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Blue Ball by AW Gamage Ltd., 1897



Date:
1897
Object Number:
M.61.17 P.L.
Creator
Ltd AW Gamage (commissioner)
Material
leather
Size
circumference: 22.5 cm
Object name
ball
Object category
sports equipment - cricket

Description

Blue ball specially made for women's cricket. Stamped: A.W. Gamage Ltd.;'A.W.G.', Holborn, E.C. Commissioned by Gamages department store from A. Reader & Co, Ball makers, Teston, Kent.

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Ball for Women’s Cricket, 1897 A. Reader & Co, Kent Blue ball specially commissioned by a department store in central London called Gamages, and made by Alfred Reader, the famous ball makers from Kent, ‘to ensure that lady cricketers would not swoon at the sight of a red one’ according to a 1963 Exhibition of Women’s Cricketana catalogue. MCC Collections: Donated by Women’s Cricket Association Object no: M.61.17 P.L
Association:
Women's Cricket Association
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