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Sporting and General Memorabilia — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:543
Sale Title:Sporting and General MemorabiliaLots with images:430
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:345
Date:16-Sep-2010
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1907 Billiards Certificate, ‘This is to Certify that Thomas Reece made a break of 6138 on a Standard Billiard Table, on March 26th to 30th 1907, in a Game against F.H.Weiss at Messrs Thurston's Leicester Sq, W.C.’, framed, overall 50 x 65 cm. Certificate issued by Billiard Association of Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies. Fine condition. [Tom Reece (12 August 1873 - 26 October 1953), was a Welsh professional player of English billiards. Reece competed for the World Professional Billiards Championship…
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Walter Lindrum, 1929 Billiards Cue with engraved ivory plate ‘The World's Record Break Cue. 3262 Dec.7th 1929. Walter Lindrum (facsimile autograph) Australia’. Fine condition, in tin tube.
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Boxing programmes, 1953 Randolph Turpin v Charles Humez (Middleweight Championship of the World); 1950 Bruce Woodcock v Jack Gardner (Heavyweight Championship of Great Britain); 1951 Don Cockell v Randolph Turpin (Light-Heavyweight Championship of Great Britain & the British Empire). (3 items)
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Sonny Liston (became world heavyweight champion in 1962 by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round): display comprising signature on piece, window mounted with photograph, framed & glazed, overall 48 x 58 cm.
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Autographs: Signed displays of Jeff Fenech (2) & Evander Holyfield. All framed, various sizes. (3 items)
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2002 Commonwealth Games Australian Blazer, pale brown, with Australian Coat-of-Arms & ‘Commonwealth Games, Manchester 2002’ badge on left breast, made by Table Eight. Ex Keith Connor, Australian athletics coach.
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1857 hand-coloured engraving ‘The New Cricket-Ground, Manchester’, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 54 x 46 cm; plus 1905 Chevallier Tayler print ‘Mr.G.McGregor’, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 45 x 59 cm. (2 items)
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c1860s-70s Cricket Belt Buckles, one showing scene of an Australian cricket match (Australian motifs are very rare, though only fair condition); other with crossed bats, ball & stumps with motto ‘Always Ready’. (2)
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'Routledge's Handbook of cricket' by Edmund Routledge (London, c1862), original pictorial covers. Fair/good condition (some annotations to pages 1 and 64) .
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‘The Cricket-Field, or the History and Science of the Game of Cricket’ by James Pycroft, [London, 1862]. Fair/Good condition (rebound).
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack' for 1864, 1865 and 1866, second facsimile reprints (1974), in salmon pink paper wrappers. Fine condition. (3 items)
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack' for 1867 and 1868, second facsimile reprints (1974), in salmon pink paper wrappers. Fine condition. (2 items)
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack' for 1871 and 1872, second facsimile reprints (1974), in salmon pink paper wrappers. Fine condition. (2 items)
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack' for 1873 and 1874, second facsimile reprints (1974), in salmon pink paper wrappers. Fine condition. (2 items)
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack' for 1875 and 1876, second facsimile reprints (1974), in salmon pink paper wrappers. Fine condition. (2 items)
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack' for 1877 and 1878, second facsimile reprints (1974), in salmon pink paper wrappers. Fine condition. (2 items)
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1878 hand-coloured engraving ‘A Reminiscence of Lord's Cricket Ground (Eton v Harrow)’, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 41 x 36 cm; plus 1897 hand-coloured picture ‘F.S.Jackson Forcing Ball to Leg’, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 36 x 42 cm. (2 items)
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W. G. Grace, signature on piece, with small circular photograph below. (the most famous cricketer of all. England 22 Tests 1880-99, 13 as Captain).
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Melbourne Cricket Ground: 1881 hand-coloured engraving ‘New Pavilion, Melbourne Cricket Ground’, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 41 x 36 cm. Attractive.
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‘Melbourne Cricket Club, Annual Report for the Season 1890-91.’ [Melb. 1891] 92pp, with original pink covers (covers somewhat faded & weak at spine).
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Don Bradman, signature on title-page of 'Cricket' by W.G.Grace (Bristol, 1891). Good condition. Unusual and scarce.
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Cricket Books, noted ‘Cricket’ by W.G.Grace [Bristol, 1891]; ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’ by Ranjitsinhji [Edinburgh, 1897]; ‘The Game's The Thing’ by Monty Noble [London, 1926]; ‘Don Bradman's Book’ by Bradman & Harris [London, 1938]. Fair/Good condition. (11 items)
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Cricket Books, noted ‘Baxter's second Innings’ by Drummond [London, 1892]; ‘The Jubilee Book of Cricket’ by Ranjitsinhji [Edinburgh, 1897]; ‘With Bat and Ball’ by George Giffen [London, 1898]; ‘The Biography of Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji’ by Wild [London, 1934]. Fair/Good condition. (10 items)
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‘W.G.Grace on Batting, Bowling, Fielding’ by W.G.Grace [Bristol, 1892]. Front cover loose, otherwise good cond
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1893', rebound in maroon cloth (lacking wrappers). Fair/good condition.
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1893 Australian Team: original sepia photograph, by Scott and Wilkinson, Cambridge, showing the Australian team in their distinctive caps and blazers (with shield emblem rather than coat-of-arms), signed at lower right 'A.C.Bannerman's Compliments 1893', size 29 x 24 cm, the team includes Jack Blackham (Captain), Affie Jarvis, George Giffen, Walter Giffen, Harry Graham, Alec Bannerman, John Lyons, Arthur Coningham, Harry Trott, Charlie turner, Syd Gregory, William Bruce, Bob McLeod, Hugh Trumble and Victor…
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1893 Australian Team to England: printed team photo ‘The Australian Cricket-Players in England’, from 'The Illustrated London News', window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 49 x 43 cm.
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1894 South of England Team: Original team photograph of the South of England team that played the North of England at Hastings on 6th-8th Sept.ember 1894, with title ‘South, 1894’ and players names printed on mount, noted W.G.Grace (captain), Billy Murdoch (former Australian captain), A.E.Stoddart, W.W.Read & J.T.Hearne, overall 41 x 33 cm. Some age toning and foxing to mount and photograph, laid down on conservation board.
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Victor Trumper, baked clay bust 'Victor Trumper 1882-1919' by sculptor Babette F. Gomme, 41 cm tall, mounted on wooden stand
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Victor Trumper: books - 'Victor Trumper, the Beau Ideal of a Cricketer' by Raiji (Bombay, 1964); 'The immortal Victor Trumper' by Fingleton (London, 1978); 'Trumper -, the Definitive Biography' by Sharpham (Sydney, 1985); Trumper -, the illustrated Biography' by Mallett (Melbourne, 1985). (4 items)
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack' for 1900 and 1910 - the 1900 edition with facsimile paper wrappers, spine and some adverts; 1910 edition with spine repaired and facsimile back wrapper. Fair/good condition. (2 items)
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Victor Trumper, signature on original Testimonial photograph, mounted on card, further window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 37 x 41 cm. [Trumper played in 48 Tests 1899-1912, and died prematurely in 1914. The crown prince of cricket's golden age, he is often compared to Don Bradman, and while Bradman was superior in quantity, Trumper was foremost in quality].
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Jack Hobbs' cricket bat from 1924-25 England Tour to Australia: full size 'Summers brown & Sons - J.B.Hobbs' cricket bat, signed on front by Jack Hobbs and endorsed 'I used this bat whilst scoring my 7th and 9th test centuries in England v Australia matches, 115 Sydney de 119 Adelaide Jan.1925'. On reverse signed by J.B.Hobbs in the ownership position, and signed by Australian and England teams, 31 signatures including Herbie Collins, bill Ponsford, Jack Gregory, Arthur Gilligan, J.B.Hobbs, Herbert…
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Cricket books, noted 'The test match Surprise' by Jack Hobbs (London, 1926); 'W.G.Grace' by Darwin (London, 1948); 'The complete History of Australian cricket 1803-1989' in 5 volumes by pollard (Sydney, 1987-90); 'Cricket in Australia' volumes 1-6 (Melbourne, 1981-86); 'The Bradman albums' in 2 volumes (Sydney, 1987). (26 items)
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Sydney Cricket Ground, membership badges for 1927-28, 1929-30 and 1930-31. (3 items)
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Don Bradman, tin-plate photo (20 x 25 cm) showing Bradman, c1929, with facsimile autograph. Some minor toning, though scarce
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1929', limp yellow covers. Fair/good condition.
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1930 Australian Team: original team photograph, with players names on mount, overall 30 x 27 cm, the team includes bill Woodfull (Captain), Archie Jackson and Don Bradman (in his record breaking year). VG condition.
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C1930s Umpire's eight ball cricket counter, named 'Recorder'. Full working order and good condition.
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Clarrie Grimmett, c1930 advertising sign 'C.V.Grimmett, Australian Bowler, with Compliments of Woodrows' Hats', with large original photograph of Clarrie Grimmett wearing his cricket clothes and Australian 'Baggy Green' cap, sign about 29 x 39 cm, window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 48 x 58 cm. Superb condition. Rare and attractive.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1931', limp yellow covers. Fair/good condition.
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1931-32 South African Team to Australia, official team photograph, with title 'South African cricket Team, Touring Australia, 1931-32', and players names printed on mount, noted H.B.Cameron (Captain), D.P.B.Morkel, Ken Viljoen and Sandy bell, window mounted, overall 46 x 37 cm. Fair/good condition (some faults to mount) .
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1932', limp yellow covers. Fair/good condition.
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1932-33 Bodyline Series, modern panoramic photograph of the 1st Test at the Scg, window mounted with caption ‘Bodyline, 1932-33 Test Series, First Test, At Sydney 2,3,4,5,6,7 December 1932, England won by 10 wickets’, framed & glazed, overall 113 x 50 cm.
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1932-33 Bodyline Series, 70th Anniversary print ‘The Bodyline Series 1932-33’ by Brian Clinton, signed by Ian Craig, limited edition 51/300, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 45 x 57 cm.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1933', limp yellow covers. Fair/good condition.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1934', limp yellow covers. Fair/good condition.
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1934 Players cigarette cards, ‘Cricketers 1934’ [50], window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 75 x 62 cm. Attractive.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1935', limp yellow covers. Fair/good condition.
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Don Bradman, display with signature on 1936 real photogravure portrait postacrd of Don Bradman, window mounted with 1997 'Australian Legends - Sir Donald Bradman' first day cover and coin first day cover, framed and glazed, overall 57 x 51 cm.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1937', limp yellow covers. Fair/good condition.
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‘Australian XI, English Tour 1938’, Orient Line brochure with pen-picture of each member of the touring party, and each nicely signed in ink by the player featured, a total of 17 signatures including Don Bradman, Stan McCabe, Sidney Barnes (scarce) & Bill Brown. Fair/Good condition.
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Don Bradman, signature on reprinted 1938 'Elasta-strap' poster (original artwork by Walter Jardine), framed and glazed, overall 45 x 60 cm. Very attractive.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1938', limp yellow cloth. Fair/good condition.
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Bradman and O'Reilly: display with c1939 colour prints - 'D.G.Bradman - Australia's Famous Batsman' signed by Don Bradman and 'W.J.O'Reilly - Australia's Greatest Bowler and Captain of St.George, first-Grade Premier Team in Sydney for the 1939- 1940 Season', window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 66 x 51 cm. Very attractive.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1939', limp yellow cloth. Fair/good condition.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1940', limp yellow cloth. Fair/good condition. Scarce wartime issue.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1941', buff linen covers. Good condition. Scarce wartime issue
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1942', buff linen covers. Good condition. Scarce wartime issue.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1943', buff linen covers. Good condition. Scarce wartime issue.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1944', buff linen covers. Good condition. Scarce wartime issue.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1945', buff linen covers. Good condition. Scarce wartime issue.
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'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1946', buff linen covers. Good condition.
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Don Bradman, print ‘Sir Donald Bradman’ by Ramon Girardi, signed by the artist, numbered 1170/1500, framed & glazed, overall 79 x 96 cm.
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Don Bradman, signature on full size 'Sykes - Don Bradman autograph' cricket bat, match used
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1948 Australian Invincibles, display comprising official team sheet with 14 signatures including Don Bradman, Lindsay Hassett and bill brown, plus the usual handstamp of Sidney Barnes (some fading); window mounted with photograph of Bradman walking with King George VI (signed by Bradman) and photograph of 1948 Australian team (signed below by Don Bradman), framed and glazed, overall 49 x 94 cm
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'The 1948 Invincibles, 20th Australian Team to great Britain, 50th Anniversary Celebration - Adelaide, April 16th 1998', display comprising reprinted team photograph, with signatures of the 10 surviving members on mount Neil Harvey, Doug ring, bill Johnston, Ernie Toshack, Sam Loxton, Ron Hamence, Ian Johnson, Don Bradman, bill brown and Arthur Morris, and facsimile autographs of others, framed and glazed, overall 69 x 51 cm
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’The Invincibles/ Greats of '48’ Souvenir Cap, signed on brim by Neil Harvey & Sam Loxton.
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’The Invincibles’ Bar Mat, signed by Neil Harvey & Sam Loxton.
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1948 Australian Invincibles: 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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Don Bradman, signature on title-page of 'Bradman' by A.G.Moyes (London, 1948). Few minor tone spots, otherwise good condition with dust-jacket.
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Don Bradman, signature on frontispiece photo of 'Bradman' by A.G.Moyes (London, 1948). Superb condition with dust-jacket.
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Don Bradman, signed books - 2 copies of 'Bradman' by A.G.Moyes (London, 1948); and 'Farewell to cricket' by Bradman (paperback, Sydney, 1994). Fair/good condition.
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Batting gloves: Arthur Morris signed batting glove; plus pair of 'Slazenger - Bobby Simpson' batting gloves. (3 items)
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Don Bradman, signature laid down inside his book 'Farewell to cricket' (London, 1950), fine condition with dust-jacket.
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Cricket Books, noted ‘Lord's 1787-1945’ by Sir Pelham Warner [London, 1948]; ‘Glorious Innings - Treasures from the Melbourne Cricket Club Collection’ by Bouwman [Melbourne, 1987]; ‘The Book of Cricket’ by Batchelor [London, 1952]; ‘80 Not Out - A Celebration of Test Cricket at the Sydney Cricket Ground’ Derriman [Sydney, 1994]. (37 items)
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Cricket Books, noted ‘Concerning Cricket’ by Arlott [London, 1949]; ‘The Autobiography of Neville Cardus’ [London, 1949]; ‘Brightly Fades the Don’ by Fingleton [London, 1949]. Fair/Good condition. (20 items)
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Don Bradman, signature on title-page of 'Brightly Fades the Don' by Jack Fingleton (London, 1949). Fair/good condition.
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Don Bradman 16 mm Film: ‘How To Play Cricket - The Great Instructional Film - Don Bradman. A Daily Mail Instructional Film’. A rare cricket film, c1949-50, shows Sir Don Bradman in action at many Test matches; then the great man himself gives instruction on all cricketing aspects, may in slow motion; finally ends up at his retirement presentation c1948-49. 15 minutes duration, commentary by Lionel Gamblin & Don Bradman himself, a British Movietone News Production. Film in original box with label, together…
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Cricket books, noted 'Brightly Fades the Don' by Fingleton (London, 1949); 'Images of Bradman' by Allen and Kemsley (Bowral, 1994); 'The game of cricket' by Birkett (London, 1955). (17 items)
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Don Bradman, signature on title-page of 'Farewell to cricket' by Don Bradman (London, 1950). Few minor tone spots.
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Don Bradman, signature on title-page of 'Cricket Caravan' by Keith Miller and R.S.Whitington (London, 1950). Good condition with dust-jacket.
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1950s-60s Cricket Books, noted ‘Cricket from the Grandstand’ by Keith Miller (signed) [London, 1959]; ‘The Vic Richardson Story’ by Victor Richardson (signed by Victor & 5 of the Chappells) [London, 1968]; ‘My World of Cricket’ by Neil Harvey (signed) [London, 1963]; ‘Richie Benaud's Way of Cricket’ (signed by Benaud) [London, 1961]. (17 items)
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Balance of A Cricket Collection, noted Don Bradman signed photograph; Bradman Museum 'Cricket Bear'; Victor Trumper postcards (2 - one framed); 1905 Australian Team postcards (2); ‘Slazenger’ Cricket Bat with unidentified signature; Bradman $5 Coins (2); stumps (2); mini bats (3); Bradman International Challenge T-shirt; Cricket Mugs (2); Harold Larwood Memorial Service programme.
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1950s Cricket Books, noted ‘Alletson's Innings’ by Arlott [London, 1957]; ‘The Science of Cricket’ by Alan Fairfax [London, c1950]; ‘Cricket Journal’ by Arlott [London, 1958]; also ‘The Mathematical Gazette’ from Sept.1955 with article on seam bowling. Condition varies. (18 items)
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Sir Garfield Sobers, signature on 'Sir Garfield Sobers, frame By Frame' print, limited edition 24/250, additionally signed by the other men in the pictures, Peter Pollock, Ian Chappell, Terry Jenner, rod Marsh & Jack Collins, framed & glazed, overall 107 x 40 cm. (Gary Sobers played 93 Tests 1953-74, captaining the West Indies from 1964-65 to 1970-71).
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Ray Lindwall's Australian ‘Baggy Green’ Test Cap, from the 1953 Ashes tour, green wool, embroidered Coat-of-Arms & ‘1953’ on front, Farmers/Sydney label inside endorsed ‘R.Lindwall’. [Ray Lindwall played 61 Tests 1946-60, including one as Australian captain. Lindwall's place in Australian cricket history saw him inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996 as one of the ten inaugural members]. Provenance: ex Malcolm Hilton [4 Tests 1950-52, who came into prominence at the age of 19 by…
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Keith Miller, attractive display comprising signed action photograph, limited edition 121/250, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 44 x 42 cm. [Keith Miller played 55 Tests 1946-56].
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1956-57 ‘McCabe O'Reilly Testimonial’ badge. Scarce.
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Don Bradman, nice signature inside his book 'The Art of cricket' (London, 1958). Also signed on front end-paper by ray Robinson, and with multiple annotations by ray Robinson throughout. Some minor tone spots, otherwise good condition, with dust-jacket.
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Atholl McKINNON'S South Africa Test Jumper (sleeveless), with name tag endorsed ‘A.H.McKinnon’. Very Good condition. [Atholl McKinnon played 8 Tests 1960-67, including two against Bob Simpson's Australians].
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'The Tied test', 1960 Australia v West Indies, 1st test at Brisbane, display comprising action picture signed by Wes hall and Richie Benaud, limited edition 200/1000, window mounted, framed and glazed, overall 89 x 63 cm.
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1960s Cricket Books, noted ‘The Paddock That Grew - The Story of the Melbourne Cricket Club’ by Dunstan [Melbourne, 1962]; ‘History of the Oxford University Cricket Club’ by Bolton [Oxford, 1962]; ‘The Quiet Australian - The Lindsay Hassett Story’ by Whitington [Melbourne, 1969]; ‘My Country's Keeper’ by Wally Grout [London, 1965]; ‘Cricket is a Game’ by Colin McCool [London, 1961]. (35 items)
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Don Bradman, signature on title-page of 'Cricket - the Australian Way' edited by Jack pollard (Melbourne, 1961). Few minor tone spots, otherwise good condition with dust-jacket.
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Don Bradman, signature on title-page of 'The Natwest Boundary book - a Lord's Taverners Australian Miscellany of cricket' edited by Leslie Frewin (London, 1988). Few minor tone spots, otherwise good condition with dust-jacket.
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Cricket Books, noted ‘True Colours’ by Adam Gilchrist (signed) [Sydney, 2008]; ‘Worth the Wait’ by Darren Lehmann (signed) [Melbourne, 2004]; ‘Never Say Die’ by Steve Waugh (signed) [Sydney, 2003]; ‘Fifteen Paces’ by Alan Davidson (signed) [London, 1963]. (16 items)
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Jack Potter's Australian 'Baggy Green' test cap, from the 1964 Ashes tour, green wool, with embroidered coat-of-arms and '1964' on front, Farmer's Sydney label endorsed 'J.Potter'. (Jack Potter played 104 first Class matches 1956-68. He substituted as 12th man in the 2nd test against South Africa 1963-64 (brilliantly running out Eddie Barlow), toured England in 1964 playing in 17 matches but no Tests, and tragically fractured his skull in a One-Day match in Holland, denying him test selection against India…
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Don Bradman, signature on title-page of 'How to Play cricket' by Don Bradman (Adelaide, 1965). Few minor tone spots, otherwise good condition with dust-jacket.
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’Wisden Cricketers' Almanack’ for 1968, 1974-76, 1978-84, 1985-87 & 1989, all with limp yellow covers. Good condition. (15 items)
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1970s Cricket Books, noted ‘The Immortal Victor Trumper’ by Jack Fingleton (Advance Proof copy signed by Arthur Morris) [London, 1978]; ‘Looking For Runs’ by Doug Walters (signed) [London, 1971]; ‘International Cricket 1977’ by Frank Tyson (signed) [Melbourne, 1977]; ‘Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World’ by Bowen [London, 1970]. (14 items)
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