Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

M.C.C. tour of Australia 1932/33 ‘Bodyline’. Album page very nicely signed in ink by twelve members of the 1932/33 M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are Jardine (Captain), Wyatt, Duckworth, Hammond, Voce, Tate, Allen, Ames, Paynter, Brown, Sutcliffe and Warner (Manager). The page is window mounted beside a printed title below an excellent original large mono proof on photographic paper taken from the original pen and ink caricature/ cartoon artwork by artist Samuel Wells for an Australian newspaper of the M.C.C. team including the Captain, Douglas Jardine. The cartoon features a splendid heraldic image of Jardine drawn as a lion, wearing Harlequin cap and batting pads and trademark neckerchief, holding his bat in the air in shield, surrounded by cameos of the rest of the touring party. Each player is featured in a different pose, Tate is made out to be a large giant of a bowler, Hammond, full of runs/scores, a smiley Mitchell, Larwood bounding in etc. Also featured is R.M.V. Robins ‘Selected but unable to go’. The cartoon, undated, measures 10.5”x14.5”. An excellent image. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 17.5”x26.5”. Good/ very good condition.