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Friday 5th March 2021 10.30am CRICKET MEMORABILIA CRICKET EPHEMERA 231 by Christie’s, 20th August 1997. within the ground, who conducted Duty stamp to lower right corner themselves with the utmost 1 ‘The Country Journal or the of third page. Small holes to fold, decorum’. On the same page is an Craftsman. By Caleb D’Anvers, of otherwise in very good condition advertisement for ‘Pawley’s Cricket Gray’s-Inn, Esq.’. Original 4pp tabloid £100/150 Bat’ announcing the engagement size newspaper dated Saturday, 28th by ‘Pryor, Cabinet Maker, No. 472, August 1731. Page two includes Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Strand... of Mr. Pawley for [the a twenty line report. ‘The Great Richmond, was the son of Charles supply of] all the Bats he makes’. Cricket Match, between the Duke Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, Duty stamp to lower right corner of of Richmond and Mr. Chambers, the youngest of seven illegitimate first page. VG £100/150 11 Men on each Side, for 200 sons of Charles II. The second Duke Guineas, was begun to be play’d on was a significant patron of early England ultimately won the match Monday at two in the Afternoon, on cricket. The 1731 match was one by 265 runs. William ‘Silver Richmond Green. The Duke’s Hands of the most controversial matches Billy’ Beldam made his debut in come in first, and got 79 before played. The cricket historian, G.B. first-class matches and scored 63 for they were out; and Mr. Chamber’s Buckley, records that Richmond may All-England in the second . got 119: Then the Duke’s came in have conceded the match to avoid Beldam was regarded as one of the again for the last Time, and got 72 litigation best batsmen of his time more, and Mr. Chamber’s coming in, 2 ‘The Morning Post and Daily 3 ‘The Morning Post and Daily wanted about 8 or 10 Notches, when Advertiser’. Friday 22nd June Advertiser’. Friday 14th September the Hour agreed on being come, 1787. Original 4pp broadsheet 1787. Original 4pp broadsheet they were obliged to leave off, tho’ newspaper comprising a report newspaper comprising report of two besides the Hands then playing, they of a ‘Grand Cricket Match’ and matches on page three. The first is had 4 or 5 more to have come in. a cricket advertisement, both on a ‘Cricket Match’, Hambledon v All Thus it proved a drawn Battle. There page three. The match played at England [], played at Windmill were many Thousands of Spectators, the ‘New Cricket Ground, Mary-le- Down, Hambledon, 3rd-5th of whom a great Number were Bone... for One Thousand Guineas’ September 1878. All England (109 Persons of Distinction of both Sexes. was between White Conduit Club and 123) beat Hambledon (37 and The same Night his Grace the Duke and All-England, 20th-22nd June 130) by 65 runs, Aylward top scoring of Richmond and his Cricket-Players, 1787. The article reports on the in both innings with 31 and 65. were greatly insulted by the Mob at first day’s play in which All-England The second ‘Grand Cricket-Match’, Richmond, some of the Men having first scored 247 (Aylward played at St. Mary-le-Bone (Lord’s), their Shirts tore off their Backs; and 93), and in reply, White Conduit was between Sir Horace Mann’s XI it is said a Law-Suit will commence Club were 24-1 at the close of play. and Lord Winchilsea’s XI, 10th-12th about the Play’. Previously sold as lot ‘Utmost of 2000 persons were September 1787. The match is

2 3 recorded on Cricket Archive’ as ‘A-M the event’. Signed ‘John Masefield. Bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside v N-Z’. Reporting after the second For ’. Bookplate of A.E. front cover who purchased the item day’s play of ‘the last match for Winder to inside front cover. Loosely from E.K. Brown in 1981. G this season’, the article notes that T. slipped in is a full page cutting from £100/150 Walker won the lottery for making of 26th August 1956 with 8 George Neville Weston. W.G. Grace the top score, ‘he got 44 notches’ the full text of the poem and the biographer. Three scrapbooks and ‘Lumpy [Edward Stevens], old players listed. G/VG £100/150 comprising cuttings, scorecards, as he is, was never greater than in 6 The Cricketana Society. Eight original letters, typed transcriptions, his on Wednesday’, but page printed booklet dated 1929 statistics etc. compiled by Weston. describes the match as ‘a hollow comprising an introduction by One scrapbook relates to research piece of business, when we consider G. Neville Weston titled a ‘List carried out by Weston on matches that the players on both sides were of Suggestions for Working of played by W.G. Grace for Bedminster allowed to be twenty-two of the Society’ including a ‘Want, Sale and in 1880. The others comprise image best players in England’. Mann’s XI Exchange List’, and the proposed cuttings and articles, one taken from won by 94 runs. Previously sold as compilation by the Society of a issues of ‘The Bystander’ magazine lot 163 in the Christie’s sale of 21st bibliography of cricket. Also includes dating 1904 to 1906, with cricket June 1996. Duty stamp to lower right minutes of the first meeting held on content covering Lord Hawke, corner of first page. Some splitting 21st October 1929, chaired by Plum , C.B. Fry, David Denton, to fold, otherwise in very good Warner who was elected as the first the 1905 Australians, Lord Dalmeny condition £100/150 President, and Weston as Secretary etc., the other containing similar 4 cricket. E.L. Fletcher and Treasurer, followed by a list of cuttings from ‘The Sphere’ magazine (‘ELF’). ‘Cricket Controversies’. A members including notable names of 1963 celebrating the centenary of collection of newspaper cuttings such as C.I.S. Wallace, J.F. Waghorn, the first publication of the Wisden from 1901-1910 laid down to sixteen T.A. Hunter, M.W. Luckin etc., and Cricketers’ Almanack. G/VG £30/50 pages, contained in a modern blue an article on sources relating to Weston is renowned as being case. Earlier notable subjects covered, cricket book collecting. The booklet probably the greatest historian and listed by hand on the first page, is tipped in to modern green cloth on the history of W.G. Grace, in include the omission of Walter with a ‘Portfolio Specimen Sheet’. particular his attention to the detail Brearley from the England team in Not listed in Padwick. Slipped in of minor matches in which Grace 1904, the Australian captaincy in loosely are four letters relating to played throughout his career. In the 1903, A.C. MacLaren and Lancashire the Society, one dated 1932 from C. forward to Weston’s book ‘W.G. cricket 1901-1902, scoring in the Stamford[?] to C.J. Britton, who was Grace The Great Cricketer’ published 1906-1910 the inspiration behind the creation of in 1973, Irving Rosenwater quotes etc. Authors of articles include Frank the Society and an original member A.A. Thompson saying Weston Sugg, ‘Lancastrian’, ‘ELF’, Neville of the committee, Anthony Weigall ‘knows more about W.G. than any Cardus (writing as ‘Cricketer’) etc. etc. Some foxing, otherwise in good/ man alive’, to which Rosenwater Some wear and ageing, overall in very good condition £100/150 adds, ‘or dead’ good condition £40/60 7 The Society of Cricket Statisticians. 9 John Thomas Brown. & 5 John Masefield. Poet Laureate A selection of thirty typed and England 1889-1904. Large original 1930-1967. ‘Eighty Five To Win’. handwritten documents relating poster announcing a cricket match John Arlott’s original typescript to the foundation of the Society in to be played in honour of Brown, of Masefield’s poem on 1945 to 1948 when it continued as at his home town of Driffield, on Test of 1882, when England’s last . Contained in a 17th May 1895, at which ‘a Solid five fell for eleven runs, red leather slipcase. Originally the Silver Tea and Coffee Service will watched by 20,000 spectators, ‘The property of G. Neville Weston, whose be presented to Brown on behalf crowd sat stunned an instant at the receipts for membership are enclosed of his friends and fellow cricketers blow,/ Then cheered (and none had and signed by the Society’s founder, in Driffield and the East Riding. The heard men cheering so),/ Cheered A. Weigall. Other contents include Earl of Londesborough has kindly the great cricket that had won the membership forms, lists of members promised to make the presentation’. game’. Arlott gave a reading of the including S. Canynge Caple, J.D. The poster, printed by the Express poem, transmitted on the B.B.C. Coldham, G.A. Coppinger, R. Company, Driffield, measuring Home Service on Sunday 16th Webber, R. Yeomans etc., proposals 21”x34”, is laid to card in a very August 1961. The script, with some for publications and year books, distressed and fragile condition with annotations in Arlott’s hand, is bound minutes of meetings, draft rules etc. significant loss £60/90 in Arlott’s typical green cloth, with a Included is an interesting selection of handwritten note from Masefield documents relating to legal action Brown had recently returned with to Arlott pasted down to the front taken by a printer against members Stoddart’s team from endpaper, ‘Talking of the match in of the committee relating to the where they had secured a famous after years, the great bowler, Peate, is printing of a Society publication in Test series victory 3-2. England had said to have said...... But all my poem 1948, leading to the resignation of won the first two Tests, but Australia is hearsay, gathered so long after some members including Weston. replied by winning the next two. In

4 the deciding match at , Previously sold by Phillips Auctioneers good condition. Sold with a colour Brown’s innings of 140 in the second April 1994 as lot 276. From the Mike promotional flyer for J. Trehern & innings secured England’s victory Smith Cricket Collection £50/70 Co., London, ‘Lithographers to the and trade since 1892’, titled ‘1403 for 13 ‘Players Please’. Cricket Fixtures Threeherns’. Another Test is here!’ 10 Cotton table cloth with intricate 1929-1939. Fixture booklets with with cricket balls and to lacework borders and inset panels colourful attractive wrappers issued the front, and references to Don and over two hundred embroidered by John Player & Son for seasons Bradman in the text to verso. The signatures of county teams and the 1929, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1936, flyer in two pieces, one appears to Australian touring parties of 1912 1937, 1938 and 1939. Qty 8. G have been trimmed to the lower and 1938. The county signatures £80/120 edge, otherwise in good condition. appear to date early 1910s. It is 14 Advertising fixture booklets Qty 2 £50/70 assumed the cloth has been signed 1946-1956. Four advertising fixture and the signatures embroidered in Founded in 1862 in London, the booklets with colour decorative coloured threads. Teams featured Australian Wine Company, later wrappers by Gillette for the tour include c.1912 to the centre the Emu Wine Company imported to England 1946, Pegasus & Mobiloil diamond panel (27 signatures), a range of wines from vineyards for M.C.C. to 1948/49, Australia 1912 (16) and 1938 (16), outside , the name Remington for the Australians to Essex (11), Gloucestershire (11), becoming synonymous with port England 1956, and Shell South Africa Worcestershire (12), Warwickshire and sherry. for the M.C.C. tour to South Africa (15), Northamptonshire (12), Sussex 1956/57. G/VG £40/60 17 ‘The Annual Scarborough Cricket (12), Derbyshire (11), Festival’. Four official large hanging (11), Nottinghamshire (13), 15 The Oval. Early match tickets 1907 cricket fixture cards for the 1959, (11), Staffordshire (11), and 1908. Three official Surrey 1966, 1967 and 1968 seasons. Norfolk (11) etc. Over two hundred C.C.C. tickets for matches played at Each with cord hanging loop to top embroidered signatures in total. 32” The Oval. Matches are Champion edge. 9”x11.5”. Matches advertised square. Good/ very good condition. County (Nottinghamshire) v Rest of include Gentlemen v Players 1959, Unusual £100/150 England for the second day’s play, T.N. Pearce’s XI v India 1959, T.N. 13th September 1907, and two for 11 Alfred Percy Freeman. Kent & Pearce’s XI v West Indies 1966, Surrey v Lancashire, third day’s play, England 1914-1936. Original menu T.N. Pearce’s XI v 1967, 18th July 1908. The tickets laid down for ‘A Social Meeting of Freemasons England XI v Rest of the World XI to page below a bookplate image of gathered in harmony on board S.S. 1968 etc. Some soiling to the 1959 Warner and Hayward walking out “Otranto” in the Indian Ocean’, card otherwise in good/very good to bat for England, and an amusing Saturday 13th October 1928. The condition £30/40 contemporary press cutting involving four page menu with decorative an incident in a match in Australia 18 Cricket posters. Official posters cover and pale blue cord tie. VG. in which a fielder was pursued by a for ‘The International Cavaliers v Sold with six original mono press large snake. The tickets trimmed to Taverners’ sponsored photographs of Freeman, three in varying degrees, otherwise in good by Rothmans of Pall Mall, played match action, the others with an condition £25/35 at Newark, 10th August 1969. unknown dignitary. The photographs Players names listed who took part tightly rolled and in only fair The 1907 Champion County in the match include , condition £30/40 match was drawn, the 1908 , Bobby Simpson, County Championship match was The ‘S.S. Otranto’ was the ship which , and abandoned without a ball being carried the M.C.C. touring team . Staple holes to top bowled on their tour of Australia 1928/29, and bottom edges, small tear to including Freeman 16 Australia tour to England 1938. top edge, folds, otherwise in good Large colour card advertising display condition. Also Derrick Robins’ XI 12 ‘England’s Champion Batsman. for Emu port. The display in three v Pakistan, The Saffrons Ground, J.B. Hobbs. Surrey & England XI’ parts, the central portion with title, Eastbourne, 31st July- 2nd August 1922. Large linen handkerchief with ‘You are on a good wicket with 1974. Printed by Sumfield & Day printed headings and five images of Emu 333 Rich Ruby, Emu 444 Rich of Eastbourne. 15”x20”. Folds and Hobbs in various batting poses plus White, Emu 999 Rich Tawny’ and small loss to lower edge otherwise in total runs and average in first class three bottle shaped cut-outs, and good condition. Plus two scorecards cricket up to 1922. Listed to outer printed installation instructions to for the Saffrons match. Qty 4 £30/50 border are details of centuries scored verso. The two detached side wings by Hobbs. 17”x17”. Laid down 19 M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1938/39. feature cameo images of the sixteen to mount and framed and glazed. Official M.C.C. Christmas card with members of the Australian touring Overall 21”x21.5”. Some browning map to front and photograph of the party including Bradman, Brown, to the border of the handkerchief, team to inside. G £25/35 Fingleton, Hassett, Chippefield, not affecting the test or images, O’Reilly, McCabe, Barnes etc. 20 Attractive Victorian Christmas where it has been laid down to the Overall approx. 32”x23”. Some card featuring a cutout figure of a mount otherwise in good condition. wear and tear, overall in generally batsman in colour to the front, and

4 5 printed cricket verse with cricket vertical fold, otherwise in good/ very presentation of a ‘Bicycle and Purse illustrations to inside, deckled edges. good condition £25/35 of Money’ by ‘Trench Cricketers G/VG £30/50 and Friends’ to a Mr J.T. Wood, 26 M.C.C. tour to India 1963/64. mounted, overall 13”x15.5” (mount 21 ‘England’s Test Team. Season Official menu for the ‘Dinner Dance damaged), a fully signed official 1946-47’. M.C.C. tour of Australia to meet M.C.C. & Indian Cricket autograph sheet of the South Africa 1946/47. Original single page colour Teams’ held on 23rd January 1964 World Cup 1992 touring party, set calendar for 1947 featuring title to in Bombay. The folding menu with in a surround of colour images of centre with calendar months and to photograph image of the Anthony fourteen players etc. G £50/70 outer borders cameo pictures of all de Mello Trophy, awarded to the seventeen members of the touring winning team in the Test series since 28 Cricket ephemera. Good selection party. Slightly trimmed to top edge, 1951. G £25/35 of ephemera including prints, otherwise in very good condition autographs, photographs, tour 27 An eclectic selection of ephemera £30/40 brochures, signed books including comprising photographs, certi-ficate, Boycott, Gower, S. Hughes etc, 22 Warwickshire autograph sheet, prints etc. ‘Famous Cricketers and Cricket Champions 1951. Large official Photographs include a large original Grounds’, signed miniature bats, menu for the ‘Dinner in honour of sepia photograph of Sir Julien trade cards, ceramics, ties etc. In two the President of the Warwickshire Cahn’s team to Canada 1933 by boxes. G £50/80 County Cricket Club and the Rice Studio, Montreal. Significant and members of the County surface damage. Overall 22”x14”. 29 1908-2001. Five Eleven, Winners of the County Photographs include two original original Australian and three English Championship 1951’ held at The mono press photographs, one of newspapers featuring extensive Grand Hotel, Birmingham on 23rd Compton diving to attempt a catch coverage of Bradman’s funeral October 1951. Menu cover with to dismiss Endean of South Africa in and tributes. Publications are The title, details and club emblem, tied 1955, off the bowling of Statham, Advertiser, The Sunday Mail, The with ribbon in club colours. Menu, signed by Statham, the other of Bill Herald Sun, The Sunday Morning toasts, results, averages, table plan Smith of Surrey bowled by Herman Herald, , Daily Telegraph etc to inside pages. Odd marks to of Middlesex in 1970, an official and Sunday Telegraph. Sold with a covers otherwise in good condition. photograph for the 1975 Cricket printed ‘Operational Brief’ for the Reg Simpson was a guest at the World Cup of all players from the funeral procession containing the Dinner. Ex R.T. Simpson collection participating countries, taken at protocol to be observed by attendees, £30/50 Buckingham Palace, also a mono the route of the cortege and motor restrike photograph of Don Bradman cycle escorts, emergency services, 23 Australia tour to England 1934. in batting pose. Each 10”x8”, a mono communications, personnel etc. Also Original scrapbook comprising a copy photograph of and four colour candid photographs of good selection of press cuttings laid Arthur Mitchell of Yorkshire walking Bradman’s house and the funeral down to pages relating to the 1934 out to bat, signed by Hutton, an cortege in progress. G £30/40 tour. Sold with a brown folder of original team photograph of the loose press cuttings relating to the 30 Cricket and sporting ephemera. Box Tonbridge School First XI 1972 1970/71 M.C.C. tour to Australia containing good selection of items, including Chris Cowdrey. Prints and , and a further autographs, brochures, modern include an interesting print of designs selection of loose cuttings from the cricket card games and souvenirs, for the £10 banknote first issued same tour. G £50/70 modern postcards and good run in 1992 depicting Charles Dickens, of modern ‘Brindley’ trade cards, 24 Denis Charles Scott Compton. scenes of the cricket match between sticker album, first day covers, Middlesex & England 1936-1958. Dingley Dell and All Muggleton as prints, scorecards etc. Includes a run Two scrapbooks comprising press depicted in ‘The Pickwick Papers’ of Tom Webster’s Annual 1921 to cuttings relating to tours on which etc. Limited edition no. 179/500 , 1924, 1926, 1927, 1929 and 1939, Compton played. The albums are signed by the banknote designer the majority only in fair condition, numbered ‘2’, covering the 1948/49 and Chief Cashier of the Bank of some poor and incomplete, loss tour to South Africa, the other England. Also mounted Vanity Fair of wrappers, some wrappers with numbered ‘3’ to Australia 1950/51. prints of ‘Hampshire’, ‘A Bit Hitter’, tape to wrappers. Plus a selection of Subjects covered include Compton’s ‘W.W.’and a Chevallier Tayler print football, golf, tennis and other sports batting achievements on the tours, of Spooner, a signed print of Jimmy including autographs, photographs, playing for Arsenal, being awarded Cook (Somerset & South Africa), postcards etc. In two boxes. G ‘Sportsman of the Year’ in 1948, his limited edition no. 187/313, and £50/70 knee operation etc. £30/50 further signed prints of Bruce French, Dickie Bird, etc. 31 Cricket ephemera 1970s-2000s. 25 West Indies tour to England 1957. Other items include a hanging Shell Box comprising a good selection of Original 8pp guest list and table plan advertising card for the 1951 South brochures, programmes, scorecards, for the luncheon given by the British Africa tour to England, an unusual tickets and other ephemera, some Sportsman’s Club for the West Indies ornate hand printed certificate dated signed. Cricket World Cup Australia Cricket Team, held at the Savoy 31st August 1898 describing the 1992 official souvenir magazine and Hotel, London 16th April 1957. Light

6 programme, a Gala Dinner menu XI English Tour 1934 Orient Line covers. Edited by A.W. Simpson. Also signed by Gatting, Botham, Lewis, R.M.S. Orford’ brochure. The a pirate tour brochure and fixture list, Gower, Gooch, Border and Hughes, brochure is fully and nicely signed and a printed autograph page of the official tournament scorecards in black ink by all eighteen members 1949 touring party. Some faults to etc. M.C.C. and Middlesex C.C.C. of the touring party including the the brochures, the signatures in very dinner menus, two with signatures management. Signatures include good condition. Qty 4 £50/70 including Gatting, Ramprakash, Woodfull, Bradman, Chipperfield, 39 West Indies tour of England 1950. Johnson, Brearley, Hutton, Cowdrey, Fleetwood-Smith, Grimmett, ‘Cricketers from the West Indies’. Greenidge, Richardson etc. Over McCabe, Ponsford, O’Reilly, Barnett, Official Playfair tour guide edited fifty official tickets for Test matches, Darling, Oldfield, Kippax etc. Some by Peter West. Pictorial covers. Very NatWest Finals at Lord’s and The soiling and age toning to pictorial nicely and fully signed in ink to pen Oval. Ephemera relating to overseas wrappers and rusting to staples. pictures by all sixteen members of the tours including match tickets for Test Signatures good £250/350 team. Signatures include Goddard matches in West Indies and New 36 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1936/37. (Captain), Stollmeyer, Gomez, Zealand. Official programmes for Official Orient Line ‘S.S. Orion’ Christiani, Worrell, Weekes, Walcott, Tests, NatWest, Benson & Hedges, brochure for the ‘M.C.C. tour of Marshall, Valentine, Ramadhin etc. Gillette Cup finals etc. G £50/80 Australia 1936/37’. Pictorial colour Slipped in is an original scorecard 32 Cricketers’ Orders of Service. Four front cover. With team detail, for the opening match of the 1950 orders of service for the memorials of itinerary, player profile and pen tour, L.C. Stevens’ XI v West Indians, Sir , St. Paul’s Church, pictures etc to inside pages. Sold The Saffrons, Eastbourne, 24th-25th Covent Garden, 4th April 1975, with long paper strip nicely signed April 1950. Neat handwritten scores John Arlott, The Parish Church, in ink by all eighteen members in ink. Some wear to the brochure Arelsford, 20th January 1992, Lord of the M.C.C. team. Signatures covers, rusting to staples, otherwise Cowdrey of Tonbridge, Westminster include Allen, Wyatt, Leyland, in good condition £100/150 Abbey, 30th March 2001, and ‘A Voce, Hammond, Verity, Farnes, 40 ‘Caricatures of the Australian XI. Service Commemorating the 150th Worthington etc. Some foxing and English Tour 1953’. . Anniversary of the Birth of Dr. W.G. age toning to original card wrappers, 1953. Original decorative Grace’, St. George’s Parish Church, rusting to staples, otherwise in good wrappers. Twelve page tour souvenir Beckenham, 17th July 1998. VG condition. Good signatures with eleven pages of caricatures of all £40/60 £100/150 eighteen members of the Australian 33 ‘M.C.C. Bicentenary Match. Lords 37 ‘All India Cricket Tour of England touring party to England 1953. This Cricket Ground. August 20-25th 1946’. Official souvenir brochure for copy has been signed in ink with 1987’. Two 75cl bottle of M.C.C. the Indian tour of England. Edited by dedication to the inside front cover Bicentenary Brut Reserve champagne A.W. Simpson. Pictorial covers. Fully by Arthur Mailey and dated 1953. with decorative M.C.C. label to signed to inside pen pictures in ink Slight fading to the signature. Some bottle. Produced by M.C.C. to by all sixteen members of the Indian wear to original covers, otherwise in commemorate the Bicentenary. The tourists and three of the featured good condition £50/70 champagne shipped and bottled England team. Indian signatures 41 Australia tour to England 1961. for Greens Ltd of Royal Exchange, include Pataudi, Modi, Merchant, Official P&O Orient Lines souvenir London. G £30/50 Mankad, Hazare, Shinde, Amarnath, tour brochure for the Australian Nayudu etc. The three England AUTOGRAPHED CRICKET tour of England. Original decorative signatures are Hammond, Griffith EPHEMERA wrappers. Printed in Sydney. Fully and Washbrook. Also signed to the signed in ink to pen pictures by all 34 M.C.C. Tour of Australia 1928/29. last page by Jack Fallows (Captain nineteen members of the Australian Official ‘Orient Line, R.M.S. Otranto’ of Lancashire in 1946) and Tom touring team including the two souvenir brochure for the M.C.C. Dollery (Warwickshire & England officials. Signatures include Benaud, Australian Tour 1928/29’. Decorative 1934-1955). Twenty one signatures Harvey, Booth, Davidson, Grout, covers with M.C.C. colours. To inside in total. Vertical fold, wear, age Burge, Gaunt, Grout, Lawry, O’Neill, pages, pen pictures and biographies toning and minor staining to original McKenzie, Simpson etc. Very good of the M.C.C. team, itinerary, fixtures wrappers, rusting to staple, otherwise condition £100/150 etc. Signed in ink to centre page pen in generally good condition pictures by all eighteen members £100/150 42 M.C.C. tour to Australia 1974/75. of the touring party including Official souvenir programme 38 New Zealand tour to England 1949. Chapman, Jardine, Hendren, published by the New South Wales Narrow paper strip nicely signed in Hammond, Ames, Leyland, Staples, Cricket Association. Signed to the ink by sixteen members of the New Geary, Larwood, Sutcliffe, Hobbs etc. front cover by the two captains, Zealand touring party. Signatures Fading to signatures, heavier to some Mike Denness and , include Hadlee (Captain), Wallace, than others. Minor insect damage to also to the player pen pictures by Smith, Rabone, Cresswell, Reid, covers otherwise in good condition all sixteen members of the England Scott, Sutcliffe, Phillips (Manager) £80/120 touring party, and sixteen members etc. Sold with an official brochure for of the Australian team, apparently 35 Australia 1934. Official ‘Australian the 1949 New Zealand tour. Pictorial

6 7 collected at the fourth Test in 45 ‘Benson & Hedges Bicentennial ‘Autographed Souvenir’ folding card Sydney. Signatures include Denness, Test Match Dinner 1988’. Official for the ‘Sportsmen’s Ball, Hampshire Edrich, Amiss, Arnold, Greig, Knott, programme/ menu and ticket for County Cricket Club Fund’ held Luckhurst, Willis (England), I. the Dinner held at The Roundhouse, at the Guildhall, , Chappell, O’Keefe, Thomson, Bright, University of N.S.W., Sydney on the 22nd April 1947. The front cover Marsh, Redpath, Walters, Lillee, G. 2nd February 1988. The programme/ with printed titles and caricatures Chappell, Gilmour (Australia) etc. dinner menu signed to ‘Autographs’ of various sportsmen including Additionally signed throughout by page by eight current and former cricketer, tennis player, footballers, various officials, former players and players, including Don Bradman, May, swimmer, boxers etc. Nicely signed journalists including Alan Richardson Insole, A. Bedser, Harvey, Benaud, to the centre pages in ink by eighteen who wrote the introduction, Alec Boon and Dexter. Also signed by Bob Hampshire cricketers and seventeen Bedser (Tour Manager), A.C. Smith Hawke, Australian Prime Minister, Southampton footballers. Cricketers’ (Assistant Manager), Bernie Thomas and Michael Parkinson. Also four signatures include Eager, Herman, (physio), Charlie Grimmett, Keith signatures to the Australian ‘Living Bailey, Knott, Arnold, McCorkell, Miller, Jim Swanton, , Legends’ pen pictures of , Rogers, Heath etc. Also signed , , Bill Morris, , and by S.J. Staples (Nottinghamshire O’Reilly, Bert Oldfield, Leslie Ames, Lindsay Hassett. Fourteen signatures & England 1920-1934) who Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Leo in total. Sold with an official folding coached Hampshire 1939-1948. O’Brien, Colin McDonald etc. Over scorecard for the match with Southampton footballers’ signatures sixty signatures in total. G handwritten scores, and official include Ted Bates, Dodgin, Warhurst, £100/150 brochure. G £70/100 Webber, Horsfall, Rochford, Day, Smith, Lewis, Roper etc. Also includes 43 India tour to England 1952. Official 46 ‘The 1950’s Reunion Test Match. the signature of Alf Ramsey who folding menu for the Northern Old England XI v Old Australian XI’ played for Southampton between Cricket Society ‘Dinner in honour 1980. Sheet comprising twenty one 1946-1949. Some light wear and of the Indian Cricketers’ held at the signatures including players who took ageing, otherwise in good condition Guildford Hotel, Leeds, 6th June part in the match played at Everdon £100/150 1952. Very nicely signed in ink to Hall, 31st August 1980. Players’ the centre pages by twenty three signatures include Gil Langley, 49 William Gilbert Grace, attendees including members of the Dave Cowper, Brian Taber, Doug Gloucestershire, London County & Indian touring party and England Test Walters (signed twice), Godfrey England 1870-1908. Handwritten players. Players’ signatures include Evans, , , Ian postcard from Grace to Frank Hutton (Captain), May, Compton, Craig, (to verso), Jackie Richardson of Clifton with note ‘Dear Graveney, Watkins, Jenkins, Laker, McGlew (South Africa), the umpires, Richardson, I should advise you to get Bedser and Trueman (England ), Egar and Elliott etc. Sold with an new ones, as used balls are generally Hazare (Captain), Sarwate, Umrigar, official scorecard for the match with no use. Yours Truly W.G. Grace’. The etc (India). Others handwritten scores and alterations. postcard dated 13th August 1893. include , Rex Alston, Also an official programme for a Good condition £100/150 Lord Mayor of Leeds, Sir William charity match played at Sleaford v A Frank Richardson was the son of Worsley etc. VG £70/100 World XI, 18th July 1989 with eleven Charles Richardson, the famous signatures including Chris Broad, The dinner was held on the evening engineer who amongst other Franklyn Stephenson, Mudassar of the second day’s play of the first achievements was in charge of the Nazar, , Mark Test at Headingley, 5th-9th June building of the Severn Tunnel in its Greatbach, Derek Randall etc. Qty 3. 1952. England won by seven wickets earlier stages. He also having a love G £30/40 for cricket made the first cricket 44 M.C.C. tour to Australia 1950/51. 47 South Africa tour to England 1935. bat with a cane-spliced handle and Official souvenir programme for the Official souvenir brochure for the invented and made a catapult for M.C.C. tour to Australia 1950/51 South African tour of England in bowling a edited by E.W. Murphy, published 1935. Compiled by A.W. Simpson. by the New South Wales Cricket 50 William Gilbert Grace, Decorative covers. Signed to pen Association. Signed in pencil to Gloucestershire, London County pictures by fourteen playing members the inside rear autographs page by & England 1870-1908. One page of the touring party. Signatures nicely fourteen members of the M.C.C. handwritten letter on Gloucestershire signed in ink are Wade (captain), touring party. Signatures are C.C.C. letterhead from Grace to Cameron, Mitchell, Siedle, Dalton, Compton, Bailey, Hutton, Wright, Welch, the letter dated 4th June Bell, Crisp, Nourse, Vincent, Viljoen, Hollies, McIntyre, Berry, Simpson, 1890. Grace states ‘Dear Welch, Rowan, Tomlinson, Williams and Dewes, Sheppard, Bedser, Evans, Your letter was sent in to me, and I Langton. Lacking the signatures of Green and Nash (Managers). mislaid it. I am awfully sorry I forgot Balaskas and the Manager, Snooke. Original wrappers detached and split it, but I have no doubt you will get Rusting to staples, otherwise in good with old tape repair to spine, stain together a good team. Hoping you condition £100/150 to front wrapper, otherwise in good will win the match. Believe me. Yours condition £50/80 48 Hampshire C.C.C. and Southampton truly. W.G. Grace’. The letter with Football Club 1947. Unusual original folds and a little age toning to edges

8 otherwise in good condition appealed for the run out, the striker two signatures enclosed with the £150/250 would be out for the catch’. Nicely letter, both with light fold, and the signed ‘W.G. Grace’. On the third first individual signature was sold as 51 William Gilbert Grace, page of the letter is a clarification of lot 143 in our March 2018 auction, Gloucestershire, London County & the scenario handwritten in ink by this example is the second and England 1870-1908. Excellent bold Robertson, dated 11th September final signature sent with the letter. ink signature of Grace signed to 1899, ‘The point submitted to Dr. A copy of the lot descriptions from paper piece and laid down to larger G. for opinion was this: The striker the November 2017 and March page. Mounted, framed and glazed. returned a hot catch to the bowler; 2018 auctions are printed below Overall 9.75”x12”. Good condition the ball passed through his hands, for customer reference. Very good £100/150 which diverted it to the non-striker’s condition £300/500 52 W.G. Grace. Single page handwritten wicket, knocking the bails off, and, Lot 59. ‘One page handwritten letter letter in ink from Grace to ‘Dear without touching the ground, lodged on ‘T.W. Garrett. Christie & Berne, Captain Seton’, dated 4th January in a fielder’s hands as a catch. The Solicitors of Sydney’ headed paper 1906. Written on London County non-striker being out of his ground and dated 7th October 1931 to a Mr Cricket Club, Crystal Palace, headed when the ball broke his wicket, I Swabey with good cricket content, notepaper, Grace writes declining argued that the non-striker was ipso the letter reads ‘...It is very gratifying ‘your invitation for Tuesday. Harry facto out, and the ball dead; and to find that I am not altogether Luff wrote me a line yesterday about that consequently the was forgotten in England. As you say I going with you, I told him I was wrong’. Also included is an original am to be congratulated on being in sorry I could not go’. Signed ‘W.G. press cutting from the June 1982 good health after so many years- as Grace. Previously sold as lot 372 by issue of ‘The Cricketer’, submitted by a matter of fact and Christie’s in October 1987. The letter, the commentator, Max Robertson, I are the only survivors of the first with heavy horizontal fold, is laid grandson of J.C. Robertson, in Australian XI and Jack is still well down to a larger unevenly trimmed which the contents of the letter and just as interested in cricket as page. G £100/150 are discussed, and Grace’s verdict the youngest- although he is four deemed correct. Previously sold as Mr. Henry (Harry) Luff was the years older than me- I enclose an lot 211 by Phillips in April 1995. Light proprietor of Wisden’s Cricketers’ autograph as you request’. Nicely folds, otherwise in good/ very good Almanack and of the firm of Messrs signed ‘your sincerely T.W. Garrett’. condition £150/250 John Wisden of 8 Cranbourn Street Light folds otherwise in very good 1884-1910. He died on July 18th 55 William Gilbert Grace. condition. A rare letter from a 1910 Gloucestershire, London County & member of the first Australian England 1865-1908. Original plain touring party to England’. Knights 53 W.G. Grace. Single page handwritten postcard from Grace, postmarked Auction November 2017’. letter in ink from Grace to ‘Mr. Harris’, 18th September 1906, addressed dated 21st September 1906. Written Lot 143. Thomas William Garrett. to W.G. Gale at an address in South on London County Cricket Club, New South Wales & Australia Norwood, London. ‘Can you bowl Crystal Palace, headed notepaper, 1876-1898. Excellent ink signature on Saturday at the [Crystal] Palace Grace writes to ‘acknowledge receipt of Garrett, signed ‘T.W. Garrett’ and at 3 o’clock against Wells Park. of £2 for the groundsman fund’ and with ‘Australian XI 1878’ beneath Come if possible’. Nicely signed hopes the correspondent ‘will join on paper piece, light fold. A rare ‘W.G. Grace’. No record of Gale or our club and make lots of runs for signature from a member of the first the match can be found. Previously us’, closing by wishing a ‘pleasant Australian touring party to England. sold as lot 370 in the Christie’s sale voyage home’. Very nicely signed This signature accompanied the of 9th October 1987. The postcard ‘W.G. Grace’. Previously sold as letter sent by Garrett, on ‘Christie & in fragile condition with loss to one lot 107 by Christie’s in November Berne, Solicitors of Sydney’ headed corner, tears, three small holes and 1990. Horizontal and vertical folds, paper, to a Mr Swabey dated October ageing £70/100 otherwise in good/ very good 1931, it is referred to in the contents condition £120/160 56 Thomas William Garrett. New South of the letter and sold as lot 59 in Wales & Australia 1876-1898. Knights November 2017 auction. A 54 W.G. Grace. Single page handwritten Excellent ink signature of Garrett, copy of the lot description from the letter in ink from Grace to J.C. signed ‘T.W. Garrett’ on paper piece, November auction is printed below Robertson, dated 10th September light fold. A rare signature from for customer reference. Very good 1899, on London County Cricket a member of the first Australian condition Club, Crystal Palace, headed touring party to England. This notepaper. The interesting content is listed as player/cap signature accompanied the letter relates to the interpretation of the number four in the list of Australian sent by Garrett, on ‘Christie & Berne, Laws of Cricket. Grace writes, ‘Your Test players and played in nineteen Solicitors of Sydney’ headed paper, to argument re [the] umpire giving the Test matches for Australia and toured a Mr Swabey dated October 1931, it striker out is wrong. The fact of the England on three occasions, 1878, is referred to in the contents of the ball passing through the wicket does 1882 and 1886. His most successful letter and sold as lot 59 in Knights not make it dead. Supposing what tour being the 1882 series where he November 2017 auction. There were you say should happen, if no one took 118 wickets at 14.35 in first

8 9 class matches. He played in the first Kent, twelve signatures of Legge, Lyttelton (Worcestershire), H. Test match played in Melbourne, Hardinge, Woolley, Freeman, Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) etc. Some nice Australia in March 1877 Ashdown, Ames, Chapman etc. signatures. G £40/60 Sussex, eleven including Gilligan, 57 Bert Oldfield. New South Wales & 64 Ernest Harry Killick. Sussex Tate, Parks, Cornford, Bowley, James Australia 1919-1938. ‘Cumberland 1893-1913. Signature in ink of Langridge, etc. Surrey Hotel, Marble Arch, London Killick on piece laid down to small eleven including Fender, Brooks, letterhead, boldly and very nicely card. Slight smudging to signature Gover, Ducat, Barling, Sandham, signed in ink and dated 1938 by otherwise in good/ very good Jeacock, Hobbs etc. Warwickshire Oldfield. Folds, adhesive marks to condition £25/35 three of Hill, Wyatt and Foster. Essex verso otherwise in good condition nine including Smith, O’Connor, 65 George Ernest Tyldesley. Lancashire £30/40 Cutmore, G.F. Eastman, L.C. & England 1909-1936. Lovely large 58 Arthur George Paul. Lancashire Eastman, Hipkin etc. Previously sold ink signature of Tyldesley on piece. 1889-1900. Excellent ink signature as lot 96 in the Christie’s sale of Sold with an original sepia press of Paul on small card laid down to 25th September 1992. Odd page photograph of Tyldesley batting for sheet. VG £25/35 detached or with old tape repair, England v Australia at The Oval in otherwise in good condition 1921, having been hit on the neck 59 Cricket autographs 1950s-1960s. £100/150 by a delivery from Gregory. Central Brown autograph album comprising News. 8.5”x6.5”. G/VG £30/40 an excellent selection of approx. 61 Arthur Edward Robert Gilligan. one hundred autographs of Test, Cambridge University, Surrey, Sussex 66 Lancashire C.C.C. 1920s. Nine County and international cricketers & England 1919-1932. Small card good signatures in ink of Lancashire for the period. Notable signatures signed in pencil by Gilligan and the players, each on individual cards include Duke of Norfolk, Keith Miller, cartoonist, F.H. Cumberworth. The or pieces laid down to two sheets Pat Crawford, Neil Harvey, Graham signatures laid down to board in with printed team photographs to McKenzie, (Australia), a card mount below a newspaper centre. Signatures are C. Hallows, , , Denis cutting (assumed to be from the R. Tyldesley, F. Watson, M. Taylor, Atkinson, Roy Marshall, Conrad News Chronicle) of a cartoon with E. Tyldesley, H. Makepeace (two Hunte, Charlie Griffith (West Indies), the title, ‘Cumberworth’s Sidelights signatures), W. Farrimond and E. Surendranath, M.L. Jaisimha, Ghulam on a Country Cricket Match’ which McDonald. VG £50/70 Ahmed, , Pankaj features players, the pavilion 67 Lancashire C.C.C. 1933. Eight Roy, C.D. Gopinath, , and highlights of a match played excellent signatures in ink of members C.K. Nayudu (India), , at Headley United Cricket Club of the 1933 Lancashire team, each on , Raman Subba (Surrey). Players featured include individual piece laid down to sheet Row, Alan Brown, Alan Oakman, the captain, George Packham, and with printed team photograph to the , , Fred umpire, George Worsfold. A local centre. Signatures are W. Horrocks, Trueman, Fred Titmus, Godfrey history of the village of Castor near A. Bennett, L Hopwood, F. Booth, J. Evans, Len Hutton, Ken Barrington, Peterborough describes a ‘celebrity Iddon, F. Watson, L. Parkinson and F.R. Brown, , Doug visit’ of Gilligan and Cumberworth G. Duckworth. Sold with four nice Wright, (England), in 1934 ‘to feature that day’s match signatures in ink of Nottinghamshire Jackie McGlew (South Africa), Hanif for the News Chronicle’, but there is players 1930’s on pieces laid down to Mohammad, Javed Burki (Pakistan) no obvious connection between the one sheet. Signatures are H. Butler, etc. Some wear to the album, odd Castor and Headley clubs. Overall A. Staples, J. Hardstaff Jnr. and B. page detached, otherwise in good 11”x8”. G £30/40 Lilley. Also the ink signature of W. condition £150/250 62 Levi George Wright. Derbyshire Copson (Derbyshire) on piece. G 60 Australia tour to England 1930. 1883-1909. Small printed card of £30/40 Autograph album dated 1933 a mono photograph of Wright in 68 Test match signatures. Selection including ten signatures in ink of batting pose in the nets. Signed in of individual players signatures on the 1930 Australian touring party. ink to the card by Wright. G £30/40 postcards, first day cover, menu, The signatures on individual pieces 63 Cricket signatures 1920s-1950s. white cards etc. Signatures include laid down with cutting image of the Twenty eight signatures in ink and Bradman, Wyatt, Cyril Walters, Cecil featured player. Signatures are Wall, pencil, on small pages, pieces etc. Parkin, , Botham, Sobers, Fairfax, Hurwood, Bradman, Kippax, Signatures in ink include G.M. D.C.H. Townsend, McCabe, Hornibrook, Oldfield, Lee, C. Gladwin (Derbyshire), C.N. etc. Also two postcards signed by Walker and Woodfull. Also includes Woolley (Gloucestershire), F.M. former Prime Minister John Major. county signatures on pages extracts Sibbles (Lancashire), F.J. Durston, Qty 12. G/VG £40/60 or pieces laid down, some signed to J.M. Sims, W.J. Edrich (Middlesex), the page, for teams from the 1933 69 Gloucestershire C.C.C. 1950s-1980s. B.W. Bellamy, F.R. Brown season. Teams are Nottinghamshire, Forty signatures in ink of (Northamptonshire), A.V. Bedser, 15 signatures including Walker, Gloucestershire cricketers signed E.A. Bedser, J.B. Hobbs (Surrey), W.L. Voce, J. Gunn, Wass, Iremonger, to postcards, cards, pieces laid Cornford, A.F. Wensley (Sussex), Carr, Payton, G. Gunn, Whysall etc. down, cuttings, official portrait J.H. Parsons (Warwickshire), C.J.

10 photographs etc. Some signed in Hemmings, G.W. Mike, B.N. French, approx. one hundred and twenty later years. Signatures include D.A. F.D. Stephenson, R.T. Robinson, B.C. signatures in ink of former and Allen, A.E. Wilson, C.A. Milton, A.W. Broad, M. Hendrick, M. Newell etc. current Test players collected at the Stovold, R.C. Russell, , Odd duplication. G £40/60 at Lord’s in 1980. M.J. Proctor, D.A. Graveney, D.R. No duplicates. Signatures include 75 County signatures 1950s-1990s. Shepherd, B.Y. Meyer, T.W. Graveney Sandham, Voce, Chipperfield, Thirty five signatures in ink of etc. Odd duplication. G £30/50 Cowper, Morris, A’Beckett, May, cricketers signed to postcards, trade Hampshire, Graveney, Hassett, 70 Kent C.C.C. 1930s-1980s. Twenty cards, photographs, pieces etc. Good Hardstaff, Ames, Doggart, Swetman, nine signatures in ink of Kent Lancashire and Hampshire interest. Bowes, Cartwright, Titmus, Barlow, cricketers signed to postcards, Signatures include C.H. Lloyd, Gehan Simpson, Gover, Misson, Redpath, cards, pieces laid down, cuttings, Mendis, R. Tattersall, D.P. Hughes, Veivers, M. Stewart, Barrington, official mono and colour portrait D. Lloyd, J. Simmons (Lancashire), Gleeson, D’Oliveira, Tyson, Trueman, photographs etc. Signatures include C.G. Greenidge, M.D. Marshall, T.E. Ponsford, Benaud, Wyatt, Yardley, M.C. Cowdrey, A.G.E. Ealham, Asif Jesty, D.R. Turner, T.M. Tremlett, C.L. Warr, O’Reilly, Miller, Trueman, Iqbal, R.A. Woolmer, D.V.P. Wright, Smith, N.E.J. Pocock, M.C.J. Nicholas Illingworth, Cozier, Compton etc. The F. Ridgway, A.E. Fagg, C. Lewis, D.G. (Hampshire), B.C. Rose, D.J. Foster, majority of pages signed individually Ufton, P.H. Jones, G.W. Johnson etc. R.J. Harden, E.Langford, R. Virgin back to back. Good signatures in Some duplication. G £40/60 (Somerset) etc. Odd duplication. very good condition £70/100 Also includes unsigned official team 71 Leicestershire C.C.C. 1950s-1980s. photograph postcards of Surrey 78 England Test cricketers 1940s-2000s. Ten signatures in ink of Leicestershire 1934, Australians in England 1934, Album comprising forty signatures cricketers signed to postcards, South Africans in England 1935 etc. of England Test players, each signed photographs etc. Signatures are M.R. G £30/50 individually to white card with the odd Hallam, C.T. Spencer, R.J. Barratt, signed cutting. Each card annotated D.I. Gower (two signatures), R.W. 76 ‘A Galaxy of Stars’. A large and with the location and date the Tolchard, N.E. Briers, C.H. Palmer, G. nicely presented album comprising signature was acquired. Signatures Lester and B.S. Boshier. G £20/30 approximately two hundred include Ken Cranston, John Jameson, signatures of Test cricketers from 72 Middlesex C.C.C. 1960s-1990s. Jim McConnon, Alan Smith, Don the 1940s to 1990s, each on Twenty two signatures in ink of Wilson Bill Athey, David Capel, Paul individually signed white cards laid Middlesex cricketers signed to Collingwood, Neil Fairbrother, Ashley down. The signatures apparently postcards, trade cards, photographs, Giles, , Simon Jones, collected in 1980s-1990s. Ninety pieces etc. Signatures include J.M. Devon Malcolm, Gladstone Small, seven signatures are laid down with Brearley, R.O. Butcher, M.W.W. , Michael Vaughan etc. No accompanying colour or mono copy Selvey, D.L. Haynes, M.W. Gatting, duplicates. VG £30/50 photograph of the featured player. I.J. Gould, N.G. Featherstone, K.P. Signatures with photograph include 79 South Africa, Australia and New Tomlins, P.H. Edmonds, J.E. Emburey, Don Bradman, , Greg Zealand Test cricketers 1940s-2000s. C.R. Cook, S.P. Hughes, C.T. Radley, Chappell, (Australia), Album comprising fifty nine G.D. Barlow and A.R.C. Fraser. Colin Cowdrey, , signatures of South Africa (Qty 22), Some duplication. Also includes a , Peter May, Ted Australia (16) and New Zealand (21) Middlesex C.C.C. County Champions Dexter, , Graham Gooch, Test players, each signed individually 1993 phone card in official folder. G , , Mike to white card with one official £30/40 Gatting, , , photograph. Each card annotated 73 Northamptonshire C.C.C. Geoff Boycott, , Fred with the location and date the 1950s-1990s. Sixteen signatures in Trueman (England), , signature was acquired. Signatures ink of Northamptonshire cricketers Geoff Howarth, Lance Cairns (New include Barlow, Cook, Cullinan, signed to postcards, trade cards, Zealand), Garry Sobers, Everton Donald, Gibbs, Rhodes, Richards, photographs, pieces etc. Signatures Weekes, , Rohan Proctor, Kallis (South Africa), are L.A. Johnson, J.S. Manning, J.D.F. Kanhai, , , Brown, Healy, Jones, Kasprowicz, Larter, R.J. Bailey, W. Larkins, N.A. , Malcolm Rackemann, Simpson (Australia), Mallender, A.J. Lamb, , D.J. Marshall (West Indies), Mohammad Bracewell, C. Cairns, M. Crowe, Capel, R.J. Boyd-Moss, G. Cook, Azharruddin, (India), Fleming, Greatbach, Morrison, A.J. Durose and B.J.Griffiths. Some Trevor Goddard, Eddie Barlow, Allan Rutherford, Wright, Hadlee (New duplication. G £30/50 Donald, (South Zealand) etc. No duplicates. VG Africa), (Pakistan) £40/60 74 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. etc. Previously sold as lot 83 in the 1950s-1990s. Thirty two signatures 80 India Test cricketers 1950s-1990s. Christie’s sale of November 1993. in ink of Nottinghamshire cricketers Album comprising ten signatures VG £300/500 signed to postcards, trade cards, of India Test players, each signed photographs, pieces etc. Signatures 77 Test cricketers. Two small autograph individually to white card. Each card include M.J. Smedley, I.J. Davison, albums, both labelled ‘Centenary Test annotated with the location and D.W. Randall, P.A. Wilkinson, A. 1980, Lord’s, England v Australia’, date the signature was acquired. Gill, H.M. Winfield, G. Millman, E.E. comprising an excellent selection of Signatures are , Farouk

10 11 Engineer, Sunil Gavaskar, Narendra signed by . Scorecard England emblem and ‘England Hirwani, , Sanjay for Surrey v Kent 1998, signed by Test Players’, sixteen printed with Manjrekar, , Javagal (seven wickets). ‘The ‘Famous Cricketers’. ‘England Test Srinath, and Srinivas History of Kent Cricket 1946-1963 Players’ signatures are Gooch, Venkataraghavan. No duplicates. Appendix “H”‘ etc. G/VG £50/70 Foster, Denness, DeFreitas, Gatting, VG £30/50 Graveney, Mann, Small, K. Taylor, 84 Test Captains 1990s/2000s. Page Knott, Underwood, Tavare, R. Smith 81 Pakistan and Test cricketers signed in ink by sixteen former Test and Snow. ‘Famous Cricketers’ are 1950s-2000s. Album comprising ten captains. Signatures are Sourav Cowdrey, Trueman, Close, C. Broad, signatures of Pakistan Test players Ganguly, , Emburey, French (England), Wasim and seven of Sri Lanka, each signed Raul Dravid (India), Saeed Anwar, Akram (Pakistan), Ambrose, Bishop, individually to white card. Each card Inzamam-ul-Haq, Moin Khan Harper, Haynes, Logie, Holding and annotated with the location and (Pakistan), (Sri Marshall (West Indies). VG £30/50 date the signature was acquired. Lanka), (South Africa), Pakistan signatures are Intikhab Marcus Trescothick (England), Adam 88 International men’s and women’s Alam, Alimuddin, Mushtaq Ahmed, Gilchrist, (Australia) cricket signatures 1930s-2010s. File Saeed Anwar, Moin Khan, Shahid etc. VG £30/40 comprising seventy mainly modern Mahmood, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid signatures of international cricketers 85 Test signatures 1930s-1980s. A Saeed, Aamer Sohail and Waqar on an assortment of cards, pieces, selection of over seventy mainly Younis. Sri Lanka signatures are Saliya postcards etc. Australian men include English Test players’ signatures on an Ahangama, Roy Dias, Aravinda de Benaud, Gilchrist, Agar, Hazlewood, assortment of labels, cards, pieces, Silva, Brendon Kuruppu, Ruchira Gillespie, Law, Mallett, Khawaja, cuttings etc. England signatures, the Perera, and Athula McKenzie, McGrath, Siddle, Walker, majority signed in later years, include Samarasekera. No duplicates. VG Zampa, Wood etc. Australian women Cyril Washbrook, Colin Cowdrey, £30/50 include Gardner, Bolton, Haynes, C.J. Barnett, Maurice Allom, Arthur Carey, Jones, Healy, Kimmince, 82 West Indies Test cricketers Mitchell, Hopper Levett, Jack Young, Jonassen, Perry, Mooney etc. Also 1950s-2000s. Album comprising Leslie Townsend, Buddy Oldfield, Engineer, Kaif (India), Wright, forty one signatures of West Indies Jack Robertson, Joe Hardstaff junior, Brownlee (New Zealand), Goodwin Test players, each signed individually Denis Compton, Tommy Mitchell, (Zimbabwe), , to white card (three photographs). Gilbert Parkhouse, , Zaheer Abbas (Pakistan), Nourse, de Each card annotated with the David Gower, Ian Botham, Tony Bruyn, Harmer, Nel (South Africa), location and date the signature Greig, Len Hutton, R.E.S. Wyatt, Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) etc. G/VG was acquired. Signatures include Graham Gooch, Roly Jenkins etc. £50/70 Winston Benjamin, Ian Bishop, Includes a signed official benefit year Jeff Dujon, Chris Gayle, Gordon printed photograph of . 89 England men’s and women’s cricket Greenidge, Wes Hall, , Others include Don Bradman, signatures 1950s-2010s. White file , Jackie Hendriks, Lindsay Hassett, , comprising approx. one hundred and , Carl Hooper, Alin Allan Border, Richard Hadlee and twenty mainly modern signatures Kallicharran, Clive Lloyd, Richie Faoud Bacchus. Some duplication. G of international men and women Richardson, Reg Scarlett, Cammie £40/60 cricketers on an assortment of Smith, Clyde Walcott, Courtney cards, pieces, postcards etc. Men’s 86 Australia Test cricketers. Nineteen Walsh etc. No duplicates. VG signatures include Hutton, May, signatures of Australian Test £50/70 Lewis, Wilson, Insole, Illingworth, cricketers each individually signed Amiss, Boycott, Bird, Knott, Edrich, 83 Kent C.C.C. Black file comprising to small white card. Seventeen cards Dexter, Graveney, Grieg, Brearley, a good selection of Kent related with printed Australian emblem Close, Emburey, Gooch, Gower, ephemera, mainly modern, including and ‘Australian Cricket Team’, Gatting, French, Russell, Cook, autograph sheets, programmes, two printed ‘Famous Cricketers’. Collingwood, Swann etc. Women annual reports, photographs, Signatures are Richie Benaud, Allan include Knight, Beaumont, Brunt, scorecards, letters, tickets, press Border, , , Elwiss, Hartley, Marsh, Sciver, articles, obituaries etc. Signed items (two signatures), Geoff Shrubsole, Taylor, Wyatt, Ecclestone, include an official sheet for the Doug Lawson, , Ian Chappell, Edwards, Greenway etc. G/VG Wright Benefit Fund very nicely Greg Chappell, Sam Loxton, Neil £50/70 signed in ink by eleven members Harvey, Peter Burge, Alan Davidson, of the 1950 Kent team. Signatures , , Geoff Marsh, 90 County signatures. File comprising include Clark (Captain), Ames, Fagg, and . Good three album pages for Glamorgan Wright, Todd, Ridgway, Edrich, signatures. VG £40/60 c.1951, nine signatures including Dovey etc. Also an official printed Emrys Davies, Montgomery, Clift, 87 England, West Indies and Pakistan photograph of Wright in his benefit Shepherd, Shaw, Muncer, Wooller etc. Test Cricketers. Twenty eighty white year. Benson & Hedges Cup Final Somerset c.1951, eleven signatures signatures of Test cricketers, each 1992 signed teamsheet (lacking including Rogers, Gimblett, Hazell, individually signed to small white the Captain, Mark Benson). A 1974 Tremlett, Stephenson, Angell, card. Fourteen cards with printed Canterbury Cricket Week scorecard Buse etc. Lancashire c.1953, nine

12 signatures including Berry, Whiteley, hardback with good dustwrapper. and known as The Earl of Aboyne Marner, Edrich, Grieves, Statham, Twenty three signatures to front from 1795-1836, who was a Scottish Tattersall etc. Also an official endpaper and throughout including peer. Small nick to one edge, light autograph sheet for the Sussex A. Bedser, L. Hutton, L. Lenham, K. adhesive marks to verso, otherwise 1986 team signed by fifteen players Barrington, J.T. Murray, B. Knight, in good/ very good condition including Barclay, Imran Khan, C. E.R. Dexter, J. Parks, P.B.H. May, E. £60/90 Wells, A. Wells, Reeve, Moores etc. Bedser, M. Stewart, F. Worrell etc. G Gordon was born in 1761 and was and a printed Kent sheet. Sold with £50/70 a keen cricketer who made four ‘The Lord’s Taverners Fifty Greatest’ 93 Test and county signatures known first class appearances from hardback with dustwrapper, with 1930s-1980s. A good selection of 1785-1792. He was a member of the five copy bookplate prints signed by over sixty signed magazine and White Conduit Club and an early Godfrey Evans, Alan Davidson, Mike newspaper cuttings, pieces etc. member of M.C.C. but was mainly Proctor, Richard Hadlee and Andy Earlier signatures include A. Morris associated with Surrey. He died in Roberts. G/VG £30/50 (Australia), A. Matheson (New 1853 91 International Test and County Zealand), Mushtaq Mohammad 96 Harry Philip Hugh Sharp. Middlesex signatures 1930s onwards. Forty five (Pakistan), E.L. Dalton (South 1946-1955. Single page handwritten signatures in ink signed to white cards, Africa), T. Bailey, J.W.A. Stephenson letter from Sharp to ‘Dear John some on piece laid down, postcards (Essex), W. Wooller (Glamorgan), [Arlott]’. In the undated letter, written etc. Earlier signatures include R. C. Cowdrey, L. Ames, D. Wright on Middlesex C.C.C. headed paper, Swetman, A. Bedser, P. Holmes, (Kent), B. Statham (Lancashire), F.R. Sharp is turning down the ‘tempting B. Statham. P. Loader, H. Levett, Brown, F. Tyson (Northamptonshire), offer’ of a post overseas, ‘After some C. Palmer, D. Brookes, D. Kenyon, H. Larwood (Nottinghamshire), long discussion with my wife... I can’t B. Griffith, W. Place (England), A. Wellard (Somerset), J. Hobbs, go ahead with anything... My wife G. Tribe, P. Burge (Australia), E. a. Sandman . Constable, T. Clark. and I have far too many ties here Rowan, P. Winslow (South Africa), P. May, K. Barrington (Surrey), D. to think of settling down out there’. P. Joshi, B. Divecha, G. Ramchand Sheppard, H. Doggart (Sussex), R.E.S. Signed ‘Harry Sharp’. G/VG (India), A. MacGibbon, F.B. Smith, Wyatt, H. Dollery (Warwickshire), £25/35 J. Hayes (New Zealand), Mahmood N. Yardley, H. Sutcliffe. W. Bowes, Hussain (Pakistan), J. Cameron, I. L. Hutton (Yorkshire) etc. Sold with Harry Sharp joined the Lord’s ground Madray (West Indies) etc. Includes an album page signed by eleven staff in 1934 and remained as a three signed Classic Cricket Cards members of the 1949 Yorkshire tea player, coach and scorer for sixty ‘International Cricketers’ postcard including Yardley, Brennan, Hutton, years until his retirement in 1993. series of C. Lewis (no. 30), Usman Smithson, Wardle, Close etc. G/VG In later years he was an unofficial Afzaal (no. 287) and Andre Adams £30/50 mentor to Mike Gatting (no. 308). G/VG £30/40 94 Paul Methuen. M.C.C. 1816. Signed 97 Frank Kendon. Writer, poet and 92 Sussex C.C.C. -1990s. Blue free-front envelope to J. Gooch of academic. Single page handwritten file comprising a good selection of Saxlingham, Norwich, dated and letter from Kendon to John Arlott, cigarette and trade cards, cuttings, sent from ‘London, May 23rd 1815’. dated 13th December 1943. Writing official player photographs, Signed ‘P. Methuen’ in black ink. from his office at University Press, postcards, match tickets, signed Rare early signature of Methuen Cambridge, Kendon refers to the cards, historical booklet, magazines who played one first class match for recently published book of poetry, etc. Contents include signed player M.C.C. G/VG £30/40 ‘Landmarks’, edited by Arlott and portrait photographs including G.R. Hamilton. Kendon is pleased Paul Methuen was born in Aamer Khan, H. Greenfield etc. Early Arlott likes the publication, though Marylebone in 1779 and was a mono postcards of the Sussex team ‘It is war marked; sad not to have a member of Parliament for Wiltshire, c. 1904, (Hawkins), A.E. fairer margin, & sadder still to have he became Lord Methuen in 1838. Relf (T.G. Foster), another of Relf, such part used paper’, and provides He died in Westminster 1849 also Killick (Bowden Bros). Sussex Arlott with the address in Cambridge County Cricket Annual 1938. Official 95 George Gordon, 9th Marquis of of the artist, John Hookam, who scorecards for the NatWest Trophy Huntly & Earl of Aboyne. Original produced the front wrapper artwork. match, Sussex v Hampshire 7th July two page handwritten letter from Signed ‘Frank Kendon’. On the 1993 signed by Smith (123) and Aboyne addressed to Viscount reverse is a list in pencil in Arlott’s Athey (107). Sussex v Durham at Sidmouth and dated 29th July 1820. hand of people who probably had Horsham, 19th-22nd June 1992, Aboyne appears to be seeking ‘His copies sent to them. An interesting signed by Pigott and Salisbury. Signed Majesty’s’ permission to ride through letter about Arlott’s first published white cards include Moores, Suttle, the Horse Guards, possibly in relation book. Horizontal folds, otherwise in Graves, Goodwin, Marler, Umar to the coronation of George IV which good/ very good condition Rashid, Knight, Hall etc. Overall in took place the following year in £30/50 good condition. Sold with ‘The Book 1821. Nicely signed ‘Aboyne’ in black Kendon worked for Cambridge of Cricket’, edited by Jim Parks. ink. An early signature of Aboyne, University Press from 1935 to 1954 First edition, London 1962. Original styled Lord Strathavon until 1795

12 13 98 Alec Victor Bedser. Surrey & England Ashley-Cooper states he is ‘far too away thereafter due to muscular 1939-1960. One page handwritten busy, and, besides, Ormerod has rheumatism forcing the end of his letter from Bedser on ‘Grand Hotel, already dealt with about sixty years regular playing career after the 1903 Cardiff’ headed paper. Bedser of the Club’s history... Still somebody season, although he was a member recounts his Test bowling record with time to spare for the work of the 1910/11 M.C.C. tour to West and on Surrey’s attempt to win the might well bring out a centenary Indies. From 1921 to 1931 he served County Championship for a fifth pamphlet’. Thorpe wrote ‘A Cricket as a first-class umpire, officiating in consecutive time. ‘In reply I have Bag’, published in 1930. Very nicely two Test matches in 1924 and 1926 taken 236 wickets in Tests including signed by Ashley-Cooper. G/VG 104 Don Bradman. Single page 104 against Australia... The fifth win £70/100 handwritten letter dated 19th May in the Championship is going to be 102 Gerald Brodribb. Handwritten plain 1989 from Bradman to Michael Taylor hard, very hard indeed’. The letter pre-paid postcard headed ‘From (Nottinghamshire & Hampshire undated but c.1956. Light folds, Gerald Brodribb, Canford School, 1964-1980). Bradman is replying to otherwise in good condition Wimborne, Dorset’ to James a request for autographs and wishes £20/30 Coldham in Harrow, postmarked Taylor ‘Good luck for the testimonial. 99 Test cricketers’ signatures 1952. Page 30th June 1952. Brodribb writes Still tax free I hope’. Nicely signed by on Berners Hotel, London letterhead to thank Coldham for information Bradman. Sold with a signature of with fifteen signatures in ink, the about Cochrane and Sassoon, which Bradman on piece. G/VG £50/70 majority of former England Test would later appear in Brodribb’s 105 Don Bradman. Single page cricketers with names captioned in anthology of cricket verse published handwritten letter from Bradman, ink below the signature. Possibly for in 1953. He also looks forward to dated 16th December 1993. a dinner given to the Indian tourists in meeting Coldham in August, and Writing to ‘Dear John’, Bradman is 1952. Signatures include A. Gilligan, is pleased he liked ‘Next Man In’. returning photographs, which were P. Chapman, G. Duckworth, L. Ames, Nicely signed ‘Gerald Brodribb’. VG ‘a pleasure to sign’, gives thanks G. Allen, P. Warner, E. Holmes, N. £30/50 for a ‘generous contribution’, and Yardley, D. Jardine, F. Fane, H.D.G. 103 Harding Isaac ‘Sailor’ Young. Essex closes, ‘Please don’t bother to send Leveson Gower, also F. Worrell (West & England 1898-1912. Two page a finished framed set. I have so much Indies), V.S. Hazare (India), S. K. handwritten letter with original memorabilia now, there is not room Gurunathan (Indian sports journalist) envelope from Young to ‘My Dear for any more’. Nicely signed by etc. The page partially laid to album Friend [Robin McConnell]’ in New Bradman. Sold with a signed mono page. Horizontal and vertical folds, Zealand. Dated 5th November copy postcard size photograph of otherwise in good condition £60/90 1958, Writing from his home in Bradman, two original mono press 100 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & Essex, Young is replying to an photographs, approx. 10”x8’, one England 1905-1934. Single page enquiry about autograph and book of Bradman and his wife with their handwritten letter from Hobbs collecting. He mentions three month old baby son in 1939, on ‘Woodthorpe’, Clapham Park, ‘who is now touring Australia’, and the other of Bradman being greeted London headed paper, dated 16th talks about his own cricket career, by dignitaries, date unknown. Press July 1931. Hobbs is writing to a ‘33 years on the playing staff & 1st stamps for Daily Herald. Also a Mr. Garratt to acknowledge receipt class umpiring & 25 years coaching ‘Sporting Events and Stars’ Senior of ‘the dozen bronze medals’, at a public school. I was umpiring Service, Pattreiouix Ltd. 1935 and records that ‘my first mention when the first New Zealand team cigarette card of Bradman. G/VG of cricket is associated with the arrived... in late 90s early 1900s’. He £50/80 Guildford Grammar School’, which describes W.G. Grace as a ‘wonder 106 Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer. Trinidad & Garratt had attended. Hobbs player’ and of playing with and West Indies 1938-1957. Two page encloses a photograph of himself, against him, ‘I managed to bowl him aerogramme letter handwritten ‘but you can easily destroy it if it is in out 3 times in one season & the last by Stollmeyer in Port of Spain, the way’. Nicely signed ‘J.B. Hobbs’. time I played with him at Lord’s I Trinidad, dated 21st February 1953. Sold with the enclosed original mono bowled 5 out in 6 balls’. Regarding Addressed to ‘Mr Broadribb [sic, A.G. photograph of Hobbs walking off his Test debut, against Australia Brodribb]’, Stollmeyer, writing on the field wearing batting attire, his in 1899, he lists their ‘remarkable behalf of the Queen’s Park Cricket bat under his arm, with handwritten side’ including Darling, Hill, Noble, Club Library’, is grateful for the dedication to Garratt and signed by Trumper, Gregory, Jones, Trumble receipt of ‘a copy of your “Cricket Hobbs. 5”x7”. A nice image. VG etc. and notes that he ‘finished top Omnibus 1947”‘ sent through Billy £50/80 of the averages that year’. Signed ‘H. Griffith at the M.C.C. Stollmeyer has Young’. Previously sold as lot 63 in 101 F.S. Ashley-Cooper 1924. Single page been appealing to authors to help the Christie’s sale of 10th November handwritten letter to ‘Dear [James] build ‘a library of some distinction’. 1993. Light folds, otherwise in good/ Thorpe’, dated 30th August 1924. He describes the current Test series very good condition £40/60 Replying from his Milford home to against India, ‘[we] are finding Thorpe’s suggestion that he might Young played his two Test matches, them a hard side to beat. Some of write a book on Teignbridge C.C. ‘on both against Australia, in 1899, their new players who did not tour the lines of the Hambledon volume’, taking twelve wickets. His form fell England last summer show much

14 promise’ describing the young leg 109 E.V. Lucas. Rare and unique of watched by John Frederick spinner, S.P. Gupte, as ‘a bowler manuscript handwritten by Lucas Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, who of real class & the best of his type of an article titled ‘Reunion’ for the was ‘a fascinated witness’. Lucas that I have met’. He bemoans the series ‘A Wanderer’s Note Book’, also describes the ladies as figures West Indies wickets ‘which give fast undated but late 1930s. 26pp. of fashion, ‘they know how to bowlers little or no encouragement Written in his distinctive hand handle the ball and the bat as the these days. In fact most of them with line lengths decreasing down best of us’, and praised them for are bowlers’ nightmares’. He closes the page, with corrections, Lucas their conversational skills. Further by predicting a close contest in the describes his pleasure at meeting old content includes references to forthcoming Ashes series in England, friends after a long interval, returning players such as Edward ‘Lumpy’ but ‘if Lindwall & Miller keep fit to the Pavilion at Lord’s to see the Stevens, Lord Tankerville, the however I think that England will be first ball of the new season bowled, ‘tragedy of a five-a-side men’s hard put to win the series’. Nicely and reminiscing on the last ball of the match when no run was scored by signed ‘Jeffrey Stollmeyer’. Good previous season. He describes friends either side etc. Rusting to top corner cricket content. VG £50/80 having been abroad, others attending of odd pages, otherwise in good/ the coronation of George VI (in May very good condition £180/250 Stollmeyer captained West Indies in 1937). He goes on to discuss the thirteen Tests including the 1952/53 Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938) Australian bowler, C.T.B. Turner and series against India. West Indies won was a famous English humorist, Turner of Yorkshire, and describes the five match series 1-0 with four essayist, playwright, biographer, how other sports have no equivalent matches drawn. publisher, poet, novelist, short to a Lord’s reunion, claiming there story writer and editor. He had an 107 ‘Sir Six Sixes’. Official is no comparison between football’s enduring interest in cricket and was menu for the dinner to celebrate the ‘hordes from the north country with a member of J. M. Barrie’s team the fortieth anniversary of Sobers hitting their caps, rosettes and rattles’ with ‘Allahakbarries’, along with Henry six sixes in an over off the bowling conversations on Grace, Trumper, Herbert La Thangue and Arthur of Malcolm Nash. The dinner held Caruso, Hutchings, Leslie, the Boat Conan Doyle. Rupert Hart-Davis at the Swalec Stadium, Cardiff, 16th Race, Burns Night, the Eton v Harrow collected and published a collection June 2008. The eight page menu match etc. Rusting to top corner of of Lucas’s essays, ‘Cricket All His signed by ten attendees to the rear some pages, otherwise in good/ very Life’, which John Arlott described cover showing the scores for the good condition £180/250 ‘the best written of all books on Glamorgan v Nottinghamshire match Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938) cricket’. He died in 1938, aged 70 played at Swansea, 31st August- 2nd was a famous English humorist, September 1968. Signatures include 111 . Yorkshire & essayist, playwright, biographer, Sobers, Mike Smedley, Mike Taylor of England 1919-1945. A selection publisher, poet, novelist, short the original Nottinghamshire team, of ephemera relating to Sutcliffe’s story writer and editor. He had an David Shepherd, Roger Davis, Alan life and playing career. Contents enduring interest in cricket and was Jones, Brian Lewis etc. of Glamorgan. include handwritten letters, press a member of J. M. Barrie’s team the VG £30/50 cuttings, original press and candid ‘Allahakbarries’, along with Henry photographs of Sutcliffe in batting 108 John Arlott. ‘Sport’. Forty one page Herbert La Thangue and Arthur action, portraits, team photographs, original typescript article written Conan Doyle. Rupert Hart-Davis on tour, social occasions, dinners, by Arlott for ‘Edwardian England collected and published a collection speeches etc., some in later years. 1901-1914’, edited by Nowell-Smith of Lucas’s essays, ‘Cricket All His Includes approx. twenty five original in 1964 (Padwick 928). The Life’, which John Arlott described mono photographs including candid typescript, with amendments and ‘the best written of all books on photographs of Sutcliffe on board additions in Arlott’s hand, covers cricket’. He died in 1938, aged 70 ship for the M.C.C. tour to South many sports including horse racing, 110 E.V. Lucas. Rare and unique Africa 1927/28, the odd photograph athletics, rowing, tennis, billiards, manuscript handwritten by Lucas of signed by Sutcliffe. Other items golf, football, rugby, and some an article titled ‘The Game Again’ for signed by Sutcliffe include an official six pages on cricket. Arlott recalls the series ‘A Wanderer’s Note Book’, Leonard Braund and Philip Mead great games and players of the undated but c1938. 20pp. Written appeal fund letter with additional period including Grace, Fry, Ranji, in his distinctive hand with line handwritten content to ‘My dear MacLaren, Jessop, Trumper and lengths decreasing down the page, George’ relating to the fund, signed Rhodes, also subjects such as with corrections, Lucas describes ‘Herbert’. A handwritten draft of bowling, country house cricket, the Duke of Dorset’s commendation a letter to ‘My dear Billy’, in which Australian cricket, Test matches etc., of cricket as a game for women Sutcliffe strongly argues against the and selects C.B. Fry as the greatest and, on the first Australian women’s preparation of ‘better pitches’ to the of all multi-sport all-rounders. Nicely tour the previous year (1936), how detriment of spin and , signed in black ink to the last page ‘far more proficient the ladies were and changes to the L.B.W. law. A by Arlott. Bound into modern blue at the wicket and on the field than handwritten postcard from Sutcliffe cloth. A lesser known piece of Arlott’s many a vaulted male’, comments to ‘Mr Pilcher’ offering ‘one or two writing. VG £150/250 on a match involving the Countess humorous stories’. A menu signed

14 15 by Sutcliffe for The Northern Cricket of Adelaide, sent to the Governor photograph of the team to inside. Society’s 21st Anniversary Dinner, of South Australia, discussing the Nicely signed by the England Captain, 18th November 1969 etc. Some implications of the leg theory tactics, ‘Peter’. Old tape to inside rear page, faults, overall in good condition. crowd barracking, and the potential otherwise in good condition £40/60 £70/100 impact on future diplomatic and 120 Australia tour to England 1953. trade relations between England and 112 . Original certificate for Mono printed photograph of the Australia; minutes of two Special ‘The Star Cricket Scheme... for school Australia team laid to unofficial card Committee Meetings at Lord’s, 23rd Boys together with an autographed with printed title to top border of January and 2nd February 1933 Jack Hobbs bat to A.W. Maggs, Reay the card. Signed in ink to the lower at which the wording was agreed Central School, Brixton for the best borders by fifteen members of the of cables from M.C.C. replying to batting performance during the week Australian touring party. Signatures the Australian Board of Control’s ended July 18 1936’. Nicely signed in include Hassett (Captain), Miller, complaints; a letter to Plum Warner ink by Hobbs and R.J. Cruikshank, de Courcy, Davidson, Harvey, dated 5th February 1934, who had Editor of The Star. 13”x18”. Tear to Craig, Hole, Langley, Johnston, been Manager on the infamous tour, lower edge, light soiling, otherwise Lindwall etc. Stamp to verso and was chairman of the England in good condition. Sold with a large for S.S. Ramamurthy, Whyalla, selectors for the 1934 Australia advertising poster for the weekly South Australia, with handwritten tour to England, in which the issue magazine, ‘Competitors’ Journal. annotation in ink, ‘c/o Mr. G.B. of selecting Jardine as captain again Select Your Test Team. Win £100. Hole’. 8.75”x7.75”. Minor age would be considered controversial Jack Hobbs Bats and Balls for Boys’ toning, otherwise in good condition etc. A good selection of research c.1930. Printed by The Argus Press, £60/90 material. Original source unknown. London. 20”x30”. Some loss to VG £70/100 AUTOGRAPH SHEETS, edges, splits to folds, otherwise in ALBUM PAGES good condition. Qty 2 £30/50 115 Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England, 1919-1945. Official M.C.C. The following eleven lots are Competitors’ Journal was a magazine Christmas card from the M.C.C. tour originally taken from the album of launched in 1913 by the author, of Australia 1928/29. With cover an occupant of Wetherby House, Edgar Wallace, and his journalist image of St George & the Dragon Starbeck, Harrogate friend, Arthur Charles Findon, and M.C.C. colours. To inside a aimed at the burgeoning market of 121 Australia tour to England 1909. picture of the team and the wording, competitions and ‘comping’ Rare large album page nicely ‘Xmas 1928. Hearty Greetings for signed in ink by thirteen members 113 ‘1950s Reunion Test Match England v Xmas and the New Year from “A of the Australian touring party to Australia’ 1980. Original ‘Haig Scotch Happy Family” in Australia’. Signed England in 1909. Signatures are Whisky’ poster for Old England XI v in ink to inside, ‘Herbert Sutcliffe’. (Captain), Victor Old Australia XI played at Everden VG £70/100 Trumper, W. Carkeek, S.E. Gregory, Hall, nr. Weedon, Northamptonshire, 116 Denis Charles Scott Compton. C.G. Macartney, A.J.Y. Hopkins, 31st August 1980. The poster signed Middlesex & England 1936-1958. F. Laver, W.J. Whitty, A. Cotter, in ink by ten of the listed Old England Official M.C.C. Christmas card from W.W. Armstrong, W. Bardsley, V.S. players and ten Australians. England the tour of South Africa 1948/49. Ransford and J.D.A. O’Connor. signatures are Compton (Captain), With M.C.C. emblem and M.C.C. Lacking the signatures of Carter, Trueman, Simpson, Tyson, Titmus, colours to cover, cord tie. To inside McAlister and Hartigan from the Richardson, Close, Evans, Taylor and a picture of the team and nicely full touring party. 6.5”x8”. Light Moss, lacking Graveney. Australians signed ‘Denis’. Sold with a mono real wear and one ink blot not affecting are Craig (Captain), Harvey, Langley, photograph postcard produced for the signatures, otherwise in good McDonald, Burge, Johnston, Jarman, the Denis Compton Benefit Fund, condition £400/600 Davidson, Walters and Taber, lacking signed in ink by Compton. Qty 2. G/ Archer and Hole. Also signed by The Australians won the series by VG £50/70 the two umpires, Elliott and Egar. two Tests to one 20”x28”. Odd nicks to edge, 117 Douglas Vivian Parson Wright. Kent 122 Yorkshire C.C.C. 1909. Large otherwise in good condition £40/60 & England 1932-1957. Official album page nicely signed in ink M.C.C. Christmas card from the Old Australia won the thirty over (three in pencil) by twenty one M.C.C. tour of Australia and New match by six wickets Yorkshire cricketers including some Zealand 1950-51. M.C.C. decoration rarer signatures. Signatures in ink 114 ‘’. M.C.C. tour to Australia to covers. Signed ‘Doug’ to inner are A. Broadbent (six first-class 1932/33. An interesting selection page. Minor wear otherwise in good matches 1907-1911), D. Denton, of facsimiles of correspondence, condition £30/50 J.T. Newstead, A.W. White, W.E. articles, minutes of meetings etc. 118 Peter Barker Howard May. Surrey, Bates, M.W. Booth, D. Hunter, C.H. relating to the Bodyline series and Cambridge University & England Hardisty, H. Myers, B.B. Wilson, its aftermath. Contents include 1950-1963. M.C.C. tour of W. Rhodes, A. Dolphin, S. Haigh, copies of correspondence including a Australia & New Zealand 1958/59. E.J.R.H. Radcliffe, J.W. Rothery, W.H. letter dated 17th June 1933 drafted Official M.C.C. Christmas card with Wilkinson and A.C. Williams (12 to The Times from The Advertiser

16 matches, 1911-1919). Signatures Braund, A.E.M. Whittle, A.E. Lewis 6.5”x8”. G £30/40 in pencil are A. Drake, R. Kilner, and E. Robson. Overall 6.5”x8”. 132 Australia 1926. Large album page and T.J.D. Birtles (37 matches Tear to lower edge affecting the signed in ink by sixteen members of 1913-1924). 6.5”x8”. Some age signature of Dennett, otherwise in the touring party to England including toning, good condition £200/300 good condition £70/100 the Manager Sydney Smith. Players’ 123 Yorkshire C.C.C. Second XI 1909. 127 Lancashire C.C.C. 1907. Album page signatures are Collins (Captain), Large album page signed in pencil partly laid down to large album page, Mailey, Macartney, Grimmett, Ryder, by ten members of the Yorkshire nicely signed in ink by six members Woodfull, Gregory, Ellis, Hendry, second XI team. Signatures are of the Lancashire team. Signatures Taylor, Everett, Andrews, Bardsley, C.H. Hardisty, A. Broadbent, M.W. are R. Whitehead, J. Sharp, J.T. Ponsford, and Richardson. Lacking Booth, E. Oldroyd, A.L. Richardson, Tyldesley, J.W.H. Makepeace, W. the signature of Oldfield from the full F. Foster, A. Drake, C.H. Grimshaw, Huddleston and A. Kermode. Also touring party. 7”x8.5”. Very good A. Turner and H. Watson. 6.5”x8”. signed in pencil to the verso by ten condition £150/250 Some signatures faded but legibility members of the Ireland team c1908 133 Surrey C.C.C. 1949. Album page is affected by a pencil drawing including Browning, Corley, Kelly, nicely signed in ink by thirteen previously bound opposite £50/70 Morrow, Lambert, Bourchier, Napper members of the Surrey team. etc. Overall 6.5”x8”. Odd minor 124 Worcestershire C.C.C. 1909. Large Signatures are Barton (Captain), faults, otherwise in good condition album page with four signatures Surridge, Fishlock, Laker, Parker, £50/70 in ink and eight in pencil by twelve A. Bedser, McIntyre, McMahon, members of the 1909 Worcestershire 128 Essex C.C.C. 1910. Large album Constable, Lock, E. Bedser, team. Signatures in ink are W.B. page signed in pencil by the eleven Whittaker and the rarer G.N.G. Kirby Burns (Captain), C.F. Lyttleton (31 members of the Essex team for the (19 matches). VG £20/30 first-class matches 1906-1910), drawn match played v Yorkshire at 134 Northamptonshire C.C.C. 1928. M.K. Foster and H.G. Bache (20 Harrogate, 18th-20th August 1910. Album page nicely signed in matches 1907-1910). Signatures in Signatures are J.W.H.T. Douglas, F.H. ink by eleven members of the pencil are E.G. Arnold, F.L. Bowley, Gillingham, P.A. Perrin, A.L. Gibson, Northamptonshire team. Signatures R.E. Turner, G. Gaukrodger, R.D. A.H. Read, C.P. Buckenham, A.J. are Jupp (Captain), W. Timms, Towell, Burrows, J.A. Cuffe, F.A. Pearson Turner, W. Mead, A.E. Russell, J.R. Thomas, J. Timms, Brown, Woolley, and E.W. Bale. The page annotated Freeman and B. Tremlin. 6.5”x8”. Matthews, Wright, Bakewell and in pencil ‘Harrogate 5/8/09’ which Some age toning, otherwise in good Bellamy. Slight smudging to the corresponds with the match v condition £120/160 signature of Towell, otherwise in very Yorkshire at Harrogate 5th-7th 129 Hampshire C.C.C. 1913. Large good condition £40/60 August 1909. Worcestershire won by album page nicely signed in ink by six wickets. One further ink signature 135 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1928. eleven members of the Hampshire cannot be identified. 6.5”x8”. Some Album page nicely signed in team assumed to be for the match soiling to page, overall in good ink by twelve members of the played v Yorkshire at Harrogate, 31st condition £120/160 Nottinghamshire team. Signatures July- 2nd August 1913. Yorkshire are Carr (Captain), S. Staples, Barratt, 125 Leicestershire C.C.C. c1909. Album won by 182 runs. Signatures are A. Staples, Payton, Keeton, Larwood, page laid down to large album page, L.H. Tennyson (Captain), H.A.W. Walker, Whysall, Gunn, Richmond signed in ink by seven members of Bowell, C.P. Mead, E.R. Remnant and Lilley. Minor staining affecting the Leicestershire team. Signatures (twelfth man?), A.S. Kennedy, A.L. the signature of Whysall, otherwise are C.J.B. Wood, A.G. Hazlerigg, Hosie, J.A. Newman, G. Brown, in very good condition £40/60 V.F.S. Crawford, H. Whitehead, T. C.H. Abercrombie, J. Stone and A. Jayes, S. Coe and A.E. Knight. Overall Jaques. 6.5”x8”. Minor age toning, 136 Warwickshire C.C.C. 1928. Album 6.5”x8”. The small page trimmed otherwise in good condition page nicely signed in ink by eight to top edge, slightly affecting the £120/160 members of the Warwickshire team. signature of Wood. Some soiling, Signatures are Kilner, Kemp-Welch, 130 Durham C.C.C. 1909. Large album hole to larger page not affecting Parsons, Santall, Croom, Smart, page signed in pencil by twelve signatures, overall in good condition Bates and Sanders. VG £25/35 members of the Durham ‘Minor £50/80 Counties’ team. Signatures include 137 Gloucestershire C.C.C. 1928. Album 126 Gloucestershire C.C.C. 1907. Album A.E. Walker, A. Morris, J. Thackeray, page nicely signed in ink by eight page partly laid down to large G. Turnbull, T. Smith, E.B. Proud, I.L. members of the Gloucestershire album page, signed in pencil by ten Robinson, T. Coulson, T.A. Bradford team. Signatures are Parker, members of the Gloucestershire etc. 6.5”x8”. G £30/50 Mills, Dipper, Sinfield, Stephens, team. Signatures are G.L. Jessop, Bloodworth, Hammond and Smith. 131 Hull C.C. 1909. Large album page F.B. Roberts, T. Langdon, P.T. Mills, VG £25/35 signed in pencil by eleven members A.E. Winstone, A.E. Dipper, E.J. Spry, of the Hull team. Signatures include 138 Warwickshire C.C.C. 1936. Album E.G. Dennett, J.H. Board and H.J. H. Rudston (22 matches for Yorkshire page nicely signed in ink by ten Huggins. Also signed in pencil to the 1902-1907), Benson, Barker, Hopper, members of the Warwickshire team. verso by four Somerset players, L.C. Walker, Martin, Richardson etc. Signatures are Wyatt (Captain),

16 17 Kilner, Croom, Collin, Dollery, Smart, Dodds, Cray, Vigar, Avery, Horsfall, are J. Gunn, Hardstaff Senior, Payton, Mayer, Santall, Hill and Buckingham. Smith and the rarer I.J. Skinner (13 Oates, Walker, Richmond, Barratt, VG £40/60 matches). Good/very good £25/35 G. Gunn, Matthews, Flint, Staples and Whysall. The page laid down to 139 Kent C.C.C. 1948. Album page 146 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1935. Album tightly trimmed page. G/VG £30/50 nicely signed in ink and pencil by page nicely signed in ink by eleven eleven members of the Kent team. members of the Nottinghamshire 153 South Africa tour to England 1955. Signatures are Valentine (Captain), team. Signatures are Heane Album page nicely signed in ink Todd, Evans, Wright, Fagg, Edrich, (Captain), Staples, Shiptson, Harris, by fourteen members of the South Murray-Wood, Ridgway, Hearn, Gunn, Keeton, Hardstaff, Walker, African touring party. Signatures Dovey and Mayes. VG £25/35 Butler, Knowles and the rarer R.A. are Cheetham (Captain), McGlew, Taylor (23 matches). G/VG £40/60 Adcock, Endean, McLean, Murray, 140 Warwickshire C.C.C. 1948. Album Mansell, Heine, Fuller, Duckworth, page nicely signed in ink, one in 147 South Africa tour to England 1924. Smith, Goddard, Winslow and pencil, by eleven members of the Small ruled page laid to larger Keith. VG £30/40 Warwickshire team. Signatures are unevenly trimmed page nicely signed Dollery (Captain), Hill, Grove, Ord, in ink by eight members of the South 154 Hampshire C.C.C. 1936. Large Townsend, Pritchard, Cannings, African touring party. Signatures are album page nicely signed in pencil by Hollies, Taylor, Wolton and Spooner. Taylor (Captain), Pegler, Nourse, eleven members of the Hampshire VG £25/35 Hands, Catterall, Blanckenburg, team. Signatures are Moore Commaille and Carter. VG £30/50 (Captain), Boyes, Arnold, Herman, 141 Kent C.C.C. 1933. Album page nicely McCorkell, Creese, Hill, Budd, signed in ink by eleven members 148 Warwickshire C.C.C. 1929. Album Lawson, Pothecary and the rarer W. of the Kent team. Signatures are page signed in pencil (one in ink) by Lancashire (18 matches). VG Chapman (Captain), Ames, Woolley, twelve members of the Warwickshire £30/40 Freeman, Levett, Todd, Watt, team. Signatures are Wyatt Valentine, Wright, Fagg and Lewis. (Captain), Parsons, Bates, Mayer, 155 Sussex C.C.C. 1936. Large album VG £40/60 Calthorpe, Kilner, Kemp-Welch, page nicely signed in pencil by Santall, Sanders, Croom, Paine and twelve members of the Sussex team. 142 Sussex C.C.C. 1938. Album page Smith. G £30/50 Signatures are Holmes (Captain), nicely signed in ink by eleven Cook, W.L. Cornford, Tate, Wilson, members of the Sussex team. 149 Derbyshire C.C.C. 1935. Album page James Langridge, J. Parks, H. Parks, Signatures are Holmes (Captain), J. signed in pencil (one in ink) by eight Cox, W.L. Cornford, Hammond, Parks, Hammond, Cornford, Cox, members of the Derbyshire team. and the rarer B.L. Cumming (17 Nye, James Langridge, Oakes, Signatures are Richardson (Captain), matches). VG £30/40 John Langridge, H. Parks and the Elliott, Copson, Skinner (signed rarer A.G. Tuppin (23 matches). twice), G. Pope, Worthington, A. 156 Kent C.C.C. 1950. Official autograph Horizontal crease, adhesive mark to Pope and Townsend. G £25/35 sheet very nicely signed in ink verso, otherwise in good/ very good by eleven members of the team. 150 South Africa tour to England 1947. condition £40/60 Signatures are Clark (Captain), Ames, Album page nicely and fully signed Fagg, Evans, Phebey, Wright, Todd, 143 Lancashire C.C.C. 1949. Album in ink by all seventeen members of Ridgway, Hearn, Edrich and Dovey. page nicely signed in ink by the South African touring party. ‘All proceeds to the D.V.P. Wright thirteen members of the Lancashire Signatures are Melville (Captain), Benefit Year’ to bottom of page. VG team. Signatures are Howard Nourse, Mitchell, Viljoen, Lawson, £25/35 (Captain), Place, Tattersall, Ikin, Lindsay, Fullerton, Tucker, Dyer, Payn, Pollard, Washbrook, Barlow, Edrich, Harris, Smith, Begbie, Ovenstone, 157 ‘100 Test Match Appearances’. Duckworth, Roberts, Grieves, Plimsoll, Mann and Rowan. VG Unofficial printed sheet signed in ink Greenwood and Makepeace £40/60 by eleven players who have made (Coach). The page laid down to one hundred Test appearances. 151 Somerset C.C.C. 1936. Album tightly trimmed page. G/VG £25/35 Signatures are Javed Miandad, page nicely signed in ink by eleven Clive Lloyd, Allan Border, Gordon 144 South Africa tour to England 1955. members of the Somerset team. Greenidge, Geoff Boycott, Colin Album page nicely signed in ink Signatures are Ingle (Captain), Cowdrey, Viv Richards, David Gower, by twelve members of the South Mitchell-Innes, Burrough, Cameron, Desmond Haynes, Ian Botham and African touring party. Signatures Luckes, Andrews, Hazell, Gimblett, Sunil Gavaskar. G/VG £30/40 are Cheetham (Captain), McGlew, Lee and the rarer F.M. McRae (25 Winslow, Adcock, Smith, McLean, matches). The page laid down to 158 Surrey C.C.C. 1957. Album page Smith, Mansell, Fuller, Heine, tightly trimmed page. Horizontal signed in ink by twelve members of Tayfield, Duckworth and Goddard. crease, some staining, otherwise in the County Championship winning VG £40/60 good condition £30/40 Surrey team of 1957. Signatures are May (Captain), E. Bedser, Constable, 145 Essex C.C.C. 1949. Album page nicely 152 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1922. Fletcher, Stewart, Clark, A. Bedser, signed in ink by twelve members Album page signed in pencil Loader, Laker, Barrington, Lock and of the Essex team. Signatures are by twelve members of the McIntyre. Old tape marks to corners Pullinger, Smith, Wade, Eve, Bailey, Nottinghamshire team. Signatures

18 not affecting the signatures, slight Marsham, Edrich, Dovey, Ridgway, Kent players and to the verso uneven trimming, otherwise in good Ashdown, Evans, Harding, Valentine by eleven Sussex players. Sussex condition £25/35 etc. The page dated 15th June 1947, signatures are Holmes (Captain), corresponding with the away match W.L. Cornford, J. Cornford, H.W. 159 Australia tour of England 1948. v Leicestershire at Loughborough. Parks, Hammond, J.H. Parks, Cox, Official autograph sheet fully signed Slight smudging to the signatures of Tuppin, John Langridge and Oakes. in ink by seventeen members of the Marsham and Valentine, otherwise For Kent, Bryan (Captain), Woolley, touring party including Bradman in very good condition £40/60 Ames, Todd, Valentine, Watt, (Captain), Hassett, Brown, Hamence, Ashdown, Wright, Spencer, Lewis Harvey, Johnson, Johnston, Lindwall, 164 Surrey 1964. Daily Express and Cole (signed in pencil). Players’ McCool, Miller, Morris, Tallon, ‘Cricketers Autographs’ headed card names neatly annotated in pencil. G/ Toshack etc. Barnes hand stamped signed by fourteen members of the VG £30/40 as usual. Lacking the signature of Surrey team. Signatures are Stewart, Lindwall. The sheet laid to card and Constable, Edrich, Barrington, 170 Northumberland C.C.C. 1939. trimmed. Horizontal crease and wear. Sydenham, Harman, Gibson, Smith, Eleven signatures in ink of the Only fair condition £50/70 Tindall, Jefferson, Willett, Pocock, Northumberland team signed to The Storey and the rarer Ken McEntyre Queen’s Hotel, Manchester headed 160 Surrey C.C.C. ‘County Champions (3 matches 1965-1966). To verso a notepaper. Signatures include White 1952-1956’. Official headed strip printed caricature of Ken Barrington (Captain, signed in pencil), Robson, signed in ink by thirteen members of by Roy Ullyett and an article by Lee, Davey, Ramsden, Newman, the Surrey team of 1956. Signatures Crawford White of the Daily Express Allan, Vaulkhard etc. Top corners are May, A. Bedser, E. Bedser, Clark, encouraging support for Barrington clipped, minor wear, otherwise in Fletcher, Lock, McIntyre, Stewart, in his Benefit Year. G/VG £25/35 good condition £20/30 Barrington, Loader, Pratt, Swetman and Laker. Strip measures 3.5”x8”. 165 Sussex C.C.C. 1906. Album page 171 South Africa tour to England 1929. Crease to top, otherwise in good signed in ink by nine Sussex players. Album page nicely signed in ink condition £30/40 Signatures are Smith (Capt), Leach, by seventeen members of the Seymour, A.E. Relf, Dwyer, Vine, South Africa touring party. Players’ 161 Gloucestershire C.C.C. 1936. Album R.R. Relf, G.Cox and Killick. Good signatures include Deane (Captain), page signed in ink by ten members of condition £70/100 Vincent, Bell, Catterall, McMillan, the Gloucestershire team. Signatures Christy, Dalton, Ochse, Mitchell, are Goddard, Sinfield, Barnett, Neale, 166 Essex C.C.C. 1935. Album page Taylor, Siedle, Morkel etc. Also Crapp, Dacre, Stephens, Monks and nicely signed in black ink by eleven Frielinghaus (Manager), Frames and Hopkins. To verso, signature and members of the 1935 Essex team. (Secretary). Lacking Owen-Smith cartoon in pencil of C.B. Fry. The Signatures are Pearce (Captain), and van der Merwe. Some smudging page partially laid down to slightly O’Connor, Read, Nichols, Eastman, to the signature of Bell, otherwise in larger page with the signature in ink Evans, Cutmore, Wade, Boswell, good/ very good condition £60/90 of P.F. Warner. Horizontal fold, light Sheffield and P. Smith. G/VG soiling, otherwise in good condition £25/35 172 South Africa tour to England 1955. £30/50 Official autograph sheet fully signed 167 Derbyshire C.C.C. 1936. Album page in ink by all seventeen members 162 Yorkshire C.C.C. 1949. Album page signed in ink and pencil by twelve of the South Africa touring party. signed in ink by all twelve members Derbyshire players. Signatures are Players’ signatures include Cheetham of the Yorkshire team for the Richardson (Captain), Skinner, (Captain), McGlew, Endean, Tayfield, match v Minor Counties at Lord’s, Blaxland, Smith, L.F. Townsend, Fuller, Goddard, Mansell, Heine, 11th-14th June 1949. Signatures are A.V. Pope, Mitchell, Alderman, Winslow, Adcock etc. The sheet laid Yardley (Captain), Brennan, Lester, Carrington, A. Townsend, H. Elliott down to white card. G/VG £30/50 Watson, , Trueman, Wilson, and Worthington. Also signed by H. Robinson, W. Sutcliffe, Smithson, Parker, scorer. The page laid down 173 South Africa tour to England 1960. also the rarer E.S. Barraclough (two to tightly trimmed page. Tape to Official autograph sheet fully signed first-class matches, 1949-1950) and one corner affecting he signature of in ink by all sixteen members of the A. Mason (18 matches, 1947-1950). Richardson. Some ageing, otherwise South Africa touring party. Players’ VG £30/50 in good condition £25/35 signatures include McGlew (Captain), Goddard, Adcock, Duckworth, Yorkshire won by 136 runs. Fred 168 Kent C.C.C. c.1938. Album page Fellows-Smith, Pithey, Pothecary, Trueman took eight second innings signed in ink by eleven Kent players. Tayfield, Waite, Wesley etc. Light wickets for seventy runs, the first Signatures are Fagg, Ames, Levett, folds and minor adhesive marks to time he took five wickets in an Todd, Longfield, Valentine, Lewis, verso, otherwise in good/ very good innings in a first-class match Spencer, Chalk, Harding and Wright. condition. Good signatures £30/50 Minor ageing to extremities not 163 Kent C.C.C. 1947. Album page affecting the signatures, otherwise in 174 South Africa tour to England 1951. nicely signed in ink by fourteen good condition £30/40 Large official autograph sheet fully members of the Kent team and the signed in ink by all sixteen members scorer, E. Hoskin. Players’ signatures 169 Kent and Sussex 1937. Album page of the South Africa touring party. include Ames, Todd, Wright, Fagg, signed in ink to one side by eleven Players’ signatures include Nourse

18 19 (Captain), E. Rowan, Mann, A. party. Signatures include Gaekwad Mohammad, Mushtaq Mohammad, Rowan, Fullerton, Melle, Cheetham, (Captain), Apte, Borde, Contractor, Imtiaz Ahmed, Alimuddin, Saeed van Ryneveld, Endean, Mansell, Desai, Gupte, Joshi, Kripal Singh, Ahmad, Ijaz Butt, Initkhab Alam, McGlew, Waite etc. Light folds, Manjrekar, Roy, Surendranath, Munir Malik, Afaq Hussain, Hyder minor marks and age toning, odd Umrigar, Ghose (Treasurer) etc. (Manager) etc. Lacking the signature nicks, otherwise in good condition. Additionally signed by Baig who was of Shahid Mahmood. VG £50/80 Good signatures £30/50 co-opted mid-tour. The page laid to 185 Pakistan tour to England 1971. smaller album page. Horizontal and 175 West Indies tour to England 1957. Scarce large official autograph sheet vertical folds, otherwise in good/ Page on The Queen’s Hotel, signed by nineteen members of the very good condition £50/70 Birmingham headed notepaper touring party. Signatures include signed in ink by seventeen members 180 New Zealand tour to England 1958. (Captain), Asif Iqbal, of the West Indies touring party. Large official autograph sheet nicely , , Sadiq Signatures include Goddard signed in ink by all eighteen members Mohammad, Zaheer Abbas, Imran (Captain), Weekes, Walcott, Asgarali, of the New Zealand touring party. Khan, , Talat Ali, Ganteaume, Pairaudeau, Worrell, Signatures include Reid (Captain), Mushtaq Mohammad etc. Horizontal Valentine, Dewdney, Kanhai, Sobers, Cave, Alabaster, Blair, D’Arcy, Petrie, folds and some age toning, small Ramadhin etc., lacking the signature Playle, Sparling, Sutcliffe, Ward, nick to one edge, otherwise in good of Alexander. The page laid down Phillipps (Manager), Duckworth condition. Rare £50/70 to a smaller album page. Horizontal (Baggage) etc. The page laid to large 186 Pakistan tour to England 1974. folds, otherwise in good condition album page. Horizontal and vertical Official autograph sheet fully signed £60/90 folds, otherwise in good/ very good by all nineteen listed members of condition £30/40 176 West Indies tour to England 1963. the touring party. Signatures include Unofficial autograph sheet fully 181 New Zealand tour to India, Intikhab Alam (Captain), Asif Iqbal, signed in ink by all eighteen members Pakistan and England 1965. Official , Mushtaq Mohammad, of the West Indies touring party. autograph sheet nicely signed in ink Wasim Bari, Asif Mahmood, Sarfraz Signatures include Worrell (Captain), by all seventeen members of the New Nawaz, Zaheer Abbas, Imran Khan, Butcher, Carew, Gibbs, Griffith, Zealand touring party. Signatures etc. Folds, files holes and Hall, Hunte, Kanhai, Murray, Nurse, include Reid (Captain), Dowling, minor age toning, otherwise in good Sobers, Valentine etc. The Gibbs Cameron, Collinge, Congdon, Jarvis, condition £30/50 signature has been crossed out and Pollard, Sutcliffe, Taylor, Vivian, 187 Australia tour of England 1948. signed again. Light horizontal folds, Ward, Yuile, Dick, Hadlee (Manager) Official autograph sheet fully signed otherwise in good condition £50/80 etc. VG £40/60 in ink by all eighteen members of 177 West Indies tour to England 1976. 182 New Zealand tour to India, the touring party including Bradman Official autograph sheet fully signed Pakistan and England 1969. Official (Captain), Hassett, Brown, Hamence, in ink by all nineteen members autograph sheet nicely signed in Harvey, Johnson, Johnston, Lindwall, of the West Indies touring party. ink by all seventeen members of McCool, Miller, Morris, Tallon, Signatures include Lloyd (Captain), the New Zealand touring party. Toshack etc. Barnes hand stamped Murray, Fredericks, Gomes, Signatures include Dowling as usual. Horizontal and vertical folds Greenidge, Holder, Holding, Julien, (Captain), Pollard, Burgess, Collinge, and nicks, age toning, otherwise in Kallicharran, King, Richards, Roberts, Congdon, D. Hadlee, Howarth, Trist, generally good condition £150/250 Rowe, Walcott (Manager) etc. Light Murray, Taylor, Turner, Yuile, Burgess 188 Australia tours of England 1961, horizontal folds, otherwise in very (Manager) etc. The printed name of 1968, 1972 and 1977. Four official good condition £40/60 Mutz crossed out and replaced with autograph sheets all fully signed in the name of Trist. VG £40/60 178 India tour to England 1952. Official ink by the listed players. Signatures autograph sheet fully signed in 183 New Zealand tour to England 1973. include Benaud, Harvey, Lawry, ink by all eighteen members of Official autograph sheet nicely Simpson, Jarman, I. Chappell, Hawke, the India touring party. Signatures signed in ink by all sixteen members Inverarity, Mallett, Redpath, Walters, include Hazare (Captain), Adhikari, of the New Zealand touring party. Stackpole, G. Chappell, Lillee, Gulam Ahmed, D.K. Gaekwad, H.G. Signatures include Congdon Marsh, Bright, Hookes, McCosker, Gaekwad, Gopinath, Manjrekar, (Captain), Turner, Burgess, Collinge, Malone, Thomson, Walker etc. Phadkar, Ramchand, Roy, Sarwate, D. Hadlee, R. Hadlee, Howarth, Folds to three sheets, some creasing, Sen, Shinde, Umrigar, Gupta Pollard, Taylor, Wadsworth, Saunders small loss to one corner of the 1968 (Manager) etc. Horizontal and (Manager) etc. Small old tape marks sheet, otherwise in generally good vertical folds, light adhesive mark to to corners, otherwise in good condition £50/70 verso, otherwise in good condition condition £20/30 189 M.C.C. tour to Australia 1946/47. £50/70 184 Pakistan tour of England 1962. Rarer White card very nicely signed in ink 179 India tour to England 1959. Official official autograph sheet very nicely by all seventeen members of the autograph sheet signed in ink by signed in ink by nineteen members M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are eighteen of the nineteen listed of the team and the management. Hammond (Captain), Evans, Voce, members of the India touring Signatures include Burki, Hanif Gibb, Compton, Pollard, Edrich,

20 Yardley, Langridge, Ikin, Washbrook, Dexter, Greenhough, Illingworth, signed in ink by all eighteen members Hutton, Fishlock, Hardstaff, Smith, Moss, Pullar, Smith, Statham, Subba of the touring party. Signatures Wright and Bedser. Interesting notes Row, Swetman and Trueman. include Denness (Captain), Greig, in pencil to verso indicate that the Lacking the signature of Parks who Amiss, Arnold, Birkenshaw, Boycott, signatures were collected by Denis was a later replacement. Light folds, Fletcher, Hayes etc. Sold with three Compton during the second Test at file holes to left edge, otherwise in further complete official England Sydney and posted to an address good condition £30/40 autograph sheets for England v in England. Small old tape marks Australia, third Test, Trent Bridge 194 M.C.C. tour of Australia & New to verso, otherwise in very good 1972 (twelve signatures), v Pakistan, Zealand 1962/63. Official autograph condition £70/100 third Test, Headingley 1978 (12), and sheet fully and nicely signed in the 1978/79 tour to Australia (20). 190 M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. ink by all seventeen members of Qty 4. G/VG £50/70 Official autograph sheet for the tour the touring party. Signatures are fully signed by all seventeen members Dexter (Captain), Cowdrey, Allen, 199 England tour to Australia 2010/11. of the touring party. Signatures are Barrington, Coldwell, Graveney, Unofficial autograph sheet uniformly Mann (captain), Griffith, Hutton, Illingworth, Knight, Larter, Murray, signed in ink by all sixteen members Simpson, Compton, Bedser, Palmer, Parfitt, Pullar, Sheppard, Smith, of the touring party. Signatures are Wright, Washbrook, Young, Crapp, Statham, Titmus and Trueman. Strauss (Captain), Anderson, Bell, Watkins, Tremlett, Evans, Gladwin, Light folds, otherwise in very good Bresnan, Broad, Collingwood, Cook, Jenkins and Green (Manager). Minor condition £40/60 Davies, Finn, Morgan, Panesar, age toning, horizontal fold, small Pietersen, Prior, Swann, Tremlett and 195 M.C.C. tour of Australia & New nick to lower edge, otherwise in Trott. The signatures obtained at the Zealand 1965/66. Official autograph good condition £100/150 in November 2010. sheet fully and nicely signed in ink VG £30/40 191 M.C.C. tour of Australia & New by all seventeen members of the Zealand 1950/51. Rarer official touring party. Signatures are Smith 200 Early cricket autographs c.1910. autograph sheet fully signed in ink (Captain), Cowdrey, Allen, Barber, Album page nicely signed in black by the nineteen original members Barrington, Boycott, Brown, Edrich, ink by six cricketers. Signatures are of the touring party including the Higgs, Jones, Larter, Murray, Parfitt, David Denton (Yorkshire & England joint Managers, Green and Nash, Parks, Russell, Titmus and Griffith 1894-1920), F.E. Field (Warwickshire and bagman Ferguson. Players’ (Manager). Light folds, otherwise in 1897-1920), F.G. Roberts signatures are Brown (Captain), very good condition £40/60 (Gloucestershire 1887-1905), Compton, Bailey, Simpson, Hutton, W.A.J. West (Northamptonshire 196 M.C.C. tour of West Indies Sheppard, Close, Berry, Warr, Bedser, & Warwickshire 1883-1891, both 1967/68. Official autograph sheet Wright, Dewes, Evans, Hollies, and pre-first-class, M.C.C. 1888-1891), nicely signed in ink by all fourteen McIntyre. Lacking the signatures of J.R. Mason (Kent & England members of the touring party. Washbrook, Statham and Tattersall 1893-1914), and J.W.W. Nason Signatures are Cowdrey (Captain), who were later additions to the tour. (Sussex, Cambridge University & Titmus, Barrington, Boycott, Edrich, Folds and three small holes otherwise Gloucestershire 1906-1914). Some Graveney, Higgs, Hobbs, Jones, in good condition £40/60 foxing to the page, otherwise in Knott, Milburn, Parks, Pocock and good condition £50/70 192 M.C.C. tour of Australia & New Snow. Lacking the signatures of Zealand 1958/59. Official autograph Brown and D’Oliveira. Slight age William West was a first-class umpire sheet fully and nicely signed in ink by toning, otherwise in good condition from 1890 to 1895 and officiated in all twenty members of the touring £20/30 nine Test matches party including the Signatures are 197 M.C.C. tour of Australia & 201 Australia tour to England 1921. Album May (Captain), Cowdrey, Bailey, New Zealand 1970/71. Official page signed by thirteen members Evans, Graveney, Laker, Loader, Lock, autograph sheet nicely signed in of the Australian touring party. Milton, Richardson, Statham, Subba ink by all seventeen members of Six signatures in ink of Armstrong Row, Swetman, Trueman, Tyson, the touring party. Signatures are (Captain), Mailey, Andrews, Ryder, Watson, Brown (Manager), Eagar Illingworth (Captain), Cowdrey, Bardsley and Oldfield. Seven (Asst. Manager), also Dexter and Boycott, D’Oliveira, Edrich, Fletcher, signatures in pencil of McDonald, Mortimore who were late additions. Hampshire, Knott, Lever, Luckhurst, Hendry, Mayne, Macartney, Gregory, ‘Good Luck!’ annotated to top left Shuttleworth, Snow, Taylor, Pellew and Roland J. Pope (medical corner. Light folds and small old tape Underwood, Willis, Wilson and officer). The page, now dismounted, marks to left edge, otherwise in good Clark (Manager). The listed name has been taped to verso for previous condition £40/60 of Ward is crossed out having been framing with adhesive show through 193 M.C.C. tour of West Indies 1959/60. replaced on the tour by Willis. Minor to top and side edges affecting some Official autograph sheet fully and staining, small adhesive marks to signatures. Folds and age toning, nicely signed in ink by all fifteen verso, otherwise in good/ very good only fair condition £120/150 listed members of the touring party. condition £30/50 202 Minor Counties 1937. Album Signatures are May (Captain), 198 M.C.C. tour of West Indies 1974. page nicely signed in ink by eleven Cowdrey, Allen, Andrew, Barrington, Official autograph sheet nicely members of the team, two in

20 21 pencil. Signatures include B. Rought- 207 Middlesex C.C.C. 1934 and 1936. in ink by fifteen members of the Rought, Poynder, H.P. Waugh, Two album pages, one nicely signed touring party. Signatures include Benka, Hargreaves, Felton, Franklin in black ink by twelve members of Cowdrey, Barrington, D’Oliveira, etc. G £25/35 the 1934 Middlesex team. Signatures Edrich, Graveney, Knott, Milburn, are Enthoven, Smith, Webster, Price, Snow etc. Lacking the signature of 203 New Zealand 1949. Vertical paper Hulme, Beveridge, Hart, Muncer, David Brown. This was strip very nicely signed in ink by J.W. Hearne, Watkins, Wignall and copy and is signed by him in ink. fifteen members of the touring party Putner. The other signed by eleven Light fold marks, loosely attached at to England including the manager members of the 1936 Middlesex top of sheet to large page otherwise Phillips. Signatures include Hadlee team, Robins, Hendren, Hulme, in good condition £30/40 (Captain), Wallace, Burke, Reid, Gray, Sims, Hart, Tindall, Smith, Raborn, Cave, Sutcliffe, Cresswell, 211 M.C.C. tour to India, Pakistan & Muncer, D. Compton and one other. Phillips (Manager) etc. Lacking the Ceylon 1972/73. Official autograph Players’ names annotated in pencil to signature of Mooney from the full sheet signed by fourteen members both pages. Some wear and creasing touring party. G £30/50 of the M.C.C. touring party. Players’ to the 1936 page, the 1934 in good signatures are Denness, Arnold, 204 Middlesex C.C.C. 1934 and 1936. condition £30/40 Birkenshaw, Cottam, Gifford, Greig, Two album pages, one nicely signed 208 Joseph ‘Joe’ Hardstaff Jnr. Knott, Old, Pocock, Roope, Tolchard in black ink by twelve members of Nottinghamshire & England and Wood. Lacking the signatures the 1934 Middlesex team. Signatures 1930-1955. Album page signed in of Lewis (Captain), Amiss, Fletcher are Enthoven, Smith, Webster, Price, blue ink by ten players who took part and Underwood. Sold with an official Hulme, Beveridge, Hart, Muncer, in Hardstaff’s benefit match played sheet for the International Wanderers J.W. Hearne, Watkins, Wignall and at Kelham Road, Newark, 22nd tour to Rhodesia and South Africa, Putner. The other signed by eleven August 1948. Signatures are Reg September 1974 signed by seventeen members of the 1936 Middlesex Simpson, C.B. Harris, Hardstaff, Bill members of the touring party. team, Robins, Hendren, Hulme, Voce, Walter Keeton and Guy Willatt Signatures include Close (Captain), Gray, Sims, Hart, Tindall, Smith, (Nottinghamshire), Jack Walsh, Les Barlow, I. Chappell, Greig, McKenzie, Muncer, D. Compton and one other. Berry, Vic Jackson (Leicestershire) Pollock, Richards, Roope, Shepherd, Players’ names annotated in pencil and D.P.B. Morkel (South Africa). Simmons, Tolchard, Turner, Younis to both pages. Some wear and VG £30/40 Ahmed etc. also R.K. Thomas (joint creasing to the 1936 page, the 1934 manager). Lacking the signature of in good condition. Plus a small album No record of the match can be found, Greg Chappell who is listed but did page signed by C.H. Gunasekera of which was scheduled on the rest not play on the tour that comprised Middlesex 1919-1922 and G. Lee day of the County Championship a series of matches in Rhodesia and Nottinghamshire and H.M. Morris of match between Leicestershire and one in Transvaal, South Africa. Qty Essex. Qty 3 £30/50 Nottinghamshire 2. G/VG £30/40 205 Middlesex, Sussex and 209 England South African Breweries 212 M.C.C. tour of India, Sri Lanka Northamptonshire 1950. Three ‘Rebel’ Tour to South Africa 1981-82. & Australia 1976/77. Official album pages each comprising Two album pages, one fully signed autograph sheet fully signed in ink eleven signatures in ink of the in ink by the fifteen members by all eighteen members of the party teams that played v Hampshire of the England touring party. including Greig, Brearley, Knott, at Portsmouth in 1950 and 1952. Signatures include Gooch (Captain), Randall, Willis etc. Appears to have Signatures of Middlesex 1950 Emburey, Willey, Amiss, Taylor, been trimmed. Odd faults, folds include Sims, Robertson, Young, L. Woolmer, Hendrick, Boycott, Knott, otherwise in good condition £20/30 Compton, Routledge, Sharp etc. Underwood etc. The other page Northamptonshire 1952, including comprises twelve signatures of the 213 England tour to Australia 1982/83. Brown, Brookes, Fiddling, Tribe, South African team corresponding Official autograph sheet signed by Broderick, Barrick, Greasley etc. with the third ‘Test’, , all twenty members of the touring Sussex 1952, including James 26th-29th March 1982. Signatures party. Signatures include Willis Langridge, John Langridge, Doggart, include Richards (Captain), Kourie, (Captain), Gower, Botham, Cowans, Sheppard, Cox, Marlar etc. G/VG Rice, Cook, Kirsten, Watson, le Lamb, Marks, Randall, Taylor etc. £30/40 Roux, van der Bijl, Jennings etc. Sold Sold with official autograph sheets with a folding tour scorecard signed for the tour to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka 206 Gloucestershire C.C.C. 1948. to the centre team listing pages by & Zimbabwe 1986, and to South Album page signed in ink by twenty Boycott, Lever, Larkins, Willey, Taylor Africa 1995/96. Signatures include Gloucestershire players. Signatures (England) and Cook (South Africa). Nicholas, Barnett, Agnew, Athey, include Allen (Captain), Monks, Also an official commemorative Moxon, Pringle, Slack, Atherton, Goddard, Barnett, Crapp, Parker, cover and souvenir brochure for the Crawley, Fraser, Hick, Malcolm, Cork, Lambert, Cranfield, Neale, Scott, tour. Qty 5. G/VG £80/120 Gough etc. Folds to two sheets. G/ Cook, Milton, K. Graveney, T. VG. Qty 3 £30/50 Graveney, Wilcox, Brodhurst etc. G 210 M.C.C. 1967-68. Official autograph £30/50 sheet for the M.C.C. tour of the 214 England tour of the West Indies West Indies 1967-68. Fully signed 1986. Official autograph sheet for

22 the tour. Fully signed with twenty Chappell (captain), Marsh, Bright, at the World Cup 1992. Seventeen signatures in ink including Gower, Cosier, Hookes, McCosker, Pascoe, signatures including Houghton, Gatting, Botham, Lamb, Willey, Thomson, Walker, Walters etc. Campbell, Flower, Butchart, Pycroft, Foster, Robinson, Smith etc. Fold. G/ Horizontal folds, otherwise in good Traicos etc. G. Qty 2 £25/35 VG £25/35 condition £30/40 227 South Africa 1955. Official autograph 215 England. Official autograph sheets 221 Australian tour of the West Indies sheet for the South African tour of for England teams v New Zealand 1978. Official autograph sheet fully England 1955. Sixteen ink signatures (Lord’s) 1994 (2 sheets), v West signed in ink by all sixteen members including Cheetham, McGlew, Indies (TB) 1995, v India 1996 of the touring party including Duckworth, Goddard, Mansell, (two sheets, Texaco Trophy) and Simpson, Thomson, Yardley, Hughes, Tayfield, Endean, Fuller etc. Folds. G v Pakistan (Texaco Trophy). Some Serjeant, Wood, Yallop, Toohey etc. £30/50 sheets lacking odd signatures, good. Two signatures in red ink. G £30/40 228 South Africa 1965. Official Qty 6. G £30/50 222 Australian tour to England 1981. autograph sheet for the South Africa 216 Australia Coronation Tour to England Official autograph sheet signed by tour of England 1965. Fully signed 1953. Page signed in ink by fourteen nineteen members of the touring in ink by all sixteen members of members of the Australian party party. Players’ signatures include the party including Van der Merwe, on Kent C.C.C. headed note paper. Hughes (Captain), Marsh, Alderman, Barlow, Bacher, Bland, G&P. Pollock Signatures are Hassett (Captain), Border, Bright, Dyson, Hogg, etc. Crease to right hand corner, Johnston, Tallon, Morris, Hole, Lawson, Wood, Yallop etc. Lacking some minor damage to top border Harvey, Davidson, Ring, Langley, the signature of Lillee. Horizontal otherwise in good condition £30/50 de Courcey, Lindwall, Benaud and fold, otherwise in good/ very good 229 South Africa 1992. Official autograph McDonald. Light folds with small condition £30/40 sheet for the South African team to split to one fold, otherwise in good 223 ‘Australia World Cup Cricket Tour Australia for the World Cup 1992. condition £40/60 1983’. Official autograph sheet Fully signed with nineteen signatures 217 Australian tour of England 1961. fully signed by the fourteen playing including Wessels, Kuiper, Cronje, Official autograph sheet for the members of the tour and the physio, Kirsten, Donald, Henry, Hudson, Australian touring team. Fully signed Fergus Nelson. Players’ signatures Rhodes etc £15/25 in ink by all seventeen members of are Hughes (Captain), Hookes, 230 Sri Lanka 1988. Two official the party plus the Manager and Border, G. Chappell, T. Chappell, autograph sheets of the Sri Lanka Treasurer including Benaud, Harvey, Hogan, Hogg, Lawson, Lillee, Marsh, squad for the England v Sri Lanka Test Booth, Davidson, Lawry, McKenzie, Thomson, Wessels, Wood and at Lord’s, 25th-30th August 1988. O’Neill, Gaunt etc. Adhesive marks Yallop. Horizontal and vertical folds, One fully signed by all eighteen to back of the sheet at corners otherwise in good condition £30/40 members of the touring party, the otherwise in good condition £30/40 Australia finished in third place in other, on M.C.C. letterhead, lacking 218 Australia tour to England 1968. Group B and failed to qualify for the one signature. VG £30/50 Official autograph sheet fully signed knockout stage. India overcame the 231 Sri Lanka 1991. Official autograph by the seventeen members of the favourites, West Indies, to win the sheet for the Sri Lankan tour Australian touring party. Signatures final of England 1991. Eighteen signatures include Lawry (Captain), Jarman, 224 Australian tour of England 1985. including De Silva, Gurusinha, Chappell, Connolly, Gleeson, Hawke, Official autograph sheet fully signed Muralitheran, Tillakaratne, Ataputta, Inverarity, Mallett, Redpath, Taber, in ink by all seventeen members of Ratnayake, Mahanama etc. G Walters etc. Folds and some creasing, the touring party including Border, £20/30 otherwise in good/ very good Hilditch, Boon, Lawson, Thomson, condition £30/50 232 Sri Lanka 1991 and 1999. Two official Wessels, McDermott etc. G £30/40 autographs sheets, one for the Sri 219 ‘Australia World Cup Tour to Canada 225 Australia tour of England 1993. Lanka tour to New Zealand 1991, and United Kingdom’ 1975. Official Official autograph sheet fully signed the other for the tour to Australia autograph sheet fully signed by the in ink by all twenty one members of 1999, both fully signed. The 1991 nineteen members of the touring the touring party including Border, sheet with eighteen signatures, the party. Players’ signatures are I. Warne, Taylor, Hayden, Healy, 1999 sheet with nineteen signatures. Chappell (Captain), G. Chappell, May, Slater, Waugh etc. Light folds Signatures include Ranatunga, Edwards, Gilmour, Higgs, Hurst, otherwise in very good condition de Silva, Jayasuriya, Labrooy, Laird, Lillee, McCosker, Mallett, £30/40 Mahanama, Ratnayake, Tillakeratne, Marsh, Robinson, Thomson, Turner, Wickremasinghe, Muralitharan, Walker and Walters. Folds. G/VG 226 Zimbabwe 1992. Official autograph Vaas, Atapattu, Perera etc. Light £30/50 sheet for the Inaugural Test match, folds, otherwise in good condition Zimbabwe v India 1992. Fifteen 220 Australian tour to England 1977. £30/40 signatures including Houghton, Official autograph sheet signed Flower, Brandes, Campbell, Arnott 233 New Zealand 1958. Official by all seventeen players in the etc. Sold with an official autograph autograph sheet for the New Zealand touring party. Signatures include G. sheet for the Zimbabwe cricket team tour of England. Signed in ink by

22 23 sixteen members of the touring Stollmeyer, Jones, Ramadhin, April 1988 (eleven signatures), and party including Reid, Cave, Sutcliffe, Valentine, Gomez, Christiani, v Aboriginal Cricket Association, MacGibbon, Blair, Hayes, Moir etc. Williams, Trestrail and Weekes. Lord’s, 28th June 1988, (eleven The sheet has been trimmed and has Signed to the verso by eleven signatures). Sri Lanka team for the old tape marks to top and bottom of members of the 1949 Essex team Lord’s Test, 25th-30th August 1988 sheet otherwise in good condition including Pearce (Captain), Vigar, (18 signatures). Australian touring £30/50 Bailey, Wade, Pullings, Dodds, Price party to England 1989 (sixteen etc. Smudging to the signature of signatures, lacking Border and 234 New Zealand tour to England 1958. Weekes, otherwise in very good Marsh). England team for the Lord’s Official autograph sheet nicely signed condition £40/60 Test, 22nd-27th June 1989 (twelve by seventeen members of the touring signatures, lacking Lamb). VG party. Players’ signatures include Reid 239 West Indies tour of Australia 1981/82. £40/60 (Captain), Cave, Alabaster, D’Arcy, Official autograph sheet fully signed Hayes, MacGibbon, Petrie, Playle, in ink by all seventeen members of 244 Warwickshire. Official autograph Sparling, Sutcliffe, Ward etc. Lacking the touring team including Lloyd, sheets for seasons 1987 and 1988. the signature of the manager, Richards, Greenidge, Marshall, Croft, Forty two signatures including Phillips. Vertical and horizontal Garner, Holding, Roberts, Dujon etc. Gifford, Amiss, Donald, Kallicharran, folds, otherwise in good/ very good Rarer sheet. Folds. G/VG £40/60 Humpage, Din, Moles, Munton, condition £30/40 Small etc. Sold with letter from Alan 240 Pakistan tour of England 1962. Smith dated 1976. G £20/30 235 New Zealand tour to England 1978. Official autograph sheet nicely Official autograph sheet fully signed signed in ink by eighteen members 245 Nottinghamshire. Four official by the sixteen members of the New of the team and the Management. autograph sheets for Nottinghamshire Zealand touring party. Signatures Signatures include Burki, Hanif 1986, 1993, 1994 and 1995. Ninety include Burgess (Captain), Parker, Mohammad, Mushtaq Mohammad, signatures including Rice, Hadlee, Bracewell, Cairns, Congdon, Edgar, Mahmood, Butt, Alimuddin, Intikhab, Randall, French, Such, Broad etc. D. Hadlee, R. Hadlee, Howarth, Munir Malik etc. Folds, minor stain One sheet has been trimmed. G Wright etc. Light horizontal fold, otherwise in good condition £30/50 £20/30 otherwise in good condition 241 Pakistan tour to England 1996. LORD MARTIN HAWKE. £30/40 Official autograph sheet nicely signed YORKSHIRE & ENGLAND 236 New Zealand 1984 and 1990s. Two by all twenty members of the touring 1881-1911 official autograph sheets, one for the party. Players’ signatures include 246 Lord Martin Bladen Hawke, Yorkshire New Zealand tour to Sri Lanka 1984 , Aamir Sohail, Saleem & England 1881-1911. Large and fully signed by the sixteen members Malik, Rashid Latif, Saeed Anwar, imposing sepia portrait photogravure of the New Zealand touring party. Moin Khan, Ijaz Ahmed, Mushtaq of Lord Hawke, half length, wearing Signatures include Howarth Ahmed, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saqlain cricket attire, Yorkshire cap and blazer (Captain), Wright, Bracewell, Cairns, Mushtaq etc. Horizontal folds, and holding a cricket bat to side, Chatfield, Coney, J. Crowe, M. otherwise in very good condition from the original portrait painting by Crowe, Edgar, Hadlee, Reid etc. £40/60 Shirley Slocombe painted in 1903, in Light folds and adhesive marks to 242 England ‘A’ tours. Official autograph the possession of the Hawke family. verso, otherwise in good condition. sheets for the England ‘A’ Tour Engraved by Franz Hanfstaengl of The other, an official ‘Bank of New to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Munich and published by John. B. Zealand Series’ headed autograph Zimbabwe 1986, to Bermuda & Sampson of York on the 31st May sheet, appears to be the New West Indies 1992, to Australia 1905. One of one hundred and fifty Zealand team for the second Test v 1993, to South Africa 1993/94, proofs signed by Slocombe, with England 1991/92, fully signed by the to India & Bangladesh 1994/95, ‘Print Sellers Association Blindstamp’ fifteen players and officials. Players’ to Australia 1996, to Kenya and to corner. The wording ‘Published signatures include Crowe (Captain), Sri Lanka 1997/98 (lacking three by John Sampson, York. Copyright. Cairns, Hartland, Latham, Morrison, signatures). All sheets complete with Gravure. Hanfstaengl, Munich’ to Parore, Rutherford, Su’a, Wright etc. the exception of the one noted. top right hand corner. The portrait G/VG £30/40 Qty 7 £30/50 attractively mounted, measures 237 New Zealand 1993/94. Official 17.75”x22”, and framed in oak 243 Test, tour and County autograph autograph sheet for the New Zealand frame, overall 33.75”x40.5”. A truly sheets 1987-1989. Six official tour of Australia 1993/94. Seventeen wonderful striking image of Hawke, autograph sheets, each fully signed signatures including Rutherford, the father of Yorkshire cricket and a except where stated. Sheets are Greatbatch, Cairns, Harris, Morrison, leading force throughout the golden Nottinghamshire team for the Young, Patel etc. G £20/30 age of cricket. A very rare image NatWest Bank Trophy Final, Lord’s, £1500/2500 238 West Indies tour to England 1950. 5th September 1987, (twelve Album page nicely signed in different signatures, Nottinghamshire won The Print Sellers Association coloured inks by eleven members by three wickets). Two M.C.C. Blindstamp states the following of the West Indies touring party. team sheets for the match v information Signatures are Goddard (Captain), Nottinghamshire, Lord’s, 16th-18th

24 ‘Hawke. Lord. Portrait of. Capt of 13 centuries and 69 half-centuries. ‘the Sports Club, St James Square the Yorks C.C.C .Team. Engr by He captained Yorkshire between and odd ones from various hotels Franz Haefstangle [sic] after Shirley 1888-1910, through a glorious and county cricket grounds around Slocombe, pub J. B. Sampson May period in Yorkshire cricket, they the country. The letters mention 31 1905. 150 signed proofs and 250 were County Champions eight times cricket and the portrait throughout, India paper proofs. The former were in that period, coming runners up in as well as talking of problems of £3 guineas and the latter £1 guineas four seasons fitting sittings for the portrait around each’. Not previously ever seen by cricket matches, Hawke complains As a captain, Hawke was noted for this auctioneer either through his ‘Have got bruised hands and my taking a strong paternalistic interest sales or for sale elsewhere through whole team are crocks- dead out of in the welfare of his professional auction, collector or dealer. Having luck. Off to Bradford today’ [1903], players. Certain aspects of this checked with a couple of cricket art ‘Playing at Lord’s June 4th’ [1903], policy caused resentment but he was experts they report that they cannot ‘To see bioscope [early generic name on the whole respected for it. Even recall ever seeing a similar example for a movie camera] of Yorkshire XI so, he was strict on discipline and and suggest that few were ever sold at practice!’ [1903], ‘Personally I am expelled the England bowler Bobby on the open market, either signed or only having a poor cricket season but Peel from first-class cricket after unsigned. team is doing well. Lancs will be too he went out to play in a drunken good for us on Bank Holiday’ [July A collection of correspondence state. During his playing career, 1904], ‘Am 45 today-very old! So between Hawke and Slocombe Hawke became an influential figure glad we are on top of Australians regarding the portrait and later in cricket administration. He was [5th Test at the Oval] and if we can photogravure (see the following lot, elected Yorkshire club president only be on top of Lancashire I shall lot 247) was sold almost twenty years in 1898, while still captaining the be more pleased’ [August 1905], ago by Christopher Saunders who at team, and held the post until his ‘I am getting another Testimonial, the time stated in his description ‘A death. He had a missionary-like already £1200, goodness knows print of the portrait was advertised zeal to develop cricket overseas and how I shall spend it!’ [December in the ‘Art Year’ of 1906. It was a undertook nine tours as a player 1907], ‘Yesterday the committee photogravure, with 250 copies at one between 1887–88 and 1911–12, gave me a beautiful Coalport Dessert guinea and 150 proof copies at three leading teams to Australia, India Service- Always Spoilt!’ [undated] guineas. I have not come across this (twice), North America (twice), etc. He also discusses concerts and print, and would be most interested South Africa (twice), the West Indies the singer ‘Kitty’ [?], problems to know if it was ever produced’.... and Argentina. All five of Hawke’s with lumbago, holidays and trips further evidence giving a clear Test appearances were made in to North & South America, India indication that the photogravure is a South Africa. He captained the etc. With regard to the portrait truly rarely seen item England team four times and was and photogravure Hawke suggests always on the winning side. After he Shirley Charles Lewelyn Slocombe, choosing a title for the portrait ‘Why retired from playing, Hawke became was born at Islington in 1872. not ‘President & Captain- Yorkshire a major figure at MCC as well as Slocombe studied at the Highbury County Cricket Club’ [1903], ‘his at Yorkshire. He was appointed Institute & School of Art and at the mothers observations ‘I don’t think President of MCC for 1914 and Royal Academy Schools from 1892 she could have seen it in a good light. retained the post, which is normally until 1897 and where he won the I was there Tuesday and had it leant an annual appointment, through the Landseer Scholarship in 1894. He forward and it made all the difference First World War. He was appointed exhibited at the Institute of Painters in the world. She says you have got Honorary Treasurer of MCC from in Oil Colour and the Paris Salon and an expression I am not often see in- 1932 to 1937. was elected an Associate Member of and on the whole it is good’ [1903], the Royal College of Art in 1901. 247 Lord Martin Bladen Hawke, Yorkshire ‘Picture is to be presented on April He died at Kensington, London in & England 1881-1911. An important 30th - any chance of you being in 1935, aged 63. Slocombe attended and comprehensive archive of Yorkshire- if so come to the Dinner, Hawke’s wedding to Marjory Nelson correspondence consisting of thirty six Queens Hotel, Leeds. Jackson [F.S.] Ritchie Edwards in 1916 and was letters, spanning the period February and I are entertaining the Committee also commissioned to paint a similar 1903 to May 1917, the majority on this occasion [1904], ‘Have you portrait of Lady Hawke, Maud his handwritten by Lord Hawke, who the bat I bought to put handle in the wife, in 1917. was Captain of Yorkshire for many picture-It belongs to Bishton[?] here, years, to artist Shirley Slocombe, I don’t remember it being returned Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron a man, who was commissioned in to Wighill with flannels’, ‘Should like Hawke, generally known as Lord 1903 to paint Hawke’s portrait. The my old friend Alcock [C.W.] to see Hawke, was an English amateur various letters are handwritten by my picture’ [March 1904], ‘Re my cricketer from 1881 to 1911 who Hawke in ink and all boldly signed picture and engraving, Mr R[ussell] played for Yorkshire and England. He ‘Hawke’. The majority are on Wighill says he does’nt want to make money appeared in 633 first class matches, Park, Tadcaster’ headed paper, some out of it and I am sure I don’t- would including five Test matches, scoring are from his London address in it not be best for you, yourself to 16,749 runs with a highest score of Jermyn Street, some from his club come to terms with Sampson of 166 and held 209 catches. He scored

24 25 York, or some Leeds firm?. Mr R says was elected an Associate Member of with stands and pavilion and free Sampson would gladly take it on’ the Royal College of Art in 1901. standing players, stumps, bats etc [August 1904], ‘I was in Sampsons He died at Kensington, London in (Hobbs batting). The display made for a few this last week. He tells me 1935, aged 63. Slocombe attended from refrigerated butter. Postcard he is going to engrave the picture and Hawke’s wedding to Marjory Nelson by Wildt & Kray of London. Sold that he has taken out the copyright Ritchie Edwards in 1916 and was with a mono ‘Force’ bat advertising on whatever it may be called in W. also commissioned to paint a similar postcard of Hobbs in batting pose, Russell’s name’ [September 1904], portrait of Lady Hawke, Maud his and two further mono postcards circa 1917, Hawke mentions ‘present wife, in 1917. featuring Hobbs. Qty 7. G/VG of a crayon portrait of my fiancee, £50/70 The original oil on canvas portrait I should love it and of course will is in the possession of the Hawke 250 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. encourage sittings’ [undated], ‘My family, a rare limited edition Surrey & England 1905-1934. fiancee is very pleased with your photogravure was engraved by Mono advertising postcard for picture of her’ [April 16?] etc. Hawke Franz Hanfstaengl of Munich and Waterman’s pens depicting Hobbs vowed never to marry while his published by John. B. Sampson of signing autographs, signed in ink mother was alive, he married Maud York in 1905, one hundred and fifty by Hobbs. Sold with three mono when he was 56 years of age. There is proofs signed by Slocombe. In 1961, real photograph postcards of also a letter handwritten by Hawke’s a copy was commissioned by Lord’s Hobbs, one a studio portrait of fiancee and eventual wife, Maud, and was painted by Herbert Holt. Hobbs in England cap and blazer Lady Hawke. ‘I could come to you for (publisher unknown), Hobbs the picture [May 21st], a letter from Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron walking out to bat (Beagles series ‘Fitzwilliam’ of Rotherham, dated Hawke, generally known as Lord no. 357.D.), and a ‘Force’ Bat 28th February 1914 to Slocombe Hawke, was an English amateur Series advertising postcard (photo and two letters handwritten by cricketer from 1881 to 1911 who by C. Debenham). Also three mono Shirley Slocombe, one to Hawke played for Yorkshire and England. He postcards including two head and [August 11th 1904] and one to Mr appeared in 633 first class matches, shoulders portraits, one of Hobbs Watt [August 18th 1904] regarding including five Test matches, scoring announcing writing for ‘The Star’ a commission for a portrait, Hawke 16,749 runs with a highest score of newspaper, and another of ‘An having recommended Slocombe to 166 and held 209 catches. He scored Oval Record’ depicting Hobbs and him. In the Hawke letter she talks of 13 centuries and 69 half-centuries. Andrew Sandham standing in front ‘Will seriously consider the matter of He captained Yorkshire between of the scoreboard, Hobbs having engraving your portrait- whatever is 1888-1910, through a glorious scored 232 and Sandham 183 in done you shall know!’. A wonderful period in Yorkshire cricket, they a record opening of collection of letters from Hawke were County Champions eight times 428 for Surrey v Oxford University giving excellent provenance related in that period, coming runners up in at The Oval in 1926, with printed to the original portrait (1903), the four seasons signatures. Odd minor faults, photogravure (1905) and his wife’s CRICKET POSTCARDS, TRADE & otherwise in good/ very good portrait in 1917. The collection of CIGARETTE CARDS condition. Qty 7 £40/60 letters were previously sold nearly twenty years ago by Christopher 248 Arthur Staples. Nottinghamshire 251 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & Saunders, who at the time stated 1924-1938. Sepia real photograph England 1905-1934. Three mono in his description of the portrait ‘A postcard of Staples, seated real photograph postcards of Hobbs, print of the portrait was advertised three quarter length, wearing one plain back. Two depict Hobbs in in the ‘Art Year’ of 1906. It was a Nottinghamshire cap and blazer. batting pose, the other full length in photogravure, with 250 copies at one Nicely signed in black ink by Staples. cricket attire. Each postcard is nicely guinea and 150 proof copies at three C.H. Richards, Nottingham. VG signed in ink to the photograph guineas. I have not come across this £50/70 by Hobbs, and, unusually, with print, and would be most interested dedication/ message in Hobbs’ own 249 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & to know if it was ever produced’.... hand to verso, dated 1929, 1930 and England 1905-1934. Four mono further evidence giving a clear 1935. Publishers unknown. Adhesive real photograph postcards of Hobbs indication that the photogravure is mark to verso of one postcard, including two standing full length a rarely seen item. Good condition otherwise in very good condition at the wicket wearing batting attire, though out £2000/3000 £70/100 one nicely signed in ink by Hobbs, Shirley Charles Lewelyn Slocombe, Hobbs at his typewriter with his 252 Learie Nicholas Constantine. Trinidad, was born at Islington in 1872. name annotated in green ink to the & West Indies 1921-1939. Slocombe studied at the Highbury photograph (publishers unknown), Mono real photograph postcard of Institute & School of Art and at the and ‘Jack Hobbs in Butter, in the Constantine, head and shoulders in Royal Academy Schools from 1892 Australian Pavilion. The British cameo, wearing West Indies blazer. until 1897 and where he won the Empire Exhibition, Wembley’ 1924. Nicely signed in ink by Constantine to Landseer Scholarship in 1894. He The card shows the ‘Australian the photograph. Stamp for A. Wilkes exhibited at the Institute of Painters Butter’ promotional stand at the & Son, West Bromwich to verso with in Oil Colour and the Paris Salon and Exhibition with a Test match scene annotation stating the autograph

26 was obtained 26th July 1939. Minor T. Bolland photographer. Signed by Alexander Hurwood, Thomas Wall, wear, otherwise in good/ very good all sixteen members of the touring Percy Hornibrook, Bert Oldfield, condition £60/90 party including the Manager, Smith. Ted a’Beckett and Charles Walker. Signatures nicely signed in ink Each postcard has a printed number 253 M.C.C. tour of South Africa include Armstrong, Collins, Taylor, 1-15 to the lower right hand corner 1956/57. Rarer sepia postcard of the McDonald, Pellew, Mailey, Gregory, of the postcard, Bradman to the left. Union-Castle Line R.M.S. Mayne, Ryder, Andrews, Bardsley, The postcards produced by B.D.V. Castle which took the team to South Oldfield etc. The postcard was sent cigarettes of Godfrey Phillips of Africa. Very nicely signed in ink to to a Mr Bailey by E.R. Mayne in London, as part of their advertising card face by nineteen members of 1954. Handwritten note to reverse campaign for the 1930 Australian the touring party including May, in ink, ‘Am enclosing autograph, also tourists. A rare opportunity to Compton, Laker, Wardle, Statham, the autographed picture of the 1921 purchase a full set of these signed Brown, Evans, Cowdrey etc. Minor Australian XI which I thought you postcards which includes the rarer age toning, otherwise in very good would like to have. Yours truly E.R. signed postcard of condition £100/150 Mayne’. G £400/600 who died of tuberculosis in 1933 at 254 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1958/59. the age of 23, this was to be Archie 258 ‘Team that Won The Ashes 1927 Mono postcard of the P&O ship Jackson’s only tour to England. The [sic]’. Mono postcard of the Iberia which took the team to Archie Jackson postcard postally Union-Castle Line R.M.X. ‘Edinburgh Australia. Signed to card face by used, otherwise in very good Castle’, nicely signed to the verso in eighteen members of the touring condition £1500/2500 ink by the eleven members of the party including May, Trueman, England team for the fifth and final This was Bradman’s first tour of Watson, Laker, Tyson, Cowdrey, Test played at The Oval, 14th-18th England and a record breaking one. Brown, Statham etc. Some fading August 1926 to win the Ashes. He scored 974 runs at an average to odd signature otherwise in good/ Signatures are Rhodes, Larwood, of 139.14 during the Test series, very good condition £50/80 Woolley, Hobbs, Strudwick, with four centuries, including 255 Sussex C.C.C. Five mono real Hendren, Tate, Stevens, Chapman, two double hundreds and a triple photograph portrait postcards Sutcliffe and Geary. G/VG £70/100 . Bradman’s first-class tour of Sussex players. Subjects are total was 2,960 runs, at an average England won by 289 Tich Cornford, (two of 98.66 with 10 centuries, was runs to clinch the series 1-0, the first different), K.S. Duleepsinhji and another enduring record, the most four matches having been drawn A.E.R. Gilligan. One Tate postcard by any overseas batsman on a tour and the Cornford signed in ink to 259 Yorkshire C.C.C. Three mono real of England the photograph. Publishers are photograph postcards including 261 Middlesex C.C.C. 1952. Mono real Deane, Wiles & Millar and Nias, both Len Hutton in batting pose at the photograph plain back postcard of of Brighton, one other unknown. crease, signed by Hutton. Walkers Jack Robertson and Alex Thompson Pinholes to the signed Tate postcard, Studios, Scarborough. Herbert walking out to bat for Middlesex in Adhesive marks to the verso of Sutcliffe wearing M.C.C. touring the match v Sussex at Hove, 2nd-5th the Cornford, otherwise in good blazer, signed by Sutcliffe, publisher August 1952. Nicely signed in blue condition £40/60 unknown. An unsigned postcard ink to the photograph by both of Hutton walking out to bat, with 256 Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England players. VG £30/50 printed details of his record score of 1919-1945. Five mono and sepia 364 to the photograph. Walter Scott, Sussex won a low scoring match real photograph postcards including Bradford. Sold with two mono real by fifteen runs. Robertson was top two different plain back postcards of photograph postcards of Yorkshire scorer, making 61 in Middlesex’s Sutcliffe, one in batting pose at the teams for 1933 and 1934. Qty 5. G/ second innings crease, the other three quarter length VG £30/50 wearing M.C.C. touring blazer, the 262 South Africa tour to England 1955. latter trimmed. Both nicely signed in 260 Australian tour of England 1930. Mono real photograph plain back ink to the photographs by Sutcliffe. Excellent complete set of fifteen postcard of Jackie McGlew and Publishers unknown. Sold with two sepia real photograph plain back Hayfield walking out to bat for the postcards of Maurice Leyland, one postcards of each member of the South Africans in the tour match full length wearing Yorkshire blazer, Australian touring party. Each player v Sussex at Hove, 18th-21st June the other walking out to bat at featured on the postcards has been 1955. Signed in blue ink to the Sheffield in 1933, and a postcard of taken head and shoulders, wearing photograph by both players. VG the 1923 Yorkshire team. Adhesive Australian sweater, nine wearing £30/50 mark to the verso of one Sutcliffe Australian caps. Each card has been South Africans won by nine wickets postcard, otherwise in very good very nicely signed by the player condition £40/60 featured in ink. The players are Bill 263 William John Abel. Surrey Woodfull (Captain), , 1909-1926. Sepia real photograph 257 Australian tour of England 1921. Don Bradman, , Archie postcard of Abel taking guard at the Mono postcard of the Australian Jackson, , , wicket. Signed in black ink, ‘Yours team 1921 with caption and players Stan McCabe, , sincerely W.J. Abel’. Foster Series. names printed to lower border.

26 27 The postcard laid down to card. of Oldfield standing at the wicket 276 Leicestershire C.C.C. 1950. Excellent Some wear and loss to top corner of in wicketkeeping attire. Signed and mono real photograph plain back image, otherwise in good condition inscribed in ink ‘Best wishes from postcard of the team seated and £30/50 Bert Oldfield’ with printed facsimile standing in rows wearing cricket signature below. The postcard attire. Stamp to back. A. Wilkes & 264 Godfrey Evans. ‘Brylcreem’. Mono appears to have been trimmed and Son, West Bromwich. VG £25/35 real photograph postcard of Evans measures 3.5”x5”. Some age toning in wicket keeping pose, wearing 277 Scarborough Cricket Festival. and slight adhesive marks to verso, England sweater. Signed and Gentlemen v Players 1952 and otherwise in good condition £25/35 inscribed ‘To Peter’ by Evans. G 1953. Original mono plain back £20/30 271 Elias Henry ‘Patsy’ Hendren. photographs of the two teams for Middlesex & England 1907-1937. each year. Gentlemen include Insole, 265 . Middlesex & Original mono postcard size head Brennan, Robins, Palmer, Cowdrey, England. Sepia ‘Waterman’s Pens’ and shoulders portrait of Hendren in May, Simpson, Sutcliffe, etc. Players advertising postcard of Hendren cameo. Nicely signed in black ink to include Evans, Tompkin, Hutton, signing a cricket bat. Nicely signed the photograph by Hendren. Possibly Shepherd, Fletcher, Tattersall, by Hendren. Mounted, framed and by Wilkes. Approx. 3”x4.25” in Graveney etc. Walkers Studio stamp glazed. G £30/40 modern mount, overall 7”x9.5”. VG to reverse of both. Each approx 266 Garry Sobers. Barbados £40/60 5”x3”. Unevenly trimmed, otherwise Independence postcard 1966, first G/VG. Qty 4 £25/35 272 Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & day of issue, signed to face by England 1919-1945. Phillips 278 Australia v England 1990/91. Garry Sobers. Mounted, framed and ‘Pinnace’ premium issue cabinet size Thirteen copies of a colour postcard glazed, overall 8.5”x10.5”. VG mono real photograph trade card of by Ray Perkins, published by J/V £25/35 a youthful Sutcliffe, full length, in Postcards for the tour. Each card 267 William A. ‘Bill’ Brown, New South batting pose. Nicely signed in ink by signed in ink by a former Australian Wales & Australia 1932-1950. Sutcliffe. No.51c. 4”x6”. Odd minor Test player. Signatures are Arthur Mono real photograph postcard faults to one corner otherwise in very Morris, , , Bill of Brown full length on the field. good condition £60/90 O’Reilly, Neil Harvey, Keith Miller, Ian Very nicely signed in ink by Brown. Craig, Lindsay Hassett, Gil Langley, 273 Maurice William Tate. Sussex & Series unknown. Odd minor faults Doug Ring, Alan Davidson, Ian Davis England 1912-1937. M.C.C. tour otherwise in good condition £50/70 and Rodney Marsh. The majority to Australia 1928/29. A rare original signed to the front. G/VG £30/50 268 W.H.V. ‘Hopper’ Levett. Kent & sepia real photograph postcard of England 1930-1947. Signed mono the scoreboard at the end of the first 279 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1932 and plainback postcard of Levett, full Test at , 20th November- 1934. Two sepia real photograph length, wearing Kent cap and in 5th December 1928. The scoreboard postcards of the Nottinghamshire wicket keeping pose. Flemons of shows Australia having been bowled team seated and standing in rows, Tonbridge. Signature appears to have out for only 66 in their second innings wearing cricket attire, caps and been signed in later years. Good to give England victory by 675 runs. blazers. Both are C.H. Richards series. condition £30/40 The photograph was taken by Tate VG £50/70 with an inscription in ink to verso in 269 William Albert Stanley Oldfield. New 280 West Indies 1928. Mono advertising Tate’s own hand, ‘The scoring board South Wales & Australia 1919-1938. postcard for Jaeger shirts and at Brisbane taken 5 mins after we Excellent plain back sepia real sweaters featuring the West Indies beat them well’. VG £50/70 photograph postcard of Oldfield, team in England. Small loss to two head and shoulders, wearing 274 . India. Colour corners. Sold with mono plain back Australian touring sweater. The postcard of Bedi depicted head and postcard of the West Indies team postcard nicely signed by Oldfield in shoulders wearing cricket attire. of 1957 with title and players listed ink. This is card number 13 from a Signed in ink to the front by Bedi below. Larger than normal postcard series of fifteen cards produced for with dedication, plus facsimile size. 6”x4”. Sold with a homemade? the Australian 1930 tour of England signature. Published by ‘Elar’, L.R. flicker book of Alf Valentine bowling by B.D.V. cigarettes (Godfrey Phillips Reading Company of Bombay. Light in the nets and a ticket for England v of London), number printed to lower spotting to verso, otherwise in good/ West Indies, Lords 1988. VG £15/25 right hand corner of card. Minor very good condition £30/40 281 Surrey C.C.C. 1950s. Seven original adhesive mark to verso otherwise in 275 Keith Andrew. Northamptonshire sepia real photograph player portrait very good condition £70/100 & England 1953-1966. Mono real postcards published by F.C. Dick, Oldfield took 23 catches and 11 photograph plain back postcard Oval Bookstall. Players are Tony stumpings as wicketkeeper on the of Andrew, head and shoulders in Lock (signed in ink by Lock to the 1930 tour cricket attire. Photograph by A. photograph), , Peter Loader, Wilkes & Son of West Bromwich. Roy Swetman, Ken Barrington, 270 William Albert Oldfield, New South Dated 3rd June 1954. Press masking E.R.T. Holmes and . Sold Wales & Australia 1919-1938. to photograph, otherwise good with eight original mono candid Mono printed plain back postcard condition £10/20 photographs of scenes of a match

28 in progress at The Oval, probably postcards of England Test teams. 292 Frank Edward Woolley. Kent & 1950s. Match unknown. Each 3.5” ‘England’s Test Team’ for the second England 1906-1938. Rarer mono square. VG £40/60 Test v Australia, Lord’s 1926, C.E. real photograph postcard of a Smith, Bookstall, Oval. 1928/29 very youthful Woolley depicted 282 Don Bradman. Five modern colour touring party to Australia, published half length wearing Kent blazer. B. postcards of the Adelaide Oval by Hartleys Sports Stores, Melbourne. & W. Fisk-Moore of Canterbury. (including three duplicates), each ‘First Test Team’ for the 1930 Ashes Light creasing and minor wear to boldly signed by Bradman. Also series, publisher unknown. G/VG extremities, otherwise in good/ very a ‘Weet-Bix Sir Donald Bradman £40/60 good condition £30/40 Greatest Hits’ trade card signed by Bradman. Qty 6. VG £30/50 288 The Ashes 1926-1934. ‘The Test 293 Kent C.C.C. 1930s. Seven player Match. England v Australia. June portrait real photograph postcards 283 Australia v England, 1904. Rare 8th, 9th, 11th & 12th 1934. Trent of Kent players. Subjects are Les original colour printed postcard of Bridge, Nottingham’. Rarer mono Ames (three different, one plain back the with real photograph postcard of a cricket with dedication in ink ‘from Les to a match in play. Printed title to lower bat signed by the England and Ivy’), Arthur Fagg, Wally Hardinge, border ‘Melbourne Cricket Ground - Australia teams for the Trent Bridge Frank Woolley (all B.C. Flemons An English Eleven at Play 1904’. E.P. Test match. Published by Barnes & of Tonbridge) and Series. Minor ageing, otherwise in Humby, Nottingham. Sold with a (Fisk-Moore of Canterbury). Sold good condition. Also a mono plain mono real photograph postcard of with a mono real photograph back postcard depicting a huge crowd ‘England’s Test Team’ for the second postcard of the scoreboard for the for the first Test, Australia v England, Test v Australia, Lord’s 1926, C.E. Essex v Kent match at Brentwood, Sydney, 13th-16th December 1901. Smith, Bookstall, Oval, and a postcard 31st May 1934, the scoreboard The scoreboard in the background with colour printed signatures of the showing Kent’s record total of showing Lilley and Braund batting 1928/29 touring party to Australia 803-4 declared. Standing in front for England who won by an innings published by Dominion Broadcasting are Kent batsmen Ashdown (332), and 124 runs. Sold with two further Pty. Ltd. Some wear and creasing to Ames (202no) and Woolley (172). mono postcards, Australia v England the 1928/29 postcard, the others in Publisher unknown. Qty 8. VG at Sydney, 1903/04 depicting ‘A good/ very good condition. Qty 3 £50/70 Record Crowd’, Graphic Series No. £40/60 2, and ‘Warner’s XI. Photo taken on In the 1934 match against Essex, Adelaide Ground 1904’. Qty 4. Some 289 Patiala’s team of Australian Cricketers Kent won by an innings and 192 wear, overall in good condition 1935/36. Mono postcard of the runs. In addition to Kent’s batting £50/80 team with title to lower border ‘H.H. achievements, Pope scored 100 and The Maharajadhiraj of Patiala’s team O’Connor 105 in Essex’s first innings. 284 Advertising postcards 1928-1935. of Australian Cricketers 1935/36’. Freeman took eleven wickets for Mono real photograph postcard of Publisher unknown. G £40/60 Kent in the match the South African touring party to England 1929 for Index Shirts. Also The 1935/36 Australian tour of India 294 Alfred Percy ‘Tich’ Freeman. Kent two mono advertising postcards was privately organised and funded & England 1914-1936. Five mono of the 1935 South African tourists by the Maharaja of Patiala, on which real photograph portrait postcards (Jaeger) and the 1928 West Indies four unofficial ‘Test’ matches were of Freeman in various poses, all touring party to England (Jaeger). played published by B.C. Flemons of Qty 3. G/VG £40/60 Tonbridge, one by Fisk-Moore 290 Scenes of The Oval c1950s. Two of Canterbury. Sold with a mono 285 Australia tours to England 1921-1938. mono real photograph postcards real photograph postcard of Percy Five mono advertising postcards of of The Oval cricket ground, one of Chapman, Freeman and Frank Australian touring parties to England the Hobbs’ Gates, signed by Hobbs, Woolley in standing together in 1921 (Jaeger), 1926 (Jaeger), publisher unknown, the other of a wearing England blazers and cricket 1926 (Viyella) and 1934 (Gripu match in progress with the pavilion in attire, white box to lower border Trousers), 1938 (Aquatite Raincoats). the background, published by Frith’s. with facsimile signatures of the three. Some wear, creasing and odd nick, Sold with two earlier mono postcards Publisher unknown. Also a Flemons overall in good condition £50/70 of match action at The Oval (one mono real photograph postcard ‘Star’ series). Qty 4. Odd minor 286 Warwick Windridge Armstrong. of the Kent team standing in the faults, otherwise in good condition & Australia 1898-1922. outfield, postmarked Canterbury £30/50 Rarely seen mono advertising 1933. Qty 7. G/VG £40/60 postcard for Jaeger, of Armstrong 291 Old Trafford 1934. England 295 Kent C.C.C. 1930s. Three mono standing full length wearing cricket v Australia. Rarer mono real real photograph postcards of Frank attire and blazer. Photograph by photograph postcard of the Old Woolley (two different) and Doug Bolland. Light creasing, otherwise in Trafford pavilion with large crowds Wright depicted in different poses. good condition £40/60 in attendance. Publisher unknown. Also a mono real photograph Typed caption to verso reads, ‘Old 287 England Test teams 1926-1930. postcard of the Kent team seated Trafford Manchester. Third Test Three mono real photograph and standing in rows wearing cricket Match. 1934’. VG £30/50

28 29 attire, date annotated to verso for otherwise in good condition £30/50 Handwritten message to verso with 1931. All B.C. Flemons of Tonbridge. cricket content, send from India to The original larger photograph with Sold with three different modern an address in Michigan, U.S.A. ‘A.P’ ink signatures of the team, was mono postcards featuring Les Picture Post Card No. 11, Bombay. presented to the Royal Free Hospital Ames, two ‘Kent Cricket Series’, the Light creasing, otherwise in good by the Hotel Cecil Ltd, it was other published by The Canterbury condition £30/40 produced on postcards produced by Printers. Qty 7. Pin holes to one Raphael Tuck and sold, the proceeds 305 Australian Test teams and players Woolley postcard, otherwise in good of the postcard sales going to the 1905-1950s. Two real photograph condition £30/40 funds of the hospital sepia postcards of Australian Test 296 Surrey C.C.C. 1946-1957. Four teams for 1905 (Rotary 3824 B) and 300 . Leicestershire & mono real photograph postcards of 1921 (Philip G. Hunt), and a mono England 1912-1938. “Christmas Surrey teams seated and standing Jaeger advertising postcard of the Greetings”. M.C.C. Tour South Africa in rows wearing cricket attire at 1921 team. Also three mono real 1927-28’. Sepia real photograph The Oval. Teams are 1946, 1947, photograph postcards of Australian postcard of the M.C.C. touring party 1950 and 1957. All F.C. Dick, Oval Test players including head and seated and standing in rows wearing Bookstall. Sold with two mono real shoulders images of Don Bradman tour blazers. Hand written message photograph advertising postcards with printed individual records to verso in the hand of George featuring studio portraits of J.W. (Barton Pictorial, London), Charlie Geary, ‘Wishing you a Merry Xmas Hitch (‘Force Waterproof Ball’) and Macartney (Empire Publishing and a happy new year. Very hot here, H. Strudwick (‘Force Gauntlet’), Co.), and a candid style plain back too hot for cricket 102 in shade. both with printed signatures to postcard of Keith Miller, publisher Send some snow. Yours sincerely, G. lower border. Also a mono head and unknown. Qty 6. G/VG £30/50 Geary’. Publisher unknown. Some shoulders real photograph postcard age toning to verso, the photograph 306 Lancashire C.C.C. Two rarer mono of E.R.T. Holmes, publisher unknown. in good condition £30/50 real photograph postcards of Qty 7. VG £40/60 , one standing 301 George Ernest Tyldesley. Lancashire 297 ‘Northamptonshire v Australians full length in wicketkeeping attire & England 1909-1936. “Christmas at Northampton, August 17-19th at Scarborough by Walkers Studios, Greetings”. M.C.C. Tour South 1905’. Mono postcard featuring both Scarborough, the other a head and Africa 1927-28’. Sepia real teams who played in the tour match, shoulders portrait by A. Wilkes & photograph postcard of the M.C.C. with printed title and players names Sons, West Bromwich. Sold with a touring party seated and standing to lower border. Postally unused mono postcard of Ernest Tyldesley in rows wearing tour blazers. Hand and dated ‘August 1905’. Publisher in batting pose, Liverpool Courier, written message to verso in the hand unknown. Stamp for ‘Northampton and a small press photograph of a of Ernest Tyldesley, ‘All best wishes Public Library. Local Collection’ to head and shoulders photograph of for Xmas & New Year to all. Just verso. Rare. G/VG £50/70 Eddie Paynter wearing a Lancashire arrived Pietermaritzburg’. Publisher cap, Daily Herald, Manchester. The Australians beat unknown. Some creasing and wear, Adhesive mark to verso of the Wilkes Northamptonshire by an innings and otherwise in good condition £30/50 photograph, otherwise in good/ very 329 runs 302 Walter Reginald Hammond. good condition. Qty 4 £60/90 298 ‘Australian Eleven 1905’. Rare sepia Gloucestershire & England 307 Elias Henry ‘Patsy’ Hendren. postcard of the Australian team who 1920-1951. Sepia advertising Middlesex & England 1907-1937. toured England in 1905, each in postcard depicting Hammond in Three postcards of Hendren cameo portrait, head and shoulders, batting action. Printed caption to including a ‘Force Bat’ advertising with title and players names printed verso, ‘Walter Hammond says- “I real photograph portrait postcard, a below each cameo. Gordon & Gotch use and recommend Wakefield Oilit mono real photograph postcard of (Australia). Postally used, with New cricket bat oil”‘. Light creasing to Hendren in attacking batting pose, South Wales postmark to verso. corners, otherwise in good condition and a mono postcard of Hendren in Wear to one corner, otherwise in £25/35 batting pose, publishers unknown. good condition £25/35 303 John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey All three with printed signature of 299 ‘The Victorious 1921 Australian & England 1905-1934. Sepia real Hendren. Sold with a sepia real team’. Sepia printed postcard of the photograph postcard of Hobbs in photograph of J.W. Hearne of Australian team who toured England the nets, full length, demonstrating Middlesex wearing cricket attire in 1921, seated and standing in the ‘Leg Glance’. One of a set of leaning on his bat (faded, publisher rows, wearing suits and ties and all five postcards published by Brighton unknown), and J.W.H.T. Douglas of wearing trilby hats, in the courtyard Camera Exchange probably c1930. Essex in the nets, C. Agar, Leyton. of the Hotel Cecil, London on 30th Scarce. G/VG £40/60 Qty 5. G £25/35 September 1921. Printed facsimile 304 , Bombay 1951. 308 Nottinghamshire C.C.C. Five mono signatures of the players to borders. Mono postcard of the Brabourne and sepia real photograph postcards Postcard produced by Raphael Tuck Stadium with the India v M.C.C. Test including three player portraits. & Sons Ltd, London. Postally unused. match in progress, December 1951. Subjects are Harold Larwood, Bill A rarer postcard. Some ageing,

30 Voce (both by C.H. Richards of corners, otherwise in good condition matches. Hutton made 364, Leyland Nottingham) and Joe Hardstaff £30/40 187 and Hardstaff 169no. Bradman (B&H Ltd). Also a postcard of ‘Notts and Fingleton did not bat in either of 312 Australia tour to England 1938. County Cricket XI. The Champion the Australian innings due to injury. Mono real photograph postcard County 1929’ featuring cameos of The series was drawn, Australia of the Australian team standing the players superimposed on an aerial retained The Ashes. in one row wearing cricket attire view of the Trent Bridge ground, and at Scarborough in 1938. Walkers 316 England v Australia, 1926. Two a plain back postcard of the 1953 Studios, Scarborough. Adhesive sepia real photograph postcards team. Publishers unknown. VG marks to verso otherwise in very each featuring cameos of thirteen £50/70 good condition £40/60 England players. One for the first 309 Australian tour to England 1926. Test at Trent Bridge 12th-15th June 313 Australia tour to England 1948. Mono Rarer mono real photograph 1926, the other for the third Test at real photograph plain back postcard postcard of the Australian team Leeds, 10th-13th July 1926. Players of the Australian team standing seated and standing in rows wearing featured include Carr (Captain), Root, informally in one row wearing cricket attire. The photograph taken Hobbs, Parker, Sutcliffe, Hendren, cricket attire at Scarborough in 1948. at Folkestone, by Hawksworth Macauley, Strudwick, Larwood etc. Walkers Studios, Scarborough. VG Wheeler, for the tour match v an Both postcards by J. Webb, Douglas £40/60 England XI, 1st-3rd September 1926. Studio, Nottingham. G/VG £50/70 Players’ names and match details 314 New Zealand tour to England 1949. 317 England 1926-1928/29. Three annotated to verso. Adhesive mark Mono real photograph plain back rarer postcards including a mono to verso, otherwise in very good postcard of the New Zealand team real photograph postcard featuring condition £40/60 standing in one row wearing cricket vignettes of thirteen England players attire at Scarborough for the match v The match was drawn with Larwood for the first Test at Leeds, 12th-15th H.D.G. Leveson-Gower’s XI, 7th-9th taking 7-95 in the Australians’ only June 1926. Players featured include September 1949. Sold with a similar innings Carr (Captain), Root, Hobbs, plain back postcard of the England XI Sutcliffe, Hendren, Kilner, Woolley, 310 M.C.C. tour to India 1926/27. Rare for the match v Rest of the World, Holmes, Chapman etc. Postcard by J. mono real photograph postcard of Scarborough, 8th-10th September Webb, Douglas Studio, Nottingham. thirteen members of the M.C.C. 1965. Stamp for Walkers Studios to Sold with a mono real photograph touring party seated and standing verso. Qty 2. VG £30/50 postcard of the England team for the in rows wearing cricket attire and 315 ‘Biggest Test Victory on Record’. Oval Test v West Indies 1928, Lord’s blazers in front of a pavilion during ‘Hutton’s match’. England v Australia and Oval Bookstall, and a sepia real the tour. Publisher and location 1938. Original mono postcard photograph postcard of the M.C.C. unknown. Sold with a colour showing ‘The Selfridge score board touring party to Australia 1928/29, photograph of John Henry ‘Jack’ at the end of the last Test match Gunn & Moore, Nottingham. Parsons (Warwickshire 1910-1934) between England and Australia at the Horizontal crease to the 1926 in later years as a priest. Parsons was Oval. August 19th, 1938- showing postcard, ink stains and foxing to the a member of the tour and is featured the amazing ’ [date printed 1928/29 postcard, otherwise in good in the team photograph. 3.5”x4.75”. incorrectly] in which Hutton made condition. Qty 3 £50/70 Qty 2. G/VG £40/60 the then record individual score of 318 Walter Hammond. Gloucestershire & On the 1926/27 tour to India, 364no, in England’s record score England, 1920-1935. Rare mono real the first under the auspices of the of 903-7 dec. England won by an photograph postcard of Hammond M.C.C. and only the second time innings and 579 runs. The scoreboard being presented with a silver tea and an English team had toured India shows the full match details. The coffee service by ‘3LO Melbourne’, since 1902/03, the M.C.C. were scoreboard was sponsored by Broadcasting Company of Australia undefeated in 34 matches. The Selfridge & Co Ltd, and the card on 15th March 1929, to mark tour was gruelling and to fit in the issued with the ‘Compliments of his double centuries in successive matches and the travelling, many Selfridge & Co Ltd’. A rarely seen innings and as a wedding present. of the games were reduced to two postcard. Sold with ‘A Souvenir Printed signature of Hammond to days and thus had little prospect of from Selfridge’s’ mono postcard of face of card. Postally unused. Small definite finishes a bat signed by the 1938 Australian adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in touring party for ‘Mr. Selfridge’, the 311 Old Trafford, Manchester c.1938. very good condition. Rare £30/40 postcard with a printed description Sepia real photograph plain back of the tourists’ visit, in which they 319 ‘Who Said Ashes? Test Match postcard depicting a match in are described as ‘Clean limbed, clear England v Australia’ 1926. Colour progress with the Old Trafford eyed young men’. Odd minor faults postcard featuring a cartoon by F.G. pavilion in the background and the otherwise in good condition. Qty 2 Lewin of a kangaroo attempting then newly constructed Kellogg’s £40/60 to run out a lion. Published by J. factory behind. A large crowd is in Salmon, Sevenoaks. VG £25/35 attendance. Incorrectly captioned in England’s victory by an innings and pencil to verso as Lord’s. Some fading 579 runs remains a record victory 320 South Africa tour to Australia to the image, minor creasing to by an innings to this day in Test 1952/53. Rarer mono advertising

30 31 postcard of the South African touring of the pavilion, aerial view of the ink to right margin. Sold with two party with ‘W. Schulz “Penrose”, 2 ground, two different views of match mono real photograph postcards of Penrose St., Kimberley, South Africa’ action from the second Test, England the Leicestershire and Surrey teams, printed to top right hand corner. v West Indies 1957, a view of the both Dainty Series c.1902, the Printed fixtures in Afrikaans to verso. external wall in St. John’s Wood Road photographs by Foster of Brighton. Published by Springbok Cigarettes, etc. Publishers include A.E. Walsham, Both postally used, one postmarked South Africa. Sold with a mono London, J. Arthur Dixon, Aerofilms 6th January 1903. Qty 3. VG real photograph postcard of the Ltd, H. Reid etc. Qty 8. G/VG £40/60 1929 South African touring party to £30/50 330 Individual cricketer postcards England. J. Smith Bookstall, London. 325 Lord’s Cricket Ground early 1900s early 1900s. Eighteen mono real Odd minor faults, otherwise in good onwards. A good selection of twenty photograph postcards of individual condition. Qty 2 £30/40 one mono and colour postcards cricketers. Players featured are E.H. 321 Australia tours to England 1912-1961. featuring Lord’s. Subjects include Killick, J. Vine, K.S. Ranjitsinhji, A.E. Five team postcards of Australian match action, the pavilion, Old Father Relf, F.W. Tate (Sussex), R. Abel touring parties including three mono Time, aerial views, large crowds in (Surrey), Lord Hawke, G.H. Hirst real photograph postcards of the attendance, Long Room etc. One (Yorkshire), A.E. Trott (Middlesex), 1930, 1948 and 1961 (larger format) postcard signed by Allan Border. C. Blythe (Kent) (all Wrench Series), teams, also two mono postcards of Publishers include M.C.C., Bridge A.E. Trott (Middlesex), H.K. Foster the 1912 and 1948 teams. Publishers House, Star, Kingsway, Lansdowne, (Worcestershire), P.F. Warner unknown. Also two mono real Aerofilms, etc. Odd duplication. G/ (Middlesex) (Rotophot), G.H. photograph postcards of Australia VG £30/50 Hirst (Yorkshire), B.J.T. Bosanquet players in batting poses, one of (Middlesex), H. Strudwick (Surrey), 326 William Eric ‘Bill’ Bowes. Yorkshire Arthur Chipperfield by Raphael Tuck, (John Walker & Co.), G.L. Jessop & England 1927-1947. Sepia real the other a plain back postcard of (Gloucestershire), and W.H. photograph plain back postcard of Ted a’Beckett, signed by a’Beckett in Lockwood (Surrey) (Hartmann). a youthful Bowes in cameo, c1930. later years, publisher unknown. Qty Sold with a sepia real photograph Albert Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich 7. Some faults to the 1912 postcard, postcard of the boxer, Jack Johnson, stamp to verso. VG £25/35 the others in good condition £50/70 ‘Health & Strength Series’ no. 104. 327 Hampshire C.C.C. 1904. Rare sepia Some postcards annotated, overall in 322 ‘Australian Test Team’ 1930. Full set real photograph postcard of the good/ very good condition. Qty 19 of fifteen real photograph postcards Hampshire team for the match v £50/80 of members of the Australian team to Sussex at Hove, 4th-6th August England, some head and shoulders, 331 Cricket postcards 1900s-1960s. Four 1904. The players seated and some posed or action images. Players real photograph postcards including standing in rows wearing cricket are Woodfull, Ponsford, Grimmett, a team postcard of Bacup C.C. 1930 attire and assorted headgear. Players Kippax, Hornibrook, Jackson, featuring A.J. Richardson (Australia) featured are Steele (Captain), Stone, McCabe, Oldfield, Walker, Wall, who played as the professional for Bacon, Poore, Evans, Llewellyn, Hurwood, Richardson, a’Beckett, the Club in the Lancashire League, Webb, Langford, Baldwin, Bowell Bradman and Fairfax. All the 1928-1931. Publisher unknown. and Hayter. Foster of Brighton and postcards have title ‘Australian Test Also A. Liddell (Northamptonshire) Hove. VG £100/150 Team’ followed by printed players by A. Wilkes & Son, West Bromwich, name to lower border. VG £100/150 Sussex won by an innings and 81 date stamped 3rd June 1954, Sussex runs, C.B. Fry scoring 211 and Vine team c.1965 and Jim Cornford 323 Raphael Tuck ‘Australian Cricketer’ 111 in an opening stand of 287 for (Sussex). Publishers unknown. Sold series no. 3839 postcards, 1938. Full Sussex in their only innings with three mono postcards of A.H. set of eight mono real photograph Hornby (Lancashire), W.H.S. & S. postcards of members of the 1938 328 Henry Ridgen Butt. Sussex & England ‘Grosvenor’ Series M., Kent team Australian touring party in various 1890-1912. Mono real photograph c.1905 and Nottinghamshire team cricketing poses. Players featured are postcard of Butt crouching in c.1903. Also three small mono Fleetwood-Smith (series no. 3839A), wicketkeeping pose wearing a Sussex candid photographs of players at the Barnett (3839B), O’Reilly (3839C), cap. The postcard by E. Hawkins & 1957 Scarborough Festival featuring McCabe (3839D), Badcock (3839E), Co’, Brighton, c1905. ‘H. Thompson’ Dick Richardson, Peter Richardson Chipperfield (3839F), Fingleton annotated in ink to lower border. VG and Trevor Bailey. Qty 10. G £50/70 (3839G) and Bradman (3839H). £60/90 All postally unused in very good 332 Yorkshire County Cricket Team 1903. 329 Gloucestershire C.C.C. 1903. Sepia condition £60/90 Exceptionally large original mono real photograph postcard of the plain back postcard of the team by 324 Lord’s cricket ground early Gloucestershire team seated and Delittle, Fenwick & Co., York (The 1900s-1968. A selection of postcards standing in rows. Players’ names ‘D.F. & Co.’ Series). Titled in white of Lord’s including colour views of printed to lower border include within shield to lower right corner the Mound Stand, a freak hailstorm Jessop, Fowler, Roberts, Kitcat, Board ‘Yorkshire County Cricket Team’ with during the 200th England v Australia etc. Rotary Photo series no. 3819. names of players printed in white Test in 1968, mono real photographs ‘Herbert Thompson’ annotated in to lower border. Players featured

32 are Whitehead, Rhodes, Tunnicliffe, sided M.C.C. Christmas greetings J.M. Gregory. G £20/30 Wilkinson, Hirst, Jackson, Hawke card featuring Alfred Mynn to face, 342 ‘Marvels of the Middle’ 1992. (Captain), Smith, Hunter, Denton, with biography by E.V.L. (Lucas) Rumney Division of the South Wales Haigh and Brown. The postcard to verso, a single sided card titled Constabulary. Full set of twenty five measures 9.75”x7”. Wear and loss ‘Greetings 1935-1936 above printed colour cards. Rare set of cards as to corners and edges, otherwise in eight line poem, surrounded by almost all were destroyed because of good condition A rarely seen large illustrations of cricketers, stumps, a court case. £30/50 postcard of the Yorkshire team of bats, W.G. Grace and a cricket scene, 1903 £30/50 with another similar card dated 343 ‘Marvels of the Middle’ 1992. Ritchie 1936-1937. All three cards with & Co. Full set of twenty five colour Yorkshire played Middlesex at M.C.C. emblem and trimming to cards. Ritchie & Co were a firm of Headingley on the 10th-12th August borders in M.C.C. colours, 6”x9.5”. chartered accountants who issued 1903 winning the match by 220 Sold with an official flyer for the cards to clients. Print runs were small, runs and this was the team with the England v Australia match, Lord’s making sets difficult to obtain. G exception of Whitehead who was 24th-28th June 1938 listing the two £30/50 presumably 12th man. Hirst and team squads and notices relating to Rhodes took eight wickets each in The images are the same as the the publication of official scorecards the match previous lot (Rumney) but have for the match below. To verso a different text to backs 333 Alfred Herbert Harold Gilligan. printed reproduction of David Harris Sussex & England 1919-1931. Phillips from the sketch by George Shepherd 344 ‘Cricket Caricatures’ 1994. South ‘Pinnace’ premium issue cabinet size below M.C.C. emblem, printed in Wales Constabulary. Full set of mono real photograph trade card of blue. 5.5”x9”, with a proof of a twenty colour cards. G £30/50 Gilligan, head and shoulders wearing Christmas card based on the same 345 ‘Deadly Duos’ 1994. South Wales Sussex cap. Pinnace series no. 203.C. subject of David Harris. Also a single Constabulary. Full set of ten colour 4”x6”. Minor ageing, otherwise in page flyer for Gentlemen v Players, cards. This set was issued both as 10 good condition £30/50 Lord’s 1951 featuring engravings of single cards and as 5 uncut double ancient cricket matches etc. G/VG 334 Arthur Edward Robert Gilligan. cards £30/50 £40/60 Cambridge University, Surrey, Sussex 346 Cigarette trade cards. Four complete & England 1919-1932. Phillips 338 M.C.C. tour to India 1933. Official sets of cards. Sets are Player’s ‘Pinnace’ premium issue cabinet size M.C.C. Christmas card from the ‘Cricketers. Caricatures by RIP’ mono real photograph trade card of M.C.C. tour of India 1933 with 1926, Players ‘Cricketers 1934’, Gilligan, full length wearing cricket gold embossed cover emblem of St Wills’s ‘Cricketers 1928’ First series, attire at the wicket, holding a ball. George & the Dragon, ‘1933-India- and Wills’s ‘Cricketers’ 1928 Second Pinnace series no. 130.C. 4”x6”. 1934’ below and ‘India 1933’ printed series. Sold with nine cards from Minor ageing, otherwise in good to lower right hand corner plus red the Player’s ‘Cricketers 1938’ series condition £30/50 and blue ribbon tie. To inside a mounted on a ‘Players Cigarettes’ mono photograph of the Taj Mahal 335 Maurice William Tate. Sussex mount, framed and glazed, overall and the wording ‘With Best Wishes & England 1912-1937. Phillips 14.75”x14.5”. Some wear, otherwise for Christmas and 1934’. Unsigned, ‘Pinnace’ premium issue cabinet generally G £15/25 sender unknown. Very good size mono real photograph trade condition £40/60 347 ‘Cricketers’. Australian Licorice card of Tate in batting pose at the Ltd trade cards 1928/29. Full set wicket. Pinnace series no. 82.C. 339 ‘Carrs Sports’. Cricket card series of twenty four cards. Dark grey 4”x6”. Minor ageing and slight wear 1967. Full set of twenty colour cards backgrounds to fronts. Good to lower edge, otherwise in good with biography below each image. condition. Scarce £60/90 condition £30/50 Each 3”x7.5”. G/VG £30/40 348 Cricket cigarette trade cards 336 M.C.C. tour of Australia 1928/29. 340 J. Baines. ‘A Stonewaller’. Rare early 1926-1958. Seven complete sets Nine Nelson Lee souvenir badges colour shield shaped trade card with of cigarette cards. W.D. & H.O. of members of the M.C.C. team cameo of ‘J.B.’ to left hand side and Wills ‘English Cricketers’ 1926 New with original colour souvenir booklet batsman at the wicket to right. ‘A Zealand issue (full set of 25). Major issued to keep the badges. The Stonewaller’ in scroll below. J. Baines Drapkin & Co ‘Australian and English badges are of Chapman, Leyland, Litho, Gillingham, Kent, c.1920. Cricketers 1928 (40). John Player & Sutcliffe, Freeman, Tate, Hobbs, Advertising for ‘Baines’ Gold Medal Sons ‘Cricketers, 1930 (50). John Tyldesley, Hendren and Larwood. Football Cards’ to reverse. G/VG Player & Sons ‘Cricketers, 1938’, Badges in fair to good condition. The £30/40 fully set of fifty loose mounted in a booklet in only fair condition with 341 Barratt & Co. ‘Australian Cricketers. Wills’s album. Ogden’s ‘Prominent tape repairs, marks etc £40/60 Action Series’ 1926. Eight cigarette Cricketers of 1938’ (50). Morning 337 M.C.C. Christmas and greetings cards from the series of sixteen Foods ‘Mornflakes Test Cricketers cards 1930s-1950s. Eight original featuring J. Ellis, J.M. Taylor, W.A. 1953’ (25). Master Vending Machine greetings cards and flyers, some Oldfield, H.L. Hendry, S. Everett, Co ‘Cricketer Series. New Zealand in proof form. Items include a two T.J.E. Andrews, A.J. Richardson and 1958’ (16). G/VG. Sold with ‘Googly’

32 33 card game in original box, Smith & (first series) 1928 (50), ‘Cricketers P.B.A. May. Earlier complete sets Hallam, c1932. Some wear to box, 2nd Series’ 1928 (50). Major include ‘The Champion Portfolio otherwise in good condition £50/80 Drapkin ‘Australian and English Test of Sport’ Amalgamated Press 1935 Cricketers’ 1928 (40). John Player official wallet complete with eight 349 Ogden’s cigarette cards. Twenty & Sons ‘Cricketers. Caricatures pullout out folders. John Players & seven early Ogden’s cigarette cards, by “RIP”‘ 1926 (50), ‘Cricketers Sons ‘Cricketers 1938’ complete various series. Ogden’s ‘Guinea Gold’ 1930’ (50), ‘Cricketers 1934’ (50), set in original album. B. Morris & 1900 of Ranjitsinhji (483), ‘Small ‘Cricketers 1938’ (50). Morning Sons ‘Australian Cricketers’ 1925 Machette Series’ 1901 of Lord Hawke Foods ‘Test Cricketers’ 1953 (25). full set of 25. Carreras Black Cat (unnumbered), ‘Guinea Gold New Kane Products ‘1956 Cricketers’ ‘School Emblems’ 1927, full set Series 1’ 1903 of Hirst (192), ‘Guinea (50), ‘Cricket Clubs and Badges’ of forty medium side cards. D.C. Gold New Series 1’ 1904 of Findlay 1957 (25). Hobbypress ‘The World’s Thompson ‘World’s Best Cricketers’ (B3), Douglas (B4), Warner (B14), J. Greatest Cricketers’ 1984 (20) etc. 1957, various sets in pairs inscribed Gunn (B25), Cuttell (B33). Ogden’s Other issues include Ardath, Wills’s, ‘The Hotspur’, ‘Adventure’ and Tabs ‘A Series’ 1901, Shrewsbury R&J Hill Sunripe, John M. Brindley, ‘The Wizard’. Master Vending (144). ‘B Series’ 1902, Woods County Print Services, Kent C.C.C., Machine Co., ‘Cricketer Series New (135), Murdock (140). ‘C Series’ Nostalgia Reprints etc. Also a set Zealand 1958’, full set of sixteen. 1902, Rhodes (259), Denton (274), of Players’ ‘Cricketers 1934’ in five Modern sets include a full set of 100 Hayward (281), Blythe (285). ‘D frames. G/VG £50/70 ‘1997-1998 Official ACB Premium Series’ 1902, Hirst (168), Ranjitsinhji Series 1’ trade cards. Other modern (171), Grace (175). ‘E Series’ 1902, 353 Nottinghamshire trade cards. Twenty issues include John Brindley, Cricket Richardson (42), Fry (44), Maclaren three cards from the Sport In Print Memorabilia Society, Futera, ‘Butter (45, 2 cards), Noble (48), Lilley (51), ‘Nottinghamshire’ Series, each signed ‘em up. It’s only natural’, Sport in Board (520, Quaife (55). ‘F Series’ by the featured players. Signed cards Print, Panini, Stamp Publicity, County 1902, Tunnicliffe (274). Sold with of ‘Nottinghamshire Batsmen’ are Print Services etc. G/VG £50/70 F&J Smith ‘Cricketers’ series 1912, B.C. Broad, J. Hardstaff Jnr., C.J. nos 5, 7, 8, 10, 14, 16, 20, 28, 30, Poole, D.W. Randall, T. Robinson, 356 F&J Smith’s ‘Champions of Sport’ 35, 36, 37, 45, 46, 48 and 50. Some R. Simpson, ‘Nottinghamshire (adopted title) 1902. ‘Studio faults to the odd card, overall in good All-Rounders’, R.A. White, N.M.S. Cigarettes’ unnumbered blue back condition £50/70 Taylor, F.W. Stocks, F.D. Stephenson, card of the Australian cricketer, G. St. A. Sobers, C.E.B. Rice, R.J. Ernest Jones. Minor staining to verso, 350 Australian issues. Scanlen’s ‘W.S.C. Hadlee, ‘Nottinghamshire In The otherwise in very good condition Super Series’ 1981. Full set of 84 Field’, C.W. Scott, D. A. Pullan, D.L. £15/25 cards plus six ‘Checklist’ cards. ‘Butter Murray, G. Millman, E.A. Meads, ‘em up. It’s only natural’ 1983/84, ARTHUR CARR. B.N. French, H.J. Butler, J.D. Clay, full set of fifty Australia, West Indies NOTTINGHAMSHIRE & ENGLAND ‘Nottinghamshire Bowlers’, K.E. and Pakistan cricketers. VG £30/50 1910-1934 Cooper, E.E. Hemmings, A. Jepson, 351 Cricket and sporting cigarettes H. Larwood. Sold with a further 357 Arthur William Carr. Nottinghamshire cards. Small box comprising a good fifteen unsigned cards from the series & England 1910-1934. ‘M.C.C. tour selection of cricket and sporting with the odd duplicate. VG £50/80 of South Africa 1922/23’. Excellent cigarette and trade cards. Full sets pair of gold and enamel cufflinks 354 ‘County Cricketers 1990’. Forty six include Gallaher ‘Champions’ 2nd presented to Carr on the tour. The cards from the set of fifty by County Series 1935 full series of 48, two sets. hallmarked oval gold cufflinks, each Print Services, each card signed to John Player & Sons ‘Cricketers 1930’, with M.C.C. emblem in yellow the front by the featured player (Kim ‘Cricketers 1938’ (two full sets of 50 and red and ‘South Africa 1922’ to Barnett, no. 21 signed to verso). Card in original albums). Master Vending one link and to the other, alternate numbers are 1, 2, 4-9, 11-16, 18-39, ‘New Zealand 1958’ (16). Other bands of M.C.C. colours of yellow 41-50. Also an unsigned duplicate of issues include Wills’s ‘Cricketers and red. Each pair of cufflinks with no. 27, Jack Russell. Small adhesive 1928’ first and second series. Carr’s initial and name inscribed to marks to the reverse of nos. 5 and Godfrey Phillips ‘Sportsmen - Spot verso ‘A.W. Carr’. Each hallmarked 27, otherwise in very good condition the Winner’ 1937 (49), also Sunripe, Birmingham 1922 with makers £50/70 Ardath, De Reszke, Park Drive, Kane mark for ‘Goldsmiths & Silversmiths etc. Some duplication. G £30/50 355 Cigarette and trade cards. Selection Company Ltd’. Sadly one of the of mainly modern with some earlier cufflinks has broken with the loss of 352 Cigarette and trade cards 1927 trade and cigarette cards, mainly one linkage ring (easily reparable), onwards. Five albums comprising cricket, some other sports. Includes minor wear to the enamel otherwise a good selection of original and three signed cards, Carreras Turf in good condition £200/300 reproduction trade cards. Earlier Cigarettes ‘Sports Series’ 1949 no. 5, complete sets include Carreras M.C.C. won the ‘Test series’ by two Alec Bedser, and ‘Famous Cricketers’ Black Cat ‘School Emblems’ 1927 Test to one, with two ‘Tests’ drawn. 1950 nos. 23 Laurie Fishlock and (50). Churchman ‘Famous Cricket Arthur Carr scored a total of 428 41 Eric Bedser. The three laid down Colours’ 1928 (25), ‘Cricketers’ 1936 runs on the tour with a highest score to page with two additional Surrey (50). W.D. & H.O. Wills ‘Cricketers’ of 63 v South Africa in the 4th Test signatures of A.J. McIntyre and

34 at and an average Australian public. After this tour ‘mascots’. Plus a handwritten letter of 19.45. He played in all five Test and the subsequent fallout, Carr to Carr from a spectator, a Horace matches during the tour. This was was subjected to Bodyline bowling Timms stating ‘I wish to thank you for the only M.C.C. tour made by Carr by other English county teams, and the enjoyment I derived from your was severely shaken by several balls splendid hitting this afternoon and 358 Arthur William Carr. Nottinghamshire that nearly hit him on the head. He was sorry to see you run out. I must & England 1910-1934. Typewritten denounced the tactic he had helped tell you however you owe the buffet letter to Carr from A.J. Allcock, develop as unfair. Dissension within people the price of two tumblers Hon. Secretary of the Benefit the Nottinghamshire club over his which you smashed under my seat Sub-Committee, members and one role in Bodyline led him being sacked when hitting the which player of the club giving support to as captain after the 1934 season, and made your score 13. Mr Holmes Carr as Captain of the club. The letter he never played first-class cricket [Percy] who was chasing the I believe with typed heading ‘Trent Bridge again heard the smash. Hope you hit as Cricket Ground, Nottingham’ and hard against the Australians in the dated August 1933. The letter states 359 Arthur William Carr. Tests. The letter dated 15/9/1925. ‘Dear Mr Carr, We, the undersigned, Nottinghamshire & England 1910- Carr made 83 in quick time for the members of the Nottinghamshire 1934. Nottinghamshire v West Rest v Champion County, Yorkshire County Cricket Club, are of the Indies 1928. ‘Visit of their Majesties on the 15th September 1925 before opinion that we are expressing the King [George V] and Queen Mary’. being run out by Frank Woolley. Odd view not only of the members of Original silk scorecard produced faults, good £40/60 the club, but the cricketing public in to commemorate the Royal visit general in thanking you most warmly to the Trent Bridge Ground on CRICKET CERAMICS & METALWARE for the splendid loyalty you have the 7th-10th July 1928. The 361 ‘The Boss’. A Royal Doulton Black shown to the club, the wonderful scorecard printed by C.H. Richards Boy tea plate, entitled entitled ‘The way in which you have captained of Nottingham has ‘Royal Souvenir Boss’ printed with a boy in red the county eleven, with only one Copy’ printed above the standard shirt and a floppy hat, wearing an rest of three days, during what must headings. The match was drawn, umpires’s coat and holding a bat,. have been one of the most trying for Nottinghamshire, A.W. Carr Green floral decoration to outer rim. seasons ever known. We consider made 100, Staples 84, Whysall 6” diameter. Doulton backstamp and that your example on the field has 80 and Staples took five wickets number ‘E4336’ to base. Circa 1907. been an inspiration to the side and in their first innings, for the West Odd firing marks otherwise in very could not have been equalled by Indies, Bartlett made 109, Hoad 73, good condition. A rarer ‘Black Boy’ any other county captain. We hope Nunes 62. This was Arthur Carr’s title £700/1000 you will remain the county’s captain copy and is mounted on card. Very for several years longer, and can good condition £80/120 362 ‘Out for a ’ Royal Doulton Black assure you of our entire support Boy saucer, entitled ‘Out for a Duck’ The tour fixture was rendered historic and warmest gratitude’. The letter is printed with a boy in red shirt and by the visit of their Majesties, King signed by eight members and there a floppy hat in batting pose having George V. and Queen Mary to Trent are a further four pages of signatures attempted a big shot, looking back Bridge Ground on the concluding of supporters attached to the letter to see the ball hit his wicket. Green day of the match, when the players including the signature of George floral decoration to edge. 5.5” of both teams were presented. This Gunn. Good condition. From the diameter. Doulton backstamp and was the first occasion on which Arthur Carr Collection £50/80 number ‘E4336’ to base. c1907. Very the King and Queen have visited a good condition. A rarer ‘Black Boy’ In 1930 and the following years, cricket ground outside London. title £500/700 Carr was instrumental in developing 360 Arthur William Carr. Nottinghamshire the Bodyline bowling tactic together 363 William Gilbert Grace, & England 1910-1934. with future England captain Douglas Gloucestershire, London County Nottinghamshire v West Indies 1928. Jardine and the two Nottinghamshire & England 1870-1908. Coalport Selection of ephemera, original fast bowlers Harold Larwood and porcelain plate commemorating W.G. menu for the Dinner by the Lord Bill Voce. Carr used this tactic of Grace’s Century Of Centuries 1895, Mayor ‘to celebrate the winning of instructing his bowlers to aim at printed in green and gilt, with portrait the County Cricket Championship by the bodies of batsmen and placing of Grace to central reserve with the Nottinghamshire County Cricket a close set field on the leg side to years and detail of each individual Club’, held at the Council House, take catches fended away from the century and who scored against Nottingham, 25th October 1929. body with the bat and perfected it radiating out from the centre. With Four page menu, sadly lacking the as he led Nottinghamshire to success semi-gadrooned rim. 9” diameter. rear cover, three printed photographs in the county competition. Jardine Coalport stamp in green to back ‘In each with handwritten annotation then used Larwood and Voce in Commemoration of Dr W.G. Grace’s below ‘E.P. Bailey coaches A.E. Carr. similar fashion on the 1932–33 Century of Centuries 1866-1895’. W Shuter (Oxted), ‘England going English tour of Australia, the tactic Pattern number ‘X1662’ below. Rare. into the field at Leeds’ [Carr leading resulting in injuries to Australian Very good condition £400/600 out the England team] and ‘A.W. Carr batsmen and raising the ire of the and ‘Patsy’ Hendren and Test match W.G. Grace completed his one

34 35 hundreth century by making his 367 Doulton Lambeth stoneware tyg the bat handle. Qty 2 £50/80 highest first class score of 288 v with three moulded relief vignettes 372 Cricket ceramics. Selection, six Somerset in the game in the match, of cricketers, a batsman, bowler limited edition’Century of Century’ Somersetshire v Gloucestershire, and wicket keeper, Abel, Woods Royal Grafton and Coalport plates played at the Ashley Down Ground, and McGregor, in white on a green for Don Bradman, Herbert Sutcliffe, Gloucester on Friday May 17th 1895 cameo background, with impressed , Colin Cowdrey, flower motifs, the handles in the These plates are more usually seen W.G. Grace and Jack Hobbs. Sold form of cricket bats, ball, each with printed in blue, although they were with Franklin porcelain ceramic a boater to top. Approximately 6” also printed in red, green and ‘puce’. tankard entitled ‘The Ashes Tankard tall. Incised to base with Doulton This is only the second plate printed 1882-1982’ and six Staffordshire Lambeth and makers mark for Mart in green sold by this auctioneers replica cricket figures including W.G. A. Goode, senior assistant and dated Grace. Various sizes. Good condition 364 George Herbert Hirst. Yorkshire & ‘1881’. Silver mount to rim with £50/80 England 1891-1929 and Wilfred inscription ‘T.R. Christmas 1886’. Rhodes. Yorkshire & England The tyg has been restored and has 373 Cricket ceramic plates. Two limited 1898-1930. Unusual W. Ellis of a handle completely replaced, it edition ‘Century of Century’ Royal Bramley commemorative mug has also been coated in a brush on Coalport plates for Don Bradman featuring both players. To front, colourant which has now started to and Leslie Ames. Sold with a Royal ‘George H. Hirst, Yorkshire’s flake off. Apart for the restoration in Grafton china plate commemorating Celebrated All Round Cricketer. His good condition £100/150 Sir Richard Hadlee taking a world record score against Leicestershire record 431 Test wickets for New 368 Cricket mug. A small hand painted (341) May 1905’ with vignette Zealand 1990. Plus Wombwell china mug by Joan Allen featuring of Hirst in batting pose and to Cricket Lovers Society plate for the two golliwogs and a teddy bear verso ‘Wilfred Rhodes, Yorkshire’s 50th Anniversary 1951-2001, limited playing with appears to be a ball. Celebrated Bowler’ with vignette edition of 150 plates with images Approx.3.5” tall. Good condition of Rhodes in bowling pose to of Yorkshire players, matches. All £30/50 reverse. With stumps, crossed bats in presentation boxes. Sold with a and ball in between images. Strap Joan Allen worked in the Derby Jack Hobbs ‘Lancaster & Sandland’ handle (restored?). 4” high. Minor Potteries during the 1930s and Staffordshire mug with colour marks and wear otherwise in good 1940s as an illustrator under Clarice transfer print of Hobbs batting and condition. This mug, featuring both Cliff and in other Wilkinson Potteries Old Father Time weather vane Yorkshire stalwarts, are rarely seen where Clarice Cliff worked to reverse. Gold lustre to rim and £150/250 handle. 4” tall and ‘The Wicket 369 Cricketing figure. Continental highly Keeper’. H.J. Wood ceramic toby jug 365 ‘The Hope of his Side’. Kinsella decorative bisque blue and white of the bowler. 7” tall. Qty 5. G caricature spill vase of a young boy figure of a young cricketer, wearing £30/50 with bat in front of the wickets. cricketing attire and cap, holding Printed title below wickets and bat. a cricket bat aloft. Gold lustre 374 The Pavilion. Lord’s Cricket Ground. ‘Copyright’ stamp to base. German, decoration. Approx 9” tall. Minor ’. A circa early 1900’s. Approximately wear to edge of base otherwise in Lancaster & Sandland ceramic 5.5” tall. Some minor wear and good condition £40/60 trinket/cigarette box with rarer soiling otherwise in good condition colour transfer print of the pavilion 370 Hambledon. Royal Grafton bone £50/70 at Lord’s to lid. Gold lustre to rims. china bowl. The centre decorated Very good condition. Sold with a 366 Burleigh Ware art deco ceramic with two early cricket bats, wicket similar Sandland ceramic trinket/ cricket jug circa 1930. The jug with and ball design to lid, floral cigarette box with mono transfer cricket field and pavilion design to decoration around the borders, gold print of the pavilion at Lord’s to lid. body with batsman handle in yellow, lustre to edge. Apparently produced Restored breakage to ceramic box. green, blue and brown, the batsman as a limited edition. 8.5” diameter. Sold with similar Sandland mug for with green and yellow hooped cap. Sold with a Royal Grafton bone china ‘Lord’s Cricket Ground. The Pavilion’ The jug is 7.5” tall with ‘beehive’ lidded pill box with similar designs with transfer printed image of the Burleigh stamp and No. 5333 to to lid. Qty 2. Good/very good pavilion. 3.75” tall. Qty 3 £30/40 base. Fading to the dotted patter condition £30/50 on rim otherwise in good/very good 375 Richard Hadlee. Seventeen 371 W.G. Grace. Large Royal Doulton condition. A rarer cricket jug with the identical Royal Grafton china plates ceramic caricature toby jug of W.G. hooped cap rather than the standard commemorating Sir Richard Hadlee Grace wearing M.C.C. cap, with blue version £180/250 taking a World record 431 bat and ball handle. Approx wickets for New Zealand 1990. The design of the batsman was 7” tall. 1996. Good condition. Sold Limited edition of 1000 plates, each apparently based on Don Bradman with a similar but smaller Royal in original presentation box. A good in order to commemorate his innings Doulton ceramic caricature toby dealer’s lot! VG £70/100 of 334 v England at Headingley in jug of ‘The Champion’ W.G. Grace 1930. 1989. 4” tall. Limited edition no 376 W.G. Grace. Coalport china plate 2614/9500. Sadly lacking the top of commemorating W.G. Grace scoring

36 a ‘Century of Centuries’. Limited Wharton’s (Lancashire) Benefit in 383 Box of assorted cricket souvenirs, edition of 750 plates, this being 1958 with printed titles and players’ ceramics etc. Contents include a no. 471, with facsimile signature signatures, ‘Yorkshire Evening News. replica Ashes urn on plinth, 5.5” of Grace to reverse. In original Brightest Evening Paper’, advertising tall, clothes brush in the form of a presentation box with certificate of ashtray with images to centre of cricket bat, three miniature bats with authentication. Very good condition cricket, football, horse racing and printed signatures for Australia 1953, £25/35 motoring, ‘Young England & Young England Test Veterans, and World England’s Sister’. Pair of continental Series Cup (Australia) 1990/91. Also 377 Cricket teapots. Four modern novelty coloured bisque figures of a boy bookends, book marks, coasters, cricket teapots (plus one duplicate) in bowler holding a cricket ball wearing ashtrays etc. G £40/60 the form of cricket pavilions. Makers a striped cap and his sister holding a include Leonardo, Regency Fine Arts, 384 Box containing a mixed selection of cricket bat, both standing on ‘rocky’ Western House Village Collectibles modern ceramic mugs, reproduction bases, crested china cricket bag and Wade. Various sizes. Qty 5. VG Staffordshire figures, shaving mug, for Edinburgh’, Jack Hobbs limited £30/50 audio cassettes including two edition ‘century of centuries plate, produced by Wisden, card games, 378 Cricket ceramics. Box of items replica Staffordshire cricket figures pin badges, two teddy bears (one including two Royal Doulton ceramic etc. A good selection £50/80 Yorkshire C.C.C., the other, Lord’s) caricature cricket toby jugs of Jack 381 Cricket ceramics and glassware. Box etc. Includes fifteen framed and Hobbs and Len Hutton. Each limited of items including a ‘Worcestershire glazed Godfrey Phillips ‘Series of edition and standing approx 4”tall. County Cricket Club. Champions Cricketers’ c.1923 brown back Large Britannia Potteries ash tray 1964’. Jasperware 5” green/ cigarette cards. G £30/50 with transfer printed colour image of grey ceramic tankard produced to W.G. Grace in batting pose to centre, 385 Cricket tankards, jugs, plates and commemorate the Championship gold lustre to edges. 8.5” diameter. prints. A selection including a pewter win, ‘Tom Graveney at Worcester’ Britannia Potteries stamp to verso, half pint tankard engraved ‘Courage commemorative limited edition sizable chip to edge. ‘Young England’. Old England Cricket XI vs John mug, a Kinsella style match holder, Continental coloured bisque figure Smith’s Old Yorkshire XI Bradford Ashes Urn wall plaque, Staffordshire of a boy bowler holding a cricket 1981’. 7” tall. Glass pint tankard figure of a girl holding a cricket ball, ball wearing a striped cap standing with gold lustre to rim, printed teddy bear cup and saucer, W.G. on a ‘rocky’ base. Approx 9.5” title, ‘The Cricketers Tankard’ and Grace Doulton limited edition toby high. Sandland ceramic red cricket England Test players’ signatures early jug, small ‘Brian Close Benefit 1961’ ball shaped ashtray, by Lancaster & 1950s. A Jack Ikin small ceramic tankard etc. A good selection Sandland Ltd, with printed signature tankard. Two limited Royal Doulton £50/80 of Ray Illingworth to front and toby jugs of Dickie Bird and Brian cricket emblem to verso. Similar to 382 Commemorative cricket glasses and Johnston issued in 1995/96. Ten the cricket ball ashtray produced ceramics. Selection of glasses, two commemorative plates including six by Sylvac. Probably produced for Jack Pettiford Benefit Year 1959. limited edition Coalport plates for his Benefit year. ‘Surrey Cricketer’s Kent C.C.C. Commemorative half ‘Centenary Test England v Australia Tankard’. 1950’s small glass tankard, pint glass with title in red and blue 1880-1980’, ‘Centenary of the Ashes decorated with Surrey Club Crest and to top of tankard and signatures 1882-1992’, also ‘County Cricket facsimile signatures of players. Two of the Kent team beneath also in Champions’ plates for Middlesex small ash/sweet trays with transfer red and blue, Gold lustre to rim. 1976, Kent & Middlesex 1977, Essex printed images of the Ashes Urn and 4.5”. South African tour of England 1979, Middlesex 1980 etc. Sold with the Lord’s pavilion etc. Qty 10 1955. Drinking glass with engraved two colour prints by Douglas West. £50/80 inscription ‘Northern Cricket Dinner Qty 17. G £50/70 to the South Africans July 1955’ 379 Cricket ceramics. Nine glass and 386 John Nyren- Cricketer Tutor. Ceramic with springbok image to glass. 5.5” ceramic ash/sweet trays with transfer caricature figure of Nyren in cricket tall. Ken Grieves Benefit Year 1959. printed images for ‘The Australian attire holding bat with name to Lancashire County and Manchester Cricket Team 1972, Honoured ceramic base. The figure stands 11” Cricket Club. Commemorative half Guests of The National Sporting Club tall. Produced by The Hambledon pint glass with title in yellow and blue June 1972’, W.G. Grace (one glass Trading Company (John Brindley) to top of tankard and signatures of and one ceramic), Old Father Time, c1990’s. G £40/60 the Kent team beneath also in yellow ‘The Golden Double. Middlesex and blue. Gold lustre to rim. 4.5” tall. 387 ‘William Gilbert Grace’. Ceramic 1980’, William Davies. Scorer, Jack Plus ‘England v Australia 1953. Test caricature figure of Grace in cricket Hobbs, ‘Teachers Whiskey’ etc. Good Series’ half pint glass with transfer attire holding bat in batting pose, condition £40/60 printed titles and emblem (worn) wearing striped cap, with name to 380 Cricket ceramics and glassware. 3.5” tall and two Sandland pepper ceramic base. The figure stands 10” Box of items including Franklin pots one with transfer print of Alfred tall. Limited edition 6/350. Produced porcelain ceramic tankard entitled Mynn and the other with W.G. Grace by The Hambledon Trading Company ‘The Ashes Tankard 1882-1982’, to side. Qty 6. G £30/40 (John Brindley) c1980/90’s. G glass beaker produced for Alan £40/60

36 37 388 ‘W. G. Grace’. Ceramic caricature of Hambledon with ‘Hambledon Florentine China, ‘Edinburgh’ toby jug depicting Grace with C.C.’ beneath. 6” and 5” tall. British Manufacture and ‘Blackpool’ separate lid formed as his striped cap Produced by The Hambledon Trading Florentine China. Approx 4.5” with title to cap. The tankard stands Company c1990’s. G/VG £20/30 long. Plus two small crested china 6.5” tall. Limited edition. Produced cricket bags with colour emblem for 395 Hambledon C.C. cricket tankards. by The Hambledon Trading Company ‘Llangollen’ and ‘Rugby’. Arcadian Pair of earthernware cricket tankards (John Brindley) c1980/90’s. G ware. Approx 3” long. Qty 6. G with handles, glazed to front with £30/50 £60/90 impressed emblem, bats and wicket, 389 W.G. Grace. Ceramic glazed tankard of Hambledon with ‘Hambledon 401 Cricket bag. Two large crested china with impressed emblem, bats C.C.’ beneath. Both 5” tall. Produced cricket bags with colour emblem for and wicket, of Hambledon with by The Hambledon Trading Company ‘Edinburgh’. Atlas Heraldic China ‘Hambledon C.C.’ beneath with c1990’s. G/VG £20/30 and ‘Chester’. British Manufacture. caricature figure handle of Grace in Approx 4.5” long. Plus a medium 396 Cricket bags. Six large crested cricket attire holding a cricket ball. crested china cricket bag with colour china cricket bags with colour 6” tall. Produced by The Hambledon emblem for ‘Great Yarmouth’. emblems. ‘Great Yarmouth’, British Trading Company (John Brindley) Arcadian China, approx 4” long and manufacture. ‘Ipswich’, Florentine c1980/90’s. G £30/50 a small crested china cricket bag with China. ‘Lowestoft’, Milton China, colour emblem for ‘Cambridge’. 390 Hambledon C.C. cricket tankards. ‘Birmingham’, Florentine China. Arcadian Ware, approx 3” long. Qty Pair of similar earthernware cricket ‘Rugby’, Coronet Ware. ‘Litchfield’, 4. G £50/70 tankards with handles, glazed to Florentine China. Each approx 4.5” front with impressed emblem, bats long. Good condition £60/90 402 Bramhall Lane Cricket Ground. and wicket, of Hambledon with Attractive cricket green glass beer 397 Cricket bags. Five large crested ‘Hambledon C.C.’ beneath. 5.75” bottle with stopper c1880/90’s china cricket bags with colour and 5.5” tall. Sold with a different with ‘E. Donoghue- Wines & Spirits emblems. ‘Edmonton’, Coronet tankard with similar image but with Merchants. Division Street and Ware. ‘Chatham’, The Griffin China. ‘Hambledon C.C.’ below. Plus a red Bramhall Lane Cricket Ground’. 8.5” ‘Tottenham’, Cyclone, ‘Brighton’, cricket ball trinket box and a letter tall. G £30/50 Civic, and ‘Salisbury’, Florentine rack each with impressed emblem, China. Each approx 4.5” long. Also 403 Australia 1956. Rare commemorative bats and wicket, of Hambledon. one small crested china cricket bag glass one pint glass produced to Produced by The Hambledon Trading with emblem for ‘Southampton’, commemorate the Australian tour Company (John Brindley) c1990’s. Arcadian, approx 3” long. Qty 6. G/ of England in 1956. With ‘Australian Qty 5. G £30/50 VG £60/90 Cricket Tour Great Britain 1956’ in 391 Elias ‘Patsy’ Hendren. Ceramic red below a Kangaroo in brown. 398 Cricket bags. Five large crested china caricature figure of Hendren in In blue around the glass are the cricket bags with colour emblems cricket attire and cap holding bat signatures of the touring party for ‘Clacton-on-Sea’ and ‘Frinton with name to ceramic base. The including Johnson, Miller, Harvey, on Sea’, both Florentine China, figure stands 11.5” tall. Produced by Davidson, Benaud, Lindwall, Burge, ‘Fulham’ and ‘Islington’, both British The Hambledon Trading Company McDonald, Maddocks, Langley, manufacture, and ‘Ponders End’, (John Brindley) c1980/90’s. G Craig etc. Produced by ‘The Studios Cyclone. Approx 4.5” long. Also one £40/60 of Decoramics Ltd of Worthing. small crested china cricket bag with These glasses were given to 392 Sir John Berry Hobbs. Ceramic emblem for ‘Maldon’, Swan China, members of the team as a momento caricature figure of Hobbs in cricket approx 3” long. Qty 6. G/VG of the tour and this glass was Len attire holding bat with name to £60/90 Maddocks. Excellent condition. Sold ceramic base. The figure stands 12” 399 Cricket bags. Three large crested with an official half pint glass tankard tall. Produced by The Hambledon china cricket bags with colour for 1953 with colour emblem of Trading Company (John Brindley) emblem for ‘Dartmouth’, British the Ashes urn, bat, stumps and ball c1980/90’s. G £40/60 manufacture, ‘Morecambe’, Carlton on a green shield, supported by a 393 W.G. Grace. Ceramic caricature figure China, and ‘New Brighton’, Victorian lion and kangaroo either side. Title of Grace in cricket attire holding bat China, approx 4.5” long. Also scroll below,’ Test Series. England- in batting pose with name to ceramic three small crested china 1953’. Lustre to rim. 4” tall. base. The figure stands 12” tall. bags with colour emblem for and Wear to lustre, otherwise in good Limited edition 2/350. Produced by ‘Cheadle’, Arcadian, ‘Barnstable’ and condition. Qty 2 £100/150 The Hambledon Trading Company ‘Plymouth’, both Arcadian China, The 1956 glass sold previously by (John Brindley) c1980/90’s. G approx 3” long. Qty 6. G/VG Knights in June 2002 as lot 338 £40/60 £60/90 404 Cricket snuff box. A black lacquered 394 Hambledon C.C. cricket tankards. 400 Cricket bag. Four large crested china papier mache oval snuff/pill box Pair of earthernware cricket tankards cricket bags with colour emblem with hinged lid, believed to be with handles, glazed to front with for ‘Chatteris’ [Cambridgeshire]. circa 1870’s. The lid painted with impressed emblem, bats and wicket, Coronet Ware, ‘Modbury’ (Devon). a cricketing scene of boys playing

38 cricket with trees in background. Club’, each with slightly different ‘W’ to centre to one side and to verso The box measures approx 2.75”x2”x design. Each shield measures 6”x7” cricket scene to centre with ‘Grand 1.25” deep. Some wear to painted with mounting hook to reverse. G Match Admission Ticket’ around image on lid otherwise in good £30/40 the border. The initial ‘W’ was the condition £50/80 proprietors initials, W.H. Woodhouse 409 Alfred Percy Freeman. Kent & who owned the ground in Sheffield. 405 National Grid paperweight. Attractive England 1914-1936. ‘Kent v Darnall Park was one of the first block acrylic resin paperweight Sussex. seven wickets for sixteen grounds on which the great matches with broken stumps, bails and ball runs’. Cricket ball presented to Tich in the north were played and was suspended to inside. ‘National Grid’ Freeman with hallmarked silver shield opened in 1821. Approximately 1” emblem to face. 2.5” square. G to ball with the inscription ‘Kent v diameter. An early form of entry £12/18 Sussex at Maidstone. July 20.22.23. ticket. Rare. Minor wear, good 1929. A.P. Freeman. 7 wickets for National Grid sponsored £60/90 16’. The ball also has handwritten International Umpires during the inscription ‘7-16. Kent v Sussex, The Wisden Book of Cricket 1990/2000’s Maidstone 1929’. Previously sold as Memorabilia mentions a similar 406 Geoffrey Boycott. Century of part of The A.P. Freeman Collection, admission ticket on page 215 with Centuries 1977. A large green Phillips Auctioneers, October 1996 further details Jeroboam size ‘JB’ (Justerini & as lot 280. Good condition £300/500 412 Maurice Willliam Tate. Sussex & Brooks) liquor bottle engraved to Freeman took seven wickets for 16 England 1912-1937. ‘Bodyline’. both sides and neck to commemorate in the Sussex first innings. Sussex M.C.C. tour of Australia 1932/33. A Boycott achieving the accolade of were bowled out for 69 in 22.1 silver key embossed with the British one hundred first-class centuries overs. Freeman’s figures were 6.1 Bulldog and an applied kangaroo at Headingley in 1977. One side is overs, one maiden, seven wickets for on obverse, the reverse stamped engraved with a shield incorporating sixteen runs. In reply Kent made 233 ‘Freedom of British Dominion the Yorkshire rose, England three all out. Sussex were then bowled Films, All British Theatres. Australia lions and crown emblems, bat, ball out for 137 in their second innings. 1932-33’. ‘W.M. Tate’ and silver and wickets. To verso, an engraved Freeman taking six wickets for 89 mark to the blade of the key. 2” scroll describing the achievement. runs and taking thirteen wickets in long, ring suspension. Previously sold Rose engraved to neck. Maker’s the match. Kent winning the match by Christie’s Auctioneers as lot 187 in stamp to base, ‘Justerini & Brooks, by an innings and 27 runs. October 1988. [It is not known what London England. Liquor bottle this key represented or used for. It is 1793-7’. G/VG £40/60 410 Jim Laker. England v Australia, Old also noted by the auctioneer that the Trafford 1956. ‘19 wickets for 90 407 Commemorative glassware Christie’s catalogue description stated runs’. ‘One of 100 replica’s of the 1984-2001. Two lead crystal ‘and engraved M.W. Tate’ when it is Test Ball’. cricket decanters, one engraved for clearly engraved ‘W.M.Tate’. Sold ball, with the inscription ‘Fourth Lancashire C.C.C. Benson & Hedges with a further decorative cricket Test Manchester 1956- 19-90’ and Cup Winners 1990, the other key to celebrate the opening of the signed by Laker. The ball was one for David Byas, Yorkshire captain Kowloon Cricket Club Pavilion (Hong of a hundred balls being given as 1996-2001. Also fifteen engraved Kong) on the 17th September 1932. prizes in a Daily Express newspaper glass goblets for Cornhill Insurance The brass key with Kowloon Cricket competition held approximately one West Indies Cricket Tour 1984, Club emblem with cricket ball to week after Laker achieved his record John Player League, 300 obverse and the reverse decorated breaking feat of taking nineteen wickets 1984, Cornhill Insurance with a cricket bat, two sets of stumps wickets in a Test match, 10-53 in New Zealand Cricket Tour 1986, and five cricket balls. 2.5” long, ring the first innings and 9-37 in the Lancashire C.C.C. NatWest Trophy suspension. Agin it is not known second. The competition which ran Winners 1990, Derbyshire Refuge what function the key had, it may in the newspaper was to compose a Assurance League Winners 1990, have just been a decorative souvenir. congratulations telegram to Laker of Australian cricket tour 1993 (Qty Unusual. Part of the Mike Smith not more than 25 words The record 6), and Martyn Moxon Benefit Year, (Kent) Collection. Qty 2 £70/100 still stands of taking ten wickets in ‘The Year of the Frog’ 1993 (4). an innings (10-53) and taking the 413 Australia v England 1950/51. Twelve Also a boxed lead crystal brandy most wickets in a game (19-90). The metal lapel badges with colour images glass engraved for Lancashire C.C.C. ball and inscription a little scuffed and printed signatures of Australian NatWest Trophy Winners 1990. Qty and marked but otherwise in good players from the series. Each badge 18. VG £60/90 condition. Previously sold in the headed ‘Australian v England 408 County and club shields. Four Phillips sale of 21st October 1987 as 1950/51 Test Souvenir’. Players are wooden shields each with hand lot 127 £150/250 Hassett, Burke, Miller, Moroney, painted colour emblem of the county Loxton, Lindwall, Johnston, Archer, 411 ‘Darnall Cricket Ground. Grand or club with name of county/club Johnson, Morris and Tallon plus a Match Admission Ticket’. Early brass in scroll below. The Counties are badge with a kangaroo in cricket disc admission ticket c1820’s with Durham, Northamptonshire and attire. Minor rusting to odd badge name of the ground and the initial Sussex, the club, ‘Eastcote Cricket otherwise in good condition £50/70

38 39 414a Lapel button/badges. Five sepia silver. Includes ‘V.P.C.A. Runners photographs by Birmingham Post & circular lapel button/badges of up 1902. Adelphi Amateurs C.C. Mail, measures 10”x8”. The bat and England players. Anonymous issue. W. Slate’, Speedwell C.C. B.P.C.A. photographs formerly the property Players featured are Washbrook, League Champions 1899, N.C.F. of the Cotswold Cricket Museum. G/ Wright, Smith, Yardley and Compton. B.C.C. Brennan Cup 1951 etc. All in VG £80/120 G £30/50 boxes. Sold with a ‘Lord’s’. Half pint Parsons scored a total of 17,969 runs pewter tankard inscribed ‘Lord’s’ to 414 Australia v England 1950/51. in his first-class career, at an average side, circa 1947. Gaskell & Chambers Eighteen metal lapel badges with of 35.78, with a top score of 225 for of Birmingham. 3.75” tall. G £30/40 colour images and printed signatures Warwickshire in 1927 of England players from the series. 420 Leicestershire C.C.C. A pair of silver 423 England v Australia 1938. Len Each badge headed ‘Australian v plate salvers issued to two members Hutton’s record 364. Full size England 1950/51 Test Souvenir’. of the Leicestershire ‘200 Club’ in Summers Brown & Sons ‘Force’ Players are Bailey, Bedser, Berry, 1967/68. 10.25” diameter. Possible Jack Hobbs signature bat. The bat Brown, Close, Compton, Dewes, loss of silver plate to surface and with hand printed titles in gothic Evans, Hollies, Hutton, McIntyre, discolouration to one slaver, the script appears to be fully signed to Parkhouse, Sheppard, Simpson, other in good condition £20/30 the face by the sixteen members Warr, Washbrook and Wright plus CRICKET BATS, BALLS & of the Australian touring party a badge with a lion in cricket attire. EQUIPMENT and members of the England team Minor wear and rusting to odd badge who played in the 1938 series, for otherwise in good condition £60/90 421 ‘South African tour of England 1924’. the fifth Test played at The Oval, Hubert Gouvaine Deane (Natal, 415 Cricket button. Very early cricket 20th-24th August 1938. Signatures Tranvaal & South Africa 1919-1930). button, with figures of a batsman, include Bradman, McCabe, O’Reilly, ‘William Sykes of Horbury ‘Roy under arm bowler and stumps within Badcock, Barnes, Fleetwood-Smith, Kilner’ Autograph’ cricket bat used decorative circular border . Circa Hammond, Compton, Hardstaff, by Deane on the 1924 tour. The bat 1830/40’s (?). Indistinct embossing Ames, Ranjitsinhji etc. A further hand with name of ownership handwritten to verso. G. Rare £40/60 printed title to verso for ‘Wimbledon to the shoulder of bat and signed Charity Cricket Match. Mr. J.B. Hobbs 416 Cricket buttons, 1901. Four Cameo below by the South African touring XII v Wimbledon & District XII 10th Cigarettes (American Tobacco Co) party. Some of the signatures are September 1938’. Formerly in the celluloid buttons with pin attachment faded but legible signatures include collection of the Cotswold Cricket featuring , , H.W. Taylor (Cpt), Nourse, Carter, Museum. The signatures faded, but Syd Barnes and Tyldesley. Rare. Age Dixon, Hands, Faulkner, Pegler, generally legible, otherwise in very toning otherwise in good condition. Commaille etc Some wear to bat good condition. Sold with an official Qty 4 £60/90 and perishing to the rubber handle printed ‘Report and Balance Sheet’ otherwise in good condition. Number 417 Cricket pillbox England v Australia for the match played at Cannon Hill 156 handwritten to right hand 1880-1980. Enamelled oval pillbox Lane, Wimbledon. Splitting to folds, shoulder of bat, perhaps a museum decorated with a scene of the first Test some foxing, otherwise in good number. Formerly in the collection of match at the Oval 1880. Produced condition £120/180 the Cotswold Cricket Museum. by Toye, Kenning & Spencer Ltd of £250/350 The 1938 Ashes series was tied London. Limited edition 16/1000. In 1-1 with two matches drawn and original box with certificate. VG England won the series by three Tests the Old Trafford Test abandoned £30/50 to nil with two Tests drawn. H.G. without a ball bowled. In the fifth Deane scored 621 runs at an average 418 Signed cricket stumps. A set of and final Test at The Oval, Len of 22.17 with a highest score of wooden decorative cricket stumps Hutton famously made his record 80no. He captained South Africa on mounted on a green wooden score of 364, England winning by an the 1929 tour of England base, possibly used for advertising innings and 579 runs. purposes, the stumps signed by 422 Canon John Henry Parsons. The bat was awarded as a raffle prize members of the Hampshire team of Warwickshire & Europeans at the Wimbledon charity match. circa mid 1950’s to 1960. Signatures 1910-1934. Full size Stuart Surridge The balance sheet records that the include Ingleby-Mackenzie, Heath, ‘Perfect’ cricket bat used by Parsons bat raised £16-2-6, and the match Canning, Gray, Baldry, Burden, in his playing career. The bat with as a whole raised £546-2-0 for local Barnard, Shackleton, Marshall, heavy cloth tape reinforcement hospitals. The gentleman who won Flood etc. Sold with a wood cricket to lower portion and toe. Good the bat was sold the winning raffle bat clothes brush signed by eight condition. Sold with two original ticket by his wife! Surrey players 1960’s including A. & mono press photographs of Parsons E. Bedser, May, Laker, Lock, Loader, with the bat, standing with Tiger 424 Surrey C.C.C. 1936. Full size ‘V.A.L. Stewart etc. Some fading to the Smith, taken at Edgbaston on 30th Jack Hobbs’ signature bat signed in signatures of both items. G £30/50 May 1960. Both photographs with ink to verso by Alan Melville (Natal, annotations in ink in Parsons’ own Sussex, Transvaal & South Africa 419 Cricket club medals 1899-1951. hand to verso, ‘taken on my 70th 1928-1949) and eighteen Surrey Six cricket medals of which four are Birthday’, one signed by Parsons. The players. Signatures include Fender,

40 Ducat, Garland-Wells, Barling, bat, the signatures all legible. Overall Wyatt (Captain), Walters, Bowes, Squires, Mobey, Peach, and some in good condition £250/350 Keeton, Hammond, Mitchell, Nichols, rarer names including K.C.W. King Verity, Hendren, Sutcliffe, Ames Australia won the second Test by (32 matches), F.C. Gamble (19), F. etc. Australian signatures include eight wickets, Woolley top scoring in Berry (47) etc. Formerly displayed at Woodfull (Captain), Bradman, both England’s innings with 95 and the Cotswold Cricket Museum. G Grimmett, Oldfield, Bromley, 93, likewise Bardsley for Australia £60/90 O’Reilly, Wall, Ponsford, McCabe, made 88 and 63no Darling, Chipperfield, Ebeling etc. 425 England v All India 1936. Full size 428 Australia tour to England 1926. Full Additionally signed by Stan McCabe ‘Wisden’s Exceller’ cricket bat signed size Andrew Sandham ‘Suprex’ bat to the shoulder. Previously sold as in ink to the face by the eleven by Paget’s of London. Fully signed in lot 85 in the Christie’s sale of 19th members of the England team and ink to the face by all sixteen members October 1989. Slight fading to some eighteen members of the Indian of the Australian touring party. Australian signatures, otherwise in touring party for the first Test, Lord’s, Signatures are Collins (Captain), good/ very good condition 15th-18th August 1936. England Bardsley, Macartney, Mailey, Taylor, £200/300 signatures are Allen (Captain), Ryder, Everett, Ponsford, Woodfull, Wyatt, Turnbull, Hardstaff, Verity, England’s victory in the second Test Oldfield, Richardson, Grimmett, Duckworth, Mitchell, Gimblett, by an innings and 38 runs was due in Hendry, Andrews, Gregory and Ellis. Langridge, Robins and Leyland. part to England’s batting in their first Also signed to verso by the Kent, India signatures include Nissar, Amar and only innings with Ames scoring Surrey, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Singh, Palia, Merchant, C.K. Nayudu, 120 and Leyland 109. However the Middlesex and Leicestershire teams. Jai, Banerjee, Wazir Ali, C.S. Nayudu accolades went to Also signed by the cartoonist, Tom etc. Also signed in ink to verso by whose slow left-arm bowling Webster. Previously sold as lot 155 members of the Gentlemen v Players returned figures of 7-61 in Australia’s in the Phillips sale of 12th October teams for the match played at Lord’s first innings of 284 and 8-43 in their 1995. Slight ‘bleeding’ to some 15th-17th July 1936. Signatures second innings of 118, a total of county signatures, otherwise in include Allen, Wyatt, Levett, Brown, fifteen wickets in the match good/ very good condition Farnes, Mitchell-Innes, Hammond, £300/400 431 Australia tour to England 1938. Full Leyland, McCorkell, Fishlock, size Gunn & Moore ‘T.W. Goddard’ Copson, Verity etc. Perishing to 429 England v The Rest 1927. Harrow cricket bat signed in ink to the verso the bat handle rubber, otherwise in size ‘Jack Hubble’ bat fully signed in by thirteen members of the Australian good/ very good condition ink by both teams for the England touring party, also by members of £150/250 v The Rest Test Trial match played the county sides of Derbyshire (11 at Lord’s, 10th-12th August 1927. 426 M.C.C. tour of India 1963/64. Split signatures), Middlesex (11), Surrey Good names including England cricket stump signed by twenty (11), Warwickshire (11), Somerset signatures of Jardine (Captain), members of the M.C.C. and Indian (11), Yorkshire (11), Kent (11), Chapman, Jupp, Sutcliffe, Hallows, teams. M.C.C. signatures include and Leicestershire (12). Australian Freeman, Hammond, Livsey, Nichols, Titmus, Parks, Knight, Stewart, signatures are Bradman (Captain), Hobbs and Tate. The Rest signatures Barrington, Larter, Smith etc. Indian McCabe, Brown, Chipperfield, are Stevens, Jacques, Staples, Sibbles, signatures include Borde, Jaisimha, O’Reilly, Waite, McCormick, Barnett, Ames, Bates, Clark, Shepherd, Kunderan, Baig etc. Some signatures Walker, Hassett, Fleetwood-Smith, Tyldesley, Leyland and Bowley. fading otherwise in good condition Badcock and Ward. Previously sold Initials ‘A.P.F.C’ (Chapman) to verso. £70/100 as lot 196 in the Christie’s sale of Previously sold as lot 234 in the 21st June 1996. Minor wear to the 427 The Ashes. England v Australia 1921. Christie’s sale of 9th October 1987. bat, the signatures good £250/350 Full size Jack Hobbs ‘Force’ bat by A protective varnish has been applied Summers, Brown & Sons, signed to the signatures. Slight smudging to 432 Australia tour to England 1938. in ink to verso by the England and two signatures, otherwise in very Full size Nicholls ‘Automatic’ Australia teams for the second Test, good condition £100/150 cricket bat signed in ink to the Lord’s, 11th-14th June 1921, and to face by fourteen members of the In the drawn Test Trial match, three the shoulders by and Australian touring party. Signatures England batsmen, Sutcliffe, Jupp Jack Hobbs. England signatures are are Bradman (Captain), Waite, and Chapman made fifties, while Douglas (Captain), Tennyson, Haig, Brown, Chipperfield, Barnes, Maurice Leyland top scored with Knight, Evans, Parkin, Hendren, Fleetwood-Smith, O’Reilly, White, 102 for The Rest Dipper, Woolley, Strudwick and Barnett, Badcock, Hassett, Fingleton, Durston. Australia signatures are 430 England v Australia, Lord’s 1934. Ward and Jeanes (Manager). Armstrong (Captain), Collins, Pellew, ‘Verity’s Test’. Full size Wisden Also signed by Stan Squires to Carter, Hendry, Mailey, Taylor, ‘Exceller’ bat signed to the verso the rear shoulder, the signatures Bardsley, Macartney, Andrews and by thirteen England players, and all corresponding with the drawn McDonald. Previously sold as lot sixteen members of the Australian tour match v Surrey at The Oval, 681 by Christie’s in the M.C.C. touring party, for the Second Test 21st-24th May 1938. Previously sold Bicentenary Sale of 13th April 1987. played at Lord’s, 22nd-25th June as lot 150 in the Christie’s sale of 21st Age toning and some wear to the 1934. England signatures include June 1991. Very good condition

40 41 £180/250 Batting first, England made 459 very good condition £180/250 with Sheppard (113) and Richardson 433 Australia tour to England 1948. 438 ‘Cornhill Insurance Test Series 1985. (104) the top scorers. In reply, Full size Gray-Nicholls ‘Hammond England v Australia’. Full size Duncan Australia made only 84 in their Autograph’ cricket bat fully signed Fearnley bat signed to the face by first innings with Laker taking 9-37. in ink to the verso by all seventeen twelve members of the England Following on Australia were bowled members of the Australian touring team and all seventeen members of out for 205, Laker taking all ten party. Signatures are Bradman the Australian touring party. England wickets for 53 runs, the first time (Captain), Hassett, Miller, Barnes, signatures include Gower (Captain), this feat had been achieved in Test Saggers, Tallon, Harvey, Hamence, Botham, Gatting, Robinson, Lamb, cricket, returning match figures of 19 Lindwall, Ring, Johnson, Morris, Downton, Gooch, Allott, Cowans wickets for 90 runs. Laker took the Loxton, Johnston, McCool, Brown etc. Australian signatures include last seven wickets for only eight runs and Toshack. Also ‘Ring’ to shoulder, Border (Captain), Lawson, Wood, off just 22 balls, England winning by presumably Doug Ring’s bat. O’Donnell, Matthews, Gilbert, an innings and 170 runs to go 2-1 up Owner’s name ‘A.J.F. Groom’ to Wellham, Boon, Ritchie etc. in the five match Ashes series. front edge. Previously sold as lot 246 Previously sold as lot 466 in the in the Christie’s sale of 9th October The final Test was drawn, England Phillips sale of October 1999. The 1987. Signatures fair but legible, the retaining the Ashes. Laker ended the odd signature faded, otherwise in bat in good condition £100/150 series with a total of 49 wickets at an good/ very good condition £70/100 average of 9.60 434 Australia tours to England 1953, 439 Benson & Hedges World 1961 and 1964. Full size Stuart 436 The Ashes. England v Australia 1961. Championship of Cricket’ 1985. Full Surridge ‘County Driver’ cricket bat Fourth Test, Old Trafford. Full size size cricket bat signed to the face by signed in ink to the face by twelve Gradidge ‘Imperial Driver’ cricket bat the majority of the fourteen-player members of the Australian 1953 fully signed in ink to the face by all squads for all seven participating touring party, and to the verso by seventeen members of the Australia teams for the tournament to sixteen and twelve members of the touring party and the eleven celebrate the 150th anniversary of 1961 and 1964 parties respectively. members of the England team for European settlement in Victoria, held 1953 signatures are Hassett, the fourth Test, Old Trafford, 27th in February and March 1985. Teams Tallon, Davidson, de Courcy, Hole, July- 1st August 1961. Australian are Australia (14 signatures), England McDonald, Craig, Hill, Lindwall, signatures are Benaud (Captain), (14), West Indies (14), New Zealand Archer, Ring and Benaud. 1961 and Harvey, Gaunt, Quick, Jarman, (13), India (14), Pakistan (12) and 1964 signatures include Simpson, Kline, Mackay, Booth, Davidson, Sri Lanka (14). Signatures include Booth, Lawry, O’Neill, Grout, Simpson, Grout, McDonald, Border, Hogg, Lawson, Alderman, Jenner, Connolly, Kline, Veivers Misson, Lawry, O’Neill, Burge and Gower, Lamb, Fowler, Lloyd, etc. Previously sold as lot 76 in the McKenzie. England signatures are Richards, Dujon, Garner, Haynes, Christie’s sale of 10th November May (Captain), Statham, Trueman, Howarth, Hadlee, Crowe, Gavaskar, 1993. Slight bleeding to the odd Barrington, Murray, Allen, Close, , Miandad, Zaheer, Wasim signature, otherwise in good/ very Dexter, Subba Row, Pullar and Raja etc. Excellent clear signatures good condition £120/160 Flavell. Also signed to the verso by (the odd signature faded). The bat in four counties including Yorkshire very good condition £100/150 435 ‘Jim Laker, 19-90’. England v (12 signatures), Lancashire (12), Australia, fourth Test 1956. Full size The tournament was won by India Hampshire (12), and Worcestershire Alec Watson & Mitchell’s ‘Special (11). G/VG £100/150 440 Australian tour to South Africa County’ cricket bat nicely signed in ink 1957/58. Gradidge ‘Jack McGlew to the face by all eleven members of 437 West Indies tour to England 1957. Autograph’ miniature bat fully signed the England team and nine members Full size Stuart Surridge ‘Peter May to the face by the sixteen members of the Australian team for the Autograph’ bat fully and nicely of the Australian touring party. historic fourth Test at Old Trafford, signed in ink to the face by all Signatures include Craig (Captain), 26th-31st July 1956, in which Jim seventeen members of the West Harvey, Burke, Burge, Grout, Favell, Laker took nineteen wickets in the Indies touring party. Signatures Drennan, McDonald, Jarman, match including all ten in the second are Goddard (Captain), Walcott, Mackay etc. Label to verso, ‘Australia innings. England signatures are May Dewdney, Ganteaume, Atkinson, 1958’. Slight fading to signatures (Captain), Evans, Washbrook, Bailey, Alexander, Worrell, Hall, Weekes, otherwise in good condition. Sold Statham, Laker, Lock, Oakman, Gilchrist, Valentine, Pairaudeau, with two Stuart Surridge ‘Perfect’ Sheppard, Richardson and Cowdrey. Smith, Kanhai, Asgarali, Ramadhin miniature bats. One signed by the Australian signatures are Johnson and Sobers. Also signed to verso by eleven members of T.N. Pearce’s (Captain), Miller, Maddocks, Burge, eleven Surrey players including May, XI v Pakistanis at Scarborough, 8th Craig, Mackay, McDonald, Burke A. Bedser, E. Bedser, Fletcher, Loader, September 1974 (incorrectly marked and Lindwall. Previously sold as lot Clark, Barrington, Stewart, Laker etc. 1975 to verso). Signatures are 20 in the Phillips sale of 22nd May Also appears to have been signed by Murray, Mortimore, Bedi, Hassan, 1997. Very good condition Graham Gooch(!). Previously sold as Turner, Featherstone, McEwan, £200/300 lot 222 in the Phillips sale of 17th July Stead, Smith, Hutton and Radley. 1991. Very nice signatures, the bat in

42 The other signed by the Hampshire Dravid, Ganguly, Hirwani, Jadeja, (Kent), Andy Pick (Nottinghamshire), and Gloucestershire teams of 1975. Joshi, Kumble, Manjrekar, Mongia, (Gloucestershire) Both 17”. Also a HansRaj Mahajan Sidhu, Srinath etc. Slight smudging and (Surrey). The miniature bat signed by the 1976 to four of the signatures, otherwise signature of Bracewell on label laid Hampshire and Worcestershire in good/ very good condition down, the signature of Graveney teams. All bats measure 17”. Qty 4. £80/120 overwritten. G/VG £50/80 G £40/60 445 ‘South Africa 1998 Touring Squad’. 449 ‘Asia XI v Rest of the World XI’ 441 Australia tour to England 1993. Full Full size cricket bat signed to the 1999/2000. Full size cricket bat size cricket bat signed by all twenty face by all seventeen members of the boldly signed in black ink to the face one members of the touring party to South Africa touring party to England by all eleven members of the Asia XI England 1993. Printed heading to top in 1998. The bat with printed title and the twelve members of the Rest of the bat and each player has signed label to top and player’s names. of the World XI for the one day match by his name on the neat printed label Signatures include Cronje (Captain), played at , 8th April 2000. running down the length of the bat Kirsten, Adams, Bacher, Boucher, Printed title label and players’ names. blade. Signatures include Border, Cullinan, Donald, Kallis, Klusener, Signatures include Wasim Akram, Taylor, Boon, M. Hughes, Warne, Liebenburg, McMillan, Ntini, Pollock, (Captains), Ganguly, McDermott, S. Waugh, Slater, Rhodes etc. R. Telemachus is marked Tendulkar, Moin Khan, Jayasuriya, Hayden, M. Waugh etc. Odd faults as ‘injured’ and replaced with the Vaas, Muralitharan, Kumble, Cairns, otherwise in good condition £60/90 signature of Steve Elworthy. G/VG Gilchrist, Kallis, Klusener, Bevan, £50/80 Tufnell, Caddick etc. G/VG £50/80 442 Kent v West Indies 1950. Full size split and hinged cricket stump 446 Zimbabwe 1999-2003. Three full size The Asia XI won by one run, Sachin signed in ink by thirteen members cricket bats fully signed to the face by Tendulkar top scoring with 80 in a of the West Indies touring party the members of the Zimbabwe 1999 total of 320-9 in their fifty overs. In and eleven members of the 1950 World Cup Squad, and the 2000 and reply the Rest of the World ended on Kent team. West Indies signatures 2003 tours to England. Each bat with 319-8 with Michael Bevan 185no are Goddard (Captain), Gomez, printed title label to top and player’s 450 William Arnold Sime. Bedford School, Pierre, Johnson, Marshall, Ramadhin, names. The 1999 bat with fifteen Bedford R.F.C. & Nottinghamshire Jones, Christiani, Williams, Walcott, signatures, 2000 twenty signatures, C.C.C. 1935-1950. ‘George Parr. Valentine, Stollmeyer and Weekes. the 2003 fourteen signatures. ‘Lion of the North’. Fine Elm from Kent signatures are Clark, Evans, Signatures include Campbell, Parr’s Tree, Trent Bridge 1800(c)- Fagg, Wright, Cowdrey, Hearn, A. Flower, G. Flower, Goodwin, 1976’. Miniature cricket bat Ridgway, Ames, Dovey, Lewis and Olonga, Mbangwa, Streak, Brandes, produced by Nottinghamshire C.C.C. Edrich. Previously sold as lot 70 in the B. Strang, P. Strang, Viljoen, Carlisle, in 1976. 11.5”. Very good condition. Phillips sale of 2nd June 1999. VG Hondo etc. G/VG £70/100 Sold with a brochure entitled ‘Notts £120/160 447 ‘Pakistan 2003 Touring Squad’. Full County Cricket Club and Trent In the tour match, Kent v West size cricket bat signed to the face Bridge’ regarding the history of the Indians, played at Canterbury, 30th by sixteen members of the Pakistan club and issued in 1946, some soiling August- 1st September 1950, West touring party to England in 2003. and age toning to covers. G. Qty 2 Indians won by 222 runs The bat with printed title label to £30/40 top and player’s names. Signatures 443 ‘Surrey. County Champions Estimated to be 170 years old, include Rashid Latif (Captain), Imran 1952-1958’. Full size Stuart Surridge the elm tree, situated inside the Nazir, Yousuf Youhana, Younis Khan, ‘County Driver’ cricket bat nicely Bridgford Road boundary wall, was Misbah-ul-Haq, Shoaib Malik, Azhar signed in ink to the face by seventeen blown down in a gale in December Mahmood, Mohammad Sami, Surrey players. Signatures include 1976 Umar Gul, Danish Kaneria etc. May, A. Bedser, McIntyre, Laker, E. Lacking the signature of Faisal Athar. 451 William Arnold Sime. Bedford School, Bedser, Clark, Stewart, Constable, Light staining, otherwise in good Bedford R.F.C. & Nottinghamshire Lock, Tindall, Parsons, Sydenham, condition £40/60 C.C.C. 1935-1950. ‘George Parr. Edrich etc. Also signed to the verso ‘Lion of the North’. Fine Elm from by four county teams, Yorkshire 448 ‘1990 Bowlers Taking 10 Wickets in Parr’s Tree, Trent Bridge 1800(c)- (fifteen signatures, the majority a Match’. Full size cricket bat signed 1976’. Miniature cricket bat faded), Essex (13), Gloucestershire to the face by twelve bowlers who produced by Nottinghamshire C.C.C. (10), and Leicestershire (12). VG took ten wickets in a match in the in 1976. 11.5”. Sold with a selection £60/90 1990 English season. Signatures are of miniature ‘Gunn & Moore. William (Northamptonshire), 444 ‘India 1996 Touring Squad’. Full size Gunn Autograph’ cricket bats with John Bracewell (New Zealand), cricket bat signed to the face by all facsimile printed signatures of Richard Davis (Kent), Neil Foster seventeen members of the India touring teams from 1947 to 1953, (Essex), Mark Frost (Glamorgan), touring party to England in 1996. The South Africa 1947, Australia 1948, David Graveney (Gloucestershire), bat with printed title label to top and M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948-49 Chris Lewis (Leicestershire), Malcolm player’s names. Signatures include (both teams), West Indies 1950 and Marshall (Hampshire), Min Patel Azharuddin (Captain), Tendulkar, Australia 1953. All in good/very

42 43 good condition. Qty 6 £40/60 in black ink to face by the all sixteen 1981 and for Derbyshire from 1982 members of the M.C.C. touring to 1984. He captained Yorkshire in Estimated to be 170 years old, party. Signatures are Hammond 1979 and 1980. Overseas, he was a the elm tree, situated inside the (Captain), Ames, Yardley, Goddard, successful captain of Tasmania in the Bridgford Road boundary wall, was Paynter, Edrich, Valentine, Verity, period before the state was included blown down in a gale in December Bartlett, Wilkinson, Hutton, Perks, in the Sheffield Shield. He was also 1976 Farnes, Wright, Gibbs, and the appointed President of Yorkshire 452 Bruce N. French. Nottinghamshire manager, A.J. Holmes, who played in County Cricket Club in 2016, serving & England 1976-1995. Original one tour match v Orange Free State. until his death in March 2017. He microphone stump from the England VG. Rare £120/160 scored 28,059 first class runs at an v Australia. World Series, Second average of 34.55 with 43 centuries The 1938/39 tour was notable for Final match played at the Sydney and a highest score of 183no. On his the ‘timeless’ Fifth and final Test Cricket Ground in 1987. The stump Test debut against the West Indies at of the tour played at Durban and has small hole to take the microphone Lord’s, he made a dashing 107 and lasted ten days before finishing as a (retrieved by the broadcasting he appeared set for a glittering Test draw due to the M.C.C. team having company). England won the Second career. He was the first Englishman to travel back to Cape Town to catch Final by 8 runs. Previously sold as to score a Test hundred on debut at the ‘Athlone Castle’ for home. The lot 160 in the Bruce French Benefit Lord’s. Strangely, he was dropped Test became known as ‘The Timeless’ auction of September 1991. Label after the next match, and faded away Test. England won the series 1-0 from the auction attached, signed by from the Test arena, making just half French. G/VG - cricket £40/60 455 Two ‘Don Bradman’ miniature bats a dozen more Test appearances for with printed signatures. One for the England. He was a first class umpire In the Second Final of the World Australia touring party to England from 1985 to 2005 and officiated in Series Cup at Sydney England batted 1948, the other, rarer, bat for the twenty one Test matches first and made a total of 187-9, in West Indies touring party to India reply Australia just fell short making 458 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, 1948. Both bats 17.25”. VG £30/40 179-8, Botham taking 3-26 from his Tasmania, Derbyshire & England ten overs 456 Facsimile signature miniature bats. 1961-1984. A pair of large studio Five miniature bats with facsimile portrait photographs of John 453 M.C.C. tour to Australia 1974/75. signatures. Stuart Surridge ‘Perfect’ Hampshire taken in 1961, his debut Miniature bat by ‘County’ of St. bat with signatures of England season for Yorkshire. The first, half Neots signed to the face by all and West Indies teams for the length, shows Hampshire wearing seventeen playing members of the 1967/68 tour to West Indies, 17”. Yorkshire first XI cap and blazer, M.C.C. touring party. Signatures Nicholls miniature bat of the 1938 the other, head and shoulders, include Denness (Captain), Edrich, Australia touring party to England, shows Hampshire in Yorkshire first Knott, Fletcher, Willis, Greig, Titmus, 11.5”. Gray Nicholls ‘ XI sweater. Each signed to the Amiss, Lever, Cowdrey etc. Also Autograph’ bat of the 1963 West back of mount by Hampshire. Each signed to the reverse by twelve Indies touring party to England, photograph measures 8”x10” and members of the Australian team 11.25”. Gray Nicholls ‘Richie Benaud overall with mount 12”x15”. Very for the first Test, Brisbane, 1st-4th Autograph’ bat of the 1964 Australia good condition £40/60 December 1974. Signatures are I. touring party to England, 11.25”. Chappell (Captain), Redpath, Marsh, 459 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, Nicholls ‘Keith Miller Autograph’ bat G. Chappell, Walters, Lillee, O’Keefe, Tasmania, Derbyshire & England of the 1953 Australia touring party to Edwards, Thomson, Walker and 1961-1984. Colour photograph of England, 11.5”. G £25/35 Edwards. Australia won by 166 runs. John Hampshire with a group of 17”. Previously sold as lot 237 in 457 ‘Skeleton Leg Guards’. Pair of early golfers including Garry Sobers at the Phillips sale of 20th April 1995. original late 19th century open ribbed a golf day, in photographs mount. Sold with a Symonds miniature bat (skeleton) cane and leather batting Signed by Hampshire and Sobers with thirty signature of cricketers, pads. Small loss to the leather of one to image and by Sobers to mount. celebrities, actors etc., possibly for ‘rib’, loss to lower straps, rusting to The photo measures 10.5”x8.5” a charity cricket match c. 1980s. buckles, otherwise in good condition and overall 12”x10”. Very good Cricketers’ signatures include Tom £80/120 condition £30/40 Graveney, Mike Denness, Denis JOHN HAMPSHIRE. YORKSHIRE & 460 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, Compton, Jack Simmons, Bob ENGLAND CRICKET COLLECTION Tasmania, Derbyshire & England Simpson, Brian Close, John Snow, 1961-1984. Mono press photograph Godfrey Evans etc. Others include John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, showing a group of five Yorkshire Henry Kelly, Nicholas Parsons, Chris Tasmania, Derbyshire & England cricketers sitting on a bench during Tarrant, Richard Stilgoe, Michael (1941-2017). John Hampshire, also a match in 1937. The photograph Parkinson, Robert Powell etc. 16”. known as Jack Hampshire, was includes John Hampshire (senior, Good signatures. Qty 2 £60/90 a first class cricketer and umpire, father of John Harry) who also who played eight Tests for England 454 M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1938/39 played for Yorkshire in 1937. The between 1969 and 1975. He played ‘The ’. Unbranded other cricketers are , cricket for Yorkshire from 1961 to miniature 17” cricket bat fully signed Arthur Mitchell, and

44 Arthur Wood. The photo measures sweater, by Luke Ayres, with black, authentication, signed by Hampshire 8.5”x5”. Some light creasing and gold and blue trimming to neck, and dated 2010. Good condition wear to photograph otherwise in waist and sleeves. Name tag to £70/100 good condition. Sold with a Yorkshire neck printed ‘John Hampshire’. 469 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, 2nd XI blazer pocket batch (White Sold with a letter of authentication, Tasmania, Derbyshire & England rose bud). This was treasured by John signed by Hampshire and dated 1961-1984. England ‘home’ Hampshire as his father made several 2010. Good condition £40/60 sleeveless sweater, by Simpson of appearances for the Yorkshire second 464 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, Piccadilly, worn by Barrington during eleven and made three appearances Tasmania, Derbyshire & England his Test playing career. The sweater for the first team. Sold with letters of 1961-1984. Derbyshire 1st XI with England emblem of the three authentication for each item, signed sleeveless sweater worn by lions and crown to chest. Name tag by Hampshire and dated 2010 Hampshire during his time with to neck printed ‘J. Hampshire’. Sold £50/70 Derbyshire. The sweater, by Luke with a letter of authentication, signed John Hampshire Senior made three Ayres, with trimming in county by Hampshire and dated 2010. Good appearances for Yorkshire in 1937. colours to neck and waist. Sold with condition £80/120 He also played professional football a letter of authentication, signed by 470 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, for Bristol City Hampshire and dated 2010. Good Tasmania, Derbyshire & England condition £40/60 461 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, 1961-1984. England ‘home’ long Tasmania, Derbyshire & England 465 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, sleeved sweater, by Simpson of 1961-1984. Centenary Test Tasmania, Derbyshire & England Piccadilly, worn by Barrington during 1877-1977 held in Australia. 1961-1984. Marylebone Cricket his Test playing career. The sweater Official presentation pack issued Club sleeveless sweater worn by with England emblem of the three to Hampshire for the Centenary Hampshire during his career. The lions and crown to chest. Name tag Test, Melbourne, 12th-17th March sweater with initialled emblem to neck printed ‘J. Hampshire’. Sold 1977, containing approximately ‘M.C.C.’ to chest. Sold with a letter of with a letter of authentication, signed forty items, the majority signed authentication, signed by Hampshire by Hampshire and dated 2010. Good by Hampshire. Items include and dated 2010. Good condition condition £80/120 correspondence, photographs and £40/60 471 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, negatives, presumably taken by 466 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, Tasmania, Derbyshire & England Hampshire, of the match, golf, Tasmania, Derbyshire & England 1961-1984. M.C.C. white long hotel, team group etc, Test lapel 1961-1984. England ‘One Day’ sleeved sweater for the M.C.C. v tickets, invitations to events, menus, international sleeveless sweater worn Rest of the World, Bicentenary match booklets, programmes, Hilton Hotel by Hampshire whilst playing for played at Lord’s in 1987. ‘M.C.C. accommodation list, newsletter, England. The sweater, by Simpson Bicentenary 1787-1987’ emblem tourist information of Melbourne etc, of Piccadilly’ with single blue lion embroidered to chest. Unused, with all contained within an official blue emblem to chest. Sold with a letter of labels attached. Very good condition. plastic holdall with Hampshire’s name authentication, signed by Hampshire Sold with a letter of authentication, to front. Contents in good condition. and dated 2010. Good condition signed by Hampshire and dated These were given to players and £50/70 2010 stating that he was the reserve invitees only for the celebration of umpire for the match. Plus a blazer the Centenary. G £40/60 467 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, pocket patch for the game £50/70 Tasmania, Derbyshire & England 462 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, 1961-1984. M.C.C. sleeveless Only a limited number of sweaters Tasmania, Derbyshire & England sweater, by Bill Edwards of Swansea, were made for this special match. 1961-1984. Three blazer pocket with trimming in M.C.C. colours of patches taken from blazers worn 472 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, red, yellow and black to neck and by Hampshire from his playing and Tasmania, Derbyshire & England waist worn by Hampshire whilst umpiring careers. The patches are 1961-1984. M.C.C. white sleeveless on the England tour of Australia ‘M.C.C. tour of East Africa and the sweater for the M.C.C. v Rest of the in 1970/71. Sold with a letter of Far East 1970’, ‘England Counties XI World, Bicentenary match played at authentication, signed by Hampshire tour of West Indies 1974’ and I.C.C. Lord’s in 1987. ‘M.C.C. Bicentenary and dated 2010. Good condition World Cup 1999, England 99. I.C.C. 1787-1987’ emblem embroidered to £70/100 Umpire’. All three in good condition chest. Unused, with labels attached. and sold with letter of authentication 468 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, Very good condition. Sold with a for the umpire patch, signed by Tasmania, Derbyshire & England letter of authentication, signed by Hampshire and dated 2010 £50/70 1961-1984. M.C.C. long sleeved Hampshire and dated 2010 stating sweater, by Bill Edwards of Swansea, that he was the reserve umpire for 463 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, with trimming in M.C.C. colours of the match £50/70 Tasmania, Derbyshire & England red, yellow and black to neck, waist 1961-1984. Yorkshire 1st XI long Only a limited number of sweaters and sleeve worn by Hampshire whilst sleeved sweater worn by Hampshire were made for this special match. on the England tour of Australia during his Yorkshire career. The in 1970/71. Sold with a letter of 473 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire,

44 45 Tasmania, Derbyshire & England M.C.C. emblem, the tie, a little worn 1961-1984. M.C.C. Tour of Australia and distressed. Sold with a letter of 480 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, & New Zealand 1970/71. Official authentication, signed by Hampshire Tasmania, Derbyshire & England M.C.C. navy blue touring blazer and dated 2010 £80/120 1961-1984. Tasmanian state cricket with embroidered M.C.C. emblem 476 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, cap worn by Hampshire during his in silver of St George & Dragon of Tasmania, Derbyshire & England five years playing for the state team. England and below in scroll ‘Australia 1961-1984. International Cricket The green cap, by Philip Joseph, with & New Zealand 1970-1971’ to Council Umpires navy blue blazer, state emblem to front. ‘Hampshire’ breast pocket worn by Hampshire by Varteks International, worn by handwritten to inner label. Sold with on the tour. Trimming to pockets, Hampshire during his umpiring a letter of authentication, signed by sleeves and blazer edging in M.C.C. career. The blazer with ‘I.C.C.’ Hampshire and dated 2010. Good/ colours of yellow and red. The blazer emblem in silver to breast pocket. very good condition £100/150 by Simpson of Piccadilly. Sold with Sold with a letter of authentication, a letter of authentication, signed by 481 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, signed by Hampshire and dated Hampshire and dated 2010. Very Tasmania, Derbyshire & England 2010. Good/very good condition good condition £240/280 1961-1984. Derbyshire 1st XI cap £50/70 worn by Hampshire during his time This was Hampshire’s only M.C.C. 477 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, with the county. The navy blue cap tour. Under the captaincy of fellow Tasmania, Derbyshire & England with Derbyshire emblem to front. Yorkshireman, Ray Illingworth, he 1961-1984. Yorkshire Schools ‘J.H.H.’ handwritten to inner label. scored 463 runs on the tour, with Cricket Association cap (under 14) Sold with a letter of authentication, a highest score of 156no against worn by Hampshire during his early signed by Hampshire and dated Tasmania, and an average of 33.07. cricketing career. The navy blue cap, 2010. Some general wear, good Hampshire played in five of the eight by Ledesall, by Rawcliffes Ltd, with condition £70/100 Tests played on the tour. England white Yorkshire rose emblem and won the Test series by two Tests 482 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, initials ‘Y.S.C.A.’ below. Sold with a to nil and won one of the Tests in Tasmania, Derbyshire & England letter of authentication, signed by New Zealand, the other Test was 1961-1984. North v South cricket Hampshire and dated 2010. Some drawn. This was the first time since cap, by Hewitts of Croydon, worn general wear, good condition Jardine’s ‘Bodyline’ tour in 1932/33 by Hampshire during his playing £30/50 that England had won ‘the ashes’ in career. The white cap with central Australia 478 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, rose, with what appears to be dogs Tasmania, Derbyshire & England on either side, emblem to front and 474 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, 1961-1984. Yorkshire Cricket ‘N v S’ embroidered below. Sold with Tasmania, Derbyshire & England Federation cap (under 18) worn a letter of authentication, signed by 1961-1984. England navy blue home by Hampshire during his early Hampshire and dated 2010. Some blazer, by Simpson of Piccadilly, with cricketing career. The mid blue cap, general wear, good condition. It is embroidered emblem in white of the by Beante, with white Yorkshire rose not known when Hampshire wore three lions and crown of England to emblem and wording ‘Yorkshire this cap £50/80 breast pocket worn by Hampshire Cricket Federation’ above and whilst representing England. The 483 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, below. ‘J. Hampshire’ handwritten blazer by Simpson of Piccadilly. Tasmania, Derbyshire & England to inner label. Sold with a letter of Sold with a letter of authentication, 1961-1984. Marylebone Cricket authentication, signed by Hampshire signed by Hampshire and dated Club navy blue cricket cap worn by and dated 2010. Some general wear, 2010. Good/very good condition Hampshire during his playing career. good condition £40/60 £200/300 The cap with initialled emblem Hampshire played for the Yorkshire ‘M.C.C.’ to front. Typed name tag John Hampshire played in three Cricket Federation XI in 1957 and to inside printed ‘J.H. Hampshire’. home Test matches, his first two in 1958 The cap with general wear and some 1969 against the West Indies where discolouration to emblem otherwise he scored 107 on debut at Lord’s and 479 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, in good condition. Sold with a his last against Australia in 1975 Tasmania, Derbyshire & England letter of authentication, signed by 1961-1984. Yorkshire 2nd XI cap 475 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, Hampshire and dated 2010 £70/100 worn by Hampshire during his Tasmania, Derbyshire & England cricketing career with the county. The 484 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, 1961-1984. Marylebone Cricket navy blue cap, by Herbert Sutcliffe Tasmania, Derbyshire & England Club navy blue blazer, by Simpson of of Leeds, with white Yorkshire rose 1961-1984. Marylebone Cricket Piccadilly, worn by Hampshire during bud emblem to front. ‘J. Hampshire’ Club navy blue cricket cap worn by his playing career. The blazer with handwritten to inner label. Sold with Hampshire during his playing career. initialled emblem ‘M.C.C.’ to breast a letter of authentication, signed by The cap with initialled emblem pocket. Name tag to inside printed Hampshire and dated 2010. Some ‘M.C.C.’ to front. The cap with ‘J Hampshire’. Good/very good general wear, good condition some general wear otherwise in condition. Sold with his M.C.C. tie, £50/70 good condition. Sold with a letter of by Simpson of Piccadilly, with similar authentication, signed by Hampshire

46 and dated 2010 £70/100 a highest score of 156no against Larwood on piece. Some light fading Tasmania, and an average of 33.07. and minor staining otherwise in good 485 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, Hampshire played in five of the eight condition £60/90 Tasmania, Derbyshire & England Tests played on the tour. England 1961-1984. Marylebone Cricket Previously sold by Knights in 2007 won the Test series by two Tests Club navy blue cricket cap worn by to nil and won one of the Tests in 494 William Arnold Sime. Hampshire during his playing career. New Zealand, the other Test was Nottinghamshire 1935-1950. The cap with initialled emblem drawn. This was the first time since Nottinghamshire C.C.C. 1st XI cap ‘M.C.C.’ to front. Good/very good Jardine’s ‘Bodyline’ tour in 1932/33 worn by Sime during his playing condition. Sold with a letter of that England had won ‘the ashes’ in career. The navy blue blazer, by Willis authentication, signed by Hampshire Australia Walker of Keighley, with excellent and dated 2010 £70/100 raised embroidered Nottinghamshire 488 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, 486 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, emblem with ‘Notts’ below to front. Tasmania, Derbyshire & England Tasmania, Derbyshire & England ‘W.A. Sime’ handwritten in black ink 1961-1984. England white short 1961-1984. England One Day to inside lining. Odd small moth hole, sleeved shirt worn by Hampshire International navy blue cricket some wear and fading to emblem, whilst representing England. The cap worn by Hampshire in the first slight warping to peak otherwise in shirt, by Lyle & Scott, with England ever played good condition £100/150 emblem to chest pocket. Good/very between Australia and England, good condition £40/60 William Sime was a South held at the Melbourne Cricket African-born English barrister and Ground on the 5th January 1971. CRICKET ATTIRE, CAPS, BLAZERS judge who also played first-class The cap, by Michael of Chatham, AND TIES cricket for Nottinghamshire whom with single white lion to front. Very 489 India. White sleeveless Test cricket he joined in 1935 and stayed with minor wear otherwise in good/very sweater with trimming in Indian them until 1950, captaining the club good condition. Sold with a letter of colours to neck and waist. New in in his final three years authentication, signed by Hampshire bag, ownership unknown. Size 44”. and dated 2010. A rare cap from 495 Everton de Courcy Weekes. Barbados G £30/50 the inaugural One Day International & West Indies 1944/45-1963/64. match £200/300 490 Michael Hussey. Durham 2005 & West Indies maroon cloth Test Australia 2005-2013. Blue Durham cap, by Simpson of Piccadilly, with Australia won the first ever One one day shirt worn by Hussey during embroidered West Indian emblem Day International by five wickets, his time playing for Durham. The to front. The inner label to cap has Hampshire batting at number shirt, with ‘Hussey’ and ‘1’ to back handwritten in ink ‘E. Weekes’. The five made 10, being out and signed over the ‘1’ by Hussey, cap peak in distressed condition, with McKenzie, bowled Mallet. John is framed and mounted with images major moth damage to the peak, Hampshire played in three One Day of Hussey and his signature on white the main body of the cap in better Internationals in total for England. card. Framed and glazed. Overall condition though still with some small Although Hampshire batted at five 31.5”x40”. VG £50/80 evidence of moth damage. From the for England, he is listed as number Mike Smith Cricket Collection 6 in the listing of England One Day 491 . Surrey & England. £100/150 International players as that is listed Replica England I.C.C. Cricket World alphabetically. Cup South Africa 2003 blue cricket scored over 12,000 shirt with England emblem to chest runs in first class cricket at an average 487 John Harry Hampshire. Yorkshire, and ‘ENGLAND’ below. Red collar of 55.34 with a highest score of Tasmania, Derbyshire & England and trim. Mounted with a signed 304no. In Tests he averaged 58.61 1961-1984. M.C.C. Tour of photograph of Stewart below. with a highest score of 207 Australia & New Zealand 1970/71. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall M.C.C. navy blue touring cap 496 Dennis Brian Close. Yorkshire, 28”x37”. VG £30/50 with embroidered M.C.C. emblem Somerset & England 1949-1977. in white and red of St George & 492 . Lancashire & England M.C.C. navy blue cloth Test touring Dragon of England to front worn by 1986-2005. Lancashire navy blue cap, by Simpson of Piccadilly, with Hampshire on the tour. The cap with cloth 1st XI cricket cap. The cap with embroidered touring emblem of Hampshire’s initials ‘J.H.H.’ to inner Lancashire emblem of a red rose. The St. George & Dragon. ‘D.B. Close’ label. Very minor wear and some cap was previously sold at a C.M.S. handwritten to inside label. A few discolouration to emblem otherwise auction held in 2010, with letter of moth holes to cap and peak, some in good/very good condition. Sold provenance plus receipt of purchase. wear to inner lining otherwise in with a letter of authentication, signed G £50/80 good condition. From the Mike by Hampshire and dated 2010. Smith Cricket Collection £150/250 493 Nottinghamshire mid blue county £150/250 1st XI cricket cap with county Brian Close went on two tours with This was Hampshire’s only M.C.C. emblem embroidered to front. Player the M.C.C. to Australia & New tour. Under the captaincy of fellow unknown. Inside the cap is a taped Zealand in 1950/51 and to Pakistan Yorkshireman, Ray Illingworth, he label with ‘Nottinghamshire C.C.C.’ in 1955/56 scored 463 runs on the tour, with and the ink signature of Harold

46 47 Brian Close played 22 Test matches drawn. Denness stood down from International Cricket Council for England from 1949-1976. In the captaincy and from playing due Umpires navy blue blazer, by Varteks 1949 at the age of 18 he became the to lack of form just prior to the start International, worn by Hartley youngest player to attain the double, of the fourth Test and John Edrich during his umpiring career. The the youngest to gain a Yorkshire took over for this match. Denness blazer with ‘I.C.C.’ emblem in silver County cap and the youngest to returned to the captaincy in the fifth to breast pocket. Sold with a letter represent England in Test cricket. He Test which was lost but, against all of authentication signed by Hartley scored almost 35,000 runs at 33.26 the odds, in the sixth Test England and dated 2020. Good/ very good and took over 1100 wickets at 26.42. beat Australia by an innings and four condition £50/70 He is famously remembered facing runs with Denness scoring 188 CRICKET PRINTS, ORIGINAL the West Indian fast bowlers in 1976 Note. The blazer for the 1974/75 ARTWORK & PAINTINGS having been recalled to the England tour did not have trimming to team at the age of 45. The interval 502 ‘The Victory Tests 1945’. Large pockets, sleeves and blazer edging in between Close’s first and last Test original pen and ink drawing/ M.C.C. colours matches was 27 years, the second- artwork, by the artist Cyril Price of longest after Wilfred Rhodes. Close PETER HARTLEY. WARWICKSHIRE, the Daily Sketch, showing caricatures died in September 2015 at the age YORKSHIRE & HAMPSHIRE of nine of the Australian players who of 84 years 1982-2000 took part in the Victory Tests against England played in 1945. Each has 497 Test and County Caps. A collection Peter John Hartley was a right arm his signature next to his caricature. of fourteen replica cloth caps of medium-fast bowler who made his The players featured all appeared in county cricket clubs in England and first-class debut for Warwickshire at least one of the five Test matches Wales with odd duplication. The in 1982 before moving to Yorkshire played during the period May to caps are for Derbyshire, Durham, in 1985. He ended his playing August 1945. Players featured are Hampshire (2, same design), career at Hampshire in 2000. Lindsey Hassett (Victoria. Cpt), Jim Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, In 2003 he became a first-class Workman (South Australia), Reg Ellis Middlesex ( 2, different designs), umpire officiating in six one day (S.A.), Keith Carmody (New South Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, internationals and three Wales), Ross Stanford (S.A.), Bob Somerset, Sussex and Worcestershire. internationals Christofani (N.S.W.), Cec Pepper In addition there are replica baseball 498 Peter John Hartley. Warwickshire, (N.S.W.), Graham Williams (S.A.) style caps of South Africa, England Yorkshire & Hampshire 1982-2000. and Stan Sismey (N.S.W.). Not Test and One Day International (2) Yorkshire navy blue first XI cloth signed by the artist. The artwork plus England caps with emblems in cricket cap with embroidered white measures 22”x8.5” and is mounted red and gold etc. Qty 22 Good/ rose emblem to front issued to with the original printed caricature very good condition £80/120 Hartley with his name handwritten which appeared in the Daily Sketch 497a Michael Henry Denness. Kent, Essex, to inside label. Very good condition on 21st August 1945 with heading England and Scotland 1962-1980. £70/100 ‘Sketches by Kim. Old Trafford M.C.C. tour of Australia and New sketches of some of the Australians 499 Peter John Hartley. Warwickshire, Zealand 1974/75. Official M.C.C. and autographed by them’. There Yorkshire & Hampshire 1982-2000. navy blue touring blazer with is also a small printed scorecard for Hampshire navy blue first XI cloth embroidered M.C.C. emblem in the 2nd Test played at Sheffield in cricket cap with embroidered white white of St George & Dragon of June 1945 mounted in the frame. rose and crown emblem to front England and below in scroll ‘Australia Vertical crease to the centre of the issued to Hartley with his name & New Zealand 1974-1975’ to original artwork, odd nicks to edges, handwritten to inside label. Sold with breast pocket worn by Mike Denness some soiling to the top corners of the a letter of authentication signed by on the tour. The blazer by Simpson of original artwork, the printed artwork Hartley and dated 2020. Very good Piccadilly. Good/very good condition has browned a little through age and condition, appears unworn £70/100 £120/160 being printed on war-time paper, 500 Peter John Hartley. Warwickshire, small evidence of press masking For the first time in several years, Yorkshire & Hampshire 1982-2000. otherwise in good condition. Overall the captaincy remained unchanged Hampshire woollen sleeveless 26”x17”. Excellent image. A rare for successive major tours. The sweater issued to Hartley. The surviving original cricket artwork tour selection was criticised, too sweater with Hampshire colours of from this war-time period £250/350 many fast bowlers and not enough navy blue, yellow and white to neck batsman, the selection of Denness as The Australian Services XI was and waist, with ‘Grolsch’ sponsor’s captain and the non selection of Jon a cricket team comprising solely logo to chest. Hartley’s initials Snow. In addition Boycott withdrew military service personnel during ‘P.J.’ to label’. Sold with a letter of stating he was not fit enough World War II. They became active authentication signed by Hartley and mentally to return to Test cricket. in May 1945 after the defeat of dated 2020. Very good condition Not good omens for the tour and it Germany. The team played matches £50/70 proved to be the case. England were against English cricket sides of destroyed by Lillee and Thomson 501 Peter John Hartley. Warwickshire, both military and civilian origins to and lost the series 4-0 with one Test Yorkshire & Hampshire 1982-2000. celebrate the end of the war. These

48 matches were aimed at increasing which raised 4,106 pounds], Abe Yorkshire’s victory over Lancashire morale in the war-ravaged English Waddington ‘Left hand bowler’ and at Headingley in August 1939 and cities and as a means of reviving Maurice Leyland ‘a splendid outfield’. Ellis Robinson’s match winning cricket after the conclusion of To the left hand side, Wilfred Rhodes bowling taking thirteen wickets in fighting. The end of the war marked ‘still an indispensable all-rounder’, the match. The artwork, 13.5”x14” the start of the 1945 cricket season. George Macaulay ‘a deadly fast is framed and glazed and has a label Plum Warner organised a series bowler’ and Edgar Oldroyd ‘well up to the lower border ‘Presented to the of matches between England and in the average table’. The main title Conisborough Cricket, Lawn Tennis Australian servicemen, known as the to the top third of the artwork. Nicely & Bowling Club by Butterworth of Victory Tests, to celebrate the end signed by the artist Machin ‘MAC ‘The Daily Dispatch’. The cartoon of hostilities. However, Australian 25’. The artwork is mounted, framed appeared in the Daily Dispatch on cricket administrators would not and glazed. The artwork measures the 9th August 1939. An excellent accredit the three-day matches as 20.5”x30” and overall 28.75”x38”. image £100/150 official Test matches, arguing that A very accomplished large artwork. The year 1939 was remembered there were not enough Test-level Some minor wear to the artwork for dull weather, a dry spring and a players in the armed services; Lindsay extremities otherwise in good/very very wet late summer and autumn. Hassett was the only Australian who good condition £300/500 In popular belief, if it rains on St. had Test experience The match, played on the 22nd-25th Swithin’s Day, it will rain for 40 Cyril Price, also known under the August 1925 was drawn, presumably days, which it appears to have done. pen names of ‘Gwynne’, ‘Kim’ because of rain, as the only ‘Jupiter Pluvious’ was the God of and ‘Spike’, was a Welsh artist, an completed innings was Surrey’s, they Rainstorms. ex-miner who, when the mines made 246-8 declared. Rhodes taking George Butterworth (1905-1988) closed, began contributing drawings four wickets and Macaulay three. worked as a British political, strip to the Bristol Evening World. From Yorkshire were 82 for no wicket and sports cartoonist, and later as a the 1930s he was a front page and at the end of the match, Sutcliffe book illustrator. During World War interior artist for the comic weeklies 53no. Yorkshire won the County II his cartoon Maltese Cross in the of the Amalgamated Press and Championship in 1925 and went Daily Dispatch gave groundswell worked on titles such as Illustrated through the entire season without to the island receiving the George Chips (Private Potts 1934), Comic defeat. Played 32 matches, winning Cross for heroism in April 1942. Cuts (Quip and Cranky 1934), 21 with eleven draws. Butterworth’s lampoons of Hitler Joker (Bert and Daisy 1937), Jolly George Douglas Machin (1893-1985) garnered him enough attention to (1938) and Butterfly (The Jolly Days served as a balloon observer in the place him on the dictator’s “Death 1939). Later he worked for the Daily First World War, and was awarded List.” An avid football supporter, Graphic and his work for this was the Distinguished Flying Cross. He he provided illustrations for the collected together for The Whisker’s also gained fame as a cartoonist for Manchester United F.C. programmes Annual. From 1944, the Daily Sketch his work on the soldiers newspapers, from 1933 until 1958. published Price’s political cartoons, ‘Blighty’ magazine. His output was who signed them Kim Ellis Pembroke Robinson. Yorkshire prolific and his signature, ‘Mac’ & Somerset 1934-1952 had match 503 Yorkshire ‘County Champions’ 1925. appeared on drawings in scores of figures of thirteen wickets for 125 ‘The Yorkshire Tyke Eleven- with no publications, big newspapers and runs, taking five wickets for eighty Fail !!. Meeting Surrey at the Oval- magazines including Tatler, Daily runs in the first and eight wickets To-day’. Very large and impressive Mirror etc. He drew war posters for thirty five runs in the second original artwork by artist MAC for the Government in both world innings. Yorkshire won the match (George Douglas Machin) in mixed wars. He illustrated several sporting by five wickets and won the County media, pen and ink, watercolour cigarette cards sets and the artwork Championship in 1939. Robinson and wash. The artwork features full for Chelsea football programme lived in Conisborough (near length caricatures of all eleven of covers during the 1930s. He died in Doncaster) for many years the Yorkshire players who played 1985 at the age of 92 in the match in various poses, each 505 ‘R.M.S. Osterley’. Small early original 504 Yorkshire v Lancashire, Headingley, with a brief description, with Major watercolour painting of the Orient August 1939. ‘My “Memory Arthur Lupton to centre, ‘this year’s Line ship painted by Major C.J. Card’ to Lancashire. The Big Three captain’, below him are Ellis Robinson Addison. (Ret) Royal Army Medical of 1939’. Original pen and ink, ‘preparing a puzzler’ and Arthur Corps & Surgeon P&O. August highlighted with colour, artwork for Dolphin ‘a stalwart keeper’, to the 1912. The painting on card measures a cartoon depicting Ellis Robinson, top border are ‘A brilliant first wicket 14”x4.75” with handwritten details ‘Saint Swithin’ and ‘Jupiter Pluvious’ pair’, Herbert Sutcliffe ‘the Australian in ink to verso. Some wear to standing on a bruised and battered bowlers bete noir’ [French for ‘black painting, generally good condition Lancashire cricketer drawn by artist beast’] and Percy Holmes ‘is also a £30/50 George Butterworth of The Daily capable sprinter’. To the right hand Dispatch and signed to the lower R.M.S. Osterley and her sister ship side Roy Kilner ‘still wearing that bottom right hand border, title to the Orsova regularly carried the benefit smile’ [had a Benefit in 1925 top border. The artwork relates to England and Australian teams across

48 49 the world on cricket tours England. Original large pastel study style of a cricket match in progress by artist Ken Taylor, Huddersfield in the grounds of Jesus College. The 506 ‘The Evolution of a Duck’s Egg’. Town, Yorkshire C.C.C & England, College building and large trees in Original hand drawn pen and ink of Boycott depicted full length in the background with two fielders in cartoon on a large album page. batting action, wearing England cap view to the lower right corner. Artist The illustration comprises four and sweater, playing an attacking unknown. Framed, overall 35”x30”. panels, the first of a batsman in an square drive. Signed by Taylor. VG £60/90 unconventional stance at the wicket, Mounted, framed and glazed, overall evolving through the following 517 ‘Owzat!’. Small attractive original 18”x24.5”. A nice depiction of panels to the number ‘0’. Initialled watercolour of a wicket keeper Boycott. VG £80/120 and dated ‘E.C.H.’, 16th February appealing by artist Hugh Cushing. 1911. 6”x8.5”. G £20/30 512 Maurice Leyland, Yorkshire & Mounted, framed and glazed. England. Original large pastel study Overall 7”x9”. VG £40/60 507 Cricket sketch c1900. Large original by artist Ken Taylor, Huddersfield pencil sketch of a cricket scene 518 Yorkshire. J.H. Dodgson. Town, Yorkshire C.C.C & England, of depicting two gentlemen walking ‘Yorkshire Evening Post’ cartoonist Leyland depicted full length standing out to bat, one donning his gloves, 1900/1920’s. Selection of six satirical at the crease, one hand resting on his bat under his arm. A fielder is looking original pencil cartoons drawn by bat, wearing a Yorkshire cap. Signed on expectantly. In the background Dodgson, using his pseudonym by Taylor, the signature obscured a large gathering of spectators are ‘Kester’, and featuring the ‘Yorkshire by the mount. Mounted overall in attendance in front of a marquee Tyke’. All feature cricket with heavy 17”x25.5”. VG £80/120 with a flag flying, and trees behind. Yorkshire cricket interest in the Signature in pencil to the top 513 Maurice Leyland, Yorkshire & race for the County Championship border, presumably the artist, of ‘W. England. Original large pastel study title circa 1908-1912. Cricketers Thompson’. Framed and glazed, by artist Ken Taylor, Huddersfield and teams featured in the cartoons overall 12”x19”. Horizontal and Town, Yorkshire C.C.C & England, include George Hirst, Wilfred Rhodes, vertical folds with some creasing, of Leyland depicted full length in Schofield Haig, David Denton, Wilson otherwise in good condition. A nice batting action wearing a Yorkshire of Yorkshire. Each cartoon is drawn image £50/80 cap, playing an attacking shot to leg. on pages measuring approximately Signed by Taylor. Mounted, framed 5.5”x8.5”. Odd nicks/small tears to 508 Brian Close, Yorkshire & England. and glazed, overall 18”x26”. VG page edges, general wear otherwise Original large pastel study by artist £80/120 in good condition £80/120 Ken Taylor, Huddersfield Town, Yorkshire C.C.C & England, of Close 514 Original artwork. White file Dodgson, using his pseudonym seated three quarter length in profile, comprising twenty one original pen ‘Kester’, and featuring the ‘Yorkshire wearing batting attire and smoking a and ink cartoons and caricatures, Tyke’ giving a forthright commentary cigarette. Boldly signed by Close and some with newspaper cuttings of on local affairs for twenty five years Taylor. Mounted, framed and glazed, the printed cartoon. Subjects include in the Yorkshire Evening Post making overall 17.5”x27”. VG £80/120 W.G. Grace, and player caricatures of ‘Kester’ a well known figure in the include Hendren, Woolley, Chapman, Leeds area. Dodgson died in 1953, 509 Len Hutton, Yorkshire & England. Carr, MacDonald, Sutcliffe, Hobbs, aged 80. Original large pastel study by artist Tate, Kilner etc. Artists include Clark, Ken Taylor, Huddersfield Town, The Yorkshire Tyke appears in Strube, Lester Dyke, Eric Thompson Yorkshire C.C.C & England, of Hutton nearly every one of the cartoons etc. Includes a small selection of depicted full length in batting action, drawn by Dodgson is normally printed leaflets and magazines, a wearing Yorkshire cap and sweater, dressed in archetypal flat cap, scarf small original watercolour of a village playing an attacking cover drive. and with trousers tied at the knee. cricket scene by Emily Little etc. G Signed by Taylor. Mounted, framed He is normally portrayed smoking £50/80 and glazed, overall 18”x24.5”. VG or holding a pipe which is always £80/120 515 ‘Pepper made the ball pop at pointing downwards Washbrook’. Original pen and ink 510 Darren Lehmann, South Australia, 519 Yorkshire. J.H. Dodgson. caricature, highlight with water Victoria, Yorkshire & England. ‘Yorkshire Evening Post’ cartoonist colour, of the image of (Cyril) Original large pastel study by artist 1900/1920’s. Selection of six satirical Washbrook (England) looking Ken Taylor, Huddersfield Town, original pencil cartoons drawn by startled as the ball bounces high Yorkshire C.C.C & England, of Dodgson, using his pseudonym from the bowling of the image of Lehmann depicted full length in ‘Kester’, and featuring the ‘Yorkshire (Cec) Pepper (Australia). Unsigned batting action, wearing Yorkshire Tyke’. All feature cricket with heavy but probably 1940-50’s period. The cap and sweater, playing an Yorkshire cricket interest in the caricature measures 10.5”x7.5”. attacking sweep shot. Boldly signed race for the County Championship Probably used for a newspaper/ by Lehmann and Taylor. Mounted, title circa 1908-1912. Cricketers magazine of the period. G £30/50 framed and glazed, overall 18”x27”. and teams featured in the cartoons VG £80/120 516 ‘Cricket at Jesus College, Cambridge’ include Schofield Haig, George Hirst, c1948. Attractive original oil on Major Booth, Sir Archibald W. White, 511 Geoffrey Boycott, Yorkshire & board painting in an ‘impressionist’ Wilfred Rhodes of Yorkshire, Kent

50 etc. Each cartoon is drawn on pages dated 1st December 1932 featuring condition. A rarer image £130/160 measuring approximately 5.5”x8.5”. cameos of the Australian team, Odd nicks/small tears to page edges, and a page taken from ‘The Star’, general wear otherwise in good 20th September 1934, reporting on 527 William ‘Hillyer. ‘Sketches at condition £80/120 Australia regaining the Ashes at The Lord’s No 3’, Kent & All England Oval. Some faults, generally good 1835-1853. Large original sepia 520 Yorkshire. J.H. Dodgson. condition £100/150 lithograph of Hillyer in cricket attire ‘Yorkshire Evening Post’ cartoonist holding a cricket ball, wearing a 1900/1920’s. Selection of three 523 ‘Hampshire C.C.C. A Centenary top hat with large house and other satirical original pencil cartoons drawn at Southampton’. Large mono cricketers to the background. by Dodgson, using his pseudonym print showing the faces and names Published by John Corbet Anderson ‘Kester’, and featuring the ‘Yorkshire of players who have played for and R. Dark, Lord’s Ground on 17th Tyke’. All feature Charles Burgess Fry Hampshire over the 100 years by July 1850, Printed by Hullmandel & (Sussex, Hampshire & England) circa Mike Tarr 1985. Signed to borders Walton. Window mounted, framed 1908-1912. Each cartoon is drawn by fifty four players including M. and glazed. Overall 16.75”21”. Odd on pages measuring approximately Marshall, Greenidge, Shackleton, minor marks otherwise in good/very 5.5”x8.5”. Odd nicks/small tears to R. Smith, Sainsbury, Tremlett, Holt, good condition. Excellent image page edges, general wear otherwise Harrison, Gilliat, Knott, Ingleby- £100/150 in good condition £50/70 Mackenzie, Heath, Connor, Cottam, Herman, C. Smith, Jesty etc. The 528 ‘Portraits of Alfred Mynn, Esqr. and 521 Yorkshire. J.H. Dodgson. odd signature on piece laid down. N. Felix Esqr. taken just previous to ‘Yorkshire Evening Post’ cartoonist 16”x24”. G £70/100 their playing the return single match 1900/1920’s. Selection of four for the Championship of England at satirical original pencil cartoons 524 ‘The County Ground Southampton’ Bromley, Kent. Septr. 29th 1846’. drawn by Dodgson, using his 1996. Original print by Terry Harrison Large lithograph of the two players, pseudonym ‘Kester’, and featuring signed in pencil to the lower border one holding a bat, the other a ball the ‘Yorkshire Tyke’. Players featured by the artist. Also signed in ink to after Nicholas Felix, drawn on stone include Meyrick Whitmore Payne the print by twenty seven Hampshire by C. Cousens and printed by C. Graf, (Cambridge & Middlesex), Gilbert and Nottinghamshire players for the highlighted with colour. Published by Jessop, Pelham Warner, Walter last match played at the ground on Messrs Bailey Brothers of Cornhill, Brearley, Thomas Wass (Notts) circa 20th September 2000. Signatures London. The lithograph has a repair 1908-1912. Each cartoon is drawn include R. Smith, Warne, Laney, to the top right hand area with tape on pages measuring approximately Udal, Prittipaul, Tremlett, Rice, to verso, some spotting to image and 5.5”x8.5”. Odd nicks/small tears to Read, Johnson, Welton, Tolley etc. some trimming to edge hence the page edges, general wear otherwise 17.5”x9”. Creasing, otherwise in low estimate given. The lithograph in good condition £60/90 good condition £30/50 measures 9.5”x15”. A rare and 522 Australia tour to England 1930. 525 Frank Stanley Jackson. Yorkshire famous image £200/300 ‘Supplement to the Sydney Mail’. & England 1890-1907. Excellent 529 ‘Clean Bowled’. Large original colour Complete set of fifteen full length photogravure of Jackson, former cricket caricature print with political action sepia tone portraits of the England Captain who played twenty interest on the ‘battle for home full Australian touring party, each Tests from 1893 to 1905, ‘stepping rule’ in Ireland from the original by with title and biographical text out to drive’, taken from the original Tom Merry. ‘St Stephen’s Review. to lower border. The numbered action photograph by George William Presentation Cartoon. May 14th supplements were issued weekly as Beldham. Signed to lower border by 1887’. With caption ‘Clean Bowled’, a supplement to the Sydney Mail, Jackson in pencil. Published by the ‘Randy (Randolph Churchill) How’s printed by John Fairfax & Sons, Swan Electric Engraving Company on That Umpire?’, W.E.G. (Gladstone) Sydney Australia 1930. Portraits are 1st September 1905. Light foxing to (Umpire) !’. Image of W.M. Woodfull, dated 12th February image and margins otherwise in very batsman (Parnell), with bat marked 1930, V.Y. Richardson 19th February, good condition. Mounted, framed ‘Treason’ being clean bowled Alan Kippax 26th February, W.H. and glazed in period frame, overall by a bowler dressed in a ‘Times’ Ponsford 5th March, T.W. Wall 12th 26”x34”. A classic image from the newspaper. 21”x14.5”. Vertical March, Alan Fairfax 19th March, £80/120 fold, some nicks to edges, very D.G. Bradman 26th March, E.L. 526 ‘Eton v Winchester’. Large hand minor loss to edges not affecting the a’Beckett 2nd April, Archie Jackson colour etching, by F.G. Stevenson image otherwise in good condition. 9th April, S.J. McCabe 16th April, A. after H. Jamyn Brook, showing Mounted, framed and glazed. Hurwood 23rd April, C.V. Grimmett a cricket match in progress with Overall 25.75”x20.25” £80/120 30th April, P.M. Hornibrook 7th May, spectators to fore and background. W.A. Oldfield 14th May, and C.W. 530 ‘Dr. W.G. Grace. Men of the Day’ Published by Dickinson & Foster, Walker 21st May. Each 11”x 15”. 1888. Large double page wood London, 2nd December 1889. Signed Odd tears to edges of some prints, engraving of Grace, head and by the two artists to lower margin. light foxing, otherwise in good shoulders, with title to lower border, Attractively mounted, framed and condition. Sold with a ‘Supplement from a photograph by Messrs Martin glazed, overall 31”x18.5”. Good to “The Western Mail”, Perth’ & Sallnow of the Strand. Mounted,

50 51 framed and glazed. Overall £40/60 innings, scoring 93 in a little over an 17.25”x24”. Light centre horizontal hour’. Mounted, framed and glazed, 535 ‘The All-England Eleven 1862’. Early fold. G £30/50 overall 13.5”x18.5”. Sold with an copy print of the England team original bookplate image of Jessop 531 ‘Grand Cricket Match played in laid to mount with hand printed taken from ‘Famous Cricketers and Lord’s Ground, Mary-Le-Bone on manuscript title and players’ names Cricket Grounds’. Mounted, framed June 20th & following day between to lower border. Players featured and glazed, overall 12”x17”. VG the Earl’s of Winchelsea & Darnley include H.H. Stephenson (Captain), £30/40 for 1000 Guinneas’. Original mono E. Stephenson, Mortlock, Spiers, line engraving showing the match in Wells, Iddison, Caffyn, Sewell, The first Test in the 1907 England v progress with title to lower border. Griffiths, Lawrence, Hearne etc. The South Africa series ended in a draw ‘Published July 1st 1793 by L. print measures 14.5”x9.5”. Framed 539 ‘Vanity Fair’. Vanity Fair colour Wheble, Warwick Square, London. and glazed, overall 20.5”x16.5”. chromolithograph of Ranjitsinhji. Cotemporary mount. Framed and Previously sold as lot 450 by Christie’s ‘Ranji’, August 26th 1897 by SPY, glazed. Overall 11”x9.5”. G Rare in the M.C.C. Bicentenary Auction, Robert Abel, Surrey & England £100/150 13th April 1987. G/VG £50/80 1881-1904, ‘Bobby’. June 5th 1902 532 ‘W.G. Grace. Champion Cricketer 536 Norman Walter Dransfield Yardley. by SPY, Andrew Ernest Stoddart. of the World’. Large cotton Cambridge University, Yorkshire & Middlesex & England 1885-1900, ‘A handkerchief commemorating a England 1935-1955. Large, original Big Hitter’. July 9th 1892 by Stuff, Century of Centuries by Grace. The and distinctive caricature print of Albert Nielson Hornby, Lancashire handkerchief has a central portrait Yardley full length in batting attire, & England 1867-1899, ‘Monkey’. of Grace three quarter length in in bold black ink by Fred Midgley. August 15th 1891 by STUFF and cricket attire holding a cricket bat, Mounted, framed and glazed, overall Hon Frank Stanley Jackson, Surrey with biography and record of each 15.5”x19.5”. Sold with a large print & England 1890-1907, ‘A Flannelled individual score and opponents to of a caricature of , Fighter’. August 28th 1902 by Spy. outer border. Decorated with cricket head and shoulders, by ‘Bass’. Pencil All framed and glazed, various sizes. bats and balls in a floral outer border. inscription to lower portion, ‘Wally Qty 5. G £80/120 Produced in 1895 the handkerchief Hammond. Bristol Evening World 540 Cricket prints, supplements etc. is printed in the black print and has 1946’. Mounted, framed and glazed Selection of seven framed images some foxing, the majority to the top 16.5”x20.5”. Qty 2. VG £30/50 including ‘Some Representative third of the handkerchief otherwise 537 ‘Marylebone Cricket Club - The New Cricketers’. Supplement to the in good condition. Framed and Pavilion at Lord’s. Thomas Verity, Graphic July 1895, ‘Captain of the glazed. Overall 22.5”x22”. Sold with Architect’. Limited edition print Eleven’ Pears advertising cricket a framed selection of cricket prints produced from the original engraving print, of the boy cricketer batting in including ten smaller framed ‘Punch’ from ‘The Architect’ 1st November the garden, after the Mezzotint by cricket cartoons, one golf, published 1889. ‘Presented on the occasion Philip Calderon 1883, All framed and in the Punch magazine 1920/30’s, of the Centenary of the Pavilion, at glazed, one with cracked glass. Large some highlighted with colour, plus the launch of the Gestetner Tour of head scarf ‘Jacqmar Sketch-book bookplate team and player images Lord’s, 1st May 1990’. Limited edition at Lord’s’, Roger Iddison, Yorkshire and two further images of Grace, of 1000 copies. Mounted, framed & Lancashire 1853-1976, full page one a copy photograph. Qty 26 and glazed, overall 29”x18.5”. VG engraving taken from the Illustrated £60/90 £60/90 Sporting News 1864, limited edition 533 ‘A Good Catch’. Large hand print of Darren Gough and Len 538 Gilbert Laird Jessop. Gloucestershire, coloured mono print, taken from Hutton, limited edition print of World Cambridge University & England ‘The Illustrated London News 14th Cup 1999 at Edgbaston, signed by 1894-1914. Large original magazine September 1889, of a ladies cricket Galsworthy etc. Good condition or bookplate image, assumed to match from the original by artist £30/40 be from Illustrated London News, Lucien Davis 1889. Caption reads dated 6th July 1907, titled, ‘Jessop’s 541 ‘The Cricketer Song. A song ‘Lady Cricketers. A Good Catch’. Extraordinary Play Against South dedicated to The Cricket Clubs of Mounted, framed and glazed. Africa in the first Test Match’. The the United Kingdom’ written and Overall 23”x16.5”. Sold with a montage features Jessop to centre composed by W.J. Bullock. Printed similar framed print heightened with surrounded by five captioned images by Weippert & Co of Regent Street, colour of ‘Cricket Match at Lord’s: including ‘Dr. Grace inspecting the 1869. Original front cover of the Middlesex v Notts- Shrewsbury wicket’, ‘The two captains’, ‘Hayward music score with colour lithograph to caught out by Phillips’. Overall & Fry batting’, Autograph hunters’, front cover showing William Clarke, 19”x15”. G £25/25 and ‘The inevitable telegraph boy’. Fuller Pilch and the Lord’s and the 534 ‘Lord’s Cricket Ground’. Original To the sides, nine images of England Oval cricket grounds to corners, coloured lithograph by William players including Hayward, Tyldesley, and a central vignette of the singer Mackenzie, London. ‘Book of Field Arnold, Hirst, Blythe, Fry etc. The T. Maclagan. Mounted, framed Sports’ circa 1860. Mounted, framed caption to the lower border describes and glazed 15”x20”. An excellent and glazed, overall 14”x12”. G Jessops feat of ‘a magnificent decorative image £30/40

52 542 John Hawkins prints 1988/89. Three overall 24”x31”. G/VG £30/40 large framed mono copy photograph large colour prints from original of the Yorkshire team 1930s. Qty 5. 546 Don Bradman. Colour print of artworks of cricketers by John VG £40/60 Bradman and Ponsford walking Hawkins in the manner of Chevallier out to bat at The Oval, 1934, 550 ‘Geoff Boycott, Yorkshire & England’. Tayler, each signed in pencil to the from the original oil painting by Limited edition print of Boycott, head border by the artist. Subjects are K.S. Wes Walters, 1998. Published by and shoulders, wearing Yorkshire Ranjitsinhji, , and W.G. . Signed cap. Limited edition 57/850, Grace, each with a printed sheet of in ink by Bradman and the artist. signed by Boycott and the artist M. biographical notes on the featured Limited edition no. 527/1000. Stead in pencil. Published by Art player. Each measures 19”x13.25”. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall Graphics. Excellent image of Boycott. Sold with a similar unsigned print of 23.5”x30.5”. VG £40/60 Mounted, framed and glazed, Denis Compton, 15.5”x21”. Qty 4. overall 19”x24”. Sold with ‘Geoff G/VG £30/50 547 Gerald Broadhead. Set of twelve Boycott’s Century of Centuries’ lithograph prints of famous cricketers 543 ‘The Centurions’. commemorative handkerchief for produced by Broadhead, printed in & Alec Stewart. Limited edition prints the 1977 Test match at Headingley green ink. Originally published in from the original portraits of the two v Australia where Boycott scored his The Cricketer in 1983. Prints are of cricketers by Slade School of Art 100th ‘100’. Signed to the mount by Bradman, Marsh, Thomson, Clive artist, Andy Pankhurst, commissioned Boycott. Framed and glazed, overall Lloyd, Garner, Viv Richards, Old, by M.C.C. in 1999 as part of an 20”x19”. VG. Qty 2 £50/70 Brearley, Botham, Knott, Gooch and initiative to depict cricketers during Willis. Also two further numbered 551 ‘Geoff Boycott, Yorkshire & England’. their careers. The two cricketers are limited edition Broadhead prints, Limited edition print of Boycott, head each depicted in reflective mood printed in black ink, of Gatting no. and shoulders, wearing Yorkshire wearing M.C.C. sweaters and sitting 22/250, and Botham no. 40/150. All cap. Limited edition 715/850, signed in the stands. The two portraits are prints signed in pencil by the artist. by Boycott and the artist M. Stead window mounted with the signatures Qty 14. VG £40/60 in pencil. Published by Art Graphics. of both players in ink and a limited Excellent image of Boycott. Framed edition scorecard for the England 548 ‘Sir Donald Bradman’ by Alan and glazed, overall 15”x21”. Some v West Indies Test match played Fearnley. Excellent colour limited staining to lower corner. Also a at Old Trafford in August 2000. edition print of Bradman batting in striking colour print of Darren Limited edition 64/210. Framed and Australian cap. Published by ‘The Gough in bowling action from the glazed overall 24”x15”. Sold with Quorn Fine Art Co, Loughborough, original painting by Christina Pierce. ‘Lord’s Pavilion’. Colour print by England 1980’. Nicely signed in Signed by the artist and Gough. David Gentleman 1986. Framed and pencil by Don Bradman and the Mounted, 20”x16”. Sold with a glazed, 25”x19.5”. Qty 2. VG artist Alan Fearnley. Limited edition commemorative print for Darren £30/40 no. 63/850. Mounted, framed and Lehman’s record score in a Roses glazed, overall 20”x24”. Sold with a 544 The Oval. Darren Bicknell Benefit match of 252 in 2001, signed by montage of window mounted items Year 1999. Large colour print of a Lehmann, limited edition no. 71/500, comprising a sheet of Don Bradman panoramic view of the The Oval and a framed scorecard of Yorkshire’s ‘Wisden Cricketers of the Century’ pavilion and match in progress by the victory over Nottinghamshire which stamps issued in Grenada, West artist, Terry Harrison, commissioned confirmed Yorkshire as County Indies in 2000, printed extracts of in 1999 for Darren Bicknell’s benefit Champions in 2014. Signed to the Wisden articles on Bradman, copy year. Limited edition no. 20/100. mount by the Captain, Andrew Gale. scorecard, photographs etc. Limited Signed in pencil to the borders by Qty 4. G/VG £50/70 edition no. 53/974, produced on the artist and Bicknell and twenty Bradman’s death in 2001. Framed 552 South Africa 1994. ‘A Small Step four other Surrey players. Signatures and glazed, overall 20”x27”. Qty 2. for Kepler’. Large colour limited include Patterson, Knott, Brown, VG £100/150 edition print depicting Kepler B. Hollioake, A. Hollioake, Thorpe, Wessels leading the first ever fully Ward etc. Mounted, framed and 549 Yorkshire C.C.C. Limited edition representative South African team glazed, overall 33”x24”. G/VG print of ‘Yorkshire v Lancashire. down the pavilion steps at Lords £40/60 Final Match at , for the historic test match against Sheffield, 4th, 6th, 7th Aug 1973’ 545 Derek Randall. Nottinghamshire & England on July 21st 1994 by artist by Terry Gorman 1988, no. 37/250. England. Large colour print of Randall Richard Ryall 1994. South Africa won Mounted, framed and glazed from an original by Theodore Ramos, the test by a record 356 runs. Signed 26.5”x19.5”. Limited edition print published by the Tryon Gallery, by the South African touring party no. 338 of 573 produced in honour London 1978. Limited edition no. to lower border. Twenty signatures of Wilfred Rhodes, 1877-1973. 425/500. Randall is depicted three in pencil including Donald, Cronje, Framed and glazed, 24”x22”. Two quarter length with a bat resting on Rhodes, Cullinan, Wessels etc, also framed prints of Len Hutton in similar his shoulder, the Trent Bridge pavilion signed by the artist. Limited edition batting poses, one in pencil by P. in the background. Signed to the no. 191/950. 23.5”x20”. VG £30/50 Hooper signed by Hutton, the other lower border by Randall and the in colour by Peter Menin. Sold with a 553 ‘Lord’s Cricket Ground’. Alan artist. Mounted, framed and glazed,

52 53 Fearnley. Large limited edition colour and glazed, 28”x24.5” overall. cards, a large framed limited edition print produced to commemorate the Very good condition. Sold with print of ‘Scenes at Lord’s’ by David Centenary Test in 1980, England v ‘Middlesex Captains 1965-1998’, Gentlemen, 90/195 and three large Australia. Signed to lower border a limited edition print depicting colour limited edition prints of by the England team from that the five Captains, Titmus, Parfitt, Graham Gooch by artist John Dunne. game. Twelve signatures including Brearley, Gatting and Ramprakash Each limited edition and signed by Botham, Gower, Boycott, Old, by John Sims 1998, signed by all five Gooch and the artist plus three other Gooch, Gatting, Bairstow etc. players and the artist, limited edition framed cricket items. Qty 10. G Limited edition 826/850. Also signed 7/250 prints, a very attractively £50/80 by the artist Fearnley. Published in mounted and framed set of fifty END OF DAY ONE 1980. Attractively mounted, framed ‘Players Cricketers 1934’ cigarette

Saturday 6th March 2021 10.30am CRICKET PHOTOGRAPHS, SCORECARDS, WISDENS & CRICKET BOOKS

CRICKET PHOTOGRAPHS after England had sealed victory mainly Test and tour matches, social by 289 runs, large crowds cheering engagements, travel etc. Five images 554 Australia tour of England 1926. the England team’s victory in front from the first Test held at Trent Fifth Test, The Oval. An excellent of the pavilion, Larwood in his Bridge, Nottingham, include three selection of thirty five original mono bowling action, Lord Harris arriving large images of Woodfull losing his and sepia press photographs from at the ground, players taking a drinks leg stump to Farnes, players running the final Test played at The Oval, break, and a number of general off the pitch for rain, and Chapman 14th-18th August 1926. Images scenes of the match in progress etc. leading his victorious England team from England’s first innings include Publishers are Central News and The off the pitch through the crowds, Hendren bowled Gregory for 8, Times. Various sizes from 10”x8” also Hobbs taking a catch to dismiss Maurice Tate being bowled out by to 6.5”x4.75”. G/VG. Sold with a Fairfax, and Wall being bowled by Grimmett, Sutcliffe being hit in the further selection of ten original sepia Tyldesley to close Australia’s first face off the bowling of Mailey, Geary press photographs (two candid) innings for 144. England won by 93 being run out for 9, and Rhodes from the 1926 tour including match runs. Twenty six images from the caught by Oldfield off Mailey to close action from the Trent Bridge and Old second Test at Lord’s include various England’s innings at 280. Australia’s Trafford Tests, tour matches v Minor scenes of match action and large first innings includes Ponsford run Counties at Holyport, v Middlesex, crowds in attendance, two of Clarrie out for 2 by England wicketkeeper, Lord’s (three photographs), v M.C.C. Grimmett in his bowling action etc. Strudwick, and Andrews’ off stump at Lord’s etc. Odd faults, otherwise in A number of photographs feature sent cartwheeling by Larwood. good condition £300/400 Tim Wall and may have come from Photographs from England’s second Wall’s personal collection. Australia innings include Going in to the fifth and final Test won the second Test by seven congratulating Jack Hobbs on the series was level at 0-0, the first wickets. Five images from the third reaching his century, Herbert Sutcliffe four matches all having being drawn. Test at Headingley depict Hobbs on his dismissal, bowled by Mailey With England having scored 280 and and Sutcliffe walking out to bat, for 161, and another of Sutcliffe Australia 302 in their first innings, Duleepsinhji bowled by Hornibrook, leading the players off the field England appeared to be in some Hammond caught by Oldfield at the through the crowds on his dismissal difficulty batting on a sticky wicket wicket, bowled McCabe for 113, at the close of the third day’s play, after heavy rain. However, Hobbs Jackson caught by Larwood off Tate Woolley l.b.w. bowled Richardson, a and Sutcliffe put on an opening for 1, and Tate bowling to Woodfull. jubilant Oldfield taking the catch to partnership of 172 before Hobbs was From the fifth and final Test at The dismiss Geary for 1, Larwood bowled out for exactly 100, Sutcliffe going Oval, five images of Wall bowling Mailey for 5, and the dismissal of last on to make 161, and England ended to Duleepsinhji, Sutcliffe driving off man Strudwick caught Andrews at their second innings at 436 leaving Wall, Grimmett playing a cut shot slip off Mailey to close the innings Australia needing 414 to clinch the off Hammond, Woodfull scoring a at 436. Australia’s second innings series. However, four wickets from boundary off Peebles, and an aerial features Larwood taking a brilliant Wilfred Rhodes and three from view of the ground on the eve of catch at gully to dismiss Ponsford Harold Larwood led England to the Oval Test. Sold with a further off Rhodes, Oldfield bowled Stevens dismiss Australia for 125 and victory selection of fourteen photographs for 23, Rhodes bowling in his cap, by 289 runs to regain The Ashes from the tour including an excursion and Gregory playing a forcing shot. 555 Australian tour of England 1930. A to Pompeii en route to England, Other images from the match depict nice collection of fifty five sepia and meeting King George V and Queen the England slip cordon crouching as mono original press photographs Mary at Windsor, the Australian the bowler runs in, Rhodes making including some candid photographs team visiting Lord and Lady Forster his way through the spectators from the 1930 tour featuring at their home during the tour match

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