Bandy / Ice Hockey – Pair of ‘F.H. Ayres’ Bandy Sticks both stamped ‘F.H. Ayres London’, ‘Regulatory Bandy’, c.1879, measure 96cm approx. in length. In Victorian England a game of hockey-on-ice, played with a ball called a ‘cat’, was taken from the old game of Bandy. (2)