Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 61
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £130
Alan Kippax Cricket Team tour of Queensland 1931. ‘A.U.S.N. [Australian Union Steam Navigation Company] Line’ official dinner menu on board the S.S. Ormiston, dated Sunday, 22nd March 1931. The single sided menu with colour flag, title and menu with humorous names of dishes to front including ‘Potage, Don Bradman’, ‘Sweetbreads a la S. McCabe’ etc. Nicely signed in ink to verso by eleven members of the touring party. Signatures are Alan Kippax, Wendell Bill, Archie Jackson, Frank Conway, Pat Withers, Stan McCabe, Bill Ives, Keith Rigg, Edgar Waddy, Halford Hookey and Don Bradman. Lacking one signature of Alan Fairfax. The menu with horizontal fold and small but crude tape repairs to centre fold, adhesive mark to top edge and some wear. Signatures good.
Kippax’s tour took place in March and April 1931 and took in matches in Cairns, Innisfail, Townsville, Ayr, Bowen etc. The date of the menu is likely to have been while en route to Cairns for the start of the tour.