Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 124
Estimate: £800/1200
India. ‘Who’s Who of Test Cricketers’. An extensive collection of almost one hundred signatures very nicely presented in one binder. The majority of signatures are in ink on pieces, laid down with biographical extracts of each player taken from Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ book of the same title (originally published in 1983) and other sources, with others signed to ‘India Test Player’ white cards, and additional collectors’ cards, cuttings, album pages etc. The odd signature duplicated. Earlier signatures include Polly Umrigar, Nari Contractor, Chandra Borde, Hemant Kanitkar, Ram Ramchand, Nirode Chodhury, Vijay Hazare, Lala Amarnath, Cota Ramaswami, Phiroz Palia, Ghulam Ahmed, Ranga Sohoni, Bapu Nadkarni, Morappakam Joysam, Madhusudan Rege, Hiralal Gaekwad, Datta Gaekwad, Sorabji Colah, Syed Nazir Ali, Janardhan Navle, Jahangir Khan, Syed Wazir Ali, Mushtaq Ali, Chandrakant Patankar, Arvind Apte, Budhi Kunderan, Chandra Sarwate, Bal Dani, Nawab of Pataudi, Madhav Apte, M.K. Mantri, C.S. Nayudu, Jasubhai Patel, Dattaram Hindelkar etc. Very good condition.