Where I live there's an area called Hell and it's even got its own post office where you can get a postage stamp showing its been posted in Hell.
It sold for £67k (which it turns out was its reserve). it was quite exciting, as unlike eBay, you can’t just jump in with a last minute bid. Each time it got to the end and someone put in a last minute bid, it automatically added three minutes to the clock to allow the other bidder to counter.
Bid on line a few years back for a Barcelona v Hull City programme from the 1950's. I thought I had a chance bidding up to £350, and it finally went for over £3k.
Can’t recall the precise details but something about the Barce badge being wrong for when the game was played. I think that’s it.
It is, the badge on the front wasn't used until 1974 (in the 50's, the text in the middle of the badge would have said 'C.de.F.B')... please log in to view this image
https://www.footballprogrammecentre.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=178401 interesting discussion between collectors about possible fake Barcelona programmes from the 50s being produced in the 70s
When we cleared out my dads house, there was a suitcase and a few bags full of old Hull City programs all the way back to the 60’s up to around 2000. Thousands of them. All had got damp and the whole lot was ruined though which is a massive shame. All the 2000 onwards stuff was better kept but that is obviously less interesting.
I used to be an avid programme collector when I was a lad. I used to advertise in Soccer Star and all sorts. My best memory was seeing an ad for Norman Lovett's programme shop opening up on Queensgate Street in Hull, I was there the same day I saw the ad, and surprisingly in was half football programmes and half a green grocers shop. Norman was a bit flustered trying to sort the stock out and he let me rummage through the boxes of programmes to my hearts content. I found half a dozen Doncaster Rovers programmes, dated about 1920/30 with an elastic band around them and I asked how much he wanted for them. He said 'sixpence each', that's less than 40p in todays money for the lot. I bought them and advertised them the same day in Soccer Star ( it was free to advertise) and got £5 each for them. That was a fortune in those days, late 60's? for a 12 year old lad. I stopped collecting when all programmes started to look the same, and the last one's I actually bought was every one home and away of our first season in the Premier League and I sold a huge collection, only last year, to a City fan in Pocklington for £250, just to get rid of them. The guy who bought them actually filled his van up with them. When I thought I'd been chosen to be a fans rep for the East Stand, until 'they' pulled the plug, one of my suggestions was for the club to open up a kiosk on a matchday for fans to buy or sell old football programmes. It would be somewhere too where fan's could donate old collections they no longer have room for. I was offered loads when I had my shop, most times for free, from people who's relations had died and they just wanted the City programmes to go to a good home, sooner than take them to the tip. It's the pre war ones which are worth good money simply because they are scarce, I've never actually owned a Hull City pre war one. I do know of a fella who was given a collection of every Hull City home and some away's from our very first season on Anlaby Road, 1904, by an old lady he'd done a job for. She found them in her loft and they were all in mint condition. Amongst the aways was Chelsea v City which was the first league game Chelsea played at Stamford Bridge and the fella sold it to a Chelsea fan and took the old lady a cheque round which amounted to a couple of grand. ps; and they do get damp if you leave them in the shed or garage as I found out to my cost.
Right up to the 1980's Oxford's (fairly sure it was them) programme was a newspaper, I've got one somewhere from when we played them. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
My dad wasn’t particularly a ‘collector’, he just used to buy one every game he went to, always had and always did, even in recent times when he never bothered reading them. So they would all have been games he would have been to from mid-late 60’s onwards. They had all been in and old loft and finally a shed for the last couple of years which is probably what had destroyed them. I actually thought the ones in the suitcase had survived when I opened it as all the old fronts were still perfectly clear and legible but it was all stuck together underneath and dropped apart like a moth eaten curtain as soon as it was disturbed. Probably for the best else they’d likely be sat in my house right now as I couldn’t throw them away but would have nothing to do with them
