755 Autographed dinner menu cards,


Ladies Night in honour of Bobby Moore, signed by Moore and celebrities including Cilla Black & Jimmy Tarbuck; London Soccer Dream Team Awards at Cafe Royal signed by Bobby Moore, Matt Busby, Alan Ball, Geoff Hurst, Trevor Brooking an others; a sporting luncheon signed by George Best, Rodney Marsh & Wilf McGuinness, and other menus signed by Jimmy Greaves, Tommy Docherty, Jackie Charlton and others £200 - 250


757 A signed manuscript letter from Charlie Buchan dated 12th May 1927, 1 page, probably to a publisher who had enquired if Buchan was considering writing an autobiography, to which Buchan declines and says “I would not consider a book by myself at present, I would not want such a book to appear until I was practically at the end of my playing days, I do not consider that that time has arrived yet.”


For the record Buchan played one more season retiring a year after the date of this letter. He did eventually write his biography ‘A Lifetime in Football’ way after his playing days in 1955, and four years after he had launched his highly successful Football Monthly magazine. £140 - 180


756 A scrapbook containing numerous autographed items, correspondence concerning autograph requests on letterheads from many clubs, including Man City, Liverpool, WBA,, Norwich, and Stoke, with autographs of Kenny Dalglish, Stan Matthews, Bell/ Summerbee, Ossie Ardiles and various lower-league squads, plus autographed individual newspaper/magazine clippings of all 22 members of the 1966 England World Cup winning squad, plus Alf Ramsey, and including two Bobby Moore autographs, plus 9 signed soccer chewing gum cards from 1960’s,including Hurst, Banks, Dougan, Francis Lee, laid down and laminated onto A4 card £160 - 200


758 A signed manuscript Huddersfield Town postcard from Herbert Chapman,


postmarked August 1922, in reply to a player asking for a trial, reading: Dear Sir, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter for trial but regret I cannot oblige as we are so full up with players signed up. Yours faithfully H. Chapman.


Herbert Chapman was manager of Huddersfield Town from 1921 to 1925 before taking the managerial role at Arsenal £500 - 700


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759 A signed manuscript letter from the recently widowed Mrs Herbert Chapman to Tom Whittaker, dated 11th January 1934, one sheet on headed paper 6 Haslemere Avenue, Hendon, NW4, writing both sides, reading: MY DEAR Mr WHITTAKER, THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED FOR YOUR LOVELY LETTER THIS MORNING. IT IS A GREAT COMFORT TO ME TO KNOW HOW MUCH YOU THOUGHT OF HIM, AND HOW WELL YOU LOOKED AFTER HIM. HE SPENT SO MUCH OF HIS TIME WITH YOU THAT YOU WILL MISS HIM ALMOST AS MUCH AS WE ARE AT HOME. I WOULD LIKE TO COMFORT YOU, IF POSSIBLE BY TELLING YOU WHAT A GREAT DEAL HE THOUGHT OF YOU, NOT AS A TRAINER ONLY, BUT AS A MAN. HE HAS OFTEN TALKED TO ME ABOUT YOU AND TOLD ME HOW WONDERFUL YOU WERE AND I COULD TELL HE LOVED YOU. I HOPE TIME WILL SOFTEN THE BLOW FOR US ALL BUT AT PRESENT I AM UTTERLY BEWILDERED & LOST. I HOPE YOU WILL HAVE CONTINUED SUCCESS & HAPPINESS AT HIGHBURY. I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE & THE SYMPATHY SHOWN TO ME & MINE. YOURS VERY SINCERELY, A B CHAPMAN £200 - 300


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