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31st October, 1st & 2nd November 2025

West Indies tour of England 1939. Official folding card itinerary for the tour beautifully and fully signed in ink to the front colour cover by all seventeen members of the touring party. Signatures are Grant (Captain), Cameron, Gomez, J.B. Stollmeyer, Williams, Bayley, Sealey, Clarke, V.H. Stollmeyer, Johnson, Martindale, Barrow, Constantine, Hylton, Weekes, Headley and Kidney (Manager). The itinerary with title to centre and West Indian emblem above and decoration to lower corner. Fixtures to inside pages with tour party listed to rear cover. Good/ very good condition. Rare.
The three match Test series had been completed at The Oval and the players were due to play their next match against Sussex at Hove, but with the War looming, the tour was abandoned. Had they remained to play the remaining matches, on 2nd September they would have boarded the S.S. Athenia, which was torpedoed and sunk, the first British ship to be lost in the War. Lesley Hylton retains the dubious distinction of being the only Test cricketer to be hanged for murder. Hylton was hanged in Jamaica in 1955 having been found guilty of shooting his wife.

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