Thursday, January 28, 2016

AUSTRALIAN SPORTING COLLECTABLES UNVEILED

With the nation still reeling  from the summer of  sport, it is a good time to display some of  Little Darwin's  sporting  memorabilia , the latest being  the  1978  45rpm record  put out  during Kerry Packer's  World Series Cricket  period , l977 to  l979 ,  which  shook up and reshaped the  game globally . Our copy found  in  Townsville .
The above 1981  autographed  first day cover displaying caricatures of  famous  Australian  sportsmen in stamps  by  the  late  newspaper war correspondent , artist and cartoonist  Tony Rafty  of  Sydney, supplied  by  Magnetic Island researcher  Gary Davies . Those  shown are jockey Darby Munro, cricketer Victor Trumper , tennis ace  Sir Norman Brookes  and  billiard  champion  Walter   Lindrum.