Golden Greats signed cricket bat — No. 64 of 1000

A bat stood in a burl-walnut case on a burgundy mount, GOLDEN GREATS lettered in gold above and GOLDEN GREATS OF WORLD CRICKET below. The blade is numbered No. 64 of 1000 and carries a column of signatures in black.

The mount names the players down both sides — among them Geoff Boycott, Clive Lloyd, Ravi Shastri, Richie Benaud, Sir Richard Hadlee, Bob Willis, Ian Chappell, Asif Iqbal, Tony Greig, Javed Miandad, Michael Holding and Sunil Gavaskar, each with the epithet the set gave them. Matching signatures to names is a conversation with Ross, in front of the case.