Trade card featuring Warwick Armstrong, c1930s
Object Type
Documents and books/Document/Card/Trade or swap card/Trade card - Cigarette card
Date Used
1930s
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Object Detail
Brief Description
Trade card affixed to white paper with typewritten text. It has a white border that surrounds an oval-shaped black and white portrait of a cricketer wearing a white shirt. Printed text along lower edge reads 'W.W. ARMSTRONG'.
Measurements
0 - Whole: H: 105 W: 130 D: 1mm (H: 4 1/8 W: 5 1/8 D: 1/16")
H: 70 W: 42 D: 1mm (H: 2 3/4 W: 1 5/8 D: 1/16")
H: 70 W: 42 D: 1mm (H: 2 3/4 W: 1 5/8 D: 1/16")
Associated Person
Date Used
1930s
Location
In storage
Registration No
1987.1801.24
Credit Line
Kindly donated to the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum by JW Barnes
This is not a Wills Cigarette card - it is as follows... Modelled on the issue of 15 cards by the McIntyre Bros. Chocolate Company in 1921 and depicting the 1920/21 Australian team members, led by Warwick Armstrong, who toured to England in the first immediate post WW1 Test match series
- Stephen Flemming
Posted on 15-06-2020 12:00:06