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KNIGHTSAuction Dates 2013

Cricket and Sporting Memorabilia23rd & 24th February

29th & 30th June26th & 27th October

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks13th April

14th September

CRICKET EPHEMERA

1 ‘Goal and Wicket’. John Ireland.Song with piano accompaniment.Words by A.E. Housman. Original sixpage music score with colour frontcover, printed in black and red,featuring title to centre. To insidefront cover a reproduced poem from‘A Shropshire Lad’ which were thewords for the song. Printed byAugener Ltd, London andcopyrighted 1921. Attached to thescore is a further three page non-sporting music score entitled ‘TheVain Desire’, again by Ireland.Good/very good condition £50/70

2 Gunn & Moore 1895. Official‘Memorandum’ sent by theCompany to a client Mr F.H.Newton, Solicitor of Wymondham,Norfolk and dated 13th June 1895.Decorative printed heading withcrossed bats, stumps, rackets, andball. G £20/30

3 M.C.C. tour of South Africa1938/39. Official M.C.C. Christmascard. Decorative covers, photographof the team to inside pages. VG

£20/30

4 England v West Indies 1973-2007.Selection of nine tickets, passes etcfor Test matches for the period. G

£15/25

5 ‘Lion Ale-Bier’. Excellent SouthAfrican free standing cardadvertising sign c1950/60’s for ‘LionAle-Bier’. The sign depicts a lionwalking out to bat wearing a SouthAfrican cap with bat under his armand holding a bottle of Lion Bier andholding a pint of Beir in the otherhand. The sign measures approxi-mately 9”x10”. Generally good/verygood condition £30/50

6 ‘Cricket Fixtures for 1900’. Issued by‘Cricket’, 169 Upper Thames Street,London. Supplement to Cricket (aWeekly Record of the Game,magazine) 12th April 1900. Largeoriginal rare poster for the 1900season. Printed by Merritt &Hatcher, London. The colourful poster features a central calender of

fixtures for 1900 and above andbelow, images of the England andAustralian teams. To corners arehead and shoulders images of F.S.Jackson, C.B. Fry, Major Poore and T.Hayward and to borders a collectionof twelve adverts for Carters GrassSeeds, Gradidge cricket bats,Bussey’s Sports equipment,Ransomes’ Mowers, Surrey C.C.C.Tavern amongst others. The postermeasures 30”x20”. Folds to posterand some tape reinforcement toback of poster where folds have splitotherwise in very good condition forits age. An excellent piece of earlyephemera with Ashes interest

£300/400

7 Australian tour of England 1893. Earlof Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893.Excellent original folding menu cardfor the Dinner given by LordSheffield following the match playedat Sheffield Park, Uckfield on the8th-10th May 1893. The highlydecorative and colourful menu withfront cover, with titles and dates,featuring a kangaroo and raisedAustralian emblem and, presumably,Lord Sheffield’s cricket emblem withdecorative borders, the rear coverwith raised Australian emblem tocentre in shield with cricket stumpsand to sides and lower border,cricket bats and balls. To inside pagesare the menu and wine list to the leftand to the right a listing of theplayers, both the Australian and Earlof Sheffield’s, umpires and scorerswith cricket themed borders ofcricket bats, bags, balls, stumps etc.Gilt to edges. The menu printed byJohn Beal & Son and E. Booth & Sonswere the caterers. Some wear withminor scratches to front coverextremities, some splitting to base ofspine of menu card, odd faultsotherwise in good condition. A rare,decorative and exquisite item ofephemera from this early Australiantour £600/900

The Earl of Sheffield’s XI includingW.G. Grace, Captain, Stoddart,Shrewsbury, W. Gunn, Attewell,Lockwood, Briggs, Peel etc won the

match by 8 wickets. For the Earl ofSheffield’s XI, Grace made 63,Shrewsbury 62 and Gunn 56 andLockwood took nine wickets in thematch. For Australia, who followedon, Graham top scored with 32,Coningham 29 & 26, McLeod 24 &25 and Giffen took six andConingham 5 wickets in the match

8 ‘W.G. Grace. Champion Cricketer ofthe World’. Large cottonhandkerchief commemorating aCentury of Centuries by Grace. Thehandkerchief has a central portrait ofGrace three quarter length in cricketattire holding a cricket bat, withbiography and record of eachindividual score and opponents toouter border. Decorated with cricketbats and balls in a floral outer border.Produced in 1895, the handkerchiefis printed in black. Minor faults andstaining otherwise in good conditionwith printing bright £60/90

AUTOGRAPHED CRICKET EPHEMERA

9 South African tour of England 1955.‘The Union-Castle Sports Associationv South African Cricket TouringTeam’. Official menu for theLuncheon and Tea served during thematch played at Manor Way,Blackheath on the 4th May 1955.The front cover with Union Jackemblem to top and titles below,Luncheon and Tea menu to insidepages. The front cover signed in inkby all seventeen members of theSouth African touring team includingManager, K.G. Viljoen. Seventeensignatures including Cheetham,Tayfield, Endean, Goddard, McGlew,Smith, Mansell, Waite, Fuller, Heine,Duckworth etc. Minor age toningotherwise in good condition £60/80

The one day touring match resultedin a win for the South Africans byfive wickets, Duckworth made 59and McGlew 47 for Union-Castleand Endean made 57 and Waite 47for South Africa

10 M.C.C. Tour of South Africa1948/49. ‘Farewell Luncheon to theM.C.C. Cricket Team on their

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departure for the South African Tour1948/49 ‘. Official menu for theLuncheon given to the team on theR.M.M.V. Durban Castle inSouthampton on the 7th October1948. The front cover with a colourimage of a Cape Scops Owl with titleto top border, to inside pages, themenu and wine list and signed torear cover by all seventeen membersof the touring party plus baggagemaster Ferguson and journalist RexAlston. Signatures include Hutton,Simpson, Bedser, Compton,Washbrook, Gladwin, Young,Wright, Mann, Evans etc. Minor agetoning and nicks to lower borderotherwise in good condition

£80/120

11 Arthur Mailey. Australia 1953.‘Caricatures of the Australian XI.English Tour 1953’. Arthur Mailey.Sydney 1953. Twelve page toursouvenir with eleven pages ofcaricatures of all eighteen membersof the Australian touring party toEngland 1953. This copy has beensigned in ink to caricature and tofront cover by Richie Benaud. G

£30/40

12 Copford C.C. v Old England 1988.Official programme signed in ink bythe Old England team. Signaturesinclude R. Hobbs, B. D’Oliveira, JeffJones, Denis Amiss, Arthur Milton,Ian Thomson, Alan Oakman, MikeHarris, Jon Snow, Jim Parks, DerekUnderwood etc. VG £15/25

13 New Zealand 2000/2001. NationalBank of New Zealand printed circularitinerary of New Zealand homematches for the season. Signed bynineteen members of the squad.Signatures include Vettori,Spearman, Astle, Parore, Walker,Horne etc. G £15/25

14 ‘Bodyline’. Official Orient Line ‘S.S.Orontes’ brochure for the ‘M.C.C.Australasian Tour 1932-33’. Pictorialfront cover. With team detail andphotographs, itinerary, player profileetc to inside pages. Signed to printedpen picture by Mitchell, to ‘Notes’page by Wyatt, Tate, Voce, Bowesand Paynter and to back‘Autograph’ page by Gubby Allen.Some foxing to covers, splitting tospine of covers, some rusting tostaples, very minor top corner loss tofront cover otherwise in good

condition. With rarer additionalinsert for Bill Bowes who wasselected to replace Duleepsinhji afterthe brochure was printed £250/350

15 Australia 1948. Official menu for theDinner held in honour of theAustralian Cricket Team ‘The 1948Invincibles’. The Dinner was held atthe Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne on the28th December 1998. The menusigned to centre pages by eight ofthe 1948 Australian team. Signaturesare Arthur Morris, Ernie Toshack,Sam Loxton, Bill Brown, Neil Harvey,Doug Ring, Bill Johnston and RonHamence. Very good condition

£50/70

16 Neil Hawke Testimonial Dinner1990. Official menu for the Dinnerheld at the Adelaide Hilton on the31st August 1990. Signed to centrepages by fifteen guests and Testplayers. Signatures include DonBradman, Lillee, Walters, Simpson,Chappell, Hawke, Booth, Benaud,Freeman, Wood etc. Sold with twofurther cricket menus 1980/90’ssigned by speaker Alan Davidson.VG £40/60

17 Sir Julien Cahn’s Team v NewZealand 1939. Official programmefor the tour match played at theBasin Reserve, Wellington on the10th-13th March 1939. Originaldecorative wrappers with light blueribbon tie. Five various ink signaturesto front wrapper including Menzies,J.H. Phillips, Manager etc. Someminor wear to wrapper edges, minorage toning otherwise in goodcondition.Rare £80/120

18 World Cup 1999. Official WisdenCricket Monthly World Cup guide.Profusely signed by over 150 playersfrom the competition. Signaturesinclude S.&M. Waugh, Gilchrist,Ponting, Bevan, Warne, Lee,McGrath, Anwar, Inzaman, Akram,Lara, Ambrose, Walsh, Jacobs,Fleming, Tendulkar, Ganguly,Muralitharan, Cronje, Gough,Flintoff etc. Generally goodcondition £30/50

19 Cricket autographs. Selection of fivebrochures/tour guides for England inthe West Indies 1998, Sri Lanka vWest Indies World Series 1995,England, West Indies, ZimbabweSeries 2000, Western Australia v

South Africa 1992 and ACBChairman’s XI v India 1991 (LilacHill). All profusely signed by theplayers, over 135 signaturesincluding Lara, Hooper, Walsh,Ambrose, Chanderpaul, Adams,Richardson, Sarwan, Gayle,Atherton, Fraser, Stewart,Ranatunga, Vaas, B. Richards,Wessels, Cronje, Lille, McKenzie,Reid, G. Marsh etc. G £25/35

20 ‘England v Australia. 200th Testmatch’. Official M.C.C. menu for theDinner held at Lord’s on the 22ndJune 1968. The menu, with M.C.Ccoloured front cover was KanBarrington’s copy and has his namehandwritten to top border. Signed toinside pages and back cover bytwenty players from both countriesincluding Milburn, Cowdrey,Barrington, Snow, Knott, Lawry,Freeman, Walters, Mckenzie,Redpath, Hawke, Gleeson, Cowperetc. Two different pens used. G

£50/80

21 England v South Africa 1994. OfficialM.C.C. Official Guests Marqueemenu for the Test match played atLord’s, July 1994 signed to menu bytwenty one players and guestsincluding Prime Minister, JohnMajor, J. Cook, C. Rice, B. Richards,O. Henry, R. McLean, A. Bacher,McIntye, C. Cowdrey, Shackleton,Evans, R. Endean, P. Pollock, B.D’Oliveira, J. McGlew etc. The menuwith title to centre and bordersdecorated in M.C.C. colours. VG

£25/35

This was the first Test between thetwo nations for twenty nine years

22 England 1953-Ashes winning team.Official Sheffield Cricket Lovers’Society Reunion Dinner menu forthe 1953 Ashes winning team. Heldat Cutlers Hall, Sheffield in 1980.Signed to autograph page on backcover by twelve of the Englandplayers including May, W.Edrich,Evans, Trueman, Wardle, Statham,Compton, Graveney, Bedser, Kenyonetc. Also signed by Brian Johnston tocentre pages. G £30/50

23 England v South Africa 1998. OfficialM.C.C. menu, invitation and TablePlan for the Dinner held at Lord’s inMay 1998. The menu signed bytwenty players and guests including

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Willis, Tim Rice, Swanton, Trueman,Simpson, Jameson, Oakman,Woodcock, Titmus, Dexter, Bailey,McKenzie, Parfitt etc. The invitationsigned by Hansie Cronje. The menuwith title to centre and bordersdecorated in M.C.C. colours. VG

£20/30

24 ‘Farewell Luncheon to the SouthAfrican cricket team 1951’. Officialmenu for the Luncheon given to theteam on its departure from Englandon the R.M.M.V. Winchester Castle’.The menu with colour image of theHenley Regatta to front, wines,menu and details to inside pages.Signed by five players and guestsincluding John Arlott, GodfreyEvans, Percy Mansell, Reg Hayteretc. Vertical fold, odd minor faultsotherwise in good condition. G

£20/30

25 England tour of Australia 1978/79.Official menu for the Dinner inhonour of the England touring teamheld on 25th January 1979 at theKooyonga Golf Club, Lockleys,South Australia. Signed to insidepages by England and Australian testplayers plus guests. Signatures in inkinclude Don Bradman, AlanDavidson, Carlson, Yallop, Yardley,Darling, Border, Botham, Barrington,Brearley, Willis, Lever, Boycott, Old,Gower etc.VG £50/80

26 ‘Four Knights of World Cricket’ Preprinted card with printed heading totop border and players namesprinted to left hand side, each signedby a cricketing Knight. Signatures areSir’s Don Bradman, Garry Sobers,Colin Cowdrey and Richard Hadlee.VG £40/60

27 Alfred Shaw. Nottinghamshire,Sussex & England 1864-1897. Inksignature on card piece signed ‘Yourstruely Alfred Shaw’. Card piece laiddown to larger piece of white card.G £150/250

28 Donald Raeburn Algernon Gehrs.South Australia & Australia 1902-1921. Excellent ink signature ofGehrs on piece, laid down to card.VG £60/80

29 William Peter Howell. New SouthWales & Australia 1894-1905.Excellent ink signature of Howell onpiece. G £40/60

30 James Joseph Kelly. New SouthWales & Australia 1894-1905.Excellent ink signature of Kelly onpiece, laid down to card. G £60/80

31 John Briggs. Lancashire & England1879-1900. Rare ink signature ofBriggs, nicely signed on card piece,laid down to larger card. G

£200/300

Briggs took over 2200 wickets infirst class cricket and played 33 Testsfor England, touring Australia on sixoccasions. He died in 1902 at theage of 39

32 Tom Richardson, Surrey & England1892-1904. Excellent pencilsignature of Richardson on piece. VG

£100/150

33 Sydney Francis Barnes,Warwickshire, Lancashire,Staffordshire, England & Wales1894-1930. Excellent ink signatureof Barnes on card, laid down tolarger card. G £50/70

34 Frank Mitchell. Yorkshire & England1894-1904. Excellent ink signatureof Barnes on piece, laid down tocard. G £40/60

35 Joseph Vine. Sussex & England1896-1922. Good ink signature ofVine on piece, laid down to card. G

£25/35

36 Gregor McGregor. Middlesex &England 1892-1907. Excellent inksignature of McGregor on piece, laiddown to card. G £25/35

37 William Gilbert Grace.Gloucestershire & England. 1865-1908. Early ink signature of Grace onpiece, laid down to album page withimage of Grace walking out to batlaid down above. VG £130/160

38 John T. Hearne. Middlesex &England 1888-1923. Excellent inksignature of Hearne on piece, laiddown to card. VG £25/35

39 Reginald Oscar Schwarz. Transvaal,Middlesex & South Africa 1902-1910 Excellent ink signature ofSchwarz on piece, laid down to card.VG £30/50

40 J.B. ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England1905-1934. Excellent signature ofHobbs signed in full ‘Jack Hobbs tolower half of a letter written byHobbs, the upper section missing. G.

Sold with a printed autograph sheetfor the M.C.C. tour of Australia1946/47 with printed signatures ofthe team. From the Rosenwatercollection £20/30

41 Fred Root. Worcestershire & England1921-1932. Burnley & DistrictSunday School’s Cricket League.Annual Prize Distribution ticket withprizes given by Fred Root,Worcestershire County Eleven.Admission ticket card dated 21stOctober 1927 with image of Root toone side and signed to verso inpencil by Root. VG £20/30

42 Douglas James William Kinnaird.M.C.C. 1808-1816 and Surrey (precounty club) 1808 and Middlesex(pre county club) 1815. Ink signatureof Kinnaird on paper piece. Heplayed in nineteen first classmatches. G £30/50

43 Arthur James Ledger Hill. Hampshire& England 1895-1921. Paper stripwith handwritten inscriptionregarding to an autograph request,‘Very pleased but its a very earlyphoto over 50 years ago now alas!.Very nicely signed by Hill. 7”x2”. VG

£50/70

44 Charles Jesse Kortright. Essex &England 1894-1907. Excellent inksignature of Kortright on paper piecelaid down to larger card withhandwritten name and brief cricketbiography. VG £30/40

45 Hunter S.T.L. ‘Stork’ Hendry. NewSouth Wales, Victoria & Australia1918-1936. Excellent ink signatureof Hendry on piece, laid down to‘Australia Test Player’ white card. G

£15/25

46 England. A selection of individuallysigned autograph cards. Signaturesinclude Harold Larwood, BrianStatham, Gubby Allen, Len Hutton,Cyril Washbrook etc. Qty 16. VG

£30/50

47 James Grimston. Original signedfree-front envelope to a Mr Scott,dated and sent from ‘London, Julytwenty two 1836’. Nicely signed‘Grimston’ in black ink. An earlysignature of Grimston, who was anEnglish amateur cricketer mainlyassociated with M.C.C. G £40/60

Grimston was a right hand bat andmade twenty one appearances for

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M.C.C. from 1830-1849

48 Ronald Thomas Stanyforth.Yorkshire, M.C.C. and England1928-1933. One page handwrittenletter, on Kirk Hammerton Hall, York,headed paper to Henry Grierson(Cambridge University and founderof the XL (Forty Club) regarding a XLClub Dinner. ‘I am so sorry I couldnot possibly make it. Do hope youhave a good time’. The letter dated26th October 1956 and nicelysigned by Stanyforth. File holesotherwise in very good condition

£100/150

Stanyforth captained M.C.C. on thetour to South Africa in 1927/28 andled England in four Tests, an unusualappointment since, at that time, hehad never played in a first classcricket match, most of his matchesbeing military ones

49 John Henry Ponsonby Fane. Onepage handwritten letter, dated 1879,regarding a committee meeting. ‘Ihave just heard that a Committeemeeting was held here on the 20thinst. May I ask why I received nonotice of it?’. Nicely signed byPonsonby Fane. The letter laid downto card. G £60/80

Ponsonby Fane was educated atHarrow and played for M.C.C. in1870. He took nineteen wickets for IZingari v School of Gunnery in1874. His Father Spencer C.B. was afounder of I Zingari, a foundermember of the Surrey Committeeand President of Somerset

50 William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk,9th Duke of St. Albans, LordBurford. Original signed free-frontenvelope to a Mrs Morgan ofHolywell, dated and sent from‘London, March 21st 1833’. Nicelysigned ‘St. Albans’ in black ink. Anearly signature of Beauclerk. G

£50/70

Charles Greville was born in 1801and played one match forHampshire in 1817 and M.C.C. in1825. He died in 1849

51 Cecil Brownlow, 2nd Marquess ofExeter 1795-1867. ‘Royal BotanicSociety of London. Exhibitions for1848’ ticket request slip signed‘Exeter’ being a fellow of the Society.G £40/60

Styled as Lord Burghley until 1804,he was an English peer and Torypolitician. A keen cricketer, heappeared in one first class match forWilliam Ward’s XI v E.H. Budd’s XIat Lord’s in 1817

52 Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl ofCardigan. Original signed free-frontenvelope to a fishmongers inHungerford Market, London datedand sent from Wansford,Cambridgeshire on Octobereighteen 1835’. Nicely signed‘Cardigan’ in black ink. An earlysignature of Cardigan, who was akeen cricketer and played in majormatches in M.C.C. matches 1790-1793 and twice for England (?). G

£60/90

Cardigan was born in London in1760, he sat as MP for Marlboroughboth for the Parliaments of GreatBritain and the United Kingdom andwas Equerry to Queen Charlotte(1791-1810) He died in 1837

53 Thomas Assheton Smith. Originalsigned free-front envelope to anaddress in Angelesey, North Walesdated and sent from Andover onDecember twenty nine 1836’. Nicelysigned ‘T.A. Smith’ in black ink. Anearly signature of Smith, who wasnoted for being an outstandingamateur cricketer who played in 45known first class matches up to the1820 season for Surrey, Middlesex &M.C.C. Smith played in theinaugural and second Gentlemen vPlayers matches in 1806. G£70/100

Smith was born in London in 1776,he was a land owner and all roundsportsman and sat as MP forAndover from 1821-1831. He diedin 1858

54 Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl ofCardigan. Original signed free-frontenvelope to an address in Henley,dated and sent from ‘London, Aprilseventeen 1816’. Nicely signed‘Cardigan’ in black ink. An earlysignature of Cardigan, who was akeen cricketer and played in majormatches in M.C.C. matches 1790-1793 and twice for England (?).Minor staining to border £50/70

Cardigan was born in London in1760, he sat as MP for Marlboroughboth for the Parliaments of GreatBritain and the United Kingdom and

was Equerry to Queen Charlotte(1791-1810) He died in 1837

55 Arthur Percy Upton. Original signedfree-front envelope to an address inBath, dated and sent on Decembertwelve 1808’. Signed ‘Upton’ inblack ink. An early signature ofUpton, who was an early member ofM.C.C. for whom he played severalmatches. He played for theGentlemen in the inaugural andsecond Gentlemen v Players matchesin 1806. He took six catches in thefirst match, which the Gentlemenwith given men won by an innings.Upton’s career spanned the 1795 to1808 seasons. He is known to havemade 47 appearances in first-classmatches. He was a useful batsmanand a good fielder but seems to havebowled only rarely £50/70

Upton was born in 1777 and died in1855. He was M.P. for Bury St.Edmunds from 1818-1826

56 George Gordon, 9th Marquis ofHuntly & Earl of Aboyne. Originalsigned free-front envelope to anaddress in Dorking, Surrey, datedand sent from ‘London May five1823 ‘. Signed ‘Aboyne’ in black ink.An early signature of Aboyne, styledLord Strathavon until 1795 andknown as The Earl of Aboyne from1795-1836, was a Scottish peer. G

£50/70

Gordon was born in 1761 and was akeen cricketer who made fourknown first class appearances from1785-1792. He was a member ofthe White Conduit Club and anearly member of M.C.C. but wasmainly associated with Surrey. Hedied in 1853

57 Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville.Original signed free-front envelopeto a Mr Leigh of Bilston, Suffolk,dated and sent from ‘London,November 29th 1832’. Nicely signed‘Greville’ in black ink. An earlysignature of Greville, who played forM.C.C. in 1824-1826. G £40/60

Charles Greville was an EnglishDiarist born in 1794 who playedfirst class cricket from 1819-1827playing for M.C.C. and appearingfor the Gentlemen (v Players) andeducated in Eton and Oxford. He isremembered for posthumously-published diaries regarding the

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Royal Family, which caused anuproar in the 1870’s. He died in1865

58 C.W. Alcock. Interesting three pageprinted form/circular sent out to allcricketers in December 1887 askingthem to complete, ‘for the purposeof inserting (the information) in the‘Large Cricket Work’ nowpublishing, entitled ‘A. Haygarth’sCollection of Scores and Biographiesfrom 1772’ and return to him. ‘It isintended not only to give the fullscores of important matches sincethat time, but also to insert thebiography of every player of note(including Gentlemen) engaged inimportant matches. This circular wasfilled out in ink by Harry Leadbetter,an Amateur who played six matchesfor Yorkshire between 1884-1890.Details asked for include name,address, birth, town, height, weight,date of first match, date of firstmatch at Lord’s, fielding place etc.Folds, nicks and tears otherwise ingood condition. Rare £50/80

59 C.W. Alcock. Interesting three pageprinted form/circular sent out to allcricketers in December 1887 askingthem to complete, ‘for the purposeof inserting (the information) in the‘Large Cricket Work’ nowpublishing, entitled ‘A. Haygarth’sCollection of Scores and Biographiesfrom 1772’ and return to him. ‘It isintended not only to give the fullscores of important matches sincethat time, but also to insert thebiography of every player of note(including Gentlemen) engaged inimportant matches. This circular wasfilled out in ink by Charles HowardAllcock, an Amateur who played forCambridge University and M.C.C.1878-1883. Details asked for includename, address, birth, town, height,weight, date of first match, date offirst match at Lord’s, fielding placeetc. Folds otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £50/80

60 R.A. Fitzjerald. Interesting threepage printed form/circular sent outto all cricketers in December 1887asking them to complete, ‘for thepurpose of inserting (theinformation) in the ‘Large CricketWork’ now publishing, entitled ‘A.Haygarth’s Collection of Scores andBiographies from 1855’ and return

to him. ‘It is intended not only togive the full scores of importantmatches since that time, but also toinsert the biography of every playerof note (including Gentlemen)engaged in important matches. Thiscircular was filled out in ink byHerbert Tongue Allsopp, an Amateurwho played for CambridgeUniversity in 1976 andWorcestershire prior to becomingfirst class. Details asked for includename, address, birth, town, height,weight, date of first match, date offirst match at Lord’s, fielding placeetc. Folds otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £50/80

61 Henry Perkins. Interesting threepage printed form/circular sent outto all cricketers in December 1887asking them to complete, ‘for thepurpose of inserting (theinformation) in the ‘Large CricketWork’ now publishing, entitled ‘A.Haygarth’s Collection of Scores andBiographies from 1855’ and returnto him. ‘It is intended not only togive the full scores of importantmatches since that time, but also toinsert the biography of every playerof note (including Gentlemen)engaged in important matches. Thiscircular was filled out in ink byCharles William Leat, a professionalwho played for Hampshire 1878-1885. Details asked for includename, address, birth, town, height,weight, date of first match, date offirst match at Lord’s, fielding placeetc. Folds otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £50/80

62 England ‘Ashes Winners’ 1970/71.Typewritten letter to Ray Illingworth,England Captain, from H.D.V.Pakenham of the British HighCommission, Sydney, Australia. Theletter on official headed paper anddated 18th February 1971 reads‘Dear Mr Illingworth, I have beenasked to pass the following messageto you from the Prime Minister. Itwas telegraphed from London lastnight. ‘Your victory at Sydney andthe return of the Ashes to Englandafter 12 years is excellent news. Mywarmest congratulations to yourselfand all members of the M.C.C.Team’. The letter signed byPakenham. With original envelopemarked ‘Urgent and Personal’. VG

£50/80

In the 7th Test played at Sydney inFebruary 1971, England beatAustralia by 62 runs and won theAshes by two Tests to nil, with fourdraws and one match abandoned

63 Henry Donnan. New South Wales &Australia 1887-1901. Handwrittenletter from Donnan to Charles PrattGreen (according to handwrittennote to verso) regarding a requestfor an autograph, he goes onto talkabout his playing days and the 1896England team. Strange to say the2nd Test match has just finished atLords with England winning and thisis the first Test that England has wonsince 1896. What a grand teamEngland had then, Grace, Stoddart,Abel, Brown, Gunn, Jackson,Hayward, Lilley, Lohmann, Hearne,Richardson... I would not fancy ourpresent team would have a look inwith such a side as above’. Nicelysigned by Donnan in black ink. G

£80/120

The letter has been trimmed at thetop removing (presumably) theaddress, date etc. The letter musthave been written in 1924. Englandbeat South Africa at Lord’s in 1924,twenty eight years after there lastLord’s win against Australia in whichDonnan opened the batting making1 and 8.

64 Australia. Three letters fromAustralian Test cricketers, all to MrShepherd of Leicester regarding theCentenary of a cricket club andasking for an autograph. The firstfrom Gil Langley, the second fromErnie Toshack and the third fromClarrie Grimmett (initials only). Allthree letters dated 1973. VG

£30/50

65 W.G. Grace. Gloucestershire &England 1865-1908. One pagehandwritten letter from W.G. Graceto James Gilman, Middlesex &London County 1900-1904,regarding the hope that Gilman getshis blue at Cambridge. The letterdated 12th June 1902, ‘My dearGilman, I hope you will get your blueall right. Thanks for sending Holland(er?) along. What are yourmovements- I suppose we shall seeyou on Monday. With all goodwishes I am, yours truly W.G. Grace’.Folds to letter. Sold with originalenvelope with address ‘J. Gilma,

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Jesus College, Cambridge’ written toit. The letter, envelope and Gracebiographical statistics attractivelywindow mounted, framed andglazed. VG £250/350

66 W.G. Grace. Gloucestershire &England 1865-1908. Two pagehandwritten letter from W.G. Graceto Sugden regarding him playingbowls. The letter dated 30th April1907, ‘Dear Sugden, Can you bowlon May 4th, 11th & 13th at thePalace about 3 o’clock andWednesday 15th at Wandsworth at5 o’clock. Kindly let me know if youare all right for all these, or howmany you can manage... I will call onMr Wigham about 12 o’clock as Imay not be in town again for a fewweeks. Hoping you are none theworse after Saturday. I am, yourstruly W.G. Grace’. Light folds toletter otherwise in very goodcondition £250/350

67 Robert E.S. Wyatt, Warwickshire &England. Two page handwrittenletter, on The Friary Hotel, Derby’headed paper, thanking the writerfor her kind letter congratulating himon ‘my rather fortunate effort atManchester and my catch at theOval which I am afraid I made lookrather more difficult than it reallywas’. Nicely signed in ink by Wyatt.The letter dated 5th August, but noyear. VG £30/40

68 Don Bradman. One pagehandwritten letter from Bradman to‘Chris’ regarding him signing aphotograph for Barry Richards.General content. The letter onBradman letterhead, dated 6th May1987 and nicely signed in ink byBradman. Light folds. G £40/60

69 Arthur John William McIntyre.Surrey & England 1938-1963.Wicket-keeper McIntyre played 377matches for Surrey and took 639catches and 156 stumpings in hiscareer with a batting average of22.83. He played on three occasionsfor England and toured with theM.C.C. to Australia and NewZealand on the tour of 1950/51

A.J.W. McIntyre Benefit Year 1955.‘Autographed Cricket Album’.Hardback Benefit album producedfor his Benefit, with signed actionphotograph of McIntyre to title page

and very nicely signed to insidepages, page to a team, by the Surreyteam of 1955 (16 signatures),Yorkshire (16), Derbyshire (11),Middlesex (13), Lancashire (14),Worcestershire (13), Leicestershire(12), Northamptonshire (11),Glamorgan (14), Kent (11),Gloucestershire (12), Warwickshire(12), Nottinghamshire (13),Hampshire (15), Sussex (12), Essex(13), Somerset (11), England 1955(17), Australia 1956 (12), NewZealand (14) and Pakistan 1959(15). Also signed to individual pagesby the Sussex (11) and Australian(13) teams of 1972. Signaturesinclude May, Laker, Barrington,Hutton, Trueman, Wardle, Gladwin,Compton, Washbrook, Statham,Kenyon, Perks, Palmer, Tribe,Wooller, Evans, Graveney, Dollery,Eagar, Ingleby-Mackenzie, Snow,Cox, Langridge, Bailey, Tremlett,Wardle, Loader, Tyson, K. Miller,Johnson, Morris, Harvey, Lindwall,Benaud, Chappell, Stackpole, Marsh,Congdon, Turner etc. Good/verygood condition. Sold with an officialscorecard for McIntyre’s Benefitmatch v Yorkshire in June 1955

£400/500

70 Don Bradman. Large brown filecontaining various booklets, photo-copied images, magazine articles,copy photographs, caricatures,modern postcards, greetings cards,paper pieces etc. The majority of theitems all signed by Bradman, in lateryears. Forty seven ink signatures ofBradman to various items. Alsocontains other signatures includingBorder, Chappell, Hamence, Ring,Loxton, Johnson, Harvey, O’Reilly,Bailey, Ames, Hutton etc. G

£250/350

71 Don Bradman. Large red filecontaining various press and copyphotographs,first day covers, A.C.S.menus, magazine articles, modernpostcards, greetings cards, paperpages, brochure etc. The majority ofthe items all signed by Bradman, inlater years. Thirty two ink signaturesof Bradman to various items. Alsocontains other signatures includingHassett, O’Reilly, Ring, Brown,Barnett, Davidson, Johnson,a’Beckett, Harvey, Lillee, Chappell,Badcock, Waite etc. G £200/300

72 Shane Warne. Black file containingvarious press and copy photographs,stamp sheets, magazine and presspictures, prints, magazine articles,posters, reproduction prints etc. Allof the items signed by Warne. Fortyfive ink signatures of Warne tovarious items. Also contains othersignatures of Border and Simpson. G

£200/300

73 Australia. Black file containingvarious pre printed and plainautograph sheets and cards, copyimages, stamps, album pages etccontaining over 750 signatures ofAustralian Test players. Signaturesinclude Bradman (four signatures),McKenzie, Pascoe, Waugh,Chappell, Harvey, Benaud, Healy,Warne, Davidson, McGrath, Loxton,Walters, Toshack, Hassett, Brown,Johnson, K. Miller, Maddocks,O’Keefe, Gleeson, Booth,McDonald, Hogg, Lillee, Noblet,Hamence, Hawke, Massie,Thomson, Border, Morris, McGrath,Lawry, Lindwall etc. Someduplication of signatures, somesignatures on labels laid down tocards/sheets. G £150/250

74 Cricket autographs 1930’s to 2000’s.Black file containing various signeditems including album pages,scorecards, greetings cards,programmes etc. Includes albumpages signed by Surrey 1950’s (13signatures), Middlesex 1930 (vSussex) (9), Middlesex 1948 (11),Middlesex 1950 (12), Middlesex1952 (17), Middlesex 1954 (11),Victoria 1974 (12), CambridgeUniversity 1948 (11) etc. Othersignatures include Gubby Allen,Wyatt, Larwood, Strudwick, Harvey,Hassett, Davidson, Noblet, Edrich,Laker, Statham, Larwood etc. Soldwith amounted copy photograph ofJack Hobbs, window mounted withink signature of Hobbs. G £50/70

75 Autographed ephemera. Largebrown file containing a miscellany ofsigned items including autographsheets, photographs, booklets,letters, greetings cards, modernpostcards etc. Signatures includeBradman, Hassett, Lawry, Warne,W.Brown, Luckhurst, Botham, Snow,Trueman, Statham, Tendulkar, Lara,John Major, Boycott on 100thhundred photograph etc. Some

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unsigned items including an originaledition of the Daily Sketch for 19thAugust 1926, England beat Australiain the final Test. G £40/60

76 Australia. Collection of over fiftywhite cards containing individual inksignatures of players, officials,journalists and friends, collected byIrving Rosenwater in Australia 1982-1985. Signatures include A.Greig,Tyson, Denness, Imran Khan, CliveLloyd, Kepler Wessels, RogerWoolley, Bill O’Reilly, Geoff Noblet,Gilbert, Dyer, G. Matthews, LeoO’Brien, J. Gleeson, Stackpole,Taber, Pascoe, Brian Booth, Yallopetc. VG. From the Rosenwatercollection £25/35

77 Cricket autographs. Large displayfolder containing numerous signedposters, prints and commemorativecricket ephemera. Includes JoelGarner Benefit match poster signedby Garner, Richards, Marshall etc,two England v Bradman XI posters1994 signed by Australians ShaneLee, Lawson, Matthews, Emery,Mark Waugh, Moody, Hughes etc,Denis Compton printed Brylcreemadverts, colour poster of SussexC.C.C. signed by the squad,Bradman Collection poster, PaulTaylor Benefit print signed by theNorthamptonshire team 2000,Surrey 150th Anniversary print 1995signed by all the squad, ltd edition ofonly 50, handkerchief signed by theTest Match Special team etc. Alsocontains posters and prints withfootball, good Spurs interest, andhorse racing interest, some signed,and some non sporting items. G

£30/40

78 Cricket autographs. Very largedisplay folder containing numeroussigned posters, prints and commem-orative cricket ephemera. Includesoriginal M.C.C. v Rest of the Worldmatch poster signed by eleven of theplayers from both teams includingAtherton, Sohail, Ganguly, Healy,Kumble, McGrath, Tendulkar, Cairnsetc, various posters signed by S.Cambell, Jayasuriya, Muralitheran,Yorkshire Champions 2001 poster,fully signed, Herald Sun Newspaperposter, Melbourn Test signed byWarne, England v Sri Lanka 2001(Galle) photograph signed to borderby the England players etc. Also

contains posters and prints withfootball, good Spurs interest, andhorse racing interest, some signed,and some non sporting items. G

£30/40

79 Surrey 1932. Surrey County CricketClub headed paper signed in bythirteen members of the Surrey teamincluding D.R. Jardine, (Captain),Fender, Squires, Brown, Allom,Sandham, Hobbs, Ducat, Gregory,Block etc. The sheet mounted,framed and glazed. Overall8”x10.5”. Folds and light soiling topage, slight age toning to somesignatures otherwise in goodcondition £80/120

80 Cricketers autographs 1940/50’s.Selection of twenty four inksignatures of players on nine cardsand one paper piece, mostly withsmall pen picture of the player tocard. Signatures include Gladwin,Squires, Barling, Copson (signedtwice), Fishlock, Richardson,McCorkell, Pope, Eagar, Dollery,Hollies, Perkins, Jenkins etc. Soldwith a selection of eleven pre printedcards each signed by a New ZealandTest player. Signatures include Tindill,Bradburn, Redmond, Thomson,Watt etc. G £25/35

81 New Zealand tour of England, 1949.Mono newspaper cutting of theteam with nine signatures in ink ofCresswell, Reid, Burtt, Scott, Burke,Hayes, Cowie and Wallace. Also,page signed in ink by fourteen of thesame touring party including Reid,Sutcliffe, Burke etc. Slight agetoning, otherwise G/VG. Qty 2.

£25/35

82 Don Bradman. Christmas card signedin later years by eleven members ofthe 1948 Australian touring party toEngland including Bradman, Hassett,Lawrie, Lindwall, Miller, Harvey, etc.Tape repair to spine, smudge to onesignature. G £40/60

83 Don Bradman. A red albumcontaining post cards, photographs,cuttings, album pages and othercricketing ephemera including amono press photograph signed byGeoff Boycott having just reachedhis 100th hundred, and items signedby Bradman, David Sheppard, BillEdrich, Harold Larwood etc. VG

£40/60

84 Surrey 1970s and 1980s. A brownalbum containing pressphotographs, autograph sheets,menus and other cricketingephemera all relating to Surrey CCC.Many items signed by the players ofthat era including Pat Pocock, MickyStewart, Jack Richards, MartinBicknell etc. G/VG £30/50

85 Greetings cards. A blue foldercontaining a selection of mainlyMCC official Christmas and othergreetings cards from 1980s onwards,all nicely signed individually andteam squads. Qty 24 G/VG£30/50

86 Australia. A folder containing signedteam sheets and other autographedephemera, including Australiatouring teams to England 1975, NewZealand 1993, India 1977-78 etc.Qty 10. G/VG £25/35

87 Middlesex CCC 1949 - 2003. Abrown folder containing pressphotographs and signed official andunofficial team sheets and albumpages. G/VG £80/120

88 Signed cricket ephemera. Acollection of first day covers, postcards, fixture list and dinner menu.Signatures include Geoff Boycott,David Lloyd, Glenn McGrath,Marcus Trescothick. Qty 8. G/VG

£10/20

AUTOGRAPH SHEETS/ ALBUMPAGES

89 Australia 1953. Large album pagesigned in ink by twelve members ofthe Australian touring party toEngland. Signatures include Hassett,Morris, Miller, Harvey, Lindwall,Ring, McDonald, Johnston, Archer,Craig etc. G £40/60

90 M.C.C. tour of Australia & NewZealand 1950/1951. Officialautograph sheet fully signed in inkby twenty members of the touringparty including the joint Managers,Green and Nash and bagmanFerguson. Signatures includeCaptain, Brown, Compton, Bailey,Hutton, Close, Bedser, Evans,Wright, Hollies, McIntyre, Sheppardetc. Vertical and horizontal folds,minor nicks to folds at edge, old tapemarks to upper and lower bordersotherwise in good condition. Rare

£50/70

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91 Australian tour of England 1961.Official autograph sheet for theAustralian touring team. Fully signedin ink by all seventeen members ofthe party plus the Manager includingBenaud, Harvey, Booth, Davidson,Lawry, McKenzie, Grout, O’Neill,Gaunt etc. Some minor wear toborders of sheet otherwise in goodcondition £30/40

92 Australian tour of England 1961.Official autograph sheet for theAustralian touring team. Fully signedin ink by all seventeen members ofthe party plus the Manager includingBenaud, Harvey, Booth, Davidson,Lawry, McKenzie, Grout, O’Neill,Gaunt etc. Very light fold, someminor wear to borders of sheetotherwise in good condition £30/40

93 Australian tour of Zimbabwe 1983.Official autograph sheet fully signedby fifteen members of the touringparty including Wellham, Bennett,Boon, Jones, Whitney, Phillips etc.Folds. G £15/25

94 Australian tour of the West Indies1984. Official autograph sheet fullysigned by eighteen members of thetouring party including Hughes,Border, Alderman, Matthews,Rackemann, Hogg etc. Light foldmarks otherwise in good/very goodcondition £25/35

95 Australian tour of Sharjah 1985.Official autograph sheet fully signedby thirteen members of the touringparty including Border, Wood,Alderman, Matthews, O’Donnell,McDermott, Wessels etc. Rare.G/VG £30/40

96 Australian tour of Pakistan 1988.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink with eighteen signaturesincluding Border, Marsh, Boon,Healy, Waugh, Wood, Reid etc. G

£25/35

97 Australia tour of Sri Lanka 1992.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink by all sixteen members of thetouring party including Border,Warne, Taylor, Moody, Waugh,Martyn etc. G £25/35

98 Australian tour of England 1953.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink by all seventeen members ofthe touring party including Hassett,Morris, Hill, Benaud, Harvey,

Johnston, Lindwall, McDonald,Miller, Tallon etc. Folds otherwise ingood condition. Sold with a fullysigned official sheet for theAustralian 1956 tour of England. Thesheet has been trimmed to edgesand has tape to the back of thesheet. Qty 2 £50/70

99 Australian tour of South Africa1957/58. Official autograph sheetfor the Australian touring party.Sixteen signatures of the players andthe Manager, including Craig,Harvey, Benaud, Davidson, Gaunt,Burke, McDonald, Simpson, Burgeetc. Light fold marks and some agetoning otherwise in good condition.Rare £40/60

100 Australian tour of England 1961.Official autograph sheet for theAustralian touring team. Fully signedin ink by all seventeen members ofthe party plus the Manager andTreasurer including Benaud, Harvey,Booth, Davidson, Lawry, McKenzie,O’Neill, Gaunt etc. Adhesive marksto back of the sheet at cornersotherwise in good condition £30/40

101 Australian tour of England 1966/67.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink by all sixteen members of thetouring party including Simpson,Lawry, McKenzie, Becker, Chappell,Hawke, Stackpole, Vievers etc. Lighthorizontal fold otherwise ingood/very good condition £30/50

102 Australian tour of England 1968.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink by all seventeen members ofthe touring party including Lawry, I.Chappell, Cowper, Hawke, Gleeson,Mallett, McKenzie, Walters etc.G/VG £30/50

103 Australian tour of Pakistan 1980.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink by all seventeen members ofthe touring party including G.Chappell, Hughes, Border, Hookes,Lillee, Malone, Marsh etc. G£25/35

104 Australian ‘Rebel’ tour of SouthAfrica 1985/87. Official autographsheet fully signed in ink by allseventeen members of the touringparty including K. Hughes, Yallop,Alderman, Hogg, Rackemann, Rixonetc. VG £25/35

105 Australian tour of New Zealand1982. Official autograph sheet fully

signed in ink by all fifteen membersof the touring party including G.Chappell, Hughes, Border, Lillee,Marsh, Thomson, Pascoe etc. Foldsotherwise good £30/40

106 Australian tour of Sri Lanka 1983.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink with sixteen signaturesincluding G. Chappell, Hookes,Border, Hogg, Lillee, Wessels, Yallopetc. Scarcer sheet. Folds otherwisegood £30/40

107 Australian tour of England 1985.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink by all seventeen members ofthe touring party including Border,Hilditch, Boon, Lawson, Thomson,Wessels, McDermott etc. Foldsotherwise good £25/35

108 Australian tour of India and Pakistanfor the World Cup 1987. Officialautograph sheet fully signed in inkby all seventeen members of thetouring party including Border,Marsh, Reid, S.Waugh, May, Taylor,McDermott etc. Scarce. Foldsotherwise good £40/60

109 Australia tour of England 1993.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink by all twenty one members ofthe touring party including Border,Warne, Taylor, Hayden, Healy, May,Slater, Waugh etc. Light foldsotherwise in good condition £30/40

110 Australia tour of England 1993.Official autograph sheet signed inink by twenty members of thetouring party including Border,Warne, Taylor, Hayden, Healy, May,Slater, Waugh etc. Lacking thesignature of McDermott. Folds andsmall tape mark to verso otherwisein good condition £25/35

111 Australian tour of England 1997.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink by all twenty two members ofthe touring party including Taylor,Waugh, Bevan, Elliott, Langer,Ponting, Warne, Slater etc. G

£40/60

112 Australian autograph sheets. Blackfile containing eight Australianautograph sheets. The sheets are for1953 (England), 1964 (England),1977 (England), 1979 (India), 1982(New Zealand), 1982 (Pakistan),1986 (New Zealand) and 1990 (NewZealand). The first five sheets are all

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official, the first two sheets fullysigned but in only fair condition,the1977 and 1979 sheets lackingone signature, the 1982 sheet withsmudging to signatures and the lastthree sheets are photocopies oforiginal sheets which have beensigned by the players. Viewingessential, not subject to return

£40/60

113 Australian tour of England 1964.Official autograph sheet fully signedin ink by all seventeen members ofthe touring party including Simpson,Booth, Burge, Grout, Hawke,O’Neill, Lawry, McKenzie etc. Foldsotherwise in good condition £35/45

114 Australian tour of New Zealand1994/95. Auckland C.A. autographsheet signed in ink by fourteenmembers of the touring partyincluding Taylor, Waugh, Blewett,Reiffel, Warne, McGrath etc. Foursignatures signed in slightly thickerpen. Lacking the signature ofPonting. G £20/30

115 Australian tour of South Africa1949/50. Official autograph sheetfully signed in ink by all fifteenmembers of the party includingHassett, Lindwall, Harvey, Morris, I.Johnson, W. Johnston, Loxton,Moroney, Langley, McCool etc.Sheet may have been trimmedslightly to top border. Folds and oddspotting otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £80/120

116 Australian Centenary tour ofEngland 1980. Official autographsheet fully signed in ink by allfourteen members of the touringparty including G. Chappell, Hughes,Border, Lillee, Thomson, Mallett,Yallop, Pascoe etc. G £20/30

117 Australian tour of Zimbabwe 1983.Official autograph sheet fully signedby fifteen members of the touringparty including Wellham, Bennett,Boon, Jones, Whitney, Phillips etc.VG £20/30

118 Australian tour of England 1948.Official autograph sheet for theAustralian touring team to England1948. Nicely signed in ink byseventeen members of the partyincluding Bradman, Harvey, Miller,Hassett, Johnson, Toshack, Brown,Morris, Hammence, Morris, Tallonetc. Barnes hand stamped as usual.

Lacking the signature of Lindwall.Light horizontal fold otherwise ingood condition. Attractivelymounted, framed and glazed

£200/300

119 Australian tour of England 1909.Two original Liverpool Cricket Clubheaded pages containing the‘Autographs of the AustralianCricket Team. Season 1909’, title,printed to page. Fourteen signatures,very nicely signed in ink, Noble(Captain), Victor Trumper, Laver,Bardsley, Whitty, Armstrong,Hopkins, Carter, Gregory, Ransford,Macartney, Carkeek, Cotter andMcAlister. Light foxing to both pagesotherwise in good/very goodcondition. Lacking the signatures ofHartigan and O’Connor from the fulltouring party. A rare set of signatures

£700/100

The Australians won the series bytwo Tests to one

120 M.C.C. tour of South Africa1948/49. Official autograph sheetsigned in ink by seventeen membersof the touring party including theManager, Green. Signatures includeMann, Captain, Compton, Hutton,Griffith, Washbrook, Wright,Tremlett, Young, Evans, Jenkins etc.Old tape marks to upper and lowerborders, damage to sheet resulting intwo holes to upper centre, notaffecting signatures otherwise ingood condition £50/70

121 England tour of Australia 1978/79.Official Queensland CricketAssociation autograph sheet signedby the Australian (12 signatures) andEngland (16) teams who played inthe first Test at Brisbane in December1978. Twenty eight signaturesincluding Yallop, Cosier, K. Hughes,Hurst, Wood, Yardley, Brearley,Willis, Botham, Gower, Boycott,Gooch, Randall, Tolchard etc. VG

£20/30

England won the Test by 7 wickets

122 M.C.C. tour of the West Indies1959/60. Official autograph sheetnicely signed in ink by all sixteenmembers of the touring party.Signatures include May, Cowdrey,Barrington, Statham, Trueman,Dexter, Andrew, Illingworth, Pullaretc. G/VG £40/60

123 M.C.C. tour of New Zealand1960/1961. Official autograph sheetnicely signed by all fifteen signaturesmembers of the touring party.Signatures include Silk, Barber,Larter, Wilson, Murray, Watson,Prideaux etc. G/VG £40/60

124 M.C.C. tour of Australia & NewZealand 1950/1951. Officialautograph sheet signed in ink bynineteen members of the touringparty including the joint Managers,Green and Nash and bagmanFerguson. Signatures includeCaptain, Brown, Compton, Hutton,Close, Evans, Wright, Hollies,McIntyre, Simpson etc. Vertical andhorizontal folds, minor loss to lefthand top corner, small tape mark toleft hand edge, marks and stainingto lower border of sheet otherwise ingenerally good condition. Rare

£30/50

125 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1958/1959.Official autograph sheet nicelysigned in ink by all eighteenmembers of the team and theManagement. Signatures includeMay, Cowdrey, Evans, Laker, Lock,Statham, Tyson, Trueman,Richardson etc. Folds and some agetoning/darkening to sheet otherwisein good condition £30/40

126 M.C.C. tour of Australia & NewZealand 1962/63. Official autographsheet for the tour. Seventeensignatures in ink including Dexter,Cowdrey, Barrington, Graveney,Statham, Trueman, Titmus etc. Fileholes, good £30/40

127 England v Sri Lanka 1984. Officialautograph sheet for the inauguralTest played at Lord’s. Fully signedwith eleven signatures includingGower, Botham, Broad, Ellison,Fowler, Agnew, Lamb etc. G£10/15

128 M.C.C. tour of the West Indies1967/68. Official autograph sheetfor the tour, signed by sixteenmembers of the touring party in ink.Signatures include Cowdrey,Barrington, Titmus, D’Oliveira,Edrich, Graveney, Knott, Milburn,Snow etc. Lacking the signature ofBrown. Folds otherwise in goodcondition £30/40

129 M.C.C. tour of Australia & NewZealand 1936/37. Official ‘OrientLine. England-Australia S.S. Orion’

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headed paper nicely signed in ink byall seventeen members of thetouring party. Signatures includeAllen (Captain), Robins, Wyatt,Farnes, Hammond, Verity, Leyland,Voce, Hardstaff, Worthington,Fishlock, Copson, Barnett etc.Handwritten schedule to verso ofsheet. Centre horizontal foldotherwise in good condition. A raresheet £300/400

The S.S. Orion was the ship whichtook the M.C.C. team to Australia inSeptember 1936. Australia won theTest series by three tests to two

130 M.C.C. tour of the West Indies1967/68. Official autograph sheetfor the tour, signed by sixteenmembers of the touring party in ink.Signatures include Cowdrey,Barrington, Titmus, D’Oliveira,Edrich, Graveney, Knott, Milburn,Snow etc. Folds otherwise in goodcondition £30/50

131 Touring & County teams 1950’s. Redautograph book signed to pages bythe South Africa team of 1955 (16signatures), Surrey 1955 (11), WestIndies 1957 (14) and the Australians1956 (17). Signatures include K.Miller, Lindwall, Harvey, Burge(signed twice), Johnson, Benaud,Davidson, McDonald, W.Hall,Sobers, Walcott, Valentine,Ramadhin, Goddard, Weekes,Surridge, Laker, May, Waite,Cheetham, Mansell, Tayfield etc.Also signed by twenty threemembers of the Luton Town playingstaff 1956, Freddie Mills, KennethWolstenholme, Geoff Millman etc.The book worn with contents loose,some old tape to spine of pages. G

£100/150

132 Australian cricketers. Large albumpage nicely signed by HampdenLove, NSW, Victoria & Australia1920-1933, Sydney Hird, NSW,Lancashire, Eastern Province andBorder 1931-1951, Stan McCabe,NSW & Australia 1928-1942 andWilliam Ives, NSW 1919-1922. Toverso are the ink signatures of EdgarWaddy, NSW 1896-1921 andWendell Bill, NSW 1929-1935. G

£30/50

133 Victoria. Official autograph sheetsfor matches v Western Australia1986 (2), 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991

and 1994. Shield and Cup matches.All matches played at the W.A.C.A.with the exception of the 1994sheet, played at Melbourne. All fullysigned. Qty 8. G £30/40

134 South African Cricket Union. OfficialSouth African autograph sheets forthe Australia XI tour of South Africa1985/86 and 1986/87. Both sheetsfully signed with twelve and fifteensignatures per sheet. Signaturesinclude Rice, Cook, Kirsten, Kourie,Pollock, Page, Le Roux, McEwan etc.G £25/35

135 South Africa. Seven incompleteofficial, under 19 tour or unofficialsheets for tours 1994-1998. Goodselection of signatures. G £20/30

136 New Zealand 1987/88. Officialautograph sheet for the NewZealand tour of Australia 1987/88.Fully signed by all seventeenmembers of the party in ink.Signatures include Crowe, Hadlee,Jones, Watson, Wright, Rutherfordetc. G £15/25

137 New Zealand 1989/90. Officialautograph sheet for the NewZealand tour of Australia 1989/90.Fully signed by all fifteen membersof the party in ink. Signaturesinclude Wright, Crowe, Morrison,Bracewell, Cairns etc. G £20/30

138 England Captains 1940-1992. Threeheaded pages/cards containing fortyone signatures. Signatures includeDexter, Cowdrey, Willis, Botham,Gooch, Graveney, Gower, Boycott,Smith, Greig, Edrich etc. Somesignatures laid down to cards, someduplication of signatures. G £30/40

139 South African tour of England 1951.Album page nicely signed in ink bysixteen members of the party.Signatures include Nourse, Captain,Fullerton, Rowan, Mansell, McLean,Cheetham, Tayfield, McGlew etc.VG £30/40

140 England and Lancashire signatures.Seven ink signatures, England vAustralia 1948 includes Bedser,Simpson, Dewes, Dollery, Crapp,Edrich and Young. Small album pagewith seven signatures on laid downpieces including Valentine, Pawson,Ridgway, Dovey and Edrich. Albumpage containing thirteen inksignatures on pieces laid down of

Lancashire 1947 includingWashbrook, Place, Ikin, Howard,Pollard etc. Some ageing, otherwiseG/VG. Sold with an orange foldercontaining details of the 1946-47England tour to Australia comprisingmodern scorecards plus twenty fiveoriginal laid down mono presscuttings relating to the tour andtests. G/VG. Qty 4. £30/40

141 Test players. A black foldercontaining modern signed unofficialautograph sheets for South Africa,Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Qty 5.G/VG £25/35

142 The Counties 1953. Large brownautograph book signed to pages bysixteen of the county teams from the1953 season. Warwickshire (11signatures), Lancashire (13),Yorkshire (11), Surrey (12),Derbyshire (12), Leicestershire (11),Middlesex (12), Hampshire (12),Glamorgan (12), Worcestershire(13), Essex (11), Northamptonshire(14), Nottinghamshire (9),Gloucestershire (12), Kent (12) andSomerset (7). Also signed byPakistan 1954 (3), CambridgeUniversity (13), actor David Nivenand other cricketers. Signaturesinclude T. Dollery, Hollies, K. Dollery,Statham, Berry, Hutton, Sutcliffe,Trueman, Surridge, May, Laker,Edrich, Perks, Kenyon, Hardstaff,Tribe, Tyson etc. One page detachedotherwise in good/very goodcondition £80/120

143 Warwickshire C.C.C. 1921. Largealbum page signed in ink by twelvemembers of the team who playedGloucestershire at Bristol. Signaturesinclude Rotherham, Holdsworth,Santall, Fiddian-Green, A. Howell,Charlesworth, Smart, Quaife, Bates,H. Howell etc. G £50/80

144 Northamptonshire C.C.C. c1908.‘House of Commons’ RefreshmentDepartment folding menu signed toinside by twenty members of theplaying staff. Signatures includeThorpe, Knight, W.A. Buswell, Pool,S.G. Smith, W. East, W. Wells, A.P.R.Hawtin, G. Thompson, T.E.Manning, Lord Lilford, Vials etc. Themenu card laid down to card and thesignatures in pencil. G £100/150

145 Northamptonshire C.C.C. c1908.‘House of Commons’ Refreshment

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Department folding menu signed toinside by eighteen members of theplaying staff. Signatures includePool, Dale, S.G. Smith, East, W.Wells, Hawtin, G. Thompson, T.E.Manning, Vials, Thorpe, Knight, G.Greenwood, Buswell etc. The menucard in two pieces and laid down tocard with signatures in penciluppermost. Sold with fourNorthamptonshire scorecards fromthe 1950’s. G £100/150

146 Middlesex c1937. Large album pagesigned in ink by twelve members ofthe team. Signatures includeHendren, Compton, Sims, Hulme,Watkins, Edrich, Hart etc. Sold with afurther album page signed by fifteenMiddlesex players from the early1950’s including Robins, Dewes,Gray, L. Compton, Young, Robertsonetc. G £30/50

147 Middlesex 1950’s/60’s. Selection oftwo headed sheets and two albumpages signed by players fromdifferent years during the period. A1954 page signed by thirteenplayers, a circa 1950 sheet signed byeleven players, a further page signedby eleven players c1950’s and aheaded card signed by twelveplayers c1960’s. Signatures includeEdrich, Compton, Robertson, Moss,Titmus, Warr, Parfitt, Russell, Young,Mann etc. G £30/50

148 Middlesex 1947, 1948, 1951 and1954. Four album pages signed bythe teams from their respectiveyears. The 1947 page signed by 11players (minor fading), 1948 by 12players, 1951 by 14 players and the1954 by 11 players. G £30/40

149 Middlesex 1899. Ruled page fromthe visitors book of the Assize CourtsHotel, Strangeways signed by fourmembers of the Middlesex team, J.T.Hearne, 1888-1923, W. Roche,1899-1900, J.T. Rawlin, 1889-1909and J.E. West 1885-1896 and officialscorer when this was signed, plusother unrelated signatures to bothsides. Some age toning to paperotherwise in good condition £50/70

150 County album pages 1949-1952.Selection of five album pages signedby various teams, Surrey 1949 (11signatures), Middlesex 1949 (11),Hampshire 1949 (10), MinorCounties 1851/52 (11) and one

unknown team (appears foreign).Signatures include Coxon, Barnett,Compton, Edrich, Young, Surridge,Laker, Lock, Eagar, Shackleton etc. G

£30/40

151 Surrey ‘County Champions 1952-1958’. Official autograph sheetsigned by fourteen members of theSurrey team of 1958. Signaturesinclude May, Lock, Barrington,Bedser, Edrich, Clark, Constable,Parsons etc. Light horizontal foldotherwise in good condition £30/50

152 Glamorgan County Cricket Club1964 & 1968. Official autographsheets signed by twelve and thirteenmembers of the team. Signaturesinclude Lewis, Shepherd, Jones,Hedges, Davis, Nash, Cordle etc. G

£20/30

153 Middlesex 1961. Album page signedin ink by eleven members of theteam. Signatures include Parfitt,Titmus, Russell, Moss, Bennett,Bedford, White etc. To verso are thesignatures of four further players,Evans, Watson, Graveney etc. G

£15/25

154 Middlesex 1934. Joined paper stripvery nicely signed in ink by tenmembers of the team. Signaturesinclude Haig, Sims, Hendren, J.W.Hearne, Hart, Muncer, Young, F.W.Putner, R. Beveridge etc. Striploosely laid down to larger sheet.Odd faults otherwise in goodcondition. Odd rarer signature£25/35

155 Surrey 1950. Large album pagesigned by the Surrey team. Twelvesignatures nicely signed in inkincluding Barton, Surridge, Fishlock,Laker, Clark, Lock, Constable, Bedseretc. G £20/30

THE FRANK GILLIGAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM

156 Frank William Gilligan. OxfordUniversity, Essex & M.C.C. 1919-1935. Excellent unique photographalbum compiled by Gilligan duringhis cricketing career and covering themany representative first classmatches he played at theScarborough Festival. The albumcovers the period 1923-1935 andincludes team and individual playerphotographs, postcards, scorecardsand press cuttings covering the

twelve year period, the majority ofthe photographs and postcards, byWalkers of Scarborough, nicelysigned in ink by the players featured.There are forty three photographs,some excellent images, the majorityof teams standing in front of thepavilion at Scarborough, each withneat handwritten annotation aboveand below the photograph givingthe title of the match and playersnames, fourteen real photographpostcards, twelve Festivalscorecards, for the period, inexcellent condition and two printedFestival advertising flyers for 1931and 1934. Signed team photographsare C.I. Thornton’s XI v South Africa1927 (11 signatures), the WestIndies team v Leveson-Gower’s XI1928 (11), Leveson-Gower’s XI 1928(11), C.I. Thornton’s XI v M.C.C.(outgoing touring team to Australia)1928 (5), M.C.C. v Yorkshire 1929(11), Lord Hawkes XI v M.C.C.Australian Team 1929 (11), EnglandXI v South Africans 1929 (11),M.C.C. v Yorkshire 1930 (10),England XI v New Zealanders 1931(11), Gentlemen v Players 1931(11), Australians v Leveson-Gower’sXI 1930 (11), M.C.C. v Yorkshire1931 (8), Leveson-Gower’s XI vM.C.C. Australian Team (Bodyline)1933 (11), M.C.C. v Yorkshire 1934(11), M.C.C. v Yorkshire 1935 (10),players featured include Hobbs,Sandham, Leyland, Jupp, Douglas,W. Rhodes, Tate, Holmes, Haig,Wyatt, Duleepsinhji, Sutcliffe,Constantine, Francis, Hoad, Martin,Browne, Nunes, Small, Griffith,Peach, Leveson-Gower, Bowes,Astill, G.O. Allen, Whysall, Geary,Hendren, Turnbull, Larwood, Verity,F.R. Brown, Kemp- Welch, Oldfield,Bradman, Grimmett, McCabe,Kippax, Fairfax, Richardson,Hornibrook, Farnes, Langridge,Townsend, Fairservice etc.Individually signed playerphotographs and postcards includeHobbs & Sutcliffe walking out to bat1927, Hendren, W. Rhodes, Tate,Chapman, Duleepsinhji, Constantine(all 1928) etc. Also a group image ofplayers in the pavilion in 1930 signedby six players, Haig, Dawson,Duleep, Gilligan, Jupp and Turnbulland a signed group of three Indianplayers walking across the out fieldincluding Lall Singh, Palia and

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Kapadia. Other photographs andpostcards include C.I. Thornton’s XIv West Indies 1923, M.C.C. vYorkshire 1924, Gentlemen v Players1924, 1926 & 1927, G.O. Allen1924, A.E.R. Gilligan and F.W.Gilligan at Scarborough, England XIv New Zealanders 1927, M.C.C. vYorkshire 1927 & 1928, cricketteams at Wisbech 1928 (includesGilligan, Tate, Scarborough‘Cricketers Dining Room’ 1928,Maori Club v New Zealanders playedat Ivydene, Worcester Park 1931,Sussex team 1929, with dedicationfrom author and journalist, Sir HomeGordon, action shots of FrankGilligan keeping wicket etc. To therear of the album are further imagesof a non cricketing nature includinga studio image of Gilligan wearingAir Training Corps uniform, he wasCommandant at Wanganui Collegeof New Zealand 1941-1944, imagesof him preparing tennis courts inNew Zealand 1940 and his funeralreception at Wanganui in 1960. Afew additional biographical andcopied images of Gilligan have beenadded to the album recently. Theleather and board album, measuring12.5” wide by 10.5” tall, is in verygood condition. A marvellousphotographic record of the players,teams and images of the Festivalwhich began in 1876 £3000/5000

Frank Gilligan was the eldest of thecricketing Gilligan brothers, A.E.R.and A.H.H. both playing for Sussex& England, whereas Frank played forEssex C.C.C. He was born in SouthLondon in 1893 and played forOxford University before playingfirst class cricket for Essex. herepresented Essex in 79 matches as awicket keep/batsman and took 87catches and 34 stumping. Hishighest score for Essex was 78noand he averaged 22.32 with the bat.His highest first class score was 100for Oxford University. His final firstclass match was for M.C.C. in 1935.He was Housemaster at UppinghamSchool from 1920-1935 beforeemigrated to New Zealand tobecome headmaster of WanganuiCollegiate School, a position he heldfrom 1936-1954. He was awardedthe O.B.E. in 1955 for services toeducation. He died in Wanganui,New Zealand in 1960

157 Frank William Gilligan. OxfordUniversity, Essex & M.C.C. 1919-1935. A collection of books, menusand ephemera relating to the AlleynClub with some cricket interest. Thecollection includes the 35th, 40thand 41st Annual Dinner menus forthe club in 1908, 1913 and 1914, allheld at The Hotel Cecil in the Strandand the 1914 menu is signed by overthirty attendees including the raresignature of Sir Ernest Shackleton,the famous polar explorer, a speakerat the Dinner, who died of a heartattack in 1922 at South Georgia,Frank Gilligan, W.A. Gilligan (hisfather), author Walter Rippmannand other dignitaries. A furtherAlleyn Dinner menu for the RoyalAlbion Hotel, Brighton, dated 14thOctober 1949, signed by FrankGilligan, Arthur Gilligan, HughBartlett (Surrey & Sussex 1933-1949), S. Griffith (Surrey & Sussex1934-1954) etc. Plus a monophotograph showing members inevening wear, a leather boundpresentation book from DulwichCollege, ‘Strange Dwellings, being adescription of the habitations ofanimals’ J.G. Wood 1876, being aprize given to his Father William in1876, gilt to edges and ‘DulwichCollege Register 1619-1926’.Thomas Lane Ormiston 1926. G

£200/300

Frank Gilligan attended DulwichCollege and was a member of theEdward Alleyn Club, an alumniknow as The Old Alleynians, theclub’s origins dating back to 1882.The club took the shape of ageological club which visited theSouth Kensington Science Museumand held discussions on rocks,volcanos and ‘the nature andconservation of the Earth’s interior’.

CRICKET PHOTOGRAPHS

158 M.C.C. tour of South Africa1948/49. Official sepia photographof the ‘R.M.M.V. Stirling Castle’, theship which brought the M.C.C.touring team back to Englandfollowing the tour. The photographlaid down to original photographersmount with title to lower border,nicely signed in blue ink by allsixteen players and the ManagerM.A. Green. Signatures includeMann, Hutton, Washbrook,

Tremlett, Jenkins, Evans, Compton,Simpson, Bedser, Palmer, Gladwinetc. Also signed again by Comptonto card border. Approx 10”x8”overall. Minor fading to signaturesotherwise in good/very goodcondition £80/120

159 John R. Gunn. Nottinghamshire &England 1896-1925. Rare originalcabinet card photograph of Gunn,head and shoulders, taken on theM.C.C. tour of Australia 1901/02,captained by A.C. MacLaren. Thephotograph very nicely signed in inkby Gunn, with photographers name‘Stump & Co of Adelaide printed tolower border. Some age toning,minor wear to photograph andmount otherwise in good condition.To verso ‘Taken at Adelaide1901/02, MacLaren’s Tour’handwritten in pencil. Framed andglazed in contemporary frame

£250/350

Previously sold by Knights in July2009

160 William Barnes. Nottinghamshire &England 1875-1894. Excellent largerare original studio photograph ofBarnes in cricket attire, posed on awall holding cricket bat. Some wearto edges and corners, minor foxingto borders otherwise in good/verygood condition. The photographmeasures 9.25”x11.5”. Thephotograph was obtained by thevendor directly from the GreatGrandson of Barnes £150/250

Barnes was a regular member of theEngland team in the 1880’s, hisgreatest triumph was on the Shawand Shrewsbury tour of Australiawhere he finished the tour top of thebatting and bowling averages, hescored a brilliant 134 in the firstTest, took 6-31 in the second andthen refused to bowl in the 3rd Test,rather a rumbustious character, hegot involved in a fracas with anAustralian player in the 3rd Test,injured his hand and missed many ofthe preceding matches. He was atloggerheads with theNottinghamshire committee onseveral occasions and was omittedfrom the County side two or threeyears earlier than might have beenthe case

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161 ‘Nottinghamshire County CricketEleven ‘Winners of the CountyChampionship’ 1929’. Original sepiaofficial photograph of theNottinghamshire team wearingcounty caps and blazers. Thephotograph laid down to officialmount with printed title and detailsof matches played to top and playersnames printed to lower border.Players featured include A.W. Carr(Captain), Larwood, Voce, Whysall,Walker, Lilley, Staples, Gunn, Barrattetc. Framed and glazed. Overall13.5”x11.5”. G £60/90

162 ‘Nottinghamshire County CricketClub 1879’. County Champions’.Original sepia photograph of theNottinghamshire team, somewearing caps, standing and seated inrows in front of a marquee withcrowd and a policemen to eitherside. The photograph mounted withprinted title and players names onprinted piece mounted to lowerborder. Players featured includeShaw, Shrewsbury, Daft (Captain),Barnes, Flowers, Wright, Selby,Oscroft etc. Mounted, framed andglazed. Overall 18”x14”. Some lightfading to photograph otherwise ingood condition £80/120

The photograph also featuresCaptain Henry Holden, theNottinghamshire Secretary, who wasinvolved in the players strike of1880/81 and the dispute over lunchwith the Australians in 1882. Hewas asked to resign his position in1883.

163 George Parr’s Team to Australia &New Zealand 1863/64. The secondEnglish team to tour Australia. Veryearly photograph of the team, takenbefore the voyage, sitting andstanding on the steps of the pavilionat Lord’s, wearing cricket attire, caps,hats with cricket bats and balls tohand. Players featured include J.Caesar, A. Clarke, G. Tarrant, G. Parr,E.M. Grace, R. Carpenter, W. Caffyn,R.C. Tinley, T. Hayward, J. Jacksonetc. The photograph laid down tocard and framed in a period carvedcrossed member wooden frame. Thephotograph rounded to top border,some damage to photograph, someold tear to left hand corner area andto the right of the photographotherwise in generally good

condition. A rare photograph fromthis early tour. The photographapprox 10”x8”, overall 15”x10.5”

£150/250

Parr’s tour was a great success, bothon and off the field, they did notlose a match whilst on tour and eachplayer cleared over £250 afterexpenses

164 Lindsay Arthur Hassett. Victoria &Australia 1932/33-1952/53. Largecollection of mono photographs, allfeaturing Hassett, and formerly fromhis personal collection. Includespractising (possibly used for bookimages), playing golf 1948, playingsquash, batting against the WestIndies, playing for South Melbourne,receptions and social events etc.Some press masking, some wear,some creasing otherwise in goodcondition. Three framed. Varioussizes. G £60/80

165 ‘New South Wales v England 1946’.Excellent official photograph of theNew South Wales team, standingand seated in rows, wearing cricketattire. The photograph, laid down tophotographers mount, taken atSydney during the tour matchplayed on the 15th-19th November1946. Neat handwritten title to topborder and players names listedbelow. Players include Pettiford,Alley, Lindwall, Grieves, Morris, S.G.Barnes, Saggers, Carmody, Toshacketc. Photograph by Cruden Studiosof Pitt Street. Image size 9.5”x7.5”and overall 14”x12”. Some minorcreasing to mount otherwise in goodcondition. From the personalcollection of Bill Alley £40/60

166 ‘The Australian Cricketers 1886’.Original cabinet card stylephotograph of the team whichtoured England in 1886, with title‘The Australian Cricketers 1886’ totop and players names printed tolower border of mount.‘Photographed by Messrs Gillman &Co, 107 St Aldates, Oxford andpublished by C. Humphreys, 152Fleet Street. E.C. The card measuresapprox 6”x4.5”. The mounttrimmed to lower border losing thewording ‘C. Humphreys, 152 FleetStreet. E.C.’, some age toning tomount. Good condition. Scarce

£200/300

167 John William Hitch. Surrey &England 1907-1925. Early monophotograph of Hitch in bowlingpose, wearing M.C.C. touring cap,boldly signed ‘Yours sincerely J.W.Hitch’. The photograph measures4.5”x6.5”. Some age toning tophotograph, wear with loss to righthand border, lower corner damagewith loss otherwise in generally goodcondition £30/50

168 Harrow School 1926-1929.Collection of twenty eight originalcarte de visite photographs ofHarrow pupils, thirteen of thephotographs are taken wearingcricket attire. Each with a first nameor initials and date handwritten inink to lower border. Thephotographs by Hills & Saunders ofHarrow. Some pin holes to bordersotherwise in good condition £40/60

169 Charles Victor Tarbox.Worcestershire 1921-1929. Monopress photograph of Tarbox, wearingWorcestershire cap and blazer andcricket whites, standing between agroup of boxers including Ken Shawand Johnny Ralph and theirManagers. The photograph signedby the two boxers and Managers.8.5”x6.5”. G £20/30

170 M.C.C. 1950’s. Excellent mono pressphotograph depicting Englandmasseur Harold Dalton massagingReg Simpson thigh with Len Huttonand Arthur McIntyre watching.Nicely signed in ink by all threeplayers. 10”x8”. Small tear to lowerborder otherwise in good condition

£25/35

171 Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottinghamshire& England 1875-1902. Early originalsepia photograph of Shrewsbury laiddown to grey card. Possibly ‘EnglishSports’ Penny post series. Somefoxing and slight rounding tocorners. G £40/60

172 Ladies cricket 1960’s. Original teamphotograph of Mary Duggan’sEngland XI v The Cricket Society,September 1962. The photographlaid down to card and signed tolower border by nine of the playersincluding Mary Duggan and RachelHeyhoe Flint etc. Sold with a furtherphotograph of Mary Duggan withChristopher Box-Grainger, Captainof the Cricket Society tossing for

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innings, signed by both. Some lightfading to images. G £15/25

173 Arthur Fielder. Kent & England1900-1914. Sepia press photographof Fielder wearing Kent blazer andcap standing next to the stumps.‘London News Agency, Fleet Street’press handstamp to verso. Thephotograph measures 4.75”x6.5”. G

£40/60

174 Arthur Fielder. Kent & England1900-1914. Sepia press photographof Fielder wearing Kent cap inbowling pose next to the stumps.‘London News Agency, Fleet Street’press handstamp to verso. Thephotograph measures 5”x7”. G

£40/60

175 Colin Blythe. Kent & England 1899-1914. Sepia press photograph ofBlythe wearing Kent cap in bowlingpose next to the nets. ‘London NewsAgency, Fleet Street’ presshandstamp to verso. Thephotograph measures 5”x7”. G

£40/60

176 Walter Brearley. Lancashire &England 1902-1911. Sepia pressphotograph of Brearley wearingLancashire cap in bowling pose nextto the stumps. ‘London NewsAgency, Fleet Street’ presshandstamp to verso. Thephotograph measures 4.75”x6.5”. G

£40/60

177 Charles C. Townsend.Gloucestershire & England 1893-1922. Sepia press photograph ofTownsend wearing cap in bowlingpose next to the stumps. ‘LondonNews Agency, Fleet Street’ presshandstamp to verso. Thephotograph measures 4.75”x6.5”. G

£40/60

178 England v Australia 1953. Excellentlarge original press photographshowing Len Hutton almost giving achance to the Australian slip cordon.In the process of making the shot hehas lost his cap which has landedbehind the stumps. Excellent imagewith eight of the Australians in thephotograph, Bill Edrich is the otherbatsman. 12”X10”. G £40/60

179 Scarborough C.C. c 1920/30’s.Large attractive original mono pressphotograph of the team standing incricket attire in front of the pavilion

at Scarborough. Photograph by H.Hudson. 15”x11”. Minor pin holesto top corners. G £30/40

180 The following two lots are from theIrving Rosenwater collection

War-Time cricket. ‘Cross Arrows vNo.2 District Metropolitan Police1945. Official mono pressphotograph of the team taken atLord’s on 7th September 1945. Laiddown to the back of the photographis a sheet of Lord’s headed papervery nicely signed in ink by the teamand Pelham Warner. Twelvesignatures including Warner, Sims,Bedford, Wignill and Fowler ofMiddlesex, Aird and Rayment ofHampshire etc. Cross Arrows wonthe match by 92 runs. Sold with afurther press photograph of G.C.Melluish and C.H. Connollyresuming the innings after lunch forthe Cross Arrows v F.M. McRae’s XIat Lord’s in August 1942, again,signed to the back of thephotograph by both players. Both8”x6”. VG £30/40

181 Bob Cristofani. N.S.W. & R.A.A.F.1941-1947. Postcard size monopress photograph of Cristofani, headand shoulders, nicely signed in blackink. G £25/35

182 Pelham Francis Warner, Middlesex &England 1894-1929. Collection offifty six various sized photographslaid down to large card album pagesand taken from his personal archive.They include school & universitydays, cricket, family, socialgatherings and picnics etc.Cricketing photographs includeWarner with Gilbert Jessop, bothwearing cricket blazers, scenes at theSt Lawrence Ground, Canterbury,Warner ‘Pretending’ to bowl,England taking the field, led by A.C.Maclaren at Lords, on the beach atCromer 1910, Scarborough 1910with Leveson-Gower, Douglas andWarner on pavilion steps, fishmarket, ‘Whitelaw’s House Eleven1888’, ‘The Old Rug Group 1888’,‘The Seniors Match at Oxford 1894,‘Ran Dan Wine Club 1894’photograph featuring Warner,R.C.N. Palairet. ‘I Zingari’, etc,Warner walking out to bat at Lord’s,80th Birthday Dinner given toWarner at Lord’s, Warner in the nets,F.L. Fane, Jack Hendren etc. Some

wear with loss to edges of cardpages otherwise in good condition

£100/150

183 Leslie Ames, Kent. Excellent pressphotograph of Ames, wearing Kentcap, in wicket keeping pose directlybehind the stumps at Canterbury.Signed in ink by Ames. Slight fadingto signature. 6”x8”. G £25/35

184 F.G. Mann. Mono press photographof Mann batting for Middlesex.Signed in ink by Mann. 6”x8”. G

£25/35

185 Mike J.K. Smith. Warwickshire &England. Mono press photograph ofSmith, head and shoulders, wearingclub sweater at Lord’s. Signed in inkby Smith. 6”x8”. G £20/30

186 Victor Thomas Trumper. New SouthWales & Australia 1894-1914.Excellent photomechanical processprint photograph of Australianlegend Victor Trumper, ‘jumping outto drive’, taken from the originalaction photograph by GeorgeWilliam Beldham. Signed to lowerborder by Victor Trumper in penciland also signed boldly in ink acrossthe lower border ‘Yours SincerelyVictor Trumper. Xmas 1912’.Published by the Swan ElectricEngraving Company on 1st August1905, title to top border. Slight agetoning otherwise in good/very goodcondition. A rare item £1000/1500

187 Middlesex (Champion County) v TheRest 1920. Four early original sepiaphotographs of the match whereJack Hobbs made 215 in the matchplayed in September 1920. All three5.75”x3.25”, some pencilannotation to backs. Some faults tophotographs otherwise in goodcondition £30/40

188 J.B. ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England1905-1934. Excellent sepiaphotograph of Hobbs on the cricketpitch, full length, wearing M.C.C.touring blazer, cricket attire andholding a bat to his side. Thephotograph, by S. Georges ofLondon, laid down to mount. Theimage inscribed in ink by Hobbs to‘W.S. Edwards, with best wishes.Sincerely yours Jack Hobbs, TauntonAugust 17th/18th 1925’. Thephotograph measures 5.5”x9” andoverall 8”x10”. Laid down tomount. VG £180/250

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Surrey played Somerset at Tauntonfrom the 14th-18th August 1925.Jack Hobbs scored his 126th and127th first class century to equaland then break W.G. Grace’s recordof 126. Percy Fender brought a glassof ginger beer out to toast Hobbs, ashe was teetotal. He went onto make199 first class hundreds in hiscricketing career, a record to thisday. He was elected sole Cricketer ofthe Year in 1925, by Wisden in the1926 edition

189 M.C.C. Team in Australia 1928/29.Official photograph of the touringteam, standing and seated in rows,wearing cricket attire, with title totop and players names to lowerborder. 12.5”x10.5”. Some lightmarks and wear otherwise in goodcondition. Sold with a furtheroriginal photograph of the M.C.C.and All-Ceylon team 1928, laiddown to card, some faults and wearand a larger printed image of theM.C.C. touring party to Australia1936/37. A full page ‘Supplement to‘The Times’, 28th November 1936.15”X10.5”. G £40/60

190 Australian touring team to England1938. Original mono pressphotograph of the Australian team,standing and seated in rows, in frontof the pavilion at Lords’. 10”x8”. VG

£30/40

191 Press photographs 1950-1962.Selection of eight press photographsshowing Test match scenes, playersinclude Valentine, Ramadhin,Jenkins, H. Mohammad, Dexter,Benaud, Miller etc. Various sizes. G

£25/35

192 Melbourne Cricket Ground c1920’s.Excellent small original panoramicphotograph of the ground with Testmatch in progress with large crowdin attendance. Mounted to card,framed and glazed. The photograph11.5”x3.25” and overall 16”x8”.Odd faults, good £40/60

193 George Beldam. Pioneer of actionphotography, the first actionphotographer of sport in Britain,specialising in cricket and golf. A setof nine original sepia actionphotographs, of William GilbertGrace, Gloucestershire & England,taken between 1901 and 1904 byBeldam, one of only two sets of

prints produced, one set forproduction in the books ‘GreatBatsman, Their Methods at a Glance’and Great Bowlers and Fielders,Their Methods at a Glance byBeldam and C.B. Fry 1905 & 1906,and the other set for the playerconcerned. Seven of thephotographs were published in thebook and two were unpublished.The published photographs wereentitled in the book, ‘The Grip’,Stance and first movement’, Forwardpush stroke’, ‘Square Cut’, ‘Distinctlyunorthodox stroke...’, ‘Mistakes willHappen...’ and ‘Delivering the ball...’and the two unpublished were‘Lofted Drive...’ and ‘StraightDrive...’.The photographs were thephotographers own set used forpublication, and on close inspectionBeldam’s own impact lines can beseen on the edges of one of theimages. Each measures 5”x4”. Thephotographs are very nicelymounted with a four page letter, onLondon County Cricket Club headedpaper and dated 15th September1903, beautifully handwritten andsigned in ink by Grace, to his friendCaptain Statham, with cricketcontent, and the letter partly refersto a match between Gloucestershireand The Gentlemen of Philadelphiaplayed in 1889 ‘In answer to yourenquires regarding my visit to theBrittania in 1889, my son H.E. Gracewas not then on the Brittania as hedid not join until Jan 1890. It wasthrough Lieutenant Abdy, who hadplayed with me a Lord’s that Ipromised to play. Gloucestershirewere playing The Gentlemen ofPhiladelphia at Bristol on the firstday, and it was arranged that Ishould go down for the second dayif I could not go down for the firstdays play. As the match at Bristolwas not over, I went down until latein the evening of the first days play.My friend Abdy was just leaving theBrittania as he had been ordered offfor manoeuvres, so took no part inthe second days cricket, LieutenantDe Ribeck was deputed to look afterme which I need not say he did rightwell.... I am sorry I do not recollectmore details, but to go backfourteen years is a long time, believeme’. Grace also mentions anothermatch in which he took part, playersshowing good form, including Abdy,

cadet cricket etc £6000/8000

An almost unique collection ofphotographs commemorating theadvent of motion photography inthe field of cricket

194 West Indies 1950 & 1963. Four largephotographs showing crowd scenesat the Oval. The shows a scene ofthe Oval as the West Indies win thegame and the crowd running ontothe pitch as the players leave thefield, the other three are from the1963 Test, the first shows the crowdon the pitch and players running offthe field, another of the crowds inthe stands and the third showing thehuge crowd which gathered on thepitch cheering Worrell and Dexter.All 12”x10”. Nicks and tears to theedges of the 1950 photographotherwise in good condition £25/35

195 ‘W.G. Grace at the Wicket’. Originalsepia photogravure, after ArchibaldStuart Wortley 1890, of the famouspainting of Grace in batting pose atLord’s, which hangs in the LongRoom at Lord’s. Published byManson, Swan and Morgan,Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st May1891, printed in Berlin, with cricketball remarque to lower border.Signed in pencil to lower border bythe subject, W.G. Grace, and by theartist, Wortley. The photogravureattractively mounted and framedwithout glass and measures overall26”x32.5”. The image with someold damp staining and surfacestratching and staining, wear andsome damage to the frame. Aboutfair, signatures good £150/250

196 Frank Edward Woolley. Kent &England 1906-1938. Large andimpressive studio image of Woolleywearing cricket attire. Thephotograph by B.C. Flemons ofTonbridge is titled to right hand side‘F.E. Woolley. Kent’ and is laid downto photographers mount withinserted period ink signature ofWoolley to lower centre of mount.Framed and glazed. The photographmeasures 9”x11.5” and overall17”x21”. G £70/100

197 ‘M.C.C. & Ground 1892-1893’.Large original photographic imagewith imagined large group ofcricketers and cricket dignitaries onthe pitch at Lord’s with the pavilion

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to the right, the indoor school andother stands to background.Produced by Mayall & Co, London.Framed and glazed. Overall46”x21”. Odd nick, mark otherwisein generally good condition

£100/150

198 ‘Players XI’ circa early to mid 1930’s.Large official photograph of the‘Players’ team that played the‘Gentlemen’ in the 1930’s. The teamphotographed wearing team blazersand cricket attire. Players includeSutcliffe, Hammond, Ames, Verity,Nicholls, Leyland (in suit) etc.Photograph by ‘The Sport & GeneralPress Agency Ltd’ laid down toofficial mount with printed photog-raphers details to corner. Framed andglazed. Overall 21”x17”. Minormarks to image otherwise in goodcondition £70/100

199 Players XI 1934. Large officialphotograph of the Players team thatplayed the Gentlemen at Lords1934. The team photographedwearing team blazers and cricketattire. Players include Sutcliffe,Hammond, Ames, Verity, Nicholls,Leyland, Hendren etc. Photographby ‘The Sport & General PressAgency Ltd’ laid down to officialmount with printed photographersdetails to corner. Framed and glazed.Overall 21”x17”. G £70/100

200 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1928/29.Large official mono photograph ofthe M.C.C. team who touredAustralia in 1928/29, seated andstanding in rows wearing tourblazers and cricket attire. Thephotograph laid down to officialphotographers mount and signed inink to lower borders by seventeenmembers of the touring partyincluding the Manager Toone.Signatures include Chapman,Jardine, Tate, Larwood, Freeman,Hammond, Mead, Hobbs, Staples,Geary, Sutcliffe, Hendren, Leyland,Tyldesley etc. Lacking the signatureof Staples, who returned home toEngland having been taken ill beforehe had played a match. Title ‘M.C.C.Australian Tour 1928-29’ to topborder. Small mount to edge ofphotograph mount. The photographmeasures approx 14.5”x11.5” andoverall 23.5”x19”. Minor marks andscratching to image. Signatures

showing some signs of fading,although all legible. G £300/500

201 Australian tour of England 1930.Large official mono photograph ofthe Australian touring team toEngland, seated and standing inrows, wearing tour caps and blazers.The photograph nicely signed toface in black ink by fourteenmembers of the touring partyfeatured including Bill Woodfull(Captain, Don Bradman, ArchieJackson, Oldfield, Fairfax, Ponsford,Richardson, McCabe, Kippax,Grimmett, Hornibrook, Wall,Hurwood and Walker. Lacking thesignature of Bromley from the fifteenplayers featured. Ben Barnett is notfeatured in the photograph. Thephotograph measures11.75”x10”and is laid down to card.Excellent image. G £250/350

Australia won the series by two teststo one with two matches drawn

202 Don Bradman. Mono copyphotograph of Bradman standing onthe pitch, possibly at Worcester,1930s. Signed in later years byBradman. VG £25/35

203 Don Bradman. Mono pressphotograph of Bradman shakinghands with Norman Yardley,Yorkshire and England, in 1948.Signed by Bradman and Yardley. G

£30/40

204 Don Bradman. Mono pressphotograph of Bradman with LenHutton, Yorkshire and England, inAdelaide, 1954. Signed in later yearsby Bradman. G £30/40

205 Don Bradman. Mono copyphotograph of Bradman walking outto bat with Stan McCabe atWorcester, 1930s. Signed in lateryears by Bradman. G £25/35

206 Signed photographs. Collection ofseventeen postcard sized monosigned photographs of cricketers,mainly circa 1960’s. Signaturesinclude D. Barrick, Bryan, L.Compton, G. Edrich, Grieves,Halfyard, B.D. Wells, W. Wooller,Jack Potter, I. Quick etc. Themajority are original pressphotographs. G £30/40

207 Opening batsmen. CopyrightYorkshire Post mono photograph ofBrian Close and Phil Sharpe walking

out to bat at Headingley, signed byboth player. Sold with a similar copyphotograph of Norman Oldfield andDennis Brookes walking out to bat,signed by both players. Both 6”x4”.Sold with a signed mono realphotograph postcard of R.J. Gregory,Surrey (1925-1947). G £30/40

208 South Africa 1960’s. Collection oftwenty two mono press photographsfrom the period. Includes Test matchaction shots, practising, players headand shoulders, arriving for the 1965tour etc. Players featured includeBarlow, Bland, P. Pollock, G. Pollock,Lindsay, Melville etc. Some goodimages. Mainly 10”x8”, 4”x6” and8”x6”. G £30/50

209 South Africa 1950/60’s. Collectionof twelve mono press photographsfrom the period. Includes Test matchaction shots, practising, players headand shoulders etc. Players featuredinclude Barlow, McGlew, Griffen,Pithey, Bland, Nourse, Tayfield etc.Some good images. Mainly10”x8”and 8”x6”. G £25/35

210 Test match cricket 1930’s/70’s.Collection of eleven mono pressphotographs from the period.Mainly Test match action shots.Includes Australia v England1946/47, 1962/63, England v NewZealand 1949, 1958, 1965, 1969,England v Australia 1930 (grainy),England v Pakistan 1971 etc. Onenon Test photograph. 10”x8”and8”x6”. G £25/35

211 Australia. Green photograph albumcontaining fifty two mainly postcardsize photographs and odd tradecards of Australian Test cricketers,each signed by the players featured.Some signed in later years.Signatures include Moody, Lee,Aldermann, Yallop, Thomson, Reid,May, Lawson, Lawry, Langer,Simpson, G. Chappell, Clarke, Love,Walters, Waugh, R. Marsh,Stackpole, Craig, Davidson, Harvey,Jones etc. Odd duplication ofsignatures. G £40/60

212 Brian Lara. West Indies. Large red filecontaining various press and copyphotographs, magazine and presspictures of Lara. Includes scenesfrom his ‘501’ and ‘375’ innings andincludes a signed scorecard from his501 innings. The majority of the

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items all signed by Lara. Thirty threeink signatures of Lara to variousitems. Also includes the signatures ofGarry Sobers and Ian Botham tophotographs. G £150/250

213 Viv Richards. West Indies. Selectionof various press and copyphotographs, magazine and presspictures, stamp set of Richards, allsigned by the player. Twelvesignatures in total. Some goodimages. Plus four other signedphotographs of West Indies playersincluding Haynes, Richardson etc. G

£60/90

214 Test & County cricket 1950/60’s.Nice collection of twenty eightmainly action images from matchesfor the period. Mainly of Testmatches and including England vAustralia 1953, Laker etc, England vNew Zealand 1965, England v SouthAfrica 1960 etc. Mainly 10”x8”. G

£30/50

215 Test & County Cricketers. Excellentselection of signed pressphotographs of cricketers. Someexcellent images, some photographssigned in later years. Cricketersinclude Harvey, Benaud, Waite, G.Pollock, Fellow-Smith, WasimAkram, Imran Khan, Zaheer, WaqarYounis, Asid Iqbal, Jack Robertson,Eric Bedser, Fairbrother and Atherton(548-2), Stewart, Cowdrey, Gower,Botham, Snow, Washbrook, Larter,Illingworth, Gavaskar, Kapil Dev,Azharuddin, Bland, Donald, Rice,Wessels, Crowe, Hadlee etc.Includes some unsigned images.Mainly 8”x10”. Qty 47. Odd faults,good £50/80

216 Australia. Excellent selection ofsigned press photographs ofcricketers. Some excellent images,some photographs signed in lateryears. Cricketers include Booth,Lillee, Chappell, Slater, Taylor,Border, Harvey, Davidson, Boon,McKenzie, Walters, Waugh,R.Marsh, Benaud, Keith Miller, Boonetc. Includes some unsigned images.Mainly 8”x10” and 6”x8”. Qty 31.Odd faults, good £50/80

217 Keith Miller. Original pressphotograph of Miller and his wife,dressed in top hat and tails, on whatappears to be his wedding day in the1940’s. Signed by Miller. 8”x10”. G

£25/35

218 Maurice Leyland. Yorkshire &England. Original mono pressphotograph of Leyland batting,image off follow through, wearingYorkshire cap. 8”x10”. Excellentimage. Sold with an original pressphotograph of the Australian touringteam to England 1921, repairs tocorners and border, 11”x7” and afurther press photograph of theEngland team who played India atthe Oval in 1946. Players named toimage. 10”x8”. G £50/70

219 Dudley Ward MacDonald. Western,Gentlemen of Cheshire andGentlemen of Lancashire 1865-1868. Carte de Visite of MacDonald,with four different poses to card.Photograph by Southwell Bros.MacDonald played for theGentlemen of Cheshire v theGentlemen of Shropshire andappeared in the same team as A.N.and C.L. Hornby. G £30/50

220 Oxford v Cambridge 1946. Twooriginal press photographs showingthree of the original members of the1896 Oxford team, G.J. Mordaunt,J.C. Hartley and C.C. Pilkington at aprivate box at Lord’s, at a partygiven by Leveson-Gower. 8”x6”. VG

£20/30

221 England 1996. Original mono pressphotograph of the England team,sitting and standing in rows, in frontof the pavilion at Edgbaston. Signedby all eleven players includingAtherton, Hick, Hussain, Knight,Cork, Russell etc. Photograph byPatrick Eagar. 10”x8”. Majority ofsignatures in slightly thicker pen. G

£20/30

222 Don Bradman. Small photograph ofBradman by Reg Campbell. Thephotograph laid down to mount andnicely signed by Bradman. Thephotograph light faded but thesignature very good. Framed andglazed. 4.5”x6.5”. G £30/40

223 England 1997. Original mono pressphotograph of the England team,sitting and standing in rows, in frontof the pavilion at Edgbaston. Signedby all eleven players includingAtherton, Hussain, Gough, Stewart,Thorpe, Malcolm, Ealham etc.Photograph by Patrick Eagar.10”x8”. Majority of signatures in

slightly thicker pen. G £20/30

224 M.C.C. tour of Fiji, New Zealand &Pakistan 1983/84. Original largepress photograph of the touringparty about to board the plane to flyout. Players and officials in tourblazers and ties. Signed by eleven ofthe party to the image. Signaturesinclude Botham, Randall, Fowler,Taylor, Gower, Lamb, Tavare, Dilley,Willis etc. 9.5”X12”. G £30/40

225 Ipswich School v Beccles. WhitMonday 1892. Three glass lanternslides showing photographic imagesfrom the match. Sold with a furtherglass lantern slide showing cricketpractise in front of the school. Qty 4.G £25/35

226 England 1991/92. Official colourteam photograph of the Englandtour of New Zealand 1991/92.Photograph laid down to officialphotographers mount with title totop and names of team printedbelow. Signed in ink to borders by allnineteen members of the squad.Signatures include Botham, Gooch,Hick, Ramprakash, Reeve, Lamb,Stewart, Pringle etc. Framed andglazed, overall 15.5”x12.5”. G

£40/50

227 South Africa v England, Cape Town1996. Large and impressive colourpanoramic photograph taken 3rdTest of the 2005 series. Thephotograph is taken looking acrossto Table Mountain with a large Testmatch crowd in attendance andshows the match in progress, withcloud over Table Mountain Anexcellent image. Signed by photog-rapher Giles Ridley. Mounted,framed and glazed. Overall29.5”x16”. VG £25/35

228 South Africa 1990’s. Eight framedand glazed colour photographs ofSouth African players, Adams,Rhodes (2), Cullinan, Boucher,Pollock, Kirsten and Allan Donald.All signed by the player. G £25/35

229 ‘Denis Compton’s Cricketing Days’.‘Film Stips original long strip film andpocket cinema’. Original boxcomplete with film containing 25images of Compton and viewer.Some wear to box otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £60/90

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230 Northamptonshire v West Indies1980. Large original photograph ofWest Indian batsman Faoud Bacchusbeing beaten by the bowler, the ballhits the wicket but does not removethe bails, giving him a lucky escape.The photograph showing the ballabout to touch the stumps with thebatsman and wicketkeeper GeorgeSharp watching most attentively.The tour match played at Bletchleyin May 1980. Mounted, framed andglazed. Overall 24.5”x21”. Excellentimage. Photograph by Bob Thomas.VG £40/60

231 England 1993. Original mono pressphotograph of the England team,sitting and standing in rows, in frontof the pavilion at Lord’s. Signed byall eleven players including Gooch,Stewart, Smith, Hick, Atherton,Gatting etc. Photograph by PatrickEagar. 10”x8”. Some signatures inslightly thicker pen. G £20/30

232 England 1994. Original mono pressphotograph of the England team,sitting and standing in rows, in frontof the pavilion at Trent Bridge.Signed by all eleven playersincluding Atherton, Gooch, Stewart,Smith, Hick, Rhodes, Malcolm etc.Photograph by Patrick Eagar.10”x8”. Some signatures in slightlythicker pen. G £20/30

233 England 1995. Original mono pressphotograph of the England team,sitting and standing in rows, in frontof the pavilion at Lord’s. Signed byall thirteen players includingAtherton, Gooch, Gough, Fraser,Smith, Knight, Cork etc. Photographby Patrick Eagar. 10”x8”. Somesignatures in slightly thicker pen. G

£20/30

CRICKET POSTCARDS, CIGARETTE &TRADE CARDS

234 Charles Hallows. Lancashire &England 1914-1932. Mono realphotograph postcard of Hallowswearing Lancashire blazer. Signed toface by Hallows. Nias of Brighton.Some adhesive marks to verso. G

£100/150

235 Alec Hearne. Kent & England 1884-1906. Sepia postcard of Hearne, fulllength, in batting pose, wearingKent cap. Nicely signed by Hearne inink. Wrench series 2937. Rare. G

£100/150

236 Pelham Warner. Middlesex &England. Mono real photographpostcard of Warner in batting pose.Nicely signed by Warner in ink. RivalPhotographic Series 1397. Excellentsignature. G/VG £70/100

237 Charles Burgess Fry. Sussex &England 1894-1908. Sepia realphotograph postcard of Fry, halflength in cricket sweater. Nicelysigned in ink by Fry. Rotary seriesNo. 3805. G £100/150

238 Patsy Hendren. Middlesex &England. Sepia ‘Waterman’s Pens’advertising postcard of Hendrensigning a cricket bat. Nicely signedby Hendren. G £30/40

239 Teams at Scarborough. Two originaloriginal mono real photographpostcards of the Australian touringteam 1953 and the South Africantourists 1951. Both teams lined up infront of the pavilion. Walkers Studio,Scarborough. G/VG £25/35

240 Teams at Scarborough. Two originaloriginal mono real photographpostcards of the Gentlemen teams of1952 & 1953. Both teams lined up infront of the pavilion. Walkers Studio,Scarborough. G/VG £25/35

241 ‘Australian Eleven 1905’. Rare sepiapostcard of the Australian team whotoured England in 1905, each incameo portrait, head and shoulders,with title and players names printedbelow each cameo. Gordon & Gotch(Australia). Postally used, withpostmark to face and to rear. G

£18/25

242 ‘Australian Eleven 1905’. Rare monopostcard of the Australian team whotoured England in 1905, each incameo portrait, head and shoulders,with title and players names printedbelow each cameo. Gordon & Gotch(Australia). Postally used, withmessage handwritten to lowerborder of card face. Minor wear,good. Sold with another cardfeaturing the Australian 1905, withsmall cameo portraits of each player,head and shoulders, title and playersnames below each cameo, F.Hartmann, postally used. Qty 2. G

£20/30

243 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1907/08.Two real photograph postcards ofthe tourists, both showing small pen

pictures of each of the players on thetour. The cards different. One withlarger centre image of A.O. Jones byRotary and the other by PhilcoPublishing. G £25/35

244 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1907/08.‘The Visiting English Cricket Team1907/08’. Colour card showingsmall pen pictures of each player onthe tour. J.B. Siddal of Adelaide. Soldwith a further card mono card of‘The English Eleven 1907-08’, thecard showing the team standing andseated in rows with names to lowerborder. Series unknown, postmarkQueensland. Small loss to left handcorner. G £25/35

245 ‘England XI v Bromley and DistrictXVIII. April 1916’. Real photographpostcard of the two teams seatedand standing in rows. Some famousfaces including Hobbs, J.W.H.T.Douglas etc. Photograph byHarman. Minor wear and marks tocard otherwise in good condition.Rare £30/50

246 Sussex v Australia 1926. Mono realphotograph postcard showingCaptains, Arthur Gilligan andWarren Bardsley tossing for inningsat Hove on the 28th August 1926.Series unknown. Rare. G £50/70

The match was drawn, Grimmetttaking eight wickets in the match,Bardsley 118no

247 ‘England v Australia, Third Testmatch, Leeds July 10-13th 1926’.Excellent mono real photographpostcard, with above title, featuringthe England team who playedAustralia at Leeds 1926. The playersfeatured in small cameo portrait.Postcard by J. Webb Douglas Studioof Nottingham. G £30/40

248 ‘The New Zealand Cricket Team’1927. Real photograph postcard ofthe New Zealand tourists, seatedand standing in rows, wearing tourblazers. Photo by Topical. G £20/30

249 ‘Warner’s English Cricket Team’1903/04. Colour and sepia postcardshowing cameo images of the teamto centre with colour England andAustralian flags to outer. M’Neill &Bruce Print. Postally used,Gouldburn, New South Wales, Withaddress to verso and wordingaround the face of card. Light

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horizontal crease, some minor wearto corners otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £25/35

250 Somerset 1903. Mono postcard ofthe Somerset team with centralimage and names printed to lowerborder. Rival series no. 1605. VG

£20/30

251 ‘Sir Julien Cahn’s Cricket Team1937’. Mono ‘Viyella’ advertisingpostcard with image of the team andplayers names printed to right handborder. Some rounding to cornersotherwise generally good condition

£15/25

252 West Indies. Three individuallysigned postcards of Garry Sobers(Barbados Independence 1966),Brian Lara (501, 1994) and VivianRichards (National Portrait Gallery).G £30/50

253 Kent 1921 & 1925. Two realphotograph mono cards of theteams. The 1921 card by Flemons ofTonbridge, the 1925 by H.H.Camburn of Tunbridge Wells. Oddfaults, good £25/35

254 North v South, Scarborough 1947.Mono real photograph postcard ofthe North team lined up in front ofthe pavilion. Players includeCranston, Hardstaff, Yardley,Hutton, Wardle, Butler etc. WalkersStudios, Scarborough. G £20/30

255 Bert Oldfield. New South Wales &Australia 1919-1938. Mono realphotograph postcard of Oldfield,half length, wearing Australianblazer and cap. Nicely signed in inkby Oldfield. Empire PublishingSeries. G £50/60

256 Australia tour of England 1930.Excellent plain back mono postcardof Charles W. Walker, head andshoulders, wearing Australiansweater. The card has been nicelysigned by Walker in ink. Number 15from a series of fifteen cardsproduced for the tour. Adhesivemarks to verso otherwise in goodcondition £40/60

257 Cornhill Insurance cards. Series ‘B’.Seven signed mono cards from series‘B’. Cards are I. Greig, Marks, G.Cook, Bairstow, Jackman, G.Stevenson and Underwood. G

£50/70

258 Cornhill Insurance cards. Series ‘C’.Thirty signed colour cards from series‘C’. Cards are Pocock, Miller, D.Smith, Robinson, Lloyd, Ellison, L.Taylor, G. Thomas, Benson, French,Radford, Richards, Moxon,Sidebottom, Agnew, Cowans, C.Cowdrey, C. Smith, N. Cook, Athey,Fowler, Randall, Lever, Edmunds,Capel, Whittaker, Fairbrother, Childs,Lawrence and Rhodes. G £60/90

259 Cornhill Insurance cards. Series ‘D, E& F’. One signed card from series ‘D’of J.Stephenson, seventeen signedcards from series ‘E’ including glossycard of N. Williams, other cardsinclude Munton, Ramprakash,Lewis, Hussain, Fraser, Bailey, Small,Pringle etc and one signed card fromseries ‘F’ of I. Salisbury. Qty 19. G

£30/50

260 Cornhill Insurance cards. Series ‘G’.Twenty six signed cards from series‘G’. Signatures include Foster, Jarvis,Maynard, Russell, Tuffnel, Bicknell,Croft, Butcher, S.Brown, Patel, Irani,A.Wells, Watkinson etc. G £40/60

261 Cornhill Insurance cards. Series ‘H’.Twelve signed cards from series ‘H’.Signatures include Igglesden, Reeve,Taylor, Benjamin, Gough, Bolus,Illingworth, Titmus etc. G £30/40

262 Cornhill Insurance cards. Series ‘J’.Fifteen signed cards from series ‘J’.Signatures include M.Smith,Headley, Silverwood, Flintoff,Hoggard, Giddins, Giles, James etc.Sold with seven signed photo-copiedcards of players from various series.G £30/40

263 ‘415 and Counting. CornhillInsurance cards: A Definitive list?’.Dr A.J. Taylor. Birmingham 2010.Limited edition 80/125 copiespublished. VG £25/35

264 ‘Australian Test Cricketers’ by JohnIreland. Seventeen collectors cardsissued in 1993. All the cards havebeen signed by the player featured.Signatures include Border, Taylor,Boon, S and M.Waugh, Healy, MervHughes, Hayden, Slater, Warne etc.Some fading to some signatures.Mounted, framed and glazed.Overall 15.5”x17”. G £30/50

265 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1954/55.Sepia postcard of R.M.S Orsova,Orient Line ship which took the

M.C.C. team to Australia. Signed toface by twenty members of thetouring party includingmanagement. Signatures includeHutton, May, Simpson, Cowdrey,Bailey, Statham, Tyson, Edrich,Evans, Wardle, Graveney etc.Lacking the signature of Comptonwho was a doubt and flew toAustralia. Fading to two signaturesin darker area of card otherwise ingood condition £50/70

266 Schofield Haigh. Yorkshire &England 1895-1913. Mono realphotograph postcard of Haigh inbowling pose with title ‘YorkshireStyle’. Signed in black ink by Haigh.Hartmann 1378. Minor wear tolower border of card otherwise ingood condition £70/100

267 Australian tour of England 1934.Mono real photograph postcard ofthe Australian touring party wearingAustralian blazers and cricket attire.Nicely signed to verso in ink bythirteen members of the touringparty. Signatures are Woodfull(Captain), Bradman, McCabe,Fleetwood-Smith, O’Reilly, Darling,Grimmett, Ebeling, Brown, Kippax,Oldfield, Ponsford and HaroldBushby (Manager). Lacking thesignatures of Bromley, Wall,Chipperfield and Barnett from thefull touring party. In addition tothese signatures the card is signed byfour of the England team whoplayed Australia in 1934. Signaturesare Bowes, Verity, Woolley andLeyland plus R.J. Gregory whotoured with England to India in1933/34. Postcard by Photo-WorkLtd of Brighouse. Slight ink smudgeto Bradman’s signature otherwise ingood/very good condition. A rarecard in this signed form £130/160

268 Don Bradman. John Player & Sonscigarette card of Bradman from the1938 “Cricketers” series. Signed tofront by Bradman. VG £20/30

CRICKET BOOKS

269 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1850. 3rd Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piperof London. Bound in green board,without original wrappers, with title

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in gilt to spine. 66pp plus six pagesof adverts. Minor faults otherwise ingood condition. Rare £400/600

270 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1851. 4th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piperof London. Original wrappers. 84ppincluding adverts. Original wrappersworn and dirty with corner loss,wear to spine, ownership namehandwritten in ink to top of prefacepage, minor repair to edge of frontwrapper otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £500/700

271 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1852. 5th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by W.&T. Piperof London. Bound in red quarterleather, without original wrappers,with title in gilt to spine. 104ppincluding adverts. Good condition.Rare £300/400

272 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1854. 7th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by Piper,Spence & Stevenson of London.Bound in brown boards, withoutoriginal wrappers, with title in gilt tospine. 102pp including adverts,appears to be lacking last advertisingpage. Trimming by bookbinder tightto top border. Good condition. Rare

£150/250

273 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1855. 8th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by FrederickLillywhite and Piper, Spence &Stevenson of London. Lackingoriginal wrappers, some tape tospine. 112pp including adverts.Good condition. Rare £180/250

274 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1856. 9th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by Frederick

Lillywhite and Piper, Spence &Stevenson of London. Bound inpurple leather without originalwrappers, some wear to head andbase and to corners of spine, alledges gilt, with gilt title to spine.104pp but lacking four pink pages ofadverts after the preface page. Goodcondition. Rare £400/600

Presentation copy to F.W. Smith,with inscription in ink to frontendpaper ‘Presented to Mr F.W.Smith by the members of theSomerset C. Club for the agreeablemanner in which he discharged theduties of Captain of the club duringthe season of 1856. The initials‘F.W.S.’ in gilt to front board

275 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1857. 10th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by Lillywhiteand Wisden of London. Bound ingreen boards without originalwrappers, some wear to head andbase and to corners of spine,speckled edges, with gilt title tospine. Splitting to hinge oppositetitle page. 92pp lacking two pages ofadverts at rear. Good condition. Rare

£200/300

276 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1858. 11th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by Lillywhiteand Wisden of London. Lackingoriginal wrappers. 104pp lackingfour pages of adverts at rear. Goodcondition. Rare £300/400

277 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1859. 12th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by Lillywhiteand Piper, Stephenson & Co ofLondon. Original wrappers. 120ppincluding adverts. Minor faultsotherwise in good/very goodcondition. Rare £250/350

278 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1860. 13th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by Frederick

Lillywhite. Published by Lillywhiteand Piper, Stephenson & Co ofLondon. Original wrappers. 120ppincluding adverts. Some wear withsmall loss to wrapper edges, taperepair to edge of front wrapper,some soiling and age toning towrappers and spine paper otherwisein good condition. Rare £250/300

279 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1861. 14th Autumn Edition.8vo. Collected and Edited byFrederick Lillywhite. Published byLillywhite and Kent & Co of London.Original wrappers. 116pp includingadverts. Some wear to wrapperswith small corner loss, ownershipname handwritten to edge of frontwrapper, minor soiling and odd stainto wrappers, minor foxing to somerear pages otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £250/350

280 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1861. 14th/15th Edition.2nd issue with an appendix for theSpring Edition. 8vo. Collected andEdited by Frederick Lillywhite.Published by Lillywhite and Kent &Co of London. Bound in blackboards, without original wrappers,with title in gilt to front board andthe initials ‘O.S’. 124pp includingadverts. Some foxing and staining toouter pages at front and rear,ownership name handwritten to topborder of title page otherwise ingood condition. Rare £200/300

281 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1862. 16th Winter Edition.8vo. Collected and Edited byFrederick Lillywhite. Published byLillywhite and Kent & Co of London.Original front wrappers. 104ppincluding adverts. Some wear tofront wrappers with small cornerloss, ownership name handwritten totop of wrapper, minor soiling and oldtape marks to top and bottom ofwrapper, some foxing to outer pagesat front and rear, tape reinforcementto spine, appears to have beenbound with two page 103/104 atrear otherwise in good condition.Rare £200/300

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282 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1862. 16th Winter Edition.8vo. Collected and Edited byFrederick Lillywhite. Published byLillywhite and Kent & Co of London.Bound in brown boards with originalrear wrapper only. 104pp includingadverts. Trimming by bookbindertight to top border with small loss oftext and some page numbers.Soiling, darkening, old tape marksand annotation to title page, somestaining and darkening to rearwrapper, small amount ofannotation to odd internal pagesotherwise in good condition. Rare

£180/150

283 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1862. 16th Spring Edition.8vo. Collected and Edited byFrederick Lillywhite. Published byLillywhite and Kent & Co of London.Original wrappers. 132pp includingadverts, unusual double threequarter blue advertisement pagetipped onto edge of title page.Wrappers worn, soiled anddarkened, rounding with small lossto corner, some loss to lower half ofrear wrapper, some pencilannotation and foxing to oddinternal page otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £200/300

Front wrapper with ‘Spring Edition1862’ which equates to (edition) 17in D.T. Smith’s ‘Guide to Lillywhite’sGuides’

284 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1862. 17th Winter Edition.8vo. Collected and Edited byFrederick Lillywhite. Published byLillywhite and Kent & Co of London.Lacking original wrappers. 126pp,lacking one page of adverts at rear.Some darkening and age toning totitle page, rounding with small lossto corners and chipping to pageedges of title page, wear and smallloss to edges of last advertisingpage, Adhesive mark andhandwritten annotation to top oftitle page otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £130/160

285 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1863. 18th Spring Edition.8vo. Collected and Edited byFrederick Lillywhite. Published byLillywhite and Kent & Co of London.Bound in light brown boards, withoriginal wrappers intact, with titles ingilt to spine. 152pp includingadverts. Some trimming by binder.Minor foxing to wrappers otherwisein good/very good condition. Rare

£200/300

286 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1864. 19th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by Lillywhiteand Kent & Co of London. Originalwrappers. 104pp including adverts.Loss to spine paper, some minor lossand tape repair to rear wrapperedges, some wear and slight stainingto front wrapper otherwise in good+condition. Rare £150/250

287 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1865. 20th Edition. 8vo.Collected and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by W.Kent &Co and Lillywhite of London. Boundin black boards, with originalwrappers included, with titles in giltto spine. 124pp including adverts.Trimming by binder otherwise ingood/very good condition. Rare

£150/200

288 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1865. 21st Edition. 8vo.Compiled and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by Lillywhiteand Ward of London. Bound in cardwrappers, lacking original wrappers.154pp lacking adverts at rear.Staining and wear to some rearpages, ownership name handwrittento top of title page otherwise ingood condition. Rare £300/400

289 ‘The Guide to Cricketers containingfull directions for playing the nobleand manly game of Cricket....’London 1865. 21st Edition. 8vo.Compiled and Edited by FrederickLillywhite. Published by Lillywhiteand Ward of London. Facsimile

wrappers. 156pp, but with fivefacsimile pages to front, twoadvertising pages, title page,contents page and page 1/2 andtwo facsimile advertising pages torear. Three original advertising pagesto rear with loss and repairs, theremaining pages in good condition.Rare £70/100

290 ‘Guide to James Lillywhite’sCricketers Annual’. W G. DerekWest. Oxon 1993. Signed to titlepage by West and dated 1993. Soldwith two letters of correspondence,one from Irving Rosenwater to West,and the other from West toRosenwater, both dated 1993,regarding the book and Lillywhite’sin general. The typewritten letterfrom Rosenwater unsigned and thehandwritten letter from West signedby West. G £40/60

291 ‘The Ross Gregory Story’. D. Frith.2003. Deluxe limited Edition of only50 copies, this is No. 35, signed bythe author. Original half leather,marbled end-papers and top edgegilt. Excellent condition £70/100

292 ‘The Art of Nicholas Felix’. GeraldBrodribb. London 1985. Limitededition 157/220, signed by theauthor. VG £20/30

293 ‘A.D. Taylor. The Cricketologist’.Tony Laughton. 2002. Limitededition 155/200, signed by theauthor and by Hubert Doggart. VG

£50/70

294 ‘The Rise and Fall of Percy Perrin:Derbyshire v Essex 1904’. JohnShawcroft. J.W.McKenzie 2000.Special limited edition number 29 offorty one numbered copies, eachsigned by the author and JimHutchinson, the 103-year oldDerbyshire cricketer who playedfirst-class cricket with many of thoseinvolved in this match. Half greenmorocco with green cloth boards,top edge gilt, spine with raisedbands and gilt titles, in originalslipcase. Perrin scored 343no out ofan Essex first-innings total of 597and still ended up on the losing side.VG £100/150

295 ‘Googlyman. The Story of H.V. RanjiHorden’. Rick Smith. Tasmania 2005.Limited edition 123 of 300 copiesproduced, signed by the author. VG

£20/30

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296 ‘The Art of Cricket’. Don Bradman.London 1958. ‘Autographed copy’with original label laid down to frontend paper, signed by Bradman.Crease and small top corner loss tofront end paper otherwise in goodcondition £50/70

297 ‘E.W.S. 1907-2000. The LastInterview’. David Rayvern Allen2000. Limited edition of ninety threecopies, this being number 93, signedby Rayvern Allen. Sold with ‘Eighty-Not-Out’. An Interview, broadcastby the B.B.C. between Cliff Morganand E.W. Swanton recording hiseightieth birthday on 12th February1987. Surrey 1987. VG £30/50

298 ‘Captain of the Crowd’. Albert Craig,Cricket and Football Rhymester1849-1909’. Tony Laughton.Childrey 2008. Limited editionnumber 28 of fifty copies produced,signed by the author. Speciallybound and boxed with twelvefacsimiles of the rarest Craigcompositions reproduced on artpaper. Sold with a standard hardbackcopy of the book. Qty 2. VG

£100/150

299 ‘Edward Mills Grace. Cricketer’. F.S.Ashley-Cooper. London 1916.Original decorative cloth. Ownershipname and address to front end paperotherwise in good+ condition

£50/70

300 ‘Autobiography’. Neville Cardus.London 1947 Signed and inscribedto Felix (Leakey) in ink by Cardusand dated to front end paper ‘July1974’. G £30/50

Cardus died in the followingFebruary 1975

301 ‘Forty Seasons of First Class Cricket’.R. Gordon Barlow. Manchester1908. Original pictorial covers.Minor ‘light’ fading to spineotherwise in good condition £50/70

302 ‘Alletson’s Innings’. John Arlott.London 1957. Limited hardbackedition of 200 books produced, butunsigned and unnumbered. ‘Out ofSeries’ stamped to blank limitednumber space on page of book. G

£30/50

303 ‘The Hon. F.S. Jackson’. Percy CrossStanding. London 1906. Originalgreen boards with image of Jacksonto centre front cover. Some foxing to

page edges and some pagesotherwise in good condition £30/50

304 ‘Twenty Four Years of Cricket’.Arthur A. Lilley. London 1912.Original decorative covers. Boards alittle worn at edges and head andbase of spine otherwise in goodcondition £20/30

305 ‘Memoir of the Hon. RobertGrimston’. Frederick Gale. London1885. Contains two chapters oncricket. Sold with ‘The Grimstons ofGorhambury. Norah King. Sussex1983. VG £25/35

Grimston was mainly associatedwith Oxford University andMarylebone Cricket Club, making63 known appearances in first-classmatches from 1836 to 1855. Hisfather and other members of thefamily also played cricket to asimilar standard

306 ‘Scores and Mode of Dismissal of‘W.G.’ in First Class Cricket. Withsummary of results 1865-1895’.London 1896. Compiled by Rev H.A.Tate. First edition. Original wrappers.Bound in red boards with titles in giltto front board. Some wear and agetoning to colourful wrappersotherwise in good condition. G

£50/70

Presentation copy inscribed, to thebookplate picture of Grace, ‘To J.N.Pentelow (cricket author) Esq withthe compilers compliments’

307 ‘The History of a HundredCenturies’. W.G. Grace. London1895. Edited by W. Yardley. Originalfront wrapper only, bound in greenboards. Some age toning to wrapperand burn hole, also affecting sixinner pages otherwise in goodcondition. Signed to front end paperby F.G.J. Ford (Middlesex andEngland 1886-1899), this being hiscopy £50/70

308 ‘The Cabinet. A Repository of Facts,Figures and Fancies relating to theVoyage of the S.S. Great Britain fromLiverpool to Melbourne with TheEleven of All England and otherdistinguished passengers’. Publishedby J. Reid of Melbourne 1862.Reproduction copy c1970 from therare original consisting of four issuesof The Cabinet, November toDecember 1861. G £30/40

309 ‘From Presidency to Pentangular1892-93 to 1945-46. Story of theBombay Tournament’. Vasant Raiji &Mohandas Menon. 2006. De-luxeedition signed by the two authors tothe front end paper. Dustwrapper.VG £20/30

310 ‘E.W. Dawson the Cricketer.Trustworthy Ally at the Front Line’. P.Kettle. Melbourne 2009. Limitededition 114 of 120 privatelypublished copies and signed by theauthor. VG £25/35

311 ‘Bradman Card Issues 1928-1970. ACollectors Guide’. J. Bridges.Hamilton, Victoria 2009. Limitededition 192 of 250 published copies,signed by the author. VG £15/25

312 Essex County Cricket Club. OfficialYearbook 1937. Original decorativewrappers. Minor wear to head ofspine paper, crease to rear wrapper,some light age toning to wrappersotherwise in good condition £60/90

313 Essex County Cricket Club. OfficialYearbook 1938. Original decorativewrappers. Minor wear to head andbase of spine paper, some wear andlight age toning to wrappers, smallloss to bottom border of frontwrapper otherwise in good condition

£60/90

314 ‘Derbyshire County Cricket’. F.S.Ashley-Cooper. London 1924.Original stiffened wrappers. G

£40/60

315 ‘The Rise of Derbyshire Cricket1919-1935’. Llewellyn E. Simpson.Derby 1936. Original light bluewrappers. Some age toning towrappers, rusting to staplesotherwise in good condition £40/60

316 ‘Gloucestershire County Cricket’. F.S.Ashley-Cooper. London 1924.Original stiffened wrappers. Boundin dark green boards with title tospine edge. Some soiling and agetoning to wrappers otherwise ingood condition £40/60

317 ‘A. Benitez de Lugo’. D.T. SmithCorsham 2011. Limited edition S2(17) of only 22 copies produced. VG

£50/80

318 ‘A Short History of NottinghamshireCricket including the Season of1887’. E. Browne. Nottingham 1887.Original decorative boards. Some

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wear and age toning to boards,facsimile front advertising and titlepages, some faults including nicksand small tears to page edges,annotation otherwise in goodcondition £40/60

319 ‘Spybey’s Annual Register ofNottinghamshire Cricket Matches.Season 1879’. Second Year ofPublication. Compiled and publishedby F.G. Spybey, Nottingham 1879.Original printed wrappers. Goodcondition. Rare £60/90

The register was published from1878 to 1886

320 ‘Spybey’s Annual Register ofNottinghamshire Cricket Matches.Season 1880’. Third Year ofPublication. Compiled and publishedby F.G. Spybey, Nottingham 1880.Original printed wrappers. Oddminor faults otherwise in goodcondition £50/70

321 ‘Spybey’s Annual Register ofNottinghamshire Cricket Matches.Season 1881’. Fourth Year ofPublication. Compiled and publishedby F.G. Spybey, Nottingham 1881.Original printed wrappers. Minorloss to wrapper edges otherwise ingood condition £50/70

322 ‘Lascelles Hall Cricket ClubCentenary 1825-1925’. H. Lodge.Huddersfield 1925. Originalwrappers. Handwritten inscription toforeword page, good condition. Soldwith ‘Pickwick Athletic Club(Warwickshire) 1858-1958Centenary Year Handbook. Editedby J. Elliot Ewing. Original colourpictorial covers. VG. Qty 2 £20/30

323 ‘Reminiscences of the GrangeCricket Club, Edinburgh, withselected matches 1832-1862’.W.Moncrieff. David Douglas,Edinburgh 1891. Red brown cloth.The frontispiece is a real photographof the club ground with a posedmatch. Spine a little faded, stain tolower part of front board otherwisein good condition £50/70

324 ‘Annals of Teignbridge Cricket Club1823-1883’. Compiled by G.W.Ormerod. Privately printed 1888.VG £30/50

325 ‘The Twickenham Cricket Club. TheFirst One Hundred Years 1833-1933’. Walker & Co Ltd 1933.

Original green boards with gilt titles.VG £30/50

326 ‘The Matches of the TwickenhamCricket Club and Averages of theMembers from 1854 to 1870’.Compiled by the Secretary. London1871 Ex Judge Wakley collectionwith signed bookplate to inside frontboard. G £50/80

327 ‘One Hundred and Fifty Years ofTrent Bridge 1838-1988’. P. Wynne-Thomas. Nottingham 1987. Signedto front end page by over twentyformer Nottinghamshire playersincluding Randall, Broad, Robinson,Cairns, Johnson, Hemmings, Cooperetc. Plus insert pamphlet ‘TheDouble Champions of 1987’ byWynne-Thomas. Sold with‘Nottinghamshire Cricketers 1919-1939’. P. Wynne-Thomas.Nottingham 1980. G/VG £30/40

328 ‘Cricket, and how to play it, with therules of the Marylebone Club’. JohnWisden. Dean & Son of Fleet Street.New and revised edition c1880.Bound in boards without originalwrappers. Nottinghamshire C.C.C.bookplate to inside front board. G

£50/70

329 Athletic News Cricket Annual 1892.Original paper wrappers. Some wearand chipping to edges of wrappers,some creasing to wrappers, somewear and nicks to internal pageedges otherwise in good condition.Ex-Auty collection £40/60

330 Athletic News Cricket Annual 1894.Bound in green boards, lackingoriginal wrappers. G £30/40

331 Athletic News Cricket Annual 1895.Original paper wrappers. Minor agetoning and wear to wrappersotherwise in good+ condition

£40/60

332 Athletic News Cricket Annual 1897& 1898. Original paper wrappers.The 1897 edition with front wrapperdetached, with small loss, rearwrapper with some loss to corners,wear to spine otherwise in goodcondition. The 1898 edition withworn original wrappers, brown tapereinforcement to spine, wrapperswith rounding to corners with someloss to edges otherwise in generallygood condition £30/50

333 Athletic News Cricket Annual 1919-1929. Original wrappers. Some agetoning to odd wrappers otherwise ingenerally good+ condition overall.Qty 11 £30/50

334 Athletic News Cricket Annual 1930-1939 and 1946. Original wrappers.Some age toning to odd wrappers,wear to the wrappers of the 1937and 1946 editions otherwise ingenerally good+ condition overall.Qty 11 £30/50

335 Leicestershire C.C.C. Yearbook1949. Edited by G.O.J. Elliott.Original pictorial wrappers. Withtypewritten letter regarding theHandbook from the Editor on clubheaded paper dated 1949. VG

£25/35

336 ‘The Norfolk Cricket Annual. Season1910-11’. Edited by C.B.L. Prior.Bound in marbled card wrappers,lacking original wrappers. G £60/90

337 C.V. Grimmett. Flicker Book no.5,Googley Delivery and off BreakFinger Spin. Published by FlickerProductions Ltd, London. Age toningand some wear to wrappers, minorrusting to staple otherwise in goodcondition £40/60

338 Frank Woolley. Flicker book. ‘Pull toLeg and Forcing shot off the BackFoot to the off’. Published by FlickerProductions of London. Some wearto wrappers and spine otherwise ingood condition £30/50

339 ‘Jam The Great. Sketches of life andadministration of the late Jam Sahebof Nawanagar’ (K.S. Ranjitsinhji).Maneklal H. Shah. Nadiad, India1934. Minor foxing otherwise ingood condition £40/60

340 ‘Alfred Lyttelton. An Account of hisLife’. Edith Lyttelton. First edition1917. Rebound in blue boards withoriginal spine paper laid down. G

£25/35

Alfred Lyttelton. CambridgeUniversity, Middlesex & England1876-1887. President of M.C.C. in1898. Also played forWorcestershire C.C.C. (not firstclass) and represented England atfootball in 1877 and played for OldEtonians in the 1876 F.A. Cup Final.Lawyer & Statesman and ColonialSecretary 1903-1905. He became anM.P. in later life

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341 ‘Black Hats v White Hats’. FredCobley. Otley 1895. Originalpictorial covers. Bookplate of B.J.Wakley. Some minor wear to coversotherwise in good condition £60/90

342 ‘Chats on the Cricket Field’. W.A.Bettesworth. London 1910. Soldwith ‘Talks with Old YorkshireCricketer’s by Old Ebor (A.W. Pullin)1898. Original decorative covers.Odd minor faults otherwise in goodcondition £50/70

343 ‘Recollections and Reminiscences’.Lord Hawke. London 1924. Originaldecorative covers. Some wear toboard extremities, some age toningto page edges, one page detachedotherwise in good condition £20/30

344 ‘My Life Story’. Jack Hobbs. London1935. Original colour dustwrapper.Rare to find with dustwrapper.Foxing to page edges otherwise ingood condition £30/40

345 ‘Reminiscences of David Hunter. TheGenial Yorkshire Stumper’. Red RoseBooks 2001, with new introductionby Gerry Wolstenholme. Limitededition 38/200 books produced.Sold with ‘Charlie Hallows. 1,000runs in May 1928’. K. Martin Tebay2008. Limited edition 29/125 copiesproduced. VG £25/35

346 ‘Contrasts. Poems by John Snow’.John Snow. London 1971. Originalwrappers. Limited edition of 100copies, of which this is anunnumbered and unsigned edition

£25/35

347 ‘Moments and Thoughts’. JohnSnow. London 1973. Originalwrappers. £20/30

348 ‘A Correct Account of all the CricketMatches which have been played bythe Marylebone Club and all otherPrincipal Matches from the year1786 to 1822 inclusive. HenryBentley 1823’. Published by RogerHeavens. Cambridge 1997. Limitededition facsimile reprint of 400numbered copies, this being number235. VG £30/40

349 ‘Renton’s Ruse. An AustralianCricket Story’. By John Patrick. Withprefactory note by IrvingRosenwater. London 1999. Printedfor private circulation. Signed limitededition copy 20 of thirty copiesproduced. VG £50/60

350 G.B. Buckley. ‘Fresh Light on 18thCentury Cricket. A Collection of1000 New Cricket Notices from1697 to 1800’. 1935 and ‘FreshLight on Pre-Victorian Cricket. ACollection of New Cricket Noticesfrom 1709 to 1837’. 1937. Facsimilereprints of the two books by RogerHeavens, both signed by the author.VG £25/35

351 ‘Of Period And Place’ John Arlott.London 1944. Dustwrapper. G

£30/50

352 ‘Lord’s and the M.C.C.’. Lord Harrisand F.S. Ashley Cooper. London1920. Rebound edition, some foxingto first few pages otherwise in goodcondition £30/50

353 ‘Harry Furniss at Home’. ‘Writtenand iIlustrated by himself’. London1904. Includes many pages withcricket interest. Original decorativeboards. Some wear and age toningto boards, odd faults otherwise ingood condition £20/30

354 ‘The Noble Cricketers: A PoeticalAnd Familiar Epistle’ by John WolcotFacsimile reprint of the rare poempublished by J. Bew in 1778, with anew introduction and notes by JohnGoulstone. Ewell 2010. Limitededition hardback of 100 numberedcopies of which this is number 17,signed by Goulstone. VG £60/90

355 ‘A Royal Road to Cricket by an oldSussex Cricketer’. W.A. Bettesworth.1891. Original pictorial wrappers.Bound in green boards with title ingilt to spine. Tape repair to topborder of page 5/6 otherwise ingood condition £80/120

356 ‘The Scores of the Cricket Matchesplayed by Rugby School from theyear MDCCCXXXI’ (1831). Printedby J.S. Crossley, Rugby. 1845. Wear,foxing and staining to outerwrappers and to some outer internalpages with some small loss to edges.Ownership name handwritten to topborder. Generally good condition

£80/100

Scores run from 1841 to 1845

357 ‘The Scores of the Cricket Matchesplayed by Rugby School from theyear 1859-1864 inclusive’. Printedby Crossley & Billington, Rugby.1864. Original stiffened wrapperwith title to centre on printed label.

Ex Judge Wakley collection withsigned bookplate to inside frontboard. G £40/60

358 ‘The Book of Shops’. E.V. Lucas andillustrated by F.D. Bedford. Publishedby Grant Richards of the Strand1899. Long foolscap folio. The bookshows a charming evocation of theretail world at the close of thenineteenth century with twenty fourcolour illustrated plates of variousshops including the Athletic Outfitterwith large colour image of theinterior featuring a father and twosons choosing a cricket bat withcricketing rhyme to facing page.Original colourful hard back boardswith wear to edges, odd nick andtear to page edges, odd one withtape repair otherwise in goodcondition £100/150

359 ‘Cricketers and The Law’. J.W.Goldman. Privately printed 1958.Limited edition of 350 copies, thisbeing no. 186, signed by the author.Broken rear hinges otherwise ingood condition with dustwrapper

£50/70

360 ‘The Sports and Pastimes of thePeople of England, from the earliestperiod, including the rural anddomestic recreations, may games,mummeries, pageants, processions,and pompous spectacles, from theearliest period to the present time’.Joseph Strutt 1830. A new editionwith a copious index by WilliamHone. Printed by William Reeves1830. Illustrated by engravingsselected from ancient paintings.Rebound in brown cloth with newendpapers. Strutt coveredeverything to do with sport in thisvolume. Cricket appears on pages97-99, as part of a chapter on ballgames, which includes many of theprecursors to cricket such as clubball, trap ball and stool ball. Somewear and minor foxing to somepages otherwise in good condition

£50/80

361 ‘Netherland’. Joseph O’Neill. NewYork 2008. Rare American edition ofthe cricketing novel with cricketingthemed dustwrapper. The booksigned by O’Neill. Sold with apaperback edition of the book 2009,also signed by O’Neill. Qty 2. VG

£30/50

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362 ‘Death’s Doings; consisting ofnumerous original compositions, inprose and verse, the friendly contri-butions of various writers; principallyintended as illustrations of thirty fourplates, designed and etched byR.Dagley, author of ‘Select Gemsfrom the Antique’ &c. First edition.J.Andrews and W.Cole 1826. 8vo.369 pages. Contains ‘The Game ofLife; or Death Among theCricketers’, a poem by S.Maunder,with an etching ‘The Cricketer’ byR.D. and a prose piece ‘Death andthe Cricketer’ by Barnard Batwell.Some foxing to odd pages, oddfaults generally good condition

£140/180

363 ‘Death’s Doings; consisting ofnumerous original compositions, inprose and verse, the friendly contri-butions of various writers; principallyintended as illustrations of thirtyplates, from designs by R.Dagley,author of ‘Select Gems from theAntique’ &c. American edition takenfrom the second London editionwith considerable editions. CharlesEwer. Boston 1828. 8vo. In twovolumes. Volume one has 232 pagesand Volume two 233-472. Contains‘The Game of Life; or Death Amongthe Cricketers’, a poem byS.Maunder, with an etching ‘TheCricketer’ by R.D., verses in praise ofCricket” by the Rev M. Cotton and aprose piece ‘Death and the Cricketer’by Barnard Batwell. Rebound withnew marbled pastedowns, originalwrappers laid down to boards, gilt toall edges. Some staining and foxingto odd pages, odd faults generallygood condition £140/180

364 Australia. Box of books on Australiancricket, tours, histories, biographiesetc. Includes ‘Bradman The Great’B.J. Wakley 1959 (SBC), ‘ClassicCenturies’ B.J. Wakley 1964 (SBC),‘Anglo Australian Cricket 1862-1926’. Percy Cross Standing 1926,‘History of the Tests’. S. Smith 1947,‘Australian Bowlers’ A.G. Moyes1953 etc. Qty 27. G £30/50

365 India. Box of seventeen books andbrochures on Indian cricket, tours,histories, annuals etc. Includes‘Portrait of Indian Sport’ A. de Mello1959, Indian Cricket Annual 1977 &1983, All India 1936 tour guide(Simpson), ‘History of Indian Cricket’

Docker 1976, ‘Cricket Memories’Vasant Raiji 2010, signed to insidedustwrapper by Tendulkar etc. G

£25/35

366 West Indies. Box of nineteen booksand brochures on West Indiancricket, tours, histories etc. Goodselection including a signed copy of‘Test Cricket Tours. West Indies’Michael Ronayne 1984. G £20/30

367 Biographies/ Autobiographies. Boxof twenty three modern books, allwith dustwrappers. Subjects includeLarwood, Grace, Gover, Bradman,Flintoff, Blythe, W.W. Armstrong,Milton etc. VG £30/40

368 Australia. Box of books on Australiancricket. Includes full set of fourvolumes ‘Australian Cricket. JackPollard, ‘Bush Cricket’ Terrell 2009,signed copy, ABC Cricket Book1976/77, ‘Test Cricket Tours.Australia’ Michael Ronayne 1987,The Victory Tests’. Mark Rowe 2010etc. Qty 18. G £20/30

369 ‘Great Bowlers and Fielders. TheirMethods at a Glance’. G.W. Beldamand C.B. Fry. London 1906. 1stedition. Original pictorial boards. Giltto top edge. Handwritten inscriptionto front end paper. Some wear toboard extremities otherwise in goodcondition £50/80

370 ‘Great Cricketers. The Age of Grace& Trumper’. Compiled by GeorgeBeldam, jnr. Cheshire 2000. Limitededition no 155 of 548 producedsigned by Cornelia Beldam. Shortlisted for the Cricket Society Book ofthe Year in 2000. VG £80/120

371 Cambridge University Cricket Club.‘Incidents in fifty years of CambridgeUniversity Cricket 1886-1936’. P.Piggott 1936, ‘Fenner’s.Reminiscences of CambridgeUniversity Cricket Club’. P. Piggott1948 and ‘Oxford v Cambridge1931. First annual supplement toOxford v Cambridge. A Record ofinter-University Contests from 1827-1930. Compiled by Bruce-Kerr andH. Abrahams. Cambridge 1932.Odd faults otherwise in goodcondition. Qty 3 £30/50

372 Cricket and how to play it. Sixinstructional books including‘Cricket. A Popular Handbook of theGame’. Grace, Pycroft, Russell...’

Edited by G.A. Hutchinson. TheReligious Tract Society 1887,‘Cricket’ W.L. Murdoch. London1894, ‘Cricket’ Hon. R.H. Lyttelton.1898, beige boards, ‘Cricket-Batsmanship’. C.B. Fry. 1912,‘Cricket and how to play it’. G.Jessop. London 1925 and ‘CricketFor Beginners’. C.R. Benson 1913.Odd faults, generally good condition

£25/35

373 ‘The Book of Cricket- A New Galleryof Famous Players’. Edited by C.B.Fry. London 1899. Originaldecorative covers. Minor wear toboard extremities otherwise in goodcondition £30/50

374 ‘Shadows Over The Wicket, with theBritish Empire XI. Seasons 1940-1945’. E. Hoskin. G £20/30

375 Arthur Haygarth. ‘The Public SchoolMatches. A correct account of all theMatches of which the scores are inexistence, played between theSchools of Eton, Harrow andWinchester, from 1805-1852inclusive’. Published by F. Lillywhite,London 1853. Original green printedwrappers. Some wear to wrappersotherwise in good condition. ExEagar collection £150/250

376 ‘The Game of Cricket’. Chapman,Fender, Franklin, Jardine.......’Lonsdale Library. Vol VI. London1930. Full buckram leather editionwith gilt titles to front board andspine. Gilt to top edge. G £30/40

377 ‘Australia v England 1877-1926.Book of the Test Matches’. Publishedby The Manchester Guardian. Pretour publication of the Australiantour of England 1926. Decorativecovers. Odd faults otherwise in goodcondition. £15/25

378 ‘Melbourne Cricket Club. AnnualReport for seasons 1950-51-1957-58. Printed by Mason, Firth &McCutcheon, Melbourne. Somecreasing to wrappers otherwise ingood condition. Qty 8 £18/25

379 ‘More Than a Game. The Story ofCricket’s Early Years’. John Major.London 2007. Signed and inscribedto title page by former PrimeMinister, John Major. D/W. VG

£15/25

380 ‘Statistics of New Zealand Cricketand Roll of Honour’. Compiled by

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J.F. Peake for the New ZealandCricket Council. Christchurch 1924.Original stiffened wrappers. Somewear to wrapper extremitiesotherwise in good condition £25/35

381 ‘The Cricket Rhymes of H.C.Coghlan’. Irving Rosenwater.London 2004. Limited editionnumber 15 of only 60 numberedcopies produced, of which 50 are forsale, signed by Rosenwater. VG

£25/35

382 ‘With Stoddart’s team in Australia,being the record of the 1897/98tour’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. London 1898.Original pictorial covers. Bound inred boards. Some soiling and foxingto odd page otherwise in goodcondition £20/30

383 ‘With the Bookplate of A.E. Winder’.David Rayvern Allen. Ewell 2008.Signed limited edition number 62 of175 copies produced. D/W. VG

£30/50

384 ‘A Tradition Shared. A History ofCambridge Town & County Cricket1700-1890’. Willie Sugg. Parts 1-3.2002, 2004 and 2009. Each signedby Sugg. VG £10/20

385 ‘Batting’ Herbert Sutcliffe. Blackie’sSports Series 1937. Nicely signed inink to front end paper by Sutcliffe.Some age toning/ wear to boardsotherwise in good condition £25/35

386 ‘Memorable Cricket Matches’. SirGeoffrey Tomkinson. Kidderminster1958. Original boards. Signedpresentation limited edition of 500numbered copies, signed by theauthor, this being number 153.G/VG £25/35

387 ‘Cricket across the Sea or TheWanderings and Matches of theGentlemen of Canada 1887 . By‘Two of the Vagrants’. Facsimilereprint of the first edition, with anew introduction by GerryWolstenholme. Signed limitededition of 150 copies, this beingnumber 35. VG £20/30

388 ‘First Man In...’. M. Wilson.Newnham 2009. Limited editionnumber 5 of one hundred and fiftynumbered copies signed by theauthor, of which 11-150 were forsale. VG £20/30

389 Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1900. 8thannual issue. Original decorativeboards, gilt to edges. Light wear toboards, minor fading to spine paperotherwise in good/very goodcondition £50/80

390 Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1904. 12thannual issue. Original decorativeboards, gilt to edges. Minor marks toboards, minor bowing to spineotherwise in good/very goodcondition £30/50

391 Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1905. 13thannual issue. Original decorativeboards, gilt to edges. Some agetoning to spine paper and boardextremities otherwise in good/verygood condition £30/50

392 Yorkshire C.C.C. Annual 1906. 14thannual issue. Original decorativeboards, gilt to edges. Some agetoning to spine paper and boardextremities, minor marks to boardsotherwise in very good condition

£25/35

393 Yorkshire C.C.C. Annuals 1907 and1911. Original decorative boards,gilt to edges. Minor age toning tospine papers otherwise in good/verygood condition. Qty 2 £20/30

394 Yorkshire C.C.C. Annuals 1910-1912. 18th-20th editions. Originaldecorative boards, gilt to edges.Some age toning to spine papers,minor marks to the rear boards ofthe 1907 edition otherwise ingood/very good condition. Qty 3

£30/50

395 Yorkshire C.C.C. Annuals 1913,1914 and 1916. 21st, 22nd and 24theditions. Original decorative boards,gilt to edges. Faded gilt lettering tothe 1916 edition otherwise ingood/very good condition. Qty 3

£40/60

396 Surrey County Cricket ClubHandbook 1903. 194pp. Originaldark brown printed boards withtitles. Front internal hinges broken,some pages becoming detached.Some browning to page edgesotherwise in generally goodcondition. Ex Mitcham Public Librarywith odd library stamp etc £30/50

Published annually from 1884

397 Surrey County Cricket ClubHandbook 1904. 183pp. Original

dark brown printed boards withtitles. Some breaking to frontinternal hinges, some browning topage edges, minor wear to boardsotherwise in good condition. ExMitcham Public Library with oddlibrary stamp etc £30/50

398 Surrey County Cricket ClubHandbook 1907. 175pp. Originaldark brown printed boards withtitles. First six page detached, somebrowning to end papers at front andrear otherwise in good condition. ExMitcham Public Library with oddlibrary stamp etc £30/50

399 Surrey County Cricket ClubHandbook 1926 and 1927. Originaldark brown printed boards withtitles. Minor wear to board and spineextremities otherwise in goodcondition £30/50

400 Surrey County Cricket ClubHandbook 1928 and 1929. Originaldark brown printed boards withtitles. The 1928 edition with brokeninternal hinges and wear to spine,the 1929 edition in good condition

£25/35

401 Surrey County Cricket ClubHandbook 1935, 1938 and 1939.Original dark brown printed boardswith titles. The 1935 edition withwear and damage to spine andboard extremities, the other twoeditions with minor wear to spinesotherwise in good condition £40/60

402 Signed cricket books. Four signedbooks, ‘As it was’. F.Trueman 2004,‘M.C.C.’. C.Cowdrey 1976,‘Botham’s Century’. I.Botham 2001and ‘Playing with Fire’. N.Hussain2004. Sold with two boxes of thirtysix various cricket books, mainlyhardback, some softbacks included,mainly autobiographies etc. IncludeAllen’s Australian Cricket Annual1993/94, 1994/95, 1996 and 1997.G £30/50

403 ‘The Centenary of the MaryleboneCricket Club 1787-1887’. Compiledby Henry Perkins 1887. A shortsummary of the history of the club,the names of those present at theCentenary Dinner, and a resume ofthe speeches delivered thereat.Twenty seven page book, hardbackred covers with titles in gilt. Includescopy of the Centenary Dinner menu,two scorecards from the Centenary

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matches etc. Printed by G.H.Whittmann of London. Sold with‘Marylebone Cricket Club. Pavilionand Ground Regulations, List ofMembers &c’. Issues for 1905/06and 1933. In original red cloth withgilt lettering. Minor light fading tospines, odd fault to the 1933 editionotherwise in good condition

£70/100

404 ‘The Archie Jackson Story. ABiography’. D. Frith. Ashurst 1974.Limited edition of 1000 copies, thisbeing number 725, signed by theauthor. VG £30/40

405 ‘Tours and Tests’. Kenneth Farnes.London 1940. Sold with ‘CricketHighways and Byways’. F.S. AshleyCooper. London 1927. G £25/35

406 ‘Kings of Cricket- Anecdotes andReminiscences from 1858 to 1892’.Richard Daft. Bolton 1893. Limitedlarge paper subscribers’ editionnumber 19, signed and numberedby Daft. Loss of spine paper, wear toboards, broken internal hingesotherwise in generally goodcondition. Viewing essential £50/80

407 ‘The Book of the Two Maurices’.M.C.C. team Australasia 1929/30’.Maurice Turnbull & Maurice Allom.London 1930. Signed and inscribedto front end paper. ‘To the Major, agreat recruiting Sergent from BigMaurice. 28th July 1930’. Splittingto outer spine paper, odd faultsincluding one loose page otherwisein good condition £20/30

Allom was around 6’ 6’ tall andTurnbull was short, hence thenickname ‘Little Maurice’

408 ‘I’ll Spin you a Tale’. E. Hollies.London 1955. Nicely signed to titlepage by Hollies. VG £20/30

409 ‘The Book of Cricket’. P.F. Warner.London. Revised and Reset edition1934. Dustwrapper. Very nicelysigned signed to front end paper ‘P.F.Warner, December 4th 1936’. Somenicks to dustwrapper and small lossto spine paper otherwise in goodcondition £30/40

410 ‘Famous Cricketers & CricketGrounds’. C.W. Alcock. London1895. Sold with three boxes ofcricket books, magazines and cricketephemera including ‘Those Ashes-The Australian tour of 1926’. M.A.

Noble 1927, ‘Cricket with the lidoff’. A.W. Carr. 1935, ‘Cricket’ D.R.Jardine 1946, ‘Cricket’. Horace G.Hutchinson. London 1903, ‘Lifeworth Living’. C.B. Fry 1939,Bowling ‘Em Out’. Headley Verity1936, New South Wales CoachingMagazine 1930-1932 (3), ‘DevonDumplings Cricket Club Jubilee Book1902-1952, Devon Dumplingsfixture and membership cards1950/60’s, Arthur WellardTestimonial brochure 1951, M.C.C.membership cards/passes1960/90’s, The Cricketer magazine1940-1960’s, cricket scrapbook withreal photo cigarette cards, jigsaw etc.Varied condition, some faults,generally good condition £50/80

411 ‘Famous Cricketers and CricketGrounds 1895’. Edited by C.W.Alcock. London 1895. Originaldecorative covers, quarter leather,gilt to all page edges. Sold with‘Cricket of Today & Yesterday’. PercyCross Standing. London 1902.Volumes I & II. Original decorativecovers. Some fading to covers of theStanding books, odd faults otherwisein good condition £40/60

412 Cricket Books. Six cricket books,‘Jerks in from Short Leg’. R.A.Fitzgerald (Quid). London 1866,‘Cricket’. Country Life Library ofSport’. Edited by Horace Hutchinson1903, ‘The Lighter Side of Cricket’.Captain Phillip Trevor 1901, ‘PunchLibrary Book of Sports’, ‘Was it allCricket’. D.Reese 1948 and ‘Felix onthe Bat’. G. Brodribb. London 1962.Odd faults, good £20/30

413 Cricket Histories. ‘History of theOxford University C.C. G. Bolton.Oxford 1962, ‘Winchester CollegeCricket’. E.B. Noel. London 1926,‘Lancashire County Cricket 1864-1953’. A.W. Ledbrooke 1954,‘Northamptonshire Cricket-AHistory’. J.D. Coldham 1959,‘History of Cambridge UniversityCricket Club 1820-1901’. W.J. Ford.London 1902 and ‘History of theTests’. S. Smith 1947. Some minorfaults. G £20/30

414 Lancashire County and ManchesterCricket Club Annual 1937 and 1938.Both compiled by J.A. Brierley.Original decorative boards. G

£20/30

415 Worcestershire County Cricket Club.Official History & Guide 1928.Compiled and edited by J.B. Payne,for the club. Bound in dark greenboards with gilt lettering, preservingoriginal stiffened wrappers. Somehandwritten annotation to insidefront wrapper otherwise in goodcondition £80/120

416 ‘Lord’s 1787-1945’. Sir PelhamWarner. London 1946. Signed totitle page by Warner. Sold with aselection of cricket ephemeraincluding a real photograph postcardof Patsy Hendren, Surrey C.C.C.Championship Dinner menu 1953,Surrey C.C.C. membershipcorrespondence 1940/50’s, Cricketermagazines late 1940’s early 1950’setc. G £25/35

417 ‘When F.R. Woolley scored a centuryfor Lancashire’. Irving Rosenwater.Printed for private circulation,London 2003. Limited editionnumber 45 of fifty numbered copiesproduced, signed by the author.Excellent condition £40/60

418 ‘A Catalogue of Cricket Catalogues,Booklists, Bibliographical Sourcesand Indexes Etcetara’. Compiled byDavid Rayvern Allen 1980. Issued ina limited edition of 75 numberedcopies, of which 60 were for sale,each signed by the compiler. Thiscopy is a review copy and is signedby the author. VG £20/30

419 W ‘My Cricket Collection andCricket Literature’. Neville Weston.3rd edition. 1974. Limited edition 41of only 50 copies produced, signedby the author. G £80/120

420 ‘Black Hats v White Hats’. FredCobley. Otley 1895. Originalpictorial covers. Bookplate of B.J.Wakley. Some wear, staining andfading to covers otherwise in goodcondition. Handstamp of ‘J.A.Middlebrook, Harrogate’ to someinternal pages and front cover(faded) £50/70

421 ‘A Correct Account of all the CricketMatches which have been played bythe Marylebone Club and all otherPrincipal Matches from the year1786 to 1822’. H.Bentley. Togetherwith a similar appendix for 1823 and1824 & 1925. Facsimile reprint ofBentley’s scores, complete with bothsupplements. Sold with a similar

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facsimile reprint of ‘Two CricketSongs’ N.Gale. VG £30/50

422 John Arlott. Three hardback books,with dustwrappers, signed by Arlottor his Wife, Pat and all dedicated to‘John’. ‘100 Great Batsman’ 1986with excellent ink inscription ‘John,Enjoy the pictures: They are good.Regards John’ (Arlott), ‘The EssentialJohn Arlott’ 1989 with ink inscription‘John, With thanks for help, kindnessand thought, John (Arlott) and‘Arlott. The Authorised Biography’1994 with laid down part ofChristmas card, to front end paper,‘To Dorothy & John, from Pat(Arlott’s Wife) with love. Hope youenjoy the book. It is sent with mythanks for your many kindnesses toJohn (Arlott) and myself over theyears’ (after his death). Theinscription in the second book is alittle shaky and was probably writtenjust prior to Arlott’s death in 1991. G

£60/90

423 John Arlott. Three soft back bookssigned by Arlott and all dedicated to‘John’. ‘Cardus in the Covers’ Cardus1978, with ink inscription ‘John,from Pat & John, Christmas 1990,Play resumed with Cardus’ Cardus1979, inscribed ‘John from Pat &John Christmas 1990 and the third‘The Essential Arlott on Cricket’1991, inscribed ‘John from John’. Allsignatures signed prior to Arlott’sdeath in 1991. G £60/80

424 ‘The Bardswells: Fact and Fictionwith a reprint of ‘Played On’ byEmily Bardswell’. Derek Deadmanand Christopher Sheppard. Privatelyprinted in Leicester 1979. Printedpaper wrappers with original blacktaped spine. Limited edition number49 of 150 copies printed and signedby the two authors. G £70/100

Gerald Roscoe Bardswell played forOxford University and Lancashireand was a member of Lord Hawke’steams to North America in 1894 andthe West Indies in 1896-97. Hisaunt, Emily Bardswell, wrote ‘PlayedOn’ an illustration of the socialbackground to cricket in the 1890’s

425 ‘W.G. Grace. Cricketer. A record ofhis performances in first-classmatches’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper.London 1916. Bound in greenboards, with original wrappers

preserved, with titles in gilt to frontboard. Some wear to originalwrappers with small corner loss andfolds, former ‘Cricket ReportingAgency’ copy and small handstampto front cover and various innerpages otherwise in good condition

£80/120

426 ‘Cardus in the Covers’. London1978. Original imitation leather inslip case. Limited edition of 100numbered copies. This being number324. Good condition £30/50

427 ‘History of Yorkshire County Cricket1833-1903’. Rev R.S. Holmes.Archibald Constable, London 1904.Deluxe leather bound edition withmottled endpapers, gilt to all pageedges, titles and emblem in gilt tofront board and spine and to lowerborder, again in gilt, ‘LancashireCounty Cricket Club’ (the club’scopy and specially bound for them)some scuffing to front board, wearand age toning to spine leatherotherwise in good condition £40/60

428 Bodyline. ‘In Quest of the Ashes’.D.R. Jardine. London 1933. Withnote from Jardine on ‘Holywell Park,Wrotham, Kent’ headed paperinscribed ‘Wishing you the best ofluck, D.R. Jardine’ laid down toinside front board. The book hassplitting to front internal hinge,minor foxing and some splitting andwear to covers and spine otherwisein good condition £100/150

429 ‘The Sporting Globe Cricket Book1936/37. A book of averages andrecords’. Compiled by E.H.M. Baillie(Bail). Melbourne 1936. Originalpictorial wrappers. Detached frontwrapper and lacking portion of frontwrapper at bottom right hand cornerotherwise in good condition £20/30

430 ‘The King of Games’. Frank Woolley.London 1936, 3rd impression. Thebook signed to the title page byeleven members of the Kent team of1936. Signatures are Woolley, Fagg,Ashdown, Chapman, Watt,Greeman, Lewis, Wright, Todd,Levett and Valentine. Green clothworn and stained. Breaking to rearinternal hinge, worn, faded andstained boards and spine paper,slight foxing to outer internal pagesotherwise in generally goodcondition £70/100

To front end paper there is an inksignature of ownership (Valentine?),dated 9th May 1936. Kent playedGloucestershire at the Bat & BallGround at Gravesend on the 6-8thMay 1936 and all but one of theplayers who have signed the book,played in the match. Chapman didnot play, Ackers-Douglas made upthe eleven

431 ‘The Sportfolio. Portraits andbiographies of heroes and heroinesof sport and pastime’. GeorgeNewnes 1896. Originally publishedin parts. Many illustrations. Bound inpublisher’s decorative cloth with atitle-page and index at the front.Comprises full-page pictures ofsportsmen of the day, with short penpictures. The cricketers are Abel,J.T.Brown, Fry, W.G.Grace, Gunn,F.S.Jackson, Lohmann, Macgregor,Maclaren, Read, Richardson,Stoddart and Ward, with C.M.Wellsin rugby gear. The other sportsmenare athletes, golfers, tennis players,footballers, skaters, chess players,billiard players and cyclists. Minorwear to original boards, broken frontand rear internal hinges, contentsbecoming loose, otherwise in goodcondition £100/150

432 ‘Herbert Sutcliffe and the YorkshireCaptaincy’. I. Rosenwater. London2003. Limited edition number 52 ofseventy five numbered copies signedby the author, of which sixty ninecopies were for sale. VG £50/70

433 ‘An Index to Waghorn. An index toCricket Scores 1730-1773 and ‘TheDawn of Cricket together withcorrections and notes to bothvolumes’. M. Wilson. London 2005.Limited edition of 150 numberedand signed copies, of which the first1-10 are hardback. This is ahardback ‘File Copy’, unnumberedand unsigned. Sold with the softbackedition, again, unnumbered andunsigned VG £40/60

434 The following two lots are from theIrving Rosenwater collection

‘Farewell, St. Lawrence Lime’. IrvingRosenwater. Newnham on Severn,Gloucestershire 2005. A broadsheetpoem composed on the destructionof the lime tree at the St. LawrenceGround, Canterbury, in the strongwinds on the night of Friday, January

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7, 2005. Issued in a limited edition of190 numbered copies, each signedby Irving Rosenwater, Jules Akel(typographer) and ChristopherSaunders (publisher), this beingnumber 6. Sold with a box of cricketbooks belonging to Rosenwaterincluding ‘History of YorkshireCounty Cricket 1833-1903’. RevR.S. Holmes, ‘Punch Library ofHumour. Book of Sports’ c1898,‘The Field of Cricket’. Official Journalof the Society of Cricket Statisticians.No 1. July 1947, the only editionissued (four copies) etc. Theremainder mainly modern, somebooks with notes/reviewshandwritten by Rosenwater. Plustwo Football Annuals for 1946/47and 1947/48. G £30/40

435 ‘Douglas Robert Jardine. Gentlemanand Player’. Irving Rosenwater.Privately printed for the author inLondon, April 1993. Limited editionnumber 3 of only fifty numberedcopies produced, signed by theauthor. Non were available for sale.Excellent condition. Rare £250/350

436 ‘A Cricketer’s Yarns’. Richard Daft.London 1926. Original decorativecovers. Light fading to spineotherwise in good/very goodcondition £20/30

437 ‘How we Recovered the Ashes’. P.F.Warner. London 1904. Originaldecorative covers. Slight damage toinside cover spine hinge, covers alittle worn otherwise in generallygood condition £25/35

438 ‘Recollections and Reminiscences’.Lord Hawke. London 1924. Originaldecorative covers. G £25/35

439 ‘Cricket Highways and Byways’. F.S.Ashley Cooper. London 1927. G/VG

£30/40

440 ‘Nottinghamshire Cricket andCricketers’. F.S. Ashley Cooper.London 1923. G/VG £30/40

441 ‘The Cricket Field’. James Pycroft.Edited by F.S. Ashley Cooper.London 1922. Original covers. Lightfading to spine and edge of covers.G £30/40

442 Don Bradman. Four books on or byBradman, ‘Farewell to Cricket’. D.Bradman 1950, ‘Bradman The Great’B.J. Wakley 1959 (SBC), ‘DonBradman’s Book’. D. Bradman.

London 1930 and ‘How to playCricket’. Don Bradman 1935 (poor).G £20/30

443 ‘Chats on the Cricket Field’. W.A.Bettesworth. London 1910. Soldwith ‘With Bat and Ball’. GeorgeGiffen. London 1897. Odd faults tothe Giffen book otherwise in goodcondition £30/40

444 Bodyline books. ‘Jardine Justified’.Bruce Harris. London 1933,‘Defending the Ashes 1932/1933’.R.W.E. Wilmot. Melbourne 1933(one plate detached) and ‘Bodyline?’H. Larwood. London 1933. Fadingto the spine of the Larwood book,odd faults, good £25/35

445 ‘Annals of Lord’s and History of theM.C.C.’. Alfred D. Taylor.Arrowsmith, Bristol & London 1903.Original decorative boards. Somewear to board and spine extremities,slight breaking to internal hingesotherwise in good condition £30/40

446 ‘Cricket’. Horace G. Hutchinson.London 1903. Original decorativecovers. Sold with five other books,‘England v Australia. The Story ofthe Test Matches 1877-1904’. J.N.Pentelow. Bristol 1904, ‘Beyond aBoundary’ C.L.R. James 1963 (ex-libris), ‘The Fight for the Ashes1926’. P.F. Warner. London 1926(page detached), ‘The Fight for theAshes in 1930’. P.F. Warner. London1930 (wear and staining to boards)and ‘The Triangular Tests 1876-1912’. H.V. Dorey. London 1912(rebound without wrappers). Wearto the boards of each book £20/30

447 Cricket books. Box of twenty ninevarious cricket books including ‘TheJubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S.Ranjitsinhji. London 1897. Fourthedition, ‘History of the Tests’. S.Smith 1947, ‘Classic Centuries’ B.J.Wakley 1964, ‘Cricket’ E. Lyttelton.1890 etc. Some faults, some ex-libris, generally good £25/35

448 Cricket books and brochures. Twentyfour assorted titles including a‘Wisden 1946’ softback edition,wear and staining to wrappersotherwise in generally goodcondition. Other books include‘Cricket’ E. Lyttelton. 1890, ‘TheBudding Cricketer’. A.C. Russell1926, ‘Hints to Young Cricketers’.B.B. Wilson c1930, ‘Cricket’. V.J.

Merchant 1975, ‘Cricket. The Art ofplaying the Game. G.J.V. Weigall.1922, ‘Don Bradman’s Book’. D.Bradman 1930, ‘The Jubilee Book ofCricket’. K.S. Ranjitsinhji. London1897. First edition etc. Theremainder are mainly instructionalcricket books. Odd faults, generallygood condition £40/60

449 ‘Imperial Cricket’. Edited by P.F.Warner. Limited edition de Luxeedition of which only 100 copieswere printed, of which this isnumber 94. Beautifully signed byWarner to title page. Large 4to.Original vellum, with all edges gilt.Titles in gilt. Breaking to frontinternal hinge, minor wear to boardsotherwise in good condition. Rare

£300/400

450 ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’. K.S.Ranjitsinhji. Edinburgh 1897. Limitedde luxe edition of 350 copies signedby Ranjitsinhji, this being number32. Hand made paper, edgesuntrimmed. Original cloth boards, alittle soiled, wear to head and baseof spine, breaking to front internalhinge otherwise in good condition

£300/400

451 ‘British Sports and Sportsmen’.Compiled and edited by ‘TheSportsman’. P.F. Warner. London1917. Volume 5. Cricket & Football.Large original decorative leatherbound limited edition 798/1000.Includes a series of largephotogravure portraits of famouscricketers (footballer) with biogra-phical details including Grace,Hawke, Harris, Ranji etc. Some wearand age toning to boards and spineotherwise in good condition £50/70

452 ‘Fifty Years of Sport- At Oxford,Cambridge and the Great PublicSchools’ Eton, Harrow andWinchester. Volumes I, II & III.Various editors including A.C. M.Croome, R.H. Lyttelton, A. Page,E.B. Noel etc. London 1913 & 1922.Excellent decorative leather binding.Some wear to boards and spinesotherwise in good condition. Qty 3

£50/80

453 The Cricketer magazine. Boundvolumes of the Cricketer for1923/24, 1937 (2), 1938 and 1939(2). Sold with assorted cricket booksand magazines including ‘The

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Cricket Statistician Issues 21-28, 29-36, 37-44 and 69-76 in four boundvolumes. G . Qty 20 £30/40

454 ‘The Boundary Book. A Lord’sTaverners’ Miscellany of Cricket’.Edited by Leslie Frewin. London1962. The book contains thesignatures of four left handedbatting greats of the game,personally collected by the vendor,each signature is annotated with thedate he obtained it. The signaturesare Graeme Pollock, September1965, Frank Woolley, June 1967,David Gower, October 1983 andGarry Sobers, August 1984. DW.Good condition £25/35

455 Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.Year Book 1938 & 1939. Originalpictorial wrappers with image ofW.G. Grace to front. Some agetoning/soiling to wrappers, somenicks to front wrapper, wear to spinewith splitting of the 1938 editionotherwise in generally goodcondition £25/35

456 Gloucestershire County Cricket Club.Year Book 1948-1954, 1956-1963.Original pictorial covers. The 1948edition with tape to spine andcovering parts of covers, the 1950edition, lacking rear cover, minorfaults to the 1954, 1959 and 1962editions otherwise in good condition.Qty 14 £30/50

457 W.G. Grace. ‘W.G. CricketingReminiscences & PersonalRecollections’. London 1899 and‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. London 1891.Qty 2. Some wear to boards andextremities otherwise in goodcondition. £25/35

458 The Memorial Biography of Dr W.G.Grace’. Lord Hawke, Harris andHome Gordon. London 1919.Original decorative covers. Sold with‘Cricket. A Popular Handbook of theGame’. W.G. Grace, Pycroft, Galeand others. Edited by G.A.Hutchinson. Boy’s Own Shelf III.London 1887. Some wear to theboard extremities of the biography,odd faults, good. Qty 2 £30/40

459 ‘A Cricketer’s Log’. Gilbert Jessop.London 1922. Original pictorialbrown boards. Sold with ‘Cricket andhow to play it’. G. Jessop. London1925 and ‘Cricket’. Fry, Ranjitsinhji,Jessop.... Edited by Gilbert Jessop.

London 1903. Some faults to the lastbook otherwise in good condition.G £25/35

460 ‘Cricket Notes’. G.L. Jessop, withchapters by A.O. Jones and C.L.Townsend. London 1903. Originalwrappers. Small corner piecesmissing to front and rear wrappers,odd minor faults to wrapper andspine paper otherwise in goodcondition. Sold with ‘G.L. Jessop. Acomplete record of his performancesin first class cricket’. C.J. Britton.Birmingham 1935. Original clothboards. G Qty 2 £30/50

461 ‘The Graces. E.M., W.G. & G.F.’.A.G. Powell and S. Canynge Caple.London 1948. Limited edition of1000 numbered copies, this being132. Poor dustwrapper. G £25/35

462 ‘The Sporting Mirror’. Volume 1. Janto June 1881. Edited by ‘Diomed’.Bound monthly editions withportraits of men of the day. Originalcolour decorative boards. G.F.Grace’s portrait is featured on page157, with biography to pages 158and 159 and other cricketingreferences. Sold with ‘The LondonSociety, an Illustrated magazine’. No21. September 1863. With article‘Cricketana- the great day at Lord’sEton v Harrow’ pages 270-278. Thearticle continues with a discussion onthe great feats of E.M. Grace and‘The Cricket Annual 1892’. Edited byWm. Dewar. Driffield 1892. Originaldecorative boards. Qty 3. G £30/50

463 ‘W.G.’ or, the Champion’s Career’.Arthur J. Waring. Alexander andShepheard. London 1896. Bound inbrown board preserving originalfront pink wrapper. 96pp. Frontwrappers, grubby with loss to edges,foxing to internal pages,handwritten ownership name tofront wrapper, pencil annotation torear of book, some rounding tocorners otherwise in generally goodcondition £40/60

464 ‘Cricket Memories’. A Country Vicar(R.L. Hodgson). London 1930. Withoriginal dustwrapper in goodcondition. Sold with ‘SecondInnings’. A Country Vicar (R.L.Hodgson). London 1933. G £20/30

465 Arthur Haygarth’s Cricket Scores &Biographies from 1863 to 1864. VolVIII. London 1877. Original

publisher’s red cloth, gilt. Titled‘Marylebone Cricket Club’. Minorwear and age toning to spine, veryminor foxing otherwise in goodcondition £30/50

466 ‘Liverpool Cricket Club. A Sketch ofthe Historic Continuity of the Club.Local Champions. Season 1919’. P.Y.Lodge. Liverpool c1920. Printed byRatcliffe of Liverpool. Wear tooriginal wrappers, lacking staples,tape mark to internal pages at spine,minor foxing. G £20/30

467 Len Hutton Benefit Souvenir booklet1950. Printed by the Yorkshire Post.Pictorial blue covers. Signed byHutton to first page picture. Soldwith ‘A Century of Yorkshire CountyCricket’. The Yorkshire Post 1963. G

£15/25

468 ‘How to become a first classbatsman’. Herbert Sutcliffe. Leeds.April 1949. Dustjacket. Very nicelysigned in ink to front end paper bySutcliffe. Damage with small loss tospine of dustwrapper. G £20/30

469 ‘Long Innings- The Autobiography’.Sir Pelham Warner. London 1951.Signed limited edition of 260, thisbeing number 162. Signed in ink byWarner. Age toning and fading tospine paper otherwise in goodcondition£50/80

470 ‘Shane Warne. My IllustratedCareer’. Shane Warne. London2006. Leather hand bound limitededition number 344/1000, signed byWarne. In slip case with six limitededition photographs of Warnereproduced from the book. Mintcondition £50/70

471 ‘Sportacrapiana. Cricket andShooting, Pedestrian, Equestrian,Rifle and Pistol Doings, Lion Huntingand Deer Stalking. With hithertounpublished anecdotes of theNineteenth century, from George IV,to the sweep’. Edited by ‘CAW’, C.A.Wheeler. London 1867. First edition.Original red pictorial cloth withdecorated gilt title to front board.Some wear and fading to spinepaper, minor breaking to internalhinges otherwise in good condition.Ex Boys Brigade Library, Brixton1883. £40/60

472 Lancashire 1948/49. LancashireCCC yearbook, slight rusting to

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staples and light scuff marksotherwise good condition. CyrilWashbrook’s Cricket Annual, 1949,wear to spine, repaired 1” tear tofront cover. Lancashire 2nd XI, 1948sheet of fifteen signatures includingMalcolm Hilton, and a small monopostcard of the 1948 county teamwith printed signatures. G/VG. Qty4. £25/30

473 Tour brochures and scorecards.Official brochures for 1934Australians in England, South Africain England 1951 with scorecard fromthe Lord’s test, New Zealand inEngland 1949 with scorecard fromthe Lord’s test, and India in England1952. Sold with a copy of “CricketSpotlight 1949” and “England’s TestCricketers”. Minor wear and agetoning to each publication,otherwise good condition. Qty 8

£15/25

474 Warwickshire CCC. Six WarwickshireCCC annuals covering the 1955 to1959 and 1961 seasons. Sold withfour issues of “The WarwickshireDiary for Cricket Lovers”, issues 3, 4and 6 from 1948 and issue 9 dated1949. Some ageing and loss tospines, otherwise good condition.Qty 10 £30/40

475 Famous Cricketers and CricketGrounds 1895. Edited by C.W.Alcock. London 1895. Fifty loosepages featuring 100 portraits,biographies and printed signatures.G £15/25

476 ‘Shane Warne. My IllustratedCareer’. Shane Warne. London2006. Leather hand bound limitededition number 630/1000, signed byWarne. In slip case with six limitededition photographs of Warnereproduced from the book. Mintcondition £50/70

477 Cricket books, programmes etc. Twoboxes of assorted cricket books,brochures, programmes etc. Somesigned items including John Murrayand Fred Trueman Benefit brochures,Ashes 2005 book signed by nine ofthe players, two framed Yorkshireblazer badges, signed to verso byDarren Gough etc. Plus Limitededition Bicentenary Presentationalbum 44/150, two cricket ballbookends etc. G £30/40

478 West Indies. ‘Association of CricketStatisticians’. ‘Famous CricketersSeries’ brochures for West IndianTest players, Sobers, M.Marshall,Worrell and Walcott. Qty 4. VG

£10/20

479 England. ‘Association of CricketStatisticians’. ‘Famous CricketersSeries’ brochures for England Testplayers, Hobbs (2), Wisden, Grace,Ranjitsinhji, Hayward, Bligh, Blythe,Parr and Woolley. Qty 10. G£20/30

480 Test players. ‘Association of CricketStatisticians’. ‘Famous CricketersSeries’ brochures for Test players, F.Tarrant, G. Pollock, H. Mohammed,Dempster, M.Donnelly, Faulkenerand B.Sutcliffe. Qty 7. G £15/25

481 Australia. ‘Association of CricketStatisticians’. ‘Famous CricketersSeries’ brochures for Australian Testplayers, Spofforth, W. Armstrong,N.Harvey, Hill, Ironmonger, Kippax,Lindwall, McCabe, A.Morris andPonsford. Qty 10. G £20/30

482 England. ‘Association of CricketStatisticians’. ‘Famous CricketersSeries’ brochures for England Testplayers, Larwood, Bedser, Simpson,May, Lock, kenyon, Graveney, Gibb,G. Evans, Close, Clay, Statham andTyson. Qty 13. G £25/30

483 ‘Indian Cricket Quarterly’. Edited byMohandas Menon. 1994-1995. Firstsix issues of the publication.Numbers Vol 1. No 1-4 and Vol 2.No 1-2. Sold with CricontrolStatistical Annual 1986-87. SudhirVaidya. G £20/30

484 E.F. Hudson publications etc. Tenpublications including SydneyBarnes, Hedley Verity, Sutcliffe, ‘TheCricketer’s Who’s Who’ Parts 1-5(1946-1947) etc. G £10/20

485 Association of Cricket Statisticianspublications. Fifty one bookletsincluding ‘Cricketers Series’,‘Guides’, ‘Surveys’, ‘Records’ etc. G

£25/35

WISDEN CRICKETERS’ ALMANACKS

486 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1864-1878. Fifteen facsimile editionspublished by John Wisden & Co Ltd,London 1991. Limited edition13/1000. Brown hard board coverswith gilt lettering to covers andspine. In original Wisden yellow

presentation box. VG. £550/650

487 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1901.38th edition. Bound in brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Good condition £60/80

488 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1902.39th edition. Bound in brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Wear with loss to wrappersotherwise in good condition £50/70

489 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1903.40th edition. Bound in brownboards, without original wrappers,with title and date in gilt to spine.Lacking first advertising pageotherwise in good condition £40/60

490 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1904.41st edition. Bound in brown boards,with original wrappers preserved,with title and date in gilt to spine.Good condition £60/80

491 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1905.42nd edition. Bound in brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Good condition £55/75

492 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1906.43rd edition. Bound in dark brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Age toning, darkening andwear to wrappers, small loss tocorners otherwise in good condition

£50/70

493 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1907.44th edition. Bound in dark brownboards, with original front wrapperpreserved, lacking rear wrapper, withtitle and date in gilt to spine. Smallcorner piece missing to lastadvertising page otherwise in goodcondition £45/55

494 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1908.45th edition. Bound in brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Some darkening, agetoning and wear to wrappersotherwise in good condition £50/70

495 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1909.46th edition. Bound in brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Good condition £60/80

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496 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1910.47th edition. Bound in dark greenboards, lacking original wrappers,with title and date in gilt to spine.Lacking first three and last twoadvertising pages otherwise in goodcondition £40/60

497 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1911.48th edition. Bound in brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Ownership namehandwritten to front wrapperotherwise in good/very goodcondition £60/80

498 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1912.49th edition. Bound in brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Good/very good condition

£60/80

499 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1913.50th (Jubilee) edition. Bound inbrown boards, with originalwrappers preserved, with title anddate in gilt to spine. Good/very goodcondition £60/80

500 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1914.51st edition. Bound in brown boards,with original wrappers preserved,with title and date in gilt to spine.Odd minor faults otherwise ingood/very good condition £60/80

501 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1915.52nd edition. Bound in brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Odd faults otherwise ingood+ condition £50/70

502 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1916.Willows softback reprint (1990) inlight brown hardback covers with giltlettering. Limited edition 98/1000. G

£50/70

503 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1918.55th edition. Bound in green boards,with original paper wrapperspreserved, with title and date tospine. Very good condition. Rare wartime edition £150/250

504 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1919.56th edition. Bound in dark brownboards, with original paper wrapperspreserved, with title and date tospine. Slight age toning and wear towrappers otherwise in good+condition. Rare war time edition

£140/180

505 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1920.57th edition. Bound in light brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Slight wear and age toningto wrappers otherwise in good+condition £50/70

506 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1921.58th edition. Bound in light brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Wear, tape repairs,ownership name to top borderotherwise in generally goodcondition £45/55

507 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1922.59th edition. Bound in light brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Slight darkening towrappers, ownership namehandwritten to top border otherwisein good condition £50/70

508 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1923.60th edition. Bound in light brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Good condition £60/80

509 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1924.61st edition. Bound in light brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Some age toning towrappers, wear and old tape mark torear wrapper otherwise in goodcondition £50/70

510 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1925.62nd edition. Bound in dark brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Minor age toning and wearto wrappers, ownership name anddate to top of first advertising pageotherwise in good+ condition

£60/80

511 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1926.63rd edition. Bound in light brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Some age toning and wearto wrappers, small corner loss,ownership name to top of first andlast advertising page otherwise ingood condition £50/70

512 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1927.64th edition. Bound in dark brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in gilt

to spine. Some age toning and wearto wrappers, odd minor faultsotherwise in good condition £50/70

513 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1928.65th edition. Bound in blue boards,with original wrappers preserved,with title and date in gilt to spine.Slight age toning to wrappersotherwise in good condition £60/80

514 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1929.66th edition. Bound in light brownboards, lacking original frontwrapper, rear wrapper preserved,with title and date in gilt to spine.Minor age toning and some wear torear wrapper otherwise in goodcondition £45/55

515 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1930.67th edition. Bound in blue boards,with original wrappers preserved,with title and date in gilt to spine.Minor faults to wrappers otherwisein good+ condition £60/70

516 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1931.68th edition. Bound in blue boards,with original wrappers preserved,with title and date in gilt to spine.Very good condition £70/90

517 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1932.69th edition. Bound in blue boards,with original front wrapperpreserved, lacking rear wrapper, withtitle and date in gilt to spine. Somewear to front wrapper otherwise ingood condition £50/60

518 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1939.76th edition. Bound in light brownboards, with original coverspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. Minor staining to edge offirst two internal pages otherwise ingood condition £50/60

519 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1940.77th edition. Only 8000 papercopies printed in this war year.Bound in light brown boards, withoriginal covers preserved, with titleand date in gilt to spine. Some wearand minor age toning to covers,ownership name and address to topborder of first advertising page,handwritten annotation to odd pageotherwise in good condition £50/70

520 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1941.78th edition. Original limp clothcovers, bound in light brown boardswith titles in gilt to spine. Only 3200paper copies printed in this war year.

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Very good condition. Rare wartimeedition £200/300

521 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1942.79th edition. Original limp clothcovers, bound in light brown boardswith titles in gilt to spine. Only 4100paper copies printed in this war year.Rust marks to rear cover otherwise invery good condition £100/150

522 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1943.80th edition. Original limp clothcovers, bound in light brown boardswith titles in gilt to spine. Only 5600paper copies printed in this war year.Minor age toning, marks to rearcover otherwise in very goodcondition £60/90

523 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1945.82nd edition. Original hardback.Only 1500 copies of the hard backedition were printed in this war year.Fading to spine gilts, odd minorfaults, minor bumping to odd cornerof boards otherwise in generallygood/very good condition Rarewartime edition £200/300

524 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1946.83rd edition. Original limp clothcovers, , bound in green boards withtitles in gilt to spine. Only 11000copies were printed in this year.Name handwritten to firstadvertising page, odd very minorfaults otherwise in good+ condition

£40/60

525 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1947.Original hardback. Dulling to spinegilts, normal browning to pageedges, mark to back board,ownership name handwritten to firstadvertising page otherwise in good+condition £40/60

526 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1948.Original hardback. Slight crease tospine paper, normal browning topage edges otherwise in good+condition £40/60

527 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1949.Original hardback. Some dulling tospine gilts, ownership namehandwritten to first advertising pageotherwise in good+ condition

£30/40

528 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1950.Original hardback. Minor wear tohead and base of spine paper andboard extremities, ownership namehandwritten to first advertising page

otherwise in good+ condition£25/30

529 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1951.Original hardback. Minor wear tohead of spine paper, minor crease tofront board otherwise in goodcondition £25/35

530 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1952.Original hardback. Minor wear toboard and spine paper extremities,breaking to front internal hinges,odd minor faults otherwise in goodcondition £20/30

531 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1953.Original hardback. Very minor faultsto boards, minor stain to page edgesotherwise in good condition £25/30

532 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1954.Original hardback. Very minor faultsotherwise in good/very goodcondition £30/40

533 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1955.Original hardback. Minor faults toboards otherwise in good/very goodcondition £30/40

534 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1956.Original hardback. Bump to topcorners of boards, very slight sunfading to spine paper otherwise ingood+ condition £25/35

535 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1957.Original hardback. Some wrinklingto spine paper, slight breaking tofront internal hinges otherwise ingood condition £25/30

536 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1958.Original hardback. Light crease tospine paper, some breaking to frontinternal hinges otherwise in goodcondition £20/30

537 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1959.Original hardback. Minor marks tofront board and spine paper, oddminor faults otherwise in good+condition £25/35

538 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1960.Original hardback. Minor bump toedge of front board, slight wear toboard gilts otherwise in good+condition £25/35

539 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1961.Original hardback. Some wear toboard gilts, odd minor marks toboards and spine paper otherwise ingood condition £20/30

540 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1962.Original hardback. Odd very minorfaults otherwise in very goodcondition £30/40

541 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1963.Original hardback. Some wear toboard gilts, odd minor marks toboards and spine paper, wrinklingand minor crease to spine paperotherwise in good+ condition

£20/30

542 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1964.Original hardback. Slight wear toboard gilts, odd minor marks toboards otherwise in good+ condition

£25/30

543 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1965to 1969. Original hardbacks, lackingdustwrappers. Odd minor faultsotherwise in good/very goodcondition. Qty 5 £50/70

544 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1970to 1975. Original hardbacks, lackingdustwrappers. Odd minor faultsotherwise in good/very goodcondition. Qty 6 £60/80

545 Wisden Cricketers’ AlmanackAustralia 1999. 2nd Edition.Melbourne 1999. Leather boundlimited edition no 100 of only 100copies. Excellent/mint condition

£100/150

546 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1944.81st edition. Original hardback.Only 1400 copies of the hard backedition were printed in this war year.Excellent condition with immaculategilts to front cover and spine. Rarewartime edition £350/450

547 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack-Australia. Full run of the Almanack,1998 (1st Edition), 1999, 2000-01,2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-2004,2004-2005 & 2005-2006. Originalhardbacks with dust wrapper. Qty 8.Good/very good condition £50/70

548 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1938.75th edition. Original limp clothcovers.Bound in publishers hardbackboards, trimming a little tight bybookbinder, some wear and tear tospine otherwise in good+ condition

£40/60

549 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1926.63rd edition. Bound in light brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with titles in gilt to spine.

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Ex Shrewsbury School Library. G£50/70

550 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1929.66th edition. Bound in brownboards, lacking original paperwrappers, with title and date tospine. G £30/50

551 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1958.Original hardback. Some minorwear/marks to front board, somedulling to spine gilts, very slightbreaking to front internal hingesotherwise in good condition. Soldwith a hardback edition for 1959.Breaking to front internal hinges,‘Robertson’s golliwog’ cricketersticker laid down to first advertisingpage, general wear to boards andgilts otherwise in good condition.Qty 2 £25/35

552 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1938.75th edition. Bound in brownboards, with original limp clothcovers preserved, with title and datein gilt to spine. Some wear and agetoning to covers, some staining,darkening to page edges otherwisein good condition £40/60

553 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1926.63rd edition. Bound in light brownboards, with original rear wrapperpreserved, lacking front wrapper(facsimile replica front wrapperbound in), with title and date in giltto spine. G £30/50

554 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1925.62nd edition. Bound in light brownboards, with original rear wrapperpreserved, lacking front wrapper,with title and date in gilt to spine.Some darkening/foxing to pageedges, otherwise in good condition

£30/50

555 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1922.59th edition. Bound in brownboards, with original wrapperspreserved, with title and date in giltto spine. The front wrapper in poorcondition and laid down to card, therear wrapper in better condition andalso laid down to card, somewear/nicks to first and lastadvertising page, lackingphotographic plate otherwise ingood condition £30/50

556 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1913.50th Jubilee edition. Original frontpaper wrapper, lacking rear wrapper.

Broken spine block, lacking almostall of the spine paper, wrappersdiscoloured and age toned otherwisein generally good condition. Soldwith a similar condition copy for1927, with parcel tape to wrappers.Viewing essential £40/60

557 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1933.70th edition. Original paperwrappers. Some wear/nicks towrappers, light horizontal mark toupper part of front wrapper and tofirst few advertising pages, minorwear with small loss to foototherwise in good condition £60/80

558 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1946.83rd edition. Original limp clothcovers. Only 11000 copies wereprinted in this year. Minor breakingto front internal hinge, press cuttinglaid down to last advertising page,minor faults to corners of rear coverotherwise in good condition £40/60

559 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1914.51st edition. Bound in brown boards,with original wrappers preserved,with title and date in gilt to spine.Lacking photographic plate, damagewith small loss to page 231/232,slight breaking to internal hingesotherwise in good condition £30/50

560 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1980-2007. Original hardbacks, lackingdustwrappers with the exception ofthe 2005 edition and the 2006 and2007 books which are special limitedlarge format editions in slip cases.Limited edition of 5000 copies. Themajority of the twenty eight editionshave ownership name handwrittento inside page and in generallygood/very good condition. Sold witha hardback edition of ‘An Index toWisden 1864-1984’. Compiled byDerek Barnard. London 1985 and‘The Wisden Book of Test Cricket1876-77 to 1977-78’. Qty 30

£30/50

561 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1975to 2011. Original hardbacks, lackingdustwrappers, with the exception ofthe 1983 (1) and 2011 editions. Twocopies of the 1983 edition. Somelight creasing to spine papers ofcertain books, some ‘light’ fading tothe spine papers of the 1975 and1976 editions, breaking to rearinternal hinge of the 1980 editionotherwise in good+ condition.

Qty 38 £40/60

THE J.W. HEARNE COLLECTION

John William Hearne. Middlesex &England 1909-1936. John Hearne,known as ‘Young Jack’ to distinguishhim from his distant cousin J.T.Hearne’, was a Middlesex legspinning all rounder whorepresented England in twenty fourTest matches from 1911 to 1926.One of the leading all rounders ofhis day, he achieved the ‘double’five times and on three occasionsexceeded 2,000 runs. He took over100 wickets in a season five times.

562 Middlesex v Essex, Lord’s, 27th-29thJuly 1911. Cricket ball, presented toHearne, with silver metal bandaround ball with inscription ‘J.W.Hearne, ‘Hat Trick’, Middlesex vEssex, 6 wickets for 17 runs’. Goodcondition £150/250

Hearne took the hat trick in theEssex first innings removing H.A.Carpenter, LBW, C.P. McGahey,bowled and K.L. Gibson LBW. Healso took the wickets of P.A. Perrin,J.R. Freeman and B. Tremlin to givehim innings figures of ten overs, fourmaidens, six wickets for 17 runs asEssex were bowled out for 78.Middlesex won the match by aninnings and 211 runs

563 Middlesex v Nottinghamshire,Lord’s, 21st-23rd July 1926. Cricketball, presented to Hearne, withhallmarked silver band around ballwith inscription ‘Presented to J.W.Hearne by Middlesex C.C.C.Middlesex v Notts, July 1926, 5-16’.Hallmarked, London 1926. Goodcondition £100/150

Nottinghamshire needing 195 runsto win the match, were 85-5, whenHearne took the last five wickets towin the match for Middlesex by 75runs with Nottinghamshire beingbowled out for 120. Hearne’s figureswere 6.4 overs, one maiden, fivewickets for 16 runs. He made 72 and24 with the bat

564 Middlesex v Hampshire, Lord’s,14th-17th May 1927. Cricket ball,presented to Hearne, withhallmarked silver band around ballwith inscription ‘J.W. Hearne. 7 for24. Middlesex v Hampshire. May14th 1927’. Hallmarked, London

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1927. Good condition £100/150

In an amazing match, Middlesexscored 392-9 declared in their firstinnings with J.W. Hearne making121, Hampshire made 280 all outwith Hearne taking 1-66, Middlesexwere then bowled out for 110 withKennedy taking 6-50. This leftHampshire requiring 222 runs towin the match were bowled out fora meagre 76 with J.W. Hearnetaking 7-24. His final figures were15.2 overs, five maidens, sevenwickets for twenty four runs.Middlesex won by 146 runs

565 Derbyshire v Middlesex,Chesterfield, 27th-30th August1935. Cricket ball, presented toHearne, with hallmarked silver bandaround ball with inscription‘Presented to J.W. Hearne. 9-61.Middlesex v Derbyshire. ChesterfieldAugust 1st 1933’. Hallmarked,London 1933. Good condition

£120/150

Derbyshire were bowled out for 167in their first innings with J.M. Simstaking 8-47 (his best personalbowling figures), in reply Middlesexscored 252 all out, with T.B.Mitchell taking 7-86. Derbyshirewere then bowled out for 175 withJ.W. Hearne taking the last ninewickets. His figures, a career best,were 24.4 overs, 8 maidens, 9wickets for 61 runs. This leftMiddlesex needing 90 to win thematch which they did for the loss oftwo wickets

566 J.T. Hearne. Middlesex & England1888-1923. Excellent Reutersphotograph of Hearne leaving thefield having batted, wearingMiddlesex cap, bat under arm takingoff his batting gloves. 6’x8’. Soldwith a framed photograph showingthe unveiling of the memorial seat toJ.W. Heane at Lord’s in 1965 plus aselection of six 1910/20s cricketingcartoon postcards, many sent toMaster Jack Hearne,a collection ofreproduced photograph of variouscricketing Hearne’s and othercricketers and an original painting ofa cricket match painted in the1950/60’s. G £20/30

THE TONY SMITH COLLECTION

Tony Smith was employed as LiaisonOfficer and Baggage Master for

International Test teams touringEngland between 1972 and 2004.Over the years he was given variousitems as a ‘thank you’ for help andservices rendered during the variousteams stay in England.

567 Brian Lara. West Indies. White WestIndies Test shirt given to Tony Smithfollowing the West Indies tour ofEngland in 2004. The white shirt,with maroon and green trim tosleeves and neck, with West Indiesemblem and ‘Carib’ and ‘Sandals’sponsors logo to chest (and to back),with sponsors logo ‘UK Sportsgear’to sleeves. Signed boldly to chest ‘ToTony, All the Best, Brian Lara’. Minormarks to shirt otherwise otherwise ingood/very good condition £60/90

568 Brian Lara. West Indies. White WestIndies long sleeved Test shirt given toTony Smith following the WestIndies tour of England in 2004. Thewhite shirt, with maroon sleeves,maroon, yellow, green and greytrimming to neck and edges of shirt,with West Indies emblem and‘Admiral’ and ‘LNM Group’ sponsorslogo to chest (and to back). VG

£60/90

569 Shaun Pollock. South Africa. SouthAfrican green and white longsleeved training top worn by Pollockon the South African tour of England1998. The top with South Africanemblem and sponsors logo ‘CastleLager’ and ‘Adidas’ to chest. G

£30/40

570 West Indies tour of England 2000.‘Carib’ full size cricket bat signed infull by the touring party. Twentysignatures including Adams, Lara,Hinds, Gayle, Chanderpaul, Sarwan,Jacobs, Walsh, Ambrose, Collymoreetc. VG £40/60

571 Australian tour of England 1985.Official colour team photograph ofthe Australian touring team,standing and seated in rows,wearing official tour blazers andcricket attire. The photograph, takenat Lord’s, laid down to photog-raphers mount with title to top andplayers names to lower border.‘inscribed to top right hand corner‘To Tony, with best wishes, 1985Aussies’. Overall 12”x15”. Sold witha similar official colour tourphotograph of the Young Australian

tour of England 1995, laid down tophotographers mount, with title totop and players names to lowerborder. Plus a small quantity ofofficial ‘Castlemaine XXXX’ printedsponsors pictures of the 1985 and1989 Test teams and three ‘StampPublicity’ printed photographs oftouring teams 1996-1998.Good/very good condition. Qty 15

£30/40

572 Sussex County Cricket ClubHandbooks for 1963-1967. Soldwith Kent County Cricket ClubAnnuals for 1965-1970 and 1974and 1975, all members copies. Qty13. Odd faults otherwise in goodcondition £20/30

573 County Cricket Club Annuals andHandbooks. Nottinghamshire C.C.C.Handbooks for 1965, 1968 and1970, Worcestershire C.C.C.Yearbook 1967, Lancashire C.C.C.Yearbook 1967, LeicestershireC.C.C. Yearbook 1967,Warwickshire Annual Reports for1967 and 1970 and DerbyshireC.C.C. Yearbooks for 1965 and1970. Qty 10. Odd faults otherwisein good condition £20/30

574 County Cricket Club Annuals andHandbooks. Essex C.C.C.Handbooks for 1963 and 1970,Somerset C.C.C. Yearbook 1963/64,Surrey C.C.C. Handbooks for 1965-1968 and 1970, Glamorgan C.C.C.Yearbook 1971, MiddlesexC.C.C.Annual Report 1965 and‘Cricket in Kent Yearbook’ 1966 Qty11. Odd faults otherwise in goodcondition £20/30

575 West Indies tours of England.Selection of items given to TonySmith by various West Indian teamstouring England. A pewter tankardengraved ‘West indies v YorkshireLeagues, Harrogate 1973, A largerpewter tankard engraved with tourdetails ‘West Indies tour of England1984’ and ‘With Thanks and BestWishes from Jackie’ (Hendricks, TourManager), glass decanter engravedwith tour details ‘West Indies tour ofEngland 1988’ and ‘To Tony, withthanks from all of us’, wine glassengraved ‘West Indies tour ofEngland 2000’ and further pewtertankard engraved ‘Tony, From theWindies ‘A’, With thanks’. Qty 5. G

£30/40

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576 Australian tours of England.Selection of items given to TonySmith by various Australian teamstouring England. A pewter tankardengraved ‘A.S. (Tony Smith) XXVIAustralian Cricket Team’ (1972),pewter tankard engraved with tourdetails ‘Australian tour of England1985’ and a glass decanter engravedwith ‘M.C.C.A XI (Minor Counties) vAustralia. Winning Captain.Presented by The Journal, NewcastleUpon Tyne’. (undated). Qty 3. G

£30/40

577 New Zealand and South Africantours of England. Selection of itemsgiven to Tony Smith by the two Testteams touring England. A pewtertankard engraved ‘To Tony, withthanks from the lads New ZealandCricket Team 1990’, a wine glass‘Cornhill Insurance Test Series 1999.England 1 New Zealand 2’ and awooden plaque with metal plateattached, with New Zealand emblemand ‘New Zealand Cricket Team tourto England 1999’ beneath. TheSouth African items are a largewooden paperweight with ‘SouthAfrica United Kingdom 1994’ and a‘Emirates Triangular Tournament,England South Africa and Sri Lanka,August 1998’ framed display withsilver metal ‘Dhow’ (boat) to centre.Qty 5. G £30/40

CRICKET SCORECARDS,PROGRAMMES, MAGAZINES ETC

578 Middlesex v Nottinghamshire 1893.Original scorecard for the matchplayed at Lord’s on the 5th-7th June1893. Blank scores, minor staining,tiny right hand lower corner wearotherwise in good condition. G

£25/35

A.E. Stoddart scored a century ineach innings, 195 no and 124, inMiddlesex’s win by 57 runs

579 Graham Gooch. Official scorecardfor the England v India Test match1990 in which Gooch scored 333and 123. Signed by all five of thecentury makers, Gooch, Lamb,Smith, Azharuddin and Shastri andDavid Gower. G £30/40

580 England v Australia 1981. Officialscorecard for the ‘famous’ third Testmatch, England v Australia,Headingley 1981. Part printed andhandwritten details. Ian Botham and

Bob Willis’s match. England followedon 227 runs behind and were soon135-7 in their second innings.Botham and Dilley then put togethera stand of 117. Botham finished upwith 149no and Dilley 56. Australianeeded 130 to win. Australia at 56-2seemed favourites to win the game,however Willis with 8-43 won thegame for England by 18 runs. Fullyprinted end of match scores. VG

£25/35

581 England v Australia 1956. Completeset of scorecards for all five Testmatches, some with printed andhandwritten scores, some blank.Some folds otherwise in goodcondition £25/35

England won the series by two Teststo one

582 England v Australia 1977. Completeset of scorecards for all five Testmatches, mainly with printed scores.G £25/35

England won the series 3-0

583 England v Australia 1980. Officialscorecards for the Centenary Testmatch, both standard and silkscorecards and standard scorecardfor the Prudential Trophy matchplayed at the Oval in August 1980,with fully printed scores. Qty 3. G

£15/25

584 England v Australia 1985. Completeset of scorecards for the first five Testmatches, mainly with printed scores.Plus a complete set of programmesfor the Tests and One Day matchesand a collection of tickets for theLeeds Test. G £30/50

England won the series 3-0

585 Australian tours of England 1938-1953. Collection of fourteen officialscorecards for Test and tour matchesfor the period. Matches includeGentlemen of England 1938, 1953,M.C.C. 1938, 1948, 1953, The Rest1944, Middlesex 1953, 1956, vEngland 1953, Surrey 1953 (2).Printed and handwritten scores.Press reports attached to many ofthe scorecards, some age toning andwear to cards. G £25/35

586 Durham v Australia 1993. Originalfully printed scorecard for the tourmatch played in July 1993. This wasIan Botham’s last first class match.

He made 32 in Durham’s onlyinnings and did’nt take a wicket.Nicely signed by Botham. Centrefold over crease otherwise in verygood condition. Sold with an originalblank start of match scorecard forDurham’s first ever CountyChampionship match played onApril 25th-29th 1992. Signed byeight of the Durham team on thatday. Signatures include Paul Parker,Dean Jones, Wayne Larkins, DavidGraveney, Simon Brown etc. Slightcentral crease otherwise in very goodcondition £25/35

587 Surrey v Lancashire 1990. Officialscorecard for the famousChampionship match played at TheOval in May 1990. Surrey made707-9 dec in their first innings andLancashire relied with 863 all out intheir first innings. For Surrey, Greigmade 291 and for LancashireFairbrother made 366, Atherton 191and Mendis 102. The match wasdrawn. The scorecard signed bymembers of both teams. Nineteensignatures including Atherton,Fairbrother, Mendis, Greig, Thorpe,Stewart, Ward, Hughes etc. G

£15/25

588 Famous match scorecards. Officialscorecards for Brian Lara’s 501 vDurham 1994, Graeme Hick’s 405nov Somerset and Essex v Surrey 1983,Surrey 14 all out. All with end ofmatch printed scores. Qty 3. VG

£15/25

589 England v Australia 1997. Officialscorecard for the Test match playedat Lord’s on 19th-23rd June 1997.Glen McGrath took 8-38 in theEngland first innings, bowlingEngland out for 77. Signed byMcGrath in ink. Printed details up toend of England’s first innings.Excellent condition £20/30

This was the best bowling figures foran Australian at Lord’s, the bestfigures for either side in an AshesTest at Lord’s and the second bestever bowling figures at Lord’s, thebest being Botham’s 8-34 v Pakistan1978

590 England v Australia 2001. Officialscorecard for the 4th Test match heldat Headingley 2001. Mark Butchermade 173no in the England 2ndinnings for England to win the Test

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for England by six wickets. Signed byButcher. G £15/25

591 England v New Zealand 1990.Official scorecard for the Lord’s Test,with ‘Sir’ Richard Hadlee printed toscorecard. Signed by Hadlee. FirstTest match as a Lord. VG £10/15

592 Graeme Hick 405. Official scorecardfor Somerset v Worcestershire,Taunton 1988. Hick scored 405no inWorcestershires first innings. Fullyprinted details. Signed by Hick. VG

£15/25

Hick’s score was the highestindividual first class score for 93years

593 ‘Garry Sobers. World Record. SixSixes in an Over’. Glamorgan vNottinghamshire 1968. Officialscorecard for the historic matchplayed at St. Helen’s, Swansea fromthe 31st August to the 2ndSeptember 1968. Garry Sobers hitsix sixes off the bowling of MalcolmNash of Glamorgan to create theworld record. The scorecard hasprinted details for the first days playshowing Nottinghamshire’s score of394-5 wickets declared, Sobers 76noand Nash with figures of 21 overs, 3maidens, 4-100. Prior to thismemorable over, Nash’s figures werea far more respectable 20-3-64-4.The scorecard has been signed bySobers and the full Nottinghamshireteam who played in the match.Signatures are Stead, Murray, White,Parkin, Smedley, Frost, Bolus, Bielby,Halfyard and Taylor. Centre verticalfold otherwise in good condition. Anhistoric match scorecard and veryrare in this fully printed (after firstday’s play) and signed form. Soldwith a mono press photograph ofNash in bowling pose. 6.5”x8.5”

£400/600

594 Western Province v Natal. RareSouth African scorecard for theCurrie Cup match played atNewlands on the 29th & 31stJanuary and 1st February 1927.Centre fold, child like writing andscribble to card in pencil, minorfoxing otherwise in good condition

£25/35

595 Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire1913. Official silk scorecard for thematch played at Trent Bridge,Nottingham on 11-13th August

1913. Nottinghamshire won by aninnings and 126 runs.Nottinghamshire made 507-3 intheir only innings with G. Lee scoring200no, A.W. Carr 169 and W.Payton 56no. Leicestershire werebowled out for 143 and 238 in theirtwo innings with Wass taking 6 andIremonger 5 wickets in the match.C.H. Richards, Printer. Framed andglazed and in very good condition

£60/90

596 Kent v Middlesex 1952. Officialscorecard for the match played atDover in August 1952. Signed by theMiddlesex team. Eleven signaturesincluding Edrich, L. Compton,Robertson, Knightly-Smith, Warr,Moss, Sharp, Brown etc. Minor lossto right hand corner otherwise ingood condition £25/35

597 Graham Gooch. Official scorecardfor the England v India Test match1990 in which Gooch scored 333and 123. Signed by Gooch and theEngland team. Sold with a similarscorecard signed by four of thecentury makers, Gooch, Lamb, Smithand Shastri and Umpire Dickie Bird.G £30/40

598 Brian Lara. Official scorecard forWarwickshire v Durham, June 1994.Brian Lara scored the highest everindividual score of 501 not out.Signed by Lara in blue ink. Mounted,framed and glazed. Overall13”x16”. G £30/40

599 Graham Gooch. Special limitededition official scorecard for theEngland v India Test match 1990 inwhich Gooch scored 333 and 123.The scorecard is a limited editioncard, signed by Gooch andnumbered 203 of 333 cards signed.One for each run. Mounted framedand glazed with authentication,named to the vendor, and printedsheet with details of the innings. VG

£40/60

600 ‘Cricket. Leaders of the World’.Cricket first day cover dated 1984,signed in ink by Don Bradman nd LesAmes. Sold with six ‘Prudential Cup1979’ first day covers commemo-rating six of the competing nationswith stamps from their respectivenations, a ‘Centenary of Test Cricket,England v Australia 1977 and a wornset of Players 1938 ‘Cricketers’

cigarette cards. G £30/40

601 Australia to England 1956. Threeoriginal souvenirs from the 1956tour including Golden Fleecesouvenir booklet with score book forthe England v Australia Test Series inEngland 1956. Compliments of H.C.Sleigh Ltd, Scorecard and fixture listfor the tour. ‘With the Complimentsof Meltonian’ and a single sheet flyerwith pen pictures of the teamadvertising a laundry. VG £20/30

602 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1946/47.‘Souvenir of English Cricket Matchesplayed at Brisbane, Queensland1946. With the Compliments ofQueensland Publications’. Boundbooklet with gilt titles containing theofficial programmes for the first Test,England v Australia, played on the29th-5th December 1946 and theEngland v Queensland tour matchplayed on the 22nd-26th November1946. Also contains printed scoringsheets for the matches. G £60/80

603 Benefit brochures. Bill Bowes Benefitbrochure 1947, Jack Ikin Benefitbrochure 1953 and Harold RhodesTestimonial brochure 1968, signed tofront cover by Rhodes. G £20/30

604 ‘The Daily Mirror 1925’. Completecopy of the Daily Mirror for 8thJanuary 1925 with coverage of the2nd Test match in Melbourne toboth front and back covers andinside pages, Sutcliffe three centuriesin successive Test matches vAustralia. Wear to page edges, alittle fragile £20/30

605 England v Australia 1981. Officialscorecard for the ‘famous’ third Testmatch, England v Australia,Headingley 1981. Part printed andhandwritten details. Ian Botham andBob Willis’s match. England followedon 227 runs behind and were soon135-7 in their second innings.Botham and Dilley then put togethera stand of 117. Botham finished upwith 149no and Dilley 56. Australianeeded 130 to win. Australia at 56-2seemed favourites to win the game,however Willis with 8-43 won thegame for England by 18 runs. Partprinted and handwritten details.Good/very good condition £25/35

606 Don Bradman. ‘Centenary of TestCricket England v Australia 1877-1977’ official TCCB first day covers,

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post marked 9th March 1977. Eachsigned in later years by Bradman.Qty 3. VG £30/50

607 Derbyshire and Gloucestershire.Benefit and testimonial brochures allsigned to the front including TonyWright, Courtney Walsh, DavidLawrence, Bob Taylor etc. Qty 9.G/VG £20/30

608 Sussex. Benefit and testimonialbrochures all signed to the frontincluding Alan Wells, Chris Adams,Dermot Reeve, Ian Greig etc. Qty 9.G/VG £20/30

609 Worcestershire. Benefit andtestimonial brochures all signed tothe front for Norman Gifford, TedHemsley, Neal Radford, Phil Nealeand Steve Rhodes. Qty 5. G/VG

£10/15

610 Warwickshire. Benefit andtestimonial brochures all signed,including Dennis Amiss, AllanDonald, Bob Willis, Gladstone Smalletc. Qty 9. G/VG £20/30

611 Northamptonshire. Benefit andtestimonial brochures all signed,including Kevin Curran, David Capel,Geoff Cook, Alan Lamb, WayneLarkins etc. Qty 16. G/VG £25/35

612 Leicestershire. Benefit andtestimonial brochures all signed,including David Gower, RayIllingworth, Tim Munton, JamesWhittaker, Tim Boon etc. Qty 9.G/VG £20/30

613 Kent. Benefit and testimonialbrochures all signed, including AsifIqbal, John Shepherd, Bob Woolmer,Derek Underwood, Alan Ealham,Alan Knott etc. Qty 12. G/VG

£25/35

614 Essex. Benefit and testimonialbrochures all signed, includingNasser Hussain, Derek Pringle, JohnLever, Keith Fletcher, GrahamGooch, Neil Foster, Mark Ilott etc.Qty 12. G/VG £25/35

615 English counties. Benefit andtestimonial brochures for playersfrom counties including Somerset,Surrey, Middlesex etc all signed tothe front including Richard Hadlee,Joel Garner, John Emburey, GrahamClinton, Peter Roebuck, MarkNicholas etc. Qty 13. G/VG £25/35

CRICKET CAPS, BLAZERS, TIES & ATTIRE

616 Graham Alan Gooch, Essex &England 1973-1994. England navyblue cloth Test cap with embroideredthree lions and crown emblem ofEngland to cap. Gooch hashandwritten his name to label.Good/very good condition. Soldwith letter of authentication fromMichael Down, who acquired acollection of caps, including this one,from Gooch’s Father Alf. Previouslysold by Knights in 2002 £400/600

Graham Gooch played in onehundred and eighteen Tests forEngland scoring 8900 Test runs at42.58 with a highest score of 333 vIndia 1990. He Captained Englandon thirty four occasions. He madeover 65,000 first class runs

617 Graham Alan Gooch, Essex &England 1973-1994. England/M.C.C. navy blue cloth Test cap withembroidered St. George & Dragonemblem of England to cap. ‘G.A.Gooch’ printed and written inGooch’s hand ‘G.A.G.-M.C.C.touring’ to inside label of cap.Good/very good condition.Previously sold by Knights in theGraham Gooch Benefit auction 1995

£300/400

618 Graham Alan Gooch, Essex &England 1973-1994. Essex baseballstyle cap worn by Gooch during hisplaying career. The blue cap withEssex emblem to front and Gooch’sinitials ‘GAG’ to inside of cap. G.Previously sold by Knights in theGraham Gooch Benefit auction 1995

£40/60

619 Essex C.C.C. navy blue cloth 1st XIcricket cap. With wired Essexemblem attached. Owner unknown.Good condition £70/90

620 Steve Rhodes, Yorkshire,Worcestershire & England 1981-2004. England navy blue cloth Testcap, by Albion C&D, withembroidered three lions and coronetemblem of England to cap. Worn byRhodes on the England tour ofAustralia 1994/95. ‘Bumpy’ and‘1994’ to inside. Previously sold byKnights in 1997 with signed note ofauthentication from Rhodes. Slightlight fading otherwise in goodcondition £200/300

Rhodes played in eleven Tests forEngland

621 Steve Rhodes. Yorkshire,Worcestershire & England 1981-2006. ‘Young England’ navy bluecloth cap, by Michael of Chatham,with England emblem of a singlegold lion to front. ‘S. Rhodes’handwritten to inside label. Minormoth holes to cap otherwise in goodcondition £30/40

622 Colin Milburn. Northamptonshire,Western Australia & England 1960-1974. M.C.C. navy blue touring capworn by Milburn during his Testcareer. The cap with M.C.C. emblemof St. George & Dragon has ‘C.Milburn’ handwritten to label. Thecap was donated to David Capel bythe Mother of Colin Milburn for hisBenefit Year and sold in the DavidCapel Benefit auction held atNorthampton in 1994. Goodcondition £250/350

Colin Milburn played in nine Testmatches for England, before a caraccident in 1969 led to the loss ofmuch of his sight and prompted hisretirement. His highest score was243 for Western Australia vQueensland in 1968/69. He scoredover 13,000 first class runs at anaverage of 33.07 and took 224catches. He died in 1990

623 England navy blue cloth Test cap, byMichael of Chatham, withembroidered three lions and coronetemblem of England to cap.Ownership unknown. Good/verygood condition £100/150

624 South Africa v England 1956/57.South African green cloth Test capworn during the South Africa vEngland Test series played in SouthAfrica in 1956/57. The cap, by L.F.Palmer of Johannesburg, withembroidered raised springbokemblem and ‘S.A. 1956/57’beneath. The cap in generally verygood condition. Ownershipunknown £200/300

The series was drawn 2-2

625 Shaun Pollock. Natal, Warwickshire& South Africa 1992-2008. SouthAfrican dark green cloth test cap, byAlbion C&D of Australia, withembroidered emblem of a proteaflower of South Africa with ‘S.A.

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Cricket’ beneath. The cap probablydates around 1997/98. Signed byPollock to inside label. VG£200/300

Pollock played in 108 Tests forSouth Africa taking 421 wickets at23.11 and made over 3700 runs atan average of 32.31

626 Jonty Rhodes. Natal & South Africa.South African baseball style test capworn by Rhodes during the SouthAfrica v Tasmania One Day matchplayed in Tasmania prior to the 1992World Cup in Australia. The cap with‘United Cricket Board. South Africa’emblem to cap. Albion C&D ofAustralia. With photocopied note ofauthentication stating that Rhodesgave the cap to Brian Bassano duringthe match, signed by Rhodes. Somewear and damp staining to capotherwise in good condition £60/80

627 John Wesley Martin. New SouthWales, South Australia & Australia1956-1968. New South Wales woolcloth state cricket cap, by Farmers ofSydney, with embroidered N.S.W.shield emblem to front of cap. Initialshandwritten to label. Goodcondition. The cap was given to RoySwetman, Surrey, Nottinghamshire,Gloucestershire & England 1954-1974, by Martin. G £100/150

628 M.C.C. navy blue touring blazer, bySimpson of Piccadilly, worn on thetour of Australia in 1962/63. Theblazer with excellent embroideredM.C.C. emblem in white of StGeorge & Dragon of England andbelow in scroll ‘1962-Australia-1963’ to breast pocket. M.C.C.trimming to blazer, pockets andsleeves in M.C.C. colours of yellowand red. Minor fading to braidotherwise in generally good/verygood condition. Owner unknown

£250/350

629 David Smith. Surrey & England.Surrey navy blue blazer worn bySmith whilst playing for Surrey in the1970/80’s. The blazer with excellentembroidered Surrey emblem tochest. Blazer by ‘Austin Reed’. Soldwith handwritten note of authenti-cation from Smith on Knight’sheaded slip. Previously sold in theDavid Smith Benefit auction held byKnight’s in 1994. Minor moth holesto back of blazer otherwise in goodcondition £40/60

630 Jason Brown. Northamptonshire1996-2008. MaroonNorthamptonshire 1st XI blazer wornby Brown during his career. Theblazer, by Brooke Taverner, hasembroidered club emblem to chestpocket and name handwritten toinside label £20/30

631 Roy Swetman, Surrey,Nottinghamshire, Gloucestershire &England 1954-1974. England whiteTest sweater, by Kent & Curwen,worn by Swetman during his Testcareer. The white long sleevedsweater with England emblem of thethree lions and crown to centre.Some moth holes to front of sweater.G £40/60

632 Graham Gooch. M.C.C. Bicentenarywhite long sleeved sweater,presented to and worn by Gooch forthe Bicentenary match v The Rest ofthe World, Lord’s 1987. With blue,gold and red embroidered emblemto centre. Only a limited number ofsweaters were made for this specialmatch. Label with G.A.G. and signedby Gooch to makers label. VG.Previously sold by Knights in theGraham Gooch Benefit auction 1995

£100/150

Gooch made 117 in the first inningsand 70 in the second innings

633 Essex C.C.C. Essex first XI cricketshirt, with club emblem andsponsors logo ‘Panacea’ signed tofront by twenty two players from the2002. Very attractively mounted,framed and glazed. Overall24”x36”. Sold with a full size cricketbat signed by twelve of the Essexteam 1990’s and two old cricketbats, ‘W.Vaughan & Co’ and‘Montagu Odd’. G £30/50

634 Phil Jaques. Northamptonshire &Australia. Two Northamptonshireone day cricket shirts (both different)and a one day sweater (overtop)worn by Jaques during his career.Each with Northamptonshireemblem and sponsors logos. G

£20/30

635 Cricket ties 1960/80’s. Goodselection of 129 cricket ties includingearly benefit ties, cup competitionties, touring ties, members ties etc.Benefit ties include Ray Julian(Leicestershire) 1967, DickRichardson (Worcestershire) 1967,

Tom Cartwright (Warwickshire)1968, William Stewart((Warwickshire) 1967, NormanGifford (Worcestershire) 1974, BrianDavison (Leicestershire) 1982 etc.Also Leicestershire CountyChampions & B&H winners 1975,Kent Gillette Cup Winners 1974,Leicestershire 1974 tie, Lancashire1968 tie, members ties forNorthamptonshire, Gloucestershire,Lancashire etc, John Player Leaguetie, South Africa tour of England1970, World Cup 1979, Kent vSouth Africa tie (1970?), NewZealand tour tie, England v Australia1981 etc. Good and interestingselection £50/80

636 Cricket ties 1960/80’s. Goodselection of 135 cricket ties includingearly benefit ties, cup competitionties, touring ties, members ties etc.Benefit ties include Clive Radley(Middlesex) 1977, Barry Duddleston(Leicestershire) 1980, John Murray(1966) etc. Also Sussex Gillette Cupwinners 1978, GloucestershireGillette Cup winners 1973, EssexCounty Champions 1979, EssexCentenary 1976, Gloucestershire tie1968, Kent Champions 1978, KentCentenary 1978, members ties forSussex, Somerset, Derbyshire etc,John Player League tie, South Africatour of England 1970, World Cup1975, Oxford University tie,S.A.C.U. wired emblem tie, NewZealand tour ties etc. Plus a GeoffBoycott Century of Centurieshandkerchief 1977. Good andinteresting selection £50/80

637 M.C.C. and England players cricketties. M.C.C. ‘egg & bacon’ yellowand red striped tie, M.C.C. bluemembers tie, England ‘three lions &crown’ players tie and M.C.C.touring ties (players). Qty 4. G

£30/50

CRICKET CERAMICS, METALWARE ETC

638 Cricketing cut throat razor. Foldingcut throat razor in original case byW. Palmer of Sheffield, decoratedwith cricket motif of a batsmanmissing a ball to blade. ‘Clean Shave’inscribed below. Minor wearotherwise in good condition £30/50

639 Cut throat razors. Pair of ivory cutthroat razors in original case by

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Alfred Williams of Sheffield, eachwith elaborate cricket motif to blade.‘Clean Shave’. One of the bladesdecoration fading. Hinge broken tobox. G £60/80

640 Graham Gooch. Silver platedcylindrical cricket trophy ‘Esso/Mailon Sunday County Cricket Award’.‘Fielder of the Season 1983’.Awarded to Graham Gooch. 15” tallon plinth with printed details to topand bottom of trophy. VG.Previously sold by Knights in theGraham Gooch Benefit auction 1995

£60/90

641 Graham Gooch. Silver platedcylindrical cricket trophy ‘Esso/Mailon Sunday County Cricket Award’.‘Batsman of the Season 1985’.Awarded to Graham Gooch - 2511runs. 15” tall on plinth with printeddetails to top and bottom of trophy.VG. Previously sold by Knights in theGraham Gooch Benefit auction 1995

£80/120

642 Graham Gooch. Silver platedsalver/tray. ‘Evening Standard.Cricketer of the Month. July 1979.Graham Gooch of Essex’. 10”diameter. VG. Previously sold byKnights in the Graham GoochBenefit auction 1995 £30/50

643 Graham Gooch. ‘Texaco Trophy.England v Australia 1985’. Silverplated dish/plate awarded to Goochfollowing the matches. 8.5”diameter. VG. Previously sold byKnights in the Graham GoochBenefit auction 1995 £30/50

644 Graham Gooch. Coalport china platecommemorating Gooch scoring aCentury of Centuries. Limited editionof 1000 plates. In original box.Excellent condition throughout

£20/30

645 Graham Gooch. Gilt metal miniaturecricket bat trophy presented toGraham Gooch having won theHong Kong Cricket SixesTournament in 1993. In presentationvelvet sleeve. Approx 10” long. G

£30/50

646 Cricketing epergne. Large Edwardiansilver plated seven fluted epergne(table centre piece) with sevendetachable flutes, mounted on ascalloped shaped frame with twocrossed cricket bats and cricket ball

and two sets of stumps and bails.Stamped ‘C. &Co’ for Frank Cobb ofHoward Strett, Sheffield 1905-1911.11” tall by 17” long. Minor loss ofplating. Good condition. Unusualand rare. Previously sold in the KeithCrump collection 2006 £300/400

647 Cricket ‘Smoking’ table/stand.Unusual three legged woodensmoking table/stand with threesection turned wood upright. Thetop of the table with crossedwooden bat cricket decoration withmounted wooden cricket ballashtray, with hinged lid, to centrewith three smaller circular woodenball shaped holders for matches,spills etc. Each with metal insertlining. Metal ribbed match striker tofront edge of table. The table stands31” tall by approx 13” wide at topof table. Some faults, some lightfading to wooden holders otherwisein good condition £100/150

648 Julius Caesar and George Parr. A pairof original Staffordshire cricketingfigures, believed to be of Caesar andParr. The figure of Caesar standingbeside a set of brown cricket stumpswith a cricket bat, wearing anorange cap with a dark blue peakand a pink bow to neck, anddecorated white shirt. He is holdinga cricket ball in his right hand withcricket blazer to left hand side. Parrstanding before a wicket with acricket bat in his hand, wearing agreen cap with an orange peak anda pink bow to neck, and white shirtdecorated with flower with cricketblazer to right hand side. The figuresprobably made by Sampson Smithc1865. The figure of Caesar approx14” tall has a chip to the base andodd minor firing cracks and minorwear to painted surfaces and thefigure of Parr approx 13.75” tall hasminor wear to painted areasotherwise both in very goodcondition. A rare pair of early cricketfigures £1300/1600

Two sizes of these figures aregenerally known, approx 10” and14”. These two figures werepurchased by the Vendors fromSotheby’s Belgravia in October1976. A photocopy of the catalogueentry is sold with the figures.

649 Sydney F. Barnes. An 7.5” side platewith colour vignette of Barnes in

batting pose, with inscription ‘Syd. F.Barnes-Famous InternationalBowler’. Gold lustre, with wear andfading, to rim. Some marks andscratching to vignette, crazing toplate otherwise in good condition.Rare £50/70

The plates were produced tocommemorate Barnes achievementsfor England in Australia taking sixwickets for 24 runs in 1908

650 Sydney F. Barnes. Large 9.5” platewith colour vignette of Barnes inbowling pose, with inscription ‘Syd.F. Barnes-Famous InternationalBowler’. Gold lustre to rim. Stamp toverso for ‘Clementson Brothers,Hanley, Stoke on Trent’. Minor firingmarks to back otherwise in generallygood/very good condition. Rare

£70/100

The plates were produced tocommemorate Barnes achievementsfor England in Australia taking sixwickets for 24 runs in 1908

651 Staffordshire blue ground waistedcricket mug with strap handle andbeaded rim. With three reliefmoulded figures of a batsman,bowler and wicket keeper, believedto be Lillywhite, Pilch and Box.c1860. Rare. Some age toning andminor chipping to rim otherwise ingood condition. 3.25” £40/60

652 ‘Young England’. Continental figureof a young girl dressed in three-quarter dress holding a cricket bat onnaturalistic base. Approx 9.5” tall.Sold with ‘The Right Spirit’. Transferprinted 4” jug with boy cricketers toone side and ‘Teachers Whisky’ tothe other, two small Foley chinacricket trinket trays and areproduction Staffordshire figure of acricketer. Qty 5. G £25/35

653 Cricket buttons, 1901. Four CameoCigarettes (American Tobacco Co)celluloid buttons with pinattachment featuring Blythe,Hayward, Barnes and Tyldesley. Rare- only fourteen known to have beenproduced. Age toning otherwise ingood condition. Qty 4. £100/150

654 ‘The Cricketers Inn, Chertsey’.Heavy Victorian one pint sidespouted pewter footed measure jug .The jug with the initials ‘R.R’ to sideand stamped ‘Pint’ and verification

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mark is a crown over ‘VR’ with ‘587’and ‘SYC’ beneath. Engraved tobase are the words ‘The CricketersInn, Chertsey’. The jug is 4.75” high.Some wear otherwise in goodcondition. Unusual £70/100

The Cricketers Inn at Chertsey, alarge riverside inn, now closed, wasformerly the Walnut Tree inChertsey. The Walnut Tree, Forsome more important matches inthe 1760’/80s, stands were erectedat the Chertsey ground andrefreshments were provided at theWalnut Tree

655 Cricket medals. Collection of varioussporting and other commemorativemedals and coins including a goodselection of cricket related items.Includes ‘England v Australia, Lord’s1985’, M.C.C. Bicentenary medal1987, England v Australia 1980commemorative cuff-links, 150thYear Tasmanian commemorativemedal plus other cricket medals1930/50’s, Leicestershire C.C.C. carbadge etc. Other medals and coinsetc include football and non sportingsubjects. G £50/60

656 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1965/66.Large decorated Australianboomerang signed by seventeenmembers of the M.C.C. teamincluding Cowdrey, Barrington,Edrich, Allen, Boycott, M.J.K. Smith,Larter, Knight, Parks etc. Approx 26”long. G £50/80

657 William Gilbert Grace.Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. A stoneware circular matchholder with transfer printed fulllength image of Grace in battingpose. Produced by Kepple of Bristol.Approx 2.5” high. Registrationnumber R319664 for 1898 andpainted mark M615 to base. Somewear and chipping to rim of matchholder, minor wear to image ofGrace, odd faults otherwise in goodcondition. Rare £80/120

658 ‘Lord’s Cricket Ground- The Pavilion.Marylebone Cricket Club’. Sandland,Staffordshire ceramic tankard withtransfer printed images of thepavilion at Lord’s and the famousimage of the Scorer. ‘Inscription ingilt lettering ‘North of Ireland Cricket& Football Club Centenary 1860-1960’. Gold lustre to rim and handle.

5” tall. Sold with two smallSandlandware pin trays with transferprinted images of ‘Old Father Time’to centre. G/VG £30/50

659 Cricket napkin ring. EPNS triangularnapkin ring with image of batsman(Bradman?) to one side andengraved to other ‘C.C.C. 1936-37and the initials ‘J.D.’. Approx 1.75”tall. G £20/30

660 Cricket bottle. Attractive glazedceramic earthenware cricket gingerbeer bottle, c1900, with ‘JosephSmith of Accrington’ with cricketstumps and bails printed to side.Approx 7” tall. Chip to lip of bottle,odd faults otherwise in goodcondition £60/80

661 W.G. Grace, Len Hutton, BrianJohnston and Dickie Bird. Four RoyalDoulton ceramic caricature tobyjugs. Each limited edition andstanding approx 4.25” tall. G

£100/150

662 Cricket bag. Large crested chinacricket bag with colour emblem for‘Barry Island’. Florentine China ware.Approx 4.25” long. G £30/40

663 Cricket bag. Large crested chinacricket bag with colour emblem ofmartlets for ‘Haywards Heath’.‘Botolph. J.W. & Co’ ware. Approx4.25” long. G £30/40

664 Cricket bag. Large crested chinacricket bag with colour emblem for‘Herne Bay’. ‘Botolph. J.W. & Co’ware. Approx 4.25” long. G £30/40

665 Cricket bag. Large crested chinacricket bag with colour emblem for‘Great Yarmouth’. ‘E.C. Spall ofGreat Yarmouth’ ware. Approx4.25” long. G £30/40

666 Cricket bag. Large crested chinacricket bag with colour emblem for‘Ilfracombe’. British Manufacture.Approx 4.25” long. G £30/40

667 Cricket bag. Large crested chinacricket bag with colour emblem for‘Staines’. Premier Ware. Approx4.25” long. G £30/40

668 Cricket bag. Large crested chinacricket bag with colour emblem for‘Newcastle on Tyne’. FlorentineChina ware. Approx 4.25” long. G

£30/40

669 Cricket bag. Large crested china

cricket bag with colour emblem for‘Reigate’. ‘F.P. & S.’ ware. Approx4.25” long. G £30/40

670 Cricket bag. Large crested chinacricket bag with colour emblem for‘Tewkesbury’. Florentine Chinaware. Approx 4.25” long. G £30/40

671 Cricket bag. Large crested chinacricket bag with colour emblem for‘City of London’. ‘Botolph. J.W. &Co’ ware. Approx 4.25” long. G

£30/40

672 Cricket bag. Medium crested chinacricket bag with colour emblem for‘Wigan’. Carlton ware. Approx 4”long. G £25/35

673 Cricket bag. Two small crested chinacricket bag with colour emblems for‘Cardinal Wolsey, built HamptonCourt 1526’ and the other St.Combs. Both Arcadian Ware. Approx3” long. G £30/50

CRICKET BATS, BALLS & EQUIPMENT

674 ‘Australia 1899 and Englishcricketers of the Golden Age...andbefore’. Gradidge of Woolwich‘Extra Special’ long handled cricketbat extensively signed by over 200leading cricketers and Umpires toface, back and, even, edges of theblade. The signatures in black ink ona fine wood patina were collectedcirca 1899. Signatures include theAustralian touring team to England1899, Darling, Victor Trumper,Noble, Laver, Howell, E.Jones, Kelly,Trumble, Gregory, Hill plusSpofforth, Murdoch and Trott froman earlier time, great names such asW.G.Grace, Ranjitsinhji, Jessop,Maclaren, Barnes, Rhodes,Shrewsbury, Fry, A.O. Jones,Hayward, Hearne, Lilley, Townsend,Hirst, Lockwood, Brockwell, W.Gunn, Stoddart, Woods, Mason,Bosanquet, MacGregor, Richardson,Attewell, Denton, Hayes, Abel, R.E.Foster, R.G. Barlow, Lord Hawke,Huish, Burnup, Perrin, Crawford,Lees, Jephson, Sugg, Lord Dalmeny,Poore, Wynyard etc, their signaturesall adorn this bat. A truly exceptionaland amazing bat containing some ofthe most sought after signatures incricket history, more profusely signedthan any other bat sold throughthese auction rooms. It is thoughtpossible, by the auctioneers and

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vendor, that W.G. Grace himselfcould have collected the signaturesas his signatures is first on the righthand shoulder of the bat. G/VG

£15000/25000

675 Cricket boots. Excellent pair of early1920’s white cricket boots by Jaegerwith metal studs to soles. Withexcellent three part original vintagewooden shoe stays. Good condition

£40/60

676 ‘Skeleton Leg Guards’. Pair of earlyoriginal c1890 ribbed wicker andcane batting pads. Some faults andrepairs faults otherwise in goodcondition £50/80

The pads were purchased by thevendor when the estate of A.E.Stoddart was sold some years ago

677 England v Australia, The Oval 1948.Miniature ‘Warsop’ cricket batsigned in ink by the England andAustralian teams who played in thefinal Test at the Oval. This wasBradman’s last Test. Signed to faceby all seventeen members of theAustralian touring party includingBradman, Hassett, Barnes, Harvey,Miller, Toshack, Morris, McCabe,Saggers, Johnson etc. Light fading tothe Australian signatures. Signed toback by the England team whoplayed in the Oval Test includingYardley, Hutton, Edrich, Hollies,Young, Compton, Dewes, Watkinsetc. In later years, also signed by theNew Zealand tourists of 1949 andthe Indian tourists of 1952. 18”.Minor fading to some signaturesotherwise in good condition

£300/500

In this famous final Test, DonBradman playing in his final Testmatch needed just four runs to takehis aggregate to 7,000 runs and hisaverage to 100. He was given astanding ovation walking out to thewicket, Yardley shook his hand andthe England team and the crowdgave him ‘three cheers’. He thenfaced one ball from Eric Holliesbefore being bowled playingforward to the next ball, thereforefinishing with a Test average of99.94

678 England v South Africa, Lord’s 1951.B. Warsop of Marylebone 18”cricket bat nicely signed to face bythe two teams who played in the

2nd Test at Lord’s 1951. Twenty sixsignatures including Nourse, Rowan,Fullerton, Cheetham, McGlew,McLean, Brown, Compton, Wardle,Statham, Hutton, Simpson etc.Signed to verso by the Gentlemen vPlayers teams of 1951. Twenty twosignatures. Slight fading to theEngland signatures otherwise in good condition £60/90

England won the Test by 10 wickets

679 England v New Zealand, Lord’s1958. B. Warsop of Marylebone 18”cricket bat nicely signed to face bythe two teams who played in the2nd Test at Lord’s 1958. Twentyeight signatures including Reid, Blair,Alabaster, Sparling, Ward, May,Cowdrey, Laker, Evans, Richardson,Trueman etc. G £60/80

England won the Test by an innings& 148 runs

680 England v Pakistan, Lord’s 1962. B.Warsop of Marylebone 18” cricketbat nicely signed to face by the twoteams who played in the 2nd Test atLord’s 1962. Twenty three signaturesincluding Hanif, Mustaq, Burki,Mathias, Dexter, Cowdrey, Trueman,Parfitt, Lock, Coldwell etc. G£50/80

England won the Test by an ninewickets

681 England v New Zealand, Lord’s1969. Stuart Surridge 17” cricket batnicely signed to face and verso bythe two teams who played in the 1stTest at Lord’s 1969. Twenty eightsignatures including Dowling,Pollard, Turner, Collinge, Hadlee,Congdon, Boycott, Edrich, Knight,Knott, Underwood etc. G/VG£40/60

England won the Test by 230 runs

682 England v Pakistan, Lord’s 1974.Stuart Surridge 17” cricket bat nicelysigned to face and verso by the twoteams who played in the 2nd Test atLord’s 1974. Twenty sevensignatures including Sarfraz, Mustaq,Asif Iqbal, Zaheer, Bari, Masood,Denness, Greig, Underwood, Amiss,Knott etc. Lacking rubber. G£40/60

The match was drawn

683 New Zealand tour of England 1931.‘Arthur Sandham Autograph’ batsigned to face by thirteen membersof the touring party. Signatures

include Lowry, James, Weir, Talbot,Vivian, Kerr (signed twice),Matheson etc. Some fading tosignatures. Below these are thesignatures of the England team,however due to fading there areonly six signatures legible includingHammond, Sutcliffe, Verity, Tate,Bakewell etc. To verso are thesignatures of Middlesex, Lancashire,Surrey, Yorkshire, Kent,Nottinghamshire and other furthersignatures, fading to many of thesignatures £60/90

684 Glamorgan 1953. Stuart Surridge‘Neil Harvey’ full size cricket batsigned to face by thirteen membersof the team including Wooller,Hedges, Dyson, Lewis, Parkhouse,Davies etc. To verso are thesignatures of the Lancashire, Sussex,Northamptonshire and Surrey teamsof 1953. Some ‘light’ fading tosignatures and minor stainingotherwise in good condition. Soldwith a Gray Nicholls Crusader fullsize bat signed by the West Indiestouring team of 1963, signed to faceby fifteen members of the touringparty. Fading to signatures, althoughall fifteen signatures are legible thereare only five prominent signaturesincluding Worrell, Hunte, Griffith,Nurse etc. Thirteen signatures of theWarwickshire team of 1963 to verso.Qty 2 £50/80

685 New Zealand tour of England 1937.‘Stuart Surridge ‘Perfect’ bat signedto face by seventeen members of thetouring party and ten members ofthe Surrey team. Signatures includePage, Donnelly, Hadlee, Kerr,Roberts, Weir, Tindall, Cowie,Wallace, Holmes, Sandham,Fishlock, Watts etc. Some fading tosignatures. To verso are thesignatures of Warwickshire,Somerset, Kent, Sussex, Middlesex,Yorkshire, Glamorgan and one othercounty, fading to many of thesignatures £60/90

686 Counties 1950’s. Nichols ‘GilbertParkhouse Autograph’ bat signed tofront and back by eight of thecounty teams, Middlesex,Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Sussex,Surrey, Lancashire, Gloucestershireand Leicestershire. Fading to manyof the signatures, some more thanothers £30/50

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687 Kookaburra cricket balls. Three early‘One Day International’ cricket balls,given to Irving Rosenwater, all inKookaburra boxes. Two used andone marked ‘128 runs, 29 overs’ toball, the other one new and unused.Boxes worn. From the Rosenwatercollection. G £20/30

688 Cricket Legends. Two miniaturecricket bats, one signed by tenplayers and the other by twelveplayers. Signatures include Sobers, S.Pollock, Hadlee, A. Gilchrist, J.Rhodes, Brett Lee, Muralitheran,Vaughan, Dravid, Tendulkar, Flintoff,Ganguly etc. G £20/30

689 Graham Gooch. Pair of footballboots worn by Gooch in a charitymatch played at Highbury. G£20/30

690 ‘D.C.H. Townsend. Winchester vMarlborough June 11th 1931. TheHat Trick’. Cricket ball with whichDavid Townsend (Oxford University& England) playing for Winchestertook three wickets in three ballsdismissing A.C. Uniacke, F.K.McNamara and M.S. Page inMarlborough’s first innings.Townsend opened the batting andmade 34 in Winchester’s innings.Winchester won the match by sevenwickets. G £60/90

CRICKET PRINTS & PAINTINGS

691 Don Bradman. ‘Sheer Weight ofNumbers. Bradman Out at 13,caught Robins off Verity’. Excellentand original pen and ink caricature,of Bradman being pushed down by alarge number ‘13’ on his back intothe waiting arms of Robins, by artistHarold Gittins. Signed to lower rightcorner by Gittins. The cartoon wasdrawn for the London Evening Newsduring the 3rd Test at Melbourne onthe M.C.C. tour of Australia in1936/37. Dated to back 1st January1937. 7.25”x9.5”. VG. From thecollection of Irving Rosenwater

£100/150

Australia went on to win the Test by365 runs, Bradman making 270 intheir second innings. During theseries Bradman scored a total of 810runs at an average of 90

692 ‘Doctors Orders’. March 1948. Largeand impressive original pen and inkcaricature/ cartoon newspaperartwork, highlighted with colour, for

‘The Herald’ newspaper by artistSamuel Wells. The cartoon depictsDon Bradman, in full cricket attireand Australian cap holding a bataloft, collecting a prescription fromthe Doctor. The prescription is for‘Lots of Centuries’ and the Doctor istelling Bradman to have ‘Yourprescription made up at Lords!’.Bradman cricket bag has label ‘TestTeam leaves To-day’ to side and boxof ducks to side with label ‘Food forBritain XI’. The cartoon, signed byWells, measures 16”x15”. Dated toback 11th March 1948. Excellentimage. Good condition £250/350

The famous 1948 Australian‘Invincibles’ touring team won theTest series by four Tests to nil andremained unbeaten throughout thetour

Samuel Wells born in 1885 workeddrawing sporting cartoons for theMelbourne Punch, Herald and TheAge and also worked for the DailyDispatch in the UK

693 Cricket 1953. Excellent and originalpen and ink, highlighted with colour,caricature cartoon, in six parts,showing a batsman playing a bigshot, the ball going high in the air,the fielders and batsman looking forit and then an angel with a lump onhis head crashing to the ground, byartist ‘Naylor’. Signed to lower rightcorner by Naylor The cartoon wasdrawn for publication in anunknown newspaper or magazineand is dated May 1953. Some wearto edges otherwise in goodcondition. G £30/50

694 ‘For Next Season...’. ‘Sillince’ WilliamAugustus Sillince 1906-1974.Original pen and watercolourartwork on board for a cartoonprinted in Punch circa 1972/73. Thecartoon shows a meeting in a cricketclub or cricket bat business with theChairman holding up a bat on thetable and members looking on ‘Fornext season- if Ted Heath gets us in-we’re recommending a ‘De GaulleAutograph’, a ‘Konrad AdenauerAutograph’, a ‘Spaak ExtraSpecial’...’. Signed Sillince in ink. Thecartoon measures 10.5”x15”.Excellent image. G £130/160

William Sillance was a regularcontributor to Punch and other

magazines from the mid 1930’s andbecame art editor in 1937 andretained that position until the early1950’s. He continued to contributeto Punch until his death in 1974.The cartoon refers to Ted Heath’sattempt to enter Great Britain intothe ‘Common Market’ in the early1970’s

695 Frank Reynolds 1876-1953. Originalpen and watercolour artwork onboard for a cartoon printed in Punchcirca 1910/1920. The cartoon showsa batsman having played a shot,with the ball taking the edge and thewicket keeper and three slipsdesperately trying to catch it. Signedby Reynolds in ink to lower left handcorner. The cartoon measures10.5”x6.5”. Excellent image. G

£400/600

Frank Reynolds contributed hiscartoons to Punch and othermagazines from 1906 to around1920 and was famous for hissporting cartoons, he eventuallybecame art editor for the magazine

696 ‘Last Resource Change Bowler’.Frank Reynolds 1876-1953. Originalpen and ink artwork on board for acartoon printed in Punch in the1930’s. The cartoon shows theCaptain handing the ball to his lastresource change bowler whoresponds bitterly ‘Oh Yeh!... I canhave the ball ... now it looks like aBelisha Beacon to em!!’. Signed byReynolds in ink and dated 24rd April1936 in pencil. The cartoonmeasures 10.5”x15”. Excellentimage. G £300/400

697 ‘Placing the Field for a troublesomeFellow!’. Frank Reynolds 1876-1953. Original pen and ink artworkon board for a cartoon printed inPunch c1920/1930’s. The cartoonshows a typical big ‘Blacksmith’ typeof batsman in three different sceneswith the wicket keeper and slipsarranged behind him. In the thirdscene he smashes the ball and thefielders look on. Unsigned. Thecartoon measures 10.5”x15”.Excellent image. G £250/350

698 ‘Indian Cricket Team to England1936’. Large and impressive originalpen and ink caricature/ cartoonnewspaper artwork, highlighted withcolour, by artist Samuel Wells. The

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cartoon depicts all nineteenmembers of the touring party incaricature form including theMaharaj Kumar with a cane(discipline), Merchant with bags ofruns (This Merchant has 3 bags full),Major C.K. Nayudu riding a cricketbat horse, Nisar, Mustaq Ali,Bannerji, Palia, Ramaswami, Lt WazirAli, Amar Singh, Jai, Gopalan etc.The cartoon, signed by Wells,measures 22.5”x18”. Some soilingto corners otherwise in goodcondition. Excellent images

£200/300

699 ‘Our Weekly Inspection. Ten to oneBarr none’. Excellent pen and inkdrawing, , highlighted with colourwash of a cricketer walking out toinspect the wicket. Signed ‘J.F.W.’.With inscription to back ‘Caricatureof F.A.A. Barrs done by J.F. Wilsonabout 1936. Presented to B.C.(British Columbia) Mainland CricketLeague by Stanley J. Remnant onJune 18th 1951’. Mounted, framedand glazed. Overall 8.5”x10.5”.Some browning/foxing (age toning)to image otherwise in goodcondition £50/80

700 ‘Ye Auntient Game of CriketteMatche’. Gerald S. Davies 1845-1927. Original pen and ink drawingof a collection of monks playingcricket. Signed by the artist.Mounted, framed and glazed.Overall 16”x11.75”. Some stainingto left hand corner otherwise ingood condition £70/100

Gerald S. Davies was a Master atCharterhouse School and wrote abook ‘Charterhouse in London,Monastery, Mansion, Hospital,School’ which was published in1921

701 ‘Camels and Cricket. N.W.F.’. JackRussell. 1996. Original pencildrawing of a cricket match beingplayed with camels and buildings tobackground. Titled, signed anddated by Russell 1996. Attractivelymounted, framed and glazed.Overall 20”x16”. Painted by Russellwhen he spent time in the NorthWest Frontier, Peshawar region ofPakistan whilst on tour. VG

£130/160

702 ‘The Stumping’. Jack Russell. 1989.Original pencil drawing of Jack

Russell stumping an Australianbatsman (Taylor?), with the stumpsbroken and the bails flying. Titled,signed and dated by Russell 1989.Attractively mounted, framed andglazed. Overall 33”x27”. VG£200/300

Russell played in all six Test forEngland against Australia in 1989and in the 3rd, 4th and 5th Tests,Australian opener was out stumpedby Russell, off Emburey in the 3rdand 4th Tests and off Nick Cook inthe 5th Test. Taylor made 43, 85 and219 in the three Tests

703 ‘The 59th Battle for the Ashes’.Stewart Beckett 1997. Large originalcolour watercolour painting of theAshes urn with England Lion andAustralian Kangaroo, to sides areimages of England and AustralianCaptains, Michael Atherton andMark Taylor in cricket attire. Thepainting signed in pencil by Beckettand dated 1997. Attractivelymounted framed and glazed. Overall39”x29”. VG £100/150

704 ‘Alexandra C.C. The Professor scoresO’. Original pen and ink andwatercolour drawing of theProfessor walking off the pitch,wearing quartered colour cap withbat under his arm and what appearsto be a girl with pig tails at thewickets, wearing pads. The paintingby W.H. Lambert and dated 2ndMay 1911’. The painting measures6”x8”. Minor foxing otherwise ingood condition £40/60

705 ‘Any more underarms and I’ll calltime’. Original pen and ink caricaturedrawing of Evans standing behindthe stumps. Illegible signature ofartist to corner. Probably used for anewspaper illustration. Framed andglazed. Sold with ‘Wicket Keepers ofthe World’. Godfrey Evans. London1984. Signed to title page by Evans.VG £30/40

706 ‘The First Over’. OriginalStevengraph of the start of a cricketmatch, circa 1880, miniature picturewoven in silk, approx 2”x6” wide.Original mount. Label to back ofstevengraph ‘Thomas Stevens, soleinventor and manufacturer,Stevengraph Works, Coventry’.Framed, overall 8.75”x5.5”overall.Good/very good condition with

colours bright. Rare and one of theearliest Stevengraphs £150/200

707 ‘The Victorian Eighteen’. Attractivefull page taken from ‘TheAustralasian Sketcher’ newspaper24th January 1874 depictingindividual head and shouldersportraits of the 18 members of theVictorian team, plus Umpire Ward,which defeated W.G. Grace’s AllEngland team by an innings and 21runs at Melbourne on the 26th, 27th& 29th December 1873. Somefoxing to image, fraying at rightedge, odd nicks/tears, minorcreasing otherwise in good condition

£60/90

708 ‘Alfred Diver’ Cambridgeshire & AllEngland 1857-1866. Original colourlithograph published by John CorbetAnderson on 6th July 1824 andprinted by Stannard & Dixon. Thelithograph measures approx9.5”x14”. Framed and glazed.Overall 11.5”x15.5”. Minor repairsto border of lithograph not affectingimage. G £100/150

709 ‘The All-England Eleven’ 1881/82.Attractive full page taken from anewspaper of around 1881/82depicting individual head andshoulders portraits of the 12members of the All-England Eleventouring team to Australia,highlighted with colour. Playersinclude Lillywhite, Shaw,Shrewsbury, Ulyett, Pilling, Barlow,Bates etc. Mounted, framed andglazed and in good condition.Overall 15.5”x19.5” £50/70

710 ‘Mr W.G. Grace and His Team’. TheEnglish Cricketers’. Early attractiveoriginal supplement to ‘TheAustralasian Sketcher’ featuringhead and shoulders cameo images,highlighted with colour, of all twelvemembers of W.G. Grace’s team whotoured Australia in 1873/74. Theplayers featured are Grace,McIntyre, Southerton, Gilbert, Boult,Humphrey, Jupp, Bush, Lillywhite,Oscroft, Greenwood and G.F. Grace.Mounted, framed and glazed.Overall 15.5”x20.5”. Previously soldat Phillips Auction, June 1987. VG

£40/60

711 ‘Some Representative Cricketers’.Attractive original supplement to‘The Graphic’, dated 12th July 1890,

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featuring head and shoulders cameoimages, highlighted with colour, oftwenty four cricketers of the day.The players featured include DrGrace, W.W. Read, Woods, Attewell,Hornby, Peel, Shrewsbury, LordHarris, Gunn, Abel, Briggs, Ulyett,Lohmann, Pilling, Sherwin, Barnes,Shuter etc. Framed and glazed.Overall 24”x16”. Sold with a furtherframed supplement to the Graphicof an earlier period. ‘Cricket-Groupof Crack Gentlemen Players’. Thesupplement features a youthful W.G.Grace, Thornton, Green, Walker,Cobden, Money and Fryer. c1870’s.Some wrinkling and odd nick toimages otherwise in good condition

£40/60

712 Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex &England 1894-1908, and GilbertLaird Jessop, Gloucestershire &England 1894-1914. Large originaloil painting on canvas by artist GerryWright comprising a full length studyof of the two players wearing cricketattire, striped blazers and strawboaters sitting in a beautiful summergarden. Signed by Wright to lefthand lower corner. Attractivelyframed and glazed. Overall22.5”x32”. VG £600/900

Wright produced a series ofpaintings depicting cricketers of thegolden age which appeared as printsin the book ‘Cricket’s GoldenSummer’, published in 1985

713 Thomas Hayward. Surrey & England1893-1914. Vanity Fair. ‘Tom’.Original colour chromolithograph ofHayward by SPY, dated 11th July1906. Minor adhesive marks to topborder of print otherwise ingood/very good condition £70/100

714 Hylton Philipson. Oxford University,Middlesex & England 1887-1898.Vanity Fair. ‘Oxford Cricket’.Original colour chromolithograph ofPhilipson by SPY and dated June29th 1889. Mounted. G £30/40

715 Captain Edward George Wynyard,Hampshire & England 1894-1912.Vanity Fair. ‘Hampshire’. Originalcolour chromolithograph ofWynyard by CG, dated 25th August1898. Mounted. Some age toning toborders, slight damage to top cornerof print and paper page laid down toback of print at top border, not

affecting image. G £30/50

716 Hon Frank Stanley Jackson, Surrey &England 1890-1907. Vanity Fair. ‘AFlannelled Fighter’. Original colourchromolithograph of Jackson by SPY,dated 28th August 1902. Some agetoning to borders, minor crease totop left hand corner, minor adhesivemarks to top border of print. G

£30/50

717 Walter William Read. Surrey &England 1873-1897. Vanity Fair.‘W.W.’. Original colour chromolith-ograph of Read by LIB. 28th July1888. Age toning to border notaffecting image otherwise in goodcondition £40/60

718 Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji. Sussex &England. Vanity Fair colourchromolithograph of Ranjitsinhji.‘Ranji’. August 26th 1897 by SPY.Trimmed quite tight to borderotherwise in good condition £40/60

719 J.L. Baldwin, Co-Founder of I ZingariC.C. Vanity Fair colour chromolith-ograph of Baldwin. ‘I. Zingari’.September 5th 1895 by Spy. Someminor age toning to borders, someslight wrinkling to print, furtherminor faults otherwise in goodcondition. With biographical details

£20/30

720 John Thomas Tyldesley, Lancashire &England 1895-1923. Vanity Fair.‘Forty Six Centuries in Eleven Years’.Original colour chromolithograph ofTyldesley by SPY, dated 8th August1906. G £40/60

721 Reginald Herbert Spooner.Lancashire & England 1899-1923.Vanity Fair. ‘Reggie’. Original colourchromolithograph of Spooner bySPY, dated 18th July 1906. G

£40/60

722 Gilbert Laird Jessop, Gloucestershire& England 1894-1914. Vanity Fair.‘The Croucher’. Original colourchromolithograph of Jessop by SPY,dated 25th July 1901. Slight agetoning to border, mounted loosely tocard at top edge. G £30/50

723 Lionel Charles Hamilton Palairet,Somerset & England 1890-1909.Vanity Fair. ‘Repton, Oxford &Somerset’. Original colourchromolithograph of Palairet by SPY,dated 6th August 1903. Some agetoning to border, minor nicks. G

£40/60

724 Walter William Read. Surrey &England 1873-1897. Vanity Fair.‘W.W.’. Original colour chromolith-ograph of Read by LIB. 28th July1888. Some age toning and wear toborder edges otherwise in goodcondition £40/60

725 Bernard James Tindall Bosanquet,Middlesex & England 1898-1919.Vanity Fair colour chromolithographof Bosanquet. ‘An Artful Bowler’.September 15th 1904 by Spy.Mounted, slight age toningotherwise good. Sold with J.L.Baldwin, Co-Founder of I ZingariC.C. Vanity Fair colour chromolith-ograph of Baldwin. ‘I. Zingari’.September 5th 1895 by Spy. Oddfaults, age toning otherwise ingenerally good condition £20/30

726 Robert Abel, Surrey & England1881-1904. Vanity Fair colourchromolithograph of Abel. ‘Bobby’.June 5th 1902 by Spy. Sold withPelham Francis Warner, Middlesex &England 1894-1929. Vanity Fair.‘Plum’. Original colour chromolith-ograph of Warner by SPY, dated 3rdSeptember 1903. Both mounted.Some faults, generally goodcondition £25/35

727 Vanity Fair and Chevallier Taylerlithographs. Selection of three VanityFair cricketers, Jephson, Warner andPhilipson and six Chevallier Taylercricketers of Darling, Spooner, LordHarris, Lord Hawke, McGregor andW. Rhodes. Seven of the nine in substandard condition. Three of theChevallier Tayler cricketers laid downto board with nicks, tears and wearto edges, one with repaired tear, theother two generally good condition,the three Vanity Fair cricketers withnicks and tears to edges etc. Soldwith a golfing print, laid down toboard £30/40

728 William Gilbert Grace.Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Vanity Fair. ‘Cricket’. Originalcolour chromolithograph of Grace.July 9th 1877 by SPY. Some wearwith small loss to corners, minorchipping and small nicks to borders,some age toning to bordersotherwise in good condition £50/70

729 Andrew Ernest Stoddart. Middlesex& England 1885-1900. Original

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Vanity Fair colour chromolithographof Stoddart. ‘A Big hitter’. July 9th1892 by Stuff. Framed and glazed,overall 11”x15.5”. Sold with anunframed Vanity Fair print ofBernard James Tindall Bosanquet,Middlesex & England 1898-1919.Vanity Fair colour chromolithographof Bosanquet. ‘An Artful Bowler’.September 15th 1904 by Spy, somemarks to image, very minor creaseand a Chevallier Tayler lithograph ofMr G.W. Beldam 1905, mounted,framed and glazed. G £30/50

730 ‘Cricket’ W.G. Grace.Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908, K.S. Ranjitsinhji. Sussex &England 1893-1920 and ‘Monkey’Albert Nielson Hornby, Lancashire &England, 1891. Three original VanityFair colour chromolithographs of thecricketers window mounted withoriginal titles to lower border.Framed and glazed. Overall23”x19”. With age toned anddarkened biographical details toverso. G £50/70

731 John Richard Mason, Kent &England 1893-1914. ‘Supplement tothe World’ magazine. ‘Mr J.R.Mason’. Original colour chromolith-ograph of Mason by SPY. Mounted,framed and glazed, overall13.5”x18.5”. G/VG £40/60

732 Bob Farndon. Full set of six limitededition colour prints of humourouscricket images by artist Farndon.

Prints entitled ‘Howzat’, ‘Wait On’,‘Lots Ball’, ‘Wide’ and ‘No Ball’. Alllimited edition of 750 prints andsigned by the artist. All framed andglazed. 16”x13”. VG £80/120

733 Graham Gooch. Essex & England.Original pastel drawing of Gooch inbatting pose by John K. Hawkins1992. Players name to lower borderand signed and dated by the artist.Attractively mounted, framed andglazed. Overall 19”x23”. VG

£40/60

734 Johnny W.H.T. Douglas. Essex &England. Original pastel drawing ofDouglas in batting pose by John K.Hawkins 1993. Players name tolower border and signed and datedby the artist. Attractively mounted,framed and glazed. Overall19”x23”. VG £40/60

735 Graham Gooch. Limited edition printof Gooch in batting pose by DavidByrne. Limited edition 169/456.Signed by Gooch and the artist.Framed and glazed, overall15.5”x20.5”. Sold with a largecolour limited edition print ofGraham Gooch by artist JohnDunne. Limited edition 569/850,signed by Gooch and the Artist. Plusa quantity of unsigned prints ofDickie Bird by kent Taylor, unsigned.G £25/35

736 ‘The Cricket Match between Sussex& Kent’. After William Drummondand Charles J. Basebe. Originally

published by Gambart & Co ofLondon. May 1st 1849. This moderncolour decorative print has thewording ‘Published by S. Lipschitz,84 Brushfield Street, Bishopgate,London’. Mounted, framed &glazed. Overall 36”x30”. £40/60

737 ‘Lord’s’. Jack Russell. Large colourlimited edition print of Lord’s.Limited edition 6/850 signed by theartist Russell, Colin Cowdrey,Godfrey Evans, Lt Col JohnStephenson, Brian Johnston andDickie Bird in pencil. Unusually tothe right hand corner of the lowerborder of the print there is a smalloriginal pencil drawing entitled ‘Hat& Gloves’ by Russell, signed anddated 1993. Attractively mounted,framed and glazed. 36”x26”. Withcertificate of authenticity to verso.VG £80/120

738 ‘The Old Guard of the 80’s’. Limitededition colour print of three EnglandTest players, Ian Botham, Allan Lamband David Gower by artist RichieRyall. The print signed by all threeplayers and the artist. 48/100produced. 20”x15”. Sold withlimited edition print of ‘The CountyGround, Worcester’ by TerryHarrison. Signed by the artist.Mounted, framed and glazed.Overall 23”x15”. VG £30/50

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