Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 62
Estimate: £120/160
Hammer: £260
Edward Ferdinando Sutton Tylecote. Oxford University, Kent & England 1869-1886. Single page handwritten letter in ink from Tylecote, dated 2nd July 1934. Writing from his home in Hunstanton, Norfolk, to an unknown correspondent, Tylecote states ‘[Your letter] gives me far more pleasure than a score of notices from correspondents to the Star or any other paper coming from people who never saw me play 40 to 50 years ago’. Nicely signed ‘E.F.S. Tylecote’. Folds and small staple holes, otherwise in good condition.
Tylecote was a member of Bligh’s tour to Australia 1882/83, and played in six Test matches 1882-1886. Tylecote recorded the first known quadruple century scoring 404no while at Clifton College in 1868, a record later eclipsed by A.E.J. Collins who scored 628no at the same venue. Tylecote died in Norfolk in 1938.