Highlights from the major sale
held on March 3rd and 4th 2012
Of an important collection of cricket memorabilia, including items from three famous cricketers from the 1870s through to the 1940s. The three collections being:
- 'The Townsend Family Cricket Collection', Frank Townsend, Gloucestershire 1870-1891, Charles Lucas Townsend, Gloucestershire, London County & England 1893-1922, David Charles Humphrey Townsend, Oxford University, Durham & England 1933-1935 and Jonathan Richard Arthur Townsend, Oxford University, Durham, Wiltshire & Suffolk 1964-1973,
- 'The John William Hearne Cricket Collection', John William Hearne, Middlesex & England 1909-1936 and
- 'The Eddie Paynter Cricket Collection', Edward Paynter. Lancashire & England 1926-1945.
Lot 173. William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Louisa Townsend c1910/15. Large watercolour portrait painting of Grace, head and shoulders, wearing a striped dark suit. Signed to lower border by Townsend. Cameo oval gilt mount and framed in ornate gilt frame. The image very similar to the portrait featured in Grace's Memorial Biography of 1919.
Hammer price: £20,000
Lot 289. Edward Paynter. Lancashire & England 1926-1945. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1932/33 'Bodyline'. Original official M.C.C. touring blazer, by E.C. Devereux of Eton, worn by Paynter on the tour of Australia 1932/33. A very rare item from the infamous 'Bodyline' tour.
Hammer price: £4,700
Lot 443. John William Hearne. M.C.C. Centenary 1814-1914. Original medal presented to Hearne to mark 100 years of Lord's Cricket Ground. The bronze metal medal with 'M.C.C. 1814-1914 (with cricket bat and stump decoration' and below in scroll 'J.W. Hearne' and to verso 'Lord's Ground Centenary 1914' to outer ring and to inside 'To commemorate the 100th Year as a Cricket Ground'.
Hammer price: £400