Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026

Australian tour of England 1948. ‘Australian XI v Tasmania 1948’. Official programme for the match played at Hobart on the 5th & 6th March 1948. The programme lists the England tour itinerary, fixtures in England, scorecard for the game and details and pen pictures of the Australian teams. Handwritten details of match to the scorecard in pencil. Sold with eight various booklets, brochures and programmes related to the Australian tour, ‘The Australian Tour 1948’ Simpson, ‘Fight for the Ashes’ C.G. Macartney (Findon), ‘England’s Test Cricketers’ (Grant Hughes Ltd), ‘Findon’s Cricket Annual 1948’, ‘The Story of Test Cricket- England v Australia’, (2 copies), ‘Denis Compton Cricket Spotlight 1948’ and ‘The Fight for the Ashes 1948’ (Ledbrooke). In red file
The Australian team, in those days, always played a warm up game against Tasmania on route to a Test series with England

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