Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 390
Estimate: £120/160
‘Lord Sheffield’s Eleven at Sheffield Park, August 26 & 27, 1881’. Early original sepia photograph of Lord Sheffield’s team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire for the match v A. Shaw’s XI, 26th- 27th August 1881. Players featured include Emmett, Pinder, Ulyett, Ellis, Greenfield, Lockwood, Gilbert etc. The photograph by Hennah & Kent, Brighton, measures 10”x8”, laid to photographer’s mount with printed players’ names and title to lower border, overall 16”x13”. Ex Lord’s collection. Small loss to corner of mount, otherwise in very good condition. A good image.
Both teams were made up of players who played first class county cricket, a good number of whom also represented England in Test matches. Notable players in Lord Sheffield’s XI included G. Ulyett (Yorkshire, 25 matches for England), T. Emmett (Yorkshire, 7 for England), E. Peate (Yorkshire, 9 for England), R.T. Ellis (Sussex), F.F.J. Greenfield (Sussex), E. Lockwood , G. Pinder (Yorkshire), J.T.D.B. Platts, and W. Mycroft (Derbyshire). The Shaw XI included W. Bates (Yorkshire, 15 matches for England), W.H. Scotton (Nottinghamshire, 15 for England), William Gunn (Nottinghamshire, 11 for England), John Selby (Nottinghamshire, 6 for England), Mordecai Sherwin (Nottinghamshire, 3 for England), also William Oscroft (Nottinghamshire), Thomas Foster (Derbyshire), Irwin Grimshaw, Walter Wright (Nottinghamshire & Kent), and William Clarke (Nottinghamshire & Middlesex). Lord Sheffield’s XI won by four wickets. Scotton was top scorer in the match with 50 in Shaw’s second innings. Peate took nine wickets in the match for Lord Sheffield’s XI.