Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 512
Estimate: £140/180
Hammer: £280
M.C.C. ‘Bodyline’ tour of Australia 1932/33. ‘Queensland Cricket Association Souvenir. Queensland v New South Wales 1932’. Official programme edited by Wallace R. Lloyd and H. Sandys McEntire. Printed by ‘Lloyd’s Almanack’, Brisbane 1932. 48pp. Not recorded in Padwick. Decorative printed paper wrappers with some nicks and wear to wrapper edges, internally in very good condition. Rare.
During the 1932/33 season, Lloyd’s Almanack, on behalf of the Queensland Cricket Association published a souvenir programme for each of the state’s home matches as well as the fourth Test in Brisbane. As well as the Queensland and New South Wales players, there are pen portraits of the M.C.C. tourists under the heading ‘Our Friends, The Enemy’, score sheets for the first three Tests and a number of Bodyline articles including ‘General Jardine: Leader of the Opposition’.