Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
31st October, 1st & 2nd November 2025
Lot 16
Estimate: £80/120
Sussex County Cricket Club Bazaar, Clarence Rooms, Hotel Metropole, Brighton, December 4th, 5th & 6th, 1894. Original poster advertising the bazaar held to raise funds for the Sussex County Cricket Club, specifically ‘to pay off their Debt, and to establish a 2nd XI so as to help them to keep well up in the First Class Counties’, arranged by W.L. Murdoch and A.J. Gaston. Printed by The Southern Publishing Company, Brighton. 11.25”x17.5”. Horizontal and vertical folds with some splitting. Minor wear and nicks to edges, small hole, otherwise in good condition.
Articles for exhibition included items from the Earl of Sheffield, W.L. Murdoch, Charles Pratt Green, Thomas Padwick, Hawkins of Brighton, Gaston etc. Two original catalogues produced for the bazaar are also listed in this auction. According to Roger Packham in ‘Cricket In The Park. The Life and Times of Lord Sheffield 1832-1909’ (2009) ‘this bazaar was no jumble sale’, rather a somewhat grand exhibition with entertainments attended by gentry, politicians and cricketers. The three day event raised some £750 for the Club funds.