March Auction 2022
Our March catalogue will be available soon for our forthcoming sale on 4th, 5th & 6th March 2022.
Knights are internationally recognised as one of the leading specialist auctioneers of sporting memorabilia, with a database of customers worldwide, and have achieved excellent prices at our sales of sporting memorabilia since our inception in 1993.
We hold three major auctions of sporting memorabilia each year specialising in cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks, football, rugby, golf, olympic games, boxing and other sporting memorabilia.
Highlights from our November Auction of Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia, held on 5th - 7th November 2021:
Lot 1246. James William George Webb (Bob). Northampton R.F.C. & England 1926-1929. England International red quartered velvet cap with trimming in gilt metal to edges, quarters, peak and tassel with England emblem of the rose to front awarded to Webb for his appearances for England. The cap, by George Lewin & Co Ltd of Crooked Lane, London Bridge, in very good bright condition. Estimate £400/600 Hammer price: £950
Lot 1374. 'The Tottenham Hotspur Football Handbook 1906-1907'. Early pre-league official club handbook for the 1906/1907 season, with original printed paper wrappers. 56pp. Printed by C. Coventry of Tottenham. From a good run of Tottenham Hotspur Handbooks 1907-2005. Estimate £300/500 Hammer price: £1,200
Lot 276. Legh Barratt. Norfolk C.C..C. 1890 to 1908. 'Robert Slade Lucas Tour of the West Indies 1894-95'. Wonderfully evocative and unique journal/diary handwritten by Barratt whilst on the pioneering Robert Slade Lucas tour of the West Indies in 1895, the first tour of the West Indies by an English team. From a collection of items being sold by the descendents of Legh Barratt. Estimate £8000/12000 Hammer prices: Lot 276 £19,000, Lot 277 £13,000, Lot 279 £11,000
Lot 1111. Philip Henry Lundgren 1940-2015. Boxer. Rome Olympic Games 1960. An official Great Britain blazer worn by Lundgren during the Olympic games held from the 25th August to 11th September 1960 in Rome. Rare. Estimate £300/500 Hammer price: £220
Lot 864. 'Athol Rowan. A Memoir'. John Arlott 1952. Rare offdownload_catalogue_NOV21.php-print of an essay from 'The Echoing Green and prepared for private circulation'. Only ten copies were produced, this being number 6, signed to the limitation page by Arlott. This copy was presented by Arlott to G. Neville Weston in May 1952. Estimate £700/1000 Hammer price: unsold
Lot 857. 'Sussex Cricket and Cricketers'. F.S. Ashley-Cooper. Merritt & Hatcher Ltd., London 1901. Limited edition of only thirty copies produced, this being number twenty six. Original pale green paper wrappers. Rare. Estimate £1400/1800 Hammer price: unsold
Lots 1400-1404. Frederick 'Fanny' Ingram Walden. Tottenham Hotspur & England 1909 to 1927. Unique collection of five gold hallmarked medals awarded to Walden. His first England International medal v Scotland 1914, his Football League medal v Southern League 1914, his England medal v Scotland. War-time Military International 1916, his Football League Division Two Champions 1919-1920¹ and his Football Association Cup Winners 1920-1921 medal awarded to him by Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Please see catalogue for auction estimates. Hammer prices: Lot 1400, £1800, Lot 1401 £1800, Lot 1402 £1700, Lot 1403 £3600, Lot 1404 £32,000
Lot 422 - Kenneth Cranston. Lancashire & England 1947-1948. Alfred Reader 'Special County' cricket ball used by Kenneth Cranston to take four wickets for England in one over without conceding a run against South Africa in the fourth Test played at Headingley, Leeds on the 29th July 1947. From a collection of items being sold by the Cranston family
Lot 287. Cricketing jug. A large and impressive Doulton Lambeth stoneware tapering jug, moulded in relief with six raised figures, three of batsman and three of fielders in roundels, all different and in various positions. Overall impressed floral motif decoration, oval dark brown decoration to roundel borders and white beaded bands to top and base of the jug. The handle modelled with cricket bats and a ball with a straw boater to top. Pewter mount to rim. Approximately 9.25" tall. An excellent example of this rare cricketing ceramic. Estimate £800/1200 Hammer price: unsold
Lot 279. 'Arthur Priestley's Tour of the West Indies 1896-97'. 'Cricket at Barbados. Mr Priestley's English XI versus Barbados and Saint Vincent. Complete Details of a fortnight's Cricket. January 1897'. Printed at the Bulletin Office, Bolton Lane, Bridgetown, Barbados 1897. 34pp. Very nicely bound in original maroon boards with gilt titles to centre and marbled end papers, as issued. Very scarce publication, this was Legh Barratt's copy. Padwick 4677. From a collection of items being sold by the descendents of Barratt. Estimate £3000/5000 Hammer price: £11,000