While looking for baseball stuff...I found this...

[ullmandds]

Inevitably every estate sale, every antique store I go to...I obviously am looking for baseball and related stuff...but sadly I find it so infrequently.

That's not to say I don't find good stuff...just not usually bb related.

At a killer estate sale 5-7 yrs ago...I couldn't resist picking this cabinet photo...depicting 3 boys who were probably baseball players...nothing special until I turn it over. A cool family tree dating back to early 1700's...and for some reason I thought the pratt and skinner names could be someone famous.

What have y'all found while looking for baseball?!

[smokelessjoe]

Oh man Peter, Don't get me started on this thread

I picked this up not to long ago at an estate sale Cheap! 42" long World War original panoramic - The railway station plaza, Arras, France, February, 1919

Its amazing up close - all the rubble and damage to the buildings...

This one pictured is from the Library of Congress website. Mine is not in this good of condition... But mine does not have the fold lines... I have not taken the time to photograph it yet.

I cannot not find another original that has sold???

[Matthew H]

I've been to a total of one estate sale. I happened to stumble upon it walking around my neighborhood back when I lived in Venice Beach. I went in because the person who lived there was obviously a hoarder and I felt like digging through garbage for some reason. I left caked in dust with a Limoges vase. I gave it to my mom.

[rgpete]

The signature of Barker Gummere Jr New Jersey Delegate for the 1900 Republican Convention, brother of William Gummere who invented the hook slide
Flea Market find .25 cents box
http://baseballhistoryblog.com/3195/...to-hook-slide/

[sb1]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

Inevitably every estate sale, every antique store I go to...I obviously am looking for baseball and related stuff...but sadly I find it so infrequently.

That's not to say I don't find good stuff...just not usually bb related.

At a killer estate sale 5-7 yrs ago...I couldn't resist picking this cabinet photo...depicting 3 boys who were probably baseball players...nothing special until I turn it over. A cool family tree dating back to early 1700's...and for some reason I thought the pratt and skinner names could be someone famous.

What have y'all found while looking for baseball?!

Very nice! That would be priceless for a descendant. On Ancestry there are many researchers of both of those family lines. You might try to reunite it with one of them.

[ksfarmboy]

For a split second my heart skipped a beat when I seen this at an antique store. Then I realized they were just cyclists. Still pretty cool and Sanger was included in the Honest Long Cut cabinet series. The mount is 16x20 and the photo measures 13x15.

[packs]

Here's a cool photo of the Brooklyn Bridge at night that I bought in a Henry Yee auction full of great baseball photos. I just loved it. That's the Chrysler Building to the right. This is pre-Empire State building. I love the mood of it. Hard to believe Manhattan was so quiet once upon a time. Hardly any lights in those buildings.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by ksfarmboy

For a split second my heart skipped a beat when I seen this at an antique store. Then I realized they were just cyclists. Still pretty cool and Sanger was included in the Honest Long Cut cabinet series. The mount is 16x20 and the photo measures 13x15.

JUST cyclists? That is a great photo!!!

If you sell it on ebay and put 'gay int.' in the title, I'm giving you a virtual, through-the-computer beating

[ksfarmboy]

Originally Posted by Runscott

JUST cyclists? That is a great photo!!!

If you sell it on ebay and put 'gay int.' in the title, I'm giving you a virtual, through-the-computer beating

Thanks Scott. Yeah I don't think you will ever see it on ebay. I wonder if that term ever garnered more money for an item?

[Batjac1]

Originally Posted by sb1

Very nice! That would be priceless for a descendant. On Ancestry there are many researchers of both of those family lines. You might try to reunite it with one of them.

Agreed - I've been amateur genealogist for 35 years. I am sure somebody is probably looking for this information.

I Started long before there was an internet. Takes 60 seconds now to do what used to take an all day expedition into the city.

Found my great uncles WWI service medals on Ebay awhile back.

Just like cards, this stuff is out there...

[autograf]

Great cyclist photo......Gotta be worth 200-300 minimally.....

[steve B]

Originally Posted by autograf

Great cyclist photo......Gotta be worth 200-300 minimally.....

At least. That's one of the best cycling photos I've seen. The only ones that come close were hanging on the wall in one of the areas better shops, and those were just large photos of individual racers. Big photos, but really ordinary poses and a bit faded.

Steve B

[steve B]

No scans yet, but yesterday I bought some old letters in an antique shop fo the stamps. Two of them are from the mayor of Charleston,SC to his brother. Both have great content, one is about the legal wrangling over his election, the other about a yellow fever outbreak and who left town in a hurry.

The rest are looking interesting too, one is a railroad circular from 1849 billing a stockholder $10 per share!

Neat stuff.

Steve B

[Eric72]

Sorry for the relatively pedestrian nature of the items shown in my post; however, I enjoyed this pickup. I stumbled across 57 non-sport cards which were being offered as a lot…for almost nothing.

There was just something about cars driving through trees that caught my eye. While much smaller in size, they reminded me of Curt Teich postcards, so I picked them up.

Some have blank backs and others have descriptions on the reverse.



Best Regards,

Eric

[CobbSpikedMe]

I was happy to find this Tuxedo Tobacco tin in an antique mall one day a few years ago. It's the same tin that is shown on the amazing ads for the Tuxedo Tobacco featuring players like Matty and Walter Johnson among others.

It's not in the best shape, but I thought it was pretty cool.

I've added the image of the Mathewson ad, but don't own that. I just have the tin.

Thanks,

AndyH



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[KCRfan1]

Originally Posted by packs

Here's a cool photo of the Brooklyn Bridge at night that I bought in a Henry Yee auction full of great baseball photos. I just loved it. That's the Chrysler Building to the right. This is pre-Empire State building. I love the mood of it. Hard to believe Manhattan was so quiet once upon a time. Hardly any lights in those buildings.

That is a very cool pic of NY.

[smokelessjoe]

Hey Peter,

Here is something very similar to your original post... I found this at an estate as well - first time I have ever shown it to anyone... I have not even started any research on it yet.

Its a family tree as well. I will let the author explain exactly what it is...

This is the first paragraph:

The exact copy of the Macon family register taken from the old family Bible now one hundred and fifty years in the family January 30th 1852 fifty two taken from the copy sent by Mrs Lucy Conway of orange? Daughter of Thomas Macon son of Col Wm Hartwell Macon who died at Mount Prospect New Kent Co. Virginia August 1843
Peyton Johnston Sr. (1852)

So this was copied (by Peyton Johnston Sr.) from a 150 year old bible in 1852! Its amazing to be reading about people being born in 1692 etc.!

Details:

Two pages 16.5" x 10.5"
Written on front & back - numbered 1-7

Here is one more extract that I thought was very endearing:

After more than twenty years very bad health, particularly the last two which was after attended with extreme pain Died my dear wife on Wednesday Morning at 1/4 past 3 oC Dec. 6th 1802. She was sixty five years old the 1st day of June last. We lived together 49 years and one Month.
W Macon
Dec. 14 1802

[Exhibitman]

At a miscellaneous paper collectibles show:






Byers, Chester

1892-1945

1969 HOF

1916 Trick Roping Champion


Canutt, Yakima

1895-1986

1975 HOF

1917, 1919-1920 & 1923 World All-Around Champion


Kirnan, Tommy

1893-1937

1977 HOF

Rodeo Trick Rider; Rodeo Trick Roper


Strickland, Hugh

1888-1941

1968 HOF

Saddle Bronc Rider


All of the above fellows were inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame of the National Cowboy Museum. Johnny Judd was a trick roper. Brian Roach was the winner of the 1919 Calgary Stampede bronc riding competition. Yakima Canutt is also considered the godfather of movie stuntmen who created many of the iconic movie stunts, like going in front of a stage coach and bringing 'runaway' horse teams to a stop.

1968-69 Minnesota Pipers [ABA] team issued set with pre-rookie Connie Hawkins

[ullmandds]

great stuff guys...love the early nyc pic...and the genealogical stuff is way cool!!!!!!!

Saw this item and hoped it was related to Toppenish semi-pro baseball. It is not. Some tourist nick-knack but found it interesting enough to buy. This lead to the purchase of a few Toppenish Pow Wow & Rodeo programs, and now a growing curiosity with the event. Heading to my first Toppenish Rodeo this year. Great Rodeo items exhibitman!

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[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by packs

Here's a cool photo of the Brooklyn Bridge at night that I bought in a Henry Yee auction full of great baseball photos. I just loved it. That's the Chrysler Building to the right. This is pre-Empire State building. I love the mood of it. Hard to believe Manhattan was so quiet once upon a time. Hardly any lights in those buildings.

Someone sold this poor guy the Brooklyn Bridge!