Live Bid Online ™

Sport - Auction 343

Bid Indicator Legend:  Starting Bid  Bid(s) Placed  Lot Sold
Cricket - 1900 to 1927

 
REGGIE DUFF, superb pencil signature on card. [Reginald Duff played 22 Tests 1901-05. Australian Test Player No.81].
 
Estimate: $100 - $150
LOT WITHDRAWN
Bids (3)

 
WARWICK ARMSTRONG, superb pencil signature on card. [Warwick Armstrong played 50 Tests 1901-21 including 10 as Australian captain. His team has since been regarded as one of the strongest in history. Australian Test Player No.80].
 
Estimate: $200 - $250
LOT WITHDRAWN
Bids (1)

 
ALBERT COTTER, nice large signature on card. [Albert Cotter played 21 Tests 1903-12. Australian Test Player No.85].
 
Estimate: $100 - $150
LOT WITHDRAWN
Bids (3)

 
"England v Australia - The Story of the Test Matches from 1877 to 1904" by Pentelow [Bristol, 1904]. Fair/Good condition, scarce.
Symbols: L
Estimate: $60 - $80
Realized Price:
$85

 
1905 Scorecard, "England v. Australia, Kennington Oval August 14th, 15th & 16th, 1905", (5th Test Match), players include Joe Darling, Victor Trumper, Warwick Armstrong, Hon.F.S.Jackson & C.B.Fry. Some faults though extremely scarce.
 
Estimate: $150 - $200 (ex GST)
Realized Price:
$120

 
1905 A.Chevalier Tayler prints - Dr.W.G.Grace, C.B.Fry, Hon.F.S.Jackson & A.Cotter. Fair/Good condition.
 
Estimate: $300 - $400 (ex GST)
Realized Price:
$320

 
BILL WHITTY, signature on piece. [William Whitty played 14 Tests 1909-12. Australian Test Player No.95].
 
Estimate: $100 - $150
LOT WITHDRAWN
Bids (2)

 
1912 NEW SOUTH WALES TEAM, superb team photograph of the NSW team in Toowoomba, overall 25x16cm. Mount with peripheral faults, photograph fine. Rare and attractive.
 
Estimate: $180 - $220
Realized Price:
$160

 
VICTOR TRUMPER, WARWICK ARMSTRONG & CLEM HILL, nice pencil signatures on 1912 'Punch' Cartoon, "The Fight For The Ashes: One All".
 
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Minimum Bid:
$900
AUSTRALIAN TEAM POSTCARDS: "The Australian Cricketers Photographed at Lord's" (1912); "Australian Cricket Team, 1921"; "The Australian Test Team, 1930"; "Australian Team, 1938"; "Australian Cricket Team, England, 1948"; & "First Australian Cricket Team Touring West Indies & British Guiana March-June 1955" (rare). (6 items)
Symbols: PC
Estimate: $300 - $400 (ex GST)
Realized Price:
$225

 
CRICKET GROUP: Two nice 1913 real photo postcards "Australian Cricketers at the Men's Ground- HMAS 'Australia' and 'Sydney' July 13-13"; plus books (4) including "Bradman" by Moyes [Sydney, 1948] & Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1982 & 1993. (6 items)
Symbols: PCL
Estimate: $100 - $150
Minimum Bid:
$75

 
1921 AUSTRALIAN TOUR TO ENGLAND: Warren Bardsley original sepia photograph (15x20cm) depicting Bardsley in mufti on board ship en route to England, together with letter of thanks for sympathy after his death in 1954; plus Stork Hendry signed Major Drapkin cigarette card. (3 items)
 
Estimate: $200 - $250 (ex GST)
Realized Price:
$150

 
ARTHUR MAILEY: Books (3) in poor condition - "Arthur Mailey's Book" [Sydney, 1922]; "Cricket Sketches by Arthur Mailey" [Sydney, 1924]; "Cricket Cartoons - Depicting incidents in first class cricket during the visit of the English Team to Australia in 1924-5" [Sydney, 1925]; plus other cricket literature (9 items); Australian team sheets with facsimile autographs for 1994, 1995 & 1997; miniature bat with facsimile autographs. (c17 items)
Symbols: L
Estimate: $150 - $200
Realized Price:
$280

 
ALAN KIPPAX, signature on piece; plus a 1905 postcard to him from his mother at Jenolan Caves. [Alan Kippax played 22 Tests 1924-34]. Together with LEN BRAUND, signed photograph. [Len Braund played 23 Tests for England 1901-08]. (3 items)
 
Estimate: $120 - $150
Minimum Bid:
$90

 
c1924 LANCASHIRE TEAM, team photo from magazine with 6 signatures - Ernest & Dick Tyldesley, Cecil Parkin, George Duckworth, Harry Makepeace & Frank Watson.
 
Estimate: $100 - $120
Realized Price:
$75

 
1924-25 ENGLAND TEAM, official team photograph with title "M.C.C. Team 1924-25" and players names hand-painted on mount, noted A.E.R.Gilligan (captain), J.B.Hobbs & J.W.H.T.Douglas, framed & glazed, overall 83x64cm. Fair/Good condition.
 
Estimate: $200 - $250
Realized Price:
$160
1924-25 ENGLAND TOUR TO AUSTRALIA: Group of 11 photographs from 4th Test at MCG & 5th Test at SCG, including two photographs of the Australian team.
 
Estimate: $300 - $500
Realized Price:
$320

 
1924-25 ENGLAND TEAM: Full size Cricket Bat, with 13 signatures on reverse, including J.W.H.T.Douglas, F.C.Toone (manager), Patsy Hendren, H.Howell, J.W.Hearne, J.B.Hobbs, H.Strudwick, Maurice Tate & R.Kilner. A few signatures faded, and bat with some soiling, though scarce.
 
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Minimum Bid:
$750

 
1926 AUSTRALIAN TEAM: Display comprising autograph pages (2) signed by 11 players & manager, including Herb Collins (captain), Warren Bardsley, Jack Ryder & Bill Woodfull, window mounted with postcard "1926 Australian Team, In Jaeger Shirts and Sweaters, etc", framed & glazed, overall 39x44cm.
 
Estimate: $800 - $1,000
Realized Price:
$625

 
1926 AUSTRALIAN TOUR TO ENGLAND: Page from the Hippodrome visitors book with ink drawing of a pair of keeper's gloves signed and dated (1926) by Bert Oldfield, also a similar drawing of a bat signed by Johnny Taylor; and also signed by cartoonist Tom Webster.
 
Estimate: $250 - $300 (ex GST)
Realized Price:
$190

 
POSTCARDS: 1926 England Team "The Men Who Won Back The Ashes"; plus "West Indies Cricket Team, England, 1939" & "West Indies Cricket Team, 1957". (3 items)
Symbols: PC
Estimate: $150 - $200 (ex GST)
Realized Price:
$140

 
AUSTRALIAN TEAM POSTCARDS: "The Australian Team 1926" & "The Australian Test Team, 1930"; plus book "1937 Australian Test Tour" by Harris [London, 1937]. (3 items)
Symbols: PC
Estimate: $120 - $150 (ex GST)
Realized Price:
$130