Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024

Lot 502
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £120
‘W.G.’. Original Stevengraph of W.G. Grace wearing M.C.C. cap and standing in batting pose at the wicket, miniature picture woven in silk, approx 4.5”x2.5” wide. Produced in 1895 on the occasion of Grace making his hundredth hundred. Good condition with colours bright. Sold with a Cash’s woven silk picture, ‘The First Over’ after the style of Thomas Stevens of Coventry. ‘Stevengraph Collection’, limited edition no. 938/2000, mounted, framed and glazed in presentation frame . Qty 2
The rarer of the two cricketing Stevengraphs. Thomas Stevens (1828-1888) invented this type of picture. His firm continued to produce Stevengraphs in Coventry until about 1939.

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