The Cricket Memorabilia Society made a special presentation to veteran cricket writer, historian and former editor of The Cricketer, David Frith, at a special meeting at Lord’s. The Award of Excellence was in recognition of Frith’s collecting which started with…
25th April 2023 marks the 36th year since our founding members met at West Bromwich Dartmouth Cricket Club in 1987.
Our latest magazine has just been handed to the Royal Mail for distribution, so should be with members very soon!
Time to update your diaries! Our scheduled meetings for 2022/23 are as follows:- Derby CCC: 22nd October 2022 (Guests: Geoff Miller, Andy Lloyd) (Plus Auction) Lord’s: 19th November 2022 (Guests David Smith, David Frith) CMS AGM (Online): 9th January 2023…
The Auction Team has recently obtained a significant library of signed books. The volume is such that in addition to selling them in our auctions, they intend to list 30 books per month which will be emailed to members. Books…
Bill Greenwood OBE RIP We are sorry to inform members of the death of Bill Greenwood on Monday 4th July following a short illness. Bill was the kindest of men, devoted to his family, his cricket – especially Lancashire, and the…
Nicholas Sharp takes us through a fascinating history of a ball & shoe from the 1760’s, moving on to pick out some highlights from a huge collection of scorecards.
An insight into Nicholas Sharp’s extensive Ranjitsinhji collection, after an initial foray into the story of how he acquired a Duleepsinhji bat (Harrow size!) used in the 1929season.
Hambledon are putting together their website and would like to appeal to the Cricket Memorabilia Society to share with them anything either from 1772 or from Broadhalfpenny Down that they can publish Please contact Simon if you can assist.