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Phoenix Cricket Club :Second Annual Smoking Concert, to be held at Post Office Hotel, on Friday, 16th September, 1887. [Programme].
- Date
- 1887
- By
- Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm); McKean, H, active 1886
- Reference
- Eph-B-CRICKET-1887-01
- Description
Front cover shows the title in an arrangement of different type faces,below the banner logo of the cricket club against a background of river landscape with cabbage tree. The whole is inside a decorative border. The chairman and committee of the club are listed as: Mr Levin (Chairman), Mr Duncan (vice-chairman), concert committee A Motley, E Wilson-Duret, S Waters, E Widdop, J Riley, H McKean, J Varnham, A R Nicholls (Hon Sec).
Inside opening shows the programme, inside a wide border of humorous sketches (signed by H McK - likely to be the H McKean listed on the cover), depicting cricket terms: drawing the stumps (a dentist), run out (empty wine barrel, prominent player (fat), Lanky Shier vs Knots (ie Lancashire vs Nottinghamshire), stumped (out of money), sent back with a shooter, out with a beautiful bailer, a forward style, etc.
The programme lists items by Mr W Hardwicke, Mr Levin, Mr E Widdop, Mr Riley, Mr W Godden, Mr Barton, Mr A R Nicholls, Mr P McIntyre, Mr W D Lyon, Mr Haybittle, Mr T Sayers, Mr Gully.
Bock & Cousins, Printers, Brandon Street.
Inscriptions: bottom right - (Inside spread): J McK
Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Engraving and letterpress on folded pamphlet, 231 x 173 mm.(folded)
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera. 1880-1959]
- Format
- 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Advertisements, Theatre programmes, Engraving and letterpress on folded pamphlet, 231 x 173 mm.(folded), Orientation: Vertical image
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Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm). Phoenix Cricket Club :Second Annual Smoking Concert, to be held at Post Office Hotel, on Friday, 16th September, 1887. [Programme].. [New Zealand cricket programmes and ephemera. 1880-1959]. Ref: Eph-B-CRICKET-1887-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22855062More information can be found in our terms of use.