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BZ006

Item

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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