Was happy to get this great Railroad Poster for the 1950 Army Navy football game. It's 25x40...great large size display.

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Hey Paul, killer ticket!!
Considering how few WS wins Mathewson has, this item is a gem!
I'm jealous! Great pick up.

Brent

Thanks Brent! You have to let me know if you ever come across any Hobey Baker Type 1 photos!!

congrats
 

Super poster Scotty!

Great stuff, guys.

Agreed!! Great shape too!

Great ticket Paul, congratulations on filling that want list spot.
Can't be too many of those around!

Thanks Jack!!

Love that vintage railroad poster!

Mike

Acquired from JT Sports (John Taube).

Chuck Miller game used bat (tons of use, plethora of nails on the back barrel). Bat is a Spalding gold medal bat, circa 1909, dead ball era. He played several years in the bigs & minors...side written, returned to the factory in the 20's.

Jim Bliss Ty Cobb pastel and pencil painting. Looks fantastic in person and will look great displayed in my Detroit Tigers room.http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/sayheyki...cobb_bliss.jpg

Wow. Looks like you'd get sprayed by infield dirt just by standing next to it. What size is it?

Framed it measures 22" x 27". The flying dirt does look pretty cool.

In full disclosure I picked up this 11X14 Les Banos photo of Clemente last month and forgot to share it.

That's a very, very cool bat.
I just wanted to mention that I thought the Spalding Gold Medal series decal bats first appeared circa 1905, discontinued by 1908, with the Gold Medal Autograph series beginning in 1909. This could make your bat a little earlier. If the bat though came from John Taube and he calls it 1909, I'm sure he knows best. That's a great pick up, congrats!

Wow. Beautiful

Thanks Ben, Banos took some beautiful photos. I was torn about this one. Banos, who served as the Pirates team photographer for many years died 5 years ago. For obvious reasons I love his work. This photo originates from negatives owned by the Roberto Clemente museum. I was told that only a handful of this image were printed from the original Banos negative. I have other signed Banos images. This one lacks that distinction. Nonetheless, it is a large photo printed on museum quality archival photo paper. Prior to purchasing it I communicated with a photo expert I respect. He said that this was more of an art purchase than a collectible news photo. I love the beauty of the image and decided to pull the trigger based on my love of the image's subject and the quality/beauty of the image. Nonetheless, this serves as a reminder to buy what I love not what is necessarily considered as an investment.

That IS a great picture!

Congrats. :)

Congrats Mike! That is a great photo! Best Clemente I've seen!

Mike,
That's incredible! :)

Thanks everyone.

Mike- fantastic photo.

Brent- thank you! Good insight. Next time I see John, I'll mention what you said.

I counted over 100 nails in the back barrel, wow. John thinks it could've maybe been used over many years, minors and possibly majors.

Clemente
 

Man, that Clemente photo is awesome! You definitely made the correct decision
to pick it up.

By the way where's the 1971 WS thread? I can't tell when that photo was taken, but probably '71, so put it in the thread...😃

The Bucs stopped using black batting helmets after the 1970 season. Great photo, though.

Picked up this Bennie Kauff Spalding bat.

Kauff!
 

wonderful bat.

Cool May pickup
 

Picked up a Yogi Berra Spline bat for cheap. It looks fantastic next to my Mickey Mantle Spline.
Some wood loss, and the bat is really dry looking, but has someone clearly used it.

Faint marker on the knob reads something?? 8(?). Or maybe 88, 38, or even BB (bat boy?).

Beautiful Yogi Bat!

Mike