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

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

Reverend Frank Hay Gillingham. Essex 1903-1928. Signed Vanity Fair colour chromolithograph of Gillingham. ‘Cricketing Christianity’. 15th August 1906 by SPY. Nice bold signature of Gillingham with date ‘1906’ in black ink to lower corner of the image. The print is laid down to board but otherwise in good condition. Rare in this signed form
This print has no captions, dates or other descriptive text, this is a Vanity Fair ‘proof before lettering’ image and they were produced to verify the colours and lines of the lithographs. The numbers vary, but no more than twenty proofs were printed of each caricature and the magazine bound them in numbered albums and they were offered for sale. The quality of the colours in the proof prints, their clarity of line and detail and their scarcity make them highly collectible to collectors

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