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Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘M.C.C. at Adelaide Oval. 1911’. Two identical copies of an early sepia/ mono real photograph postcard of the M.C.C. touring party seated and standing in rows wearing tour blazers and caps, by C.A. Petts of Adelaide. Printed title to lower edge. One copy, in very tatty and soiled condition with loss to corners, is fully signed in ink to the verso by all sixteen playing members of the touring party. Signatures are Warner (Captain), Douglas, Foster, Mead, Strudwick, Barnes, Gunn, Vine, Iremonger, Hitch, Kinneir, Woolley, Smith, Rhodes, Hearne and Hobbs. The other postcard is unsigned, with small crease to one corner, otherwise in very good condition.