An autograph album c.1920's-1940's, signatures of several sp...

Hammer

£60

An autograph album c.1920's-1940's, signatures of several sportspeople, including footballers Tommy (W.T.) Whewell, who made a record 259 appearances for Corinthian F.C., killed 2nd October 1940 by a bomb on his home in Hampstead, aged 36; Tom Whittaker (1898-1956), on Arsenal F.C. letterhead, Mark Hooper (1901-1974), Sheffield Wednesday, Berry Nieuwenhuys (1911-1984), South African footballer who played predominantly for Liverpool, plus others George Eyston (1897-1979), British engineer, inventor, and racing driver best known for breaking the land speed record three times between 1937 and 1939, Jack Hobbs (1882-1963), English cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket, the leading run-scorer and century-maker in first-class cricket, with 61,237 runs and 197 centuries, plus athletes, jockeys, boxers etc; plus others stage/screen/celebrities incl. Gracie Fields (1898-1979), Stella Moya, Nat Gonella, Charles Laughton, Jean Gillie, Anna Neagle etc., contemporary cloth gilt