Saints memorabilia collection

[skeptic]

So tidying up my study, I sorted the at section out today and man… I have some great stuff.

It started off with the entire collection of The Saint magazine that was initially released 3-4 times a year from 1997, then intermittently after that.

I found football records -
1996 Ansett Cup Final
Nick Riewoldt 300 games
150 Year Anniversary of the Saints from last year

Then there was the Robert Harvey Legend book the club released around 2004’ish along with the tribute CD ROM.

On the topic of books were the signed copies of Harvey, Riewoldt and Winmar’s autobiographies… Inside the Bubble by Dave Mission, Sacked Coach - Stan Alves, Saturday Afternoon Fever and 2010’s Saints Footy.

I also have a Saints football signed by Nathan Burke.
Stewart Loewe’s signed jumper after his last game

Then there was the celebrating 50 years (1966-2016) Premiership Archive package released in 2016 which is incredible… a big book detailing history, heaps of pictures, imitation medals etc

The Saints Heaven to Hell DVD… a plethora of football cards (Cazaly Classics including the Trevor Barker Goldcard), a bunch of cards from around 1997, many of which I got signed at the time…

But the jewel of my collection (valuable to me only)… were the membership pins

Starting from 1997 - 2024 there was an annual pin every year, a separate social club pin up to about 2013 when they started calling it something else and various commemorative pins.
What’s super annoying however is that I remember they didn’t release a pin specifying the date every year so i have quite a few blank pins, a few years that had 2 or more and a some years seemingly missing.
If anyone has any info or copies of membership pins for 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2018 and is willing to sell, please PM. Also… was missing my 1998 pin… remember it vividly. I used to wear it on my school tie and lost it playing volleyball.

Let me put this out there too… people, what is the coolest bit of Saint’s memorabilia you have? Sentimental or otherwise

[loris]

The ‘coolest’ piece I have is a signed photo I have of Allan Jeans from the late 1950’s. I can recall jumping the fence after a game at the Junction Oval to get him to sign it…. Can’t recall exactly which year it was, possibly 1959??

[skeptic]

The ‘coolest’ piece I have is a signed photo I have of Allan Jeans from the late 1950’s. I can recall jumping the fence after a game at the Junction Oval to get him to sign it…. Can’t recall exactly which year it was, possibly 1959??

Boy I missed the days where you could jump the fence after the siren and get things signed. Very nice piece

[Saint 58]

I have the Weg '66 premiership poster signed by Jeans
Not sure what it's worth ... will hand down to my eldest son one day
Happy to see the value drop when I have another one !!

[loris]

I have the Weg '66 premiership poster signed by Jeans
Not sure what it's worth ... will hand down to my eldest son one day
Happy to see the value drop when I have another one !!

I have that Weg ‘66 poster too. Not signed though
Also I have a 33 1/3 LP vynal record of the 1966 premiership.
One side of the Lp is the commentary of final quarter. The other side has all the interviews from the Saints dressing room, with the wonderful speech Jeansy made to the players.

[Saint 58]

Good one !
Have heard the commentary (from the video)
But not the speeches

[B.M]

Was that when Allan was playing for StK?

[chook23]

Was that when Allan was playing for StK?

Think it was to the players in the change rooms after GF win

[Sanctorum]

I was in PNG when St Kilda triumphed over Collingwood in 1966, listened to it on the shortwave broadcast from Radio Australia, in the bar of the Kokopo Sports Club on New Britain filled with mostly Magpie supporters....Archie Paige the barman and I were the only Sainters and boy, did we carry on and celebrate when Barry Breen kicked the winning point!!

A month later Rothmans toured the country with the film of the replay - remember all this like it happened yesterday.

My sister in Melbourne picked up the Weg poster for me.

Years later, in 1997, when we'd bought the newsagency in Kilcoy (Brisbane Valley) ABC Radio on the Sunshine Coast would ring me most mornings to get a weather report. We would also chat about local events etc and eventually this led to an invitation for me to preview the weekend footy games and my tips on Fridays, followed by a report of the results on Monday.

It gained me a measure of notoriety as I rarely tipped against St Kilda, and in 1997 when our team finished on top and went through to the Grand Final against Adelaide I could barely contain my joy

Every year during the footy season I drew special posters for display in the wire frames outside the shop on Monday mornings whenever St Kilda had a win.

Then one day one of my local customers came into the shop, being recently widowed, and told me that her late husband, a meatworker at the local abattoirs who had grown up in Tasmania, had a couple of St Kilda mementoes tucked away in a box and, knowing my passion for the Saints, asked if I was interested in them....

Which is how I now have two most treasured items in my possession: the black felt 1966 VFL premiership pennant inscribed with the players names and the final score in white paint, plus the gold plated St Kilda tie pin, both of which I had professionally mounted on the tricolour background behind glass in a special timber framed case. Talk about luck - in a small town in country Qld of all places!

[therabbitinthehat]

I still have a sealed container with a patch of turf from Moorabbin after our last game there before moving to Waverly...

Oh, and a heap of those membership pins and badges - I'll have a look through them to see if the ones you're missing are there

[Faulky63]

I have the table centre piece from the Team of the Century function, signed by Baldock, Jean's and Ditterich.

[skeptic]

I have the table centre piece from the Team of the Century function, signed by Baldock, Jean's and Ditterich.

That is very cool

[loris]

Good one !
Have heard the commentary (from the video)
But not the speeches

The commentary wasn’t from the tv commentators that’s on the video. It was a commentary from one of the wireless stations broadcasting the game. It could have been either 3AW or 3DB ( I don’t know what these wireless stations have for their call sign nowadays). This record is packed away in my storage unit, along with other early Saint memorabilia. Plus memorabilia from the 1956 Olympics and AshesTest matches in the 1950 & 60’s. Also I’ve got an autograph book with signatures & photos of the Australian & West Indies cricketers of that wonderful series in the 1960’s. I was lucky to attend the Melbourne match & the final day of the Adelaide test.

I was a naughty girl. My best friend & I we both adored Lindsay Kline. Leg spin bowler & #11 batsman.
We told our parents, we were staying overnight at each others place. We went into Spencer St Station (now called Southern Cross station) & hopped on the overnight train to Adelaide. We didn’t buy a ticket, so we had to hide in the ladies loo each time the conductor came through the train corridors. Off we went to the Adelaide Cricket Ground to the last day of the test.
I think we were the only 2 people in Australia that had faith in Lindsay Kline to remain with Ken McKay (the wicket keeper) and hang out against those hostile West Indian quicks to bring Australia to a draw. Jumped the fence, and got Lindsay Kline’s autograph before he left the field.
When he gave my autograph book back, he said, “There you go love”. Oh he called me LOVE , my heart went pitter, patter, pitter, patter skipping beats.

However, it wasn’t such a good ending to our little adventure to the Adelaide test. After the match we were wandering around Adelaide as we had time to kill before we could sneak back on the overnight train to Melbourne. Two very nice ladies came up to speak to us. Silly little flibity jibbits that we were, we told them our story of how we got on the train to Adelaide from Melbourne to go to the cricket & our parents didn’t know. That we were catching the train back to Melbourne that night. How we’d have to hide from the conductors as we wouldn’t buy a ticket.
These 2 ‘nice ladies’ that encouraged us to talk to them were policewomen. Well at least the South Australian police force paid for our fares back to Melbourne, so we at least had a reserved seat & didn’t have to hide in the loo every time a conductor came by.
Police met us at Spencer St Station next morning took us to our respective homes. My parents weren’t very impressed at all. I was grounded for months. It was worth it though for Lindsay Kline to call me ‘love’ !!!!

[magnifisaint]

The ‘coolest’ piece I have is a signed photo I have of Allan Jeans from the late 1950’s. I can recall jumping the fence after a game at the Junction Oval to get him to sign it…. Can’t recall exactly which year it was, possibly 1959??

Geezus, that makes you vintage!

[Saint 58]

That's brilliant !!
Great memory for you

[magnifisaint]

I have the Weg '66 premiership poster signed by Jeans
Not sure what it's worth ... will hand down to my eldest son one day
Happy to see the value drop when I have another one !!

It will be worth more!

[loris]

I was in PNG when St Kilda triumphed over Collingwood in 1966, listened to it on the shortwave broadcast from Radio Australia, in the bar of the Kokopo Sports Club on New Britain filled with mostly Magpie supporters....Archie Paige the barman and I were the only Sainters and boy, did we carry on and celebrate when Barry Breen kicked the winning point!!

A month later Rothmans toured the country with the film of the replay - remember all this like it happened yesterday.

My sister in Melbourne picked up the Weg poster for me.

Years later, in 1997, when we'd bought the newsagency in Kilcoy (Brisbane Valley) ABC Radio on the Sunshine Coast would ring me most mornings to get a weather report. We would also chat about local events etc and eventually this led to an invitation for me to preview the weekend footy games and my tips on Fridays, followed by a report of the results on Monday.

It gained me a measure of notoriety as I rarely tipped against St Kilda, and in 1997 when our team finished on top and went through to the Grand Final against Adelaide I could barely contain my joy

Every year during the footy season I drew special posters for display in the wire frames outside the shop on Monday mornings whenever St Kilda had a win.

Then one day one of my local customers came into the shop, being recently widowed, and told me that her late husband, a meatworker at the local abattoirs who had grown up in Tasmania, had a couple of St Kilda mementoes tucked away in a box and, knowing my passion for the Saints, asked if I was interested in them....

Which is how I now have two most treasured items in my possession: the black felt 1966 VFL premiership pennant inscribed with the players names and the final score in white paint, plus the gold plated St Kilda tie pin, both of which I had professionally mounted on the tricolour background behind glass in a special timber framed case. Talk about luck - in a small town in country Qld of all places!

Wow what an experience Sanctorum. Love your tale

Whilst the Saints are one of the most unsuccessful teams in sport (not just footy) - if you stick with them through your life time - they do & will eventually give you wonderful memories over the journey. And don’t we savour them the closer we get to meeting our maker?
The ride has been worth it - at least for me it has

[loris]

The ‘coolest’ piece I have is a signed photo I have of Allan Jeans from the late 1950’s. I can recall jumping the fence after a game at the Junction Oval to get him to sign it…. Can’t recall exactly which year it was, possibly 1959??

Geezus, that makes you vintage!

Sure am ! So handle me with care

[skeptic]

Whilst the Saints are one of the most unsuccessful teams in sport (not just footy) - if you stick with them through your life time - they do & will eventually give you wonderful memories over the journey. And don’t we savour them the closer we get to meeting our maker?
The ride has been worth it - at least for me it has

This is a good post… in the various AFL groups online, FB etc you get the occasional comment about how we should be shut down as we’ve only ever won one flag etc. It actually really bothers me because whilst our history doesn’t hold up in terms of premiership success, our contribution to the AFL zeitgeist in terms of colour, memorable moments, characters etc etc holds up pretty much to any other team out there.

It’s been a lean 15 years or so but love us or hate us, the Saints are a spectacle worth watching and loving

[Saint 58]

I have the Weg '66 premiership poster signed by Jeans
Not sure what it's worth ... will hand down to my eldest son one day
Happy to see the value drop when I have another one !!

It will be worth more!

Why more, I would have thought less (?)

[Bin Chicken]

Having lived in Qld since I was 20 I don’t have any valuable Saints stuff but I do have some very cool stuff:

For my 40th in 2002, my folks bought me the Robert Harvey signed edition of the Team Of The Country - they got it at Moorabbin. It’s hung in our back lounge since then. Also have a team signed jersey from about 2000 that my sister bought for me at a suburban club auction.

Also have The Point of It All by Russell Holmesby, the Heaven And Hell video, the Plugger vid as well as the 1991 season review vid.

Hearing mention to the turf from Moorabbin - I met a guy in Cairns once who was at the final game. He said he collected an imprint of Plugger’s knee in the turf lol.

Sadly I never got to see the Saints play at Moorabbin. I did see Barks play for Victoria at the Gabba in 1981, Plugger play the first 2 rounds of 1994 and I was at the first final at Waverley in 1997. Was also at the Round 2 game of 2003 at Etihad v Adelaide. Of course I have seen the odd Saints game at the Gabba and Metricon.

[saintfreddy]

The one piece I truly love is my 1966 memorabilia piece released by the club (early 2000s I think). It was exactly 66 pieces all numbered and has all the players photographs signed by them personally as well as a replica jumper signed by both Allan Jeans and Daryl Baldock.

I still remember at the time thinking, wow they were all still living. Sadly, many have now departed. My son has laid claim to it when it's my time

[skeptic]

The one piece I truly love is my 1966 memorabilia piece released by the club (early 2000s I think). It was exactly 66 pieces all numbered and has all the players photographs signed by them personally as well as a replica jumper signed by both Allan Jeans and Daryl Baldock.

I still remember at the time thinking, wow they were all still living. Sadly, many have now departed. My son has laid claim to it when it's my time

I’ll be your son… will make you so happy dad. Visit the other one on weekends

Seriously though… that’s as big a ticket item as it gets. Well done

[Sainter_Dad]

LOL - where do I start???

Signed Menu from Robert Harveys Brownlow
Autographed (by most of the All Stars) Nicky Winmar All Stars Jumper
Signed piece of the seats at Moorabbin
Trevor Barkers Training T-Shirt signed by the 2000 team
Too many Harvey Autographs to mention
Signed set of 1986 supporter Cards (37 out of 40 autographed)
Photo that was was produced by a Saintsational Member of the last game at Moorabbin
Signed limited edition pieces
- Fearsome Forwards
- Strength Through Loyalty
- A piece for Harvey with some more seat
Signed Weg Poster - Barry Breen
........

About 13 fully signed team jumpers for 2000 - 2013ish

[chook23]

Have some similar stuff Sainter-Dad

Probably my most prized a 2003 era jumper
Signed by our premiership Coach and Captain

Every 300 game player for saints

Every saints brownlow medal winner

Bar Colin Watson (1925)

Would not be many around with that list

Pity on modern jumper and not woollen one