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Greeting card, image of sporting equipment and toys

Melbourne Cricket Club

Melbourne Cricket Club
Jolimont, Australia

Greetings card made from decoratively embossed and perforated paper, printed with a colour image of a cricket bat, attached to a card backing. The image shows a cricket bat in front of a set of stumps, with the words, "AFFECTIONS OFFERING" on it. A cricket ball, a striped ball and a spinning top are next to the bat, as is a small winged putto. Above and below the image is printed, "May pleasure wait upon your play / And make you good as well as gay". The reverse of the card backing has fragmentary print illustrations stuck to it. Writing on reverse reads "7".

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  • Title: Greeting card, image of sporting equipment and toys
  • Provenance: Kindly donated to the Melbourne Cricket Club Museum by Anthony Baer.
  • Medium: Card; Adhesive; Paper; Ink
Melbourne Cricket Club

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