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

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

Lot 97
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: unsold
England Ashes Winners 1953. Celebration Dinner given by National Westminster Bank ‘to honour the players of the 1953 England teams which regained the Ashes’. Eight page colour menu for the Dinner held at The National Westminster Tower on 27th June 1983. The menu signed to the player pen pictures by each of the eighteen England players who played in the Tests including Hutton (Captain), Bailey, Brown, Compton, Edrich, Kenyon, May, Trueman, Wardle, Statham etc. Also signed to the front cover by Brian Statham, and to the menu page by fourteen various players and guests including Statham, Trueman, Kenyon, Wardle, Graveney, Simpson, Tattersall etc. and by seven members of the Bank and by R.E.S. Wyatt to first page. Sold with an official folding menu for the ‘Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society ‘Spring Dinner and Joint Tribute to Sir Leonard Hutton and Cyril Washbrook’, 23rd April 1982. Signed to the inside by Hutton, Washbrook, Jim Cumbes, Eillis Robinson and Norman Yardley. Qty 2. Very good condition.

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