Sporting Memorabilia (#514) Auction Info Live Sale View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-52 of 52. Previous|1|Next Lot 103 Melbourne Cricket Club: 1863-64 Member's Season Ticket, brown leather covers with gilt 'M.C.C. 1863-4.' on front & back; signed internally by the Treasurer, J. Henderson. Extremely scarce. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Price Realized$7,000StatusSold Lot 104 1864 - 1878 JOHN WISDEN'S CRICKETERS' ALMANACKS boxed set of 15 official facsimile reprints dated 1991; superb condition in their original Wisden yellow box. All hardbound volumes are numbered 518. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot 105 1873 EDITION OF 'JAMES LILLYWHITE'S CRICKETERS' ANNUAL': being the 2nd year of publication, with dated pencil signature of cricket writer J.H. Stainton on the title page, 210pp softbound with original covers, advertisements at front and back; fair condition. Includes the rare "ERRATA" paste in. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot 106 "THE CRICKETERS OF VANITY FAIR - Men of the Day" 1877 - 1914, the collection of 40 plates housed in a magnificent red leather solander box with gilt titles. Login to bid Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Orig. Starting Price$3,000Buy now!$3,000 Lot 107 An original Vanity Fair chromo-lithograph of W. G. Grace published in the June 1877 edition, mounted together with an original autograph of the 'father of cricket'; overall 53 x 35cm. Login to bid Estimate$500 - $750Orig. Starting Price$400Buy now!$400 Lot 108 Original Vanity Fair chromo-lithographs featuring Australian cricketers 'The Demon bowler' (Spofforth, 1878) and 'Australian Cricket' (Bonner, 1884); individually mounted, overall 53.5 x 43.5cm (2) View details Quantity2Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot 109 1878 The Australian Eleven, original albumen paper photograph, published as the frontispiece in the 1879 edition of Lillywhite's Annual; framed and glazed, overall 22.5 x 19cm. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot 110 FIRST AUSTRALIAN XI TO VISIT ENGLAND, 1878: A print showing the twelve players and their manager Jack Conway. Framed and glazed, overall 42 x 42.5cm.The Australian team led by Jack Blackham included Murdoch, Spofforth, Bannerman and Gregory. During this tour Charles Bannerman made the first century by an Australian in England, hitting 133 in the Australian's win over Leicestershire on July 15-17th. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 111 1878 THE FIRST OFFICIAL AUSTRALIAN TEAM TO ENGLAND: The original scorebook of the Hastings & St. Leonards Cricket Club for 1878 and 1879, which includes the original scorer's records for Eighteen of Hastings & District v Eleven Australians at Hastings, 26th - 28th August 1878. View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Price Realized$4,200StatusSold Lot 112 WISDEN'S CRICKETERS' ALMANACKS for 1879, 1885, 1916, 1918 and 1919 Willow's Reprints uniformly bound in lightbrown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. (5 vols.). View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 113 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annuals for 1879 (featuring an albumen paper print of "The Australian Twelve"); 1881 (featuring an albumen paper print of "The Australian Eleven, 1880"), and 1883 (featuring an albumen paper print of "The Australian Team, 1882"), (3); fair/good condition. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 114 A TASMANIAN COLONIAL CRICKET CAP from the late 19th Century, red with white piping, a button-down peak, and with an illegible signature under the brim. Although worn in places, in remarkably good condition for one of the oldest surviving Australian cricket caps. Provenance: Charles Leski Auction, 30 September 2009. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot 115 1880 Second Australian Team To England: Original scorebook of the Hastings & St.Leonards Cricket Club for 1880 & 1881, which includes the original scorer's records for Eighteen of Hastings & District v Eleven Australians at Hastings on 30th August-1st September 1880 (5 days before the only Test match). Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Orig. Starting Price$1,600Buy now!$1,600 Lot 116 31st October 1881 usage of a 1d postal card, mailed from Melbourne to Mr. F. Barnard, Main Road, Kew, written by Percy Glass, Hon. Sec. South Yarra Oval C.C. with details of two planned games on Jan. 21st and March 25th 1882. Also, a Jan. 1897 usage of a 1d postal card from E.B. Manning at the East Melbourne Cricket Club to a Mr. Davies at South Yarra informing him of the forthcoming match between the E.M.C.C. team and a team representing the Titles Offices on Jan.23rd 1897. (2 items). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot 117 THE BLACKHAM BROOCH, a piece of the original 'Blackham Ball' used by Frederick Spofforth during the first Ashes Test against England in London in 1882; inset under a rock crystal dome within a circlet of 24 old-cut diamonds and mounted in a 15 carat yellow gold cricket bat-shaped brooch View details Quantity2Estimate$25,000 - $30,000Price Realized$32,000StatusSold Lot 118 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annuals for 1883, 1887, 1888, 1889 and 1897, all containing the appropriate photographic plate. (5 items); mixed condition. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 119 An 1883 trophy leather cricket ball with a silver panel affixed and engraved "R.C.A.S. THROWING CRICKET BALL 109Yds.2Ft. 9In. - E. STANLEY - "; very good condition, considering its' age. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot 120 ‘CRICKET- Shaw and Shrewsbury’s Team in Australia 1884-5. The Voyage out. Description of Matches, Description of the Players, The Voyage Home, Batting and Bowling Averages’, Published by Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury. Nottingham 1885. 181pp plus adverts. Original decorative wrappers; the front one detached. Some wear with loss to spine, internally in good condition with the full page Anglo-Australian Team albumen paper print in excellent condition. Rare Login to bid Estimate$800 - $1,200Orig. Starting Price$650Buy now!$650 Lot 121 An original albumen paper photograph laid down on a G. West & Son (Swansea) cabinet card, circa 1888. The image depicts a studio portrait of the Australian cricketers, Jack Blackham, William Murdoch, H.H. Hyslop and Harry Boyle. Overall 10.5 x 16.5cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$1,800StatusSold Lot 122 Two original Vanity Fair chromo-lithographs, "Oxford Cricket" (29 June 1889) depicting Hylton Philipson, and "Yorkshire Cricket" (24 September 1892) depicting George Hirst, both individually framed and glazed, each overall 54.5 x 44.5cm. [2 items] View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot 123 Seven original Vanity Fair chromo-lithographs featuring seven different English cricketers, "Oxford Cricket" (29 June 1889), "Sammy" (6 August 1892), "Bobby" (5 June 1902), "Repton, Oxford & Somerset" (6 August 1903), "Yorkshire" (29 August 1903), "Plum" (3 September 1903), "An Artful Bowler" (15 September 1904), all block mounted, average 35 x 51cm. [7 items] Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240Buy now!$240 Lot 124 AN ORIGINAL LETTER FROM W.G.GRACE: 14 March 1890 two-sided note-paper headed with the Gloucestershire C.C.C. crest, Thrissell House, Stapleton Road, Bristol, written to Mr E. K. Cooke, who was planning to publish an article and needed a photo of W.G. "in cricket clothes". W.G. writes "You can get a photo of myself from Hawkins of Brighton". Framed & glazed, overall 29 x 34cm. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot 125 W.G. GRACE, posing in his cricket whites with a bat under his arm, the portrait by Herbert Rose Barraud, circa 1885; framed and glazed, overall 48 x 41cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 126 "The Seventh Australian Team in England, 1890 - Biographical Sketches" by Clarence P. Moody (of South Australia), published by Wright & Co., at the office of "Cricket", London, 1890; 16pp with the front page featuring an albumen paper print of the Australian Team from a photograph by Hawkins & Co., of Brighton. Attractively housed in modern blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. The first recognized Ashes Tour brochure and very rare. The rival captains were Billy Murdoch and W.G. Grace. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot 127 An original albumen paper photograph of Jack Blackham, laid down on an E. Hawkins & Co., cabinet card and signed and dedicated by the cricketer; circa 1890. Extremely scarce. Overall 16.5 x 10.5cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$5,250StatusSold Lot 128 HUGH TRUMBLE'S original signature, dated Sept.1890 on an original albumen paper photograph by E. Hawkins & Co., of Brighton (England) and laid down on their cabinet-sized card. Overall 17 x 10.5cm. Extremely rare. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Lot 129 HARRY TROTT'S original signature, dated 10.9.1890 on an original albumen paper photograph by E. Hawkins & Co., of Brighton (England) and laid down on their cabinet-sized card. Overall 16.5 x 10.5cm. Extremely rare. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,700StatusSold Lot 130 "CRICKET" by W.G. GRACE, [Bristol : J.W. Arrowsmith; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1891], 1st edition, being No.105 of the "Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe (which) consists of 652 copies", signed by W.G.Grace on the limitation page; 489pp + 22pp list of subscribers. Professionally rebacked with the original spine laid down; half black leather over black cloth, with title and author's facsimile signature in gilt. Bevelled boards. Top edge gilt; new endpapers. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot 131 'The Australian Cricket Team of 1893'. by Henry V.L. Stanton of 'The Sportsman'. Fourth edition, London 1893. A pre-tour booklet comprising of biographies with portraits of Messrs. J.M. Blackham, H.C. Bannerman, G. Giffen and C.T.B. Turner, the programme of matches, some history and adverts. Attractively re-housed into modern blue board, with original decorative wrappers retained. Some wear and staining to wrappers, otherwise in good condition. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240Buy now!$240 Lot 132 THE AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND 1888: A rare studio portrait of J.D. Edwards, Alick Bannerman, Jack Lyons and Jack Blackham taken at Scarborough, which the Australian team visited to play a match against Thornton's XI, 4 - 6 September 1893. The match was drawn, with Giffen taking 9 wickets, Trumble taking 6, with Bannerman (74) and Graham (95) the best performing Australian batsmen. The image laid down on a cabinet card; overall 16.5 x 10.5cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$2,200StatusSold Lot 133 VICTORIAN TEAM 1894: An original albumen paper photograph laid down on printed backing card, headed 'INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET MATCH, VICTORIA V. SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Played on the Adelaide Oval, March 1894'. An extremely rare image but with defects. Framed & glazed. Overall 49 x 57cm Login to bid Estimate$100 - $200Orig. Starting Price$80Buy now!$80 Lot 134 JOSEPH DARLING (1870-1946): A cabinet card albumen paper photograph laid down on an Aaron Pickering (Leicester) card; signed and dedicated by Joe Darling. Overall, 16.5 x 10.5cm. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$2,600StatusSold Lot 135 ALEXANDER CECIL KNOX MacKENZIE (1870-1947): An albumen paper photograph laid down on a Kerry & Co. backing card. Signed and dated 1894 as a presentation to Bannerman. The photograph 16.5 x 10.5cm. Mounted, 29.5 x 24cm overall.Alexander Cecil Knox Mackenzie was an Australian cricketer. He played 48 first-class matches for New South Wales and Rest of Australia between seasons 1888/89 and 1906/07. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot 136 "DR. W.G. GRACE Champion Cricketer of the World" souvenir handkerchief, circa 1895; superb condition; attractively framed & glazed; overall 69 x 70cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 137 "FAMOUS CRICKETERS and CRICKET GROUNDS 1895" by CW. Alcock., [London : Hudson & Kearns], attractive black leather binding with gilt title to spine. Overall 37 x 26 x 3cm. Login to bid Estimate$300 - $500Orig. Starting Price$240Buy now!$240 Lot 138 A pair of late-nineteenth century match-used "skeleton" open-ribbed cane and leather cricket pads, with leather straps and buckles. (2). Each approx. 67cm. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot 139 W.G.GRACE, attractive original pen signature below a photo titled "W.G. GRACE FORCING THE BALL ON THE ON-SIDE" from the book, The Jubilee Book of Cricket", with a CofA [2006] indicating that the signature was originally part of the collection assembled by Australian Test Cricketer, Sid Gregory. The image is framed & glazed, overall 35 x 28cm. (2 items). View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot 140 WILLIAM (Billy) L. MURDOCH, attractive original pen signature below a photo titled "W.L. MURDOCH'S UNDER-LEG STROKE" from the book, The Jubilee Book of Cricket", with a CofA [2006] indicating that the signature was originally part of the collection assembled by Australian Test Cricketer, Sid Gregory. The image is framed & glazed, overall 35 x 28cm. (2 items). View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot 141 "THE AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND 1896" a scarce post-tour publication by Athletic News (London & Manchester), 1st edition, 64pp + original yellow covers; attractively rebound preserving all elements. The Australians played in 34 first-class matches on this tour, including the 2 Test Series, which England won 2-1.. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 142 ‘The Ninth Australian Tour 1896. Portraits and Biographies of the Players’. Published by the ‘Cricket’ Office, London 1896. 32pp. Complete pre-tour booklet in original pale green paper wrappers with portrait of Mr. Harry Musgrove, manager of the Australians, to the front. Padwick 4984. Age toning to covers and pages but otherwise in quite good condition; attractively rehoused in a modern claret binding with new end papers, but with all original elements preserved. Rare. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot 143 An alternative version to the previous item: ‘The Ninth Australian Tour 1896. Portraits and Biographies of the Players’. Published by the ‘Cricket’ Office, London 1896. 32pp. Complete pre-tour booklet in original pale yellow paper wrappers with portrait of G.H.S. Trott, the Australian captain, to the front. Front wrapper detached with small loss (held in place with conservation tape), the next leaf loose. Otherwise in good condition and attractively rehoused in modern green boards. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot 144 "THE JUBILEE BOOK OF CRICKET" by K.S. RANJITSINHJI, [Edinburgh & London : William Blackwood and Sons; 1897, 1st ed.], 474pp + frontispiece photogravure, introductory pages and all plates; attractively presented in a modern leather binding with decorative endpapers.A presentation copy with pasted in label to blank front end paper: "Presented by Fred H. Smith, Esq., President South East Lancashire Amateur Cricket League, to T. Hodson (Holyrood Church C.C.) Combination Batting Prize 1906. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 145 A booklet (incomplete) titled "Cabinet-Size Portraits (In Position at the Wicket) of A.E. Stoddart's ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM visiting AUSTRALIA 1897-1898"; 10 of the 14 portraits are present; the decorative covers are also absent. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 146 "THE JUBILEE BOOK OF CRICKET" by K.S. RANJITSINHJI, [Edinburgh & London : William Blackwood and Sons; 1897, 2nd ed.], 465pp + frontispiece photogravure, introductory pages and all plates; attractively presented in a modern leather binding with decorative endpapers. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 147 "WITH BAT AND BALL : TWENTY-FIVE YEARS' REMINISCENCES OF AUSTRALIAN and ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN CRICKET" by George Giffen, [London : Ward, Lock and Co., 1898, 1st ed.] 240pp + photo portraits; attractively bound in brown leather, with gilt titles and decorations. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot 148 The original 1898-1903 scorebook of the Hastings & St.Leonards Cricket Club for 1898-1903, which includes matches featuring the Tenth & Eleventh Australian Teams To England: the original scorer's records for matches at Hastings during two Australian tours: - South of England v Australians on 4th-6th September 1899. (Captains W.G.Grace & Joe Darling). - South of England v Australians on 8th-10th September 1902. (Victor Trumper 120, Tom Hayward 106). Login to bid Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Orig. Starting Price$1,600Buy now!$1,600 Lot 149 VICTOR TRUMPER (1877 - 1915) original pencil signature on piece, affixed to an "AUSTRALIAN TEST PLAYER" card. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 150 "THE BOOK OF CRICKET - A Gallery of Famous Players" 1899; Edited by C.B. FRY; the complete set of 16 weekly parts together with extremely rare 4-page index; beautifully housed in a later green leather solander box with gilt titles. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot 151 A presentation cricket ball with a silver shield affixed and engraved "PRESENTED TO W.G. HOLIDAY FOR PERFORMING THE HAT TRICK - SEASON 1899"; together with a mid-19th Century 2-part brown leather cricket ball with hand-sewn seam. (2 items). Provenance: Bonhams, Chester, 18th October 2006, Lot 75. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot 152 ‘Tit-Bits about Play and Players. Monster Cricket Book. Batting & Bowling Averages, Fixtures etc.’ Printed by George Newnes Limited of the Strand, London 1899. 80pp. Bound in green cloth for John Arlott, gilt title to spine, with original wrappers retained. Contents include details of the 1898 season, Hawke’s team in South Africa, Australians’ preparation for the 1899 tour, etc., with frontispiece cameo illustrations of the Australian players. Bought by A.E. Winder from Arlott in 1979... View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot 153 AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM IN ENGLAND, 1899: An original team photograph by J. Herbert Wilson of Market Street, Leicester; with the title "Australian Cricket Team 1899" in the plate, and the players names printed on the mount, window mounted. Overall 24.5 x 29.5cm. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$4,600StatusSold Lot 154 CRICKET BOOKS: "W.G. - Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections" by W.G. Grace [James Bowden, 1899]; "The Memorial Biography of Dr. W.G. Grace" [Constable, 1919]; "The M.C.C. 1787 - 1937" [The Times, 1937]; "Australian Batsmen from Charles Bannerman to Neil Harvey" by Moyes [1954, Angus & Robertson]; and, "The Greatest Test of All" by Fingleton [Collins, 1962]. (5 vols., all hardcover). View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$120StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next