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

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

Lot 458
Estimate: £60/90
Hammer: £30
West Indies tour to England 1963. Full size Gray Nicholls ‘Crusader’ bat signed in ink to the face by seventeen members of the West Indies touring party and eleven ‘England Players 1963’. West Indies signatures include Worrell (Captain), Hunte, Solomon, Valentine, Sobers, Butcher, Kanhai, Griffith, Allan, Murray etc. England signatures include Bailey, Cowdrey, Richardson, Trueman, Graveney, Shackleton, Knight etc. Also profusely signed to verso by county teams including Kent (12 signatures), Warwickshire (11), Yorkshire (12), Somerset (12), Gloucestershire (12), and Worcestershire (11). Fading to some signatures, all legible, otherwise in good/ very good condition.

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