Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 2 Tuesday 14 May 2013 10:30
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Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 2 Tuesday 14 May 2013 10:30 Graham Budd Auctions Ltd Sotheby's 34-35 New Bond Street London W1A 2AA Graham Budd Auctions Ltd (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 2) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 335 restrictions and 144 meetings were held between Easter 1940 Two framed 1929 sets of Dirt Track Racing cigarette cards, and VE Day 1945. 'Thrills of the Dirt Track', a complete photographic set of 16 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 given with Champion and Triumph cigarettes, each card individually dated between April and June 1929, mounted, framed and glazed, 38 by 46cm., 15 by 18in., 'Famous Dirt Lot: 338 Tack Riders', an illustrated colour set of 25 given with Ogden's Post-war 1940s-50s speedway journals and programmes, Cigarettes, each card featuring the portrait and signature of a including three 1947 issues of The Broadsider, three 1947-48 successful 1928 rider, mounted, framed and glazed, 33 by Speedway Reporter, nine 1949-50 Speedway Echo, seventy 48cm., 13 by 19in., plus 'Speedway Riders', a similar late- three 1947-1955 Speedway Gazette, eight 8 b&w speedway 1930s illustrated colour set of 50 given with Player's Cigarettes, press photos; plus many F.I.M. World Rider Championship mounted, framed and glazed, 51 by 56cm., 20 by 22in.; sold programmes 1948-82, including overseas events, eight with three small enamelled metal speedway supporters club pin England v. Australia tests 1948-53, over seventy 1947-1956 badges for the New Cross, Wembley and West Ham teams and Wembley programmes, plus other tracks; together with a large various 1950-60s programmes for nine motorcycle races, quantity of 1980s and 2000s programmes, including Arena sixteen Bolton-Le-Moors Car Club Driving Tests and a French Essex, Coventry, Mildenhall, Rye House and Wimbledon; sold velodrome derny event (qty.) with various 1950-60s programmes for other sports, including Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 four motorcycle racing, three Crystal Palace motor racing, three motor rallies, three veteran car events, velodrome cycle track racing, plus the first issue of Karting News & Record April 1960, Lot: 336 11 copies of Karting News 1962-64 and 10 1973-75, 28 issues WITHDRAWN FROM SALE 24/4/13 - Two rare 1928, ten 1929 of Cycling Magazine 1953-1960 (qty.) and nineteen 1930s speedway programmes, comprising a Belle Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Vue Speedway 4th September 1928 single-folded sheet, a White City Speedway (London) 10th October 1928 single sheet with pencil results notation, ten 1929 Fullerton Park Leeds Lot: 339 Stadium events dated 23rd March to 11th May, including four Five 1931-32 Stamford Bridge Speedway silver trophies English League matches, all single-folded sheets with full awarded to Frank Arthur, the first a two-handled cup engraved results notation, plus two other early 1929 events at Post Hill STAMFORD BRIDGE SPEEDWAY, THE "POINT STAKES", and Morley, two Argentinian speedway meetings featuring 1931, WINNER, F. ARTHUR, hallmarked London 1931, height touring colonial riders dated February 1930 and January 1931, overall 20cm., 8in.; the second engraved STAMFORD BRIDGE all printed on variously sized folded card, four England v. SPEEDWAY, 1931, OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP, WINNER, F. Australia test matches dated 1931-1933, three 1939 and two ARTHUR, a two-handled cup on an ebonised base, hallmarked 1939 England v. The Dominions, a 1931 Leeds Stadium North London 1931, height including base 19cm., 7½in.; the third v. South, 1934 Walthamstow Official Opening, two 1934 engraved STAMFORD BRIDGE CUP, a two-handled cup Wembley v. Belle Vue, 1936 Wembley World Championship hallmarked London 1931, damage to stem base, overall height Qualifying Round, two 1937 Wimbledon and a 1939 West Ham 25cm., 10in.; the fourth engraved STAMFORD BRIDGE CUP, league match, plus 1939 Droitwich grass track; together with a AUGUST 1932, a two-handled cup hallmarked London 1932, 1933 and 1935 issue of Speedway Gazette, three 1935 overall height 30cm., 12in., all four London trophies bearing the Speedway Mirror, including Vol 1 No 1, a scrapbook with 18 Charles Boyton & Son Ltd makers mark; the fifth a small pages of 1938 speedway press cuttings, and two Veteran Dirt decorative two-handled cup with laurel leaves rising in relief Track Riders Association signed menu cards, the 20 rider from the stem, the body engraved NATIONAL SPEEDWAY signatures including Eric Chitty, Bill Kitchen, Eric & Oliver ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL LEAGUE, 1932, WINNERS, THE Langton, Frank Varey (42) February 1928 saw the first British STAMFORD BRIDGE TEAM, FRANK ARTHUR (CAPTAIN), dirt track meeting held at High Beech in Epping Forest. By the hallmarked Birmingham 1931, makers mark A.E. Poston & Co end of the year fifty such venues were operational. One of them Ltd, overall height 13cm., 5in. (5) In 1928 speedway arrived in was Fullerton Park, next door to Leeds United FC in Elland Britain from Australia, bringing with it a certain 19-year-old Road, where the home team was awarded the very first English Frank Arthur. Few could match him on our dirt tracks, League title in 1929. Eight of the Leeds programmes included particularly at Stamford Bridge, and by that September he had here have 'F.O. Langton' marked atop the first page, the same won 31 trophies. The following year he won the Overseas Star name as the Clerk of the Course and father of Leeds riders Eric Rider Championship, as well as beginning a successful career and Oliver Langton. as an international speedway promoter. In 1930 he joined Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Stamford Bridge as team captain, eventually taking them to the inaugural National League title in 1932, his personal trophy being included here. He also captained the Australian test team Lot: 337 and is reputed to have earned close to £50,000 over a three- Rare wartime Belle Vue Speedway programmes & bulletins, a year period. Then management at 'The Bridge' replaced collection comprising seven 1940 and two 1941 with colour speedway with greyhound racing for 1933 and, having lost his covers, three 1941 and four 1942 self-cover, thereafter 18+16 favourite track, Frank retired from riding to become a full-time separate 1943 programmes & bulletins, 24+23 1944, 7+7 1945, businessman in 1935. He returned to Australia prior to WWII plus 24+23 post VE Day 1945, the programmes folded single and became co-promoter at Brisbane's Exhibition Ground sheet, the bulletins self-cover, sold with one New Cross and during the 1950s, before dying in 1972 aged 63 in Sydney, from two Brough Park 1945 programmes, all in good condition, some whence these trophies were purchased at auction. with minimal notation (160) The start of WWII occurred days Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 before the end of the 1939 season and led to the suspension of speedway racing everywhere, except for Belle Vue Park that refused to close. There the promoters overcame wartime Lot: 340 1 of 53 Graham Budd Auctions Ltd (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 2) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com 1983 F.I.M. World Long Track Speedway Championship Gold that was held there annually. Medal won by Shawn Moran, sliver gilt featuring a relief F.I.M. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 crest with lettering in blue enamel, the reverse stamped PISTES LONGUES 1er. within radial relief lettering CHAMPIONNAT DU MONDE-WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, the Lot: 345 coloured ribbon with 1983 set in gold lettering, as presented at 1926 MCC Exeter Trial Car Class Finishers 9ct Gold Medal, the Marienbad in Czechoslovakia, diameter 5cm., 2in., 925 assay obverse featuring a relief figure of Victory between St Paul's marks, maker Huguenin of Switzerland; sold with his 2nd place and Exeter Cathedrals and inscribed MOTOR CYCLING CLUB, trophy awarded at the World Long Track Semi-Final held at FOUNDED 1901, LONDON, EXETER, the reverse engraved Scheessel in Germany prior to the World Final, a gilt metal LONDON -EXETER-LONDON, CAR, DEC 27-28, 1926, S.L. goblet on a fixed wooden base, height 23cm., 9in., plus a DVD ENGEL The 'London to Exeter and Back Winter Club Run' of his World Final winning races and medal presentation as began on Boxing Day 1910 and generated 81 entries on two, screened by ITV's World of Sport (3) 1980s speedway star three and four wheels. Still running to this day, successful Shawn Moran is still the only United States rider to take this competitors start in the evening and finish where they began particular World title, which he reportedly did whilst nursing a the following afternoon, having covered nearly 500 miles at a broken leg. The lot was a personal gift to the vendor. predetermined average speed on indifferent roads in winter Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 weather. Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 Lot: 341 Barry Sheene 1981 Akai Yamaha race-worn leathers, by Lot: 346 makers Dainese in black, red and white leather, bearing his Two reproduction 1930s posters, a large Bugatti print after name and lucky number 7 front and back, Akai logos on the A.M. Cassandre entitled 'LE PUR-SANG DES chest, back and sleeves, Dainese in red on each leg, their AUTOMOBILES', mounted, framed and glazed, 86 by 71cm., maker's label stitched into the red aertex lining, plus smaller 34 by 28 in., and 12 HEURES DE PARIS, a 10 Septembre AGV, Champion, and Marlboro logo patches, used but good 1939 Montlhèry event print after Geo Ham; sold with GRAND condition, sold with a letter of provenance and small photo of PRIX DE PAU, a 1950s poster after Geo Ham, both mounted, Barry wearing them (2) With their distinctive Dainese knee- framed and glazed, 71 by 48cm., 28 by 19in.