Big bids for soccer souvenir.A RARE match programme from Scotland's 1926 victory over England is expected to fetch up To overtake. - Addison. To stop suddenly. - L'Estrange. See also: Fetch Fetch to pounds 1000 at auction next week. The match, on April 17, 1926, was the first international played at Manchester United's Old Trafford ground. Scotland won 1-0 thanks to a goal from legend Alec Jackson in front of 49,429 spectators. The 83-year-old souvenir programme includes a section on the history of United. The 118-page programme cost one old penny in 1926 and will be sold in Bonhams Bonhams is a privately owned British auction house founded in 1793. It is the third largest auctioneer after Sotheby's and Christie's, and conducts around 700 auctions per year. The firm has London salerooms in New Bond Street and Knightsbridge. sale of sporting memorabilia in Chester on October 21. Pride Bonhams' Dan Davies said: "There is incredible interest, not only from England and Scotland collectors, but also collectors of Manchester United memorabilia all over the world. It could very easily fetch upwards of pounds 1000." Richard McBrearty, curator of the Scottish Football Museum The Scottish Football Museum is the Scottish Football Association's National Museum of football, located in Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland. The Museum The museum houses over 2000 objects of football memorabilia, including the world's oldest cap and match ticket, from at Hampden Park, Glasgow, said it would take "pride of place" if they could acquire it. He added: "A few of the players in this game went on to become Wembley Wizards, including of course Alec Jackson, who scored a hat-trick in the 1928 game." CAPTION(S): AUCTION: The programme |
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