12th Oct, 2023 12:00

The Sporting Auction | Ft. The Old Firm

 
  Lot 1539
 

VERY RARE RANGERS F.C., MEMBER'S TICKET
1898/99

the outer Morocco cover with gilt tooled inscription RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB member's ticket No. 92 1898-99, the interior printed Rangers Football Club GROUND: IBROX PARK, COPELAND ROAD, GOVAN. MEMBER'S TICKET 1899-99... Available till date of Annual Meeting, 1899, inscribed in pen Mr Thos. Gilchrist 93 Gloucester St., signed Wm. Macandrew (Hon. Treasurer.), over-inscribed NOT TRANSFERABLE UNDER PENALTY OF FORFEITURE

Note: This incredibly rare season book comes from the momentous 1898/99 season. Rangers finished top of the League with a 100% win record of 18 wins from 18 matches. More than simply invincible, the team played the perfect season. The book therefore stands as a possibly unique survivor from what remains a unique British achievement.

Rangers played a total of 39 competitive matches during the 1898–99 season.[1] They finished top of Scottish League Division One with a one hundred percent record of 18 wins from 18 matches.

The club ended the season without any other trophies: in the Scottish Cup, despite beating Hearts and St Mirren en route to the final, they lost to Celtic 2–0.[2][3] Earlier in the season they had also lost in the final of the less important Glasgow Cup 1–0 to Queen's Park,[4][5] and at its end they lost in the minor Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup final, another 2–0 loss to Celtic,[6] also finishing as runners-up to the same opponents in the supplementary Glasgow Football League.[7]

Regardless of these setbacks, the perfect league campaign of 1898–99 remains a unique achievement in the annals of British football.[8][9][10][11]

 

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Estimated at £1,000 - £2,000


 
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