Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 252
Estimate: £300/500
Hammer: £850
John Victor ‘Jack’ Saunders. Victoria, Wellington & Australia 1899-1914. Rare and excellent sepia cabinet card photograph of Saunders depicted full length in bowling pose wearing Australian Test cap. Signed in black ink twice by Saunders, to the photograph and lower mount border, ‘Yours truly J.V. Saunders’. Cabinet card by E. Hawkins & Co, Brighton. 4.25”x6.5”. Some foxing to mount card, small pin hole to the top edge of the mount, otherwise in good/ very good condition.
Jack Saunders toured England with the Australian team on the 1902 tour and played in fourteen Tests for Australia 1901/02-1907/08.