Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Original Patents. Two green folders containing original cricket patents for cricket bats. The first ‘Cricket Bats 1876-1885’ and the second ‘Cricket Bats 1886-1895’ comprising forty eight original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. all relating to the construction of cricket bats, bat and tennis racquet handles and covers ‘and other Implements of the like kind’. Includes patents applied for by notable manufacturers of the day including G.W. Frowd of Lillywhite & Frowd 1881, R. Slazenger Moss of Slazenger & Sons 1884, W.R. Lake (for Cady of U.S.A.) 1884, W.H. Cleave of Clapshaw & Cleave 1885, B. Warsop 1885, W. Sykes 1885, A. & H.A. Odd 1885, F.H. Ayres 1885, An Unbreakable Bat’, bat and tennis racquet handles and covers and others ‘of the like’. Includes patents applied for by notable manufacturers of the day including S.M. Wainwright 1886, G.H. White of Aquila Clapshaw, White & Co. 1886, H.S. Dark of F. Dark (Lord’s) 1886, L.J. Nicholls 1889, A.W. Trimmings 1890, F.H. Ayres 1894 etc. Documents include Patent Specification, description and some with diagrams. Qty 2