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Brian Van Horn
01-12-2014, 07:41 PM
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1920-Mike-King-Kelly-HOF-Slide-Kellys-Slide-Shoe-Polish-Tin-Extremely-Rare-/111252428815?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item19e729580f
thehoodedcoder
01-12-2014, 07:43 PM
don't really feel like reading that whole listing about a shoe polish tin.
what is your point?
:cool:
Gradedcardman
01-12-2014, 07:47 PM
Great information actually. But ALOT of reading to get to the end !!
don't really feel like reading that whole listing about a shoe polish tin.
what is your point?
:cool:4th image. George J. Kelly. Mike "King" Kelly was long deceased by 1920.
slidekellyslide
01-12-2014, 08:58 PM
4th image. George J. Kelly. Mike "King" Kelly was long deceased by 1920.
The tin also has nothing to do with George Kelly the hall of fame baseball player. I would guess that George J. Kelly was the owner of the company that made the polish. Also for anyone interested in this tin the $299 opening bid is WAY too high.
Dan,
That's my guess as well.
thehoodedcoder
01-12-2014, 09:03 PM
ok. i claim to know absolutely nothing about this stuff, i don't see anything which indicates he was still alive or dead and how that is used to date this.
i could see it being a problem if it was before the guy was born? right? but not the other way around. what am i missing?
kevin
chipperhank44
01-12-2014, 09:27 PM
http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/auction/2013/1388.html
Texxxx
01-12-2014, 09:32 PM
George J Kelly Corp. is still in business today. It is in Lynn, Mass. They are still in the shoe polish business.
slidekellyslide
01-12-2014, 10:07 PM
There was a movie called "Slide Kelly Slide" that came out in 1927 that was a baseball movie, but had nothing to do with Mike "King" Kelly, it was a fictional account of a Yankees pitcher. REA's description of the product is just conjecture. The song was definitely about Mike Kelly, the movie not at all, the shoe polish, who knows?