Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 462
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: unsold
Amended description: Arthur Mitchell. Yorkshire & England 1922-1945. Mounted cricket stump used in the fifth and final Test match, England v South Africa, played at The Oval in August 1935. The stump was obtained by Mitchell after the match. The stump is mounted into a wooden block and has a silver metal shield to the stump with ‘England v South Africa 1935. Presented to D.O. Smith by A. Mitchell’. There is a silver metal plaque to the base of the stump with details of the match and the players names/line ups from both sides. The stump was given to D.O. (Dennis) Smith by Alf Mitchell, son of Arthur Mitchell, in the 1980s/1990s. The mount and inscriptions were then added by Smith, who subsequently sold it to the present vendor. Good/very good condition.
Arthur Mitchell played for Yorkshire from 1922 to 1945, he scored over 19,000 first class runs with an average of 37.47 including 44 centuries. He played six Test matches for England between 1933 and 1936. In the final Test at The Oval against South Africa in 1935, he made 40 opening the batting in England’s only innings. The match was drawn. South Africa won the series 1–0 with four matches drawn. Their victory at Lord’s was their first in a Test match in England, and with the remaining matches drawn, it also ensured that they would, for the first time, win a series in England