Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025

Lot 392
Estimate: £50/80
‘Mr. John Gilbert’s Team’ and ‘Rev. W. Summers’ Team’ 1886. Two early original sepia photographs of each team seated and standing in rows wearing cricket attire in front of the pavilion at Sheffield Park, for a match played 13th September 1886. The photographs by E. Hawkins & Co., ‘Late Hennah & Kent’, Brighton, each measures 11.5”x9.5”, laid to photographer’s mount with printed title and players’ names to lower border, overall 17.5”x13.5”. Both photographs in very good condition and nice images.
John Gilbert and Walter Summers each played one first-class match, both appearing for Lord Sheffield’s XI v A. Shaw’s XI in 1881. No record of this particular match can be found.

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