Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

M.C.C. tour to West Indies 1934/35. A nice collection of mono candid photographs taken during the tour matches played against British Guiana at Bourda, Georgetown, 5th- 7th and 10th- 12th February 1935. Each photograph depicts a player from the match on the ground in cricket attire and has been nicely signed in ink by the featured player. Ten photographs are size 3.5”x5.5”, sixteen 2.75”x3.25”. Players featured and signatures on larger photographs are W. Hammond, K. Farnes, R.E.S. Wyatt, D.C.H. Townsend, E.R.T. Holmes, Maurice Leyland (M.C.C.), C.V. Wight, F. de Claires, A. Learmond (did not play), K.L. Wishart (British Guiana). Smaller photographs are signed by W. Farrimond, J. Smith, D.C.H. Townsend, M. Leyland, L. Ames, W.E. Harbord, W. Hammond (2), E.H. Hendren & E. Hollies, E.R.T. Holmes, M. Leyland, K. Farnes, J. Iddon, R.E.S. Wyatt (M.C.C.), F. de Caires, and C. de Freitas (British Guiana). A good number of photographs are either annotated to the front or to the verso with biographical commentary on the featured player. Also tipped in is a handwritten letter to a Mr Sheffield, dated ‘Sept 2nd’, from D.C.H. Townsend who has ‘autographed the photographs as you asked me. I think I remember them being taken by a lad a few years younger than myself’. All photographs loosely mounted to pages. Good/ very good condition.