Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 101
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: unsold
‘Surrey County Cricket Club Championship Dinner’ 1955. Official menu for the Dinner held at The Grosvenor House, Park Lane on the 1st December 1955. The menu with raised silver club emblem of the Prince of Wales feathers and titles to front cover, inside pages with Toast List and Menu and photographs of the first and second XI teams. Page with Surrey emblem signed in ink by twelve members of the Surrey team loosely mounted to inside back cover. Signatures are Surridge, May, McIntyre, A. Bedser, E. Bedser, Clark, Stewart, Barrington, Loader, Laker, Constable and Lock. Very good condition.
Surrey won the County Championship in 1955 for the fourth consecutive season. They went on to become champions again in the next three seasons giving them an unprecedented seven wins in a row.