'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 101
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £55
Test and first-class cricketers’ signatures. Blank postcard with heading ‘Rye Golf Club’, signed in pencil to both sides by eight cricketers accompanied by their telephone number(s). The signatures, assumed to have collected at a golf day, are A.J. Evans, A.E.R. Gilligan, J.R. Mason, ‘Gubby’ Allen, John Lowe, Erroll Holmes, Leonard Crawley and Osmund Scott. Date unknown, possibly 1930s. Small tears to edges, one affecting the signature of Crawley, otherwise in good condition.
Evans, Gilligan, Mason, Allen and Holmes all played Test cricket for England. Lowe played for Oxford University & Warwickshire, Crawley for Cambridge University, Worcestershire & Essex. The identity of Osmund Scott is uncertain.
The Leonardo Hotel, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham GL51 0TS
Lot 101
Estimate: £50/80
Hammer: £55
Evans, Gilligan, Mason, Allen and Holmes all played Test cricket for England. Lowe played for Oxford University & Warwickshire, Crawley for Cambridge University, Worcestershire & Essex. The identity of Osmund Scott is uncertain.