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Sporting Memorabilia — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:447
Sale Title:Sporting MemorabiliaLots with images:151
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:284
Date:16-Dec-2009
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1930 Boys' Magazine 'Zat Card Series (Cricketers Series)', medium size, complete set [11]; plus 1934 Players 'Cricketers 1934', complete set [50]. G/Vg. (Total 61)
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1930 Players 'Cricketers 1930', complete set, noted Don Bradman, Archie Jackson & Bill Ponsford. G/Vg. (50)
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1930 Australian (Giant Brand) Licorice 'Australian Cricketers', almost complete set [23/27], noted Don Bradman, Archie Jackson & Jack Ryder. G/Vg. (Back inscribed '24 Photos in a Complete Set', though 27 known).
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1930-31 Australian (Giant Brand) Licorice group with 1930 'Australian Cricketers' [7/27]; 1930-31 'Australian Cricketers' [16/24]; 1934 Amalgamated Press 'Test Match Favourites' [20/40]; Major Drapkin 'Australian & English Cricketers' [9/40]; Bdv double-sided cards (33); other cards, mainly Film Stars (52). Poor/G. (Total 137)
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1932 Allens 'Australian Cricketers' [18] & 'English Cricketers' [18], complete sets. Poor/G. Scarce sets. (Total 36)
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1932 Sweetacres Champion Chewing gum 'Test Records' (32) & 'Prominent Cricketers' (32), complete sets, noted Don Bradman, Eddie Gilbert (one of the few sets to show this famous aboriginal fast bowler) & Archie Jackson. Fair/G (one with corners clipped). (total 64)
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1934 Players 'Cricketers 1934', complete set, includes Don Bradman, Bill Ponsford & Clarrie Grimmett. G/Vg. (50)
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1934 Players 'Cricketers 1934', complete set [50]; plus 'Cricketers 1938' [50] stuck down in album. G/Vg. (100)
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1934-38 cricket badges (25 mm, made by A.E.Patrick, Summer Hill, NSW) 'Australian Team', comprising C.V.Grimmett, A.F.Kippax, S.J.McCabe, W.A.Oldfield, W.H.Ponsford, T.wall, E.C.S.white & W.M.Woodfull. G/VG. (8)
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1935 Ardath 'Sports Champions' (Title in 2 Lines - rarer Nz issue) [50]; plus 1935 'Cricket, Tennis & Golf Celebrities' [50]. G/Vg. (Total 100)
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1936 Churchman 'Cricketers', complete set, noted Ames, Hammond & Hollies. G/Vg. (50)
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1938 Ogdens 'Prominent Cricketers of 1938', complete set, includes Don Bradman, Sid Barnes & Lindsay Hassett. G/Vg. (50)
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1938 Players 'Cricketers 1938', complete set, including the 16 Australian tourists. G/Vg. (50)
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1950 Carreras (Turf) 'Famous Cricketers', complete set of Turf slides [50 + 2 spares]; plus 1949 'Sports Series' Turf slides showing cricketers [11 + 2 spares]. G/Vg. (Total 65)
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1997 Sanitarium (Weet-Bix) 'Sir Donald Bradman AC Greatest Hits', complete set [16], with one card signed by Don Bradman
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Warwickshire, page headed 'Warwickshire 1908' with 4 signatures - F.R.Foster, F.G.Stephens, G.W.Stephens & W.C.Hands. [Frank Foster played 11 Tests 1911-12. England Test Player No.171]. From the Percy Samara-Wickrama cricket autographs collection
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1924-25 Australia v England, pair of autograph pages headed 'Australian eleven 1925' with 14 signatures, including Herb Collins (Captain), Bert Oldfield, Victor Richardson, bill Ponsford & Jack Riley. On reverse and another page is England team, 18 signatures including Arthur Gilligan, J.W.H.T.Douglas, A.P.F.Chapman & J.B.Hobbs.
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1924-25 England Team, autograph pages (2) with 8 signatures - Arthur Gilligan (captain), J.W.H.T.Douglas, A.P.F.Chapman, F.C.Toone (manager), R.Kilner. J.L.Bryan, Maurice Tate & Herbert Sutcliffe. Together with small picture signed by Arthur Gilligan & Maurice Tate
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1932-33 England Bodyline Team, two autograph pages with 15 signatures - 13 players including Captain Douglas Jardine, Gubby Allen, George Duckworth & Nawab of Pataudi; manager plum Warner & Victorian player Harry Alexander (whose only test was the fiery Fifth test of the Bodyline series)
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1934 Australian Team, autograph page with 10 signatures including Alan Kippax, bill O'Reilly & Stan McCabe. Unfortunately bill Woodfull pencil signature has been traced over in ink, other signatures fine.
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1934 Australian Team, autograph page headed 'Australian Cricketers 26/4/34' with 6 signatures - Bill Brown, Ern Bromley, Arthur Chipperfield, Ben Barnett, W.C.Bruce (treasurer) & Harold Busby (manager); plus Bill O'Reilly sig on piece.
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1938 Australian Team, official team sheet with 13 signatures including Don Bradman, Stan McCabe & Lindsay Hassett. Good example of Australia's first official team sheet
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1949 test Cricketers, page from a 1949 menu with 15 signatures including Arthur Gilligan, Arthur Mailey (with self caricature), Walter Hadlee, Denis Compton, Len Hutton, Douglas Jardine, Martin Donnelly & J.B.Hobbs. From the Percy Samara- Wickrama cricket autographs collection
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1949-50 South African Team, 2nd Test v Australia, autograph page with 11 signatures including Dudley Nourse (captain - 114), Eric Rowan & Jack Cheetham
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Ceylon/Sri Lanka: album 'Touring Teams to & from Sri Lanka', containing Ceylon team autograph page; 1952 Commonwealth XI (v MCC at Colombo - includes Keith Miller, Neil Harvey, Graeme hole & F.C.de Saram); collection of 1975-1999 Sri Lanka team sheets (35); visiting teams (14) including Australia 1981, 1983, 1988 & 1992; England 1981-82 (2); Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Bangladesh & South Africa. Wonderful collection, ex Percy Samara-Wickrama. (50 items)
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1950-51 England Team, official team sheet for tour to Australia & Nz, with 19 signatures including Freddie Brown, Denis Compton & Len Hutton. Minor soiling, though scarce team sheet
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c1951-52 West Indies Team, autograph page with 16 signatures (11 on front & 5 on reverse) including John Goddard (captain), Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes & George Headley (the Black Bradman). Fair/Good condition.
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1952 Indian Team to England, official team sheet with 18 signatures including V.S.Hazare (Captain), H.R.Adhikari, Gulam Ahmed & Pankaj Roy. Scarce
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1953 Australian Team, official team sheet with 17 signatures including Lindsay Hassett (captain), Arthur Morris, Richie Benaud & Ray Lindwall. Good condition. Together with lovely photograph of team bus with 'Australian Touring Cricket Team 1953' on front. (2 items)
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1953 England Team, 5th Test v Australia, 'Surrey County Cricket Club, Kennington Oval' letterhead with 12 signatures including Len Hutton (captain), Alec Bedser, Jim Laker & Peter May
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1954 Pakistan Team to England, autograph page with 18 signatures including Khalid Wazir, Maqsood Ahmed, Khan Mohammad & Shuja-Ud-Din. Together with letter & envelope from Khalid Wazir to Percy Samara-Wickrama, and small team photograph
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1954-55 Australian Team, page with 9 signatures including Ian Johnson (captain), Ray Lindwall, Keith Miller & Colin McDonald
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1955 South African team to England, 'S.A. Cricket Touring Team, great Britain, 1955' letterhead with 17 signatures including Jack Cheetham (captain), John Waite, Jackie McGlew & Trevor Goddard. Together with letter from Ken Viljoen (manager) & magazine picture of team. Fine condition
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1955-56 England Team to Pakistan, attractive illustrated page headed 'M.C.C. Touring Team, Pakistan 1955-56' with 12 signatures including Donald Carr (captain), Ken Barrington, Harold Stephenson & Fred Titmus.
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1956-57 Indian Team to Ceylon, S.P. Foenander letterhead titled 'Indian cricket Team in Ceylon' with 15 signatures including P.R. Umrigar (Captain), G.S. Ramchand & Ghulam Ahmed; together with real photo postcard of the team entering the field with 5 signatures, and three scarce match tickets. (5 items)
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1956 Australian Team, autograph page with 11 signatures including Ian Johnson, Ray Lindwall & Neil Harvey; on reverse 1957 West Indies (11 signatures including Gary Sobers); also Daily Express postcard 'The 1956 Australian Touring Side' with facsimile autographs; 1949 Zululand Team (v Australia) autograph page with 12 signatures; 1949 autograph page signed by Transvaal (11) & Australia (7); Team Sheets - 1991 Western Australian (12 sigs); 1992 Queensland (12 sigs); 1985-86 Griqualand West (11 sigs);…
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1956 Australian Team, official team sheet with 17 signatures including Ian Johnson (captain), Keith Miller, Neil Harvey & Ray Lindwall. Together with postcard 'Australian Cricket Team, 1956'. (2 items)
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1956-57 England Team to South Africa, official team sheet with 16 signatures including Peter May (captain), Doug Insole & Colin Cowdrey. Good condition
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1957 West Indies Team to England, page with 18 signatures including John Goddard (Captain), Gary Sobers, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell, together with postcard 'West Indies cricket Team' with facsimile autographs printed on reverse.
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c1957-60 Autograph Book, with c130 signatures of Victoria & other State cricketers, mainly in pencil; also noted John Coleman. Fair condition
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1957-58 Australian Team to South Africa, official team sheet with 15 signatures including Ian Craig (Captain), Neil Harvey & Wally Grout; endorsed at base 'Kindest Regards, Jim Burke'. Fine condition. Rare.
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1958-59 England Team, official team sheet with 20 signatures including Peter May (captain), Colin Cowdrey, Fred Trueman & Jim Laker. Fair/good condition
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1959 Indian Team to England, autograph page (India v Yorkshire at Bramall Lane) with 10 signatures including N.J.Contractor, S.P.Gupte & P.G.Joshi; plus 1962 Indian Tour of West Indies, beautiful team sheet with facsimile autographs. Fine condition. (2 items)
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1959-60 Australian Team on Pakistan-India Tour, official team sheet with 18 signatures including Richie Benaud (Captain), Colin McDonald & ray Lindwall. Fine condition. Rare
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1960 South African Team, official team sheet with 16 signatures including Jackie McGlew (captain), Trevor Goddard & Roy McLean. Fair/Good condition.
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1961 Australian Team, official team sheet with 19 signatures including Richie Benaud (captain), Neil Harvey, Graham McKenzie & Bob Simpson. Tape stains at left, otherwise good condition
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1963-64 South Africa Team to Australia, autograph pages (2) with 16 ink signatures, including Trevor Goddard (captain), Eddie Barlow, Graeme Pollock, Joe Partridge & Peter Pollock; plus 1981-82 Pakistan Team to Australia, official team sheet with 19 signatures including Javed Miandad, Zaheer Abbas, Sarfraz Narwaz & Imran Khan. (2 items)
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1964 Australian tour to England, 'Australian Team on Tour 1964 - Programme of Matches', with 6 signatures on reverse including Bob Simpson, Brian Booth & Bill Lawry. Fine
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1964 Australian Team, official team sheet with 16 signatures including Bob Simpson (captain), Brian Booth, Bill Lawry & Graham McKenzie. Fair/Good condition. Together with postcard 'Australian Test Team, 1964' signed by Brian Booth; and 1964 team photograph. (3 items)
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1966-67 England Team to Pakistan, page headed 'M.C.C. Touring Team, Pakistan 1967' with 15 signatures including Mike Brearley (captain), Keith Fletcher, Dennis Amiss & Derek Underwood
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1967-68 England Team to West Indies, official team sheet with 16 signatures including Colin Cowdrey (captain), Geoff Boycott, Ken Barrington & David Brown. Folds, otherwise fine condition. Together with cricket-bat shaped card with facsimile West Indies autographs. (2 items)
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1968 England Team, official team sheet for 200th Match v Australia, with 11 signatures including Colin Cowdrey (captain), Geoff Boycott & Alan Knott. Together with cricket-bat shaped card with facsimile autographs & Mcc Return Pass. (3 items)
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1968 Australian Team, official team sheet with 17 signatures, including Bill Lawry (captain), Barry Jarman, Ian Chappell & Doug Walters. Together with cricket-bat shaped card with facsimile autographs and small team photograph.
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1969 England Team, 3rd Test v New Zealand at Kennington Oval, 'Surrey County Cricket Club' letterhead with 11 signatures including Ray Illingworth (captain), Geoff Boycott, John Edrich & Derek Underwood
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1969-70 Australian Team, official team sheet with 15 signatures including bill Lawry, Ian Chappell & Alan Connolly. From the Alan Connolly collection, with signed action photograph
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1970-71 Australian Team, 1st Test v England, Qca letterhead with 12 signatures, including Bill Lawry (captain), Keith Stackpole (207), Ian Chappell & Doug Walters (112). Scarce
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1970-71 England Team to Australia & Nz, official team sheet with 17 signatures including Ray Illingworth (captain), Colin Cowdrey & Geoff Boycott. Together with small team picture
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1970-71 Australian Team, 1st Test v England, Qca letterhead with 12 signatures, including Bill Lawry (captain), Keith Stackpole (207), Ian Chappell & Doug Walters (112). Scarce
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1972 Australian Team, team sheet with 18 signatures including Ian Chappell (captain), Keith Stackpole, Graeme Watson & Dennis Lillee. Together with 'With compliments' slip
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1972-73 England Team to India, Pakistan & Ceylon, official team sheet with 18 signatures including Tony Lewis (captain), Mike Denness, Dennis Amiss & Geoff Arnold. Good condition
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1973 England Team, 2nd Test v New Zealand at Lord's, team sheet with 11 signatures including Ray Illingworth (captain), Keith Fletcher (178), Geoff Boycott & Chris Old; together with photocopy of Nz team sheet
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1973 Australian Team to West Indies, official team sheet with 15 signatures including Ian Chappell (Captain), Keith Stackpole & Ian Redpath; endorsed at top by Doug Walters. Fine condition. Rare.
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1974 Australian Team to New Zealand, official team sheet with 14 signatures including Ian Chappell (Captain), Keith Stackpole, ray bright & Greg Chappell. Fine condition.
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1974 England Team, 'Indian Cricket Tour, United Kingdom - 1974' letterhead titled 'M.C.C. 1974' with 11 signatures including Mike Denness (captain), John Edrich, Tony Greig & Alan Knott
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1974-75 Australian Team, 1st Test v England, 'Brisbane Cricket Ground' letterhead with 12 signatures, including Ian Chappell (captain), Greg Chappell, Jeff Thomson & Dennis Lillee. Scarce
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1974-75 England Team to Australia & Nz, official team sheet with 19 signatures including Mike Denness (captain), John Edrich & Tony Greig. Fine condition
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1975 Australian Team, World Cup Tour to Canada and United Kingdom, official team sheet with 19 signatures including Ian Chappell (Captain), Greg Chappell & Dennis Lillee. Fine condition. Scarce. (Australia 274 lost the inaugural World Cup Final to West Indies 8/291)
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Pakistan: team sheets - 1975 to World Cup, 1976 to Sri Lanka, 1978 to England, 1979 to Ceylon, 1981-82 to Australia & 1987 to England. Signatures include Asif Iqbal, Intikab Alam, Wasim bari, Javed Miandad & Imran Khan. Good condit. (6)
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1975-76 West Indies Team to Australia, official team sheet with 19 signatures including Clive Lloyd Captain), Lance Gibbs, Michael Holding & Vivian Richards. Fine condition
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1976 West Indies Team to England, official team sheet with 19 signatures including Clive Lloyd (captain), Gordon Greenidge, Derek Murray & Viv Richards. Fine condition
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1976 New Zealand Team to Pakistan & India, official team sheet with 15 signatures including Glenn Turner (captain), John Parker, Richard Hadlee & Geoff Howarth. Fine condition
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1976-77 England Team to India, Sri Lanka & Australia, official team sheet with 18 signatures including Tony Greig (captain), Mike Brearley & Bob Willis. Folded, otherwise fine condition
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1976-77 Australian Team, 2nd Test v Pakistan at Mcg, official VCA team sheet with 12 signatures including Greg Chappell (captain), Rod Marsh, Kim Hughes & Dennis Lillee. Scarce
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1976-77 Australia v Pakistan, 3rd Test at Scg, official Nswca team sheet signed by both teams, with 25 signatures including Greg Chappell, Doug Walters, Mushtaq Mohammad & Zaheer Abbas
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1976-77 Pakistan Team to Australia, official team sheet with 20 signatures including Mushtaq Mohammad (captain), Asif Iqbal, Imran Khan & Zaheer Abbas
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1977 Australian Team to New Zealand, page handstamped at top '1977 Australian Tour of Nz. Manager: R.C.A.Wotton Mla. Captain: G.S.Chappell', with 15 signatures including Greg Chappell (captain), Rod Marsh & Dennis Lillee.
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1977 Australian Team for Centenary test, official VCA team sheet with 12 signatures including Greg Chappell (Captain), David Hookes & Rick McCosker. Scarce. Together with card showing Australian & England teams
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1977 Australian Team to England, official team sheet with 17 signatures including Greg Chappell (Captain), rod Marsh & Jeff Thomson. Fine condition
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1977-78 Australian Team v InDiameter. Official team sheet with 12 signatures including Bob Simpson (Captain), Craig Serjeant, Kim Hughes & Jeff Thomson. Fine condition. Rare - we haven't had this one before
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1977-78 Indian Team to Australia, 'Indian Team Tour of Australia, 1977-1978' letterhead with 17 signatures including Bishen Bedi (captain), Sunil Gavaskar & Bhagwat Chandrasekhar. Light folds, otherwise fine condition
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1977-78 England Team to Pakistan & New Zealand, official team sheet with 19 signatures including Mike Brearley (captain), Ian Botham & Geoff Boycott. Good condition
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1977-78 Australian Team, official Wsc team sheet with only 12 signatures including Dennis Lillee, Rod Marsh, Graham McKenzie & Doug Walters. Scarce
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1977-78 West Indies Team, official Wsc team sheet with 15 signatures including Clive Lloyd (captain), Deryck Murray & Joel Garner
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1977-78 World Team, official Wsc team sheet with 15 signatures including Tony Greig (captain), Zaheer Abbas & Barry Richards
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D 1978 Australian Team to West Indies, official team sheet with 17 signatures including Bob Simpson (Captain), Kim Hughes & Jeff Thomson; together with letter from team manager & envelope 'Australian cricket Team, West Indies 1978' posted from Barbados. Fine condition. Scarce team sheet. (3 items)
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1978 New Zealand Team to England, official team sheet with 16 signatures including Mark Burgess (captain), John Parker, Richard Hadlee & Dayle Hadlee. Fine condition
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1978-79 England Team to Australia, official team sheet with 19 signatures including Mike Brearley (captain), Ian Botham & Geoff Boycott. Fine condition. Together with two colour photographs of the team leaving the field with 7 signatures. (3 items)
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1978-79 Australian Team, 'Western Australian Cricket Association' letterhead, headed 'Second Test Match - Australia v England, W.A.C.A. Ground - 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 December 1978', with 12 signatures including Graham Yallop (captain), Rodney Hogg & Peter Toohey. Superb condition
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1978-79 Nsw v Pakistan at Canberra, 'Australian Capital Territory Cricket Association' letterhead, signed by both teams, with 20 signatures including Andrew Hilditch, Allan Border, Mushtaq Mohammad & Majid Khan. Fine condition
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1978-79 Australian Team, official Wsc team sheet with 15 signatures including Ian Chappell (captain), Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee, Rod Marsh & Doug Walters. Scarce
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1978-79 World Team, official Wsc team sheet with 14 signatures including Tony Greig (captain), Asif Iqbal, Zaheer Abbas, Dennis Amiss & Barry Richards. Scarce. Fair/Good condition
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1979 Australian Team to India, official team sheet with 15 signatures including Kim Hughes, Andrew Hilditch, Allan Border, Dav Whatmore & Rod Hogg; plus 'With compliments' card. (2 items)
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1979 England Team, 2nd Test v India at Lord's, team sheet with 12 signatures including Mike Brearley (captain), Geoff Boycott, Graham Gooch & Ian Botham. Fine condition
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1979 Indian Team to England, team sheet with 18 signatures including S.Venkataraghavan (captain), G.R.Viswanath, Sunil Gavaskar & Kapil Dev. Good condition
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1979 Pakistan Team to England, team sheet with 15 signatures including Asif Iqbal (captain), Majid Khan, Sarfraz Narwaz & Imran Khan. Good condition
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1979 Australian Team to World Cup, official team sheet with 14 signatures including Kim Hughes (captain), Allan Border, Rodney Hogg & Graham Yallop
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1979 Canada Team to World Cup, page headed 'Canada in England, World Cup, 1979' with 17 signatures including Bryan Mauricette (captain), Glenroy Sealy & Cornelius Henry. Scarce
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1979 England Team to World Cup, team sheet with 14 signatures including Mike Brearley (captain), Geoff Boycott, Graham Gooch & Ian Botham. Fine condition
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1979 New Zealand Team to World Cup, official team sheet with 15 signatures including Mark Burgess (captain), Lance Cairns & Richard Hadlee. Good condition
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1979 West Indies Team to World Cup, official team sheet with 15 signatures including Clive Lloyd (captain), Gordon Greenidge, Derek Murray & Viv Richards. Fine condition. [West Indies won the 2nd World Cup - Wi 286/9 d England 194]
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