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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:657
Sale Title:Cricket MemorabiliaLots with images:346
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:504
Date:26-Jun-2008
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1884 Australian tour to England, 'Our Cricketing Guests', a coloured chromolithographic print of the Australian & Philadelphian touring teams, published as a frontispiece to an edition of 'The Boy's Own Paper', window mounted with list of players, overall 36 x 38 cm
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Maribyrnong Cricket Club: 1885 (Aug.30) letter from C.Cherry, which states 'The Maribyrnong Cc held its first meeting at our house last Tuesday. I was elected Captain & Reg is Vice, there were only eight present but I think we will be able to get a good team'. Early Australian cricket item regarding the foundation of a suburban Melbourne team that is still competing 123 years later
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Cricket Prints: 'English & Australian Cricketers, Great Match England v Australia Played at Lord's Cricket Ground, London 19th 20th 21st July 1886', modern print originally by J.F.Weedon and produced by John Harrop in 1887, framed & glazed, overall 101 x 77 cm; plus 'England v Australia', modern print originally painted by G.H. Barrable and Sir Robert Ponsonby-Staples in 1887, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 104 x 66 cm. (2 items)
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1886 Australian Tour to England: Score card, Middlesex v Australians at Lord's, players include A.E.Stoddart, George Giffen, Billy Trumble & Jack Blackham. Some scores filled in with pencil, extremely rare.
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1887 cricket print: ('Harrow school: cricket match - Household Brigade v. Harrow'), by Tom Henry, engraved by Walter Cox (signed lower right), Published Nov.1st 1888 by Messrs. Dickinsons, Publishers to the Queen 144, new Bond Street, London, framed & glazed, overall 69 x 39 cm. Together with 1986 letter to vendor from head master of Harrow school.
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'Vanity Fair' Cricket Print: 'W.W.' (Walter Read) by Lib (Libero Prosperi), colour lithograph, published July 28 1888, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 36 x 50 cm; plus c1908 print 'Cricket 1820' by Tom Browne (1870-1910) showing the striding figure made famous by Johnnie Walker whisky advertising, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 43 x 53 cm. (2 items)
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Cricket cruet set, c1890, silver-plated, with 'Cricket Ball' salt & pepper shakers, plus 'Cricket Ball' shaped mustard pot with 'Cricket Bat' spoon, with base featuring stumps & ball. Very attractive item of cricketana
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'Vanity Fair' Cricket Prints: 'Sammy' (S.M.J.Woods) by Stuff (Henry Wright), published Aug.6th 1892; 'Oxford Athletics' (C.B.Fry) by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward), published April 19 1894; 'I Zingari' (John Loraine Baldwin) by Spy, published Sept 5th 1895; colour lithographs, each overall 27 x 40 cm. Condition A. (3 items)
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'Vanity Fair' cricket print: 'Yorkshire Cricket' (Lord Hawke), by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward), colour lithograph, published Sept 24th 1892, window mounted, overall 33 x 48 cm.
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'Vanity Fair' Prints: 'The Duke of Sport' (Duke of Beaufort) by Spy (Sir Leslie Ward), colour lithograph, published Sept.30th 1876; 'Handsome Fred' (General Frederick Marshall) by Ape (Carlo Pelligrini), colour lithograph, published Mar.16th 1878; 'Rhodes the second' (Hon.Abe Bailey) by Spy, colour caricature, published Sept.9th 1908; each overall 27 x 40 cm. Plus 'W.W.' (Walter Read) by Lib (Libero Prosperi), colour lithograph, published July 28 1888, window mounted, overall 36 x 50 cm. Condition A. (4…
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Framed Items: 1893 magazine picture of Australian team in front of scoreboard, with title 'Australia v The Universities Past and Present - The Record Innings', showing Australia's score of 843, world record total for a first-class match (framed & glazed, overall 39 x 45 cm); c1895 picture 'Practising in the Nets at Lord's' (framed & glazed, overall 56 x 49 cm); 1896 'Cricket Match, Ladies v Gentlemen' flyer advertising match at Whitby, window mounted with four 1896 press clippings (framed & glazed, overall…
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Cricket Books: 'Kings of Cricket' by Richard Daft [Bristol, 1893]; 'Giants of the Game - Being Reminiscences of the Stars of Cricket from Daft down to the Present Day' by Hon.R.H.Lyttelton, W.J.Ford, C.B.Fry & George Giffen [London, 1899]; 'Cricket of To-day and Yesterday', in two volumes, by Percy Cross Standing, Subscription Illustrated Edition [Edinburgh, 1902]. Fair/Good condition. (3 items)
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