Gold football medal awarded to the Newcastle United trainer James Quar McPherson for the Robert Burns' Statue Fund Charity Match, Anglo Scots v Home S
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Gold football medal awarded to the Newcastle United trainer James Quar McPherson for the Robert Burns' Statue Fund Charity Match, Anglo Scots v Home Scots, played at St James' Park, Newcastle, 22nd April 1925, in 9ct. gold (19gr.), the obverse with a portrait of Robert Burns in raised relief with his dates 1759-1796, the reverse inscribed ROBERT BURNS' STATUE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, FOOTBALL MATCH, SCOTS v ANGLO SCOTS, St JAMES' PARK, 22nd APRIL 1925, J. Q. McPHERSON, TRAINER, ANGLO SCOTS James Quar McPherson (Newcastle United trainer) (lots 599 to 605) Provenance: Consigned from the Bryan Horsnell Collection (lots 587 to 804).