Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 647
Estimate: £40/60
‘Norfolk County Cricket Club. Season 1905. Souvenir of a Record Season’. Published by Jarrold & Sons, Norwich. Original blue cloth with gilt title and County emblem to front cover. Comprises records of all matches played in the Minor Counties Championship for 1905, in which Norfolk were champions. Presentation copy ‘To the Reverend H.B.J. Armstrong from C.B. Leathes Prior June 1909’. Frontispiece photograph of Rev. G.B. Raikes, captain. Padwick 2445. Ex David Armstrong collection (former Secretary of Norfolk C.C.C.). Some wear and soiling to boards, slight breaking to front internal hinge, some pencil annotations to front endpaper and inside rear cover, lacking blank rear endpaper otherwise in good condition.
Captained by George Barkley Raikes (Oxford University & Hampshire 1893-1902), Norfolk won the Minor Counties Championship of 1905, playing eight matches, winning six, ending with a final percentage score of 86.33.