Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 209
Estimate: £400/600
Hammer: £2600
Australian tour of England 1902. Essex County Cricket Club letterhead beautifully signed by fourteen members of the Australian touring team to England in 1902. Signatures are Joe Darling (Captain), Monty Noble, Warwick Armstrong, Victor Trumper, Hanson Carter, William Howell, Clem Hill, Ernest Jones, James Kelly, Jack Saunders, Syd Gregory, Albert ‘Bert’ Hopkins and tour manager Major Benjamin Wardill. Only lacking the signature of Hugh Trumble from the full touring party. Very light folds, odd mark and adhesive mark to the top border of the reverse of the letterhead otherwise in very good condition. A rare collection of signatures from this early tour
In the Essex v Australia tour match played at Leyton the match was drawn. Essex were bowled out in their first innings for only 178, Victor Trumper taking 5-33 (his first five wickets in an innings in first class matches and his best bowling analysis. Australia replied with a declared total of 249-8, Clem Hill making 104. Essex in their 2nd innings reached 13-2 before rain intervened and caused the abandonment in the afternoon of the 3rd day
Victor Trumper had his best season in 1902, he scored eleven centuries on the tour during one of the rainiest summers on record, and scored a century before lunch at Old Trafford in the 4th Test. Australia won the series by two Tests to one
Victor Trumper had his best season in 1902, he scored eleven centuries on the tour during one of the rainiest summers on record, and scored a century before lunch at Old Trafford in the 4th Test. Australia won the series by two Tests to one