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Gipsies [Rugby] Football Club Hon. Secretary's hand-written book for season 1878-79, compiled in ink by H Pickering Clarke, Thelwall House, Highgate,

Hammer:
£280
Estimate:
£300 - £500

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Gipsies [Rugby] Football Club Hon. Secretary's hand-written book for season 1878-79, compiled in ink by H Pickering Clarke, Thelwall House, Highgate, including balance sheet, match line ups, cores and brief action reports and other information, also pasted with printed press reports of games; sold with some correspondence with the Rugby Memorabilia Society relating to Gispsies FC and its history, Gipsies being one of the 21 founding members of the RFU, and providing two of the players in England's first ever international in 1871 J E Bentley and J H Luscombe, excellent item for the rugby historian, (qty)