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Lot 185
Estimate: £130/160
Frank Rowbotham Foster. Warwickshire & England 1908-1914. Exquisite studio portrait of Foster taken on the M.C.C. 1911/12 tour of Australia. Foster is pictured wearing suit and tie. The photograph, laid down to official photographers mount, by T. Humphrey & Co, 264 Collins Street, Melbourne. Nicely signed in ink by Foster below the image. The photograph measures 3.5”x5.5” and overall with mount 7”x11”. Small loss to the lower border of the mount and very minor loss to left hand corner otherwise in good condition. A rare studio portrait of the player from the tour. Formerly from the cricket collection of Sydney Francis Barnes, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, England & Wales 1894-1930.


