Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 523
Estimate: £80/120
Hammer: unsold
Cecil Geoffrey Howard. Middlesex 1930 (3 matches). M.C.C. tour to Pakistan 1955-56. A pair of silver gilt cufflinks with enamel decoration in M.C.C. colours in diagonal bands, presented to Howard as Manager of the tour. Each cufflink engraved ‘C.G.H. Pakistan 55-56’ and the other ‘silver’ to verso. In original presentation box with the maker’s name ‘The Goldsmith & Silversmith Company Ltd, Regent Street, London to inside lining of the box G/VG
Howard was best known as a cricket administrator, holding the post of Secretary at both Lancashire (1949-1965) and Surrey (1965-1975), and was manager of three M.C.C. tours to Australia, and to India and Pakistan