Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 219
Estimate: £2000/3000
Colin Blythe. Kent & England 1899-1914. Kent navy blue cloth cricket cap with raised embroidered county emblem of the white horse, the Kent emblem, to front. The cap, with small peak typical of a pre first world war cap, from the Sankey family collection and previously sold by Knights as lot 570 in October 1995, it was bought by well known collector Mike Smith and sold by Knights after his death in an auction held in 2017 by Kent County Cricket Club. The cap has a small moth hole to the peak otherwise in good condition. An early cap from a truly notable cricketer of the ‘Golden Age’ of cricket
Colin Blythe played 381 first class matches for Kent and in 19 Test matches for England. With Wilfred Rhodes he was the principle let arm spin bowler of the Edwardian period. He appeared in first class cricket for fifteen seasons and in fourteen season captured over 100 wickets. He took 2,503 wickets in first class cricket at an average of 16.81 and his best bowling performance was 10 wickets for 30 runs v Northamptonshire in 1907. Blythe was killed in action in Passchendaele, Belgium in November 1917