Cricket Books
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Lot 109:
Australian tour of England 1961. Official menu for the Dinner held on the 7th April 1961 onboard the S.S. Himalaya, the boat that brought the Australian touring party to England. The menu with colour image to front cover and menu to inside pages. Nicely signed to inside pages by all nineteen members of the party including the Manager and Treasurer. Signatures include Benaud, Harvey, Booth, O'Neill, Simpson, Gaunt, Lawry, Mackay, McDonald, McKenzie, Misson etc. VG
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer price: £200
Lot 110:
'The Cricket Society'. Official menu for the Autumn Dinner held at the Empire Rooms on the 13th November 1963. Signed to inside pages by fourteen of the guests. Signatures in ink include Learie Constantine, G.O. Allen, Barrington, C.L.R. James, D. Carr, Titmus. S.C. Griffith etc. VG
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £30
Lot 111:
'Wisden Luncheon'. Official menu for the Luncheon held in celebration of Norman Preston's 21st Birthday as Editor of Wisden. The Luncheon held on the 2nd April 1971 in the Committee Room, Lord's. Profusely signed to inside pages and back cover by thirty four guests. Signatures in ink include Norman Preston, G.O. Allen, Len Hutton, Irving Rosenwater, Learie Constantine, Laker, Carr etc. Light vertical fold otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £34
Lot 112:
Don Bradman. M.C.C. Anniversary Dinner 1974. Official menu for the Anniversary Dinner held in the Banqueting Room, Lord's on the 1st May 1974. Signed to cover in ink by Bradman. VG
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £35
Lot 113:
Don Bradman. Official Anglo-American Sporting Club Dinner menu with Guest of Honour 'Sir Don Bradman in recognition of his unique and unforgettable contribution to world cricket'. Held at The London Hilton on 13th May 1974. The menu with pictorial cover showing a colour caricature of Bradman batting by artist Roy Ullyett. To inside pages, menu, toasts and programme of boxing for the evening. Signed to front cover by Bradman and to inside pages by six other guests including Ken Barrington, Jon Snow, Mike Denness, Stuart Surridge, Harry Gibbs etc. G/VG
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 114:
Australia v England 'Centenary Test' 1977. Official menu for the Dinner given by the Australian Cricket Board to celebrate the Centenary of Test Cricket between Australia and England. The Dinner was held at The Melbourne Hilton Hotel on March 14th 1977. Signed to back two inside pages by thirty seven former cricketers and guests. Signatures include Don Bradman, Harold Larwood, Keith Miller, Gubby Allen, Bob Wyatt, Jack Ryder, Eddie Paynter, Jack Badcock, Bill Voce, Arthur Chipperfield, Bill Brown, Hans Ebeling, Bill Johnston, Jim Laker, Jack Fingleton, Len Darling, Ian Chappell, Ken Barrington, Godfrey Evans etc. Also signed by Percy Fender to menu page in 1983. Sold with the official programme for the Centenary Test played at Melbourne, 12th-17th March 1977. G
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer price: £290
The menu and programme were formerly the property of cricket journalist Brian Bearshaw who was given the menu and programme by Eddie Paynter on his return from Australia in 1977. previously sold by Knights in October 2007
Lot 115:
'Arthur Flower Testimonial 1980'. Official cricket bat shaped menu for the Testimonial Dinner held in the Banqueting Room, Lord's on the 16th April 1980. Signed to covers in ink by twenty three guests including Gatting, Gould, Warr, W. Edrich, G. Mann, J. Murray, Slack, Brearley, D. Compton, J. Robertson, Moss, Edmunds etc. VG
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £20
Arthur Flower was Secretary of Middlesex C.C.C. from 1964-1980.
Lot 116:
Don Bradman. South Australian Cricket Umpires Association 'Bradman Medal Dinner'. Official menu for the Dinner held at the Italian Club, Adelaide on the 28th March 1984. Nicely signed to front cover by Don Bradman and guest speaker Paul Sheahan. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £30
Lot 117:
'Bicentenary of the Marylebone Cricket Club. M.C.C. v Rest of the World 1987'. Official menu for the Luncheon held at Lord's on the 22nd August 1987. Signed in ink to inside pages and back cover by fifty of the guests present including Garry Sobers, Javed Miandad, Ray Lindwall, Trueman, Jackie McGlew, Greenidge, Engineer, Rice, Imran Khan, Alan Davidson, Arthur Morris, Close, Lillee, Procter, Tyson, W.A. Hadlee, Compton, Cowdrey, Everton Weekes, Richard Hadlee, Border, Gower etc. VG
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer price: £240
Lot 118:
Len Hutton. '364' 50th Anniversary Dinner to Sir Leonard Hutton. Held at The Queens Hotel, Leeds in 1988. Official menu for the Dinner signed to front cover by Hutton and to back cover by twenty two guests including Neil Harvey, Ray Lindwall, Washbrook, May, Close, Trueman, Warr, Yardley, Illingworth, Hutton, Compton, Statham, Graveney etc. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £65
Lot 119:
Cricket Writers Club 1952. Official menu for the Annual Dinner held at the Press Club on the 1st May 1952. Mono cartoon by Roy Ullyett to front cover. Signed to back cover by five guests including Frank Worrell, G. Duckworth, N. Chowdhury, A. Bannister etc. Sold with two further signed menus, Sussex C.C.C. Annual Dinner 1973 signed by Arthur E.R. Gilligan and Cousley Wood C.C. menu 1950 signed by guest 'Hopper' Levett, Kent & England). G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £38
Lot 120:
England v Australia. The Centenary Test 1980. Official souvenir brochure signed by many players and guests who attended the historic event. Forty four signatures over various pages including Ponsford, A. Morris, O'Reilly, Fingleton, Lillee, N. Harvey, Gleeson, Massie, Simpson, Bowes, Voce, Tyson, Cowdrey, Evans, Gower, Compton, Bedser, Close etc. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £90
Lot 121:
The Cricket Society of Scotland. Official menus for the Annual Dinners of 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968-1973. Some menus signed, signatures include Peter Parfitt, Brian Sellers etc. Sold with other Scottish cricket related ephemera including scorecards etc. G
Estimate: £15/25
Hammer price: £30
Lot 122:
'National Sporting Club. A Dinner to honour Len Hutton'. Official menu for the Dinner held at the Cafe Royal, Regent Street on the 28th February 1956. The menu signed by twelve of the guests including Len Hutton, Rex Alston, Tommy Trinder, R.W.V. Robins etc. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £22
Lot 123:
M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. 'Pirates Cricket Club. Annual Ball'. Official ticket for the Ball held in Port Elizabeth on the 8th January 1949. Signed to verso in ink by nine members of the M.C.C. touring party and guests including Compton, Hutton, Mann,Simpson, Young, John Arlott etc. G
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: £18
Lot 124:
West Indies tour of England 1966. 'The Northern Cricket Society, High Tea to honour the West Indies Cricketers'. Official menu for the High Tea held in Leeds on the 3rd August 1966. Signed to inside pages by all eighteen members of the touring party. Signatures include Sobers, Gibbs, Kanhai, Hall, Hunte, Griffith, Holford, Solomon etc. VG
Estimate: £150/200
Hammer price: £300
Lot 125:
Orient Line 'Orsova Calendar' 1954. With full printed title 'England to Australia with the M.C.C. team'. Full team names printed to verso. Sold with P&O passenger listing for the R.M.S. Himalaya leaving Sydney on the 24th March 1956 with full listing of the Australian 1956 team to England. Also England v Australia 2005 Lord's 'Grand Stand Box' menu signed to back by Neil Harvey, Alan Davidson, Sam Loxton, Trueman and Bedser and 'M.C.C.Dinner to the I.O.C. 2007' with signatures. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 126:
England v Australia, Lord's 1989. Official Luncheon menu signed to inside pages by thirty three former Test players. Signatures include Hardstaff, Townsend, H.D. Read, Jackson, N. Oldfield, Roope, Wyatt, Old, Bailey, Washbrook etc. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £22
Lot 127:
Graham Gooch. Testimonial brochure 1995, one of 100, numbered by Test with this being his 66th Test, England v West Indies at Headingley, July 1988 and signed by Gooch. Sold with a 100 Test Gooch tie signed to inside by Gooch. G
Estimate: £10/20
Hammer price: £8
Lot 128:
'Visit of the M.C.C. Test Team to South Africa 1930/31. 'Union Castle Line. R.M.S. Edinburgh Castle'. Pre tour brochure for the tour with list of players, pen pictures and biographies, itinerary etc. Signed to back cover 'Autographs' page by all sixteen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures in pencil and ink, mainly pencil include Chapman, Wyatt, Hendren, Sandham, Farrimond, Leyland, Hammond, Voce, Turnbull, Tate, Goddard etc. Vertical fold, odd faults otherwise in good condition. Rare in this signed form
Estimate: £180/250
Hammer price: £210
Lot 129:
M.C.C. tour of Australia 1920/21. Official Orient Line S.S. Osterley card with centre colour image of the ship at sea. With titles to top border 'Visit of M.C.C. team to Australia 1920/21' and dates of voyages from London and Australia in 1920/21. Nicely signed in ink around the colour image of the ship by the full M.C.C. touring party. Seventeen signatures including Douglas, Woolley, Hearne, Wilson, Fender, Hobbs, Dolphin, Rhodes, Waddington, Makepeace, Howell, Parkin etc. Also signed to lower border by five senior members of the Ships crew. Slight fading to the signature of Hendren otherwise in good/very good condition
Estimate: £400/600
Hammer price: £480
Lot 130:
South Australian tour of England 1954. Official souvenir tour programme and official programme for the Northumberland & Durham XI v South Australian touring XI played on the 23rd May 1954. The programme signed to inside pages by both teams. Twenty four signatures. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £25
Lot 131:
'Souvenir of the M.C.C. visit to Rhodesia' 1938/39. Card with title to top border containing printed caricature images of all seventeen members of the touring party by artist R.D. Lee. Each caricature has been signed in ink by the player featured. Signatures include Hammond, Ames, Paynter, Verity, Hutton, Wright, Perkins, Wilkinson, Gibb, Valentine, Farnes etc. Folds to card and nicks/tears to page edges near folds otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer price: £260
Lot 132:
Australia 1948. Official 'P&O R.M.S. Strathaird' souvenir brochure for the Australian tour of England 1948. Printed in Sydney. Pictorial covers. Fully signed in ink to pen pictures by all eighteen members of the Australian touring team. Signatures nicely signed include Bradman, Hassett, Miller, Harvey, Johnson, Lindwall, Barnes, Loxton, Morris, Ring, Toshack, Tallon etc. Some minor age toning to covers otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare
Estimate: £700/900
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 133:
M.C.C. tour of the West Indies 1967/68. Full attractive sheet of nine official Jamaica postage 6d stamps issued to commemorate the M.C.C. tour in 1968 featuring batsman, bowler and wicketkeeper with cricketing border featuring images of the West Indies. This sheet has been laid down to card and signed, to the side borders by the M.C.C. and the West Indian teams. Thirty one signatures signed in ink. The M.C.C. with eighteen signatures, the West Indies with thirteen signatures including Sobers, Gibbs, Griffith, Kanhai, Hall, Butcher, Lloyd, Holford, Cowdrey, Barrington, Boycott, Lock, Snow, Jones, Milburn, Knott, Graveney, D'Oilveira etc. G
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer price: £115
Lot 134:
Australian tour of England 1930. 'S.S. Oronsay' headed paper signed in ink by twelve members of the Australian touring party to England. Signatures include Woodfull, Richardson, McCabe, Jackson, Oldfield, Ponsford, Kippax, a'Beckett, Grimmett etc. Not signed by Bradman. Sheet laid down to large album page with handwritten heading to top of page. The signatures of nine English players to verso including Hobbs, Fishlock, Brown, Parker. Folds otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer price: £110
Lot 135:
Arsenal F.C. v Middlesex C.C.C. 1952. 'Jack Young Benefit match'. Official programme for the Floodlit match held at Highbury Stadium on the 11th August 1952. This was the first floodlit cricket match held in England. The programme signed to front cover by Young and Brian Johnston, to inside pages by the Bedser twins and signed profusely by over twenty five players from both teams. Signatures include Edrich, D. Compton, Warr, Young, Knightley-Smith, Robertson, Sims, Moss, Thompson, L. Compton, Roper, Holton, Lishman, Goring, Swindin, L. Smith, Oakes, Cox etc. Some staining, age toning, folds otherwise in good condition. An unusual signed item
Estimate: £150/200
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 136:
S.M. Brown Benefit match. Ealing C.C. v Middlesex County XI 1953. Official scorecard signed to verso by six of the players including L. Compton, Warr, Young, Moss etc. Plus exercise book containing over thirty signatures, some laid down in pieces. Signatures include Langridge, Bedser, Young, Warr, Trueman, Robertson, Compton, Hutton, All India 1952 (12 signatures). Generally good condition
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: £22
Lot 137:
England v Australia. Official scorecard for the Lord's Test of 1997 signed by Glen McGrath (8-38) and Matthew Elliott (112). Sold with another scorecard for the Leed's Test of 2001 signed by Mark Butcher (173no) and a Ashes 1997 tour guide signed by six of the Australians and Robert Croft. G
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: £15
Lot 138:
E.G. Wynyard Collection. Five ink signatures on card, four with accompanying photographic image, collected by Wynard. G.A. Davidson, Derbyshire 1996-1898, C.J.B. Wood, Leicestershire 1896-1923, Sir S. Hill Wood, Derbyshire 1894-1902 (also Chairman of Arsenal), C.I. Thornton, Kent & Middlesex 1867-1885 and Sir J. Kingsmill Key, Surrey 1882-1904. G
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer price: £60
Lot 139:
Umpires and ex county players. Lined part page nicely signed in ink by Tom Mycroft, Derbyshire 1877-1885 and John Moss, Nottinghamshire 1892. G
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 140:
Cricketers 1899. Lined part page nicely signed in ink by Harding I. Young, Essex & England 1898-1912 and by S. Tait of Durham who also played for Tottenham Hotspur & England. G
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer price: £100
Lot 141:
J.T. Brown. Yorkshire & England 1889-1904. Excellent bold ink signature of Brown on lined part page. Sold with Wrench postcard of Brown in batting pose. G
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer price: £170
Lot 142:
Mordecai Sherwin, Nottinghamshire & England 1876-1896. Ink signature of Sherwin laid down on lined part page. G
Estimate: £120/160
Hammer price: £170
Lot 143:
Frederick W. Tate. Sussex & England 1887-1905. Rare ink signature of Tate on lined part page, with address given. Sold with Wrench postcard of Tate in bowling pose. G
Estimate: £150/200
Hammer price: £230
Lot 144:
W.H. Oldfield. New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Excellent ink signature of Oldfield, dedicated and dated 23rd April 1934, on large album page. VG
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £55
Lot 145:
Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Individual ink signature of Sutcliffe on card, dated 6th May 1925 and inscribedin Sutcliife's hand 'Yorkshire v Glamorgan 0!'. G
Estimate: £40/50
Hammer price: unsold
* Lot 146:
Sir Donald Bradman. Handwritten and signed envelope in Bradman's hand. Inscribed 'To be called for... W. Bruce Roberts.... and signed from Sir DonaldBradman. Rare to see this form of Bradman's signature. G
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 147:
England Test players. Individual ink signatures on cards of Bowes, F. Brown, Allen, Wyatt, Hardstaff, Sandham, Tyson, Walters and C.J. Barnett. Qty 9. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 148:
Australian Test players. Individual ink signatures on cards of Hendry, McCormick, Kippax, O'Reilly and A.E. Liddicut. Qty 5. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £50
Lot 149:
West Indies Test players. Individual ink signatures on cards, scraps etc of G.C. Grant, G.E. Gomez and E.L. Hoad. Qty 3. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 150:
Australia. Excellent ink signatures of Charles. G. Macartney (NSW & Australia 1905-1927), Clarrie V. Grimmett (S. Australia & Australia 1924-1940) and Len S. Darling (Victoria & Australia 1926-1937) on individual cards. The Grimmett card also signed by E.W. Dawson (Leicestershire & England 1922-1934). VG
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 151:
Learie Constantine, Trinidad & West Indies 1921-1939. Excellent pencil signature of Constantine on paper piece. G
Estimate: £25/35
Hammer price: £22
Lot 152:
Len Hutton. Yorkshire & England 1934-1955. Ink signature of Hutton on white card. G
Estimate: £15/25
Hammer price: £8
Lot 153:
Robert Abel. Surrey & England 1881-1904. Excellent ink signature of Abel on card. VG
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £120
Lot 154:
Percy G.H. Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. Ink signature of Fender on card. G
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: £15
Lot 155:
Charles Lawrence Arthur Smith. Sussex 1898-1911. Pencil signature of Smith on paper piece. G
Estimate: £25/35
Hammer price: £15
Lot 156:
K.S. Duleepsinhji. Sussex & England 1924-32. Large album page signed in pencil by Duleepsinhji, W.E. Astill (Leicestershire & England), Jack Hobbs (Surrey & England) and H.A. Peach (Surrey 1919-1931). G
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: £30
Lot 157:
Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Album page with excellent signature and dedication 'Good Health and Good Luck Always!. Herbert Sutcliffe, Scarborough 1928'. VG
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 158:
J.B. Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. Album page with excellent signature and dedication 'Nothing Succeedslike Character. J.B. Hobbs, Scarborough 1928'. VG
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £20
Lot 159:
J.B. Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. Album page with excellent signature and dedication 'Play the Game. J.B. Hobbs, Festival 1931'. VG
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 160:
Bert Tremlin. Essex 1900-1919. Ink signature of Tremlin on paper piece. G/VG
Estimate: £25/35
Hammer price: £28
Lot 161:
Frederick George Bull. Essex 1895-1900. Ink signature and small real photograph of Bull on card. G
Estimate: £25/35
Hammer price: £38
Lot 162:
Sir Foster Hugh Egerton Cuncliffe. Middlesex 1897-1903. Ink signature of Cuncliffe on paper piece laid down to card with small image of the player. G
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: £20
Lot 163:
Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England. 'Leonard Braund & Phillip Mead Fund'. Printed receipt for donation of 2/6 to the fund. Handwritten inscription to lower part 'I much regret no photograph available' and nicely signed 'Herbert Sutcliffe. G
Estimate: £25/35
Hammer price: £20
Lot 164:
Percy G.H. Fender. Surrey, Sussex & England 1910-1935, Leonard C. Braund. Surrey, Somerset & England 1896-1920 and Herbert Strudwick, Surrey & England 1902-1927. Excellent individual ink signatures of Fender, Braund and Strudwick on cards. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £45
Lot 165:
Harold Larwood, Nottinghamshire & England 1924-1938, George Gunn, Nottinghamshire & England 1902-1932 and Joe Hardstaff Senior, Nottinghamshire & England 1902-1924. Excellent individual ink signatures of Larwood, Gunn and Hardstaff on cards. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £35
Lot 166:
George Herbert Hirst. Yorkshire & England 1891-1929. Excellent ink signature of Hirst on card. VG
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £40
Lot 167:
Wilfred Rhodes. Yorkshire & England 1898-1930 and Percy Holmes. Yorkshire & England 1913-1933. Excellent individual ink signatures of Rhodes and Holmes on cards. VG
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 168:
Gilbert Laird Jessop. Gloucestershire & England. 1894-1914. Excellent ink signature of Jessop on card. VG
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £110
Lot 168a:
C. Phil Mead. Hampshire & England 1905-1936 and R.H. Moore. Hampshire & England 1931-1939. Excellent individual ink signatures of Mead and Moore on cards. G
Estimate: £25/35
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 168b:
Andrew Sandham. Surrey & England 1911-1937, William Charles 'Razor' Smith. Surrey 1900-1914 and J.C. White. Somerset & England 1909-1937. Excellent individual ink signatures of Sandham, Smith and White on cards. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £25
Lot 169:
Reginald Herbert Spooner. Lancashire & England 1899-1921. Excellent ink signature of Spooner on card. Together with short letter from Spooner regarding the signature, dated 3rd November 1943 and nicely signed in ink by Spooner. Sold with an excellent ink signature on card of Ernest Tyldesley. Lancashire & England 1909-1936. VG
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £45
Lot 170:
First class cricketers 1930/50's. Brown autograph book containing over 145 signatures of prominent players. The majority of signatures on small scraps, signed in ink and pencil, laid down to album pages although some signed to actual pages. Signatures include Keith Miller D.K. Carmody, A.P.F. Chapman, Doug Wright, Compton, Edrich, Killick, Warner, Gimblett, Hobbs, Wyatt, Leyland, Constantine, Badcock, Dempster, Allen, Hulme, Garland-Wells, Leveson-Gower etc. Presentation a little cramped in parts otherwise in good condition. Sold with a small selection of letters sent to the vendor during the war years when he was collecting autographs One letter signed by Rupert Howard, Lancashire 1922-1933.
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer price: £240
Lot 171:
'London Postal Cricket Association 1931'. Excellent presentation book presented by the London Postal Cricket Association to its President, Mr Noel Curtis-Bennett on the occasion of his marriage in 1931. The folio size presentation book with handwritten dedicationto front and the book signed to inner pages by thirty three London Postal Cricket teams as a mark of their appreciation. Signatures also include all the Officers of the Association. Many of the signed pages with excellent hand drawn cricket caricatures, cartoons, decoration and illustration. Very nicely presented item. Sold with an official menu for the 9th London Postal Association Dinner and Dance held at Chiswick on the 23rd November 1931
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer price: unsold
Noel Curtis-Bennett C.V.O. was an active member of the International Olympic Committee from 1933-1950. He died in 1950 whilst making a speech at a Savoy Dinner
Lot 172:
Australian tour of England 1948. Ink signatures of Bill Brown, Ernie Toshack and Arthur Morris. The signatures on scraps and laid down to white 'Australian Test Player' cards. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 173:
Australian tour of England 1948. Ink signatures of Ron Hamence, Neil Harvey and Sam Loxton. The signatures on scraps and laid down to white 'Australian Test Player' cards. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 174:
England Test players. Ink signatures of Harold Larwood, George Duckworth and George Macaualy. The signatures on scraps and laid down to white 'England Test Player' cards. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £20
Lot 175:
New Zealand & South African Test players. Ink signatures of C.S. Dempster (NZ), I.B. Leggatt (NZ, one Test 1954) and M. Macaulay (SA, one test 1964). The signatures on scraps and laid down to white 'Test Player' cards. G
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: £25
Lot 176:
Indian players. Ink signatures of M. Nissar, J. Singh, B.E. Kapadia, S.R. Godambe, K.S.G. Limbdi and G. Mohammad. The signatures on scraps and laid down to white 'Test Player' cards. Qty 6. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £40
Lot 177:
Frank Mitchell. Yorkshire & England 1894-1904. Ink signature of Mitchell on scrap/piece and laid down to white 'England Test Player' card. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £48
Lot 178:
Arthur Owen Jones. Nottinghamshire & England 1892-1914. Ink signature of Jones on scrap/piece and laid down to white 'England Test Player' card. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £70
Lot 179:
Sir Horatio Mann. Kent 1773-1782. Original signed free-front envelope to a Messrs Puget & Bainbridge, Warwick Lane, dated and sent from 'Bath. April seventeenth 1803'. Nicely signed 'H. Mann' in black ink. A very rare early signature of Mann, who was a 'man dedicated to pleasure rather than business' and it was the patronage of cricket which dominated his life. Sold with an original bookplate of Horatio Mann before he became a Baronet in 1786. Rare. G/VG
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer price: £460
Horatio Mann was born in 1744 and educated at Charterhouse School. His last recorded game was in 1782. In 1773 he played in a match between Surrey and Kent and he is mentioned in some line of verse....'At Last Sir Horace took the field, A batter of great might, Moved like a lion, he a while, Put Surrey in a fright'. He scored twenty two runs. A number of great matches including teams from England, Hambledon C.C., Surrey, Kent, the White Conduit Cricket Club etc were staged at his estate at Dandelion near Margate and at Bourne House, Bishopsbourne, near Canterbury. In 1800 he staged a cricket match on horseback with specially made bats. Mann was a founder member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. Mann was M.P. for Maidstone 1774-1784 and M.P. for Sandwich from 1790-1807. He died in 1814
Lot 180:
William Ward. Surrey, Hampshire & M.C.C. 1810-1845. Original signed free-front envelope to a Mrs Weltden of Norwich, dated and sent from 'London, June nineteen 1830'. Nicely signed 'W. Ward' in black ink. A very rare early signature of Ward, a right handed batsman and occasional lob-bowler who played 130 first class matches and was considered for many years one of the leading batsman in England. G/VG
Estimate: £250/300
Hammer price: £300
William Ward was born in 1787 and educated at Winchester where he first played cricket. His first recorded match was in 1810 when he played for England against Surrey at Lord's. His greatest achievement was when playing for M.C.C. v Norfolk at Lord's in 1820 he scored 279, a record that remained unbroken until W.G. Grace made 344 in 1876. He made eighteen appearances for the Gentlemen v Players between 1819-1838. In 1825 he bought from Thomas Lord, the lease of Lord's cricket ground for five thousand pounds, when Lord was considering selling the ground for building. In 1836 J.H. Dark purchased the remainder of the lease from Ward. Ward was M.P. for the City of London between1826-1831. He died in 1849
Lot 181:
Charles James Barnett. M.C.C. 1820-1837. Original signed free-front envelope to a Mrs Whiteford of Westerfields, Nr Ipswich, dated and sent from 'London, July one 1831'. Nicely signed 'Charles J. Barnett' in black ink. A very rare early signature of Barnett, who played mainly for M.C.C., also playing for the Gentlemen v the Players, he made 29 known appearances in first-class matches. G/VG
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer price: £210
Charles Barnett was born in 1796 and in 1825 became the first known President of M.C.C. This was an annual appointment, here may have been earlier presidents but there is no record of them. It was in 1825 that the Lord's Pavilion burned down with the loss of all the club records. Barnett was M.P. for Maidstone between 1831-1835. He died in 1882 in Brighton
Lot 182:
Signed cricket tickets and pass-outs. Collection of thirty two tickets and pass-outs all signed by one or more players. Tickets include Test matches, county games etc. Signatures include Gower, Statham, Les Taylor, Small, Robin Smith, Lamb, Godfrey Evans, John Wright, Brian Luckhurst, Derek Underwood, Artherton etc. Some duplication of signatures to tickets. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £20
Lot 183:
Queensland v Western Australia 'Sheffield Shield' Final 1999. Collection of thirteen unused complete tickets for the Final, each signed individually by a Western Australia player. Signatures include Langer, Moody, Gilchrist, Martyn, Katich, Julien, Hogg, Hussey, Angel etc. G
Estimate: £25/35
Hammer price: £35
Lot 184:
Australian Test players. Collection of thirteen cards, each signed individually by a player. Signatures are Bradman, Loxton, O'Reilly, O'Brien, Hendry, Freer, Darling, a'Beckett, Alexander, McCormick, Toshack, W.Brown and Hamence. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £80
Lot 185:
England Test players. Collection of twenty nine 'England Test Player' cards, each signed individually by a player. Signatures include Allom, C.J. Levett, Luckhurst, Barnett, Milton, Poole, Statham, Washbrook, Woolmer, Walters, Wright. All deceased. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £50
Lot 186:
England Test Captains. Collection of twenty one 'England Test Captain' cards, each signed individually by a player. Signatures include G.O. Allen, F.R. Brown, Botham, Cowdrey, Dexter, Gower, Gooch, Sheppard, Vaughan, Strauss, Walters, Wyatt etc. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £30
Lot 187:
West Indies. Selection of items, some signed including three tickets to the England v West Indies Test match of 1950, a Barbados 1966 signed postcard of Garry Sobers, Nelson Monument Postcard, signed to verso by E.A.O. Williams and Everton Weekes, early postcard of 'Primitive Cricket in the West Indies', Sporting Club Luncheon menu to the 1980 touring team etc. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £25
Lot 188:
Warwickshire C.C.C. 1981-2006. Two files containing twenty five years of ephemeracollected whilst watching Warwickshire and Edgbaston Test cricket cricket, some signed. Includes Lord's Final programmes, Dinner menus, tickets, Benefit brochures, photographs, first day covers, scorecards, membership cards etc. Signatures include Reeve, Smith, Asif Din, A. Sidebottom, Gifford, Moles, Munton, Donald, Pollock, Woolmer, Knight, Giles etc. Excellent collection
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £60
Lot 189:
Warwickshire C.C.C. Selection of twelve ink and pencil signatures of Warwickshire players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include Croome, J.H. Parsons, L.W.T. Bates, K.G. Kent (5 matches), J.A. Smart, F.R. Santall, G.A. Jennings (20 matches), Speed (4 matches), Wilmot etc. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £38
Lot 190:
Gloucestershire C.C.C. Selection of twelve ink and pencil signatures of Gloucestershire players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include W.H. Simmonds (2 matches), A.W.F. Roper, E.J. Stephens, F.J. Seabrook, B.O. Allan, C.J. Scott etc. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £70
Lot 191:
Somerset C.C.C. Selection of twelve ink and pencil signatures of Somerset players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include M.P. Bajana, C.E. Brown (8 matches), P.C. Ewens (7 matches), J. Mitton (2 matches), A.W.S. Patterson (2 matches), S.G.U. Considine, F.S. Lee etc. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £90
Lot 192:
Sussex C.C.C. Selection of twelve ink and pencil signatures of Sussex players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include G. Leach, L.A. Waghorne (4 matches), H.E. Hammond (two signatures), Cornford, T.E. Cook, H. Parks etc. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £30