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

Original Patents. Cricket Equipment & Accessories 1876-1904. Folder comprising nineteen original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects include ‘Apparatus for Scoring Games’ W. Walton 1876, ‘Improvements in Cricket Stumps or Wickets’ W.G. Boorn-Thompson 1884, ‘Improvements in Machinery for Making Cricket-bats’ W.H. Cook 1888, ‘Improved Cricket Sight Boards’ W. Browning 1897, and others relating to wickets, bails, umpires’ counters, pitch measurement and marking etc. Documents include Patent Specification, description and some with diagrams. Three are bound in to olive boards. Very good condition.