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

Sir Julian Cahn’s team and tours 1930s. Two black ring binders, each with leather title label to spine, ‘Sir Julien Cahn 1’ and ‘... 2’, comprising an excellent selection of original photographs and other ephemera relating to Cahn’s team and tours. Volume 1 contains over thirty original mono press and other photographs including Cahn family members, matches in progress at Cahn’s ground at West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, team photographs including the All India touring party to England 1932, team captains tossing for innings etc. Also album pages, one signed in pencil by nine members of Cahn’s team 1932, and two joined album pages signed to one side by fourteen members of Cahn’s team and to the verso by twelve of the Lancashire League team for the match played at West Bridgford, 25th & 26th July 1934. Some notable signatures including Cahn, R.W.V. Robins, Tom Reddick, Ian Peebles, Denijs Morkel, John Gunn, Edward Solbe, and for the Lancashire League team, George Headley, Bill Merritt, Fred Root, Dick Tyldesley, Archie Slater, Fred Hartley (on piece laid down) etc. Items relating to tours include menus and letters addressed to the tour manager E.G. Wolfe, photographs, itineraries, invitations relating to the 1932 tour to Denmark, the 1933 tour to North America (including Illinois) and Bermuda, match and team photographs from the tour to Ceylon and Malaya 1936/37 etc. Volume 2 comprises good coverage of the tour to New Zealand 1938/39 including fifteen press and other team photographs, on board ship, Cahn, Wolfe and tour members with local dignitaries etc., some loosely slipped in. Agencies/ photographers include Evening Post (Wellington), Green & Hahn (Christchurch) etc. Also typed itineraries, travel documents, accommodation arrangements, letters to Wolfe, an official programme for the tour match v Canterbury, 24th- 27th February 1939 (ex A.E. Winder collection), Canadian Australian Line R.M.S. Niagara dinner menu 5th April 1959 etc. Other non-tour items include an official scorecard for Julien Cahn’s XI v West Indies at West Bridgford, 28th & 29th June 1933, a signed letter from Cahn to E.V. Lucas regarding the publication of ‘One Hundred Years of Trent Bridge’ in 1938, tour brochures for M.C.C. tours to Australia 1903/04 and 1911/12 (both ‘Cricket Press Series’), a ‘Test Match Souvenir’ for the Australia tour to England 1921, edited by H.J. Henley, an official M.C.C. Christmas card for the M.C.C. tour to India 1926/27, signed by Peter Eckersley etc. Given that Wolfe features in a good number of photographs and correspondence, these files may have been compiled by him, but this cannot be confirmed. Odd faults to some printed items, otherwise overall in good/ very good condition.