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Arthur Appleby. Lancashire 1866-1887. An attractive silver plated vesta case presented to Appleby by the Enfield Cricket Club in 1893. The oblong case with inscription to side ‘Presented to Arthur Appleby Esq by the Enfield Cricket Club on the occasion of his 50th Birthday, July 22nd 1893’. To verso is floral decoration with a shield to centre. The case measures 1.5”x2.25” and is in good/very good condition
Arthur Appleby was a left arm round arm medium pace bowler and left-handed batsman, he played 58 matches for Lancashire as an amateur between 1866 and 1887 and in 81 first-class matches in total. He also appeared for Marylebone Cricket Club (1874), the Gentlemen (1867-1887), North of England (1869-1873), Gentlemen of the North (1870-1879), Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club (1873), Gentlemen of England (1874-1878), and R.A. FitzGerald’s XI (1872) and in the Gentlemen to Canada Touring Team (1873). He was born at Enfield, Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire in 1843 and began his playing days at Enfield Cricket Club where he was coached by John Berry and W. H. Iddison. He died in Enfield in 1902 at the age of 59 years

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