THE COLLECTABLES OF THE FUTURE
EURO 2020 Black England UEFA hoodie: £41 UEFA Euro 2020 cap: £8.50 Past
The most memorable tournament was ‘Euro 96’ when England were knocked out in the semi-finals when Germany beat us at the dreaded spot kick. These days you can pay as much as £2,000 for a ‘Three Lions’ tournament red top – printed to celebrate the
Lightning Seeds anthem sung by
Frank Skinner and David Baddiel. A poster signed by all the squad – with a picture of Gazza and his famous ‘dentist chair’ celebration – can fetch £200.
GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2020 Festival poster: £10 Weekend ticket: £265 Past
Poster for the first festival in 1970. Tickets cost £1 and included a free pint of milk. Headline act was Marc Bolan after The Kinks pulled out. £3,000.
A 25th anniversary ticket for the 1995 Glastonbury Festival, when Pulp replaced The Stone Roses as a headline act. Also included Portishead, The Cure and Oasis. £25.
WIMBLEDON 2020 Men’s 2020 Celebratory T-shirt: £35 A tube of four Slazenger tennis balls – each stamped ‘Wimbledon 2020’: £9 Past
Collectable racket makers of the 1870s and later include Jeffries of Woolwich, Henry Mailins and Bussey. Their earliest heads are lopsided as they follow earlier ‘real tennis’ designs. The catgut they were strung with was sheep or goat intestines. £3,000.
Two ‘Buchanans Piccadillys’ tennis balls from 1887 are the same price you might pay for three unopened 1916 Slazenger tennis balls. £500.
OLYMPICS 2020 Sukajan embroidered Tokyo 2020 jacket: £300 Miraitowa Tokyo 2020 action figure mascot: £15 Past
London Olympics 1948 torch. A total of 1,720 torches were made for this Olympics – made from aircraft parts melted after Second World War. £6,000. Official Olympics
Tokyo 1964 poster.
This marks the only other time that Japan has hosted the summer Olympic Games. £200.