Sports Memorabilia
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Hi, quick general question(s) for the Kiwi sports junkie collector… is there a website or blog dedicated to NZ sports collectibles?
My main interest is paper — mostly photos, prints, magazines, trading cards, programs… especially rugby, horsies and athletics.
I’m curious about what’s out there, values etc, and tips/leads. Maybe there’s a thread here, but I can’t find one — and I’m not sure where the thread would belong — sports or off-topic? As I say, my main interest is in Kiwi sports antiques.
If all I see replying here is shrugged shoulders, I might start a thread myself…
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@kid-chocolate said in Kiwi sports antiques & memorabilia:
Hi, quick general question(s) for the Kiwi sports junkie collector… is there a website or blog dedicated to NZ sports collectibles?
My main interest is paper — mostly photos, prints, magazines, trading cards, programs… especially rugby, horsies and athletics.
I’m curious about what’s out there, values etc, and tips/leads. Maybe there’s a thread here, but I can’t find one — and I’m not sure where the thread would belong — sports or off-topic? As I say, my main interest is in Kiwi sports antiques.
If all I see replying here is shrugged shoulders, I might start a thread myself…
You just did
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@mn5 said in Kiwi sports antiques & memorabilia:
You just did
I don’t want to start one if one already exists. Plus my finer point — does it belong in sports or off-topic? I suspect the former, but maybe a mod would prefer it in the latter. In any case, I’ll roll up my sleeves and start posting some of my roadshow…
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@kid-chocolate said in Kiwi sports antiques & memorabilia:
does it belong in sports or off-topic?
Don't really care.. Probably sport? I'll move it
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53rd anniversary on this one. I bought it about 25 years ago for $18. I don’t have a lot of old programmes in the collection, but I’ll grab anything from the Meads-Lochore era if affordable. That French team was back-to-back Five Nations (and Grand Slam) champions. The good guys prevailed 12-9.
Nice strong clean graphics on this one. Love the old adverts. Not sure what values are on old programmes but I suspect the value of all AB programmes will remain steady for the forseeable future. -
@kid-chocolate I have a couple of match programmes from that era too. They are like books with the number of pages.
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@kid-chocolate said in Sports Memorabilia:
53rd anniversary on this one. I bought it about 25 years ago for $18. I don’t have a lot of old programmes in the collection, but I’ll grab anything from the Meads-Lochore era if affordable. That French team was back-to-back Five Nations (and Grand Slam) champions. The good guys prevailed 12-9.
Nice strong clean graphics on this one. Love the old adverts. Not sure what values are on old programmes but I suspect the value of all AB programmes will remain steady for the forseeable future.Jeepers, not a single Frenchman touching 16 stone ( 102kg in todays language )
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Olympics are almost at hand… surely the most subdued start to a Games since I’ve been alive.
Here’s a nice catch I won on eBay about 16-17 years ago. Starting bid was $4. I covered it with a $50 bid, then was surprised and delighted when nobody else bid, so I won it for $4. Woo-hoo!
Golden Hour, Sept. 3rd 1960. I love how the two events were the last two events of the evening — the Main Events — and spill over a page-spread here, Snell on the left, Halberg on the right. I love how Snell (#83) won his Gold, then early-morning Kiwis would have basked in his glory for all of 23 minutes until Halberg (#84) started running. I usually like these books minty, but I love how the attendee meticulously recorded all the finishes and times. Wilma Rudolph won the 100m semi and final in OR and WR times about an hour earlier on the same card.
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These are inherited by my son. On the right is the signature page from the 1937 Bok tour of NZ. All the famous old names Craven, Nel etc
The scrap of paper is actual autographs from the team when they played a combined Thames Valley/ King Country/Waikato team (who held them to a score of 6-3). My wife’s grandfather was a selector of the combined team, hence the mementos were passed down. -
How did you score that?
I have very few autographs. Meads and Jonah. Meads signed his autobiography; My mother worked at a library and she met Jonah at some event and got him to sign and handwrite a small note to me on the back of a photo card of a red snapper*, I shit ye not. That’s it, but not a bad pair to keep. Had Grant Batty’s when I was younger, but sadly lost it.
(*About 15 years ago a friend invited me to a small lunch, insisted I come, gave no other details. Surprised me to sit down and dine with Nick Faldo. He was in a small town designing a golf course. The only thing I had on me was a book about the early history of the Atlantic cod fisheries. He signed it beautifully, and handed it back to me remarking, “That’s the first time I’ve ever signed anything about the Atlantic cod trade.” So in my remarkably small collection of autographs, I have Faldo signature on a book about Cod, and Jonah signing a pic of a Red Snapper. A fish-tale that’s not a fish-tale, I tells ya.)
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I know someone who has a framed match ticket and programme of the 1981 Waikato-South Africa game.
My friends and I used to get players' autographs when we were younger. I often had them sign the programme and still have those in storage. I got David Campese's when he played for the Aust U21s.
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@kid-chocolate Somewhere (I can't find it at the moment) I have a signed copy of Fergie McCormack's autobiography.
Have an autographed copy of Jonah's book as well (well at least my son does in the pile of stuff still taking up room in our house!) -
@bovidae said in Sports Memorabilia:
I know someone who has a framed match ticket and programme of the 1981 Waikato-South Africa game.
My friends and I used to get players' autographs when we were younger. I often had them sign the programme and still have those in storage. I got David Campese's when he played for the Aust U21s.
I have a Randwick cap signed by a bunch of Wallabies who played for them in the early 90s, but, and I assume I've told this story before, not Campo because after the training we watched he ran off to his fancy sportscar and drove off. The rest of the players all had a BBQ and beers so we got all their signatures.
I also have Nepia's (the real one) signature that my great grandmother had from knowing him in the 20s (she claimed to know all the great 1920s Magpies stars as she worked at the pub where they'd meet before travelling to games - not sure if that's true or not).
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Collection (complete) of 50 cigarette cards, “New Zealand Footballers” from 1928. I went through several collections to cobble most of this set together many years ago. They can usually be found in varying condition from $50 to $300 complete, a nice investment for the sons or nephews. What I really like is these small cards are “Real Photographs,” not half-tone dot prints. The small photos are presumably smaller than the actual negatives they were photographed onto. Put a magnifying glass up to them and they spring to life, they look spectacularly clear and sharp. I suspect on a good scanner they could be enlarged into nice high res 8x10s.
One question I’ve always wanted to know is where these cards were distributed. The tobacco company is British. Were these cards intended for British or Kiwi markets?
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@kid-chocolate sorry answering your question from 18 days ago. I'm mainly a jersey collector but pick up other bits here and there.
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@yeetyaah what jerseys do you have
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@mikedogz said in Sports Memorabilia:
Any guess on the autographs?
Willie Duggan
Terry Conner
Alan Martin
Peter Wheeler
Brynmor Williams
Trevor Evans
Tony Neary
