Cricket Match between the Australian Eleven and the Earl of Sheffield's Eleven Sheffield Park May 11th, 1896

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Cricket Match between the Australian Eleven and the Earl of Sheffield's Eleven Sheffield Park May 11th, 1896
menu by Booth and Sons, colour-printed on padded silk by John Beal and Son, the front cover with a view of Sheffield Park surmounted by an Earl's coronet, with the menu itself and team lists on inside facing pages surrounded by decorative border of bats, balls, stumps and cricket bags, covers embellished with coats-of-arms of England and Australia, edges fringed in gold braid [and:] In Sheffield Park. Monday, May 8, 1893. First match of the Australian cricketers against Lord Sheffield's English Eleven, leaf of verse reprinted from Punch, May 20, 1893, 223 x 190mm. (8¾ x 7½in.), framed and glazed. (2)

Lot Essay

The Australian Team: G. H. S. Trott (Capt.), J. Darling, H. Donnan, C. J. Eady, G. Giffen, H. Graham, S. E. Gregory, C. Hill, F. Iredale, T. R. McKibbin, E. Jones, A. Johns, J. J. Kelly, H. Trumble. The Earl of Sheffield's Eleven: Dr. W. G. Grace (Capt.), Prince Ranjitsinhji, C. B. Fry, F. S. Jackson, A. Shrewsbury, W. Gunn, A. Hearne, G. Davidson, A. Mold, A. D. Pougher, A. A. Lilley.

Slight rubbing to menu cover.

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