Rare Town programmes for collectors

No I'm not selling them just letting anyone who is a collector of Town programmes about two that are in an auction at Lockdales of Ipswich on 28/29 March. Details as follows:

1) Town v Manchester City 4th Sept 1926 Estimate £200-220

2) Cup semi-final v Wolves 25/3/39 at Old Trafford Estimate £200-220

Auction is on line for those who can't attend in person

Quoted from Ipswin

No I'm not selling them just letting anyone who is a collector of Town programmes about two that are in an auction at Lockdales of Ipswich on 28/29 March. Details as follows:

1) Town v Manchester City 4th Sept 1926 Estimate £200-220

2) Cup semi-final v Wolves 25/3/39 at Old Trafford Estimate £200-220

Auction is on line for those who can't attend in person

My dad had the Wolves semi final one and he attended the game,

Sadly when he died I was in the USA and by the time I got back all his football stuff had been chucked out,

He also kept a diary of every home match we played that season and he told me I could have them when he had gone.

To say I was drunk off is a understatement apart from shredding a tear at his funeral.

Quoted from grimsby pete

My dad had the Wolves semi final one and he attended the game,

Sadly when he died I was in the USA and by the time I got back all his football stuff had been chucked out,

He also kept a diary of every home match we played that season and he told me I could have them when he had gone.

To say I was drunk off is a understatement apart from shredding a tear at his funeral.

Disaster!

Town pre WW2 programmes always sell well.

The Wolves semi final, if it's in good condition should fetch between £350 and £400.

Town programmes from the 1920s are incredibly rare, and I'd expect that to reach £300 at least.

Some excellent prices for Town stuff at the sportingold auction last week, especially the 1914-15 GTFC handbook which went for £240, despite being in poor condition. It was offered to me, along with a host of other collectable handbooks, a couple of  months ago as the chap selling them knew I collected such material (albeit a number of years ago) As I don't now, I turned down the opportunity, but he had some wonderful stuff, and the handbook from 1914-15 had a guide price of just £25-£30!

Quoted from grimsby pete

My dad had the Wolves semi final one and he attended the game,

Sadly when he died I was in the USA and by the time I got back all his football stuff had been chucked out,

He also kept a diary of every home match we played that season and he told me I could have them when he had gone.

To say I was drunk off is a understatement apart from shredding a tear at his funeral.

My dad was at the Old Trafford semi too Pete

Don't know if he had the programme or not

He told me about the wall collapsing there and being crushed under the weight of everyone pressing forward

I wonder how much Wayne Burnett's shirt that he was wearing when he scored at Wembley is worth?
That must be one of the most recent items of any interest unless you can count when Town won in the play-off to get back into the EFL.

I love this sort of stuff but the prices are beyond my pocket. We should always remember that our club has a very proud heritage. I recently looked back over some past fixtures in 1933. At Christmas in that year we beat Man Utd home and away and were top of the Second Division. Little did people realise the danger that was ahead with Hitler by then German Chancellor and already dismantling the Weimar Republic.
Jackie Bestall was a regular visitor to Spilsby Grammar School to coach the first eleven. My father used to eulogise about Jackie’s ball control. Father, being a good clogging stopper could only watch and marvel at the little genius.

Love the way you slip from us beating Utd, to Adolf Hitler, and then Jackie Bestall in the next breath.

My entry for 1954 reads:
“Town ended the season with a 2:2 draw at Stockport County. The end is nigh for the French in Indo-China after the surrender at Dien Bien Phu. The pre-season tour of Devon is marred by calf injury to Ron Rafferty.”

Nice one! Your remark puts some context into the proceedings. Ron Rafferty, great player for us. I strongly believe that we should have some pride in the club for its rich history.

I read about the Man U victories in an article in the Guardian (online archive site). I just thought what else was going on in the world at the time with Hitler coming to power.I shouldn't think they gave it a second thought in 1933.

Being the 1930s Jackie Bestall came to mind next. Both my grandfather and father would go on about him when I was a kid.

Some of the regulars in my local down here laugh when I say I am a Town fan, so a bit of history shuts them up. In the same season 1933, Southampton were near the bottom of Division 2. The Saints are not such a big club as they like to think. You have to stand your corner when you are exiled. When they're told that big Lawrie Mac learned his managerial skills at BP they look at me as if I am mad!

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Nice one! Your remark puts some context into the proceedings. Ron Rafferty, great player for us. I strongly believe that we should have some pride in the club for its rich history.

I read about the Man U victories in an article in the Guardian (online archive site). I just thought what else was going on in the world at the time with Hitler coming to power.I shouldn't think they gave it a second thought in 1933.

Being the 1930s Jackie Bestall came to mind next. Both my grandfather and father would go on about him when I was a kid.

Some of the regulars in my local down here laugh when I say I am a Town fan, so a bit of history shuts them up. In the same season 1933, Southampton were near the bottom of Division 2. The Saints are not such a big club as they like to think. You have to stand your corner when you are exiled. When they're told that big Lawrie Mac learned his managerial skills at BP they look at me as if I am mad!

Cheap shot I know. Sorry, wasn’t meant maliciously.

A lot of people probably didn’t give a second thought to Herr Hitler’s appointment as Reichskanzler in 1933. Some, however, like the Daily Mail were happy about it.

I have no idea about the 1954. I don’t even know if RR was playing for us then and when in 54 the battle at Dien Bien Phu occurred.

I’ve lived most my adult life as an exile so I get where you’re coming from. We have a proud history as a club. Sadly it is mostly just that. History.