https://www.knights.co.uk/howtobid daily 0.75 2024-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1646747544925-PY5EB3OG8G57H3DTMA09/IMG_1777.jpg How to bid - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.knights.co.uk/terms daily 0.75 2022-02-17 https://www.knights.co.uk/mar22catalogue daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1634753879468-446ENM00GP8WZ5NJNDTT/Screenshot+2021-10-19+at+19.28.43.png Mar22 catalogue coming soon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a4c14ab4-2dc0-4760-be50-0733d6b82ebb/lot1246.jpg Mar22 catalogue coming soon 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 Hammer price: £950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ef0fa88e-eb7c-4f48-a062-afc92e079140/lot1374.jpg Mar22 catalogue coming soon 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 Hammer price: £1,200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9575ae88-7d44-4570-810a-7b1cd12cbdec/lot0276_b.jpg Mar22 catalogue coming soon 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 Hammer prices: Lot 276 £19,000, Lot 277 £13,000, Lot 279 £11,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/53783452-3fb1-4b50-b0bb-9cc8648e198f/lot1111.jpg Mar22 catalogue coming soon 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 Hammer price: £220 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d1072576-70fc-44c0-ab0d-298a53b3cc52/lot0864.jpg Mar22 catalogue coming soon Lot 864. 'Athol Rowan. A Memoir'. John Arlott 1952. Rare offdownload_catalogue_NOV21.php-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 Hammer price: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/81028d2f-08d9-4046-b7e6-32b08f412388/lot0857.jpg Mar22 catalogue coming soon Lot 857. '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. Estimate £1400/1800 Hammer price: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/91d198ba-89ac-4da0-9731-8685dd2d5e25/lot1400.jpg Mar22 catalogue coming soon 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 1919-1920¹ and his Football Association Cup Winners 1920-1921 medal awarded to him by Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Please see catalogue for auction estimates. Hammer prices: Lot 1400, £1800, Lot 1401 £1800, Lot 1402 £1700, Lot 1403 £3600, Lot 1404 £32,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/434243a0-dba9-42a6-b1ad-722460dfbdc8/lot0422withphoto.jpg Mar22 catalogue coming soon 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/96ecd006-0721-4f90-a071-6bf0c5cc9b66/lot0287.jpg Mar22 catalogue coming soon Lot 287. Cricketing jug. A large and impressive Doulton Lambeth stoneware tapering jug, moulded in relief with six raised figures, three of batsman and three of fielders in roundels, all different and in various positions. Overall impressed floral motif decoration, oval dark brown decoration to roundel borders and white beaded bands to top and base of the jug. The handle modelled with cricket bats and a ball with a straw boater to top. Pewter mount to rim. Approximately 9.25" tall. An excellent example of this rare cricketing ceramic. Estimate £800/1200 Hammer price: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/78ff8dd8-5ab5-4675-a165-c3dcd8361200/lot0279.jpg Mar22 catalogue coming soon Lot 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 Hammer price: £11,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1645130770877-MU60SB34ULG9TP35QSS2/Unknown-1.jpeg Mar22 catalogue coming soon https://www.knights.co.uk/catalogue-1 daily 0.75 2024-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1645130488022-8UMDBAT9WP42YJGB7M8V/2022+subscription+form.jpeg July 22 catalogue coming soon - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.knights.co.uk/nov21after daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/434243a0-dba9-42a6-b1ad-722460dfbdc8/lot0422withphoto.jpg Nov 2021 after 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9575ae88-7d44-4570-810a-7b1cd12cbdec/lot0276_b.jpg Nov 2021 after 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/53783452-3fb1-4b50-b0bb-9cc8648e198f/lot1111.jpg Nov 2021 after 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a4c14ab4-2dc0-4760-be50-0733d6b82ebb/lot1246.jpg Nov 2021 after 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/91d198ba-89ac-4da0-9731-8685dd2d5e25/lot1400.jpg Nov 2021 after 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/78ff8dd8-5ab5-4675-a165-c3dcd8361200/lot0279.jpg Nov 2021 after 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/81028d2f-08d9-4046-b7e6-32b08f412388/lot0857.jpg Nov 2021 after '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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d1072576-70fc-44c0-ab0d-298a53b3cc52/lot0864.jpg Nov 2021 after 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ef0fa88e-eb7c-4f48-a062-afc92e079140/lot1374.jpg Nov 2021 after 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1634753879468-446ENM00GP8WZ5NJNDTT/Screenshot+2021-10-19+at+19.28.43.png Nov 2021 after - 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! https://www.knights.co.uk/contact daily 0.75 2024-09-17 https://www.knights.co.uk/about-us daily 0.75 2022-02-17 https://www.knights.co.uk/auction-dates daily 0.75 2026-01-19 https://www.knights.co.uk/march22 daily 0.75 2024-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9f16fb7e-b3b1-4708-8338-e2e34d65aed3/lot0387.jpg March 2022 after Lot 387 – Francis Alexander MacKinnon. Kent & England 1875-1885. An early and impressive Victorian circular silver bowl with pedestal foot presented to MacKinnon to celebrate his marriage to the Honourable Emily Isabel Hood. There is an engraved inscription within a central cartouche which reads 'Presented by some past and present members of the Kent XI to FA Mackinnon on his marriage 19th April 1888'. The bowl has hallmarks for London 1839 and was made by Richard Sibley. The names of the past & present members are engraved around the base and include Lord Harris, W.H. Patterson, F. Marchant, The Hon. Ivo Bligh etc. A wonderful piece of Kent history from an early Captain and pioneering England cricketer. Estimate £1800/2500. Hammer price £6000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4b8f0c0f-d441-4d8c-9101-3ef1aa013383/lot1626+%281%29.jpg March 2022 after Lot 1626 – Tottenham Hotspur 1960/61 League and Cup Double winners. 'Wait till you hear my Cock-a-Doodle-Two for the 2nd leg!'. Large amusing original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon artwork with blue highlights, by artist Roy Ullyett, depicting the Spurs mascot, 'Cocky the Cockerel', standing on a mound labelled, '1st Division', and proudly holding the Football League trophy from which hangs a label, 'League Championship Cup'. Hanging from Cocky's other wing is another label, 'This space reserved for FA Cup’. Nicely signed in black ink by Ullyett. An excellent image which was published in the Daily Express 18th April 1961 Estimate £200/300. Hammer price £550 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e32391cf-c93a-4f02-a12c-304921b3ffd1/lot0053.jpg March 2022 after Lot 53. Australia 1934 – 'The Cricketer'. Official Orient Line dinner menu for the 'S.S. Orontes' which took the victorious Australian home to Australia having won the Ashes in 1934. The menu dated '29th October 1934 features an exquisite engraving to the front cover by Lynton Lamb of an early cricketer, bat in hand at the wicket. The front cover has been nicely and fully signed in ink (one in pencil) by all sixteen playing members of the touring party. Signatures are Oldfield, Bromley, Chipperfield, Ebeling, Darling, Woodfull, Brown, McCabe, Kippax, O'Reilly, Barnett, Ponsford, Wall, Fleetwood-Smith, Grimmett and Bradman. Estimate £300/500. Hammer price £410 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/67ea8539-dcf3-4b57-9c9e-d66c8b15da0e/lot1216.jpg March 2022 after Lot 1216 – William Denison. 'The Cricketer's Companion: containing the Scores of All the Grand and Principal Games of Cricket played at Lord's and other grounds...' 1843-1846. The first four (and only) editions bound together in one volume with modern marbled boards, green half morocco, and original green calf spine with raised bands laid down with gilt title, 'Denison's Cricket Companion 1843-46'. Rare to see all four editions Estimate £8000/12000. Hammer price unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/24cc10f3-07f5-4064-9fc3-4fdaed18f3fc/lot0142.jpg March 2022 after Lot 142 – Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Cambridge University, Sussex, London County & England 1893-1920. Rare original London County Cricket Club, Crystal Palace, 1903 membership and fixture card no. 591. The small folding card with maroon leather covers and gilt titles and emblems to front and back. To the inside, the printed first-class fixtures for 1903 with K.S. Ranjitsinhji annotated in ink, and signed by Ranji in ink below. Estimate £150/250. Hammer price £400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2320d6d3-521d-495a-aac1-73ca74034cbb/lot1424.jpg March 2022 after Lot 1424 – F.A Cup Final 1922. Huddersfield Town v Preston North End. Stamford Bridge Grounds. Official £1.1shilling stand seat match ticket stub for the Final played on the 29th April 1922. The ticket, for Stand B, Row K, seat no 10, printed in black, red and blue on a white background with red horizontal band to centre. A rare seat ticket stub, as seating was limited at Stamford Bridge in those days. This was the last final before the Finals began at Wembley Stadium the following year Estimate £1500/2500. Hammer price unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/475f57cb-d657-4d92-975c-2dd797399c88/lot0386.jpg March 2022 after Lot 386 – Arthur Fielder. Kent & England 1900-1914. Rare and beautifully made silver ink stand, with decorative silver cricket ball ink well with original glass interior, two sets of stumps and bails and cricket bat attached to one set. The Kent club emblem to centre with 'Invicta' in scroll and the inscription 'Presented to A. Fielder, Champion Eleven 1909 by the Kent Cricket Club'. A highly desirable presentation item from Kent's 1909 County Championship winning season Estimate £700/1000. Hammer price £1600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/27a3a3d5-3314-45aa-bb0d-c791123899dc/lot1209.jpg March 2022 after Lot 1209 – 'Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1899'. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1899. First year of issue, of which only twenty copies were produced. 51pp. Original pale blue paper wrappers with replacement spine. Presentation copy with inscription in ink in Ashley-Cooper's own hand to 'F.A. Brooke Esq., 11 Dec. 1899. Copy no. 14'. Very rare. Estimate £1500/2500. Hammer price unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6c6fe7aa-9bb1-47ba-bde2-e623ea434294/lot0391.jpg March 2022 after Lot 391 – 'The Boss'. A Royal Doulton Black Boy dessert plate, entitled 'The Boss' printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat, wearing an umpires's coat and holding a bat,. Green floral decoration to outer rim. 7" diameter. Doulton backstamp and number 'E4336' to base. Circa 1907. Very good to excellent condition. A rarer 'Black Boy' title in lovely condition Estimate £800/1200. Hammer price unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/96f2732b-798b-428d-b8e1-d680bc6545a2/lot1481.jpg March 2022 after Lot 1481 – Burnley Football Team. Winners of the English Cup 1913-1914 and English League Champions 1920-1921. A Record:- Played 30 games without defeat'. Commemorative Staffordshire mug produced to commemorate the two feats, with titles in scrolls to the front of the mug and to sides images of England's goalkeeper Jerry Dawson and international Robert Kelly, with floral designs to surrounds and rim. Rare Estimate £300/400. Hammer price £240 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/71c8c4a7-5cd2-46b8-ba72-4ace26741b42/lot0393.jpg March 2022 after Lot 393 – William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. A Victorian stoneware teapot with lid with a sepia transfer printed full length image of Grace in batting pose at the wicket with name 'W.G. Grace' below. MacIntyre of Burslem. Gold lustre to head of the teapot, spout end, handle and to finial on lid. A rarely seen teapot featuring Grace Estimate £600/900. Hammer price £2200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/340a1d8e-610c-471d-a317-240799646b01/lot0049.jpg March 2022 after Lot 49 – M.C.C. Tour of Australia 1903/04. Early and impressive official menu to the victorious M.C.C. team who returned home with the 'Ashes' having won the series by three Tests to two. The Dinner was held at The Trocadero, London on 22nd April 1904. The large menu with elaborate cover design by G. Hillyard Swinstead depicts Warner and his team wearing tour blazers and caps and carrying cricket bags, two players are holding aloft a large banner with image of an English lion with cricket bat sitting on an Australian kangaroo. The menu is inscribed to the lower border in ink to F.S. Ashley-Cooper, the famous historian and cricket author, from G. Hillyard Swinstead. A rare and highly desirable item especially in this dedicated form Estimate £500/800. Hammer price £880 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1645274607916-5Q6P2JIA927LLYNLV7B9/CoverMarch22_2500px72dpi.jpg March 2022 after - Our last auction was held on 4th, 5th & 6th March 2022 Knights Auctioneers last sale of Cricket, Wisdens, Football & Sporting Memorabilia was held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 4th, 5th and 6th March 2022. The sale included over 1500 lots and we have included some highlights below. Our July catalogue will be available soon for the next sale taking place on 8th, 9th and 10th July. https://www.knights.co.uk/privacy-policy daily 0.75 2022-02-19 https://www.knights.co.uk/july-after-auction daily 0.75 2024-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/41eda96a-4e7e-419f-ac1b-2e28e91f6169/78_0493.jpg July 22 after Lot 493 Ronald Graham Archer. Queensland & Australia 1951/52-1958/59. Australian dark myrtle green wool test cap worn by Ron Archer during the Australian Test tour of England in 1953. The cap, by Farmers of Sydney, embroidered with the Australia emblem and below '1953' in gold thread. His name 'R. Archer' handwritten in ink to the inside of the cap on the 'Farmers, Sydney' label. A rare cap from this Australian Coronation tour of England. Hammer price: £5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f682f0f9-f7b0-4c60-a3e9-97353fa62502/78_1436.jpg July 22 after Lot 1436 A. Findlay. Tottenham Hotspur 1920-1921. Excellent early sepia real photograph postcard of Findlay, head and shoulders, in Spurs shirt. Signed in ink 'Yours sincerely, A. Findlay. W.J. Crawford of Edmonton plainback postcard. From a good selection of early signed Spurs postcards in this sale. Hammer price: £210 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f82b20e5-8777-43bf-a971-1e5de0dee029/78_0038.jpg July 22 after Lot 38 ‘The Dawn of Cricket’. An early colourful and wonderfully striking printed cotton commemorative handkerchief, featuring eight cricketers from the 19th century in scrolled mono cartouches on a vivid red and bordered background. The images of the cricketers appear to have been taken from Charles Basebe's drawings which were produced in aquatints by Charles Hunt and often engraved by W.H. Mason in the 1840’s. Hammer price: £3600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a2ea249a-96eb-4dbf-be6e-a687f1cf72a7/78_0322_a.jpg July 22 after Lot 322 W.G. Grace. Two original mono candid style photographs of Grace appearing for a match played at Twickenham, probably 1908. Both photographs depict Grace in cricket attire and straw hat. In one Grace is exiting the Church Institute with other players and, in the other, tossing for innings. Pencil inscriptions to verso described Grace as the 'England veteran' and 'one time premier cricketer... in a match at Twickenham’. Hammer price: £240 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/24b0b750-7abc-4a82-8cf2-29fc56fbf2f3/78_1173_b.jpg July 22 after Lot 1173 'Recollections of Lord's and the Marylebone Cricket Club'. William H. Slatter. Privately printed 1914. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, includes the mounted photograph showing the ground plan in 1814, 1864 and 1914. An additional original portrait photograph of Slatter is laid down to the page facing the title page, very nicely signed below, 'Yours faithfully, W.H. Slatter’. A rare book with authors signature. Hammer price: £950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b7568827-30db-4381-86e7-48d807039427/78_1290.jpg July 22 after Lot 1290 Queen's Park Rangers v Millwall Athletic. Season 1913/1914. Rare official programme for the Southern League Division One match played at Park Royal on Saturday 21st March 1914. From a good collection of QPR home and away programmes in this sale. Hammer price: £360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/5bee4b25-5b0d-40c7-9198-ac54d4bfe8cd/78_0390_a.jpg July 22 after Lot 390 Australian tour to England 1938. Original mono photograph of the Australian touring party seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by all sixteen players and the manager, Jeanes, seventeen signatures in total. Framed and glazed, overall 15”x19". Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cfd83d9c-da0c-4b15-8184-68656b13efea/78_1272.jpg July 22 after Lot 1272 Queen's Park Rangers. Rare official Handbook. Season 1922-23. Original wrappers. 40pp plus wrappers. Edited and published by F.E. Blower, Watford. From a good run of QPR Handbooks in this sale. Hammer price: £55 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/030be196-a778-4e69-b935-84dbddf840fc/78_0495.jpg July 22 after Lot 495 'Cricket at Windsor Castle meat dish'. A very large shaped oval Goodwin & Harris 'Metropolitan Scenery' meat dish printed in blue and embellished with a scene of Windsor Castle and the Thames to foreground featuring a cricket match to the foreground with trees and foliage to sides. Surrounding borders highly decorated with flowers, leaves and various foliage, patterned rim. Printed mark in blue to base 'Metropolitan Scenery, Windsor Castle'. A rare and impressive dish in need of professional restoration. Hammer price: £1400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/5c6ed5cd-0fd6-4b21-a5aa-55458503e9ed/78_1406.jpg July 22 after Lot 1406 Walter Daniel John Tull. Tottenham Hotspur 1908-1911. Mono real photograph postcard of Tull, full length in Spurs attire. F.W. Jones of Tottenham. A rare postcard. Hammer price: £370 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4a437070-f2c9-4b76-8c19-0957a33973f6/78_0969.jpg July 22 after Lot 969 'Northamptonshire County Cricket Club Year Book 1927'. Edited by V.W.C. Jupp, Secretary. Printed by Mercury Press, Northampton. 68pp plus the original paper wrappers. The name or signature of T.R.G. Welch (Northamptonshire 1922-1931) to top border of the front wrapper. Rare third year of publication. Hammer price: £320 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/05ca5229-9105-4a25-a177-b368aee5c8a6/78_1243.jpg July 22 after Lot 1243 'Newcastle United Winners of the English Cup 1910. Large rare original decorative lithographic print produced to commemorate Newcastle United winning the F.A. Cup in 1910 for the first time. The central panel with printed title and inscription 'This picture was presented to Mr. Wm. Glendinning by his Colleagues as a mark of esteem and as a memento of the Club winning the English Cup', surrounded by eleven photographic cameo images of the victorious team, set on an ornate floral background. Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1655973979117-GOPAH6B2QPZVP08SMKU2/CoverJuly22-1.jpg July 22 after - Our last auction was held on 8th, 9th & 10th July 2022 Knights Auctioneers last auction of Cricket, Wisdens, Football & Sporting Memorabilia was held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 8th, 9th and 10th July 2022. The sale included over 1500 lots and we have included some highlights below. To view the results from the auction click here. https://www.knights.co.uk/nov22after daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d924a866-1617-4e82-aed9-3d10a2f9a658/79_0361.jpg Nov22 after Lot 361 Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Original photograph album compiled by Frank Laver, manager of the 1909 tour to England, which he produced as gifts to members of the Australian touring party, this being Trumper's personal copy numbered '13'. To the first page is a handwritten inscription in ink, 'To Victor Trumper. A Souvenir of a very successful and pleasant [time] together as members of the "Thirteenth" Australian Cricket Team, Season 1909. With very best wishes from Frank Laver, London October 1909'. The album is bound in original red cloth, rebacked and recornered in red morocco and new endpapers, and housed in a modern clamshell case with, to the front, an oval miniature colour oil portrait of Trumper in batting pose after a photograph by George Beldam. Gilt borders to covers, with raised bands and gilt to spine. A wonderful record of an early Australian tour and featuring an Australian legend. Hammer price: £14,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/129f9acc-2910-4ba4-959b-5211fb42039f/79_0512.jpg Nov22 after Lot 512 Westerwald cricket jug. Large and very attractive Westerwald cobalt blue stoneware cricket jug, moulded in relief with five cameo panels of a batsman, believed to be W.G. Grace, in different cricketing poses. The body decorated with vine and sprig decoration in cobalt blue on a grey background. The strap handle decorated with large leaf decoration. Approximately 10" high. The jug made in Germany circa 1890. Rare in this large and impressive shape. A magnificent example of this German pottery in lovely condition. Hammer price: £800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/47f2711e-9ec5-4896-8bdb-c7633ee22a0d/79_1136.jpg Nov22 after Lot 1136 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1898. 35th edition. Original hardback. Excellent condition with bright gilt titles to front board and spine paper. A rare early hardback edition. Not often seen in such wonderful condition. From a collection of Wisden original hardback editions in exceptional condition. Hammer price: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b80b7273-585a-4d97-87e5-bca1b6877f3c/79_0001.jpg Nov22 after Lot 1 Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield's XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the Dinner given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield from the 8th-10th May 1893. The highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and Lord Sheffield's cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stumps and to sides and lower border, cricket bats and balls. A rare, decorative and exquisite item of ephemera from this early Australian tour. Hammer price: £550 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/143fdba1-ef9c-4738-b93e-f1586e4d18c6/79_0631.jpg Nov22 after Lot 631 'Pugilisitica: Being One Hundred and Forty Years of the History of British Boxing... in Three Volumes'. Henry Downes Miles. Weldon & Co., Southampton Street, London, First edition 1880. This scarce 1880 first edition not previously seen by the auctioneer. Rare. Hammer price: £420 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/103afa48-8fcc-4304-b74e-953d62f532bc/79_0530-3.jpg Nov22 after Lot 530 Harold Thomas William 'Wally' Hardinge. Kent & England 1902-1933. An impressive and beautifully decorated silver presentation paper knife in the form of a cricket bat, the handle exquisitely moulded with crossed bats and ball before a wicket, and the Kent emblem of the white horse in shield with motto 'Invicta' in scroll beneath, scrolling foliage to extremities of handle and the blade inscribed 'The Kent County Cricket Club. Presented to H.T.W. Hardinge. Champion Eleven 1913'. An excellent memento of the 1913 Championship winning season of 1913. Hammer price: £1,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bcee35dc-32f4-4565-96bd-b7ab9b153257/79_0348.jpg Nov22 after Lot 348 Australian Aboriginal tour to England 1868. Small original sepia photograph of twelve members of the Aborigines touring party, nine standing in a row, with three on the ground in front. Players' names are Cuzens, Tiger, Charlie, Mullagh, Lawrence (Captain), Bullocky, Twopenny, Red Cap, Mosquito, Dicky Dick, Shepherd (Umpire) and Jim Crow. A rare photograph from this early and unusual tour. The photograph by 'James Andrews, Royal Institution, Swansea and The Parade, Carmarthen', with publishers stamp to verso in red. Hammer price: £2,200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a69d4d0d-6ae5-4ff7-a68f-9deb95441d11/79_0826.jpg Nov22 after Lot 826 David Wilson Colquhoun. Tottenham Hotspur 1931-1934. Mono real photograph postcard of Colquhon, half length, wearing Spurs shirt. Very nicely signed in ink by Colquhoun. W.J. Crawford of Edmonton postcard. From a large collection of Spurs postcards, photographs and programmes. Hammer price: £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/dd2d9530-eb6c-43f3-bea6-408191a28413/79_1222.jpg Nov22 after Lot 1222 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1865. 2nd edition. Original paper wrappers. The spine of the book appears to have been restored professionally at some point, with a new spine paper, some minor wear, staining and age toning to wrappers, minor creasing and odd nick to edge, light soiling to page block otherwise in very good condition. A rarely seen early edition in very nice condition. Hammer price: £5,200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a4183b2d-15ff-4e7e-939b-edf1d0992df2/79_0922.jpg Nov22 after Lot 922 India tour to Australia 1947/48. Very rare official autograph sheet with printed title and players' names, fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Amarnath (Captain), Hazare, Nayudu, Mankad, Gul Mahomed, Sohoni, Amir Elahi, Rangnekar, Rangachary, Adhikari, Kisenchand, Phadkar, Irani, Sen, Ranvirsinhji, Rai Singh, and Gupta (Manager). From a large and comprehensive collection of official autograph sheets. Hammer price: £290 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/901806d9-c502-46c4-98fe-d9753cc16fe5/79_0511.jpg Nov22 after Lot 511 'The Boss'. A Royal Doulton Black Boy miniature mug, entitled 'The Boss' printed, to one side, printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat, wearing an umpires's coat and holding a bat to side, to verso, the crest 'The All Black Team'. Green floral decoration to outer rim, green handle and rim. 3" tall. Small hairline crack to rim otherwise in good/very good condition. Hammer price: £1,200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f9ec404e-bbce-4789-9de2-8f925363e9b3/79_1460-2.jpg Nov22 after Lot 1460 'West Indian Cricket Tour 1905'. C.P. Foley. Very rare large format title comprising eighty eight unnumbered pages bound in original dark green cloth. Gilt title to spine and top page edges. Probably printed privately in 1905. Padwick 4678-1 lists this as 'Lord Brackley’s XI to the West Indies [1906?]'. To the front endpaper are fourteen lines handwritten in ink by tour member, E.G. 'Teddy' Wynyard, '[This record was] Compiled by "C.P. Foley". A copy was given by the team to Lord Brackley (now Earl of Ellesmere) on the occasion of his wedding in October 1905. Of the many cricket tours I have taken part in, I always look back on this one as the most delightful- quite apart from any personal success I was fortunate enough to achieve. No happier band of cricketers, I believe, ever toured, and the charm of the trip was very largely due to our Captain [Lord Brackley]- I was exceedingly happy moreover in the companionship of my very dear friend, Hesketh Prichard'. An important record from the 'Golden Age' of cricket. Previously sold by Christies as lot 2 in the sale of July 1994. Hammer price: £10,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c01bac56-63e2-4a06-bd2e-b0aa3e2594fa/79_0309-1.jpg Nov22 after Lot 309 'The Australian Cricket Team in England 1905'. Two mono real photograph postcards of the Australian touring party, the players depicted in small cameo portraits, head and shoulders, with title to lower border. One card, very nicely signed in pencil by seven of the Australian players, V.T. Trumper, D.R.A. Gehrs, F. Laver, A.J. Hopkins, Clem Hill, M.A. Noble and W.P. Howell. The other postcard, nicely signed in pencil by W.G. Grace (Gloucestershire, London County & England) and T.S. Fishwick (Warwickshire & London County 1896-1909). The signatures were obtained at the England XI v Australians match played at Dean Park, Bournemouth on the 31st August to 2nd September 1905. In original postcard envelope/packet. Some rare signatures. Previously sold by Knights in November 2014. The postcards in exceptionally clean condition and the signatures pristine having been stored in the envelope. Hammer price: £550 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/70e86454-c4b8-4bfa-8d29-0fdb2b45fb6d/79_0422-4.jpg Nov22 after Lot 422 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Four large, impressive, neatly compiled, uniformly bound personal albums covering Denton's playing and umpiring career containing some early, rare and much sought after items. The four albums contain original photographs, match reports, telegrams, tickets, invitations, menus, scorecards with extensive coverage of the M.C.C. tours made by Denton to South Africa in 1905/06 and 1909/10. A wonderful comprehensive record of a county and Test cricketer who played during the golden age of cricket. Hammer price: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0f10c444-a48f-45f6-be9d-add5a68cddc4/79_1326.jpg Nov22 after Lot 1326 Irving Rosenwater Collection. A superb collection of thirty eight limited edition monographs, articles and a speech written by Rosenwater, each numbered copy 'No. 1' and signed by Rosenwater, all originally retained by and held in his personal collection. The majority are contained individually in an envelope annotated in Rosenwater's own hand. Sold with a a complete set of ten Christmas cards produced by Rosenwater 1996-2005. A rare opportunity to acquire the personal collection of a prodigious cricket writer. Hammer price: £3,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1667641477194-7S1P88GIVHEB8DDWGSHT/Screenshot+2022-11-05+at+09.44.17.png Nov22 after - Our last auction was held on 18th, 19th & 20th November 2022 Knights Auctioneers last auction of Cricket, Wisdens, Football & Sporting Memorabilia was held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 18th, 19th and 20th November 2022. The sale included over 1500 lots and we have included some highlights below. To view the results from the auction click here. https://www.knights.co.uk/mar23after daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/df621d95-7cb3-4502-aef3-cfa4e6bd0dad/1_373.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 373 – William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Albert Chevallier Tayler 1905. Original and unpublished drawing on brown paper in pencil and coloured chalk of Grace in batting pose wearing cap and waist tie/belt in M.C.C. colours of red and yellow. Grace is depicted with bat raised standing at the wicket waiting to receive the delivery. The drawing signed in pencil to the right hand side lower border by Chevallier Tayler and dated 1905 and signed by Grace to the left hand side lower border. A unique signed unpublished original drawing of Grace by Chevallier Tayler. Hammer Price £16,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/96f26d54-1f4e-4352-ad4b-aea80183830d/2_429.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 429 – John Thomas Brown. Yorkshire & England 1889-1904. Crawford's 'The Exceller' cricket bat used by Jack Brown in scoring his only Test match century and scoring the fastest ever fifty in Test cricket in 28 minutes in the fifth Test match v Australia played at Melbourne on the 1st, 2nd, 4th to 6th March 1895. The bat is inscribed to the face of the bat 'J.T. Brown made his 140 .. .. in the great England v Australia match at Melbourne 1895 with this Crawford bat’. Hammer Price £24,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a87cedea-11ca-4816-a251-200783e9cbc7/3_42.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 42 – 'Kent County Cricket Champions 1906'. Rare official menu for the 'Dinner to the Kent XI' celebrating Kent winning their first ever County Championship in 1906. The Banquet held at Hotel Cecil on 11th October 1906. The menu signed in pencil to the first page by nineteen members of the Kent playing staff of the 1906 season. Signatures include C.H.B. Marsham (Cpt), Woolley, Hubble, Fairservice, Hutchings, Fielder, Dillon, Blythe, Burnup, Alec Hearne, Mason, Walter Hearne etc. A very scarce and desirable item of Kent cricketing history especially in this signed form. Hammer Price £2,200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/47b0284e-20aa-4f04-ae43-cdf37fb88f8d/4_421.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 421 – Donald George Bradman. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1927-1949. A pair of batting gloves presented to David Frith by Don Bradman at the Lord's Taverners reception and Dinner held at the London Hilton on the 13th May 1974. The white leather gloves, both with brown 'sausage shaped' finger and thumb protection are an odd pair of gloves in that the left hand glove has the label of Slazenger ‘Len Hutton’ and the right hand glove has the label of ‘Grasshopper Sports Goods. By Frank Bryan Ltd of Worcester’. Both appear well used and are presumed to have been worn by Bradman at some point in the latter years of his playing career. Hammer Price unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a5d86da5-4acb-476d-ab3f-36e87e062b32/5_407.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 407 – Clarence Victor 'Clarrie' Grimmett. Wellington, Victoria, South Australia & Australia 1911-1941. Australian green wool Test cap with Australian emblem to front with kangaroo and emu embroidered in metal thread and coloured thread with the legend 'Advance Australia' in scroll worn by Grimmett in the 1924/25 Test series played in Australia. The cap, by Harding's Mercury, Hunter Street, Sydney, with label inside with name handwritten 'C.V. Grimmett' in black ink. A very rare cap from this Ashes Test series. Hammer Price £18,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/34e378dd-70b1-49a0-b041-b96d05760508/6_1176.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 1176 – 'The Australian Cricketers' Tour through Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain. Containing a full, racy account of the matches, dinners, excursions etc., in which they have been engaged'. By 'Argus' (P.E. Reynolds). Printed and published by A.B. Rae, Western Steam Printing Works, Bathurst, New South Wales, 1878. A rare early tour book. Hammer Price £12,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ad8845ec-6213-46e8-95d6-fe227266d066/7_692.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 692 – 'Ready For Chances'. A Royal Doulton Black Boy tall two handled vase, printed with a boy in spotted shirt, red waistcoat and a floppy hat, crouched awaiting a catch (as if in the slips), entitled 'Ready For Chances' and to verso, the crest 'The All Black Team'. Green floral decoration to outer rim, handle and rim decorated in green. 5.25" tall. A rarely seen 'Black Boy’ ceramic. From a selection of ‘Black Boy’ ceramics being sold in this auction. Hammer Price £1,800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/111aa978-8e57-41fc-b391-af3b98b5009a/8_417.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 417 – William Albert Stanley Oldfield, New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Australian Test blazer worn by Oldfield on the Australian 1930 tour of England. The green blazer, by Harding's Mercury of Sydney, with gold trimming to blazer edging, pocket and sleeves, embroidered gold and silver wire and coloured thread emblem of Australia to breast pocket with the wording 'Advance Australia' and '1930' beneath. Name handwritten to label 'W.A. Oldfield’. Hammer Price unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d944b456-e956-4b9d-a494-905a3616527e/9_1114.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 1114 – Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1898. 35th edition. Original hardback. Excellent condition with bright gilt titles to front board and spine paper. A rare early hardback edition. Not often seen in such wonderful condition. From a good selection of early original hardback Wisdens. Hammer Price £5,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/01c750f9-338c-4fc4-b170-9d78180e05d6/10_703.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 703 – 'Cricket at Windsor Castle meat dish'. A very rare large and impressive oval Goodwin & Harris 'Metropolitan Scenery' meat dish with juice well, with grooved drainage channels to the flat surface to direct the juices flow, printed in blue and embellished with a scene of Windsor Castle and the Thames to foreground featuring a cricket match to the foreground with trees and foliage to sides. Printed mark in blue to base 'Metropolitan Scenery, Windsor Castle' with impressed numbers 4 & 18. The dish measuring 19" wide by 15.5", circa 1830/40's dish. Hammer Price £4,400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ef51d12f-86ae-4a0d-93bb-731554f6ba3d/11_344.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 344 – West Indies tour of Australia 1930-1931. A scarce large mono official photograph of the West Indies team who toured Australia in 1930-31. The photograph laid down to photographers mount with printed title to top border 'West Indies Cricket Team - Australian Tour 1930-31' and beautifully signed in black ink by all eighteen members of the West Indies touring party, signatures include Grant (Cpt), Griffith, Headley, Roach, St. Hill, Constantine, Birkett, Martin, Bartlett, Sealey, Hunte, de Caires, The photograph by Sears' Studios of St. Kilda. An excellent and rare photograph from this inaugural tour of Australia. Hammer Price £1,800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e2bd02cf-3ee0-4c27-b748-8bfd224a1641/12_374.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 374 – Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Albert Chevallier Tayler 1905. Original and unpublished drawing on brown paper in pencil and coloured chalk of Trumper in batting pose wearing Australian cap. Trumper is depicted stood at the wicket having played an off-side shot, probably the cut. The drawing signed in pencil to the right hand side lower border by Chevallier Tayler and dated 1905 and inscribed 'V.Trumper' to the left hand side lower border, probably in Tayler's hand. The drawing measures 14.5"x22". A unique unpublished original drawing of Trumper by Chevallier Tayler. Hammer Price £7,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/3ba9771e-6ccb-4ddd-88c7-93b7a8935f81/13_1211.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 1211 – 'English Cricketers at Barbados. January, February and March 1897. An Account of the Cricket Matches played by Mr. Arthur Priestley and Lord Hawke's English Cricket Teams at Barbados, during the Winter of 1896/97'. A.B. Price. Printed at the West Indian Guardian, Barbados, 1897. Original decorative stiffened boards and cloth spine. [5], xvii, 86pp. Hammer Price £3,700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/97cdaefb-4d72-4218-b12c-bdfc2f09a3eb/14_411.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 411 – Thomas Richardson. Surrey, London County, Somerset & England 1892-1904. Original England cloth Test cap presented to Richardson retrospectively for his Test match appearances playing for England in between 1893 and 1898. The dark blue cap, with much smaller peak than later caps, with raised wired emblem of the three lions and crown of England to front, made by H. Ludlam & Co of Albemarle Street, London. A rare and early England cap Hammer Price £2,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0e59eca5-ff20-4ee5-a7d2-2c00eac982c1/15_1205.jpeg Mar23 after Lot 1205 – '10 for 66 and all that'. Arthur Mailey. London 1958. A unique copy of Mailey's autobiography. The book which is profusely illustrated with Mailey printed cartoons of players and situations as published has in addition thirty-one of Mailey's original pen and ink drawings laid down to opposing or additional inserted pages in the book. The images include drawings of Mailey himself, Hammond, Fender, Woodfull, Noble, Grimmett, Larwood, Jardine, Armstrong, J.M. Barrie, Chapman etc, each drawing signed individually by Mailey. A wonderful, unique book presented to John Arlott by Arthur Mailey with handwritten inscription. Hammer Price £8,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/30212718-9300-41fb-a96f-6a66399480a5/KSAMar23Cover10cm.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b31bc0dd-887a-4517-9db1-ca36b34f9578/Screenshot+2023-02-15+at+17.48.50.png https://www.knights.co.uk/2023auctiondates daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/07a40b3e-4e9e-4092-b6cc-536be260e490/20221209_114731.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b31bc0dd-887a-4517-9db1-ca36b34f9578/Screenshot+2023-02-15+at+17.48.50.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1667641477194-7S1P88GIVHEB8DDWGSHT/Screenshot+2022-11-05+at+09.44.17.png 2023 auction dates - Our last auction was held on 18th, 19th & 20th November 2022 Knights Auctioneers last auction of Cricket, Wisdens, Football & Sporting Memorabilia was held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 18th, 19th and 20th November 2022. The sale included over 1500 lots and we have included some highlights below. To view the results from the auction click here. https://www.knights.co.uk/jul23 daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/041cdc26-f99f-490a-8c99-c78022522ba2/81_0003.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 3 Somerset 1st XI cricket cap worn by Ian Botham during his playing career with the county. The blue cloth cap, by Foster of London, with the Somerset emblem of a dragon embroidered in white and a touch of red to the front. Estimate £1500/2500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1f606f5c-c4fe-4903-bcbc-873e32795f54/81_0035.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 35 Stanley McMurtry 'MAC'. Very large amusing original pen and ink with wash cartoon artwork by the artist depicting an Australian cricket ground with three commentators looking out over the field of play and observing a large scrum of people over Ian Botham with batsman and fielders looking on. Signed in black ink 'MAC' to top left hand border. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/df02e87b-f34a-428b-8a12-09e3a5075da9/81_0042.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lots 42 'Worcestershire C.C.C. County Champions 1989'. Silver plated goblet, being a replica of the trophy, presented to Ian Botham for being a member of the Worcestershire team who won the County Championship in 1989. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0d1dcde0-4b95-4705-bf69-1d62984fc37f/81_0058.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 58 England home navy blue Test blazer issued to and worn by Ian Botham during his England Test career. The blazer with raised emblem of the three lions and crown of England to breast pocket. Estimate £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ef973d28-cf79-448b-8409-c6781d58fe3c/81_0066.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 66 Lot M.C.C. tour blazer issued to and worn by Ian Botham for the 1979/80 to Australia and India. The blazer with M.C.C. touring emblem of St George & Dragon and scroll beneath with tour details '1979 Australia- India 1980' to breast pocket Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/17e50463-a9ba-48f9-a1aa-ac2246e7337a/81_0079.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 79 Original cricket ball used and presented to Ian Botham having taken five wickets for 21 runs for England v Australia at Headingley in August 1977 Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9b12e285-67a8-4ab1-81c1-04e6e62212eb/81_0097.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 97 'The Prudential Cup Runners Up 1979'. Hallmarked silver medal presented to Ian Botham as a member of the England team for the 1979 World Cup Final played at Lord's, 23rd June 1979. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6e81dd80-cbcc-49cf-84d9-5f48a3cf5c3b/81_0112.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 112 A silver metal medal presented to Ian Botham for his 'Man of the Match' appearance in the third Test match against Australia at Headingley in 1981. The medal with relief of ball and stumps and wording, 'Cornhill Insurance Test Series. England v Australia 1981' and to verso 'Player of the Match. I.T. Botham, Headingley’. Estimate £5000/8000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4836f0b3-ec35-4326-be3a-d6e3624cc9e5/81_0114composite.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 114 Original Duncan Fearnley cricket stump from the fourth Test match, England v Australia played at Edgbaston in August 1981. The stump was taken as souvenir after the match by Botham and has been marked in ink '5-1’. Botham took five wickets for 11 runs and including a spell of five wickets for one run to win the Test match for England by 29 runs. Photo by Bob Thomas Sports Photography via Getty Estimate £7000/10000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/eb6bc338-58fa-4738-8114-4a8a56045728/81_0116.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 116 Original cricket ball with which Ian Botham bowled out the Australians in the second innings taking five wickets for 11 runs and including a spell of five wickets for one run during the fourth Test match, England v Australia played at Edgbaston on the 30th & 31st July and 1st & 2nd August 1981. Estimate £15000/25000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/622b949a-3041-4d1a-9c3f-aec8d1783aac/81_0170.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 170 Original England short sleeve shirt worn by Ian Botham during the tournament including for the group match v Zimbabwe played at Albury, New South Wales, 18th March 1992, and the Final, England v Pakistan, played at Melbourne Cricket Ground, 25th March 1992. Estimate £600/900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/dbd3f22b-8f9a-4e85-bbc8-9d5d7004c556/81_0185.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 185 Original Australia woollen sleeveless sweater worn by Merv Hughes during his playing career, probably late 1980s. The sweater with Australia colours of green and gold to neck and waist, Australia shield emblem to chest. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d5bee9ce-9016-44ca-b844-378e4f783e84/81_0186.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 186 Original India woollen sleeveless sweater worn by Kapil Dev during his playing career, probably 1980s. The sweater with Indian colours of dark blue, yellow and pale blue to neck and waist. Made by Mohla Traders, India. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/96f59a91-5b22-45e7-995c-a826554ab1a9/81_0118.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 118 A gold metal medal presented to Ian Botham named as 'Player of the Series' in the series against Australia in 1981. The medal with relief of ball and stumps and wording, 'Cornhill Insurance Test Series. England v Australia 1981' and to verso 'I.T. Botham. Player of the Series. England v Australia 1981’. Estimate £4000/6000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/96a43d20-57d6-4e6b-8e5f-263ed632ed3c/81_0192.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 192 Australian dark green cloth Test cap worn by Dean Jones during his Test career. The cap with embroidered Australian emblem to front. Estimate £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/77c2d8c6-59f3-423f-b1b9-949cb7042846/81_0245.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 245 'BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Lifetime Achievement 2004' . The trophy awarded to Ian Botham consists of a silver-plated four-turret lens BBC camera on tripod legs mounted on a black circular wooden base with silver plated oblong plaque with the following engraved wording 'BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Lifetime Achievement 2004. Ian Botham’. Estimate £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/49f0830c-320a-452c-93af-b82cc0dc2899/81_0247.jpg Botham Jul23 Auction Lot 247 'Cricket Hall of Fame'. Cricket cap, crystal glass trophy and photograph presented to Ian Botham when he was inducted into the International Cricket Council, Fica International Hall of Fame. The items were presented to Botham in 2009 retrospectively as Botham was one of fifty five players originally inducted in 1999. Estimate £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/af047d31-1072-4607-98d9-baec9a9d42bc/FrontCoverIBforWeb.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/aug23 daily 0.75 2023-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2f7300c4-46f0-4a19-a57f-b76a2fc318a8/82_0169.jpg Aug 23 Lot 169. M.C.C. tour of Australia & New Zealand 1936/37. Official 'Orient Line. England-Australia S.S. Orion' headed paper nicely signed in ink by all seventeen members of the touring party. A rare sheet Estimate: £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0f0c1f62-58b5-4c4e-a78c-2b368d6a7da9/82_0251.jpg Aug 23 Lot 251. Australia tour to England 1926. Page beautifully and fully signed in black in ink to the verso of a S.S. Otranto headed page by all seventeen members of the Australian touring party. Estimate: £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/85a96bf0-a252-4180-aba8-e5cc066611cd/82_0243.jpeg Aug 23 Lot 243. South Africa tour to England 1901. Two pages comprising excellent ink signatures of all seventeen members of the South African touring party. One page is a Cambridge University C.C. letterhead nicely signed in ink to both sides by sixteen members of the touring party, this being signed during the tour match playing Somerset at Taunton. A very rare collection of signatures Estimate: £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/354e5f97-8968-47fd-a4c6-eaecf3876f26/82_0297.jpg Aug 23 Lot 297. West Indies tour to Australia and New Zealand 1951/52. Very rare official autograph sheet nicely and fully signed in ink by all eighteen members of the touring party on official tour letterhead. Estimate: £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1820f710-604f-4e63-aa1a-743f35d4894b/82_0301.jpg Aug 23 Lot 301. India tour to Australia 1947/48. Very rare official autograph sheet with printed title and players' names, fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed members of the touring party. Estimate: £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bd8b40ec-a21f-435a-930a-93782441e8b1/82_0318.jpg Aug 23 Lot 318. Edgar Arthur 'Ted' McDonald. Lancashire, Tasmania, Victoria & Australia 1909-1931. Australian green wool Test cap with Australian emblem to front with kangaroo and emu embroidered in metal thread and coloured thread with the legend 'Advance Australia' in scroll worn by Ted McDonald in the 1921 Test series played in England. A very early Australian Test cap, the earliest sold by this auctioneer Estimate: £5000/8000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7dbb1bd4-705a-44e7-893a-64142a079db5/82_0422.jpg Aug 23 Lot 422. Ronald Graham Archer. Queensland & Australia 1951/52-1958/59. Australian dark myrtle green wool test blazer worn by Ron Archer during the Australian Test series against England in Australia 1954/55. The blazer, by Farmers of Sydney, embroidered with the Australia emblem to breast pocket and below '1954-55' in gold thread, with gold trimming to blazer edging, pockets and sleeves. Estimate: £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2c458771-ba8d-44d6-b2df-b45c75ce1466/82_0428.jpg Aug 23 Lot 428. William Lloyd 'Billy' Murdoch. New South Wales, Sussex, London County Australia & England 1875-1904. A pair of brown leather wicket-keeping gloves, inscribed on the left glove 'Presented to Harry Musgrove.... Lords XI by Billy Murdoch 18[..] worn on the tour of England 1878’ presented in a beautifully carved framed with decoration of cricket bats, stumps, bails and balls. A very rare and early item from Australia's inaugural tour of England Estimate: £10000/15000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/de10e25e-e2d7-4762-b642-90209352293f/82_0429.jpg Aug 23 Lot 429. A mid eighteenth century circa 1740-1750 cricket bat of light wood, possibly willow, with right-handed curve and distinctive hook-shape to base, no shoulders, made by William Pett of Sevenoaks, Kent with two impressed marks 'W. Pett 4' on top of handle and 'Will. Pett Sevenoaks Kent' on the base of the bat. A very rare and early cricket bat Estimate: £4000/6000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9bcb34fa-dc0c-4637-8821-a95f5da0eed7/82_0452.jpg Aug 23 Lot 452. John Richard 'Jack' Mason. Kent & England 1893-1914. A large leather cricket bag containing a set of cricket pads, a cricket bat, a pair of batting gloves, a pair of cricket boots and a Kent C.C.C. County cap, all belonging to and worn by Jack Mason who played over 330 matches for Kent and played five Tests for England as a member of A.E. Stoddart's England touring party to Australia 1897/98. Estimate: £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ed136857-1f02-41ed-bdd5-0d62f1bbbbb2/82_0471.jpg Aug 23 Lot 471. Cricket at Windsor Castle soup tureen'. A very rare, large and impressive Goodwin & Harris 'Metropolitan Scenery' soup tureen with two blue handles and separate lid with finial printed in blue and embellished with a scene of Windsor Castle and the Thames featuring a cricket match with trees, woodland, buildings and foliage. 17" wide by 11" tall , circa 1830/40's. A rare and magnificent ceramic soup tureen with cricketing scene Estimate: £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d285a7e2-b2e4-4fa4-8c97-bd85ac93eca0/82_0477-1.jpg Aug 23 Lot 477. Doulton Lambeth large stoneware two handled loving cup, in brown, impressed with a delicate white flower and floral decoration, with two moulded relief vignettes in roundels of a batsman playing a shot and a fielder or bowler holding the ball in green on a brown background to either side. 6.5" tall. Excellent example of this rare cricketing ceramic Estimate: £700/1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d7bc2334-af81-427b-af7a-be30a626efeb/82_0490.jpg Aug 23 Lot 490. Don Bradman. Australian tour of England 1934. Green glass and ceramic ashtray with chrome metal band to top, made to commemorate Australia winning the Ashes series at The Oval in August 1934. The ashtray was made and presented to Don Bradman after the Ashes win. The sides of the ashtray have the following wording in gold letters 'Cricket. England v Australia. 'The Ashes' won by Australia at The Oval, London. August 22nd 1934' and to the other side 'D.G. Bradman (Vice Captain). Estimate: £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/610df472-fcb3-447b-a2e6-eb1e38778ce9/82_0535.jpg Aug 23 Lot 535. Alfred Percy Freeman. Kent & England 1914-1936. A two handled hallmarked silver cup presented to Freeman for taking 304 first class wickets in a season and breaking the previous record of Tom Richardson in taking 298 wickets in 1898, this is still the world record today. The cup, on wooden black plinth, stands 10.75" tall and was made by 'Oclee & Son of Folkestone' with hallmarks for London Estimate: £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4ea91160-90e3-4a17-ad28-04ed647b0a9b/82_0555.jpg Aug 23 Lot 555. Joseph Durham 1814-1877. Excellent collection of four classic bronze figures of a cricketers in various poses by Durham. The figures with rich brown patina are entitled 'The Bowler', 'The Catch', 'Throwing' and 'Waiting his Innings', the first three stand on a circular bases and the fourth on an oval base, the bases all signed in the bronze 'J. Durham' and the reclining figure 'Waiting his Innings' is also dated '1863’. Estimate: £10000/15000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/279eecde-2835-4ef4-9837-4d82eba40650/82_0618.jpg Aug 23 Lot 618. William Barlow Carkeek. Victoria & Australia 1903-1915. Excellent sepia real photograph postcard of Carkeek, full length, wearing Australian cap and wicket-keeping attire, taken on the 1912 Australian tour of England for the Triangular Series with England and South Africa. E. Hawkins & Co, Brighton Estimate: £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e1ea8b64-36cc-4a5c-8a7c-7151ce0c9739/82_0766.jpg Aug 23 Lot 766. 'Denton Bros.'. Northamptonshire. Excellent mono real photograph postcard of the three Denton brothers, William, Arthur and John, standing full length wearing cricket attire and matching striped blazers, with arms linked. Undated but probably c.1920. E. Hawkins & Co. of Brighton. Estimate: £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/493c1296-1bbc-4938-b28a-d7d386ce3034/82_0823.jpg Aug 23 Lot 823. A.E.R. Gilligan and Maurice William Tate. Excellent original sepia real photograph postcard of Gilligan and Tate standing together full length wearing cricket attire and Sussex caps, very nicely signed in ink to the image by both Gilligan and Tate. Estimate: £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/203e9530-eed2-4332-a734-2f3966a684ff/82_0986.jpg Aug 23 Lot 986. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1875. 12th edition. Bound in black quarter leather with green boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with titles in gilt to spine, marbled page edge. Probably the rarest Wisden edition. From a full run of the early first fifteen editions Estimate: £8000/12000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ce6eab36-f665-4bc1-aef8-898064ec2772/82_1144.jpg Aug 23 Lot 1144. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1896. 33rd edition. Original hardback. The very rare first issue of the original hardback with titles bright Estimate: £8000/12000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c08d9abb-dea1-4f8f-bbc9-dafdba9d5d3b/82_1353.jpg Aug 23 Lot 1353. Australia inaugural tour to England 1878. 'Australians v. Hastings and District'. Early and rare official double sided scorecard for the tour match played at Central Recreation Ground, Hastings, 26th- 28th August 1878. From an excellent selection of early cricket scorecards Estimate: £180/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ba55875c-9829-417e-b95d-32dfa99c4231/82_1376.jpg Aug 23 Lot 1376. The Ashes. 'England v. Australia' 1882. Early and original double sided official scorecard for the second Test match to be played in England, Kennington Oval, 28th- 30th August 1882. Australia's famous victory over a full strength England team inspired the legend of 'The Ashes' with the Sporting Times running a mock obituary of English cricket following their defeat Estimate: £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/722f6cc0-21e6-486f-93d5-f00fa38fa14f/FCAug23_RGB600px.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/jul23after daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/041cdc26-f99f-490a-8c99-c78022522ba2/81_0003.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 3 Somerset 1st XI cricket cap worn by Ian Botham during his playing career with the county. The blue cloth cap, by Foster of London, with the Somerset emblem of a dragon embroidered in white and a touch of red to the front. Hammer: £2,700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1f606f5c-c4fe-4903-bcbc-873e32795f54/81_0035.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 35 Stanley McMurtry 'MAC'. Very large amusing original pen and ink with wash cartoon artwork by the artist depicting an Australian cricket ground with three commentators looking out over the field of play and observing a large scrum of people over Ian Botham with batsman and fielders looking on. Signed in black ink 'MAC' to top left hand border. Hammer: £280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/df02e87b-f34a-428b-8a12-09e3a5075da9/81_0042.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lots 42 'Worcestershire C.C.C. County Champions 1989'. Silver plated goblet, being a replica of the trophy, presented to Ian Botham for being a member of the Worcestershire team who won the County Championship in 1989. Hammer: £2,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0d1dcde0-4b95-4705-bf69-1d62984fc37f/81_0058.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 58 England home navy blue Test blazer issued to and worn by Ian Botham during his England Test career. The blazer with raised emblem of the three lions and crown of England to breast pocket. Hammer: £1,800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ef973d28-cf79-448b-8409-c6781d58fe3c/81_0066.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 66 Lot M.C.C. tour blazer issued to and worn by Ian Botham for the 1979/80 to Australia and India. The blazer with M.C.C. touring emblem of St George & Dragon and scroll beneath with tour details '1979 Australia- India 1980' to breast pocket Hammer: £2,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/17e50463-a9ba-48f9-a1aa-ac2246e7337a/81_0079.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 79 Original cricket ball used and presented to Ian Botham having taken five wickets for 21 runs for England v Australia at Headingley in August 1977 Hammer: £1,200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9b12e285-67a8-4ab1-81c1-04e6e62212eb/81_0097.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 97 'The Prudential Cup Runners Up 1979'. Hallmarked silver medal presented to Ian Botham as a member of the England team for the 1979 World Cup Final played at Lord's, 23rd June 1979. Hammer: £400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6e81dd80-cbcc-49cf-84d9-5f48a3cf5c3b/81_0112.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 112 A silver metal medal presented to Ian Botham for his 'Man of the Match' appearance in the third Test match against Australia at Headingley in 1981. The medal with relief of ball and stumps and wording, 'Cornhill Insurance Test Series. England v Australia 1981' and to verso 'Player of the Match. I.T. Botham, Headingley’. Hammer: £19,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4836f0b3-ec35-4326-be3a-d6e3624cc9e5/81_0114composite.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 114 Original Duncan Fearnley cricket stump from the fourth Test match, England v Australia played at Edgbaston in August 1981. The stump was taken as souvenir after the match by Botham and has been marked in ink '5-1’. Botham took five wickets for 11 runs and including a spell of five wickets for one run to win the Test match for England by 29 runs. Photo by Bob Thomas Sports Photography via Getty Hammer £7,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/eb6bc338-58fa-4738-8114-4a8a56045728/81_0116.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 116 Original cricket ball with which Ian Botham bowled out the Australians in the second innings taking five wickets for 11 runs and including a spell of five wickets for one run during the fourth Test match, England v Australia played at Edgbaston on the 30th & 31st July and 1st & 2nd August 1981. Hammer: £20,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/622b949a-3041-4d1a-9c3f-aec8d1783aac/81_0170.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 170 Original England short sleeve shirt worn by Ian Botham during the tournament including for the group match v Zimbabwe played at Albury, New South Wales, 18th March 1992, and the Final, England v Pakistan, played at Melbourne Cricket Ground, 25th March 1992. Hammer: £11,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/dbd3f22b-8f9a-4e85-bbc8-9d5d7004c556/81_0185.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 185 Original Australia woollen sleeveless sweater worn by Merv Hughes during his playing career, probably late 1980s. The sweater with Australia colours of green and gold to neck and waist, Australia shield emblem to chest. Hammer: £850 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d5bee9ce-9016-44ca-b844-378e4f783e84/81_0186.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 186 Original India woollen sleeveless sweater worn by Kapil Dev during his playing career, probably 1980s. The sweater with Indian colours of dark blue, yellow and pale blue to neck and waist. Made by Mohla Traders, India. Hammer: £1,600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/96f59a91-5b22-45e7-995c-a826554ab1a9/81_0118.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 118 A gold metal medal presented to Ian Botham named as 'Player of the Series' in the series against Australia in 1981. The medal with relief of ball and stumps and wording, 'Cornhill Insurance Test Series. England v Australia 1981' and to verso 'I.T. Botham. Player of the Series. England v Australia 1981’. Hammer: £8,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/96a43d20-57d6-4e6b-8e5f-263ed632ed3c/81_0192.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 192 Australian dark green cloth Test cap worn by Dean Jones during his Test career. The cap with embroidered Australian emblem to front. Hammer: £5,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/77c2d8c6-59f3-423f-b1b9-949cb7042846/81_0245.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 245 'BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Lifetime Achievement 2004' . The trophy awarded to Ian Botham consists of a silver-plated four-turret lens BBC camera on tripod legs mounted on a black circular wooden base with silver plated oblong plaque with the following engraved wording 'BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Lifetime Achievement 2004. Ian Botham’. Hammer: £3,600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/49f0830c-320a-452c-93af-b82cc0dc2899/81_0247.jpg Botham Jul 23 after Lot 247 'Cricket Hall of Fame'. Cricket cap, crystal glass trophy and photograph presented to Ian Botham when he was inducted into the International Cricket Council, Fica International Hall of Fame. The items were presented to Botham in 2009 retrospectively as Botham was one of fifty five players originally inducted in 1999. Hammer: £2,600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/af047d31-1072-4607-98d9-baec9a9d42bc/FrontCoverIBforWeb.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/aug23after daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2f7300c4-46f0-4a19-a57f-b76a2fc318a8/82_0169.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 169. M.C.C. tour of Australia & New Zealand 1936/37. Official 'Orient Line. England-Australia S.S. Orion' headed paper nicely signed in ink by all seventeen members of the touring party. A rare sheet Hammer: £400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0f0c1f62-58b5-4c4e-a78c-2b368d6a7da9/82_0251.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 251. Australia tour to England 1926. Page beautifully and fully signed in black in ink to the verso of a S.S. Otranto headed page by all seventeen members of the Australian touring party. Hammer: Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/85a96bf0-a252-4180-aba8-e5cc066611cd/82_0243.jpeg Aug 23 after Lot 243. South Africa tour to England 1901. Two pages comprising excellent ink signatures of all seventeen members of the South African touring party. One page is a Cambridge University C.C. letterhead nicely signed in ink to both sides by sixteen members of the touring party, this being signed during the tour match playing Somerset at Taunton. A very rare collection of signatures Hammer: £2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/354e5f97-8968-47fd-a4c6-eaecf3876f26/82_0297.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 297. West Indies tour to Australia and New Zealand 1951/52. Very rare official autograph sheet nicely and fully signed in ink by all eighteen members of the touring party on official tour letterhead. Hammer: £420 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1820f710-604f-4e63-aa1a-743f35d4894b/82_0301.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 301. India tour to Australia 1947/48. Very rare official autograph sheet with printed title and players' names, fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed members of the touring party. Hammer: £500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bd8b40ec-a21f-435a-930a-93782441e8b1/82_0318.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 318. Edgar Arthur 'Ted' McDonald. Lancashire, Tasmania, Victoria & Australia 1909-1931. Australian green wool Test cap with Australian emblem to front with kangaroo and emu embroidered in metal thread and coloured thread with the legend 'Advance Australia' in scroll worn by Ted McDonald in the 1921 Test series played in England. A very early Australian Test cap, the earliest sold by this auctioneer Hammer: £9500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7dbb1bd4-705a-44e7-893a-64142a079db5/82_0422.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 422. Ronald Graham Archer. Queensland & Australia 1951/52-1958/59. Australian dark myrtle green wool test blazer worn by Ron Archer during the Australian Test series against England in Australia 1954/55. The blazer, by Farmers of Sydney, embroidered with the Australia emblem to breast pocket and below '1954-55' in gold thread, with gold trimming to blazer edging, pockets and sleeves. Hammer: £1800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2c458771-ba8d-44d6-b2df-b45c75ce1466/82_0428.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 428. William Lloyd 'Billy' Murdoch. New South Wales, Sussex, London County Australia & England 1875-1904. A pair of brown leather wicket-keeping gloves, inscribed on the left glove 'Presented to Harry Musgrove.... Lords XI by Billy Murdoch 18[..] worn on the tour of England 1878’ presented in a beautifully carved framed with decoration of cricket bats, stumps, bails and balls. A very rare and early item from Australia's inaugural tour of England Hammer: £26000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/de10e25e-e2d7-4762-b642-90209352293f/82_0429.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 429. A mid eighteenth century circa 1740-1750 cricket bat of light wood, possibly willow, with right-handed curve and distinctive hook-shape to base, no shoulders, made by William Pett of Sevenoaks, Kent with two impressed marks 'W. Pett 4' on top of handle and 'Will. Pett Sevenoaks Kent' on the base of the bat. A very rare and early cricket bat Hammer: Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9bcb34fa-dc0c-4637-8821-a95f5da0eed7/82_0452.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 452. John Richard 'Jack' Mason. Kent & England 1893-1914. A large leather cricket bag containing a set of cricket pads, a cricket bat, a pair of batting gloves, a pair of cricket boots and a Kent C.C.C. County cap, all belonging to and worn by Jack Mason who played over 330 matches for Kent and played five Tests for England as a member of A.E. Stoddart's England touring party to Australia 1897/98. Hammer: Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ed136857-1f02-41ed-bdd5-0d62f1bbbbb2/82_0471.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 471. Cricket at Windsor Castle soup tureen'. A very rare, large and impressive Goodwin & Harris 'Metropolitan Scenery' soup tureen with two blue handles and separate lid with finial printed in blue and embellished with a scene of Windsor Castle and the Thames featuring a cricket match with trees, woodland, buildings and foliage. 17" wide by 11" tall , circa 1830/40's. A rare and magnificent ceramic soup tureen with cricketing scene Hammer: £9500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d285a7e2-b2e4-4fa4-8c97-bd85ac93eca0/82_0477-1.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 477. Doulton Lambeth large stoneware two handled loving cup, in brown, impressed with a delicate white flower and floral decoration, with two moulded relief vignettes in roundels of a batsman playing a shot and a fielder or bowler holding the ball in green on a brown background to either side. 6.5" tall. Excellent example of this rare cricketing ceramic Hammer: £1100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d7bc2334-af81-427b-af7a-be30a626efeb/82_0490.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 490. Don Bradman. Australian tour of England 1934. Green glass and ceramic ashtray with chrome metal band to top, made to commemorate Australia winning the Ashes series at The Oval in August 1934. The ashtray was made and presented to Don Bradman after the Ashes win. The sides of the ashtray have the following wording in gold letters 'Cricket. England v Australia. 'The Ashes' won by Australia at The Oval, London. August 22nd 1934' and to the other side 'D.G. Bradman (Vice Captain). Hammer: £750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/610df472-fcb3-447b-a2e6-eb1e38778ce9/82_0535.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 535. Alfred Percy Freeman. Kent & England 1914-1936. A two handled hallmarked silver cup presented to Freeman for taking 304 first class wickets in a season and breaking the previous record of Tom Richardson in taking 298 wickets in 1898, this is still the world record today. The cup, on wooden black plinth, stands 10.75" tall and was made by 'Oclee & Son of Folkestone' with hallmarks for London Hammer: £3800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4ea91160-90e3-4a17-ad28-04ed647b0a9b/82_0555.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 555. Joseph Durham 1814-1877. Excellent collection of four classic bronze figures of a cricketers in various poses by Durham. The figures with rich brown patina are entitled 'The Bowler', 'The Catch', 'Throwing' and 'Waiting his Innings', the first three stand on a circular bases and the fourth on an oval base, the bases all signed in the bronze 'J. Durham' and the reclining figure 'Waiting his Innings' is also dated '1863’. Hammer: Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/279eecde-2835-4ef4-9837-4d82eba40650/82_0618.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 618. William Barlow Carkeek. Victoria & Australia 1903-1915. Excellent sepia real photograph postcard of Carkeek, full length, wearing Australian cap and wicket-keeping attire, taken on the 1912 Australian tour of England for the Triangular Series with England and South Africa. E. Hawkins & Co, Brighton Hammer: £1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e1ea8b64-36cc-4a5c-8a7c-7151ce0c9739/82_0766.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 766. 'Denton Bros.'. Northamptonshire. Excellent mono real photograph postcard of the three Denton brothers, William, Arthur and John, standing full length wearing cricket attire and matching striped blazers, with arms linked. Undated but probably c.1920. E. Hawkins & Co. of Brighton. Hammer: £220 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/493c1296-1bbc-4938-b28a-d7d386ce3034/82_0823.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 823. A.E.R. Gilligan and Maurice William Tate. Excellent original sepia real photograph postcard of Gilligan and Tate standing together full length wearing cricket attire and Sussex caps, very nicely signed in ink to the image by both Gilligan and Tate. Hammer: £170 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/203e9530-eed2-4332-a734-2f3966a684ff/82_0986.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 986. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1875. 12th edition. Bound in black quarter leather with green boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with titles in gilt to spine, marbled page edge. Probably the rarest Wisden edition. From a full run of the early first fifteen editions Hammer: £12000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ce6eab36-f665-4bc1-aef8-898064ec2772/82_1144.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 1144. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1896. 33rd edition. Original hardback. The very rare first issue of the original hardback with titles bright Hammer: £8000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c08d9abb-dea1-4f8f-bbc9-dafdba9d5d3b/82_1353.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 1353. Australia inaugural tour to England 1878. 'Australians v. Hastings and District'. Early and rare official double sided scorecard for the tour match played at Central Recreation Ground, Hastings, 26th- 28th August 1878. From an excellent selection of early cricket scorecards Hammer: £1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ba55875c-9829-417e-b95d-32dfa99c4231/82_1376.jpg Aug 23 after Lot 1376. The Ashes. 'England v. Australia' 1882. Early and original double sided official scorecard for the second Test match to be played in England, Kennington Oval, 28th- 30th August 1882. Australia's famous victory over a full strength England team inspired the legend of 'The Ashes' with the Sporting Times running a mock obituary of English cricket following their defeat Hammer: £10000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/722f6cc0-21e6-486f-93d5-f00fa38fa14f/FCAug23_RGB600px.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/nov23 daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/db048426-f29d-4a18-b481-59ae5995fd29/83_0365.jpg Nov 23 Lot 365 W.G. Grace. An unusual and rarely seen life size bronze hand of Grace holding a cricket ball. The stump of the arm impressed with Grace's signature. The hand and arm measure approximately 11' long. The hand and ball, which was apparently produced to commemorate W.G. Grace's 41st Birthday, July 18th 1889, is beautifully and very skilfully sculptured showing the finger and thumb nails, the wrinkles around the finger joints and palm, the knuckles and veins in the back of the hand with a lovely patina to the bronze. An intriguing and exciting discovery which appears 'fresh' to the market after all these many years. Estimate £8000/12000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7ac30897-803b-4ad4-b131-e73d5ec07b2c/83_1294.jpg Nov 23 Lot 1294 George Parr's team to North America 1859. First England cricket tour overseas. '11 of England v 22 of the United States'. Two very rare scorecards, printed by Fred Lillywhite from the third match of the tour. One, dated 'Monday, October 3rd, 1859' lists the teams for the start of play, subsequently filled in with scores in pencil that appear to be complete up to the close of the second day's play. The other scorecard, dated 'Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, October 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 1859', lists the complete printed scores at the close of the match. Both laid down to page. Very rare original scorecards from this pioneering inaugural tour. Estimate £5000/8000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b11d0a4a-d7ab-4e73-bf3f-2f8c80fc9513/83_0010.jpg Nov 23 Lot 10 'Hobbs' 100 Centuries'. Large original newspaper poster for the 'Late Extra' edition of the [London] Evening News, dated 8th May 1923. From a selection of three original newspaper with significant cricket interest. Estimate £180/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b4b9789d-cced-46d0-b1cb-35a567f9b22e/83_0485.jpg Nov 23 Lot 485 John Berry Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. Surrey brown county 1st XI cricket cap, by E.C. Devereux of Eton, with silk crest of the Prince of Wales feathers above the county emblem embroidered to front. The inner label inscribed in ink 'Hobbs’. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/52d7cd11-4cdd-4381-b12a-cbf87e35ecc2/83_0493.jpg Nov 23 Lot 493 Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex & England 1892-1921. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Fry in athletics attire entitled ‘Oxford Athletics’ and dated April 19th 1894 by artist SPY. Beautifully signed by Fry in black ink to the image. Very rare to see in this signed form. From a selection of rare signed Vanity Fair chromolithographs of cricketers. Estimate £180/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c7df1d17-d54e-4578-9886-3a4cc90842a5/83_0359.jpg Nov 23 Lot 359 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Sussex & England 1895-1920. A Victorian stoneware cream coloured tobacco jar and cover with a sepia transfer printed full length image of Ranjitsinhji in batting pose at the wicket with name 'K.S. Ranjitsinhji' below. A rarer tobacco jar, not often seen. Estimate £500/700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/18e640ce-229c-475f-899a-260dc73d6325/83_0220.jpg Nov 23 Lot 220 Australia tour to England 1930. Don Bradman's first tour. Lovely original and large sepia press photograph of the opening match of the tour, Worcestershire v Australians, 30th April- 2nd May 1930. The scene depicts the match in progress with spectators around the boundary in the foreground and background, with the impressive Worcester Cathedral behind. Nicely signed in black ink to the sky area of the photograph by fourteen members of the Australian touring party. Ex Joe Goldman collection. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/49578f0a-b9ab-46ac-893e-617afed0fc3e/83_0363.jpg Nov 23 Lot 363 Victorian cricket loving cup. An extraordinarily large 19th century Staffordshire loving cup with double transfer printed decoration in to either side of a cricket match in progress, with tents and church to the background with some hand colouring in red, green, yellow. Circa 1850/1860. The loving cup stands approximately 8" tall and has a diameter of 7.5". This huge loving cup may well have been made as an exhibition piece to advertise the Staffordshire wares. A rare and fascinating item. Not previously seen by the auctioneers. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/624ba32f-fa28-41ec-b6cd-4b6d559dfd00/83_1289.jpg Nov 23 Lot 1289 'State of the Match of Cricket played at West Malling, Kent... between Kent & England’ 1841'. Early original single sided scorecard for the match played at the Old County Ground, Town Malling, 29th- 31st July 1841. Printed to stiff card by 'Windsor' at the the Cricket Ground, Malling. The card measures 7"x7.25" with slight uneven trimming. From a large collection of rare, early and significant scorecards being sold in this sale. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f5fb6e5b-7d6b-4136-9f8c-2915a57dcc00/83_0367.jpg Nov 23 Lot 367 'The Boss' A very rare Royal Doulton 'All Black Team' series candlestick, entitled 'The Boss', printed and painted with a boy cricketer in red shirt, wearing an unpire's coat and a floppy hat holding a cricket bat to side Green floral decoration above and below the top rim and to the base rim. 9" tall. A large and impressive candlestick, a rarely seen 'Black Boy' shape and title. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a7bbd366-104f-4174-b237-859dce7232aa/83_0193.jpg Nov 23 Lot 193 Gentlemen v Players. 'Tea Interval Scarborough 1931'. Lovely original mono photograph of seven members of the Gentlemen team standing on the outfield during a break in play in the match at Scarborough, 5th- 8th September 1931, The photograph has been nicely signed in black ink by four of the featured players, Kemp-Welch, Jupp, Robins and Stevens, also by David Denton who was one of the umpires for the match. Walker's Studio of Scarborough. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/be123921-aaa7-477c-8bb0-23ae7b6f714a/83_0710.jpg Nov 23 Lot 710 Ernest George 'Ernie' Hayes. Surrey, Leicestershire & England 1896-1926. Sepia real photograph postcard of Hayes standing full length at the wicket wearing cricket attire and Surrey cap, leaning on his bat. Very nicely signed in black ink to image by Hayes. Blind embossed stamp for Foster of Brighton to lower right corner. Postmarked 1907. An excellent signed postcard from a very large selection of signed and rare postcards being sold in this auction. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/60f4b075-1e4b-41f5-b2a9-3287a873ad10/83_0292-4.jpg Nov 23 Lot 292 'M.C.C. Tour to South America 1926-27 (G.O.B. Allen)'. George Oswald Browning 'Gubby' Allen. Middlesex, Cambridge University & England 1921-1950. Large original photograph album comprising approx. two hundred and thirty original mono photographs of various sizes. Handwritten title to first page, 'M.C.C. South American Trip Dec. 1926- March 1927' to first page. Allen compiled the album himself, the contents cover the entire tour, which comprised ten matches of which four (all against Argentina) were designated first-class. Photographs include good cricket content including team photographs and match action. An excellent comprehensive and very nicely presented personal record of the tour. Estimate £3000/4000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7d0ca309-2c8f-4c1a-881d-c5197fa48ba1/83_0177.jpg Nov 23 Lot 177 M.C.C. Australian Touring Team v C.I. Thornton's XI, Scarborough 1928. Original mono photograph of K.S. Duleepsinhji (Sussex) and Wilfred Rhodes (Yorkshire) walking side by side on the outfield at Scarborough with crowds in the stands, for the match played 5th- 7th September 1928. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by both Duleepsinhji and Rhodes who both played for Thornton's XI. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Estimate £80/120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d3d01fdb-dae3-4c77-9e21-dc44c5e46c01/83_0447.jpg Nov 23 Lot 447 William Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. A Warsop 'Conqueror' cricket bat used by William Gunn in making 228, the highest individual against the Australians in England, for for the Players of England team who played the Australians at Lord's in 1890. The bat formed part of the Charles Pratt Green of Malvern famous cricket bat collection The face of the bat has the standard Warsop wording impressed to it and back of the bat has been painted gold and inscribed in black painted wording to the width of the top of the blade 'Players of England v Australians. The highest individual score ever obtained against Australian bowling in England viz 228. Played at Lord's. June 10-20-21 1890’. Estimate £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1c5022c7-6cc0-41e8-996a-e77b34b5612c/83_1272.jpg Nov 23 Lot 1272 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Original hardback. Very good to excellent condition throughout with bright gilt titles to front board and spine paper. A rare early hardback edition in beautiful condition. Estimate £4000/6000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c0afd1d2-96c4-4443-a189-09062d0d1bc6/83_0103.jpg Nov 23 Lot 103 'Indian Team. Winners Prudential World Cup 1983'. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players' names. Fully signed in ink by the fifteen members of the Indian team. Signatures are Kapil Dev (Captain), Amarnath, Azad, Binny, Gavaskar, Kirmani, Madan Lal, Sandeep Patil, Sandhu, Srikanth, Shastri, Sharma, Vengsarkar, Valson and Man Singh (Manager). Estimate £80/120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cc12779e-71a8-461c-bc5f-9a0c247be4a9/83_0479.jpg Nov 23 Lot 479 Joseph Ravindran Ratnayeke. Central Province & Sri Lanka 1992-1990. Sri Lankan sleeveless Test sweater worn by Ratnayeke whilst playing for Sri Lanka in Test matches. The sweater with trimming in Sri Lanka colours of tangerine yellow and dark blue to neck and waist with the national emblem of a golden lion with a sword bearing on the right arm. A rarely seen sweater. Estimate £140/180 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/68eac957-7a43-4876-8f20-d69447272782/83_0352.jpg Nov 23 Lot 352 Ian Botham. Hudson's Hollywood XI cricket blazer worn by Botham during his brief dalliance with Tim Hudson as his agent/publicist in 1985. The very colourful vertically striped blazer, in the most garish colours taken from Rastafarian culture, of red, green, gold and black with 'Hudson's Hollywood XI' gilt buttons. An ‘iconic’ cricket blazer. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1ec1285e-b5f3-4aaa-9715-3e0b99b4c190/83_0449.jpg Nov 23 Lot 449 Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottinghamshire & England 1875-1902. 'Arthur Shrewsbury's last bat...'. A Shaw & Shrewsbury of Nottingham cricket bat used by Shrewsbury in his final season of cricket in 1902. The face of the bat has the wording 'Arthur Shrewsbury's last bat. Given by him to W.F. Grundy. With it he scored:-' then follows a list of matches and scores finalising in his last match. The scores recorded include 106 v Leicestershire, 101 & 127no v Gloucestershire (same match), 108 v Derbyshire etc. The last entry for late September is the 31 he made in a minor match for Lenton United v F.L. Browne's XI'. An historic cricket bat. Estimate £4000/6000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e5abfa75-cb20-4fac-a554-bffa884f95f4/83_0137.jpg Nov 23 Lot 137 England v Australia. The Oval 1909. Early original photograph of Warren Bardsley walking out to bat for Australia. Ink signature of Bardsley on piece laid to the lower right corner of the photograph. An excellent image. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9c208835-8303-474f-8e4b-871a70fd00af/83_0967-1.jpg Nov 23 Lot 967 William Gilbert Grace. A copy of 'Cricket Notes, with a letter containing Practical Hints, by William Clarke...'. William Bolland. London 1851 presented to Mrs Martha Grace by William Clarke renowned bowler and player for Nottinghamshire and player and secretary of the All England Eleven. The book was presented to Mrs Grace after the All England match against West Gloucestershire Club on the 8th August 1855. Inscription in pencil to front end paper 'Presented to Mrs. Grace by William Clarke, sec [retary], All England Eleven' by Clarke. Estimate £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fe7ce9dc-e617-45df-8430-75694f50ac01/83_0403.jpg Nov 23 Lot 403 M.C.C. ivory Life Membership badge/token presented to and used by Cyril Stacey from around 1888 onwards. The badge/token has the M.C.C. emblem to one side with membership number 32 to lower border and to the verso his name 'Cyril Stacey' and 'Not Transferable' to outer border. In 1888 Mr William Nicholson, one of the club's great benefactors, advanced the sum of £18,000 to purchase the freehold of the Lord's Ground. In order to pay part of this debt it was agreed on the 8th February 1888 to elect 100 life members at £100 each. As more than twice that number applied and to meet further expenses, 200 were eventually elected, the last two in 1892. A rare early item. Estimate £350/450 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/30dc04c3-db02-4981-b183-1ae2b52a3201/83_0755.jpg Nov 23 Lot 755 Albert Edward Relf. Sussex & England 1900-1921, Robert Richard Relf. Sussex 1905-1924 and Vallance William Crisp Jupp. Sussex, Northamptonshire & England 1909-1938. Excellent mono real photograph postcard of all three players and a further person in casual group image, the two Relf brothers sitting and Jupp and the other standing, all dressed in suits and ties. Nicely signed by all four to the image in black ink. A rare postcard. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e6d8e16a-5066-4a45-a7f5-798e2a88f616/Screenshot+2023-11-05+at+16.52.59.png https://www.knights.co.uk/nov23after daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/db048426-f29d-4a18-b481-59ae5995fd29/83_0365.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 365 W.G. Grace. An unusual and rarely seen life size bronze hand of Grace holding a cricket ball. The stump of the arm impressed with Grace's signature. The hand and arm measure approximately 11' long. The hand and ball, which was apparently produced to commemorate W.G. Grace's 41st Birthday, July 18th 1889, is beautifully and very skilfully sculptured showing the finger and thumb nails, the wrinkles around the finger joints and palm, the knuckles and veins in the back of the hand with a lovely patina to the bronze. An intriguing and exciting discovery which appears 'fresh' to the market after all these many years. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7ac30897-803b-4ad4-b131-e73d5ec07b2c/83_1294.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 1294 George Parr's team to North America 1859. First England cricket tour overseas. '11 of England v 22 of the United States'. Two very rare scorecards, printed by Fred Lillywhite from the third match of the tour. One, dated 'Monday, October 3rd, 1859' lists the teams for the start of play, subsequently filled in with scores in pencil that appear to be complete up to the close of the second day's play. The other scorecard, dated 'Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, October 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 1859', lists the complete printed scores at the close of the match. Both laid down to page. Very rare original scorecards from this pioneering inaugural tour. Hammer: £9000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b11d0a4a-d7ab-4e73-bf3f-2f8c80fc9513/83_0010.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 10 'Hobbs' 100 Centuries'. Large original newspaper poster for the 'Late Extra' edition of the [London] Evening News, dated 8th May 1923. From a selection of three original newspaper with significant cricket interest. Hammer: £200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b4b9789d-cced-46d0-b1cb-35a567f9b22e/83_0485.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 485 John Berry Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. Surrey brown county 1st XI cricket cap, by E.C. Devereux of Eton, with silk crest of the Prince of Wales feathers above the county emblem embroidered to front. The inner label inscribed in ink 'Hobbs’. Hammer: £2600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/52d7cd11-4cdd-4381-b12a-cbf87e35ecc2/83_0493.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 493 Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex & England 1892-1921. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Fry in athletics attire entitled ‘Oxford Athletics’ and dated April 19th 1894 by artist SPY. Beautifully signed by Fry in black ink to the image. Very rare to see in this signed form. From a selection of rare signed Vanity Fair chromolithographs of cricketers. Hammer: £340 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c7df1d17-d54e-4578-9886-3a4cc90842a5/83_0359.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 359 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Sussex & England 1895-1920. A Victorian stoneware cream coloured tobacco jar and cover with a sepia transfer printed full length image of Ranjitsinhji in batting pose at the wicket with name 'K.S. Ranjitsinhji' below. A rarer tobacco jar, not often seen. Hammer: £650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/18e640ce-229c-475f-899a-260dc73d6325/83_0220.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 220 Australia tour to England 1930. Don Bradman's first tour. Lovely original and large sepia press photograph of the opening match of the tour, Worcestershire v Australians, 30th April- 2nd May 1930. The scene depicts the match in progress with spectators around the boundary in the foreground and background, with the impressive Worcester Cathedral behind. Nicely signed in black ink to the sky area of the photograph by fourteen members of the Australian touring party. Ex Joe Goldman collection. Hammer: £700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/49578f0a-b9ab-46ac-893e-617afed0fc3e/83_0363.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 363 Victorian cricket loving cup. An extraordinarily large 19th century Staffordshire loving cup with double transfer printed decoration in to either side of a cricket match in progress, with tents and church to the background with some hand colouring in red, green, yellow. Circa 1850/1860. The loving cup stands approximately 8" tall and has a diameter of 7.5". This huge loving cup may well have been made as an exhibition piece to advertise the Staffordshire wares. A rare and fascinating item. Not previously seen by the auctioneers. Hammer: £4800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/624ba32f-fa28-41ec-b6cd-4b6d559dfd00/83_1289.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 1289 'State of the Match of Cricket played at West Malling, Kent... between Kent & England’ 1841'. Early original single sided scorecard for the match played at the Old County Ground, Town Malling, 29th- 31st July 1841. Printed to stiff card by 'Windsor' at the the Cricket Ground, Malling. The card measures 7"x7.25" with slight uneven trimming. From a large collection of rare, early and significant scorecards being sold in this sale. Hammer: £580 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f5fb6e5b-7d6b-4136-9f8c-2915a57dcc00/83_0367.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 367 'The Boss' A very rare Royal Doulton 'All Black Team' series candlestick, entitled 'The Boss', printed and painted with a boy cricketer in red shirt, wearing an unpire's coat and a floppy hat holding a cricket bat to side Green floral decoration above and below the top rim and to the base rim. 9" tall. A large and impressive candlestick, a rarely seen 'Black Boy' shape and title. Hammer: £2100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a7bbd366-104f-4174-b237-859dce7232aa/83_0193.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 193 Gentlemen v Players. 'Tea Interval Scarborough 1931'. Lovely original mono photograph of seven members of the Gentlemen team standing on the outfield during a break in play in the match at Scarborough, 5th- 8th September 1931, The photograph has been nicely signed in black ink by four of the featured players, Kemp-Welch, Jupp, Robins and Stevens, also by David Denton who was one of the umpires for the match. Walker's Studio of Scarborough. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Hammer: £100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/be123921-aaa7-477c-8bb0-23ae7b6f714a/83_0710.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 710 Ernest George 'Ernie' Hayes. Surrey, Leicestershire & England 1896-1926. Sepia real photograph postcard of Hayes standing full length at the wicket wearing cricket attire and Surrey cap, leaning on his bat. Very nicely signed in black ink to image by Hayes. Blind embossed stamp for Foster of Brighton to lower right corner. Postmarked 1907. An excellent signed postcard from a very large selection of signed and rare postcards being sold in this auction. Hammer: £100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/60f4b075-1e4b-41f5-b2a9-3287a873ad10/83_0292-4.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 292 'M.C.C. Tour to South America 1926-27 (G.O.B. Allen)'. George Oswald Browning 'Gubby' Allen. Middlesex, Cambridge University & England 1921-1950. Large original photograph album comprising approx. two hundred and thirty original mono photographs of various sizes. Handwritten title to first page, 'M.C.C. South American Trip Dec. 1926- March 1927' to first page. Allen compiled the album himself, the contents cover the entire tour, which comprised ten matches of which four (all against Argentina) were designated first-class. Photographs include good cricket content including team photographs and match action. An excellent comprehensive and very nicely presented personal record of the tour. Hammer: £4400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7d0ca309-2c8f-4c1a-881d-c5197fa48ba1/83_0177.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 177 M.C.C. Australian Touring Team v C.I. Thornton's XI, Scarborough 1928. Original mono photograph of K.S. Duleepsinhji (Sussex) and Wilfred Rhodes (Yorkshire) walking side by side on the outfield at Scarborough with crowds in the stands, for the match played 5th- 7th September 1928. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by both Duleepsinhji and Rhodes who both played for Thornton's XI. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Hammer: £110 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d3d01fdb-dae3-4c77-9e21-dc44c5e46c01/83_0447.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 447 William Gunn. Nottinghamshire & England 1880-1904. A Warsop 'Conqueror' cricket bat used by William Gunn in making 228, the highest individual against the Australians in England, for for the Players of England team who played the Australians at Lord's in 1890. The bat formed part of the Charles Pratt Green of Malvern famous cricket bat collection The face of the bat has the standard Warsop wording impressed to it and back of the bat has been painted gold and inscribed in black painted wording to the width of the top of the blade 'Players of England v Australians. The highest individual score ever obtained against Australian bowling in England viz 228. Played at Lord's. June 10-20-21 1890’. Hammer: £5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1c5022c7-6cc0-41e8-996a-e77b34b5612c/83_1272.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 1272 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Original hardback. Very good to excellent condition throughout with bright gilt titles to front board and spine paper. A rare early hardback edition in beautiful condition. Hammer: £4000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c0afd1d2-96c4-4443-a189-09062d0d1bc6/83_0103.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 103 'Indian Team. Winners Prudential World Cup 1983'. Official autograph sheet with printed title and players' names. Fully signed in ink by the fifteen members of the Indian team. Signatures are Kapil Dev (Captain), Amarnath, Azad, Binny, Gavaskar, Kirmani, Madan Lal, Sandeep Patil, Sandhu, Srikanth, Shastri, Sharma, Vengsarkar, Valson and Man Singh (Manager). Hammer: £750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cc12779e-71a8-461c-bc5f-9a0c247be4a9/83_0479.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 479 Joseph Ravindran Ratnayeke. Central Province & Sri Lanka 1992-1990. Sri Lankan sleeveless Test sweater worn by Ratnayeke whilst playing for Sri Lanka in Test matches. The sweater with trimming in Sri Lanka colours of tangerine yellow and dark blue to neck and waist with the national emblem of a golden lion with a sword bearing on the right arm. A rarely seen sweater. Hammer: £180 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/68eac957-7a43-4876-8f20-d69447272782/83_0352.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 352 Ian Botham. Hudson's Hollywood XI cricket blazer worn by Botham during his brief dalliance with Tim Hudson as his agent/publicist in 1985. The very colourful vertically striped blazer, in the most garish colours taken from Rastafarian culture, of red, green, gold and black with 'Hudson's Hollywood XI' gilt buttons. An ‘iconic’ cricket blazer. Hammer: £340 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1ec1285e-b5f3-4aaa-9715-3e0b99b4c190/83_0449.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 449 Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottinghamshire & England 1875-1902. 'Arthur Shrewsbury's last bat...'. A Shaw & Shrewsbury of Nottingham cricket bat used by Shrewsbury in his final season of cricket in 1902. The face of the bat has the wording 'Arthur Shrewsbury's last bat. Given by him to W.F. Grundy. With it he scored:-' then follows a list of matches and scores finalising in his last match. The scores recorded include 106 v Leicestershire, 101 & 127no v Gloucestershire (same match), 108 v Derbyshire etc. The last entry for late September is the 31 he made in a minor match for Lenton United v F.L. Browne's XI'. An historic cricket bat. Hammer: £4400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e5abfa75-cb20-4fac-a554-bffa884f95f4/83_0137.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 137 England v Australia. The Oval 1909. Early original photograph of Warren Bardsley walking out to bat for Australia. Ink signature of Bardsley on piece laid to the lower right corner of the photograph. An excellent image. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Hammer: £100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9c208835-8303-474f-8e4b-871a70fd00af/83_0967-1.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 967 William Gilbert Grace. A copy of 'Cricket Notes, with a letter containing Practical Hints, by William Clarke...'. William Bolland. London 1851 presented to Mrs Martha Grace by William Clarke renowned bowler and player for Nottinghamshire and player and secretary of the All England Eleven. The book was presented to Mrs Grace after the All England match against West Gloucestershire Club on the 8th August 1855. Inscription in pencil to front end paper 'Presented to Mrs. Grace by William Clarke, sec [retary], All England Eleven' by Clarke. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fe7ce9dc-e617-45df-8430-75694f50ac01/83_0403.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 403 M.C.C. ivory Life Membership badge/token presented to and used by Cyril Stacey from around 1888 onwards. The badge/token has the M.C.C. emblem to one side with membership number 32 to lower border and to the verso his name 'Cyril Stacey' and 'Not Transferable' to outer border. In 1888 Mr William Nicholson, one of the club's great benefactors, advanced the sum of £18,000 to purchase the freehold of the Lord's Ground. In order to pay part of this debt it was agreed on the 8th February 1888 to elect 100 life members at £100 each. As more than twice that number applied and to meet further expenses, 200 were eventually elected, the last two in 1892. A rare early item. Hammer: £350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/30dc04c3-db02-4981-b183-1ae2b52a3201/83_0755.jpg Nov 23 after Lot 755 Albert Edward Relf. Sussex & England 1900-1921, Robert Richard Relf. Sussex 1905-1924 and Vallance William Crisp Jupp. Sussex, Northamptonshire & England 1909-1938. Excellent mono real photograph postcard of all three players and a further person in casual group image, the two Relf brothers sitting and Jupp and the other standing, all dressed in suits and ties. Nicely signed by all four to the image in black ink. A rare postcard. Hammer: £80 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e6d8e16a-5066-4a45-a7f5-798e2a88f616/Screenshot+2023-11-05+at+16.52.59.png https://www.knights.co.uk/mar24 daily 0.75 2024-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/09fde7eb-6d4c-43b5-8fe5-f49cd8cd242e/84_0263.jpg Mar 24 Lot 263 Westerwald stoneware cricket stein, moulded in relief with eight cameo panels of a batsman, fielder and wicket-keeper, six larger and two smaller, all believed to be modelled on W.G. Grace, in different poses, coloured in cobalt blue on a grey background. 12" high. German circa 1890. A large and impressive example of this German pottery. Very good condition. One of four lots featuring Westerwald pottery Estimate £700/1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d4dce289-0bfe-42b8-86d5-e070d7460cbb/84_0209.jpg Mar 24 Lot 209 Australian tour of England 1902. Essex County Cricket Club letterhead beautifully signed by fourteen members of the Australian touring team to England in 1902. Signatures include Darling (Captain), Noble, Armstrong, Trumper, Hill, Jones, Kelly, Saunders, Gregory etc. A rare collection of signatures from this early tour Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/83c193b6-d20f-417b-a17a-e5c2c2b50b29/84_0253.jpg Mar 24 Lot 253 George John Bonnor. New South Wales & Australia 1881-1891. An excellent sepia cabinet card photograph of Bonnor, half length wearing blazer with flower to label. Inscrided to the lower border 'G.J. Bonnor, autograph on back', Signed and dedicated to verso in black ink 'With my kindest regards to Harry Hislop, June 29th 1884 and signed G.J. Bonnor'. The cabinet card by Stilliard & Co, Oxford. An early and very rare signature of an Australian colossus Estimate £600/900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8d874e62-d171-4919-9568-3a0af874c75c/84_1216.jpg Mar 24 Lot 1216 First Test Match in England. England v. Australia 1880. Early and rare original single sided scorecard for the match played at Kennington Oval, 6th- 8th September 1880. The scorecard with the players listed for the start of play and incomplete scores for England's first innings in pencil. Printed by John Sharp of Ludgate Hill. A rare scorecard from the first Test match in England Estimate £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/95a6cc91-048f-4d07-a954-d8a984513cfb/84_0758.jpg Mar 24 Lot 758 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1898. 35th edition. Original hardback. A rare early hardback edition in lovely condition Estimate £3500/4500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ecf0975f-4c66-4de3-bdb3-14e84952dbd4/84_0266.jpg Mar 24 Lot 266 'Cricket at Windsor Castle meat dish'. A very large shaped oval Goodwin & Harris 'Metropolitan Scenery' meat dish printed in blue and embellished with a scene of Windsor Castle and the Thames to foreground featuring a cricket match to the foreground with trees and foliage to sides. The dish measures 19.75" wide by 15". Circa 1830/40's. A rare and impressive dish in lovely original condition Estimate £1800/2500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/241986f7-9ef2-4f38-a63e-768599b4b0a8/84_0248.jpg Mar 24 Lot 248 Ernest Jones. South Australia, Western Australia & Australia 1892-1908. Excellent sepia cabinet card vignette photograph of Jones depicted full length in bowling pose, wearing his Australian Test cap. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph 'Sincerely Yours Ernest Jones'. Cabinet card by E. Hawkins & Co, Brighton Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1cb9b5f1-cc5d-4c20-9007-a3365ffc39cc/84_0325.jpg Mar 24 Lot 325 Alfred Percy Freeman. Kent & England 1914-1936. Nine carat gold open faced pocket watch with Freeman's initials 'A.P.F.' to back of case. Swiss made. Hallmarks to inside case cover for Birmingham 1924 and makers mark 'A.L.D.' for A.L. Dennison of Birmingham. Lovely condition Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/82e2132c-63a7-49ea-9ec3-cb2e41806051/84_0228.jpg Mar 24 Lot 228 '20th Australian Team to Great Britain 1948'. Original official mono photograph of the Australian team, standing and seated in rows, wearing tour blazers. Printed title to top border and players' names to lower border. Very nicely signed to the mount by all nineteen members of the touring party. Signatures include Bradman (Captain), Lindwall, Saggers, Harvey, Hamence, Hassett, I. Johnson, Barnes etc. Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency, London. Overall 20"x15.5". A nice image and excellent signatures. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/54707662-f301-4b51-8a38-905d556b7229/84_0208.jpg Mar 24 Lot 208 Hastings Cricket Week 1905. Gentlemen of the South v Players of the South, Hastings, 7th to 9th September 1905. Large autograph page very nicely signed in ink by twenty one of the players who featured in the match which was drawn. Signatures include Tom Hayward, Ernest Haynes, Ernest Killick, Joe Vine, Len Braund, Relf, Lees, Lord Dalmeny, Marshall, Raphael, Crawford, Jessop, Goldie, W.G. Grace, Robson, Knox etc. Additional signatures include Henry Phillips (Sussex 1868-1891). A good and rare collection of early cricket signatures Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/596b3e49-d72b-4d19-94c6-36a979f34646/84_0267.jpg Mar 24 Lot 267 'The Boss'. A Royal Doulton 'Black Boy' bone china Burke beaker, entitled 'The Boss' printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat, wearing an umpires's coat and holding a bat, 'The All Black Team' crest to verso. Green floral decoration to top rim. 4" tall. Circa 1907. A rarer shaped 'Black Boy' item Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1d74babb-ca22-4945-95aa-668d4eb212d8/84_0478.jpg Mar 24 Lot 478 Edward Wentworth Dillon. Kent 1900-1923. Vanity Fair. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Dillon wearing striped blue blazer and holding a bat to side entitled ‘The Champion County’ and dated September 13th 1913 Men of the Day 2339 by artist OWL. Good original condition with full margin. Good/very good condition. Rare Estimate £800/1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b2458da2-97e1-4a76-85a7-3fbc11065c4e/84_0608.jpg Mar 24 Lot 608 Australia tour to England 1930. Rare sepia photograph of the Orient Line R.M.S. 'Oronsay', the ship that took the touring team back to Australia, leaving Southampton on the 27th September and arriving in Melbourne on the 3rd November 1930. Very nicely signed in ink to the photograph by seventeen members of the touring party including Woodfull (Captain), Richardson, a'Beckett, Fairfax, Bradman, Oldfield, Kippax, Ponsford, Jackson, McCabe, Grimmett and Hornibrook. The photograph measures 11"x7". Good/very good condition. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f30bff27-aa05-4dae-b664-483b37a7dfac/84_0640.jpg Mar 24 Lot 640 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1906. 43rd edition. Original hardback. Very good/excellent condition with bright gilt titles to front board and spine paper Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4d4fea1b-08db-459a-9b22-19a735614c70/84_1176.jpg Mar 24 Lot 1176 Richard Henry Colley. Oxford University, Oxfordshire and Shropshire 1853 to 1866. Small early original ticket and scorecard for 'A Grand Cricket Match, at The Christ Church Cricket Ground between Eleven of England and Fifteen of Oxfordshire, played on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday May 23, 24 and 25 1953’. Titles and details of the match printed to one side of the ticket/scorecard with red wax seal to lower border and printed to the other side the scorecard of the match with printed titles and players names. This original ticket and scorecard belonged to Richard Colley. Along with the ticket and scorecard is a leather bound edition of 'Lillywhite's Cricket Scores and Biographies’, Volume IV which also belonged to Colley and he has signed the front end paper and there is some handwritten annotation to the odd page within the book where he features. A very rare early ticket and scorecard and with the book, good association. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f0df1388-692c-4423-92ec-f12ced9df244/84_0206.jpg Mar 24 Lot 206 Thomas Robert 'Tom' McKibbin. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1899. Rare early signature in black ink of McKibbin signed 'Tom R. McKibbin Aust XI 1896' to a trimmed bookplate printed image of McKibbin depicted head and shoulders in formal attire. Very good condition. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e0dff947-50dd-4480-a1e2-2c3ff19c4e2d/84_0804.jpg Mar 24 Lot 804 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1893. 1st year of issue. 100pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards with tooled decoration, titles in gilt to front board with white rose emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. The rare and elusive first edition Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c0fea0a7-8ee3-400c-859c-f80f502ab1d3/84_0350.jpg Mar 24 Lot 350 John Arlott. B.B.C. and Test Match Special' commentator 1946 to 1980. Pewter cigar box, apparently presented to John Arlott by the B.C.C. following his final broadcast at Lord's in 1980. The cigar box with inscription to lid 'J.A. 1946-1980' with cricket stumps and cricket ball to sides, the two sides with 'ball by ball' to opposite sides. Very good condition. A unique item Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9dc320e2-35ee-4439-bf7f-0f413e03e67a/84_0446.jpg Mar 24 Lot 446 Charles Phillip Mead. Hampshire & England 1905-1936. Gunn & Moore 'Autograph' cricket bat used by Mead in the cricket season of 1934 to make centuries against the Australians at Southampton and Yorkshire at Bournemouth. The bat has the handwritten ink inscription to the face which states 'With this bat I scored 139 v Australians [and] 123 v Yorkshire and signed and dated Phil Mead 1934' , to the lower part of the bat is written 'C.P. Mead. Born March 9th 1887. Hampshire C.C.C’ Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1d571cf6-a3ee-477e-a301-75c917615323/84_0514.jpg Mar 24 Lot 514 All India tour to England 1936. Original sepia press photograph depicting ten of the Indian team walking on to the field for the opening match of the 1936 tour v A.P. [Tich] Freeman's XI at the Bat and Ball Ground, Maidstone, 29th April 1936. The photograph is nicely signed in ink to the photograph by all the players featured. Signatures include Palia, Nissar, Nayudu, Vizianagram, Ramaswami, Amarnath, Mushtaq Ali, Merchant etc. The photograph by Sport & General, London, measures 10”x8.25" Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/70528957-d22c-4560-b1e4-cf2d9bd2b618/84_1174.jpg Mar 24 Lot 1174 Sussex v. Kent 1850. Early small original single sided printed scorecard with scores showing the 'State of the Game 1 1/2 o'Clock' on the second day's play in the match played at C.H. Gausden's (Royal Brunswick) Ground, Hove, 17th- 19th June 1850. The scorecard depicts Sussex's complete first innings of 182, E. Bushby top scorer with 49, and Kent's score standing at 110/5. Kent went on to reach 207, Fuller Pilch making 41, T.M. Adams 39, and Nicholas Felix 31, with John Wisden taking five wickets for Sussex. Printed for G. Mant by Phillips & Co. Very good condition Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b75ef26b-f056-4363-ad5d-b2316955dee7/84_0935.jpg Mar 24 Lot 935 Victor Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1913. Mono real photograph postcard of Trumper, full length, in batting attire with bat held to side. Nicely signed in black ink by Trumper. Photo by Thiele. Ralph Dunn & Co. Postally dated 1905. Good condition Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4a9e6eba-0366-4f07-9d2b-eb382aefa9f0/84_0793.jpg Mar 24 Lot 793 'Arthur Wellard 1902-1980. (Somerset, England and Gaieties)'. Harold Pinter. Privately published booklet by the author 1981. 11 pages, frontispiece team portrait of the Gaities C.C. including Wellard, original stiffened card wrappers, 8vo. This copy of this scarce booklet is accompanied by a two page handwritten letter, on '52 Campden Hill Square, London' headed paper, dated April 27th 1985 from Harold Pinter to Mrs Wellard 'I remember Arthur with the deepest affection. He was a wonderful man. I do hope you are keeping well'. Signed 'Warm Regards Harold Pinter'. Also a letter from Mrs Wellard to Bill (W.H.R.) Andrews (Somerset 1930-1947) sending a copy of Pinter booklet. A rare booklet with accompanying letter from Pinter and Wellard's widow Estimate £700/1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/39938570-1f2e-4068-a62d-49aaaa3369d8/84_0818.jpg Mar 24 Lot 818 'W. Duthoit's Yorkshire Cricketers' Guide for 1878. Published by W. Duthoit of Leeds. Only year of publication. Original pink wrappers. Photoplate of Ephraim Lockwood opposite title page. Splitting and small loss to spine, some wear to wrappers, internally in good/ very good condition Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7fa65274-30f7-4ef2-b5ac-cacf29e28947/CoverMar24.jpeg https://www.knights.co.uk/mar24after daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/09fde7eb-6d4c-43b5-8fe5-f49cd8cd242e/84_0263.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 263 Westerwald stoneware cricket stein, moulded in relief with eight cameo panels of a batsman, fielder and wicket-keeper, six larger and two smaller, all believed to be modelled on W.G. Grace, in different poses, coloured in cobalt blue on a grey background. 12" high. German circa 1890. A large and impressive example of this German pottery. Very good condition. One of four lots featuring Westerwald pottery Hammer £680 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d4dce289-0bfe-42b8-86d5-e070d7460cbb/84_0209.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 209 Australian tour of England 1902. Essex County Cricket Club letterhead beautifully signed by fourteen members of the Australian touring team to England in 1902. Signatures include Darling (Captain), Noble, Armstrong, Trumper, Hill, Jones, Kelly, Saunders, Gregory etc. A rare collection of signatures from this early tour Hammer £2600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/83c193b6-d20f-417b-a17a-e5c2c2b50b29/84_0253.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 253 George John Bonnor. New South Wales & Australia 1881-1891. An excellent sepia cabinet card photograph of Bonnor, half length wearing blazer with flower to label. Inscrided to the lower border 'G.J. Bonnor, autograph on back', Signed and dedicated to verso in black ink 'With my kindest regards to Harry Hislop, June 29th 1884 and signed G.J. Bonnor'. The cabinet card by Stilliard & Co, Oxford. An early and very rare signature of an Australian colossus Hammer £1400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8d874e62-d171-4919-9568-3a0af874c75c/84_1216.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 1216 First Test Match in England. England v. Australia 1880. Early and rare original single sided scorecard for the match played at Kennington Oval, 6th- 8th September 1880. The scorecard with the players listed for the start of play and incomplete scores for England's first innings in pencil. Printed by John Sharp of Ludgate Hill. A rare scorecard from the first Test match in England Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/95a6cc91-048f-4d07-a954-d8a984513cfb/84_0758.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 758 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1898. 35th edition. Original hardback. A rare early hardback edition in lovely condition Hammer £4000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ecf0975f-4c66-4de3-bdb3-14e84952dbd4/84_0266.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 266 'Cricket at Windsor Castle meat dish'. A very large shaped oval Goodwin & Harris 'Metropolitan Scenery' meat dish printed in blue and embellished with a scene of Windsor Castle and the Thames to foreground featuring a cricket match to the foreground with trees and foliage to sides. The dish measures 19.75" wide by 15". Circa 1830/40's. A rare and impressive dish in lovely original condition Hammer £2600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/241986f7-9ef2-4f38-a63e-768599b4b0a8/84_0248.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 248 Ernest Jones. South Australia, Western Australia & Australia 1892-1908. Excellent sepia cabinet card vignette photograph of Jones depicted full length in bowling pose, wearing his Australian Test cap. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph 'Sincerely Yours Ernest Jones'. Cabinet card by E. Hawkins & Co, Brighton Hammer £800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1cb9b5f1-cc5d-4c20-9007-a3365ffc39cc/84_0325.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 325 Alfred Percy Freeman. Kent & England 1914-1936. Nine carat gold open faced pocket watch with Freeman's initials 'A.P.F.' to back of case. Swiss made. Hallmarks to inside case cover for Birmingham 1924 and makers mark 'A.L.D.' for A.L. Dennison of Birmingham. Lovely condition Hammer £1250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/82e2132c-63a7-49ea-9ec3-cb2e41806051/84_0228.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 228 '20th Australian Team to Great Britain 1948'. Original official mono photograph of the Australian team, standing and seated in rows, wearing tour blazers. Printed title to top border and players' names to lower border. Very nicely signed to the mount by all nineteen members of the touring party. Signatures include Bradman (Captain), Lindwall, Saggers, Harvey, Hamence, Hassett, I. Johnson, Barnes etc. Photograph by Sport & General Press Agency, London. Overall 20"x15.5". A nice image and excellent signatures. Hammer £1800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/54707662-f301-4b51-8a38-905d556b7229/84_0208.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 208 Hastings Cricket Week 1905. Gentlemen of the South v Players of the South, Hastings, 7th to 9th September 1905. Large autograph page very nicely signed in ink by twenty one of the players who featured in the match which was drawn. Signatures include Tom Hayward, Ernest Haynes, Ernest Killick, Joe Vine, Len Braund, Relf, Lees, Lord Dalmeny, Marshall, Raphael, Crawford, Jessop, Goldie, W.G. Grace, Robson, Knox etc. Additional signatures include Henry Phillips (Sussex 1868-1891). A good and rare collection of early cricket signatures Hammer £400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/596b3e49-d72b-4d19-94c6-36a979f34646/84_0267.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 267 'The Boss'. A Royal Doulton 'Black Boy' bone china Burke beaker, entitled 'The Boss' printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat, wearing an umpires's coat and holding a bat, 'The All Black Team' crest to verso. Green floral decoration to top rim. 4" tall. Circa 1907. A rarer shaped 'Black Boy' item Hammer £500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1d74babb-ca22-4945-95aa-668d4eb212d8/84_0478.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 478 Edward Wentworth Dillon. Kent 1900-1923. Vanity Fair. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Dillon wearing striped blue blazer and holding a bat to side entitled ‘The Champion County’ and dated September 13th 1913 Men of the Day 2339 by artist OWL. Good original condition with full margin. Good/very good condition. Rare Hammer £750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b2458da2-97e1-4a76-85a7-3fbc11065c4e/84_0608.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 608 Australia tour to England 1930. Rare sepia photograph of the Orient Line R.M.S. 'Oronsay', the ship that took the touring team back to Australia, leaving Southampton on the 27th September and arriving in Melbourne on the 3rd November 1930. Very nicely signed in ink to the photograph by seventeen members of the touring party including Woodfull (Captain), Richardson, a'Beckett, Fairfax, Bradman, Oldfield, Kippax, Ponsford, Jackson, McCabe, Grimmett and Hornibrook. The photograph measures 11"x7". Good/very good condition. Hammer £280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f30bff27-aa05-4dae-b664-483b37a7dfac/84_0640.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 640 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1906. 43rd edition. Original hardback. Very good/excellent condition with bright gilt titles to front board and spine paper Hammer £1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4d4fea1b-08db-459a-9b22-19a735614c70/84_1176.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 1176 Richard Henry Colley. Oxford University, Oxfordshire and Shropshire 1853 to 1866. Small early original ticket and scorecard for 'A Grand Cricket Match, at The Christ Church Cricket Ground between Eleven of England and Fifteen of Oxfordshire, played on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday May 23, 24 and 25 1953’. Titles and details of the match printed to one side of the ticket/scorecard with red wax seal to lower border and printed to the other side the scorecard of the match with printed titles and players names. This original ticket and scorecard belonged to Richard Colley. Along with the ticket and scorecard is a leather bound edition of 'Lillywhite's Cricket Scores and Biographies’, Volume IV which also belonged to Colley and he has signed the front end paper and there is some handwritten annotation to the odd page within the book where he features. A very rare early ticket and scorecard and with the book, good association. Hammer £280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f0df1388-692c-4423-92ec-f12ced9df244/84_0206.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 206 Thomas Robert 'Tom' McKibbin. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1899. Rare early signature in black ink of McKibbin signed 'Tom R. McKibbin Aust XI 1896' to a trimmed bookplate printed image of McKibbin depicted head and shoulders in formal attire. Very good condition. Hammer £500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e0dff947-50dd-4480-a1e2-2c3ff19c4e2d/84_0804.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 804 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1893. 1st year of issue. 100pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards with tooled decoration, titles in gilt to front board with white rose emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. The rare and elusive first edition Hammer £1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c0fea0a7-8ee3-400c-859c-f80f502ab1d3/84_0350.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 350 John Arlott. B.B.C. and Test Match Special' commentator 1946 to 1980. Pewter cigar box, apparently presented to John Arlott by the B.C.C. following his final broadcast at Lord's in 1980. The cigar box with inscription to lid 'J.A. 1946-1980' with cricket stumps and cricket ball to sides, the two sides with 'ball by ball' to opposite sides. Very good condition. A unique item Hammer £700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9dc320e2-35ee-4439-bf7f-0f413e03e67a/84_0446.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 446 Charles Phillip Mead. Hampshire & England 1905-1936. Gunn & Moore 'Autograph' cricket bat used by Mead in the cricket season of 1934 to make centuries against the Australians at Southampton and Yorkshire at Bournemouth. The bat has the handwritten ink inscription to the face which states 'With this bat I scored 139 v Australians [and] 123 v Yorkshire and signed and dated Phil Mead 1934' , to the lower part of the bat is written 'C.P. Mead. Born March 9th 1887. Hampshire C.C.C’ Hammer £450 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1d571cf6-a3ee-477e-a301-75c917615323/84_0514.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 514 All India tour to England 1936. Original sepia press photograph depicting ten of the Indian team walking on to the field for the opening match of the 1936 tour v A.P. [Tich] Freeman's XI at the Bat and Ball Ground, Maidstone, 29th April 1936. The photograph is nicely signed in ink to the photograph by all the players featured. Signatures include Palia, Nissar, Nayudu, Vizianagram, Ramaswami, Amarnath, Mushtaq Ali, Merchant etc. The photograph by Sport & General, London, measures 10”x8.25" Hammer £260 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/70528957-d22c-4560-b1e4-cf2d9bd2b618/84_1174.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 1174 Sussex v. Kent 1850. Early small original single sided printed scorecard with scores showing the 'State of the Game 1 1/2 o'Clock' on the second day's play in the match played at C.H. Gausden's (Royal Brunswick) Ground, Hove, 17th- 19th June 1850. The scorecard depicts Sussex's complete first innings of 182, E. Bushby top scorer with 49, and Kent's score standing at 110/5. Kent went on to reach 207, Fuller Pilch making 41, T.M. Adams 39, and Nicholas Felix 31, with John Wisden taking five wickets for Sussex. Printed for G. Mant by Phillips & Co. Very good condition Hammer £320 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b75ef26b-f056-4363-ad5d-b2316955dee7/84_0935.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 935 Victor Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1913. Mono real photograph postcard of Trumper, full length, in batting attire with bat held to side. Nicely signed in black ink by Trumper. Photo by Thiele. Ralph Dunn & Co. Postally dated 1905. Good condition Hammer £950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4a9e6eba-0366-4f07-9d2b-eb382aefa9f0/84_0793.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 793 'Arthur Wellard 1902-1980. (Somerset, England and Gaieties)'. Harold Pinter. Privately published booklet by the author 1981. 11 pages, frontispiece team portrait of the Gaities C.C. including Wellard, original stiffened card wrappers, 8vo. This copy of this scarce booklet is accompanied by a two page handwritten letter, on '52 Campden Hill Square, London' headed paper, dated April 27th 1985 from Harold Pinter to Mrs Wellard 'I remember Arthur with the deepest affection. He was a wonderful man. I do hope you are keeping well'. Signed 'Warm Regards Harold Pinter'. Also a letter from Mrs Wellard to Bill (W.H.R.) Andrews (Somerset 1930-1947) sending a copy of Pinter booklet. A rare booklet with accompanying letter from Pinter and Wellard's widow Hammer £750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/39938570-1f2e-4068-a62d-49aaaa3369d8/84_0818.jpg Mar 24 after Lot 818 'W. Duthoit's Yorkshire Cricketers' Guide for 1878. Published by W. Duthoit of Leeds. Only year of publication. Original pink wrappers. Photoplate of Ephraim Lockwood opposite title page. Splitting and small loss to spine, some wear to wrappers, internally in good/ very good condition Hammer Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7fa65274-30f7-4ef2-b5ac-cacf29e28947/CoverMar24.jpeg https://www.knights.co.uk/july24after1 daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/07b99407-9617-4b96-9b1e-467d599f9208/_85_0539.jpg Home Lot 539 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1864. 1st edition. Handsomely bound in full black leather, lacking original paper wrappers, with raised bands and title and date in gilt to spine. Very rare first year of issue. Hammer £5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fe053f72-d88e-4200-b254-c6ac2c8791bf/1_85_0536.jpg Home Lot 536 'A.E. Stoddart's Tour of Australia 1897/98'. 'The Tour Diaries of J.T. Hearne, Middlesex & England 1888-1923'. Two handwritten diaries covering the majority of the tour but concluding for no apparent reason on Wednesday 12th January. The diaries are entertaining and insightful and cover the tour both on and off the field throwing additional light on a tour which was very much less successful for Stoddart and his team than the victorious visit in 1894/95. The diaries reveal Hearne to be a determined cricketer, an honest man with a great sense of humour and an observant eye who was not averse to the occasional modest 'indulgence' off the field. An excellent insight into the life of a professional cricketer on tour, substandard accommodation and food, sharing double beds, trouble with mosquitoes for the professionals compared to the lodgings and food of the amateurs. A unique pair of diaries. Hammer £4600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b8024639-aadd-40e2-81cc-519eef4e2f4a/2_85_0120.jpg Home Lot 120 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1932/33. 'Bodyline tour'. 'The English Test Cricketers, 1932'. Large full page 'Supplement to The Western Mail, Perth, Western Australia 20th October 1932', published on the tourists' arrival in Perth on the eve of the opening match of the tour. The supplement page, with title to top, shows the M.C.C. tourists in individual cameo portraits with name printed beneath. Each player featured, with the exception of Tate who joined the party later, has signed in ink across or below his image. A rare item from the Bodyline tour. Hammer £1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2b6d577f-520e-49bb-a8ca-735a521b876d/3_85_0832.jpg Home Lot 832 'The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket...' 1851. Compiled and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W. & T. Piper, Paternoster Row, London 1851. 4th Edition. Original paper wrappers. Rare. Hammer £650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/01fb7a09-6634-487d-8570-b6b1489826e9/4_85_0900.jpg Home Lot 900 W.H. Mason. Publisher. Descriptive key to W.H. Mason's National Print of a Cricket Match (between the counties of Sussex and Kent, at Brighton) introducing characteristic portraits of the players engaged in the match as well as many Noblemen and Gentlemen... by W. Drummond and C.J. Basébe, engraved by G.H. Phillips. Brighton: W.H. Mason & London: Gambart, 1849. Printed by T. Brettell, Haymarket, London. Includes the key plate to front of the book. Extremely rare descriptive key, issued only to purchasers of the artist's proof. Hammer £300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c9c97c52-71a9-447f-b75f-86f333e4606f/5_85_1388.jpg Home Lot 1388 Sporting puzzle jug c 1820/30's. Large early ceramic puzzle jug with sporting scenes of boxing, hunting, cock fighting, horse racing, bull baiting to its sides, human rams head face to the underside of the spout. The main two cartouche panels feature the boxing scene which has the title 'Fives Court' and the hunting scene which has the title 'Hunt near Windsor', floral decorated handle and inside rim of jug. The jug stands 6.5" tall . A rare, early and unusual jug. Hammer £280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a4c09d05-0cb9-43f6-b4c9-c323deeba1ba/6_85_0301.jpg Home Lot 301 Albert Baker. Surrey 1900-1907. Large and very impressively striking early studio portrait of Baker half length wearing Surrey cap and blazer, both items showing the club emblem of the Prince of Wales feathers. The photograph, in cameo mount, by Lovell Smith of Richmond. Framed and glazed in ornate gilt frame with inner gilt mount measuring 29"x35.5". A wonderfully stunning image of a relatively unknown Surrey player which may have been taken to celebrate gaining his county cap and blazer. Hammer £260 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/878ed1bd-58ae-4e20-aebd-37671679de7e/7_85_0232.jpg Home Lot 232 Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield's XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the dinner given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield 8th-10th May 1893. A highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and raised Australian emblem and Lord Sheffield's cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stumps and to sides and lower border, cricket bats and balls. A rare, decorative and exquisite item of ephemera from this early Australian tour. Hammer £850 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d9c65227-4dfa-4004-9826-0cad40465514/8_85_1191.jpg Home Lot 1191 George Parr's 'All England Eleven in Australia and New Zealand' 1863-64. The third England cricket tour overseas. 'Grand All England Match versus Twenty Two of Otago, 2nd to 4th February 1864'. Very rare folding scorecard, printed by Mills, Dick & Co of Dunedin, from the seventh match of the tour. The scorecard was printed prior to the commencement of the match and has the titles and advertising to the front cover, to inside are the two teams listed, the England team listed in batting order, stating his place in the field, as well as distinguishing the players coloured cap’. A remarkable artefact from the dawn of international cricket. Hammer £3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fae5baa7-6291-45a0-905b-cf7c34cf652a/9_85_0441.jpg Home Lot 441 W.G. Grace. An unusual and rarely seen life size bronze hand of Grace holding a cricket ball. The stump of the arm impressed with Grace's signature. The hand and arm measure approximately 11' long. The hand and ball, which was apparently produced to commemorate W.G. Grace's 41st Birthday, July 18th 1889, is beautifully and very skilfully cast showing the finger and thumb nails, the wrinkles around the finger joints and palm, the knuckles and veins in the back of the hand with a lovely patina to the bronze. The current vendor bought the hand over fifty years ago in 1970 for £36. An intriguing and exciting discovery which appears 'fresh' to the market after all these many years. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4a5f951a-de23-4fd1-b088-be3c1036ef27/10_85_1456.jpg Home Lot 1456 London Laughs: 'Football begins'. Excellent, large and original pen and ink drawing artwork, by artist Joseph Lee, depicting the entrance turnstiles to Vicarage Road, home of Watford Football Club. The artwork shows spectators, all wearing caps and hats, filing into the ground for the first game of the 1936-37 season. A man in the foreground says to another 'I hope my voice is going to be all right. I haven't really tried it out since last April'. The artwork, signed by Lee, was published in the London Evening News and is dated 29th August 1936. A wonderfully evocative scene beautifully illustrated by the artist. Hammer £160 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/82694b29-057a-4c68-8193-ab1b88948e47/11_85_0499.jpg Home Lot 499 'Dinner to Len Hutton and his Test Team. Savoy Hotel. October 30th 1953'. Unique original pen and ink caricature/cartoon artwork used as the menu cover for the celebratory dinner given by Claude R. Harper at the Savoy Hotel on the 30th October 1953, highlighted with some colour, by artist Tom Webster. Excellent and iconic image. Minor age toning and wear to edges otherwise in good condition. Previously sold by Knights as part of the Len Hutton collection. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ec49e24d-6246-4c01-a972-aa17bc3cc836/12_85_0404.jpg Home Lot 404 'The Evolution of the Cricket Bat'. A mid eighteenth century circa 1740-1750 cricket bat of light wood, possibly willow, with right-handed curve and distinctive hook-shape to base, no shoulders, made by William Pett of Sevenoaks with two impressed marks 'W. Pett 4' on top of handle and 'Will. Pett Sevenoaks Kent' on the base of the bat. A very rare and early cricket bat previously sold by Christie's Auctioneers as lot 133 in their sale of 1998. Sold with the late vendor's research notes giving further information on the bat. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/223f614b-0743-4291-94e6-d6d75690fd02/13_85_0369%2C0374.jpg Home Lots 369 and 374 Kenneth Shuttleworth. Lancashire, Leicestershire & England 1964-1980. M.C.C. touring test cap and sweater worn by Shuttleworth on the tour of the Australia in 1970/71. The navy blue cap with central emblem of St. George & the Dragon to front and the sweater trimmed in M.C.C. colours. (From the Shuttleworth Collection being sold in this auction.) Hammer Cap £480, Sweater £90 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ff5b4b72-8abd-4604-a944-e99f0460aa18/14_85_0901.jpg Home Lot 901 'Cricket'. W.G. Grace. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. London 1891. Original green cloth, with gilt titles to front board and spine. With inscription to front end paper 'With the Publisher's kind regards 11/6/91 (11th June 1891) and nicely signed in ink by W.G. Grace. The book was presented to Mr Ronald L. Elliott, a cricket writer for the Bristol Evening Post, in 1950 as a thank you from Edgar M. Grace, E.M. Grace's son for writing a biography of W.G. Grace's brother, G.F. Grace, which was published in the newspaper. The book included a rare original menu for the dinner held in 1891 to celebrate the completion and publication of the book 'Cricket' which he wrote with the assistance of W. Methven Brownlee. A rarely seen publisher's presentation edition of 'Cricket' signed by Grace, a very rare dinner menu of the book's launch, only previously seen and sold once by the auctioneer and excellent provenance. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/de40641f-66aa-4437-ac89-55eef09fe766/15_85_0398.jpg Home Lot 398 William Albert Stanley Oldfield, New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Australian test blazer worn by Oldfield on the Australian 1930 tour of England. The green blazer, by Harding's Mercury of Sydney, with gold trimming to blazer edging, pocket and sleeves, embroidered gold and silver wire and coloured thread emblem of Australia to breast pocket with the wording 'Advance Australia' and '1930' beneath. Name handwritten to label 'W.A. Oldfield'. The Blazer was given to David Frith by Oldfield many years ago when Frith lived in Australia. Hammer £1700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a8dfb6f9-1c2a-4ff3-aad4-6291a0405e4b/16_85_0700.jpg Home Lot 700 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1917. 54th edition. Original hardback. Very good condition. A rare wartime hardback edition with gilt titles to front board and spine bright. Hammer £2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d7337930-20fe-41ed-8df8-9f8c93a19199/17_85_0507.jpg Home Lot 507 Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet. Oxford University, Middlesex & England 1898-1919. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Bosanquet . ‘An Artful Bowler’. September 15th 1904 by SPY. Very nicely signed by Bosanquet in black ink to lower right hand corner. A rarer cricketer's signature. Hammer £460 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e250fea6-dc0b-4d97-b510-455b26598fa1/18_85_0073.jpg Home Lot 73 Australian tour of England 1905. Small black autograph book containing the ink signatures of the 1905 Australian tourists and many prominent test and county players from the period. Hammer £1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/882c41a8-b5c6-4a84-9675-ef1911b6fc16/19_85_0119.jpg Home Lot 119 Francis 'Frank' Marchant. Eton, Cambridge University & Kent C.C.C. 1883-1905. Very large album containing various photographs, scorecards, telegram, menus and ephemera covering the cricketing career of former Kent captain, Frank Marchant with comprehensive coverage. The album begins with his school cricket at Eton and concludes with a press cutting of Marchant's death dated 15th April 1946. In addition ink signatures are signed to the album pages by Kent players, W.H. Patterson, Kenneth McAlpine, Eustace Charles Mordaunt, Gerald Mordaunt and J.R. Mason. A comprehensive album covering a pre first world war Kent player and captain. Hammer £5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6d09f2ee-13e7-4403-873f-8aa67c7eaf53/20_85_0420.jpg Home Lot 420 Geoffrey Boycott. Yorkshire & England 1962-1986. A Slazenger cricket bat, pads and batting gloves all made to his specification and used by Boycott in his illustrious cricket career playing for Yorkshire and England. The equipment is sold with a letter of provenance from Boycott detailing each item and were presented in 1988 by Boycott. Hammer £1400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6798206d-0560-498a-b771-2c888bb407ea/22_85_0438.jpg Home Lot 438 England's Champions'. Early and complete leather belt with excellent brass belt buckle inscribed 'England's Champions' c1860. With portrait of the grouped cricketers, the England 1859 touring team to North America surmounted by two sprays of laurel, in raised relief to buckle. Maker's mark for 'Edward Ade of London' to verso. An early rare belt and buckle with all the correct markings to the back of the belt. Hammer £1400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/60096c20-5310-4e4e-b59f-a39de197e68f/23_85_0236.jpg Home Lot 236 Bill Woodfull, Captain of Australia 1930. 'Carlton Cricket Club Smoke Social tendered to Mr W.M. Woodfull Captain 17th Australian XI on Monday 17th November 1930'. Decorative toasts card produced for the evening to welcome home the victorious captain, Australia having won the Ashes in England in the summer of 1930. Beautifully signed in ink to the rear 'Autographs' page by fourteen members of the Australian touring team 1930, Rare. Hammer £460 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cf6790c2-a670-4c19-935a-b54d03062be3/85_0504-3.jpg Home Lot 504 'The Cricketers of Vanity Fair'. Excellent complete collection of sixty six original colour chromolithographs of cricketers, as listed by John Arlott in 'The Cricketer', August 1953 and J.W. Goldman's additional list published in 'The Cricketer' in September 1953. There are eight additional chromolithographs of first class players who appeared in Vanity Fair or similar, discovered since 1953 plus the two principal artists being Carlo Pellegrini 'Ape' and Leslie Ward ‘Spy’ and two collectors books. The chromolithographs are all loose and presented in two large black files. Very rare to see such a complete comprehensive collection of cricketing Vanity Fair lithographs and associated ephemera. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7ea7e92b-9a71-4656-b9d2-4f58ede02e74/24_85_0037.jpg Home Lot 37 'Sussex County Cricket Club Bazaar, Clarence Rooms, Hotel Metropole, Brighton, December 4th, 5th & 6th, 1894. A descriptive catalogue of the Unique Collection of Cricket Trophies, Curios, Historic Bats, Balls, Early Cricket Pictures, Engravings, and Prints. Arranged by W.L.Murdoch, Esq., & Mr. Alfred J. Gaston. Exhibited in aid of the funds of the Sussex County Cricket Club. 1894’. Hammer £340 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fedc7e06-6bcd-4ebe-98a9-7899a6aefdfe/CoverJuly24.jpeg https://www.knights.co.uk/july24 daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/07b99407-9617-4b96-9b1e-467d599f9208/_85_0539.jpg July 24 Lot 539 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1864. 1st edition. Handsomely bound in full black leather, lacking original paper wrappers, with raised bands and title and date in gilt to spine. Very rare first year of issue. Estimate £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fe053f72-d88e-4200-b254-c6ac2c8791bf/1_85_0536.jpg July 24 Lot 536 'A.E. Stoddart's Tour of Australia 1897/98'. 'The Tour Diaries of J.T. Hearne, Middlesex & England 1888-1923'. Two handwritten diaries covering the majority of the tour but concluding for no apparent reason on Wednesday 12th January. The diaries are entertaining and insightful and cover the tour both on and off the field throwing additional light on a tour which was very much less successful for Stoddart and his team than the victorious visit in 1894/95. The diaries reveal Hearne to be a determined cricketer, an honest man with a great sense of humour and an observant eye who was not averse to the occasional modest 'indulgence' off the field. An excellent insight into the life of a professional cricketer on tour, substandard accommodation and food, sharing double beds, trouble with mosquitoes for the professionals compared to the lodgings and food of the amateurs. A unique pair of diaries. Estimate £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b8024639-aadd-40e2-81cc-519eef4e2f4a/2_85_0120.jpg July 24 Lot 120 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1932/33. 'Bodyline tour'. 'The English Test Cricketers, 1932'. Large full page 'Supplement to The Western Mail, Perth, Western Australia 20th October 1932', published on the tourists' arrival in Perth on the eve of the opening match of the tour. The supplement page, with title to top, shows the M.C.C. tourists in individual cameo portraits with name printed beneath. Each player featured, with the exception of Tate who joined the party later, has signed in ink across or below his image. A rare item from the Bodyline tour. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2b6d577f-520e-49bb-a8ca-735a521b876d/3_85_0832.jpg July 24 Lot 832 'The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket...' 1851. Compiled and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W. & T. Piper, Paternoster Row, London 1851. 4th Edition. Original paper wrappers. Rare. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/01fb7a09-6634-487d-8570-b6b1489826e9/4_85_0900.jpg July 24 Lot 900 W.H. Mason. Publisher. Descriptive key to W.H. Mason's National Print of a Cricket Match (between the counties of Sussex and Kent, at Brighton) introducing characteristic portraits of the players engaged in the match as well as many Noblemen and Gentlemen... by W. Drummond and C.J. Basébe, engraved by G.H. Phillips. Brighton: W.H. Mason & London: Gambart, 1849. Printed by T. Brettell, Haymarket, London. Includes the key plate to front of the book. Extremely rare descriptive key, issued only to purchasers of the artist's proof. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c9c97c52-71a9-447f-b75f-86f333e4606f/5_85_1388.jpg July 24 Lot 1388 Sporting puzzle jug c 1820/30's. Large early ceramic puzzle jug with sporting scenes of boxing, hunting, cock fighting, horse racing, bull baiting to its sides, human rams head face to the underside of the spout. The main two cartouche panels feature the boxing scene which has the title 'Fives Court' and the hunting scene which has the title 'Hunt near Windsor', floral decorated handle and inside rim of jug. The jug stands 6.5" tall . A rare, early and unusual jug. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a4c09d05-0cb9-43f6-b4c9-c323deeba1ba/6_85_0301.jpg July 24 Lot 301 Albert Baker. Surrey 1900-1907. Large and very impressively striking early studio portrait of Baker half length wearing Surrey cap and blazer, both items showing the club emblem of the Prince of Wales feathers. The photograph, in cameo mount, by Lovell Smith of Richmond. Framed and glazed in ornate gilt frame with inner gilt mount measuring 29"x35.5". A wonderfully stunning image of a relatively unknown Surrey player which may have been taken to celebrate gaining his county cap and blazer. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/878ed1bd-58ae-4e20-aebd-37671679de7e/7_85_0232.jpg July 24 Lot 232 Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield's XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the dinner given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield 8th-10th May 1893. A highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and raised Australian emblem and Lord Sheffield's cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stumps and to sides and lower border, cricket bats and balls. A rare, decorative and exquisite item of ephemera from this early Australian tour. Estimate £600/900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d9c65227-4dfa-4004-9826-0cad40465514/8_85_1191.jpg July 24 Lot 1191 George Parr's 'All England Eleven in Australia and New Zealand' 1863-64. The third England cricket tour overseas. 'Grand All England Match versus Twenty Two of Otago, 2nd to 4th February 1864'. Very rare folding scorecard, printed by Mills, Dick & Co of Dunedin, from the seventh match of the tour. The scorecard was printed prior to the commencement of the match and has the titles and advertising to the front cover, to inside are the two teams listed, the England team listed in batting order, stating his place in the field, as well as distinguishing the players coloured cap’. A remarkable artefact from the dawn of international cricket. Estimate £1500/2500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fae5baa7-6291-45a0-905b-cf7c34cf652a/9_85_0441.jpg July 24 Lot 441 W.G. Grace. An unusual and rarely seen life size bronze hand of Grace holding a cricket ball. The stump of the arm impressed with Grace's signature. The hand and arm measure approximately 11' long. The hand and ball, which was apparently produced to commemorate W.G. Grace's 41st Birthday, July 18th 1889, is beautifully and very skilfully cast showing the finger and thumb nails, the wrinkles around the finger joints and palm, the knuckles and veins in the back of the hand with a lovely patina to the bronze. The current vendor bought the hand over fifty years ago in 1970 for £36. An intriguing and exciting discovery which appears 'fresh' to the market after all these many years. Estimate £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4a5f951a-de23-4fd1-b088-be3c1036ef27/10_85_1456.jpg July 24 Lot 1456 London Laughs: 'Football begins'. Excellent, large and original pen and ink drawing artwork, by artist Joseph Lee, depicting the entrance turnstiles to Vicarage Road, home of Watford Football Club. The artwork shows spectators, all wearing caps and hats, filing into the ground for the first game of the 1936-37 season. A man in the foreground says to another 'I hope my voice is going to be all right. I haven't really tried it out since last April'. The artwork, signed by Lee, was published in the London Evening News and is dated 29th August 1936. A wonderfully evocative scene beautifully illustrated by the artist. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/82694b29-057a-4c68-8193-ab1b88948e47/11_85_0499.jpg July 24 Lot 499 'Dinner to Len Hutton and his Test Team. Savoy Hotel. October 30th 1953'. Unique original pen and ink caricature/cartoon artwork used as the menu cover for the celebratory dinner given by Claude R. Harper at the Savoy Hotel on the 30th October 1953, highlighted with some colour, by artist Tom Webster. Excellent and iconic image. Minor age toning and wear to edges otherwise in good condition. Previously sold by Knights as part of the Len Hutton collection. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ec49e24d-6246-4c01-a972-aa17bc3cc836/12_85_0404.jpg July 24 Lot 404 'The Evolution of the Cricket Bat'. A mid eighteenth century circa 1740-1750 cricket bat of light wood, possibly willow, with right-handed curve and distinctive hook-shape to base, no shoulders, made by William Pett of Sevenoaks with two impressed marks 'W. Pett 4' on top of handle and 'Will. Pett Sevenoaks Kent' on the base of the bat. A very rare and early cricket bat previously sold by Christie's Auctioneers as lot 133 in their sale of 1998. Sold with the late vendor's research notes giving further information on the bat. Estimate £10000/15000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/223f614b-0743-4291-94e6-d6d75690fd02/13_85_0369%2C0374.jpg July 24 Lots 369 and 374 Kenneth Shuttleworth. Lancashire, Leicestershire & England 1964-1980. M.C.C. touring test cap and sweater worn by Shuttleworth on the tour of the Australia in 1970/71. The navy blue cap with central emblem of St. George & the Dragon to front and the sweater trimmed in M.C.C. colours. (From the Shuttleworth Collection being sold in this auction.) Estimate Cap £140/180, Sweater £80/120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ff5b4b72-8abd-4604-a944-e99f0460aa18/14_85_0901.jpg July 24 Lot 901 'Cricket'. W.G. Grace. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. London 1891. Original green cloth, with gilt titles to front board and spine. With inscription to front end paper 'With the Publisher's kind regards 11/6/91 (11th June 1891) and nicely signed in ink by W.G. Grace. The book was presented to Mr Ronald L. Elliott, a cricket writer for the Bristol Evening Post, in 1950 as a thank you from Edgar M. Grace, E.M. Grace's son for writing a biography of W.G. Grace's brother, G.F. Grace, which was published in the newspaper. The book included a rare original menu for the dinner held in 1891 to celebrate the completion and publication of the book 'Cricket' which he wrote with the assistance of W. Methven Brownlee. A rarely seen publisher's presentation edition of 'Cricket' signed by Grace, a very rare dinner menu of the book's launch, only previously seen and sold once by the auctioneer and excellent provenance. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/de40641f-66aa-4437-ac89-55eef09fe766/15_85_0398.jpg July 24 Lot 398 William Albert Stanley Oldfield, New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Australian test blazer worn by Oldfield on the Australian 1930 tour of England. The green blazer, by Harding's Mercury of Sydney, with gold trimming to blazer edging, pocket and sleeves, embroidered gold and silver wire and coloured thread emblem of Australia to breast pocket with the wording 'Advance Australia' and '1930' beneath. Name handwritten to label 'W.A. Oldfield'. The Blazer was given to David Frith by Oldfield many years ago when Frith lived in Australia. Estimate £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a8dfb6f9-1c2a-4ff3-aad4-6291a0405e4b/16_85_0700.jpg July 24 Lot 700 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1917. 54th edition. Original hardback. Very good condition. A rare wartime hardback edition with gilt titles to front board and spine bright. Estimate £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d7337930-20fe-41ed-8df8-9f8c93a19199/17_85_0507.jpg July 24 Lot 507 Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet. Oxford University, Middlesex & England 1898-1919. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Bosanquet . ‘An Artful Bowler’. September 15th 1904 by SPY. Very nicely signed by Bosanquet in black ink to lower right hand corner. A rarer cricketer's signature. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e250fea6-dc0b-4d97-b510-455b26598fa1/18_85_0073.jpg July 24 Lot 73 Australian tour of England 1905. Small black autograph book containing the ink signatures of the 1905 Australian tourists and many prominent test and county players from the period. Estimate £600/900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/882c41a8-b5c6-4a84-9675-ef1911b6fc16/19_85_0119.jpg July 24 Lot 119 Francis 'Frank' Marchant. Eton, Cambridge University & Kent C.C.C. 1883-1905. Very large album containing various photographs, scorecards, telegram, menus and ephemera covering the cricketing career of former Kent captain, Frank Marchant with comprehensive coverage. The album begins with his school cricket at Eton and concludes with a press cutting of Marchant's death dated 15th April 1946. In addition ink signatures are signed to the album pages by Kent players, W.H. Patterson, Kenneth McAlpine, Eustace Charles Mordaunt, Gerald Mordaunt and J.R. Mason. A comprehensive album covering a pre first world war Kent player and captain. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6d09f2ee-13e7-4403-873f-8aa67c7eaf53/20_85_0420.jpg July 24 Lot 420 Geoffrey Boycott. Yorkshire & England 1962-1986. A Slazenger cricket bat, pads and batting gloves all made to his specification and used by Boycott in his illustrious cricket career playing for Yorkshire and England. The equipment is sold with a letter of provenance from Boycott detailing each item and were presented in 1988 by Boycott. Estimate £1500/2500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6798206d-0560-498a-b771-2c888bb407ea/22_85_0438.jpg July 24 Lot 438 England's Champions'. Early and complete leather belt with excellent brass belt buckle inscribed 'England's Champions' c1860. With portrait of the grouped cricketers, the England 1859 touring team to North America surmounted by two sprays of laurel, in raised relief to buckle. Maker's mark for 'Edward Ade of London' to verso. An early rare belt and buckle with all the correct markings to the back of the belt. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/60096c20-5310-4e4e-b59f-a39de197e68f/23_85_0236.jpg July 24 Lot 236 Bill Woodfull, Captain of Australia 1930. 'Carlton Cricket Club Smoke Social tendered to Mr W.M. Woodfull Captain 17th Australian XI on Monday 17th November 1930'. Decorative toasts card produced for the evening to welcome home the victorious captain, Australia having won the Ashes in England in the summer of 1930. Beautifully signed in ink to the rear 'Autographs' page by fourteen members of the Australian touring team 1930, Rare. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cf6790c2-a670-4c19-935a-b54d03062be3/85_0504-3.jpg July 24 Lot 504 'The Cricketers of Vanity Fair'. Excellent complete collection of sixty six original colour chromolithographs of cricketers, as listed by John Arlott in 'The Cricketer', August 1953 and J.W. Goldman's additional list published in 'The Cricketer' in September 1953. There are eight additional chromolithographs of first class players who appeared in Vanity Fair or similar, discovered since 1953 plus the two principal artists being Carlo Pellegrini 'Ape' and Leslie Ward ‘Spy’ and two collectors books. The chromolithographs are all loose and presented in two large black files. Very rare to see such a complete comprehensive collection of cricketing Vanity Fair lithographs and associated ephemera. Estimate £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7ea7e92b-9a71-4656-b9d2-4f58ede02e74/24_85_0037.jpg July 24 Lot 37 'Sussex County Cricket Club Bazaar, Clarence Rooms, Hotel Metropole, Brighton, December 4th, 5th & 6th, 1894. A descriptive catalogue of the Unique Collection of Cricket Trophies, Curios, Historic Bats, Balls, Early Cricket Pictures, Engravings, and Prints. Arranged by W.L.Murdoch, Esq., & Mr. Alfred J. Gaston. Exhibited in aid of the funds of the Sussex County Cricket Club. 1894’. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fedc7e06-6bcd-4ebe-98a9-7899a6aefdfe/CoverJuly24.jpeg https://www.knights.co.uk/july24after daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/07b99407-9617-4b96-9b1e-467d599f9208/_85_0539.jpg July 24 after Lot 539 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1864. 1st edition. Handsomely bound in full black leather, lacking original paper wrappers, with raised bands and title and date in gilt to spine. Very rare first year of issue. Hammer £5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fe053f72-d88e-4200-b254-c6ac2c8791bf/1_85_0536.jpg July 24 after Lot 536 'A.E. Stoddart's Tour of Australia 1897/98'. 'The Tour Diaries of J.T. Hearne, Middlesex & England 1888-1923'. Two handwritten diaries covering the majority of the tour but concluding for no apparent reason on Wednesday 12th January. The diaries are entertaining and insightful and cover the tour both on and off the field throwing additional light on a tour which was very much less successful for Stoddart and his team than the victorious visit in 1894/95. The diaries reveal Hearne to be a determined cricketer, an honest man with a great sense of humour and an observant eye who was not averse to the occasional modest 'indulgence' off the field. An excellent insight into the life of a professional cricketer on tour, substandard accommodation and food, sharing double beds, trouble with mosquitoes for the professionals compared to the lodgings and food of the amateurs. A unique pair of diaries. Hammer £4600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b8024639-aadd-40e2-81cc-519eef4e2f4a/2_85_0120.jpg July 24 after Lot 120 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1932/33. 'Bodyline tour'. 'The English Test Cricketers, 1932'. Large full page 'Supplement to The Western Mail, Perth, Western Australia 20th October 1932', published on the tourists' arrival in Perth on the eve of the opening match of the tour. The supplement page, with title to top, shows the M.C.C. tourists in individual cameo portraits with name printed beneath. Each player featured, with the exception of Tate who joined the party later, has signed in ink across or below his image. A rare item from the Bodyline tour. Hammer £1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2b6d577f-520e-49bb-a8ca-735a521b876d/3_85_0832.jpg July 24 after Lot 832 'The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket...' 1851. Compiled and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W. & T. Piper, Paternoster Row, London 1851. 4th Edition. Original paper wrappers. Rare. Hammer £650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/01fb7a09-6634-487d-8570-b6b1489826e9/4_85_0900.jpg July 24 after Lot 900 W.H. Mason. Publisher. Descriptive key to W.H. Mason's National Print of a Cricket Match (between the counties of Sussex and Kent, at Brighton) introducing characteristic portraits of the players engaged in the match as well as many Noblemen and Gentlemen... by W. Drummond and C.J. Basébe, engraved by G.H. Phillips. Brighton: W.H. Mason & London: Gambart, 1849. Printed by T. Brettell, Haymarket, London. Includes the key plate to front of the book. Extremely rare descriptive key, issued only to purchasers of the artist's proof. Hammer £300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c9c97c52-71a9-447f-b75f-86f333e4606f/5_85_1388.jpg July 24 after Lot 1388 Sporting puzzle jug c 1820/30's. Large early ceramic puzzle jug with sporting scenes of boxing, hunting, cock fighting, horse racing, bull baiting to its sides, human rams head face to the underside of the spout. The main two cartouche panels feature the boxing scene which has the title 'Fives Court' and the hunting scene which has the title 'Hunt near Windsor', floral decorated handle and inside rim of jug. The jug stands 6.5" tall . A rare, early and unusual jug. Hammer £280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a4c09d05-0cb9-43f6-b4c9-c323deeba1ba/6_85_0301.jpg July 24 after Lot 301 Albert Baker. Surrey 1900-1907. Large and very impressively striking early studio portrait of Baker half length wearing Surrey cap and blazer, both items showing the club emblem of the Prince of Wales feathers. The photograph, in cameo mount, by Lovell Smith of Richmond. Framed and glazed in ornate gilt frame with inner gilt mount measuring 29"x35.5". A wonderfully stunning image of a relatively unknown Surrey player which may have been taken to celebrate gaining his county cap and blazer. Hammer £260 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/878ed1bd-58ae-4e20-aebd-37671679de7e/7_85_0232.jpg July 24 after Lot 232 Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield's XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the dinner given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield 8th-10th May 1893. A highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and raised Australian emblem and Lord Sheffield's cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stumps and to sides and lower border, cricket bats and balls. A rare, decorative and exquisite item of ephemera from this early Australian tour. Hammer £850 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d9c65227-4dfa-4004-9826-0cad40465514/8_85_1191.jpg July 24 after Lot 1191 George Parr's 'All England Eleven in Australia and New Zealand' 1863-64. The third England cricket tour overseas. 'Grand All England Match versus Twenty Two of Otago, 2nd to 4th February 1864'. Very rare folding scorecard, printed by Mills, Dick & Co of Dunedin, from the seventh match of the tour. The scorecard was printed prior to the commencement of the match and has the titles and advertising to the front cover, to inside are the two teams listed, the England team listed in batting order, stating his place in the field, as well as distinguishing the players coloured cap’. A remarkable artefact from the dawn of international cricket. Hammer £3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fae5baa7-6291-45a0-905b-cf7c34cf652a/9_85_0441.jpg July 24 after Lot 441 W.G. Grace. An unusual and rarely seen life size bronze hand of Grace holding a cricket ball. The stump of the arm impressed with Grace's signature. The hand and arm measure approximately 11' long. The hand and ball, which was apparently produced to commemorate W.G. Grace's 41st Birthday, July 18th 1889, is beautifully and very skilfully cast showing the finger and thumb nails, the wrinkles around the finger joints and palm, the knuckles and veins in the back of the hand with a lovely patina to the bronze. The current vendor bought the hand over fifty years ago in 1970 for £36. An intriguing and exciting discovery which appears 'fresh' to the market after all these many years. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4a5f951a-de23-4fd1-b088-be3c1036ef27/10_85_1456.jpg July 24 after Lot 1456 London Laughs: 'Football begins'. Excellent, large and original pen and ink drawing artwork, by artist Joseph Lee, depicting the entrance turnstiles to Vicarage Road, home of Watford Football Club. The artwork shows spectators, all wearing caps and hats, filing into the ground for the first game of the 1936-37 season. A man in the foreground says to another 'I hope my voice is going to be all right. I haven't really tried it out since last April'. The artwork, signed by Lee, was published in the London Evening News and is dated 29th August 1936. A wonderfully evocative scene beautifully illustrated by the artist. Hammer £160 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/82694b29-057a-4c68-8193-ab1b88948e47/11_85_0499.jpg July 24 after Lot 499 'Dinner to Len Hutton and his Test Team. Savoy Hotel. October 30th 1953'. Unique original pen and ink caricature/cartoon artwork used as the menu cover for the celebratory dinner given by Claude R. Harper at the Savoy Hotel on the 30th October 1953, highlighted with some colour, by artist Tom Webster. Excellent and iconic image. Minor age toning and wear to edges otherwise in good condition. Previously sold by Knights as part of the Len Hutton collection. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ec49e24d-6246-4c01-a972-aa17bc3cc836/12_85_0404.jpg July 24 after Lot 404 'The Evolution of the Cricket Bat'. A mid eighteenth century circa 1740-1750 cricket bat of light wood, possibly willow, with right-handed curve and distinctive hook-shape to base, no shoulders, made by William Pett of Sevenoaks with two impressed marks 'W. Pett 4' on top of handle and 'Will. Pett Sevenoaks Kent' on the base of the bat. A very rare and early cricket bat previously sold by Christie's Auctioneers as lot 133 in their sale of 1998. Sold with the late vendor's research notes giving further information on the bat. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/223f614b-0743-4291-94e6-d6d75690fd02/13_85_0369%2C0374.jpg July 24 after Lots 369 and 374 Kenneth Shuttleworth. Lancashire, Leicestershire & England 1964-1980. M.C.C. touring test cap and sweater worn by Shuttleworth on the tour of the Australia in 1970/71. The navy blue cap with central emblem of St. George & the Dragon to front and the sweater trimmed in M.C.C. colours. (From the Shuttleworth Collection being sold in this auction.) Hammer Cap £480, Sweater £90 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ff5b4b72-8abd-4604-a944-e99f0460aa18/14_85_0901.jpg July 24 after Lot 901 'Cricket'. W.G. Grace. J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. London 1891. Original green cloth, with gilt titles to front board and spine. With inscription to front end paper 'With the Publisher's kind regards 11/6/91 (11th June 1891) and nicely signed in ink by W.G. Grace. The book was presented to Mr Ronald L. Elliott, a cricket writer for the Bristol Evening Post, in 1950 as a thank you from Edgar M. Grace, E.M. Grace's son for writing a biography of W.G. Grace's brother, G.F. Grace, which was published in the newspaper. The book included a rare original menu for the dinner held in 1891 to celebrate the completion and publication of the book 'Cricket' which he wrote with the assistance of W. Methven Brownlee. A rarely seen publisher's presentation edition of 'Cricket' signed by Grace, a very rare dinner menu of the book's launch, only previously seen and sold once by the auctioneer and excellent provenance. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/de40641f-66aa-4437-ac89-55eef09fe766/15_85_0398.jpg July 24 after Lot 398 William Albert Stanley Oldfield, New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Australian test blazer worn by Oldfield on the Australian 1930 tour of England. The green blazer, by Harding's Mercury of Sydney, with gold trimming to blazer edging, pocket and sleeves, embroidered gold and silver wire and coloured thread emblem of Australia to breast pocket with the wording 'Advance Australia' and '1930' beneath. Name handwritten to label 'W.A. Oldfield'. The Blazer was given to David Frith by Oldfield many years ago when Frith lived in Australia. Hammer £1700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a8dfb6f9-1c2a-4ff3-aad4-6291a0405e4b/16_85_0700.jpg July 24 after Lot 700 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1917. 54th edition. Original hardback. Very good condition. A rare wartime hardback edition with gilt titles to front board and spine bright. Hammer £2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d7337930-20fe-41ed-8df8-9f8c93a19199/17_85_0507.jpg July 24 after Lot 507 Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet. Oxford University, Middlesex & England 1898-1919. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Bosanquet . ‘An Artful Bowler’. September 15th 1904 by SPY. Very nicely signed by Bosanquet in black ink to lower right hand corner. A rarer cricketer's signature. Hammer £460 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e250fea6-dc0b-4d97-b510-455b26598fa1/18_85_0073.jpg July 24 after Lot 73 Australian tour of England 1905. Small black autograph book containing the ink signatures of the 1905 Australian tourists and many prominent test and county players from the period. Hammer £1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/882c41a8-b5c6-4a84-9675-ef1911b6fc16/19_85_0119.jpg July 24 after Lot 119 Francis 'Frank' Marchant. Eton, Cambridge University & Kent C.C.C. 1883-1905. Very large album containing various photographs, scorecards, telegram, menus and ephemera covering the cricketing career of former Kent captain, Frank Marchant with comprehensive coverage. The album begins with his school cricket at Eton and concludes with a press cutting of Marchant's death dated 15th April 1946. In addition ink signatures are signed to the album pages by Kent players, W.H. Patterson, Kenneth McAlpine, Eustace Charles Mordaunt, Gerald Mordaunt and J.R. Mason. A comprehensive album covering a pre first world war Kent player and captain. Hammer £5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6d09f2ee-13e7-4403-873f-8aa67c7eaf53/20_85_0420.jpg July 24 after Lot 420 Geoffrey Boycott. Yorkshire & England 1962-1986. A Slazenger cricket bat, pads and batting gloves all made to his specification and used by Boycott in his illustrious cricket career playing for Yorkshire and England. The equipment is sold with a letter of provenance from Boycott detailing each item and were presented in 1988 by Boycott. Hammer £1400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6798206d-0560-498a-b771-2c888bb407ea/22_85_0438.jpg July 24 after Lot 438 England's Champions'. Early and complete leather belt with excellent brass belt buckle inscribed 'England's Champions' c1860. With portrait of the grouped cricketers, the England 1859 touring team to North America surmounted by two sprays of laurel, in raised relief to buckle. Maker's mark for 'Edward Ade of London' to verso. An early rare belt and buckle with all the correct markings to the back of the belt. Hammer £1400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cf6790c2-a670-4c19-935a-b54d03062be3/85_0504-3.jpg July 24 after Lot 504 'The Cricketers of Vanity Fair'. Excellent complete collection of sixty six original colour chromolithographs of cricketers, as listed by John Arlott in 'The Cricketer', August 1953 and J.W. Goldman's additional list published in 'The Cricketer' in September 1953. There are eight additional chromolithographs of first class players who appeared in Vanity Fair or similar, discovered since 1953 plus the two principal artists being Carlo Pellegrini 'Ape' and Leslie Ward ‘Spy’ and two collectors books. The chromolithographs are all loose and presented in two large black files. Very rare to see such a complete comprehensive collection of cricketing Vanity Fair lithographs and associated ephemera. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/60096c20-5310-4e4e-b59f-a39de197e68f/23_85_0236.jpg July 24 after Lot 236 Bill Woodfull, Captain of Australia 1930. 'Carlton Cricket Club Smoke Social tendered to Mr W.M. Woodfull Captain 17th Australian XI on Monday 17th November 1930'. Decorative toasts card produced for the evening to welcome home the victorious captain, Australia having won the Ashes in England in the summer of 1930. Beautifully signed in ink to the rear 'Autographs' page by fourteen members of the Australian touring team 1930, Rare. Hammer £460 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7ea7e92b-9a71-4656-b9d2-4f58ede02e74/24_85_0037.jpg July 24 after Lot 37 'Sussex County Cricket Club Bazaar, Clarence Rooms, Hotel Metropole, Brighton, December 4th, 5th & 6th, 1894. A descriptive catalogue of the Unique Collection of Cricket Trophies, Curios, Historic Bats, Balls, Early Cricket Pictures, Engravings, and Prints. Arranged by W.L.Murdoch, Esq., & Mr. Alfred J. Gaston. Exhibited in aid of the funds of the Sussex County Cricket Club. 1894’. Hammer £340 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fedc7e06-6bcd-4ebe-98a9-7899a6aefdfe/CoverJuly24.jpeg https://www.knights.co.uk/sep24 daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/801c670f-0de7-44a5-ae3e-b5e242df29b0/86_0609.jpg Sep 24 Lot 609 'Cricket. An Heroic Poem Illustrated with the critical observations of Scriblerus Maximus'. James Love [Dance]. Published by W. Bickerton 1744. First edition. 25pp. Woodcut title vignette. Bound in blue morocco leather with beautifully gilt title lettering in the inner compartment of a double panel, gilt to all edges, the very first edition of the first separately published poem on cricket. One of the rarest cricket books. Estimate £8000/12000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/79526ef5-44b6-4b99-becf-7b3d33c6b9e0/86_0205.jpg Sep 24 Lot 205 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1864. 1st edition. Bound in red boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Very rare first year of issue. Good/very good condition. £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2f34bab0-ac53-4487-b451-4cc137bc5642/86_0358.jpg Sep 24 Lot 358 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1877-1878. Hardback 'blue book'. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt. Kent emblem 'Invicta' to centre. Printed by C.E. Davey, 'Kent Herald' Office 1878. Very rare first issue of the 'blue book’. From an excellent full run of the Blue Book to 1920 being sold in this auction. Estimate £800/1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f566fc1d-2a13-4bb0-91d4-ed555da6035b/86_0002.jpg Sep 24 Lot 2 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1868. Original paper wrappers, replacement spine paper. Rare fifth edition. Estimate £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f8e1cd72-d438-4f1c-8bd2-daf55debda56/86_0388.jpg Sep 24 Lot 388 Somerset County Cricket Club 1890. Very rare first edition of the Year Book. Alex Hammett, Taunton 1891. Original decorative boards. From an excellent full run of the Year Book to 1921 being sold in this auction. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/17679c04-9362-4939-85ce-6b32cebb16ba/86_0042.jpg Sep 24 Lot 42 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1912. 49th edition. Original hardback. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/62b20fb6-8c4e-4ff7-9144-6cc12edef8fa/86_0576.jpg Sep 24 Lot 576 West Indies. 'The Barbados Cricketers' Annual for 1895-96. Second year of publication'. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. A rare Annual. From an excellent full run of the Annual to 1914 being sold in this auction. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9d1d577d-25f7-4d0e-adbc-9ea04410962c/86_0207.jpg Sep 24 Lot 207 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1866. 3rd edition. Bound in red boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Estimate £1500/2500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9557824d-c70a-4c45-88b4-f2baa33a9c44/86_0419.jpg Sep 24 Lot 419 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1893. 1st year of issue. 100pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards with tooled decoration, titles in gilt to front board with white rose emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. The rare and elusive first edition. From an excellent full run of the annual to 1921 being sold in this auction. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2e7f938c-732d-496d-ae7f-2fb588dcb1df/86_0004.jpg Sep 24 Lot 4 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1871. 8th edition. Original paper wrappers, replacement spine block. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/28ca0a86-fa58-4f8e-b2ee-aa010fa685ae/86_0462.jpg Sep 24 Lot 462 'Scottish Cricketers' Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....'. No. I. Season 1870-71. First issue. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original front wrapper, titles in silver to spine. From an excellent full run of the Annual & Guide to 1888 being sold in this auction. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8481ba75-5368-442b-8934-70d510db6d2f/86_0308.jpg Sep 24 Lot 308 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916. 53rd edition. Original hardback. A rare wartime hardback edition and probably the rarest of the 20th century editions. Estimate £2500/3500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/22946af6-2893-41cc-86bb-e1cf07e69f5e/86_0516-a.jpg Sep 24 Lot 516 'Arthur Haygarth's [and M.C.C.] Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers. Volumes I to XIII covering the seasons 1746-1876, published London 1876-1880, and Vol. XV 'Biographies and Biographical Index' published 1925. Lacking Vol. XIV. Vol. VII is a presentation copy with dedication in ink 'Presented to Samuel Hoare by Arthur Haygarth in recollection of former days- July 9 1877'. Qty 14. Estimate £500/700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7ddf3b73-7061-4947-8647-5fafaadf1ee2/86_0217.jpg Sep 24 Lot 217 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1878. 15th edition. Bound in dark brown boards, with original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8dc29439-99d7-4c84-95cc-3fb27d89da7a/86_0529.jpg Sep 24 Lot 529 'Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1899'. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1899. First year of issue, of which only twenty copies were produced. 51pp. Original pale blue paper wrappers. Presentation copy with inscription in ink in Ashley-Cooper's own hand to 'C.W. Alcock Esq., 20 November. 1899. Copy no. 2'. Very rare. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f1094206-a5fe-48d7-93dc-229c3c6bca0a/86_0045.jpg Sep 24 Lot 45 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916. 53rd edition. Original paper wrappers. Rare war-time edition. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d4f3cecf-45ee-4a7b-b1dc-e90b0986dd84/86_0533.jpg Sep 24 Lot 533 'The Cricketer's Companion; containing the scores of the principal matches of cricket, played at Lord's and other grounds in the Season 1843'. William Denison. Published by W. Clement, Junior of the Strand 1844. 12mo. Original green cloth with gilt titles 'Denison's Cricketers' Companion 1843'. 54pp. First edition. A good copy of a rare book. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/82078280-a3ba-4aa5-9342-224df6679a04/86_0110.jpg Sep 24 Lot 110 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1924. 61st edition. Original hardback. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fe31594c-fb31-45c7-ada8-0a0b106c5821/86_0535.jpg Sep 24 Lot 535 Lambert's Cricketer's Guide or Instructions and Rules, for playing the Noble Game of Cricket...'. William Lambert. Sussex Press, Lewes. First Edition 1816. Printed and published by J. Baxter. 'Illustrated by an Elegant Copper-Plate Engraving'. 55pp. Bound in brown boards, original stiffened paper wrappers retained. Includes the folded frontispiece engraving of the 'Cricketing’ scene. Estimate £1800/2500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8e038259-a435-4db1-b252-68ac4db82dca/86_0328-a.jpg Sep 24 Lot 328 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1995 to 2024. 132nd to 161st edition. Excellent complete run of the de luxe full leather bound limited edition hardback. Gilt lettering and gilt to all page block edges, in slip cases. Each book is numbered limited edition number 92, the 1995 of only 100 copies and the following years of 150 copies produced, each signed by the editor of Wisden in that year. Estimate £4000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fcf21267-a3fb-45c9-9462-f04249e7e377/86_0559.jpg Sep 24 Lot 559 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare Third Annual Circular for Season 1869-70'. Double sided single page large format circular. Presumably printed at the 'Mercury' Steam Press Office, Hobart. From an excellent run of the Circular to 1904 being sold in this auction. Estimate £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f98cc2c8-7a38-421a-b2c0-5106989b2640/86_0554.jpg Sep 24 Lot 554 'The Tour of the Australian Eleven through England, America and the Colonies with Conway's Australian Cricketers' Annual for 1877-78'. Melbourne. Fergusson & Moore 1879. Bound without original wrappers in half calf and marbled boards with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. 400pp. A scarce cricket tour book Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1a512bdf-d4fe-4073-8e5f-fb4f59988e4b/86_0528.jpg Sep 24 Lot 528 'The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899'. Sir James Matthew Barrie, privately printed, 1st edition 1899. Twelve photographic illustrations, original semi transparent wrappers with gilt titles to front. A fine copy of this highly coveted and most elusive title, copies only being circulated among team members and close friends. Estimate £1200/1800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/739dfe46-c09f-4883-96e2-be47ac6c6b22/sc0264.jpg Sep 24 Lot 593 'The Revival of Sport in Barbados: A Complete Chronicle of the Intercolonial Cricket Tournament, 1920, Barbados vs. Trinidad and Barbados Turf Club Races 16th-17th February 1920'. Barbados Advocate 1920. 60pp plus advertising pages. Original pictorial wrappers, bound in red boards with title to spine. A rare book. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fac5c425-76a0-4a4c-a4b3-bda86379f712/86_0600.jpg Sep 24 Lot 600 New Zealand. 'A Record of the Past Cricket Season 1889-90'. Compiled by F.E. Brittain. Bock and Co., Wellington 1890. Only year of issue. 54pp. Original paper wrappers. Rare. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/262b268e-1586-46ff-ae30-83206faa07ff/86_0612.jpg Sep 24 Lot 612 'Angliae Notitia or the Present State of England'. Edward Chamberlayne. 'The Nineteenth edition, with great Additions and Improvements'. Printed by T. Hodgkin for R. Chiswell etc., London 1700. Rebound in black calf with raised bands and gilt title to spine, red page edges. A very early mention of cricket on p.48. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f4d0b8b7-9dfd-426f-8d1a-906dd71b8758/86_0545-a.jpg Sep 24 Lot 545 'Gauntlet's Cricketers Record, containing the full scores of all The Great Matches played during the Season 1860; the Averages of the Players together with a List of the Batsman who have obtained 100 runs or more and Rules of the Game of Cricket'. Published by Gauntlet, Sevenoaks, Kent, printed by Vardy Printer of Bishopgate, London 1860. 58pp, should be 60pp. Bound in half leather green boards, with original front wrapper laid down to end paper at the rear of the book, lacking rear wrapper. An extremely rare cricket annual. Estimate £8000/12000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/298bbf43-6861-4894-babe-d64f51e80ff3/CoverSept24.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/sep24after daily 0.75 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/801c670f-0de7-44a5-ae3e-b5e242df29b0/86_0609.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 609 'Cricket. An Heroic Poem Illustrated with the critical observations of Scriblerus Maximus'. James Love [Dance]. Published by W. Bickerton 1744. First edition. 25pp. Woodcut title vignette. Bound in blue morocco leather with beautifully gilt title lettering in the inner compartment of a double panel, gilt to all edges, the very first edition of the first separately published poem on cricket. One of the rarest cricket books. Hammer £13000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/79526ef5-44b6-4b99-becf-7b3d33c6b9e0/86_0205.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 205 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1864. 1st edition. Bound in red boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Very rare first year of issue. Good/very good condition. Hammer £5500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2f34bab0-ac53-4487-b451-4cc137bc5642/86_0358.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 358 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1877-1878. Hardback 'blue book'. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with silver gilt. Kent emblem 'Invicta' to centre. Printed by C.E. Davey, 'Kent Herald' Office 1878. Very rare first issue of the 'blue book’. From an excellent full run of the Blue Book to 1920 being sold in this auction. Hammer £1800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f566fc1d-2a13-4bb0-91d4-ed555da6035b/86_0002.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 2 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1868. Original paper wrappers, replacement spine paper. Rare fifth edition. Hammer £3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f8e1cd72-d438-4f1c-8bd2-daf55debda56/86_0388.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 388 Somerset County Cricket Club 1890. Very rare first edition of the Year Book. Alex Hammett, Taunton 1891. Original decorative boards. From an excellent full run of the Year Book to 1921 being sold in this auction. Hammer £600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/17679c04-9362-4939-85ce-6b32cebb16ba/86_0042.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 42 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1912. 49th edition. Original hardback. Hammer £650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/62b20fb6-8c4e-4ff7-9144-6cc12edef8fa/86_0576.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 576 West Indies. 'The Barbados Cricketers' Annual for 1895-96. Second year of publication'. Edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons. A rare Annual. From an excellent full run of the Annual to 1914 being sold in this auction. Hammer £160 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9d1d577d-25f7-4d0e-adbc-9ea04410962c/86_0207.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 207 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1866. 3rd edition. Bound in red boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Hammer £1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9557824d-c70a-4c45-88b4-f2baa33a9c44/86_0419.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 419 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1893. 1st year of issue. 100pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards with tooled decoration, titles in gilt to front board with white rose emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. The rare and elusive first edition. From an excellent full run of the annual to 1921 being sold in this auction. Hammer £1700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2e7f938c-732d-496d-ae7f-2fb588dcb1df/86_0004.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 4 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1871. 8th edition. Original paper wrappers, replacement spine block. Hammer £1600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/28ca0a86-fa58-4f8e-b2ee-aa010fa685ae/86_0462.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 462 'Scottish Cricketers' Annual and Guide containing an authentic record....'. No. I. Season 1870-71. First issue. Edited by Percival King, Edinburgh. Bound in grey boards with original front wrapper, titles in silver to spine. From an excellent full run of the Annual & Guide to 1888 being sold in this auction. Hammer £95 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8481ba75-5368-442b-8934-70d510db6d2f/86_0308.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 308 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916. 53rd edition. Original hardback. A rare wartime hardback edition and probably the rarest of the 20th century editions. Hammer £3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/22946af6-2893-41cc-86bb-e1cf07e69f5e/86_0516-a.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 516 'Arthur Haygarth's [and M.C.C.] Cricket Scores And Biographies Of Celebrated Cricketers. Volumes I to XIII covering the seasons 1746-1876, published London 1876-1880, and Vol. XV 'Biographies and Biographical Index' published 1925. Lacking Vol. XIV. Vol. VII is a presentation copy with dedication in ink 'Presented to Samuel Hoare by Arthur Haygarth in recollection of former days- July 9 1877'. Qty 14. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7ddf3b73-7061-4947-8647-5fafaadf1ee2/86_0217.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 217 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1878. 15th edition. Bound in dark brown boards, with original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine. Hammer £850 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8dc29439-99d7-4c84-95cc-3fb27d89da7a/86_0529.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 529 'Feats, Facts, and Figures of 1899'. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Published for private circulation by Merritt & Hatcher, London 1899. First year of issue, of which only twenty copies were produced. 51pp. Original pale blue paper wrappers. Presentation copy with inscription in ink in Ashley-Cooper's own hand to 'C.W. Alcock Esq., 20 November. 1899. Copy no. 2'. Very rare. Hammer £850 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f1094206-a5fe-48d7-93dc-229c3c6bca0a/86_0045.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 45 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916. 53rd edition. Original paper wrappers. Rare war-time edition. Hammer £400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d4f3cecf-45ee-4a7b-b1dc-e90b0986dd84/86_0533.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 533 'The Cricketer's Companion; containing the scores of the principal matches of cricket, played at Lord's and other grounds in the Season 1843'. William Denison. Published by W. Clement, Junior of the Strand 1844. 12mo. Original green cloth with gilt titles 'Denison's Cricketers' Companion 1843'. 54pp. First edition. A good copy of a rare book. Hammer £1600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/82078280-a3ba-4aa5-9342-224df6679a04/86_0110.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 110 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1924. 61st edition. Original hardback. Hammer £220 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fe31594c-fb31-45c7-ada8-0a0b106c5821/86_0535.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 535 Lambert's Cricketer's Guide or Instructions and Rules, for playing the Noble Game of Cricket...'. William Lambert. Sussex Press, Lewes. First Edition 1816. Printed and published by J. Baxter. 'Illustrated by an Elegant Copper-Plate Engraving'. 55pp. Bound in brown boards, original stiffened paper wrappers retained. Includes the folded frontispiece engraving of the 'Cricketing’ scene. Hammer £1800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8e038259-a435-4db1-b252-68ac4db82dca/86_0328-a.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 328 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1995 to 2024. 132nd to 161st edition. Excellent complete run of the de luxe full leather bound limited edition hardback. Gilt lettering and gilt to all page block edges, in slip cases. Each book is numbered limited edition number 92, the 1995 of only 100 copies and the following years of 150 copies produced, each signed by the editor of Wisden in that year. Hammer £3700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fcf21267-a3fb-45c9-9462-f04249e7e377/86_0559.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 559 Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association. Rare Third Annual Circular for Season 1869-70'. Double sided single page large format circular. Presumably printed at the 'Mercury' Steam Press Office, Hobart. From an excellent run of the Circular to 1904 being sold in this auction. Hammer £160 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f98cc2c8-7a38-421a-b2c0-5106989b2640/86_0554.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 554 'The Tour of the Australian Eleven through England, America and the Colonies with Conway's Australian Cricketers' Annual for 1877-78'. Melbourne. Fergusson & Moore 1879. Bound without original wrappers in half calf and marbled boards with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. 400pp. A scarce cricket tour book Hammer £480 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1a512bdf-d4fe-4073-8e5f-fb4f59988e4b/86_0528.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 528 'The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899'. Sir James Matthew Barrie, privately printed, 1st edition 1899. Twelve photographic illustrations, original semi transparent wrappers with gilt titles to front. A fine copy of this highly coveted and most elusive title, copies only being circulated among team members and close friends. Hammer £2300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/739dfe46-c09f-4883-96e2-be47ac6c6b22/sc0264.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 593 'The Revival of Sport in Barbados: A Complete Chronicle of the Intercolonial Cricket Tournament, 1920, Barbados vs. Trinidad and Barbados Turf Club Races 16th-17th February 1920'. Barbados Advocate 1920. 60pp plus advertising pages. Original pictorial wrappers, bound in red boards with title to spine. A rare book. Hammer £240 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fac5c425-76a0-4a4c-a4b3-bda86379f712/86_0600.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 600 New Zealand. 'A Record of the Past Cricket Season 1889-90'. Compiled by F.E. Brittain. Bock and Co., Wellington 1890. Only year of issue. 54pp. Original paper wrappers. Rare. Hammer £180 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/262b268e-1586-46ff-ae30-83206faa07ff/86_0612.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 612 'Angliae Notitia or the Present State of England'. Edward Chamberlayne. 'The Nineteenth edition, with great Additions and Improvements'. Printed by T. Hodgkin for R. Chiswell etc., London 1700. Rebound in black calf with raised bands and gilt title to spine, red page edges. A very early mention of cricket on p.48. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f4d0b8b7-9dfd-426f-8d1a-906dd71b8758/86_0545-a.jpg Sep 24 after Lot 545 'Gauntlet's Cricketers Record, containing the full scores of all The Great Matches played during the Season 1860; the Averages of the Players together with a List of the Batsman who have obtained 100 runs or more and Rules of the Game of Cricket'. Published by Gauntlet, Sevenoaks, Kent, printed by Vardy Printer of Bishopgate, London 1860. 58pp, should be 60pp. Bound in half leather green boards, with original front wrapper laid down to end paper at the rear of the book, lacking rear wrapper. An extremely rare cricket annual. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/298bbf43-6861-4894-babe-d64f51e80ff3/CoverSept24.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/nov24 daily 0.75 2024-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c7cd0ee1-3804-4e10-94fa-2b785559da19/1_87_1289.jpg Nov 24 Lot 1289 'Popular Stories for Boys 1955'. Claude P. Shilton. Very attractive and highly colourful gouache artwork for the front cover of the Annual for 1955. The artwork features a central boy footballer kicking the ball with his team mates and opposition running behind him. A wonderful evocative image. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a6eb870f-aa62-49b4-b606-01918d0b7923/2_87_0395.jpg Nov 24 Lot 395 Alfred Herbert Harold Gilligan. Sussex & England 1919-1931. 'M.C.C. Tour of Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand 1929/30'. Original gold hallmarked cigarette case presented to Captain Alfred Gilligan by the members of the team during or following the tour. The case is made of nine carat gold, and is hallmarked Chester 1929. A nice personal item given as a mark of gratitude to the players' skipper. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1635638a-5142-42f2-8e01-6ac318541100/3_87_0452.jpg Nov 24 Lot 452 Frederick Robert Spofforth. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1874-1888. Vanity Fair. 'The Demon Bowler'. Original colour chromolithograph of Spofforth by Spy dated July 13th 1878. Beautifully signed in black ink to lower border by Spofforth. An original signature of the demon bowler is rarely seen and to have it signed on one of the most iconic images of the 'Demon Bowler' is a truly exceptional item. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d028c636-a426-4255-b683-92794305fa63/4_87_0849.jpg Nov 24 Lot 849 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1917. 54th edition. Original hardback. Very good to excellent condition throughout. A rare wartime hardback edition with gilt titles to front board and spine bright. Estimate £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/eaa26214-95ca-43fd-b995-dd16f5913a30/5_87_0682.jpg Nov 24 Lot 682 'On the Tented Fields of the South 1882'. By The Childe (W.F. Buckland). Printed at the 'Free Lance' Office, Vulcan Lane, Auckland (New Zealand) 1883. 32pp. Report of a southern tour of the Auckland Representative Eleven with 'pomes' in prose and verse, descriptions and scores of the tour. A very rare and early New Zealand cricket publication. Estimate £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ec53b603-af6f-411a-a3d9-43bdb7759323/6_87_0326.jpg Nov 24 Lot 326 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Stuart Surridge 'Rapid Driver' cricket bat used by Denton in the 1905 cricket season scoring over 2405 runs and making 52 and 153 not out against the Australians at Bradford in June 1905. The bat is inscribed clearly in black ink in Denton's hand 'Scored over 2000 runs with this bat including 52 and 153 not out versus Australians at Bradford, June 5, 6 & 7th 1905'. Additionally inscribed 'Highest score against the Australians 1905 tour' and signed by him. Estimate £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d42e823c-2172-475d-82b0-a5f701484968/7_87_0399.jpg Nov 24 Lot 399 'The Aboriginals'. Victorian brass metal embossed belt buckle, depicting an Aboriginal cricketer with a bat over his shoulder to which his cricket boots are hanging. A cricket tent with flag flying to background with floral decorative border and to lower border on raised bar the inscription 'The Aboriginals'. Beaded outer border decoration. A rare item from this very early tour by the Aboriginal team. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9f0dc16d-b4ed-4701-8e6d-c4f0df065f91/8_87_1143.jpg Nov 24 Lot 1143 Golf jug. An attractive Copeland Late Spode slightly tapered cylindrical jug with short spout, square arched handle and pewter lid, the body decorated with a continuous scene of golfers and caddies in white raised relief displaying various golfing swings and poses on a cobalt blue and grey ground with floral decoration. Circa 1910. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/00cef69b-66d8-45a0-9f0f-f6f9634c3c42/9_87_0366.jpg Nov 24 Lot 366 Colin Milburn. Northamptonshire, Western Australia & England 1960-1974. M.C.C. navy blue touring cap worn by Milburn during his Test career. The cap with M.C.C. emblem of St. George & Dragon has 'C. Milburn' handwritten to label. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8536f65b-0ffd-4d1d-8ad8-cbf18a6426d8/10_87_0605_a.jpg Nov 24 Lot 605 'The Cricketer’s Manual for the Border Counties containing a Review and Averages for the Season 1869'. Published by Askew Roberts, Woodall, & Venables, Bailey Head, Oswestry. Comprising match scores, match reports and club averages including those of the Shropshire county team. Estimate £800/1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/710cf74d-d33f-4d17-847c-6514a5d134b6/11_87_0509.jpg Nov 24 Lot 509 Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Excellent photomechanical process print photograph of Australian legend Victor Trumper, 'jumping out to drive', taken from the original action photograph by George William Beldam based on a photograph taken at the Oval during the 1902 tour. Nicely signed to lower border by both Victor Trumper and George William Beldam in pencil. Published by the Swan Electric Engraving Company on 1st August 1905. The ultimate iconic image from the golden age of cricket. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7bb8c1a0-8585-4e1b-9a3e-9b72dff2e48a/12_87_0067.jpg Nov 24 Lot 67 Don Bradman. Official menu for 'A Luncheon and Presentation to Don Bradman'. Savoy Hotel, London. September 20th 1948. Folding menu for the Luncheon given by 'The People' newspaper. The menu with gold tassel, title to front cover and colour 'Australia 1948' emblem above. The inside front cover with menu, list of speakers and details of the presentation of an antique silver replica of the Warwick Vase to Bradman. Very nicely signed in ink by Bradman and by eight attendees, Bill Johnston, Lyndsay Hassett, Arthur Morris, Ray Lindwall, Keith Miller and Ernie Toshack of Australia, Norman Yardley and Jim Laker of England. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6fcf69c5-8b7d-4133-a756-4adfba83db22/13_87_0401.jpg Nov 24 Lot 401 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England. 1865-1908. A limp calf brown leather wallet which once belonged to Grace with his name 'W.G. Grace' stamped into the surface of the wallet. It was apparently acquired by a gardener to a relative of Grace and then by descent to a Charles Hemus, English born, who moved to live near Canberra in Australia. An historic item having apparently once belonged to the 'Champion’. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cdb14dc5-94fa-4b72-9e59-64a18d383803/14_87_0328.jpg Nov 24 Lot 328 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Attractive silver hallmarked cigarette case presented to Denton in the 1908 cricket season to commemorate him scoring two consecutive centuries for Yorkshire against M.C.C. at Scarborough in August and September 1908. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/12d345e5-c1de-414b-8a91-bc46102b4c0c/15_87_1174.jpg Nov 24 Lot 1174 'Golliwog Golfer'. Large handpainted ceramic figure of a golliwog golfer with putter and ball made by Carltonware. This figure was a trial piece, limited edition 78/120. Carltonware stamp and number to base. 8.5” tall. Estimate £70/100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/aa8426ad-bd99-4e69-bebd-39c1daaa2ed6/16_87_0457.jpg Nov 24 Lot 457 Lord Harris. Kent & England 1870-1911. 'Kent'. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Harris. ‘Kent’. 16th July 1881 by SPY. Nicely signed by Harris in black ink to lower border. Rare in this signed form. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2d4653cc-80cd-4b83-a432-f4b6f05fd713/17_87_1117.jpg Nov 24 Lot 1117 Fishing Tyg. Large and impressive three handled tyg with scene of monks fishing. Rhyme to side reads 'Tomorrow will be Friday, Every Brother his rod he took, Every rod had a line and a hook, every hook had a bait so fine, and thus they sang in the Evenshine, tomorrow will be Friday'. Rods, net and catch bag, grapes and floral decoration to inside border. Circa 1908. Marks to base for 'Late Foley, Shelley’. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6de508b0-7304-4bbc-ab42-d3bb239e9431/18_87_1314.jpg Nov 24 Lot 1314 Aston Villa F.C. 'The Villa News and Record' Season 1906-1907. Edited by Edwin W. Cox. No 1. Volume 1. A bound volume of Aston Villa home match programmes for the 1906-07 season in red/brown half leather with titles in gilt to spine, all programmes lacking original covers. Rare first season. From a complete run of the programme to 2023 being sold in this auction. Estimate £180/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/398119eb-5a3e-4cef-9e87-ff4e7a1e0797/19_87_0396.jpg Nov 24 Lot 396 Peter Barker Howard May, Surrey & England 1950-1963. Large and impressive silver cigarette box presented to Peter May following the club's County Championship winning season of 1953. A nice personal item from the collection of one of England's finest batsman in the post-war era. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c07ab756-894f-4f35-a179-e5c051c9182e/20_87_0683.jpg Nov 24 Lot 683 'Pavilion Echoes from the South 1884-85'. By The Twelve. Printed by Cecil Gardner & Co, High Street, Auckland (New Zealand) 1885. 36pp plus advertising to rear. This is the third account of an Auckland tour to the south, following those of 1874 and 1882. They played the major teams on the island plus Wellington. Original blue paper wrappers. Signature of ownership of W.H. Newton ('Trundler Thames’) and date October 23rd 1885 to top border of the front wrapper. A rare and early New Zealand cricket publication. Estimate £2500/3500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a7f08f34-b538-4ddf-8dd8-9990f7ec90e3/21_87_0434.jpg Nov 24 Lot 434 'Boy Cricketer'. Excellent Parian ware figure of a boy cricketer resting against a tree stump holding a cricket bat to left hand. The figure is of a very high quality and with exceptionally good detailing. Circa 1860's. A rare figure in very good condition. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4ec28077-05a5-41cd-9341-80d052a9a4e2/22_87_1108.jpg Nov 24 Lot 1108 'The Billiard Book'. New edition, enlarged and revised. By Captain Crawley & W. Cook. London 1877. Illustrated by Robin Proctor. Wonderfully decorative original boards showing a full size billiard table with cues and balls. Gilt to top edge. An early Billiard book. Estimate £70/100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/11a6a4e0-eae6-4936-9b8a-cda6ed999f0c/23_87_1286.jpg Nov 24 Lot 1286 'Arsenal 1953'. Excellent and original pen and ink drawing artwork by artist Joseph Lee, showing Arsenal Manager Tom Whittaker watching players and youngsters kicking and heading balls on the steps of Highbury Stadium. The suited Commissioner comments to an onlooker 'Now the old Arsenal's started moving at last perhaps Mr Whittaker won't need all the new blood and good advice that's been turning up here lately'. The artwork, signed by Lee, was published in the London Evening News and is dated 17th September 1953. A wonderfully evocative scene beautifully illustrated by the artist. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/3157a601-9d8b-436d-a9ec-33ee182bd0d8/24_87_1131.jpg Nov 24 Lot 1131 'The Golf Courses of the British Isles'. Bernard Darwin. Illustrated by Harry Rowntree. Duckworth & Co, London 1910. First edition. Excellent green decorated cloth covers with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Gilt to top page edges. Estimate £180/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/22f06910-b8d8-4d8d-8d05-054b77eaaec8/25_87_0848.jpg Nov 24 Lot 848 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1915. 52nd edition. Original hardback. Very good to excellent condition throughout with gilt titles to front board and spine bright. A rare pre-war hardback edition. Estimate £800/1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/acd1ee4c-8cf2-477e-959c-658dbe3e1530/26_87_0402.jpg Nov 24 Lot 402 Cricket clock. An attractive late Victorian/ Edwardian brass clock of cricketing interest, formed with a central drum form enamelled dial, encased within a set of cricket stumps and bails with cricket bats leaning against the clock and a cricket ball to the top of the clock. The whole mounted on a half oval wooden plinth with a pair of cricket shoes and hat to wooden base. An unusually decorated clock, not often seen. Formerly in the M.C.C. Collection. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4ed56a56-c7d7-44f6-89a6-28f7e5d777e3/27_87_1372.jpg Nov 24 Lot 1372 Aston Villa. Original 'Grays Sports China' Aston Villa miniature ople shaped vase circa 1911. The vase inscribed in enamel 'ASTON VILLA' with a Villa player dressed in claret and blue strip and football to side, the reverse with a panel listing the clubs achievements from winning the English Cup in 1886/87 to being Champions of the First Division in 1909/10. Rare. Estimate £120/160 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/53cd10f1-efa8-4b3e-9ddd-5f1eddf56664/Cover.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/nov24after daily 0.75 2025-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c7cd0ee1-3804-4e10-94fa-2b785559da19/1_87_1289.jpg Nov24 after Lot 1289 'Popular Stories for Boys 1955'. Claude P. Shilton. Very attractive and highly colourful gouache artwork for the front cover of the Annual for 1955. The artwork features a central boy footballer kicking the ball with his team mates and opposition running behind him. A wonderful evocative image. Hammer £220 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a6eb870f-aa62-49b4-b606-01918d0b7923/2_87_0395.jpg Nov24 after Lot 395 Alfred Herbert Harold Gilligan. Sussex & England 1919-1931. 'M.C.C. Tour of Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand 1929/30'. Original gold hallmarked cigarette case presented to Captain Alfred Gilligan by the members of the team during or following the tour. The case is made of nine carat gold, and is hallmarked Chester 1929. A nice personal item given as a mark of gratitude to the players' skipper. Hammer £950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1635638a-5142-42f2-8e01-6ac318541100/3_87_0452.jpg Nov24 after Lot 452 Frederick Robert Spofforth. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1874-1888. Vanity Fair. 'The Demon Bowler'. Original colour chromolithograph of Spofforth by Spy dated July 13th 1878. Beautifully signed in black ink to lower border by Spofforth. An original signature of the demon bowler is rarely seen and to have it signed on one of the most iconic images of the 'Demon Bowler' is a truly exceptional item. Hammer £2200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d028c636-a426-4255-b683-92794305fa63/4_87_0849.jpg Nov24 after Lot 849 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1917. 54th edition. Original hardback. Very good to excellent condition throughout. A rare wartime hardback edition with gilt titles to front board and spine bright. Hammer £2200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/eaa26214-95ca-43fd-b995-dd16f5913a30/5_87_0682.jpg Nov24 after Lot 682 'On the Tented Fields of the South 1882'. By The Childe (W.F. Buckland). Printed at the 'Free Lance' Office, Vulcan Lane, Auckland (New Zealand) 1883. 32pp. Report of a southern tour of the Auckland Representative Eleven with 'pomes' in prose and verse, descriptions and scores of the tour. A very rare and early New Zealand cricket publication. Hammer £5500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ec53b603-af6f-411a-a3d9-43bdb7759323/6_87_0326.jpg Nov24 after Lot 326 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Stuart Surridge 'Rapid Driver' cricket bat used by Denton in the 1905 cricket season scoring over 2405 runs and making 52 and 153 not out against the Australians at Bradford in June 1905. The bat is inscribed clearly in black ink in Denton's hand 'Scored over 2000 runs with this bat including 52 and 153 not out versus Australians at Bradford, June 5, 6 & 7th 1905'. Additionally inscribed 'Highest score against the Australians 1905 tour' and signed by him. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d42e823c-2172-475d-82b0-a5f701484968/7_87_0399.jpg Nov24 after Lot 399 'The Aboriginals'. Victorian brass metal embossed belt buckle, depicting an Aboriginal cricketer with a bat over his shoulder to which his cricket boots are hanging. A cricket tent with flag flying to background with floral decorative border and to lower border on raised bar the inscription 'The Aboriginals'. Beaded outer border decoration. A rare item from this very early tour by the Aboriginal team. Hammer £1100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9f0dc16d-b4ed-4701-8e6d-c4f0df065f91/8_87_1143.jpg Nov24 after Lot 1143 Golf jug. An attractive Copeland Late Spode slightly tapered cylindrical jug with short spout, square arched handle and pewter lid, the body decorated with a continuous scene of golfers and caddies in white raised relief displaying various golfing swings and poses on a cobalt blue and grey ground with floral decoration. Circa 1910. Hammer £140 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/00cef69b-66d8-45a0-9f0f-f6f9634c3c42/9_87_0366.jpg Nov24 after Lot 366 Colin Milburn. Northamptonshire, Western Australia & England 1960-1974. M.C.C. navy blue touring cap worn by Milburn during his Test career. The cap with M.C.C. emblem of St. George & Dragon has 'C. Milburn' handwritten to label. Hammer £460 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8536f65b-0ffd-4d1d-8ad8-cbf18a6426d8/10_87_0605_a.jpg Nov24 after Lot 605 'The Cricketer’s Manual for the Border Counties containing a Review and Averages for the Season 1869'. Published by Askew Roberts, Woodall, & Venables, Bailey Head, Oswestry. Comprising match scores, match reports and club averages including those of the Shropshire county team. Hammer £700 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/710cf74d-d33f-4d17-847c-6514a5d134b6/11_87_0509.jpg Nov24 after Lot 509 Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Excellent photomechanical process print photograph of Australian legend Victor Trumper, 'jumping out to drive', taken from the original action photograph by George William Beldam based on a photograph taken at the Oval during the 1902 tour. Nicely signed to lower border by both Victor Trumper and George William Beldam in pencil. Published by the Swan Electric Engraving Company on 1st August 1905. The ultimate iconic image from the golden age of cricket. Hammer £1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7bb8c1a0-8585-4e1b-9a3e-9b72dff2e48a/12_87_0067.jpg Nov24 after Lot 67 Don Bradman. Official menu for 'A Luncheon and Presentation to Don Bradman'. Savoy Hotel, London. September 20th 1948. Folding menu for the Luncheon given by 'The People' newspaper. The menu with gold tassel, title to front cover and colour 'Australia 1948' emblem above. The inside front cover with menu, list of speakers and details of the presentation of an antique silver replica of the Warwick Vase to Bradman. Very nicely signed in ink by Bradman and by eight attendees, Bill Johnston, Lyndsay Hassett, Arthur Morris, Ray Lindwall, Keith Miller and Ernie Toshack of Australia, Norman Yardley and Jim Laker of England. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6fcf69c5-8b7d-4133-a756-4adfba83db22/13_87_0401.jpg Nov24 after Lot 401 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England. 1865-1908. A limp calf brown leather wallet which once belonged to Grace with his name 'W.G. Grace' stamped into the surface of the wallet. It was apparently acquired by a gardener to a relative of Grace and then by descent to a Charles Hemus, English born, who moved to live near Canberra in Australia. An historic item having apparently once belonged to the 'Champion’. Hammer £290 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cdb14dc5-94fa-4b72-9e59-64a18d383803/14_87_0328.jpg Nov24 after Lot 328 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Attractive silver hallmarked cigarette case presented to Denton in the 1908 cricket season to commemorate him scoring two consecutive centuries for Yorkshire against M.C.C. at Scarborough in August and September 1908. Hammer £340 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/12d345e5-c1de-414b-8a91-bc46102b4c0c/15_87_1174.jpg Nov24 after Lot 1174 'Golliwog Golfer'. Large handpainted ceramic figure of a golliwog golfer with putter and ball made by Carltonware. This figure was a trial piece, limited edition 78/120. Carltonware stamp and number to base. 8.5” tall. Hammer £55 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/aa8426ad-bd99-4e69-bebd-39c1daaa2ed6/16_87_0457.jpg Nov24 after Lot 457 Lord Harris. Kent & England 1870-1911. 'Kent'. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Harris. ‘Kent’. 16th July 1881 by SPY. Nicely signed by Harris in black ink to lower border. Rare in this signed form. Hammer £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2d4653cc-80cd-4b83-a432-f4b6f05fd713/17_87_1117.jpg Nov24 after Lot 1117 Fishing Tyg. Large and impressive three handled tyg with scene of monks fishing. Rhyme to side reads 'Tomorrow will be Friday, Every Brother his rod he took, Every rod had a line and a hook, every hook had a bait so fine, and thus they sang in the Evenshine, tomorrow will be Friday'. Rods, net and catch bag, grapes and floral decoration to inside border. Circa 1908. Marks to base for 'Late Foley, Shelley’. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6de508b0-7304-4bbc-ab42-d3bb239e9431/18_87_1314.jpg Nov24 after Lot 1314 Aston Villa F.C. 'The Villa News and Record' Season 1906-1907. Edited by Edwin W. Cox. No 1. Volume 1. A bound volume of Aston Villa home match programmes for the 1906-07 season in red/brown half leather with titles in gilt to spine, all programmes lacking original covers. Rare first season. From a complete run of the programme to 2023 being sold in this auction. Hammer £440 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/398119eb-5a3e-4cef-9e87-ff4e7a1e0797/19_87_0396.jpg Nov24 after Lot 396 Peter Barker Howard May, Surrey & England 1950-1963. Large and impressive silver cigarette box presented to Peter May following the club's County Championship winning season of 1953. A nice personal item from the collection of one of England's finest batsman in the post-war era. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c07ab756-894f-4f35-a179-e5c051c9182e/20_87_0683.jpg Nov24 after Lot 683 'Pavilion Echoes from the South 1884-85'. By The Twelve. Printed by Cecil Gardner & Co, High Street, Auckland (New Zealand) 1885. 36pp plus advertising to rear. This is the third account of an Auckland tour to the south, following those of 1874 and 1882. They played the major teams on the island plus Wellington. Original blue paper wrappers. Signature of ownership of W.H. Newton ('Trundler Thames’) and date October 23rd 1885 to top border of the front wrapper. A rare and early New Zealand cricket publication. Hammer £2200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a7f08f34-b538-4ddf-8dd8-9990f7ec90e3/21_87_0434.jpg Nov24 after Lot 434 'Boy Cricketer'. Excellent Parian ware figure of a boy cricketer resting against a tree stump holding a cricket bat to left hand. The figure is of a very high quality and with exceptionally good detailing. Circa 1860's. A rare figure in very good condition. Hammer £900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4ec28077-05a5-41cd-9341-80d052a9a4e2/22_87_1108.jpg Nov24 after Lot 1108 'The Billiard Book'. New edition, enlarged and revised. By Captain Crawley & W. Cook. London 1877. Illustrated by Robin Proctor. Wonderfully decorative original boards showing a full size billiard table with cues and balls. Gilt to top edge. An early Billiard book. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/11a6a4e0-eae6-4936-9b8a-cda6ed999f0c/23_87_1286.jpg Nov24 after Lot 1286 'Arsenal 1953'. Excellent and original pen and ink drawing artwork by artist Joseph Lee, showing Arsenal Manager Tom Whittaker watching players and youngsters kicking and heading balls on the steps of Highbury Stadium. The suited Commissioner comments to an onlooker 'Now the old Arsenal's started moving at last perhaps Mr Whittaker won't need all the new blood and good advice that's been turning up here lately'. The artwork, signed by Lee, was published in the London Evening News and is dated 17th September 1953. A wonderfully evocative scene beautifully illustrated by the artist. Hammer £300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/3157a601-9d8b-436d-a9ec-33ee182bd0d8/24_87_1131.jpg Nov24 after Lot 1131 'The Golf Courses of the British Isles'. Bernard Darwin. Illustrated by Harry Rowntree. Duckworth & Co, London 1910. First edition. Excellent green decorated cloth covers with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Gilt to top page edges. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/22f06910-b8d8-4d8d-8d05-054b77eaaec8/25_87_0848.jpg Nov24 after Lot 848 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1915. 52nd edition. Original hardback. Very good to excellent condition throughout with gilt titles to front board and spine bright. A rare pre-war hardback edition. Hammer £900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/acd1ee4c-8cf2-477e-959c-658dbe3e1530/26_87_0402.jpg Nov24 after Lot 402 Cricket clock. An attractive late Victorian/ Edwardian brass clock of cricketing interest, formed with a central drum form enamelled dial, encased within a set of cricket stumps and bails with cricket bats leaning against the clock and a cricket ball to the top of the clock. The whole mounted on a half oval wooden plinth with a pair of cricket shoes and hat to wooden base. An unusually decorated clock, not often seen. Formerly in the M.C.C. Collection. Hammer £170 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4ed56a56-c7d7-44f6-89a6-28f7e5d777e3/27_87_1372.jpg Nov24 after Lot 1372 Aston Villa. Original 'Grays Sports China' Aston Villa miniature ople shaped vase circa 1911. The vase inscribed in enamel 'ASTON VILLA' with a Villa player dressed in claret and blue strip and football to side, the reverse with a panel listing the clubs achievements from winning the English Cup in 1886/87 to being Champions of the First Division in 1909/10. Rare. Hammer £160 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/53cd10f1-efa8-4b3e-9ddd-5f1eddf56664/Cover.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/mar-25-after daily 0.75 2025-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/49ad8cee-1efc-4aeb-88f6-19dc9eb7ed83/88_0269.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 269 Cricketing silver pocket watch 1897. An exquisite colourful watch face with an 18th century cricket scene of a bowler about to bowl a ball with the batsman stood in front of two stumps and bails. Two fielders are also featured within floral and tree decoration to border with a central watch dial. To inside of outer casing a label for 'W. Johnson, clock & watch maker of High Wycombe', To the back of the watch is inscribed the makers name 'Peter Dickinson of London' and the reference number '02311'. The watch hallmarked for London 1897. Hammer £550 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bc72a066-5ab4-4c70-a5e0-4a25790f1fe3/88_0221.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 221 'Kent County Cricket Club 1906'. Very wide panoramic style oil painting on canvas by renowned artist Albert Chevallier Tayler, the painting finally completed in 1906 as a companion piece to the larger and famous painting of 'Kent v Lancashire at Canterbury 1906'. The portrait panel painting with central image and title, in banner, depicting portraits of Lord Harris and George Marsham, head and shoulders, within decorative cameo panels with title below. To the right and the left of this central image are portraits of the players who did not play in the Kent v Lancashire match, with two exceptions, Kenneth Hutchings, 'Wally' Hardinge, Edward Dillon, Frank Woolley, Arthur Day, Alec Hearne, William Fairservice, John Hubble and Sammy Day plus former Kent Captains W.H. Patterson and Frank Marchant both portrayed in similar decorative cameo panels. The painting measures 2.3 metres wide and 43cm tall. This historic artwork has been hung in the pavilion until recently, marking 118 years since it was first revealed to the cricket club and the public. A unique opportunity to acquire a piece of Kent and cricket history. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0ef4f45b-52dd-4d40-9d0c-1cd78211f32b/88_0707.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 707 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1875. 12th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Probably the rarest Wisden edition. From the library of Earl of Sondes, the original owner of the ground at Canterbury. The ground was purchased by the county club from the 2nd Earl Sondes in 1896 and became Kent's headquarters. Hammer £27000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fc4821e6-4b3f-4daf-9d8d-f6002dc93f7c/88_0310.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 310 'Cricket & Croquet'. A unusual pair of nineteenth century unglazed terracotta earthenware figures. One of a boy batsman, wearing broad banded boater, pads and with bat and stance ready to receive the ball and the other of a young woman wearing dress and feathered hat playing a croquet shot. The cricket figure stands approximately 15" tall and the lady 14.5". A rare pair of sporting figures not previously sold by the auctioneer. Hammer £2400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/afd6c780-2011-4ae6-ad0a-9f2050047c82/88_0821.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 821 'The Auckland Cricketers' Trip to the South. A complete history of the late successful tour of the Auckland representatives to Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington and Nelson'. W.F. Buckland, Auckland, New Zealand. E. Wayte, Bookseller, Queen Street. Printed by Reed and Brett. 1874. 8vo, pp(3),4-58 and eight advertising pages with buff printed paper wrappers. With the ownership signature of T.W. Reese, New Zealand cricket historian to front wrapper, title page and to the first page of the book, and another signature, which looks like Buckland's. Probably the rarest New Zealand cricket publication. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2c8c006b-46ee-4970-88f5-03bbf62b6038/88_0219.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 219 Colin Blythe. Kent & England 1899-1914. Kent navy blue cloth cricket cap with raised embroidered county emblem of the white horse, the Kent emblem, to front. The cap, with small peak typical of a pre first world war cap, from the Sankey family collection and previously sold by Knights as lot 570 in October 1995. An early cap from a truly notable cricketer of the 'Golden Age' of cricket. Hammer £2600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ee86b0dc-7976-4846-b131-63bd87abb0d0/88_0301.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 301 England v Australia 1905. Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914 and Archibald Campbell MacLaren. Lancashire & England 1890-1923. Scarce Staffordshire mug, printed in dark turquoise, with figures of Trumper and MacLaren in batting pose, each within a cartouche with the title 'Australia' and 'England' printed above. To centre an image of crossed bats, stumps, bails and a ball and below this a shield with kangaroo and lion facing each other with title to shield 'Australia England' and above in scroll 1905. Floral decoration to borders and to strap handle, gilt to rim. 4" tall. One of the rarest Staffordshire cricketing mugs especially in this more unusual colour. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8f77a115-4f68-4860-afe9-78c1a9482d6b/88_0573.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 573 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Original hardback. A rare early hardback edition in lovely condition. Hammer £3800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/daa4f92c-87f4-4cdf-8275-8341618b16ae/88_0002.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 2 'The Australian Cricket Team' 1878. Very rare and early large cotton handkerchief commemorating Australia's inaugural first-class tour to England. Lithographed in grey, the centre panel set in elaborate frame depicts all twelve members of the Australian touring party seated and standing, with names printed below. To each of the four corners is an oval cartouche panel of four of the players in batting or bowling pose featuring Spofforth, Blackham, Murdoch and C. Bannerman. The ornate title scroll below the centre panel comprises an Australian coat of arms, crossed bats and 'Registered Sept. 1878'. Measuring 23"x24", the handkerchief is fully laid down to mount card and in very good condition. A very rare and early item of cricketing history. Hammer £330 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/07f4c258-3155-46b8-a618-23764360066e/88_0256.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 256 Cricket cigar box. An attractive wooden oblong cylindrical cigar box with a horizontal 19th century cricket scene to the side, in colour, of a bowler about to bowl to batsman, cricket tent and trees to background. The scene entitle 'Play' to lower border. . 5"x2.5". Date unknown. An unusual and interesting item. Hammer £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/5133faf8-8ddc-42a7-9f81-91dc13de1abf/88_0431_a.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 431 M.C.C. tour to North America 1905. Francis Anthony Hoste Henley. Oxford University & Middlesex 1903-1908. Large original and personal photograph/ scrap album with title in gilt to front 'Tour of the M.C.C. in America and Canada July 11th - August 26th 1905' and the owner's initials in gilt 'F.A.H.H.', assumed to be Henley's personal copy compiled by himself. The contents comprise some thirty original mono photographs, the majority candid in style, also a good selection of menus (some signed), postcards, cuttings, leaflets etc. from the tour, which was made up almost entirely of Oxford and Cambridge University players, captained by E.W. Mann (Cambridge University & Kent 1902-1905). A very nicely compiled album with good early cricket and cultural interest. Hammer £1600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/eeecbc8e-abac-4de5-92a3-8cced43a33d0/88_0500.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 500 'Bringing Back The Ashes. A Complete and Accurate Review of the M.C.C. Tour of Australia 1903/04. Fully Illustrated by "Looker-On" of the Sheffield Telegraph'. James Hayton Stainton 1904. 96pp. Rare post-tour brochure. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Rare. Hammer £360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c0e67759-be0a-434a-b7a0-db5f3a79ba6d/88_0258.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 258 Cricket snuff box. Circular early Victorian black lacquered papier mache snuff box. The hinged lid painted with a colour cricketing scene, after Hayman's painting of 1740. The box measures 2.75" diameter. Rarely seen. Hammer £180 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c1c2e902-1ccb-49c0-92eb-dd2c9be51fc2/88_0775.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 775 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1918. 55th edition. Original hardback. A rare wartime hardback edition in very good condition with gilt titles to front board and spine bright. Hammer £1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/77d49073-9e77-46cc-ac76-981dd81844cb/88_0462.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 462 Sussex v Surrey at Brighton 1854. Very early single sided scorecard printed by 'Lillywhite's Printing Tent by authority and under the Patronage of the Marylebone Club' for the match played at the Royal Brunswick Ground, Hove on the 29th & 30th June & 1st July 1854. The scorecard showing the fully completed printed scores for the match. Remarkably good condition for its age. A rare scorecard. Hammer £240 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/024fb42f-4618-4757-97ff-db66118db7b7/88_0446.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 446 William Gilbert Grace, Gloucestershire, London County & England 1870-1908. Excellent original sepia photograph of Grace in batting pose at the wicket. The photograph laid down to official photographer's mount with photographer's name, E. Hawkins & Compy of Brighton, to lower mount border. Grace is depicted holding the bat with which he scored over 1000 runs in May 1895, including making his one hundredth century. Good/very good condition. Hammer £240 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c008fc42-4d7a-46fa-b072-94bbfa628390/88_0188.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 188 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1886-1887. Hardback 'blue book'. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1887. Good/very good condition. Rare tenth issue of the 'blue book’. Hammer £320 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/74280dc0-7293-4421-ab83-3694aec0f235/88_0319.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 319 Westerwald. Large and impressive Westerwald stoneware tapering cricket jug, moulded in relief with five cameo panels all believed to be modelled on W.G. Grace, in different poses, coloured in cobalt blue on a grey background. The body decorated with vine and sprig decoration with decorative pewter lid with clasp to top of the handle. 13" high. German circa 1890. A large and impressive example of this German pottery. Hammer £860 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/aa42019b-f1df-4e8b-89ff-35e3e17d3439/88_0561.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 561 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1872. 9th edition. Original paper wrappers. Good/very good condition. Rare. Hammer £2800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/3aa0f3df-0bb6-416c-835f-3b453f02bcc4/88_0311.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 311 Boy Cricketer'. Excellent Parian ware figure of a boy cricketer resting against a tree stump holding a cricket bat to left hand. The figure is of a very high quality and with exceptionally good detailing. Approximately 11" tall. Circa 1860's. A rare figure in very good condition. Sold with an original sepia carte de visite photograph showing the figure and entitled to lower border 'The Cricketer’. Hammer £1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/123b7a53-0fdd-4b40-bdf8-012fe4e1d99d/88_0717.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 717 Lord Harris, George Robert Canning, Kent & England 1870-1911. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1891 to 1931. 28th-68th editions, lacking the 1895 and 1898 editions. Thirty nine editions of the Almanack, formerly owned and from the library of Lord Harris. All editions are bound in green full leather, lacking wrappers, with gilt to all page edges, marbled end papers. The first five editions are signed in ink by Harris to the front end paper and twelve editions bear his bookplate, 'Kent County Cricket Club' handstamp to first end paper and odd other pages. An excellent and rare opportunity to acquire books once held and collected by one of the pillars of Kent, England and world cricket. Hammer £2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/21a37ee6-2075-4a29-a8cd-ee2bc8f03a06/88_0314.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 314 Doulton Lambeth stoneware mug in art nouveau style, with three moulded relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, bowler and wicket keeper, Abel, Woods and McGregor in white on a brown background, with floral leaf decoration above and below in green and green/blue. 5" tall. 1880/90's. Good/very good condition. A rarely seen and very appealing shaped mug with an art nouveau twist. Hammer £650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/21e118b0-2211-48d6-8616-f20954ce4db2/88_1148.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 1148 England v Scotland 1889. Excellent early original sepia photograph of the England team depicted wearing football attire, some with England international caps, seated and standing on the steps of the pavilion at Kennington Oval for the match v Scotland 13th April 1889. Odd faults otherwise in good/very good condition. Hammer £130 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0315c2e0-c374-495b-83aa-d7b7a1657ef8/88_0771a.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 771 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916 to 1919. 53rd-56th editions. Handsomely uniformly bound in green and black leather with gold edging, with original paper wrappers, with raised bands and title and date in gilt to spine. Marbled end papers and gilt to all page edges. Binding by W&E Bramhall. All of the books are in exceptional condition with wonderfully almost pristine wrappers Rare war-time bound editions in superb order. Hammer £1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/393a7a2b-b660-465e-83bb-642fa0a2c41c/88_0897.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 897 Kent C.C.C. 'The Tale of the Kent Eleven' 1906. A rare small booklet comprising a printed four page poem bound in original decorative colour card wrappers comprising an illustration of two Kent cricketers with County 'Invicta' emblem of two prancing horses captioned 'Kent XI 189- Kent XI 1906'. The poem, by an unknown author writing under the pseudonym 'Senex', describes the achievements of the team, led by Captain C.H.B. Marsham who won the County Championship for the first time in 1906. Very good condition with nice bright colours to the wrappers. A lovely souvenir of Kent's first Championship victory. Hammer £320 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/544e65d2-97f0-44a4-92ee-fb8d3a694250/88_0313.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 313 Cricket at Windsor Castle meat dish'. A very large oval shaped Goodwin & Harris 'Metropolitan Scenery' meat dish printed in blue and embellished with a scene of Windsor Castle and the Thames to foreground featuring a cricket match to the foreground with trees and foliage to sides. Surrounding borders highly decorated with flowers, leaves and various foliage, patterned rim. Printed mark in blue to base 'Metropolitan Scenery, Windsor Castle' and number '81'. The dish measures 19.95" wide by 15.5". Circa 1830/40's. A rare, early and impressive dish in lovely original condition. Hammer £1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/69ea9cb6-5db0-486f-b199-fa016324f993/88_1006.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 1006 'Cricket. An Heroic Poem Illustrated with the Critical Observations of Scriblerus Maximus... by James Love, Comedian'. James Dance. Printed for the Author, London 1770. Fourth edition. Dedicated 'To the Members of the Cricket Club, at Richmond, in Surrey'. The first separately published poem on cricket. James Dance (1722-1774) assumed the name of Love as a compliment to his wife. The mock heroic couplets describe the match between Kent and England played on the Artillery Ground on the 2nd June 1744. This edition has an additional five page Epilogue titled 'Bucks Have at Ye All'. One of the rarest cricket books. Hammer £1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a1a0c67e-2062-4d52-9526-d9558b1fd1de/88_0562.jpg Mar 25 After Lot 562 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1881. 18th edition. Original paper wrappers. The book is in outstanding condition, not often seen for this early edition. Hammer £750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1002c0a0-c772-492b-8898-a0745f761f68/FrontCoverMarch25.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/home-1 daily 0.75 2025-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/49ad8cee-1efc-4aeb-88f6-19dc9eb7ed83/88_0269.jpg Mar 25 Lot 269 Cricketing silver pocket watch 1897. An exquisite colourful watch face with an 18th century cricket scene of a bowler about to bowl a ball with the batsman stood in front of two stumps and bails. Two fielders are also featured within floral and tree decoration to border with a central watch dial. To inside of outer casing a label for 'W. Johnson, clock & watch maker of High Wycombe', To the back of the watch is inscribed the makers name 'Peter Dickinson of London' and the reference number '02311'. The watch hallmarked for London 1897. Hammer £550 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bc72a066-5ab4-4c70-a5e0-4a25790f1fe3/88_0221.jpg Mar 25 Lot 221 'Kent County Cricket Club 1906'. Very wide panoramic style oil painting on canvas by renowned artist Albert Chevallier Tayler, the painting finally completed in 1906 as a companion piece to the larger and famous painting of 'Kent v Lancashire at Canterbury 1906'. The portrait panel painting with central image and title, in banner, depicting portraits of Lord Harris and George Marsham, head and shoulders, within decorative cameo panels with title below. To the right and the left of this central image are portraits of the players who did not play in the Kent v Lancashire match, with two exceptions, Kenneth Hutchings, 'Wally' Hardinge, Edward Dillon, Frank Woolley, Arthur Day, Alec Hearne, William Fairservice, John Hubble and Sammy Day plus former Kent Captains W.H. Patterson and Frank Marchant both portrayed in similar decorative cameo panels. The painting measures 2.3 metres wide and 43cm tall. This historic artwork has been hung in the pavilion until recently, marking 118 years since it was first revealed to the cricket club and the public. A unique opportunity to acquire a piece of Kent and cricket history. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0ef4f45b-52dd-4d40-9d0c-1cd78211f32b/88_0707.jpg Mar 25 Lot 707 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1875. 12th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Probably the rarest Wisden edition. From the library of Earl of Sondes, the original owner of the ground at Canterbury. The ground was purchased by the county club from the 2nd Earl Sondes in 1896 and became Kent's headquarters. Hammer £27000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fc4821e6-4b3f-4daf-9d8d-f6002dc93f7c/88_0310.jpg Mar 25 Lot 310 'Cricket & Croquet'. A unusual pair of nineteenth century unglazed terracotta earthenware figures. One of a boy batsman, wearing broad banded boater, pads and with bat and stance ready to receive the ball and the other of a young woman wearing dress and feathered hat playing a croquet shot. The cricket figure stands approximately 15" tall and the lady 14.5". A rare pair of sporting figures not previously sold by the auctioneer. Hammer £2400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/afd6c780-2011-4ae6-ad0a-9f2050047c82/88_0821.jpg Mar 25 Lot 821 'The Auckland Cricketers' Trip to the South. A complete history of the late successful tour of the Auckland representatives to Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington and Nelson'. W.F. Buckland, Auckland, New Zealand. E. Wayte, Bookseller, Queen Street. Printed by Reed and Brett. 1874. 8vo, pp(3),4-58 and eight advertising pages with buff printed paper wrappers. With the ownership signature of T.W. Reese, New Zealand cricket historian to front wrapper, title page and to the first page of the book, and another signature, which looks like Buckland's. Probably the rarest New Zealand cricket publication. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2c8c006b-46ee-4970-88f5-03bbf62b6038/88_0219.jpg Mar 25 Lot 219 Colin Blythe. Kent & England 1899-1914. Kent navy blue cloth cricket cap with raised embroidered county emblem of the white horse, the Kent emblem, to front. The cap, with small peak typical of a pre first world war cap, from the Sankey family collection and previously sold by Knights as lot 570 in October 1995. An early cap from a truly notable cricketer of the 'Golden Age' of cricket. Hammer £2600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ee86b0dc-7976-4846-b131-63bd87abb0d0/88_0301.jpg Mar 25 Lot 301 England v Australia 1905. Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914 and Archibald Campbell MacLaren. Lancashire & England 1890-1923. Scarce Staffordshire mug, printed in dark turquoise, with figures of Trumper and MacLaren in batting pose, each within a cartouche with the title 'Australia' and 'England' printed above. To centre an image of crossed bats, stumps, bails and a ball and below this a shield with kangaroo and lion facing each other with title to shield 'Australia England' and above in scroll 1905. Floral decoration to borders and to strap handle, gilt to rim. 4" tall. One of the rarest Staffordshire cricketing mugs especially in this more unusual colour. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8f77a115-4f68-4860-afe9-78c1a9482d6b/88_0573.jpg Mar 25 Lot 573 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Original hardback. A rare early hardback edition in lovely condition. Hammer £3800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/daa4f92c-87f4-4cdf-8275-8341618b16ae/88_0002.jpg Mar 25 Lot 2 'The Australian Cricket Team' 1878. Very rare and early large cotton handkerchief commemorating Australia's inaugural first-class tour to England. Lithographed in grey, the centre panel set in elaborate frame depicts all twelve members of the Australian touring party seated and standing, with names printed below. To each of the four corners is an oval cartouche panel of four of the players in batting or bowling pose featuring Spofforth, Blackham, Murdoch and C. Bannerman. The ornate title scroll below the centre panel comprises an Australian coat of arms, crossed bats and 'Registered Sept. 1878'. Measuring 23"x24", the handkerchief is fully laid down to mount card and in very good condition. A very rare and early item of cricketing history. Hammer £330 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/07f4c258-3155-46b8-a618-23764360066e/88_0256.jpg Mar 25 Lot 256 Cricket cigar box. An attractive wooden oblong cylindrical cigar box with a horizontal 19th century cricket scene to the side, in colour, of a bowler about to bowl to batsman, cricket tent and trees to background. The scene entitle 'Play' to lower border. . 5"x2.5". Date unknown. An unusual and interesting item. Hammer £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/5133faf8-8ddc-42a7-9f81-91dc13de1abf/88_0431_a.jpg Mar 25 Lot 431 M.C.C. tour to North America 1905. Francis Anthony Hoste Henley. Oxford University & Middlesex 1903-1908. Large original and personal photograph/ scrap album with title in gilt to front 'Tour of the M.C.C. in America and Canada July 11th - August 26th 1905' and the owner's initials in gilt 'F.A.H.H.', assumed to be Henley's personal copy compiled by himself. The contents comprise some thirty original mono photographs, the majority candid in style, also a good selection of menus (some signed), postcards, cuttings, leaflets etc. from the tour, which was made up almost entirely of Oxford and Cambridge University players, captained by E.W. Mann (Cambridge University & Kent 1902-1905). A very nicely compiled album with good early cricket and cultural interest. Hammer £1600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/eeecbc8e-abac-4de5-92a3-8cced43a33d0/88_0500.jpg Mar 25 Lot 500 'Bringing Back The Ashes. A Complete and Accurate Review of the M.C.C. Tour of Australia 1903/04. Fully Illustrated by "Looker-On" of the Sheffield Telegraph'. James Hayton Stainton 1904. 96pp. Rare post-tour brochure. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Rare. Hammer £360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c0e67759-be0a-434a-b7a0-db5f3a79ba6d/88_0258.jpg Mar 25 Lot 258 Cricket snuff box. Circular early Victorian black lacquered papier mache snuff box. The hinged lid painted with a colour cricketing scene, after Hayman's painting of 1740. The box measures 2.75" diameter. Rarely seen. Hammer £180 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c1c2e902-1ccb-49c0-92eb-dd2c9be51fc2/88_0775.jpg Mar 25 Lot 775 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1918. 55th edition. Original hardback. A rare wartime hardback edition in very good condition with gilt titles to front board and spine bright. Hammer £1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/77d49073-9e77-46cc-ac76-981dd81844cb/88_0462.jpg Mar 25 Lot 462 Sussex v Surrey at Brighton 1854. Very early single sided scorecard printed by 'Lillywhite's Printing Tent by authority and under the Patronage of the Marylebone Club' for the match played at the Royal Brunswick Ground, Hove on the 29th & 30th June & 1st July 1854. The scorecard showing the fully completed printed scores for the match. Remarkably good condition for its age. A rare scorecard. Hammer £240 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/024fb42f-4618-4757-97ff-db66118db7b7/88_0446.jpg Mar 25 Lot 446 William Gilbert Grace, Gloucestershire, London County & England 1870-1908. Excellent original sepia photograph of Grace in batting pose at the wicket. The photograph laid down to official photographer's mount with photographer's name, E. Hawkins & Compy of Brighton, to lower mount border. Grace is depicted holding the bat with which he scored over 1000 runs in May 1895, including making his one hundredth century. Good/very good condition. Hammer £240 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c008fc42-4d7a-46fa-b072-94bbfa628390/88_0188.jpg Mar 25 Lot 188 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1886-1887. Hardback 'blue book'. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1887. Good/very good condition. Rare tenth issue of the 'blue book’. Hammer £320 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/74280dc0-7293-4421-ab83-3694aec0f235/88_0319.jpg Mar 25 Lot 319 Westerwald. Large and impressive Westerwald stoneware tapering cricket jug, moulded in relief with five cameo panels all believed to be modelled on W.G. Grace, in different poses, coloured in cobalt blue on a grey background. The body decorated with vine and sprig decoration with decorative pewter lid with clasp to top of the handle. 13" high. German circa 1890. A large and impressive example of this German pottery. Hammer £860 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/aa42019b-f1df-4e8b-89ff-35e3e17d3439/88_0561.jpg Mar 25 Lot 561 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1872. 9th edition. Original paper wrappers. Good/very good condition. Rare. Hammer £2800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/3aa0f3df-0bb6-416c-835f-3b453f02bcc4/88_0311.jpg Mar 25 Lot 311 Boy Cricketer'. Excellent Parian ware figure of a boy cricketer resting against a tree stump holding a cricket bat to left hand. The figure is of a very high quality and with exceptionally good detailing. Approximately 11" tall. Circa 1860's. A rare figure in very good condition. Sold with an original sepia carte de visite photograph showing the figure and entitled to lower border 'The Cricketer’. Hammer £1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/123b7a53-0fdd-4b40-bdf8-012fe4e1d99d/88_0717.jpg Mar 25 Lot 717 Lord Harris, George Robert Canning, Kent & England 1870-1911. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1891 to 1931. 28th-68th editions, lacking the 1895 and 1898 editions. Thirty nine editions of the Almanack, formerly owned and from the library of Lord Harris. All editions are bound in green full leather, lacking wrappers, with gilt to all page edges, marbled end papers. The first five editions are signed in ink by Harris to the front end paper and twelve editions bear his bookplate, 'Kent County Cricket Club' handstamp to first end paper and odd other pages. An excellent and rare opportunity to acquire books once held and collected by one of the pillars of Kent, England and world cricket. Hammer £2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/21a37ee6-2075-4a29-a8cd-ee2bc8f03a06/88_0314.jpg Mar 25 Lot 314 Doulton Lambeth stoneware mug in art nouveau style, with three moulded relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, bowler and wicket keeper, Abel, Woods and McGregor in white on a brown background, with floral leaf decoration above and below in green and green/blue. 5" tall. 1880/90's. Good/very good condition. A rarely seen and very appealing shaped mug with an art nouveau twist. Hammer £650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/21e118b0-2211-48d6-8616-f20954ce4db2/88_1148.jpg Mar 25 Lot 1148 England v Scotland 1889. Excellent early original sepia photograph of the England team depicted wearing football attire, some with England international caps, seated and standing on the steps of the pavilion at Kennington Oval for the match v Scotland 13th April 1889. Odd faults otherwise in good/very good condition. Hammer £130 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0315c2e0-c374-495b-83aa-d7b7a1657ef8/88_0771a.jpg Mar 25 Lot 771 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916 to 1919. 53rd-56th editions. Handsomely uniformly bound in green and black leather with gold edging, with original paper wrappers, with raised bands and title and date in gilt to spine. Marbled end papers and gilt to all page edges. Binding by W&E Bramhall. All of the books are in exceptional condition with wonderfully almost pristine wrappers Rare war-time bound editions in superb order. Hammer £1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/393a7a2b-b660-465e-83bb-642fa0a2c41c/88_0897.jpg Mar 25 Lot 897 Kent C.C.C. 'The Tale of the Kent Eleven' 1906. A rare small booklet comprising a printed four page poem bound in original decorative colour card wrappers comprising an illustration of two Kent cricketers with County 'Invicta' emblem of two prancing horses captioned 'Kent XI 189- Kent XI 1906'. The poem, by an unknown author writing under the pseudonym 'Senex', describes the achievements of the team, led by Captain C.H.B. Marsham who won the County Championship for the first time in 1906. Very good condition with nice bright colours to the wrappers. A lovely souvenir of Kent's first Championship victory. Hammer £320 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/544e65d2-97f0-44a4-92ee-fb8d3a694250/88_0313.jpg Mar 25 Lot 313 Cricket at Windsor Castle meat dish'. A very large oval shaped Goodwin & Harris 'Metropolitan Scenery' meat dish printed in blue and embellished with a scene of Windsor Castle and the Thames to foreground featuring a cricket match to the foreground with trees and foliage to sides. Surrounding borders highly decorated with flowers, leaves and various foliage, patterned rim. Printed mark in blue to base 'Metropolitan Scenery, Windsor Castle' and number '81'. The dish measures 19.95" wide by 15.5". Circa 1830/40's. A rare, early and impressive dish in lovely original condition. Hammer £1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/69ea9cb6-5db0-486f-b199-fa016324f993/88_1006.jpg Mar 25 Lot 1006 'Cricket. An Heroic Poem Illustrated with the Critical Observations of Scriblerus Maximus... by James Love, Comedian'. James Dance. Printed for the Author, London 1770. Fourth edition. Dedicated 'To the Members of the Cricket Club, at Richmond, in Surrey'. The first separately published poem on cricket. James Dance (1722-1774) assumed the name of Love as a compliment to his wife. The mock heroic couplets describe the match between Kent and England played on the Artillery Ground on the 2nd June 1744. This edition has an additional five page Epilogue titled 'Bucks Have at Ye All'. One of the rarest cricket books. Hammer £1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a1a0c67e-2062-4d52-9526-d9558b1fd1de/88_0562.jpg Mar 25 Lot 562 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1881. 18th edition. Original paper wrappers. The book is in outstanding condition, not often seen for this early edition. Hammer £750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1002c0a0-c772-492b-8898-a0745f761f68/FrontCoverMarch25.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/home-2 daily 0.75 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7c073a98-dc3d-4db8-9c65-68e6bd4fb044/89_0253.jpg July 25 Lot 253 'Cricket Match between the Australian Eleven and the Earl of Sheffield's Eleven 1896'. A sumptuous silk luncheon menu produced for the visit of the Prince of Wales to the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield on the 11th to 13th May 1896. The exquisitely printed silk menu hand coloured and fringed in gold braid shows, to the front cover of the menu, a view of Sheffield Park within a hand coloured gold border entwined with a ribbon in the colours of Lord Sheffield of red, yellow and purple, the title surmounted by an Earl's coronet with the Earl of Sheffield's coat of arms.. To the back cover of the menu, in similar vein, beautifully decorated with the Australian coat of arms within a highly decorated with flowers and floral designs, within a hand coloured gold border entwined with a ribbon in the colours of Lord Sheffield with two roundels at the foot and the head containing crossed cricket bats, stumps and balls, menu, teams and umpire listed to inside page. A truly wonderful item produced for the Royal visit of the Prince of Wales, and almost certainly the Prince's menu, as card menus were also produced for the luncheon. Estimate £4000/6000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ab86c6e5-bcd9-4d7b-aa34-446b50871f58/89_0559.jpg July 25 Lot 559 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Original hardback. Very good condition. A very rare early hardback edition. The fourth issue of the original hard back, which was introduced in 1896. From a lovely run of original Hardback Wisdens 1899-2024. Estimate £4000/6000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d550d089-7911-46dd-a523-4e3a51bb68de/89_1131+2.jpg July 25 Lot 1131 Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire, M.C.C. & England 1870-1896. Excellent early large original sepia studio posed photograph of Grace in full cricket attire and wearing a cap, aged 21. The photograph, taken in 1862, shows Grace standing in front of a wicket holding a cricket ball with studio scene backdrop of a pavilion and spectators. An excellent early image of a young E.M. Grace, previously sold by Knights as Lot 1 in the E.M. Grace sale of 4th July 2015, this image being reproduced on the front cover of the auction catalogue. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/99818faf-1104-4952-9b6d-da6c8f4e29c1/89_0403.jpg July 25 Lot 403 Albert Nielson Hornby, Lancashire & England 1867-1899. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Hornby. ‘Monkey’. August 15th 1891 by STUFF. Nicely signed by Hornby in black ink to lower right border. Some foxing to border otherwise in good condition. Rarely seen in this signed form. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ebeeef06-c400-41e4-9742-9d81d354cb1e/89_0314.jpg July 25 Lot 314 Cricket clock circa late 19th early 20th Century. Large and impressive Victorian/ Edwardian clock with plain circular face set in an ornate heavy oak wooden frame consisting of carved floral border set on a background of crossed cricket bats, stumps and ball, surmounted by carved scroll with the latin motto of the King's Royal Rifle Corps 'Celer et Audax' (Swift and Bold) below a Maltese cross. The circular face measures 12.5" diameter, overall 26.5" wide by 27" wide. It is presumed the piece may have been part of a large sideboard, possibly at the regiment's officers' mess or pavilion. Very good condition. An impressive timepiece. Estimate £600/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bffc2d4f-4326-43fa-88d5-30b3543c610e/89_0760.jpg July 25 Lot 760 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1893. 1st year of issue. 100pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards with tooled decoration, titles in gilt to front board with white rose emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. The rare and elusive first edition. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cf299888-95e7-401a-bcaf-6ff846b85977/89_0260.jpg July 25 Lot 260 'The Australians 1886'. Original sepia photograph of the Australian team who played Lord Sheffield's Eleven at Sheffield Park, East Sussex on the 13-15th May 1886, standing and seated, in rows wearing blazers, caps and cricket attire. The Australian Manager, umpires and scorers are also featured on the photograph. The photograph laid down to official photographers mount with title and players names to lower border. Photograph by E. Hawkins & Co of Brighton. An excellent image. An early team photograph of the fifth Australian tour of England. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f6758542-00c1-4f50-a247-fd1ae6467f9e/89_0119.jpg July 25 Lot 119 India tour to Australia 1947/48. Very rare official autograph sheet with printed title and players' names, fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures include Amarnath (Captain), Hazare, Nayudu, Mankad, Gul Mahomed, Sohoni, Amir Elahi, etc. This was the first such official sheet produced by a Test side on tour. A highly sought after official autograph sheet. From an excellent and comprehensive collection of Indian cricket autographs. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e7abe6dd-a67e-40e3-baa7-89928d3107a8/89_0366.jpg July 25 Lot 366 William 'Bill' Voce. Nottinghamshire & England 1927-1952. Original M.C.C. touring tie worn by Voce on the M.C.C. 'Bodyline' tour of Australia in 1932-1933. The tie is framed with a sepia image of Voce wearing his Bodyline blazer at Trent Bridge and printed title and biography of Bowes below. From the Bob Taylor Cricket Collection. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/484b1739-b70c-4e8c-bffc-07ac03c99a5d/89_0909-1.jpg July 25 Lot 909 'Cricket. An Heroic Poem. Illustrated. With the critical observations of Scriblerus Maximus'. James Love [Dance]. Published by W. Bickerton 1744. First edition. 25pp. Woodcut title vignette. Bound in full brown suede leather with gilt title to front cover, raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers. The very rare first edition of the first separately published poem on cricket, being the first known detailed account of a match with scores and written in verse by James Dance (1722-1774) who assumed the name of Love as a compliment to his wife. One of the rarest cricket books. Ex-Arlott collection. Estimate £8000/12000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/16524368-4b42-4f8e-b673-9cf5cec77446/89_0171.jpg July 25 Lot 171 Australia tour to England 1921. Large album page nicely very signed in ink by all sixteen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Armstrong (Captain), Collins, Bardsley, Carter, Andrews, Ryder, Taylor, Mayne, Pellew, Mailey, Hendry, Gregory, Macartney, Oldfield, McDonald and Smith (Manager). Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9ae0639f-341e-47c7-b146-c07a6e087586/89_0574.jpg July 25 Lot 574 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916. 53rd edition. Original hardback. Very good condition throughout with gilt titles to board and spine paper bright. A rare wartime hardback edition and probably the rarest of the 20th century editions. Estimate £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4b43fe7b-9831-4d24-bd3c-2d50df614237/89_0306-1.jpg July 25 Lot 306 'Out for a Duck' Royal Doulton Black Boy miniature bulbous jug, entitled 'Out for a Duck' printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat in batting pose having attempted a big shot, looking back to see the ball hit his wicket to one side and to the other, a crest with 'The All Black Team'. Green floral decoration to outer rim. 2.25" tall. A very scarce and rarely seen 'Black Boy' miniature ceramic in lovely condition. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/204b5c6f-e0db-4030-b7c8-b97cf541090a/89_0245.jpg July 25 Lot 245 Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield's XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the Luncheon given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield from the 8th-10th May 1893. The highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and Lord Sheffield's cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stumps and to sides and lower border, cricket bats and balls. To inside pages, menu and the players and umpires names. A rare, decorative and exquisite item of ephemera from this early Australian tour. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0f99b402-7a36-4208-9209-a9d32f3b0537/89_0285-2.jpg July 25 Lot 285 Cricket themed candlestick. Large ceramic candlestick the centre features two winged cherubs holding cricket bats on plinth, the base with four feet. A very colourful design in pastel coloured glaze in pink, light blue, mauve and yellow with gilt lustre. 15" tall. Number 202 impressed to base. Possibly German. Date unknown. Not seen previously by the auctioneer. An unusual and impressive 'baroque style' item. Estimate £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9fb1cc49-5a34-4357-a968-eeb283dcaea7/89_1079.jpg July 25 Lot 1079 Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet. Middlesex, Oxford University & England 1898-1919. Early sepia real photograph postcard of Bosanquet full length in bowling pose at the wicket. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by Bosanquet. Photograph by E. Hawkins & Co. of Brighton. An excellent image and good signature. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/35d0f3bc-e043-4a15-83e4-7514194a56b0/89_0298.jpg July 25 Lot 298 Doulton Lambeth stoneware tyg. Large and impressive three handled tyg with three moulded relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, a fielder and wicket keeper in white on a green cameo background, the sides highly decorated in a small floral pattern in brown, the handles in the form of cricket bats, ball, each with a boater to top. Approximataly 6" tall. Incised to base with Doulton Lambeth and makers marks and dated '1881'. Very good condition. A lovely and rare example of this rare cricketing ceramic. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d61536a2-006b-48e4-a5fb-38602c683e8b/89_0340.jpg July 25 Lot 340 Robert William 'Bob' Taylor. Derbyshire & England 1961-1988. England sleeveless Test sweater worn by Taylor whilst playing for England in home Test matches. The sweater, by Simpson of Piccadilly, with central England emblem of the three lions and crown to chest. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/922f8489-04c2-456e-8cbf-e54a9046b107/89_1143-1.jpg July 25 Lot 1143 Sir Julian Cahn's team and tours 1930s. Two black ring binders, each with leather title label to spine, 'Sir Julien Cahn 1' and '... 2', comprising an excellent selection of original photographs, autographs, letters, programmes, scorecards and other ephemera relating to Cahn's team and tours. 4th- 27th February 1939 (ex A.E. Winder collection), Canadian Australian Line R.M.S. Niagara dinner menu 5th April 1959 etc. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/81105e32-5c1c-4c94-81cc-f6f6995a8b55/89_0349.jpg July 25 Lot 349 Robert William 'Bob' Taylor. Derbyshire & England 1961-1988. World XI Team international blazer worn by Taylor whilst playing for the World XI in Australia in 1971/72. The pale blue blazer, by Philip Joseph' with gold and red 'World' emblem and '1971-72' and 'Rest of the World XI' title below on the breast pocket of the blazer. A rare blazer from the tour, not often seen. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cfcc9c62-8f72-48a8-b0d0-25a2b6c1b22b/89_0456.jpg July 25 Lot 456 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1876. 13th edition. Bound in light brown full leather boards, with original wrappers, title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Estimate £800/1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7b787078-7fb1-48be-ac42-131b6d1f05bd/89_1202.jpg July 25 Lot 1202 Sussex v Surrey at Brighton 1855. Very early double sided scorecard printed by 'Lillywhite's Printing Tent for the match played at the Royal Brunswick Ground, Hove on the 25th & 26th June 1855. The scorecard showing the fully completed printed scores for the match. A rare scorecard. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6678d707-40ff-4231-8ea6-3a223d1c287c/89_0461.jpg July 25 Lot 461 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1883. 20th edition. Original paper wrappers. Very good condition. Estimate £300/400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/86092dbd-1e3f-49db-b109-91d623a524cb/89_1346.jpg July 25 Lot 1346 Ernest Prater (Fl. 1897-1914). Excellent original watercolour heightened with body colour of a footballer performing an athletic high kick of a football. The player is depicted wearing a bright red jersey, white shorts with blue belt, green and pink topped socks, and ankle length boots of the period. Signed by the artist to the lower right corner, undated but probably early 1900s. Very good condition with vibrant colours. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7ee3b0b6-f6c4-4756-9b72-87e496a88948/89_0750.jpg July 25 Lot 750 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1890. Hardback 'blue book'. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1890. good/very good condition. Rare. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f2d73a08-3518-4cad-bccf-8dff30b5a63f/CoversJuly25.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/50c85549-4129-43b7-8971-a9b431105dfa/SeptChrisSaunders.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/947afc8d-6c0f-4f5a-8cad-ae9075710bfd/FinalRunforMum.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/july25 daily 0.75 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7c073a98-dc3d-4db8-9c65-68e6bd4fb044/89_0253.jpg July 25 After Lot 253 'Cricket Match between the Australian Eleven and the Earl of Sheffield's Eleven 1896'. A sumptuous silk luncheon menu produced for the visit of the Prince of Wales to the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield on the 11th to 13th May 1896. The exquisitely printed silk menu hand coloured and fringed in gold braid shows, to the front cover of the menu, a view of Sheffield Park within a hand coloured gold border entwined with a ribbon in the colours of Lord Sheffield of red, yellow and purple, the title surmounted by an Earl's coronet with the Earl of Sheffield's coat of arms.. To the back cover of the menu, in similar vein, beautifully decorated with the Australian coat of arms within a highly decorated with flowers and floral designs, within a hand coloured gold border entwined with a ribbon in the colours of Lord Sheffield with two roundels at the foot and the head containing crossed cricket bats, stumps and balls, menu, teams and umpire listed to inside page. A truly wonderful item produced for the Royal visit of the Prince of Wales, and almost certainly the Prince's menu, as card menus were also produced for the luncheon. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ab86c6e5-bcd9-4d7b-aa34-446b50871f58/89_0559.jpg July 25 After Lot 559 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Original hardback. Very good condition. A very rare early hardback edition. The fourth issue of the original hard back, which was introduced in 1896. From a lovely run of original Hardback Wisdens 1899-2024. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d550d089-7911-46dd-a523-4e3a51bb68de/89_1131+2.jpg July 25 After Lot 1131 Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire, M.C.C. & England 1870-1896. Excellent early large original sepia studio posed photograph of Grace in full cricket attire and wearing a cap, aged 21. The photograph, taken in 1862, shows Grace standing in front of a wicket holding a cricket ball with studio scene backdrop of a pavilion and spectators. An excellent early image of a young E.M. Grace, previously sold by Knights as Lot 1 in the E.M. Grace sale of 4th July 2015, this image being reproduced on the front cover of the auction catalogue. Hammer: £60 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/99818faf-1104-4952-9b6d-da6c8f4e29c1/89_0403.jpg July 25 After Lot 403 Albert Nielson Hornby, Lancashire & England 1867-1899. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Hornby. ‘Monkey’. August 15th 1891 by STUFF. Nicely signed by Hornby in black ink to lower right border. Some foxing to border otherwise in good condition. Rarely seen in this signed form. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ebeeef06-c400-41e4-9742-9d81d354cb1e/89_0314.jpg July 25 After Lot 314 Cricket clock circa late 19th early 20th Century. Large and impressive Victorian/ Edwardian clock with plain circular face set in an ornate heavy oak wooden frame consisting of carved floral border set on a background of crossed cricket bats, stumps and ball, surmounted by carved scroll with the latin motto of the King's Royal Rifle Corps 'Celer et Audax' (Swift and Bold) below a Maltese cross. The circular face measures 12.5" diameter, overall 26.5" wide by 27" wide. It is presumed the piece may have been part of a large sideboard, possibly at the regiment's officers' mess or pavilion. Very good condition. An impressive timepiece. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bffc2d4f-4326-43fa-88d5-30b3543c610e/89_0760.jpg July 25 After Lot 760 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1893. 1st year of issue. 100pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards with tooled decoration, titles in gilt to front board with white rose emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. The rare and elusive first edition. Hammer: £1850 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cf299888-95e7-401a-bcaf-6ff846b85977/89_0260.jpg July 25 After Lot 260 'The Australians 1886'. Original sepia photograph of the Australian team who played Lord Sheffield's Eleven at Sheffield Park, East Sussex on the 13-15th May 1886, standing and seated, in rows wearing blazers, caps and cricket attire. The Australian Manager, umpires and scorers are also featured on the photograph. The photograph laid down to official photographers mount with title and players names to lower border. Photograph by E. Hawkins & Co of Brighton. An excellent image. An early team photograph of the fifth Australian tour of England. Hammer: £2200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f6758542-00c1-4f50-a247-fd1ae6467f9e/89_0119.jpg July 25 After Lot 119 India tour to Australia 1947/48. Very rare official autograph sheet with printed title and players' names, fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures include Amarnath (Captain), Hazare, Nayudu, Mankad, Gul Mahomed, Sohoni, Amir Elahi, etc. This was the first such official sheet produced by a Test side on tour. A highly sought after official autograph sheet. From an excellent and comprehensive collection of Indian cricket autographs. Hammer: £500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e7abe6dd-a67e-40e3-baa7-89928d3107a8/89_0366.jpg July 25 After Lot 366 William 'Bill' Voce. Nottinghamshire & England 1927-1952. Original M.C.C. touring tie worn by Voce on the M.C.C. 'Bodyline' tour of Australia in 1932-1933. The tie is framed with a sepia image of Voce wearing his Bodyline blazer at Trent Bridge and printed title and biography of Bowes below. From the Bob Taylor Cricket Collection. Hammer: £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/484b1739-b70c-4e8c-bffc-07ac03c99a5d/89_0909-1.jpg July 25 After Lot 909 'Cricket. An Heroic Poem. Illustrated. With the critical observations of Scriblerus Maximus'. James Love [Dance]. Published by W. Bickerton 1744. First edition. 25pp. Woodcut title vignette. Bound in full brown suede leather with gilt title to front cover, raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers. The very rare first edition of the first separately published poem on cricket, being the first known detailed account of a match with scores and written in verse by James Dance (1722-1774) who assumed the name of Love as a compliment to his wife. One of the rarest cricket books. Ex-Arlott collection. Hammer: £8000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/16524368-4b42-4f8e-b673-9cf5cec77446/89_0171.jpg July 25 After Lot 171 Australia tour to England 1921. Large album page nicely very signed in ink by all sixteen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Armstrong (Captain), Collins, Bardsley, Carter, Andrews, Ryder, Taylor, Mayne, Pellew, Mailey, Hendry, Gregory, Macartney, Oldfield, McDonald and Smith (Manager). Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9ae0639f-341e-47c7-b146-c07a6e087586/89_0574.jpg July 25 After Lot 574 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916. 53rd edition. Original hardback. Very good condition throughout with gilt titles to board and spine paper bright. A rare wartime hardback edition and probably the rarest of the 20th century editions. Hammer: £3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4b43fe7b-9831-4d24-bd3c-2d50df614237/89_0306-1.jpg July 25 After Lot 306 'Out for a Duck' Royal Doulton Black Boy miniature bulbous jug, entitled 'Out for a Duck' printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat in batting pose having attempted a big shot, looking back to see the ball hit his wicket to one side and to the other, a crest with 'The All Black Team'. Green floral decoration to outer rim. 2.25" tall. A very scarce and rarely seen 'Black Boy' miniature ceramic in lovely condition. Hammer: £460 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/204b5c6f-e0db-4030-b7c8-b97cf541090a/89_0245.jpg July 25 After Lot 245 Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield's XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the Luncheon given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield from the 8th-10th May 1893. The highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and Lord Sheffield's cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stumps and to sides and lower border, cricket bats and balls. To inside pages, menu and the players and umpires names. A rare, decorative and exquisite item of ephemera from this early Australian tour. Hammer: £900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0f99b402-7a36-4208-9209-a9d32f3b0537/89_0285-2.jpg July 25 After Lot 285 Cricket themed candlestick. Large ceramic candlestick the centre features two winged cherubs holding cricket bats on plinth, the base with four feet. A very colourful design in pastel coloured glaze in pink, light blue, mauve and yellow with gilt lustre. 15" tall. Number 202 impressed to base. Possibly German. Date unknown. Not seen previously by the auctioneer. An unusual and impressive 'baroque style' item. Hammer: £280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9fb1cc49-5a34-4357-a968-eeb283dcaea7/89_1079.jpg July 25 After Lot 1079 Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet. Middlesex, Oxford University & England 1898-1919. Early sepia real photograph postcard of Bosanquet full length in bowling pose at the wicket. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by Bosanquet. Photograph by E. Hawkins & Co. of Brighton. An excellent image and good signature. Hammer: £180 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/35d0f3bc-e043-4a15-83e4-7514194a56b0/89_0298.jpg July 25 After Lot 298 Doulton Lambeth stoneware tyg. Large and impressive three handled tyg with three moulded relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, a fielder and wicket keeper in white on a green cameo background, the sides highly decorated in a small floral pattern in brown, the handles in the form of cricket bats, ball, each with a boater to top. Approximataly 6" tall. Incised to base with Doulton Lambeth and makers marks and dated '1881'. Very good condition. A lovely and rare example of this rare cricketing ceramic. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d61536a2-006b-48e4-a5fb-38602c683e8b/89_0340.jpg July 25 After Lot 340 Robert William 'Bob' Taylor. Derbyshire & England 1961-1988. England sleeveless Test sweater worn by Taylor whilst playing for England in home Test matches. The sweater, by Simpson of Piccadilly, with central England emblem of the three lions and crown to chest. Hammer: £120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/922f8489-04c2-456e-8cbf-e54a9046b107/89_1143-1.jpg July 25 After Lot 1143 Sir Julian Cahn's team and tours 1930s. Two black ring binders, each with leather title label to spine, 'Sir Julien Cahn 1' and '... 2', comprising an excellent selection of original photographs, autographs, letters, programmes, scorecards and other ephemera relating to Cahn's team and tours. 4th- 27th February 1939 (ex A.E. Winder collection), Canadian Australian Line R.M.S. Niagara dinner menu 5th April 1959 etc. Hammer: £4000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/81105e32-5c1c-4c94-81cc-f6f6995a8b55/89_0349.jpg July 25 After Lot 349 Robert William 'Bob' Taylor. Derbyshire & England 1961-1988. World XI Team international blazer worn by Taylor whilst playing for the World XI in Australia in 1971/72. The pale blue blazer, by Philip Joseph' with gold and red 'World' emblem and '1971-72' and 'Rest of the World XI' title below on the breast pocket of the blazer. A rare blazer from the tour, not often seen. Hammer: £170 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cfcc9c62-8f72-48a8-b0d0-25a2b6c1b22b/89_0456.jpg July 25 After Lot 456 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1876. 13th edition. Bound in light brown full leather boards, with original wrappers, title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Hammer: £1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7b787078-7fb1-48be-ac42-131b6d1f05bd/89_1202.jpg July 25 After Lot 1202 Sussex v Surrey at Brighton 1855. Very early double sided scorecard printed by 'Lillywhite's Printing Tent for the match played at the Royal Brunswick Ground, Hove on the 25th & 26th June 1855. The scorecard showing the fully completed printed scores for the match. A rare scorecard. Hammer: £440 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6678d707-40ff-4231-8ea6-3a223d1c287c/89_0461.jpg July 25 After Lot 461 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1883. 20th edition. Original paper wrappers. Very good condition. Hammer: £400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/86092dbd-1e3f-49db-b109-91d623a524cb/89_1346.jpg July 25 After Lot 1346 Ernest Prater (Fl. 1897-1914). Excellent original watercolour heightened with body colour of a footballer performing an athletic high kick of a football. The player is depicted wearing a bright red jersey, white shorts with blue belt, green and pink topped socks, and ankle length boots of the period. Signed by the artist to the lower right corner, undated but probably early 1900s. Very good condition with vibrant colours. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7ee3b0b6-f6c4-4756-9b72-87e496a88948/89_0750.jpg July 25 After Lot 750 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1890. Hardback 'blue book'. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1890. good/very good condition. Rare. Hammer: £220 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f2d73a08-3518-4cad-bccf-8dff30b5a63f/CoversJuly25.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/50c85549-4129-43b7-8971-a9b431105dfa/SeptChrisSaunders.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/947afc8d-6c0f-4f5a-8cad-ae9075710bfd/FinalRunforMum.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/julafter daily 0.75 2025-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7c073a98-dc3d-4db8-9c65-68e6bd4fb044/89_0253.jpg Home Lot 253 'Cricket Match between the Australian Eleven and the Earl of Sheffield's Eleven 1896'. A sumptuous silk luncheon menu produced for the visit of the Prince of Wales to the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield on the 11th to 13th May 1896. The exquisitely printed silk menu hand coloured and fringed in gold braid shows, to the front cover of the menu, a view of Sheffield Park within a hand coloured gold border entwined with a ribbon in the colours of Lord Sheffield of red, yellow and purple, the title surmounted by an Earl's coronet with the Earl of Sheffield's coat of arms.. To the back cover of the menu, in similar vein, beautifully decorated with the Australian coat of arms within a highly decorated with flowers and floral designs, within a hand coloured gold border entwined with a ribbon in the colours of Lord Sheffield with two roundels at the foot and the head containing crossed cricket bats, stumps and balls, menu, teams and umpire listed to inside page. A truly wonderful item produced for the Royal visit of the Prince of Wales, and almost certainly the Prince's menu, as card menus were also produced for the luncheon. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ab86c6e5-bcd9-4d7b-aa34-446b50871f58/89_0559.jpg Home Lot 559 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Original hardback. Very good condition. A very rare early hardback edition. The fourth issue of the original hard back, which was introduced in 1896. From a lovely run of original Hardback Wisdens 1899-2024. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d550d089-7911-46dd-a523-4e3a51bb68de/89_1131+2.jpg Home Lot 1131 Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire, M.C.C. & England 1870-1896. Excellent early large original sepia studio posed photograph of Grace in full cricket attire and wearing a cap, aged 21. The photograph, taken in 1862, shows Grace standing in front of a wicket holding a cricket ball with studio scene backdrop of a pavilion and spectators. An excellent early image of a young E.M. Grace, previously sold by Knights as Lot 1 in the E.M. Grace sale of 4th July 2015, this image being reproduced on the front cover of the auction catalogue. Hammer: £60 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/99818faf-1104-4952-9b6d-da6c8f4e29c1/89_0403.jpg Home Lot 403 Albert Nielson Hornby, Lancashire & England 1867-1899. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Hornby. ‘Monkey’. August 15th 1891 by STUFF. Nicely signed by Hornby in black ink to lower right border. Some foxing to border otherwise in good condition. Rarely seen in this signed form. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ebeeef06-c400-41e4-9742-9d81d354cb1e/89_0314.jpg Home Lot 314 Cricket clock circa late 19th early 20th Century. Large and impressive Victorian/ Edwardian clock with plain circular face set in an ornate heavy oak wooden frame consisting of carved floral border set on a background of crossed cricket bats, stumps and ball, surmounted by carved scroll with the latin motto of the King's Royal Rifle Corps 'Celer et Audax' (Swift and Bold) below a Maltese cross. The circular face measures 12.5" diameter, overall 26.5" wide by 27" wide. It is presumed the piece may have been part of a large sideboard, possibly at the regiment's officers' mess or pavilion. Very good condition. An impressive timepiece. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bffc2d4f-4326-43fa-88d5-30b3543c610e/89_0760.jpg Home Lot 760 Yorkshire C.C.C. annual 1893. 1st year of issue. 100pp. Edited by J.B. Wostinholm. J. Robertshaw, Sheffield, printer. Original maroon boards with tooled decoration, titles in gilt to front board with white rose emblem to centre, gilt to page edges. The rare and elusive first edition. Hammer: £1850 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cf299888-95e7-401a-bcaf-6ff846b85977/89_0260.jpg Home Lot 260 'The Australians 1886'. Original sepia photograph of the Australian team who played Lord Sheffield's Eleven at Sheffield Park, East Sussex on the 13-15th May 1886, standing and seated, in rows wearing blazers, caps and cricket attire. The Australian Manager, umpires and scorers are also featured on the photograph. The photograph laid down to official photographers mount with title and players names to lower border. Photograph by E. Hawkins & Co of Brighton. An excellent image. An early team photograph of the fifth Australian tour of England. Hammer: £2200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f6758542-00c1-4f50-a247-fd1ae6467f9e/89_0119.jpg Home Lot 119 India tour to Australia 1947/48. Very rare official autograph sheet with printed title and players' names, fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures include Amarnath (Captain), Hazare, Nayudu, Mankad, Gul Mahomed, Sohoni, Amir Elahi, etc. This was the first such official sheet produced by a Test side on tour. A highly sought after official autograph sheet. From an excellent and comprehensive collection of Indian cricket autographs. Hammer: £500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e7abe6dd-a67e-40e3-baa7-89928d3107a8/89_0366.jpg Home Lot 366 William 'Bill' Voce. Nottinghamshire & England 1927-1952. Original M.C.C. touring tie worn by Voce on the M.C.C. 'Bodyline' tour of Australia in 1932-1933. The tie is framed with a sepia image of Voce wearing his Bodyline blazer at Trent Bridge and printed title and biography of Bowes below. From the Bob Taylor Cricket Collection. Hammer: £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/484b1739-b70c-4e8c-bffc-07ac03c99a5d/89_0909-1.jpg Home Lot 909 'Cricket. An Heroic Poem. Illustrated. With the critical observations of Scriblerus Maximus'. James Love [Dance]. Published by W. Bickerton 1744. First edition. 25pp. Woodcut title vignette. Bound in full brown suede leather with gilt title to front cover, raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers. The very rare first edition of the first separately published poem on cricket, being the first known detailed account of a match with scores and written in verse by James Dance (1722-1774) who assumed the name of Love as a compliment to his wife. One of the rarest cricket books. Ex-Arlott collection. Hammer: £8000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/16524368-4b42-4f8e-b673-9cf5cec77446/89_0171.jpg Home Lot 171 Australia tour to England 1921. Large album page nicely very signed in ink by all sixteen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Armstrong (Captain), Collins, Bardsley, Carter, Andrews, Ryder, Taylor, Mayne, Pellew, Mailey, Hendry, Gregory, Macartney, Oldfield, McDonald and Smith (Manager). Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9ae0639f-341e-47c7-b146-c07a6e087586/89_0574.jpg Home Lot 574 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916. 53rd edition. Original hardback. Very good condition throughout with gilt titles to board and spine paper bright. A rare wartime hardback edition and probably the rarest of the 20th century editions. Hammer: £3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4b43fe7b-9831-4d24-bd3c-2d50df614237/89_0306-1.jpg Home Lot 306 'Out for a Duck' Royal Doulton Black Boy miniature bulbous jug, entitled 'Out for a Duck' printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat in batting pose having attempted a big shot, looking back to see the ball hit his wicket to one side and to the other, a crest with 'The All Black Team'. Green floral decoration to outer rim. 2.25" tall. A very scarce and rarely seen 'Black Boy' miniature ceramic in lovely condition. Hammer: £460 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/204b5c6f-e0db-4030-b7c8-b97cf541090a/89_0245.jpg Home Lot 245 Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield's XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the Luncheon given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield from the 8th-10th May 1893. The highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and Lord Sheffield's cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stumps and to sides and lower border, cricket bats and balls. To inside pages, menu and the players and umpires names. A rare, decorative and exquisite item of ephemera from this early Australian tour. Hammer: £900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0f99b402-7a36-4208-9209-a9d32f3b0537/89_0285-2.jpg Home Lot 285 Cricket themed candlestick. Large ceramic candlestick the centre features two winged cherubs holding cricket bats on plinth, the base with four feet. A very colourful design in pastel coloured glaze in pink, light blue, mauve and yellow with gilt lustre. 15" tall. Number 202 impressed to base. Possibly German. Date unknown. Not seen previously by the auctioneer. An unusual and impressive 'baroque style' item. Hammer: £280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9fb1cc49-5a34-4357-a968-eeb283dcaea7/89_1079.jpg Home Lot 1079 Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet. Middlesex, Oxford University & England 1898-1919. Early sepia real photograph postcard of Bosanquet full length in bowling pose at the wicket. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph by Bosanquet. Photograph by E. Hawkins & Co. of Brighton. An excellent image and good signature. Hammer: £180 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/35d0f3bc-e043-4a15-83e4-7514194a56b0/89_0298.jpg Home Lot 298 Doulton Lambeth stoneware tyg. Large and impressive three handled tyg with three moulded relief vignettes of cricketers, a batsman, a fielder and wicket keeper in white on a green cameo background, the sides highly decorated in a small floral pattern in brown, the handles in the form of cricket bats, ball, each with a boater to top. Approximataly 6" tall. Incised to base with Doulton Lambeth and makers marks and dated '1881'. Very good condition. A lovely and rare example of this rare cricketing ceramic. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d61536a2-006b-48e4-a5fb-38602c683e8b/89_0340.jpg Home Lot 340 Robert William 'Bob' Taylor. Derbyshire & England 1961-1988. England sleeveless Test sweater worn by Taylor whilst playing for England in home Test matches. The sweater, by Simpson of Piccadilly, with central England emblem of the three lions and crown to chest. Hammer: £120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/922f8489-04c2-456e-8cbf-e54a9046b107/89_1143-1.jpg Home Lot 1143 Sir Julian Cahn's team and tours 1930s. Two black ring binders, each with leather title label to spine, 'Sir Julien Cahn 1' and '... 2', comprising an excellent selection of original photographs, autographs, letters, programmes, scorecards and other ephemera relating to Cahn's team and tours. 4th- 27th February 1939 (ex A.E. Winder collection), Canadian Australian Line R.M.S. Niagara dinner menu 5th April 1959 etc. Hammer: £4000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/81105e32-5c1c-4c94-81cc-f6f6995a8b55/89_0349.jpg Home Lot 349 Robert William 'Bob' Taylor. Derbyshire & England 1961-1988. World XI Team international blazer worn by Taylor whilst playing for the World XI in Australia in 1971/72. The pale blue blazer, by Philip Joseph' with gold and red 'World' emblem and '1971-72' and 'Rest of the World XI' title below on the breast pocket of the blazer. A rare blazer from the tour, not often seen. Hammer: £170 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cfcc9c62-8f72-48a8-b0d0-25a2b6c1b22b/89_0456.jpg Home Lot 456 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1876. 13th edition. Bound in light brown full leather boards, with original wrappers, title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Hammer: £1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7b787078-7fb1-48be-ac42-131b6d1f05bd/89_1202.jpg Home Lot 1202 Sussex v Surrey at Brighton 1855. Very early double sided scorecard printed by 'Lillywhite's Printing Tent for the match played at the Royal Brunswick Ground, Hove on the 25th & 26th June 1855. The scorecard showing the fully completed printed scores for the match. A rare scorecard. Hammer: £440 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6678d707-40ff-4231-8ea6-3a223d1c287c/89_0461.jpg Home Lot 461 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1883. 20th edition. Original paper wrappers. Very good condition. Hammer: £400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/86092dbd-1e3f-49db-b109-91d623a524cb/89_1346.jpg Home Lot 1346 Ernest Prater (Fl. 1897-1914). Excellent original watercolour heightened with body colour of a footballer performing an athletic high kick of a football. The player is depicted wearing a bright red jersey, white shorts with blue belt, green and pink topped socks, and ankle length boots of the period. Signed by the artist to the lower right corner, undated but probably early 1900s. Very good condition with vibrant colours. Hammer: unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/7ee3b0b6-f6c4-4756-9b72-87e496a88948/89_0750.jpg Home Lot 750 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1890. Hardback 'blue book'. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles with silver gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by J. Burgiss-Brown, Maidstone 1890. good/very good condition. Rare. Hammer: £220 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f2d73a08-3518-4cad-bccf-8dff30b5a63f/CoversJuly25.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/50c85549-4129-43b7-8971-a9b431105dfa/SeptChrisSaunders.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/947afc8d-6c0f-4f5a-8cad-ae9075710bfd/FinalRunforMum.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/home-3 daily 0.75 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ee91c7c3-267d-4bbe-aa5c-d624b35ee819/90_0490.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 490 'The Noble Cricketers: A poetical and familiar epistle, address'd to Two of the Idlest Lords in His Majesty's Three Kingdoms'. Published by J. Bew, No. 28 Paternoster Row, London 1778. First and only edition. pp (iv),22. Rebound in blue buckram for the M.C.C. with M.C.C. colours to covers, gilt title to spine. The lengthy poem is written anonymously and satirises two cricketing aristocrats, 'his Grace the Duke of D..s.t [Dorset], and the Earl of T..k..v.lle [Tankerville]. The Duke of Dorset and Earl of Tankerville were well-known cricket enthusiasts, Tankerville employing cricketers such as Edward 'Lumpy' Stevens on his estate. Very rare, only three copies are recorded in institutions in the UK, at the M.C.C., British Library, and the Bodleian. This copy was previously sold for £13,750 (including premium) as Lot 52 in the Christie's sale of M.C.C. duplicates in 2010. Very good condition. Estimate £6000/9000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c715be61-2868-4a08-9bf5-6b309fb23396/90_0047.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 47 William Henry Moule. Victoria & Australia 1878-1886. Handwritten two page letter in ink to Hugh Trumble with the letter dated 26th October 1925. The letter headed 'Law Courts, Melbourne' in ink. Moule is writing to Trumble, on behalf of his wife, if the Melbourne Cricket Club would donate some bats and balls to Bundoora Park, a convalescent home for shell shocked soldiers. Nicely signed by Moule 'Yours sincerely'. A rare signature from a very early Australian cricketer who made his one appearance for the national side in the inaugural Test in England in 1880. Good condition. Estimate £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/3c655811-e5ea-4ab6-9051-59f19e7a9434/90_0262.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 262 'Souvenir of the Visit of Lord Hawke's English Cricket Team to South Africa 1898/99'. An excellent post tour brochure, with full details of every match played, profusely illustrated with images of the teams, individuals and grounds. Printed and published by W.A Richards & Sons, Cape Town. Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. A very rare post tour brochure. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2e97b784-c955-490e-8b5e-3ddc12f9bb71/90_0312.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 312 Australia 1893. Original carte de visite photograph of the ‘Eighth Australian Cricketing Team 1893’. Team photograph of the players and management including Blackham (Captain), Giffen, Trumble, Trott, Gregory, Bannerman, Turner, Jarvis, Graham etc. Lower and side borders of the photograph mount with title, names of players and publisher. Photograph by the London Stereocopic & Photographic Company Ltd. Estimate £180/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/00c8cd9e-790f-404b-b2ae-ef9572ff502c/90_0432.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 432 'Parsi Cricket with hints on bowling, batting...'. M.E. Pavri. Bombay 1901. Original decorative pictorial boards. A rarely seen title. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2c4c5a83-ad3d-4dfa-a216-e1718e956a4e/90_0197.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 197 Gordon Charles White, Transvaal & South Africa, 1902-1912. Early sepia real photograph postcard of White, full length, stood at the wicket in batting pose. Nicely signed by White in black ink. Foster of Brighton. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f15d9b01-4016-406e-82b4-1ea7f7120656/90_0038.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 38 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1911/12. 'The M.C.C. Dinner'. Small and beautifully ornate folding menu for the Dinner given for the M.C.C. touring party to Australia held on the 27th February 1912 at the Hotel Wentworth, Sydney. The menu, on cream card with pink blush colour, has raised stylish art nouveau floral decoration with title to centre. All the courses are named after English players, 'Hearne Bay Oyster Cocktails', 'Rhodes Schnapper a la Century', 'Saddle Woolley Lamb and Vine Sauce’... A rare and early menu. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a0b70ad4-872c-40e3-8623-4db5be598eb8/90_0436.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 436 'Indian Cricket Chronology and Memorabilia'. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Merritt and Hatcher 1911. Original red decorative paper wrappers with red cord to spine. 16pp. Limited edition of only thirty copies produced, this being no. 29. Limitation statement to rear wrapper with handwritten dedication and signature in ink to 'Cecil Speigalhalter Esq from F.S. Ashley-Cooper'. Rare. Estimate £700/900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8c2e1966-ae87-44b0-ab39-18c2329f0358/90_0292.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 292 'Young England' and 'Young England's Sister'. Excellent pair of Copeland parian figures, after C. Halse 1874. Excellent figures, the boy leaning against a tree stump with cricket bat and reading a book, the girl with book and croquet mallet behind her. Both, signed by Halse, on oval bases with titles to front, 'Copyright reserved. Copeland' impressed to sides of base. Both approx 16" tall. A rarely seen pair of parian figures. Estimate £600/900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2ae1131a-cf1a-4df3-863b-d71cefd0e307/90_0325.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 325 Pakistan v England 1954. Original official sepia photograph of the Pakistan team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. The photograph taken at Trent Bridge for the second Test match, 1st- 5th July 1954. Fully signed in ink by all twelve members of the Pakistan team. Signatures are Kardar (Captain), Imtiaz Ahmed, Fazal Mahmood, Maqsood Ahmed, Khan Mohammad, Hanif Mohammad, Alimuddin, Khalid Hasan, Aslam Khokhar etc. Pakistan drew their inaugural tour to England 2-2. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/37fed7f9-3dde-4b0d-b333-1f43678a0424/90_0297.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 297 Cyril Frederick Walters, Glamorgan, Worcestershire & England 1928-1935. Rajindra Cricket Club of India mid blue blazer with gold trimming, by Ranken of Calcutta and London, with exquisite and ornate raised embroidered badge of crossed bats, stumps, crown and ball and title 'Rajindra Cricket Club' in gold thread and brass buttons to blazer with similar emblem. 'H.H. Yuvraj of Patiala’ and other details handwritten to inner pocket label. The blazer appears to have been presented to Walters by Yadavindra Singh on the M.C.C. tour in 1933/34. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9b7d9e31-f3a4-4e77-afd8-ca5bcd2359a0/90_0300.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 300 John Maurice Read. Surrey & England 1880-1895. Early original sepia cabinet card studio portrait photograph of Read, head and shoulders wearing formal attire. Signed in black ink to the photograph by Read, possibly in later years. The cabinet card, with gilt to edges, by Tuttle & Co. of 421 George Street, Sydney, probably taken during Lillywhite, Shaw and Shrewsbury's tour to Australia in 1887. A rare photograph from an early tour. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2fd17550-9a94-4077-a584-12caf45932e0/90_0190.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 190 Yorkshire C.C.C. Champion County 1919. Two large joined album pages featuring an original pen and ink illustration of a cricket bat signed 'W.C.W.' across the two pages with the hand printed title 'Cricketers' Autographs'. The face of the bat has been signed in pencil by eighteen members of the Yorkshire and 'The Rest' teams that played in the Champion County match at Kennington Oval, 15th- 18th September 1919. Yorkshire signatures are Burton, Robinson, Holmes, Hirst, Denton, Waddington, Sutcliffe, Kilner, Dolphin, Rhodes, Williams etc and for The Rest, Hitch, Woolley, Hendren, Kennedy, Hobbs, Crawford, Abel etc. Estimate £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4367b11f-4339-4da5-8709-ce53209a725a/90_0452.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 452 The Tournament Chronicle' 1884-1885 [South Africa]. Printed and published by Charles Cox of the Port Elizabeth Advertiser Office. Individual issues one to nine, all published, covering the period Monday 23rd December 1884 to Friday 2nd January 1885 with full description and scores of all the matches in the Christmas Tournament held in Port Elizabeth. Excellent vignette of a cricket scene to each title page of the Chronicle. A very scarce item. Estimate £1200/1600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/db20a232-cedb-4f25-be3a-1b2d53bb60a6/90_0202.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 202 Albert John Young Hopkins. New South Wales & Australia. 1896-1914. Sepia postcard of Hopkins, full length, in batting attire wearing Australian cap and holding a bat to side. Nicely signed, Yours faithfully' in black ink by Hopkins and dated '30/9/1908. Ralph Dunn & Co series No. 1008. Estimate £140/180 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2e2ac8d8-f54b-4658-b67b-92ffefe349e6/90_0374.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 374 Ken 'Slasher' Mackay. Queensland & Australia. Original biro caricature portrait, on a sheet of Orient Line S.S. Orcades headed paper, of Mackay stone walling a ball, wicket keeper, slip and pavilion to background by Arthur Mailey (1920/21 to 1926). The portrait has been signed by Mailey, dated 4th July 1958 and inscribed 'A memory of Mackay’. Estimate £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ea0f32c4-6f9b-4e12-a614-9ad8a1170ff9/90_0459.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 459 'Den Kjobenhavn Boldspilklub. Haandbog i Cricket og Langbold'. Copenhagen C.C. Lose's Forlag. 1866. 50pp. Small Danish cricket handbook with wood-engraved illustrations, original pictorial wrapper boards. First edition. Very rare. Estimate £800/1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a925abc8-380c-4484-9c1c-af1445a83d3c/90_0290.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 290 Arthur Percy Frank Chapman. Kent & England 1924-1938. Newhall Pottery blue water jug printed with an oval colour portrait of Chapman, in roundall, in batting stance at the crease to one side, cricket bats, wicket and balls within a shield to the reverse. 1926. Newhall Pottery stamp to base. 7" tall. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1635081e-3a92-4595-a0be-b094c61b2c65/90_0479-5.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 479 'The Cricketer's Autograph Book'. T. Broadbent Trowsdale ('Cover Point'). Walter Scott Publishing, London 1906. Original green pictorial cloth with mono image of W.G. Grace inlaid to front, gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to all page edges. Profusely and very nicely signed throughout in ink by some 730 Test and first-class cricketers including some rarer signatures of lesser known players. Each signed to their birth date entry. The earliest signatures are of Vernon Royle, David Hunter, Charles Burls, C.I. Thornton, Joseph Eccles, Harry Butt and G.P. Harrison etc. There are 147 who played in Test matches for England, 41 Australians including Monty Noble, Warwick Armstrong, Arthur Mailey, Don Bradman etc, 40 West Indians, Ellis Achong, Clifford Roach, Percy Tarilton etc, 31 South Africans, 12 Indians….. A full listing of the identified signatures is provided. A rare and splendid opportunity to acquire such an extensive archive of cricketers' signatures of the period. Estimate £6000/9000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b90a82ad-eb3c-4ff8-bbaa-3c014974929d/90_0378.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 378 'The Derbyshire Cricket Guide for season 1897'. 2nd Edition. Compiled by L.G. Wright and W.J. Piper Jun. Published by Baker & Hudson of Derby. From the cricket collection of Ian Buxton, former Derbyshire cricketer. Estimate £70/100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6d38fa5e-036a-49e0-bde0-175cc1ed3d5d/90_0304.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 304 Hugh Trumble and Syd Gregory. Australia tour to England 1899. Excellent sepia cabinet card photograph of a tall Hugh Trumble looking down on a diminutive Syd Gregory, both depicted full length wearing formal attire, straw boaters, and smoking cigarettes, The photograph nicely and boldly signed in black ink by both Trumble and Gregory, dated '1899'. The photograph by Aaron Pickering of High Street, Leicester. A very rare and sought after signed card of these early Australia Test players. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a1eed016-b5fe-4fa4-acf7-dbbc758d61c9/90_0195.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 195 Sibley John 'Tip' Snooke. Border, Western Province, Transvaal & South Africa 1879-1924. Sepia real photograph postcard of Snooke standing in batting pose at the wicket wearing South Africa cap, bat raised. Nicely and boldly signed in black ink to the photograph by Foster of Brighton. A nice image and excellent signature. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6891b8cd-9de2-4737-a26b-ee2de0b7ba37/90_0068-1.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 68 'Rare Cricket Letters and Photographs. Ex-Neville Weston 1938'. Half morocco leather green scrapbook compiled by Weston on the collector Charles Pratt Green. Weston has handwritten a very short biography of Pratt Green to the front end paper and dated this 1949. The album contains twelve letters from Pratt Green and includes a copy of Pratt Greens privately printed booklet on Malvern 'Memory's Harkback 1852-1940’. There are several handwritten postcards and letters from Ashley Cooper letters from A.W. Shelton, J.N. Pentelow, H.K. Foster (Worcestershire 1899-1925), F.S. Jackson (Yorkshire & England) and one from Monty Noble of Australia, a signed photograph of Tiger Smith etc. There are ten laid down cabinet cards, with three signed of William Gunn, Ashley Cooper and Henry Luff (Proprietor of Wisden), the unsigned cards are of Richard Daft, P.F. Warner (Fry's), J.H. Broad, Charles Absolon (Latter), Thomas Padwick, The Australians of 1888 (London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company Ltd of London and an image of MacLaren's 228 bat (Ayling) There is also an early small photograph of Trent Bridge with both cricket and a football match being played simultaneously with different crowds. Estimate £2000/3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b91c7763-7d6b-4939-8a1e-f549f5aa7107/90_0487.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 487 'Surry [sic] Triumphant: or The Kentish-Mens Defeat. A new ballad being a parody on Chevy-Chace'. John Duncombe. Printed for J. Johnson, London 1773. First edition. 24pp. Rebound in half green leather and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt title to spine. Woodcut vignette to title page. The match, instigated by the Earl of Tankerville, took place at Bishopsbourne Paddock, the seat of Sir Horatio Mann, on 24 July 1773, for £2000. A rare and very early cricket book. Estimate £4000/6000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6b7d20f0-2fcd-431c-9973-1e40884906ee/90_0194.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 194 Lancashire C.C.C./Liverpool & District Cricket Club 1860/1890's. Folded piece of cream paper very nicely signed in ink by eight players to two sides (not back to back), five of them played for Lancashire in the period quoted. Signatures are Edward Horatio Porter (17 matches for Lancashire 1874-82), Charles Langton Jones (5 matches for Lancashire 1876-1878), George Colquhoun Hamilton Dunlop ((1 match for Lancashire 1868), Arthur Twiss Kemble (76 matches for Lancashire 1885-1894), Edgar Christian Hornby (9 matches for Lancashire 1885-87, distant cousin of A.N. Hornby). On a separate piece is the laid down signatures of Edgar Ratcliffe (1 match for Lancashire 1884). Rare and early Lancashire signatures. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1756373486969-JLN8LRMS54RTH3GYXPEN/90_0033.jpg Sep 25 - Chris Saunders Lot 33 'Wisden Trade Catalogue. List of Prices for 1862. Cricketing & other British Sports. Warehouse, 2 New Coventry Street, Leicester Square, London'. Headed to 'Regiments and Cricket Clubs'. Small 8vo.16pp. The front wrapper has an illustration of Wisden's Shop with a paragraph regarding what the shop has to offer. The list of prices is followed by bats, stumps, gloves etc as well as cricket photographic prints, the Lillywhite and Wisden patent catapulta and other sporting goods such as football and rackets and finally cigars... This trade catalogue is much the same size as a Wisden. A rare and early trade catalogue. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d5627b70-7b94-4df8-b7ff-0caf275dd7c4/FrontCover_forweb.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/home-4 daily 0.75 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ee91c7c3-267d-4bbe-aa5c-d624b35ee819/90_0490.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 490 'The Noble Cricketers: A poetical and familiar epistle, address'd to Two of the Idlest Lords in His Majesty's Three Kingdoms'. Published by J. Bew, No. 28 Paternoster Row, London 1778. First and only edition. pp (iv),22. Rebound in blue buckram for the M.C.C. with M.C.C. colours to covers, gilt title to spine. The lengthy poem is written anonymously and satirises two cricketing aristocrats, 'his Grace the Duke of D..s.t [Dorset], and the Earl of T..k..v.lle [Tankerville]. The Duke of Dorset and Earl of Tankerville were well-known cricket enthusiasts, Tankerville employing cricketers such as Edward 'Lumpy' Stevens on his estate. Very rare, only three copies are recorded in institutions in the UK, at the M.C.C., British Library, and the Bodleian. This copy was previously sold for £13,750 (including premium) as Lot 52 in the Christie's sale of M.C.C. duplicates in 2010. Very good condition. Hammer Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c715be61-2868-4a08-9bf5-6b309fb23396/90_0047.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 47 William Henry Moule. Victoria & Australia 1878-1886. Handwritten two page letter in ink to Hugh Trumble with the letter dated 26th October 1925. The letter headed 'Law Courts, Melbourne' in ink. Moule is writing to Trumble, on behalf of his wife, if the Melbourne Cricket Club would donate some bats and balls to Bundoora Park, a convalescent home for shell shocked soldiers. Nicely signed by Moule 'Yours sincerely'. A rare signature from a very early Australian cricketer who made his one appearance for the national side in the inaugural Test in England in 1880. Good condition. Hammer £800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/3c655811-e5ea-4ab6-9051-59f19e7a9434/90_0262.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 262 'Souvenir of the Visit of Lord Hawke's English Cricket Team to South Africa 1898/99'. An excellent post tour brochure, with full details of every match played, profusely illustrated with images of the teams, individuals and grounds. Printed and published by W.A Richards & Sons, Cape Town. Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. A very rare post tour brochure. Hammer £850 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2e97b784-c955-490e-8b5e-3ddc12f9bb71/90_0312.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 312 Australia 1893. Original carte de visite photograph of the ‘Eighth Australian Cricketing Team 1893’. Team photograph of the players and management including Blackham (Captain), Giffen, Trumble, Trott, Gregory, Bannerman, Turner, Jarvis, Graham etc. Lower and side borders of the photograph mount with title, names of players and publisher. Photograph by the London Stereocopic & Photographic Company Ltd. Hammer £150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/00c8cd9e-790f-404b-b2ae-ef9572ff502c/90_0432.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 432 'Parsi Cricket with hints on bowling, batting...'. M.E. Pavri. Bombay 1901. Original decorative pictorial boards. A rarely seen title. Hammer £360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2c4c5a83-ad3d-4dfa-a216-e1718e956a4e/90_0197.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 197 Gordon Charles White, Transvaal & South Africa, 1902-1912. Early sepia real photograph postcard of White, full length, stood at the wicket in batting pose. Nicely signed by White in black ink. Foster of Brighton. Hammer £360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f15d9b01-4016-406e-82b4-1ea7f7120656/90_0038.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 38 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1911/12. 'The M.C.C. Dinner'. Small and beautifully ornate folding menu for the Dinner given for the M.C.C. touring party to Australia held on the 27th February 1912 at the Hotel Wentworth, Sydney. The menu, on cream card with pink blush colour, has raised stylish art nouveau floral decoration with title to centre. All the courses are named after English players, 'Hearne Bay Oyster Cocktails', 'Rhodes Schnapper a la Century', 'Saddle Woolley Lamb and Vine Sauce’... A rare and early menu. Hammer Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a0b70ad4-872c-40e3-8623-4db5be598eb8/90_0436.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 436 'Indian Cricket Chronology and Memorabilia'. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Merritt and Hatcher 1911. Original red decorative paper wrappers with red cord to spine. 16pp. Limited edition of only thirty copies produced, this being no. 29. Limitation statement to rear wrapper with handwritten dedication and signature in ink to 'Cecil Speigalhalter Esq from F.S. Ashley-Cooper'. Rare. Hammer £620 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/8c2e1966-ae87-44b0-ab39-18c2329f0358/90_0292.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 292 'Young England' and 'Young England's Sister'. Excellent pair of Copeland parian figures, after C. Halse 1874. Excellent figures, the boy leaning against a tree stump with cricket bat and reading a book, the girl with book and croquet mallet behind her. Both, signed by Halse, on oval bases with titles to front, 'Copyright reserved. Copeland' impressed to sides of base. Both approx 16" tall. A rarely seen pair of parian figures. Hammer £500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2ae1131a-cf1a-4df3-863b-d71cefd0e307/90_0325.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 325 Pakistan v England 1954. Original official sepia photograph of the Pakistan team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire. The photograph taken at Trent Bridge for the second Test match, 1st- 5th July 1954. Fully signed in ink by all twelve members of the Pakistan team. Signatures are Kardar (Captain), Imtiaz Ahmed, Fazal Mahmood, Maqsood Ahmed, Khan Mohammad, Hanif Mohammad, Alimuddin, Khalid Hasan, Aslam Khokhar etc. Pakistan drew their inaugural tour to England 2-2. Hammer £65 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/37fed7f9-3dde-4b0d-b333-1f43678a0424/90_0297.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 297 Cyril Frederick Walters, Glamorgan, Worcestershire & England 1928-1935. Rajindra Cricket Club of India mid blue blazer with gold trimming, by Ranken of Calcutta and London, with exquisite and ornate raised embroidered badge of crossed bats, stumps, crown and ball and title 'Rajindra Cricket Club' in gold thread and brass buttons to blazer with similar emblem. 'H.H. Yuvraj of Patiala’ and other details handwritten to inner pocket label. The blazer appears to have been presented to Walters by Yadavindra Singh on the M.C.C. tour in 1933/34. Hammer £100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9b7d9e31-f3a4-4e77-afd8-ca5bcd2359a0/90_0300.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 300 John Maurice Read. Surrey & England 1880-1895. Early original sepia cabinet card studio portrait photograph of Read, head and shoulders wearing formal attire. Signed in black ink to the photograph by Read, possibly in later years. The cabinet card, with gilt to edges, by Tuttle & Co. of 421 George Street, Sydney, probably taken during Lillywhite, Shaw and Shrewsbury's tour to Australia in 1887. A rare photograph from an early tour. Hammer £550 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2fd17550-9a94-4077-a584-12caf45932e0/90_0190.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 190 Yorkshire C.C.C. Champion County 1919. Two large joined album pages featuring an original pen and ink illustration of a cricket bat signed 'W.C.W.' across the two pages with the hand printed title 'Cricketers' Autographs'. The face of the bat has been signed in pencil by eighteen members of the Yorkshire and 'The Rest' teams that played in the Champion County match at Kennington Oval, 15th- 18th September 1919. Yorkshire signatures are Burton, Robinson, Holmes, Hirst, Denton, Waddington, Sutcliffe, Kilner, Dolphin, Rhodes, Williams etc and for The Rest, Hitch, Woolley, Hendren, Kennedy, Hobbs, Crawford, Abel etc. Hammer £120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4367b11f-4339-4da5-8709-ce53209a725a/90_0452.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 452 The Tournament Chronicle' 1884-1885 [South Africa]. Printed and published by Charles Cox of the Port Elizabeth Advertiser Office. Individual issues one to nine, all published, covering the period Monday 23rd December 1884 to Friday 2nd January 1885 with full description and scores of all the matches in the Christmas Tournament held in Port Elizabeth. Excellent vignette of a cricket scene to each title page of the Chronicle. A very scarce item. Hammer Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/db20a232-cedb-4f25-be3a-1b2d53bb60a6/90_0202.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 202 Albert John Young Hopkins. New South Wales & Australia. 1896-1914. Sepia postcard of Hopkins, full length, in batting attire wearing Australian cap and holding a bat to side. Nicely signed, Yours faithfully' in black ink by Hopkins and dated '30/9/1908. Ralph Dunn & Co series No. 1008. Hammer £220 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2e2ac8d8-f54b-4658-b67b-92ffefe349e6/90_0374.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 374 Ken 'Slasher' Mackay. Queensland & Australia. Original biro caricature portrait, on a sheet of Orient Line S.S. Orcades headed paper, of Mackay stone walling a ball, wicket keeper, slip and pavilion to background by Arthur Mailey (1920/21 to 1926). The portrait has been signed by Mailey, dated 4th July 1958 and inscribed 'A memory of Mackay’. Hammer Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ea0f32c4-6f9b-4e12-a614-9ad8a1170ff9/90_0459.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 459 'Den Kjobenhavn Boldspilklub. Haandbog i Cricket og Langbold'. Copenhagen C.C. Lose's Forlag. 1866. 50pp. Small Danish cricket handbook with wood-engraved illustrations, original pictorial wrapper boards. First edition. Very rare. Hammer Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a925abc8-380c-4484-9c1c-af1445a83d3c/90_0290.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 290 Arthur Percy Frank Chapman. Kent & England 1924-1938. Newhall Pottery blue water jug printed with an oval colour portrait of Chapman, in roundall, in batting stance at the crease to one side, cricket bats, wicket and balls within a shield to the reverse. 1926. Newhall Pottery stamp to base. 7" tall. Hammer £380 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1635081e-3a92-4595-a0be-b094c61b2c65/90_0479-5.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 479 'The Cricketer's Autograph Book'. T. Broadbent Trowsdale ('Cover Point'). Walter Scott Publishing, London 1906. Original green pictorial cloth with mono image of W.G. Grace inlaid to front, gilt titles to front and spine, gilt to all page edges. Profusely and very nicely signed throughout in ink by some 730 Test and first-class cricketers including some rarer signatures of lesser known players. Each signed to their birth date entry. The earliest signatures are of Vernon Royle, David Hunter, Charles Burls, C.I. Thornton, Joseph Eccles, Harry Butt and G.P. Harrison etc. There are 147 who played in Test matches for England, 41 Australians including Monty Noble, Warwick Armstrong, Arthur Mailey, Don Bradman etc, 40 West Indians, Ellis Achong, Clifford Roach, Percy Tarilton etc, 31 South Africans, 12 Indians….. A full listing of the identified signatures is provided. A rare and splendid opportunity to acquire such an extensive archive of cricketers' signatures of the period. Hammer Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b90a82ad-eb3c-4ff8-bbaa-3c014974929d/90_0378.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 378 'The Derbyshire Cricket Guide for season 1897'. 2nd Edition. Compiled by L.G. Wright and W.J. Piper Jun. Published by Baker & Hudson of Derby. From the cricket collection of Ian Buxton, former Derbyshire cricketer. Hammer £65 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6d38fa5e-036a-49e0-bde0-175cc1ed3d5d/90_0304.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 304 Hugh Trumble and Syd Gregory. Australia tour to England 1899. Excellent sepia cabinet card photograph of a tall Hugh Trumble looking down on a diminutive Syd Gregory, both depicted full length wearing formal attire, straw boaters, and smoking cigarettes, The photograph nicely and boldly signed in black ink by both Trumble and Gregory, dated '1899'. The photograph by Aaron Pickering of High Street, Leicester. A very rare and sought after signed card of these early Australia Test players. Hammer £800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a1eed016-b5fe-4fa4-acf7-dbbc758d61c9/90_0195.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 195 Sibley John 'Tip' Snooke. Border, Western Province, Transvaal & South Africa 1879-1924. Sepia real photograph postcard of Snooke standing in batting pose at the wicket wearing South Africa cap, bat raised. Nicely and boldly signed in black ink to the photograph by Foster of Brighton. A nice image and excellent signature. Hammer £170 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6891b8cd-9de2-4737-a26b-ee2de0b7ba37/90_0068-1.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 68 'Rare Cricket Letters and Photographs. Ex-Neville Weston 1938'. Half morocco leather green scrapbook compiled by Weston on the collector Charles Pratt Green. Weston has handwritten a very short biography of Pratt Green to the front end paper and dated this 1949. The album contains twelve letters from Pratt Green and includes a copy of Pratt Greens privately printed booklet on Malvern 'Memory's Harkback 1852-1940’. There are several handwritten postcards and letters from Ashley Cooper letters from A.W. Shelton, J.N. Pentelow, H.K. Foster (Worcestershire 1899-1925), F.S. Jackson (Yorkshire & England) and one from Monty Noble of Australia, a signed photograph of Tiger Smith etc. There are ten laid down cabinet cards, with three signed of William Gunn, Ashley Cooper and Henry Luff (Proprietor of Wisden), the unsigned cards are of Richard Daft, P.F. Warner (Fry's), J.H. Broad, Charles Absolon (Latter), Thomas Padwick, The Australians of 1888 (London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company Ltd of London and an image of MacLaren's 228 bat (Ayling) There is also an early small photograph of Trent Bridge with both cricket and a football match being played simultaneously with different crowds. Hammer Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b91c7763-7d6b-4939-8a1e-f549f5aa7107/90_0487.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 487 'Surry [sic] Triumphant: or The Kentish-Mens Defeat. A new ballad being a parody on Chevy-Chace'. John Duncombe. Printed for J. Johnson, London 1773. First edition. 24pp. Rebound in half green leather and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt title to spine. Woodcut vignette to title page. The match, instigated by the Earl of Tankerville, took place at Bishopsbourne Paddock, the seat of Sir Horatio Mann, on 24 July 1773, for £2000. A rare and very early cricket book. Hammer £2600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/6b7d20f0-2fcd-431c-9973-1e40884906ee/90_0194.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 194 Lancashire C.C.C./Liverpool & District Cricket Club 1860/1890's. Folded piece of cream paper very nicely signed in ink by eight players to two sides (not back to back), five of them played for Lancashire in the period quoted. Signatures are Edward Horatio Porter (17 matches for Lancashire 1874-82), Charles Langton Jones (5 matches for Lancashire 1876-1878), George Colquhoun Hamilton Dunlop ((1 match for Lancashire 1868), Arthur Twiss Kemble (76 matches for Lancashire 1885-1894), Edgar Christian Hornby (9 matches for Lancashire 1885-87, distant cousin of A.N. Hornby). On a separate piece is the laid down signatures of Edgar Ratcliffe (1 match for Lancashire 1884). Rare and early Lancashire signatures. Hammer £280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1756373486969-JLN8LRMS54RTH3GYXPEN/90_0033.jpg Sep 25 After Lot 33 'Wisden Trade Catalogue. List of Prices for 1862. Cricketing & other British Sports. Warehouse, 2 New Coventry Street, Leicester Square, London'. Headed to 'Regiments and Cricket Clubs'. Small 8vo.16pp. The front wrapper has an illustration of Wisden's Shop with a paragraph regarding what the shop has to offer. The list of prices is followed by bats, stumps, gloves etc as well as cricket photographic prints, the Lillywhite and Wisden patent catapulta and other sporting goods such as football and rackets and finally cigars... This trade catalogue is much the same size as a Wisden. A rare and early trade catalogue. Hammer Unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/d5627b70-7b94-4df8-b7ff-0caf275dd7c4/FrontCover_forweb.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/home33 daily 0.75 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/388803c4-2ef0-4b9b-9963-25922302441e/91_0418-5A.jpg Home Lot 418 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire, London County & England 1870-1904. Very large and imposing, head and shoulders, bust of Grace sporting a forked beard and wearing a cricket shirt by artist William Henry Tyler SC (fl. 1880-1893). The plaster of Paris bust, produced in 1888, stands on a joined plinth and overall measures approx 32" tall, width: shoulders 24", back to front 13". Inscribed to back of bust 'W. Tyler. SC. 1888'. A large wonderful figure of an almost live size W.G. Grace enhanced with a glorious patina. An extremely rare and important figure of Grace, one of only three similar busts known to exist. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/86ad964e-b779-440c-86d3-eb18ebb799f4/91_0507.jpg Home Lot 507 Australian tour of England 'Triangular Test Tournament' 1912. Excellent fully signed sepia photograph of the Australian touring party 1912. The photograph, by Thomas Bolland, laid down to official photographers mount and is signed by all fifteen players in ink. Additionally signed in pencil to the lower border by Thomas Bolland with the word copyright added in his hand before being presented to Bill Whitty, one of the Australia tourists. Formerly from the collection of Bill Whitty with his intials 'W.J.W.' written in ink to the centre of the verso. A very rare signed photograph of this Australian team. In thirty two years of trading the auctioneer has never sold a similar signed Australian team photograph from this tour of 1912. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/5711133c-0a55-421c-b64d-f76bad76536a/91_0183.jpg Home Lot 183 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1911-12. Pair of oval hallmarked 15 carat gold cufflinks, presumably, presented to Barnes following his performances for England against Australia in the second and third Test matches played at Melbourne and Adelaide on the 30th December 1911 and 1st - 3rd January 1912. One of the cuff links has the wording 'Melbourne' and '8 Wkts [wickets]' to front and verso and the other has the wording 'Adelaide' and 8 Wkts [wickets] ' to front and verso. An item from the collection formerly the property of Sydney Francis Barnes being sold in this auction. Hammer £1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/362017e1-c39d-4a1b-8776-9a1d246400b2/91_0081.jpg Home Lot 81 William Cafffyn. Surrey & M.C.C. 1849-1873. Excellent ink signature of William Caffyn on paper piece, laid down to large piece of blue album page. A very rare and desirable signature. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1c77d607-12bb-4ea3-a4bc-fe1592237d72/91_0198.jpg Home Lot 198 Australian tour of England 1899. Large album page very nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the Australian touring party to England. Signatures are Joe Darling (Cpt), Iredale, Victor Trumper, Gregory, E. Jones, Howell, McLeod, Laver, Kelly, Johns, Worrall, Trumble and Noble, only lacking Clem Hill from the full touring party. The page measures 6.75"x9". An excellent album page showing the signatures of these early Australians. From an excellent collection of album pages signed by pre WWI Test and County cricket teams. Hammer £1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ca681b7b-8522-4f32-a88d-ab08c09ee684/91_0132.jpg Home Lot 132 Frederick Robert Spofforth. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1874-1888. Excellent three page handwritten folding letter dated 29th September 1904 from Spofforth to F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Writing from an address in London, Spofforth is replying to an enquiry about a match in which he played. 'As far as I remember it was played in Dec 1881 on a sheep [farm] and I don't think it was ever published in any paper except the bare fact that I had taken all the wickets….’ Nicely signed 'Yours Sincerely, Fred R Spofforth'. Very slight fading to the signature. A very rare letter from an early Australian legend. Hammer £750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/78ed0f7a-eed6-4224-9e76-d0ff3977647a/91_0376.jpg Home Lot 376 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Sussex & England. 1895-1920. Excellent sepia cabinet card photograph of Ranjitsinhji, three quarter length, in formal attire holding a cricket bat to side. Cabinet card by R.H. Lord of Cambridge, nicely signed in black ink by Ranjitsinhji 'With kindest regards, very sincerely yours Ranjitsinhji'. Sold with a similar cabinet photograph by Hawkins of Brighton of Kumar Shree Devisinhji, Ranji's elder brother signed by him. Rare. From a selection of items from the Indian prince. Hammer £1300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/59c20152-9737-4e08-ad91-db90c779cac9/91_0221.jpg Home Lot 221 England XI v Australians 1882. Very early large sheet signed in ink by the England XI team who played the Australians at St. George's Park, Harrogate on the 23rd - 26th September 1882. The sheet with the ink signature of William Evans Midwinter of Australia to the top of the sheet and ten signatures of the England team below this. The signatures are Roller, Hawke, Leatham, Read, E.M. Grace, Lockwood, Emmett, Ulyett, Gilbert and Peate. Only lacking Martin Riley of Yorkshire from the full eleven who played in the tour match. A truly wonderful rare sheet containing some very early signatures. Hammer £7000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/df4fb6b1-436a-415c-bf76-94f510e44389/91_0396.jpg Home Lot 396 'United All England XI'. Early and complete material belt in colour bands of I'Zingari with excellent two piece brass belt buckle with applied figures of a batsman about to strike the ball on one piece and a wicket-keeper ready to catch on the the other, the central part with two flags above a wicket, the flags inscribed 'U.A.E.' (United England XI) and the other M.C.C. Makers mark for 'Edward Ade of London' to verso with registration marks and coded date for 19th January 1857. An extremely early rare belt and decorative buckle. Hammer £2800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cc86d8ff-356c-43ab-98ef-e7dfadacd076/91_0503.jpg Home Lot 503 Warren Bardsley. New South Wales & Australia 1903-1927. Excellent extra large sepia 'Imperial' size cabinet card of Bardsley standing full length wearing batting attire and leaning on his bat. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph 'Yours very sincerely, Warren Bardsley'. Photograph by T.W. Bolland of London, taken in 1909 during the Australian tour to England. A superb image and a rare large cabinet card in this signed form. Hammer £600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/67e99375-9830-402e-a83f-d4fc442b2f8f/91_0377.jpg Home Lot 377 Kumar. Shri. Ranjitsinhji. H.M. Jam Sahib Of Nawanagar. Sussex & England 1872-1933. Gold cigarette case given to Captain Sam Prichard, Captain of the Mail Boat ‘Scotia’ which travelled from Holyhead to Dublin, by Ranjitsinhji. The case by Hunt & Roskell Ltd of Old Bond Street London, with Ranjitsinhji’s monogram to inside. Hall marked Birmingham 1922. In original case. Ranjitsinhji had Estates in Ireland and used to cross the Irish Sea on the ‘Scotia’. Sold with written and typed authentication by the vendor, the Nephew of Captain Sam Prichard. Hammer £2400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/783fc3d0-e97c-4bcb-9735-64faea029202/91_0598.jpg Home Lot 598 Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Early original mono postcard of Trumper in batting pose wearing Australian Test cap. Printed title 'Mr. V. Trumper'. Very nicely signed in black ink to lower margin 'V. Trumper'. Wrench Series no. 1687. Hammer £650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c1636386-4e80-4ae0-b8f0-29286c2003c6/91_1095.jpg Home Lot 1095 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1875. 12th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, Gilt to top edge. Probably the rarest Wisden edition. Hammer £30,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9f89ddd6-6b00-4d21-8f28-969509ab5ba6/91_0184.jpg Home Lot 184 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. Exquisite studio portrait of Barnes taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Barnes is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Barnes below the image. An item from the collection formerly the property of Sydney Francis Barnes being sold in this auction. £420 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1ac65683-6865-48ae-ad23-188a30ffcfe0/91_0480.jpg Home Lot 480 John Berry 'Jack' Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. 'England v Australia. Jack Hobbs 100 runs. Eleventh Test century 1926'. Cricket ball presented to Jack Hobbs with silver band around the ball with the inscription 'England v Australia. Kennington Oval, 17th August 1926. J.B. Hobbs. B. Gregory 100. Eleventh Test century in Test Matches against Australia'. The ball was previously sold as part of The Jack Hobbs Collection in Phillips Auctioneers sale of April 1979 as lot 256. Hammer £1100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/5e6310a0-9f7b-4d1c-80cf-74bfe2aa40a5/91_0908.jpg Home Lot 908 Australian dark green wool Test cap embroidered with the Australia emblem and below '1972' in gold thread. Size label inside cap '7". Internally appears to have been match worn and in good condition. Ownership unknown. Hammer £3200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4b11c77e-57bf-43b9-a9f3-92ddd23f90a9/91_0447.jpg Home Lot 447 'Good for Fifty'. Royal Doulton Black Boy miniature two handled vase, with printed image of a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat in batting pose in front of the wicket to one side and to the other, a crest with 'The All Black Team'. Green floral decoration to outer rim and handles. 2" tall. Doulton backstamp and number E4336' to base. Circa 1907. A very scarce and rarely seen 'Black Boy' miniature ceramic in lovely condition. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4275d631-c7ea-4b04-8437-b7a4730aa23f/91_0611.jpg Home Lot 611 Australian tour of England 1930. Excellent complete set of fifteen sepia real photograph plain back postcards of each member of the Australian touring party. Each player featured on the postcards has been taken head and shoulders, wearing Australian sweater. Each card has been very nicely signed by the player featured in ink. The players are Bill Woodfull (Captain), Wall, Richardson, Bradman, Fairfax, Jackson, Ponsford, Kippax, McCabe, Grimmett, Hurwood, Hornibrook, Oldfield, a'Beckett and Walker. The postcards produced by B.D.V. cigarettes of Godfrey Phillips of London, as part of their advertising campaign for the 1930 Australian tourists. Hammer£2400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0b0f932c-65a3-4cf9-a237-9a22c907ac64/91_0939.jpg Home Lot 939 Maurice William Tate. Sussex & England 1912-1937. 'It Kent Be Done! Tate settled Kent'. Original pen and ink cartoon by Samuel Wells depicting a large and burly Tate standing on a pile of cricket stumps while squeezing the life out of a diminutive Kent player. The illustration is undated, but most likely refers to the match, Kent v Sussex, played at Tunbridge Wells 1st- 4th July 1933 in which Tate took 5/28 and 3/69 to help Sussex to a ten wicket victory. Hammer £350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e88f82aa-26ba-43c7-af5b-9478781311a0/91_1214.jpg Home Lot 1214 'The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket.' London 1852. 5th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piper of London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers and advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. Rare. From a large and rare run of the Guide being sold in this auction. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ff990166-7b12-46c1-a9ae-a0bca66854c9/91_0298.jpg Home Lot 298 Sussex C.C.C. 1899. Large original lined page beautifully signed in ink by the Sussex team who played Kent at The Angel Ground, Tonbridge on the 5th to 7th June 1899. Thirteen signatures in total, the eleven that played at Tonbridge plus the signatures of P.H. Latham and F.H. Greeson who played in the return fixture at Hove on the 31st August, 1st & 2nd September. The signatures are Murdoch (Cpt), Cox, Brann, Killick, Butt, Collins, Tate, Ranjitsinhji, Fry, Newham, Bland, Latham and Greeson. An early and delightful set of Sussex team signatures. Hammer £360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bd1f35cd-fb21-4f54-aae2-6287b5e98254/91_0167.jpg Home Lot 167 Alfred Shaw. Nottinghamshire, Sussex & England 1864-1897. Rare and early single page handwritten letter from Shaw to J.M. Cotterill (Sussex 1870-1888), dated 17th January 1879. Shaw is inviting Cotterill to play in his benefit match, 'Will you favor me by consenting to have your name added to the list of players in the North v South match to be played at Lord's on June 2nd, 3rd & 4th (Whit Monday etc) for my benefit'. Very nicely signed 'Alfred Shaw’. Hammer £280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a0093dd1-aa82-4f80-b906-ae4846e9fd40/91_0014.jpg Home Lot 14 John Lillywhite. Sussex & Middlesex 1850-1869. Lillywhite's Benefit 1871. Original ornate admission ticket for the match played 'Under the Patronage of the Sussex County Cricket Club. The Gentlemen of England versus the Players of England. John Lillywhite begs respectfully to announce that the above Match will be Played for his Benefit at Brighton, Aug. 14th, 15th & 16th 1871. The Gentlemen will be selected by V.E. and I.D. Walker Esqs.'. The large ticket, more akin to an invitation in appearance than a traditional match ticket. A rare early ticket. Hammer £360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b62e22c4-9449-4c06-ac77-e2643af86317/91_0940.jpg Home Lot 940 'Kent and Sussex' 1847. Early small original double sided scorecard showing the scores at the close of the first day's play in the match Sussex v Kent at the Royal New Ground, Brighton, 24th- 26th June 1847. Kent winning by an innings and nine runs. Notable players include W. Mynn, Martingdale, F. & W. Pilch, Martin, Hillyer, E. & W. Napper, Box, Wisden etc. Hammer £240 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fc26f7ff-048d-4d92-841c-25c155aac44a/91_1117.jpg Home Lot 1117 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Original hardback. A very rare early hardback edition in very good condition. Hammer £3200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2c16a868-65d6-4102-bfea-1af9a686d87b/91_0957.jpg Home Lot 957 The Ashes. 'England v. Australia' 1882. Early and original double sided official scorecard for the second Test match to be played in England, Kennington Oval, 28th- 30th August 1882. The scorecard with complete printed scores. A very rare Test match scorecard which Australia won by seven runs. Australia's famous victory over a full strength England team inspired the legend of 'The Ashes' with the Sporting Times running a mock obituary of English cricket following their defeat. Hammer £3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/126ba0c9-c612-4873-96a9-a83c15e5ace5/91_0172.jpg Home Lot 172 Arthur Owen Jones. Nottinghamshire & England 1892-1914. Excellent studio portrait of Jones, the M.C.C. Captain, taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Jones is pictured wearing pin stripe suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Jones to the image. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour. Formerly from the cricket collection of Sydney Francis Barnes. Hammer £110 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0241064d-ccfc-44b1-ad97-625874c46f61/91_0905.jpg Home Lot 905 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Early Yorkshire navy blue 1st XI cap, with the Yorkshire white rose emblem to the front worn by Denton during his playing career. The cap, with smaller peak, typical of a pre first world war cap, by E.C. Devereux of Eton. The stem of the rose emblem in white rather than the later green stem. A early and rare cap worn by a Yorkshire cricket legend. Hammer £460 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c47a4bd3-bb70-4dce-87a9-0fa4d2b8f4b3/91_0148.jpg Home Lot 148 William Henry Cooper. Victoria & Australia 1878-1885. Very rare single page handwritten letter from Cooper, written on ruled paper, dated 'Sept 15th [1936]'. Cooper is writing to 'Mr. Hill', being Les R. Hill, the cricket writer and collector base in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Cooper writes, 'At 87 I am granted wonderfully good health' and while he 'cannot do anything in the way of cricket except looking at cricket' he looks forward 'to see something good in a short time’. A very rare signature of an early Australian Test cricketer. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f2f03f01-405c-44af-9532-3bcf1d2fc1de/91_0601.jpg Home Lot 601 John McCarthy 'Jack' Blackham. Victoria & Australia 1874-1895. Early original sepia cabinet card photograph of Blackham, head and shoulders, wearing shirt and tie. Nicely signed to the verso in black ink by Blackham and dated 12th April 1889. The photograph by Stilliard & Co. of Oxford. A very rare and sought after signed card of this early Australia Test player. Hammer £1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/dc6a0721-f645-442a-b1ab-070ff0049b78/CoversHighResNov25.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/home-5 daily 0.75 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/388803c4-2ef0-4b9b-9963-25922302441e/91_0418-5A.jpg Nov 25 Lot 418 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire, London County & England 1870-1904. Very large and imposing, head and shoulders, bust of Grace sporting a forked beard and wearing a cricket shirt by artist William Henry Tyler SC (fl. 1880-1893). The plaster of Paris bust, produced in 1888, stands on a joined plinth and overall measures approx 32" tall, width: shoulders 24", back to front 13". Inscribed to back of bust 'W. Tyler. SC. 1888'. A large wonderful figure of an almost live size W.G. Grace enhanced with a glorious patina. An extremely rare and important figure of Grace, one of only three similar busts known to exist. Estimate £10000/15000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/86ad964e-b779-440c-86d3-eb18ebb799f4/91_0507.jpg Nov 25 Lot 507 Australian tour of England 'Triangular Test Tournament' 1912. Excellent fully signed sepia photograph of the Australian touring party 1912. The photograph, by Thomas Bolland, laid down to official photographers mount and is signed by all fifteen players in ink. Additionally signed in pencil to the lower border by Thomas Bolland with the word copyright added in his hand before being presented to Bill Whitty, one of the Australia tourists. Formerly from the collection of Bill Whitty with his intials 'W.J.W.' written in ink to the centre of the verso. A very rare signed photograph of this Australian team. In thirty two years of trading the auctioneer has never sold a similar signed Australian team photograph from this tour of 1912. Estimate £6000/8000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/5711133c-0a55-421c-b64d-f76bad76536a/91_0183.jpg Nov 25 Lot 183 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1911-12. Pair of oval hallmarked 15 carat gold cufflinks, presumably, presented to Barnes following his performances for England against Australia in the second and third Test matches played at Melbourne and Adelaide on the 30th December 1911 and 1st - 3rd January 1912. One of the cuff links has the wording 'Melbourne' and '8 Wkts [wickets]' to front and verso and the other has the wording 'Adelaide' and 8 Wkts [wickets] ' to front and verso. An item from the collection formerly the property of Sydney Francis Barnes being sold in this auction. Estimate £700/1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/362017e1-c39d-4a1b-8776-9a1d246400b2/91_0081.jpg Nov 25 Lot 81 William Cafffyn. Surrey & M.C.C. 1849-1873. Excellent ink signature of William Caffyn on paper piece, laid down to large piece of blue album page. A very rare and desirable signature. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1c77d607-12bb-4ea3-a4bc-fe1592237d72/91_0198.jpg Nov 25 Lot 198 Australian tour of England 1899. Large album page very nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the Australian touring party to England. Signatures are Joe Darling (Cpt), Iredale, Victor Trumper, Gregory, E. Jones, Howell, McLeod, Laver, Kelly, Johns, Worrall, Trumble and Noble, only lacking Clem Hill from the full touring party. The page measures 6.75"x9". An excellent album page showing the signatures of these early Australians. From an excellent collection of album pages signed by pre WWI Test and County cricket teams. Estimate £600/900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ca681b7b-8522-4f32-a88d-ab08c09ee684/91_0132.jpg Nov 25 Lot 132 Frederick Robert Spofforth. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1874-1888. Excellent three page handwritten folding letter dated 29th September 1904 from Spofforth to F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Writing from an address in London, Spofforth is replying to an enquiry about a match in which he played. 'As far as I remember it was played in Dec 1881 on a sheep [farm] and I don't think it was ever published in any paper except the bare fact that I had taken all the wickets….’ Nicely signed 'Yours Sincerely, Fred R Spofforth'. Very slight fading to the signature. A very rare letter from an early Australian legend. Estimate £800/1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/78ed0f7a-eed6-4224-9e76-d0ff3977647a/91_0376.jpg Nov 25 Lot 376 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Sussex & England. 1895-1920. Excellent sepia cabinet card photograph of Ranjitsinhji, three quarter length, in formal attire holding a cricket bat to side. Cabinet card by R.H. Lord of Cambridge, nicely signed in black ink by Ranjitsinhji 'With kindest regards, very sincerely yours Ranjitsinhji'. Sold with a similar cabinet photograph by Hawkins of Brighton of Kumar Shree Devisinhji, Ranji's elder brother signed by him. Rare. From a selection of items from the Indian prince. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/59c20152-9737-4e08-ad91-db90c779cac9/91_0221.jpg Nov 25 Lot 221 England XI v Australians 1882. Very early large sheet signed in ink by the England XI team who played the Australians at St. George's Park, Harrogate on the 23rd - 26th September 1882. The sheet with the ink signature of William Evans Midwinter of Australia to the top of the sheet and ten signatures of the England team below this. The signatures are Roller, Hawke, Leatham, Read, E.M. Grace, Lockwood, Emmett, Ulyett, Gilbert and Peate. Only lacking Martin Riley of Yorkshire from the full eleven who played in the tour match. A truly wonderful rare sheet containing some very early signatures. Estimate £3000/5000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/df4fb6b1-436a-415c-bf76-94f510e44389/91_0396.jpg Nov 25 Lot 396 'United All England XI'. Early and complete material belt in colour bands of I'Zingari with excellent two piece brass belt buckle with applied figures of a batsman about to strike the ball on one piece and a wicket-keeper ready to catch on the the other, the central part with two flags above a wicket, the flags inscribed 'U.A.E.' (United England XI) and the other M.C.C. Makers mark for 'Edward Ade of London' to verso with registration marks and coded date for 19th January 1857. An extremely early rare belt and decorative buckle. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cc86d8ff-356c-43ab-98ef-e7dfadacd076/91_0503.jpg Nov 25 Lot 503 Warren Bardsley. New South Wales & Australia 1903-1927. Excellent extra large sepia 'Imperial' size cabinet card of Bardsley standing full length wearing batting attire and leaning on his bat. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph 'Yours very sincerely, Warren Bardsley'. Photograph by T.W. Bolland of London, taken in 1909 during the Australian tour to England. A superb image and a rare large cabinet card in this signed form. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/67e99375-9830-402e-a83f-d4fc442b2f8f/91_0377.jpg Nov 25 Lot 377 Kumar. Shri. Ranjitsinhji. H.M. Jam Sahib Of Nawanagar. Sussex & England 1872-1933. Gold cigarette case given to Captain Sam Prichard, Captain of the Mail Boat ‘Scotia’ which travelled from Holyhead to Dublin, by Ranjitsinhji. The case by Hunt & Roskell Ltd of Old Bond Street London, with Ranjitsinhji’s monogram to inside. Hall marked Birmingham 1922. In original case. Ranjitsinhji had Estates in Ireland and used to cross the Irish Sea on the ‘Scotia’. Sold with written and typed authentication by the vendor, the Nephew of Captain Sam Prichard. Estimate £800/1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/783fc3d0-e97c-4bcb-9735-64faea029202/91_0598.jpg Nov 25 Lot 598 Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Early original mono postcard of Trumper in batting pose wearing Australian Test cap. Printed title 'Mr. V. Trumper'. Very nicely signed in black ink to lower margin 'V. Trumper'. Wrench Series no. 1687. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c1636386-4e80-4ae0-b8f0-29286c2003c6/91_1095.jpg Nov 25 Lot 1095 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1875. 12th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, Gilt to top edge. Probably the rarest Wisden edition. Estimate £18000/25000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9f89ddd6-6b00-4d21-8f28-969509ab5ba6/91_0184.jpg Nov 25 Lot 184 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. Exquisite studio portrait of Barnes taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Barnes is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Barnes below the image. An item from the collection formerly the property of Sydney Francis Barnes being sold in this auction. Estimate £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1ac65683-6865-48ae-ad23-188a30ffcfe0/91_0480.jpg Nov 25 Lot 480 John Berry 'Jack' Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. 'England v Australia. Jack Hobbs 100 runs. Eleventh Test century 1926'. Cricket ball presented to Jack Hobbs with silver band around the ball with the inscription 'England v Australia. Kennington Oval, 17th August 1926. J.B. Hobbs. B. Gregory 100. Eleventh Test century in Test Matches against Australia'. The ball was previously sold as part of The Jack Hobbs Collection in Phillips Auctioneers sale of April 1979 as lot 256. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/5e6310a0-9f7b-4d1c-80cf-74bfe2aa40a5/91_0908.jpg Nov 25 Lot 908 Australian dark green wool Test cap embroidered with the Australia emblem and below '1972' in gold thread. Size label inside cap '7". Internally appears to have been match worn and in good condition. Ownership unknown. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4b11c77e-57bf-43b9-a9f3-92ddd23f90a9/91_0447.jpg Nov 25 Lot 447 'Good for Fifty'. Royal Doulton Black Boy miniature two handled vase, with printed image of a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat in batting pose in front of the wicket to one side and to the other, a crest with 'The All Black Team'. Green floral decoration to outer rim and handles. 2" tall. Doulton backstamp and number E4336' to base. Circa 1907. A very scarce and rarely seen 'Black Boy' miniature ceramic in lovely condition. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4275d631-c7ea-4b04-8437-b7a4730aa23f/91_0611.jpg Nov 25 Lot 611 Australian tour of England 1930. Excellent complete set of fifteen sepia real photograph plain back postcards of each member of the Australian touring party. Each player featured on the postcards has been taken head and shoulders, wearing Australian sweater. Each card has been very nicely signed by the player featured in ink. The players are Bill Woodfull (Captain), Wall, Richardson, Bradman, Fairfax, Jackson, Ponsford, Kippax, McCabe, Grimmett, Hurwood, Hornibrook, Oldfield, a'Beckett and Walker. The postcards produced by B.D.V. cigarettes of Godfrey Phillips of London, as part of their advertising campaign for the 1930 Australian tourists. Estimate £1500/2500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0b0f932c-65a3-4cf9-a237-9a22c907ac64/91_0939.jpg Nov 25 Lot 939 Maurice William Tate. Sussex & England 1912-1937. 'It Kent Be Done! Tate settled Kent'. Original pen and ink cartoon by Samuel Wells depicting a large and burly Tate standing on a pile of cricket stumps while squeezing the life out of a diminutive Kent player. The illustration is undated, but most likely refers to the match, Kent v Sussex, played at Tunbridge Wells 1st- 4th July 1933 in which Tate took 5/28 and 3/69 to help Sussex to a ten wicket victory. Estimate £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e88f82aa-26ba-43c7-af5b-9478781311a0/91_1214.jpg Nov 25 Lot 1214 'The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket.' London 1852. 5th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piper of London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers and advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. Rare. From a large and rare run of the Guide being sold in this auction. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ff990166-7b12-46c1-a9ae-a0bca66854c9/91_0298.jpg Nov 25 Lot 298 Sussex C.C.C. 1899. Large original lined page beautifully signed in ink by the Sussex team who played Kent at The Angel Ground, Tonbridge on the 5th to 7th June 1899. Thirteen signatures in total, the eleven that played at Tonbridge plus the signatures of P.H. Latham and F.H. Greeson who played in the return fixture at Hove on the 31st August, 1st & 2nd September. The signatures are Murdoch (Cpt), Cox, Brann, Killick, Butt, Collins, Tate, Ranjitsinhji, Fry, Newham, Bland, Latham and Greeson. An early and delightful set of Sussex team signatures. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bd1f35cd-fb21-4f54-aae2-6287b5e98254/91_0167.jpg Nov 25 Lot 167 Alfred Shaw. Nottinghamshire, Sussex & England 1864-1897. Rare and early single page handwritten letter from Shaw to J.M. Cotterill (Sussex 1870-1888), dated 17th January 1879. Shaw is inviting Cotterill to play in his benefit match, 'Will you favor me by consenting to have your name added to the list of players in the North v South match to be played at Lord's on June 2nd, 3rd & 4th (Whit Monday etc) for my benefit'. Very nicely signed 'Alfred Shaw’. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a0093dd1-aa82-4f80-b906-ae4846e9fd40/91_0014.jpg Nov 25 Lot 14 John Lillywhite. Sussex & Middlesex 1850-1869. Lillywhite's Benefit 1871. Original ornate admission ticket for the match played 'Under the Patronage of the Sussex County Cricket Club. The Gentlemen of England versus the Players of England. John Lillywhite begs respectfully to announce that the above Match will be Played for his Benefit at Brighton, Aug. 14th, 15th & 16th 1871. The Gentlemen will be selected by V.E. and I.D. Walker Esqs.'. The large ticket, more akin to an invitation in appearance than a traditional match ticket. A rare early ticket. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b62e22c4-9449-4c06-ac77-e2643af86317/91_0940.jpg Nov 25 Lot 940 'Kent and Sussex' 1847. Early small original double sided scorecard showing the scores at the close of the first day's play in the match Sussex v Kent at the Royal New Ground, Brighton, 24th- 26th June 1847. Kent winning by an innings and nine runs. Notable players include W. Mynn, Martingdale, F. & W. Pilch, Martin, Hillyer, E. & W. Napper, Box, Wisden etc. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fc26f7ff-048d-4d92-841c-25c155aac44a/91_1117.jpg Nov 25 Lot 1117 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Original hardback. A very rare early hardback edition in very good condition. Estimate £3500/4500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2c16a868-65d6-4102-bfea-1af9a686d87b/91_0957.jpg Nov 25 Lot 957 The Ashes. 'England v. Australia' 1882. Early and original double sided official scorecard for the second Test match to be played in England, Kennington Oval, 28th- 30th August 1882. The scorecard with complete printed scores. A very rare Test match scorecard which Australia won by seven runs. Australia's famous victory over a full strength England team inspired the legend of 'The Ashes' with the Sporting Times running a mock obituary of English cricket following their defeat. Estimate £600/900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/126ba0c9-c612-4873-96a9-a83c15e5ace5/91_0172.jpg Nov 25 Lot 172 Arthur Owen Jones. Nottinghamshire & England 1892-1914. Excellent studio portrait of Jones, the M.C.C. Captain, taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Jones is pictured wearing pin stripe suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Jones to the image. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour. Formerly from the cricket collection of Sydney Francis Barnes. Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0241064d-ccfc-44b1-ad97-625874c46f61/91_0905.jpg Nov 25 Lot 905 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Early Yorkshire navy blue 1st XI cap, with the Yorkshire white rose emblem to the front worn by Denton during his playing career. The cap, with smaller peak, typical of a pre first world war cap, by E.C. Devereux of Eton. The stem of the rose emblem in white rather than the later green stem. A early and rare cap worn by a Yorkshire cricket legend. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c47a4bd3-bb70-4dce-87a9-0fa4d2b8f4b3/91_0148.jpg Nov 25 Lot 148 William Henry Cooper. Victoria & Australia 1878-1885. Very rare single page handwritten letter from Cooper, written on ruled paper, dated 'Sept 15th [1936]'. Cooper is writing to 'Mr. Hill', being Les R. Hill, the cricket writer and collector base in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Cooper writes, 'At 87 I am granted wonderfully good health' and while he 'cannot do anything in the way of cricket except looking at cricket' he looks forward 'to see something good in a short time’. A very rare signature of an early Australian Test cricketer. Estimate £600/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f2f03f01-405c-44af-9532-3bcf1d2fc1de/91_0601.jpg Nov 25 Lot 601 John McCarthy 'Jack' Blackham. Victoria & Australia 1874-1895. Early original sepia cabinet card photograph of Blackham, head and shoulders, wearing shirt and tie. Nicely signed to the verso in black ink by Blackham and dated 12th April 1889. The photograph by Stilliard & Co. of Oxford. A very rare and sought after signed card of this early Australia Test player. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/dc6a0721-f645-442a-b1ab-070ff0049b78/CoversHighResNov25.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/home-xta8x daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/388803c4-2ef0-4b9b-9963-25922302441e/91_0418-5A.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 418 William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire, London County & England 1870-1904. Very large and imposing, head and shoulders, bust of Grace sporting a forked beard and wearing a cricket shirt by artist William Henry Tyler SC (fl. 1880-1893). The plaster of Paris bust, produced in 1888, stands on a joined plinth and overall measures approx 32" tall, width: shoulders 24", back to front 13". Inscribed to back of bust 'W. Tyler. SC. 1888'. A large wonderful figure of an almost live size W.G. Grace enhanced with a glorious patina. An extremely rare and important figure of Grace, one of only three similar busts known to exist. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/86ad964e-b779-440c-86d3-eb18ebb799f4/91_0507.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 507 Australian tour of England 'Triangular Test Tournament' 1912. Excellent fully signed sepia photograph of the Australian touring party 1912. The photograph, by Thomas Bolland, laid down to official photographers mount and is signed by all fifteen players in ink. Additionally signed in pencil to the lower border by Thomas Bolland with the word copyright added in his hand before being presented to Bill Whitty, one of the Australia tourists. Formerly from the collection of Bill Whitty with his intials 'W.J.W.' written in ink to the centre of the verso. A very rare signed photograph of this Australian team. In thirty two years of trading the auctioneer has never sold a similar signed Australian team photograph from this tour of 1912. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/5711133c-0a55-421c-b64d-f76bad76536a/91_0183.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 183 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1911-12. Pair of oval hallmarked 15 carat gold cufflinks, presumably, presented to Barnes following his performances for England against Australia in the second and third Test matches played at Melbourne and Adelaide on the 30th December 1911 and 1st - 3rd January 1912. One of the cuff links has the wording 'Melbourne' and '8 Wkts [wickets]' to front and verso and the other has the wording 'Adelaide' and 8 Wkts [wickets] ' to front and verso. An item from the collection formerly the property of Sydney Francis Barnes being sold in this auction. Hammer £1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/362017e1-c39d-4a1b-8776-9a1d246400b2/91_0081.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 81 William Cafffyn. Surrey & M.C.C. 1849-1873. Excellent ink signature of William Caffyn on paper piece, laid down to large piece of blue album page. A very rare and desirable signature. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1c77d607-12bb-4ea3-a4bc-fe1592237d72/91_0198.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 198 Australian tour of England 1899. Large album page very nicely signed in ink by thirteen members of the Australian touring party to England. Signatures are Joe Darling (Cpt), Iredale, Victor Trumper, Gregory, E. Jones, Howell, McLeod, Laver, Kelly, Johns, Worrall, Trumble and Noble, only lacking Clem Hill from the full touring party. The page measures 6.75"x9". An excellent album page showing the signatures of these early Australians. From an excellent collection of album pages signed by pre WWI Test and County cricket teams. Hammer £1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ca681b7b-8522-4f32-a88d-ab08c09ee684/91_0132.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 132 Frederick Robert Spofforth. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1874-1888. Excellent three page handwritten folding letter dated 29th September 1904 from Spofforth to F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Writing from an address in London, Spofforth is replying to an enquiry about a match in which he played. 'As far as I remember it was played in Dec 1881 on a sheep [farm] and I don't think it was ever published in any paper except the bare fact that I had taken all the wickets….’ Nicely signed 'Yours Sincerely, Fred R Spofforth'. Very slight fading to the signature. A very rare letter from an early Australian legend. Hammer £750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/78ed0f7a-eed6-4224-9e76-d0ff3977647a/91_0376.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 376 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Sussex & England. 1895-1920. Excellent sepia cabinet card photograph of Ranjitsinhji, three quarter length, in formal attire holding a cricket bat to side. Cabinet card by R.H. Lord of Cambridge, nicely signed in black ink by Ranjitsinhji 'With kindest regards, very sincerely yours Ranjitsinhji'. Sold with a similar cabinet photograph by Hawkins of Brighton of Kumar Shree Devisinhji, Ranji's elder brother signed by him. Rare. From a selection of items from the Indian prince. Hammer £1300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/59c20152-9737-4e08-ad91-db90c779cac9/91_0221.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 221 England XI v Australians 1882. Very early large sheet signed in ink by the England XI team who played the Australians at St. George's Park, Harrogate on the 23rd - 26th September 1882. The sheet with the ink signature of William Evans Midwinter of Australia to the top of the sheet and ten signatures of the England team below this. The signatures are Roller, Hawke, Leatham, Read, E.M. Grace, Lockwood, Emmett, Ulyett, Gilbert and Peate. Only lacking Martin Riley of Yorkshire from the full eleven who played in the tour match. A truly wonderful rare sheet containing some very early signatures. Hammer £7000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/df4fb6b1-436a-415c-bf76-94f510e44389/91_0396.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 396 'United All England XI'. Early and complete material belt in colour bands of I'Zingari with excellent two piece brass belt buckle with applied figures of a batsman about to strike the ball on one piece and a wicket-keeper ready to catch on the the other, the central part with two flags above a wicket, the flags inscribed 'U.A.E.' (United England XI) and the other M.C.C. Makers mark for 'Edward Ade of London' to verso with registration marks and coded date for 19th January 1857. An extremely early rare belt and decorative buckle. Hammer £2800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cc86d8ff-356c-43ab-98ef-e7dfadacd076/91_0503.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 503 Warren Bardsley. New South Wales & Australia 1903-1927. Excellent extra large sepia 'Imperial' size cabinet card of Bardsley standing full length wearing batting attire and leaning on his bat. Very nicely signed in black ink to the photograph 'Yours very sincerely, Warren Bardsley'. Photograph by T.W. Bolland of London, taken in 1909 during the Australian tour to England. A superb image and a rare large cabinet card in this signed form. Hammer £600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/67e99375-9830-402e-a83f-d4fc442b2f8f/91_0377.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 377 Kumar. Shri. Ranjitsinhji. H.M. Jam Sahib Of Nawanagar. Sussex & England 1872-1933. Gold cigarette case given to Captain Sam Prichard, Captain of the Mail Boat ‘Scotia’ which travelled from Holyhead to Dublin, by Ranjitsinhji. The case by Hunt & Roskell Ltd of Old Bond Street London, with Ranjitsinhji’s monogram to inside. Hall marked Birmingham 1922. In original case. Ranjitsinhji had Estates in Ireland and used to cross the Irish Sea on the ‘Scotia’. Sold with written and typed authentication by the vendor, the Nephew of Captain Sam Prichard. Hammer £2400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/783fc3d0-e97c-4bcb-9735-64faea029202/91_0598.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 598 Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Early original mono postcard of Trumper in batting pose wearing Australian Test cap. Printed title 'Mr. V. Trumper'. Very nicely signed in black ink to lower margin 'V. Trumper'. Wrench Series no. 1687. Hammer £650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c1636386-4e80-4ae0-b8f0-29286c2003c6/91_1095.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 1095 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1875. 12th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, Gilt to top edge. Probably the rarest Wisden edition. Hammer £30,000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9f89ddd6-6b00-4d21-8f28-969509ab5ba6/91_0184.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 184 Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930. Exquisite studio portrait of Barnes taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Barnes is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Barnes below the image. An item from the collection formerly the property of Sydney Francis Barnes being sold in this auction. £420 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1ac65683-6865-48ae-ad23-188a30ffcfe0/91_0480.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 480 John Berry 'Jack' Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. 'England v Australia. Jack Hobbs 100 runs. Eleventh Test century 1926'. Cricket ball presented to Jack Hobbs with silver band around the ball with the inscription 'England v Australia. Kennington Oval, 17th August 1926. J.B. Hobbs. B. Gregory 100. Eleventh Test century in Test Matches against Australia'. The ball was previously sold as part of The Jack Hobbs Collection in Phillips Auctioneers sale of April 1979 as lot 256. Hammer £1100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/5e6310a0-9f7b-4d1c-80cf-74bfe2aa40a5/91_0908.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 908 Australian dark green wool Test cap embroidered with the Australia emblem and below '1972' in gold thread. Size label inside cap '7". Internally appears to have been match worn and in good condition. Ownership unknown. Hammer £3200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4b11c77e-57bf-43b9-a9f3-92ddd23f90a9/91_0447.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 447 'Good for Fifty'. Royal Doulton Black Boy miniature two handled vase, with printed image of a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat in batting pose in front of the wicket to one side and to the other, a crest with 'The All Black Team'. Green floral decoration to outer rim and handles. 2" tall. Doulton backstamp and number E4336' to base. Circa 1907. A very scarce and rarely seen 'Black Boy' miniature ceramic in lovely condition. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4275d631-c7ea-4b04-8437-b7a4730aa23f/91_0611.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 611 Australian tour of England 1930. Excellent complete set of fifteen sepia real photograph plain back postcards of each member of the Australian touring party. Each player featured on the postcards has been taken head and shoulders, wearing Australian sweater. Each card has been very nicely signed by the player featured in ink. The players are Bill Woodfull (Captain), Wall, Richardson, Bradman, Fairfax, Jackson, Ponsford, Kippax, McCabe, Grimmett, Hurwood, Hornibrook, Oldfield, a'Beckett and Walker. The postcards produced by B.D.V. cigarettes of Godfrey Phillips of London, as part of their advertising campaign for the 1930 Australian tourists. Hammer£2400 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0b0f932c-65a3-4cf9-a237-9a22c907ac64/91_0939.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 939 Maurice William Tate. Sussex & England 1912-1937. 'It Kent Be Done! Tate settled Kent'. Original pen and ink cartoon by Samuel Wells depicting a large and burly Tate standing on a pile of cricket stumps while squeezing the life out of a diminutive Kent player. The illustration is undated, but most likely refers to the match, Kent v Sussex, played at Tunbridge Wells 1st- 4th July 1933 in which Tate took 5/28 and 3/69 to help Sussex to a ten wicket victory. Hammer £350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e88f82aa-26ba-43c7-af5b-9478781311a0/91_1214.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 1214 'The Guide to Cricketers containing full directions for playing the noble and manly game of Cricket.' London 1852. 5th Edition. 8vo. Collected and edited by Frederick Lillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piper of London. Printed by W.H. Crockford. Bound in brown half leather with marbled boards with original wrappers and advertising pages, with title in gilt to spine. Rare. From a large and rare run of the Guide being sold in this auction. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/ff990166-7b12-46c1-a9ae-a0bca66854c9/91_0298.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 298 Sussex C.C.C. 1899. Large original lined page beautifully signed in ink by the Sussex team who played Kent at The Angel Ground, Tonbridge on the 5th to 7th June 1899. Thirteen signatures in total, the eleven that played at Tonbridge plus the signatures of P.H. Latham and F.H. Greeson who played in the return fixture at Hove on the 31st August, 1st & 2nd September. The signatures are Murdoch (Cpt), Cox, Brann, Killick, Butt, Collins, Tate, Ranjitsinhji, Fry, Newham, Bland, Latham and Greeson. An early and delightful set of Sussex team signatures. Hammer £360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bd1f35cd-fb21-4f54-aae2-6287b5e98254/91_0167.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 167 Alfred Shaw. Nottinghamshire, Sussex & England 1864-1897. Rare and early single page handwritten letter from Shaw to J.M. Cotterill (Sussex 1870-1888), dated 17th January 1879. Shaw is inviting Cotterill to play in his benefit match, 'Will you favor me by consenting to have your name added to the list of players in the North v South match to be played at Lord's on June 2nd, 3rd & 4th (Whit Monday etc) for my benefit'. Very nicely signed 'Alfred Shaw’. Hammer £280 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a0093dd1-aa82-4f80-b906-ae4846e9fd40/91_0014.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 14 John Lillywhite. Sussex & Middlesex 1850-1869. Lillywhite's Benefit 1871. Original ornate admission ticket for the match played 'Under the Patronage of the Sussex County Cricket Club. The Gentlemen of England versus the Players of England. John Lillywhite begs respectfully to announce that the above Match will be Played for his Benefit at Brighton, Aug. 14th, 15th & 16th 1871. The Gentlemen will be selected by V.E. and I.D. Walker Esqs.'. The large ticket, more akin to an invitation in appearance than a traditional match ticket. A rare early ticket. Hammer £360 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b62e22c4-9449-4c06-ac77-e2643af86317/91_0940.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 940 'Kent and Sussex' 1847. Early small original double sided scorecard showing the scores at the close of the first day's play in the match Sussex v Kent at the Royal New Ground, Brighton, 24th- 26th June 1847. Kent winning by an innings and nine runs. Notable players include W. Mynn, Martingdale, F. & W. Pilch, Martin, Hillyer, E. & W. Napper, Box, Wisden etc. Hammer £240 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fc26f7ff-048d-4d92-841c-25c155aac44a/91_1117.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 1117 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Original hardback. A very rare early hardback edition in very good condition. Hammer £3200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2c16a868-65d6-4102-bfea-1af9a686d87b/91_0957.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 957 The Ashes. 'England v. Australia' 1882. Early and original double sided official scorecard for the second Test match to be played in England, Kennington Oval, 28th- 30th August 1882. The scorecard with complete printed scores. A very rare Test match scorecard which Australia won by seven runs. Australia's famous victory over a full strength England team inspired the legend of 'The Ashes' with the Sporting Times running a mock obituary of English cricket following their defeat. Hammer £3000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/126ba0c9-c612-4873-96a9-a83c15e5ace5/91_0172.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 172 Arthur Owen Jones. Nottinghamshire & England 1892-1914. Excellent studio portrait of Jones, the M.C.C. Captain, taken on the M.C.C. tour of Australia in 1907/08. Jones is pictured wearing pin stripe suit and tie. The photograph nicely signed in black ink by Jones to the image. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour. Formerly from the cricket collection of Sydney Francis Barnes. Hammer £110 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/0241064d-ccfc-44b1-ad97-625874c46f61/91_0905.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 905 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Early Yorkshire navy blue 1st XI cap, with the Yorkshire white rose emblem to the front worn by Denton during his playing career. The cap, with smaller peak, typical of a pre first world war cap, by E.C. Devereux of Eton. The stem of the rose emblem in white rather than the later green stem. A early and rare cap worn by a Yorkshire cricket legend. Hammer £460 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c47a4bd3-bb70-4dce-87a9-0fa4d2b8f4b3/91_0148.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 148 William Henry Cooper. Victoria & Australia 1878-1885. Very rare single page handwritten letter from Cooper, written on ruled paper, dated 'Sept 15th [1936]'. Cooper is writing to 'Mr. Hill', being Les R. Hill, the cricket writer and collector base in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Cooper writes, 'At 87 I am granted wonderfully good health' and while he 'cannot do anything in the way of cricket except looking at cricket' he looks forward 'to see something good in a short time’. A very rare signature of an early Australian Test cricketer. Hammer unsold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f2f03f01-405c-44af-9532-3bcf1d2fc1de/91_0601.jpg Nov 25 After Lot 601 John McCarthy 'Jack' Blackham. Victoria & Australia 1874-1895. Early original sepia cabinet card photograph of Blackham, head and shoulders, wearing shirt and tie. Nicely signed to the verso in black ink by Blackham and dated 12th April 1889. The photograph by Stilliard & Co. of Oxford. A very rare and sought after signed card of this early Australia Test player. Hammer £1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/dc6a0721-f645-442a-b1ab-070ff0049b78/CoversHighResNov25.jpg https://www.knights.co.uk/home daily 1.0 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/3d9e37d5-1537-4932-a93f-aaa3a86dda25/92_0903.jpg Home Lot 903 Australia v South Africa. Triangular Test Tournament, Lord's 1912. Rare original and highly decorative commemorative scorecard printed in gold ink with decorative blue and gold floral borders. The scorecard with complete printed scores for the first innings of the match played 15th- 17th July 1912. Beautifully signed in ink by all sixteen members of the Australian touring party and the match umpires, Moss and Street. Australians' signatures are Whitty, Mayne, Gregory, Hazlitt, Kelleway, McLaren, Emery, Carkeek, Jennings, Smith, Matthews, Webster, Macartney etc. An exquisite scorecard. Estimate £1000/1500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/692a7712-119f-4da2-a15b-0dcc001033c6/92_1168.jpg Home Lot 1168 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1896. 33rd edition. Original hardback. The very rare first issue of the original hardback with titles bright to front board. From a full run of the original hardback edition being sold in this auction. Estimate £7000/10000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a40da858-d23d-48e5-a494-22ecdd1533da/92_0355.jpg Home Lot 355 Kent C.C.C. circa 1899. A very rare lined page beautifully signed in black ink by twenty six Kent players. The page headed Kent and signed in two vertical rows. The signatures include A. Hearne, W.D. Wright, W. Hearne, F. Martin, F.H. Huish, J.W. Easby, S.H. Day, W.E.C. Hutchings, L.J. Le Fleming, G.J.V. Weighall, J.R. Mason, C.J. Burnup, H.M. Braybrooke, R.N.R. Blake, T.E. Pawley, Canon W. Rashleigh, H.M. Lawrence, S.W. Brown, H.C. Stewart 1892-1903, Du Boulay etc. A truly early page of Kent signatures. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e74dc6e5-ff08-49ce-bd5c-20921c0c5f6b/92_0794.jpg Home Lot 794 John Denis Alphonsus O'Connor. New South Wales, South Australia & Australia 1904-1910. Tinted colour printed postcard of O'Connor, full length, in bowling pose wearing Australian cap at Lord's during the Australian tour of England in 1909. Nicely signed in black ink by O’Connor. Estimate £180/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/4bc6cdd7-e05f-4dfc-8ebf-5e182c7355c0/92_0864.jpg Home Lot 864 W.G. Grace. An unusual and very early original trade card depicting Grace on a shield shaped Union Flag emblem published by lithographer J. Baines of 68, Carlisle Road, Manningham, Bradford, the card being produced in 1883/84. The card has a head and shoulders image of Grace with title 'W.G. Grace' below and 'J. Bains, Lith, Manningham, Bradford, Yorks' below the title. Estimate £8000/12000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e0abe531-422f-40ad-a11f-a2df27c99da2/92_0207.jpg Home Lot 207 Australia tour to England 1909. Large album page very nicely signed in black ink by thirteen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Laver, Noble, Hartigan, Carter, Armstrong, Whitty, Ransford, Cotter, Hopkins, McAlister, O'Connor, Trumper and Carkeek. Also signed by A.A. 'Dick' Lilley (Warwickshire & England 1891-1911). Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2a9cc08c-6955-4142-891c-c7b984c4c370/92_0447.jpg Home Lot 447 'The Eleven'. Early and complete embroidered belt with oblong shaped brass belt buckle showing the eleven players, shown as batsmen, fielders, bowlers and wicket-keeper, with legend to lower border. The buckle measures almost 3.5"x2". The colourful belt embroidered in a variety of colours with red border to top and bottom, swirls and floral decoration. An early rare cricket belt and decorative buckle. Estimate £140/180 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/2968f9d0-8295-49cb-8250-4f24f150ef66/92_1143.jpg Home Lot 1143 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1867. 4th edition. Original paper wrappers. Rare fourth year of issue. Estimate £1200/1800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f9add4e4-aa50-4106-a855-52eb20c8458e/92_0258.jpg Home Lot 258 All India tour of England 1911 (1st Indian tour). Rare album page very nicely signed in ink by eleven members of the Indian touring party. Signatures are Meherhomji, Bulsara, Syed Hasan [Hussain], Jayaram, Shivram, Baloo, Salam-ud-din, Warden, Mulla, Seshachari and Divecha (Manager). A rare and early page of Indian cricketers’ signatures. Estimate £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e9747609-4189-4906-a2a0-01440254c516/92_0033.jpg Home Lot 33 Thomas 'Tom' Emmett. Yorkshire & England 1866-1888. Rare four page folding letter with excellent cricket content from Emmett to the collector, Charles Pratt Green, dated 21st November 1891 with original envelope. Emmett is replying to a request for one of his bats to add to Green's collection. Emmett is sorry that he had recently given away 'the only old bat I had... And when I tell you that I gave it to some school boys in the East End of London I know you will excuse me'. He goes on to describe the interest of a master at Rugby School who 'fixes them a new bat every year which he buys from me’. Etc. Nicely signed 'T. Emmett'. An excellent signed letter from the great Yorkshire and England player. Estimate £500/800 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/cf4f6c5c-353c-4618-933b-0b590b5f185c/92_0564.jpg Home Lot 564 Sussex C.C.C. 1904. Large album page beautifully signed in black ink by the eleven members of the Sussex team who played Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge 2nd- 4th June 1904. The signatures, collected by the Nottinghamshire groundsman, include Ranjitsinhji, Fry, Seymour, Cox, Killick, Leach, Relf, the rarer signature of Alfred Seal (Sussex 1904, 2 matches). Estimate £100/150 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c02f52ca-9f79-41ff-8f9e-efa487936969/92_0450.jpg Home Lot 450 'Let Cricket Flourish'. Early and complete embroidered belt with square shaped brass belt buckle showing to centre a cricket scoring tent with stumps and crossed bats and ball, two cricketers to left and right, one holding a bat and one holding a ball with legend to lower border. The buckle measures almost 2.5"x2.25". The colourful belt embroidered on leather in a variety of colours with floral decoration. An early rare cricket belt and decorative buckle. Estimate £120/160 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/19cd1d39-668d-4d66-9782-d4b25b4d0067/92_0068.jpg Home Lot 68 John Broadbridge. Marylebone Cricket Club 1840. Sussex v England. Rare and very early single page handwritten letter in ink from John Broadbridge at Lord's Ground, dated 30th July 1840, to 'Friend Wenman' (Edward Gower 'Ned' Wenman, Kent 1825-1854). Broadbridge writes 'I have engaged Cobbett, Bayley, & Hawkins, & I wish you consider that you are also engaged. They will be at Dover on Sunday next, & of course you will also. The arrangements I have made with Cobbett will no doubt meet your approbation. I believe Hillyer is engaged as Umpire. I shall not say any think [sic] about the match, you will see all the particulars in Bells Life. Trusting you will not disappoint me', nicely signed 'John Broadbridge'. A nice example of an early letter referring to notable cricketers of the period. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b231171c-e32c-4e74-8b36-908e5cae1216/92_1144.jpg Home Lot 1144 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1870. 7th edition. Original paper wrappers. Rare seventh year of issue. Estimate £1500/2500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/532cacd9-f912-4588-a15c-e86b37061bfe/92_0915.jpg Home Lot 915 England v Australia 1948. Official scorecard for the second Test match played at Lord's on 24th-29th June 1948. The scorecard very nicely signed in ink by all seventeen members of the Australian touring party. Signatures are Don Bradman, Barnes, Hassett, Johnston, Johnson, Harvey, Hamence, Tallon, Ring, McCool, Miller, Lindwall, Loxton, Saggers, Toshack, Brown and Morris. The scorecard headed in ink to the top border 'Australian Test Team, Lord's 1948'. Rare to see a 1948 Ashes scorecard signed by all seventeen members of this wonderful Australian team. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/67c6e403-fe9d-4c5d-aa8a-201b56e5cfba/92_0136.jpg Home Lot 136 'M.C.C. Australian Tour 1928-9'. Official 'Orient Line, R.M.S. Ormonde' souvenir brochure with decorative covers, M.C.C. colours to front. To inside pages a real mono photograph of the M.C.C. team laid down to the itinerary page, pen pictures and biographies of the M.C.C. team etc. Nicely signed in black ink to the front cover by fifteen members of the touring party. Signatures include White, Hendren, Sutcliffe, Freeman, Leyland, Geary, Larwood, Jardine, Tate, Chapman, Hobbs, Tyldesley, Hammond, Ames etc. A rare brochure for the return trip and unusual to see, the S.S. Otranto brochure for the outward trip being much more widely seen. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/e3ad1433-0141-4ae0-9104-2b4f8293457a/92_0154a.jpg Home Lot 154 Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. 'P.G.H. Fender Scrapbook'. Excellent original album, compiled personally by Fender covering his early cricket career from 1908 to 1911, comprising a comprehensive selection including official scorecards, cuttings, letters, telegrams, membership cards, small original photographs etc., all extensively annotated in ink in Fender's own hand. A wonderfully compiled personal album detailing the early playing career of this iconic and popular cricketer. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c116656b-4dbc-46b8-8427-a7d3b0db8397/92_0991.jpg Home Lot 991 Australian tour to North America 1896. Rare and early original mono photograph of the quartet of South Australian members of the touring party, Joe Darling, George Giffen, Clem Hill and Ernest Jones. The players standing and seated on the pavilion steps wearing cricket attire and tour blazers for the tour match v Gentlemen of Philadelphia at Germantown Cricket Club Ground, Manheim, Philadephia, 18th- 21st September 1896. The photograph by H. Parker Rolfe of Philadelphia. A beautiful image. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a094ce1e-23a7-43bc-a474-8bad8b3db8f3/92_0272.jpg Home Lot 272 'Indian Team's tour of England for Prudential World Cup 1983'. Large official autograph sheet with printed title and players' names, nicely and fully signed in ink by all fifteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Kapil Dev (Captain), Amarnath, Azad, Binny, Gavaskar, Kirmani, Madan Lal, Sandeep Patil, Sandhu, Srikkanth, Shastri, Sharma, Vengsarkar, Valson and Mansingh (Manager). Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/57f5b5ec-bfd6-472f-8c6e-d66604c379a9/92_0875.jpg Home Lot 875 H.H. Stephenson's tour of Australia 1861/62. 'International Cricket Match. New South Wales v All England, played at the Domain, Sydney on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 29th, 30th and 31st, and February 1st 1862. The All England Eleven introduced into the Colonies by Messrs Spiers & Pond'. Very early original silk scorecard for the match played in 1862 between New South Wales (22 players) and the All England XI. Printed by the Caxton Printing Office of George Street, Sydney. An extremely rare scorecard from this seminal cricket match on the first tour of Australia. Estimate £700/1000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/845942d5-9a6e-41bb-b936-818fe6e9ea89/92_1169.jpg Home Lot 1169 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1897. 34th edition. Original hardback. The rare second issue of the original hardback, which was first introduced in 1896. Estimate £4000/6000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/90afb2c8-1681-4b2c-9561-72b795b4fac1/92_0155.jpg Home Lot 155 West Indies tour of England 1906. Paper page, laid down to card, with handwritten title to the top of the page 'West Indies Cricket Team 1906' and nicely signed by thirteen members of the touring party in ink, each player has indicated the island in the West Indies who he represented. Signatures are H.B.G. Austin (Cpt), Challenor, Constantine, Bancroft, Cumberbatch, Goodman, Harrigin, Layne, Learmond, Morrison, Ollivierre, Parker, Cameron and Smith. A very rare set of signatures from this early tour to England, the second by a West Indies team, the first being in 1900. From an extensive collection of West Indian autographed material being sold in this auction. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/b216a1d1-16dd-4121-ade8-e5218e2aa8b1/92_1575.jpg Home Lot 1575 Manchester City v Grimsby Town. Season 1937/38. League Division 1. Original official programme for the League match played at Maine Road on the 27th November 1937. Vol. 32 no. 16. Manchester City won 3-1. Estimate £70/100 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/1a7aa54d-d515-43b5-8568-44e12845e08b/92_0172.jpg Home Lot 172 West Indies tour of Australia 1960/61. Trans-Australia Airlines four page folding itinerary for the tour with titles to front cover, tour fixtures to the two inside pages and the touring party is listed to back cover along with T.A.A. Office addresses and phone numbers. Signed in ink across the inside fixtures pages by all sixteen playing members of the party. Signatures include Worrell (Cpt), Alexander, Dewdney, Gibbs, Hall, Hendriks, Hunte, Kanhai, Lashley, Nurse, Ramadhin, Smith, Sobers etc, The itinerary was given and sent to the vendor by the West Indian Captain Frank Worrell, A full set of signatures from this tour are rarely seen. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/fad1513d-ee64-4355-ba11-07e8ed872175/92_0633a.jpg Home Lot 663a Peter John Parnell Burge. Queensland & Australia 1952-1968. 'Australian tour of New Zealand 1967'. Australian dark myrtle green wool test blazer worn by Peter Burge during the Australian tour of New Zealand in February and March 1967. The blazer beautifully embroidered with the Australia emblem to breast pocket and below 'N.Z. Tour 1967' in gold thread, with gold trimming to blazer pocket and sleeves. A rarely seen blazer for this tour. Estimate £150/250 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/68c5fcc6-3d5c-43fa-a0b3-03aa8e54192b/92_1025.jpg Home Lot 1025 India tour to England 1967. Official mono photograph of the Indian touring party seated and standing in rows wearing tour blazers. The photograph measures 10"x8", laid to photographer's mount with printed title and players' names to mount borders. Fully and nicely signed in ink to the mount by all sixteen playing members of the touring party, plus the Treasurer, Chinnaswamy. Players' signatures include Nawab of Pataudi (Captain), Bedi, Prasanna, Kunderan, Hanumant Singh, Engineer, Chandrasekhar, Venkataraghavan, Wadekar, Surti etc. Estimate £200/300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/43096032-f7be-4988-8f17-a0d6f2f03ff6/92_1343.jpg Home Lot 1343 Kent County Cricket Club Annual 1883-1884. Hardback 'blue book'. Original decorative boards. Gilt titles and to all page edges with gilt Kent emblem to centre. Printed by Cross & Jackman, 'The Canterbury Press' 1884. Rare seventh issue of the 'blue book’. Estimate £400/600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/bb3cd58a-b571-40ef-9425-98dbe158c9c3/92_1189.jpg Home Lot 1189 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1917. 54th edition. Original hardback. Estimate £1500/2500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/761bfc4b-b4f2-4bb3-bf2b-62955645be4c/92_0412a.jpg Home Lot 412 'The Cricketers of Vanity Fair'. Excellent collection of twenty seven original colour chromolithographs of cricketers, as listed by John Arlott in 'The Cricketer', August 1953 and J.W. Goldman's additional list published in 'The Cricketer' in September 1953. The cricketers are Grace, Spofforth, Lord Harris, Bonnor, A.Lyttelton, Philipson, Lord Hawke, Fry, Baldwin, Lord Chelmsford, Ranjitsinhji, Jessop, Jephson, Abel, Jackson, Paliaret, Warner, Bosanquet, Lord Dalmeny, Hayward, Tyldesley, Wells, Spencer Ponsonby and the rarer E.W. Dillon plus J.R. Mason (Supplement to the World) by Spy and the two principal artists being Carlo Pellegrini 'Ape' and Leslie Ward ‘Spy’ etc. A good selection of cricketing Vanity Fair lithographs and associated ephemera. Estimate £800/1200 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/9409c74c-1179-485a-9690-5b4305dfe54f/92_0809.jpg Home Lot 809 Australia tour to England 1909. 'The Australian Team 1909'. Early mono postcard of the Australian touring party seated and standing in rows wearing tour blazers and caps. Printed title and players' names to lower edge. Nicely signed in ink to verso by twelve members of the team. Signatures are Noble (Captain), Trumper, Hopkins, Carkeek, Armstrong, Cotter, Bardsley, Hartigan, Whitty, Ransford, McAlister and Carter. Published by T. Bolland of Hanwell & Southall. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/f63b263f-e530-4c4a-b9d8-b26ac7617ed4/92_0476a.jpg Home Lot 476 Maurice William Tate. Sussex & England 1912-1937. E.P.B.M. silver plated tea set, comprising of a teapot, sugar bowl and milk jug. Engraved to the teapot is the following inscription 'Johnnie Walker Trophy. Presented to M.W. Tate, Adelaide 1925'. The sugar bowl and milk jug have Tate's initial's engraved to their sides. The tea set made by James Dixon & Sons of Sheffield, with makers marks to bases of all three items. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/41937627-76db-4194-b4f9-ae984aead745/92_0330a.jpg Home Lot 72 Arthur Fielder. Kent & England 1900-1914. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1903/04. Large black autograph book with gilt page edges belonging to Fielder, on his first overseas tour with the England team, and used by him to obtain signatures of passengers, players and teams during the tour. He obtained the signatures of many of the ship’s passengers including Florence Darnley, wife of Ivo Bligh (Captain of England in the 1882/83 tour of Australia), South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, Newcastle and the Australian team who played in the first Test at Sydney in December 1903. Signatures include Noble, Duff, Victor Trumper, Hill, Armstrong, Hopkins, Howell, Gregory, Laver, Kelly, Saunders etc. An early and unique autograph book compiled by an initially enthusiastic collector of the team's autographs on his first tour. Estimate £1500/2500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/a9d38e1d-2140-4c70-8bc0-b11beb96eb34/92_0392.jpg Home Lot 392 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Denton's Benefit 1907. Page of 'The Leeds Cricket, Football & Athletic Club' official letterhead, dated 1907 with handwritten title 'Benefit', beautifully signed in black ink by the members of the Yorkshire and Lancashire teams for Denton's Benefit match played at Headingley, 5th- 7th August 1907. Signatures include Lord Hawke, F.S. Jackson, E. Smith, D. Hunter, W.H. Wilkinson, D. Denton, G.H. Hirst, A.C. MacLaren, R.H. Spooner, A.H. Hornby, H.D. Stanning, J.T. Tyldesley, H. Dean, L.W. Cook, F. Harry, W. Worsley etc. Twenty six signatures in total. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/c85ba401-93a4-41a4-9403-759955c4cca5/92_0658.jpg Home Lot 658 George Benjamin Street, Sussex & England 1909-1923. A pair of hand-decorated ostrich eggs, one decorated with the M.C.C. emblem of St. George and the dragon and the other with the South African emblem of the Springbok. The eggs were presented to George Street on the M.C.C. tour of South Africa in 1922/23. A pair of rare, unusual and beautifully painted tour souvenirs. Previously sold by Knights Auctioneers in July 1997. Estimate £300/500 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/dfd3dbeb-ee3c-49d8-84b1-97d575b1d5d4/92_1121.jpg Home Lot 1121 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916. 53rd edition. Original paper wrappers. Rare war-time edition. Estimate £250/350 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6170539f9de5005591e466e3/04e20332-b021-4a5b-9d02-a37ea8bbad30/frontcover2.jpg