Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
Bear in mind that if, as Cardiff55 suggests and as seems almost certain, some of this material such as the old ledgers was passed to the owner during the 1980's, we are talking about a period when the club often didn't have enough cash on the premises to pay bus fares for its apprentices, let alone the money to pay for the kind of services the gentleman concerned was providing.

To be honest, I very much doubt this material was regarded as important by anyone at the club back then, and I doubt it would be now either. I'm sure the Glamorgan archives would indeed be the best place for it, but it certainly wouldn't have occurred to anyone working at CCFC in the Eighties to send it there.

I think it's important to underline that many of the memorabilia items in this collection were obtained by the owner privately from sources other than the football club itself, while some of it is reasonably common and some of it has very little value. For whatever reason, the owner has decided to sell it, and it appears to me that he's selling his whole collection. I'd be very surprised if he has any other items of significant value, either monetary or in historical terms.
I mentioned what else may possibly become available as, during the 2008/09 season you may recall that facsimile reproductions of old programmes were reproduced in matchday programmes for that season. These reproductions included programmes from wartime, 30s, 20s and Southern League. so they must have existed in the possession of the club or the collector at least then, perhaps they don't now. I accept what you say that some of this memorabilia may have come from sources other than the club but for the Trust suggestion that the club set up a museum to be progressed there will need to be exhibits and this batch contains the sort of stuff that would be suitable. At a top estimate of only Ł15k one would have thought that the club could intervene to do a deal with the vendor to acquire the lot. Such an opportunity is unlikely ever to arise again.