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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:950
Sale Title:Sporting and General MemorabiliaLots with images:703
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:592
Date:17-Aug-2010
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1873 cricket belt buckle, with 'Cricket' in shield surrounded by bats, ball, stumps & wreath. Hallmark on reverse dates manufacture of buckle to Nov.1873. Good condition
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack' for 1885 & 1886, rebound in one volume, (preserving front wrapper of 1886, lacking other wrappers). Fair/good condition (some tone spots). Ex Hugh Trumble collection
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'vanity Fair' cricket print: 'Yorkshire cricket' (Lord Hawke) by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward), colour lithograph, published Sept 24 1892, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 33 x 47 cm. Ex Craig McDermott.
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1893 south of England Team: original team photograph of the south of England team that played the north of England at Hastings on 11th-13th September 1893, noted W.G.Grace (Captain), Billy Murdoch (former Australian Captain), A.E.Stoddart, J.J.Ferris, W.W.Read & J.T.Hearne, overall 41 x 33 cm. Superb condition.
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1893 north of England Team: original team photograph of the north of England team that played the south of England at Hastings on 11th-13th September 1893, noted Ernest Smith (Captain), Charles de Trafford, Bobby Peel, W.Attewell & John Briggs, overall 41 x 33 cm. VG condition.
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'vanity Fair' cricket print: 'Ranji' (K.S.Ranjitsinhji) by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward), colour lithograph, published Aug.26th 1897, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 32 x 47 cm. Ex Craig McDermott collection
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Bill Ponsford, lovely signature on picture of Ponsford's batting stance, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 31 x 41 cm. [Bill Ponsford played 29 Tests 1924-34]
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Circa 1924 cricket bat, full size 'Gradidge Imperial driver' cricket bat, signed on front & reverse by 14 teams - Kent, Middlesex, Sussex, Hampshire, Yorkshire, Surrey, Notts, Lancashire, Worcestershire, Essex, Leicester, Gloucestershire, South Africans & Warwickshire, with c162 signatures including J.B. Hobbs, Douglas Jardine, H.W. Taylor, Frank Woolley, Frank Mann, Arthur Gilligan & Lord Tennyson. Bat varnished (aged to a dark colour) and few minor faults, though an excellent collection of cricket…
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1924-25 England Team, full size 'T.H.Prosser & Sons' Cricket Bat, match-used, signed on reverse by England team, 18 signatures including Arthur Gilligan (captain), J.W.H.T.Douglas, A.P.F.Chapman, J.B.Hobbs & Frank Woolley. The signatures have been improved for display purposes.
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1926 Victoria's world record Score: silk scorecard 'World's Record Score in First Class Match, Victoria V New South Wales, Played at Melbourne on 24th, 27th, 28th and 29th of December, 1926', window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 32 x 41 cm. Ex umpire J.Richards, together with pocket watch engraved on reverse 'Presented to J.Richards, By the V.C.Umpires Assocn, As a Token of Esteem, 1932'; and few press clippings. (Victoria's score of 1107 includes bill Ponsford 352, Jack Ryder 295, bill Woodfull 133 &…
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1926 Victorian Team, official team photograph by Melba Studios in Sydney, noted Jack Ryder (Captain), young bill Woodfull & Stork Hendry, overall 37 x 30 cm. Good condition.
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Carlton cricket club, lovely group of membership badges (9), with 1927-28, 1928-29, 1931-32, 1932-33, 1935-36, 1936-37, 1939-40, 1940-41 & 1946-47; plus Members Season Ticket for 1953-54, lady's Tickets for 1953-54 (2) & football Season 1954 (2). Also Sydney Cricket Ground 1980-81 badge & Bicc badge. Scarce group. (16 items)
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1930 England v Australia 2nd test at Lords, (Bradman scored 254, Duleepsinhji 173, Woodfull 155 & Chapman 121), full size 'B. Warsop' cricket bat signed on front by England & Australia, and on reverse by Sussex, Essex, Glocestershire, Middlesex & Yorkshire, with a total of 81 signatures including A.P.F. Chapman, J.B. Hobbs, Walter Hammond, bill Woodfull, Victor Richardson, Don Bradman & Archie Jackson. Bat in Fair/good condition.
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Test Cricketers: Signed autograph cards (112), nice collection c1931-2009, with cricketers from England (19), West Indies (15), South Africa (12), India (21), New Zealand (23), Sri Lanka (12) & Pakistan (10); noted Sir Alec Bedser, Keith Fletcher, Graham Gooch, Mike Gatting, Fred Titmus, Alec Stewart,Ron Headley, Lance Gibbs, Wavell Hinds, Peter Pollock, Alan Donald, Jonty Rhodes, V.V.S.Laxman, K.Srikkanth, Harbhajan Singh, Sir Richard Hadlee, Walter Hadlee, Chris Cairns, Muttiah Muralitharan, Younis Khan.…
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Framed cricket Displays: signed action photographs/pictures (5) c1931-71 - Alec Bedser & Denis Compton; Rohan Kanhai, Jim Parks & Philip Sharpe; Tony Greig, Mike Proctor & Eddie Barlow; Colin Cowdrey, Alan Knott & Asif Iqbal; Leslie Ames. All window mounted with captions, framed & glazed, various sizes. (5 items)
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