Graham Budd Auctions Sporting Memorabilia Sotheby's 34-35 New Bond Street 25th & 26th April 2016 Football, Boxing, Cricket, Golf, Horse & London Greyhound Racing, Motor Sports, Rugby, Tennis, Olympic W1A 2AA United Kingdom Games & other sports Started 25 Apr 2016 10:30 BST Lot Description 44 copies of 'Pastime with which is incorporated Football', running from No. 605 Vol. XXIV December 26 1894 to No. 653 Vol. XXVI 1 November 27 1895 Missing 4 copies Nos. 618, 629, 638 and 639, good to very good condition, slight damage to the rear few pages of No. 633 The issues cover, amongst othe ...[more] 6 copies of Pastime with which is incorporated Football,Nos. 611 - 616 Vol XXIV February 6 1895 - March 13 1895, covering football, 2 rugby, golf, curling athletics, golf, includes FA Cup reports covering the major teams and a reference to Newton Heath, photographs of the English and Scottish rugby t ...[more] Sporting autographs,tennis, including Rod Laver, Dorothy Round, Bunny Austin, Fred Perry, ; rugby, 1935 New Zealand All Blacks 3 including a signed postcard of Brian McCleary, plus W W Wakefield, Bob Bower; billiards player Tom Newman and others; plus more recent sportsmen including Duncan Goodhew, H ...[more] Three binder files of sports programmes 1950s and 1960s,including Wimbledon tennis, boxing, Royal Ascot, Lord's scorecard, 1958 4 Commonwealth Games, football, badminton, Harlem Globetrotters, Gaelic Sports, Royal International Horse Show, rugby union, Henley Regatta, Highland Games, Powerboat Racing ...[more] A group of 15 South Staffordshire Sporting Club sporting dinner menus bearing autographs,held at Molineux, Wolverhampton, between 5 1993 and 1997, signatures of guest speakers including Willie John McBride, Graham Taylor, John Conteh, Henry Cooper, Fred Trueman, Jack Charlton (two), Nobby Stiles, Gor ...[more] Sporting annuals,The Official Wimbledon Annual for 1994 to 2005, with 2 copies for 1994, 1995, 2004 & 2005, and 3 copies for 2003, 6 published by Hazelton; The Open Championship, official annuls for the golf tournament, for 1996 to 2005, with copies for 2004 & 2005, and 3 copies for 2003, published b ...[more] A 33 1/3 LP recording of the inaugural BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards in 1954,approx. 44 minutes recording of the 7 ceremony at the Savoy Hotel in London, comprising a review of sporting events in 1954: cricket Test Series v West Indies & Pakistan; football, 1954 World Cup, and floodlit fr ...[more] Sporting prints,folder of sporting lithographs published by The Motor magazine circa 1937 titled "The Importance of the Occasion 8 Warrants the Intrusion" featuring amusing moments in golf, chess, horse racing, and cricket, all with bubble captions advertising the magazine; sold together with 'The Sp ...[more] A group of four limited edition sporting prints,A SAFE BET [GLORIOUS GOODWOOD]; A THOROUGHBRED AMONG PRINTERS 9 [YORK, KAVESMIRE]; PITCHING AT THE CORRECT LEVEL [CRICKET AT LORD'S]; PERFECT SERVICE [WIMBLEDON] all signed by the artist, a set of four limited edition artist drawn prints promoting the L ...[more] 10 A group of 28 16mm vintage sporting films transferred to video,featuring lawn tennis, cricket, horse racing and baseballnot illustrated A group of four framed signed b&w photographic presentations of famous sportsmen,the subjects comprising the cricketers Sir Richard 11 Hadlee and Fred Trueman, the footballer Jimmy Greaves and the athlete Sir Roger Bannister, various sizes, the largest presentation 44 by 55cm., 17 by 21 1/2i. A group of four large and impressive photographic prints of sportsmen,comprising: the golfer Tony Jacklin, the cricketer Sir Gary 12 Sobers, the footballer Peter Shilton and the rugby player Neil Back, colour expect for the Shilton, the photographs varying in size from approx. 12 by 16in. to 24 by 16i ...[more] A Joe DiMaggio signed colour picture,published by Major League Baseball Photo File, signature in blue marker pen; sold with the 13 original sale invoice from Fraser's Autographs (2) Signed Harlem Globetrotters v Cherokee Indians programme for matches in Prague 11-13 June 1963,bearing a total of 42 signatures 14 including the recently departed Meadowlark Lemon A FIBA Puerto Rico 1974 Basketball World Cup gold first-place prize medal awarded to an unknown Soviet player,gilt-metal & enamel, 15 red, white & blue ribbon; sold with a participant's medal for the 1974 World Cup; and a Soviet basketball medal dated 1998 (3) A group of five FIBA European Championships "EuroBasket medals,i) silver second-place prize medal, Belgrade, 1975, silvered bronze, 16 the reverse inscribed II MESTO, awarded to an unknown Soviet playerii) bronze third-place prize medal, Barcelona 1973, large bronze, ribbon in the colours of the Spa ...[more] A Michael Jordan signed basketball,the Jordan branded ball signed in silver marker pen, in an acrylic, cubic display case, 32cm., 12 17 1/2in. 18 A signed Michael Jordan branded basketball jersey,the black jersey signed in silver marker pen Harvard v Oxford/Cambridge International University Boat Race memorabilia,i) double-size Illustrated London News coloured 19 supplement print of the 1869 Harvard v Oxford International University Boat Race from Putney to Mortlakeii) program & souvenir of the Harvard v Cambridge race of 1906 Decorative Victorian colour rowing print titled "Flags of the Cambridge University Eight Oar Boats",10 1/2 by 8in.; sold together with two 20 sepia-toned rowing photographs, 8 1/2 by 10 1/2in., the first with pencil caption to reverse identifying the image to be the oarsman Trinity Hall Cambridge Boat ...[more] A group of four medals for aquatic sports,i) a bronze 1926 Austrian water polo championship winner's medalii) a silver second-place 21 prize medal for water polo at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle, silvered bronze, medal suspensioniii) a bronze third-place prize medal for the 1997 European Swimmi ...[more] A replica of the Americas Cup trophy 1901,in the form of an Austrian china ewer decorated to one side with a view of Ailsa Craig and to 22 the other the Cloch Lighthouse, 22cm., 8 1/2in.Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock II was launched in 1901 from Denny Bros Yard some 16 miles west of Glasgow. The sea t ...[more] After James Heath (1757-1834)ARCHERY AT BLACKHEATHa rare engraving published in 1789 by Joseph Slater, London, competing 23 at target archery, some spectators beyond, the image 58 by 33cm., 23 by 13in.Another example of this print is in the collection of the British Museum. The curator's comments ...[more] Rare and important 1743 broadside publishing the first codified set of Rules of Boxing formulated by John Broughton that governed the 24 sport until 1838,20 by 15in. printed on heavy stock paper with hand coloured vignettes of boxing matches, the central picture titled THE RING, the text beneath head ...[more] A manuscript pass to enter the House of Commons signed by the 19th century prize fighter and M.P. John Gully,dated 9th February 25 1836, reading ADMIT THE BEARER MR HURD TO THE GALLERY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, JOHN GULLY, mounted together with a portrait of Gully and a title plaque, framed & glazed, 4 ...[more] A pewter pint tankard presented by the Victorian bare knuckle boxer William Benjamin,inscribed PRESENTED TO C. & E. KEMP, BY 26 WILLIAM BENJAMIN, OPPONENT OF TOM SAYERS, height 14cm., 5 1/2in. Bill Benjamin and Tom Sayers fought on two occasions, both times on the Isle of Grain in Kent. The first ...[more] Panoramic print of a boxing match mid-19th century,aquatint showing the large crowd assembled around the boxing ring, 6 by 29cm., 2 27 1/2 by 11 1/2in.; sold with another being a section from a panorama showing the prize fight 6 by 20cm., 2 1/2 by 8in. (2) A large and impressive colour boxing print of the Sayers v Heenan prize fight in 1860,fully titled JEM WARD'S PICTURE OF THE 28 GREAT FIGHT BETWEEN TOM SAYERS & J.C. HEENAN, AT FARNBOROUGH 18th APRIL 1860 FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF ENGLAND & AMERICA, colour lithograph published by F.R. Scofield, Brixton, ...[more] A 19th century American boxing poster promoting the appearance of Herbert A. Slade the Maori Champion Heavy Weight Pugilist at the 29 Opera House,undated other than 'Wednesday evening February 28', probably connected to Slade's exhibition tour of the USA with John L. Sullivan, the Opera House probably ...[more] A.D. Bastin (active 1871-1900)PORTRAIT OF THE AUSTRALIAN HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER PETER "BLACK PRINCE" 30 JACKSONsigned by the artist, the original pastel artwork from which a limited edition of monochrome lithographic prints were published in 1894, the image 50 by 36cm., 20 by 14in., generally good conditi ...[more] A boxing silk commemorating the Ginger Osborne v Jem Connelly match for £200 at Walthamstow in 1898,printed with details to the 31 centre, pale blue border with horse shoes, English & Scottish national emblems to each corner, 92cm., 36in. square A collection of 15 lantern slides of boxing champions,from the bare knuckle and early gloved eras, subjects including Sam Langford, Les 32 Darcy, Tommy Burns, Tom Heeney, Willie Lewis. Jack Johnson, John L. Sullivan, James J.Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Battling Nelson and others, one with publisher's la ...[more] Henning (Fred "Tourist") Fights For the Championship, the Men and Their Times,vols 1 & 2, illustrations, advertisements at front and 33 rear, red cloth, 8vo, Licenced Victuallers' Gazette, London, circa 1900not illustrated An exceptionally rare unused ticket from a Sam McVea's contest with Bill HarrisThe two men met on 26th June 1909 in Marseille, 34 France. McVea won by fifth round KO. The event was promoted by D. Manselon and held at the Amphitheatre Assis. Entry was 5 1/2 Francs.