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

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

Lot 600
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: unsold
Australia v England, Sydney Cricket Ground 1901. Very large and impressive panoramic photograph of a packed Sydney Cricket Ground taken on the second day of the First Test match, 14th-16th December 1901. The photograph shows the match in progress with Arthur Lilley and Len Braund batting with England 392-6. The photograph with printed titles stating that the photograph was ‘Presented to the Sussex County Cricket Club by The Honourable John See, Prime Minister, on behalf of the State of New South Wales and his co-trustees of the cricket ground . Mounted, framed and glazed. The photograph measures 52”x10.5” and overall with the mount and frame 62”x20”. An early panoramic photograph of an ‘Ashes’ Test match in Sydney. Good condition

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