Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 683
Estimate: £2500/3500
‘Pavilion Echoes from the South 1884-85’. By The Twelve. Printed by Cecil Gardner & Co, High Street, Auckland (New Zealand) 1885. 36pp plus advertising to rear. This is the third account of an Auckland tour to the south, following those of 1874 and 1882. They played the major teams on the island plus Wellington. Original blue paper wrappers, only fair condition with repairs to wrappers, foxing throughout, worm holes to front wrapper. Signature of ownership of W.H. Newton and date October 23rd 1885 to top border of the front wrapper. Newton who as ‘Trundler Thames’ complied the first New Zealand cricket annual. A rare and early New Zealand cricket publication
Padwick 3771. Franks 688. This is the third account of an Auckland tour to the south, following those of 1874 and 1882. Unlike previous tours most of the travel was by train, and they again played the major teams in the South Island as well as Wellington on the North Island. Only three matches were played, each of two innings, and they resulted in a win, a loss and a draw.
Previously sold by Chris Saunders Books who stated ‘Franks only found one copy in a New Zealand library, in Auckland. The only other copy I have knowledge of was in the Winder collection, bought from John Arlott in 1979 for £45. When the collection was sold in 1985 it fetched £30, only one of the great bargains to be had at that sale. The whereabouts of this copy is now unknown to me’.
Previously sold by Chris Saunders Books who stated ‘Franks only found one copy in a New Zealand library, in Auckland. The only other copy I have knowledge of was in the Winder collection, bought from John Arlott in 1979 for £45. When the collection was sold in 1985 it fetched £30, only one of the great bargains to be had at that sale. The whereabouts of this copy is now unknown to me’.