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

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

Lot 583
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: unsold
‘Surrey Eleven 1937’. Large original mono photograph of the Surrey team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire, some in caps. In the background is the pavilion with a sprinkling of spectators. Very nicely signed in black ink by all twelve Surrey players. Signatures are Holmes (Captain), Brooks, Knight, Sandham, Gregory, McMurray, Fishlock, Squire, Watts, Gover, Parker and Barling. Also signed by Herbert Strudwick (Manager) and to the darker portion of the photograph by Sandy Tait (masseur). Fourteen signatures in total. The photograph measures 11.75”x9.25”, laid down to large grey album page with handwritten title to top margin. Photographer unknown. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Minor smudging to the signature of Gregory, otherwise in very good condition with excellent signatures.
Alexander ‘Sandy’ Tait played for Tottenham Hotspur and was a member of their 1900/01 F.A. Cup winning side.

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