Miscellaneous Ephemera From Your Collection

[foxes1]

Following on from a couple of threads a few months ago on menus and handbooks thought it may be interesting to see what other items people may have in their collection apart from these. Here is my offering 'Order Of Service' from Leicester Cathedral for the centenary of the club.

[overlap]

I recently acquired this poster which was pleased to get as I was at this Monaco v Newcastle game in March 97. Funnily enough it was my second trip to Monaco in a couple of months as had also been there in Feb 97 to see a Scotland nightmare 0-0 v Estonia.

[Dorking]

Should really be on the #your favourite signed item' thread but couldn't find the pic when that thread was going

This is my set of Russian style stacking dolls. I ordered them bespoke so got to choose the exact players, then waited an age for them to be hand made in Russia and sent across

Then I got them all signed by waiting for the players in the car park at home games

The players all loved them and asked where I got them. Speroni had a real job signing his as it is so tiny!

Anyhow, they are probably worthless tat, but I love them!

[yachtsmun]

This is one of my favourite bits - not Cowes either, although our Reserves do get a mention.

Ryde FC poster from 1948. Sadly, Ryde are now defunct, having folded in 1997, eight years or so after selling their lovely old Partlands home to move to a spick, span and soul-less facility out of town. The biggest town on the Island hasn't had a senior side since...


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[derby1884]

I may have posted this membership card here before, I can't recall.
Not got anywhere yet with finding out any more about the club - but it's a nice piece of pre-WW1 ephemera to own.




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[manchesterunitedman1]

Dorking wrote:

Should really be on the #your favourite signed item' thread but couldn't find the pic when that thread was going This is my set of Russian style stacking dolls. I ordered them bespoke so got to choose the exact players, then waited an age for them to be hand made in Russia and sent across Then I got them all signed by waiting for the players in the car park at home games The players all loved them and asked where I got them. Speroni had a real job signing his as it is so tiny! Anyhow, they are probably worthless tat, but I love them!

Regarding the Russian "Babushka Type Dolls"[where one fits inside the other]

It is what does it for you and no matter what anyone else thinks-none of that matters! you paid or them with your hard earned and if u love em-then that is all there is too it-the epitome of being a collector-not everything has to be Pre-War-or cost 4 figures plus-or you have to have bulging binders of rare items to show off to all and sundry as that tells me that depicts people who are not really collectors but merely investors, they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I have a small section on my flickr site for United miscellany-all sorts of paper or pottery, carpets and there is even a set of those Russian dolls[but mine are not signed!] and odd badges worth a few pence but they they all mingle in with the top items to make an overall picture of the club's past and present. Any way, if it interests anyone just click on this https://flic.kr/s/aHsjfq2KCh


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[Karb]

I can't stand Russian dolls. They are so full of themselves.....

[wandererpaul]

derby1884 wrote:

I may have posted this membership card here before, I can't recall. Not got anywhere yet with finding out any more about the club - but it's a nice piece of pre-WW1 ephemera to own.

Never found anything relating to them at all when searching the newspaper archives. A few of the club played had mentions but, even then, some were cricket clubs and not football. It's so annoying!! Nice item though and something that seems to have been produced by several clubs from that era and area even.
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[Dorking]

I have a feeling I made a faux pas and that ephemera means 'paper'stuff but never mind.

I have yearbooks from the early 1910s and it is just as important to me that I keep up the collection by buying the new kids annual and the season review book each year. I reckon people won't keeps those kids annuals in great condition, or scribble over the wordsearches etc and mine will be one of the few to survive well

The way I see those stacking dolls is that in 20-30 years time I will have them amongst my stuff as I look back on one of the best periods of the clubs history (ie now) and with the inevitable change in kits hairstyles or whatever, they will become historic in their own right.

PS Great post above Leslie, it sums up just how I see collecting too - I can see treasure in modern or recent items where others just see tat.

A great example are the one or two collectors who specialise in 70s badges- 10 years ago considered worthless, now selling for decent money in many cases, and a real colourful vibrant collection 'of its time' worth both showing off and of course most importantly enjoying yourself

[Pete’s Picture Palace]

I've posted this before but can't resist showing it again

Jan 1907 - FA Cup 1st rnd proper - eventual league champions Newcastle 0, Southern League Crystal Palace 1

A disgruntled but highly skilled Toon man made this from a bit of green vellum

[Five and In]

Same as Dorking's really cool Russian Dolls, my contribution to the thread is not paper based, nor really old, but a limited edition diecast set of the Spurs Double winners. I had never seen them before and had to buy them when I spotted them about a year ago.

[derby1884]

Not practical to show an image but a long time back I picked up a set of scrapbooks, 4 in all, each of 100 pages which covers the 55/56 Third Division (North) season.

Full of match reports and articles/photographs, whoever undertook this task must have spent many, many hours on it.

What's really clever is that he (I assume it is a he) has managed to waste not one square inch of the 400 pages. Even the smallest space is covered.

There's too much info in there to read like a book - only way is to just dip in and out of them every so often.
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[pompey gaz]

Brilliant poster from Yachtsmun , it was bad enough the ground going but then the magnificent Parklands Hotel went too, along with a whole host of superb Isle of Wight boozers, is nothing sacred these days ! !

[PompeyPhil]

Five and In wrote:

Same as Dorking's really cool Russian Dolls, my contribution to the thread is not paper based, nor really old, but a limited edition diecast set of the Spurs Double winners. I had never seen them before and had to buy them when I spotted them about a year ago.

Cracking set Five and In......sadly no one has ever produced anything like that relating to Pompey. Here's my collection of Pompey painted metal figures.....

[AberdeenBob]

Only recently came into my collection. It's a six page media type guide for the Cup Winners Cup Final of 1983, Aberdeen vs Real Madrid. It belonged to the famous Scottish commentator David Francey.