Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 391
Estimate: £50/80
‘St. Wilfred’s Club, 1886’. Early original sepia photograph of the St. Wilfred team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire in front of the pavilion at Sheffield Park, Sussex. The photograph by E. Hawkins & Co, ‘Late Hennah & Kent’, Brighton, measures 11.5”x9.5”, laid to photographer’s mount with printed title to lower border, overall 17.5”x13.5”. Light foxing to mount, otherwise in very good condition. An excellent image.
Roger Packham’s history of Lord Sheffield’s ‘Cricket in the Park’ refers to a century scored in 1886 by W. Payne at Sheffield Park against St. Wilfrid’s, Haywards Heath. No further information about the team or the match played has been found.