A Scotland shirt said to have been worn by Jim Baxter during the 1967 Wembley victory over England has been pulled from auction amid doubts over its authenticity. The jersey was due to go under the hammer at auction house McTear’s in Glasgow at 12pm on Friday, and was expected to fetch up to £60,000.
But McTear’s announced the sale wouldn’t go ahead while its experts carried out “additional research” on the shirt’s provenance. It was being auctioned as the one Baxter wore during Scotland’s famous 3-2 win. Falkirk businessmen Andrew Dickson and David Wishart told the Record this week how their dads snapped up the genuine article for £17,500 at a 1991 dinner auction attended by Baxter himself, who died in 2001.
The pair - who have pictures of themselves as schoolboys posing with former Rangers midfielder Jim and the framed shirt - had presented their case to McTear’s and urged them to halt the sale. And the Record also revealed that a singer and guitar player in the Tartan Specials has staked his claim to have the real jersey.
