William Lambert. Surrey, Kent, Sussex & Hampshire 1801-1817. Oxfordshire Cricket Club 1849. Original and unique printed admission ticket presumably for a social event/function held by the Club in 1849. The card features an attractive mono engraving of a cricketer wearing period cricket attire, leaning on a bat and holding a ball standing next to the wicket, with a marquee and trees in the background. The surrounding oval border incorporates the printed title 'Oxfordshire Cricket Club' with 'Tuesday 1849 Nov'r 6th' annotated in ink in Lambert's hand, and has been signed to the lower corners in ink by William Lambert and one other, possibly W.T. Lowndes. The card, measuring 3"x4.5", is laid to a large photograph album page with decorative borders which has an annotation in pencil in John Arlott's hand, 'Admission ticket (Signed by Wm. Lambert)'. The ticket was reproduced for the frontispiece for Neville Cardus and John Arlott's book 'The Noblest Game. A Book of Fine Cricket Prints' first published in 1969. The admission ticket previously sold by Christies in 1997. Minor wear to the album page, the card ticket in very good condition. A very rare and important piece of early cricket ephemera from the early development of the game, signed by a famous cricketer of the time
In Roger Hancock's 'A Handbook for William Lambert's Cricketer's Guide' he writes that Lambert 'was regarded at one time as the best batsman in England' and 'such was Lambert's fame, even as late as 1840, that his inability to play for Reigate at Brighton proved a great disappointment to the spectators'. Lambert's Guides ran from 1816 to the 1830s. One of the best all-round cricketers, Lambert is the first player recorded to have scored two centuries in both innings of an important match, while playing for Sussex against Epsom at Lord's in 1817. This was to be his last appearance at Lord's as he was soon after banned for match fixing in the Nottingham v England match of that year. Despite playing as a professional, he appeared for the Gentlemen in the first two Gentlemen v Players matches in 1806
William Lambert. Surrey, Kent, Sussex & Hampshire 1801-1817. Oxfordshire Cricket Club 1849. Original and unique printed admission ticket presumably for a social event/function held by the Club in 1849. The card features an attractive mono engraving of a cricketer wearing period cricket attire, leaning on a bat and holding a ball standing next to the wicket, with a marquee and trees in the background. The surrounding oval border incorporates the printed title 'Oxfordshire Cricket Club' with 'Tuesday 1849 Nov'r 6th' annotated in ink in Lambert's hand, and has been signed to the lower corners in ink by William Lambert and one other, possibly W.T. Lowndes. The card, measuring 3"x4.5", is laid to a large photograph album page with decorative borders which has an annotation in pencil in John Arlott's hand, 'Admission ticket (Signed by Wm. Lambert)'. The ticket was reproduced for the frontispiece for Neville Cardus and John Arlott's book 'The Noblest Game. A Book of Fine Cricket Prints' first published in 1969. The admission ticket previously sold by Christies in 1997. Minor wear to the album page, the card ticket in very good condition. A very rare and important piece of early cricket ephemera from the early development of the game, signed by a famous cricketer of the time
In Roger Hancock's 'A Handbook for William Lambert's Cricketer's Guide' he writes that Lambert 'was regarded at one time as the best batsman in England' and 'such was Lambert's fame, even as late as 1840, that his inability to play for Reigate at Brighton proved a great disappointment to the spectators'. Lambert's Guides ran from 1816 to the 1830s. One of the best all-round cricketers, Lambert is the first player recorded to have scored two centuries in both innings of an important match, while playing for Sussex against Epsom at Lord's in 1817. This was to be his last appearance at Lord's as he was soon after banned for match fixing in the Nottingham v England match of that year. Despite playing as a professional, he appeared for the Gentlemen in the first two Gentlemen v Players matches in 1806
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