Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026
Lot 280
Estimate: £600/900
Victor Thomas Trumper. New South Wales & Australia 1894-1914. Excellent sepia cabinet card photograph of Trumper, full length, wearing Australian cap and in batting pose at the wicket. Nicely signed to lower right hand corner of image, ‘Yours truly, V. Trumper’, slight smudge to the ‘T’ of Trumper. The cabinet card photograph by Bolland, Elthorne Studio, Hanwell, West London, with full advert for Bolland to verso. The card measures 4.25”x6.5”. Good/very good condition. A very rare and sought after signed cabinet card of this iconic Australia Test player
Victor Trumper toured England with the Australian team on the 1899, 1902, 1905 and 1909 tours of England. Trumper was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the greatest of all Australian batsman. His highest first class score was 300no v Sussex in 1899. He scored almost 17000 runs at an average of 44.57. He died of Bright’s disease in 1915 aged 37 years