England and Australia - The 5th Test Teams, 1905

Reference

TD/602/6

Date:

1905

Level of description

item

Extent

1 postcard

Part of

Trumper & Carter (TD/602)

Scope and Content

Postcard depicting a black and white photographic group portrait of the England and Australian cricket teams who played at the fifth Test at the Kennington Oval in 1905, twenty-seven players are positioned in four rows. Two wear MCC touring blazers with St. George and dragon crest on breast pocket, two wear blazers of the 1901-1902 England Tour to Australia with checkered trim, seven wear Australian blazers with coat of arms on the front, one wears a white or cream coloured blazer and one wears a three-coloured striped blazer, the remaining blazers have their crests obscured. Seven wear MCC touring cap with St. George and dragon crest on the front, eight wear Australian baggy green caps with coat of arms on the front, one wears a Yorkshire cap with white rose crest on the front, six wear straw boaters, one wears a floppy sun hat, one cap has a undistinguished crest. Positioned in front of a brick wall to a building. Located at Kennington Oval.

Text at bottom of front states: "Trumper & Carter Sports Depot, 108 Market Street, City, 'Phone 2397."

Postcard is unused.

Associations

Australian Cricket Team
England Cricket Team
Trumper & Carter
Archibald Campbell MacLaren
Thomas Walter Hayward
John Thomas Tyldesley
Charles Burgess Fry
Edward George Arnold
Francis Stanley Jackson
Reginald Herbert Spooner
George Herbert Hirst
Wilfred Rhodes
Arthur Frederick Augustus Lilley
Walter Brearley
Victor Thomas Trumper
Reginald Alexander Duff
Clement Hill
Montague Alfred Noble
Warwick Windridge Armstrong
Joseph Darling
Albert John Young Hopkins
Charles Edward McLeod
James Joseph Kelly
Albert Cotter
Frank Jonas Laver
Donald Raeburn Algernon Gehrs
Sydney Edward Gregory
William Peter Howell
Philip Mesmer Newland

Subject

Postcards, Australia in England 1905, Australian cricketers, English cricketers, advertising, sponsorship, England in Australia 1901-1902, Kennington Oval, London, England

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 postcard

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