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Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia - 3 Day Auction (#7) 18/11/2022 10:30 AM GMT Closed

Starts Ending 18/11/2022 10:30 AM GMT

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Lot #143E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. ‘Editorial. India and Pakistan’. Three page handwritten editorial by Swanton for ‘The Cricketer’, undated but written for the January 1971 issue. Swanton opens with an introduction stating this issue is to be the first of three devoted ‘in part to different cricket- playing countries of the Commonwealth’. He reports that preparations for this issue, focussing on India and Pakistan, were well underway before war broke out between the two nations and prays for a speedy end to h

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  • E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. ‘Editorial. India and Pakistan’. Three page handwritten editorial by Swanton for ‘The Cricketer’, undated but written for the January 1971 issue. Swanton opens with an introduction stating this issue is to be the first of three devoted