Sports Memorabilia
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53rd anniversary on this one. I bought it about 25 years ago for $18. I don’t have a lot of old programmes in the collection, but I’ll grab anything from the Meads-Lochore era if affordable. That French team was back-to-back Five Nations (and Grand Slam) champions. The good guys prevailed 12-9.
Nice strong clean graphics on this one. Love the old adverts. Not sure what values are on old programmes but I suspect the value of all AB programmes will remain steady for the forseeable future. -
@kid-chocolate I have a couple of match programmes from that era too. They are like books with the number of pages.
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@kid-chocolate said in Sports Memorabilia:
53rd anniversary on this one. I bought it about 25 years ago for $18. I don’t have a lot of old programmes in the collection, but I’ll grab anything from the Meads-Lochore era if affordable. That French team was back-to-back Five Nations (and Grand Slam) champions. The good guys prevailed 12-9.
Nice strong clean graphics on this one. Love the old adverts. Not sure what values are on old programmes but I suspect the value of all AB programmes will remain steady for the forseeable future.Jeepers, not a single Frenchman touching 16 stone ( 102kg in todays language )
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Olympics are almost at hand… surely the most subdued start to a Games since I’ve been alive.
Here’s a nice catch I won on eBay about 16-17 years ago. Starting bid was $4. I covered it with a $50 bid, then was surprised and delighted when nobody else bid, so I won it for $4. Woo-hoo!
Golden Hour, Sept. 3rd 1960. I love how the two events were the last two events of the evening — the Main Events — and spill over a page-spread here, Snell on the left, Halberg on the right. I love how Snell (#83) won his Gold, then early-morning Kiwis would have basked in his glory for all of 23 minutes until Halberg (#84) started running. I usually like these books minty, but I love how the attendee meticulously recorded all the finishes and times. Wilma Rudolph won the 100m semi and final in OR and WR times about an hour earlier on the same card.
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These are inherited by my son. On the right is the signature page from the 1937 Bok tour of NZ. All the famous old names Craven, Nel etc
The scrap of paper is actual autographs from the team when they played a combined Thames Valley/ King Country/Waikato team (who held them to a score of 6-3). My wife’s grandfather was a selector of the combined team, hence the mementos were passed down. -
How did you score that?
I have very few autographs. Meads and Jonah. Meads signed his autobiography; My mother worked at a library and she met Jonah at some event and got him to sign and handwrite a small note to me on the back of a photo card of a red snapper*, I shit ye not. That’s it, but not a bad pair to keep. Had Grant Batty’s when I was younger, but sadly lost it.
(*About 15 years ago a friend invited me to a small lunch, insisted I come, gave no other details. Surprised me to sit down and dine with Nick Faldo. He was in a small town designing a golf course. The only thing I had on me was a book about the early history of the Atlantic cod fisheries. He signed it beautifully, and handed it back to me remarking, “That’s the first time I’ve ever signed anything about the Atlantic cod trade.” So in my remarkably small collection of autographs, I have Faldo signature on a book about Cod, and Jonah signing a pic of a Red Snapper. A fish-tale that’s not a fish-tale, I tells ya.)
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I know someone who has a framed match ticket and programme of the 1981 Waikato-South Africa game.
My friends and I used to get players' autographs when we were younger. I often had them sign the programme and still have those in storage. I got David Campese's when he played for the Aust U21s.
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@kid-chocolate Somewhere (I can't find it at the moment) I have a signed copy of Fergie McCormack's autobiography.
Have an autographed copy of Jonah's book as well (well at least my son does in the pile of stuff still taking up room in our house!) -
@bovidae said in Sports Memorabilia:
I know someone who has a framed match ticket and programme of the 1981 Waikato-South Africa game.
My friends and I used to get players' autographs when we were younger. I often had them sign the programme and still have those in storage. I got David Campese's when he played for the Aust U21s.
I have a Randwick cap signed by a bunch of Wallabies who played for them in the early 90s, but, and I assume I've told this story before, not Campo because after the training we watched he ran off to his fancy sportscar and drove off. The rest of the players all had a BBQ and beers so we got all their signatures.
I also have Nepia's (the real one) signature that my great grandmother had from knowing him in the 20s (she claimed to know all the great 1920s Magpies stars as she worked at the pub where they'd meet before travelling to games - not sure if that's true or not).
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Collection (complete) of 50 cigarette cards, “New Zealand Footballers” from 1928. I went through several collections to cobble most of this set together many years ago. They can usually be found in varying condition from $50 to $300 complete, a nice investment for the sons or nephews. What I really like is these small cards are “Real Photographs,” not half-tone dot prints. The small photos are presumably smaller than the actual negatives they were photographed onto. Put a magnifying glass up to them and they spring to life, they look spectacularly clear and sharp. I suspect on a good scanner they could be enlarged into nice high res 8x10s.
One question I’ve always wanted to know is where these cards were distributed. The tobacco company is British. Were these cards intended for British or Kiwi markets?
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@kid-chocolate sorry answering your question from 18 days ago. I'm mainly a jersey collector but pick up other bits here and there.
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@yeetyaah what jerseys do you have
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@mikedogz said in Sports Memorabilia:
Any guess on the autographs?
Willie Duggan
Terry Conner
Alan Martin
Peter Wheeler
Brynmor Williams
Trevor Evans
Tony Neary -
Others that I can make out (so far anyway)
Moss Keane (bottom left of second card)
Tony Neary (bottom right of second card)
Douglas Morgan (immediately above Tony Neary of the second card)
Elgan Rees (top right of second card)
Brynmor WIlliams (immediately below Elgan Rees on the second card)
Phil Bennett (third from top middle of second card)
Andy Irvine? (top left of second card)
JJ Williams? (top centre of second card)
Graham Price (second from left bottom card)
Trevor Evans (second from bottom middle of second card)
Willie Duggan (third from bottom middle of second card)
Peter Wheeler (above right of Willie Duggan on the second card)
Peter Squires (above left of Willie Duggan on the second card)
Phil Orr (immediately above Peter Squires on the second card)
Terry Cobnor (immediately above Phil Orr on the second card)
Clive WIlliams (immedoiately above Peter Squires on the second card) -
@cpt-kumera uh shitloads. Got nearly every Chiefs home jersey, just need 1997. A few away jerseys. A bunch of player issued and match worn Chiefs stuff. Old and new Waikato stuff. Some old and new All Blacks stuff. Then a lot of random other club stuff, player issue and replica. Can maybe try post some photos if anyone cares?
Adding to that, if anyone by any chance has a 97 Chiefs jersey and they want to part with it please let me know.
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Not sure I've seen a lot of this thread before but we've got a fair bit of stuff at home as my wife's grandfather was the late John Pring who referee'd a significant amount of tests including all 4 of the tests against the Lion's in 1971.
We've got a lot of jerseys and various memorabilia at home now. I will need to have a good look through it and see what is of interest to post
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@kid-chocolate Matheson sports is the biggest website for all sports memorabilia in nz : http://www.mathesonsports.co.nz/
Have used Matheson for the past 20 years and are great to deal with. Has some amazing stuff for sale and you will be able to see what kind of rough value any of your items have
