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Collection of assorted Toys including (1) Chad Valley Dolly Golly, label to side seam 1950s/60s, felt applied features, rexine mouth, artificial silk plush inserted hair, integrally dressed in brightly coloured yellow waistcoat, red, blue, black and orange trousers and blue tail-coat, hole to right eye, otherwise Good, 17"/43cm; (2) cloth Doll with hard plastic face, side glancing eyes, blond plaited wig, wearing orange dress, Good Plus to Excellent, 15"/38cm; (3) similar Doll with hard plastic face dressed in red and white cotton dress, Excellent, 29"/74cm; (4) Merit the Amazing Magic Robot Game, contents appear Good Plus to Excellent within Excellent illustrated box; (5) Berwick Central Post Office, contents appear Excellent Plus in Good Plus to Excellent box; (6)-(8) include wooden Dog on wheels, plastic Pony with musical box and dog. (8)

Mazda Disneylights plus other Disney items: Mazda Disneylights, plastic shades, illustrating Disney Scenes including Bambi, Snow White, Donald Duck etc, some shades are missing otherwise appear Good within Fair illustrated box; Mettoy Walt Disney Movie Viewer, complete with 101 Dalmatians, Herbie Rides Again and Mickey`s Trailer film cassettes, appears Good in Good box; Illco Walt Disney`s Mickey Mouse Fun Castle Roller-Coaster game, contents not checked for completeness but appear Good to Good Plus within Good illustrated box; plus Adman Grand Stand TBG 2600 Computer Game, unchecked, appears Good in Fair box. (4)

Model kit Figures and Game related group - including model figures by Atlantic, Far West Story, The Greeks, The Romans, also Mattel sets No.3465 Rockity Rollers, No.3463 Tiny Trendies, No.3462 Lovey Doveys, Lord of the Rings "Kings of Middle Earth" and "The Two Towers" 6 figure set, also games MB "Hero Quest", jigsaws etc, also Motoko Kusanjei 12" Variant figure No.1 & 2 - overall contents are Good to Excellent Plus in Good to Excellent boxes, quantity of unboxed kits, scenery and decals, Excellent. (qty/3 boxes).

An early 20th century Minaru Horse Race table top game by John Jaques & Son with original race track, 8 lead race horses and other contents.

Chinese mother of pearl game counters, 19th century Various rectangular (qty)

A quantity of long rectangular Chinese mother of pearl game counters, 19th century

Chinese mother of pearl game counters, 19th century Circular, some plain

Chinese mother of pearl game counters, 19th century, carved as fish, some chips

Berwick BBC `The Dalek Playsuit` in original box. Together with a boxed War Of The Daleks board game. (2)

Kenner Star Wars Action Collection Wedge Antilles & Biggs Darklighter set, mint and boxed. Together with a mint and carded Kenner Obi-Wan Kenobi rare variation figure and a Star Wars Escape From Death Star game. (3)

Trottingette horse racing game in original box.

Merit Cat. No. 4025 Remote Control Driving Test Game Of Skill. Very good boxed example.

Marx Toys No.1160 Fireball Bagatelle Game; Chad Valley Mickey Mouse Archery Set and a Coronation Scot Railway Game. Nice boxed examples. (3)

Airfix Toys Flight Deck Kit (damaged), boxed; Marx Toys Howitzer Cannon, with plastic missiles, boxed; Trik Trak Road Rally Game, boxed. (3)

Artin Toys Rallying Curves Scalextric Game, boxed; Matchbox Big MX Power Activator, boxed; Matchbox Scream N Demons Motorcycle, boxed; Marx Toys Propshots "Red Wing" Plane and power launcher, boxed. (4)

Matchbox Thunderbirds Tracy Island and Thunderbird 2 Electronic Playsets, both boxed; Nine Soundtech Thunderbirds toys, mint in blister packs. Together with unboxed figures and International Rescue game.

Dr Magini `The Master Mind` Board Game, Lumar `Slippers Daughter` and Victory `Spitfire`s In Flight` jigsaws; Wellington Spelling Board :- One Box

A Mid XX Century Wooden Noah`s Ark with naively carved animals; An Early XX Century hand held game of steel figure climbing down a wooden skyscraper; A Pull-along wooden duck etc. :- One Box

Chad Valley Bandit Shooting Game, Poor and incomplete, with Modern Wonder Comics and a Diana style toy rifle.

Subbuteo Table Soccer, early edition c.1960 in red box, flat celluloid players, two goals, pitch, extra players, rule books etc. Poor box; Waddington`s Test Match Cricket Game, boxed. (2)

A Waddington`s Totopoly Race Game comprising two full sets of horses, money, instructions etc. and board featuring two layouts.

A Bobby Charlton Casdon Soccer Table Game, boxed; A Balyna Magnetic Football Game; Plus four mid XX Century lead figures of footballers.

* “Aviation” - The Aerial Tactics Game of Attack & Defence. An early 20th c. version of the popular game from the period immediately following the Great War, c. 1919, comprising decorative play-board with artwork printed game pieces depicting Airships, Bristol Fighters, Bombers, Searchlights & Anti-Aircraft guns etc, complete with instruction booklet and contained in original cardstock box with decorative illustrative colour artwork to lid, together with “The Air Raid Menace” game-board with decorative illustration to front, c. 1940 (2)

A Minora horse racing game

Letcher (Owen). Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia, 1st ed., 1911, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 50 half-tone plates, slight browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, together with Baldwin (William Charles), African Hunting and Adventure From Natal to the Zambesi. Including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, etc., From 1852 to 1860, 3rd ed., 1894, lithographed portrait frontispiece, folding map, plates and illustrations, a few coloured, scattered light spots, original cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo. (2)

Bailey (Henry `Bula N’Zau’). Travel and Adventures in the Congo Free State and its Big Game Shooting, 1st ed., 1894, ten b & w illusts. from the author’s sketches, folding map at rear, orig. plum cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed, 8vo. The author claims in his introduction that `... no book devoted to West African sport has yet appeared...’. The author was given the name Bula N’Zau by the natives, which means the ÒElephant-SmasherÓ. (1)

Chapman (Abel). On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st ed., 1908, half-title present, photogravure frontis., num. b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, sketch maps, 16 pp. publisher’s ads. at rear, orig. dec. cloth in bright condition, 8vo. (1)

Chapman (Abel). Savage Sudan, Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life, 1st ed., 1921, half-title present, map frontis., num. b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, a trifle rubbed, 8vo. (1)

Drummond (Hon. W.H.). The Large Game and Natural History of South and South-East Africa. From the Journals of the Hon. W.H. Drummond, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1875, half-title present, chromo. frontis. and vign. title, twelve full-page plts. printed in tint, wood-engs. to text, single-page map at rear, orig. dark green cloth gilt, minor shelf wear to head and foot of spine (inner front joint partly cracked), 8vo. (1)

Findlay (Fredrick Roderick Noble). Big Game Shooting and Travel in South-East Africa. An Account of Shooting Trips in the Cheringoma and Gorongoza Divisions of Portuguese South-East Africa and in Zululand. With Chapters by Olive Schreiner and S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner, 1st ed., 1903, half-title present, frontis. with tissue guard, folding map, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed, 8vo. (1)

Jessen (B.H.). W.N. McMillan’s Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, & British East Africa, 1st ed. (for private distribution only), 1906, port. frontis., num. b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, large folding map contained in rear pocket, orig. cloth, lettered in gilt, a trifle rubbed and upper cover a little faded, large 8vo. (1)

Lyell (D.D.). Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia. With Accounts of Sport and Travel in Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa, and also Notes on the Game Animals and their Distribution, 1st ed., Horace Cox, `Field’ Office, 1910, b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, single ad. leaf at rear, dec. endpapers, orig. green `crocodile-skin’ cloth, lettered in gilt, with small inset pict. panel, a trifle rubbed, 4to. (1)

Neumann (Arthur H.). Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa. Being an Account of Three Years’ Ivory-Hunting under Mount Kenia and Among the Ndorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a Trip to the North End of Lake Rudolph, 1st ed., pub. Rowland Ward, 1898, half-title present, frontis. and b & w illusts. after J.G. Millais, E. Caldwell and G.E. Lodge, one col. plt. of butterflies, folding map contained in rear pocket, `zebra skin’ effect endpapers (inner joints intact), uncut and mainly unopened, orig. red cloth, spine lettered in gilt (a little rubbed and sl. faded), upper cover lettered in black, one or two minor marks, 8vo. A good copy of `one of the best of the African big game hunting books’ (Hosken p. 148). (1)

Selous (Frederick Courteney). A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa. Being a Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of Africa, Containing Accounts of Explorations Beyond the Zambesi, on the River Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna Countries, with Full Notes upon the Natural History and Present Distribution of all the Large Mammalia, 4th ed., 1895, wood-engs. after J. Smit, E. Whymper and Miss A.B. Selous, some minor spotting of prelims., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, a trifle rubbed (inner joints partly cracked), 8vo. (1)

Stigand (Captain C.H.). The Game of British East Africa, 1st ed., pub. Horace Cox, `Field’ Office, 1909, num. b & w illusts. from photos, 8 pp. illustrated commercial ads. for guns and cartridges at rear, dec. endpapers, orig. green `crocodile skin’ effect cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, in bright condition, 4to. A fine copy. (1)

Ward (Rowland). Horn Measurements and Weights of the Great Game of the World: Being a Record for the Use of Sportsman and Naturalists, 1st ed., 1892, port. of the author and num. illusts. printed in sepia tint with tissue guards, wood-engs. to text, errata slip at p. 3 & 257, orig. `animal skin’ effect cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt, 8vo. A near-fine copy. This was the first work of its kind to be published and was designed not as a scientific work but as one for sportsmen as well as scientists who were interested in seeing comparable measurements at a glance. The second edition was published in 1896 under the title Records of Big Game with their Distribution, Characteristics, Dimensions, Weight and Horn & Tusk Measurements, the current publication is the 26th edition. (1)

* Watercolours. A mixed collection of twenty-three watercolour and gouache drawings, mostly 19th & early 20th century, including topographical landscapes, sporting dogs, game birds, marine and architectural studies, by R.Thornton, Harley Stuart, H.Tomlinson, J.Mac Bane, Harris Brett, Reginald D. Sherrin and one Lakeland watercolour view by Charlotte Hart dated 1795, various sizes and condition (23)

* East Indies Log Book. A manuscript log book and journal kept by Lieutenant Keppel Garnier on board HMS Ocean, Rodney and Salamis, 1867-69, voyaging to Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yokohama, Bangkok, Sarowak, etc., the first thirty printed tabular leaves completed in manuscript with date, courses, currents, wind and weather, bearing and distance details, a further thirty leaves completed in diary style, including a description of an audience at Osaka with the Mikado (Japanese Emperor), `The Mikado himself I stared at with all my eyes, but I brought away a very shadowy impression of what he was like. He received us standing I think, but anyhow the top of his head was hardly visible as a gauze screen came down so as almost to hide it’, game shooting in Possiette Bay, dinner in a monastery, near Manilla, running aground, going with Lady Keppel to Yedo, etc., remaining leaves blank, contemp. half morocco, rubbed and joints sl. cracked, 4to. Commander Keppel Garnier (died 1891) was the son of Thomas Garnier, Dean of Winchester.. (1)

* Scrap albums. An early nineteenth century scrap album, approx. 100 leaves, with numerous engraved views, caricatures, costumes, etc., and a number of original pencil drawings and watercolours, incl. a rare allegorical eng. map `Oxford in Epitome’, 1st ed., printed by W. Baxter for J. Vincent, near Brasenose College, 1819, 232 x 238mm (9 x 9.25ins), with accompanying letterpress key leaf mounted on opposite page; a rare suite of four hand-col. aquatint plts. by John Augustus Atkinson, entitled `The Miser’, `The Virtuoso’, `The Poet’, `The Hypochondriac’, trimmed to edge of image, approx. 220 x 165mm (8.75 x 6.5ins), c.1819; four litho. cartoon-style engs. showing two figures engaged in a game of chess (cut out from a single sheet), entitled `The Challenge - Which hand, right or left?’, `The Struggle - Intense Anxiety’, `The Victory - Check-Mate!’, `The Parting - Triumph & Chagrin’, Vincent Brooks, Day & Son; two watercolours of transforming playing cards, and two cut-out watercolours of card players in a tavern; two small finely executed moonlit seascapes by Galpin; two small costume watercolours entitled `Villageoise de Fribourg’ and `Neufchatel’; several hand-col. cut-out eng. costume plts. (mainly Turkish); hand-col. engs. of Brighton Pavilion, Ripon Minster and Warwick Castle; and two hand-col. cartoon-style engs. from `Life in London’, pub. 1822, by S. Fores, orig. red half roan, rubbed and worn, with spine deficient and upper cover detached, folio, together with another, smaller, scrap album similar, containing pencil drawings, pen & ink sketches, eng. views, eng. costumes, etc., incl. a hand-col. etched plt. of Turkish jesters (with 2Ó closed tear in upper margin), late 18th c., with engravers initials `J.D.H.’ after `B. de G.’, numbered 25 in top left corner, from a collection entitled `Recueil des Vues et Habbillemens en Turquie’, 244 x 164mm (9.5 x 6.5ins), plus seventeen other albums, 19th and 20th c., incl. several crest and monogram albums, albums of chromo. scraps and greetings cards, a photograph album, etc. (19)

A large Meissen figure group, depicting a seated couple before a tree with dead game, 30cm long x 20cm high, AF

Ernie Blenkinsop’s red England v Wales international cap season 1930-31, with gilt-wire English rose and inscribed 1930-31, in very good condition; sold with a signed statement of provenance (2). This match was played at The Racecourse, Wrexham, on 22nd November 1930. England won the game 4-0. Sheffield Wednesday’s left-back Ernest Blenkinsop won a total of 26 England caps between 1928 and 1933. A contemporary commentator described him as ‘a back of polish and style, coolness in tackling, and a placer of kicks.’ Blenkinsop also helped Wednesday win back-to-back Championships in 1929 and 1930 . Provenance:. The Collection of Allen Wade, Director of Coaching, Football Association, 1963-1982. In his playing days, Allen Wade was a team-mate of Ernie Blenkinsop’s son Barry at Notts County who gave Allen Wade the cap. The lot includes a signed statement of provenance from Allen Wade.

A silver miniature replica of the F.A. Charity Shield presented to West Bromwich Albion’s Len Millard in 1954, inscribed WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS V WEST BROMWICH ALBION, WEDNESDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 1954, JOINT-HOLDERS, mounted on a black bakelite backboard, lacking the original easel support . Len Millard (7 March 1919-15 March 1997) was born in Coseley in the Black Country and joined West Bromwich Albion as an amateur in May 1937. The left-back turned professional in September 1942. He later became club captain, leading the club to a 3-2 victory over Preston North End in the 1954 F.A. Cup final. This set up a Charity Shield encounter with fierce local rivals and League Champions Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux on 29 September 1954. Despite a Ronny Allen hat-trick the game ended as a high scoring 4-4 draw, and the Shield was share. Len Millard made a total of 627 appearances for Albion, scoring 18 goals before retiring in 1958. In 1989 he had a leg amputated and died in Coseley in 1997.

Ian Hutchinson’s Chelsea 1970 F.A. Cup winner’s medal, a 9ct.gold medal inscribed THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION, CHALLENGE CUP, WINNERS, IAN HUTCHINSON. Ian Hutchinson (4 August 1948-19 September 2002) spent the majority of his career at Chelsea, where he was plagued by injuries, including two broken legs, a broken arm, broken toe and persistent knee trouble. Hutchinson was born in Derby and started his career with non-league Burton Albion before signing for Cambridge United . In July 1968 he joined Chelsea for £5,000 on the recommendation of Chelsea coach Ron Suart who had gone to Cambridge to scout a goalkeeper, but instead recommended Hutchinson to manager Dave Sexton. Hutchinson was a striker noted for his impressive heading ability and for taking long throw-ins, which led to him being dubbed the “the human windmill.” On his debut against Ipswich Town he sent in a series of long throws which reached the opposite side of the penalty area, confusing both the opposing defenders and the crowd and one of which an Ipswich defender inadvertently put into his own net. At Chelsea he proved to be the perfect foil for team-mate Peter Osgood. During the 1969-70 season they scored 53 goals between them. Ian Hutchinson is most notable for his part in Chelsea winning the F.A. Cup that same season. In the notoriously physical final against Leeds United, he was often in the thick of the action. In the first match at Wembley his headed flick-on teed up Peter Houseman for Chelsea’s first equaliser and he was later floored by a poor challenge from Leeds’ Norman Hunter. Leeds took the lead with six minutes to go, but two minutes later Hutchinson, still limping from Hunter’s challenge, headed in John Hollins’ cross to take the game to a replay. In the replay at Old Trafford and with the game tied at 1-1 going into extra time, Hutchinson launched one of his trademark long throw-ins into the Leeds penalty area and it was headed in by Dave Webb to win the cup for Chelsea. His injury toll meant that he only made a modest 144 appearances for Chelsea during which he scored an impressive 58 goals. He retired in July 1976 aged just 27. Ian Hutchinson died in September 2002 after a long illness.

The following five lots are jerseys that Denis Law gained as swaps between 1962 and 1966. They are being offered by the grandson of Denis Law’s landlady during his playing days in Manchester, firstly when playing for City in season 1960-61, and thereafter when he returned as a United player after the season at Torino.. When eventually moved on from his lodgings, Denis Law left the jerseys for the vendor’s grandparents to keep. Some further Denis Law jerseys from this same collection are currently on loan and display at the Manchester United Museum, Old Trafford, including Denis Law’s 1963 F.A. Cup final jersey. Sammy McMillan: the green Northern Ireland No.8 jersey worn in the match v Scotland at Hampden Park 7th November 1962, short-sleeved, square I.F.A. cloth badge, gained as a swap by Denis Law from his Manchester United team-mate at the end of the game. This was an unhappy night for the Irish, with Scotland winning the game convincingly 5-1. Enquires made in regard to this Sammy McMillan jersey revealed that Mr McMillan is still in possession of Denis Law’s Scotland jersey that he exchanged for his own at the end of the 1962 international

Terry Hennessy: the red Wales No.4 international jersey worn in the match v Scotland at Hampden Park 20th November 1963, short-sleeved, the cloth FAW badge inscribed V SCOTLAND 1963-64. Scotland won this game 2-1.

Eusebio: a red Benfica No.9 jersey worn in the European Cup quarter-final (1st leg) v Manchester United at Old Trafford 2nd February 1966, Long-sleeved, cloth club badge, plus additional cloth badge bearing the Portuguese national crest on the left sleeve, gained as a swap by Denis Law at the end of the game. Manchester United won the first leg 3-2 with Denis Law scoring once, whilst the legendary Eusebio set up both the Benfica goals. The return leg in Portugal was the famous George Best ‘El Beatle’ match and arguably one of Manchester United’s finest ever performances when they sensationally beat Benfica 5-1. Later in 1966 Eusebio was to return to England and became one of the shining lights of the 1966 World Cup finals, winning the ‘golden boot’ after scoring nine goals.

Sir Bobby Charlton: the white England No.11 jersey worn in the match v Scotland at Hampden Park 11th April 1964, Bukta, long-sleeved, square three lions cloth badge, exchanged with his Manchester United team-mate Denis Law at the end of the game

Roy Keane: a team-signed Newton Heath-style green and yellow halved Manchester United No.16 1994 Coca-Cola final jersey, lace-up collar, gold F.A. Premier League 1992-93 Champions flashes to the sleeves, the shirt inscribed THE COCA COLA CUP, THE FINAL, WEMBLEY 1994, the reverse lettered KEANE, 21 signatures in black marker pen. This jersey was purchased at a charity auction in Manchester in 1994 where it was described as being donated by Roy Keane and being his match-worn jersey from the 1994 Coca Cola Cup final. United lost the game 3-1 and it is understandable that Roy Keane did not want to keep the jersey as a reminder. However, there was no supporting paperwork issued at the time.

Four 1966 World Cup tickets for matches at Goodison Park, three 1/8th finals stubs and an unused ticket in very good condition for the Portugal v North Korea 1/4f, in original paper wallet & recorded delivery envelope . The unused ticket for the quarter-final in this lot relates to one of the finest matches in World Cup history. The extraordinary North Korea team, who had already recorded a shock defeat over Italy in the group stages, raced to a 3-0 lead in the first 22 minutes. The Portuguese, however, were inspired by the sensational Eusebio who scored four goals and set up the other as Portugal won a truly memorable game 5-3 to set up a semi-final berth with hosts England.

A 1990 FIFA World Cup runners-up medal, in continental silver by Huguenin, the obverse with the World Cup Trophy in raised relief, the reverse inscribed COUPE DU MONDE DE LA FIFA ITALIE 1990, suspended by medal ribbon in the . Colours of the Italian national flag; sold with a COA (2). This medal was awarded to the Argentinian goalkeeper Nery Alberto Pumpido who began the 1990 World Cup tournament as first-choice goalkeeper. However, tragedy struck and he broke a leg in Argentina’s second game against Russia. In a demonstration of the fickle nature of professional sport, Pumpido’s absence paved the way for his replacement Sergio Goycochea to become a national hero after playing crucial parts in two penalty shoot outs that helped the South Americans reach the final. Ironically, West Germany won the final through a penalty kick five minutes from time.

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

A fully signed b&w photograph of the France team before the very first match in World Cup finals history v Mexico at the Pocitos Stadium, Montevideo, 13th July 1930, the 7 by 9 1/2in. photograph fully signed in ink by the starting XI Thepot, Mattler, Capelle, Villaplane (captain), Pinel, Chantrel, Liberati, Delfour, Maschinot, Laurent and Langillerand, plus the head coach Raoul Caudron, and bearing further signatures, presumably reserves.It was appropriate that the dream of World Cup founders Henri Delaunay and Jules Rimet got underway with France having the honour of playing in the first-ever World Cup game. France won the match 4-1. A similar picture, but taken from a slightly different angle, is in the Getty Images Archive, ref: 88616812. £200-300

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

A complete set of 15 programmes for the ‘Young England’ inter-level matches played between 1954 and 1969, the games played at Highbury & Stamford Bridge. Please note that no game from this series took place in 1956.

Eleven Ipswich Town home programmes from season 1936-37, all Southern League fixtures and including their first professional game v Tunbridge Wells Rangers (poor copy, affected by damp), other opposition comprising Newport County, Plymouth Argyle, Norwich City, Barry, Aldershot, Guildford City, Margate, Folkestone, Yeovil & Petters & Cheltenham Town,

A programme for West Bromwich Albion’s last ever match at the Stoney Lane ground v Nottingham Forest 16th April 1900, single-sheet . Albion’s tenure of Stoney Lane from 1885 to 1900, was arguably the most successful period in the club’s history, as the club won the F.A. Cup twice and were runners-up three times. The club built a wooden grandstand that became known as the “Noah’s Ark”. The stand had a capacity of over 2,000 people and was later transported to The Hawthorns when the club moved there in 1900. It was destroyed by fire on Guy Fawkes Night, 1904. The first league game at Stoney Lane took place on 29 September 1888, when Albion beat Burnley 4-3. They left in grand style winning there final game against Nottingham Forest 8-0. The expiry of the lease on Stoney Lane, as well as the club’s desire for a more spacious location, saw them move once again in 1900. They moved to The Hawthorns, which they have there home to the present day.

Dynamo Tbilisi v West Bromwich Albion programme 1957, folded single-sheet. West Bromwich Albion toured the Soviet Union in 1957 and played 3 games, beating both Dynamo Tbilisi in Georgia and the Soviet Army Side (CSKA) in Moscow. The third game against F. C. Zenit in Leningrad was a draw. They became the first British professional team to win a game in the Soviet Union.

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

Catton (J A H) The Real Football, THIS BEING A SIGNED AND DEDICATED COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, sub-titled A Sketch of the Development of the Association Game, Sands & Co., London, 1900, pictorial cloth covers worn

A rare and unusual Victorian stoolball bat, stamped with presumably the owner’s name A. LINSLEY, probably a boy at a school where the game was played, whipped string handle, length 46cm., 18in., width of head 18.5cm., 7 1/4in.