RUGBY UNION - NEW ZEALAND ALL BLACKS 1930 3rd TEST v LIONS RUGBY UNION AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOGRAPH The 1930 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Austral

RUGBY UNION - NEW ZEALAND ALL BLACKS 1930 3rd TEST v LIONS RUGBY UNION AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOGRAPH The 1930 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia was the twelfth tour by a British Isles team and the fifth to New Zealand and Australia. This tour is recognised as the first to represent a bona fide British team and the first to be widely dubbed the 'Lions', after the nickname was used by journalists during the 1924 tour of South Africa. Led by England's Doug Prentice and managed by James Baxter the tour took in 28 matches, seven in Australia and 21 in New Zealand. Of the 28 games, 24 were against club or invitational teams, four were test matches against New Zealand and one was a test match against Australia. The test match results saw the Lions lose to Australia, and win only one of the four New Zealand tests. SUPERB ORIGINAL BLACK AND WHITE/SEPIA COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH SIZE 11 ¼” x 10 ¼” UNKNOWN PUBLISHER, LAID DOWN BORDER TO BORDER TO THE PHOTOGRAPHERS ORIGINAL STIFFENED BACKBOARD MOUNT, DEPICTING THE 1930 NEW ZEALAND ‘ALL BLACKS’ TEAM THAT DEFEATED THE BRITISH LIONS BY 15 POINTS TO 10 IN THE 3RD TEST MATCH OF THE NEW ZEALAND LEG OF THE 1930 BRITISH LIONS TOUR. EACH PLAYER DEPICTED IN HEAD AND SHOULDERS POSE WITHIN THIS COMPOSITE IMAGE, WITH PRINTED HEADER AND PLAYER NAMES. BEAUTIFULLY AUTOGRAPHED IN BLACK INK BY THE COMPLETE NEW ZEALAND ‘ALL BLACKS’ 1930 TEAM, 15 ORIGINAL INK SIGNATURES INCLUDING: CLIFF PORTER (Captain), GEORGE NEPIA, BILL HAZLETT, BEAU COTTRELL, GEORGE HART, HUGH MCLEAN, REUBEN MCWILLIAMS, FRED LUCAS, MARK NICHOLLS, MERV CORNER, WALTER BATTY, JACK HORE, DICK STEERE, BERT COOKE AND ARCHIE STRANG. SOME VERY SLIGHT SURFACE SCUFF MARKS TO THE LOWER BORDER, OTHERWISE IN VERY GOOD CLEAN CONDITION.