Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - 3 Day Auction (#7) 18/11/2022 10:30 AM GMT Closed Starts Ending 18/11/2022 10:30 AM GMT Auction Info View ▼ Lots per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime leftLotLot nameNewestHighest priceLowest priceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 151-160 of 1482. Previous|1...141516171819...149|Next Lot #151 ‘Kapil Dev. Test Programme by David Hookes’. Five page original handwritten manuscript of an article written in 1985 by David Hookes on Kapil Dev for a Test match programme for the 1985/86 India tour to Australia. Hookes opens with the statement, ‘Kapil Dev, still only 26, ranks alongside contemporary superstars Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee and Malcolm Marshall as one of the world’s leading allrounders’. Signed ‘David Hookes’. Ex Irving Rosenwater collection. G/VG View details Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot #152 Ian Redpath. Victoria & Australia 1961-1976. Seven page handwritten article titled ‘I. Redpath’, written by Redpath, reminiscing on his cricketing life from his first visit to the Melbourne Cricket Ground as a ten year old in 1951, attending the Olympic Games in 1956 and later playing there. He recalls his first match at the ground, playing for a combined school XI against opposition that included the former England Test bowler, Frank Tyson. He expresses admiration for Wes Hall ‘swinging lustily View details Estimate£60 - £90Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #153 Allan Robert Border. New South Wales, Queensland, Essex and Australia 1976-1996. Nine page handwritten article by Border with handwritten covering letter to ‘Dear Ock’ (agent/ publisher?), dated 23rd April 1986, written in Chelmsford. Border is enclosing ‘some writings that may be good for the book’.The first page of the article lists famous people Border has met including Princess Diana, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Queen Elizabeth, Des O’Connor, Peter O’Toole etc., which he has crossed out and the View details Estimate£60 - £90StatusUnsold Lot #154 David Gower. ‘D. Gower- Australian Tour 1985’. Five page handwritten manuscript written by Gower for an article looking forward to the impending visit of the Australians for the 1985 Ashes series, with accompanying undated handwritten covering letter to ‘Austin’, signed ‘David’, and additional note in Irving Rosenwater’s hand ‘recd. 13.3.1985’. Gower discusses media attention over ‘disappointing performances’ of both Australia and England against the formidable West Indies, but that ‘both sides View details Estimate£70 - £100Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #155 Dennis Lillee. ‘Test Series, World S[eries] Cup, World Champ[ionship]’ 1984/85. Four page draft handwritten manuscript of an article by Lillee for The Sun newspaper in Sydney. Lillee reports on the closure of a busy season with the Test series against West Indies, Australia receiving ‘a drubbing’ in the first two Tests, ‘fighting back’ in Melbourne and winning in Sydney ‘to gain some lost prestige’, followed by a ‘struggle’ in the one day series ‘with the World Championship just around the corne View details Estimate£60 - £90Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #156 Richard Hadlee. ‘The Stage is Set’. Six page handwritten manuscript by Hadlee, dated 21st October 1984. Hadllee is looking forward to the Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket, held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of European settlement in Victoria, and feels ‘the time is right to win our first ever competition on Australian soil’. He is optimistic for New Zealand’s chances having ‘a very good draw in our group’ against Sri Lanka and West Indies and describes the challenges set by bot View details Estimate£60 - £90Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #157 Cricketana Society List of Members 1930. Two copies of lists of members of the Society, one being Weston’s copy of a typed list with alterations and additions in Weston’s own hand, the other a six page official printed version comprising introductory letter from Weston, ‘List of Suggestions for Working of [the] Society’, a small ‘Portfolio Specimen Sheet’, ‘List of Members’, ‘Minutes’ of the first meeting held 21st October 1929, and a ‘Bibliography of Cricket’. Notable names of listed members in View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #158 The Cricketana Society 1929-1935. Buff folder comprising items relating to the formation of the Society and original issues of the Society Journal. Contents include two pages, each with ‘Cricketana Society’ title in ornate gothic script and the handwritten inscription in ink, ‘The following were present at the first meeting held on the 21st October 1929 at the St. Bride’s Institute, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.’. Both pages with the stamped signature of P.F. Warner (Chairman), and signatures i View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #159 The Cricket Society early 1960s. Folder of over eighty typed and handwritten correspondence to Peter Barling, Secretary of the Cricket Society, comprising replies to invitations to attend Society dinners. Correspondents include the odd cricketer including Rupert Daniels (Oxford University 1964-1965), and a wide range of nobility, diplomats, politicians, academics, trades unionists, broadcasters etc. including Leslie Frewin (cricket writer), Sir William Worsley (Yorkshire landowner), Lord Birkett View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #160 England v Australia. Third Test, The Oval 1884. Facsimile copy of the scorebook for the historic third Test, played 11th- 13th August 1884, accompanied by a single page typed letter and small page of notes handwritten by Irving Rosenwater. In the letter to ‘Dear Bertram [Wakley], dated 6th August 1990, Rosenwater sends his thanks for sending the copy of the scorebook, ‘which I am very happy to include in my library’. He also comments that he has copies of the original scorebook of the Centenary View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lots per page 102550100 Previous|1...141516171819...149|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Next
