Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 517
Estimate: £50/70
John Berry ‘Jack’ Hobbs. Surrey & England 1905-1934. Original mono postcard size candid style photograph of Hobbs standing full length holding a pipe, wearing suit, overcoat and hat. Nicely signed in ink to the photograph by Hobbs. Annotation to verso describes Hobbs in Australia on the 1924/25 tour, ‘waiting to board the “Miramar” visiting Launceston in Tasmania’. Small adhesive marks to verso, otherwise in very good condition. Sold with three small album pages, each nicely signed in ink. Signatures are Frank Mann (Cambridge University, Middlesex & England 1908-1931), George Gunn (Nottinghamshire & England), and Leonard Bates (Warwickshire 1913-1935), each with cigarette card of the player laid down above. Good condition. Qty 4.