Ex 54 54  TRADE CARDS: A.W. ALLEN LTD. 1938 “Cricketers” (coloured) complete set [36], F/EF . Cat.£432.�������������������������������$200–300 55  ENGLAND IN AUSTRALIA 1946/47: A page from an autograph book, attractively signed in pen by 15 of the touring party, including Hammond, Yardley, Hutton, Edrich, Compton and Bedser. �������������������������������������������������������������������������������$200–300 56 56  1948 AUSTRALIAN XI’s ENGLISH TOUR, official P&O 32-page brochure with all 18 signatures in ink, including Don Bradman, Lindsay Hassett, Sid Barnes & Keith Miller. A few signatures (Bradman, Johnson, Johnston & Keith Johnson) are tipped-in. It is hard to find items signed by Barnes (whose signature was frequently handstamped).���������������������������������������������$300–500 57  M.C.C. IN AUSTRALIA: 1950/51 Touring party autographs (18, excl. Bailey and Washbrook) on the reverse of a RP postcard of the “Stratheden” which had brought the team to Australia; the Official Team Sheet for the 1958-59 Australasian Tour (May, Capt.) with 20 signatures; Official Team Sheet for the 1962-63 Australia & New Zealand Tour (Dexter, Capt.) with 17 signatures; and the 1965-66 Australasian Tour Team Sheet (Smith, Capt.) with 17 signatures. (4 items). (4)��������������������������������������$300–400 58 58  OLD SWAN HOTEL, HARROGATE, YORKSHIRE: The Distinguished Visitors Book (blue leather with gilt embossing) intermittently maintained during the 1953-84 period. Yields many fascinating autographs including Mary, Princess Royal; James Ramsden; Jose Ferrer; Gracie Fields; Kenneth Horne; Lord Denning; Prime Minister Harold MacMillan; Sir Alec Guinness; cricketers Philip Sharpe, Derek Underwood, Don Kenyon & Alec Bedser (in 1969); Herbert Sutcliffe (1955); 15 members of the English Test Team and former players (July 1956) including Peter May, Godfrey Evans, Fred Trueman, Jim Laker, Cyril Washbrook, Colin Cowdrey, Len Hutton, etc., Don Bradman; Prime Minister Harold Wilson; English cricketers in town for the 1957 match against the West Indies, including Tom Graveney, Jim Laker, Tony Lock, Fred Trueman, Gubby Allen, David Sheppard, etc; Peter Thomson; Prime Minister Edward Heath; England Test team v Australia July 1961; Sir John Barbiroli; England Test Team v West Indies, July 1963; England Test Team v Australia, July 1964; England Test Team v West Indies, 1966; England Test Team v India, 1967; and many others.����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$2,000–3,000 15