[CRICKET] Silhouette portrait of Bert Oldfield, Australia and New South Wales. Dated 22 February 1934.

A$450 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Black card on white paper, 110 x 80 mm (image), 275 x 190 mm (sheet); captioned and dated in brown ink by the artist at lower left: W. A. Oldfield / 22nd February 1934 ; very well preserved. William Albert Stanley Bert Oldfield MBE (1894-1976) played representative cricket for New South Wales and Australia as a wicket-keeper. His Test career spanned almost 17 years between December 1920 and March 1937. Oldfield s extraordinary feat of 52 stumpings in just 54 Tests is a record that still stands. He also took 78 Test catches and was a handy lower-order batsman, scoring 1,427 runs at an average of 22.65. In later life, Oldfield was a successful cricket coach and for many years ran his extremely popular Bert Oldfield s Sports Store in Sydney s Pitt Street. If done from life, this fine silhouette of the legendary cricketer must have been made in Sydney, where in February 1934 the Australian cricketers were attending a round of farewell functions prior to embarking on the Ashes tour of England. On 27 February 1934, for example, Oldfield was the guest of honour at a smoke social at Chatswood Town Hall organised by his old club, Gordon.

• Binding: Hardcover

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