Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 290
Estimate: £80/120
Ian Terence Botham. Somerset, Worcestershire, Queensland, Durham and England 1974-1993. ‘Arlott’s Immortals’. Excellent porcelain hand decorated action figure of Botham in batting pose in mahogany plinth, sculptured and produced in Alderney in 1982 by Count Andre D’Aquino, based upon the selected cricketers of John Arlott. The figure stands high 11” and is marked to base ‘No.85 D’Aquino’. Sold with a ‘Limited Edition Guarantee certifying that the figure is number 85 of a limited edition of 100 single copies. Very good condition. Rare, not previously sold by the auctioneers. Sold with a modern W.G. Grace doorstop. Qty 2
There were fifteen completed cricketers represented before the hurricane of 1987 destroyed the Count’s studio in Alderney never to be rebuilt