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Burton Mail
|August 23, 2025
AUTOGRAPH BOOK FEATURING BIGGEST STARS OF THE 1930s SET TO FETCH £600 UNDER THE HAMMER
AN autograph book featuring 1930s cricketing legends could fetch £600 when it goes under the hammer at an auction house in Fradley Park.
The Lion Brand album includes signed caricatures and photographs of Sir Donald Bradman, Jack Hobbs, Herbert Sutcliffe, Wally Hammond, Dennis Compton, Bill Bowes and around 40 other cricketers from that time, as well as notes from Lords Cricket Ground.
This story is from the August 23, 2025 edition of Burton Mail.
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