A Monte Carlo Rally Ball programme, October 1956, signed by ...

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£50 - £80

A Monte Carlo Rally Ball programme, October 1956, signed by the British racing driver Stirling Moss (1929-2020) and 14 others, including David Humphrey, the winner of the 1956 Monte Carlo rally Ronnie Adams (1916-2004), Raymond Baxter, Sylvia Baxter, Francoise V. Clarke, Peter Collins, etc, the programme [20]pp (including covers), rear cover laid down onto card, together with a contemporary Mercedes Christmas card from Stirling Moss, with printed facsimile signature and message "Stirling. P.S. As I am somewhere in America the good wishes are mine but the signature isn't", together with 12 assorted contemporary photographs of motor racing, including at Le Mans, Silverstone, car crashed in deep snow at rally captioned verso "Stirling Moss - deep snow and the consequences", possibly at an edition of the Monte Carlo rally in the 1950's in which he competed several times, plus a couple of relevant news cuttings. Provenance- Stirling Moss was godfather to a family relation of the vendor