Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 164
Estimate: £40/60
Hammer: £50
John Mills. Hampshire, M.C.C. & England 1816-1820. Signed unstamped free-front envelope to a correspondent in Botesdale, Suffolk, sent from ‘Newmarket, October nineteen 1834[?]’. Nicely signed ‘John Mills’ in black ink to lower left corner. Rare early signature of Mills who played nine first-class matches. Handwritten correspondence to verso. Some trimming, otherwise in good condition.
Mills was a soldier and politician, elected as the Conservative M.P. for Rochester in 1831.