Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Original Patents. Two green folders containing original cricket and games patents. The first ‘Cricket Equipment & Accessories 1876-1904’ comprising nineteen original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects include ‘Apparatus for Scoring Games’ W. Walton 1876, ‘Improvements in Cricket Stumps or Wickets’ W.G. Boorn-Thompson 1884, ‘Improvements in Machinery for Making Cricket-bats’ W.H. Cook 1888, ‘Improved Cricket Sight Boards’ W. Browning 1897, and others relating to wickets, bails, umpires’ counters, pitch measurement and marking etc. The second covers ‘Parlour & Outdoor Games 1884-1903’. comprising six original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects are ‘Apparatus for Playing Outdoor and Indoor Games’ A.S. King 1884, ‘Miniature Automatic Cricket Players’ T. Cloke & W.A. Ellis 1884, ‘A New or Improved Parlour Game’ M.F. Bailey 1885, ‘A New Out Door Game with Requisites for Playing the same’ E. Flemons 1886, ‘An Indoor Game in Imitation of Cricket, and Apparatus therefore’ H. Lamplough 1895, and ‘A New Form of Parlour Cricket’ T. Burge 1903. Documents include Patent Specification, description and some with diagrams. Qty 2