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

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

Lot 24
Estimate: £70/100
‘H.M.S. Tenedos Scorebook’ 1884-1886. Original scorebook with scores in ink for matches played by the officers and company of H.M.S. Tenedos against other ships’ companies and local cricket clubs. Includes matches played in the Caribbean at Moresby’s Plain, Somerset, Boaz Island (all Bermuda), and Antigua, also at Sydney (Nova Scotia), and St. John’s (Newfoundland). To the rear are handwritten pages, loose and laid down, of analyses of results and individual performances, and a newspaper cutting with a report on the match Terra Nova v Officers of H.M.S. Tenedos 1885. Some wear, with old tape repair to front internal hinge, otherwise in good condition.
H.M.S. Tenedos was a wooden ‘Ecplise-Class’ (Corvette) screw sloop, launched in 1870.

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