[Cricket] [Pelaco Shirts]

English Team Fixtures 1936-7. [Pelaco Shirts. 'A Great Hit' (cover title)]

[Melbourne, Pelaco Limited, 1936].

A card bifolium (101 × 63 mm), [4] pages, comprising the colour-pictorial cover, the English Team Fixtures 1936-7 across the centrefold, with an advertisement for Pelaco shirts at the rear.

Outer hinge slightly rubbed; an excellent copy.

'Mulga Fred (c.1874-1948), Aboriginal buckjumper ... always maintained that he was the model for Pelaco Bill [and] the company acknowledged his claim by sending him shirts ...' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').

Item #134462

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