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M.C.C. tour of South Africa 1948/49. Rare official menu for the luncheon given for the M.C.C. held at the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 11th March 1949, on the eve of the final tour match. The folding menu printed to one side in English and to the other (inverted) in Afrikaans with titles and images of the government building to the outside, and respective menus to inside. Signed in ink to the menu by sixteen members of the touring party including the manager, Green, plus one other. Players’ signatures are Mann (Captain), Griffith, Palmer, Wright, Watkins, Hutton, Simpson, Young, Jenkins, Washbrook, Bedser, Evans, Gladwin, Crapp and Tremlett, lacking Compton. Vertical crease and adhesive strip to top edge of the Afrikaans front cover, otherwise in good condition.