Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 172
Estimate: £40/60
Cricket ephemera. Box comprising a mixture of autographs, scorecards, programmes, magazines, scrapbook, books etc., the majority modern, some earlier. Includes approx. thirty signatures signed to album pages back to back, of cricketers and other sports, the majority collected at a Testimonial match for Derek Underwood played at Datchett 1980s. A menu for the Frimchett C.C. Annual Dinner 1952, signed to the rear page by eleven attendees including Lord Baden-Powell and his wife. Scorecard for England v Pakistan, Lord’s 1974, signed by Freddie Brown, Neville Cardus and Bill Edrich. Eight original mono press photographs, mainly portraits, three signed by Peter Willey, Nigel Felton and Allan Lamb. A signed copy of ‘Peter May’s Book of Cricket’ (dustwrapper with heavy tape repairs). Other items include official England home Test match programmes and scorecards 1980s-2000s, ‘Stanford 20-20 Super Series’ (West Indies) 2008 etc. Large scrapbook album comprising press cuttings including Australia tour to England 1948. Also a laminated menu for the ‘Farewell Dinner’, 11th September 1958, on board the Union Castle Line ‘Carnarvon Castle’, signed in ink to the back page by twenty members of the South Africa football team for the tour to England 1958, three early golf engravings etc. Odd faults, generally good condition.