'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 440
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: £240
‘7th (Q.O.) Hussars Cricket Matches Played 1873-1888’. Secunderabad 1899. Bound in black cloth with gilt title to centre of the front board. Presentation copy inscribed in ink to front endpaper, ‘J.L. Nicholson from H.M. Ridley. January 1911’ with latin quote below ‘O Mihi Praeteritas referendat jupitor amor’ tgranslating to ‘Would that Jove would take me back to past years’. Nicholson was one of the players, Ridley wrote the preface. A rarer Indian edition. Good/very good condition

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