Sporting Memorabilia (#514) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-68 of 68. Previous|1|Next Lot #155 Melbourne Cricket Club: Proposed 1900-1901 Season's Membership Cards in deep red, navy blue and brown leather, with printed reverses, by Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, Printers, who had produced similar rectangular cards in the previous years. (3 items). Not previously known to us. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$3,200StatusSold Lot #156 An antique pair of brown leather and canvas padded open-palm cricket batting gloves, c1900; often referred to as "cigar" gloves. Rare survivors. (2). View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #157 D. W. GREGORY (1845-1919): A cabinet card albumen paper photograph by Kerry & Co. of Sydney with the cricketer depicted in later life. 16.5 x 10.5cm overall. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #158 Melbourne Cricket Club: Proposed 1900-1901 Season's Membership Cards (squared oval shaped) in deep red, navy blue and red, white & blue leather, two with printed reverses headed "Melbourne Cricket Club", by Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, Printers, who had produced rectangular membership cards in the previous years. (3 items). Not previously known to us. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$3,600StatusSold Lot #159 PERCY CROSS STANDING: "CRICKET OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY" in two volumes, bound together [ND., Edinburgh, T.C. & E.C. Jack; London: Blackwood, Le Bas & Co], 192pp + 184pp; attractively rebound in black leather with gilt titles. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #160 "AUTOGRAPHS OF THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS" 1902: Small autograph book containing the signatures of all eleven players signed to individual pages including Victor Trumper, Joe Darling, Clem Hill, Hugh Trumble and Warwick Armstrong. Housed in attractive custom made box with embossed leather panel. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$2,200StatusSold Lot #161 "RANJITSINHJI Prince of Cricket" by Percy Cross Standing [Bristol : J.W. Arrowsmith, 1903 1st ed.], 284pp + adverts., original cloth-covered boards. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #162 A real-photo postcard of RANJITSINHJI (from The Wrench Series), signed in ink by the cricketer and sent, in May 1903 from BRIGHTON to OLD BROMPTON, KENT; accompanied by two unused real photo postcards - W.W. Armstrong, and an unidentified cricket team. (3 items). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #163 RANJITSINHJI: An original print of the photograph by George Beldam, publish by the Swan Electric Engraving Company, circa 1905; signed in the lower margin by Beldam and Ranji. Framed & glazed, overall 74 x 56cm. View details Estimate$700 - $800Price Realized$1,700StatusSold Lot #164 W.G. GRACE: Original ALS dated September 1905 on London County Cricket Club letterhead, thanking his correspondent for his invitation and hospitality; framed & glazed, overall 30 x 36cm. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #165 Stanley Jackson, signature on lower right margin of superb half-tone offset lithographic original of the England Captain, Stanley Jackson, in full flight, published by the Swan Electric Engraving Company, London, 1st September, 1905; image size 28 x 42 cm, some tone spots, overall 75 x 55cm. An excellent photogravure of Jackson, former England Captain, who played twenty Tests from 1893 to 1905, 'stepping out to drive', taken from the original action photograph by George William Beldam. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #166 "The EMPIRE'S CRICKETERS from Original Drawings by A. Chevalier Tayler with biographical sketches by G.W. Beldam" Season 1905, [The Fine Art Society; London], original red cloth binding with gilt titles; housed in a later solander box with gilt titles. Overall 42 x 29 x 4cm. 48 chromolithographed portraits after Chevallier Tayler. Descriptive text by George W. Beldam. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #167 "GREAT BATSMEN - Their Methods at a Glance" by George Beldam and Charles Fry, [London : MacMillan & Co., 1st ed.1905] 716pp with numerous illustrations; attractively rebound in black leather with gilt titles. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #168 "THE EMPIRE'S CRICKETERS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY A. CHEVALLIER TAYLER: SEASON 1905", the complete volume published by The Fine Art Society London, containing all forty-eight full-page lithographs, together with the biographical notes pages. Very fine condition. 39 x 26.5cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot #169 CLEM HILL (1877-1945): A sepia tone photograph laid down on a Bolland backing card. Signed, dedicated and dated 1905 by Clem Hill. 16.5 x 10.5cm overall. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$2,000StatusSold Lot #170 Arthur William FitzRoy Somerset (1855 - 1937), glass plate negative depicting Somerset posing with three of his silver cricket trophies, circa 1905, with his original signature "A F Somerset" affixed on a label at top; 165 x 110mm. View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$20StatusSold Lot #171 AN ORIGINAL LETTER FROM RANJITSINHJI: July 1907 ALS headed Jamnagar, Kathiawar, with a hand-written invitation to dinner, signed by Ranji. Framed & glazed; overall 28 x 20cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #172 GREAT BOWLERS AND FIELDERS - Their Methods at a Glance" by George Beldam and Charles Fry, [London : MacMillan & Co., 1st ed.] 548pp with numerous illustrations; attractively rebound in black leather with gilt titles. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #173 W. G. GRACE: An autographed letter sheet headed 'LONDON COUNTY CRICKET CLUB, CRYSTAL PALACE' Dated December 1907, replying to a request from the Surrey Cricket Club that he make himself available for a prize presentation. In declining, he signs "Yours Truly, W. G. Grace". Mounted together with a lithographic print; overall 36 x 56cm. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #174 A 1907 trophy leather cricket ball with a silver panel affixed around the full circumference and engraved "LANCS. v KENT, MAY 23, 24 & 25, 1907 - Presented to H. Dean by Lancs. County C.C. - 9 WICKETS FOR 104 RUNS"; very good condition, considering its' age. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot #175 EARLY POSTCARDS: Nice group incl. African children playing "backyard" cricket, cricket grounds, incl. Victoria College Alexandria, The Village Green Langton, Bournville, the 1938 Australian Team, Stan McCabe, etc. (8). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #176 "Australian Commercial Travellers' & Warehousemen's Association Cricket Team. Visit To Melbourne, Easter 1907. S. Australia, 299. Victoria, 173" albumen print teams photo in original frame and mount with player names caption window, 46 x 56cm overall. View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #177 THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM IN ENGLAND 1909: fully signed original postcard of Bollard team photo. Framed & glazed, overall 29 x 31cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #178 THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM IN ENGLAND, 1909: An original postcard depicting the S.S. Orontes, signed in pen by all 14 members of the Test Team squad (plus Carkeek and Hartigan). Mounted, framed, and glazed. Overall 28 x 31.5cm. Australia won the five-match series 2-1, with two matches drawn. Australia's most successful batsmen were Bardsley (396 runs), and Ransford (353). Australia's most successful bowlers were Cotter (17 wickets), Macartney (16), and Laver (14). View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #179 THE 1909 AUSTRALIAN TEST TEAM IN ENGLAND: An autograph page dated 17.07.09, featuring the original signatures of all twelve members of the Australian team lead by Monty Noble and including Victor Trumper, Warwick Armstrong, Albert Cotter and Roger Hartigan. Attractively framed and glazed together with photographs of the twelve cricketers. Overall 66 x 55cm. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot #180 An impressive leather and buckram bound photograph album, numbered "13" in manuscript and further endorsed to the front page "To Bert Hopkins with very best wishes, London, October 1909, from Frank Laver". Further endorsed in Laver's hand "A Souvenir of a very successful and pleasant trip together as members of the Thirteenth Australian Cricket Team, Season 1909". The album contains a collection of more than 100 original photographs, most with hand-written captions beneath. View details Estimate$15,000 - $25,000StatusUnsold Lot #180a An autograph page featuring seven of the Australian 1909 tourists including Laver, Armstrong, Carkeek, O'Connor and Carter; unusually also signed by Bill Ferguson, the scorer. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #181 St. Kilda & East Melbourne "Final Match for V.C.A. Premiership 1910" souvenir scorecard, won by St. Kilda by 394 runs. Framed & glazed, overall 39 x 31cm. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #182 W.G. GRACE portrait print published by the Gilchrist Brothers; photographed by Beeson. Framed and glazed, overall 50 x 39cm. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #183 MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB: Membership fobs for 1910-11, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-14, 1914-15 and 1918-19, all in very good condition, (6). View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #184 "CHATS ON THE CRICKET FIELD" by W.A. Bettesworth, [London : Merritt & Hatcher, 1st ed. ND but 1910], 468pp + index; beautifully presented in green leather binding with gilt titles to front cover and spine. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #185 THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM V SOUTH AFRICA, 1910 - 1911 A full-size silver gelatin print of the Australian team which defeated the South African visitors 4-1 in a five test match series in Australia. Fully signed in the margins by the team, captained by Clem Hill, and including Victor Trumper, Warwick Armstrong, Warren Bardsley, Albert Cotter, and Herbert Hordern; the photograph, by Kerry Studios Sydney, with their label affixed lower-right. Additionally, a manuscript dedication in the lower left corner View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$6,500StatusSold Lot #186 "THE BOOK OF CRICKET" by P.F. Warner [London : J.M. Dent & Sons, 1st ed. 1911], 253pp + frontispiece plate by Beldam + intro + photo plates also by Beldam; beautifully presented in brown leather with new endpapers; gilt titles and decorations to front cover and spine. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #187 AUSTRALIA vs ENGLAND 1911-12 in AUSTRALIA: A page from an autograph book owned by Geoffrey Austin Street (1894 - 1940), who would become Minister for the Army, Repatriation and Defence in 1939-40, featuring the Australian team, including Trumper, Hill, Armstrong, Ransford, Carter, Matthews, Hordern and Gregory. Condition ReportSheet size 9.6 x 13.1cm. No writing on reverse. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$3,200StatusSold Lot #188 The English Team autograph page removed from the G.A. Street autograph book (as above), with pen signatures including Barnes, Gunn, Hobbs, Strudwick, Foster, Hearne and Douglas. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #189 "IMPERIAL CRICKET" by P.F. Warner, [London : The London & Counties Press Association, 1st edition, 1912], 504pp; beautifully bound in leather with gilt titles and raised bands to spine. No.184 of the Subscribers' Edition of 900. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #190 "TRIANGULAR CRICKET" by Edward Humphrey Dalrymple SEWELL [London : J. M. Dent & Sons., 1912] 1st edition; original green cloth binding, with gilt titles and decorations to spine; 211pp + photo plates and intro. pages. The only contemporary account of the Test Series of 1912 when England, Australia and South Africa played a 3-way contest - an experiment that was never repeated. View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #191 MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB: membership medallions for 1912-13 (No.2547) and 1913-14 (No.1555), (2 items). View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #192 MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB: membership medallions for 1912-13 (No.3845) and 1914-15 (No.1423), (2 items). View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #193 FITZROY CRICKET CLUB Lady's Ticket, Members Reserve for Season 1913-14, No.11 issued in the name of J.A. Loveless. View details Estimate$50 - $75Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #194 An antique cricket bat bearing 9ct rose gold presentation plaque: "Willed By W. J. N. SYER To His Son Edwin, 05/06/13". View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #195 VICTOR THOMAS TRUMPER (1877-1915): A rare photographic tin plate produced on the occasion of the Victor Trumper Benefit Match which was held at The Sydney Cricket Ground, 8 February 1913. The photograph was signed and dated at the base by Trumper and also by the members of Trumper's New South Wales XI and the Rest of Australia XI led by Clem Hill. Trumper scored 126 runs and the game ended in a draw. Overall 20 x 15cm. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #196 MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB, membership fob for 1913-14 (#2833), made by Stokes. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot #196A A collection of printed score cards , mostly completed in manuscript; including Lord's "England v Australia" (a Red Cross benefit one-day match) 29 May 1944; Lord's "England v Australia" (a Red Cross and RAAF Charities two-day matches) May and July 1945; August 1945 Lord's "England v Dominions" (King George's Fund for Sailors, Australian Service Charities and New Zealand Sports Fund); August 1946 Surrey "England v India"; June 1947 Lord's England v South Africa; 1952 Lord's Middlesex v Inida; View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #197 MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB wounded soldiers Christmas tribute badge, circa 1915, 3cm diameter View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #198 MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB, 1918-19 membership badge, made by C. Bentley, excellent condition. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #199 MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB: Membership fobs for 1919-20, 1921-22, 1923-24, 1938-39 and 3 later items, (7). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #200 A match-used full sized "The Autograph" cricket bat by Gunn & Moore; signed in the ownership position by HARRY FOSTER (Worcestershire) and with a fine collection of signatures of Test team players of the 1910s-20s. The Australians include Armstrong, Gregory, Carter, Collins, Mailey, McDonald, Hendry, Bardsley, Ryder, Mayne, Pellew and others. The Englishmen include Warner, Douglas, Hobbs, Fender, Russell, Hitch, Woolley, Tyldesley, Sandham, and others. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #201 "The Australian Fifteen for England - Caricatured by Australia's Googly bowler Arthur Mailey" [Melbourne, 1921]; front cover is present, but detached. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #202 POSTCARDS: The Australian Cricket Team, 1921; published by Phillip G. Hunt & Co., London.; The Australian Cricket Team, 1926; published by T. Bolland., and The Australian Cricket Team, 1930; official photograph published by T. Bolland. All VF unused. (3). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #203 THE 1921 AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM IN ENGLAND: A Bolland real photo postcard depicting the whole Australian team in their uniforms and signed by all of the players including Bardsley, Ryder, Armstrong (Captain), Mailey and Taylor. Framed and glazed, overall 22 x 25cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #204 SOUTH MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB membership fobs: 1921-22, 1922-23, 1925-26, 1928-29, 1930-31 and 1949-50. (Total: 6 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #205 "THE CRICKETER" Weekly Magazine: a collection of leather-bound volumes, all containing the original publications with the following titles: "The Cricketer Volume 1, 1921", "The Cricketer Volume 11, 1922", "The Cricketer 1949-50", "The Cricketer Annual 1922-23", "The Cricketer Annual 1945 - 1948", "The Cricketer Annual 1948-9, 1953", and, "The Cricketer Spring Annual 1946-7-8", all with gilt titles; the bindings by The Book Doctor. (7 vols.). View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #206 1921 The Australian Team in England, RP postcard by Bolland; 1964 Tour brochures (2), by Playfair and by Rothmans, (3 items). View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #207 POSTCARDS: A collection of Australian Team postcards, comprising of 1921 (by Topical Times), 1921 (by G.Hunt & Co.), 1930 (Bolland), 1934 (Photo-Work Ltd), 1938 (S. & F.), 1964 (Australian fruits), and 1980 (Stamp Publicity). (7 items). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #208 "ENGLAND'S CHAMPION BATSMAN J.B. HOBBS - SURREY & ENGLAND XI" souvenir handkerchief; superb condition; framed & glazed, overall 53 x 51cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #209 "VICTORIAN TEAM - SEASON 1923-24, WINNERS OF THE SHEFFIELD SHIELD", large team photograph by Talma, Melbourne, mounted on printed backing card with printed details of the team, overall 48 x 60.5cm. The team, captained by Jack Ryder included Hartkopf, Grimmett, Woodfull, Ponsford and Ransford. Victoria won all four matches it played in the 1923-24 season. Ponsford topped the run scoring with 529; Hartkopf took the most wickets, with 22. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #210 May 1924, original signed letter from P.F. Warner, on "The Cricketer" letterhead; framed & glazed; overall 35 x 30cm. View details Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #211 M.C.C. AUSTRALIAN TOUR 1924-25: large format team photograph, mounted together with the original signatures of all 18 members of the touring party, including Hobbs, Howell, Woolley, Gilligan and Strudwick. Framed & glazed, overall 49 x 50cm. Australia won the rubber, 4-1. For England, Sutcliffe made 734 and Hobbs made 573 runs, while Tate took 38 wickets. and Strudwick 16 catches. Australia's best batsmen were Taylor (541), Ponsford (468) and Ryder (363). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #212 ADELAIDE CRICKET CLUB BLAZER, Grimmett's Adelaide Cricket Club blazer, blue wool with yellow and red trim, with monogram initials of the A.C.C. embroidered in red, yellow, and turquoise thread; label of McCarron & Co., inscribed in ink "MR. C.V. GRIMMETT 23 - 8 -24". Provenance: The Clarrie Grimmett Collection; his family, by descent. View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #213 SYDNEY CRICKET GROUND: Membership fobs for 1925-26, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1934-35, 1955-56, 1956-57, 1957-58, 1958-59, 1959-60 and 1969-70. (Total: 11). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #214 J.B. HOBBS original ALS dated July 1925 on Surrey County Cricket Club letterhead, responding to a cricket enquiry; mounted, framed and glazed together with an original postcard portrait of him; overall 30 x 33cm. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #215 PRESENTATION "WISDEN'S SPECIAL" CRICKET BALL (1925), leather, cork and twin, mounted with a shield-shaped silver plaque, engraved "AUSTRALIAN XI v THE REST - DEC'R 1925 - Presented by HOYTS LTD TO C. GRIMMETT WINNER OF BOWLING AVERAGE." Played at the Sydney Cricket Ground, 4 - 8 December, 1925, the match pitted an Australian XI led by Bardsley against a Rest of Australia XI led by Collins. The "Rest" won by 156 runs. Grimmett's figures were 2/65 in the 1st innings and 5/91 in the 2nd. View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot #216 THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM IN ENGLAND 1926: A fully signed sheet with the signatures of all 16 members of the touring party, including Bardsley, Mailey, Grimmett, Woodfull, and Ponsford. Framed & glazed; overall 30 x 23cm. View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #217 1926 and 1930 "The Fight for the Ashes" by P.F. Warner, (2 vols), [London, George G. Harrup & Co.] 1st editions. View details Estimate$50 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #218 Leslie Alfred BRIGHTHOPE (1913-2004) was an A-Grade cricketer who played for South Melbourne and other teams: a group of his award medals comprising of 1926-27 "Best All Round" (9ct gold), "Special" 1926-27 (gold and silver), 1927-28 "Best All Round (9ct gold), and 1937-38 South Melbourne Cricket Club membership fob. (4 items). View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #219 HERBERT STRUDWICK'S SOUVENIR BAT WITH MORE THAN 125 ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHS: A full sized "Surrey & England XI" cricket bat by Sandham, Strudwick & Bale, signed in the ownership position by Herbert Strudwick (1880 - 1970) and evidently used to collect signatures from around the time he played his last Test (1926 against Australia) and for several years after that View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Lot #220 CLARRIE GRIMMETT'S SIGNED CONTRACT FOR THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TEAM TOUR TO NEW ZEALAND - February to April 1928. The four-page contract, signed by Grimmett and R.A. Oxlade (Chairman of the A.C.B.), William Bull (also of the A.C.B.) and witnessed by three others, inviting Grimmett to join a very strong team which was to play six first-class matches against regional and national New Zealand teams. 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