Show your Vintage 1/1

[D. Broughman]

Card companies are pushing 1/1 items. I would like to see the real Vintage 1/1 items our members have Here is mine!

[Orioles1954]

1956 San Antonio Missions Brooks Robinson game-worn hat. Used for the entire season. Brooks found it while cleaning his garage, put it up at a local auction that only 25 people came to and I emerged victor!

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

1956 San Antonio Missions Brooks Robinson game-worn hat. Used for the entire season. Brooks found it while cleaning his garage, put it up at a local auction that only 25 people came to and I emerged victor!

James, very nice. Hoepfully he gave you a letter as such.

[Rob D.]

Artwork for the Cleveland Indians' 1948 World Series ring. Came from the files of Balfour.

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

James, very nice. Hoepfully he gave you a letter as such.

He did

[thekingofclout]

January 1941, six months before he passed...

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[Scott Garner]

Based on conversations with specialists within the hobby, this may truly be the only surviving example of a Christmas card personally signed by The Big Train.

It was originally given to a neighbor of Walter Johnson's when he lived on his farm in Germantown, MD at the end of his life. The Christmas card was taped many years ago into an original 1st edition (Washington DC version signed by the author) of Roger Treat's juvenile biography "Walter Johnson King of Pitchers". Note the vintage brown tape and discoloration in the book from where the Christmas card has resided for perhaps over 60 years... The signature is in blue steel-tipped fountain pen.

It's been suggested to me that I carefully remove the card from the book, but I think it's pretty cool the way it is. I'm not a big fan of changing something that's remained intact for so many years.

Any thoughts from fellow members on this topic would be appreciated!

[docpatlv]

Scott,

I would leave it exactly as it is, especially since it's taped to a book about Johnson. I think it's an incredible piece with a great looking signature.

Mike

[perezfan]

Same here... that's really a beauty. You can tell that the Big Train really took pride in signing it neatly with a perfectly placed signature and a perfect presentation. Very cool...

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by docpatlv

Scott,

I would leave it exactly as it is, especially since it's taped to a book about Johnson. I think it's an incredible piece with a great looking signature.

Mike

One concern about leaving "as is" is the damage the tape is causing to the card and the book, as well as the damage the acid in the card is causing to the book's endpaper. The book itself is not uncommon, and the card itself doesn't associate with the book since Johnson died in 1946 and the book was published in 1948. My preference would be to remove the card t and I've done this with a number of books where a cut signature or card has been added under these circumstances.

Whatever you decide, it's very cool.

Max

[smokelessjoe]

Below is an account book of A. F. Burtt, who worked for the Draper and Maynard Company in the 1890s. Burtt keeps track of the production of gloves, mitts, outseems, etc. including the cost and time starting with the year 1890. He also tracks his income from J. F. Draper. What is really cool about this is that A.F. Burtt invented a Catchers Mitt that was patented in 1895. Below, there is a photo of a page in the book that shows Burtt paying $20.00 for the patent on Nov. 9 1895! He also invented a Boxing Glove and Punching Bag... I am guessing there is about 100 pages where Burtt breaks down the individual operations and money for each step--cutting, stitching, welt, trimming, finishing, etc.

[smokelessjoe]

Few More Pics...

[David Atkatz]

This is a page from a scrapbook kept by sportswriter Rud Rennie, who began writing for the New York Tribune (later the Herald Tribune) in 1925

[Scott Garner]

Exceptional!!