Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘South African Cricket Tour 1947’. Official souvenir brochure for the South African tour of England. Edited by A.W. Simpson. Pictorial covers. Signed in ink to inside pen pictures by sixteen members of the South African touring party. Signatures are Melville (Captain), Nourse, Mitchell, A. Rowan, Lindsay, Tuckett, Begbie (on piece laid down), Dyer, Fullerton, Plimsoll, Payn, Ovenstone, Mann, Dawson, Harris and Smith, lacking one signature of Viljoen. Also the signatures in ink of all twenty four of ‘England’s Probables’, each on piece laid down, of Yardley, Edrich, Compton, Hardstaff, Hutton, Bedser, Washbrook, Roberts, Robertson, Young, Bailey, Mallett, Wright, Evans, Pollard, Ikin, Simpson, Price, Dewes, Watson, Knott, Brookes, Cook and Smith. Forty signatures in total. Ownership name to front wrapper. Some wear to wrappers, age toning to the odd page, otherwise in good condition.