Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Grand National Coronation Year 1937. ‘Royal Mail’. Royal Doulton commemorative ceramic tankard with transfer printed image of the National winner ‘Royal Mail’ and scenes of the Coronation below. With titles and details of owner, trainer and jockey etc. Sporting Designs by Teofani, first of the series. Doulton stamp to base and ‘The number is limited’. 5.5”. G/VG... View full lot details

Horse racing and boxing signatures 1920s-1950s. A selection of signatures in ink on pages, pieces and one postcard. Includes an album page very nicely signed in black ink by the jockey, Steve Donoghue, dated 1934. Also signatures in ink of boxers Freddie Mills, Jimmy Wilde and George Harrison, and a signed promotional postcard of Joe Baksi. Good condition.... View full lot details

Horse racing. Royal Ascot 1987. Official programme/ race card booklet for the ‘First Day’, 16th June 1987. Signed to pages in bold black ink by eleven jockeys including Ray Cochrane, Pat Eddery, Gary Bardwell, John Reid, Cash Amussen, Walter Swinburn, Paul Eddery, Gary Carter, Lester Piggott etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Horse racing. A selection of seven signatures on colour photographs (one mono) of jockeys including Jonjo O’Neill, Frankie Dettori, Richard Dunwoody, Bob Champion and Venetia Williams, also the commentator, Peter O’Sullevan, and the signature of Lester Piggott on white card. The photographs various sizes, 12”x8.5” and smaller. Good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Horse racing. Five signed race card and programmes 1948-1988. Official race card for Salisbury Races, 7th April 1948, signed in ink by Gordon Richards and six others. Royal Windsor Races programme 16th July 1979, signed by Joe Mercer, Steve Cauthen and Lester Piggott. Sandown Races programme 25th July 1979, signed by Piggott, Cauthen, Pat Eddery, Wille Carson, Greville Starkey and John Reed. Kempton Park ‘Chivas Regal Whisky Trophy’ UK v USA 21st October 1981, signed... View full lot details

King George VI 1930s. A large original mono photograph of King George VI entering the field of an unknown sports stadium from a grandstand accompanied by dignitaries wearing formal attire and bowler hats. In the stands, large crowds are looking on enthusiastically. The venue and occasion are unknown, assumed to be 1930s. The photograph measures 14.75”x12”, laid to photographer’s mount with official stamp to verso for Central News, London to verso. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Football/Golf jug. Victorian ceramic jug with image of a footballer running with the ball to one side and a golfer and caddy to the other. Floral and bird decoration. The jug glazed in mustard and green. ‘England’ to base. 6” tall. Small chip to rim otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Sporting ephemera. Selection of signed ephemera including first day covers, magazine pictures, paper pieces etc. Signatures include Lew Hoad, Dai Rees, Ian Woosnam, Chris Chatterway, John Regis, Henry Cooper, Clare Francis, Daley Thompson, Steve Redgrave, Janet Evans, Ellen McArthur, Cliff Thorburn, Allan Wells, Seve Ballesteros etc. Good condition... View full lot details

Tennis and golf. Ellen Hattie Clapsaddle c.1890s. Two large attractive modern colour prints of artworks by Clapsaddle. One is a lady playing a tennis shot with a couple looking on from the other side of the net. The other depicts a golfing scene of a lady golfer playing a shot with male companion and child caddy watching on, and other golfers in the background. Each print measures 13.75”x19.75”. Sold with an original page extract of... View full lot details

Motor racing. Formula 1. A selection of fourteen signed promotional cards and photographs of racing drivers from the 1970s onwards. Signatures include Gerhard Berger, Jos Verstappen, Martin Brundle, Mika Hakkinen, Ukyo Katayama, Jaques Villeneuve, Derek Bell, Alexander Wurz, Murray Walker, Mark Blundell, Toranosuke Takagi etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Olympic Games 1980s-2000s. Fifteen promotional cards and white cards, each individually signed by the featured Olympic athlete or canoeist. Includes eleven promotional cards signed by Tony Jarrett, Derek Redmond, Katherine Merry, Donna Fraser, Daley Thompson, Yvonne Murray (athletics), Myriam Jerusalmi, Lynn Simpson, David Florence, Richard Fox, and Ian Wynne (canoeing). Also four plain white cards signed by canoeists Paul Ratcliffe, Jon Schofield, Campbell Walsh, and Tim Brabants. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Olympics. ‘Exposition Universelle [World Fair]’ Paris 1900. Six original postcards, all with printed titles for the ‘Exposition Universelle’, of which two are in colour. Each features an illustration/ image of a Paris attraction hosting the exhibition, which was held in conjunction with the 2nd Olympic Games of the modern era. Subjects are ‘Palais des Mines et de la Metallurgie’, ‘Poree Principale’, ‘L’Espagne’, ‘Vue sur la Rue des Nations’, all postally used, ‘Le Palais du Cambodge,... View full lot details

Olympics postcards. A large selection of fifty modern postcards. Thirty eight cover the 1996 Atlanta summer games, with another two for Toronto, which was a candidate venue for the same games. Others include three for the Seoul Games 1998, a Switzerland candidate postcard for the 2006 Winter Olympics, one original and three modern commemorative postcards for the 1956 Cortina Winter Olympics, and two further commemoratives for the 1928 and 1948 St Moritz Winter games. Very... View full lot details

Sporting autographs 1940s/1950s. Seven nice signatures on small white cards. Signatures are Stanley Matthews (football), Lester Pigott (horse racing), Roger Bannister, Gordon Pirie, Jim Peters (athletics), Bruce Woodcock and Freddie Mills (boxing). Fold to the Mills card, otherwise in good/ very good condition.... View full lot details

Darts World Champions 1983-2019. Seven large exhibition style colour photographs of darts champions and runners-up, each signed by the featured player. Signatures are Ronnie Baxter, Kevin Painter, Keith Deller, Jelle Klaasen, Michael van Gurwen, Dennis Priestley and Terry Jenkins. Each measures 16”x12”. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Athletics and Gymnastics 1960s onwards. Official programme for the ‘USSR Gymnastics and Sports Acrobatic Display Teams’ event at Wembley Pool, 27th- 30th October 1976, with profuse signatures of team members to one page including Olga Korbut, Nellie Kim etc. Large page signed by nineteen members of the Australian Athletic Team c.1960. Other signed programmes include Great Britain v U.S.A., White City Stadium 1967 signed by two Americans, Ron Copeland and Ralph Boston. ‘Coca Cola International... View full lot details

Billiards/ Snooker and hockey. Attractive early 1900s vesta case/ snooker cue tip tin with attractive colour image to the hinged lid of a billiards table and title ‘E.J. Riley Ltd., Accrington. Where the Billiard Tables Come From’. 3.25”x2.25”. Colours nice and bright. Sold with a pair of tiny glass dishes, each with an engraving of a hockey scene to the base. Each 2.25”x1.5”. Very good condition. Qty 3.... View full lot details