Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
31st October, 1st & 2nd November 2025

William ‘Billy’ Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. Single page folded letter handwritten in ink by Gunn on his official business letterhead for ‘The County Cricket, Football, Lawn Tennis and British Sports Warehouse’ in Nottingham. Dated 18th April 1903, Gunn is writing to the collector, Charles Pratt Green, ‘I am sending you Monday a parcel containing the various shapes of bats during process of manufacturing’. Very nicely signed ‘W. Gunn’. Light horizontal folds, very good condition.
Gunn represented England in eleven Test matches 1886-1899, and twice as an England international footballer. Charles Pratt-Green was a famous collector of cricket memorabilia including an impressive run totalling 149 cricket bats used by famous players from the golden age. The collection was sold to Sir Julien Cahn in the 1930s.

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