Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 62
Estimate: £100/150
Hammer: £300
Alan Kippax Cricket Team tour of Queensland 1931. ‘A.U.S.N. [Australian Union Steam Navigation Company] Line’ official folding dinner menu on board the S.S. Ormiston, dated Sunday, 22nd March 1931. The menu with mono image of the ship with ornate colour floral decoration to front, ‘Ports of Call’ map to rear, the centre pages with title and menu with humorous names of dishes including ‘Potage, Don Bradman’, ‘Sweetbreads a la S. McCabe’ etc. Nicely signed in ink to centre by all twelve members of the touring party. Signatures are Alan Kippax, Halford Hookey, Archie Jackson, Alan Fairfax, Frank Conway, Stan McCabe, Keith Rigg, Pat Withers, Bill Ives, Wendell Bill, Edgar Waddy and Don Bradman. The menu with some foxing, otherwise in good condition. Nice signatures.
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 en route to Cairns for the start of the tour.