Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025
Lot 47
Estimate: £50/70
New Zealand tour to England 1949. Official menu for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the New Zealand Cricket team held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 12th April 1949. The menu with cartoon cover illustration by Tom Webster. To inside and rear pages, poem by A.P. Herbert, menu and toasts. The menu page signed in ink by thirteen players from the England and New Zealand teams including Reid, Scott, Rabone, Hadlee, Scott, Compton, G.O. Allen, Mann, Evans, Young, Bedser etc. Additionally signed to front cover by artist Tom Webster. Five further signatures of additional guests to rear cover of menu. Vertical fold, some soiling to covers otherwise in good condition.