Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 194
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: £280
Lancashire C.C.C./Liverpool & District Cricket Club 1860/1890’s. Folded piece of cream paper very nicely signed in ink by eight players to two sides (not back to back), five of them played for Lancashire in the period quoted. Signatures are Edward Horatio Porter (17 matches for Lancashire 1874-82), Charles Langton Jones (5 matches for Lancashire 1876-1878), George Colquhoun Hamilton Dunlop ((1 match for Lancashire 1868), Arthur Twiss Kemble (76 matches for Lancashire 1885-1894), Edgar Christian Hornby (9 matches for Lancashire 1885-87, distant cousin of A.N. Hornby). On a separate piece is the laid down signatures of Edgar Ratcliffe (1 match for Lancashire 1884). The other three signatures on the folded sheet are for Frederic John Jones, brother of Charles Langton Jones who played for Liverpool & District 1889, Frederic Aspinall who played one match for Liverpool & District 1892 and Alick Jardine who played for Dumfrieshire and Birkenhead Park C.C. c1888-1894. Good/very good condition. Rare and early Lancashire signatures
Arthur Twiss played rugby for Liverpool and England, gaining three caps. Edward Porter played for Liverpool & District v Australians in 1882, Ratcliffe and Hornby played for Liverpool & District v Australians in 1886 and Jones, Edgar Hornby and Kemble played for Liverpool & District v Australians in 1888 and Kemble played for Liverpool & District v Australians in 1893


