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'Jubilee of international cricket, Victorian cricket…
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Melbourne
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16-Feb-2010
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'Jubilee of international cricket, Victorian cricket Association, invitation Smoke Concert, 30th Dec.1911', rare 12-page programme, with 60 signatures on covers and centre pages. A wonderful array including Andrew Fisher (Prime Minister), Lord Denman (Governor-General); 1911-12 cricketers Clem Hill, Warwick Armstrong, Syd Gregory and J.B.Hobbs; T.Pawley (England manager); former Australian test cricketers Jack Blackham, Jack Worrall, Harry Trott, William Robertson and John Harry; former Victorian cricketers John Egglestone, Percy Lewis, Harry Freeman, John Drysdale, Edgar Barrett, Robert Mitchell, Ambrose Tarrant, William Stokes, Charles Carr, Louis Woolf, Colin McKenzie, George Mackay, John swift and Patrick Deely; plus a couple of guests who were present at the 1862 Victoria v H.H.Stephenson's English XI match; Harry Hilliard who played in the first interstate match in 1856. Fair condition, unfortunately most of the pencil signatures have been 'Improved' by pen, though a rare and valuable memento of this commemoration
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Memorabilia: Sporting - Cricket