Important and rare large collection of autographs of cricketers, late 1940's to 1970's, extending to over two thousand seven hundred signatures written on both sides of fifty-six thin beech leaves each in the shape of a cricket bat blade 280mm x 35mm and pinned together in the style of a swatch with a split cricket bat as front and rear covers, including Herbert Sutcliffe, Jim Laker, Len Hutton, Leslie Compton, Dennis Compton, Don Bradman, Alec Bedser, 1954 Canadian Touring team, Australian, New Zealand, West Indies, Indian, Pakistan, South Africa and MCC/England players.The collection was put together by James Toon with the help of a friend who was sports editor at The Times and his name (J.H.C.Toon) appears on the bottom edge of the rear cover. It then passed by direct descent to the vendor, his nephew.Cricket SignaturesCricket bat cover - front, untitled, forty signatures including Norman J.C.Hobbs, J.Parker, A.Fowler, G.Beck, F.Edwards, R.G.Williams, J.A.Butmore, J.Smith, Geoff Pope, P.Oldfield, O.W.Herman, Geo. Duckworth etc - back, untitled, sixty-one signatures including Leslie Compton, F.Price, Vic J.Evans, J.W.Lee, W.Coverdale, L.A.Smith, J.A.Young, G.B.Clarke, E.Martindale, L.J.Todd, M.Benham etcLeaf one - front, untitled, thirty-one signatures including H.Storer, J.B.Hobbs, W.Holmes, D.J.Wright, H.Sutcliffe, J.Webster, H.Whitfield, P.Davis, A.G.Robinson, J.C.Dewes, W.Halliday, D.Kenyon etc - back, untitled, thirty signatures including Wink Tindall, A.J. Cox, J.L.Pritchard, G.H.Salmon, J.Ord, M.Barker, W.E.Houghton, B.R.Edrich, M.W.Howard, David Rome, G.J.D.Walker etcLeaf two - front, untitled, twenty-eight signatures including A.L.Partridge, J.C.Laker, Iain Robertson, L.A.Young, L.Hutton, D.Compton, A.H.Dyson, Allan Watkins, P.G.Edwards, B.H.Valentine, etc - back, titled 1949 new Zealand, twenty-four signatures including Ray Dovey, Tony Woollett, C.H.Edrich, C.Burke, J.H.Phillips, L.A.Simes, etc Leaf three - front, untitled, twenty-five signatures including F.R.Brown, J.Goddard, Lance Pine, A.L.Valentine, F.Worrill, M.Yardley etc - back, untitled, twenty-three signatures including B.Clarke, H.E.Nutter, S.Capon, R.H.Spooner, J.M.A.Marshall, A.J.Barber, C.H.C.Doggart, H.J.Baldwin etcLeaf four - front, untitled, twenty-five signatures including F.W.Snowden, W.Woollen, Harper Davies, D.J.Shepherd, R.G.Marlow, W.H.Webster, J.D.Corbett, C.W.L.Parker etc - back, titled South Africa 1951, twenty-two signatures including A.Rowan, R.N.F.Mansell, J.H.Waite, John Glew, Eddie Watts, etcLeaf five - front, titled Indians 1952, twenty signatures including Dattu Phadkar, Ghulum Ahmed, Hemu Adhikari, Vijay Hazare etc - back, untitled, twenty-seven signatures including Don Brennan, C.Carthrop, S.H.Lowson, C.H.Woolley, E.Turner, J.Wardle, J.Bailey, Alan Moss, etcLeaf six - front, untitled, twenty-three signatures including Jack Pettiford, Peter Marner, G.A.Edrich, Brian Latham, R.Berry, J.Kelly etc - back, untitled, twenty-one signatures including Colin Cowdrey, J.W.Greenstock, C.Griffiths, D.J.Herby Welch, F.Jakeman, E.Davis, L.Jackson etcLeaf seven - front, titled Australians 1953, twenty-one signatures including Ian Craig, D.Tallon, Alan Davidson, J.H.DeCourcy, Ron Archer, G.R.A.Langley etc - back, titled Worcestershire 1954, twenty signatures including Ronald Bird, R.Broadbent, C.Grove, Reg Perks, Laddie Outschoom etcLeaf eight - front, titled Pakistan 1954, twenty-three signatures including Waqar Hassan, Maqsood Ahmed, Fazal Mahmood, Wazir Mohammad etc - back, titled Canadian Touring team 1954, twenty-three signatures including Jimmy Cameron, Hal Padmore, Alan Percival, Peter Strand etcLeaf nine - front, titled MCC Australian Tour 1954/5, twelve signatures including Len Hutton, Brian Statham, Bill Edrich, Johnny Wardle, Bob Appleyard, Geoffrey Howard etc - back, untitled, thirteen signatures including Don Bradman, Alec Bedser, Denis Compton, Colin Cowdrey, Vic Wilson etcLeaf ten - front, untitled, twenty-three signatures including W.Greensmith, R.A.Savill, G.Smith, J.G.Fellows-Smith, C.W.Dawson etc - back, twenty-three signatures including Dennis Brookes, G.Manning, B.Reynolds, Keith Archer, A.Smithson etc Leaf eleven - front, untitled, twenty-one signatures including C.B.Fry, G.L.Jessop, F.Root, S.J.Barnes, Fred Trueman, Keith Wheatley etc - back, untitled, twenty-three signatures including S.Leary, S.S.Rogers, J.Lawrence, J.Redman, H.W.Stephenson, Ellis Robinson etcLeaf twelve - front, titled Australian Tour 1956 remaining members of tour party minus J.Burke on 1953 tour leaf no.7, nineteen signatures including John Rutherford, Peter Burge, J.W.Wilson, V.Bell, D.Bennett etc - back, untitled, twenty-seven signatures including A.G.Holb, Alan Raymond, R.Carter, Alan Townsend etcLeaf thirteen - front, untitled to top part and West Indies Tour 1957 lower down, twenty-seven signatures including John Goddard, Clyde Walcott, Rohan Kanhai, Wes Hall, Frank Worrell, Gary Sobers etc - back, untitled to top part and Somerset lower down, twenty-six signatures including Peter West, W.W.Bradshaw, Alex Bannister, John Woodcock, Ken Biddulph, Colin Cook, Jim Wood, M.Tremlett etc Leaf fourteen - front, titled MCC South African Tour 1956/7, twenty-three signatures including Peter May, Doug Insole, Colin Cowdrey, Jim Laker, Brian Statham, Johnny Wardle etc - back, top part untitled and South Africa in South Africa 1956/7 lower down, twenty-one signatures including Ken Higgs, Alan Wilson, T.L.Goddard, Nat Adcock, P.S.Heine, H.J.Tayfield, Ken Funston etcLeaf fifteen - front, titled New Zealand 1958, twenty-one signatures including John Reid, Bert Sutcliffe, Bob Blair, Lawrie Miller, John Sparling etc - back, untitled, twenty-one signatures including A.James, A.Langridge, F.Thomson, Peter Walker, Fred Titmus etcLeaf sixteen - front, titled MCC Australian Tour 1958/9, thirty-one signatures including Peter May, Raman Subba Row, Colin Cowdrey, Ted Dexter, Brian Statham etc - back, untitled, twenty-seven signatures including Charles Bray, Crawford White, Johnny Wardle, Bob Simpson etcLeaf seventeen - front, titled The Indians Tour 1959, twenty-one signatures including Datta Gaekwad, Polly Umrigar, M.L.Jaisimha, A.A.Baig, P.Roy etc - back, untitled, twenty-one signatures including Peter Parfitt, Don Ward, Bob Wilkinson, C.T.M.Pugh, A.H.Brown etcLeaf eighteen - front, untitled, twenty-four signatures including Maurice Farmer, John Dale, A.C.Walton, E.Cooper, E.J.Rowe, Charles Fry etc - back, untitled, twenty-two signatures including Mike Cowan, A.G.Hatton, Alan Hind, John Edrich, D.M.Sayer etcLeaf nineteen - front, titled MCC Tour of the West Indies 1959/60, twenty-one signatures including Gary Sobers, Frank Worrell, Wes Hall, Lance Gibbs etc - back, titled MCC team in West Indies 1959/60, twenty-two signatures including Colin Cowdrey, Raman Subba Row, Fred Trueman, Ted Dexter, Ken Barrington, Jim Parks etcLeaf twenty - front, titled South Africans 1960, twenty signatures including Jackie McGlew, Trevor Goddard, Colin Wesley, Tony Pithey, Jim Pothecary etc - back, untitled, twenty signatures including H.Willatt, E.J.Craig, Brian Reynolds, Brian Crump, Peter Watts etcLeaf twenty-one - front, titled Australian Tour to England 1961, seventeen signatures including Richie Benaud, Ken Mackay, Frank Mission, Bill Lawry, Peter Burge etc - back, untitled, twenty-two signatures including Geo. Geary, Henry Grierson, R.A.Hutton, Peter Sainsbury, J.R.Gray etcLeaf twenty-two - front, untitled, twenty-one signatures including Ken Palmer, M.J.Kitchen, M.E.Latham, M.Horton, P.B.Wright etc - back, untitled, twenty-two signatures including Alan Lees, D.R.Smith, H.C.Johnson, F.J.Andrew, Ian Buxton, W.Oates etcPLEASE CONTACT US FOR THE REMAINING NAMES ON LEAF TWENTY-THREE TO THE REAR COVER
