1933-34 Kangaroo Tour Jersey and Christmas Card with Gibbs

The 1933-34 Kangaroo Tour of Great Britain: A1933 badged Rugby League Jersey (number removed) believed to have been worn by Jim Gibbs [1909 - 1996], accompanied by a Christmas greeting card (signed Jim Gibbs) with panoramic photograph of the sixth Australian Rugby League Kangaroos team, World tour 1937-1938, of which Gibbs was a member. (2 items). Gibbs was an Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative forward. He played club football in the Newcastle Rugby League for Souths and in Sydney's Nswrfl Premiership for Canterbury-Bankstown. He was born in New Zealand and in 1911 at age two, his family moved to Australia and settled in Glebe. He began his senior football career in 1927 and was one of five brothers who played for South Newcastle. Gibbs was first selected to represent NSW in 1933 and was then selected to go on the 1933-34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain. He made his debut in 1933, becoming Kangaroo No. 184 and Newcastle's fourth international in the process. He also played in the tour of New Zealand in 1935 and was selected to go on the 1937-38 Kangaroo tour.