Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
31st October, 1st & 2nd November 2025

Lot 18
Estimate: £30/50
Marylebone Cricket Club 1925. Official invitation to the ‘Complimentary Dinner to Mr. A.E.R. Gilligan and the M.C.C. Team’ held at the Savoy Hotel, 15th July 1925. This was the invitation to ‘Mr J.L. Bryan’ (Jack Bryan, Kent & Cambridge University 1919-1932) who was a member of the 1924/25 M.C.C. tour to Australia led by Gilligan. Very good condition. Sold with an official invitation to the ‘Farewell Cocktail Party in honour of the M.C.C. Cricket Team’ given by the Jamaica Cricket Association at Myrtle Bank Hotel, Kingston, 3rd April 1954, the final day of the fifth and final Test match of the 1953/54 tour to West Indies, this being E.G. Wolfe’s copy. With original envelope. Good condition. Qty 2.
Jack Bryan was a member of the 1924/25 tour to Australia but played in no Tests. E.G. Wolfe was Sir Julian Cahn’s brother-in-law and served as Manager on Cahn’s tour to Ceylon and Malaya in 1937.

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