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Pedlow, Cecil et al.
Autographs [Album of Rugby/Sporting signatures].
Publisher:
Date of Publication: 1955
Stock Code: 9635
Autograph album approximately 12 cm x 10 cm, pp. [52] containing 63 sporting signatures, of which 3 are on paper pasted to pages while the remaining 60 are inscribed directly to the page, plus single folded sheet on headed note paper inscribed with 33 signatures of the 1960 South African Rugby Football Touring Team fixed to the rear board with adhesive tape. 9 small newspaper clipping captioned photographs of players pasted to single sheet. Maroon textured paper-covered stiff card boards with title and decoration in gilt to upper board and leaves in a range of pastel colours.
Boards rubbed and paper loose to spine, with repairs to edges with adhesive tape. Ownership inscription with address to front paste-down; signatures of players throughout, some singly and others multiple signatures to a page. Contents clean, with annotation referring to some of the signatures and their teams and dates. A Good album with Very Good contents. A wide ranging collection of sporting autographs including those from football and rugby players of the 1950s and 60s, starting with Cecil Pedlow of the CIYMS (Church of Ireland Young Men’s Society), Lions and Ireland, several of the 1960 Ireland XI including Harry Gregg and Alex Elder, and Ronnie Dawson of Wanderers and Ireland, plus of course the many members of the Springboks 1960 tour. Irish-born Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg is known as the “Hero of Munich” as he pulled a number of team-mates and others from the burning wreckage of the Munich air disaster in 1958, including manager Matt Busby, Jack Charlton and Vera Luhik, the pregnant wife of a Yugoslav diplomat, with her 2-year old daughter. Alex Elder played football for Northern Ireland and for Burnley and Stoke, while Dubliner Ronnie Dawson was hooker and Captain of the Wanderers rugby team. Jack Kyle, one of Ireland’s finest rugby union players, won the 1948 Five Nations Championship and 1949 Triple Crown, and was named as the Greatest Ever Irish Rugby Player by the Irish Rugby Football Union in 2002, as well as having a successful career as a doctor and surgeon. Of especial interest to Ireland and Springboks fans. Sold