[England, 1939].
Real-photo postcard. 3.25” x 5”. Pencil captions at verso read, in part, “1939 West Indies Cricket Team.” Two “x” marks written in blue ink at recto. CONDITION: Good, pinhole at center, some creasing and wear at edges, minimal soiling to verso.
A well-preserved image showing a poster representing all the members of the West Indies team during their Test tour in England.
This real-photo-postcard shows an enlarged view of the eighteen constituents of the West Indies Cricket Team, posed for a photograph during their 1939 tour to play a series of four Test Matches. Standing at the rear is scorer W. Ferguson, with G. E. Gomez, Jeff B. Stollmeyer, Leslie G. Hylton, Tyrell Johnson, Carlos Bertram Clarke, Herbert Peter Bayley, and Ernest A. V. Williams. In the middle row, seated, the team’s captain, Rolph S. Grant, with the team’s manager, John M. Kidney, and George A. Headley, Ivan M. Barrow, John H. Cameron, Learie N. Constantine, and Emmanuel A. Martindale. Sitting in front of them all, on the ground are Ken H. Weekes, James E. D. Sealey, and Victor H. Stollmeyer.
The West Indies team that year featured a mixture of white and Black players, many of whom had been playing throughout the Caribbean since the early 1930s. In 1935, this team had beaten the English team when they traveled to the West Indies to play a Test match there. The West Indian team’s Test tour in England was one typified by hard-fought matches faced in rainy weather. Once all the games were settled, the tour was concluded by the West Indian team’s abrupt departure in the face of the looming Second World War.
Sources Consulted: “The West Indian team in England 1939” at ESPNCricInfo online.
[England, 1939].
Real-photo postcard. 3.25” x 5”. Pencil captions at verso read, in part, “1939 West Indies Cricket Team.” Two “x” marks written in blue ink at recto. CONDITION: Good, pinhole at center, some creasing and wear at edges, minimal soiling to verso.
A well-preserved image showing a poster representing all the members of the West Indies team during their Test tour in England.
This real-photo-postcard shows an enlarged view of the eighteen constituents of the West Indies Cricket Team, posed for a photograph during their 1939 tour to play a series of four Test Matches. Standing at the rear is scorer W. Ferguson, with G. E. Gomez, Jeff B. Stollmeyer, Leslie G. Hylton, Tyrell Johnson, Carlos Bertram Clarke, Herbert Peter Bayley, and Ernest A. V. Williams. In the middle row, seated, the team’s captain, Rolph S. Grant, with the team’s manager, John M. Kidney, and George A. Headley, Ivan M. Barrow, John H. Cameron, Learie N. Constantine, and Emmanuel A. Martindale. Sitting in front of them all, on the ground are Ken H. Weekes, James E. D. Sealey, and Victor H. Stollmeyer.
The West Indies team that year featured a mixture of white and Black players, many of whom had been playing throughout the Caribbean since the early 1930s. In 1935, this team had beaten the English team when they traveled to the West Indies to play a Test match there. The West Indian team’s Test tour in England was one typified by hard-fought matches faced in rainy weather. Once all the games were settled, the tour was concluded by the West Indian team’s abrupt departure in the face of the looming Second World War.
Sources Consulted: “The West Indian team in England 1939” at ESPNCricInfo online.
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