Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 2 Tuesday 14 May 2013 10:30
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Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 2 Tuesday 14 May 2013 10:30 Graham Budd Auctions Ltd Sotheby's 34-35 New Bond Street London W1A 2AA Graham Budd Auctions Ltd (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 2) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 335 two 1937 Wimbledon and a 1939 Two framed 1929 sets of Dirt West Ham league match, plus Track Racing cigarette cards, 1939 Droitwich grass track; 'Thrills of the Dirt Track', a together with a 1933 and 1935 complete photographic set of 16 issue of Speedway Gazette, given with Champion and three 1935 Speedway Mirror, Triumph cigarettes, each card including Vol 1 No 1, a scrapbook individually dated between April with 18 pages of 1938 speedway and June 1929, mounted, framed press cuttings, and two Veteran and glazed, 38 by 46cm., 15 by Dirt Track Riders Association 18in., 'Famous Dirt Tack Riders', signed menu cards, the 20 rider an illustrated colour set of 25 signatures including Eric Chitty, given with Ogden's Cigarettes, Bill Kitchen, Eric & Oliver each card featuring the portrait Langton, Frank Varey (42) and signature of a successful February 1928 saw the first 1928 rider, mounted, framed and British dirt track meeting held at glazed, 33 by 48cm., 13 by 19in., High Beech in Epping Forest. By plus 'Speedway Riders', a similar the end of the year fifty such late-1930s illustrated colour set venues were operational. One of of 50 given with Player's them was Fullerton Park, next Cigarettes, mounted, framed and door to Leeds United FC in glazed, 51 by 56cm., 20 by 22in.; Elland Road, where the home sold with three small enamelled team was awarded the very first metal speedway supporters club English League title in 1929. pin badges for the New Cross, Eight of the Leeds programmes Wembley and West Ham teams included here have 'F.O. and various 1950-60s Langton' marked atop the first programmes for nine motorcycle page, the same name as the races, sixteen Bolton-Le-Moors Clerk of the Course and father of Car Club Driving Tests and a Leeds riders Eric and Oliver French velodrome derny event Langton. (qty.) Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 Lot: 337 Lot: 336 Rare wartime Belle Vue WITHDRAWN FROM SALE Speedway programmes & 24/4/13 - Two rare 1928, ten bulletins, a collection comprising 1929 and nineteen 1930s seven 1940 and two 1941 with speedway programmes, colour covers, three 1941 and comprising a Belle Vue four 1942 self-cover, thereafter Speedway 4th September 1928 18+16 separate 1943 single-folded sheet, a White City programmes & bulletins, 24+23 Speedway (London) 10th 1944, 7+7 1945, plus 24+23 post October 1928 single sheet with VE Day 1945, the programmes pencil results notation, ten 1929 folded single sheet, the bulletins Fullerton Park Leeds Stadium self-cover, sold with one New events dated 23rd March to 11th Cross and two Brough Park 1945 May, including four English programmes, all in good League matches, all single-folded condition, some with minimal sheets with full results notation, notation (160) The start of WWII plus two other early 1929 events occurred days before the end of at Post Hill and Morley, two the 1939 season and led to the Argentinian speedway meetings suspension of speedway racing featuring touring colonial riders everywhere, except for Belle Vue dated February 1930 and Park that refused to close. There January 1931, all printed on the promoters overcame wartime variously sized folded card, four restrictions and 144 meetings England v. Australia test matches were held between Easter 1940 dated 1931-1933, three 1939 and and VE Day 1945. two 1939 England v. The Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Dominions, a 1931 Leeds Stadium North v. South, 1934 Walthamstow Official Opening, two 1934 Wembley v. Belle Vue, 1936 Wembley World Championship Qualifying Round, 1 of 90 Graham Budd Auctions Ltd (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 2) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 338 laurel leaves rising in relief from Post-war 1940s-50s speedway the stem, the body engraved journals and programmes, NATIONAL SPEEDWAY including three 1947 issues of ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL The Broadsider, three 1947-48 LEAGUE, 1932, WINNERS, THE Speedway Reporter, nine 1949- STAMFORD BRIDGE TEAM, 50 Speedway Echo, seventy FRANK ARTHUR (CAPTAIN), three 1947-1955 Speedway hallmarked Birmingham 1931, Gazette, eight 8 b&w speedway makers mark A.E. Poston & Co press photos; plus many F.I.M. Ltd, overall height 13cm., 5in. (5) World Rider Championship In 1928 speedway arrived in programmes 1948-82, including Britain from Australia, bringing overseas events, eight England with it a certain 19-year-old Frank v. Australia tests 1948-53, over Arthur. Few could match him on seventy 1947-1956 Wembley our dirt tracks, particularly at programmes, plus other tracks; Stamford Bridge, and by that together with a large quantity of September he had won 31 1980s and 2000s programmes, trophies. The following year he including Arena Essex, Coventry, won the Overseas Star Rider Mildenhall, Rye House and Championship, as well as Wimbledon; sold with various beginning a successful career as 1950-60s programmes for other an international speedway sports, including four motorcycle promoter. In 1930 he joined racing, three Crystal Palace Stamford Bridge as team captain, motor racing, three motor rallies, eventually taking them to the three veteran car events, inaugural National League title in velodrome cycle track racing, 1932, his personal trophy being plus the first issue of Karting included here. He also captained News & Record April 1960, 11 the Australian test team and is copies of Karting News 1962-64 reputed to have earned close to and 10 1973-75, 28 issues of £50,000 over a three-year period. Cycling Magazine 1953-1960 Then management at 'The (qty.) Bridge' replaced speedway with Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 greyhound racing for 1933 and, having lost his favourite track, Frank retired from riding to become a full-time businessman Lot: 339 in 1935. He returned to Australia Five 1931-32 Stamford Bridge prior to WWII and became co- Speedway silver trophies promoter at Brisbane's Exhibition awarded to Frank Arthur, the first Ground during the 1950s, before a two-handled cup engraved dying in 1972 aged 63 in Sydney, STAMFORD BRIDGE from whence these trophies were SPEEDWAY, THE "POINT purchased at auction. STAKES", 1931, WINNER, F. Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 ARTHUR, hallmarked London 1931, height overall 20cm., 8in.; the second engraved STAMFORD BRIDGE Lot: 340 SPEEDWAY, 1931, OPEN 1983 F.I.M. World Long Track CHAMPIONSHIP, WINNER, F. Speedway Championship Gold ARTHUR, a two-handled cup on Medal won by Shawn Moran, an ebonised base, hallmarked sliver gilt featuring a relief F.I.M. London 1931, height including crest with lettering in blue base 19cm., 7½in.; the third enamel, the reverse stamped engraved STAMFORD BRIDGE PISTES LONGUES 1er. within CUP, a two-handled cup radial relief lettering hallmarked London 1931, CHAMPIONNAT DU MONDE- damage to stem base, overall WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, the height 25cm., 10in.; the fourth coloured ribbon with 1983 set in engraved STAMFORD BRIDGE gold lettering, as presented at CUP, AUGUST 1932, a two- Marienbad in Czechoslovakia, handled cup hallmarked London diameter 5cm., 2in., 925 assay 1932, overall height 30cm., 12in., marks, maker Huguenin of all four London trophies bearing Switzerland; sold with his 2nd the Charles Boyton & Son Ltd place trophy awarded at the makers mark; the fifth a small World Long Track Semi-Final decorative two-handled cup with held at Scheessel in Germany 2 of 90 Graham Budd Auctions Ltd (Two Day Sporting Memorabilia Auction - Day 2) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com prior to the World Final, a gilt Lot: 343 metal goblet on a fixed wooden 1959 29th Grand Prix des base, height 23cm., 9in., plus a Frontieres, Chimay 17 May DVD of his World Final winning poster, featuring an artist's races and medal presentation as impression of a racing car and screened by ITV's World of Sport motorcycle at speed beneath (3) 1980s speedway star Shawn Chimay's clock tower, sponsored Moran is still the only United by Caltex, a fine original colour States rider to take this particular example laid on linen, 73 by World title, which he reportedly 45cm., 29 by 17½in. This did whilst nursing a broken leg. roadrace in southern Belgium The lot was a personal gift to the was unusual in that it catered for vendor. both cars and motorcycles. It was Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 held on a 9.5km circuit around the town for most years between 1929 and 1966, except during Lot: 341 WWII. Barry Sheene 1981 Akai Yamaha Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 race-worn leathers, by makers Dainese in black, red and white leather, bearing his name and Lot: 344 lucky number 7 front and back, 1932 Grand Prix National de Akai logos on the chest, back l'Entre Sambre et Meuse, Mettet and sleeves, Dainese in red on 5 June poster, a rare original each leg, their maker's label example featuring an artist's stitched into the red aertex lining, impression of a racing plus smaller AGV, Champion, motorcyclist at speed, printed in and Marlboro logo patches, used red and gold, original fold marks, but good condition, sold with a laid on linen, truncated triangular letter of provenance and small shape, 90.5 by 66cm., 35½ by photo of Barry wearing them (2) 26in. Racing on public roads at With their distinctive Dainese Mettet, in Belgium's Province de knee-sliders, these leathers are Namur, began in 1927, but in as featured in promotional 1932 the circuit was extended to photosets taken when Barry 8.5km in a figure-of-eight shape joined the Akai team and were that would remain in use until used in early 1981 UK races on 1991.