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Bennett Golf Kevin McGimpsey Saleroom Director Alexander Clement Clocks & Barometers Chris Jarrey General Sporting Memorabilia Lots 1 - 49 3• W A Collection of Wisdens Cricket Almanacks 1937, 1946-2005 A collection of 66 Wisden publications including almanacks 1937 softback, 1946 to 1983 softback, 1984 to 2002 hardback with dust jackets, 2003 softback; ‘The Wisden Papers 1888-1946’, ‘The Wisden Book of Cricket Quotations’, Wisden Anthologys for 1900-1940, 1940-1963, 1963-1982 x 2 and ‘The Wisden Book of Obituaries’. 2 £300 - 400 4• W A collection of Wisdens cricket almanacks 1864 to 2009 Includes 1864 to 1878 softback facsimiles, 1879, 1880 and 1881 softbacks, 1882 and 1883 hardback Willows reprints, 1884 rebound hardback, 1885 to 1887 hardback Willows reprints, 1888 softback, 1889 hardback, 1890 hardback, 1891 hardback, 1988 Willows reprint, 1892 softback, 1893 softback, 1894 softback, 1895 hardback rebound with covers, 1896 rebound hardback, 1897 softback, 1898 softback, 1899 softback, 1900 softback, 1901 - 1909 rebound hardbacks, 1910 - 1915 softbacks, 1916 hardback, 1917 - 1920 softbacks, 1921 softback, 1922 hardback, 1 1923 softback, 1924 hardback, 1925 hardback, 1926 softback, 1927 - 1929 softbacks, 1930 to 1939 hardbacks, 1940 to 1946 softbacks, 1947 hardback, 1948 hardback, 2 1949 hardback, 1950 - 1952 softbacks, 1953 A silver tea set presented to Harry hardback 1954 - 66 softbacks, 1967 - 71 Makepeace by Lancashire C.C.C. softbacks , 1972 hardback, 1973 - 80 softbacks A silver three piece tea service, teapot, milk , 1981 hardback, 1982 softback, 1983, 1984 jug and sugar bowl, possibly Charles Edwards hardbacks, 1985 softback, 1986 hardback, of London 1927/28, of compressed circular 1987 - 91 softbacks , 1992, 1993 hardback, form, lightly hammered decoration flanked 1994 softback, 1995, 1996 hardback, 1997 by bifurcated handles on three hoof feet, the softback, 1998 - 2009 hardbacks. teapot bearing inscription ‘To Harry Makepeace from the committee of The Lancashire County duplicates include; Cricket Club in appreciation of 23 years invaluable service 1928’. 1879 hardback Willows reprint £800 - 1,000 1888 hardback Willows reprint 7 1892 to 1906 hardback Willows reprints Joseph William Henry Makepeace (1881 - 1916 hardback Willows reprint Cricket 1952) appeared for his country four times at 1917 hardback Willows reprint 1 each of cricket and football, making him one 1918 hardback Willows reprint 1897 Silver cigarette box - West Indies of just 12 people to achieve this accolade. 1919 hardback Willows reprint England cricket tour Makepeace played in four Tests for England in Engraved to lid ‘ENGLAND V BARBADOS the 1920/21 Ashes while his first class career 1950 softback covers soiled JANUARY 1897’, hallmarked, silver. This box with Lancashire lasted from 1906 to 1930. 1951 softback covers soiled was likely to have been presented to a member He was associated with Lancashire C.C.C. 1952 softback covers soiled of the touring party as a memento. for forty-six years. Altogether he scored in Size approx. 135 x 80 x 45mm. first-class cricket 25,745 runs, average 36.15, 1988, 1989 hardbacks £300 - 400 including forty-three centuries. Ten times he 1976 softback obtained more than 1,000 runs in a season, 1978 - 80 softbacks A team of amateurs toured the West Indies in his best being in 1926 when his aggregate the 1896-97 season playing matches between reached 2,340 and his average 48.75. As a Australian Wisdens; January and March 1897. They played a total member of J. W. H. T. Douglas’s M.C.C. Team of 16 matches of which 9 are regarded as in Australia in 1920-21, he took part in four 1998 hardback Australian Wisdens first class. A party of 13 was taken under the Test matches. For twenty years Makepeace was 1999 hardback Australian Wisdens captaincy of Mr. A. A. Priestley. The team left coach to the Lancashire Club. As a footballer 2000/01 hardback Australian Wisdens Southampton on December 30 and arrived he played right half-back for Everton, and he 2001/02 hardback Australian Wisdens back in England on April 14. Matches played v represented England against Scotland in 1906, 2002/03 hardback Australian Wisdens Barbados on January 13, 14. 1910 and 1912, and against Wales in 1912. He 2004/05 hardback Australian Wisdens was a member of the Everton team which won £12,000 - 15,000 the F.A. Cup Final at the Crystal Palace in 1906 and lost that of 1907. 4 | Bonhams 12 10 5 9 Boxing A hand signed M.C.C. cricket bat and A collection of mainly cricket badges - Counties signed bat J.W.H.T.Douglas 12 A William Gunn Superior Extra Special full size 13 badges, Fitzroy Cricket Club 1925/26, A Muhammad Ali hand signed boxing cricket bat, hand signed to the reverse by the 1921/22, South Melbourne Cricket Club glove M.C.C. team circa 1928 including Larwood, 1922/23 x 2, Caulfield Cricket Club A red everlast left hand boxing glove hand Hobbs, Sutcliffe, and Woolley, framed and 1921/22, Sydney Cricket Ground 1920/21, signed in black marker by Muhammad Ali.