Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 170
Estimate: £80/120
Albert Craig. ‘What the Surrey Champions say about the famous Australian Team’. ‘WAIT TILL WE MEET EM’ AGAIN!’. Dated May 17th 1888. ‘The Surrey crowd hail with delight, Our brothers from over the main, But our lads mean to beat em’ outright, Just wait till we meet ‘em again!’. Original broadsheet poem/rhyme regarding the match. With Craig’s printed initial’s ‘A.C.’ and ‘Printed by H. J. Wright, “Prima” Printing Works, 2, Brixton Road, S.W. to lower border. Advertisement for F.H. Ayres to verso. Previously sold by Knights in the E.M. Grace sale of July 2015. Light foxing to page and minor folds to border and centre otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare.