Wisden, Original Hardbacks
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Lot 294:
South African tour of England 1935. 'Lord's Cricket Ground' headed page signed in ink by fourteen members of the touring party including the Manager, Snooke. Signatures include Wade, Rowan, Cameron, Crisp, Nourse, Mitchell, Bell, Williams, Viljoen etc. Light folds otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer price: £65
Lot 295:
South African tour of Australia 1935/36. Album page signed in ink by fifteen members of the touring party. Signatures include Wade, Williams, Tomlinson, Bell, Nourse, Langton, Sinclair, Balaskas etc. Page laid down to large page otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer price: £60
Lot 296:
South African tour of England 1951. Official autograph sheet fully signed by all seventeen members of the touring party including the Manager, Pegler. Signatures include Nourse, Rowan, Mann, McLean, Cheetham, Tayfield, Endean, Melle, Waite etc. Sheet laid down to album page, light folds otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £75
Lot 297:
South African tour of England 1951. Official 'Derbyshire C.C.C.' headed sheet signed by thirteen members of the touring party. Signatures include Nourse, Tayfield, Endean, Melle, Waite, McCarthy, Mann, Fullerton etc. Light folds otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 298:
South African tour of England 1955. Official autograph sheet for the South African tour of England 1955. Fully signed with eighteen ink signatures including Cheetham, McGlew, Duckworth, Goddard, Mansell, Tayfield, Endean etc. Horizontal centre fold otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: £55
Lot 299:
South African tour of England 1955. Official 'Lancashire & Manchester Cricket Club' headed sheet fully signed with sixteen ink signatures including Cheetham, McGlew, Duckworth, Goddard, Smith, Tayfield, Endean etc. Light folds, handwritten title to top border otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 300:
South African tour of England 1965. Official autograph sheet fully signed in ink by all sixteen members of the party including Van der Merwe, Barlow, Bacher, Bland, G&P. Pollock, McKinnon, Gamsy etc. Some folds, some staining/age toning to sheet otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer price: £35
Lot 301:
New Zealand tour of England 1927 (Inaugural tour). Album page signed in red ink by thirteen members of the touring party. Signatures include Dempster, Bernau, Dacre, Henderson, Blunt, Page, Merritt, Mills, McGirr etc. Odd minor faults otherwise in good condition. Rare
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer price: £75
Lot 302:
New Zealand tour of England 1931. Album page signed in ink by eleven members of the touring party. Signatures include Lowry, Merritt, Page, Dempster, Cromb, Talbot, James, Mills etc. Page has signed twice otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer price: £58
Lot 303:
New Zealand tour of England 1931. Album page signed in ink by eight members of the touring party. Signatures are Weir, Merritt, Cromb, Talbot, Mills, Matheson, James and Vivian. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £34
Lot 304:
New Zealand tour of England 1937. Thin paper strip signed by the New Zealand touring party in England. Fifteen ink signatures including Page, W.A. Hadlee, Donnelly, Cowie, Wallace, Dunning, Lowry, Vivian, Kerr etc. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 305:
Australian tour of England 1921. Album page nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the touring party including the Manager, Sydney Smith. Signatures include Armstrong, Mailey, Collins, Hendry, Ryder, Bardsley, Gregory, Macartney, McDonald, Carter etc. Page laid down to slightly larger page otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £180/250
Hammer price: £230
Lot 306:
Australian tour of England 1926. Large album page nicely signed in ink by all seventeen members of the touring party including the Manager, Sydney Smith. Signatures include Collins, Macartney, Mailey, Ponsford, Bardsley, Oldfield, Grimmett, Taylor, Richardson, Gregory, Ellis, Woodfull etc. Minor ink blots otherwise in very good condition
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer price: £240
Lot 307:
Australian tour of England 1930. Large album page nicely signed in ink by fourteen members of the touring party including the Manager, W.L. Kelly. Signatures include Bradman, Richardson, Jackson, Oldfield, Grimmett, McCabe, Fairfax, a'Beckett, Kippax etc. Good+ condition
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer price: £140
Lot 308:
Australian tour of England 1930. Album page nicely signed in ink by the Australian team who played England at Lord's on the 27th-30th June & 1st of July 1930. Thirteen signatures include Woodfull, Bradman, Richardson, Oldfield, Wall, Grimmett, McCabe, Fairfax, Kippax, Ponsford etc. Very good condition
Estimate: £150/250
Hammer price: £300
Lot 309:
Australian tour of England 1934. Album page signed in ink and pencil by twelve members of the touring party. Signatures include Woodfull, Bromley, Grimmett, Chipperfield, Ponsford, O'Reilly, Brown, McCabe, Ebeling etc. G
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer price: £85
Lot 310:
Australian tour of England 1938. Official autograph sheet for the Australian tour of Great Britain 1938. Very nicely signed in ink by all seventeen members of the touring party including the Manager, Jeanes. Signatures are Bradman, Hassett, McCabe, Barnett, Barnes, White, Waite, McCormick, Ward, O'Reilly, Brown, Walker, Badcock, Fleetwood Smith, Fingleton, Chipperfield and Jeanes. Light folds, nick to edge of page at fold otherwise in good condition. Rare in this fully signed form
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer price: £320
Lot 311:
Australian tour of England 1938. Official autograph sheet for the Australian tour of Great Britain 1938. Very nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the touring party including the Manager, Jeanes. Signatures are Bradman, Hassett, McCabe, Barnett, Barnes, White, Waite, Brown, McCormick, Walker, Fingleton, Chipperfield and Jeanes. Light folds, minor faults to corners, minor adhesive marks to verso otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £130/180
Hammer price: £150
Lot 312:
Australian tour of England 1948. Album page nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the touring party. The page signed at Oxford in May 1948. Signatures include Hassett, Toshack, Miller, Morris, Harvey, Ring, Lindwall, Johnson, Brown, McCool, Hamence etc. Toshack has signed the page three times. Lacking the signature of Bradman. G
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer price: £85
Lot 313:
Australian tour of England 1953. Official autograph sheet fully signed in ink by all seventeen members of the touring party including Hassett, Morris, Hill, Benaud, Harvey, Johnston, Lindwall, McDonald, Miller, Tallon etc. Light fold marks otherwise in good+ condition
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer price: £95
Lot 314:
Australian tour of England 1961. Official autograph sheet fully signed in ink by all nineteen members of the touring party including Benaud, Harvey, Booth, Davidson, Gaunt, McDonald, Simpson, McKenzie, Mackay, Misson etc. Fold marks, minor age toning otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 315:
M.C.C. tour of Australia 1920/21. Two large album pages containing the ink signatures of fourteen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Each page has five small printed press pictures of the individual player, one to centre and the other four to corners. The players have signed in ink below their image. Signatures are Douglas, Parkin, Makepeace, Dolphin, Woolley, Waddington, Fender, Hobbs, Howell, Hearne, Russell, Rhodes, Hendren and Strudwick. One picture unsigned. Pages measure 9"x7". Some signatures back to back. G
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer price: £95
Lot 316:
M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1930/31. Album page nicely signed in ink by eleven members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures include Chapman, Allom, Turnbull, Fairservice, Goddard, Hammond, Voce, Sandham, Tate etc. G
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer price: £85
Lot 317:
England 1934. Two joined album pages nicely signed in ink by twelve members of the team who played Australia in the 3rd Test at Old Trafford on the 6th-10th July 1934. Signatures include Wyatt, Leyland, Ames, Hammond, Allen, Clark, Hopwood, Verity etc. Signed to verso by three Kent players from 1934, Valentine, Levett and the rare signature of H.P. Dinwiddy who played only seven matches for Kent. G
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer price: £85
Lot 318:
M.C.C. tour of Australia 1936/37. Paper strip nicely signed in ink by sixteen members of the touring party including the Manager R. Howard. Signatures include Allen, Wyatt, Farnes, Copson, Worthington, Hardstaff, Voce, Verity, Sims etc. Signatures of five others below including Bruce Harris, cricket author. Odd faults, generally good
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer price: £45
Lot 319:
England 1948. Album page signed in ink by fifteen members of the team. Signatures include Allen, Griffith, Ikin, Hutton, Hardstaff, Wardle, Laker, Evans, Butler, Smithson etc. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £68
Lot 320:
M.C.C. tour of Australia & New Zealand 1950/1951. Official autograph sheet signed in ink by nineteen members of the touring party including the joint Managers, Green and Nash and bagman Ferguson. Signatures include Brown, Compton, Bailey, Hutton, Close, Bedser, Evans, Wright, Hollies, McIntyre, Sheppard etc. Light folds, adhesive marks to corners otherwise in good condition. Rare
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £100
Lot 321:
Lancashire 1931. Album page signed by eleven members of the team. Signatures include Eckersley, E. Tydlesley, MacDonald, Hopwood, Iddon etc. Seven in pencil, four in ink. VG
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 322:
Worcestershire 1929. Album page nicely signed in ink by eight members of the team. Signatures include M. Nichol, Gibbons, W.V. Fox, J. Fox, Root, Tarbox, J. Price etc. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 323:
Worcestershire 1939. Album page nicely signed in pencil by ten members of the team. Signatures include C.J. Lyttleton, C.H. Palmer, P. Jackson, Martin, Jenkins, Yarnold, B.P. King, Howorth, Jackson etc. Pencil signature of Len Hutton to verso. G
Estimate: £30/40
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 324:
Australian tour of England 1921. Yorkshire v Australia 1921. Album page very nicely signed in ink by the Australian team who played Yorkshire at Bradford on the 11th-13th May 1921. Twelve signatures including Warwick Armstrong, Mailey, McDonald, Bardsley, Gregory, Taylor, Macartney, Carter, Collins, Ryder etc. G
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer price: £180
The tour match was drawn, for Australia, Gregory made 104no and Armstrong took 4-60 in Yorkshire's only innings. For Yorkshire, Rhodes made 63 and took 5-87 in the Australian 1st innings
Lot 325:
Yorkshire v Australia 1921. Album page signed in pencil, two in ink, by the Yorkshire team who played Australia at Bradford on the 11th-13th May 1921. Twelve signatures including D.C.F. Burton, Rhodes, Holmes, Kilner, Dolphin, Waddington, C. Tyson (played only two matches), Macaulay, Dean etc. Odd rarer signature. Sold with various album pages, mainly signed by Yorkshire League players but including Herbert Sutcliffe, P.A. Gibb, C.E.M. Wilson etc. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £95
Lot 326:
Lancashire v Northamptonshire 1921. Album page nicely signed in ink by the Lancashire team who played Northamptonshire at Old Trafford on the 18th-20th May 1921. Twelve signatures including M.N. Kenyon, Makepeace, R. K.Tyldesley, Hallows, J.S. Heap, W. Ellis, L. Cook, Dean, Blomley, E. Tyldesley, etc. Some rarer signatures. Six ink signatures of the Middlesex Amateurs team of 1921 to verso. Signatures include Mann, Haig, Dales, C.N. Bruce etc. G
Estimate: £60/80
Hammer price: unsold
Lancashire won the match by ten wickets. For Lancashire, Hallows made 76, J.D. Tyldesley 65 and Dean took ten wickets in the match. For Northamptonshire, Wells took 5-73 in Lancashire's only innings and Woolleytop scored in both innings scoring 55no and 67
Lot 327:
Lancashire v Northamptonshire 1921. Album page nicely signed in ink by the Northamptonshire team who played Lancashire at Old Trafford on the 18th-20th May 1921. Eleven signatures including R.O. Raven, C. Partridge (1 match), W.H. Denton, B. White (8 matches), A.E. Thomas, Woolley, Wells etc. Some rarer signatures. To verso are twelve pencil signatures from the Yorkshire v York & District match played on the 2nd and 3rd June 1948. Signatures include Brennan, Wardle, Coxon, Watson etc. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 328:
Leicestershire v Sussex 1921. Album page nicely signed in ink by the Leicestershire team who played Sussex at Leicester on the 21st-24th May 1921. Eleven signatures including A.T. Sharp, G.B.F. Rudd, G.H. Salmon, W.E. Pratt, W.E. Benskin, Coe, A.C. Lord (A. Callington) etc. Some rarer signatures. To verso are fifteen further pencil signatures from the Yorkshire v York & District match played on the 2nd and 3rd June 1948. The majority York & District. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £60
Leicestershire won the match by three wickets. For Leicestershire, Sharp made 150, King 110 and Benskin took seven wickets in the match. For Sussex, Jupp made 179, Bowley 127 and Cox took 6-73 in the Leicestershire 2nd innings
Lot 329:
Leicestershire v Sussex 1921. Album page nicely signed in ink by the Sussex team who played Leicestershire at Leicester on the 21st-24th May 1921. Twelve signatures including W.G.M. Sarel (10 matches), A.E.R. Gilligan, Cox, A.H.H. Gilligan, G.A. Stannard, G.Street, Jupp, Bowley, F.D. Jenner, G.A. Stannard, Tate etc. Some rarer signatures. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £170
Lot 330:
Surrey 1921. Album page nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the team. Signatures include Fender, Hobbs, Sandham, W.T. Cook, A. Jeacocke, E.C. Kirk, Abel, Hitch, Peach, Ducat etc. Odd rarer signatures. G
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £42
Lot 331:
Gloucestershire 1921. Album page nicely signed in ink by nine members of the team. Signatures include Sir F.G. Robinson, E.P. Barnett, C.S. Barnett, W.H. Rowlands, Mills, Dipper etc. Odd rarer signatures. G
Estimate: £30/50
Hammer price: £85
Lot 332:
Kent 1921. Album page nicely signed in pencil by twelve members of the team. Signatures include Troughton, Bryan, Cornwallis, Freeman, Hibble, H.L. Hever (5 matches), Bickmore, Hardinge etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £55
Lot 333:
Hampshire 1921. Album page nicely signed in pencil, one in ink, by eleven members of the team. Signatures include Tennyson, H.S. Altham, Hosie, Mead, Bowell, Brown, Remmant etc. Odd rarer signature. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £95
Lot 334:
Warwickshire 1921. Album page signed in pencil by eleven members of the team. Signatures include Rotherham, R.L. Holdsworth, R.I. Scorer, C.A.F. Fiddian-Green, H.C.A. Gaunt, Quaife, C.C. Smart, Howell etc. Some rarer signatures. To verso are six ink signatures of the Yorkshire 2nd XI of 1949. G
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £45
Lot 335:
M.C.C. tour of Australia 1958/59. Official autograph sheet nicely signed in ink by all eighteen members of the team and the Management. Eighteen members of the team including May, Cowdrey, Evans, Laker, Lock, Statham, Tyson, Trueman, Richardson etc. Light folds otherwise in good condition
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £85
Lot 336:
Australia tour of England 1909. Large card nicely signed by the entire Australian touring team to England, sixteen signatures, signed in black ink, the signatures are Noble, Laver, Trumper, Whitty, McAlister, Armstrong, O'Connor, Carkeek, Hartigan, Bardsley, Gregory, Cotter, Ransford, Macartney, Hopkins and Carter. Minor fading to one signature otherwise in good condition. Adhesive marks to borders of card not affecting signatures otherwise in good condition. Rare
Estimate: £1000/1500
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 337:
West Indies tour of England 1928. Album page very nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the touring party. Signatures include Nunes, Wight, Small, Martin, Fernandes, Constantine, Browne, Challenor, Scott, Francis, Neblett etc. Scarce. G/VG
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 338:
Worcestershire 1928. Album page very nicely signed in ink by eleven members of the team. Signatures include D.V. Hill, B.W. Quaife, C.G. Toppin, F.T. Summers, W.V. Fox, J.W. King, J.B. Higgins, Tarbox etc. Some rarer signatures. G/VG
Estimate: £60/80
Hammer price: £65
Lot 339:
Kent 1928. Album page very nicely signed in ink by fourteen members of the team. Signatures include G.B. Legge, C.J. Capes, T.C. Longfield, Freeman, G.P. Beslee, Ames, Woolley, Chapman, A.M. Crawley, A.J. Evans etc. Some rarer signatures. G/VG
Estimate: £60/80
Hammer price: £80
Lot 340:
Surrey 1928. Album page very nicely signed in ink by eleven members of the team. Signatures include Fender, J.W. Barnato (6 matches), Allom, Ducat, Jeacocke, Gregory, Barling, C.E. Daily, S. Fenley etc. Some rarer signatures. G/VG
Estimate: £60/80
Hammer price: unsold
Lot 341:
Gloucestershire 1928. Album page very nicely signed in ink by eleven members of the team. Signatures include W.H. Rowlands, Barnett, Lyon, Bloodworth, Neale, Dipper, Parker, Stephens etc. Odd rarer signature. G/VG
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £42
Lot 342:
Leicestershire 1928. Album page very nicely signed in ink by eleven members of the team. Signatures include Dawson, D.S. Oscroft (4 matches), Geary, Astill, Armstrong, Shipman, Sidwell, Snary etc. Odd rarer signature. G/VG
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer price: £35
Lot 343:
Lancashire 1928. Album page very nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the team. Signatures include Green, Makepeace, McDonald, Iddon, M.L. Taylor, E. Tyldesley, S. Preston (5 matches), Booth, G. Hodgson, Hallows etc. Some rarer signatures. G/VG
Estimate: £60/80
Hammer price: £85
Lot 344:
Nottinghamshire 1928. Album page very nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the team. Signatures include A.W. Carr, Richmond, A. Staples, S.J. Staples, Lilley, Walker, Gunn, Voce, Larwood, Barratt, Keeton etc. G/VG
Estimate: £50/70
Hammer price: £40
