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‘Gentlemen of Kent v Marylebone Cricket Club, 13th, 14th & 15th August 1862’. Original cricket
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‘Gentlemen of Kent v Marylebone Cricket Club, 13th, 14th & 15th August 1862’. Original cricket ball with circular shaped silver plaque inscribed ‘With this ball presented by M.C.C. to E.M. Grace, he got every wicket in the 2nd innings, in the match played at Canterbury, August 14, 15 1862. Gentlemen of Kent v M.C.C. for whom he played as an emergency, and in which, going in first he scored 192 not out’. Some ageing to leather of ball otherwise in good/very good condition. Sold with the original handwritten three page letter and envelope sent by Mr Spencer Ponsonby on behalf of M.C.C. The letter on ‘Lord Chamberlain’s Office, St. James’s Palace’ letterhead, dated 13th September, reads ‘My Dear Sir, I have this day forwarded to you, by the Great Western Railway, a parcel containing the ball with which you demolished every wicket in the 2nd innings of the match at Canterbury in which you scored 192 not out. I am requested by the Marylebone Cricket Club to beg your acceptance of the ball as a memorial of this unprecedented feat, with their best thanks for the assistance you rendered them on the occasion [actually playing in the match] and their hearty wishes for your future success in the cricket field as well as in every other respect. Yours faithfully, Spencer Ponsonby’. Folds to letter with some splitting to folds. The envelope in two neatly detached whole pieces addressed to ‘E.M. Grace Esq, Downend, nr Bristol’ and dated 13th September 1862. A very early and unique item which saw Grace playing at his zenith . - cricket The match was played twelve a side, The Gentlemen of Kent batted first and made 141 all out with Grace taking 5-77, in reply M.C.C. made 344 all out with Grace making 192no, in Grace’s innings of 192 he hit 26 fours, 7 threes and 9 two’s and was his first century in first class cricket, Gentlemen of Kent then were bowled out for 99 with Grace taking all ten wickets, with R.J. Streatfield absent injured, bowling 32.2 overs, seven maidens, ten wickets for 69 runs. In this extraordinary cricket match, Grace was not even supposed to be playing in the game ‘It was his [EMG] first appearance in ‘The Canterbury Week’ that he caused such a great sensation....the Kent Secretary, finding they were a man short, approached the Doctor [EMG’s Father] and asked him to let ‘E.M.’ play. ‘E.M.’ happened to be at home at Downend at the time and his Father pointed out that it was hardly worth while bringing the lad all the way from Gloucestershire to play in one match; he would, however, send for him if they would allow him to play for the M.C.C. against Kent (the second match of the week). The Secretary agreed and ‘E.M.’ was wired. Arriving on the second day... he was dismissed first ball. At his second attempt, he retrieved this failure by scoring 56... Unhappily before the M.C.C. match could be commenced a slight but unpleasant dispute arose, certain of the Kent players objecting to ‘E.M.’ representing the M.C.C. on the grounds that he was not a member of the club. It happened that the Kent Secretary was not at hand when the dispute started but, on his return to the ground, he explained that he had given ‘E.M.’ permission to play for the visitors and, this being settled, the match was begun. What a triumph for the young West Country player!. After carrying his bat through the M.C.C. innings for 192 not out, he took all ten wickets in Kent’s second innings. No doubt the Kent players wished they had been firm and not allowed him to play but there can be no gain saying that his wonderful play delighted not a few of his opponents’ Both his batting and bowling feats were rewarded, the President of M.C.C. presenting him with a bat, while the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby had the ball with which he had taken all the Kent wickets mounted on an ebony stand’ with an inscription on a silver plate. [‘The Graces’. A.G. Powell and S. Carynge Caple 1948] In one of his note books E.M. records ‘And now I come to the greatest of all my great performances in the cricket field, for against XIV of Kent the first ball I was caught in the long-field; the second innings I ought to have been caught again the first ball and made 56 afterwards. Then for the Marylebone v Gents of Kent I went in first, and carried my bat through, making 192, and in their second innings took every wicket with my slow underhand, for which performance they present me with a bat and the ball, most exquisitely mounted on an ebony stand and engraved in silver, and which I hope to keep as an everlasting memento’....’The Little Doctor’ not without reason, cherished this memento of his prowess more than any other to the day of his death, and now it belongs to one of his sons, who is naturally proud of his possession’. [Edward Mills Grace. Cricketer’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper’s biography 1916] The match was recorded in detail in Baily’s Magazine who commented ‘But all these innings, fine ones though they be, were nought but ‘leather and prunella’ compared to Mr Grace’s wonderful achievement with the bat... this great cricket feat of Mr E.M. Grace being rendered the more memorable by his bowling being fatal to all the wickets in the second innings of the Gentleman of Kent’
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‘Gentlemen of Kent v Marylebone Cricket Club, 13th, 14th & 15th August 1862’. Original cricket ball with circular shaped silver plaque inscribed ‘With this ball presented by M.C.C. to E.M. Grace, he got every wicket in the 2nd innings, in the match played at Canterbury, August 14, 15 1862. Gentlemen of Kent v M.C.C. for whom he played as an emergency, and in which, going in first he scored 192 not out’. Some ageing to leather of ball otherwise in good/very good condition. Sold with the original handwritten three page letter and envelope sent by Mr Spencer Ponsonby on behalf of M.C.C. The letter on ‘Lord Chamberlain’s Office, St. James’s Palace’ letterhead, dated 13th September, reads ‘My Dear Sir, I have this day forwarded to you, by the Great Western Railway, a parcel containing the ball with which you demolished every wicket in the 2nd innings of the match at Canterbury in which you scored 192 not out. I am requested by the Marylebone Cricket Club to beg your acceptance of the ball as a memorial of this unprecedented feat, with their best thanks for the assistance you rendered them on the occasion [actually playing in the match] and their hearty wishes for your future success in the cricket field as well as in every other respect. Yours faithfully, Spencer Ponsonby’. Folds to letter with some splitting to folds. The envelope in two neatly detached whole pieces addressed to ‘E.M. Grace Esq, Downend, nr Bristol’ and dated 13th September 1862. A very early and unique item which saw Grace playing at his zenith . - cricket The match was played twelve a side, The Gentlemen of Kent batted first and made 141 all out with Grace taking 5-77, in reply M.C.C. made 344 all out with Grace making 192no, in Grace’s innings of 192 he hit 26 fours, 7 threes and 9 two’s and was his first century in first class cricket, Gentlemen of Kent then were bowled out for 99 with Grace taking all ten wickets, with R.J. Streatfield absent injured, bowling 32.2 overs, seven maidens, ten wickets for 69 runs. In this extraordinary cricket match, Grace was not even supposed to be playing in the game ‘It was his [EMG] first appearance in ‘The Canterbury Week’ that he caused such a great sensation....the Kent Secretary, finding they were a man short, approached the Doctor [EMG’s Father] and asked him to let ‘E.M.’ play. ‘E.M.’ happened to be at home at Downend at the time and his Father pointed out that it was hardly worth while bringing the lad all the way from Gloucestershire to play in one match; he would, however, send for him if they would allow him to play for the M.C.C. against Kent (the second match of the week). The Secretary agreed and ‘E.M.’ was wired. Arriving on the second day... he was dismissed first ball. At his second attempt, he retrieved this failure by scoring 56... Unhappily before the M.C.C. match could be commenced a slight but unpleasant dispute arose, certain of the Kent players objecting to ‘E.M.’ representing the M.C.C. on the grounds that he was not a member of the club. It happened that the Kent Secretary was not at hand when the dispute started but, on his return to the ground, he explained that he had given ‘E.M.’ permission to play for the visitors and, this being settled, the match was begun. What a triumph for the young West Country player!. After carrying his bat through the M.C.C. innings for 192 not out, he took all ten wickets in Kent’s second innings. No doubt the Kent players wished they had been firm and not allowed him to play but there can be no gain saying that his wonderful play delighted not a few of his opponents’ Both his batting and bowling feats were rewarded, the President of M.C.C. presenting him with a bat, while the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby had the ball with which he had taken all the Kent wickets mounted on an ebony stand’ with an inscription on a silver plate. [‘The Graces’. A.G. Powell and S. Carynge Caple 1948] In one of his note books E.M. records ‘And now I come to the greatest of all my great performances in the cricket field, for against XIV of Kent the first ball I was caught in the long-field; the second innings I ought to have been caught again the first ball and made 56 afterwards. Then for the Marylebone v Gents of Kent I went in first, and carried my bat through, making 192, and in their second innings took every wicket with my slow underhand, for which performance they present me with a bat and the ball, most exquisitely mounted on an ebony stand and engraved in silver, and which I hope to keep as an everlasting memento’....’The Little Doctor’ not without reason, cherished this memento of his prowess more than any other to the day of his death, and now it belongs to one of his sons, who is naturally proud of his possession’. [Edward Mills Grace. Cricketer’. F.S. Ashley-Cooper’s biography 1916] The match was recorded in detail in Baily’s Magazine who commented ‘But all these innings, fine ones though they be, were nought but ‘leather and prunella’ compared to Mr Grace’s wonderful achievement with the bat... this great cricket feat of Mr E.M. Grace being rendered the more memorable by his bowling being fatal to all the wickets in the second innings of the Gentleman of Kent’
The Dawn of Test Cricket. The important historical collection of Edward Mills Grace, Cricketer
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