Next auction 04th, 05th & 06th March 2022
Held on 05th, 06th & 07th November 2021
Knights Auctioneers are delighted to announce that their catalogue for the live online auction of Cricket, Wisdens, Football & Sporting Memorabilia to be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 5th, 6th and 7th November 2021 is now available online. The sale will include over 1500 lots and we have included some highlights below. Click here to view the catalogue.
This will be a live auction with webcam and sound broadcast with both The Saleroom and Knights Live. Online, commission and telephone bidding will be available.
Printed catalogues available at £12 - please email tim@knights.co.uk or phone 01263 768488 to order
We hope you enjoy the catalogue!
Lot 422 Kenneth Cranston. Lancashire & England 1947-1948. Alfred Reader 'Special County' cricket ball used by Kenneth Cranston to take four wickets for England in one over without conceding a run against South Africa in the fourth Test played at Headingley, Leeds on the 29th July 1947. From a collection of items being sold by the Cranston family Estimate £1800/25000
Lot 276 - Legh Barratt. Norfolk C.C..C. 1890 to 1908. 'Robert Slade Lucas Tour of the West Indies 1894-95'. Wonderfully evocative and unique journal/diary handwritten by Barratt whilst on the pioneering Robert Slade Lucas tour of the West Indies in 1895, the first tour of the West Indies by an English team. From a collection of items being sold by the descendents of Legh Barratt Estimate £8000/12000
Lot 1111 Philip Henry Lundgren 1940-2015. Boxer. Rome Olympic Games 1960. An official Great Britain blazer worn by Lundgren during the Olympic games held from the 25th August to 11th September 1960 in Rome. Rare Estimate £300/500
Lot 1246 James William George Webb (Bob). Northampton R.F.C. & England 1926-1929. England International red quartered velvet cap with trimming in gilt metal to edges, quarters, peak and tassel with England emblem of the rose to front awarded to Webb for his appearances for England. The cap, by George Lewin & Co Ltd of Crooked Lane, London Bridge, in very good bright condition. Estimate £400/600
Lots 1400-1404 Frederick 'Fanny' Ingram Walden. Tottenham Hotspur & England 1909 to 1927. Unique collection of five gold hallmarked medals awarded to Walden. His first England International medal v Scotland 1914, his Football League medal v Southern League 1914, his England medal v Scotland. War-time Military International 1916, his Football League Division Two Champions 1919-1920’ and his Football Association Cup Winners 1920-1921 medal awarded to him by Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Please see catalogue for auction price estimates
Lots 279 - 'Arthur Priestley's Tour of the West Indies 1896-97'. 'Cricket at Barbados. Mr Priestley's English XI versus Barbados and Saint Vincent. Complete Details of a fortnight's Cricket. January 1897'. Printed at the Bulletin Office, Bolton Lane, Bridgetown, Barbados 1897. 34pp. Very nicely bound in original maroon boards with gilt titles to centre and marbled end papers, as issued. Very scarce publication, this was Legh Barratt's copy. Padwick 4677. From a collection of items being sold by the descendents of Barratt Estimate £3000/5000
'Sussex Cricket and Cricketers'. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Merritt & Hatcher Ltd., London 1901. Limited edition of only thirty copies produced, this being number twenty six. Original pale green paper wrappers. Rare
Lot 864 - 'Athol Rowan. A Memoir'. John Arlott 1952. Rare off-print of an essay from 'The Echoing Green and prepared for private circulation'. Only ten copies were produced, this being number 6, signed to the limitation page by Arlott. This copy was presented by Arlott to G. Neville Weston in May 1952 Estimate £700/1000
Lot 1374 - 'The Tottenham Hotspur Football Handbook 1906-1907'. Early pre-league official club handbook for the 1906/1907 season, with original printed paper wrappers. 56pp. Printed by C. Coventry of Tottenham. From a good run of Tottenham Hotspur Handbooks 1907-2005 Estimate £300/500