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A recent acquisition of the museum is this painting of a Welsh Schoolboy in his jersey. we believe this is an original painting from around the turn of the century, the jersey badge dates it as thus. What is unusual about this painting is the modernistic structure that the boy is holding onto. We've no idea what this is, if anyone can shed any light on who the player is or what is he holding onto we'd much appreciate this. Disappointingly there is a small tear to the canvas on the boy's face but generally the painting is good with some damage to the inside of the frame.

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Amongst the World Rugby Museum collection is a signed postcard of the combined East Midlands and Midland team that toured France in 1913. The card is autographed to the reverse by 13 of the tour party including Captain Edgar Mobbs and one of rugby's greatest adventurers, Tom Richards, the only man ever to play for the both the British Lions and Australia. We'd like to find out more information about this tour and the other players in this team and to identify those hard to read signatures. Local newspapers for Northampton, Coventry, Leicester and surrounding districts etc may contain tour reports and information relating to these players.

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	Milford P Jones - probably a Welshman with 8 panel ball and what looks like a portable changing shed in the background. Ref: F9-238-pcpyuk		Unknown team. Ref: F9-240-pctmuk
	Dally Messenger - signed ????? - Is this a real signature or has someone just written Dally's name, A picture of kicking contest between Messenger and Lomas, the English captain in 1910 , a regular occurrence in early 20th century Australia - F9-239-pcrl

Two signed postcards, believed to be of rugby league players. Ref: F20-45

With Compliments Stan and Russell - almost certainly Huddersfield players, postcard by a Huddersfield photographer. 7/5/09 - Steve thinks that the photo is probably the Pepperells who played for Huddersfield in the 1950’s. although he thinks there were three brothers not two.	"Compliments of the season", the badge looks as though it has a white rose so is this player Yorkshire ?

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The badges & pins in this table belonged to a member of the Transvaal committee and his son based in Johannesburg. We believe that most date from the 1960s. Any help identifying these will be much appreciated.
	Unknown - CL - 15mm - Ref:F72-13-07	RRC ? (pssibly Rotterdam Rugby Club) pin - 8mm - Ref: BGA-126
	TG 001 Rugby Club pin - 22mm - Ref: F72-14-13	Junior Springboks ?? ? - BH - 12mm - Ref: BGA-121
	same as Canadian badge but different colours Ref: F72-14-15	unknown - BH - 8mm - Ref: F72-15-03
	ARR ? (uknown referees badge) - BH - 10mm - Ref: F72-15-01

	Is this a Llanelli 1972 Centenary jersey the UCW initials underneath the Dragon is what's stumping us, is this University College Wales ? Ref: ZC105-jyukwacb-ll72-ucw
	A light blue and yellow jersey, the badge has 'FVR' below a bat. A very unusual badge, the jersey is a lightweight cotton so could possibly be Southern European. (Ref: ZL3-16)
	This jersey originated in New Zealand. It has a badge with a muzzled boar beneath which in Latin is written "tendit in ardu virtus". It is un-numbered (Ref: ZL4-jyuk-red). We now pretty sure that this jersey is from the Mackie Academy Former Pupils RFC (Stonehaven, Scotland).

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We are searching for information on Charles Bunney (or Bunny, Bunning). He is reported as being a prominent Usk and Pontypool player. We have this information on his Pontypool career...........

C Bunny played for Pontymoile Whitestars in seasons 1898-1899, 1899-1900 and 1900-1901. Pontymoile Whitestars, who were the forerunners of Pontypool RFC, amalgamated with Pontypool Thursdays in the summer of 1901 to form the now Pontypool RFC. C Bunny, who was a forward, played in the first match of the re-constituted Pontypool RFC on 21 September 1901 against Cardiff Romilly at Recreation Ground, Pontypool with Pontypool winning by 2 tries to one (6-3)"

But we have nothing on him playing for Usk RFC. I would expect him to be playing in the 1890s for this club ?

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William Emlyn 'Em' EVANS (Penygraig)

This photo shows W.E. Evans of Penygraig wearing his Welsh Schools jersey and cap awarded to him in 1936 when he played for Wales against England in front of a crowd of 30,000 at cardiff Arms Park. Em.'s son Ray is keen to acquire a team photo from this match. The other members of the team are:

W.Roberts (Aberavon), T.Lewis (Aberavon), B.Watkins (Abertillery), D.J.Prater (Cardiff), W.E.Connell (Llanelli)
G.R.Roberts (Maesteg), J.R.Hilliard (Mid Glamorgan), W.E. Perry (Mid Glamorgan), H.Davies (Mynydd Mawr),
J.Davies (Neath), J.R.G. (Rees) Stephens (Neath) (Capt)

Wales won the match by 25 points to 9, click on thumbnail to the left for the match report. Em's shirt can now be seen hanging proudly in the Penygraig RFC club house.

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WCS 1923 - the cap is believed to have belonged to Arthur Morgan, Neath & Glamorgan.

It has been suggested by 'JP' that this cap is a Wales Civil Service cap....................

"Re the WCS 1923 cap for Arthur Morgan. My “guess” is that it’s a Welsh Civil Service Cap. - Civil Service Sport was once pretty strong – they were one of the 21 founding clubs of the RFU – and there were certainly Internationals played between the Welsh and English Civil Service. I have a programme from the late 40’s of a game played at Swansea. I recently bought a Birmingham Civil Service RFC cap from the 20’s so Rugby was widespread within the Civil Service at the time. Have tried some research but can’t prove if this was the case. Maybe some family background on Arthur Morgan will shed light on what he did before he went north."

.... the fact that the cap is dated 1923 and not 1922/3 or 1923/4 seems to suggest that it was presented for a 'single' appearance, we have seen a programme dated 1924 for a civil service international between England and Wales. Unless of course this is a cricket cap, possibly the 'C' stands for 'cricket'. I do however side with 'JP' on this that it's a Wales Civil Service cap...... any further info or comments will be greatly received

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Great News ! - we have managed to obtain an England v Wales Civil Service 1923 programme with Arthur Morgan listed in the Welsh team ! photos to follow soon !

We are searching for information on the career of Albert Jones who sometimes played under the name of Albert Green, (Green being his mother's maiden name). We know that he played rugby league for Wales in the 1920s, possibly against New Zealand at Pontypridd.
	Wales Rugby League Cap 1927-8 awarded to Albert Green / Jones. The cap is by Nicholl & Brown of Halifax. Ref: CC72-rlcpwa
	Rugby League Cap 1927-8 (GM) awarded to Albert Green / Jones. The cap by W Gamage Ltd of London is in excellent condition. We are searching for more information on Albert Green's career and for which club this cap was awarded. Ref: CC72-rlcpgm
Thanks to Graham Williams who has supplied the following information. "Albert's two Welsh appearances were against New Zealand in December 1926 and England in April 1927. According to the recently published Barrow RLFC Who’s Who, after Pontypridd RLFC closed down in October 1927 Green joined the newly formed Carlisle City sometime after August 1928. When City closed down in November 1928 Green joined Barrow but after playing six matches for them ‘he disappeared’."

Old Stager

We are searching for information or newspaper reports by journalist WJ 'John' Hoare known as 'Old Stager'. Seen above kicking off a charity match 'OId Stager' was an influential member of the South Wales press core, his criticism of the selection policy led to the creation of a five man selection panel. He then named them the 'Big Five', a term which became as famous as the man himself. There were two 'Old Stagers', the first 'JR Stephens' covered rugby in South Wales around the 1890s to early 1900s, the Old Stager for whom we are searching info is the SW Echo, SW Argus & Western Mail writer of the 1920s and 1930s. He was a prolific writer a fine example of his work was the front page of the South Wales Football Echo on the day when Wales defeated New Zealand in 1935, almost the complete front page is written by Old Stager, this for an evening paper which would hit the streets within 90 minutes of the match finishing, a phenomenal feat ! Any help given will be credited on our 'Old Stager' page when complete.

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A big THANK YOU to the following who have supplied information to items appearing on this page:

Ray Evans, South Dareth, Kent (formerly of Penygraig), Paul Davies, 'JP', Ted Roberts, Lena Balakrishnan, NZ, Peter Upton, Richard Avenell, Pat Walsh, Australia, Howard Mitchell, Joel Diemer, New Mexico. Steve Calline, Lisa Edwards (gg/d of Albert Jenkins, Llanelli & Wales), Graham Williams, rugby historian, Nick Creal & Neil Vickery, Clive Jones of Carmarthen, Tom Judd, Leicester, Adrian Doyle, Australia, Chris Evans,

There are others, if we have missed you, sorry ! please email us and we will add you to the above list.

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