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Item

BZ006

Object ID

BZ006

Type

Rights Holder

CIC

Provenance

Swansea Cricket Club

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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