Lot 180
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A. J. McIntyre Benefit 1955, autograph album commemorating McIntyre's benefit, with one-page printed forward by W. Stuart Surridge, followed by a mounted signed photograph of McIntyre "Surrey & England wkt.-keeper," with a further 20 pages of autographs, each page with a printed team heading, with full representation of the 17 county teams, and England and Australia, 1954, front free endpaper inscribed by McIntyre, original boards with printed title "Autographed Cricket Album. County, England and Touring Teams."

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A. J. McIntyre Benefit 1955, autograph album commemorating McIntyre's benefit, with one-page printed forward by W. Stuart Surridge, followed by a mounted signed photograph of McIntyre "Surrey & England wkt.-keeper," with a further 20 pages of autographs, each page with a printed team heading, with full representation of the 17 county teams, and England and Australia, 1954, front free endpaper inscribed by McIntyre, original boards with printed title "Autographed Cricket Album. County, England and Touring Teams."

Lot Essay

Arthur McIntyre "played a principal part in the unrelenting triumphs of Surrey in the 1950's. He is specially remembered for some brilliant stumpings off Alec Bedser's cutters, though he was also a sound right-handed batsman. Only Godfrey Evans stood in the way of a regular Test place ..." (Who's Who of Test Cricketers, p.100)

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