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RUGBY HEROES

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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	AE Jenkins from.............. we know not where ? F90-36		Who is this Welsh player at Swansea F90-35
	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		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

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	"Compliments of the season", the badge looks as though it has a white rose so is this player Yorkshire ?

The ties and 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 ties will be much appreciated.
	Probably Centurions, SA - 6.5cm - no makers label - pure silk - Ref: BC05-069	Black with double Cambridge blue stripes - 5.5cm - made in England - probably a Cardiff tie from the 1967 tour of South Africa. Ref: BC05-091	Rams head 7.5cm - made/supplied by Hepworths - Ref: BC05-071	Harvinia - probably a cricket team - 6cm - no makers label - Ref: BC05-072
	Lion wearing crown with sword/sceptre - 5.5cm - made/supplied by Boule Noire- Ref: BC05-073	M(?)RFC, New Zealand club tie - 6cm - made by Eskay, NZ- Ref: BC05-074	HRFC, New Zealand club tie - 5.5cm - made/supplied by Sander, NZ - Ref: BC05-075	Springbok single motif, possibly representative - 6.5cm Ref: BC05-093
	unknown 8.5cm - made/supplied by Charles Norman, London - Ref: BC05-077	Australia, unknown - 6cm - Ref: BC05-096	unknown - 6cm - silk - Ref: BC05-079	navy with double red and single white stripes, 7.5cm - made/supplied by Pritex, England, silk - Ref: BC05-084
	black with sky blue and white stripes - 9.5cm - no label - Ref: BC05-085	navy with thin white above plum stripe - 11.5cm - fibre/polyester - Ref: BC05-086	navy with double red and single white stripes, 7.5 cm - made/supplied by Pritex, England, silk - Ref: BC05-087	blue with green stripe, with two thin gold stripes either side - 9cm - made/supplied by - Ref: BC05-088
	black with thin red & white stripes - 9.5cm - made/supplied by Skipper - Ref: BC05-089	navy with double red and single white stripes, 6cm - made/supplied by Royalita, terylene - Ref: BC05-090	red with silver stripe - 9cm - made/supplied by - Ref: BC05-083	black with gold, white & maroon stripe - 6cm - made/supplied by Cravateur (SA) - Ref: BC05-092
BLAZER & JERSEY BADGES
	unknown jersey badge Ref: F46-02	RRC Ref: F46-96	unknown - castle on shield on Lion, date (1933) below castle Ref: F46-98	URFC 1st XV Ref: F46-99

possibly Uni College Dublin 11cm - Ref: BC02-202	possibly Tasmania - made by Vogue in Australia - Ref: BC02-144 -	unknown, 9cm - Ref: BC02-212 -	unknown 11cm - Ref: BC02-122 -
MIRU - tie made in Australia, Ref: CC62-tiukas	VA - probably Virginia, USA origin - Ref: BC02-211 -	unknown, 9cm - Ref: BC02-215 -	SRFC - unknown British club side, the logo is a goat hanging from a wide strap. Navy & blue, 7cm. Ref: CC28-P1 - £7.00
unknown 7cm - Ref: BC02-118	unknown 8cm - Ref: BC02-120 -	possibly North of Ireland FC. 8cm, - Ref: BC02-117 - £8.00	unknown - Ref: BC02-125 -
unknown, made in England - Ref: BC02-415
SRFU - made in England, 9cm. - Ref: BC04-102	'The Bears' - origin South Wales, tie made in England, 8cm. Ref: BC04-103	Wales - 3 feathers, leak, dragon & daffodil motifs. 1960s tie made of terylene. Ref: BC04-104	LRFC - origin South Wales, tie made in England, 7.5cm. Ref: BC04-105
Griffin motif, origin South Wales, tie made in England, 1960s tie made of terylene. Ref: BC04-106

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 ? pin - 8mm - Ref: BGA-126
	SSC - BH - 22mm - Ref: BGA-49	1959 - Junior Springboks ??? - BH - 12mm - Ref: F72-14-04
	unknown, probably Qantas airlines, circa 1968 - pin - 13mm Ref: F72-14-07	Junior Springboks ?? ? - BH - 12mm - Ref: BGA-121
	unknown, possibly Lufthansa airlines - pin - 24mm - Ref: F72-14-11	unknown, possibly Flying Springbok (SA Airlines) - CL - 30mm - Ref: F72-14-12
	TG 001 Rugby Club pin - 22mm - Ref: F72-14-13	unknown - BH - 8mm - Ref: F72-15-03
	same as Canadian badge but different colours Ref: F72-14-15	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 ?
	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)

We are searching for information and photographs on the playing career of Morgan Davies (born 16.8.1898 in Tredegar). He probably played just after WWI possibly for Tredegar. (WRM-RRC-3379)

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.
	Wales Rugby League Cap 1927-8 awarded to Albert Green. (There is some confusion to Albert's surname, in later years he changed it to Jones). The cap by Nicholl & Brown of Halifax is in excellent condition. Ref: CC72-rlcpwa
	Rugby League Cap 1927-8 (GM) awarded to Albert Green. (There is some confusion to Albert's surname, in later years he changed it to 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

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. Please email us at museum@rugbyrelics.com if you are able to help !

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