GENERAL & MIXED SPORTS


A heavy leather-bound ‘Olympia’ photograph album with a musical box which operates automatically on opening, German, circa 1890, the boards with apertures for some 60 photographs of varying sizes are decorated with coloured lithographs showing a wide range of sports and leisure activities including tennis, cricket, archery, golf, bowls, angling, sailing, lacrosse, curling, baseball, swimming, rowing, cycling, polo, horse racing, fox hunting, steeplechasing, shooting, rugby, athletics & winter sports, some looseness to the spine and areas of wear to the leather, musical mechanism running £250 - 350


2 3 Desborough of Taplow


(The Right Hon. Lord) Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge, Eton, Harrow and Winchester,


various editors, published in 3 large volumes, 2 in 1913 in deluxe boards and the third in standard boards published in 1922 £140 - 180


1 London Transport poster titled


“What’s On” 3rd to 9th May 1931, listing cricket at Lord’s and at The Oval, greyhound racing at Clapton, Harringay, White City, Wimbledon, West Ham, Park Royal & Wembley, speedway racing at West Ham, Wimbledon, Harringay & Stamford Bridge, plus non- sporting events including exhibitions and bandstand performances in parks, published by Waterlow and Sons, codes to the lower margin reading 881-300, 14.4.31, 1026-176-29-4-31, backed onto linen, 101 by 62cm., 40 by 24 1/2in. £200 - 300


A collection of programmes for sporting events at Wembley Stadium and Empire Pool,


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Rugby League Challenge Cup Finals for 1931 (punch-holed) & 1937, Olympic Games 1948 brochure plus 3 regulations booklets, Amateur Boxing Championships 1946 and 1952, Swimming galas for 1937 & 1938, England v Denmark aquatic sports international 1939, Gala Ice Presentation 1939 & Harlem Globetrotters 1952-53 (13)


£80 - 120


BILLIARDS & POOL 6


billiards players,


John Roberts and W H Stevenson, both by Spy, unframed £60 - 80


Two Vanity Fair Prints of


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A collection of sports programmes, 2 4


wartime boxing events in Leicester in 1941; field hockey mostly 1950s to 1970s, internationals, county championships, varsity, tournaments etc.; University Boat Races late 1940s to late 1960s; and other miscellaneous issues for show jumping, snooker, swimming, baseball, ski jumping etc.; the lot also including British ice hockey scrapbooks from the 1930s & 1940s £50 - 100


A signed foam board poster for the 2003 Mosconi Cup held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, fully signed in silver marker pen by both teams, the American players comprising Jeremy Jones, Nick Varner, Johnny Archer, Tony Robles (signed twice), Earl Strickland, Charles Williams & Rodney Morris, the Europeans comprising Nick van den Berg, Steve Davis, Ralf Souquet, Oliver Ortmann (non-playing captain), Thorsten Hohmann, Mika Immonen & Marcus Charmat, together with a further unidentified signatures inscribed ‘California’, possibly a reserve player


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This poster is for the 10th edition of the annual nine-ball pool competition between teams representing USA and Europe. Team USA, led by non-playing captain Nick Varner, won the Mosconi Cup by a score of 11-9. £150 - 250


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