Nobby Stiles to sell 1966 World Cup winners medal
England World Cup hero Nobby Stiles is to sell his 1966 winners medal at auction this week.
The former Manchester United midfielder is selling his medal in a collection of memorabilia from his career.
The medal is expected to fetch up to £150,000 when it goes under the hammer in Edinburgh on Wednesday.
Other lots in the Nobby Stiles collection include his 1966 England cap, which is expected to sell for between £20,000 and £30,000, and the blue shirt he wore for Manchester United in the 1968 European Cup Final against Benfica.
Stiles is selling his mementoes because he felt he could not fairly split the collection between his three children.
Born in Collyhurst in Manchester in 1942, Stiles became one of only three Englishmen, alongside Bobby Charlton and Ian Callaghan, to win both the World Cup and the European Cup during his playing career.
The collection will go on public view at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh today.
Other items in the sale include the shirt worn by the 1966 Cup Final's man of the match, Alan Ball, which he swapped with Stiles following the win.
Scottish sporting items up for sale include boxing legend Benny Lynch's 1937 Flyweight Champion of Europe trophy, valued at between £5000 and £10,000, a 1907/08 Scottish Cup Winner's medal that once belonged to Celtic player David Hamilton, with an estimate of £1,200 to £1,800, and international caps awarded to Tommy Gemmell and George Cummings, which are expected to fetch between £1000 and £1500 each.
The items are being sold by David Convery, who sold sporting memorabilia owned by Sir Geoff Hurst, Gordon Banks, and the private treaty sale of the Bobby Moore collection when he was Associate Director of Christie's in South Kensington.
Mr Convery said: "It is an important medal.
"The collection came from Nobby Stiles himself. He decided with his family that he would rather sell the collection than try and split it between his three sons.
"It is a really nice Scottish collection. Benny Lynch is one of the best ever boxers to come out of Scotland. It is a real rarity to get something of the quality of his trophy from that period."
