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There's a remarkable amount of Derbyshire cricket stuff on ebay at present.

You can pick up scorecards from matches, old benefit brochures and signed autographs. You can pick up (separately) the autographs of father and son Tony and Paul Borrington for 99p each, which suggests that both are worth far more than getting those of the entire 1993 team for the same amount...

There are any number of reprinted cigarette cards for £3/£4, somewhat strange as I bought the entire set some time back for less than that, while the old club yearbooks are going for £4 to £5 each. There seems little market for them though, and one assumes that everyone who wants them now has them.

The most bizarre item is someone hoping to sell a copy of John Shawcroft's excellent club history for £152. Now call my a sceptic, but given that there are other copies of the book on there for much less than a tenner, there is more chance of our winning division one of the Championship next year than that one selling...

Takes all sorts I suppose, but if you decide it's the one for you, don't say I didn't warn you.