Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 8
Estimate: £120/160
Hammer: £120
‘W.G.’s Son Drops Dead at Cricket’. Large original newspaper poster for the Daily Herald, dated 7th June 1938. The poster measures approx. 20”x30”, framed and glazed overall 22.5”x33”. Horizontal and vertical folds, with apparent old tape repairs to verso, otherwise in good, very good condition.
Charles Butler Grace, who played four first-class matches 1900-1906 for London County and W.G. Grace’s XI, died in Sussex in 1938 He collapsed and died whilst batting during a match at Bexhill on Whit-Monday on 6th June 1938.