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

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025

Lot 23
Estimate: £70/100
Longwood. Hampshire country house cricket 1881 & 1882. Early original scorebook with scores in pencil and ink of twenty five matches played by Longwood in seasons 1881 and 1882. Opposing teams played include Hockley House Boys, Dreshaw, Lord Rosehill’s XI, Excelsior, Winchester, Brookwood, Corhampton, Worthy Park, Swanmore, Garrion etc. Slipped in is an original sepia photograph of the Longwood team, laid to original photographer’s mount. Photographer unknown. Some wear to the covers of the scorebook, otherwise in good condition.
Longwood Park (also known as Rosehill Park and Longwood Farm) is situated near Winchester in Hampshire and was the seat of the Earls of Northesk.

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