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Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘Complimentary Dinner to the South African Team’ 1929. Official folding menu for the dinner given by the M.C.C. at the Lord’s Hotel, London, 3rd June 1929. ‘The President, Field Marshall Lord Plumer, in the Chair’. The front cover with printed titles below caricatures of a British lion, Australian kangaroo and South African springbok each playing a musical instrument, borders in M.C.C. colours. Menu and toast list to centre pages. The date corresponds with the tour match v. M.C.C. at Lord’s. Signed in black in to the front by twelve and to the inside by seven members of the South African touring party, members of the M.C.C. team, and other attendees. South African’s signatures include Siedle, Vincent, Ochse, Bell, Frielinghaus, Quinn etc. M.C.C. players’ signatures include J.C. White, G.B. Legge and K.S. Duleepsingh, also H.D.G. Leveson Gower, R. Aird etc. Small stain to front affecting a few signatures, otherwise in good/ very good condition.