The earliest known surviving F.A. Cup final programme: Old Etonians v Blackburn Rovers played at the Kennington Oval 25th March 1882, match card with

The earliest known surviving F.A. Cup final programme: Old Etonians v Blackburn Rovers played at the Kennington Oval 25th March 1882, match card with team line ups, list of officials, previous winners 1872-1881, the original owner has underlined six of the Old Etonian players and annotated the card THOSE MARKED DESERVED NOTICE, the reverse carrying an advert for a weekly sports magazine The programme was originally owned by the lawyer Sir Thomas Berry Cusack-Smith, KCMG, 5th Baronet, (1859-1929), who had been educated at Eton. In a surviving diary entry for 25th March 1882, a scan of which is offered in this lot, Cusack-Smith writes: ''Gigas came to lunch. Went with him & Guy to The Oval and saw the Etonians win the Cup after a most exciting match in the presence of 5,000 persons. Met S. Goodhart & J.B. Bradshaw.'' The Old Etonians line-up included Harry Goodhart, presumably a relation.