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

William Thomas Taylor. Derbyshire 1905-1910. Single page handwritten letter on Derbyshire C.C.C. letterhead from Taylor in his capacity as Secreta...

Harold Denis 'Dickie' Bird. Yorkshire & Leicestershire 1956-1964. Two page handwritten letter from Bird to Jack [Sokell] writing from the Rutland ...

John David 'Jack' Bannister. Warwickshire 1950-1968. Single page handwritten letter on Warwickshire C.C.C. letterhead to H.W. 'Plum' Warner, Kent ...

Edwin Boaler 'Ted' Alletson. Nottinghamshire 1906-1914. Single page letter handwritten in ink from Alletson, dated 23rd January 1956, with good cr...

Geoffrey Alan 'Geoff' Cope. Yorkshire & England 1966-1980. Single page undated handwritten letter from Cope to a Mr & Mrs Roper, in which Cope hop...

George Oswald 'Gubby' Allen. Middlesex, Cambridge University & England 1921-1950. Two page handwritten letter in ink from Allen to 'Dear Nathanael...

William Ewart 'Bill' Astill. Leicestershire & England 1906-1939. Four page handwritten letter in ink from Astill to 'Dear Eileen [Miller]' dated 8...

Evelyn Rockley Wilson. Cambridge University, Yorkshire & England 1899-1923. Two page handwritten letter to George Hirst, Yorkshire & England 1891-...

Don Bradman. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Bradman to the cricket writer, Alan Hill, dated 3rd October 1989. Writing from his address...

Don Bradman. A Christmas card sent to the original vendor by Bradman from Australia c1949/50. The card features a horse's head to front 'A Christm...

Peter Randall Johnson. Cambridge University & Somerset 1900-1927. Handwritten postcard from Johnson to the Secretary of the M.C.C. regretting that...

John Daniell. Somerset & Cambridge University 1898-1927. Short one page handwritten letter to Francis Lacey, Secretary of M.C.C. on 'The Club, Wes...

John Henniker-Major, 5th Baron Henniker. Two page handwritten letter on Thornham Hall, Eye (Suffolk) note paper to Dr Short, dated 14th September ...

Sir William Bagge. Norfolk& M.C.C. 1836-1839. Original free-front envelope nicely signed in ink by Bagge and dated 1838. G/VG - cricketBagge was M...

Micky Stewart Benefit 1965. Two page handwritten letter on Micky Stewart Benefit letterhead. The letter, dated 13th November 1965, to 'Ken' thanki...

Robert Henderson. Surrey 1883-1896. Two page handwritten letter from Henderson to the collector, Charles Pratt Green, dated 20th September 1893. H...

John Glennie Greig. Hampshire, 1901-1922. Two page handwritten letter in ink from Greig to 'Mr Coldham', dated 11th March 1946. Greig opens the le...

Ronald Aird, Hampshire & Cambridge University 1920-1938, and Arthur Kenneth Judd, Hampshire & Cambridge University 1925-1935. Two handwritten lett...

Arthur George Holt, Hampshire 1935-1948 and Richard Henry Moore, Hampshire 1931-1939. Two single page handwritten letters in ink, both replying to...

Alastair McLeod. Hampshire 1914-1938. Two page handwritten letter from McLeod replying to a request for one of his bats. The letter dated 23rd Feb...

Edward Joseph 'Ted' Drake. Hampshire 1931-1936. Single page handwritten letter from Drake to a Douglas Crampton, replying to a request for his aut...

Guy Rolf Jackson. Derbyshire 1919-1936. Single page typed wartime letter from Jackson, dated 22nd May 1944. Jackson is replying to a request for h...

Leslie Fletcher Townsend. Derbyshire, Auckland & England 1922-1939. Single page handwritten letter from Townsend, dated 8th July 1976. Writing fro...

Levi George Wright. Derbyshire 1883-1909. Four page handwritten letter in ink from Wright with original envelope to the collector, Charles Pratt G...

Patrick Graham Toler Kingsley. Oxford University 1928-1930. Single page handwritten letter dated 30th October 1978. Kingsley is replying to a requ...

Challen Hasler Lufkin Skeet. Oxford University & Middlesex 1919-1922. Single page handwritten letter from Skeet writing while in Sudan to 'Mr Miln...

George Brown. Hampshire & England 1908-1933. Handwritten single page letter from Brown to John Arlott, dated 23rd December 1960, thanking Arlott f...

Don Bradman. Single page handwritten letter from Bradman in ink on The Victoria Station Hotel, Nottingham letterhead dated 2nd June 194[8]. Writin...

'Lancashire County & Manchester Cricket Club County Championship Celebration Dinner' 1904. Rare official four page menu for the dinner held at the...

Australia. Sheffield Shield 1995/96. 'The Sponsor's Dinner'. Official folding menu for the dinner held on 19th April 1996 for South Australia, win...

Yorkshire C.C.C. 1995. Official menu for the Gala Dinner held on 11th April 1995. Signed to the rear page by twenty attendees. Signatures include ...

Australia. 'Celebrating 100 Years of Sheffield Shield Cricket'. Official menu for the dinner held at the Adelaide Oval for the match South Austral...

Ernest Raymond Herbert Toshack. New South Wales & Australia 1945-1950. Official invitation issued to Toshack for a reception at Government House, ...

The Lord's Taverners West Midlands Region. Official brochure/ menu for the Eve of Test Match Gala Dinner (against Pakistan) held at the Metropole ...

'The Lord's Taverners- Cricket Weekend' 1981. Official card produced for the cricket weekend with matches at Hohne and Verden, 19th- 20th Septembe...

Signed cricket menus 1960s-1980s. Eight menus al signed or multi-signed by attendees. Menus include Wombwell Cricket Lovers' Society, Spring Dinne...

Australia. Queensland 1930/31. Original printed luncheon menu card for 'Lennon's of Brisbane dated 4th February 1931. The single sided menu with f...

Edward Ivo Medhurst Barrett. Hampshire 1896-1925. A selection of menus, a postcard and photograph relating to Capt. E.I.M. Barrett. Three menus ar...

Australia tour to England 1934. The Institute of Journalists, London District 'Welcome Luncheon to the Australian Cricket Team'. Criterion Restaur...

Magdalen College (Oxford) v Mr John Eyre's XI and Maldon v Captain Wynyard's XI 1896. Large card with laid down printed newspaper scorecards of th...

England Test cricketers. Seven signatures in ink of former England Test players on Lord's Cricket Ground headed notepaper. Signatures are Dennis A...

Don Bradman 1948. Nice signature in ink of Don Bradman on small page mounted below a colour photograph of Bradman, head and shoulders wearing cric...

Charles Lucas Townsend. Gloucestershire & England 1893-1922. Original bookplate photograph of Townsend in bowling pose taken from Ranjitsinhji's '...

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Original bookplate photograph of Grace in batting pose taken from Ranjitsinhji's 'The ...

Samuel Moses James 'Sammy' Woods. Cambridge University, Somerset & England 1888-1910. Original bookplate photograph of Woods in bowling pose taken...

George Brann. Sussex 1883-1905. Original bookplate photograph of Brann in batting pose taken from Ranjitsinhji's 'The Jubilee Book of Cricket'. Ni...

Russell Donnithorne Walker. Oxford University & Middlesex 1861-1877. Nice signature of Walker in black ink on small piece loosely mounted to card....

William Gilbert Grace. Gloucestershire & England 1865-1908. Excellent large signature in black ink of Grace on card laid down to album page with m...

Ronald Keven 'Ron' Oxenham. Queensland & Australia 1911-1937. Very nice signature in black ink of Oxenham on piece, window mounted below a mono co...

Hugh Trumble. Victoria & Australia 1887-1904 and Warwick Windridge Armstrong. Victoria & Australia 1898-1921. 'Melbourne Cricket Club. Nomination ...

William Henry Brereton Evans. Worcestershire, Oxford University & Hampshire 1901-1910. Excellent rare signature of Evans in ink on piece laid down...

Edward Maurice Dowson. Cambridge University & Surrey 1900-1903. Excellent signature of Dowson in ink on piece laid down to album page. To verso, a...

Gilbert Laird Jessop. Gloucestershire & England 1894-1914. Nice signature in ink of Jessop on piece laid down to album page. To verso, signature i...

Frank Edward Woolley. Kent & England 1906-1938. Signature in ink of Woolley on piece laid down to small card. VG - cricket ...[more]

'The Centurions- Scorers of 100 First-Class Centuries'. Headed book insert by Boundary Books containing the ink signatures of nine players who hav...

Signed match tickets 1957-2002. Nine official match tickets for England home Test matches and one County match ticket, each ticket signed. Tickets...

Dennis Brian Close. Yorkshire, Somerset & England 1949-1977. An unusual two page questionnaire completed in ink by Close relating to golf. The que...

Jack Hobbs. M.C.C. tour of Australia 1928/29. Official M.C.C. Christmas card sent by Hobbs. Decorative covers with M.C.C. emblem and trimming in M...

Geoffrey Howard. Manager, M.C.C. tour 1951/52. Official M.C.C. Christmas card from the M.C.C. tour of India, Pakistan and Ceylon 1951/52 with M.C....

England tour to Australia 1986/87. Official England Christmas card from the tour. With printed title to front, copy colour photograph of the team ...