Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

Cricket scrapbooks 1858-1912. Four early scrapbooks covering Test and County cricket, tours, club and representative matches. One, titled ‘Local Cricket History. The Annals of the Malton [Yorkshire] Cricket Club 1862 to 1906’ comprises a comprehensive collection of cuttings of ‘The series of articles [that] appeared in the Malton Messenger from May 1906 to January 1907’, compiled by Cecil Spiegelhalter. The handwritten title page includes an additional annotation, ‘Note: the whole was rewritten in 1920 under the title “History of Malton C.C. The MS was presented to F.S. Ashley-Cooper Esq. On his death it passed to Sir Julien Cahn. Its present location not known’. Another album covers the period 1858 to 1912 with coverage of the Australians in England 1882, 1893 and 1899, England (A.P.Lucas’ team) in West Indies 1894/95, Anglo-American cricket, and the Triangular Test series of 1912. The others, one with cuttings from ‘The Sporting Mirror’ and ‘The New Sporting’ magazines 1881-1896, the other from 1890s to 1900s. The latter includes the signature in ink of Learie Constantine whose father played on the West Indians’ tour to England in 1900. Heavy loss and damage to one album, odd faults to the others, otherwise in good condition.