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A rare and original photograph depicting the original All…
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A rare and original photograph depicting the original All Blacks - the New Zealand football team, 1905, of note as one of the very few examples showing the legendary team dressed in very dapper formal attire, many with silver fern lapel badges and brandishing pocket watches on chains. Silver gelatin print on mountboard, some foxing to mount. 23 x 29.4 cm. Along with an additional retouched and enlarged modern print mounted on foam board. 68.5 x 71 cm, the original All Blacks (also known simply as 'The Originals') were the first New Zealand national rugby Union team to tour outside Australasia. They toured the British Isles, France and the USA during 1905–1906. Overall they played a total of thirty-five matches, which included five Tests, and only lost once—the defeat by Wales. The 1905 All Blacks tour of Britain went on to achieve legendary status within the rugby world and New Zealand in particular. They scored 976 points and conceded only 59, and thus set the standard for future All Blacks sides. The tour also saw the first use of the All Blacks name and established New Zealand's reputation as a world-class rugby nation, F. Glasgow, W.J Wallace, F. Newton, H.J Mynott, R.G Deans, J. Hunter, G.W Nicolson, W. Johnstone, J. Corbett, G.D Tyler, D. McGregor, C. Seeling, J. Duncan, E.E Booth, W.D Cunningham, G. Gillett, H.L Abbott, Dixon (manager), D. Gallaher (Captain), W.J Stead (vice-captain), W.S Glen, W. Mackrell, S.J Casey, a. McDonald, G.W Smith, H.D Thomson, J. O'Sullivan. Strictly Copyright. Bolland, Hanwell, W and at Southhall, London, W
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