Rare 1869 Cricket Club brass name plate - engraved “1869 Leicester, Oxford Cricket Club” and decorated with scroll work overall 3.75 x 6.5”. Note one of the successful cricket teams that played in the Leicester area were Oxford Cricket Club based on Victoria Park in Leicester. They later merged with Wycliffe C.C. to form Oxford and Wycliffe CC, a team that initially based on Victoria Park but who ended their playing days on the ground now used by Leicester Lions about 40 years ago.