A Egan, Lancashire Autograph Book
This is a quality autograph book compiled by A Egan of Lancashire. The book was purchased directly from the Egan family along with another home made book in around 1999. The book contains mostly cricket autographs pasted into the book. these include Cyril Washbrook, the 1950 West Indian tourists but also Wigan Rugby League side 1950/1 and England footballers 1946/7 including Billy Wright and Frank Swift. A lovely item loose inside the book are the autographs of the first South African cricket team to defeat England on English soil. They did this at Lord's in the test match at Lord's 29th June - 2nd July 1935. The autographs, on Lord's headed notepaper are contained in an envelope postmarked 30th June 1935. The images above and below are all from this book.
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ENGLAND 1946 - 1947 FOOTBALLERS ALBUM PAGE SIGNED by 6, 3 small pasted leaves on an album page to include Billy Wright and Frank Swift | |
WEST INDIES TOURING TEAM 1950 SIGNED SURREY COUNTY LETTERHEAD autographed by 12 tourists. | |
SOUTH AFRICAN TOURING CRICKET TEAM 1951 - printed sheet ? | |
LANCASHIRE CRICKET ALBUM PAGE SIGNED by CYRIL WASHBROOK & 2 others. | |
COLIN COWDREY SIGNED ALBUM PAGE, CLIPPED SIGNATURE ADDED. | |
WIGAN RUGBY LEAGUE 1950-51 SIGNED ALBUM PAGE - 11 autographs neatly pasted on a separate sheet added to an album page. | |
SUGAR CHILE ROBINSON, US JAZZ PIANIST & SINGER SIGNED ALBUM PAGE
MORE INFO ON SUGAR CHILE - CLICK HERE |
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MANCHESTER UTD SIGNED ALBUM PAGE CIRCA 1951 - 11 autographs in total which include John (Jack) Rowley, Harry McShane, Tom McNulty, Stan Pearson, Brian Birch, Reg Allen, Allenby Chiltern, Don Gibson, Henry Cockburn. | |
SCOTTISH FOOTBALLERS 1950s SIGNED ALBUM PAGE, BRENNAN WADDELL etc - 2 small sheets of autographs circa early 1950s neatly pasted to an album page, the pages look to be off Scottish footballers, William Waddell & Brennan, Miller of Celtic, Cox of Rangers etc, 6 signatures in total. | |
REG HARRIS, CYCLIST SIGNED ALBUM PAGE - the autograph of Reg Harris on a small sheet, pasted to an album page. |
We believe all autographs to be original and authentic, all those we have researched match up with other known examples. We at Rugby Relics guarantee that the autographs contained in this book are to the best of our knowledge original and genuine. (The book was split on 20/10/2016) Other books in this collection.............. none |