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An original photograph (140x160mm) mounted on a detached autograph album leaf (165x195mm), captioned in pencil '1st Test Team for Australia at Brisbane. Dec 1947'. The match was against India on 28-29 November and 1-4 December 1947; it was India's first tour of Australia. The team comprised Bradman (Captain), Brown, Hamence (12th man), Hassett, Ian Johnson, Bill Johnston, Lindwall, McCool, Miller, Morris, Tallon and Toshack; the Manager is also in the group portrait
'The late withdrawal of key (Indian) players ... greatly weakened its side. The strength of Australian cricket at this time further unbalanced the contest, resulting in a 4-0 thrashing in the series' (Webster). This is hardly surprising, considering that ALL of the Australians in this particular team went on the..... More
An end-of-match score card (200x130mm) for the Third Test, Old Trafford, 8-13 July 1948
The match, with more than a day lost to rain, was drawn: Compton outshone them all with an unbeaten 145. Archivally mounted with a card signed by Don Bradman (displayed in a window in the mount); one crease across the centre; in excellent condition, ready for framing. More
An official Australian Board of Control for International Cricket autograph sheet for the Australian Team on Tour, 1968
The seventeen signatures are Lawry (Captain), Ian Chappell, Connolly, Cowper, Freeman, Gleeson, Hawke, Inverarity, Jarman, Joslin, Mallett, McKenzie, Renneberg, Redpath, Sheahan, Taber and Walters. Very slightly creased; a fine copy. More
An 'unofficial' autograph sheet (but on the gilt-embossed letterhead of the Australian Cricket Board) for an Australian Test Cricket team
There are eleven signatures in neat but random order: Border (Captain), Dodemaide, Dyer, Jones, Geoff Marsh, McDermott, Sleep, Peter Taylor, Veletta, Steve Waugh and Whitney. Very slightly creased; in excellent unfolded condition. More
Laws of the Australasian Game of Football as adopted by the Australasian Football Council
Adelaide, South Australian Football League Limited (and printed by Lonnen & Cope), 1924. 'Umpires and stewards must report bad language and foul play, such as hitting with the fist and with the elbow. The game, according to the laws, is strong enough, there being no occasion for foulness of any..... More
A vintage photograph (captioned in the negative 'ARS. AFC | Stroud 27/4/18' and 'Photo | Comley'), featuring a team of rugby players wearing ARS-branded jerseys, with Australian servicemen in uniform behind them
We suggest the eighteen members of the squad come from the Aeroplane Repair Section of the Australian Flying Corps based at Leighterton. We purchased this photograph with a small group of aerial photographs of Leighterton Aerodrome, about which the Australian War Memorial has this to say: 'By 1917 the Australian..... More
The Centenary Test. Melbourne Cricket Ground March 1977
Melbourne, MCC Library, 2002. Signed by all four authors. More
The Development of West Indies Cricket. Volume I. The Age of Nationalism
Kingston, University of the West Indies Press, 1998. More
Eighty Golfing Years. A History of North Adelaide Golf Club
North Adelaide, The Golf Club, 1985. Loosely inserted is a 165x215mm black and white photograph of Howard Cocks, "the grand old man of North Adelaide Golf Club" (page 141). More
Eighty Golfing Years. A History of North Adelaide Golf Club
North Adelaide, The Golf Club, 1985. More
Australia versus England 1932-33. 'Triumph' and 'Champion' Test Match Souvenir Album [cover title]. An empty - in fact unused - collector's card album issued by the publishers of the boys' adventure story papers, designed to contain 32 cards issued with the papers. 200x150mm, [12] pages comprising pictorial front cover with pictorial advertising on the rear, a calendar of the tourists' fixtures and other Test match facts on the inside front and rear covers, and four captioned pages - with oblique corner cuts to hold four cards on each page - for each of the teams. The front cover is slightly unevenly sunned; an excellent copy
Not in Padwick (should it be?). More
A gelatin silver photographic postcard portrait of Jack Hobbs in his prime - presumably posed, but shown full-length walking out to bat with all the trimmings
The image is undated and is not credited in any way, but it is signed 'J.B. Hobbs' very clearly in ink across the pads. The originally blank verso is now even more interesting than the face of the card: it bears a lengthy autograph message signed by Hobbs. It was..... More
Irish Hunting
Tralee, The Kerryman, [1954]. The history, the colour and the pageantry of Ireland's thirty-five packs of foxhounds and staghounds. Illustrations by Lionel Edwards. More
Boycott. The Autobiography
London, Macmillan, 1987. Inscribed, dated (5 February 1988) and signed by the author. More
A signed photograph (175 x 125 mm) of Don Bradman executing a straight drive
It was printed from the original 1930s negative in the mid-1990s, when it was personally signed in ink by Bradman and purchased by us at that time. Offered together with a vintage blotter issued by Vacuum Oil Company ('marketers of Laurel, Australia's Greatest Kerosene'), where a detail from the same..... More
Images of Bradman. Rare and Famous Photographs of a Cricket Legend. With Special Inclusions from Sir Donald's Private Collection
Bowral, Allen and Kemsley/ Bradman Museum, 1994. Number 260 of the deluxe edition of 974 copies signed by Don Bradman. Loosely inserted is a sheetlet of ten Sir Donald Bradman stamps in Australia Post's Australian Legends series (still in the original packaging) and a copy of the Bradman Museum booklet..... More
Bradman. What they said about him
Sydney, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1994. Signed by Don Bradman with a thick black felt-tipped pen at the foot of the title page. More
Bradman. The Illustrated Biography .. Using the Private Possessions of Sir Donald Bradman
South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1983 [first edition]. With a contemporary (blue ink) signature of Don Bradman on the title page. More
Bradman. The Illustrated Biography .. Using the Private Possessions of Sir Donald Bradman
South Melbourne, Macmillan, 1983 [first edition]. With a contemporary (blue ink) signature of Don Bradman on the half-title. More
Bradman. An Australian Hero
London, Little, Brown, 1996. Signed with a thick black felt-tipped pen by Don Bradman on the title page. More
Bradman. An Australian Hero
London, Little, Brown, 1996. Signed with a thick black felt-tipped pen by Don Bradman on the title page. More
Rotary Club of Broken Hill. Combined Service Clubs' Dinner .. Saturday, 26th June 1971. A menu card (folding down to four pages, 155x105mm); in fine condition
With the contemporary signature of the guest speaker, Don Bradman, on the third page. More
Tench. How to Catch Them
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1956/ 1954. More
Recollections of the Murray Bridge Racing Club
Murray Bridge, The Author, 1989. More