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Sporting Memorabilia — Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)

Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:804
Sale Title:Sporting MemorabiliaLots with images:803
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:580
Date:10-May-2016
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The Doug Walters six' by Iain McKellar, size 56 x 52 cm, each signed by Doug Walters. Wholesale quantity (c690)
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Doug Walters: the Entertainer' by Dave Thomas, size 50 x 57 cm. Wholesale quantity (c460)
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The first Australian cricket Team to Tour England 1868' by Dave Thomas, size 88 x 72 cm. Wholesale quantity - with 4 signatures including John Howard & Steve Waugh (c88) & unsigned (c750)
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The Madras Tied test' by Iain McKellar, signed by Greg Matthews and the artist, size 56 x 52 cm. Wholesale quantity (c940)
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Now or Never', by Dugald Wynne, (based on the humorous series by E.P.Kinsella, c1902), size 57 x 45 cm. Wholesale quantity (c490)
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Run out' by Max Mannix, size 66 x 47 cm. Wholesale quantity (c440)
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Sir Donald Bradman: first test century' by Dave Thomas, size 63 x 53 cm. Wholesale quantity (c460)
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Sir Donald Bradman A.C. 1908-2001, world test record Score 334 Australia vs England, Leeds 1930' by Weg (each one signed by the artist), size 39 x 51 cm. Wholesale quantity (c750)
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Stephen Fleming and Martin Crowe: New Zealand batting Masters' by Dave Thomas, size 42 x 58 cm. Wholesale quantity (c440)
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Sydney Cricket Ground' by Theera, showing a Odi match Australia v West Indies under lights, size 72 x 36 cm. Wholesale quantity (c440)
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Three Champions' by Dave Thomas, each signed by and the artist, size 44 x 43 cm. Wholesale quantity - signed by Muttiah Muralitharan, Arjuna Ranatunga & Aravinda de Silva (c210) & unsigned (c1,300)
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Poster/map drawers: metal filing drawers (2) - one 148 x 114 x 46 cm with 6 drawers, other 148 x 88 x 54 cm with 9 drawers (one missing), plus miscellaneous range of cricket posters (c280) including d'Arcy Doyle prints of Shane Warne (8), Allan Border (7), mark Waugh (6) & Ian Healy
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1960 first Tied test, Brisbane: full size cricket Bats each with 15 original signatures - Australians Richie Benaud, Colin McDonald, Ian Meckiff, Alan Davidson, Norm O'Neill, Bob Simpson, Lindsay Kline && Neil Harvey, plus West Indians Gary Sobers, Rohan Kanhai, Cammie Smith, Peter Lashley, Joe Solomon, Gerry Alexander & Wes hall. Wholesale quantity
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Great test Performances - Australia vs England: full size cricket Bats each with 24 original signatures - bill brown, Ian Healy, Sam Loxton, Richie Benaud, Merv Hughes, Ian Chappell, Geoff Lawson, bill Johnston, Jeff Thomson, Craig McDermott, Dean Jones, Kim Hughes, Bruce Reid, Arthur Morris, Neil Harvey, David Boon, Greg Chappell, Doug Walters, Max Walker, Allan Border, Keith Stackpole, Greg Matthews, Bob Simpson, Alan Davidson
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The Australian Captains bat: decals with original signatures of 18 captains, including Don Bradman, ray Lindwall, Richie Benaud, Allan Border & mark Taylor. Wholesale quantity (30) - ready to be affixed to trophy cricket bats
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1926-28 cricket cards, noted Players 'Cricketers, Caricatures by Rip' [50], Wills 'Cricketers 1928' [50], Players 'Cricketers 1930' [50]. G/VG
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1928 Wills 'Cricketers, 1928' [50], plus 1929 Wills 'Cricketers, 2nd series' [50]. G/VG
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1932-57 cricket cards, noted 1932 Australian (giant Brand) Licorice 'English Cricketers' (11), 1932 Godfrey Phillips 'Test Cricketers 1932-1933' (24), 1933 Hoadleys 'Cricketers' (8), 1934-35 Allens 'Cricketers' (19), 1956-57 Barratt & Co. 'Test Cricketers' (series A) (26) plus (series B) (15) & more. Poor/G
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1946-47 Coles Stores (Australia) 'Cricketers in Australia' (back without framelines), part set [29/40 + 2 spares], including two different Don Bradman cards, plus (back without framelines) [6/40]. Fair/VG
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1950 Fyna Foods (Australia) 'Test Cricketers', part set [3/40], 32.Bob berry, 34.D.B.Close & 38 D.V.P.Wright. G/VG
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1951 Argus badges 'Australia v England 1950-1951 test souvenir', part set of English cricketers [15/20], plus 'Australia 1950-1951 cricket series' [34/36] + 7 spares. Mainly G/VG.
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1951 Coles 'Australian & English Cricketers' [13/48], plus 1953-54 Coles 'Australian & English Cricketers' [19/28 + 1 spare]. Mainly G/VG
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1962 Australian (giant Brand) Licorice 'Test Cricketers', complete set [35], noted Graham McKenzie, bill Lawry & David Sheppard. Mainly G/VG. Very scarce - the first complete set we have offered
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1963-64 Coca-Cola 'Test stars bottle Tops', complete set of South African [15] & Australian [30] in special album. Fair/good condition. Very scarce
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Balance of collection, noted 2003 Elite signature cards [9 + 1 spare] including Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Brett Lee && Glenn McGrath, 1990 Scanlens (Stimorol) 'Cricketers' complete set [84], plus 1982/83 'The Benson & Hedges world series cup' cards (54). G/VG condition
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Unopened Scanlens 'Cricket' factory boxes for 1989/90 & 1990/91
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2005 Bradman Museum badges 'The Bradman Era series no.1 - the 1948 Invincibles', complete set [17], on original card signed by bill brown. Superb condition
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1932 Sweetacres Champion Chewing gum 'Test Records' [17/32 + 9 spares] & 'Prominent Cricketers' [8/32], plus 1938 Allens 'Cricketers' [3/36]. Poor/VG
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Warwick Armstrong, nice bold signature on piece. [Warwick Armstrong played 50 Tests 1901-21 including 10 as Australian Captain. Australian test player no.80]
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1928-29 England Team, autograph page with 13 signatures including A.P.F.Chapman, J.B.Hobbs & Douglas Jardine
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1944 scarce wartime autograph pages, noted 1944 England XI (10 sigs), RAAF (10 sigs), civil Defence v RAAF (10 sigs), RAAF (8 sigs). Players include Keith Miller, Stan Sismey, Herbert Sutcliffe, Walter Hammond. Also 1950s cricket cards (45)
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1948 Australian Team, official team sheet with 17 signatures including Don Bradman, Lindsay Hassett && bill Johnston, plus the usual handstamp of Sidney Barnes. Folded, otherwise very good condition
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1948 Australian Team, autograph page with 17 signatures including Don Bradman, Sid Barnes, Lindsay Hassett, Keith Miller & ray Lindwall, window mounted with 1948 scorecard Lancashire v Australians, framed & glazed, overall 38 x 34 cm. VG condition
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England Team Sheets, noted 1958-59, 1974-75 & 1979-80, good range of signatures including Peter May, Colin Cowdrey, Mike Deness & Mike Brearley
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1963-64 South African team to Australia, autograph pages with 17 signatures including Trevor Goddard, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock & Eddie Barlow.
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1980 West Indies Team, 19 signatures on page including Viv Richards, Clive Lloyd & Malcolm Marshall
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1983-99 team sheets, noted 1997 Australia, NSW, Queensland (2), south Aust (4), Tasmania (2), Victoria (2) & Western Australia (2). Good range of signatures
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1989 Australian Team to England, official team sheet with 19 signatures including Allan Border (Captain), Geoff Marsh & Merv Hughes. Scarce. (mark Taylor's first tour. Border's first major series win as test Captain)
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Collingwood: Displays signed by Des Tuddenham & Lou Richards, both window mounted, framed & glazed, largest 44 x 50 cm. Both with certificate of authenticitys
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Collingwood: 1892 Member's Season Ticket, no.27, from Collingwood's 1st season, with Fixture List. Fair/G
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Bill Strickland (after 8 seasons with Carlton in the VFA, he transferred & became Collingwood's first ever Captain in the VFL): original advertising photograph showing bill Strickland in Collingwood gear, and with football marked 'T.W.Sherrin maker' & 'C'wood F.C.'. Size 19 x 30 cm (some peripheral faults), with message & signature on reverse, 'Billy Strickland 1895. Dear Tom, This photograph was taken on the request of your grand Uncle, the founder of the firm T.W.Sherrin. You are quite welcome to same.…
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Collingwood: 'Collingwood Football Club, Annual report for 1896', with a report of the 1895 season. Fair/good condition. Very hard to find reports from this era
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Collingwood: 1898 Member's Season Ticket, no.267, with Fixture List. Inside good, though covers only Fair
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Collingwood: 'Collingwood Football Club, Annual report for 1898', with a report of the 1897 season, the first season of the VFL. Generally in good condition. Very hard to find reports from this era
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Victorian football League. Constitution, Rules, Permits and Laws of the game. 1899' [Melbourne, 1899]. G/VG condition
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Collingwood: group of historic photographs/pictures, noted photo of group of players & officials at Brisbane 1914 wearing 'Magpie' straw boater hats, snapshots (4) of 1919 Finals, reprinted photos of 1896 (2) && 1901 teams, also unidentified team photo
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Collingwood: 1905 letter from La Mascotte cricket club (precursor of Collingwood Cc), advising that the Collingwood Football Club were elected as a Patron for season 1905-6
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Dick Condon's Collingwood jumper, c1906, believed to be the earliest Collingwood jumper known. Poor/Fair condition, with some expert conservation work., (Dick Condon was a highly controversial & exceptionally brilliant champion, who played 149 games for Collingwood between 1894 && 1906, and 32 games for Richmond 1908-09. He was Captain-coach of Collingwood 1905-06, and Captain-coach of Richmond 1908-09 in their first 2 years in the VFL)
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Dick Condon (Collingwood/Richmond): Photocopied page from the VFL minutes book for 11th September 1900, headed 'Charge against R.Condon, Collingwood', giving field umpire Ivo Crapp's evidence, and concluding 'The Committee find the charge upheld and decide that he be disqualified for life'. (over an 18 month period, Condon appealed against his lifetime ban on three occasions. His last appeal was successful, and he went on to play & coach Collingwood & Richmond)
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Collingwood: 1907 Member's Season Ticket, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Fair/G
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Collingwood: 'Collingwood Football Club, Annual report for 1907', with a report of the 1906 season. Fair condition (tape stain)
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1908 football Carnival: Programme '1858-1908 Australasian football Jubilee. Celebration Festival, given by the Victorian football League, to the representative teams of... New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia'. (split along fold but rare and attractive). Also itinerary for 1907 visit of South Australian team to play VFA team
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Collingwood: original photograph titled 'Floreat Pica/ Founders Collingwood Football Club', signed below photograph by T.W.Sherrin, Alf cross, Wal Lee & Jack Joyce. (Used as a frontispiece for the Taylor book)
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Collingwood: 1909 team photograph, with at lower right 'Compliments Manufacturers of 'Capstan' Cigarettes', size 31 x 21 cm
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Collingwood - Dick Lee's Premiership cuff-links: pair of 15ct gold cuff-links, each comprising a pair of footballs linked by a gold chain, one football engraved 'Premiers/ C.F.C./ 1910', the other football engraved with a magpie, and on reverse initials 'W.H.L.'
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Collingwood: c1910 photograph of grandstand. Mount poor, though photo fine, size 38 x 26 cm
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Dick Lee (Collingwood), lovely photograph of Dick Lee in his Collingwood gear, size 9 x 14 cm
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C1910 Victorian Team: c1910 real photo postcard of Victorian team, written (and signed) by Dick Lee to Syd Sherrin
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Collingwood: superb original photograph capturing the unfurling of the 1910 Premiership flag, prior to the first match of 1911, size 15 x 11 cm
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Collingwood: Team photograph showing the team in their jumpers at Hamilton in 1913. Mount poor, though photograph fine
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Collingwood: 1914 Member's Season Ticket, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Fair/G (damaged inside)
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1914 Victorian 'Big V' Team, original team photograph with title, 'Victorian Carnival Team, 1914', and players names printed on mount, size 35 x 31 cm. Some faults to mount. Team includes Billie Dick (Captain), Dick Lee, Dave McNamara, James Jackson
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Collingwood: 1914 letter on 'Collingwood Football Club' letterhead from Bob Rush to Syd Sherrin, thanking him for his generosity in presenting Players & trainers with Straw Hats on account of Saturday's great win. (on July 11th 1914 Collingwood defeated the reigning premiers Fitzroy by 3 points at Victoria Park)
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Collingwood: 1916 Member's Season Ticket, no.217, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Fair/G (some cover faults)
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Jim Jackson (St Kilda, Collingwood & Hawthorn), original World War I photograph of Jim Jackson in uniform. [Jackson played 1 game for St Kilda in 1909, 93 games for Collingwood 1910-15 && 1920, and 75 games with Hawthorn 1921-26. When Hawthorn joined the VFL in 1925 he was their inaugural Captain]
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Unidentified portrait of a footballer wearing a dark jumper, believed to be Collingwood's Tom Wraith (60 games, 1916-20), size 17 x 23 cm
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Collingwood: 1918 Member's Season Ticket, no.175, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Fair/G (cover faults)
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Collingwood: 1918 team photograph, size 31 x 20 cm
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Collingwood: 1918 letter on 'Collingwood Football Club' letterhead from E.W.Copeland to Bert Taylor of Nilma inviting him for a 'Run' at Collingwood next year
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Collingwood: 1919 Member's Season Ticket, no.1980, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Fair/G (some cover faults). (Premiership year)
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Collingwood: original photograph of Syd Sherrin, 1919
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Collingwood: 1920 Member's Season Ticket, no.2443, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Fair/G
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Collingwood: c1920 original team photograph, size 30 x 19 cm. Players include Dick Lee, Doc Seddon, Lofty Hughes, Percy Wilson & Charlie Pannam Jr
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Collingwood: c1920 'Collingwood Football Club' badge. Very scarce
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Collingwood: 1922 Member's Season Ticket, no.761, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Fair/G (some cover faults)
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Victorian Junior football League. Constitution & Rules booklet for Season 1922', 'Victorian football League, 2nd Eighteens. Constitution & Rules booklets for Seasons 1923, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1931 & 1932. Plus 'Victorian football League, Memorandum & Articles of Association, Issued February, 1937'. Fair/VG condition
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1922 gold coloured & enamel fob 'Melbourne Districts football Association 1922'
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Collingwood: Minute book of Collingwood Finance Committee Meetings from September 1922 to August 1925. Interesting contents regarding player payments and expenses
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Collingwood: 1924 menu/programme 'Complimentary Smoke Social & presentation to E.W.Copeland, Collingwood Town Hall, 14th July 1924', with 50 pencil signatures including John Wren, E.W.Copeland, Jack Ryder, Jock McHale & Dick Lee. Minor faults though rare collection of autographs
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Collingwood - E.W.Copeland: 15ct gold & enamel fob 'The Honorary Justices Association of Victoria', engraved on reverse 'E.W.Copeland, central Bailwick, 1924'. G/VG condition. (the E.W.Copeland trophy is awarded each year to Collingwood's best & fairest player)
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Collingwood: Collingwood Football Club, Annual Reports for Seasons 1925, 1926, 1927 (Premiership year) & 1941. Good/VG condition
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Collingwood: 1927 Member's Season Ticket, no.2921, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Good condition. (Premiership year - 1st of Collingwood's record 4-in-a-row)
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Collingwood: 1927 team photograph (Premiership year), most players wearing distinctive Collingwood jumpers, almost like rowing singlets, size 43 x 33 cm
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Collingwood: photographs c1920s-50s, noted 1927 trip to WA (4), photo of Syd Coventry, postcards of Jack Regan && Ted Baker, team photos for 1937 & 1938 Tasmania trips, 1930s action photos, Phonse Kyne & Syd Coventry reacting to 1953 Grand Final siren
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Collingwood: 1928 Member's Season Ticket, no.2904, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Good condition. (Premiership year - 2nd of Collingwood's record 4-in-a-row)
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Collingwood: Matchbox holder, 'With the Compliments of the Collingwood Football Club', with images of players in 1928 Premiership team on front, and list of Premiers & Runners-up on reverse. Colours appear to be black & yellow (though I believe the white has aged). Fair/good condition
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Albert Lauder (Collingwood), nice photograph of Albert in his Collingwood jumper. [Played 36 games 1926-31 including 3 Premiership medals]
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Collingwood: 1929 Member's Season Ticket, no.3390, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Good condition. (Premiership year - 3rd of Collingwood's record 4-in-a-row)
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1929 Victorian 'Big V' Team, original team photograph with title, 'Victorian football League, Visit to Western and South Australia, 1st to 16th July 1929', and players names printed on mount, size 60 x 46 cm. Minor soiling on mount. Team includes Albert Collier, Allan Hopkins, Horrie Clover, Reg Hickey & Charles Stanbridge
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The Argus football Guide' by 'Old boy' [Melbourne, 1930] & 'The Argus & the Australasian football Guide' by 'Old boy' [Melbourne, 1931]. Fair condition
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Football books, noted 'The Sporting Globe football book' for 1930 && 1946, the Australian game of football' by Jock McHale, et al [Melbourne, 1931], also the Australian Footballer' Vol.1 no.7 (May 1931). Fair/G
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Football - the official Journal of the Victorian football League' Vol.1 no.1 (April 10, 1931). Fair/G condition
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Collingwood: Wonderful collection of ephemera, noted letter from Lou Richards, 1931 Itinerary for CFC trip to Ballarat, CFC Christmas cards for 1953, 1959, 1963 && 1964, 1973 programme John Greening Appeal - Collingwood v StKilda. Inspection will reward
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Collingwood: 1932 blueprint, 'City of Collingwood, plan of Victoria Park'. Fair/good condition (folded & some tone spots)
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Collingwood: 1933-34 Collingwood Football Club v Collingwood cricket club battle regarding use of Victoria Park - group with 8-page booklet 'Victoria Park ground - Collingwood for Collingwood', letter from city of Collingwood, minutes of Conference between city Council, football & cricket club - including John Wren as designated representative of the Football Club. Interesting history
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Collingwood: Minute book of Collingwood Committee Meetings from March 1934 to December 1935. Much fascinating reading
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Collingwood: 'Collingwood Football Club, Position of Players, Collingwood v South Melbourne . Match at MCG 5/10/1935'. Wonderful item for 1935 Grand Final, won by Collingwood 11.12.78 to south Melb 7.16.58. Collingwood's 10th Premiership
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Carlton: Member's Season Tickets for 1938 (Premiership year), 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947 (Premiership year), 1948 & 1949, each with fixture list & hole punched for each game attended. Good condition
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C1939-58 Charles Boyles real photo 'VFL Teams postcards' for Collingwood (6 different - c1939, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1952 & 1958). Fair/G
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Collingwood: 1939 Member's Season Ticket, with Fixture List & hole punched for each game attended. Fair condition
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