Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025
Lot 1342
Estimate: £60/90
‘Trial Match. South Team 1898-9’. Early original sepia photograph of the South Team seated and standing in rows wearing football attire for an England trial match. Players featured include two England captains, G.O. Smith and Wiliam Oakley, also Stanley Briggs (Tottenham Hotspur & Arsenal), Barker, Cautley, Robinson, Middleditch, Vassall, Calvey, Wilson and Bradshaw. The photograph measures 10.75”x8.5” with handprinted title and players’ names to mount overlay, overall 15.75”x14”. Photographer unknown. A nice image in very good condition.
Gilbert Smith famously scored a hat-trick in five minutes in England’s 13-2 defeat of Ireland in the 1898/99 season.