Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia

M.C.C. 1787-1937’ reprinted from ‘The Times’ M.C.C. Number May 25th 1937. The Times Publishing Company. London 1937. Original decorative boards. The facsimile autograph sheets of the England and Australian team who played at Lord’s in 1938 are laid down to the inside front board and the first end paper, the next two pages have the actual ink signatures of cricketers, officials of the M.C.C., writers etc and it is tempting to assume that the signatures were obtained during the Lord’s Test match. Signatures are Plum Warner, Percy Perrin, J.T. Hearne, Gubby Allen, Patsy Hendren, A.C. Maclaren, Frank Woolley, A.J. Webbe, Frank Mann, Nigel Haig, Walter Robins, Percy Chapman, Ian Peebles, Home Gordon, William Findlay (ex M.C.C. Secretary), Colonel Rait Kerr (M.C.C. Secretary), Ronnie Aird (Assistant Secretary). The other signatures have not all been identified, one G.W. Hammond might well be George Hammond who played second eleven cricket for Middlesex and M.C.C., H.B.T. Wakelam, sporting journalist, specialising in rugby and George Portman, who was chef, head chef and manager of the catering department at Lord’s. The covers worn and rubbed at corners and along edges, the spine cracking and lifting in parts otherwise in good condition.