Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 521
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £60
‘South African Cricket Tour 1947’. Official souvenir brochure for the South African tour of England. Edited by A.W. Simpson. Pictorial covers. Signed in different coloured inks to inside pen pictures by fourteen members of the South African touring party. Signatures are Nourse, Mitchell, Viljoen, Rowan, Lindsay, Tuckett, Begbie, Dyer, Plimsoll, Mann, Dawson, Harris, Smith, and Frames (Manager). Lacking Melville (Captain). Also signed by fifteen England ‘Probables’, Compton, Bedser, Washbrook, Roberts, Robertson, Young, Wright, Evans, Ikin, Simpson, Price, Knott, Brookes, Cook and Smith. Sold with a further unsigned copy of the brochure. Some soiling to wrappers and rusting to staples, otherwise in good condition. Qty 2.