Cricket Match between the Australian Eleven and the Earl of Sheffield's Eleven. Sheffield Park. May 11th 1896 -- A printed hand-coloured silk menu fringed with gold braid, the front showing a view of Sheffield Park within a hand-coloured gold border entwined with a ribbon in the colours of the M.C.C., the title surmounted by an Earl's coronet with the British coat-of-arms below, the verso with the Australian coat-of-arms within a decorative border surrounded by a ribbon in the colours of the M.C.C., with two roundels at the head and the foot containing crossed cricket bats in front of stumps surmounted by a ball, the whole opening to reveal the menu and the team lists surrounded by a border containing cricket motifs, 7 x 5in. opening to 7 x 10in.

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Cricket Match between the Australian Eleven and the Earl of Sheffield's Eleven. Sheffield Park. May 11th 1896 -- A printed hand-coloured silk menu fringed with gold braid, the front showing a view of Sheffield Park within a hand-coloured gold border entwined with a ribbon in the colours of the M.C.C., the title surmounted by an Earl's coronet with the British coat-of-arms below, the verso with the Australian coat-of-arms within a decorative border surrounded by a ribbon in the colours of the M.C.C., with two roundels at the head and the foot containing crossed cricket bats in front of stumps surmounted by a ball, the whole opening to reveal the menu and the team lists surrounded by a border containing cricket motifs, 7 x 5in. opening to 7 x 10in.


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