Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 249
Estimate: £300/500
Hammer: £750
James Joseph Kelly. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1905. Excellent sepia cabinet card vignette photograph of Kelly depicted full length in wicket-keeping pose, wearing his Australian Test cap. Nicely signed in black ink to the photograph ‘Yours Truly JJ Kelly’. Cabinet card by E. Hawkins & Co, Brighton. 4.25”x6.5”. Very minor surface wear, the mount with small pin hole to the top edge, otherwise in very good condition.
James Kelly toured England with the Australian team as their principal wicket-keeper on the 1896, 1899, 1902 and 1905 tours and played in thirty six Tests for Australia. An injury he sustained on the 1905 tour forced him to retire from first-class cricket.