The Dawn of Test Cricket. The important historical collection of Edward Mills Grace, Cricketer

Edward Mills Grace. Large original sepia studio posed photograph of Grace in full cricket attire and wearing a cap, aged 21. The photograph, taken...

Edward Mills Grace. Large original sepia studio posed photograph of Grace in full cricket attire and wearing a cap, aged 21. The photograph, taken...

Edward Mills Grace. Large original sepia studio posed photograph of Grace in full cricket attire and wearing a cap, aged 21. The photograph, taken...

‘Gentlemen of Kent v Marylebone Cricket Club, 13th, 14th & 15th August 1862’. Original cricket ball with circular shaped silver plaque inscribed ‘...

George Parr’s Team to Australia & New Zealand 1863/64. The second English team to tour Australia. Early photograph of the team, taken before the v...

Cricketing belt and buckle made for Edward Mills Grace and presented ‘By the Ladies of Redcliff Cricket Club 1863. The belt with original silver m...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten three page letter from Grace to his Father written from on board the S.S. Great Britain, undated but probably the ...

‘S.S. Great Britain, Liverpool & Australian Navigation Co, Steam Clipper’. Original printed ‘Bill of Fare’ [menu] for the Dinner held on the 28th ...

‘From E.M.G. Australia & New Zealand’ [1863-1864]. Ninety six page diary, handwritten by Grace, covering the voyage from Liverpool, his arrival in...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten six page letter from Grace to his sister Fannie, written from Melbourne. The letter dated ‘Christmas Day’ [1863]. ...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten four page letter from Grace to his Mother, Martha, written from Melbourne. The letter dated written on Boxing Day...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten twelve page letter from Grace to his Mother, Martha, written from Melbourne ‘or rather Sandhurst at present’. Thi...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten twelve page letter from Grace to his Mother, Martha, written from Melbourne and dated January 1864. This excellen...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten six page letter from Grace to his Sister, Alice, written from Melbourne and dated the 24th January 1864. This exc...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten thirteen page letter from Grace to his Sister, Fannie, written from Dunedin, New Zealand ‘on board to Canterbury’...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten eight page letter from Grace to his Sister, Annie, written from The Dunedin Club, New Zealand and dated 15th Febr...

‘Remembrances of the Travels of Your Devoted Servant [1863-1864]. Edward Mills Grace, Downend, Oct 1863’. Red leather note book, with metal edging...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten twenty page letter from Grace to his Mother written on board a steamer, from Dunedin to Port Chalmers, and dated 2...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten eighteen page letter from Grace to his Sister, Blanche written on board the Alexandra steam ship and dated 11th Ma...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten eight page letter from Grace to his Brother, Alfred, written from Macquarie Street, Sydney and dated March 1864. E...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten six page letter from Grace to his Brother, Henry, written from Macquarie Street, Sydney and dated 19th March 1864....

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten twelve page letter from Grace to his Mother written from Macquarie Street, Sydney and undated, probably written an...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten twenty four page letter from Grace to his sister, Fannie, written from Maryborough, Victoria and dated 14th April ...

‘All England XI v Ballarat, 18th-20th April and v Victoria, 21st-24th April 1864’. Original cricket ball with circular shaped silver plaque coveri...

Gold tie/lapel pin presented to Edward Mills Grace by New Zealand tour promoter and entrepreneur Shadrach Jones, who was based in Dunedin, in late...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten one page letter from Grace to his Mother written from on board the Steamer Madras and posted at Galle on his retur...

‘Resume’. Edward Mills Grace, Downend, 1864’. Maroon leather note book, with colourful marbled end papers and page edges, containing a sixty two p...

‘The Trip to Australia: Scraps from the Diary of One of the Twelve’. Edited by W.H. Knight. London 1864. Six page typewritten proof of the pamphle...

‘The Cricketer’s Trip to Australia 1863 & 1864 by Edward Mills Grace’. Extensive two hundred and twenty four page manuscript handwritten on foolsc...

Edward Mills Grace. Handwritten one page letter from Grace to his Mother written from 12 Chapel Street, Bedford Row, London, dated 21st March 1865...

Edward Mills Grace. Original silver cap/top, which was originally attached to the butt end bat which E.M. Grace was presented for scoring a centur...

The Grace Family cricket team? c1870 to 1875. Original sepia photograph of, what I believe, to be the Grace Family cricket team or a local team fe...

North of England v South of England 1871. Very early original silk scorecard for the match played at the Kennington Oval from 31st July to 2nd Aug...

Cricket belt buckle clasp. Victorian brass metal embossed belt buckle, depicting a cricket match in progress with raised figures of a batsman bein...

George Frederick Grace. Original sepia photograph of Grace, half length, wearing cricket attire. Irregular trimming to photograph. 4.5”x6.75”. G. ...

George Frederick Grace. Original silver top/disk, which was originally attached to the butt end bat which G.F. Grace was presented for scoring a c...

‘The Late Mr. George Frederick Grace’. Original black leather bound ‘In Memoriam’ folder with Grace’s initials to front board in gilt ‘G.F.G.’, to...

George Frederick Grace 1850-1880. Original ‘In Memoriam’ card 1880 with broad black border produced following Grace’s tragic death. ‘One Grace is ...

George Frederick Grace 1850-1880. Original ‘In Memoriam’ card 1880 with broad black borders produced following Grace’s tragic death. ‘In Loving Me...

George Frederick Grace 1850-1880. Original ‘In Memoriam’ card 1880 with broad black borders produced following Grace’s tragic death. ‘In Memoriam ...

George Frederick Grace 1850-1880. Original ‘In Memoriam’ card 1880 with broad black borders produced following Grace’s tragic death. ‘On the Death...

‘Martha Grace’. ‘A Present from Mr & Mrs Russell, Walsall to Mrs Martha Grace, September 1880’. Large, heavy and impressive French black marble ma...

Edward Mills Grace. Original England cloth Test cap presented to Grace when he won his one and only official Test match appearance playing for Eng...

Edward Mills Grace. Original light blue pinstriped cloth cricket cap, apparently made by Mrs E.M. Grace for E.M. Grace in the 1890’s. The cap, sim...

‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. Bristol 1891. Very rare quarter leather bound ‘Presentation’ edition, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original boards...

‘Cricket’. W.G. Grace. London 1891. Presentation copy from W.G. Grace with ink inscription to title page ‘Uncle Alfred, with the authors kind love...

Edward Mills Grace. Large original sepia photograph of Grace in full cricket attire and wearing a cap, aged 51. The photograph, taken in 1892, sho...

W.G. Grace. Original Coalport porcelain plate commemorating W.G. Grace’s Century Of Centuries 1895, decorated in blue with central portrait of Gra...

W.G. Grace pipe 1895. Vulcanite cricket pipe with cricket bat stem and cricket ball and ‘Grace head’ pipe bowl. Stamped ‘W.G.G. ET.47. A.D. 1895’....

‘W.G. Grace. Champion Cricketer of the World’. Large cotton handkerchief commemorating a Century of Centuries by Grace. The handkerchief has a cen...

‘W.G.’. Original Stevengraph of W.G. Grace wearing M.C.C. cap and standing in batting pose at the wicket, miniature picture woven in silk, approx ...

W.G. Grace. ‘Banquet held on Monday, June 24th 1895 at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton to Mr W.G. Grace in celebration of his One Hundredth Century, c...

William Gilbert Grace. Excellent freestanding silver menu holder in the form of Grace standing at the wicket, wearing M.C.C. cap, with bat raised,...

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1899. 36th edition. Bound in full green leather boards, with marbled end papers, gilt to all page edges and with signa...

Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1900. 36th edition. Bound in full green leather boards, with marbled end papers, gilt to all page edges and with signa...

‘Dr W.G. Grace’. Excellent original sepia photograph of Grace, wearing London County XI cap, full length in batting stance at the wicket. The phot...

Edward Mills Grace. Original sepia cabinet card photograph of E.M.Grace posed wearing suit and tie. Photograph by E. Hawkins of Brighton. Photogra...

William Gilbert Grace. Three mono photographs of W.G. Grace batting in the nets wearing hooped cap. The photographs measure 6.5”x8.5”. Sold with t...

Edward Mills Grace. Original photographic image of E.M. Grace full length, in later years, in batting stance wearing his England Test cap. The pho...

Edward Mills Grace. Three original glass negative photographic plates of E.M. Grace, in later years, two in batting stance wearing his England Tes...