Lot 361 Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Original photograph album compiled by Frank Laver, manager of the 1909 tour to England, which he produced as gifts to members of the Australian touring party, this being Trumper's personal copy numbered '13'. To the first page is a handwritten inscription in ink, 'To Victor Trumper. A Souvenir of a very successful and pleasant [time] together as members of the "Thirteenth" Australian Cricket Team, Season 1909. With very best wishes from Frank Laver, London October 1909'. The album is bound in original red cloth, rebacked and recornered in red morocco and new endpapers, and housed in a modern clamshell case with, to the front, an oval miniature colour oil portrait of Trumper in batting pose after a photograph by George Beldam. Gilt borders to covers, with raised bands and gilt to spine. A wonderful record of an early Australian tour and featuring an Australian legend. Hammer price: £14,000

Lot 512 Westerwald cricket jug. Large and very attractive Westerwald cobalt blue stoneware cricket jug, moulded in relief with five cameo panels of a batsman, believed to be W.G. Grace, in different cricketing poses. The body decorated with vine and sprig decoration in cobalt blue on a grey background. The strap handle decorated with large leaf decoration. Approximately 10" high. The jug made in Germany circa 1890. Rare in this large and impressive shape. A magnificent example of this German pottery in lovely condition. Hammer price: £800

Lot 1136 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1898. 35th edition. Original hardback. Excellent condition with bright gilt titles to front board and spine paper. A rare early hardback edition. Not often seen in such wonderful condition. From a collection of Wisden original hardback editions in exceptional condition. Hammer price: unsold

Lot 1 Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield's XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the Dinner given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield from the 8th-10th May 1893. The highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and Lord Sheffield's cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stumps and to sides and lower border, cricket bats and balls. A rare, decorative and exquisite item of ephemera from this early Australian tour. Hammer price: £550

Lot 631 'Pugilisitica: Being One Hundred and Forty Years of the History of British Boxing... in Three Volumes'. Henry Downes Miles. Weldon & Co., Southampton Street, London, First edition 1880. This scarce 1880 first edition not previously seen by the auctioneer. Rare. Hammer price: £420

Lot 530 Harold Thomas William 'Wally' Hardinge. Kent & England 1902-1933. An impressive and beautifully decorated silver presentation paper knife in the form of a cricket bat, the handle exquisitely moulded with crossed bats and ball before a wicket, and the Kent emblem of the white horse in shield with motto 'Invicta' in scroll beneath, scrolling foliage to extremities of handle and the blade inscribed 'The Kent County Cricket Club. Presented to H.T.W. Hardinge. Champion Eleven 1913'. An excellent memento of the 1913 Championship winning season of 1913. Hammer price: £1,000

Lot 348 Australian Aboriginal tour to England 1868. Small original sepia photograph of twelve members of the Aborigines touring party, nine standing in a row, with three on the ground in front. Players' names are Cuzens, Tiger, Charlie, Mullagh, Lawrence (Captain), Bullocky, Twopenny, Red Cap, Mosquito, Dicky Dick, Shepherd (Umpire) and Jim Crow. A rare photograph from this early and unusual tour. The photograph by 'James Andrews, Royal Institution, Swansea and The Parade, Carmarthen', with publishers stamp to verso in red. Hammer price: £2,200

Lot 826 David Wilson Colquhoun. Tottenham Hotspur 1931-1934. Mono real photograph postcard of Colquhon, half length, wearing Spurs shirt. Very nicely signed in ink by Colquhoun. W.J. Crawford of Edmonton postcard. From a large collection of Spurs postcards, photographs and programmes. Hammer price: £150

Lot 1222 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1865. 2nd edition. Original paper wrappers. The spine of the book appears to have been restored professionally at some point, with a new spine paper, some minor wear, staining and age toning to wrappers, minor creasing and odd nick to edge, light soiling to page block otherwise in very good condition. A rarely seen early edition in very nice condition. Hammer price: £5,200

Lot 922 India tour to Australia 1947/48. Very rare official autograph sheet with printed title and players' names, fully signed in ink by all eighteen listed members of the touring party. Signatures are Amarnath (Captain), Hazare, Nayudu, Mankad, Gul Mahomed, Sohoni, Amir Elahi, Rangnekar, Rangachary, Adhikari, Kisenchand, Phadkar, Irani, Sen, Ranvirsinhji, Rai Singh, and Gupta (Manager). From a large and comprehensive collection of official autograph sheets. Hammer price: £290

Lot 511 'The Boss'. A Royal Doulton Black Boy miniature mug, entitled 'The Boss' printed, to one side, printed with a boy in red shirt and a floppy hat, wearing an umpires's coat and holding a bat to side, to verso, the crest 'The All Black Team'. Green floral decoration to outer rim, green handle and rim. 3" tall. Small hairline crack to rim otherwise in good/very good condition. Hammer price: £1,200

Lot 1460 'West Indian Cricket Tour 1905'. C.P. Foley. Very rare large format title comprising eighty eight unnumbered pages bound in original dark green cloth. Gilt title to spine and top page edges. Probably printed privately in 1905. Padwick 4678-1 lists this as 'Lord Brackley’s XI to the West Indies [1906?]'. To the front endpaper are fourteen lines handwritten in ink by tour member, E.G. 'Teddy' Wynyard, '[This record was] Compiled by "C.P. Foley". A copy was given by the team to Lord Brackley (now Earl of Ellesmere) on the occasion of his wedding in October 1905. Of the many cricket tours I have taken part in, I always look back on this one as the most delightful- quite apart from any personal success I was fortunate enough to achieve. No happier band of cricketers, I believe, ever toured, and the charm of the trip was very largely due to our Captain [Lord Brackley]- I was exceedingly happy moreover in the companionship of my very dear friend, Hesketh Prichard'. An important record from the 'Golden Age' of cricket. Previously sold by Christies as lot 2 in the sale of July 1994. Hammer price: £10,000

Lot 309 'The Australian Cricket Team in England 1905'. Two mono real photograph postcards of the Australian touring party, the players depicted in small cameo portraits, head and shoulders, with title to lower border. One card, very nicely signed in pencil by seven of the Australian players, V.T. Trumper, D.R.A. Gehrs, F. Laver, A.J. Hopkins, Clem Hill, M.A. Noble and W.P. Howell. The other postcard, nicely signed in pencil by W.G. Grace (Gloucestershire, London County & England) and T.S. Fishwick (Warwickshire & London County 1896-1909). The signatures were obtained at the England XI v Australians match played at Dean Park, Bournemouth on the 31st August to 2nd September 1905. In original postcard envelope/packet. Some rare signatures. Previously sold by Knights in November 2014. The postcards in exceptionally clean condition and the signatures pristine having been stored in the envelope. Hammer price: £550

Lot 422 David Denton. Yorkshire & England 1894-1920. Four large, impressive, neatly compiled, uniformly bound personal albums covering Denton's playing and umpiring career containing some early, rare and much sought after items. The four albums contain original photographs, match reports, telegrams, tickets, invitations, menus, scorecards with extensive coverage of the M.C.C. tours made by Denton to South Africa in 1905/06 and 1909/10. A wonderful comprehensive record of a county and Test cricketer who played during the golden age of cricket. Hammer price: unsold

Lot 1326 Irving Rosenwater Collection. A superb collection of thirty eight limited edition monographs, articles and a speech written by Rosenwater, each numbered copy 'No. 1' and signed by Rosenwater, all originally retained by and held in his personal collection. The majority are contained individually in an envelope annotated in Rosenwater's own hand. Sold with a a complete set of ten Christmas cards produced by Rosenwater 1996-2005. A rare opportunity to acquire the personal collection of a prodigious cricket writer. Hammer price: £3,000

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