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The sale of sports memorabilia tends to go hand in hand with the fortunes of the particular sport. When England won the Ashes in 2005 the trade in cricket memorabilia was huge, after quite a number of years of low interest.
In May 2007 Graham Budd Auctions set a new world auction record for a complete set of John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanacks that sold for a staggering £120,000. Wisden is considered to be the ‘Bible’ of the sport. It was first published in 1864 and is still going strong and is a unique and comprehensive archive of the game’s history, offering records of results, score cards, reports, essays, features and articles. All that information makes it extremely collectable and it is a must for every serious cricket fan.
The FA Cup has a long and romantic history and was dreamed up by Charles William Alcock, an old Harrovian, who played on the winning side in the first final of 1872, when Wanderers defeated the Royal Engineers. Since that first final, it has been the dream of every footballer to play in the FA [...]