Sporting Memorabilia & Equipment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A series of unpublished photographs and film reel of Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) for a 1971 advert for a non-alcoholic beverage will be offered at RWB Auctions on September 11.

New auction enterprise will specialise selling football memorabilia such as shirts, medals and programmes

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

The medal which was awarded 100 years ago was sold at Newcastle auction house Anderson & Garland

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