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I know it's being a bit naughty advertsising on the main boards but this is so unusual that I thought your board members mike like to see it.

It's an original 1 pint mug from 1903 which was made to celebrate Halifax's "Double" winning side of the 1902-03 Season.

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[sizeAnyway, sorry if I've upset anyone by posting on here but it is very unusual and the only other one that exists' as far as I know. is in the Display Cabinet at Fax' ground

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My husbands grandfathers` name is on there he was captain at the time , I am sure we have one somewhere as well but not quite that shape .He is out at the moment when he gets in I will ask him.

George Kitson? Tried to find out a bit about the team but it's all a bit quiet on the Google front. I would have thought this was one of Fax' greatest ever sides.

Commemorative items like this from pre-1910 seem to be really rare. The big thing in those days used to be to collect Postcards and cigarette cards which is the reason why there are so many about from that era.

Just dug it out and ours is a large water jug with all the teams names on there, we also have a page from the courier dated 25th Apr 1903 with an account of the game and lead up to it .It also inc` pen pics` of the team ,I have always wondered if Langhorn (who was a Halifax lad) was a relative of a very famous band leader in the late fifties early sixties from Halifax whose name was Donald Langhorn (stage name Don Lang) he lived with his mom just below me at Pellon Lane.His most memorable record was 1958 I Told the Witchdoctor that went to number 5 in the hit parade.I have asked several people and no-one seems to know.

I think that George Langhorn was actually born in York and settled in Halifax. His grandson is Douggie Langhorn who was once a trialist at Halifax (in the late fifties early sixties) according to his son Phil who is a personal friend. Douggie is still a big bloke who must be 6ft 5in and is now in his 70`s. Not sure about the Don Lang story though.

Thanks for that it`s just that in the courier pen pics of the players it says he was a Halifax lad. Does anyone know if George had a son called Donald.?

This cups now up for auction on 23rd November at Football Sports Auction near Hitchin rlClick here to viewrl

Well I wonder how much that will fetch , my husband once dashed down to Christies to buy back his grandfathers medals from that year inc his yorksire caps.Could you keep us informed how much it fetches?

What a good thread this is for a change, brilliant reading.

I have since found out that `Don was an abreviation for Gordon but I still do not know if he was a relative of the 1902/3 double winning side.
We beat Salford at Leeds (no trips down to Wembley then) and the papers dubbed Halifax as the Newport of the North as in the year 1900 the Worlds Fair was held at Thrum Hall George Kitson ran in the 100yds and the tale handed down in the family was he won it. I will one day have to do some research to see if it was true we also have the newspaper report about the homecoming cavalcade where people alongside "collected money for the cash strapped club" well nothing much changes does it but that is the destiny of a Fax supporter I`m afraid but then do you value as much, anything that comes easy I don`t know?

No probs re telling you how much it makes .... just found out the auction is on 29th November

£75 ish for the Cup?

Aye, probably be about that. Though it is quite a one off.

Apparently the auction does free package and postage.