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Gold lapel pin in a presentation box. Shield shaped badge with depiction of two cricketers standing either side of a wicket and shield inscribed ‘S Jones to E M Grace’. Floral outer border, scroll above and below ‘Otago/ Canterbury’. 'JH' stamped on reverse. Long twisted shaft. Rectangular board and papier mache box with partially curved top. Top covered in red shagreen or embossed leather. Emerald green silk and velvet lining. Paper maker’s label adhered to inner lid.

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Gold tie/lapel pin presented to Edward Mills Grace by New Zealand tour promoter and entrepreneur Shadrach Jones, who was based in Dunedin, in late February/early March 1863. The solid gold pin measures 4" long and has ornate images of a bowler and batsman standing either side of a cricket wicket with central shield which is inscribed 'S. Jones to E.M. Grace' and 'Otago' and 'Canterbury' in scrolls above and below with floral outer borders. To verso the initials 'J.H.' for J. Hyman, watchmaker and jeweller of Princes Street, Dunedin. 'Colonial Jewellery made up on the premises'. The pin mounted in original hinged red leather box with 'J. Hyman' label to inside lid, silk lined in green. The box lacking attachment clip otherwise in very good condition. - cricket Estimate: £1000/1500 Hammer price: £4200 Grace refers and quotes in the letter to his Mother being sold in this auction (lot 12) 'Jones (Shadrach, the tour organiser) gave each of us such an ugly pin worth about 3 or 4 pounds of solid gold, but it is so ugly I cannot describe it'.