Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 69
Estimate: £50/80
Surrey v New Zealand 1949. Official folding menu for the ‘Dinner to the New Zealand Cricket Team’ given by Surrey C.C.C. at Armourers’ Hall, 11th May 1949. The front cover with raised silver Surrey emblem and printed titles, menu and toast list to inside. Signed to the front by eight attendees, including six in ink of Barton, Squire, Holmes of Surrey, Hadlee and Sutcliffe of New Zealand, and the Earl of Rosebery, also Wallace and Leveson Gower in pencil. Also signed in ink to the inside by Alec and Eric Bedser. Very good condition.
In the tour match played at Kennington Oval 11th- 13th May 1949, the New Zealanders beat Surrey by 149 runs.