The cricket bat used by C. P. Mead when scoring centuries for Hampshire v Australia and Yorkshire in 1934, a Gunn & Moore, Nottingham, treble spring a
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The cricket bat used by C. P. Mead when scoring centuries for Hampshire v Australia and Yorkshire in 1934, a Gunn & Moore, Nottingham, treble spring autograph bat, inscribed to the face WITH THIS BAT I SCORED, 139 v AUSTRALIANS, 123 v YORKSHIRE, PHIL MEAD, 1934, further inscribed C.P. MEAD, BORN MARCH 9TH 1887, HAMPSHIRE C.C.C., the reverse of the bat signed by Mead at the shoulder C P Mead scored over 55,000 First Class runs in a long a career, placing him 4th on the all time list. But he holds the record for the most runs accumulated for a single team, 48,892 for Hampshire CCC. He was 47 years of age when scoring the centuries with the bat being offered here and played on for a further two seasons.