5046 - British Lions – Fully signed ball – 1983 Tour

British Lions – Fully signed ball – 1983 Tour

Item Number:  5046

This super item of British and Irish Lions memorabilia is a Gilbert Puntabout ball signed by the 34 squad members of the 1983 British and Irish Lions Tour.

To include Backs: RA Ackerman (London Welsh and Wales), GRT Baird (Kelso and Scotland), SO Campbell (Old Belvedere and Ireland), J Carleton (Orrell and England), G Evans (Maesteg and Wales), WH Hare (Leicester and England), TD Holmes (Cardiff and Wales), DG Irwin (Instonians and Ireland), MJ Kiernan (Dolphin and Ireland), RJ Laidlaw (Jedforest and Scotland), HP MacNeill (Oxford University and Ireland), ND Melville (Wasps), TM Ringland (Ballymena and Ireland), JY Rutherford (Selkirk and Scotland), SJ Smith (Sale and England), CR Woodward (Leicester and England).

Forwards: SJ Bainbridge (Gosforth and England), JR Beattie (Glasgow Academicals and Scotland), SB Boyle (Gloucester and England), ET Butler (Pontypool and Wales), JH Calder (Stewart's Melville FP and Scotland), MJ Colclough (Angouleme and England), CT Deans (Hawick and Scotland), CF Fitzgerald (capt) (St Mary's College and Ireland), NC Jeavons (Moseley and England), ST Jones (Pontypool and Wales), DG Lenihan (Cork Constitution and Ireland), GAJ McLoughlin (Shannon and Ireland), IG Milne (Heriot's FP and Scotland), RL Norster (Cardiff and Wales), JB O'Driscoll (London Irish and Ireland), IAM Paxton (Selkirk and Scotland), G Price (Pontypool and Wales), J Squire (Pontypool and Wales), I Stephens (Bridgend and Wales), PJ Winterbottom (Headingley and England).

Each player has signed by their respective number on two of the panels and the signatures are clear and legible apart from numbers 18. 19, 31 and 32.

The ball is from a private collector who originally won the ball in an auction at Crewe & Nantwich Rugby club in 1984.

A rare item of 25 year-old Lions Memorabilia.