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Football & Sporting Memorabilia

W.G. Grace. ‘Banquet held on Monday, June 24th 1895 at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton to Mr W.G. Grace in celebration of his One Hundredth Century, completed on Gloucestershire County Ground in match Somersetshire v Gloucestershire, on Friday May 17th 1895’. Original three page folding card menu for the Banquet, the cover with excellent pictorial colour decoration showing crossed bats, ball and stumps, titles to centre and to lower border an image of a cricket match in progress with Grace batting with ‘100’ on the scoreboard. To inside pages menu, toast list, wine list, poem by E.B.V. Christian to Grace, portrait of Grace and list of hundreds. Speeches included The Duke of Beaufort, E.M. Grace, E.G. Clarke etc. Previously sold by Knights in 2016. The menu has split at folds which have unfortunately been taped, some staining and soiling to menu otherwise in good condition. A rare item of Grace memorabilia.