Town Programme For Visit to Port Vale Sells For Almost £3,000 - Ipswich Town News
A programme from the Blues’ visit to Port Vale in the 1946/47 season has become the most expensive involving the club to be sold at auction.
A copy of the programme from the Division Three (South) match at Vale's former stadium, the Old Recreation Ground, on Saturday 29th March, when a crowd of 10,378 watched the home side win 1-0, changed hands for £2,800 on eBay over the weekend following 32 bids.
That’s significantly up on what was understood to have been the previous highest price a Town programme has reached at auction, a single sheet from the Blues’ home game with Crystal Palace 1938/39, the club’s first season in the Football League, having sold for just above £1,100.
Town programmes from the pre and immediate post-war eras are the most collectable and are fiercely fought over by collectors whenever they come on the market.
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