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Click here to subscribeVery rare postcard depicting Liverpool FC in match-action at Woolwich Arsenal during the opening game of their 1905-06 Football League Division One Championship winning season,printed inscription WOOLWICH ARSENAL V LIVERPOOL AT PLUMSTEAD 2.9.05Despite losing their opening game 3-1 to Woolwich Arsenal, Liverpool were eventually crowned League Champions for the second time in their history with a total of 51 points, four ahead of Preston N.E.
Rare official programme for the 1901 England v Ireland international match played at Southampton9th March 1901in the form of a tri-fold card, with teams, results of previous fixtures and capped England players, 12.5 by 24.5cm., some wear with ink marks England beat Ireland 3-0, Tommy Crawshaw, George Hedley and Tip Foster the goalscorers.
Two rare WW II football programmes for matches played on Guernsey, June 1943, occupation by German forces programme for match held at Beau Sejour on 8th June 1943 between VOBA (Les Vauxbelets Old Boys Association) and a Continental XI and another for the game between VOBA and an Island XI, annotated to top THIS MATCH WAS IN PLACE OF CONTINENTAL GAME, each printed on single sheet paper, minor wear and punch holes The Continental XI was a team of slave labourers drawn from Europe and brought by the Nazis to Guernsey where they were forced to work on engineering projects including the notorious Underground Hospital. The planned match never took place as the Nazis refused permission for the Continental team to play. An Island XI was therefore drafted in at the last minute and surprisingly beat the Guernsey champions, including Len Duquemin later of Tottenham Hotspur fame, 4-2. This real match would later become the fictional game in the famous football film Escape to Victory, in which the Nazis fielded a team to play the Allied Prisoners of War. There exists only one other known copy of the Continental programme, but the programme for the substitute match featuring the Island XI was probably printed on the day and is the only known copy. The match was played in aid of The Star Help the Children Fund.
Collection of 14 Martell Cognac Grand National water jugs and glass decanter, an unbroken run covering the Seagram and Martell-sponsored years dating from 1990 to 2004 including rare 1993 'Race Void' and one duplicate (Seagram 1991), the 2001 memento being instead a special glass decanter marking the 10th anniversary of Martell's involvement and inscribed THIS IS ONE OF A LIMITED EDITION OF 4000 DECANTERS PRODUCED TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF THE MARTELL GRAND NATIONAL and listing all winners from 1992 to 2001, each jug marked with its own number of a limited edition and reading EXCLUSIVELY MANUFACTURED FOR MARTELL COGNAC BY SETON POTTERY, SCORRIER, REDRUTH, CORNWALL , chip to rim of 1995 jug (15)
McLoughlin (Maurice E.). Tennis As I Play It, first edition, George H. Doran Co, 1915; sold together with rare trim card of Maurice E. McLoughlin at Worple Road circa 1913 with his signature on reverse in pencil and a magazine page describing the famous 1913 Davis Cup win by USA, wear to spine edges, (3) Maurice E. McLoughlin, known as the 'California Comet' due to his fast serve, was US Champion in 1912 and 1913, US Doubles champion 1912/13/14 and Wimbledon runner-up 1913.
25 rare issues of Lawn Tennis and Croquet and Lawn Tennis and Badminton magazine with original covers dating from 1904-1906, each issue is full of contemporary tournament and equipment advertisements plus a multitude of tournament reports and results. Issues regularly feature articles by prominent tennis journalists of the day, dimensions: 30.2 by 20.5cm.
Boxed set of the NEW Game of WHIFF WAFF or Table Tennis circa 1900,containing 4 Chiswick bats, early net and posts and the rare tube of table tennis balls containing three balls, the rules of the game printed to the underside of the lid whilst included with the box is the extremely rare three page booklet (some repairs) advertising all the varying components of the New Game from bats, balls and posts to ball-retrievers, the box 49 by 19 by 7cm., box darkened, but overall in remarkably good condition
Extremely rare Oxford real tennis courts token dated 1652,marked Thomas Wood, with a racket symbol to the one side and vintner in OXON 1652 to the reverse, diameter 1.5cm.Thomas Wood was a racket court keeper and vintner who died in 1663. Some of the earliest tennis courts in England were located in Oxford and usually linked to inns. In the middle of the seventeenth century Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector and the Government issued very few coins so local traders organised their own payment systems using small tokens. This tiny survivor would have been used for court hire or for drinks after the game. Despite its age the details are reasonably clear.
Five unusual tennis brooches and locket,a rare combined tennis and archery oval brooch; a silver locket hallmarked Birmingham 1890 with a tennis racquet on the front; an ivorine racquet brooch with pearl circa 1890; a cross racquet and bird design brooch and a gentleman tennis player with net design brooch, total weight: 23gms, minor wear
Extremely rare Victorian Parian-ware figure believed to be of Wimbledon tennis champion William Charles Renshaw,the figure is attributed and dated on the base - “R.J. Morris 1884”, height 45cm., lacking its original lawn tennis racket but luckily the vendor was able to locate an identical piece. Photographic images and racket dimensions are provided to enable restoration of both the racket and fingers of one hand. A similar coloured glazed ceramic figure can be viewed in the Wimbledon Museum. Only four pieces of this kind can be traced. William Renshaw was the Wimbledon Champion from 1881 to 1886 and again in 1889.
Rare Australian XI 1930 England Tour Orient Line brochure, with individual photographs of all 17 players and officials, including Bradman and Woodfull, with biographies of each player and the fixture list, Only issued to Orient Line on-board passengers. Australia won the 1930 Ashes Series, winning two matches, losing one, with the other two drawn.
Rare b&w photograph of an unnamed Yorkshire cricket team, circa 1865-75, probably showing the County side circa 1867, 8 by 10in. The player lying on the ground to the left is possibly Tom Emmett, the third left standing possibly George Freeman, fellow fast bowlers for Yorkshire. Blazers first came in circa 1860, along with wicket-keeping pads and gloves, while the striped shirts are indicative of the same era.
Collection of York racecards, dating between 1929 and 2019, including the May Dante meetings and others during the racing calendar, the earliest 1929 featuring the third running of the Yorkshire Cup; representation through the decades comprises 1940s (Yorkshire Oaks and Nunthorpe - in which Musidora ran as a two-year-old), 1950s (ten), 1960s (12), 1970s (28 including a rare emergency issue broadsheet 15th June 1974 featuring the William Hill Gold Trophy), 1980s (nine), with the remainder dating between 1994 and 2019 (100)
Collection of eight rare French, Australian and Indian racecards, including the centenary Melbourne Cup of 1960 won by Hi Jinx; Gold River's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe 1981 and three other 1986 Longchamp cards, one featuring Triptych running as a four-year-old; plus Colonial India cards for Gorakhpur (single-sheet) and for Sky Races,Thursday 25th May 1893, featuring contests for chargers, ponies and a 'horse hurdle race' over four furlongs (8)
Two rare tickets for Liverpool Races and Grand National Steeplechase 1915, inscribed LIVERPOOL RACES AND GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE, 1915, COUNTY STAND RESERVED SEAT ANNUAL TICKET, with compartment and seat numbers 28 & 29 handwritten in black ink; sold together with seven assorted Aintree card swing badges from the 1950s comprising two Owners' & Trainers' Stand for Spring 1950 Liverpool Races, a gentleman's complimentary fourth day badge for the1952 Autumn meeting and one for the1953 Spring meeting, two gentlemen's complimentary third day badges for the 1954 Autumn meeting and one Aintree 1956 Midsummer Meeting 'Trade' badge for a motor racing fixture (9) The 1915 Grand National was the last to be run at Aintree during World War I before it was transferred to Gatwick, also being notable for the fact that the winning owner was, for the first time in its history, a woman - Lady Nelson - whose Ally Sloper ridden by the legendary Jack Anthony won by two lengths.
Programme for 1987 inaugural Rugby World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, covering the tournament which ran from 22nd May- 20th June; sold together with very rare collection of team sheets, issued only to officials, players and press and including Group matches, quarter-finals, semi-finals, third-place match and Final (17) Provenance: From collection of press photographer. No individual programmes were issued for this inaugural competition.
Rare Rugby Union programmes for England’s first tour to Argentina in 1981, covering six of the seven matches played - four in Buenos Aires, v San Isidro (16th May), v Buenos Aires Selection (23rd May), First Test v Argentina (30th May), Second Test v Argentina (6th June), and two exceptionally rare provincial programmes v Combinado Regional del Norte at Club Belgrano Cordoba (19th May) and Combinado Regional del Sur at Mar Del Plata (25th May); missing programme for the match played at Cordoba is believed not issued; sold together with English and Argentinian press cuttings, (qty) The First Test was drawn 19-19, while England won the Second 12-6. England were the first of the Home Nations teams to tour Argentina, eleven months before the start of the Falklands War in April 1982. Provenance: From a photographer’s collection.
Rare silver version of the official plaque of the Franco-British Exposition held in conjunction with the London 1908 Olympic Games,57 by 69mm., by Ch. Pillet, Britannia extending hand to Gallia across the British Channel, reverse Seated Peace holding two flags over view of exposition grounds with Olympic Stadium
Rare 1924 Paris Olympic Games identity card of GB swimming gold medallist Lucy Morton, issued by the Paris Organising Committee, issue No. 6262, containing photograph of Morton, signed by her and by the secretary of the French Olympic Committee and the President of the French Olympic Committee, endorsed by Lord Cadogan, Member of the British Olympic Committee Provenance: The Lucy Morton personal collection
Memorabilia relating to the British figure skater Mollie Phillips at the Lake Placid 1932 Winter Olympic Games, comprising her rare identity card; guest card for a reception held on 7th February by Lake Placid Athletic Club where games were held; guest card for Olympic Games club; six original photographs from the Games including one showing Phillips carrying the Great Britain flag with other flag bearers; lot contains various signatures (9) The 1932 Lake Placid Winter Games were held between 4th and 13th February. The Great Britain team comprising just four competitors, all skaters. Mollie Doreen Phillips (1907-1994) was born in London and started figure skating in the 1920s, achieving success with Rodney Murdoch in the pairs before switching to singles. For the 1932 Olympics, she was selected for the four-strong all-women Great Britain team, along with 13-year-old Cecilia Colledge and Megan Taylor and Joan Dix, both aged 11. Phillips became the first woman to carry a national flag at an Olympic Games and finished ninth in the women's figure skating singles and 11th in the same event at the 1936 Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The first woman to be elected to the National Ice Skating Association, she then became a high-profile figure skating judge and the first woman to judge at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St Moritz, officiating in a career total of four Winter Games and judging around 50 World and European Championships in her long and active life. She was also a keen dairy cattle breeder in Carmarthenshire.
Rare poster published in conjunction with the Rome 1960 Olympic Games, published by the Italian Government Tourist Board promoting a parallel games held for “Medieval Sports” including archery, jousting, held at several venues throughout Italy,very good condition, folds as issued, 100 by 62cm.
Sapporo 1972 Winter Olympic Games memorabilia associated with Austria's Josef Feistmantl,comprising a participation medal, in bronze, designed by S. Fukuda; a competitor's badge in silver and green enamel with yellow ribbon; official photo ID card; two competitor's tabards numbered 8 and 29; five various uniform patches including one inscribed OSTERREICH SAPPORO 1972; two pennants one from the city of Sapporo, the other from the Austrian Olympic team; a group of pin badges including two rare Austrian pins one of which is gold-plated; the lot also including a competitior's No.35 tabard inscribed S.I.W.S.W. SAPPORO '71, (qty)
An official 1930 FIFA World Cup poster,designed by Guillermo Laborde (1886-1940), very rare lithographic poster for the first World Cup of 1930 in Uruguay, published by Olivera y Fernandez, Montevideo, poster size 78.5 by 38cm., one small tape repair top centre, creases, but generally goodGuillermo Laborde had established a fine reputation in the Uruguayan art world and was originally selected as a juror on the panel that was formed to select the winner of the competition to design the official poster for the historic first World Cup of 1930. However, he subsequently decided to resign from the jury as he wished to enter the competition himself. Laborde in fact entered two designs and finished first and third. This started a tradition of an official poster for the World Cup that has endured to the present day. Laborde studied at the Circulo Estimulo de Bellad Artes with Carlos Maria Herrerea in Buenos Aires, before travelling to Europe between 1910 and 1912 visiting Florence, Milan, Rome, Paris and Spain. On his return to South America his work was widely exhibited in Uruguay, Argentina, Peru and Ecuador and he was the winner of various art awards. In later life he became a teacher at the Circulo Estimulo de Bellad Artes, the Escuela de la Construccon and the Instituto Magisterial. Laborde also forged close links with the theatre, managing stage design at the Casa del Arte.
Brazilian 1950 World Cup souvenir magazine 'Gazeta Esportiva Ilustrada',194-page, large format, published the day following the World Cup Final, match reports, photographs, crowd scenes, player information etc., rare, good, in high quality modern rebinding with marbled boards; sold with a modern postcard of the Uruguayan World Champions team (2)
Rare Manchester City 1934 F.A. Cup winners signed team sheet, home-made team sheets applied with newspaper cut-out headshots of the footballers with handwritten players' names and positions, reverse with 14 players' signatures including Matt Busby, Sam Tilson, Eric Brook, Jack Bray, Frank Swift, Alex Herd, Sam Cowan, etc. Manchester City beat Portsmouth 2-1, Tilson scoring both their goals.
2 Dinky Toys 39 Series Chrysler Royal sedan (39e). A rare U.S. example (39eu) in yellow with red wings and wheels, with black tyres. Plus another scarce issue in cream with green ridged wheels, black tyres and a black crackle base. QGC-some chipping, bases some wear/rusting. Examples of rare types. £50-70
A Barbie Fashion Queen by Mattel (870). A 1962 issue Barbie with moulded head and hair, blue eye liner and head band. In gold and white striped swimsuit and head scarve. Complete with wig stand and 3x wigs, white stillettos and 'Exclusive Fashions' Mattel toy catalogue. Boxed with inner packing pieces and original plain card outer sleeve. A rare survivor. Doll VGC-Mint, possible evidence of very minor play wear. £100-150
RARE EMBROIDERED BLUE SILK CHILDS 'DRAGON' ROBE, GUANGXU PERIOD the blue-ground robe elaborately embroidered in gold with dragons chasing flaming pearls, surrounded by bats in flight, peony sprays, clouds, and auspicious items all above crashing waves, Width: across sleeves 152cm, Length: 103cm approx. Provenance: From a Private Dorset Military family
RARE PERSIAN MARKET FAMILLE VERTE WINE EWER AND COVER, KANGXI PERIOD the shaped baluster sides painted with panels of exotic birds amidst verdant, blooming rocky outcrops, the tall hexagonal foot with panels of flowering stems reserved against a trellis-ground , Height: 36cm Provenance: The Martin Laing Collection
RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' BIRD FEEDER, XUANDE SIX CHARACTER MARK, CHONGZHEN PERIOD the sides painted in hues of blue cobalt with a band of lotus blossom and scrolling tendrils, Diameter: 6.5cm. Provenance: Anthony du Boulay Collection; Hatcher Cargo, sold by Christie's Amsterdam, March 14th 1984. One of ten similar bird feeders in the Hatcher cargo, one of which was purchased by the British Museum. for a published example see Sheaf, C., Kilburn. R, The Hatcher Cargoes: The Complete Record, Oxford 1988, p.70, pl. 107.
RARE 'ZITAN' STOOL, MING DYNASTY, LATE 16TH CENTURY the rectangular top with a soft-caned seat, raised on a simulated bamboo continuous frame, Height: 52cm, Width: 74cm, Depth: 63cm. For a near identical stool see: Chinese Furniture, by Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, pg. 198, fig. 110 Provenance: The Martin Laing Collection
RARE HUANGHUALI PAINTING TABLE, HUA ZHUO, LATE MING DYNASTY the finely figured high rectangular 'floating panel' top above a moulded apron, supported on four rounded legs with humpback-shaped stretchers. Height: 82cm, Width: 86cm, Length: 194cm. For a similar table see: Sotheby's, Ming Furniture - The Dr S Y Yip Collection, Hong Kong, 7th October, 2015, lot 106. Provenance: The Martin Laing Collection
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