Lucky Strike & Tuxedo Trolley Signs

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Posted By: Bert Wright

I'd like to make a checklist of sorts of all the Lucky Strike trolley signs (not die cut) depicting sports figures. Here's what I have so far:
Heilmann
P. Waner
L. Waner
Lazzeri
Grove
Tim Callahan (football)
Sarazen (golf)
Hagen (golf)
Farrell (golf)
Alex Smith (golf)
Helen Wainwright (swimming)
Pony McAtee (jockey)
Laverne Fator (jockey)

Does anyone know of any others? Better yet, does anyone have a scan of any others?

Let's include Tuxedo trolley signs:
Mathewson
McGraw
Gowdy
W. Johnson

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Posted By: Clint

There's a Hughie Jennings Tuxedo sign in an auction running right now that I've never seen before.

Clint

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I just sold a Walter Hagen a couple months back.

I wonder if that Hughie Jennings one isn't from Canada? Looks like a lot of that stuff in Hunt's was found in Canada, but it doesn't mention it on the writeup.

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Posted By: Matt

Mathewson, McGraw and Johnson are the trolley car versions that I know exist. I've never seen a Gowdy Trolley car version, just a regular version. Dick Rudolf also exists in regular form.
Matt

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Does anyone think this Tuxedo sign just doesn't look right? Anyone know where it came from? How many like it have been sold in the past?

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Posted By: leon

Too hard to tell from the scan....I have been fooled on ad pieces several times from scans.....Just from the scan it looks ok to me....but again, I have been fooled before...and this isn't my area of expertise (if I even have one)....regards

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Posted By: Bert Wright

All I know is that it looks nothing like the other Tuxedo ads of the time. The whole sign has a sort of airbrushed appearance but I think I did see that it had been restored. My guess is that it's good and rare without the attn to detail as the others. I also don't think anyone would recently produce something as vintage when it doesn't conform to the "norm".

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Posted By: barrysloate

All the other trolley signs have brilliant colors. Why would the Jennings look so washed out in comparison?

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Posted By: Jerry Spillman

Lucky Strike Trolley Sign - Waite Hoyt. Yellow background unlike the green used on the other LS signs.

What meant was other Lucky Strike baseball player trolley signs.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Walter Hagen also has the same yellow design

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Posted By: Bert Wright

Thanks, Jerry. I had forgotten about that one! Dan,
is your Hagen of a smaller size than 21x11? I used to have a smaller Sarazen about 7x9 (?) and that was the only other smaller version I had ever seen.

I usually don't regret selling items, but this is an exception: a giant 6 ft x 3ft canvas-like paper banner. I only know of one other and that is of Lefty Grove in a Colorado collector's home. I wonder where they were displayed and how many are out there.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I don't remember the exact size of the Hagen, but 7x11 sounds about right...I picked it up at an antique show in Lincoln.