Lot 2350

Description

Cricket, Autograph Book, containing a collection of autographs of the touring West Indies team obtained in Brisbane on 21st January 1931 at the end of the third test, includes G.C.Grant the captain, G.Headley, L.Constantine, O.S.Wright, I. Barrow, O.C.Scott, Geo. Francis, F.R.Martin, H.C. Griffen, E.L. St.Hill, and others; the book also includes Sheffield Shield players Bill Brown, and others; a small drawing "Forward" of E. Rees WO II AIC; together with various verses and dittys by about twenty writers.

The West Indies tour of 1930-1931 was the first tour by West Indies in Australia. An internet photo of that team appears in the Bradman Digital Library in the State Library of South Australia.