Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia

Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024

Lot 34
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £48
‘England’s Champion Batsman. J.B. Hobbs. Surrey & England XI’ 1922. Large linen handkerchief with printed headings and five images of Hobbs in various batting poses plus total runs and average in first class cricket up to 1922. Listed to outer border are details of centuries scored by Hobbs. 17”x17”. Laid down to red mount and framed and glazed. Overall 20”x23”. Sold with a large framed Original certificate for ‘The Star Cricket Scheme... for Schoolboys together with an autographed Jack Hobbs bat to R.Dicks... Kennington, for the best batting performance during the week ended May 25, 1935’. Nicely signed in ink by Hobbs but fading. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 17”x22”. Light vertical fold otherwise in good condition. Qty 2

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