Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 478
Estimate: £800/1200
Hammer: £750
Edward Wentworth Dillon. Kent 1900-1923. Vanity Fair. Original Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Dillon wearing striped blue blazer and holding a bat to side entitled ‘The Champion County’ and dated September 13th 1913 Men of the Day 2339 by artist OWL. Good original condition with full margin. Approximately 10.5”x15.5”. Very minor mark to top left hand corner of the border otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare
The ‘Vanity Fair’ magazine appeared on a weekly basis from November 1868 to January 1914. The lithograph of Dillon was the final cricketer to appear in the magazine before the demise of the magazine and therefore is the rarest cricketing lithograph to have appeared as circulation numbers dropped