crematorium 2011. From the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Lord’s Taverners 1950s-1970s. Box comprising a good selection of programmes, menus, scorecards and the odd photograph relating to Lord’s Taverners events, from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. Includes an original pen and ink artwork of caricatures of attendees at the ‘Lord’s Taverners Leicester Inaugural Luncheon’, 20th November 1975, signed by seventeen including Fred Rumsey, Reg Simpson, Ray Illingworth, Ben Brocklehurst, Jack Birkenshaw, Alan Curtis, Graham McKenzie, Tony Swainson etc.... View full lot details

Australian tours to England 1968-1975. Three official Australian autograph sheets for the tours to England in 1968, 1972 and the World Cup 1975. Signatures include Lawry, I. Chappell, Cowper, Hawke, Inverarity, Mallett, Renneberg, Redpath, Walters, Stackpole, Gleeson, Lillee, Marsh, Sheahan, G. Chappell, Gilmour, McCosker, Thomson, Walker etc. Sold with a colour printed photograph of Kim Hughes in batting action, signed by Hughes. From the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. Some... View full lot details

Lord’s Taverners 1960s/1970s. A selection of eleven signed letters from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer, relating to Curtis’ involvement with Lord’s Taverners charity fundraising matches and events. Notable is one from Colin Cowdrey thanking Curtis and the Lord’s Taverners committee for their congratulations on Kent winning the County Championship in 1970. Others include replies to invitations to play in matches from Don Kenyon, Stanley Baker, Bob Gale and Jack... View full lot details

England tour to West Indies 1985/86. Two copies of official England autograph sheets for the tour to West Indies in 1986. Both sheets fully signed by all twenty one listed members of the touring party. Signatures include Gower (Captain), Gatting, Botham, Downton, Ellison, Foster, French, Gooch, Lamb, Willey etc. Light creasing and minor staining to one sheet, otherwise in good condition. Sold with an official Christmas card for the ‘England Tour of Australia 1978-79’ signed... View full lot details

India tour to England 1990. Sachin Tendulkar’s first overseas tour. Official colour photograph of the Indian touring party seated and standing in rows wearing tour blazers. The photograph signed in ink by eighteen members of the touring party. Players’ signatures include Azharuddin (Captain), Shastri, Kapil Dev, Tendulkar, Sidhu, Hirwani, Prabhakar, More, Manjrekar, Kumble, Mongia, Vengsarkar etc. 10”x8”. From the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer with annotation to verso. Good condition.... View full lot details

England v Australia, 5th Test, The Oval 1968. Three different original mono press photographs of the closing moments of the deciding 5th Ashes Test at the Oval, all with the England players fielding in close with Derek Underwood bowling. Two depict different views of the dismissal of Graham McKenzie for the eighth wicket, caught by Dave Brown at short leg off the bowling of Underwood. The third shows the iconic moment when Underwood took the... View full lot details

Cricket photographs from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer, 1960s/1970s. A large selection of original photographs including seventeen original mono press photographs of which three are signed by the featured players, some with dedication ‘To Alan’. Signatures are Basil D’Oliveira, Garry Sobers, Colin Cowdrey and Brian Close. Others unsigned feature Ray Illingworth, Alan Knott, Ashley Mallett, with other subjects including charity matches, a flooded pitch at The Oval, crowd scenes,... View full lot details

Lord’s and The Oval wartime and 1940s scorecards. A good selection of forty one scorecards from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer, all (with two exceptions) for matches played at Lord’s and The Oval covering internationals, county and representative matches. Lord’s wartime scorecards include England v Australia 29th May 1944, 19th- 22nd May 1945, 14th July 1945 and 6th- 8th August 1945, v Dominions 25th- 28th August 1945, Oxford v... View full lot details

Cricket scorecards 1950s-1960s from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. A large selection of some 140 official scorecards covering Test, tour, county and representative matches. One, for the tour match, Surrey v Australians, The Oval 1956, is signed by Jim Laker who took 10/88 in the first innings, and Tony Lock who took 7/49 in the second. The signatures faded but legible. England Test match scorecards include v Australia The... View full lot details

Cricket scorecards 1970s-1990s. A large selection of over two hundred official scorecards from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer, covering Test, tour, one day international, county and representative matches. Test, one day international and tour series scorecards include Australia 1972, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985. India 1971, 1974, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1990. New Zealand 1973, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1990, 1994. Pakistan 1971, 1974, 1978, 1982. South Africa 1994, 1998. West... View full lot details

Prudential Cricket World Cup scorecards 1975-1983. Fourteen official scorecards from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. Matches from the 1975 tournament are England v India Lord’s, Australia v West Indies (Lord’s final, West Indies won by 17 runs). From 1979, England v Australia Lord’s, Australia v Pakistan Trent Bridge, England v New Zealand Old Trafford, England v West Indies (Lord’s final, West Indies won by 92 runs). From 1983, West... View full lot details

Surrey C.C.C. 1965 & 1971. Two signed official scorecards from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer, both with complete printed scores, one for Surrey v Middlesex, Gillette Cup semi-final, The Oval 14th July 1965. Surrey won by five wickets. Signed by twelve members of the Surrey team, the majority of whom played in the match. Signatures are Stewart (Captain), Pocock, Edrich, Gibson, Storey, Barrington, Arnold, Long, Harman, Smith, Tindall and... View full lot details

Graham Gooch record 333 & 123. England v India. Lord’s 1990. Official scorecard from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer, with complete handwritten scores and heavily annotated in Curtis’ own hand, for the Lord’s Test match 26th- 31st July 1990 in which Gooch scored 333 and 123. Signed by all five centurions in the match, Gooch, Allan Lamb (139), Robin Smith (100no) for England, Mohammad Azharuddin (121) and Ravi Shastri... View full lot details

Cricket programmes, benefit and souvenir brochures, annuals, first day covers 1960s-1980s. A good selection from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. Some items signed including brochures and programmes for Lord’s Taverners v Old England’, Trent Bridge 1968, signed to inside page by Harold Larwood. A Cunard brochure for the Pat Pocock Benefit Boxing Evening 1977, signed to inside by seven including Tony Greig, John Snow, Godfrey Evans, John Edrich, Jim... View full lot details

Lord’s Finals 1967-1995. A good collection of official programmes and scorecards for Lord’s Finals of County cup competitions from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. Includes a complete run of fourteen Gillette Cup Final programmes 1967-1980 (final year), with official scorecards for 1963-1965, 1967-1969, 1971-1980. Benson & Hedges Cup Final programmes for 1972, 1974-1976, 1979-1983, 1985, 1986, 1988-1992, and official scorecards for 1972-1976, 1978-1983, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1993-1995. NatWest... View full lot details

Sporting and other programmes 1940s-1990s. A selection of seventeen official programmes (one exception), covering sporting and other events, from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. Eleven programmes are for sporting events including rowing, ‘pirate’ programme for the 1946 Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race, Shrewsbury Open Regatta 1952. Wrestling at Lincoln 1951, Colwyn Bay 1960. Tennis, Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships 1956 first day, Davis Cup Great Britain v Romania 1969. Horse... View full lot details

Cricket and football Charity, League and Cup programmes 1950/51 onwards. A selection of fourteen official programmes from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. Includes two charity/ benefit match programmes for T.V. All Stars XI v Speedway Riders XI, Morden, Surrey 27th March 1960, and Arnold Long (Surrey cricket) and Peter Bonetti (Chelsea F.C.) Benefit cricket and football match 21st July 1971 (with annotations). Others are Shrewsbury Town 1952/53 F.A.... View full lot details

Rugby Union and League programmes 1940s-1960s. Thirty official match programmes from the collection of Alan Curtis, English actor and Lord’s cricket announcer. Includes one Rugby League programme for Wakefield Trinity v Wigan, Challenge Cup Final, Wembley 4th May 1946. The remainder are Rugby Union, earlier programmes include British Empire v France, Richmond, 28th April 1945, five Guy’s Hospital programmes from 1944/45 (2) and 1945/46 (3), St. Mary’s Hospital v Coventry 1945/46, London Welsh v Rosslyn... View full lot details