Graham Budd

Graham Budd is a specialist sporting memorabilia auctioneer. The company was set up in 2004 by Graham Budd who was previously head of sporting memorabilia at Sotheby’s. In 2022 he agreed a sale of the firm to a syndicate led by businessman Tim Murphy.

The firm continues to offer collectable items in the fields of football, golf, cricket, tennis, horse racing, motor sports, rugby, Olympics and boxing.

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Football and presidential clubs fare well in Budd’s first

 10 August 2004

THE first outing for Sotheby’s associate Graham Budd Auctions (15% buyer’s premium) offered a large range of sporting memorabilia in a 885-lot sale held at Sotheby’s Olympia on June 9. Football was the most represented sport, contributing to well over half the total number of lots.

Dates set as Sotheby’s specialists go it alone from Olympia rooms

 06 April 2004

DATES have been announced for the first collectors’ sales to be held at Sotheby’s Olympia by the company’s former in-house specialists, now working independently.

Patchy results for summer’s sports

 28 August 2002

The extraordinary prices realised for football memorabilia such as the £140,000 bid at Christie’s South Kensington for Pele’s Brazilian 1970 World Cup Final shirt reflect sporting collectors’ current obsession with the beautiful game.

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