Graham Budd
Graham Budd is a specialist sporting memorabilia auctioneer. The company was set up in 2004 by Graham Budd who was previously head of sporting memorabilia at Sotheby’s. In 2022 he agreed a sale of the firm to a syndicate led by businessman Tim Murphy.
The firm continues to offer collectable items in the fields of football, golf, cricket, tennis, horse racing, motor sports, rugby, Olympics and boxing.
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Gold medal sold at auction marks GB football success in 1908 Olympics
15 July 2024The 1908 Olympic Games in London included duels with wax bullets, tug of war and the world’s oldest Olympic champion.
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Olympic gold medal for Great Britain footballer a winner at auction
21 June 2024Purnell was one of Great Britain’s few Olympic football players and one of a smaller pool of gold medal winners
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Fixture list lined up two sports auctions in Glasgow
20 May 2024News that Celtic and Rangers no longer automatically qualify for the Champions League next season put a bit of a dampener on Scottish football.
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Pick of the week: All Blacks debut in a white top
11 March 2024A shirt from the first time the famed All Blacks played in white instead has sold at auction.
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Could be a lucky 13: all white rugby shirt won by an All Black for the first time is up for sale
01 March 2024A shirt from the first time the famed All Blacks played in all white is going up for auction next week.
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Scarce Manchester United programme for Wolves game called off after Munich disaster sells at auction
16 January 2024One of the world’s rarest football programmes is for a game abandoned due to tragedy: the Munich air crash of 1958.
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Making a match – football shirts worn in action sought by collectors
15 January 2024The growth in the market for vintage football tops connected to popular players continues apace
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Pick of the week: Signing the first England captain
11 September 2023A timed online sale of sporting memorabilia that closed on August 27 at Graham Budd was topped by a photocard of Cuthbert J Ottaway (1850-78).
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‘Earliest international rugby cap’ at auction
28 August 2023This faded red-brown velvet cap worn by Alfred St George Hamersley (1848-1929) is believed to be the earliest rugby international cap to come to auction.
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Print includes a Wimbledon tennis pioneer
10 July 2023A Tennis Match at Manchester is a very rare print marking one of the first British tennis tournaments.
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All my world’s a stage – author Ned Boulting on his Tour de France book inspired by an auction buy
03 July 2023A chance purchase at auction during lockdown inspired a whole book on a single day of the Tour de France 100 years ago
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Pick of the week: Wilson was a first three in a row winner
19 June 2023While the achievement of Manchester City players in winning three titles in consecutive seasons – with a treble – is certainly admirable, spare a thought for Tom Wilson, a footballer of a much earlier era.
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Busby Babe Johnny Berry remembered thanks to medal sale success
27 March 2023In one way, Johnny Berry (1926-94) was luckier than many of Manchester United’s Busby Babes: he survived the Munich air disaster on February 6, 1958, that killed many of his teammates.
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Middlesbrough FC jerseys is ‘possibly the oldest Football League shirt extant’
27 March 2023This jersey dates from between 1886 and 1890, making it not just the oldest Middlesbrough FC shirt but possibly the oldest Football League shirt extant.
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Photo shows Gunners still south of the river
27 March 2023With Arsenal still setting the pace at the top of the Premier League as we went to press, several lots offered at Graham Budd’s (24% buyer’s premium) sale on March 7-8 acted as a reminder of the club’s formative days.
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Silver meant first place in the first revived Olympics
27 March 2023Gold has become the standard to aspire to at the Olympics but for the first version of the modern summer Games it was silver.
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Manchester United match programme for European Cup final replay never even played makes £7500
09 February 2023High sums can be paid for football programmes that were produced but never issued as with an unneeded example for the Red Devils' 1968 triumph.
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1966 and all that: when England made history
19 December 2022A hat-trick of six-figure prices was achieved for England 1966 World Cup hero Alan Ball’s (1945-2007) winner’s medal, cup final shirt and World Cup cap.
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He saw the Hand of God
19 December 2022The soaring demand for sport memorabilia is evident from the result for the shirt of a player who did not even make it on to the pitch for a famous game.
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New faces and locations across auction houses and galleries
25 October 2022The latest appointments and openings across the art and antiques sector.
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