498 A frame mounted with decorative silk cigarette cards of “Rugby League Colours”, originally issued by B.D.V. Cigarettes, 66 by 87cm., 26 by 34 1/4in. £150 - 200
RUGBY UNION
496 Hunters Armley (publishers) A SAFE BET [GLORIOUS GOODWOOD]; A THOROUGHBRED AMONG PRINTERS [YORK, KAVESMIRE]; PITCHING AT THE CORRECT LEVEL [CRICKET AT LORD’S]; PERFECT SERVICE [WIMBLEDON] all signed by the artist, a set of four limited edition artist drawn prints numbered 35/35 promoting a Leeds based printing company and featuring horse racing (two), cricket and lawn tennis as subject matter, unframed, each sheet 52 by 72cm., 20 1/2 by 28 1/4in. £100 - 150
RUGBY LEAGUE
499 A 15ct. gold & enamel Lancashire Rugby League County Championship winner’s medal 1924-25,
named to A. BROUGH of Oldham RFC, in original Fattorini fitted case, 18.4gr.
Oldham beat St Helens Recs 10-0.
497 A collection of 18 Baines cards, rugby ball shaped cards comprising Army, Broughton Rangers, Derby, Dublin University, Hull Kingston Rovers, Medical College, Neath, Oxford, Richmond, Salford & 2 for Swinton; shield shaped cards comprising “After The Match”, “Play Up Bonnie Scotland”, “English K’Nuts”, Hull K.R. & 2 for R.B. Kangaroo £200 - 250
Albert Brough won one cap for Great Britain and two Challenge Cup finals with Oldham in 1925 and 1927. £500 - 700
501 An early Welsh rugby medal: 1888 Cardiff Football Union medal, silver & blue enamel, inscribed CARDIFF FOOTBALL UNION, 1888, lacking brooch fitting to reverse
Despite the name, the Cardiff Football Union was a rugby organisation. Rugby historian Gwyn Prescott believes that the Cardiff Football Union medal was a Cup medal, as this Union only existed to administer the competition. In 1888, the winners were Penarth. This union was in existence only for a few years. It was disbanded when Penarth won the cup outright after the fourth final. The cup is now in the Penarth club museum. During the 1890s, the Cardiff and District Football Union (now renamed the Cardiff and District Rugby Union) was formed and they introduced the Mallett Cup - still played for today - but this is a different competition from the one relating to the present medal.
500 Two match-worn Rugby League shirts circa 1950,
498
a New Zealand shirt and a North Queensland shirt, both ex-Eddie Waring Collection; sold together with a framed photograph of the 1965-66 New Zealand Kiwis with ink signatures (3) £130 - 160
The original recipient of the Cup winner’s medal is unknown but for the record Gwyn Prescott confirmed the Penarth line-up as follows: H.E. (Herbie) Morgan, R (Dickie) Garrett (captain), J (Joe) Williams, G (George) Rowles, G L (Glyn) May, F Moore, T (Tom) Hutchings, L Lawday, J (John) Hayes, A Mears, T (Tom) Garrett, G (George) Garrett, W P Edgington, G Lawday & J Maloney.
Gwyn Prescott is the author of a recently published book which covers these matters - This Rugby Spellbound People: Rugby Football in Nineteenth Century Cardiff and South Wales (Welsh-
academic-press.com). £400 - 600
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