Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 393
Estimate: £30/50
A.C. Maclaren and F.S. Jackson. ‘Harrow [Football] Eleven 1888’. Early original sepia photograph of the Harrow School football team seated and standing in rows wearing football attire. The photograph laid to official photographer’s mount with hand printed title and colour school emblem to top margin, and players’ names to lower margin. The players featured include two future England Test cricket captains, Archibald Campbell ‘Archie’ MacLaren (Lancashire & England 1890-1914) and Francis Stanley Jackson (Cambridge University, Yorkshire & England 1890-1907). The photograph, by Hills & Saunders of Harrow, measures 11”x9.5”. Laid to official photographer’s mount, overall 17”x14”. Loss and soiling to the mount, odd surface marks to the photograph, otherwise in good condition.
A.C. Maclaren played in thirty five Test matches for England 1894-1909, and captained them in twenty two. F.S. Jackson played twenty Tests 1893-1905, captain in five.