Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 89
Estimate: £50/70
Australia. ‘The Hoover Bicentennial Test Ball’ 1988. Two official programme/ menus for the Ball held at the North Sydney Oval on the 27th January 1988. One, issued to the cricket collector Ronald Waters with his name hand printed to the front cover, is signed to the ‘Autographs’ page by twenty one attendees including a handwritten dedication to Waters signed by Norm O’Neill. Other signatures include Brian Booth, R. Marsh, R. Simpson, Cowdrey, Willis, Merv Hughes, Boon, Border, Sleep, G. Marsh, S. Waugh etc. The other, unsigned, menu was issued to O’Neill. Sold with the original folding invitations to the event issued to Waters and his wife, Jean. Staining to the signed menu, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Qty 4.