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Dudley Nourse's South Africa 1935 Test Team Cap, green wool,…
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Melbourne
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11-Aug-2019
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Dudley Nourse's South Africa 1935 Test Team Cap, green wool, embroidered springbok & 'S.A.1935' on front, made by Devereux of Eton, and named to Nourse in pen on the label. Good match-worn condition. Attractively framed. Primarily a batsman, Nourse was captain of the South African team from 1948 to 1951. The 1935 Tour to England (for which he received this cap) was his Test cricket debut. After he scored a century in three consecutive innings, both innings against Surrey and then against Oxford, Plum Warner commented 'A Nourse, a Nourse, my kingdom for a Nourse.' He made small scores in the first two Tests and was dropped for the Third Test, but then reached 53 not out in the second innings of the Fourth Test at Old Trafford. Four matches were drawn, but South Africa won the Second Test at Lord's, and the series 1–0. Provenance: From the Keith Attree Collection, with a note signed by Attree in which he explains that the cap was acquired from the Doug Wright Collection when it was sold by T.Vennett-Smith Auctions in England in November 2003. Nb: Graeme Pollock's South Africa 1964-65 Test cap sold for $5,015 in Leski Auctions, August 2011.
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