Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026
Lot 14
Estimate: £200/300
‘Dinner to the Australian Imperial Force 1919 Cricket Team’. Original folding menu for the end of tour Dinner held at the Cafe Monico, London, on the 15th September 1919. The Dinner was organised by John Wisden & Co. to celebrate the tour. The menu with attractive printed cartoon by Alick P.F. Ritchie and titles to front cover, to inside pages ‘Menu’ and ‘Toast List’ and to rear cover ‘Programme of Music’. Lord Harris chaired the Dinner and speakers included P.F. Warner, F.S. Jackson, Sir Jeremiah Colman, Lord Burnham etc. Vertical fold otherwise in good condition. A rare menu from this wartime tour.
Alexander ‘Alick’ P.F. Ritchie produced many cartoons for Vanity Fair, the Sketch, the Bystander and many other magazines and journals. Ritchie became well known for his theatrical posters, and between the wars he also produced posters for the London Underground.