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Item
BZ006
Object ID
BZ006
Type
Blazer
Rights Holder
CIC
Provenance
Swansea Cricket Club
Season
Blazer, Swansea Cricket Club, Circa 1900
Description
Blazer, Swansea Cricket Club, Circa 1900. Single breasted with 3 brass buttons. Blue with white and red stripes. Swansea Cricket & Football Club badge on left breast.
Info
This is a Swansea cricket club blazer from around the turn of the 20th century. The original owner is not known. The blazer is contemporary to a Swansea Cricket Club team photograph taken around 1903 (see: PH217). Similar blazers were also observed being worn by the touring Swansea rugby Club in France in 1929. It is the only example known to be in existence.
Keywords
cricket,blazer,
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