Sporting Memorabilia & Equipment
This sector of the art and antiques market often generates big headlines in the general media – not least when an auction record for 1966 World Cup is set for example. But the market is extremely wide and varied. Here there really is something for everyone at every price level, whether a buyer focuses on football programmes, historic golf clubs or fishing tackle.
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Hansons auction house aims to tackle growing football market
01 August 2024New auction enterprise will specialise selling football memorabilia such as shirts, medals and programmes
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Olympic Games posters that feature innovative design
22 July 2024The 1968 Mexico Summer Olympics were the first Games to be staged in Latin America.
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1908 Olympic marathon steward medal flies past estimate
17 July 2024A collection of steward medals and badges were offered as a single lot, but it was the 1908 Olympic marathon steward medal that had bidders jostling
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Gold medal sold at auction marks GB football success in 1908 Olympics
15 July 2024The 1908 Olympic Games in London included duels with wax bullets, tug of war and the world’s oldest Olympic champion.
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Magpie picked up FA Cup winner's medal in 1924
15 July 2024An FA Cup winner’s medal belonging to a Newcastle United goalkeeper who won the trophy with the Magpies 100 years ago sold for £7800 on June 27.
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Newcastle United FA Cup winner’s medal sells for £7800
03 July 2024The medal which was awarded 100 years ago was sold at Newcastle auction house Anderson & Garland
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Olympic gold medal for Great Britain footballer a winner at auction
21 June 2024Purnell was one of Great Britain’s few Olympic football players and one of a smaller pool of gold medal winners
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Make a racket about a super collection of tennis posters
10 June 2024Extensive collection on tennis theme inlcudes early Wimbledon designs and Broders view of Monte Carlo
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Sale of Maradona Ballon d’Or halted over ownership dispute
06 June 2024The trophy was set for sale on June 6 but an appeal from the Maradona family has suspended proceedings
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Grand Duke was a huge fan of pedal power
27 May 2024According to the engraved plaque, this Russian silver cycling trophy, offered by Antiqon (25% buyer’s premium) in Riga, Latvia, on May 18, was presented by Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich to the best cyclist in northern Russia and champion of the Tour of St Michaels.
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Cruikshank boxes clever with trio of sought-after fighters
27 May 2024Television host's collection yields rare studies at London auction
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Fixture list lined up two sports auctions in Glasgow
20 May 2024News that Celtic and Rangers no longer automatically qualify for the Champions League next season put a bit of a dampener on Scottish football.
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Batty cricket idea ended up full of holes
20 May 2024Sports stars are always looking for small incremental improvements in performance that can prove crucial to the result.
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Prices high for Man Utd programme rarities
20 May 2024A football programme for for the Estudiantes de la Plata v Manchester United Intercontinental Cup final on September 25, 1968, hammered down at a top-estimate £10,000 in Shropshire.
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Early memorabilia gets pulse racing for cycling enthusiasts
20 May 2024Archive sold in Somerset and bugle offered in Dorset reflect the first organised cycling clubs
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Messi napkin contract sells for £600,000
17 May 2024The napkin responsible for the signing of the teenaged Lionel Messi to FC Barcelona was sold by the player’s former agent at Bonhams
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Diego Maradona’s 1986 World Cup Golden Ball to go to auction
10 May 2024The player was named player of the tournament after winning the World Cup for Argentina
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John Wile’s bloodied FA Cup shirt scores at auction
09 May 2024The West Bromwich Albion shirt from the 1978 FA Cup semi-final sold for £11,000 at Stacey’s Auctioneers in Essex.
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Boxing prints punch above their weight at auction
08 May 2024Three boxing prints proved to be heavy hitters at Wimbledon Auctions on April 29, selling for 32-times the high estimate.
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Napkin contract that signed a 13-year-old Lionel Messi to Barcelona FC comes to auction
20 March 2024What is probably the world’s most famous napkin – the document that secured the services of a young Lionel Messi to Barcelona FC – comes to auction at Bonhams.
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