1967 All Blacks memorabilia goes under the hammer

                                                         Media release – April 19, 2009

1967 All Blacks memorabilia and Lochore’s captain’s jersey to go under the hammer

Captain Brian Lochore’s 1967 jersey and other memorabilia items from the 1967 All Blacks tour will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London next month.

Lochore’s jersey along with a silver fern blazer badge and a player-issue black and white scarf is expected to reach up to stg800, says auctioneer Graham Budd who is organising the sporting items at Sotheby’s New Bond St sale room in Mayfair on May 12.

``A lot of All Blacks memorabilia relating to the 1967 tour to the British Isles and France is being auctioned from the collection of Richard Walker, who was the team’s luggage and kit manager,’’ Budd said today.

Touch judges flags from the All blacks games against England, France, Scotland, Ireland (game cancelled) and Wales are each expected to make up to stg300.

Other memorabilia from the 1967 tour includes one lot comprising a file containing official photographs, original press photographs, luncheon and dinner menus (some bearing autographs), match programmes and tickets, souvenir newspapers and a folio of press cuttings; and two books on the All Black tours of 1963-64 and 1967 which may sell for stg800.

A signed dinner menu for the 1935 Cambridge University v All Blacks match may reach stg350, while an after match dinner menu card for the famous 13-12 victory for Wales over New Zealand at Cardiff on December 21 1935, should sell for about stg400.

A signed dinner menu for the famous 'Prince Obolensky match' England v New Zealand played at Twickenham on January 4 1936, is expected to reach stg350 while an official programme for the match between London and the All Blacks at Twickenham during the Invincibles tour of 1924-25 is valued at stg250.

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