Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025
Lot 74
Estimate: £100/150
West Indies v England 1953/54. Garry Sobers’ Test debut. Original blank menu card for the South Camp Road Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica, very nicely signed in ink to the verso by the thirteen members of the West Indies team for the 5th Test played at Sabina Park, Kingston, 30th March- 3rd April 1954. Signatures are Stollmeyer (Captain), Worrell, Weekes, Gomez, Walcott, Ramadhin, Pairaudeau, Sobers, King, Atkinson, Holt, Valentine and McWatt. Minor age toning, otherwise in very good condition. Excellent signatures.
England beat the West Indies in the final Test by nine wickets to tie the series 2-2 with one match drawn. On his Test debut Garry Sobers scored 14no and 26, and took 4/75 in England’s first innings.