Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks
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(Please also see lot 747). A rare collection of signed Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks from 1947- 2008 (49 lots)
Lot 193:
Essex C.C.C. Selection of twelve ink and pencil signatures of Essex players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include P. Perrin, Rist, G.R.R. Brown, H.M. Morris, D.F. Pope, J.A. Cutmore etc.
Estimate: £25/35
Hammer price: £40
Lot 194:
Surrey C.C.C. Selection of twelve ink and pencil signatures of Surrey players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include J.H. Lockton, Garland-Wells, T.F. Shepherd, Constable, H.A. Peach, A. Jeacocke etc.
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £20
Lot 195:
Hampshire C.C.C. Selection of twelve ink and pencil signatures of Hampshire players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include A.W. Bowell, J.A. Newman, W.L.C. Creese, R.H. Moore, E.M. Sprot, W.G.L.F. Lowndes etc.
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £60
Lot 196:
Kent C.C.C. Selection of twelve ink and pencil signatures of Kent players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include J. Seymour, E.W. Dillon, C.H. Knott, L.J. Todd, R.G.H. Lowe (2 matches), P.E. Richardson etc.
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £40
Lot 197:
Middlesex C.C.C. Selection of twelve ink and pencil signatures of Middlesex players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include L.H. Compton, L.H. Gray, J. Robertson, W.R. Watkins, Hendren, J.H. Human etc.
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 198:
Nottinghamshire C.C.C. Selection of twelve ink and pencil signatures of Nottinghamshire players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include G.M. Lee, M.E. Allbrook (12 matches), R.A. Taylor (23 matches), F. Barratt, B. Lilley, G.F.H. Heane etc.
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £28
Lot 199:
Northamptonshire C.C.C. Selection of fourteen ink and pencil signatures of Northamptonshire players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include A.L. Wells (5 matches), W.P. Walker, A.W. Snowden, B.W. Bellamy, T.A. Pitt, H.J.H. Lamb etc.
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 200:
England. Selection of fourteen ink and pencil signatures of England players. The signatures are all on pieces/scraps and laid down to sheet with title to top of sheet. Signatures include C.J. Barnett, J. Robertson, C. Cowdrey, M.J. Horton, R. Appleyard, F.H. Tyson etc.
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: £10
Lot 201:
Lancashire 1912. Large album page signed by the Lancashire team of 1912. Twelve signatures including A.H. Hornby, A. Hartley, F.R.R. Brooke, Sharp, R. Whitehead, J.S. Heap, P.M. Fairclough, W. Huddleston, W.K. Tyldesley, H. Dean etc. All signatures in green ink. 8"x7". Some rarer signatures. VG
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer price: £205
Lot 202:
Lancashire c1926/27. Large album page signed in ink by the Lancashire team. Twelve signatures including L. Green, E. Tyldesley, Hallows, Duckworth, Taylor, Tyldesley, F.S. Booth, F. Watson, G. Hodgson, Makepeace, E.A. McDonald etc. Odd rarer signature. VG
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £55
Lot 203:
Lancashire 1934. Album page signed in ink by the Lancashire team. Thirteen signatures including Eckersley, E. Tyldesley, Paynter, L.W. Parkinson, Sibbles, A. Bennett, Farrimond, Lister, Booth etc. Odd rarer signature. VG
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 204:
Lancashire 1934. Small album page signed in ink by the Lancashire team. Eleven signatures including Eckersley, E. Tyldesley, Paynter, L.W. Parkinson, Sibbles, Pollard, Phillipson, Iddon, Booth etc. Sold with a similar album page signed by Lister. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 205:
Lancashire 1937. Album page signed in ink by the Lancashire team. Twelve signatures including Lister, Hopwood, Birtwell, W.B. Roberts, Paynter, Washbrook, Oldfield, Sibbles, Phillipson etc. Odd rarer signature. VG
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 206:
Lancashire 1939. Large album page signed in ink by the Lancashire team. Sixteen signatures including Lister, Pollard, R. Parkin, J. Briggs (4 matches), Place, Nutter, W.E. Phillipson, T.A. Higson, L. Wilkinson etc. Some rarer signature. Further large page with the ink signatures of E. Tyldesley, Makepeace and Duckworth. VG
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer price: £60
Lot 207:
Lancashire c1959/60. Album page signed in ink by the Lancashire team. Thirteen signatures including Barber, Higgs, Washbrook, Statham, Green, Booth, Bond, Hilton etc. G
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: £15
Lot 208:
Kent c1914. Small album page signed in pencil to both sides by eleven members of the Kent team. Signatures include Troughton, Hardinge, Blythe, Seymour, S.H. Day, A.P. Day, Fielder, Woolley, Huish etc. G
Estimate: £70/90
Hammer price: £70
Lot 209:
Kent 1920. Album page signed in ink by eleven members of the Kent team. Signatures include Troughton, Hedges, A.P. Day, Bickmore, Woolley, Fairservice, Collins, Freeman, Hubble etc. G
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer price: £80
Lot 210:
Kent 1923. Album page signed in pencil by eleven members of the Kent team. Signatures include Troughton, G.J. Bryan, J.L. Bryan, Seymour, Freeman, Bickmore, Collins, Ashdown, Hubble etc. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £45
Lot 211:
Kent c1924. Album page signed in pencil by nine members of the Kent team. Signatures include Hardinge, Woolley, C. Wright, Collins, Saymour, S.G. Hearn, Freeman etc. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £28
Lot 212:
Kent c1928. Large album page signed in pencil by eleven members of the Kent team. Signatures include Chapman, Legge, Ames, Freeman, Deed, J.L. Bryan, Weigall, C. Wright etc. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £48
Lot 213:
Kent 1933. Large album page nicely signed in ink by eleven members of the Kent team. Signatures include Chapman, Hardinge, Todd, Freeman, Watt, Ames, Valentine, Wright, Fairservice etc. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £42
Lot 214:
Kent 1937. Album page signed in pencil by ten members of the Kent team. Signatures include Bryan, Woolley, Todd, T.A. Pearce, Spencer, Levett, Ashdown etc. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £30
Lot 215:
Kent 1963. Album page signed in ink by eleven members of the Kent team. Signatures include P. Richardson, Sayer, Dye, underwood, Luckhurst, Jones, Wilson etc. G
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 216:
Nottinghamshire c1925. Album page signed in ink by twelve members of the team. Signatures include R.H.T. Turner, Gunn, Whysall, Lilley, Walker, W. Flint, Barratt, Larwood, Matthews etc. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £50
Lot 217:
Nottinghamshire 1930. Album page signed in ink by eleven members of the team. Signatures include Larwood, Staples, Voce, Gunn, Copley, Lilley, Payton etc. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 218:
Nottinghamshire c1930. Album page signed mainly in ink by twelve members of the team. Signatures include Carr, Staples, Harris, Wheat, Copley, Hardstaff, Voce, Larwood, Walker etc. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 219:
Nottinghamshire 1934. Album page signed in ink by twelve members of the team. Signatures include R.A. Taylor, Woodhead, H.R. Cox, Larwood, Gunn, Voce, Butler, Hardstaff etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 220:
Nottinghamshire 1934. Large album page signed in pencil by thirteen members of the team. Signatures include Carr, Harris, Cox, Taylor, Keeton, Voce, Walker, Butler etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 221:
Nottinghamshire 1937. Album page signed in ink by fourteen members of the team. Signatures include Hearne, Staples, Larwood, Hardstaff, Wheat, Keeton, Voce, Knowles, G.A. Walker (2 matches) etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £65
Lot 222:
Sussex 1921. Album page signed in pencil by eleven members of the team that played Somerset on August 20th-22nd 1921. Signatures include Gilligan, Jupp, Holloway, Cox, Vine, W.J. Malden, R.R. Relf, A.E. Relf, Tate, Young etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £90
Sussex won by an innings and R.R. Relf made a century and Cox took 5 wickets for nil runs! in the Somerset second innings
Lot 223:
Sussex 1924. Album page signed in ink by twelve members of the team. Signatures include Gilligan, Young, Higgs, Bowley, Cook, Langridge, Wensley etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £66
Lot 224:
Sussex 1927/28. Album page signed in ink by eleven members of the team. Signatures include A.E.R. Gilligan, Tate, Isherwood, Cox, Cook, Wensley, Parks, A.H.H. Gilligan, Cornford etc. Odd rarer signature. Two further unknown signatures to page. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £60
Lot 225:
Sussex 1929. Album page signed in pencil by twelve members of the team. Signatures include A.H.H. Gilligan, Wagener (5 matches), Holdsworth, Duleepsinhji, Cook, Parks, Cook, Bowley etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £70
Lot 226:
Sussex 1934. Album page nicely signed in ink by eleven members of the team (one pencil). Signatures include Melville, Hammond, Cox, Cook, Tate, Jas Langridge, John Langridge etc. To verso are eleven ink signatures of the Leicestershire team of 1934. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 227:
Sussex 1935. Album page signed in pencil by twelve members of the team. Signatures include Melville, Tate, G.S. Pearce, E. Wilson, Cox, Jas Langridge, John Langridge etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £50
Lot 228:
Sussex c1937. Large album page signed in pencil by ten members of the team. Signatures include Holmes, R.G. Stainton, Nye, Cornford, Hammond, Cox etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 229:
Leicestershire c1909/10. Album page signed in ink by fourteen members of the team. Signatures include J.H. King, Crawford, Sir A.G. Hazlerigg, C.J.B. Wood, A.E. Knight, T. Jayes, W. Shipman, R.T. Turner, J.S. Curtis, J. Shields, A.T. Sharp etc. To verso are the ink signatures of R.A. Haywood and H. Ellis of Northamptonshire. Some rarer signatures. G
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer price: £85
Lot 230:
Leicestershire c1930. Album page signed in pencil by twelve members of the team. Signatures include de Lisle, Shipman, Geary, Astill, Coleman, Armstrong, Berry, J.C. Bradshaw, Sidwell etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £25
Lot 231:
Hampshire c1927. Album page signed in pencil by eleven members of the team. Signatures include Tennyson, Brutton, W.N. McBride, A.K. Judd, Brown, Bowell, Livsey, Mead, Boyes etc. To verso are eleven pencil signatures of the Leicestershire team including Coulson, Rudd, Astill, Bale, H.A. Smith, Coleman, Geary etc. Some rarer signatures. G
Estimate: £40/50
Hammer price: £60
Lot 232:
William Henry Lockwood. Nottinghamshire, Surrey & England. Album page signed in ink to top of page 'Yours truly W. Lockwood'. Below his signature are nine signatures in ink and pencil of the Surrey team of c1921/22. Signatures include Harrison, Shepherd, Peach, Hobbs, W.J. Abel, Ducat, Hitch etc. Laid down to card. Rare. G
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer price: £110
Lot 233:
Surrey 1920. Album page signed in ink by eleven members of the team. Signatures include C.T.A. Wilkinson, Fender, Hobbs, D.J. Knight, Hitch, Rusby, J.H. Lockton, Peach etc. To verso are four signatures of the Yorkshire team of 1920, Denton, Robinson, Kilner and D.C.F. Burton. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £60
Lot 234:
Surrey c1927/28. Album page signed in ink by ten members of the team. Signatures include Hobbs, Sandham, Gregory, Fenley, Daily, Geary, Peach, Ducat, Strudwick (smudge) etc. To verso are thirteen ink signatures of the Sussex team including A.C. Watson, A.H.H. Gilligan, Holmes, R.A. Hollingdale, H.W. Parks, Langridge etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £35
Lot 235:
Surrey c1929. Large album page signed in pencil by twelve members of the team. Signatures include Fender, Jardine, Allom, S.A. Block, R.S. Machin, H.C. Lock, Ducat, Gover, Peach etc. Some rarer signatures. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £60
Lot 236:
Surrey c1932. Large album page signed in ink and pencil by nine members of the team. Signatures include Jardine (Captain), Hobbs, Squires, Allom, Brooks, Barling, Gregory etc. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £70
Lot 237:
'Surrey County Cricket Champions 1952-1957'. Official autograph sheet signed by thirteen members of the Surrey team of 1957. Signatures include Surridge, May, Lock, Barrington, Bedser, Laker, Constable, Clark, Loader, Edrich etc. vertical crease otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £25
Lot 238:
Cambridge University 1928. Large album page signed by seven members of the Cambridge team. Signatures include Duleepsinhji, Seabrook (Glos), Turnbull, Robins, Sir E.D. Blundell (New Zealand to England 1927), Killick etc. G
Estimate: £25/35
Hammer price: £40
Lot 239:
Essex 1928. Small album page signed in ink and pencil by thirteen members of the Essex team. Signatures include Douglas, Russell, O'Connor, G.F. Eastman, L.C. Eastman, Nichols, N. Vere-Hodge etc. Sold with similar album page signed in ink by three including O'Connor, R.M. Taylor etc. Some rarer signatures. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £42
Lot 240:
Essex 1930. Large album page signed in pencil by seven members of the Essex team. Signatures include Nicholls, L.W. Lywood, Sheffield, Pope, Smith etc. Signed by Sir A.G. Hazlerigg of Leicestershire to verso. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £25/35
Hammer price: £20
Lot 241:
Essex 1934. Large album page signed in pencil by eleven members of the Essex team. Signatures include Nicholls, Cutmore, Farnes, A.G. Powell, Taylor, Wilcox, Rist, Eastman. To verso are eleven pencil signatures of the Derbyshire team of 1934. Signatures include Blaxland, T.R. Armstrong, Copson, E. Carrington etc. Some rarer signatures. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £48
Lot 242:
Essex 1935. Large album page signed in pencil by fifteen members of the Essex team. Signatures include Pearce, Bray, Eastman, V.J. Evans, Rist, C.S.R. Boswell, T.P. Lawrence, C.T. Ashton etc. Some rarer signatures. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold