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 51-60 of 1482. Previous|1...456789...149|Next Lot #51 Philip Christian William Trevor to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Small plain postcard addressed to Gaston, date stamped 1905, with handwritten note thanking Gaston for ‘kindly sending the newspaper cutting relative to my little wicket keeping incident in 98’. Nicely signed’ Philip Trevor. Originally from Gaston’s own collection. Adhesive marks to the address side of the card, otherwise in good condition View details Estimate£25 - £35Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #52 A.W. Shelton to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. Two page handwritten letter from Shelton on his estate agency letterhead in King Street, Nottingham, dated 24th September 1907. Shelton is replying to a letter thanking Gaston for ‘particulars of the Wisdens of the earlier years... I could not afford to make up the set so I will let the matter pass’. Nicely signed by Shelton. Originally from Gaston’s own collection. Some folds and adhesive mark to verso, otherwise in good View details Estimate£25 - £35Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #53 No lot View details StatusUnsold Lot #54 Harold Aubrey Tate, writer, to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. A four page handwritten letter from Tate to Gaston, dated 17th March 1892. Writing from St. Cuthbert’s College, Ushaw, Durham, Tate is enquiring on the availability of duplicate copies of annuals including ‘Green Lillywhites’ and Wisden almanacks as we wishes to supplement his own collection, and to assist a collector in Canada. Tate refers to an article in ‘Cricket’ written by Gasto, which he read with ‘gre View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #55 Bernard Dale, writer, to Alfred J. Gaston, cricket follower, writer and collector. A three page handwritten letter from Dale to Gaston, dated 17th January 1891, written from his home in Wimbledon. Dale thanks Gaston for his ‘kind letter of encouragement... and express approval of my cricket brochure’. He describes spending ‘a very enjoyable morning... the other day reading through “Wisden” for 1892 and had no idea until I read your “Bibliography” that so much had been written on cricket’. Nicely View details Estimate£20 - £30Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #56 Henry Ling. Cricket writer. Interesting four page handwritten letter to Neville Weston from Ling at his home in Croydon, dated 22nd July June [19]34. In a lengthy letter, Ling writes in great detail about his collection of Lillywhite guides, all complete with original wrappers ‘excepting the 10th Edition which has been rebound without the covers & wants four pages at the end’, and that he is lacking the ‘1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 9th, & 14th Autumn’ editions. Ling is very interested in Weston’s descri View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #57 Arthur Langford. Assistant Editor, ‘The Cricketer’ Magazine. Four original wartime letters on official letterhead from Langford to Neville Weston. In the first, a handwritten letter dated 27th May 1941, Langford confirms that ‘The Cricketer’ will be ‘coming out, but [we] have had to restrict our print order’ and states he is unable to provide three May issues requested by Weston, but can send a copy of the Spring Annual and the issue of 3rd May. In a handwritten letter dated 24th November 1941 a View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #58 Dr. T.R. Hunter. Founder member of the Cricketana Society. Lengthy seven page typed letter, with excellent cricket content, from Hunter to George Neville Weston, dated 7th December 1933. Writing from his home in Wharfedale, Hunter covers subjects including the development of the Society and its membership, and intriguing opinions about the ‘Bodyline’ series of 1932/33. He opens by expressing his sympathy for an accident Weston had suffered to his hand, and apologises for being ‘a bad corresponde View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #59 J.W. Goldman, cricket author and collector. Single page typed letter written to George Neville Weston dated 19th June 1936 on Isadore Goldman & Son, Solicitors, headed paper with Goldman’s typed private address. Goldman thanks Weston for his letter and is ‘glad to know that we have two bonds between us: Law and Cricket. I am certain the former is more remunerative’. He states he has ‘joined the Cricketana Society: paid 10/-: after a long time got a lot of loose leaves sent to me; no receipt and View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #60 J.W. Goldman, cricket author and collector. Single page typed letter written to George Neville Weston dated 12th April 1938 on Isadore Goldman & Son, Solicitors, headed paper. Goldman thanks Weston for his letter saying, ‘I plead guilty to having sent you a copy of “Indian Cricket”. It is indeed strange that both you and the writer of the article should have a copy signed by Gaston and both numbered 4’, and refers Weston to the writer of the article, ‘A.C. McKay care of National Bank of India, M View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lots per page 102550100 Previous|1...456789...149|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Next
