Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘England’s Twelve Champion Cricketers Photographed on board ship at Liverpool Sept. 7th 1859’. Reproduction from the original sepia photograph of George Parr’s team for the first England overseas cricket tour. The photograph features the players in cricket attire holding bats and balls on board ship at Liverpool on the 7th September 1859. Players include Parr, Caffyn, Wisden, Caesar, Lillywhite, Stephenson, Lockyer, Jackson etc. The photograph by T.H. Hennah of Hennah & Kent, Brighton, is laid down to the photographers mount with printed title and players’ names to lower border with modern overmount, framed and glazed and overall 21”x18”. Pencil note to base of the photograph states ‘Reproduced 18.3.[19]46’.