Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - Two day sale

Major William Booth. Yorkshire & England 1908-1914. Official four page order of service for the 'Unveiling and Dedication of Memorial Tablet... Er...

New Zealand tour to England 1927. Official folding card menu for the dinner given for the New Zealanders by Richmond Cricket Club, Greyhound Richm...

Chile tour to Argentina 1924/25. A selection of official ephemera relating to the Chile tour of Argentina. Items are a four page itinerary listing...

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1924/25. Official players' itinerary for the tour, the front cover with title and M.C.C. colours to top left hand corner....

M.C.C. and England tour itineraries 1974-1982. Four official players' itineraries for the tours to West Indies 1974, Australia 1978/79, West Indie...

England tour itineraries 1983-1990. Four official players' itineraries for the tours to Fiji, New Zealand & Pakistan 1983/84, India & Australia 19...

Nondescripts Cricket Club. 'The Fiftieth Anniversary Dinner of the Nondescripts Cricket Club held at The Cafe Monico 27th January 1926'. Attractiv...

Albert Edwin Trott. M.C.C., Middlesex, Victoria, Australia & England, 1892-1911. Rare original menu on two cards for the Complimentary Luncheon gi...

'County Cricket. Kent v Yorkshire'. 1893. Rare and early original handbill for the match played at Rectory Field, Blackheath, 31st July- 2nd Augus...

Hampshire C.C.C. County Champions 1961. Official menu for the dinner held at The Guildhall, Southampton, 19th March 1962 'To Celebrate the Winning...

'The 150th Anniversary of the Marylebone Cricket Club 1787-1937'. Official invitation and menu for the dinner held at the Savoy Hotel, 15th July 1...

Surrey County Cricket Club 'County Champions' Annual Dinner 1953. Official menu for the Dinner held at The Grosvenor House, Park Lane, 2nd Decembe...

'Le Monde Illustre'. Early and original 'tabloid' sixteen page French newspaper for the 3rd October 1857. This copy contains a full page illustrat...

Buxton C.C. Isle of Man Tour July 1899. Four page folded card on linen paper in black leather covers with gilt title to front. Comprises travel an...

John Richard Mason. Kent & England 1893-1914. A rare colour wedding souvenir printed on crepe paper for the 'Marriage between Miss Mary Powell and...

Percy George Herbert Fender. Sussex, Surrey & England 1910-1935. Original handbill/ poster advertising 'A Grand Charity Cricket Match', Ellens v M...

Railway handbills 1953-1962. Four cricket advertising handbills issued by British Railways for the period. Handbills are for Surrey v Warwickshire...

Australia tours to England 1938. Two official tickets, one to the members' enclosure for the fourth day of the second Test, England v Australia, L...

George Bainbridge Barrington. Derbyshire 1880-1887. Original stock dividend Warrant for Interest no. 796 issued to Barrington, 13th January 1900, ...

'The Spider and the Fly in Cricket Language' by Gowen Hopen. An entertaining typed poem comprising thirty two lines of rhyming couplets. Written a...

'The Cricketers' Song'. Words and Music by Percy S. Robinson. Dedicated to Jack Hobbs. Published by Sylvester Music Co. 1934. Original four page m...

'W.G. Grace. Champion Cricketer of the World'. Large cotton handkerchief commemorating a Century of Centuries by Grace. The handkerchief has a cen...

Cricket orders of service. Three official orders of service for David Sheppard 2005, Tom Graveney 2015, and Doug Insole 2017. Also an official inv...

South Africa tours to England 1940s-2000s. Box comprising a collection of ephemera relating to South Africa tours to England, including scorecards...

Shane Warne Test wicket milestones. Two original colour newspaper posters celebrating significant achievements. One copy with headline '500 Wicket...

Shane Warne Test wicket milestones. Two original colour newspaper posters celebrating significant achievements. One copy with headline '500 Wicket...

Cricket ephemera. Box comprising an eclectic mix of mainly modern ephemera including postcards, match tickets, photographs, books, programmes, sco...

Bernard Thomas. England team physiotherapist 1970-1985. Collection of six pairs of clip on sunglasses, all with leather cases with tour details to...

Cricket greetings cards. Ten files comprising a large selection of over two hundred and fifty modern unused cricket related greetings cards, the m...

Michael Colin Cowdrey. Kent, Oxford University and England 1950-1976. A selection of ephemera relating to Cowdrey. Contents include a 'Souvenir Ma...

Tom Dollery. Selection of thirteen letters and telegrams sent to Dollery during his cricket career. Includes letters from R. Ryder, Warwickshire S...

Charles Stewart Caine. Sports writer and Editor of Wisden Cricketers Almanack from 1926-33. 'The Press Club Dinner to Charles Stewart Caine 1927'....

Yorkshire C.C.C. 1929. Official menu for the dinner given to the Yorkshire County Eleven at The Savage Club, London, 22nd June 1929. The printed m...

Yorkshire C.C.C. 1931. Large original printed single card menu for the 'Savage Club Dinner' for 'The Yorkshire Cricketers' held on the 20th June 1...

Wilfred Wooller. Cambridge University & Glamorgan, 1935-1962. Typed letter on official Glamorgan C.C.C. headed paper. The letter from Wooller, in ...

Glamorgan C.C.C. 1889. Three handwritten letters/ cards from cricketers replying to an invitation to play, each stating their unavailability for a...

Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 3rd Baronet De Crespigny (1818-1868). Incomplete three page handwritten letter nicely signed by the writer. He w...

Thomas Padwick (1844-1898). Three page handwritten letter dated 18th February 1892 from Thomas Padwick writing from his home in Redhill to Charles...

Charles F. Pardon, editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1887-1890. An original Roneo stencil copy of a circular printed on 'Charles F. Pardon Cri...

John Bertram Payne. Four page handwritten letter dated 25th June 1904 from Payne in Harrogate to an unknown correspondent. Payne writes to acknowl...

Henry Perkins. Cambridge University, Cambridgeshire & M.C.C. 1854-1868. Single page handwritten letter on M.C.C. letterhead, dated 7th June 1894. ...

John Piper (1903-1992). Artist & print maker. Two sided hand written card from Piper to John Arlott, dated 26th January 1944. Piper is writing to ...

Hubert Preston. Editor of Wisden 1944-1951. Single page typed letter on 'Cricket Reporting Agency' letterhead dated 13th December 1946. Preston is...

Sir John Collings Squire, journalist, poet and playwright (1884-1958). Single page handwritten letter to J.C. Coldham, dated 9th July 1956. Squire...

Robert Arthur 'Bob' Thoms. Excellent three page handwritten letter from Thoms to Charles F. Pardon, Editor of Wisden. Thoms writes expressing in s...

Cricket correspondence 1950s-1990s. Blue file comprising an interesting selection of twenty seven original signed letters, a good number relating ...

Arthur Brian Sellers. Yorkshire 1932-1948. Short single page handwritten letter in ink from Sellers to 'John [Arlott]'. The letter is dated 28th A...

Leonard 'Len' Hutton. Yorkshire & England 1934-1955. Single page handwritten letter from Hutton to John Arlott dated 22nd January 1966, with good ...

Herbert Sutcliffe. Yorkshire & England 1919-1945. Single page handwritten letter in blue ink from Sutcliffe to 'My dear John [Arlott]', dated 30th...

Charles Oyston. Yorkshire 1900-1909. Handwritten note in ink laid to page from Oyston replying to a request for his autograph. 'Please excuse been...

Wilfred Richard Daniel Payton. Nottinghamshire 1905-1931. Single page letter handwritten in ink on Wilfred Payton Sports Outfitter letterhead, and...

Willie Watson. Yorkshire, Leicestershire & England 1939-1964. Two page handwritten letter dated 'Thurs July 12 [1956]'. Addressed to 'Dear Jack', ...

Richard Haynes Twining. Oxford University & Middlesex 1910-1928. Small note written in Twining's own hand listing his cricket playing details, 'Et...

Richard Haynes Twining. Oxford University & Middlesex 1910-1928. Single page handwritten letter from Twining to the cricket historian and writer, ...

Francis Thomas 'Frank' Mann. Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1909-1931. Page written in ink in Mann's own hand listing his cricket caree...

Meyrick Whitmore Payne. Cambridge University & Middlesex 1904-1929. Single page handwritten letter, dated 9th December 1954. Payne is replying to ...

James George Walker. Oxford University & Middlesex 1880-1890. Small single page letter handwritten letter in ink from Walker replying to a request...

Edward Maitland Hadow. Middlesex 1883-1893. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Hadow replying to a request for his autograph from a lady c...

Isaac Donnithorne Walker. Middlesex 1862-1884. Three page handwritten letter in ink from Walker to M.J. Dauglish (Middlesex 1886-1890, nine matche...

Harry Surtees Altham. Oxford University, Surrey & Hampshire 1909-1923. Two page handwritten letter from Altham to 'Mr Milne', dated 2nd November 1...