Knight's Sporting Auctions Auction of Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia - Live Four Day Auction (#24) 06/08/2026 10:30 AM BST Starts Ending 06/08/2026 10:30 AM BST 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 1-100 of 1888. Previous|12345678...19|Next Lot #1 ‘Fog’s Weekly Journal’ 1730. Original early four page tabloid-size newspaper for Saturday 4th July 1730. Printed by J. Wilford near St. Paul’s, London. Page 3 column 1 features a ten line report on a cricket match. ‘On Monday last a great Cricket Match was play’d on Micklam [sic] Downs in Surrey, for 50l. between three men of Sussex and three men of Surrey, esteem’d the best Players in the respective Counties, which was won by the former. There were present his Grace the Duke of Richmond, Lord B Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #2 ‘The London Evening-Post’ 1746. Early original four page broadsheet newspaper for Tuesday 8th July to Thursday 10th July 1746. Printed by J. Meres, Ludgate, London. Column 2 on the back page features a fourteen line article announcing a cricket match to be played on the Artillery Ground ‘the second great Match at Cricket, between the Gentlemen of Bromley and Addington against the Counties of Kent and Surrey’. It continues with a report of the first match ‘play’d on Monday last on Dover’s-Hill, C Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #3 ‘Drewry’s Derby Mercury’ 1771. Early original four page broadsheet newspaper for Friday 30th August 1771. Printed and sold by J. Drewry of Derby. The newspaper features two cricket references, one on page 2 column 4, five lines, ‘On Tuesday and Wednesday the 13th and 14th of August, a great Match at Cricket was played between the Gentlemen of Stanstead Abbots and the Gentlemen of Walden, which was won by the latter by 41 Notches’. Also on page 4 column 1, an intriguing eleven line report from No Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #4 ‘The General Advertiser’ 1788. Early original four page broadsheet newspaper for Friday 25th July 1788. Printed by J. Almon of Fleet Street, London. Page 3 column three features an article describing ‘The Match of Cricket- the Hampshire Club against All England, for one thousand guineas each side, began playing yesterday, at Seven Oaks Vine, Kent’. The players of both teams are listed, comprising some notable names, for All England Mr. Louch, Aylward, Ring, Clifford, Bullen, Booker, Brazier, Phe Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #5 ‘The London Chronicle’ 1789. Early original eight page newspaper/ magazine for Saturday 11th April to Tuesday 14th April 1789. Sold by T. Wilkie, St. Paul’s Churchyard, London. Column 2 of the final page features an eight line article, ‘We are informed, that Sir Henry St. John’s park keeper, at Dogmersfield park near Odiham, Hants, who shot six pigeons flying, out of ten, with a single ball, has since to decide a bet [to] hit a cricket ball with common shot twelve times successively, bowled betw Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #6 ‘The St. James’s Chronicle or British Evening Post’ 1789. Early original four page broadsheet newspaper for Thursday 25th June to Saturday 27th June 1789. Printed by H. Baldwin at the Britannia Printing Office, Blackfriars, London. Column 3 of the final page features a ten line article, reporting ‘Thursday the Cricket Match between 11 of the Hambledon Club and 13 of All England for 1000 guineas aside, commenced at Marybonne [sic]. The players for England went in first. Ring was bowl’d out withou Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #7 ‘The Star’ 1793. Early original four page broadsheet newspaper for Saturday 27th July 1793. Printed by J. Mayne, Temple Bar, London. Page 4 column 2 features a five line report and scorecard for the match between Surrey and Hampshire. ‘On Monday last and the two following days, was played a Grand Match of Cricket on Dartford Brimp [Brent], two Select Elevens, between Surry [sic] and Hants, for 1000 guineas. This match was made between Earl Winchelsea and [-] Lee, Esq’. The scorecard shows Surrey Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #8 Cricket reports in newspapers 1853-1894. Three original and complete copies of newspapers. ‘The York Herald’, 1651Saturday 10th December 1853. p6 columns 3-5 carries a lengthy report on the ‘Annual Dinner of the York Cricket Club’. Duty stamp to lower right corner of front page. ‘Sporting Gazette’, Saturday 6th January 1872. p13 columns 1-2 with cricket article ‘Cricket on the Hearth’ covering cricket in Croydon, cricket reform and the conservative attitudes of the M.C.C., appreciations of W.G. Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #9 ‘Bodyline’. M.C.C. tour to Australia 1932/33. Two original and complete copies of ‘The Sporting Globe’ newspaper published by the Herald and Weekly Times, Melbourne, for Wednesday 14th December 1932 and Wednesday 25th September 1935. The front page of the 1932 issue reports on the aftermath of the 1st Test, which England won by ten wickets, with the headline ‘Problem of Our Test Match batting: Do not change our opening pair’ and a large cartoon of an Australian boy in sailor suit complaining to Login to bid Estimate£30 - £50Starting£20 Lot #10 Langbourne Cricket Club. Programme of the Second Grand Annual Bohemian Concert’ 1895. Official four page programme for the concert held at The Surrey Masonic Hall, Camberwell (then part of Surrey), 25th April 1895. The floral decorated front cover with printed titles, ‘Sir J. Blundell Maple, M.P., L.C.C.’ was the Club Patron. Programme of musical entertainments to centre pages, list of ‘Stewards’ to rear page. Printed by A. Constance of Walworth Road. Horizontal folds, some splitting to folds an Login to bid Estimate£20 - £30Starting£10 Lot #11 M.C.C. ‘114th Anniversary Dinner’ 1901. Excellent official menu for the M.C.C. Dinner held at Lord’s Hotel on the 1st May 1901. The four page card menu with decorative front cover showing the M.C.C. emblem to centre in black and titles in red. Menu, wines and Toast list to centre pages, programme of music to rear page. ‘D.M. Sherwill, Manager’ printed to lower border. Small splitting to fold, otherwise in very good condition. A rare and early menu. Login to bid Estimate£25 - £35Starting£20 Lot #12 Kent C.C.C. County Champions 1906. Rare official menu for the dinner for the Ninth Annual Dinner of the ‘Association of Men of Kent & Kentish Men’ with ‘Guests: Kent County Cricket Team (Champions 1906)’, held at The Holborn Restaurant, London, 6th November 1906. Printed titles to front cover, menu and toast list to centre pages, programme of Association events for 1906-7 to rear cover. Foxing, otherwise in good condition. Another rare item from this Championship winning season Login to bid Estimate£150 - £250Starting£90 Lot #13 Kent C.C.C. County Champions 1906. Rare official ‘Band of Brothers Cricket Club’ menu for the dinner to ‘The Amateurs Kent XI (The Cricket Champions)’, held at The Grand Hotel, Trafalgar Square, 10th December 1906. The menu with ‘We Are a Band of Brothers’ emblem and titles to front cover, The Earl of Dartmouth in the chair, black and white silk tie and gilt edges. Printed menu to inside. Minor soiling to covers otherwise in very good condition. Another rare item from this Championship winning s Login to bid Estimate£150 - £250Starting£90 Lot #14 ‘Dinner to the Australian Imperial Force 1919 Cricket Team’. Original folding menu for the end of tour Dinner held at the Cafe Monico, London, on the 15th September 1919. The Dinner was organised by John Wisden & Co. to celebrate the tour. The menu with attractive printed cartoon by Alick P.F. Ritchie and titles to front cover, to inside pages ‘Menu’ and ‘Toast List’ and to rear cover ‘Programme of Music’. Lord Harris chaired the Dinner and speakers included P.F. Warner, F.S. Jackson, Sir Jeremi Login to bid Estimate£200 - £300Starting£120 Lot #15 ‘A Supper Dance to welcome home the N.S.W. Members of the 1930 Australian Cricket Team at David Jones’, Saturday 22nd November 1930. Tickets 7/6. Proceeds in aid of Sydney Industrial Blind Association. A ticket for the supper numbered 649. The New South Wales members of the team were Don Bradman, Alan Fairfax, Archie Jackson, Alan Kippax, Stan McCabe and Bertie Oldfield whom attended the Supper. Odd very minor faults otherwise in very good original condition Login to bid Estimate£20 - £30Starting£10 Lot #16 Australia tours to England 1934, 1938 & 1948. Three double sided menu cards from the Maynard Arms, Grindleford, each with blank menu with hotel emblem to one side and, to the verso, printed facsimile signatures of the Australian touring parties. The menus are dated 12th- 18th July 1934, 28th June- 7th July 1938, and 21st- 30th June 1948. Each card measures approx. 6”x9.5”. Minor wear, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with an unused and complete official ticket with stub attached for Login to bid Estimate£80 - £120Starting£50 Lot #17 Warwickshire C.C.C. 1950-1953. Three official menus for dinners including a folding menu for ‘The President’s Invitation Dinner to Welcome the West Indies Touring Team’ held at Edgbaston, 9th August 1950. Official menu booklet for the ‘Dinner in honour of the President of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club and the Captain and Members of the County Eleven, Winners of the County Championship, 1951’. The booklet with card wrappers, ribbon tie, Menu, Toasts and table plans to inside pages, with in Login to bid Estimate£30 - £40Starting£20 Lot #18 Cricket related ship menus 1950s. Two official Union-Castle Line four page menus, both featuring a decorative front cover in colour of a village cricket scene. One for the R.M.S. ‘Edinburgh Castle’ dated 17th December 1953, signed to back page in ink by twenty three passengers (non cricket), the other for the R.M.S. Arundel Castle dated 14th March 1954. Good condition. Sold with a card menu featuring a colour aerial view of a match in progress at an unknown Test match. The menu for a luncheon on Login to bid Estimate£30 - £40Starting£20 Lot #19 Robert Arthur Thoms, Umpire. ‘Earl of Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893’. Rare original invitation card, ‘The Earl of Sheffield requests the Honor of Mr Thoms company to Luncheon at Sheffield Park, May 9th 1893 at two o’clock precisely. Ticket to be presented on entering the tent. Tea and coffee will be served at five o’clock. The favour of an answer is requested’ The invitation card with Lord Sheffield ‘crown’ emblem in gilt to top, wording on the card printed in mauve and blue, gilt to all edg Login to bid Estimate£200 - £300Starting£120 Lot #20 Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the Luncheon given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield from the 8th-10th May 1893. The highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and Lord Sheffield’s cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stum Login to bid Estimate£400 - £600Starting£240 Lot #21 Australia tour to England 1893. ‘Lord Sheffield’s XI. v Australians’. Early original single sided scorecard with printed and handwritten scores in pencil for the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield, 8th- 10th May 1893. In the opening match of the 1893 tour, a strong Lord Sheffield’s XI elected to bat first and posted 258, W.G. Grace (63) and Arthur Shrewsbury (62) making an opening stand of 101. For the Australians George Giffen and Arthur Coningham shared the wickets five apiece. Replying, Login to bid Estimate£100 - £150Starting£60 Lot #22 Earl of Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893. Albert Craig. ‘England v Australia, at Lord Sheffield’s Picturesque County Seat’. His Lordship, with his usual unbounded generosity, grants free admission to the General Public. Monday May 8th 1893’. Original broadsheet poem entitled ‘The Opening Struggle’. ‘Let us hope this opening struggle, will so entertain and please, that you’ll live to talk it over, when you’re seated at your ease’. Printed by Mitchell Jackson of Woolwich. The poem laid down to c Login to bid Estimate£100 - £150Starting£60 Lot #23 Scarborough Cricket Club v The Parsees (Bombay, India) 1888. Early and original handbill for the match played at the Cricket Ground, North Marine Road, Scarborough on the 27th August 1888. Title ‘Grand Cricket Match at Scarborough’ to top border and below ‘The Parsees (from Bombay) versus the Scarborough Club. This Grand Match will be played on the Cricket Ground, North Marine Road This Day. Wickets pitched at 12 o’clock. The match bill printed in black and red print and to lower border ‘Refresh Login to bid Estimate£300 - £500Starting£180 Lot #24 Australia tour of England 1934. Original advertising laundry sheet featuring head and shoulders images of the sixteen members of the Australian touring party. Title ‘Australia’s Cricket Test Team. Well laundered sportswear gives confidence. Send us your cricket & tennis flannels & ladies sports frocks’. Players featured include Woodfull, Bradman, Ponsford, Grimmett, McCabe, Kippax, Oldfield, Barnett, Darling, Ebeling etc. 19.75”x10”. Light creasing, otherwise in very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #25 Henry Phillips. Sussex 1868-1891. ‘H. Phillips’ Benefit’ 1886. Small original admission ticket for Phillips’ benefit match, Sussex v Gloucestershire at Hove 7th- 9th June 1886. Annotation in ink to verso, ‘1886. Match Receipts £356.17.0 (this included £100 from Lord Sheffield)’. 3.5”x2.5”. Tape to top and bottom edges, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Sold with an original carte de visite sepia photograph of Phillips, half length wearing cricket attire and cap 2.5”x4.26”. Photographer u Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #26 Tom Hayward. Surrey C.C.C. Penny card written by A.C. Albert Craig ‘Cricket Poet and Rhymester’, and published by Wright & Co, 23 Paternoster Square. 1906. Image of Hayward batting to front cover. Very minor foxing otherwise in good/very good condition Login to bid Estimate£50 - £70Starting£30 Lot #27 Albert Craig. ‘Cricket Rhymester’ c.1900s. Original single page broadsheet of a poem in four six-line stanzas by Craig titled ‘A kindly token of esteem and admiration to Harry Butt, the fearless Sussex wicket-keeper’. The page, with light horizontal and vertical folds, is laid to page, otherwise in very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£60 - £90Starting£40 Lot #28 ‘Sussex County Cricket Club. Bazaar Souvenir, Sussex Cricket Historical Sketch’. Alfred D. Taylor. The Sussex Bazaar Committee 1904. Pictorial front wrapper. Wrappers cleanly detached otherwise in good condition. A scarcer A.D. Taylor publication Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #29 South African cricket membership tickets 1897-1901. Two original Western Province Cricket Club membership card/ fixture list booklet for seasons 1897/98 and 1900/01, leather covers with gilt title. Sold with a similar membership booklet for the Western Province Amateur Athletics Association 1898. All three issued to ‘The Hon. J.D. Logan’, South African cricket patron. Very good condition. Qty 3. Login to bid Estimate£25 - £35Starting£20 Lot #30 ‘Principal Cricket Fixtures 1910’. Original fixture card published by John H. Puttick (Sports Hosier Outfitters) of Fleet Street, London, featuring a portrait of Jack Hobbs to the front cover. Minor rusting to staple otherwise in good/ very good condition Login to bid Estimate£30 - £40Starting£20 Lot #31 England v Australia 1921. Official complete admission ticket for the third day of the first Test match played at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on May 31st 1921. The blue ticket in three joined sections was never used as the Test match only lasted for the first two days. A rare early ticket, seldom seen. Some wear otherwise in good condition Login to bid Estimate£50 - £80Starting£30 Lot #32 Warwickshire C.C.C. 1933. Original folding membership/ fixture card for the 1933 season issued to a ‘J.R. Hetherington’, no. 566. The card with blue cloth covers and printed titles. Very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£20 - £30Starting£10 Lot #33 Gilbert Laird Jessop. Gloucestershire, Cambridge University & England 1894-1914. Selection of postcards and correspondence sent to, received by or owned by G Jessop. There are three postcards with correspondence to Jessop, one a postcard from a admirer on Jessop’s Birthday 19th May recalling various innings played by Jessop in the past dated 1940, a Christmas greeting postcard from James Thorpe, the illustrator and cricket author dated 1944 and a further postcard from a Sydney ?? dated 1952. Oth Login to bid Estimate£30 - £50Starting£20 Lot #34 West Indies. ‘Intercolonial Cricket Matches 1871-1950’. Scrap/ exercise book comprising a comprehensive statistical analysis, both handwritten and cuttings laid down, of matches played between West Indies countries for the period, including a list of century makers by year. Some wear and ageing, otherwise in good condition. Login to bid Estimate£60 - £90Starting£40 Lot #35 Cricket scrapbook 1880s/1890s. Early original scrapbook collected by ‘J.A.C’. comprising a selection of cuttings, photographs, fixture cards etc. including a good number of magazine article extracts covering County Championship match reports and statistics, instructional articles by W.G. Grace, cricket at Epsom 1880-1881 and schools cricket for the period. Some illustrations are hand coloured. Laid down to pages are six small original sepia photographs, including a small bookplate style image of Login to bid Estimate£100 - £150Starting£60 Lot #36 Original Patents. Two green folders containing original cricket and games patents. The first ‘Cricket Equipment & Accessories 1876-1904’ comprising nineteen original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. Subjects include ‘Apparatus for Scoring Games’ W. Walton 1876, ‘Improvements in Cricket Stumps or Wickets’ W.G. Boorn-Thompson 1884, ‘Improvements in Machinery for Making Cricket-bats’ W.H. Cook 1888, ‘Improved Cricket Sight Boards’ W. Browning 1897, and others relating to wicket Login to bid Estimate£50 - £70Starting£30 Lot #37 Original Patents. Two green folders containing original cricket patents for cricket bats. The first ‘Cricket Bats 1876-1885’ and the second ‘Cricket Bats 1886-1895’ comprising forty eight original printed ‘Provisional Specification’ patent documents. all relating to the construction of cricket bats, bat and tennis racquet handles and covers ‘and other Implements of the like kind’. Includes patents applied for by notable manufacturers of the day including G.W. Frowd of Lillywhite & Frowd 1881, R. Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #38 Frank Worrell of Barbados 1924-1967’. Order of Thanksgiving for Worrell held at Westminster Abbey on 7th April 1967 with official ticket for admission to the Choir for the service. Also two copies of an Order of Service for the memorial service held for Worrell, ‘Sometime professional Radcliffe Cricket Club’, at Radclife Parish Church, 9th April 1967. Very good condition. Sold with a mono studio photograph of Worrell, head and shoulders, wearing his Commonwealth tour of India & Ceylon blazer, a Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #39 Lancashire cricketers orders of service 2011-2026. Six original orders of service for former Lancashire cricketers. Roy Tattersall, Stourbridge Crematorium 21st December 2011. Harry Pilling, St. Matthews Church, Little Lever 8th October 2012. Kenneth Higgs, South Leicestershire Crematorium 5th September 2016. Jack Bond, Blackley Crematorium 6th May 2019. Kenneth Shuttleworth, Lach Dennis Cheshire 10th September 2025. Peter Lee, Nene Valley Crematorium 27th February 2026. Very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£30 - £50Starting£20 Lot #40 Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. Large album comprising eighteen original school certificates/ reports issued to Fender in his time at St. George’s College, Weybridge for the academic years 1902/03-1905/06. Includes nine ornately printed examination certificates with marks entered in copperplate handwriting, each loose mounted individually to a page, the remainder loosely inserted. Handwritten title in ink to first page in Fender’s own hand ‘Percy George Herbert F Login to bid Estimate£50 - £80Starting£30 Lot #41 Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. Five large original sepia St. Paul’s School team photographs featuring Percy Fender. Teams are ‘St. Paul’s School First Eleven 1908’, ‘St. Paul’s School First Eleven 1909’, ‘St. Paul’s School Fives Four 1910’, all by Elliott & Fry, London, ‘St. Paul’s School E. Club. Winners of Club Championship, 1908-9’, Fender Captain of cricket, by C.G. Haigh, London, and one smaller photograph with ornate hand printed title ‘Mr. P.G. Fender’s [ Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #42 Kent C.C.C. Benefits 1950s-1980s. Box comprising a collection of benefit plaques and other Kent related prints. Benefit plaques are for Norman Graham 1977, 6.5”x9.5”, John Shepherd 1979 and David Nicholls 1980, both 11”x7”, also a framed and glazed signed print of Graham Johnson for his 1983 benefit, 13”x9.5”. Sold with eight caricatures by artist D. Waugh of Kent & England players, each signed to the print. Subjects and signatures are Derek Underwood, Asif Iqbal, Bob Woolmer, Chris Tavare, Alan Login to bid Estimate£50 - £80Starting£30 Lot #43 England v Australia 1948. Cotton table cloth, with decorative edging, embroidered in a variety of coloured threads, with the signatures of members of the England and Australian teams who played in the 1948 series held in England. Signatures include Yardley and Bradman (the two Captains), Washbrook, Hutton, Compton, Wright, Edrich, Dollery, Barnett, Gladwin, Cranston, Harvey, Miller, Brown, Barnes, Morris, Toshack, Loxton, Hassett, Lindwall, Hamence, McCool etc. Odd very minor marks otherwise in Login to bid Estimate£50 - £80Starting£30 Lot #44 The Australian Eleven 1884’. Gunn & Moore calendar/ advertising show card c1920s. Excellent original colour advertising card/board featuring a colour lithograph laid to the card with vignettes of the captain W.L. Murdoch, surrounded by slightly smaller vignettes of the Australian team superimposed on Gunn and Moore bats with cricket scenes and local attractions in the background. Players’ names are listed to lower border. Printed advertising slogan ‘For Over 50 Years, leading players, the world Login to bid Estimate£100 - £150Starting£60 Lot #45 ‘W.G. Grace. Champion Cricketer of the World’. Large cotton handkerchief commemorating a Century of Centuries by Grace. The handkerchief has a central portrait of Grace three quarter length in cricket attire holding a cricket bat, with biography and record of each individual score and opponents to outer border. Decorated with cricket bats and balls in a floral outer border. Produced in 1895 the handkerchief is printed in black print. Framed and glazed, overall 27” square. Repaired 8” tear to lef Login to bid Estimate£50 - £70Starting£30 Lot #46 ‘England’s Champion Batsman. J.B. Hobbs. Surrey & England XI’ 1922. Large linen handkerchief printed in black with printed headings and five images of Hobbs in various batting poses plus total runs and average in first class cricket up to 1922. Listed to outer border are details of all first class centuries scored by Hobbs. Framed and glazed, overall 27” square. Odd faults otherwise in good condition. Login to bid Estimate£50 - £70Starting£30 Lot #47 Indian Test cricketers. Excellent ink signatures of Vijay Merchant, Mustaq Ali and Lala Armanath. The Merchant and Armanath signatures date 1980 to the vendor and the Mustaq Ali dated 1945. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£50 - £80Starting£30 Lot #48 Cotah Ramaswami. India 1936. Picture of Ramaswami extracted from a book he wrote and nicely signed by him and dated July 1985. He played for India in two Tests against England in 1936 and managed post-war Indian teams. 4.25”x6.25”. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£30 - £50Starting£20 Lot #49 Rustomji Sheriyar ‘Rusi’ Modi. Parsees, Bombay & India 1941-1953. Single page typed letter from Modi replying to a request in 1963 for a photograph of himself. The letter signed ‘R.S. Modi’. Enclosed is the accompanying photograph of Modi in batting pose, signed in ink by Modi. The photograph by ‘The Hindu’, Madras measures 4”x6.25” with adhesive marks to verso. The letter trimmed, slightly affecting the signature. Age toning, otherwise in good condition. Login to bid Estimate£30 - £50Starting£20 Lot #50 Indian Test cricketers. Three handwritten letters signed by Indian Test cricketers responding to requests for their autographs. Signatures are Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekar [Sekhar] (two Tests 1982/83) dated 3rd March 1983, Adwai Raghuram Bhat (two Tests 1983/84) dated 7th November 1983, and Lalchand Sitaram ‘Lalu’ Rajput (two tests 1985) dated 12th May 1987. Light folds, otherwise in good/very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£50 - £80Starting£30 Lot #51 Indian Test cricketers. Three handwritten letters signed by Indian Test cricketers responding to requests for their autographs with some interesting cricket detail. Signatures are Dhiraj Devshibhai Parsana (two Tests 1978/79) dated 12th May 1981, Dilip Rasiklal Doshi (33 Tests 1979/80-1983/84) dated 20th January 1984, and Roger Michael Humphrey Binny (27 Tests 1979/80-1986/87) dated 18th June 1982. Parsana notes he his currently working as the cricket professional at Chester-le-Street in Durham, Login to bid Estimate£60 - £90Starting£40 Lot #52 Indian Test cricketers. Three good ink signatures of Vijay Merchant, C.S. Nayudu and C.D. Gopinath on paper and card pieces. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #53 Indian cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Sarbindu Banerjee, Sadashiv Shinde, Syed Hussain and Kamal Bhandarkar on paper and card pieces, two on pieces laid down to card. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #54 Indian Test cricketers. Three good ink signatures of Polly Umrigar, Keki Tarapore and ‘Hemu’ Adhikari on paper and card pieces, one signature on piece laid down to card. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #55 Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Subhash Gupte, Ghulam Ahmed, Pankaj Roy and Ramesh Divecha on paper and card pieces. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #56 Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Datta Gaekwad, Madhav Mantri, Hiralal Gaekwad and Hemchandra ‘Bal’ Dani on paper and card pieces. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #57 Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Nawab of Pataudi (Jnr), S. Venkataraghavan, B. Chandrasekhar and Farokh Engineer on paper and card pieces. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #58 Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Kapil Dev, Roger Binny, Pranab Roy and Dilip Vensarkar on paper pieces and cards. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #59 Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Rahul Dravid, Harbhajan Singh, V.V.S. Laxman and Saurav Ganguly on cards. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #60 Indian Test cricketers. Four good ink signatures of Mohammad Azharuddin, Chandrakant Pandit, Manoj Prabhakar and Narendra Hirwani on cards. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #61 India 1940s onwards. A selection of signatures of Indian and some Pakistan cricketers on pieces, colour and mono photographs and cuttings. Thirty three signatures in total. Earlier signatures on pieces include D.K. Gaekwad, P. Roy, R.V. Divecha, C.T. Sarwate. Others include Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Kumble, Dravid, K.L. Rahul, Vensarkar, Srikkanth, Chetan Sharma etc. Pakistan signatures include Billy Ibadulla, Abdul Razzaq, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Sami (Pakistan) etc. Good condition. Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #62 Syed Wazir Ali. India 1932-1936, Mahomed Nissar. India 1932-1936 and Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai. India (one Test) 1933. Ink signatures of the three players on paper pieces laid down to cards. Good condition Login to bid Estimate£25 - £35Starting£20 Lot #63 Robert ‘Bobby Abel’. Surrey & England 1881-1904. Ink signature of Abel on strip of paper, signed ‘Robt Abel, Surrey, Good condition Login to bid Estimate£30 - £50Starting£20 Lot #64 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1930s. Five small white cards, four of which are very nicely signed individually in ink by a Nottinghamshire player. Signatures are Walter Keeton, Joe Hardstaff Jnr., Harold Larwood, and Bill Voce. The other signature is Bill Copson of Derbyshire. Very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£30 - £50Starting£20 Lot #65 Test and County cricket autographs 1930s-1950s. A good selection of nice signatures, the majority on small white cards. Most are signed individually in ink include Harold Gimblett, Wally Luckes, F.S. Lee, Dai Davies, Cyril Washbrook, Mlcolm Hilton, Willie Watson, Len Hutton, Bill Edrich, Leslie Ames, Frank Woolley, Denis & Leslie Compton, Alec & Eric Bedser, Jack Hobbs, Trevor Bailey, Jim Parks etc. also James Langridge, Arthur Fagg etc. in pencil. Also include a card signed in ink by fourteen m Login to bid Estimate£60 - £90Starting£40 Lot #66 Yorkshire C.C.C. 1920s-1950s. Eight individual signatures of Yorkshire cricketers on plain white cards. Signatures are David Denton, Herbert Sutcliffe, Ken Fiddling, Frank Dennis, Arthur Wood, Percy Holmes, Harry Halliday and Len Hutton. Sold with another plain white card signed by twelve members of the 1947 Yorkshire team including Sellers, Brennan, Coxon, Wardle, Aspinall, Smailes, Bowes, Smithson etc. Good/ very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£50 - £70Starting£30 Lot #67 Sydney Francis Barnes. Warwickshire, Lancashire & England 1894-1930. Exquisite copperplate signature in black ink of ‘S.F. Barnes’ on ruled card with Barnes’ teams ‘Warwick, Lancs, Staffs, England’ similarly annotated below. Good/ very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£30 - £50Starting£20 Lot #68 Derbyshire C.C.C. c.1900. Nine excellent signatures of Derbyshire cricketers, each individually signed in ink to piece, all lightly laid to one side of a large album page. Signatures are Levi G. Wright, E. Maynard Ashcroft, Joseph W. Hancock, Harry Bagshaw, William Bestwick, William Storer, George Porter, and the rarer Frank Davidson (14 matches 1897-1899) and J. Albert ‘Alf’ Berwick (16 matches 1895-1901). Slight damage to the Bestwick and Porter signatures, otherwise in very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£60 - £90Starting£40 Lot #69 Essex C.C.C. and others c.1900. Eleven excellent signatures of Essex and other cricketers, each individually signed in ink to piece, all lightly laid to one side of a large album page. Essex signatures are Percival A. ‘Peter’ Perrin, Charles P. McGahey, George W. Ayres, Frederick G. Bull, and the rarer Jesse Littlewood (one match 1905). Others include Hugh R. Bromley-Davenport (Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1892-1899), Arthur J. Paish (Gloucestershire 1898-1903), Frederick G. Roberts Login to bid Estimate£50 - £70Starting£30 Lot #70 Kent and Yorkshire c.1900. Twenty two excellent signatures in ink, comprising thirteen of Kent players, seven of Yorkshire, and two others, each individually signed in ink to piece, all lightly laid to both sides of a large album page. Kent signatures are Eustace B. Shine, Gerald J.V. Weigall, Frederick ‘Nutty’ Martin, Frederick H. Huish, Alec Hearne, Cuthbert J. Burnup, Samuel H. Day, Robert O’H. Livesay, William H. Patterson, John R. ‘Jack’ Mason, Walter M. ‘Bill’ Bradley, Tom E. Pawley, and t Login to bid Estimate£120 - £160Starting£70 Lot #71 Lancashire C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising a total of thirty very nice individual signatures in ink on pieces lightly laid down to both sides. Twenty seven signatures are of Lancashire players of the period. Signatures are William J. Hibbert, Lees Radcliffe (two signatures), Thomas Lancaster, Albert W. Hallam, Sidney Webb, Charles R. Hartley, Charles H. Benton, James Hallows, Alexander Eccles, Arthur G. Paul, Albert Ward, John T. Tyldesley, Jack Sharp, Johnny Briggs, Willis Cuttell, F Login to bid Estimate£100 - £150Starting£60 Lot #72 Leicestershire C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising eleven excellent individual signatures in ink of Leicestershire players of the period on pieces lightly laid down to one side. Signatures are Cecil J.B. Wood, Samuel Coe, Lewis Brown, John H. King, Frederic Geeson, Charles E. de Trafford, A. Dick Pougher, Harry Whitehead, John P. Whiteside, Albert E. Knight, and the rarer Charles Agar (23 matches 1898-1900). Very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #73 Surrey C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising fourteen excellent signatures in ink of Surrey players (one exception) of the period on six pieces lightly laid down to one side. Signatures are E.G. ‘Ernie’ Hayes, William H. ‘Bill’ Lockwood, Henry ‘Harry’ Wood, Robert ‘Bobby’ Abel, Charles Marshall, Thomas W. ‘Tom’ Hayward, Tom Richardson, Frederick C. ‘Fred’ Holland, William ‘Bill’ Brockwell, Edwin J. Diver, Kingsmill J. Key, Digby L.A. Jephson, the rarer Harold B. Richardson (22 matches 1899) Login to bid Estimate£80 - £120Starting£50 Lot #74 Warwickshire C.C.C. c.1900. Large album page comprising ten beautiful signatures in ink of Warwickshire players of the period on eight pieces lightly laid down to one side. Signatures are Frank E. Field, Tom S. Fishwick, Walter Quaife, William G. ‘Willie’ Quaife, Sydney Santall, Crowther Charlesworth, Arthur F.A. ‘Dick’ Lilley, John H.G. ‘Jack’ Devey, Alfred C.S. Glover, and Frederick Dickens. Very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£100 - £150Starting£60 Lot #75 Joseph Darling. South Australia & Australia 1893-1908. Good ink signature of Darling on paper piece. Signed ‘Yours Sincerely’. Adhesive marks to verso otherwise in good condition Login to bid Estimate£80 - £120Starting£50 Lot #76 Australian Test players. Selection of six ink signatures of Australian Test cricketers all on paper pieces and laid down to a grey/blue card. Signatures are Herbert Ironmonger, Queensland, Victoria & Australia 1909-1936, William Arras Johnston, Victoria & Australia 1945-1955, Hunter Scott Thomas Laurie Hendry. New South Wales, Victoria & Australia 1918-1936, Percival Mitchell Hornibrook. Queensland & Australia 1919-1934, William A. ‘Bill’ Brown, New South Wales & Australia 1932-1950 and the rar Login to bid Estimate£120 - £160Starting£70 Lot #77 Australian Test players. Selection of seven ink signatures of Australian Test cricketers all on paper pieces and laid down to a grey/blue card, back to back,four to one side and three to the other. Signatures are William Albert Stanley Oldfield. New South Wales & Australia 1919-1938, Arthur Mailey, New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930, Warwick Windridge Armstrong. Victoria & Australia. 1898-1921 and Stanley Joseph McCabe. New South Wales & Australia 1928-1942 to one side and to the verso the ra Login to bid Estimate£120 - £160Starting£70 Lot #78 International Test and County signatures 1920s-1980s. File containing over three hundred signatures, mainly of cricketers with the odd footballer, in ink and pencil, the majority on individual pieces, with the odd small multi-signed album page. Signatures include Tom Graveney, Roly Jenkins, Harold Larwood, Mandy Mitchell-Innes, Doug Wright, Bill Bowes, Joe Hardstaff, Jack le Fleming, Reg Sinfield, Ernest Remnant, John Hampshire, Denis and Leslie Compton, Norman Yardley, Bill Edrich, Brian Statha Login to bid Estimate£100 - £150Starting£60 Lot #79 Australia Test signatures 1940s-1970s. Album comprising a collection of thirty one mainly individual signatures, each nicely presented on cutting laid to card with biographical details. Signatures include Walters, Cowper, Saggers, de Courcy, Loxton, Hassett, Hole, Harvey, Simpson, Morris, Sellers, Simpson, Lindwall, Johnson, Sheahan, Johnson, Benaud, Craig, G. Chappell etc. Odd duplication of signature. Good/ very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£50 - £80Starting£30 Lot #80 Test cricketers’ autographs 1920s-1980s. A nicely presented album comprising twenty six signatures of international Test cricketers signed to photographs, postcards, pieces laid to card, cutting images, cards etc. Earlier signatures include an original real photograph postcard of and signed by Jack Hobbs, and others including Les Ames, Jim Laker, Roy Marshall, Peter May, Colin Milburn, Nawab of Pataudi, David Sheppard, Garry Sobers, Herbert Strudwick, Frank Tyson, Rohan Kanhai, John Edrich, Zahe Login to bid Estimate£60 - £90Starting£40 Lot #81 Australian cricketers 1910s-1950s. Six individual signatures in ink on card or small page. Signatures include Test players, Charlie Macartney, Stork Hendry, and Ian Craig, also Stan Sismey, Bob Christofani, and Cec Pepper, who played for Australian Services in World War II. Also eight signatures nicely signed in ink back-to-back on three album pages, the majority dated June/ August 1919. Signatures include three players who appeared for Australian Imperial Forces in England in 1919, H.S.B. ‘Hamm Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #81a New Zealand 1930s-1990s. A good selection of signatures of New Zealand cricketers, of which twenty four are individually signed pieces laid to ‘New Zealand Test Player’ white cards covering the period 1930s-1970s. Signatures include F.B. Smith, J.C. Alabaster, R.W. Blair, M.G. Burgess, T.B. Burtt, H.B. Cave, R.O. Collinge, J.W. D’Arcy, G.T. Dowling, W.A. Hadlee, B.F. Hastings, J.A. Hayes, A.M. Moir, F.L.H. Mooney, B.A.G. Murray, J.M. Parker, E.C. Petrie, V. Pollard etc. Sold with two official au Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #82 Pakistan tour to England 1962. Sixteen signatures of members of the 1962 Pakistan touring party, nicely signed in blue biro to plain ‘Autograph’ postcards with two or three signatures to each card. Signatures are Mushtaq Mohammad, A. D’Souza, Javed Burki, Asif Ahmed, Imtiaz Ahmed, Alimuddin, Javed Akhtar, Intikhab Alam, Nasim-ul-Ghani, Munir Malik, Saeed Ahmed, Fazal Mahmood, Mahmood Hussain, Shahid Mahmood, Wallis Mathias, Afaq Hussain. Adhesive marks to the verso of each card. Sold with a yell Login to bid Estimate£50 - £70Starting£30 Lot #83 Pakistan 1950s-2010s. A collection of approx. sixty signatures on album pages, cards, cuttings, pieces (some laid down) and the odd photograph. Earlier signatures include Hanif Mohammad, Javed Burki, Munir Malik, Afaq Hussain, Javed Akhtar, Javed Miandad, Mushtaq Mohammad, Wasim Raja, Zaheer Abbas etc., also Inzamam-ul-Haq, Sadiq Mohammad, Mushtaq Ahmed, Shahid Nazir, Ijaz Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Moin Khan, Rashid Latif etc. Slight duplication of signature. Good/ very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #84 South Africa 1920s onwards. Thirty three signatures on pieces, label, cutting etc. Includes the earlier signatures of Herbie Taylor and Alex ‘Sandy’ Bell, also Ian Smith, Bacher, Winslow, McLean, Adcock, Cronje, Liebenberg, Ackerman, Donald, Symcox, Rhodes, R. Steyn, Strydom, Kleinveldt, Eksteen, Pothas etc. Sold with an official scorecard for England v South Africa, 2nd Test, Lord’s 2003, signed by three South Africans, Makhaya Ntini (ten wickets in the match), and centurions Graeme Smith (259) Login to bid Estimate£30 - £40Starting£20 Lot #85 West Indies 1930s onwards. A good selection of over fifty signatures of West Indies players, mainly Test cricketers, on pieces, small cards, cuttings etc. Signatures include Constantine, Cameron, Dewdney, Findlay, Fredericks, Richards, Ramadhin, Scarlett, Greenidge, Roberts, Patterson, Baptiste, Ambrose, Harper, Dillon etc. Odd duplication of signatures. Good/ very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£30 - £50Starting£20 Lot #86 County cricket signatures 1920s-1950s. A collection of album pages and pieces including two Warwickshire pages, one signed by eight the other seven including , M.J.K. Smith, Cartwright, Horner, Townsend, R. Thompson, Bridge, Wolton and Spooner etc. Also a further twenty signatures on pages and pieces including John and James Langridge, A.E.R. Gilligan, J. Cornford, J. Parks, E.H. Bowley (Sussex), W.E. Astill (Leicestershire), A. Watkins (Glamorgan), R.T. Simpson (Nottinghamshire), G. Dews, D. Ke Login to bid Estimate£40 - £60Starting£20 Lot #87 Percy Melville Thornton. Cambridge University, Middlesex etc. 1864-1872. Nice signature of ‘Percy M. Thornton’ in ink on piece laid to slightly large card. Fold affecting the signature, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£25 - £35Starting£20 Lot #88 Frank Hay Gillingham. Essex 1903-1928. Excellent signature in ink of ‘F.H. Gillingham’, laid to slightly large card. Very good condition. Login to bid Estimate£30 - £50Starting£20 Lot #89 India. ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’. An extensive collection of almost one hundred signatures very nicely presented in one binder. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book of the same title (originally published in 1983) and other sources, with others signed to ‘India Test Player’ white cards, and additional collectors’ cards, cuttings, album pages etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier Login to bid Estimate£400 - £600Starting£240 Lot #90 Pakistan. ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’. An extensive collection of seventy five signatures very nicely presented in one binder. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book of the same title (originally published in 1983) and other sources, with others signed to ‘Pakistan Test Player’ white cards, cuttings, album pages, the odd match ticket etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures i Login to bid Estimate£150 - £250Starting£90 Lot #91 New Zealand. An extensive collection of over one hundred and thirty signatures very nicely presented in two black binders. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player mainly taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’ (originally published in 1983), with others signed to ‘New Zealand Test Player’ white cards, cuttings, album pages etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Albaster, Anderso Login to bid Estimate£150 - £250Starting£90 Lot #92 South Africa. An extensive collection of over one hundred and ten signatures very nicely presented in one red binder. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player mainly taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’ (originally published in 1983), with others signed to white cards, cuttings etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Heine, Murray, Winslow, Keith, Balaskas, Dalton, Bell, A. Row Login to bid Estimate£150 - £250Starting£90 Lot #93 Test and international cricketers 1930s onwards. Album comprising an excellent selection of over five hundred signatures, mainly modern with some earlier, the majority signed on pages back-to-back, the odd signature on piece laid down, many with small cutting image of the player laid down to the signature. The signatures, collected by the vendor, cover England, West Indies, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, India etc. Earlier signatures include Roy Login to bid Estimate£120 - £160Starting£70 Lot #94 West Indies. An extensive collection of over one hundred and sixty signatures very nicely presented in two binders. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player mainly taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’ (originally published in 1983), with others signed to white cards, cuttings, postcards etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Achong, Alexander, Atkinson, Barrow, Browne, Challen Login to bid Estimate£200 - £300Starting£120 Lot #95 Sri Lanka. A good selection of forty signatures very nicely presented in one black binder. The majority of signatures are signed to ‘Sri Lanka Test Player’ cards, some on pieces laid down, others to pieces, cuttings and the odd photograph etc., the majority with biographical cuttings. The odd signature duplicated. Signatures include Malinga, Jayasuriya, Dilshan, Chandana, Perera, Dias, Tillakaratne, Jayawardene, Vaas, Ratnayeke, Arnold, Madugalle, Duleep Mendis, Ranatunga, Wettimuny, Gurusinha e Login to bid Estimate£50 - £80Starting£30 Lot #96 Australia 1940s onwards. A good selection of over forty signatures very nicely presented in one red binder comprising ‘Australia Test Player’ cards, some on pieces laid down, also to pieces, cuttings, the odd trade card, photograph, match ticket etc., the majority with accompanying biographical cuttings. The odd signature duplicated. Signatures include Tribe, Brown, Harvey, McKenzie, Meckiff, Davidson, Simpson, Redpath, Hassett, I. & G. Chappell, Stackpole, Inverarity, Miller, Livingston, Benaud Login to bid Estimate£70 - £100Starting£40 Lot #97 England Test and County signatures. An extensive collection of over two hundred and thirty signatures, mainly English players with the odd overseas including Australian and West Indies, very nicely presented in two binders. The majority are signed to pieces laid down, also white cards, collector’s cards, cuttings, the odd letter etc., with accompanying biographical extracts of each player. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include E.R.T. Holmes, Sutcliffe, Woolley, Spooner, Ames, Login to bid Estimate£80 - £120Starting£50 Lot #98 Test and County signatures. An extensive collection of over two hundred and twenty signatures, covering mainly modern English Test and County players, and overseas players from Australia, West Indies, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka etc. All very nicely presented in two red binders. Signatures are to pieces laid down, white cards, collector’s cards including official County issues, cuttings, magazine extracts, photographs etc. The odd signature duplicated. Includes earlier signatures in pencil on Login to bid Estimate£80 - £120Starting£50 Lot #99 England Test Cricketers 1930s onwards. A good selection of over one hundred and thirty signatures, the majority of England Test players, very nicely presented in two binders. Signatures are to pieces laid down, white cards, cuttings, magazine extracts etc. and a good number of trade/ collectors’ cards. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Hammond, Ames, Barnett, Oldfield, Sinfield, Verity, Wellard, Levett, Wright, Pollard, Hutton, Place, Watson, Trueman, Appleyard, Oakman, Sp Login to bid Estimate£80 - £120Starting£50 Lots per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...19|Next12345678910111213141516171819 Previous 12345678910111213141516171819 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516171819 Next
