Jack Hobbs memorabilia collected by the cricket writer Ralph Barker, a double-signed photograph of Hobbs and Sutcliffe; silk scorecards for his inning
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Jack Hobbs memorabilia collected by the cricket writer Ralph Barker, a double-signed photograph of Hobbs and Sutcliffe; silk scorecards for his innings of 318no v Middlesex at Lord's in 1926, the 1926 Oval Test v Australia, a Hobbs signed example for Somerset v Surrey 1925 which created two records, Hobbs 126th & 127th centuries and 13th & 14th in one season; a regular scorecard for the 1926 Oval Test (Hobbs scored a 2nd innings 100) signed by 17 of the England & Australia players from the game; a scorecard from the Trent Bridge Test v South Africa in 1924 when the visitors were bowled out for 30, signed by Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hendren & Tate; plus various other unsigned scorecards and 'wagon wheels' of Hobbs' innings; some Tuck's miniature gramophone records featuring J B Hobbs; then general correspondence in the course of Barker's writing research, and Barker's book 'Innings of a Lifetime' together with an uncorrected advance proof (a qty.)