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The George Burchell Collection, comprising: caps, sixteen rose England amateur internationals, re
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The George Burchell Collection, comprising: caps, sixteen rose England amateur internationals, representing the complete player’s collection, all home international championships with the exception of France, 1946-47; three blue Athenian Football League, 1934-35, 1936-37 & 1938-39, and a rose Essex county, 1934-35; cloth shirt badges, eleven England amateur internationals, a 1934-35 Scotland v. Ireland amateur international, a F.A.W. amateur international and ten Athenian Football League; a group of twenty-nine medals, lapel & pin badges, including East Anglian Cup, Essex County Senior Challenge Cup, Northern Command football, Athenian League, Surrey County F.A., continental amateur tournaments etc., variously silver, gold, white metal, bronze, enamelled; four electroplate and enamel mounted wooden shield plaques, South Essex Charity Competitions, 1930s; miscellaneous items, including telegrams & correspondence, a press cuttings album, a black and white team-group photograph of George Burchell and the En land amateur international team at Dulwich Hamlet, with printed legend, and a colour tinted photograph of Burchell wearing an England shirt and cap (a qty.). George Burchell of Romford FC won a total of 16 England amateur international caps between seasons 1935-36 and 1946-47, and was the England captain for many years. He was one of the smallest central defenders ever to play international amateur football, but was a master of positional play and a ferocious tackler. He later played for Walthamstow. provenance:. The George Burchell Collection, Sotheby’s 14th July 2000.
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The George Burchell Collection, comprising: caps, sixteen rose England amateur internationals, representing the complete player’s collection, all home international championships with the exception of France, 1946-47; three blue Athenian Football League, 1934-35, 1936-37 & 1938-39, and a rose Essex county, 1934-35; cloth shirt badges, eleven England amateur internationals, a 1934-35 Scotland v. Ireland amateur international, a F.A.W. amateur international and ten Athenian Football League; a group of twenty-nine medals, lapel & pin badges, including East Anglian Cup, Essex County Senior Challenge Cup, Northern Command football, Athenian League, Surrey County F.A., continental amateur tournaments etc., variously silver, gold, white metal, bronze, enamelled; four electroplate and enamel mounted wooden shield plaques, South Essex Charity Competitions, 1930s; miscellaneous items, including telegrams & correspondence, a press cuttings album, a black and white team-group photograph of George Burchell and the En land amateur international team at Dulwich Hamlet, with printed legend, and a colour tinted photograph of Burchell wearing an England shirt and cap (a qty.). George Burchell of Romford FC won a total of 16 England amateur international caps between seasons 1935-36 and 1946-47, and was the England captain for many years. He was one of the smallest central defenders ever to play international amateur football, but was a master of positional play and a ferocious tackler. He later played for Walthamstow. provenance:. The George Burchell Collection, Sotheby’s 14th July 2000.
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