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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:946
Sale Title:Sporting and General MemorabiliaLots with images:397
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:620
Date:25-Aug-2009
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1923-87 cricket cards, noted 1923 Players 'Characters from Dickens' [50 + 1 spare]; 1926 Players 'Straight Line Caricatures' [50]; 1923-24 Pals 'Australian Sportsmen', the set of cricketers [8/27 + 1 spare]; 1985-87 John Brindley sets including 1985 'Cricketers, A Series' [30]; 1986 'Australian Cricketers' [30]; 1987 'Cricket, The Old School' [30]. Fair/Vg. (296)
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1926 Amalgamated Press (Champion and Triumph) 'Famous Test Match Cricketers', complete set, including Bert Oldfield, Bill Ponsford and Jack Hobbs. Fair/Vg. (32)
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1930 Players 'Cricketers 1930', complete set [50], noted Bradman, Archie Jackson and Bill Ponsford; plus 1934 Players 'Cricketers 1934', complete set [50], noted Don Bradman, Clarrie Grimmett and Bill Ponsford. Mainly G/Vg. (Total 100)
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1934-38 cricket badges (25 mm, made by A.E.Patrick, Summer Hill, NSW) 'Australian Team', comprising Grimmett, Kippax, McCabe, Oldfield, Ponsford, wall, white and Woodfull. G/VG. (8 items)
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1934 Carreras 'A Series of 50 Cricketers', complete set, noted Bradman, Woodfull and Jardine. G/Vg. Scarce set. (50)
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1935 Ardath 'Cricket, Tennis and Golf Celebrities', complete set, the cricketers incl. Ames, Hobbs and Voce. G/Vg. (50)
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1938 Players 'Cricketers 1938', part set (16/50), all signed, including Don Bradman, Lindsay Hassett and Sid Barnes (though some signatures look dubious). Fair/G
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1948 Nabisco (Weeties, Crispies, Vita-Brits) 'Leading Cricketers', part set [5/32] all signed - Neil Harvey, Bill Brown, Sam Loxton, Ken Mueleman and Arthur Morris. G/Vg
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1995 Futera 'The Heritage collection - a collection of great Australian Cricketers', complete set (60) in album, with 58 of the cards signed, including Don Bradman, ray Lindwall, Neil Harvey and Graham McKenzie. Numbered 'Player/500'. From the Alan Connolly collection (card No. 53)
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1996 VCA/Futera 'VCA Centenary 1895-1995', complete set [100] in special album, noted Warwick Armstrong, Jack Blackham and Lindsay Hassett. Vg. From the Alan Connolly collection (shown on card No.10)
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2005 Bradman Museum badges 'The Bradman Era Series No.1 - The 1948 Invincibles', complete set [17], on original card signed by Bill Brown. Superb condition
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Pc Monty Noble, signature on postcard, fine condition. [Monty Noble played 42 Tests, 1897-1909, including 15 as captain. Australian Test Player No.76]
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1906 Kinsella postcards, humorous postcards depicting boy cricketers, published by Langsdorff & Co., London (set of 6 + 2 spares); plus two other postcards depicting boy cricketers. G/VG. (total 10)
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Pc Charles Macartney, postcard with facsimile autograph on front, with nice hand-written message and signature on reverse dated 7.1.1934. Fine condition. [Charles Macartney played 35 Tests for Australia 1907-26]
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George Headley, c1932 'Sykes' advertsing postcard with facsimile autograph. Scarce. (Headley, known as 'The black Bradman', played 22 Tests for the West Indies 1930-54)
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Pc 1936 Real Photogravure Portrait postcards 'Australian and English Cricketers 1936-37', part set [10/20] comprising Fingleton, Grimmett, Oldfield, O'Reilly, Allen, Fagg, Hardstaff and Verity. Good condition. Scarce. (8 items)
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1936 Amalgamated press postcards 'Australian and English Cricketers 1936-37', almost complete set of Australians (9/10) comprising Bradman, brown, Chipperfield, Darling, Fingleton, Fleetwood-Smith, Grimmett, McCabe and Oldfield. Good condition. Scarce. (9 items)
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1980s-90s classic cricket postcards, selection of 40 different signed postcards from sets 11-18, including Justin Langer, Michael Vaughan, Stephen Fleming, Chris Silverwood, Heath Streak, Mushtaq Ahmed, Shoaib Akhtar, Mike Gatting, Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Flintoff. (40 items)
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1980s-90s classic cricket postcards (20) and Yorkshire Ccc postcards (2), selection of different signed by Australian test and Odi cricketers, including Phil Jaques, Shane Warne, Steve Waugh, Ricky Ponting, Brett Lee, Stuart MacGill, Stuart Law, Mike Hussey and Brad Hodge. (22 items)
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South Africa test Cricketers: extensive collection in two albums, with signed pieces (243), photographs (214), pictures (20), letter and cigarette/trade cards (3). Noted Tip Snooke, Thomas Campbell, Sid Peglar, Norman Norton, Rolland Beaumont, Herbie Taylor (3), Claude Carter, Alfred Cooper, Joe Cox, Cec Dixon, Waldemar Marx, Buster Nupen (2), Bob Catterall (4), Nummy Deane (2), Jock Cameron (3), Herbert Wade (3), Dudley Nourse (5), Jack Cheetham (2), Clive van Ryneveld (4), Trevor Goddard (2), Peter van…
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Test Cricketers - signed letters: collection of signed letters 1950-93, majority test Cricketers from 1909-40s, noted Vincent Valentine (West Indies); Mushtaq Ali (India); bill Hunt, Ian Craig, Stork Hendry, Jack Fingleton, Len Darling (Australia); H.D.G.Leveson-Gower, Hopper Read, Rockley Wilson, Wally Hardinge, Harry Lee (England); Bruce Mitchell, Jack Siedle, Henry Promnitz, Jacobus Duminy, Dalton Conyngham, Neville Lindsay, George Hearne, Sid Peglar (South Africa); Walter Hadlee, Jack Cowie, Don…
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1909 Australian team, '1909 Australian cricket Team' letterhead with 16 signatures including Monty Noble, Victor Trumper and Warwick Armstrong. Extremely rare and attractive. From the collection of umpire Herbert Nichols
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England Team to South Africa, 1909-10, autograph page headed 'MCC Team, 1909-1910' with 12 signatures - F.L. Fane (Captain 4th and 5th Tests), C.P. Buckenham, Neville Tufnell, G. Thompson, C. Blythe, J.B. Hobbs, M.C. Bird, F.E. Woolley, W. Rhodes, G.H. Simpson-Hayward, Alfred Atfield (umpire) and D. Denton
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1920s Australian test Cricketers: collection of signed photographs and pictures - Jack Gregory, Arthur Mailey, Tommy Andrews, Stork Hendry, bill Ponsford, Victor Richardson, Clarrie Grimmett, bill Woodfull, Don Bradman, Ted A'Beckett and Alan Fairfax. (Australian test player Nos.107-108, 115-117, 119, 121, 123-124, 128, 131). From the Brian Bassano cricket autographs collection. (11 items)
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1920s England test Cricketers: collection of signed photographs, pictures and cigarette cards, noted Patsy Hendren, J.C.white, A.W.Carr, Arthur Gilligan, Frank Mann, Greville Stevens, A.P.F.Chapman, Wally Hammond, R.E.S.Wyatt, Douglas Jardine, R.W.V.Robins and bill Voce. From the Brian Bassano cricket autographs collection. (39 items)
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South Africa Cricketers: Small collection of non-Test players with signed pieces (41) and photographs (15). Consists of players such as Stephen Steyn, Douglas Ovenstone and Leslis Payn who toured with South African teams, but did not play Test cricket, and also players who represented South Africa against various rebel touring teams in the 1980s. From the Brian Bassano cricket autographs collection. (56 items)
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West Indies test Cricketers: extensive collection in two albums, with signed pieces (221), photographs (95), pictures (22), letters (3) and postcard. Noted C.R.Browne, Learie Constantine (2), George Headley (2), Frank Worrell (3), Clyde Walcott (3), Everton Weekes (2), Gary Sobers (3), Lance Gibbs (2), Wes hall (4), Viv Richards (2), Brian Lara (3). From the Brian Bassano cricket autographs collection. (342 items)
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1928 and 1930 Victorian Teams, autograph page with on one side 1928 team - 11 signatures including bill Ponsford, Stork Hendry and Jack Ryder; on other side 1930 team v West Indies - 13 signatures including bill Woodful (Captain), bill Ponsford (scored 187), Ben Barnett and Richard Hassett. Fine condition. From the collection of umpire Herbert Nichols
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1928-29 England Team, autograph page with 12 signatures including Percy Chapman (Captain), J.B. Hobbs, Douglas Jardine (Captain of the 1932-33 Bodyline team), Maurice tete and Harold Larwood. Also another page signed by two umpires in Victoria v England match. Fine condition. From the collection of umpire Herbert Nichols
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New Zealand test Cricketers: extensive collection in two albums, with signed pieces (154), photographs (112), pictures (23) and trade cards (2). Noted Tom Lowry, Curly page, Walter Hadlee (2), Merv Wallace (6), Bert Sutcliffe (14), Harry Cave, Geoff Rabone (2), John Reid (6), Murray Chapple (3), Graham dowling (2), Barry Sinclair, Bevan Congdon, Glenn turner (2), Richard Hadlee (6), John Parker (2), Jeremy Coney, Geoff Howarth, John Wright (2), Ian Smith, Martin Crowe (2), Ken Rutherford (3), Stephen…
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1930-31 West Indies Team to Australia, autograph page with 17 signatures including George Headley (the black Bradman), Jackie Grant (Captain) and Herman Griffith; also the two umpires in the Victoria v West Indies match. From the collection of umpire Herbert Nichols
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India test Cricketers: extensive collection in album, with signed pieces (191), photographs (98), pictures (17), letter and cigarette/trade cards (2). Noted C.K.Nayudu (3), Lala Armanath, Nawab of Pataudi Sr, Vijay Hazare (4), Vinoo Mankad, Hemu Adhikari (2), Polly Umrigar (4), Ghulam Ahmed (2), Datta G'kwad (2), Gulabrai Ramchand (2), Nari Contractor, Chandu Borde, Nawab of Pataudi Jr (3), S.Venkataraghavan (3), Ajit Wadekar (2), Bishen Bedi (2), Sunil Gavaskar (3), Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar (2), Sourav…
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1932-33 England 'Body-Line' Team, autograph page with 13 signatures including Herbert Sutcliffe, Maurice Tate and Maurice Leyland (no Jardine or Larwood, pencil signatures have been traced over); on reverse 1933 Otago with 11 signatures including Sonny Maloney and Jack Dunning
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1934-35 England Womens Team to Australia, autograph page from 2nd Test at Mcg, with 15 signatures, including Betty Archdale (captain), Betty Snowball and Myrtle Maclagan. From the collection of umpire Herbert Nichols
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1934-35 Australian Womens Team v England, autograph page from 2nd Test at Mcg, with 11 signatures, including Margaret Peden (captain), Peggy Antonio and Joyce Brewer. From the collection of umpire Herbert Nichols
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1935 South Australian Womens Team, autograph page with 11 signatures, including Kath White (captain), Lelah Champion and Dorothy Wood. Rare autographs. From the collection of umpire Herbert Nichols
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1938 Australian Team, official team sheet with 13 signatures including Don Bradman, Stan McCabe and Lindsay Hassett. Very good condition. Good example of Australia's first official team sheet
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Cricket Autographs: Balance of collection in album, with signed pieces (47), photograph and pictures (5); also 1928 menu signed on reverse by 1928-29 Border team; autograph page signed by 1951 British Timken XI including Norman Oldfield; c1938- 87 team sheets with facsimile autographs (18); 1993-94 England A team sheet. Noted Alec Bedser, Colin Cowdrey, Trevor Bailey, Peter May and John Drennan. From the Brian Bassano cricket autographs collection
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c1947 autograph pages (10), noted Nsw (12 signatures); St.George (11 signatures including Ray Lindwall, Arthur Morris and Bill O'Reilly); Manly (20 sigs); Cumberland (17 sigs including Richie Benaud and his father); Northern Districts (13 sigs); North Sydney (11 sigs); Randwick (11 sigs); University (15 sigs); Western Suburbs (11 sigs); England (3 sigs + poor team sheet with facsimile autographs). Also 1961-63 scorecards (3)
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1952 Jack Chegwyn's XI - the first international team to tour Hong Kong, autograph page with 11 signatures including Jack Chegwyn, Jim Burke, Bob Simpson, Ray Flockton and Sid Carroll
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Pakistan test Cricketers: extensive collection in album, with signed pieces (153), photographs (124) and picture. Noted A.H.Kardar, Fazal Mahmood (2), Hanif Mohammad (3), Sarfraz Narwaz (2), Zaheer Abbas (2), Imran Khan (4), Javed Miandad (3), Abdul Qadir, Wasim Akram (5), Waqar Younis (4), S'ed Anwar, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Shoaib Akhtar (2). From the Brian Bassano cricket autographs collection. (278 items)
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1953-54 South Africa Team, 1st Test v New Zealand, autograph page with 14 signatures, including Jack Cheetham (captain), Roy McLean, Jackie McGlew, Hugh Tayfield and Clive van Ryneveld
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1953-54 New Zealand Team, 1st test v South Africa, autograph page with 12 signatures including Geoff Rabone (Captain), Bert Sutcliffe, Tony MacGibbon and John Reid; on reverse Transvaal with 7 signatures. Fine condition. Rare
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1956-57 England Team to South Africa, official team sheet with 17 signatures including Peter May, Doug Insole, Denis Compton, Godfrey Evans and Colin Cowdrey. Fair/Good condition
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Cricketers' Club Of New South Wales Visitors Books, two books with autographs of visitors 1963-74 and 1985-88, with a total of 334 signatures including Don Bradman (2) and a wonderful array of teams including 1963 South Africa, 1964 England, 1967 New Zealand, 1967 India, 1968 West Indies, 50th Anniversary of 1919 A.I.F. Cricket Team, 1969-70 Australia, 1970 New Zealand, 1970 Taiwan, 1971 England, 1945-46 Australian Services Team, 1971-72 World XI, 1973 Australia, 1987 Hunter 'Stork' Hendry's 92nd Birthday,…
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1963-64 South Africa Team to Australia, autograph page with 16 ink signatures, including Trevor Goddard (captain), Eddie Barlow, Graeme Pollock, Joe Partridge and Peter Pollock
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1964 Australian Team, official team sheet with 17 signatures including Bob Simpson, Brian Booth, Tom Veivers, Bill Lawry and Graham McKenzie. Fine condition
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1964 Australian Team, 'Australian Team on Tour 1964 - Programme of Matches', with 6 signatures on reverse including Bob Simpson, Brian Booth and Bill Lawry. Fine
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1966-67 Australian Team, official team sheet with 16 signatures including Bill Lawry, Gordon Becker and Jim Hubble. (Missing Bob Simpson, but includes manager). Fine condition
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1968 Australian Team, official team sheet with 17 signatures including bill Lawry, Ian Chappell, Barry Jarman and Alan Connolly. From the Alan Connolly collection, with signed action photograph
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1968 Australian Team, official team sheet with 17 signatures including Bill Lawry, Barry Jarman and Ian Chappell; with 10 signatures of Yorkshire Ccc on reverse. Folded, and some bleeding of signatures through paper
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1969-70 Australian Team, official team sheet with 15 signatures including bill Lawry, Ian Chappell and Alan Connolly. From the Alan Connolly collection, with signed action photograph
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Cricket Autographs: Album '1970s Cricketers Autographs', with signed pictures, team sheets and autograph pages laid down, with c394 signatures of English County Cricketers including Internationals, noted Bob Taylor, Alan Jones, Mike Proctor, Zaheer Abbas, Colin Cowdrey, Alan Knott, Mike Brearley, Mike Gatting, Bishen Bedi, Bob Willis, Tony Greig, Glenn Turner, Geoff Boycott and Vivian Richards
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Sri Lanka test Cricketers: extensive collection in album, with signed pieces (46) and photographs (51). Noted B. Warnapura, D. Mendis, Arjuna Ranatanga (2), Aravinda de Silva (2), Sanath Jayasuriya, Muttiah Muralitharan (2), Chaminda Vaas (2); also players who took part in 1983 rebel tour of South Africa. From the Brian Bassano cricket autographs collection. (97 items)
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1980 Australian Team, display comprising official team sheet for Centenary Test Tour to England 1980, window mounted with postcards of each team and two commemorative covers, framed and glazed, overall 78 x 65 cm
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