Old programmes - check your loft

[Guest PTB]

Have you seen the prices of some of these programmes.

 

http://www.collectsoccer.com/acatalog/Glasgow_Rangers_1960_s.html

 

I'm sure i've gor a load stashed away somewhere.

 

�£75 FFS

[26th of foot 5,873]

I have several hundred match programmes, including at least a dozen of those featured on the link. I am not a programme collector, and stopped buying them 15 years past. Younger posters may be surprised to learn that you could not find out half time scores at other grounds unless you had access to a match programme.

 

At half time, a couple of older chaps pushed a barrow around the black cynder track at the Stadium, they placed a letter in one slot on the terrace retaining wall, followed by two numbers. You had to refer to the programme to see the solution ie B 2-1 meant Dundee were 2-1 up against Airdrie.

 

Further, every programme carried a block ink number on the front/rear page. An elderly chap walked around the track, carrying a huge blackboard with the winning number on it. On a typical rainy night, he did not reach 50 yards before the chaulk washed away. Even in the mid-sixties, the lucky programme number prize was �£50. I have NEVER met anyone that won said prize, although a school mate won a �£1 in Heads you Win.

[Gazza_8 233]

I chucked all mine out when I moved house abot 5 years ago. Dust collectors!

[alexscottislegend 2,099]

Crikey! I've actually got 3 of those and they are all in mint condition. Funny thing is, I don't want to sell them - unless I get offered silly money.

[bluedan 93]

I got heaps of these old programs. They we're my grandads, got one from the Euro cup final from Hampden between R madrid and Frankfurt. I took them to a dealer and he didn't value them as being rare despite the near mint condition. I'll be passing them onto my kids....

[aftershock 0]

I've got a few as well. Strange thing is if you look on ebay there are loads at only a couple of quid, some quite old too.