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L'AsTA IN NumERI
ThE AuCTION IN NumBERs
19
NumERO COmPLEssIVO
DI LOT TI mEssI IN VENDITA
TOTAL NumBER OF LOTs
OFFERED FOR sALE
140.000
TOTALE DELLA VENDITA DIRITTI INCLusI
sALE TOTAL INCLuDINg BuYER's PREmIum
ASTE BOLAFFI
FOOTBALL MEMORABILIA 1977/78
Milan, 14 December 2016 JuVENTus F.C. - mAgLIA NumERO 1
Five centuries of Italian football tradition and passion were rep- JuVENTus F.C. - shIRT NumBER 1
resented in the catalogue for the Aste Bolaffi Football memo-
rabilia auction held on 14 December in milan. It was the final VENDuTo a
auction of the 2016 season and exciting success in terms of re- SolD aT
sults and levels of interest, thanks to the 19 unique pieces that € 6.500
comprised the catalogue.
printed in milan in 1900 and held by the ministry of Culture a
The most important of these was the “milan Football and Crick- few hours before the auction. The final price was 93,750 euros.
et Club” charter, the only known testament to the foundation of Another important piece of football history, the legendary num-
the A.C. milan club, which sold in a packed room at the grand ber 11 shirt worn by gigi Riva on 26 April 1970 on the final day of
hotel et de milan before dozens of cameras. There were no rep- the championship won by Cagliari, returned home to sardinia: it
resentatives from the club present and it was a private bidder is so important and symbolic to the team and the entire history
who raised their bidding paddle to win the precious memento of Italian football that it was bought by Cagliari Calcio for 16,250
euros. The second shirt in the catalogue, the number 1 worn by
Dino Zoff for Juventus sold for 6,500 euros to the charity auction
platform Charity stars on behalf of a client.
The sale of Football memorabilia, the first of its kind
in Italy, also offered many older lots and more unusual
items including a rare manuscript recounting a match
played in Florence during the Carnival of 1672 and a
notebook containing the autographs of football play-
ers which belonged to a young mike Bongiorno when
he worked as an errand boy for La stampa. The auction
closed with all lots sold and an overall total of 140,000
euros for just 19 lots.
TACCuINO DI mIKE BONgIORNO CON AuTOgRAFI DEI CALCIATORI
NOTEBOOK BELONgED TO mIKE BONgIORNO
CONTAINg ThE AuTOgRAPhs OF FOOTBALL PLAYERs
VENDuTo a
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€ 1.250
