Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 185
Estimate: £60/90
West Indies tour of England 1950. ‘The Cavendish, Eastbourne’ headed paper nicely signed in different coloured inks by fourteen members of the West Indies touring party including the Manager J.M. Kidney. Players’ signatures, with names annotated in ink to side, are Goddard (Captain), Worrell, Valentine, Marshall, Ramadhin, Williams, Gomez, Walcott, Jones, Stollmeyer, Rae, Weekes and Pierre. The page laid down to album page with additional signatures to verso of Australian cricketers, Ken Grieves and Ben Barnett. Light folds, otherwise in very good condition.
The West Indies played at Eastbourne on their opening tour match against L.C. Stevens XI in April 1950. The match was drawn.