World War II International footballers commemorative plaque, awarded to George Hardwick, rectangular silvered inscribed plaque mounted on a mahogany board featuring names of 40 international footballers including Bartram, Barnes, Bastin, Busby, Carter, Cullis, Franklin, Hapgood, Hardwick, Lawton, Liddell, Matthews, Shackleton, Swift, Winterbottom and many other leading stars of the day (see photograph), also engraved GRAND HOTEL BIRMINGHAM FACING CATHEDRAL GARDENS, TELEGRAMS GRANTEL BIRMINGHAM…, bears Sotheby’s label to reverse, 33 by 25cm., with typed list of the 40 featured international players stating club and military association for each, in a Sotheby’s crested envelope, good condition George Harwick played 17 wartime International matches for Middlesbrough and guesting for Chelsea and captained some of the matches, Hardwick’s club was Middlesbrough and in he was in the RAF. Provenance: Lot 73 Sotheby’s 21st September 2001
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World War II International footballers commemorative plaque, awarded to George Hardwick, rectangular silvered inscribed plaque mounted on a mahogany board featuring names of 40 international footballers including Bartram, Barnes, Bastin, Busby, Carter, Cullis, Franklin, Hapgood, Hardwick, Lawton, Liddell, Matthews, Shackleton, Swift, Winterbottom and many other leading stars of the day (see photograph), also engraved GRAND HOTEL BIRMINGHAM FACING CATHEDRAL GARDENS, TELEGRAMS GRANTEL BIRMINGHAM…, bears Sotheby’s label to reverse, 33 by 25cm., with typed list of the 40 featured international players stating club and military association for each, in a Sotheby’s crested envelope, good condition George Harwick played 17 wartime International matches for Middlesbrough and guesting for Chelsea and captained some of the matches, Hardwick’s club was Middlesbrough and in he was in the RAF. Provenance: Lot 73 Sotheby’s 21st September 2001