Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 10
Estimate: £120/160
M.C.C. v Cambridge University 1836. Early original advertising handbill titled ‘Cricket. A Grand Match will be played in Lord’s Ground, Marylebone’ for a match to be played 13th & 14th June 1836 between ‘The Marylebone Club’ and the ‘Under Graduates of Cambridge’. The players are listed below, the M.C.C. team featuring notable names including Charles Gordon (Earl of Aboyne), Henry Lowther, John Ponsonby, John Bayley, James Cobbet and Roger Kynaston. For Cambridge Henry Snow, Charles Taylor, Frederick Ponsonby and Arthur Farmer went on to play county cricket. 5.5”x8.75”. Printed by Morgan of Portman Market. Some staining and age toning, otherwise in good/ very good condition.
M.C.C. (68 & 124) beat Cambridge University (35 & 540 by 103 runs. Cobbett and Bayley bowled unchanged for M.C.C. throughout both innings.