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

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

Lot 569
Estimate: £50/80
Maurice Allom, Cambridge University, Surrey & England 1926-1938. M.C.C. tour to Australia & New Zealand 1929/30. Five original mono photographs from the tour on which Maurice Allom was a member. Photographs include the team on board ship with four of the ship’s officers, matches in progress on the New Zealand leg of the tour with nice views of the surrounding scenery etc. One photograph with title to mount ‘The Christchurch Ground, New Zealand’ shows the scoreboard for the tour match, Canterbury v M.C.C., M.C.C. having scored 249 in their first innings, and Canterbury’s score at 130-7, a batsman walking off having just been dismissed. The photographs in original mounts, one with printed title. Various large format sizes. Odd minor faults to some mounts, the photographs in good condition. From the collection of Maurice Allom. Qty 5.
The winter of 1929/30 was unusual in that the M.C.C. took two separate tours, one to Australia and New Zealand on which Allom played, and another to West Indies. No Test matches were played on the Australian leg, but M.C.C. played a four match series in New Zealand, marking New Zealand’s debut in Test cricket. Allom made his debut in the first Test and distinguished himself by taking a hat-trick and four wickets in five balls, the first debutant so to do. M.C.C. won the series 1-0 with three matches drawn.

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