'Close of Play'
Catalogue for the auction of items from the cricket collection of Chris Saunders
Held on Saturday 13th September 2025 at
The Leonardo Hotel, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham GL51 0TS
Lot 86
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £1400
John James Ferris. Gloucestershire, New South Wales, South Australia, Australia and England 1886-1898. Good ink signature of Ferris on paper piece laid down to larger white card with handwritten biography
Ferris played eight Tests for Australia. He later settled in England for whom he played one Test in Cape Town on the 1891/92 tour. He died in Durban in 1900 of enteric fever, aged 33, while serving for the British Army in the Boer War
The Leonardo Hotel, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham GL51 0TS
Lot 86
Estimate: £70/100
Hammer: £1400
Ferris played eight Tests for Australia. He later settled in England for whom he played one Test in Cape Town on the 1891/92 tour. He died in Durban in 1900 of enteric fever, aged 33, while serving for the British Army in the Boer War