Cricket fan and lover of all things old and collectable, Jasper Jennings casts his discerning eye over the month in memorabilia.

Talk of a Twenty20 League in America may revive interest in the cricketing pedigree of the United States. J.W. McKenzie (020 8393 7700, www.mckenzie-cricket.co.uk) has a copy of R. A. FitzGerald’s 1873 book ‘Wickets in the West; or, the Twelve in America’, a humorous account of a tour to the USA and Canada in 1872. Only the fifth major cricket tour by an England team saw W.G. Grace’s only appearance in the United States, £200.

Graham Budd Auctions (020 8366 2525, www.grahambuddauctions.co.uk) at Sotheby’s London, Wednesday 28th October, includes the collection of the late TMS scorer and statistician Bill Frindall.

This month’s highlights: A run of Wisden’s Almanacks 1864 to 2009 (1864 to 1878 mostly facsimile editions), £20,000 to 30,000 (the record for a full original run was set at £120,000 at Graham Budd’s sale in May 2007); Wally Grout’s ‘Baggy Green’ for the 1961 tour of England, £3,000 to 5,000; Rare books, such as ‘An Account of the Principal Cricket Matches Played [from 1791] to the Year 1823’, £1,500 to 2,000, or ‘The Australians In England 1884, A Complete Record of the Cricket Tour of 1884’, ed. Charles F. Pardon, original pictorial boards and advertisements, £300 to 500; The ball used by Mr J.C. Neech of Croydon Cricket Club to clean bowl W.G. Grace, £200 to 250.

The tour saw W.G. Grace’s only appearance in the US

Also look out for the ‘Frindometer’, an improvised cricket scoreboard devised by the “Bearded Wonder” for use of the TMS team when it was not possible to see the main scoreboard from the commentary box (conceived at Headingley), £150 to 250; And a fine print of Grace at the wicket after Archibald Stuart Wortley (1849 – 1905) signed in pencil by artist and subject, £600 to 800.

Elsewhere, Lawrences of Crewkerne (01460 73041, www.lawrences.co.uk) on 13th October 2009 offer lots from the collection of William (Bill) Alley (1919 – 2004) of New South Wales and Somerset. The scarcest item is a 1859 scorecard printed by Fred Lillywhite from a charity match between The United England Eleven and The United Master Butchers at The Kennington Oval (won by the England Eleven by 152 runs), estimate £300 to 500.

Bargain sporting buy of the month, as 2012 approaches: an official souvenir programme for the 1948 London Olympics, £12 from Judith Grant (020 8346 0466).

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