Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
22nd, 23rd & 24th March 2024
Lot 1426
Estimate: £20/30
Hammer: £78
Gerald Claude Eugene ‘G.C.’ Foster. Kingston, Jamaica. Early sepia real photograph postcard of Foster standing full length in running attire, probably 1908. Photograph by George Greenhalgh, Weaste (Salford). Postally unused. Very good condition. Sold with four further early mono real photograph sporting postcards including ‘The Cambridge Crew [Rowing] 1907’. ‘Boys Farm School, Standon Bridge, Stafford’ football team 1913/14, publishers unknown. Toboggan racing at Klosters, Switzerland, by ‘Bestes Moment Atelier’ of Munich. ‘I.K.S. 2nds Junior [Basketball] Championship Contenders 1921-22’ published by Sissman Studio, Pittsburgh. Good condition. Qty 5.
G.C. Foster was a noted Jamaican sprinter and national record holder. He travelled to England for the 1908 Summer Olympics but was not eligible to participate as Jamaica were not then affiliated to the International Olympic Committee. Foster remained in Britain and successfully defeated several Olympic competitors at subsequent meetings. On his return to Jamaica he played first-class cricket and later became an umpire.