Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 155
Estimate: £250/350
Hammer: £240
West Indies tour of England 1906. Paper page, laid down to card, with handwritten title to the top of the page ‘West Indies Cricket Team 1906’ and nicely signed by thirteen members of the touring party in ink, each player has indicated the island in the West Indies who he represented. ie ‘George Challenor (Barbados)’. Signatures are H.B.G. Austin (Cpt), Challenor, Constantine, Bancroft, Cumberbatch, Goodman, Harrigin, Layne, Learmond, Morrison, Ollivierre, Parker, Cameron and Smith. Lacking the signatures of Parker and Burton of Demerara, from the full touring party, Tommie Burton left the tour early. The page measures approximately 4”x5”. A very rare set of signatures from this early tour to England, the second by a West Indies team, the first being in 1900
The 1906 West Indian team played nineteen matches, mostly against first class counties, winning seven games, mainly against lesser opposition and the tour programme proved too ambitious. The general public were lukewarm to the visit, which was not a financial success