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knights
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia Auction
11th & 12th July 2020
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Saturday 11th
Cricket Memorabilia
Sunday 12th
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks, Cricket Books,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
11am start on both days
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Next auction 7th & 8th November 2020
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1CRICKET MEMORABILIA
CRICKET EPHEMERA Rushey Green C.C. ‘Programme of 12 Australia tour to England 1972.
Entertainment’ 13th December 1894, ‘Luncheon given for The Australian
1 ‘Australian’s Fixtures 1926’. Small
and part of a Club publication Cricket Touring Team’ by the British
folding card fixture list issued by W.D.
describing the formation of the Club Sportman’s Club at the Savoy Hotel,
& H. Wills in 1926 for the Australian
‘four years ago’ with averages for the London, 24th April 1972. Official 8pp
tour to England. The colourful covers
1893 season, featuring the Hearne ‘Alphabetical Table List’ and ‘Table
with titles to face, tour fixtures to
brothers Alec (top of the batting Plan’. Light adhesive marks and wear
inside pages and a listing of the
averages) and George Gibbons to covers, otherwise in good
Australian team and the state they
(third). Both laid down to card. G condition £15/25
play for to rear. Very good condition.
£40/60
Scarce £40/60 13 John Arlott. Official menu for the
Alec and George Hearne both made dinner held on the eve of the
2 M.C.C. tour to Australia 1928/29.
one appearance for England in the centenary of Arlott’s birth, at The
‘England versus Australia Sheffield
Test match against South Africa, England Restaurant, Spitalfields,
Shield Cricket Fixtures 1928-9’.
Cape Town, 19th-22nd March 1892. London, 24th February 2013. The
Original advertising fixture card
Their brother Jack also played for folding menu with the list of exclusive
produced by Clements Tonic
England in that match, and another, attendees present including Arlott’s
featuring decorative front cover,
Frank, played for South Africa having widow, Patricia, and family, and
cameo pictures of the M.C.C. touring
emigrated for health reasons in 1889 notable cricketers and wives including
party to last page, fixtures for the tour
Ian Botham, Mike Brearley, Leo
and Sheffield Shield matches listed to 8 London area fixture cards 1879-
Harrison and Tony Lewis, also writers
centre pages. Annotations to centre 1895. Five original folding fixture
and journalists including Patrick
pages in red ink recording the results cards for London cricket clubs. Cards
Eagar, John Samuel (sports editor of
of the five Test matches. Minor loss are West Albion C.C. (Battersea)
The Guardian), John Woodcock etc.
to top edge, otherwise in good 1873, Priory C.C. (Honor Oak Park)
Produced as a limited edition of
condition £60/90 1888, Linden C.C. (Honor Oak Park)
twelve, this is an ‘out of limitation
1889 and 1890, The West London
3 ‘Cricket Fixtures 1933 & 1934’. copy’. VG £30/50
‘Pioneer’ C.C. (Regent’s Park) 1895.
Fixture booklets issued by Ogden’s
Adhesive marks to the verso of the 14 Lancashire C.C.C. ‘County
‘Robin’ cigarettes for the two years.
‘Pioneer’ C.C. card, otherwise in good Champions’ 1930. Official Lancashire
Attractive colour covers, with full list
condition £30/50 County and Manchester Cricket Club
of fixtures for Yorkshire C.C.C. and
menu for the ‘Dinner to Celebrate the
Test matches v West Indies for the 9 Railway handbills 1959-1973. Five
winning of The County Champi-
season of 1933 and the other booklet cricket advertising handbills issued by
onship 1930’ held at the Midland
with full list of fixtures for Yorkshire British Railways for the period.
Hotel on 15th December 1930.
C.C.C. and Test matches v Australia Handbills are for England v India at
Decorative covers with red rose and
for the season of 1934. Minor wear Headingley 1959. Somerset matches
circular scroll ‘County Championship
to covers, good. Qty 2 £30/50 at Taunton 1959. Worcestershire
1930’, details to cover in red and
fixtures at Worcester, Dudley,
4 M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. black with red ribbon tie. To inside
Stourbridge and Kidderminster 1961.
Two fixture booklets, one issued by pages list of officials and players,
Somerset home matches at Taunton
the United Tobacco Co Ltd (S.A.), 32 Menu and Toasts to centre pages
1964. Gillette Cup Final, Sussex v
pages including pen pictures, with the season’s record to last page.
Gloucestershire at Lord’s 1973. Small
biographies, fixtures etc and the Speakers included Ranjitsinhji,
loss to one handbill, otherwise in
other issued by Shell Motor Oil with Leveson-Gower, Captain Eckersley
good/ very good condition £30/50
biographies and fixtures. Attractive etc. Printed by George Falkner &
colour covers, minor wear with corner 10 New Zealand tour of England 1937. Sons. VG £50/80
loss to the covers of the U.T.C. Official menu for the British
Lancashire’s record in the 1930
booklet, good. Qty 2 £30/50 Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to
County Championship was played
the New Zealand Cricket team in
5 South African tours of England. Three twenty eight, won ten, lost none,
1937. The luncheon was held at The
fixture booklets issued for the cricket won first innings eight, lost first
Savoy Hotel, London on 6th May
tours of 1947 (Shell Motor Oil), 1951 innings five, no result five
1937. The menu with cartoon cover
(Greenacre’s, Durban) and 1955
by Tom Webster. To inside pages 15 Sir Leonard Hutton 1916-1990.
(Atlantic Service Stations). Each with
menu and toasts. Minor soiling and Order of Service of Thanksgiving for
fixtures and players names, one with
age toning otherwise in good Hutton held at York Minster on the
biographies. Attractive colour covers,
condition £60/90 16th November 1990. Sold with
good condition. Qty 3 £30/50
further Order of Service of Thanks-
11 Australia tour to India 1956/57.
6 Australian tours of South Africa. Two giving for F.S. Trueman held at Bolton
Official menu for the ‘Dinner to
fixture booklets issued for the cricket Abbey 2006 and for Christopher
Australian Cricket Team and The
tours of 1957/58 (Atlantic Service Martin-Jenkins held at St Paul’s
Indian Test Team’, held at the
Stations) and 1966/67 (The Cape Cathedral 2013. Qty 3 £30/50
Corporation Stadium Pavilion,
Times). Each with fixtures and players
Madras on 20th October 1956. 16 Australia. Orders of services of
names, one with biographies.
Menu with Madras Cricket thanksgiving held in Australia.
Attractive colour covers, good
Association emblem and colours to William J. O’Reilly 1992, Raymond R.
condition
front cover. Menus, speakers and Lindwall 1996, Tony Lock 1995 and
£30/40
entertainments to centre pages, lists Alan D. McGilray 1996. Qty 4. G
7 Rushey Green C.C., Kent. Five folding of the two teams to back cover. £40/60
fixture cards for seasons 1890-1894, Australian wicket keeper, Len
17 Frank Edward Woolley. Kent &
and Catford Cricket Club 1895, and Maddocks’ personal copy, his name
England 1906-1938. Original ‘Order
1896, also undated folding rule cards inscribed in ink to front cover. Good
of Service’ for Woolley’s Service of
for both clubs. Sold with a flyer for a condition £30/50
2Thanksgiving held at Canterbury Evans, Kettering Crematorium 1999. S.S. Orontes while on the voyage to
Cathedral, 18th November 1978. Brian Statham, Manchester Australia. The telegram is addressed
Minor adhesive marks to verso Crematorium 2000. Eddie Barlow, St. to ‘Groves, Cathay’ with the message
otherwise in good condition £25/35 John’s Wood Church 2006. G/VG ‘Many thanks best wishes ok Sydney’
£40/60 and signed ‘Leyland’. Top portion laid
18 Colin ‘Charlie’ Blythe. Kent & England
to unevenly trimmed remnant of an
1899-1914. Order of Service for ‘The 23 George Oswald Browning ‘Gubby’
album page. Light folds, otherwise in
Rededication of the Colin Blythe Allen. Middlesex, Cambridge
good/ very good condition £50/70
Memorial’ in the grounds of Kent University & England 1921-1950.
County Cricket Club, Canterbury, ‘The Badminton’ diary for 1937 27 Len Hutton. Yorkshire & England
held on the centenary of Blythe’s comprising the ‘Annual Register of 1934-1955. ‘Test Matches’. Original
death, 8th November 2017. Sold with Sporting and Society Fixtures’. five page typed manuscript of an
an accompanying 20pp biography of Original decorative card covers. This article written by Hutton, date and
Blythe produced by the Club, and a was Allen’s copy, his name, ‘G.O. publication unknown, with excellent
modern postcard of Blythe in bowling Allen’ written in ink to first page, and content covering subjects relating to
pose. Also an Order of Service for the copious notes in pencil of social his Test debut in 1937, and much on
Service of Thanksgiving for Doug engagements, meetings, golf the 1938 Ashes series including
Insole, held at St. John’s Wood matches etc. throughout. The first achieving his record score of 364.
Church, 23rd February 2018. G entry is for 24th May 1937, prior to Hutton describes receiving his County
£30/40 that Allen had been captaining Cap in 1936, his excitement on his
M.C.C. in the 1936/37 tour to selection for the 1937 series against
Blythe was killed in action in the
Australia. Cricket related entries New Zealand having made scores of
Second Battle of Passchendaele in
include M.C.C. committee meetings, 136 v Kent and 271no v Derbyshire
1917
and a number of matches including in his two previous matches, and 153
19 Lancashire C.C.C. memorial services the only four first-class matches in in an opening stand of 315 with
1990-2019. Ten official orders of which he played in 1937, 26th May Sutcliffe on the eve of the first Test on
Service of Thanksgiving for Cedric M.C.C. Australian Team v The Rest at his 21st birthday. Tired and nervous
Rhodes 1990, Brian Statham 2000, Lord’s, 23rd & 24th August after his recent exploits, he describes
Arthur Booth 2004, Ken Cranston Middlesex v Kent at Lord’s 28th, 30th his disappointment of being bowled
2007, John Savage 2008, Kenneth & 31st August v Surrey at Lord’s, and out for 0 by Cowie in the first innings
Snellgrove 2009, Harry Pilling 2012, 3rd-7th September HDG Leveson- and letting down the ‘few gentlemen
Geoff Pullar 2014, Geoffrey Clayton Gower’s XI v M.C.C. Australian on the pavillion [sic], who had
2018 and Jack Bond 2019. Also a four Touring Team at Scarborough. probably left the broad acres to see
page copy of a biography of Tommy Includes Allen’s name handwritten in the Pudsey wonder perform! My
Greenhough (died 2009). G/VG ink to one ‘Memoranda’ page. Some skipper [R.W.V. Robins] greeted me
£40/60 wear, crease to front cover, otherwise with the words, ‘For goodness sake
in good condition £50/70 don’t do that against Australia next
20 Cricket writers’ memorials 1980-
year!’ and compares these words with
2017. Four official orders of Service of 24 Frederick Richard ‘Freddie’ Brown.
similar advice given to him by
Thanksgiving for Norman Preston, Cambridge University, Surrey,
Maurice Leyland when Hutton made
former editor of Wisden, 1980. Northamptonshire & England 1930-
his first-class debut for Yorkshire at
Anthony Woodhouse, writer and 1953. A collection of over fifty
Cambridge in 1934 and was run out
collector, 2003. Martin Searby, original telegrams congratulating
without scoring. Hutton failed again
journalist, 2011 (some creasing). Brown on his appointment as captain
in the second innings of the first Test,
Derek Hodgson, journalist and of England in July 1950. Also a
making one, but made his first Test
author, 2017. Sold with an official selection of letters of condolence sent
century in the second Test at Old
menu for The Cricket Writers’ Club to members of Brown’s family on his
Trafford. In the opening 1938 Ashes
Annual Luncheon held at the death in 1991. G £50/70
Test, Hutton made 100 in England’s
Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel,
25 Martin Bladen Hawke, Lord Hawke. only innings in an opening stand of
London, 2nd October 2018. Qty 5. G
Yorkshire, Cambridge University & 218 with Barnett (126). ‘During my
£30/40
England 1881-1911. Original Post stand at the wicket I mentioned to
21 David Stuart Sheppard. The Right Office telegram dated 6th June 1902, Don [Bradman] that I saw him make
Reverend Lord Sheppard of Liverpool. to ‘Mrs Taylor’ of Buckingham House, his record score [334, Headingley
Sussex, Cambridge University & Leeds. The message reads ‘Tom 142 1930], two months later he was the
England 1947-1962. Three orders of not. Hawke’. Light folds with split to first to shake my hand at the Oval
Service of Thanksgiving held for one fold, otherwise in good condition when I made 364’. He recalls Bill
Sheppard, at Liverpool Cathedral, £50/70 O’Reilly as a ‘great bowler’, ‘what
23rd May 2005, Chichester great appealers the Aussies were’,
The date of the telegram corresponds
Cathedral, 3rd August 2005, and and Stan McCabe scoring 232 out of
with the second day’s play,
Evensong at Liverpool Cathedral, 300 in under four hours in the first
Derbyshire v Yorkshire, Chesterfield,
17th November 2019. Sold with an Test. Highlights of the second Test
5th-7th June 1902, in which Tom
order of Service of Thanksgiving for include Hammond’s innings of 240 in
Taylor scored 142no in Yorkshire’s
Basil D’Oliveira, 2012, and Tom the second Test, Brown’s 206no,
second innings. It is assumed the
Graveney 2016. Qty 5. G/VG Compton 76no on a rain affected
recipient of the telegram was Taylor’s
£30/50 pitch, and Bradman saving Australia
mother. The rain affected match was
from defeat. The third Test was
22 Cricketers’ memorial services 1898- drawn. In later years Taylor was
washed out, and Hutton missed the
2006. Seven official orders of Service President of Yorkshire C.C.C. from
fourth Test at his home ground of
of Thanksgiving for Gubby Allen, St. 1948 until his death in 1960
Headingley having fractured a finger
John’s Wood Church 1989. Bill
26 ‘Bodyline’. M.C.C. tour to Australia against Middlesex at Lord’s, and was
O’Reilly, Blakehurst Church, New
1932/33. Original British Wireless grateful for the work of ‘Jim Wright
South Wales 1992. Harold Larwood,
Marine Service ‘Marconigram’ of Bingley in no small way’ to get me
Kingsford Church, New South Wales
telegram dated 10th October [1932] fit for the final Test match at the Oval’
1995. Tony Lock, St. George’s
sent by [Maurice] Leyland from the where Hutton overtook Bradman’s
Cathedral, Perth 1995. Godfrey
3record, scoring 364 including a record manship and ‘personal integrity’ on tipped in to modern green boards.
stand with Maurice Leyland ‘adding the field relating to whether a catch Light foxing, otherwise in good/ very
382 for the second wicket’ a record was taken cleanly or not, and the good condition £200/300
for any wicket in Test matches in ‘duty of the fieldsman to signify at
Grace’s centuries as listed in this
England’. He describes how ‘The once whether the catch was ‘clean’,
compilation were included in his
sturdy figure of Leyland emerged citing Arthur ‘Ticker’ Mitchell of
obituary that appeared in the 1916
from the pavilion, on seeing Maurice Yorkshire and ‘his unfailing honesty’
edition of Wisden. Grace’s career
Bill [O’Reilly] murmured ‘This he never threw the ball in the air to
figures were later revised
Yorkshire —- here again. O’Reilly try and influence an umpire’s verdict’.
strove long and hard on that beautiful Finally, Hutton emphasises the need 31 W.G. Grace Testimonial 1879. Pre-
Oval wicket. His bowling was of the to accept the umpire’s decision paid postcard addressed to Mr.
highest order, the turf did not give ‘without question and without Edward Swanborough at London
him the slightest assistance. I place Bill pause’, bemoaning ‘umpire-baiting’ Pavilion, Piccadilly, London, giving
O’Reilly as the most interesting and comparing it with ‘referee- name and address of the applicant for
bowler whom I have played against. baiting’ in football, comparing the ‘Ticket(s) at 10/6 each for the
Every ball from him required excitability and volatility of the Matinee at the London Pavilion, on
watching, he changed his pace and footballer Hughie Gallcher with Monday 24th inst. In support of the
was always attacking, each ball had Stanley Matthews, and that of Doug above, for which I will send you a
everything that Bill could give it’. Wright with the ‘jack-in-the-box’, cheque in due course’. Produced in
Hutton mentions his gratitude for the Godfrey Evans. Hutton closes with support of the Testimonial Fund for
support of Leyland and Joe Hardstaff thanks to those ‘who have sent me Grace, at which he was presented
during his record innings and closes good wishes during my rest’ I hope to with a clock and £1,458. VG
with a description of his feelings as he resume in the Yorkshire side against £40/60
approached Bradman’s score, ‘The Middlesex at Lord’s’, and describes
32 Hinton St. George C.C. Somerset
real strain began to tell on the his pleasure on hearing about Denis
1828. An early four page document
Tuesday morning, my score at the Compton’s performance in the
in beautiful copperplate handwriting
end of the 1st day’s play was 160, at current Test match, ‘Can there be any
of the Rules of the Club ‘agreed upon
the end of the second day 300. After doubt now that he is the greatest
by the undersigned on the 13th day
a full day at the wicket I have always ‘crisis’ batsman in the last two
of July 1827’. The document also lists
found it difficult to obtain a good decades?’. A fascinating insight into
the members with pencil notes on
night’s sleep. On the Monday night I the characters of the game at the
when they had paid their
did not sleep a wink, wanting 35 time. Some creasing and wear, overall
subscriptions and total figures. A very
more runs, and knowing full well that in good condition £100/150
early foundation of a club that still
I should have to fight every inch of
29 ‘New Zealand Against England. Some exists today and lays claim to be the
the way’. An excellent first hand
further reflections’. Alan Gibson, second oldest club in Somerset.
account of an England batting
journalist, writer and radio Tipped in to blue cloth boards. Light
legend. G/VG £300/500
broadcaster. Three page original copy folds, otherwise in very good
28 Len Hutton. Yorkshire & England typescript for an article written by condition £50/80
1934-1955. Original five page Gibson, presumably for ‘The
33 Brian Johnston. Broadcaster and
typescript, with the odd handwritten Cricketer’, at the start of a New
cricket commentator. An interesting
annotation, for an article written for Zealand tour to England. The article
selection of poetry, scripts and letters
the News of the World, dated 7th provides a history of cricket between
from the estate of Brian Johnston.
July 1955, the first day of the third the two countries, starting with the
Contents include three poems by Les
Test, England v South Africa at Old 1863 tour by Parr’s team and
Bailey, each neatly handwritten on
Trafford. Hutton is following the continues with an account of
large page with illustration image.
match from his home. The pages are Lillywhite’s tour in 1876/77 including
Subjects are Johnston himself,
numbered 2-6, lacking the first page. the arrest in Canterbury of England
presented by the Wombwell Cricket
The article primarily concerns the wicketkeeper, Eric Pooley, over a
Lovers Society and dated 1974, Patsy
subject of umpiring and the attributes gambling incident which led to a
Hendren 1976, and ‘Sam the
required to be a successful umpire. fight. Pooley’s arrest forced him to
Staffordshire Bull Terrier’, undated.
‘From half past eleven until half past miss the rest of the tour including the
Each measures 12”x10”. Sold with a
six he must stand on his feet, count Test matches in Australia. Gibson
red folder comprising a forty six page
six balls an over, watch the bowlers gives an interesting account of the
collection of poems by Bailey titled
for no-balls, and throwing, give Englishmen’s love of champagne,
‘Unforgettable Men of Mystery’,
instantaneous answer to leg-before ‘there are many instances of English
presented to Johnston and signed by
appeals, even when the exactitude of cricketers, in forlorn moments far
Bailey. Also a selection of loose sheets
a micrometer would be necessary to from home, clamouring for
of Bailey’s sent to Johnston, the
provide the correct decision’. Other champagne. I sometimes wonder
majority signed. A good number of
attributes required include correct whether this is the origin of the term
these poems appeared in Johnston’s
positioning to avoid fielders, judge ‘Pommy’. He closes with an account
books. Also an original typescript of
run-outs, short runs, stumpings, of the match v M.C.C. at Lord’s on
‘The Ostlethwaite Controversy (The
snicks off bat and pad, bump balls, New Zealand’s first tour to England,
Ashes Series of 1998) by John Bright,
and the need for absolute concen- in 1927, in which 1502 runs were
a letter from the publisher, Angus &
tration throughout. Hutton states he scored in three days. Some hand
Robertson, to Johnston inviting him
‘should hate to be an umpire’ and corrections and amendments.
to write a foreword for ‘Cricket
quotes Eddie Paynter who retired Horizontal folds. Good condition
Widows’ by Noel Ford, including
from umpiring after only one season, £60/90
copies of the cartoons etc. G £50/70
‘it’s a darned sight harder than
30 F.S. Ashley-Cooper. ‘Mr. W.G. Grace’s
playing’, and admires Frank Chester
100s in First-Class Cricket’. A unique
who had ‘such a deep and genuine
two page undated (c1916?) 34 ‘M.C.C. Bicentenary Auction’.
affection for the game’ from a young
compilation by Ashley-Cooper of Original poster for the Christies
age. Hutton continues with his
Grace’s centuries. Handwritten in ink auction held at Lord’s 13th April
thoughts on players’ honesty, sports-
on two pages of foolscap paper, 1897. VG £30/40
4The seminal auction which captured stamp of Harold Bushby, Australian five Test matches (pin holes to
the public’s imagination and Manager. No. 27. Clipped to right corners), and two official match
enthusiasm for the history of cricket edge. G/VG £40/60 tickets for the 1949 Test matches at
and memorabilia collecting in Lord’s and Old Trafford. Minor
England set a total of 440 in their
general creasing and wear to some items,
only innings (Leyland 109, Ames
overall in good condition. Qty 9
35 ‘The Australians 1930’. Linen 120). In reply Australia were bowled
£30/50
handkerchief with printed images of out twice for 284 (Brown 105) and
the Australian players with title to top 118 with Hedley Verity taking seven 41 Cricket ephemera. A selection of
‘The Australians 1930’. Each player and eight wickets respectively, fifteen ephemera including two annuals,
named beneath their image. The in total. England won by an innings ‘Sports Argus Cricket Annual 1949’,
handkerchief printed in a light brown and 38 runs first year of issue, and ‘Sunday
and the images from copyright Chronicle Cricket and Golf Annual
39 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1946/47.
photographs by A.W. Wilkes of West (Incorporating the Athletic News
Five items from the 1946/47 tour.
Bromwich. Players include Woodfull, Annual’ 1947, 50th year of issue.
Original Australian tour folding card
Bradman, McCabe, Fairfax, Oldfield, Also ‘Len Hutton. The Story of a
souvenir issued by ‘Len Williams’
Jackson, Grimmett, Ponsford, Great Cricketer’, J.M. Kilburn, Leeds
Mountbatten Hotel’, Sydney. M.C.C.
Richardson, A. Jackson, Wall etc. 1950. ‘West Indies v England. 5th
tour members listed to front, fixtures
16”x16”. Folds to handkerchief Test Kensington Oval Barbados’
and cartoon ‘Owzat. Not Out!’ to
otherwise in very good condition. pennant. ‘Rothmans Test Cricket
one side, ‘Know Your Cricket Terms’
Rarely seen in this condition Almanack’ for 1961 and 1966.
caricatures to inside. Printed by Bell
£80/120 Official souvenir programme for the
Press, Alexandria. Light wear.
M.C.C. Bicentenary Match, Lord’s
For some unknown reason there are ‘Souvenir Booklet of the Second
20th-25th August 1987, with official
fourteen of the fifteen tourists M.C.C. Visit to Canberra December
match ticket and scorecard. Five
pictured on the handkerchief, Kippax 27 & 28 1946’. Official programme
official match tickets for England Test
is missing from the full touring party for the M.C.C. v New South Wales
matches, Texaco Trophy, NatWest
Southern Districts XI played at
36 Mauritius Cricket Club 1898. Pre-paid Challenge 1997-2009. Also four early
Canberra on 27th & 28th December
printed postcard addressed to Mr. individual editions of ‘The Cricketer’
1946. Original decorative covers.
Justice Hever Smith inviting members magazine for 29th May 1929, 28th
Official M.C.C. 1946/47 tour
to submit their names if they wish to June 1941, 14th June 1947, and 30th
Christmas card with ‘Australia New
take part in ‘the 3rd Annual Mixed April 1949. G £30/50
Zealand 1946-7’, M.C.C. emblem
Doubles Lawn Tennis (Handicap)
and map illustration to front, cartoon 42 Australia tour to England 1938. A
Tournament’. Postmarked 4th
to inside of a British lion at the batting large scrap album comprising a
November 1898. VG £20/30
crease, a kiwi bowling and kangaroo comprehensive collection of
37 Don Bradman. 334 record score keeping wicket, and printed newspaper cuttings covering the
1930. Four items relating to the third caricatures of the touring party by Australian’s tour and the Ashes Test
Ashes Test, Headingley, 11th-15th Arthur Mailey to rear. Signed series. Includes press articles and
July 1930, including an official dedication to inside from Rupert cutting photographs, cigarette cards,
complete printed scorecard with neat Howard, tour manager. Some faults and handwritten scores of each
handwritten annotation in ink, ‘D. including age toning and pin hole. match played. Good coverage of Don
Bradman 334. Record individual score Original mono press photograph of Bradman’s performances throughout
in Test matches July 11th & 12th the M.C.C. team wearing suits and the tour, and the final Test at The
1930’. An official card ticket for all ties at Lord’s on the evening of their Oval in which Len Hutton achieved
four days’ play issued to Rev. C.E.M. departure from England to Australia the record Test score of 364 to
[Clem] Wilson (Cambridge University, for the Test series. 8’x6’. Some overcome Bradman’s previous record.
Yorkshire & England 1895-1900). wrinkling. Souvenir Tour Programme Also includes a selection of full page
Folding card of ‘Autographs of the issued by the New South Wales articles by Bradman writing for the
English and Australian Teams with Cricket Association with vertical fold. News of the World. Pages very brittle
Reserves’ issued by Bolton Cricket Odd faults as described, overall in with age, content in good condition
League with printed signatures inside. good condition £80/120 £40/60
An original sepia press photograph of
40 New Zealand tours to England 1927- 43 Bermuda tour to United States of
Bradman walking out to bat, nicely
1958. A selection of ephemera America 1934. Original handbill titled
signed in ink to the photograph by
relating to New Zealand tours to ‘Cricket! Great International Contests
Bradman. 3.5’7.75’. Minor fading/
England including an excellent featuring the Overseas Bermudians’.
age toning to the printed items,
original mono press photograph from Fixtures listed are vs. Cosmopolitan
otherwise in good/ very good
the tour match v H.M. Martineau’s XI League, Dyckman Oval, 25th August
condition £100/150
at Holyport, Maidenhead, 9th-10th 1934, vs. New York League,
Bradman scored 334, then the May 1927. C.S. Dempster and two Commercial Field, 26th August, vs.
highest individual score in a Test other New Zealand players are Athens C.C. (Champions of New York
match, in Australia’s only innings of signing autographs for a group of League), Dyckman Oval, 1st
566 (Tate 5-124). In reply Hammond boys all wearing their school caps. September, and vs. Pick of New York,
scored 113 in England’s first innings 10’x8’. Also an official mono press 2nd-3rd September at Commercial
of 391 (Grimmett 5-136). Following portrait photograph of C.C.R. Dacre Field and Dyckman Oval. No record
on, England reached 95-3 and the from the 1927 tour, 4’x4.25’. Four of the matches can be found,
match was drawn official scorecards for England v New although scores for two matches are
Zealand, Lord’s and The Oval, 1931, annotated in pencil. Age toning,
38 England v Australia 1934. Original
Lancashire v New Zealand, Old some loss and folds, adhesive marks
complimentary match ticket for the
Trafford 1949, and Kent v New to verso, fragile £30/50
second Test, Lord’s, 22nd-25th June
Zealand, Canterbury 1949. Folding
1934. The ticket issued by 44 Deddington Cricket Club,
‘Meltonian’ advertising souvenir
Marylebone Cricket Club admitting Oxfordshire, 1867-1876. Six early
scorecard and fixture list for the 1958
one ‘To the Australian Enclosure, printed ‘Annual Statement’ of
tour with handwritten scores for the
Block ‘B’ for the third day. Signature accounts produced by the Club for
5seasons 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, Dinner at the Castle and Falcon (Northamptonshire) in 1928, the
1871 and 1876. Light folds, Hotel, Dudley on 11th January 1871. other of the umpire Fanny Walden in
otherwise in good/ very good G £30/50 1934 etc. Some wear/ creasing to
condition £70/90 card bat handles, otherwise in good
49 Cricket on postal covers. Four items
condition £40/60
45 Australia tour to England 1953. of two envelopes, one with printed
‘Coronation Tour’. A selection of return address for ‘Merion Cricket 52 Cricket ephemera. A good selection
items relating to the opening match Club, Haverford, P.A.’ with American of ephemera including books, match
of the tour, East Moseley v postmark dated 29th April [18]99, and tour programmes, some signed,
Australians, played at East Moseley, the other with ornate printed motif of unofficial Test and county autograph
Surrey, 26th April 1953. Items are an a lion, springbok and kangaroo sheets, signed official scorecards,
official match programme, ticket stub, holding up a Duke’s cricket ball above official 'Herald Sun' newspaper poster
scorecard with handwritten scores in slogan ‘Upheld By All’, to verso the for the Boxing Day Test 1998
pencil, and an original mono press emblem for Duke & Son, Penshurst, featuring the Kangaroo and Lion,
photograph of eleven members of Kent, postmarked 2nd July 1933. signed by the two Captains, Mark
the Australian team who played in Also an advertising logo for James Taylor and Alec Stewart, photographs
the match. Players featured are Lillywhite Frowd & Co with crossed etc. Sold with a box containing a
Hassett (Captain), Miller, Ring, bats within scroll, presumably cut good selection of thirty one cricket
Benaud, Johnston, Davidson, from an envelope, and a postal books, some pre war editions, odd
Lindwall, Tallon, Harvey, Morris and franking machine label with logo for one signed, odd limited edition. G
de Courcey, also the Manager, E.K. Brown Cricket Books, posted in £30/50
Davies. Reuter, London. 10’x8’. Some Liskeard, Cornwall in 1978. G
53 ‘Grand Football Match!. County
creasing to the photograph, other £30/50
Cricketers and League Footballers
items in good/ very good condition
50 Cricket ephemera selection. A versus George Robey’s League Team
£50/70
selection of ephemera including two on Manchester City Ground’. Official
The one day match was played scrapbooks of press cuttings, one programme for the match played at
thirteen per side with the Australians covering the 1947 season and the the Hyde Road Football Stadium,
winning by six wickets. Hassett top South African tour, the other for the (Manchester City moved to Maine
scored with 103. The East Moseley 1948 season and the Australian tour. Road in 1923), on the 24th February
side included some notable names Two folders of ephemera including 1902. The match was organised ‘in
including Doug Insole, Trevor Bailey, seventeen scorecards 1946-1993, the aid of a memorial to the late John
George Tribe etc. majority for Hampshire home Briggs and Benefit of Mrs Briggs &
matches, also England v India, The Children’. The referee was Albert
46 Cricket ephemera. A selection of
Oval 1946, and v South Africa, The Neilson Hornby (Lancashire C.C.C. &
ephemera including official compli-
Oval 1947 (two copies of each). A England 1867-1899). Players
mentary ‘Rover’ tickets for each of
‘pirate’ Pictorial Souvenir Programme appearing in the match for Robey’s
the two days of the Eton v Harrow
for England v South Africa, The Oval team included Billy Meredith, Orr,
match, Lord’s, 11th-12th July 1919.
1947 etc. A selection of forty cricket Hynds of Manchester City, Foulkes of
Official scorecard for Somerset v
magazines and benefit brochures, Sheffield United, G. Robey of Royal
Nottinghamshire, Taunton, 24th-26th
including a signed copy of ‘Geoff Ramblers, Jack of Preston, Gates of
July 1929, showing the score at the
Boycott 10 Years as No. 1’. Sold with Blackburn, Athersmith of Aston Villa
fall of the first wicket. ‘Cricket on the
four Coalport ‘County Championship etc and for the County Cricketers
Brain’ by ‘M.C.C.’. Illustrated by ‘Gil’.
winning plates’ for Hampshire 1973 team, J. Sharp, B. Sharp, Booth of
T. Fisher Unwin, London 1905.
(1st), Middlesex 1967 and 1980, and Everton, Pennington of Notts County,
Original decorative wrappers, front
Kent 1978 and a modern copy print Higson of Casuals, Warren of Ferby
wrapper detached, wear to spine.
of Cricket at Brighton. G £50/70 County, Ross of Manchester City,
‘Cricketers from New Zealand 1958’
Hollins of Corinthians etc. Image of
official pre-tour brochure edited by 51 Cricket ephemera late 1800s
J.E. Chapman, Chairman of
Gordon Ross, Playfair 1958. Official onwards. Small black file comprising
Manchester City to the centre of the
menu for the ‘British Sportsman’s an eclectic selection of ephemera
front cover, pictures of Johnny Briggs
Club luncheon in honour of the including bookmarks, promotional
and George Robey to inside pages.
Pakistan Cricket Touring Team 1992’. cards, beer mats, the odd
The linesman were also cricketers
Cartoon by Roy Ullyett to front cover photograph, trade cards, leaflets,
Albert Ward of Lancashire & England
signed by former prime minister, cutting images etc. Contents include
and Sam Hargreave of Warwickshire.
Edward Heath, who was in the chair. bookmarks and invitations in the form
Adverts for ‘Pilling & Briggs, Athletic
Official invitation and Order of of a cricket bat, including Rothmans
Outfitters’, ‘George Robey in Jack
Service of Thanksgiving for Mike ‘England Test Veterans’ and Australia
and the Beanstalk’ and advance
Denness, Canterbury Cathedral, 1st tour 1961, Walkers ‘Autograph
notice of the publication of ‘The Life
July 2013. Odd faults, overall in good Special’ England 1963 and Yorkshire
of John Briggs’ by Herbert Turner to
condition £40/60 County Champions 1962 and 1963,
rear cover. Printed by Shottin & Co,
India Cricket tour and Warwickshire
47 Cricket in Barbados 1892. Pre-paid Manchester. Horizontal fold, some
1952, West Indies to England 1976,
postcard addressed to W.A. Alleyne at age toning and wear to edges
Australia 1977 etc. Also a small
St. Peter’s, Barbados, dated 15th otherwise in good condition. A rare
folding programme of dances for the
November 1892, with handwritten programme £250/350
Llandudno Cricket Club Ball, 31st
message notifying him that he had
December 1899, advertising card for 54 ‘Len Hutton’s Gradidge Bats Gloves
been selected to play for Wanderers
Huntley & Palmers biscuits, a small and Pads’. Original free standing
‘next Saturday’ at Bay against
Slazenger card (featuring Denis Slazenger advertising card sign
Pickwick Club. VG £30/40
Compton), a Rothmans ‘Match featuring a mono head and shoulders
48 Dudley Cricket Club 1871. Pre-paid Souvenir’ benefit match folder, image of Hutton in batting pose on a
postcard addressed to J.K. Jones of printed annual reports for Haywards yellow and pale green background.
Birchall, Walsall, with printed details Heath C.C. 1882, St. John Baptist 9’x12’. Pin holes to the four corner,
to verso for the Dudley Cricket and C.C. 1902 etc. Two small signed some surface wear, otherwise in good
Quiot [sic] Club Annual Meeting and photographs, one of Albert Thomas condition £30/50
655 Cricket ephemera. A mixed selection England] by The Western Australian Victoria. Odd very minor faults
of prints and other printed matter Cricket Association’. The Luncheon otherwise in good/very good
including an original front cover of held at The Palace Hotel, Perth on the condition. Sold with a plain back real
the magazine, ‘The Sphere’ dated 28th October 1930. The menu, tied photograph postcard of Edward
20th July 1901, featuring an with yellow and black ribbon (worn), Lambert a’Beckett, number 14 in the
illustration of Eton v Harrow at Lord’s. with impressed decorative border and series, the only player on the tour not
Full page from ‘The Graphic’ of a raised printed colour flags of England to have signed the itinerary. The
colour cartoon, ‘Armstrong the and Australia to top with titles below. postcards produced by B.D.V.
Hypnotiser’ by ‘Rip’ 1921. Two With menu and toast list to inside cigarettes of Godfrey Phillips of
cricket ‘Punch’ cartoons dated 1922 pages and map of Great Britain to London, as part of their advertising
and 1935, ‘The New Liberty’ and verso showing the match programme campaign for the 1930 Australian
‘Well Set’. An original copy of ‘The venues. Signed to various inside tourists £250/350
Scout. Special Cricket Number’, 10th pages by all seventeen members of
The Australian tour of 1930 was
June 1933. Full page extract from the Australian team, mainly in ink,
Bradman’s first tour of England
‘The Sketch’, 20th May 1896, two in pencil. Signatures are
featuring images of four Yorkshire Woodfull, Richardson, Jackson, 61 Donald George Bradman. New South
cricketers, Peel, Wainwright, Lord Bradman, Fairfax, Ponsford, Wales, South Australia & Australia
Hawke and F.S. Jackson. Official tour Hornibrook, Hurwood, a’Beckett, 1927-1949. ‘Simpson’s Fish Ordinary
souvenir brochure for the 1962 Oldfield, Kippax, Wall, McCabe, [meal at fixed time and price], 76
Pakistan tour to England. A Botham Walker, Grimmett, Kelly (Manager) Cheapside, London’. Small original
and Willis’ Headingley Test 1981 silk and Howard (Treasurer). Some wear, two sided card menu for the Ordinary
handkerchief, two modern age toning and staining to menu, served ‘At 1 o’clock every day except
reproduction prints, and four some small loss to card cover Saturday’. Menu to face and ‘Cheese
scorecards. Some items framed and extremities otherwise in good Competition’ to verso. Beautifully
glazed. G £30/50 condition. A rare ‘on route’ tour signed by Bradman in ink to verso,
menu £200/300 probably in the 1930’s. Odd marks
56 Gilbert Laird Jessop. Gloucestershire,
otherwise in good+ condition
Cambridge University & England 59 Australia tour of England 1930.
£60/90
1894-1914. Record score 286, 1903. Official ‘Australian XI English Tour
Large original double sided hand 1930’ brochure for the tour. To front 62 ‘Dinner to the New South Wales
painted pub sign depicting Jessop in cover ‘With the compliments of the Members of the 1934 Australian
batting pose advancing down the Orient Line’ with title, Orient Line Team’. Official menu for the dinner
wicket, title on scroll to top ‘G.L. emblem and Australian colours of given by the President and members
Jessop Cambridge & England’ and gold and green running diagonally of the New South Wales Cricket
‘Double Century’ to lower border. through the centre of the cover. The Association, Usher’s Hotel, Sydney,
The scene is set on a cricket ground, brochure lists the members of the 1st March 1934 prior to the Australia
possibly Cheltenham College, with a touring party, list of fixtures and tour to England. The menu with
scoreboard showing Jessop’s record biographies with pen picture of each green cord tie and decorative front
score of 286 which he achieved of the members of the touring cover of three kookaburras perched
playing for Gloucestershire against Australian team. Each biography, but on a branch. Signed in ink to the front
Sussex at Hove, 1st-3rd June 1903. two, has been nicely signed in ink by cover by Don Bradman and Bill Brown
The sign is set in a plain wooden oak the player featured. Fifteen signatures in later years. VG £50/70
frame with iron supporting/ including Woodfull, Bradman,
63 Australia 1938. Official ‘Australian XI
mounting brackets to the sides Grimmett, Jackson, Ponsford,
English Tour 1938’ souvenir brochure
showing signs of wear. Overall McCabe, Oldfield, Kippax, Fairfax,
for the tour issued by ‘Orient Line
36”x38”. The location of the pub is Hornibrook etc. Lacking the
R.M.S. Orontes 20,000 tons’. The
not known. The paintwork weathered signatures of Richardson and W.L.
brochure lists the members of the
and somewhat faded, more so on one Kelly from the full touring party. This
touring party, list of fixtures and
side, otherwise in good condition brochure appears to be Clarrie
biographies with pen picture of each
£70/100 Grimmett’s copy as it has his initials
of the members of the touring
to the top right hand corner of the
AUTOGRAPHED CRICKET EPHEMERA Australian team. The pen pictures
front cover Minor ageing to covers
have been individually signed in ink
57 Australia tour to England 1930. otherwise in good/very good
by the player featured. Fully signed
Official menu for a ‘Complimentary condition. Signatures excellent
with seventeen signatures including
Smoke Social’ given for the four £250/350
Bradman, McCabe, Barnes, Brown,
South Australia members of the 1930
60 Australian tour of England 1930. Rare Fingleton, Hassett, McCormick,
touring party to England being
official folding tour itinerary for the O’Reilly, Ward, Chipperfield etc.
Richardson, Grimmett, Wall and
Australian tour of England 1930. The Handwritten owners’ details to inside
Walker, held at the South Australian
front cover with decoration in gold front cover. Original wrappers
Hotel, Adelaide, 25th February 1930.
and green with Australian emblem. grubby, some foxing, rusting to
The folding menu with fifteen
‘Australian Board of Control for staples. Signatures excellent
signatures in pencil to the inside
International Cricket’ and ‘17th £250/350
autograph page, including
Australian XI. English Tour 1930’
Richardson, Grimmett, Wall and 64 Don Bradman 1948. Official menu for
below emblem. To inside pages
Walker, and other South Australian ‘A Luncheon and Presentation to Don
details of the Australian team and list
cricketers, including Hack, Pritchard Bradman’. Savoy Hotel, London.
of matches to be played on the tour.
and Harris, also Bill Jeanes, then September 20th 1948. Four page
Nicely signed to back cover in ink by
Secretary of the South Australian menu with gold tassle, with title to
sixteen members of the touring party
Cricket Association and later of the front cover and colour Australian
including the Manager Kelly and
Australian Board of Control. G/VG emblem to top of cover. To inside
Treasurer Howard. Signatures include
£70/100 front cover, the menu, details of
Woodfull, Bradman, Grimmett,
speakers and presentation of an
58 Australian tour of England 1930. Ponsford, Kippax, Jackson, McCabe,
antique silver replica of the Warwick
Official ‘Luncheon menu tendered to Oldfield, Fairfax, Wall etc. Printed by
Vase to Don Bradman. To opposite
the Australian Eleven [on route to the Artcraft Press, Richmond,
7page a colour photograph of Australia’. Paper insert to inside with Peter Lever and Peter Lee. Lacking
Bradman which is signed by Bradman ‘With Sincere Wishes for a bright and the signature of Frank Hayes. The
beneath on menu. Also signed by Merry Christmas and a Happy and Sullivan signature slightly faded. Sold
England Captain, Norman Yardley to Properous New Year’. Signed in ink with a souvenir folding card
menu page. A rare signed menu. from Herbert Sutcliffe. Very minor celebrating ‘Lancashire’s Unique
Adhesive marks and slight damage to adhesive marks to verso otherwise in Double in 1990’. Thirteen signatures
the surface of the rear cover very good condition. Rare £250/350 including Mendis, Fowler, Atherton,
otherwise in good/very good Fairbrother, Watkinson, Langer,
69 M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49.
condition. Sold with an original press DeFreitas, Allott etc. Limited edition
‘Dinner in Honour of M.C.C.’ Official
photograph of from the Luncheon no. 48/125. Also an official menu for
menu held by the Matabeland Cricket
depicting the Earl of Guthrie the end of season dinner at Old
Association at The Grand Hotel,
presenting the silver replica Warwick Trafford, 21st September 1990
Bulawayo on 29th January 1949.
Vase to Don Bradman (8”x10” and a celebrating their record score of 863.
Decorative front cover with menu to
further nine small photographs of Eleven signatures including Mendis,
inside pages. Nicely signed in ink to
various views of Bradman sitting at Fowler, Atherton, Fairbrother, Jesty,
inside pages by the full touring party.
the table at the Luncheon Watkinson etc. Qty 3. G/VG £25/35
Eighteen signatures including Mann,
(2.5”x2.75”, some with stamp
Washbrook, Compton, Jenkins, 73 Leonard ‘Len’ Hutton. Yorkshire &
W.G.A. White to verso) £150/250
Hutton, Evans, Wright, Palmer, England 1934-1955. ‘’364’ 50th
65 Australian tour of England 1956. Young, Bedser, Simpson, Tremlett, Anniversary Dinner. Joint Tribute to
Official P&O souvenir tour Gladwin, Griffiths etc. Good/very Sir Leonard Hutton by Yorkshire
programme for the England v good condition £100/150 C.C.C. and Pudsey St. Lawrence
Australia Tests of 1956. The C.C.’. Official folding menu for the
70 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1954/55.
programme with fixtures, travel dinner held at Queen’s Hotel, Leeds,
Orient Line R.M.S. Orsova folding
details and pen pictures and 21st July 1998 to celebrate the
menu for the ‘Book Dinner’ held on
biography of all members of the anniversary of Hutton achieving the
board 19th September 1954.
Australian team to pages. Signed to record Test score of 364, against
Seventeen signatures in ink of
pen pictures by all sixteen members Australia in 1948. Signed to the front
members of the M.C.C. touring party
of the team. Players signatures cover by Hutton. Very good
to front cover. Signatures are Hutton
include I. Johnson (Cpt), Miller, condition. Sold with an official ticket
(Captain), Bailey, Statham, May,
Archer, Benaud, Burge, Craig, for the dinner, also a mono bookplate
Graveney, Wilson, Tyson, Appleyard,
Davidson, Harvey, Lindwall, photograph of cricket at Bramall
Cowdrey, McConnon, Bedser,
Maddocks etc. Some age toning and Lane, Sheffield, signed by Hutton.
Wardle, Evans, Edrich, Loader and
wear to covers otherwise in good Qty 3. G £20/30
Andrew (signed twice). Additional
condition £150/250
owner’s signature to rear. The menu 74 South Africa 1951. Official souvenir
66 Australia tour of England 1961. with colour front cover featuring the brochure for the South African tour of
Official Australian Board of Control ship which took the M.C.C. team to England in 1951. Compiled by A.W.
programme and itinerary for the tour Australia, dinner competition Simpson. Decorative covers. Nicely
to England. Decorative cover in green instructions and menu to inside, ship’s signed by all fifteen members of the
and gold with Australian emblem. To details to rear. Some foxing and minor touring party to their pen pictures.
inside pages are the programme of creasing, otherwise in good condition Signatures in ink are Nourse (captain),
matches to be played on the tour and £80/120 Rowan, Chubb, Melle, Rowan,
the back cover is an autograph card Fullerton, Endean, Van Ryneveld,
71 The Lords’ Taverners. ‘The Macquarie
with names of the touring Australians Cheetham, McGlew, McCarthy,
Fast Bowlers Dinner’ 2011. Official
listed. Nicely signed by all seventeen McLean, Mann, Waite and Mansell.
brochure for the dinner given by the
members of the touring party in ink. Good/very good condition £60/90
Lord’s Taverners held in London on
Signatures include Benaud, Harvey,
21st September 2011 to celebrate the 75 ‘Cricketers from Pakistan’. Official
Booth, Davidson, Grout, McDonald,
greatest fast bowlers. Includes the Playfair tour brochure for the Pakistan
Simpson, Misson etc. Good condition
front cover of a Lord’s Taveners tour of England 1954. Edited by
£70/100
folder, which has been signed by all Gordon Ross. Signed in ink to pen
67 Walter Reginald Hammond. Glouces- twenty two fast bowlers listed in the pictures by fifteen members of the
tershire & England 1920-1951. brochure. Signatures are Ambrose, touring party including Kardar,
Official M.C.C. Christmas card from Caddick, Croft, Davidson, Garner, Mahmood, Imtiaz, Hanif
the tour of South Africa 1930-31 with Gough, Griffith, Hadlee, Hall, Mohammad, Alim-Ud-Din, Ghazali,
‘M.C.C. South Africa 1930/31’ and Holding, Kapil Dev, Malcolm, Wazir Mohammad, Ikram Elahi,
M.C.C. colours to cover. To inside a McGrath, Ntini, Procter, Rice, Waqar Hassan, Shakoor Ahmed,
picture of the team and the wording- Roberts, Snow, Sobers, Thomson, Khalid Wazir etc. Light vertical fold
‘With Best Christmas Wishes from a Walsh and Willis. Also signed by Ted otherwise in good condition £60/90
Happy Family in South Africa’. Nicely Dexter, Brian Close and Allan Lamb.
76 Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex,
signed from ‘Wally Hammond’. With Twenty five signatures in total. Good
Surrey & England 1910-1935. Single
original envelope sent to ‘W. Lambert condition £50/70
page typed letter addressed to ‘J.
of Bristol’. Good/very good condition
72 Lancashire C.C.C. 1990s/2000s. An Sockell Esq., Wombwell Cricket
£80/120
official souvenir card produced for Society’ (Jack Sokell, Wombwell
68 ‘Bodyline’. Official M.C.C. Christmas ‘The Gillette Cup 1970-1971-1972 Cricket Lovers’ Society), dated 10th
card from the M.C.C. ‘Bodyline’ tour 35th Anniversary Dinner’ held at Old January 1956. Fender writes in
of Australia 1932/33. Excellent Trafford, 3rd September 2007. response to an invitation to talk to the
decorative cover with the M.C.C. Limited edition of 75 copies. Signed Society, and asks for alternative dates
colours, M.C.C. emblem of St. by twelve of the thirteen listed players so he can work around his television
George & Dragon, caricatures, by who played in the three finals, Barry commitments. Signed ‘Percy G.H.
Arthur Mailey, of the M.C.C. team Wood, David Lloyd, Harry Pilling, Fender’. Previously sold as lot 511 in
stood on a outline map of Australia Clive Lloyd, John Sullivan, Farokh the T. Vennett-Smith auction of 27th
and printed detail ‘Christmas Engineer, Jack Bond, David Hughes, November 2012. Light folds,
Greetings 1932 from The M.C.C. in Jack Simmons, Ken Shuttleworth, otherwise in good condition £40/60
8Kirkby, Nottinghamshire. The England 1929-1947. Two typed
postcard is postmarked 24th February letters, both on Yorkshire Evening
77 Charles Burgess Fry. Oxford
1908, presumably written on the rest News letterheads for whom Bowes
University, Sussex, London County,
day of the fifth Test at Sydney, in was Sports Correspondent, both
Hampshire & England 1892-1922.
which Hardstaff scored 17 and 8 in replying to invitations to speak at
Two page handwritten letter in ink
England’s defeat to Australia by 48 dinners. One, dated 9th November
from Fry to ‘Dear Dr. Jack’, written on
runs. To the front the postcard 1955 to Les Gutteridge, which he has
‘Nautical School T.S. Mercury,
features a colour view of Mosman to decline, the other, dated 21st
Hamble, Southampton’ letterhead,
Bay, Sydney. Signed ‘Yours truly, March 1957 to Jack Sokell of the
and dated 4th November 1935. Fry
loving husband Joe’. Good condition Wombwell Cricket Lovers’ Society, he
writes, ‘May I be allowed to say – or
£50/80 accepts subject to being called away
submit – that this of yours strikes me
‘to some remote part of England’ to
as just exactly what exceedingly 81 Lancashire C.C.C. Two original
report on a Saturday football match,
needed to be emphasized. I’ve been handwritten letters on Lancashire
‘petrol rationing of some other
seeking the 6oz ‘samples of tea’ from C.C.C. letterhead. One is a two page
serious interference’. Both letters
all over the United Kingdom & also letter written by David Hughes, dated
signed ‘Bill Bowes’. Sold with an
innumerable ordinary grown ups[?] 20th August 1986, in which he
original mono press photograph of
for the last 27 years. Just look how recollects the Gillette Cup semi-final
Bowes bowling for England v
most of them walk!’ Signed ‘Yours of 1971 in which he played, and his
Australia at The Oval in 1938
truly, C.B. Fry’. In a postscript Fry high regard for Jack Bond, the first
(Hutton’s record 364) in which he
writes, ‘One reason[?] why games captain under whom he played for
took 5-49 in Australia’s first innings.
were so poorly played as to style is Lancashire. The second is a single
8”x10”. Qty 3. Uneven trimming to
that the players move incorrectly & page letter written by Jack Simmons,
one letter, otherwise in good
have no balance & poise’. Light folds undated but probably August/
condition £40/60
and minor wear with small repair, September 1986. Answering three
otherwise in good condition questions posed by the 85 A.W.T. Langford (1896-1976), author
£80/120 correspondent, Simmons looks and journalist. Three handwritten two
forward to the forthcoming NatWest page letters from Langford to H.W.
The training ship Mercury was a
Final (Lancashire v Sussex), cites his Warner dated 30th January [1941?],
shore-based training establishment
schoolboy hero as Clyde Walcott, and 2nd December 1943 and 12th
based at Hamble in Hampshire.
lists his sixteen players for the November 1947. Content relates to
Founded in 1885 by the banker
1968/87 England tour to Australia (of The Cricketer magazine, of which
Charles Arthur Richard Hoare, the
those chosen by Simmons, twelve Langford was assistant editor to Plum
charity was run by his mistress,
were selected for the tour). Light Warner at the time. Langford
Beatrice Holme Sumner. C.B. Fry
folds, otherwise in good condition mentions the recruitment of C.B. Fry,
married Sumner in 1898, and Fry
£30/50 E.R. Wilson, A.E.R. Gilligan and H.S.
became the Mercury’s Captain-
Altham as contributors for the
Superintendent on the death of 82 Malcolm Robert Jardine. Oxford
forthcoming Spring edition. He
Hoare in 1908 University & Middlesex 1889-1892.
mentions errors relating to ‘the
Small sheet nicely signed in ink by
78 Walter Reginald ‘Wally’ Hammond. Bedser misprint’, the cutting of club
Jardine with handwritten notes
Gloucestershire & England 1920- results in favour of club news etc.
relating to his cricket career below,
1951. Sepia real photograph postcard Adhesive mark to top edge of one
‘Fettes College 1881-1888, Oxford
of ‘Private Island House, Trinidad’ letter, light foxing and folds,
University 1889-1892. Captain 1891.
sent by Hammond to a lady friend, otherwise in good condition £25/35
Middlesex 1892-3’. VG £30/50
Miss C.E. ‘Kitty’ Hall in Folkestone,
86 John Henniker-Major, 5th Baron
Kent. Hammond writes ‘to let you Jardine played only six matches for
Henniker. Two page handwritten
know that I am still alive and having Middlesex, all in 1892. He was the
letter on Thornham Hall, Eye (Suffolk)
a wonderful time’, signed ‘W.R. father of Douglas Jardine, future
note paper to Dr Short, dated 14th
Hammond’. The postcard most likely Captain of England in the infamous
September 1877. Henniker-Major is
sent while on the 1934/35 M.C.C. ‘Bodyline’ series of 1932/33
writing to thank Short ‘for the most
tour to West Indies. Some wear and
83 Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England enjoyable day’s cricket the three
ageing £80/120
1919-1945. Three page handwritten young people had on Wednesday... I
Hammond was a member of two letter dated 7th January 1934 to will send you over as good an eleven
M.C.C. tours to West Indies, in ‘Dear George’, possibly George as I can on Friday next. I cannot come
1925/26 and 1934/35. It is most Wolfe, brother in law of Julian Cahn. myself as I shall be away from home.
likely this card was sent while on the Writing from his Pudsey home, Nicely signed ‘J Henniker’. Horizontal
latter tour, as the itinerary for the Sutcliffe opens, tongue in cheek, folds. Good condition £18/25
earlier tour did not include Trinidad ‘Lazy bones- why didn’t you come to
John Henniker-Major served as
the ship yesterday morning. I looked
79 George Robert Canning Lord Harris. Member of Parliament for East
for you!’, and continues to say how
Kent, Oxford University & England. Suffolk and was appointed Governor
much he has enjoyed a cruise on
Original ‘one penny’ letter card of the Isle of Man in 1895 where he
which the correspondent’s mother
featuring a small trimmed mono died in 1902. He established a cricket
and father were present. ‘I think your
photograph of Harris affixed to the ground at Thornham Hall in 1876
mother is the sweetest & most
card by four brass studs. Signed to
charming lady I’ve ever met’ and 87 Evelyn Rockley Wilson. Cambridge
the card in ink ‘Harris’ of ‘Belmont,
looks forward to meeting her again University, Yorkshire & England 1899-
Faversham, Kent. Postmarked 1903.
on a future cruise. He closes by 1923. Original singe page
The autograph hunter’s return
wishing a ‘very Happy & Prosperous handwritten letter dated 5th March
address to verso. A novel way to
1934 & always’. Very nicely signed in 1940 from Wilson to ‘Mr [Arthur]
collect signatures. G £50/80
ink ‘Herbert Sutcliffe’. A nice personal Langford’, then assistant editor to
80 Joseph ‘Joe’ Hardstaff senior. Sutcliffe letter. Light folds, otherwise Plum Warner of The Cricketer
Nottinghamshire & England 1902- in very good condition £30/50 magazine. Wilson is returning
1924. Handwritten postcard from corrected proofs for an article he has
84 William Eric ‘Bill’ Bowes. Yorkshire &
Hardstaff to his ‘Dear Wife’ in East written, ‘hardly any correction
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