A leather football signed on the occasion of the Brazil v Mexico international match 30th September 1970, signed by both the Brazil and Mexico international teams; sold together with a b&w press photo of Pele in action for Santos, signed and dedicated to the reverse; another photograph of Pele; and a cased Mexican silver 1970 World Cup commemorative medal (4). This was Brazil’s first international match after being crowned world champions in Mexico in 1970. The game was a friendly played at the Maracana in Rio gave the Brazilian public the first opportunity to hail their champions on the football field since the World Cup. Brazil won the game 2-1. The signatures were obtained by Pele on behalf of his friend Reynaldo Renato Figueiredo, an airline pilot who had an apartment in the same block as Pele in Sao Paulo. A privately taken picture of Pele with Figueiredo in the cockpit of a plane is included in the lot
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An autographed menu for a Lord Mayor of London dinner to meet the Arsenal Football Club at The Mansion House 25th October 1947, the inside front cover signed by approx. 40 members of the Arsenal party. Sir Bracewell Smith, Bt (1884-1966) the Lord Mayor of London at the time of this dinner became chairman of Arsenal FC in 1949 and held the post until 1962. he has signed the cover of this menu. Bracewell Smith made his fortune in property and built the Park Lane Hotel in 1920 as well as having stakes in the Carlton Hotel and the Ritz in Paris.
A highly important cuttings album containing what is believed to be the oldest surviving item of Newton Heath and therefore Manchester United memorabilia and additionally the autographs of The Outcasts FC a group of rebel players who paved the way for the formation of the Players Union, and the current P.F.A., Containing:. I) a pasted leaf with the 10 signatures of Newton Heath LYR, believed to have been signed on the occasion of the match v. the Canadian touring team on 6th October 1888, with the missing signature from the line up being the right winger William Tait. Believed to be the oldest surviving item of . Newton Heath and therefore Manchester United memorabilia. A programme for Everton v. Newton Heath on April 15th, 1889 is understood to be in the David France Everton Collection Charitable Trust;. Ii) a team-group leaf titled Manchester United 1908-09 & 1910-11, 14 signatures. Iii) the autograph of Billy Meredith, the signature dated Feb 12/07;. Iv) Ernest Mangnall’s signed official Manchester United team-sheet for the 1909 F.A. Cup final v Bristol City at The Crystal Palace, Manchester United’s historic first appearance and win in the Cup final;. V) a leaf containing team-group signatures of The Outcasts F.C inscribed “Playing for union rights”, The Outcasts being a group of rebel players captained by United’s Charlie Roberts and team-mate Billy Meredith, also signed by the United goalkeeper Herbert Broomfield, inscribed Players Union Secretary, the autograph set almost certainly relating from the same day that the famous photograph was taken of the Outcasts at Fallowfield in July, 1909 (this photo is reproduced in the John Harding book “For the Good of the Game” which contains an introduction by Gordon Taylor of the PFA), the only missing signature from the photograph being that of Turnbull, other signatories include Moger, Duckworth, Wall, Corbett, Picken, Holden, Coleman, Clough, Burgess and G. Boswell (PU asst. Secretary);. Vi) an envelope addressed to A H Albut, [first] Secretary of Newton Heath Football Club, at the club’s first office, 33 Oldham Road; & another envelope addressed to James West, a later Club Secretary at Bank Street . Vii) the album also containing the signatures of other footballers of the Edwardian era, mostly signed over printed biographical newspaper articles, comprising Robert Hawkes (Luton), Robert Smith Robinson ( Liverpool), Peter Kyle (Spurs), Alec Raisbeck (Newcastle), Harry Thorpe (Fulham), Thomas Riley (Brentford), Arthur Collins (Fulham), H Robinson (Birmingham), J T Robertson (Chelsea), David Ross (Norwich), & J S Fryer (Fulham). Viii) the album also containing press cuttings & non- football related family scraps. Provenance:. Emma Gaskell of the Gaskell family of Knutsford, Cheshire. Emma Gaskell being the god-daughter of James West, the Club Secretary of Newton Heath, becoming Manchester United in 1902. Thence by family descent
An autographed Tottenham Hotspur 1950-51 Football League Division Champions framed display, the mount with two sets of autographs, the first with 12 signatures over player portraits, the second a team-group removed from a lined ledger with 14 signatures, framed & glazed, 36 by 46cm., 14 by 18in.
A football autograph album from season 1931-32, containing 11 Football League Division One team-groups including the League Champions Everton and F.A. Cup winners Newcastle United, also Arsenal, Birmingham, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Derby County, Leicester City, Sheffield United, WBA & West Ham United, mostly ink signatures, six of the teams signed on pages back-to-back
A football autograph album dating from season 1938-39, team-groups and part groups for Southend United, Reading, Liverpool, Aldershot, Millwall, Bolton, Blackburn (2nd Division Champions), Bury, Fulham (cut-outs), Bristol Rovers, Derby County, Notts County & Swansea, plus a few individual signatures, collected in ink and pencil
Three autographed 1950s Charles Buchan Football Annuals, with a good selection of stars of the day including often multiple examples of the likes of Duncan Edwards, Stanley Matthews, John Charles, Roger Byrne, Billy Wright, Tom Finney, Nat Lofthouse, Bert Trautmann, Roy Bentley, Jackie Milburn and many others, also a number of team-groups of leading sides of the day
A collection of 150 Football-themed 1970s postal covers, included 38 examples autographed by club heroes, comprising Leeds 10 (3 autographed), Birmingham 7 (2), Chelsea 3 (0), Notts County 8 (4), Grimsby 7 (1), Leicester 13 (3), Man City 17 (3), Arsenal 13 (4), Spurs 9 (1), Northern Ireland 3 (0), Norwich 7 (0), Preston North End (0), Wolves 16 (1), Reading 18 (13), Derby 4 (0), Southend 4 (0), Villa 4 (1) and Liverpool 2 (2)
Merthyr Town v Reading programme 13th February 1926. Merthyr Town FC entered the Football League as part of the newly inaugurated Third Division in season 1920-21, which was comprised entirely from the previous season’s Southern League First Division. The following season the third tier was expanded further with Merthyr Town competing in the southern section. A gradual decline in fortunes saw the club eventually lose its Football League status in 1930, and cease to play altogether by 1934. Merthyr Town programmes are exceptionally rare.
Stoke v Stafford Rangers programme 17th April 1909. This match was from Stoke’s first season after resigning from the Football League due to financial difficulties. This rare programme is a Birmingham & District League fixture. Stoke eventually re-joined the Football League in season 1921-22.
Wigan Borough v Stoke F.A. cup match programme 9th January 1926, professional restoration. Wigan Borough FC entered the Football League in season 1921-22 as members of the newly inaugurated Division Three (northern section). After 10 years the effects of the great depression drove the club out of business and they resigned from the League during the 1931-21 season. Borough was the fourth attempt to create a football team in the rugby league town of Wigan. All their predecessors Wigan County, United and Town had folded. The fifth attempt, however, proved successful. The current Premier League team Wigan Athletic was founded in 1932 and entered the Football League in season 1978-79. Wigan Borough football programmes are extremely rare.
An unusual collection of programme relating to the playing days of Corporal A. Jackson of R.A.C. Bovington dating between 1948 and 1950, including programmes for the 1947-48 Army Football Association Cup semi-final, final and replay; other Army Cup semi-final and final programmes and other games concerning a team from Bovington, including the 1949 Dorset County F.A. Cup final v Bridport and matches played at Poole Town, Portland United & Weymouth; together with programmes for A. Jackson’s appearances for Bournemouth Gas Works, and several appearance for the Dorset County F.A. in the Southern Counties Amateur Championship including a match played at Bristol City 24.1.48, some duplication; together with player’s passes and tickets including a wartime international between Poland & Great Britain played in Baghdad 24.1.1943, Army Cup finals & Semi-finals and a for Redhill FC. Tragically, during the 1948 Army Cup final played at the Command Central Ground in Aldershot, two players were killed by lightning and many other players and spectators left injured. The match was duly abandoned and the two teams were declared joint-winners. A medals collection relating to the amateur football career of Corporal A. Jackson is offered elsewhere in the auction as lot 10.
21 football programmes, including a pre-war Arsenal, Combined Services v National Police and Civil Defence at Wembley 9.5.45 and others from the 1950s onwards including non-League, Hastings well represented; the lot also including a 1950s autograph book containing team-groups for Spurs, Hastings United & Kettering Town, a part-group for Gravesend also a later addition of Bobby Moore’s and other signatures including show biz etc.; a team-group photograph of Hastings & St Leonards United FC in 1907, the F.A. Cup Annual 1885-1934, Arsenal 1947-48 League Champions brochure, a Hastings United FC share certificate 1951 & a 1967-68 Norwich handbook (26)
A collection of Wembley football ticket stubs including 1966 World Cup, the World Cup tickets comprising the final, semi-final, the 3rd/4th play-off and three 1/8th finals at Wembley; other stubs including F.A. Cup finals for 1953 & 1955, the 1952 Amateur Cup final, 18 England internationals dating between 1951 and 1963, also American Football in 1952; plus two non-Wembley issues for Chelsea v Red Banner 15.12.54, Arsenal v Spartak 9.11.54 and Spurs v Slovan Bratislava 1963; also rosettes for Arsenal 1971 F.A. Cup final, Ajax 1971 European Cup final & an England international; sold together with a signed Billy Wright luncheon menu 1992 and a 30th anniversary 1966 World Cup luncheon menu signed by Cohen, Banks, J. Charlton, Peters, Stiles and McGuiness (36)
A rare, historically interesting and apparently previously unrecorded public notice served by the Magistrates of Alnwick in Northumberland in 1821 cautioning inhabitants that the playing of football in the streets is an offence against the laws, printed by J. Graham, Alnwick, dated February 22nd 1821, and reading: THE INHABITANTS OF THE MARKET PLACE, AND OTHER PARTS OF THE TOWN, HAVING COMPLAINED TO THE MAGISTRATES OF THE PRACTICE FOLLOWED BY YOUNG MEN AND BOYS PLAYING FOOT-BALL IN THE STREETS, TO THE GREAT DANGER OF THEIR WINDOWS, AND INTERRUPTION TO THE PUBLIC. ALL PERSONS ARE HEREBY CAUTIONED NOT TO INJURE THE PROPERTY OF THE INHABITANTS, BY BREAKING THEIR WINDOWS; NOR TO OBSTRUCT THEIR DOORS, NOR FRIGHTEN THEIR HORSES, OR IN ANY WAY TO IMPEDE THE PUBLIC THOROUGH-FARES AND PASSAGES OF THE TOWN, BY PLAYING FOOT-BALL IN THE STREETS; AS SUCH CONDUCT IS AN OFFENCE AGAINST THE LAWS, AND WILL BE NOTICED, ON DUE COMPLAINT BEING MADE, BY THE MAGISTRATES ACCORDINGLY. Alnwick hosts Northumberland’s sole surviving Shrovetide game of festival football which was first recorded there in 1788. but with local legend dating it even earlier to 1762. Opposition to mass football on Shrove Tuesday because of damage to property in Alnwick town, and disruption to traffic on the main road leading north through Alnwick to Scotland, led to the Alnwick Improvement Act of 1822. This prohibited the street games of bull-baiting, cock-throwing, bonfires and football. The ban was not enforced, however, until after the 1827 Shrove Tuesday game when its patron The Duke of Northumberland, who had paid for the damages caused by the footballers, received a petition from residents demanding action, so His Grace consented to the future use of pasture land outside the town. A year later on the 16th February 1828, three days before Shrove Tuesday, the Magistrates cautioned that anyone playing football in the streets would be fined. The ‘Notice’ offered in this lot, dated seven years earlier, 22nd February 1821, gives the Magistrates few, if any, real powers or remedies. It is reasonable to conclude this is why the Improvement Act was introduced a year later. Most importantly, however, the 1821 notice gives clear evidence football had already been played in the streets of Alnwick at least twelve days before Shrove Tuesday which, in 1821, did not fall until the 6th March. Therefore, it was not only a festival game played at Shrovetide. The practice of football in Alnwick was more widespread. Furthermore, the Notice did not, despite the opportunity to do so, ban the playing of football in the streets on Shrove Tuesday less than two weeks away. Provenance:. Archive of former Solicitors’ to Dukes of Northumberland. Literature:. With grateful acknowledgement to Hugh Hornby for his extensive chapter on the history of Shrovetide football in Alnwick, p.92-97, Uppies and Downies: The Extraordinary Football Games of Britain, published by English Heritage, 2008
Corpus Christi College sporting ephemera, in the form of a printed handbill dated 4th December 1947 and titled ‘The Match of the Year’, and being an invitation from the College Football Club for a match under Association Rules with the college’s rugby club; sold together with a Corpus Christi College Lawn Tennis Club fixture list for Trinity Term, 1948 (2)
Football and other sporting memorabilia, comprising: miscellaneous cigarette cards covering football, cricket, rugby, horse racing, Olympics and golf; sold together with eight Hartleys jam jars with lids bearing the portraits of Peter Osgood, Colin Bell, Bobby Charlton, George Best, Alan Ball, Martin Peters, Gordon Banks and Bobby Moore; 6 plastic portrait busts of footballers from the Joe Mercer Great Britain Soccer Squad set; a promotional leaflet signed by the Olympic swimming champion David Wilkie; a commemorative medallion from the 1968 Olympic Games; and a Welsh Rugby Union souvenir tea towel (a qty.)
The Bury Football Club Co. Ltd. Cash Book from May 27 1898 to May 14 1904 cashbook, recording club receipts and payments over a six years period during what has proved to be the most successful period in the club’s history with victories in the F.A. Cup in 1900 and 1903, the ledger recording a payment of £1,289 and 7 shillings from the Football Association for its share of the gate receipts in 1900, a figure that rose to £1,605 and 14 shillings in 1903, all in all a fascinating insight into the financial running of a football club in the late Victorian/Edwardian era.
Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly magazine, from magazine No.1 September 1951, a very-near complete run until December 1963, lacking just July & August from that final year, 146 magazines in total; sold together with a quantity of Charles Buchans and other football annual titles, also the 4 vol Caxton Association Football 1960, and other miscellaneous football books (a qty.)
A collection of signed prints by the artist D W Foster of football, cricket, rugby league and Olympic interest, including 10 examples of multi-signed prints of the 1990s Wigan Rugby League team; two signed Dennis Lillee cricket print (one framed), two signed Stanley Matthews prints (one damaged, the other creased; a multi-signed Bryan Robson Testimonial Year print, and a Sally Gunnell signed Olympic print; the lot also including an original watercolour by Foster portraying the Liverpool managers Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Kenny Dalglish and Roy Evans, mounted, framed & glazed, the image 35.5 by 28cm., 14 by 11in.
A large quantity of sporting memorabilia auction catalogues dating from the early 1980s to the present day, general sports sales, specialist auctions of football, golf, cricket, rugby, sporting art etc., mostly UK but some American, continental and Australian content, Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonham’s, Budd, Mullocks, Knights, Phillips, Brookes etc
24 Cricket score cards for matches at Lord’s and The Oval, including v Australia in 1921, 1926 (two), 1930 & 1961, also Tests v South Africa in 1924 & 1951, New Zealand 1931 & 1958, India 1932 and West Indies 1950; and 13 other cards dating between 1947 and 1976 for MCC, Gentlemen of England and Middx/Surrey v overseas touring sides, plus Middlesex & Surrey county matches and Clifton v Tonbridge 1947; together with four Test Match entrance tickets; the lot also including a small quantity of other sporting memorabilia, mainly cricket and, football including programmes, but also Olympic, golf and table tennis items (a qty.)
A large group of medals, badges and memorabilia relating to Harry Fowler and his involvement in British boxing, including an official’s badge for the inaugural Golden Gloves International Tournament at the Yankee Stadium New York 2nd July 1935, inscribed with details to the top bar and on the ribbon, American & British flags printed on a celluloid panel, suspended medal of a boxer dated 1935; another official’s badge inscribed LONG ISLAND STATE PARK COMMISSION, JONES BEACH, 1935; a 9ct. gold & enamel Amateur Boxing Association medal suspended by pink ribbon with bars inscribed HON. SECRETARY, VICE PRESIDENT, in original fitted case, other A.B.A. related items and also for F.I.B.A., Fowler’s King’s Medal; and a number of medals, medallions, plaquettes, badges & pins relating to competition in Ireland and continental Europe; the lot also including 1930s correspondence and documents from the International Olympic Committee, the British Olympic Association, the Federation Internationale De Boxe Amateur and Southern Olympian Football League (a qty.)
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Football autographs: Arsenal FC, a ball signed by 14 members of the 1970/71 Championship winning side inc. Charlie George, George Armstrong, George Graham etc (some fading) sold with a book, `Arsenal!, Arsenal!` 1971 with various additional cuttings laid down inside and bearing 22 signatures to inside cover, various periods inc. Bertie Mee, Denis Hill-Wood, Guy Bracewell Smith, George Male etc (2)
Football programmes: Selection, various ages inc. Bromley v Romford FA Amateur Cup Final 1949, World Cup Tournament brochure 1966, English & German World Cup programmes 2006, FA Cup Finals 1961 onwards (20 incomplete run), Charity Shield games 1968 & 1970, Hearts v Chelsea Fr 1950/51 (ph), single sheet issues etc (approx 150) (gen gd)
Football: Selection, Dutch match poster advertising game against an English Soldier X1, 1945, Manchester Evening News poster advertising special issue for match v Sarajevo EC 1967, sold with two French magazines, one covering England v France 1947, the other reporting on England v Hungary 1953 (3-6 game) (gd, some edge knocks to posters) (4)
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