Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 528
Estimate: £70/100
‘Yorkshire XI versus M.C.C. Scarborough 1927’. Two original mono photographs depicting each of the two teams lined up in front of the pavilion at Scarborough with crowds in the background for the match played 31st August- 2nd September 1927. The M.C.C. team photograph signed in black ink by ten of the players. Signatures are Enthoven, Clay, Haig, Kennedy, Leveson-Gower, Crutchley, Douglas, A.E.R. Gilligan, F.W. Gilligan and Crawley. The Yorkshire team photograph with title and players’ names annotated in black ink to the lower portion of the image. Players are Kilner, Mitchell, Jacques, Dolphin, Sutcliffe, Holmes, Robinson, Rhodes, Lupton, Macaulay and Leyland. Both photographs by H. Walker of Scarborough, each 10.25”x5.25”. Ex J.W. Goldman collection. Adhesive/ tape marks to verso where previously laid down. Small tear to the M.C.C. photograph, some wear to the signatures, otherwise in very good condition.
Yorkshire won by eight wickets, J.W.H.T. Douglas scoring 101 for M.C.C. in their first innings.