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 81-90 of 1482. Previous|1...789101112...149|Next Lot #81 John Arlott. Official folding menu for a ‘Dinner and Tribute to John Arlott, O.B.E.’ given by the Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society on 14th April 1981. Signed to the front by Arlott. Sold with a typed letter from Arlott dated 19th March 1963, is to Jack Sokell of the Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, enclosing a piece for ‘The Twelfth Man’, nicely signed in ink by Arlott. Qty 2. G/VG View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #82 Anthony William ‘Tony’ Greig. Border, Sussex, Eastern Province & England 1967-1978. Single page handwritten letter dated 14th May 1969 from Greig to Jack Sokell, Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, replying to an invitation to attend a function. Nicely signed ‘Tony Greig’. VG View details Estimate£25 - £35Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #83 Learie Nicholas Constantine. Trinidad, Barbados & West Indies 1921-1939. Single page typed letter on his personal letterhead, dated 24th February 1969. Constantine thanks ‘Miss Stewart’ for her congratulations on his recent honour. Nicely signed in ink ‘Learie Constantine’. Folds, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimate£30 - £40Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #84 Gilbert Laird Jessop. Gloucestershire, Cambridge University, London County & England 1894-1914. Nice two page handwritten letter dated 16th April 1948 written to ‘Dear Arkell’. Jessop comments on an article on the ‘Old County’ which he found to be ‘most interesting, but then anything that R.C.R.S. [Robertson-Glasgow] writes never fails to be so’. He reminisces about Gloucestershire players of his era such as Charlie Townsend, ‘the best player in my time... for a couple of seasons the best leg br View details Estimate£60 - £90Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #85 John Thomas Hearne. Middlesex & England 1888-1923. Single page handwritten letter in ink dated 24th September 1921 from Hearne who is returning ‘your list of names with mine added’. He adds, ‘It is a pity I hadn’t heard sooner, as I was playing on Thursday with J.W.H. [Hearne], Hendren & Durston & could have got them to sign. It is doubtful when I shall be seeing them again. Signed ‘J.T. Hearne’. With original envelope G/VG View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #86 Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex & England 1892-1921. Single page handwritten letter from Fry, dated 21st February 1911. Writing from the T.S. Mercury, Fry is enclosing ‘a photo of the Boy Driver[?] & a few particulars. I should like to have a copy of the “Morning Leader” when it comes out with the photo’, and asks for prompt return of the photograph. Nicely signed ‘C.B. Fry’. The letter laid down to large album page. G View details Estimate£60 - £90Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #87 Edward Mills Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1870-1895. Interesting early single page handwritten letter, dated 5th July 1875, written by Grace at Thornbury in Gloucestershire in his capacity as a county coroner, relating to the inquest into the drowning of a young man in the River Avon. Grace writes requesting ‘hooks and drags at that place’. Nicely signed ‘Edward Mills Grace’. Sold with a bookplate portrait image of Grace in cricket attire. VG View details Estimate£150 - £250Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #88 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. Single page letter handwritten in ink on Surrey C.C.C. headed note paper, dated 30th April 1932. Writing to a ‘Master Mason’, Hobbs states, ‘I believe that if your suggestion was adopted interest in cricket would be revived and that the matches would draw big gates. However, the M.C.C. has set its face against cups etc. and I am afraid you would have hard work to get the authorities to change their mind’. Nicely signed ‘J.B. Hobbs’. Soiling, a View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #89 William Albert Stanley ‘Bert’ Oldfield. New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. Single page typed letter from Oldfield on his sports outlet business letterhead, dated 16th April 1928. Writing to ‘J.G. Rowan’ who ran his own sports shops in Glasgow, and published ‘Rowan’s Cricket Guide’, Oldfield thanks Rowan for sending two blazers to him in Australia, and wishes Rowan well with his new outlet in Birmingham. Very nicely signed ‘W.A. Oldfield’. Lights folds, otherwise in very good condition View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lot #90 Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Two page handwritten letter in ink dated 30th September 1946 from Sutcliffe to ‘Dear Mr [George?] Duckworth’. Sutcliffe reports he ‘did not hear Vernon Noble’s talk. Nieth er did I see any review in the Yorkshire papers... I am very surprised “Robinson Crusoe” [R.C. Robertson-Glasgow] was adversly critical. Maybe a certain amount of professional jealousy crept in’. He comments on Sydney Barnes, ‘I played against Barnes on one occasion only’, and View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning bidN/AStatusSold Lots per page 102550100 Previous|1...789101112...149|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149 Next
