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FELLOWS, H. W. Two mid 19th-cenmtury cricket balls, each with an MCC accesson no. in white, one the ball with which Harvey Fellows took ten wickets for the Gentlemen v Players, July 23 and 24, 1849, at Lord's, the other reputed to have been hit by Fellows over the stand at Lord's (match unidentified), faintly stamped: "Dark, Lord's Cricket Ground" (only a few letters of the stamp are easily decipherable).
Provenance: Christie's MCC Bicentenary Auction, 13 April 1987, lots 708 and 709. Harvey Winson Fellows (1826-1907) was a right hand, round arm fast bowler, one of the fastest to have appeared in 1848 and 1849, and middle order batsman who played for Eton and the MCC (1847-69). His pace later slackened.
Provenance: Christie's MCC Bicentenary Auction, 13 April 1987, lots 708 and 709. Harvey Winson Fellows (1826-1907) was a right hand, round arm fast bowler, one of the fastest to have appeared in 1848 and 1849, and middle order batsman who played for Eton and the MCC (1847-69). His pace later slackened.