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Cloth, embroidered Richmond FC players

1918

Melbourne Cricket Club

Melbourne Cricket Club
Jolimont, Australia

Strip of small cloth badge/ribbon squares, 2 joined together, machine-manufactured thin black cotton, each featuring an embroidered image of a football player about to kick a ball, wearing the black and yellow striped guernsey of the Richmond Football Club. The players' socks and guernsey sash are yellow. These badges, which were sold in horizontal ribbon strips and featured all the Victorian Football League clubs, were made locally and sold to schoolboys to be sewn onto caps.

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  • Title: Cloth, embroidered Richmond FC players
  • Date Created: 1918
  • Physical Dimensions: H: 87 W: 33 D: 1mm
  • Provenance: Kindly donated to the Melbourne Cricket Club Museum.
  • Medium: Cotton
Melbourne Cricket Club

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