Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 143
Estimate: £150/250
‘Australia v England Jan. 1925’. Large page signed to verso of a ‘Coward’s Prince Alfred Hotel, Adelaide’ letterhead. Twelve nice signatures in black ink of the Australian team for the third (timeless) Test played at Adelaide, 16th- 23rd January 1925. Signatures are Collins (Captain), Bardsley, Kelleway, V.Y. Richardson, Ponsford, Ryder, Taylor, Oldfield, Mailey, A.J. Richardson, Andrews and Gregory. Horizontal and vertical folds, minor age toning, otherwise in good/ very good condition. Rare.
Australia won narrowly by eleven runs, Jack Ryder scoring 201no (his highest Test score) and 88 for Australia.