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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Huge football collection kicks off in an auction series

02 December 2024

This month enthusiasts can get an auction taster of a sporting archive ranked as among the very best

Matthews Foty Award

Stanley Matthews’ Footballer of the Year award to appear at Gloucestershire auction

28 November 2024

Items belonging to the two-time winner of the Footballer of the Year award comes to Kinghams on December 5

Cheltenham Cup

Cheltenham Gold Cup a winner at auction

14 November 2024

The cup awarded to the owner of 1948 winner Cottage Rake doubled its estimate at Graham Budd

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Catch this fair and be hooked

04 November 2024

Plenty of collectors and dealers of vintage angling kit will be on “the riverbanks” as it were as 36 of them stall out with their rods, reels, cased fish, books, art and catalogues at the National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair on Sunday, November 17.

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Liverpool FC player McLean could be the first footballer to debut on a cigarette card

22 October 2024

One of the earliest examples – possibly the every first in existence – came up for auction at Berkshire auction house Loddon

Trevor Francis Post 1979 Winners' Medal

Collection from first million-pound player Trevor Francis sells in Devon

18 October 2024

Trevor Francis won the European Cup twice with Nottingham Forest and both winner’s medals were snapped up at auction at Piers Motley

Viv Anderson shirt

Shirt worn by first black player to play for England Viv Anderson goes to auction

27 September 2024

Viv Anderson made his historic debut in 1978 against Czechoslovakia. Now the shirt he wore that day heads to Graham Budd Auctions

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Boxing prints power their way beyond estimates

23 September 2024

On a wintry February day in 1789 in a field on the outskirts of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, a fight between Irishman Michael Ryan and English champion Thomas Johnson was heating up.

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Cricket covered in the form of a mock-heroic poem

23 September 2024

An auction of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks and Cricket Books at Knights Sporting Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Norwich on September 14-15 was led by a first edition of the first separately published poem on cricket.

Trevor Francis Winners Medal

Trevor Francis collection heads to auction

19 September 2024

Britain’s first million-pound player won two European Cups under Brian Clough as part of a sparkling footballing career – now his personal collection heads to auction

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Cigarette card lights up Reading auction

30 August 2024

A c.1912 cigarette card showing baseball pitcher Rube Marquard was given a ballpark estimate of £300-500 at Loddon Auctions.

Babe Ruth's jersey

Babe Ruth’s ‘called shot’ New York Yankees jersey sets record for any sporting collectable

28 August 2024

The 1932 World Series jersey sold at Heritage Auctions for $24.1m, setting a new high for any piece of sporting memorabilia

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Unpublished Muhammad Ali photographs and film to be auctioned in Wiltshire

22 August 2024

A series of unpublished photographs and film reel of Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) for a 1971 advert for a non-alcoholic beverage will be offered at RWB Auctions on September 11.

Hansons World Football

Hansons auction house aims to tackle growing football market

01 August 2024

New 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 2024

The 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 2024

A 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 2024

The 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 2024

An 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 2024

The 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 2024

Purnell was one of Great Britain’s few Olympic football players and one of a smaller pool of gold medal winners

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