Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 220
Estimate: £2000/3000
Colin Blythe. Kent & England 1899-1914. England navy blue cloth cricket cap with raised wired emblem of the three lions and crown to front. The cap, by H. Ludlam & Co of Albemarle Street, London, with small peak typical of a pre first world war cap has been in the collection of Kent County Cricket Club for many years. The cap has wear and breaking to the inner lining of the cap otherwise in good condition. An early England cap from a truly notable cricketer of the ‘Golden Age’ of cricket
Colin Blythe played 381 first class matches for Kent and in 19 Test matches for England. With Wilfred Rhodes he was the principle let arm spin bowler of the Edwardian period. He appeared in first class cricket for fifteen seasons and in fourteen season captured over 100 wickets. He took 2,503 wickets in first class cricket at an average of 16.81 and his best bowling performance was 10 wickets for 30 runs v Northamptonshire in 1907. Blythe was killed in action in Passchendaele, Belgium in November 1917