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Navy blue, cloth cricket cap. Motif: Raised, embroidered Kent county emblem of the white horse, foliage below, to front. Beige lining, maker’s name printed in crown. Small, pre-First World War peak. Hand written name label attached to rear inner ‘A Fielder Kent’. From the Sankey family collection and previously sold by Knights as lot 574 in October 1995. Fast bowler, Kent & England 1900-1914

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Arthur Fielder. Kent & England 1900-1914. Kent navy blue cloth cricket cap with raised embroidered county emblem of the white horse, the Kent emblem, to front. The cap made by J&F. Browne, Hatters of Tonbridge and with name handwritten on label to back of the inside lining of the cap 'A.Fielder, Kent' (fading) from the Sankey family collection and previously sold by Knights as lot 574 in October 1995. The cap, with small peak typical of a pre first world war cap, has a hole to the side section of the cap near peak, wear to lining and slight light fading otherwise in good condition. An early cap from a truly great fast bowler of Kent and England. Estimate: £700/1000 Hammer price: £1300 Arthur Fielder, a fast bowler and very photogenic with his stance and moustache, took almost 13,000 first class wickets for Kent at an average of 21.02, he played in six Tests for England. After a poor 1905 season, Fielder was the leading wicket taker for the Kent side which won the 1906 County Championship, appearing in all 22 Championship matches and taking 158 wickets for the County in the process. He was named one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1907. During this season he became the first man to take all 10 wickets in an innings in the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's, taking 10/90 in the first innings and 14 wickets overall in the match. He is one of only four men to take more than 150 wickets in a season for Kent. He achieved the unusual distinction of scoring a century (112no) when coming in at number eleven, for Kent v Worcestershire at Stourbridge in July 1909, adding 235 for the last wicket with Frank Wolley, a record in English county cricket.