Lot 3647

Description

Gunning Cricket Club, medal/badge in silver (28mm), with suspension ring, obverse, cricket stumps with ball on top and bat at each side all within a wreath, reverse inscribed, 'Gunning Cricket Club/Presented/by/W.T.Busby/To/Alex Wheatley/for highest average/score during/Season 1878-79'; unidentified cricket club fob badge, hand crafted in silver (22x36mm), with suspension ring, obverse, voided design featuring crossed cricket bats, at top inscribed, 'O G', reverse inscribed, 'S. P & H. C' around the top and in the middle, 'C C/1912'. The first with inscription very worn, otherwise good fine/good and scarce, the second with some blackened areas, otherwise fine. (2)

At a meeting of the Gunning Cricket Club in May 1879, the badge and bat, presented by Messrs W.T.Busby and J.F.Kenyon respectively, were won by Mr A.Wheatley of Dalton which is a small town between Goulburn and Yass and nearby to the town of Gunning.