Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Boxing 1920s. Three original mono press photographs featuring Jack Dempsey & Stanislaus Zbyskow on a beach, Jack Dempsey sparring with George Godfrey etc. Each 10”x8”. Good condition. Sold with two early boxing bill postcards for bouts at the Royal Albert Hall, one for Jack Doyle v Frank Borrington 1934, the other Pancho Villar v George Cook 1935. Both postally used. Faults to the Villar postcard, otherwise in good condition. Qty 5.... View full lot details

Signed boxing photographs. Two colour press photographs, one signed by Anthony Joshua, the other by Conor Mcgregor and Jose Aldo. Both 12”x8”. Two small signed promotional cards/ photographs of Frank Bruno and Amir Khan. Sold with a Post Office First Day Cover, ‘Sport’ issued 10th October 1980, signed by Henry Cooper. Qty 5. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Golf shoe. A Nachtman of Germany lead crystal golf shoe paperweight with some frosted detail. 6” long. Sold with a ‘St Andrew’s’ trinket box with moulded scenes of famous holes of the course by ‘Design Craft. 4” square. Both in good condition... View full lot details

‘Willie Park Senior. The First Open Champion’. ‘Sporting Legends’ cold cast porcelain figure of Park in period golf dress with club to eight hand. 9” tall on wooden base. Produced in 1984. Details to bottom of base. Good condition... View full lot details

‘Candid Caddies’. Charles Graves and Henry Longhurst. Introduction by Bernard Darwin and illustrated by Bert Thomas. London: The Citadel Press, 1947. 126p. Signed and inscribed to front end paper by Longhurst ‘With every good wish, Henry Longhurst. Grimsby October 1954’. Some general wear to boards otherwise in good condition... View full lot details

Golf signatures 1950s onwards. A good selection of over thirty signatures of golfers. Includes two signed commemorative covers for the Royal Jersey Golf Club Centenary 1978 signed by Michael Bonallack, and the Australia Commonwealth Day 1983 signed by Ian Baker-Finch. Also twenty signed promotional cards and photographs including Lee Westwood, Darren Clarke, Sandy Lyle (2 different), Colin Montgomerie (2), Tony Jacklin, Paul Lawrie, Ian Woosnam, Laura Davies, Arnold Palmer, Louis Oosthuizen (2), Todd Hamilton, Larry... View full lot details

‘Golf Characters’. Caricatures by John Ireland, text by Chris Plumridge. London 1989. Hardback with dustwrapper. Signed to the half title page by fifteen golfers, many featured in the book. Seventeen signatures in total, including Mark O’Meara, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson (signed twice), Sam Torrance, Gary Player, Payne Stewart, Bernhard Langer, Greg Norman (signed twice), Tony Jacklin etc. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Wimbledon 1970/90’s. Collection of fifteen official Wimbledon programmes for the championships of 1977-1988. Plus six official tickets for 1984, 1986 (2), 1990 (2) and 1991. Includes four for Centre Court. Sold with three other tennis programmes all for the N.E.C. Birmingham in 1979, 1982 and 1991. Good condition... View full lot details

Tennis autographs 1970s-1990s. Eleven small album pages and cards comprising twenty signatures in ink, mainly individually signed, some back-to-back. Signatures include John Newcombe, Jimmy Connors, Roscoe Tanner, Arthur Ashe, Roger Taylor, Pancho Gonzales, Vijay Amritraj, Stan Smith, Maria Bueno etc. Sold with a later autograph book, c.1990s, comprising seventeen signatures in bold ink including Brenda Shultz, Daniil Medvedev, Helena Sukova, Conchita Martinez, Gigi Fernandez etc. Good condition.... View full lot details

Tennis signed promotional and collectors’ cards 1970s onwards. Fourteen cards, each signed by the featured player. Signatures are Rosie Casals, Pam Shriver, Greg Rusedski, Tim Henman, Heather Watson, Mary Joe Fernandez, Helena Sukova, Jana Novotna, Jennifer Capriati, Wendy Turnbull, Martina Hingis, Laura Robson, Aranxta Sanchez Vicario, and Maggie Maleeva. Very good condition.... View full lot details

Jean Laurent Robert Borotra. Single page typed letter on Borotra’s personal letterhead, dated 19th March 1985, relating to a residence permit. Nicely signed by Borotra. Sold with a selection of Borotra’s personal business cards and other correspondence, annotated, signed or initialled by Borotra. Also a mono press photograph of Borotra seated at a desk in his earlier years. Good condition.... View full lot details

British Lions tour of South Africa 1938. A rare gilt metal pin badge in the form of a gilt lion, the reverse impressed ‘B.R.F.T 1938’ (British Rugby Football Tour). Complete with original pin fittings and in very good condition. Sold with an official menu for ‘A Tribute to the Lions’ for a Dinner held at the ‘Balmoral Conference Rooms, Belfast’ on the 26th April 2001 signed to inside pages by fifteen Irish players who have... View full lot details

Rugby Union. ‘Northampton [Rugby] Football Club. Season 1933-34’. Large original mono photograph of the Northampton team seated and standing in rows wearing rugby attire. The photograph by The Greenway Studio of Northampton measures 11.5”x9.5”, laid to official photographer’s mount, overall 20”x15.5”. Players’ names and title printed to lower mount border. Players featured include Longland, Dicks, Treen, Weston, Harris, York, Bradley, Baillon, Garratt, Chorlton, Stimpson, King, Percival etc. The mount with loss to one corner, wear... View full lot details

Rugby Union. ‘Scotland v. Wales played at Murrayfield 1st February 1936. Scottish XV’. Excellent official sepia photograph of the Scottish team seated and standing in rows wearing rugby attire. The photograph, by Alex Ayton of Edinburgh, measures 14”x9.5”, laid to official photographer’s mount, overall 22”x17”. Printed title, players’ names and match result to mount borders. Players featured are Dick (Captain), Logan, Burnet, Shaw, Beattie, Waters, Grieve, Fyfe, Murdoch, Marshall, Cooper, Duff, Murray, Druitt and Shaw.... View full lot details