Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024

Albert Craig ‘The Surrey Poet’. Mono postcard of Craig standing at the boundary reciting a poem to a group of spectators wearing boaters, a match in progress in the background. Titled ‘(Kent) “My County, Gentlemen!”’. Postally used, the correspondent writes ‘In Craig’s words it is “the Captain of the Spectators addressing his constituents”’. Publisher unknown. Post marked 1903(?). Minor wear, otherwise in good condition.
Albert Craig, 1849-1909, attended cricket and football matches, composing and reciting rhymes to spectators relating to players and events.

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