Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025
Lot 84
Estimate: £40/60
Charles Stewart ‘Stewie’ Dempster. Wellington, Leicestershire, Warwickshire & New Zealand 1921-1948. Single page handwritten letter from Dempster on his business letterhead in Wellington, to a schoolboy in England, dated 15th April 1952. Dempster is replying to a request for his autograph, stating ‘Your letter arrived in time to catch another N.Z. cricketer in my office, so this gives you two instead of one’. Nicely signed ‘C.S. Dempster’ and also by Ken James (Wellington, Northamptonshire & New Zealand 1923-1939). Slight smudging to the James signature, light folds, otherwise in good/ very good condition.
Dempster made ten Test appearances for New Zealand 1929-1933 and captained Leicestershire 1936-1938. James played in eleven Tests 1929-1933.