Manchester United� - Busby Babes - SIGNED Presentation 18 Months Before Munich - Including Tommy Taylor and Duncan Edwards

Manchester United 1956

Manchester United: a multi-signed �Busby Babes� autograph sheet, circa 1956, presented with vintage shirt display.

An original printed sheet titled �Manchester United Personalities�, comprising photographic portraits of members of Sir Matt Busby�s Manchester United side, signed in ink by a number of players including Bill Foulkes, Dennis Viollet, Johnny Berry, Jackie Blanchflower, Tommy Taylor, and, significantly, Duncan Edwards and others associated with the celebrated �Busby Babes� team of the mid-1950s. Several of the signatories were among those involved in the Munich air disaster of February 1958, lending the piece particular historical resonance.

The sheet has been attractively mounted alongside a later Manchester United shirt, in a sympathetic display intended to evoke the club�s post-war era. Framed and glazed.

A scarce and poignant survival, such multi-signed items from the Busby Babes period are increasingly difficult to obtain, particularly those incorporating a number of players whose careers, and in some cases lives, were cut short by the 1958 Munich tragedy. The present piece offers a tangible connection to one of the most revered and emotive chapters in the history of English football.

Double mounted and framed, measuring 63cm x 87.5cm�