Ball Games

An ebony puzzle or sovereign ball inlaid with roundels of geometric mosaic.

Ref:14456 Antique Bronzed Bowls or Skittles Figure. A spelter figure of a bowls or skittles player holding a wooden ball. The figure is mounted o...

Signed photograph of Pele

A decorative group of seventeen painted wooden skittles balls, in various colours and patterns. (White bowls not included.) English, early 20th ...

Ref: 19448 A Vanity Fair print after SPY, “RUGBY UNION”. Published Feb. 1st 1890. Mr. G.R. Hill. Image size: 7 ½ inches wide by 121 ½ inche...

Sport is a photo screen print in triptych form, which has central sporting images and a photograph of `dolly bird' which is flanked by two wooden ...

A very rare signed 1966 World Cup programme, signed by 10 players, mounted with Bobby Moore's signature on card and a F.D.C. June '66 signed by Alf...

A pair of silver mounted presentation bowling bowls on stands engraved “Prize Guarding, Riding + Drawing, presented By H A Wicks. Esq. Won by Jo...

Ref: 13084 A Sporting Penknife with inoxydable Bronze Handle. Manufactured in France by Coutellerie De Qualite. The penknife comprises of a blade ...

Ref: 13086 A Sporting Penknife with Unoxydable Bronze Handle. Manufactured in France by Coutellerie De Qualite. The penknife comprises of one larg...

Ref:20863 A leather football, signed by the Arsenal team of 1936. The ball is inscribed and signed in ink, which has partly faded. The inscription...

Ref:20864 Signed by the Arsenal team, probably of the early 1950's.. The ball is signed in ink, partly faded. The signatures are,: Leslie Compton,...

Ref: 14946 A fine patinated Vienna bronze figure of a football player. Attributed to Bergmann.

Ref:17055 A French Rugby poster showing a player being tackled and advertising the drinks company Bonal, Gentiane - Quina as the friend of sportsm...

The origins of the cup and ball game are obscure and may well have been spread via international commerce. It is possible that the game was invente...