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

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025

Lot 48
Estimate: £70/100
West Indies tours to England 1950 & 1957. Official menu for the British Sportsman’s Club luncheon given to the West Indies Cricket team held at The Savoy Hotel, London on 18th April 1950. 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 ten of the West Indies team including Weekes, Stollmeyer, Walcott, Pierre, Williams, Gomez, Marshall, Christiani etc. and Bill Voce. The back cover signed in ink by A. Gilligan, D.R. Jardine, F.R. Brown, Griffiths, N. Yardley and P. Mead. Name labels laid down. Additionally signed to front cover by artist Tom Webster. Vertical fold, some age toning to covers otherwise in good condition. Sold with an official folding table plan for the dinner held at the Savoy, 16th April 1957. Good condition. Qty 2.

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