Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
29th, 30th November & 1st December 2024
Lot 1250
Estimate: £40/60
‘First West Indies Football Team Touring United Kingdom, August- October 1959’. Mono real photograph postcard featuring cameo portraits of the twenty four members of the touring party with printed title to lower border. Signed in blue to the verso by sixteen players and officials including representatives from Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and British Guiana. Signatures include Patrick Gomez (Captain), Monty Hope, Hubert Braithwaite, Anthony Hill, Ken East, Tyrone Dela Baptiste, Reggie Haynes etc. Good/ very good condition.
This was the first time a football team from the West Indies travelled and played together abroad.