b'45255M.C.C. TOUR TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 1974-75: official M.C.C. team sheet fully signed in pen by the whole touring party of 19, including Denness (Capt.), Edrich (Vice-Capt.), Amiss, Grieg, Knott and Willis; mounted together with an official M.C.C. Tour badge and the team tie. (3 items).Ian Chappells Australians won the Test series 41 and brutally and unceremoniously wrenched the Ashes from Mike Denness England team. It was Australias first Ashes victory for ten years and the experience proved popular as 777,563 spectators came through the gates. For the first time, the first day of the Third Test at Melbourne was held on Boxing Day in an Ashes series, now a cricketing tradition. .$150200256WEST INDIES CRICKET TOUR OF AUSTRALIA 1975-76: Official team sheet, signed in ink by the whole touring party of 19, including Lloyd (Capt.), Murray (Vice. Capt.), Gibbs, Greenidge, Richards & Holding. Displayed together with the official WI cloth badge and the official team tie. [Previously displayed in The Cricketers Bar, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne). (3 items).The West Indies team played 6 Test matches against Australia. Australia won the series 5-1. The Series is remembered for hostile fast bowling by Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson and for Viv Richards ability to take on the fast bowlers by opening the innings in the last test match in which he top-scored with 74 from 87 balls.$200300257LITERATURE: Collectors archive in three cartons with books including hardbound Botham - My Autobiography (1994), The Complete Whos Who of Test Cricketers by Christopher Martin-Jenkins (1980), McGilvray - The Game is not the Same (1986); 1970s-1980s periodicals incl. 1986 Bradman and The Bush by Piesse & Ferguson (1986), various issues of Australian Cricket (incl.1970 Yearbook) Cricketer (incl. 1976 annual) & World of Cricket magazines; also 1980-90s Victorian Cricket Association handbooks and annual reports, South Melbourne CC 1951-52 & 1961-62 annual reports plus other for 1980s-90s era, 1979-1981 & 1983-84 South Melbourne CC 1st XI cricket scorebooks, plus a few 1970s-80s Football Records & magazines (qty) $120160258258DONALD BRADMAN: limited edition The Man, The Legend large format portrait photograph (59x49cm) taken of Bradman at home in 1977, SIGNED BY BRADMAN & BY PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID SIMPSON, numbered #3 of 20; framed & glazed; overall 92x80cm, with CofA. .$500750258aWORLD LEGENDS OF CRICKET: c. 1980 World Series CricketAustralia v "The World" full size cricket bat signed by 14 Australian players including Graham Yallop, Kim Hughes, David Hookes, Doug Walters, & Jeff Thomson and 13 "The World" players including Barry Richards, Zaheer Abbas, Desmond Haynes, Clive Rice, Graeme Pollock, Joel Garner & Andy Roberts. In very good condition. .$250350259Framed selection of images incl. The Invincibles - 50th Anniversary limited edition with facsimile autographs, reprint of a 1930 Syd Miller humorous image of Australian cricketers, copy of an 1862 photograph showing English XI aboard Cobb & Cos Leviathan Coach on departing the Black Bull Hotel, Geelong, 1997 The Indians are Coming promotional poster for Australia-India Test Series, 1984 Herald poster titled Lillee Quits with a signed Dennis Lillee postcard attached plus two other items; various sizes from 18x23cm to 59x79cm. (7 items) . $100150260PLAYER SIGNATURES: on Centenary of the Ashes (1982) envelopes including Australians on 3 envelopes with Greg Chappell (2), Jeff Thomson (2), Kepler Wessels (2), Allan Border (2), Kim Hughes (2), Dennis Lillee, Rod Marsh & Geoff Lawson; English players on two envelopes including David Gower, Allan Lamb, Bob Willis & Derek Randall. (38 signatures on 5 covers) $140180261ALAN KIPPAX - AUSTRALIA: original pen & ink caricature of Kippax by Peter Hobbs on art paper, 22x14cm. $100140262AUSTRALIA: 1980s envelopes including 1984 Centenary Test illustrated covers signed by mostly Australian cricketers including Don Bradman (2), Bill OReilly (2), Ashley Mallett (2), David Gilbert (3), Craig McDermott, Greg Matthews (2) & Greg Ritchie; also noted New Zealander Martin Snedden and some unsigned covers. (26 items) .$140180'