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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:715
Sale Title:Sporting MemorabiliaLots with images:378
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:565
Date:12-May-2009
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1931-32 South African Tour To Australia, team photograph, with title 'The South African Cricket Team 1931-2, Wearing Elasta-Strap Trousers', and with players names below photograph, overall 32 x 38 cm
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1931-32 South African Tour To Australia, team photograph, with title 'South African Cricket Team, Touring Australia 1931-32', players names & facsimile autographs on mount, overall 45 x 29 cm
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1932 Australian Tour to North America, team photograph titled 'Australian Cricketers, Vancouver B.C. June 22-1932', with 12 signatures - Stan McCabe, Don Bradman, Arthur Mailey, Victor Richardson (Captain), Alan Kippax, Hanson Carter, Ed Rofe, William Ives, Edward Tolhurst, Leslie Fleetwood-Smith, Dick Nutt & Phil Carney. Window mounted, overall 40 x 33 cm. Extremely rare team
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Don Bradman, superb 1932 calendar with colour picture of Bradman, and a record of his performances, issued by A.H.Smith, General Merchant, Barellan (country NSW), window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 57 x 68 cm
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1932-33 Bodyline Tour: Nice colour picture 'D.R.Jardine, captain English x I. 1932 Australian Tour', framed (27 x 33 cm); 'The 'Gripu' Gallery - Cricket Souvenir of the English Team touring Australia 1932-1933' (missing covers); plus team photograph 'M.C.C. Team in Australia, 1932-3' (torn & faults). (3 items)
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'In Quest of the Ashes 1934 - The Don Bradman Souvenir Booklet and Scoring Records' published by Wrigleys (2), both with the scarce scoring sheets - one with results to May.26-29 match, other with results to June 30-July 3 match. Fair/. (2 items)
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'The Globe Cricket Hints' & 'The Sun Cricket Hints' by Bradman, Oldfield, Mailey & Moyes [Sydney, 1934]. Poor/Fair condition. (2 items)
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'Radio Listeners Guide, second Edition, Souvenir Scoring Record, 1934 Test Matches, 3UZ, England Australia', scarce pre tour booklet produced in Melbourne. Fair/
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Don Bradman, supplement 'Don Bradman, Wonder Batsman, Captain of Australia 1936-37' published by David Syme & Co. Melbourne, framed and glazed, overall 34 x 38 cm. Some toning at top, though scarce and attractive
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'1936-1937 The Ashes - The Wrigley Souvenir Book and Scoring Records' [Sydney, 1936], (missing back cover), includes the rare score sheet with printed results for just the first two Inter-State Fixtures
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Tour Guides, wonderful collection 1936-78, noted 'The Argus and the Australasian cricket Guide, test Tour 1936-7'; Orient line brochure 'Australian XI, English Tour 1938'; 'The Australian XI, 1938 English Tour, Eta Radio Score book'; ABC cricket books (16) including 1946-47 & 1948. Some very scarce. Fair/. (57 items)
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Marylebone Cricket Club: Dinner Menu & Table Plan, 'The 150th Anniversary of the Marylebone Cricket Club, Savoy Hotel, July 15th, 1937'. Minor tone spots, though scarce. (2 items)
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Don Bradman, print 'Sir Donald Bradman' by Alan Fearnley (Bradman wearing NSW cap with SCG in background), signed by Don Bradman and the artist, limited edition 452/850, framed & glazed, overall 47 x 57 cm
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Don Bradman, lovely signed photograph of Bradman in his South Australian blazer, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 25 x 30 cm
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1938 Australian Team, official team photograph, with title '1938 Australian cricket Team in great Britain' and players names printed on mount, signed to mount by the entire team, 18 signatures - Don Bradman (Captain), Stan McCabe, Ben Barnett, Arthur Chipperfield, Merv Waite, Sidney Barnes (scarce), Charlie Badcock, 'Chuck' Fleetwood-Smith (faded), bill Jeanes (manager), bill O'Reilly, Frank Ward, Jack Fingleton, Ern McCormack, bill brown, Lindsay Hassett, Charlie Walker, Ted white & bill Ferguson (scorer)…
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c1938 Australian Team, full size 'Slazenger - Stan McCabe' Cricket Bat, with 4 signatures on reverse - Stan McCabe, Sidney Barnes (scarce), Keith Miller & Bill O'Reilly
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Miniature Bats: Wonderful collection of miniature bats, noted signed bats (41) including Australia (9), England (13), InDiameter. New Zealand (2), Pakistan (2), South Africa & West Indies (4); bats with facsimile autographs (7) including 1938 Australia (superb condition) & Don Bradman (2); plus bat made from Parr's tree. (49 items) great opportunity for the reseller
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1940s Cricket Books, noted 'Australia Wins! The Illustrated Story of the 1948 Tests' by Rivett [Melbourne, 1948]; 'Forty Years of English Cricket' by Lee [London, 1948]; 'History of the Tests' by Sydney Smith [Sydney, 1946]; also three 1940s cricket goods catalogues from Melbourne & suburbs. Fair/. (9 items)
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S.V. Smith's Cricket Cap, maroon with green & yellow stripes, endorsed inside 'S.V.Smith 1944'. [In 1944 Smith played for Metropolitan Police, Civil Defence Services, Club Cricket Conference, Metropolitan Police and Civil Defence Services]
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Programmes, noted scarce 'Souvenir Programme, England v Queensland Country, Albert Park, Gympie, Saturday & Monday December 7th & 9th 1946' [Gympie, 1946]; 1977 Centenary Test (2). Fair/. (5 items)
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Pennant, for 1946-47 2nd Test, 'Australia/Test Match/Sydney' with list of players including Don Bradman, nicely framed & glazed, overall 25 x 55 cm. [Syd Barnes & Don Bradman each made 234 and established a 5th wicket partnership of 405 which remains the record for all Test cricket]
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1947 New South Wales Team, official team photograph, with title 'New South Wales Sheffield Shield Team, v Queensland at Brisbane, October 1947', and players names printed on mount, overall 33 x 23 cm. . With Keith Miller collection certificate
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1948 Australian Tour To England, full size 'Sykes - Don Bradman' Cricket Bat, with 16 signatures on reverse, 11 of the Australian 'Invincibles' including Don Bradman, Colin McCool, Sidney Barnes, Bill Brown, Keith Miller & Neil Harvey; and 5 others including Sir Pelham Warner. Signatures in very, and desirable on a 'Sykes - Don Bradman' bat
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1948 Australian Tour To England: Menu 'British Sportsman's Club, Luncheon to The Australian Cricket Team 1948', with a total of 26 signatures throughout - front cover signed by Don Bradman & Tom Webster (cartoonist who drew the cover artwork); back cover signed by 9 of the 'Invincibles' - Bradman, Miller, O'Reilly, McCool, Tallon, Hamence, Loxton, Brown & Ring; other signatures include Maurice Tate, H.D.G.Leveson-Gower & Leonard Cheshire Vc. Central fold hardly detracts
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'The Listener In Test Cricket Book - For the Fireside on Test Match Nights, June to August, 1948', pre tour booklet produced in Melbourne to accompany the radio broadcasts from England of the 1948 'Invincibles' tour, includes teams, programme of games, scoresheets
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'The Invincibles, the Legend of Bradman's 1948 Australians' by Peter Allen (Sydney, 1999), signed by the author & 7 of the Invincibles - Bradman, Keith Miller, Ern Toshak, Sam Loxton, Neil Harvey, bill Johnston & Arthur Morris
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1948 'Invincibles', replica 'Sykes - Don Bradman' Cricket Bat signed by Neil Harvey, Bill Brown, Sam Loxton, Bill Johnston & Arthur Morris. Fine condition
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Don Bradman, signature on front cover of tour Guide 'Cricketers from Australia, The 1956 Tour Official Souvenir', also signed on reverse by Fred Trueman
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Don Bradman, print 'Sir Donald Bradman' by Alan Fearnley (Bradman wearing Australian cap with SCG in background), signed by Don Bradman and the artist, limited edition 716/850, overall 46 x 56 cm. Together with horse racing print 'The finish V.R.C. Spring Steeplechase, Flemington, 1868', by Thomas Lyttelton (1826-1876), Australian racing print 1981, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 102 x 80 cm. (2 items)
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C Don Bradman, display with signed envelope commemorating Bradman's 75th Birthday (1983) with special postmark, window mounted with print 'The Don - Sir Don Bradman' by John Christie, framed & glazed, 94 x 137 cm
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Don Bradman Books (14), noted 'Bradman - The Illustrated Biography' by Page (signed by Page & Alan McGillvray) [Melbourne, 1983]; 'Bradman's Best' by Perry (signed by author) [Sydney, 2001]; 'The A-Z of Bradman' by Eason (signed) [Sydney, 2002]; 'The Bradman Albums' 2 volumes in slip-case [Sydney 1987]; plus P.O.Pack, FDCs (2), postcard, medals (2) & cricket card. Fine condition. (21 items)
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Don Bradman, 'The Bradman albums' (Sydney, 1987), two volumes in slip-case, each volume with owner's bookplate signed by Bradman
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Don Bradman ceramic beer tankards, almost complete set of 'Don Bradman: Cricketer of the century' series issued by Bradman Museum &, the Bradford Exchange, comprising '452 Not out', 'Highest test Score', 'The Bodyline series', 'Record Partnership', 'Turning the Tide', '100th first Class century' & 'Last test century'. (7 items)
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Don Bradman cricket plates, complete set of plates from 'Don Bradman: an Australian Legend' series issued by the Bradford Exchange, comprising '452 Not out', 'Highest test Score', 'My Best Innings', 'The Bodyline series', 'Record Partnership', '100th first Class century', 'Last test century', 'Final Farewell' & 'Turning the Tide'. (9)
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Don Bradman, nice signature on caricature print 'The Don' in Command', by Albert Ricardo, limited edition 364/500, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 45 x 60 cm
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Don Bradman, display 'The Bradman centuries', comprising signature on card, window mounted with picture of the Don's batting stance, and with a record of Bradman's centuries printed on the mount, overall 39 x 51 cm. Limited edition 48/50, produced by Victorian cricket Association
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Don Bradman & Kim Hughes: Don Bradman signature on 1990 newspaper picture, window mounted, overall 21 x 30 cm; plus Kim Hughes superb signed colour photograph, size 31 x 43 cm. Together with two black and white press photographs, each 25 x 17 cm, showing Kim Hughes introducing Queen Elizabeth to the Australian team. (4 items)
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Don Bradman, print 'Portrait of Sir Donald Bradman' by Bill Leak, signed by Don Bradman & the artist, and numbered 25/334, published by Bradman Museum, overall 70 x 82 cm. Beautiful quality Offset Lithography & serigraphy. The first of these prints we have offered
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Don Bradman, display 'Sir Donald Bradman A.C.', with signature on full size cricket bat, also with two hand-painted portraits on blade, mounted in attractive display case with 'The Bradman world Records', overall 41 x 109 cm. Limited edition 41/50.
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Don Bradman, print 'Sir Donald Bradman A.C. 1908-2001, World Test Record Score 334 Australia vs England, Leeds 1930' by Weg (signed by the artist), published by the Bradman Museum, overall 39 x 51 cm
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Don Bradman, signature on full size 'The Lord's Taverners South Australia/ Sir Donald Bradman series' cricket bat, mounted in attractive display case with two photographs and 'The Bradman world Records', overall 49 x 109 cm. Limited edition 16/100. Fine condition
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Jack Fingleton Cricket Books, all but one signed, noted 'Cricket Crisis' [Melbourne, 1947]; 'The Ashes Crown the Year' [London, 1954]; 'Masters of Cricket' [London, 1959]; 'The Immortal Victor Trumper' [London, 1978]. Fair/. (10 items)
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Keith Miller Cricket Books, all but one signed, noted 'Cricket Caravan' by Miller & Whitington [London, 1950]; 'Cricket Typhoon' by Miller & Whitington [London, 1955]; 'Keith Miller on Cricket' [London, 1965]. Fair/. (7 items)
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Keith Miller: New South Wales official team photographs (5), for 1949, 1951, 1953 (2 different) & 1954, each with title and players names printed on mount, most about 43 x 35 cm. Fair/. Ex Keith Miller collection. (5 items)
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Neil Harvey's Australian 'Baggy Green' test cap, from the 1949-50 tour of South Africa, green wool, embroidered coat-of-arms and '1949-50' on front, Farmers / Sydney label inside endorsed 'N. Harvey'. (Neil Harvey played 79 Tests 1947-63, including one as Australian Captain, one of the Invincibles, his cricket seemed to capture an image of Australian cricket as youthfully daring and physically exciting. On the 1949-50 tour of South Africa he scored 660 runs at an average of 132), ex Jim McConnon, who…
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Teacher's Whisky Jugs, two jugs with transfer prints of boy cricketers with text 'The Right Stuff', one jug 10 cm tall (chips in spout), other 8.5 cm tall. (2 items)
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Cricket Books, 1950s-recent, noted 'The Wisden Book of Cricket Memorabilia' by Williams & Phillips [Oxford, 1990]; 'Allan Border - Beyond Ten Thousand' (signed) [Perth, 1993]; 'The Invincibles' by Allen [Sydney, 1999]; 'The Playing Mantis' by Jeremy Coney (signed deluxe edition); also Yorkshire C.C.C. Yearbooks (6) including 1926; scrapbooks (2). Fair/. (28 items)
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Cricket Books, noted 'The Paddock That Grew - The story of The Melbourne Cricket Club' by Dunstan [Melbourne, 1974]; 'The Noblest Game' by Cardus & Arlott [Sydney, 1969]; 'Lancashire County Cricket Club - 100 Years of Cricket' [Lancashire, 1964]. Fair/. (16 items)
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1950-51 England Team, full size 'Gunn & Moore' Cricket Bat, signed by England on reverse, with 17 signatures including Freddie Brown, Denis Compton & Len Hutton. Fair/
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1953 Australian Tour of England: Royal Worcester bone china plate, 'The Ashes. 1953', with facsimile signatures of both the Australian and England teams in gold. Issued in small runs, these plates were presented to each member of the touring team on their visit to Worcester. Rare and in superb condition. (the second example of this plate we have offered, signed by both teams)
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Prime Minister's XI: 1954-55 Prime Ministers XIV England, team photo showing both teams & Prime Minister, signed to mount by Sir Robert Menzies, overall 32 x 29 cm., with Keith Miller collection certificate
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Royal Worcester plate, 'South African Touring side, England. 1955', with facsimile signatures and rim in gold, made during the players' visit to the factory during the tour; signatures include Jack Cheetham, Jackie McGlew & Hugh Tayfield. Rare
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Royal Worcester plate, 'Australia Touring side, England. 1956', with facsimile signatures and rim in gold, made during the players' visit to the factory during the tour; signatures include Ian Johnson, Keith Miller & Alan Davidson. Rare
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Cricket Ties, nice collection of cricket ties, noted few rare touring team ties including 1961 Australian Team to England, 1965 Australian team to West Indies, 1960 New Zealand team, 1964 South African team to Australia; 'Goochie' tie signed 'England v Sri Lanka, 174, Lord's Aug.1991, No.87, Graham Gooch'; plus Mcc bow tie. (57 items)
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1961-62 Signed Cricket Bat, full size 'Stuart Surridge' Cricket Bat, signed on front by 1961 Australia & 1962 Pakistan, and on reverse by Hants, Sussex, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, West Indies, Lancashire & Somerset, with c98 signatures (some on reverse fading, those on front fine) including Richie Benaud, Peter Burge, Colin McDonald, Bob Simpson, Javed Burki, Hanif Mohammad, Roy Marshall, Vic Wilson, Colin Cowdrey, Conrad Hunte, Wes Hall & Harold Stephenson
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Tom Veivers' 1963-64 Australian 'Baggy Green' test cap, with a 'Farmer's' label inside endorsed 'T. Veivers'. Tom Veivers played twenty one tests from 1963 to 1967. The 1963-64 cap sported the official Australian coat of arms, as set out in the 1912 Royal warrant. This cap, for the series against South Africa, carried the kangaroo, emu and 'Australia' ribbon, and sported the Commonwealth shield, which contains the individual crests of the six States
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Royal Worcester plate, 'Australia Touring side, England. 1964', with facsimile signatures and rim in gold, made during the players' visit to the factory during the tour; signatures include Bob Simpson, Brian Booth & Graham McKenzie. Rare
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1968 Australian Team, large team photograph, with title 'Australian Cricket Team on Tour, 1968' with 25 faded signatures in upper & lower margins of the photograph, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 68 x 58 cm
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Royal Worcester plate, 'Australia Touring side, England. 1968', with facsimile signatures and rim in gold, made during the players' visit to the factory during the tour; signatures include bill Lawry, Barry Jarman & Bob Cowper.
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Terry Jenner's Kensington Cricket Cap, brown with embroidered Kensington Cricket Club logo on front, signed inside by Terry Jenner. Match-worn condition. [Terry Jenner played 9 Tests 1970-76, he is a leg spin coach who had a large influence on Shane Warne]
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Zaheer Abbas' Pakistan Test Cap, green wool, wire embroidered Pakistan logo on front, name tag inside endorsed 'Zaheer Abbas'. Very . [Zaheer Abbas played 78 Tests 1969-86, and was Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1972]
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John Benaud's Central Cumberland Cricket Cap, blue & pale blue stripes, with embroidered 'Ccdcc' monogram on front, signed inside by John Benaud. Fine condition. [John Benaud (Richie's younger brother) played 3 Tests 1972- 73, captained Nsw, and was later an Australian selector. Cumberland is now Paramatta Cricket Club]
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