The Barbarians jersey Sir Gareth Edwards wore scoring THAT epic try against the All Blacks in Cardiff in 1973 has sold for a world record £240,000 at auction.
Dubbed “The Greatest Jersey”, it was the prize item up for sale as Edwards’ personal collection went under the hammer.
It was expected to go for between £150,000 and £200,000, but that estimate was surpassed, beating the previous record of £180,000 for All Black Dave Gallaher’s jersey sold for £180,000 for 2015.
There were some 39 lots in total, including jerseys worn by Edwards himself and ones donned by opponents during his career.
The second highest figure raised was £12,000 for one of the legendary scrum-half’s Wales jerseys from the 1977-78 season, while his shirt from the unbeaten 1974 Lions tour of South Africa went for £10,000 and Gerald Davies’ Lions jersey from the triumphant trip to New Zealand sold for £10,500.
Lions tracksuit tops from ‘71 and ‘74 went for £7,500 and £5,500 respectively, with other notable sales seeing a jersey worn by great All Blacks No 9 Sid Going raise £6,000 and one donned by Wales hooker Bobby Windsor going for £3,000.
The auction carried out in Cardiff by Rogers Jones & Co auctioneers raised a total of close to £350,00.
Here is what Gareth Edwards' jerseys raised:
1973 Barbarians v All Blacks - £240,00
1974 British Lions - £10,000
1967 East Wales - £1,500
1970 England/Wales Combined XV - £2,400
1971 British Lions track suit top - £7,500
1973 Wales XV - £1,800
1973-76 Wales - £5,000
1974 British Lions tracksuit top - £5,500
1974 England/Wales Combined XV - £2,400
1974 Presidents’ XV - £2,000
1976-77 Cardiff RFC - £1,500
1977 Presidents’ XV - £1,000
1977-78 Wales - £12,000
1976-77 Superstars tops - £700
1967 France - £3,000
1967 New Zealand All Blacks - £3,200
1968-71 England - £1,200
1968 Scotland - £800
1968 South Africa - £3,000
1968-69 Ireland - £2,000
1969 Fiji - £600
1969 Australia - £2,000
1969 Scotland - £800
1969 New Zealand All Blacks (Sid Going) - £6,000
1970 France - £1,100
1971 Lions (Gerald Davies) - £10,500
1973 Scotland (Andy Irvine) - £950
1973 Canada - £700
1973 New Zealand Barbarians (Colin Meads) - £3,000
1973-76 England - £2,000
1974 South Africa - £1,500
1975-78 Scotland - £400
1975 Carwyn James International XV - £700
1975-78 Wales (Bobby Windsor) - £3,000
1975 Australia - £1,200
1975 Japan - £650
1976 Argentina - £1,000
1977 Noord Transvaal - £1,300
1978 France - £2,600
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