Editing FA Cup (section)

====1871 original====
The first trophy, the 'little tin idol', was made by Martin, Hall & Co at a cost of £20.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefa.com/Competitions/FACompetitions/TheFACup/History/thetrophies|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140625213452/http://www.thefa.com/Competitions/FACompetitions/TheFACup/History/thetrophies|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 June 2014|title=The Trophies|publisher=The Football Association|access-date=30 September 2014}}</ref> It was stolen from a [[Birmingham]] shoe shop window belonging to William Shillcock while held by [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] on 11 September 1895 and was never seen again. Despite a £10 reward for information, the crime was never solved. As it happened while it was in their care, the FA fined Villa £25 to pay for a replacement.

Just over 60 years later, 80 year old career criminal Henry (Harry) James Burge claimed to have committed the theft, confessing to a newspaper, with the story being published in the ''[[Sunday Pictorial]]'' newspaper on 23 February 1958. He claimed to have carried out the robbery with two other men, although when discrepancies with a contemporaneous report in the ''[[Birmingham Post]]'' newspaper (the crime pre-dated written police reports) in his account of the means of entry and other items stolen, detectives decided there was no realistic possibility of a conviction and the case was closed. Burge claimed the cup had been melted down to make counterfeit [[Half crown (British coin)|half-crown]] coins, which matched known intelligence of the time, in which stolen silver was being used to forge coins which were then laundered through [[betting shops]] at a local racecourse, although Burge had no history of forgery in a record of 42 previous convictions for which he had spent 42 years in prison. He had been further imprisoned in 1957 for seven years for theft from cars. Released in 1961, he died in 1964.<ref>{{cite news |title=Unsolved: Did this OAP really steal the famous FA Cup? |url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/unsolved-did-this-oap-really-steal-the-famous-124794 |work=Birmingham Mail |date=13 May 2010 |access-date=4 January 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924062806/http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/unsolved-did-this-oap-really-steal-the-famous-124794 |url-status=live }}</ref>