b'361039797RON HAMENCES SELECTION TO THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM - DON BRADMANS LETTER:A hand-written letter on Bradmans home letter-head, which reads (in part) Please accept my heartiest congratulations on your selection in the Australian team for the 5th Test Match. It is but a fitting reward for your many fine performances. signed Don and accompanied by the original Bradman addressed envelope postmarked at GRENFELL STREET and delivered to Hamence at The Gabba. (2 items).Provenance: The Ron Hamence Collection, Leski Auctions, March 2012.While Hamence only played three Test matches for his national team, he had a successful domestic career, being called South Australias most successful batsman in 1950.[5] He played 99 first-class matches from 1935 until 1951,[6] which brought him a career total of 5,285 runs that came at an average of 37.75 runs per innings and included 11 centuries.[6] He scored two of these centuries in his first and last first-class matches $50075098DON BRADMAN gold pen signature on reproduction photograph, limited edition (#359/500) with PWC Certificate of Authenticity. 37.5 x 22cm.$6010099BILL BROWN & ARTHUR MORRIS, original signatures on a limited edition (#311/350) The Openers presentation; with PWC Certificate of Authenticity. 30 x 32cm; together with BOB SIMPSON & BILL LAWRY, original signatures on a limited edition (#209/350) The Openers presentation; with PWC Certificate of Authenticity. Each 30 x 32cm (2) $100150100DON BRADMAN: Three classic photographs, mounted together, attractively framed and glazed. 55 x 95cm overall$60100101DON BRADMAN: Bradman - The World Record, display comprising picture of Bradman leaving the field after his world record 334 in the 1930 Headingly Test, signed by Bradman at lower left, limited edition 355/1000, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 58x47cm. With CoA. $120200102DON BRADMAN signed cricket bat in perspex and timber display case, 106cm high overall .$400600103DON BRADMAN, signature in deluxe leather-bound edition of Images of Bradman by Allen & Kemsley [Bradman Museum, 1994], limited edition of 974 copies, in presentation box. $250350ImagesLot numbers in black indicate lots not illustrated in this catalogue but which are available online at www.leski.com.au'