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Sporting Memorabilia
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Venue address
Sotheby's
34-35 New Bond Street
London
W1A 2AA
United Kingdom
Sporting Memorabilia

Auction dates
10 Nov 2014 10:30 GMT
11 Nov 2014 10:30 GMT
Auction currency
GBP
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There are 1226 lots within this auction
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Category
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"Thrills and Spills!",
24 Snaps of Exciting Horse Incidents, compiled by The Radiol Co, an
30 GBP
30 - 50 GBP
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A tennis autograph album,
including a page with the British 1931 Davis Cup team Fred Perry, Bunny
180 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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A tennis autograph album,
80 pages of notable champions indexed on the first page, collected on
220 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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A tennis autograph album,
including Bill Tilden, Henri Cochet, Tony Wilding, a page with the
300 GBP
250 - 400 GBP
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A tennis autograph album,
82 pages of notable champions indexed on the first page, collected on
150 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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A tennis autograph album,
66 pages of notable champions indexed on the first page, cut & pasted from
750 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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A tennis autograph album,
including a page signed by Bill Tilden, Don Budge, Ellsworth Vines &
320 GBP
300 - 500 GBP
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A tennis autograph album,
53 pages, mostly signed on right hand pages (only a few back-to-backs),
90 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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A tennis autograph album,
63 pages, signed on right hand pages, signatures accompanied by typescript
90 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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Two tennis autograph albums,
approx. 52 signatures in total, the highlight being a page signed by
200 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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Two tennis autograph album,
approx. 130 autographs, signed on right hand pages, signatures
90 GBP
150 - 250 GBP
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Four tennis autograph album,
signatures often accompanied by typescript identification and details
90 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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The autographs of the early Wimbledon champions Reginald Frank Doherty and Dorothea Katherine
1,400 GBP
120 - 180 GBP
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A signed manuscript letter from the American tennis player Maurice McLoughlin dated 8th May 1946,
180 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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A group of six signed real photo postcards of 1920s Wimbledon tennis champions,
subjects
700 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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A signed postcard of the French tennis champion Suzanne Lenglen,
signed in blue ink, published by E.
150 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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The autographs of the ladies tennis champions Suzanne Lenglen and Althea Gibson,
both signatures
50 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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A superb multi-signed Helen Wills 1929 Art Exhibition catalogue,
held at The Cooling Galleries, 92
650 GBP
500 - 800 GBP
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The autographs of the 1930s tennis champions Fred Perry and Don Budge, the Perry signature in ink on
70 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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A collection of tennis autographs,
including signed photographs, programmes, postal covers, a
270 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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A group of four Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships Champions' Dinner menus signed by the men's &
380 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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A group of six signed photographs of ladies tennis champions, comprising Martina Navratalova, Matins
50 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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A group of nine official posters for the Stella Artois tennis championship at Queen's Club,
150 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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A group of seven signed tennis posters,
i) Masters Champions Tour, Royal Albert Hall 2009, double-
60 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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A group of 16 tennis posters,
1980s/1990s, including issues for Wimbledon, Wightman Cup, Davis
0 GBP
180 - 220 GBP
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Tennis racquets signed on the head covers by champions Andre Agassi, Bjorn Borg & John McEnroe,
a
360 GBP
200 - 250 GBP
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A signed Tim Henman tennis shirt, signed in black marker pen and inscribed “Best Wishes”, believed
75 GBP
150 - 250 GBP
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Venus Williams signed pair of "EleVen" ladies tennis shoes,
her own design exclusively for Steve &
130 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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Four titles from the [American] "Lawn Tennis Library",
three titles by J. Parmly Paret, Vol I Lawn
50 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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A collection of 23 American published volumes on tennis,
pre-1940 representation including Practical
190 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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Three Australian volumes on tennis,
including "Lawn Tennis in Australasia" by "Austral" of "The
45 GBP
50 - 70 GBP
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13 volumes on tennis published in Britain before 1920,
titles including R F & H L Doherty on Lawn
300 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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46 volumes on tennis published in Britain in the 1920s,
titles including Twenty Years of Lawn Tennis
420 GBP
400 - 500 GBP
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63 volumes on tennis published in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s,
authors including Ritchie,
0 GBP
350 - 450 GBP
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44 volumes on tennis published in Britain in the 1950s,
authors including Riggs, Patterson,
180 GBP
250 - 350 GBP
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96 volumes on tennis published in Britain post-1960,
instructional, reminiscences & biographies,
140 GBP
200 - 300 GBP
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de Luze (Albert) La Magnifique Histoire Du Jeu De Paume,
the most comprehensive history of real
250 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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The rare editions of "Mr Punch's" Pocket Book for 1877 and 1878,
both with extending printed
300 GBP
400 - 600 GBP
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de St. Jorre (John) Racquet & Tennis Club,
a history of the famed New York club, bound in blue & red
250 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Todd (T.) The Tennis Players From Pagan Rites to Strawberries and Cream,
respected and influential
190 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Cruse (Mary Ann) The Tiny Lawn Tennis Club,
a children's story book beautifully illustrated with
200 GBP
300 - 400 GBP
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Ayres, F. H. (publisher) Official Edition The Laws of Lawn-Tennis, issued under the authority of The
90 GBP
120 - 160 GBP
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Pastime A Weekly Record of Golf, Lawn-Tennis etc., 
from No.581 Vol. XXIII 11th July to No.590
280 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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A collection of tennis annuals,
i) LTA Handbooks for 1927, 1929, 1948, 1949, 1952 to 1968, 1979,
60 GBP
120 - 180 GBP
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"British Lawn Tennis" from 1948 to 1978,
with various changes in title including British Lawn Tennis
0 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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"Tennis World"
an unbroken run from April 1969 to Nov/Dec 1981, in 13 bound volumes
40 GBP
50 - 70 GBP
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"World Tennis",
an unbroken run of the American publication from June 1953 to May 1978, in 25
650 GBP
350 - 400 GBP
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29 British Davis Cup tennis programmes dating between 1949 and 1996,
a little duplication

not
55 GBP
40 - 60 GBP
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A daily programme for the French Open Tennis Championships at Roland Garros, 21st July 1947,
30 GBP
40 - 60 GBP
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75 Wimbledon Tennis Championship programmes,
post-war collection with examples from the 1950s to
0 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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"Athletic Sports",
extract in bindings, pages 147 to 158 with illustrations, covering rackets and
120 GBP
150 - 200 GBP
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"Kouli Khan; or, the Progress of Error",
a verse of political satire on King George II's divorce
60 GBP
100 - 150 GBP
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A late 19th century English tea room menu with a colour tennis print,
titled "Walk into the garden a
35 GBP
60 - 80 GBP
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Three 19th century American advertisements for lawn mowers and featuring lawn tennis,
i) fold out
55 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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A set of four rare Christmas cards with charming colour lithographic tennis scenes and greetings,
by
40 GBP
60 - 80 GBP
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An unused invoice book for C.W. Bacon & Co., cycle, motor and sports outfitters based in Worple
35 GBP
80 - 120 GBP
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A 1913 Scottish Widows' Fund Mutual Life Assurance Society aide-memoire featuring a design by Walter
20 GBP
40 - 60 GBP
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A certificate for the Garden-Tennis Club De Cabourg issued 10th September 1919 complete with 30
110 GBP
150 - 250 GBP
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A small paper vignette for the US Men's National Tennis Championship at the West Side Tennis Club,
25 GBP
30 - 40 GBP
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Tennis memorabilia including hand written notes & scores for a Davis Cup match USA v Australia in
170 GBP
60 - 90 GBP
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