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C1820s early brass admission ticket 'Darnall cricket ground/…
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Melbourne
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29-Jun-2011
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C1820s early brass admission ticket 'Darnall cricket ground/ Grand match Admission Ticket', 26 mm diameter, with initials 'W.H.W.' cut into the surface, and on reverse again 'W.H.W.' & 'G.H.'. [the initials W.H.W. Are the proprietor W.H.Woodhouse, who owned the ground in Sheffield. Darnall Park was one of the first grounds on which the great matches in the north were played and was opened in 1821]. An early form of a member’s season ticket.
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