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Dreweatts: The Art of Cricket: The Mark Loveday Collection (including Golf)

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Auction Name The Art of Cricket: The Mark Loveday Collection (including Golf) Total Sales (GBP) 41,745.72
Auction Date August 19, 2025 - August 19, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 14,200.00
Sale Number #9365 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 21,800.00
Total Lots 65
Sold Lots 60 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 15,300.00
% of Lots Sold 92.31% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 23,350.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 178.78%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
95 PATRICK DAWSON (FL. 1866-1872)

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CRICKETERS

1867 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 5,296.00
71 BRITISH SCHOOL (CIRCA 1900)

RANJI, PRINCE OF CRICKETERS

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,515.60
76 A CANADIAN CRICKET PRINT (19TH CENTURY)

THE CRICKET MATCH, PLAYED AT TORONTO, CANADA, ON THE SECOND AND THIRD OF SEPTEMBER 1872.

1872 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,118.40
14 RICHARD HORWOOD (BRITISH 1758 - 1803)

ST MARY LE BONE - LORD'S CRICKET GROUND

1794 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,986.00
77 COLIN CAMPBELL COOPER (AMERICAN 1856-1937)

GERMANTOWN CRICKET CLUB. AN INTERNATIONAL CRICKET MATCH, MANHEIM, PHILADELPHIA

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,853.60
3 AFTER FRANCIS HAYMAN

CRICKET

1743 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,456.40
101

AN AUSTRALIAN CRICKET PRINT (19TH CENTURY) MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND

1864 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,191.60
65 AFTER NICHOLAS FELIX

THE TWO ELEVENS OF THE UNIVERSITY AND TOWN OF CAMBRIDGE

1847 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,125.40
74 W.H. MASON, BRIGHTON (CIRCA 1859)

ENGLAND'S TWELVE CHAMPION CRICKETERS STARTING FOR AMERICA, SEPT. 7TH 1859

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,059.20
37 AFTER THOMAS HENWOOD

'THE SCORER', OR THE LATE MR WILLIAM DAVIES [OF SUSSEX]

1842 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 993.00
102

A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MCC TEAM-AUSTRALIAN TOUR -1932-3 FOR THE SYDNEY MAIL

GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 993.00
98

ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS. GREAT MATCH, ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA PLAYED AT LORD'S CRICKET GROUND, LONDON, 19TH, 20TH AND 21ST JULY 1886

1887 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 926.80
1 JOHN WALLIS (BRITISH 1783-1814)

THE LAWS OF THE NOBLE GAME OF CRICKET, AS ESTABLISHED AT THE STAR AND GARTER, PALL MALL, BY A COMMITTEE OF NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN

1785 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 860.60
42 AFTER JOHN CORBET ANDERSON (BRITISH 1827-1907)

SKETCHES OF THE SURREY CRICKETERS: SHERMAN, JULIUS CAESAR, CAFFYN, LOCKYER

1852 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 860.60
78 ENGLISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)

WOMENS CRICKET IN 1890

circa1890 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 860.60
121 AFTER ARCHIBALD J. STUART WORTLEY

W. G. GRACE AT THE WICKET

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 860.60
44 AFTER JOHN CORBET ANDERSON

LILLYWHITE AT HOME, A REMINISCENCE OF THE PAST, SKETCHED FROM THE COTTAGE IN WHICH THE FAMILY WERE BORN

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 794.40
72 CARL VANDYCK (BRITISH 1851-1931)

RANJI AT HIS DESK

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 794.40
18 AFTER HENRY BARRAUD

LORD'S GROUND

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 728.20
40 AFTER NICHOLAS FELIX

THE ELEVEN OF ENGLAND, SELECTED TO CONTEND IN THE GREAT CRICKET MATCHES OF THE NORTH FOR THE YEAR 1847

1847 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 728.20
105 G. RIDGE (19TH CENTURY)

SKETCH OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CRICKETING, CELEBRATED PLAYERS, ACCOUNTS OF MATCHES, &C. [WITH] NORTH EAST VIEW OF THE NEW CRICKET GROUND AT DARNAL, NEAR SHEFFIELD, YORKSHIRE

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 728.20
45 AFTER GEORGE EARP

LILLYWHITE

19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 635.52
56 BRITISH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)

WINCHESTER COLLEGE FROM MEADS, DEPICTING A CRICKET MATCH IN PROGRESS

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 635.52
132 GEORGE ELGAR HICKS (BRITISH 1824-1914)

STUDIES OF THE HUMAN FIGURE, PT.4, PL1-4

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 635.52
120

CRICKET 1885

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 595.80
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