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DAY ONE CRICKET MEMORABILIA AUTOGRAPHED CRICKET EPHEMERA Photos I needed this morning, they 8 Dr Edward Mills Grace, are wonderfully good and are the Gloucestershire and England 1870- 1 Andrew Ernest Stoddart, Middlesex source of great admiration’. The 1895. Handwritten letter on Park and England 1885-1900. letter dated 26th June 1895 and House, Thornbury headed paper, Handwritten letter regarding the nicely signed by Jackson in ink. VG dated 20th October 1907. ‘Is the completion of a nomination paper £100/150 enclosed quite correct. Kindly let me with the comment, ‘It seems hardly know.’ The letter nicely signed in ink cricket weather yet but you may 5 John Arlott. Small card with two by Grace ‘Edward Mills Grace’. Light commence tomorrow if you wish’. sided handwritten letter from Arlott horizontal fold otherwise in very Nicely signed in ink ‘A E Stoddart’. to Donald J. Knight (Surrey & good condition £180/250 The letter with one horizontal fold England 1911-1937) ‘The last time and some foxing is laid to card we met you were kind enough to say 9 Hugh Richard Bromley-Davenport, otherwise in good/very good that you would sign my copies of Middlesex and England 1892-1899. condition £100/150 your books for my collection..... Handwritten letter dated 5th Many thanks-and I hope we may November 1948 replying to a Stoddart captained England on two meet soon in what must, surely be, a request for autographs. ‘I particularly tours to Australia, leading England great summer for English cricket’. want to get you Gubby Allen’s, but in eight tests and played rugby for The card dated 12th February 1953 he doesn’t come in regularly to the England ten times and nicely signed by Arlott. VG S. Exchange’. He also refers to the 2 Sir Spencer C.B. Ponsonby. £40/60 the ‘splendid start our captain - Handwritten letter on Lord Mann - has made’ and questions the 6 Pelham Francis Warner. Middlesex & Chamberlain’s Office, St James’s bowling of Wright. Nicely signed in England 1894-1920. Handwritten Palace headed paper regarding the ink ‘H. R. Bromley Davenport’. Light letter on ‘The Cricketer’ magazine security of St Paul’s. Nicely signed in horizontal fold, otherwise in very headed paper dated 10th November ink by Ponsonby ‘Spencer Ponsonby’ good condition £60/80 1936 from Warner to Mr Goldman (later Ponsonby Fane). Light with good content regarding Bromley-Davenport, right hand bat, horizontal and vertical folds, Goldman’s book collection. ‘What a left arm fast bowler, played four otherwise in very good condition wonderful collection of cricket books tests for England and was one of the £40/60 you have!. I congratulate you’. few players of his era to play cricket Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby Nicely signed by Warner. Fold marks wearing glasses was on the M.C.C. Committee otherwise in good condition £60/80 10 Sir Leonard Hutton, Yorkshire and 1866-68, 1870-1873, 1875-1878, 7 William Gilbert Grace. England 1934-1955. Handwritten Treasurer from 1879 to his death in Gloucestershire & England 1865- letter dated 3rd November 1987 on 1915. He was a founder member of 1908. Handwritten three page letter, ‘The Forty Club’ headed paper, the Surrey Committee and President on London County Cricket Club acknowledging receipt of a book. of Somerset C.C.C. from 1890. He headed paper, in black ink to Nicely signed in ink ‘Len Hutton’. helped in founding I Zingari ‘Braddon’ (?) and dated 20th Light horizontal and vertical folds, 3 Sir Archibald Woollaston White, February 1901. The letter concerns otherwise in good condition £20/30 Yorkshire 1908-1920. Small the Boer War and a ball that was 11 William Storer, Derbyshire and handwritten letter announcing his presented to Grace. Also refers to England 1887-1900. Handwritten availability to play in the F.F. v. The Frank Townsend (Gloucestershire letter responding to a request for R.A. match on 14th-15th July (no C.C.C. 1870-1891)... Frank souvenir bat ‘I gave them away at year). ‘I am up for the F.Fs and Townsend... a very good wicket the end of the season’. Nicely signed should be very glad to play if you keeper and bat... if you can do in ink ‘W. Storer’. Very good could give me a place’. Nicely signed anything for him, I shall be very glad condition £80/120 in ink ‘Archibald W. White’. Light to hear of it, and so will his father horizontal fold, otherwise in very and mother. He has had no chance Storer played six tests for England as good condition £60/80 of doing any shooting, but will make wicket-keeper and also played a good shot with a weeks practice’. football for Derby County White captained Yorkshire 1912- Nicely signed in ink by Grace. 1914 12 Lord Harris, George Robert Canning, Adhesive marks to fourth page not Kent & England 1870-1911. Three 4 Frank Stanley Jackson. Yorkshire & affecting text, odd faults otherwise page handwritten letter from Harris England 1890-1907. One page in good condition £250/350 to Aunt Flo (!). General family letter handwritten on ‘The Leeds Hugh Townsend died in 1901 business. The letter written on 12, Club’ headed paper to a Mr Grace fighting in the Boer war Motagu Street headed paper and ‘Very many thanks for the Kodak 5 dated 15th June (no year), nicely May 1934 responding to a request decorative cover, red ribbon tie, signed ‘Harris’. G £70/100 for his autograph. Nicely signed in menu, toasts, season’s record etc. ink ‘E.G. Wynyard’. Laid down to Signed to inside front cover by 13 Bernard J.T. Bosanquet. Middlesex & album page. Very good condition eleven of the Lancashire playing staff England 1898-1919. Handwritten £80/120 including Place, Statham, Grieves, two page letter from Bosanquet to a Washbrook, Edrich, Berry, Howard, Geoffrey Moore. The letter dated 17 Charles Burgess Fry, Sussex and Greenwood etc. VG £60/90 5th February 1935 and on personal England 1892-1921. Handwritten embossed stationary ‘Salut, Pyrford, letter dated 2nd March 1934 23 Surrey County Cricket Club Surrey’. Mainly cricket and golf apologising for not being able to Championship Dinner 1959. Official content ‘Glad to hear Mr Leveson- make an appointment. Nicely signed menu for the Dinner held at The Gower has become a vice President. in ink by Fry ‘CBF’. Light horizontal Grosvenor House, Park Lane on the I shall always be much interested in fold and minor ink smudging 15th April 1959, with team the club and hope I may be able to otherwise in very good condition photograph to inside pages. Sold take a more practical interest than £60/80 with a signed Surrey ‘County before’. Nicely signed by Bosanquet. Champions’ autograph sheet for 18 Paul Antony Gibb, Yorkshire, Essex & G £60/90 1958. Thirteen signatures including England 1934-1956. Handwritten Stewart, Barrington, Loader, Lock, 14 Arthur E.R. Gilligan. Surrey, Sussex & letter dated 27th July 1958 replying Edrich, Jefferson, Storey, Tindall etc England 1920-1932. Three page to a request for a photograph. Nicely and a further Surrey ‘County handwritten letter from Gilligan to signed in ink ‘Paul A Gibb’ with the Champions’ autograph page for ‘Fred’ with excellent cricket content original envelope. Light horizontal 1956, signed by thirteen members of written from ‘The Adelaide Club’ on folds otherwise in good/very good the squad including May, Bedser, the M.C.C. tour of Australia condition £40/60 Lock, Barrington, McIntyre, Laker, 1950/51, presumably Gilligan was 19 Gerald de Lisle Hough, Kent 1919- Loader etc. G £40/60 there in a journalistic role. He talks of 1920. Handwritten letter on Kent ‘having avery nice time in Tasmania 24 ‘C.B. Harris Benefit Souvenir card’ County Cricket Club headed paper, and some really good cricket-Denis 1949 signed by Nottinghamshire dated 8th April 1948 replying to an Compton being in great form players including Jepson, Butler, enquiry about a past player. Nicely (Compton made 142 and 77), Simpson, Voce, Woodhead, signed in ink by Hough ‘G. de L. meeting Vic Richardson in Hardstaff, Butler, Keeton, Harris, Hough’. The letter is laid down to Melbourne, the high temperatures, Stocks etc. Printed by Meads of paper with light folds and minor talks of the tour match v South Nottingham. Sold with a staining otherwise in good condition Australia currently being played Nottinghamshire C.C.C. ‘Who’s £40/60 ‘M.C.C. batting here on Saturday, Who in Nottinghamshire County looking very good.... we’re dining at Hough was appointed manager of Cricket Club’ leaflet c1940 featuring Government House Banquet...so Kent in 1934 and secretary in 1936 twenty caricatures and biographies that should be most pleasant’. The drawn and compiled by Underwood. 20 Christopher Heseltine, Hampshire & letter dated the 29th January 1951 Printed and Published by Barnes & England 1892-1914. Handwritten and nicely signed by Gilligan in ink. Humby, Nottingham. G/VG £50/80 letter dated 27th November 1942 G £50/80 replying to a request for his 25 Australia 1956. Official P&O 15 Hon Alfred Lyttelton, Cambridge autograph. Nicely signed in ink by souvenir tour programme for the University, Middlesex and England Heseltine ‘Christopher Heseltine’. England v Australia Tests of 1956. 1876-1887. Handwritten letter Light horizontal fold otherwise in The programme with fixtures, travel dated 11th April 1906 to the Dean good condition £50/70 details and pen pictures and of Christchurch. Nicely signed in ink biography of all members of the 21 Northern Cricket Society. Menu for ‘Alfred Lyttelton’, the signature Australian team to pages. Signed to the dinner ‘in honour of the Indian slightly smudged. Light folds pen pictures by all sixteen members Cricketers’ held at Guildford Hotel, otherwise in good condition of the team plus the Manager W.J.