Medal from Wolves 1908 FA Cup win sells for £8,000 at auction
A 1908 FA Cup final winner's medal presented to the then Wolves captain has sold at auction for £8,000.
The 15 carat gold medal handed to Billy Wooldridge following Wolves' 3-1 victory over Newcastle United went under the hammer in London yesterday.
It had been estimated to fetch between £6,000 and £8,000.
The victory was the club's second in the FA Cup and came 46 years before Wolves were first crowned First Division champions.
The medal is in a good condition and an engraving on the back features the skipper's name.
It had belonged to Shirley Burn, from Lichfield, who said she bought it from Wooldridge's grandson in 1979.
After Mrs Burn's late husband died in 1994 she loaned it to Wolves and for 21 years it held pride of place in the club's museum.
Billy Wooldridge was born in Netherton in 1878 and went on to make 356 appearances for Wolves, scoring 90 goals in 12 years at Molineux.
