Bat Collection (page 2)

La Fete Bat Son Plein
This illustration depicts a party in full swing, with a host or supervisor graciously welcoming a fashionably dressed young lady, accompanied with an older gentleman

H H Stephenson and Billy Caffyn, English cricketers
H H Stephenson and Billy Caffyn, the only two English cricketers who visited both America and Australia Date: 1863

Women's summer costumes by Hygeia
Women's Boating, Cricket, Tennis and Tricycle Summer Costumes by Hygeia Date: 1888

Herbert Sutcliffe, Cricketer
Herbert Sutcliffe (1894-1978) was a professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. He was part of the M.C.C

Don Bradman batting at Perth, Hammond in slips
Australian cricketer Don Bradman batting at Perth, Hammond in the slips Date: circa 1930s

Jack Hobbs sweeps ball to long leg
English cricketer Jack Hobbs sweeping a ball to long leg Date: circa 1930s

Len Hutton cutting McCabe past Waite at the Oval
England cricketer Len Hutton cutting McCabe past Waite in his record innings at the Oval, 1938, B.A. Barnett keeping wicket Date: 1938

Wally Hammond hitting boundary off McCabe at Lords
England cricketer Wally Hammond hitting a boundary off McCabe at Lords, 1938, B A Barnett keeping wicket Date: 1938

Hobbs and Rhodes, Australian cricketers
Cricketers Hobbs and Rhodes who established a first wicket Test record of 323 tour of Australia Date: 1912

Hole and Harvey, third test against England
Australian cricketers Hole and Harvey, whose partnership of 173 runs lasted into the third morning of the Third Test against England, 1953 Date: 1953

The Comic Novel or Downing Street and the Days of Victoria by Lynx - title page by the Artists Fun Society Date: 1840

Poster, Fortune cigarettes Date: circa 1955

Village Sports, Howzat Umpire, Comical Cats by Louis Wain
Village Sports, Howzat Umpire, Comical Cats playing Cricket by Louis Wain Date: 1904

Geoffroy's rousette bat, Rousettus amplexicaudatus, and naked-backed fruit bat, Dobsonia peronii.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's Dictionary of Natural

Jeek the puppy brings home a dead pigeon
Jeek the mongrel puppy brings home a dead pigeon which has been shot by hunters. Jacky and Gerry wonder what to do with it. Date: 1940

Cartoon, The Head of the German Vam-Pire, WW1
Cartoon, The Head of the German Vam-Pire, with a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II with the words Louvain and Rheims (Reims) on his shoulders

Cartoon, The Last Wicket - The Boer War is compared to cricket with a Boer batting and Kitchener as wicket keeper. Date: 1901

Comic postcard, Little boys and vicar. Please sir, we re forming a cricket club. Will you let us have one of the bats the verger says you have in your belfry? Date: 20th century

Five table tennis players, three posing with their trophies. Date: c. 1935
Five table tennis players, three posing with their trophies. Date: c.1935

Bill Edrich and Denis Compton coming out to bat at Lords Cricket ground during the legendary summer of 1947 when Compton scored 3, 816 runs and Edrich 3, 539. Date: 1947

A Young boy playing cricket in a suburban garden - he awaits for a delivery to arrive... Date: circa 1920

Reverend Frank Gillingham (1875-1953) - noted clergyman and cricketer - in cricket apparel walking back to the pavilion. His score of 201 for Essex versus Middlesex (as reported in this issue)

Victorian scrap, Boy in sailor suit with cricket bat. 19th century

Mr Libbys Juices, Grapefruit Juice
Libbys Happy Families Card Game, Mr. Libbys Juices, Grapefruit Juice. circa 1950s

Jack Hobbs hitting a boundary for Surrey against Yorkshire
Jack Hobbs, legendary cricketer, hitting a boundary in a Surrey versus Yorkshire match. circa 1920s

Three species of bat in flight -- Common Bat (Vespertilio pipistrellus), Great Bat (Vespertilio noctula) and Long-Eared Bat (Vespertilio auritus). Date: 1843

Ternate bat and New York bat
Large flying fox, Pteropus vampyrus, and New York bat (Ternate bat, Vespertilio vampyrus, and New York bat, Vespertilio noveboracensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J

Medieval bat and ball game
Man holding a ball about to hit it to a catcher in the game of club ball, 14th century, early version of baseball or criket

Medieval bat and ball games
Woman pitching a ball to a man with a bat in the game of club ball, 14th century (top), man holding a ball about to hit it to a catcher in the game of club ball, 14th century (middle)

Medieval game of badminton
Medieval childrens game of badminton with racquets and shuttlecock, 13th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Four-eyed opossum and false vampire bat
Four-eyed opossum, Philander opossum, and false vampire bat, Vampyrum spectrum. (Marine oppossum of Terra Firma and Vampire or Spectre of Guiana.) Copperplate engraving by A

Medieval men playing wall tennis, checkers and hoops
Medieval men bat a ball against a board mounted on a wall (wall tennis or pelota?), some play drafts or checkers, others roll hoops and jump through hoops

The game of tennis on the Champs Elysees, 19th century
The game of lawn tennis or longue paume on the Champs Elysees, 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

Bilboquet and other games - including skittles
Medieval men playing cup and ball, bilboquet, and other games including skittles, badminton and tennis. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

Western barbastelle bat, Barbastella barbastellus barbastellus (Vespertilio barbastellus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new

Greater bulldog bat, Noctilio leporinus. Vespertilio leporinus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Nussbiegel from Johann Christian Daniel Schrebers Animal Illustrations after Nature

Giant house bat, Scotophilus nigrita nigrita. Vespertilio nigrita. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Johann Christian Daniel

Lesser sac-winged bat, Saccopteryx leptura. Vespertilio lepturus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Nussbiegel after an illustration from nature by J.D

Hairy long-eared bat, Nycteris hispida. Vespertilio hispidus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Johann Christian Daniel

Common pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus pipistrellus. Vespertilio pipistrellus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Jacques Buvee l Ameriquain

Serotine bat, Eptesicus serotinus serotinus. Vespertilio serotinus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob Andreas Eisenmann after an illustration by Jacques de Seve from Johann Christian

Asian particoloured bat, Vespertilio sinensis noctula. Vespertilio noctula Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob Andreas Eisenmann after an illustration by Jacques Buvee l Ameriquain

Particoloured bat, Vespertilio murinus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Valentin Bischoff after an illustration by Jacques Buvee l Ameriquain from Johann Christian Daniel Schrebers Animal

Brown big-eared bat, Plecotus auritus. Vespertilio auritus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Jacques Buvee l Ameriquain from Johann

Painted woolly bat, Kerivoula picta. Vespertilio pictus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jakob Andreas Eisenmann after an illustration by Jacques de Seve

Sebas short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata. Vespertilio perspicillatus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Nussbiegel after an illustration by J.D

Greater spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus hastatus. Javelin bat, Vespertilio haftatus Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Sebastian Leitner after an illustration by Jacques de Seve

Spectral bat or false vampire bat, Vampyrum spectrum. Vespertilio spectrum Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Hermann Jakob Tyroff from Johann Christian Daniel Schrebers Animal Illustrations

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