Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia

W.G. Grace. ‘Banquet held on Monday, June 24th 1895 at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton to Mr W.G. Grace in celebration of his One Hundredth Century, c...

‘Farewell Dinner to Dr W.G. Grace 1898’. Original menu card for the Dinner, given by the Clifton Foot Beagles, held at the Clifton Down Hotel on D...

Australia tour to England 1896. The Times of London newspaper. Four original and complete copies of issues dated 26th and 27th May 1896 with cover...

‘Cricket Notes and Scores’ 1902-1904. Five large scrapbook albums in matching leather bindings (one album larger) with raised bands to spines and ...

M.C.C. tour to Australia 1929/30. Official menu for the dinner given ‘In honour of the M.C.C. Australian Team’ at the Mansion House, London, 18th ...

Clarence Victor ‘Clarrie’ Grimmett. Victoria, South Australia & Australia 1918-1941. ‘Farewell Dinner to the Australian Cricket Team’ 1930. Excell...

M.C.C. tour of India & Ceylon 1933/34. Official menu for the ‘Calcutta Cricket Club Dinner to the Marylebone Cricket Club Touring Team in India on...

Australian tour to England 1948. Official folding menu for the luncheon given by the Institute of Journalists London District to welcome the Austr...

M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1948/49. Large official folding menu for the ‘Farewell Luncheon to the M.C.C. Cricket Team’ held on board the Union Li...

New Zealand tour to England 1949. Official folding menu for the dinner held at the close of the New Zealand tour at the Savoy Hotel, 21st Septembe...

West Indies tour to England 1950. Large official folding menu for the luncheon given to welcome ‘The West Indies Cricket Team 1949’ by the British...

South Africa Tour to England 1951. Official Union-Castle Line ‘R.M.S. Arundel Castle’ menu for dinner in the ‘First Saloon’ on which the touring p...

The Cricket Writers’ Club Fourth Annual Dinner 1951. Official menu for the Dinner held at The Press Club, London on the 23rd June 1951, the Dinner...

M.C.C. tour of the West Indies 1953/54. Fyffes Line ‘S.S. Ariguani’ official dinner menu with printed detail of menu to inside pages, dated 19th A...

M.C.C. tour to South Africa 1956/57. Official menu card for Luncheon held at The Victoria Falls Hotel, 20th November 1956. The single sided card w...

Brian Taylor, Doug Insole and Trevor Bailey, Essex & England. Copy menu for the ‘Presentation Dinner to record the profound wisdom of the M.C.C. s...

E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. Small official folding menu for a dinner at 10 Downing Street, 15th October 1970, hosted by the Prime Minister, Edward Heath. ...

Sri Lanka tour to Zimbabwe 1982. Official folding menu for the ‘Celebrity Dinner in honour of the Sri Lankan Tour 1982’ held at the Jameson Hotel,...

‘The Forty Club’. Official menu for the ‘Annual Dinner’ held at the London Hilton, Park Lane, 23rd October 1992. The 16pp menu in card wrappers wi...

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Single page handwritten letter written in ink from Hobbs to Arthur Wellard (Somerset & Englan...

Charles Burgess Fry. Oxford University, Sussex, London County, Hampshire & England 1892-1922. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Fry, date...

Lord Henry Francis Montagu-Douglas Scott. Four page handwritten letter from Scott to ‘Parker’, dated 10th October 1935, turning down an invitation...

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Single page neatly handwritten letter on ‘Woodthorpe, Clapham Park’ letterhead from Hobbs, da...

Francis George Mann. Middlesex, Cambridge University & England 1937-1954. Single page handwritten letter from Mann, dated 5th July 1957, in which ...

Irving Rosenwater. Cricket writer and collector. Single page typed letter from Rosenwater dated 17th April 1984. Writing from Sydney to a correspo...

Arundel Castle C.C. 1995. Individual limitation page produced for the Deluxe Limited Edition of ‘Cricket at the Castle. One hundred years of crick...

England tour to West Indies 1981. Two Cable and Wireless Press Telegram sheets, one signed in ink by sixteen members of the England touring party,...

John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs, Surrey & England 1905-1934. ‘Minutes of a Board Meeting of the Company... December 4th 1919’. Two pages of minutes writte...

‘American Cricket (1930 on)’ and Charles Aubrey Smith. Very large black binder comprising an excellent collection of photographs, magazine images,...

England v Australia. The Oval 1909. Early original photograph of Warren Bardsley walking out to bat for Australia. The photograph measures 6.25”x8...

England v Australia. The Oval 1909. Two early original photographs, one of Vernon Ransford, the other of the Australian captain, Monty Noble, walk...

England v Australia. The Oval 1909. Four early original photographs laid down back to back on two photograph album pages. Three of the images depi...

England v Australia. The Oval 1909. Four early original photographs laid down back to back on two photograph album pages. Two of the images depict...

England v Australia. 1909. Early original mono photograph of the England team walking out on to the field of play, laid down to photograph album p...

Lord Hawke. Two early mono photographs featuring Lord Hawke, laid down to photograph album pages. One, with handwritten title ‘Surrey v Yorkshire ...

Kent C.C.C. 1908-1910. Three photograph album pages comprising nine early original mono photographs laid down back to back to the pages. Kent play...

Yorkshire 1908 & 1909. Five early original sepia photographs featuring Yorkshire players at grounds and in match action. Each photograph is laid i...

Bobby Abel (Surrey & England 1881-1904) and Tip Foster (Oxford University, Worcestershire & England 1987-1912). Two early original mono photograph...

Cambridge and Oxford Universities 1909-1911. A selection of early original mono and sepia photographs laid down back to back to photograph album p...

Surrey v Kent. The Oval 1910. A good selection of early original mono and sepia photographs, the majority laid down individually to photograph alb...

Middlesex 1910. A good selection of early original mono and sepia photographs laid down individually to photograph album pages, depicting action f...

‘Derbyshire Professionals Oval 1910’. Early original sepia photograph of the Derbyshire players entering the field of play from the pavilion at Th...

John William ‘Jack’ Hearne. Middlesex & England 1909-1936. Two early mono photographs of Hearne walking out to bat, one in 1910 (6.5”x8.5”), the o...

Surrey 1910 & 1911. Two early mono photographs, one depicting action from Surrey v Essex in 1910 (8.5”x6.25”), the other of the ‘Surrey Profession...

Middlesex v Yorkshire 1910. Two early sepia photographs, both depicting match action. The photographs are laid down individually to photograph alb...

Yorkshire and Middlesex 1911. Two early mono photographs of Yorkshire and Middlesex players, walking on to the field of play. The photographs are ...

Warwickshire 1911 and Kent 1913. Two early mono photographs of Warwickshire and Kent batsmen walking on to the field of play. The photographs are ...

Albert Edwin Trott. Victoria, Middlesex, Australia & England 1892-1910. Early mono photograph of Trott depicted full length at fielding practice i...

‘Two Lancashire Captains. Father & Son 1911’. Early mono photograph of A.H. and A.N. Hornby standing facing each other in conversation. The photog...

‘Sussex 1911’. Early mono photograph of Ernest ‘Tim’ Killick and George Cox walking out to bat for Sussex in 1911. The photograph laid down to a p...

‘Middlesex 1911 & 1913’. Three early mono and sepia photographs of Middlesex in match action v Hampshire 1911, v Essex at Leyton 1911, and v M.C.C...

Triangular Test Tournament 1912. Two early mono photographs of action at Lord’s from the Triangular Test series. One of Australia v South Africa w...

Gentlemen v Players, Scarborough 1913. Three early mono photographs laid back to back on two photograph album pages. One depicts F.L. Fane and M.C...

Kent 1909 &1913. Two early mono and sepia photographs laid to two photograph album pages with handwritten titles and annotated players’ names. One...

Yorkshire 1913. A nice early photograph of Major William Booth depicted three quarter length wearing blazer and Yorkshire cap. The photograph, mea...

Australia tour to England 1921. Three photograph album pages comprising nine early mono and sepia photographs laid down back to back on pages, of ...

Arthur Alfred Mailey. New South Wales & Australia 1912-1930. Lovely early sepia photograph of Mailey depicted head and shoulders wearing Australia...

Gilbert Laird Jessop. Gloucestershire, Cambridge University & England 1894-1914. Three photograph album pages comprising nine early original mono ...

Yorkshire v. M.C.C. Scarborough 1928. Original mono photograph of Eddie Dawson (Leicestershire) and Nigel Haig (Middlesex) walking out to bat for ...

Yorkshire v. M.C.C. Scarborough 1928. Original mono photograph of Frank Gilligan (Essex) wearing striped blazer, in conversation with an elderly C...