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M.C.C. tour to India 1933/34. Large autograph album comprising a comprehensive and excellent collection of signatures from the tour of the M.C.C. touring party and opposition teams, each team signed nicely signed in ink to an individual page, the odd page signed back to back. One page is fully signed by all seventeen members of the M.C.C. touring party. Signatures are Jardine (Captain), Walters, Valentine, Nichols, Townsend, Mitchell, Verity, Human, Elliott, Langridge, Levett, Barnett, Bakewell, Clark, Gregory, Marriott and Ricketts (Manager). Twenty other pages are signed by members of opposition teams which M.C.C. played during the tour. Teams and matches are C.B. Rubie's XI, Karachi, 15th-16th October (14 signatures), Karachi XI, Karachi, 18th-19th October (13), North West Frontier, Peshawar, 28th-29th October (9), Northern India, Lahore, 4th-5th November (12), Delhi and District, Delhi, 18th-19th November (10), Viceroy's XI, Delhi, 21st-22nd November (11), Rajputana, Ajmere, 25th-26th November (11), Western India, Rajkot, 29th November- 1st December (11), Bombay Presidency, Bombay, 8th-10th December (9), India, First Test, Bombay, 15th-18th December (11), Poona XI, Poona, 20th-21st December (11), Anglo Indians, Calcutta, 28th December (11), Indian XI, Calcutta, 30th December 1933- 2nd January 1934 (10), India, Second Test, Calcutta, 5th-8th January (11), Central India, Indore, 16th-17th January (11), Central Provinces and Berar, Nagpur, 19th- 21st January (10), Nawab of Moin- ud- Dowlah's XI, Secunderabad, 23rd- 25th January (11), Bangalore, Mysore, 28th -29th January (11), Madras XI, Madras, 3rd-5th February (11), and Ceylon, Colombo, 16th-18th February (11). Notable Indian's signatures include Maharaja of Patiala, C.K. Nayudu, S. Wazir Ali, V.M. Merchant, L.P. Jai, C.S. Nayudu, R.J.D. Jamshedji, M. Nisar, Naoomal Jaoomal, L. Amar Singh etc. The album Includes three original sepia candid photographs of match action, one featuring Herbert Sutcliffe in batting action. The owner of the album is not known, possibly a member of the M.C.C. party, or an individual following the tour. Breaking to album hinges and page block, odd page loose, the signed pages in very good condition. An excellent comprehensive collection of signatures from the first M.C.C. 'Test' tour to India including the rarer Indian State and Representative team signatures