Full Sale Details at Bonhams.com
With football fever mounting for the World Cup and the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship just a few weeks away, Bonhams has a lot to shout about with its June Sporting Legends Sale, featuring football, tennis, cricket and rugby memorabilia and ephemera.

Bonhams is pleased to present the press with a unique opportunity to photograph high profile sporting artefacts and interview sporting specialists on 1 June before they are sold a week later.

Memorabilia and ephemera on press view will include:

A World Cup winner’s medal 1950. Estimate £8,000-10,000. Won by Ruben Moran, a member of the victorious Uruguay team when they upset hot favourites Argentina 2-1. Moran is the youngest player to play in the final of the World Cup. He was 18 years old at the time.

A unique World Cup signed celebration banquet menu from England’s victory at the 1966 World Cup (30 July), signed by the England team plus squad members, Her Majesty The Queen, then Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Denis Howell (Minister for Sport), Stanley Rous (FIFA President), Alf Ramsey (manager), Harold Shepherson (trainer), and Leslie Cocker (trainer). Roy Peckett, a sports journalist on the Daily Mail, attended the banquet and personally obtained the autographs. He then gave the menu to the present owner in 1970. No other signed menus from this celebration are known to exist. Estimate £2,000-3,000.

George Best’s “All Star Award Winner Division 2” medal, presented to him in 1997 by the Professional Footballers Association. It is engraved “G. Best Fulham F.C.” and is expected to fetch £8,000 - 10,000.

Posted: 05|31|06 at 2:58 pm. Filed under: UK News.