Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 940
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £160
William Harold Ponsford. Victoria & Australia 1920-1934. Excellent plain back sepia real photograph postcard of Ponsford, head and shoulders, wearing Australian touring sweater. The postcard signed by Ponsford in ink. This is card number 6 from a series of fifteen cards produced for the Australian 1930 tour of England by B.D.V. cigarettes (Godfrey Phillips of London), number printed to lower right hand corner of card. Good condition
Ponsford scored over 1400 runs on the 1930 tour with an average of 49.13 including 220 not out v Oxford University