Lot: 124
Football Programmes, 1943-1982, mostly Manchester City Home (60) and Away (22) with much 1960s but including 1943-50 (14, eight pre-1945). Of the 1960s fourteen are single-sheet programmes for reserves and youth games. Also two F.A. Challenge Cup replays played at Maine Road, plus 1967 England v Scotland and 1969 F.A.Cup Final, three Manchester City season ticket books 1981-82 (intact), and related ephemera. Mixed condition (esp. 1940s), tokens intact throughout. (99 items)
Lot: 125
Signed books by Sports celebrities, a collection, 1990s/2000s, mostly football & cricket, five with multiple signatures, including autographs of Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Charlton, Brian Clough, Gordon Banks, Garry Sobers, George Best, Graeme Sharp, Peter May and various others. Offered ‘as is', a signature of Muhammed Ali does not appear to be genuine. VG condition. Also one unsigned. (10)
Lot: 126
Gibson & Pickford Association Football & the Men Who Made It, Caxton, [1905-06], four vols, pictorial cloth worn and very discoloured, fine internally complete with numerous plates (4)
Lot: 139
A.&B.C. Gum Footballers 1958 (Planet) Nos.1 to 92 plus 48 duplicates, and Cricketers 1959 set of 48, all (bar 3) laid down in issued albums; plus Topical Times Footballers size E (28, most with faults), and related literature. Albums with covers detached.
Lot: 153
Topical Times footballers in the issued albums comprising Miniature Panel Portraits and Stars of Today, fine in sets; plus Great Players in further album with two cards missing, a few cards rubbed.