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M.C.C. tour of 1909/10. Official photograph of the ‘Union Castle Line to South Africa’ R.M.S. Saxon (12,385 tons) which took the M.C.C. team from Southampton Docks on the 6th November 1909 to Cape Town arriving on the 23rd November. The image is signed in ink to the skyline and below the water line by all fourteen members of the M.C.C. party. Signatures include Leveson-Gower (Cpt), Fane, Simpson-Hayward, Wynyard, Bird, Hobbs, Strudwick, Woolley, Denton, Buckenham, Thompson, Blythe etc. Fading to some extent to all signatures, some worse than others, some barely legible without an eye glass. Enid Leveson-Gower (Wife) has also signed the photograph. The photograph measures 10.25”x7.75”, mounted, framed and glazed, overall 14”x11.5”. Rare