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‘The Surrey County Cricket Club. Dinner to the West Indian Cricket Team 1928’. Scarce official menu for the Dinner held at Kennington Oval on the 12th May 1928. The Chairman- G.H. Longman, President of the Surrey County Cricket Club. The menu with titles to front, with raised gold Surrey emblem, menu and toast list to centre pages and scene of play at Kennington Oval to rear cover. The rear cover of the menu has been nicely signed in ink by fifteen members and officials of the Surrey and West Indian teams who played in the tour match at the Oval on the 12th-15th May 1928. Signatures include Douglas Jardine, Leveson-Gower, Hobbs, Peach, Sandham, Shepherd, Cook, Bartlett, Rae, Hoad, Fernandes, Scott, Jeacocke etc. Bartlett and O.C. Scott have also handwritten their addresses in the West Indies to the inside pages of the menu. Some splitting to spine fold, some marks and staining to menu covers otherwise in good condition. Rare.