b'61The Ross Oakley Collection360363360Ross Oakleys 1988/1989 VFL and 1990-1996 AFL Gold Pass swipe cards (all prominently marked as member #1), stemming from his pivotal years as VFL/AFL chairman and CEO. (9 items) $8001,200361Four pewter mugs, including MCC 150 Years with inscription Presidents XI v XXIX Club - Ross Oakley, Carlton United Breweries with inscription Ross Oakley Chief Executive Officer Australian Football League Sportzlink Presenter 1995, Rotary Club of Kyneton, and one other. (4 items) $150200362Set of five beer glasses engraved for the 1989 VFL Premiership Dinner, each glass engraved with the VFL logo and a list of Premiership winners from 1897 to 1989. (5 items) $100200363FITZROY/FOOTSCRAY PROPOSED MERGER: Ross Oakleys original personal UP YOURS OAKLEY bumper sticker, framed and glazed, 18 x 35cm overall, together with additional original sticker and UP YOURS OAKLEY bookmark. Oakleys controversial 1989 proposal to solve the two clubs financial woes via a merger met with fierce resistance amongst Footscray fans, with Peter Gordons Save the Dogs Committee famously raising funds partly through the sale of these popular bumper stickers. (3 items) .$200300364Original pen-and-ink caricature depicting renowned historian Geoffrey Blainey commenting on Oakleys football prowess. The artwork by Bob Shields, dated July 1990, framed and glazed, 49 x 43.5cm overall. .$100200365Four framed and glazed images - one showing Ross Oakley and Tim Watson in period garb outside the MCG for the AFL Centenary Re-Enactment match (52 x 45cm overall), one depicting Ross at the launch of the 1991 Fosters Cup at St Kilda Marina with Greg Durham, Tony Peek, Alan Schwab and several others (48 x 33cm overall), one Shotgun Wedding cartoon depicting Ross officiating a marriage between North Melbourne and Fitzroy (31 x 21cm overall), and one other. (4 items) .$200300366 368366Original two-page handwritten letter of support from Donald Cordner, then president of the Melbourne Cricket Club and previously a player for Melbourne in the 1940s, addressed to Oakley in his position as chairman of the VFL Commission, at a time of then considerable controversy. (2) $100200'