Object number
M.1984.TN.65
Title
The Australian Cricketers 1882
Date
1882 - 1882
Creator
Production notes
HM
Material
Size
65.5 x 71 cm
Description
Linen handkerchief with black and white design depicting The Australian Cricketers, 1882. Central team group surrounded by individual portraits. Top left hand corner embroidered initials HM
Display caption
Commemorative Handkerchief of Australian Tourists to the UK, 1882 M.1984.TN.65
T.285
Australian tours to the UK after that of 1868 met with some surprise, as many expected them also to be Aboriginal, but it was of greater consternation that in 1882 the Australians beat England in England for the first time. This was the tour that spawned the great `Ashes’ tradition, when a journalist placed a mock obituary in the Sporting Times, lamenting the death of English Cricket.
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MCC/AAL/2/TEMP92 : Curator's correspondence relating to gifts to the MCC 1984-1987
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