b'72621Football (Rugby League)621A QUEENSLAND 1911 HONOUR CAP, awarded to a member of the State team which played against New South Wales on June 7, 1911; maroon velvet with wire embroidered Q around a kangaroo over the date 1911 and full tassle; black internal lining. In exceptionally fine condition. Accompanied by an original Talma RP postcard of the team.Provenance: the Estate of Jack Darb Hickey (1887 - 1950), who was a member of the opposing New South Wales team and who evidently exchanged his cap for this one.Jack Darb Hickey was an Australian rugby union and pioneer professional rugby league footballer who represented his country at both sports. He was one of Australias early dual-code rugby internationals. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in rugby union and was notable for scoring the first ever try for the Australian national side in a rugby league test match. Hickey toured Britain and North America with the Wallabies in 190809. He earned two Test caps against Wales and England on the tour and was a member of the gold medal-winning Wallabies at the 1908 London Olympics. On his return to Australia, he joined the fledgling code of rugby league along with 13 of his Olympic teammates. He played in both rugby league Tests of the 1910 Great Britain Lions tour of Australasia, the first ever, during which he scored the first ever try for Australia in a rugby league Test Match.Darb Hickey played 4 seasons with Glebe (rugby league team) and one season at Balmain Tigers during his club career. .$1,5002,500622622AN AUSTRALIAN KANGAROO TOUR TEAM 1912 HONOUR CAP, awarded to a member of the team which toured Great Britain, where they became the first-ever touring side to win The Ashes; maroon and deep navy velvet, with wire embroidered ARL (kangaroo) AUSTRALIAN over the date 1912 and full tassle; black internal lining and the Finney Isles & Co. Ltd. Queensland makers label. In exceptionally fine condition.Provenance: the Estate of Jack Darb Hickey (1887 - 1950) who appears to have been included in the early group of players under consideration for the squad.Hickey joined the Glebe Rugby League Club in 1910, and continued to enhance his reputation in the thirteen-man code. He played in a two-Test series against the visiting British team, partnering Messenger in the centres. Injury though soon curtailed his representative career, and he was unable to regain his form in time to take part in the 1911/12 Kangaroos tour of England. Hickey continued to play on for Newtown (with an interlude at Balmain in 1911), until enlisting in the AIF in 1915. After serving in France, at the conclusion of the war Hickey took part in rugby union services matches, partnering Wallabies team- mate Dan Carroll in the centres.$1,5002,500'