JULY pickups

[vintagesportscollector]

love it Tom!...Baseball, Guns, Dogs and Music...God Bless America!

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

love it Tom!...Baseball, Guns, Dogs and Music...God Bless America!

All it needs is an apple pie and a smokin hot chick!

Tom C

[Joe Hunter]

A couple of estate sale pickups today. The first is a very old baseball field marker. There is no manufacturer that I could find. It I missing the handle, but still interesting.

[Nashvol]

Here's the story: This guy calls me and says his father maintained the sound systems at most entertainment venues in Nashville beginning in the 1940s: the fairgrounds racetrack, Vanderbilt football stadium and gym, and Nashville's baseball stadium, Sulphur Dell.

He told me that as a kid he would go with his dad to install new and replace worn-out equipment, holding on to the old stuff to use as replacement parts. He ran across me as a collector of Nashville baseball memorabilia through www.sulphurdell.com and wanted me to have a mic stand from Sulphur Dell that he held on to as a memento.

After contacting me we met and he handed this over, not accepting my offer to pay for it. He said he placed the masking tape over the mic stand back in the 60s and set it on a shelf at his business. Sulphur Dell was no longer used as a ballpark in 1964, and was a race track during 1965, was demolished in 1969.

Believable story? I'd appreciate any opinions. I know there's no real worth, but I'm wondering if I should locate a microphone from the period for display purposes.

[Joe Hunter]

This was my other pickup, today. A nice Dubow tunnel web Bill Jurges model from the '30's with an unusual back. For $10 it was a no-brainer.

[vintagesportscollector]

Skip - sounds believable to me, and yes adding a mic would be a nice display.

[vintagesportscollector]

Joe, nice estate sale pick ups. I never find any good vintage sports at estate sales anymore. (Btw - you have the coolest name, ever )

[Joe Hunter]

Thanks, Joe. There was a ton of sports memorabilia there, but most was recent stuff and overpriced as is true for most estate sales. These two items were just overlooked by the sales company; in fact, nobody even knew what the field marker was until I told them AFTER I purchased it. The glove had been thrown in with some toys, thinking it was a child's mitt.