Aston Villa Memorabilia Job Lot on ebay

[dave.woodhall]

On the basis that a few programme holders / sellers will hopefully be reading this thread then I am looking for:-

Aston Villa v Stoke City Home League programme from 25th March, 1953.

I understand it was a very wet W

in or ednesday?

[BC54 VFC]

Don't know what happened there Dave; post is now complete. Cheers. Brian.

[dave.woodhall]

Ah. That's why the 1924 FA Cup final programme is worth more than the 1923 one. It rained.

[BC54 VFC]

....I didn't know that. I've not got the programme for that game but do have a silver, hallmarked, badge commemorating the 'English Cup Final 1924' which my grandfather passed to me in the mid-60's. Spot on re: the early League Cup programmes; Rotherham Final Away Leg goes for anything between £250-£400 in very good condition.

[somec]

I sold most of my collection on ebay a few years back and was surprised how little most of the programmes went for.

One that did surprise me was the 1972 Charity shield v Man City.

The programme sellers in the holte end used to sell bundles of programmes for a quid and this programme was in a bundle of 10 from the seventies.

I sold it for 18 quid, not bad considering I paid 10p for it.

[silhillvilla]

Interesting stuff, so basically if you know your product it can be a rewarding investment ?

Think my most recent rarity will be CSKA Moscow away (the O'Neill surrender). Not the best programme and obviously it's all in Russian but possibly a rarity ?

[dave.woodhall]

It's only an investment if you bought them a long time ago or happen to stumble across a cheap rarity at a car boot sale.

[silhillvilla]

It's only an investment if you bought them a long time ago or happen to stumble across a cheap rarity at a car boot sale.

I've got loads from the late 70's through the 80's and 90's which seem to be fairly worthless.
Then I have a lot from the 50's that were passed down.

[Ron Manager]

The home leg programme from the 1963 League Cup Final is worth about £150 (due to a print shortage) so the collectors manuals say.

But you try getting anything like that and Ive got programmes from both legs

Cant remember who our opponents were though.....or the score!