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

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

Lot 157
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £65
New Zealand tours to England 1949-2014. Five sheets/ pages signed by New Zealand touring parties. One for the 1948 tour with thirteen signatures in ink on card signed below copy photograph of the team laid down. Signatures are W. Hadlee (Captain), Mooney, Cave, Wallace, Reid, Cowie, Burke, Smith, Hayes, Sutcliffe, Donnelly and Rabone. Horizontal fold. Also a double album page nicely signed in ink by fifteen members of the 1958 touring party including Reid (Captain), Cave, Sparling, Alabaster, D’Arcy, Meale, Petrie, Playle etc. Players’ names neatly captioned in pencil. Additionally signed to verso by twelve Warwickshire players etc. Official autograph sheet for the 1986 tour fully signed by all seventeen touring members, and fifteen members of the New Zealand ‘A’ tour 2014, also the ‘Bank of New Zealand Series 1996’ (17). Signatures include Coney, Wright, Bracewell, Chatfield, J. & M. Crowe, Edgar, R. Hadlee, Rutherford, Watling, Bracewell, de Grandhomme, Latham, Henry, Sodhi etc. Folds to the 1986 sheet, otherwise in very good condition.

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