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Australian tour of England 1893. Earl of Sheffield’s XI v Australians 1893. Excellent original folding menu card for the Luncheon given by Lord Sheffield on the 9th May 1893 during the match played at Sheffield Park, Uckfield from the 8th-10th May 1893. The highly decorative and colourful menu with front cover, with titles and dates, featuring a kangaroo and Lord Sheffield’s cricket emblem with decorative borders, the rear cover with raised Australian emblem to centre in shield with cricket stumps and to sides and lower border, cricket bats and balls. To inside pages, equally decorative, are the menu and wine list to the left and to the right a listing of the players, both the Australian and Earl of Sheffield’s elevens, umpires and scorers with cricket themed borders of cricket bats, cricket bags, balls, stumps etc. Gilt to all edges. Players include Blackham, Bannerman, Gregory, Trott, Trumble, Giffen, Lyons, W.G. Grace, Stoddart, Shrewsbury, W. Gunn, Attewell, Lockwood, Briggs, Peel etc. The umpires were R. Carpenter and R.Thoms. The menu printed by John Beal & Son and E. Booth & Sons were the caterers. The menu has a split at the fold, probably due to the thick card used for the menu, which has been joined with clear tape otherwise in very good condition. A rare, decorative and exquisite item of ephemera from this early Australian tour