Show your favorite advertising pieces...
 

This group took me a few years to put together but is easily my favorite. Now if I only had the money to frame them...

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one for now Old Judge
 

As I like to collect things that go with the card mfg's I could hog this thread a bit....but lets start with this old judge one... I guess they had a patent on taking out the ill effects of smoking (if you read the ad)...

My favorite ads
 

MATTY and AARON D.

Here are a few.

Goldsmith advertising sheet

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...all/00fre4.jpg

Great stuff Guys! Leon, Please post more. Would love to see them.
 

Very Rare & Pristine "Babe Comes Home" handbill from 1927. Acquired from REA Auction 2008.


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"Speedy" staring Harold Lloyd and Babe Ruth - Lobby Photo & Handbill c.1920's
NOTE: The photo can be seen in the bottom right hand corner of the handbill.

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http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2.../OldMillAd.jpg
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...ks/HinduAd.jpg

Leon,
Wow! That Old Judge piece is awesome!
jimB

Heres a couple of my favorites.
Jackie Robinson tie rack magazine ad and the tie rack itself.
And a Reach easel back sign with Joe D.

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Here are 3 Easel-back Ad Signs from the 1950s, and another from the early '30s....

Here's a couple of my favorites. The Winchester panel was part of a larger display of which this was the only piece I got. The other is a cereal box with an ad for Dizzy Dean Winners premiums.

Old Peerless Sporting goods wooden wagon display. Anyone seen one before? Value?

Advertising pieces :
 

Won this OJ N173 Ad about 5 minutes ago off ebay... Also, like Jon C., I have a couple of 1909 ad's for Hindu/Old Mill Cig's...

Those are some amazing items so far.
Here are my favorites.
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...G_1411-1-1.jpg http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/011ruth1.jpg http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r.../IMG_10262.jpg
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/IMG_0985.jpg http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/IMG_1025.jpg http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/bloomers.jpg

Not pre-war, but it looks good on the wall:

One more:

the black sox
 

Never get tired of looking at these. Can anybody load these directly here so no one has to chase the internet?
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...ntBlacksox.jpg
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/a...blacksox-1.jpg

For Jim:

Advertising
 

Neat stuff!

Had 2 Fatima display pieces, the smaller matted one (pictured) which I gave to a buddy in L.A.
I kept the larger one which is about 2' x 3' and has the exact same image

http://www.qualitycards.com/ebay/fatima.jpg

Matt (MGHPro)- those are incredible pieces! are they all yours? would love to hear a bit about there origins...

Jay- i owe you a phone call, nice Fatima, BTW!

Yes, all of those pieces are mine. The Gowdy Tuxedo sign came out of Mastro a few years ago, while the yellow Matty Tuxedo came off of ebay a long time ago. The other Matty tuxedo ad came via an ebay BIN. The Ruth Old Gold piece came out of an estate in Florida, The quaker oats from Hunt and the Bloomers piece came off of ebay at some point along the way.
Matt

Great pieces everyone!
 

Kudos to Jay, Brock, Rob D, Matt, Leon, Perezfan, and the rest of the net54 board. Wonderful stuff.

Sincere regards, Jimmy

I'm also very fond of this 99 year old Reach catalog with it's original mailing envelope in stunning NM/MT condition.

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Peach Gloves advertising poster c. 1912

C1910 Piedmont sign for the T206 lovers
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ay010Small.jpg

I have this great old snapshot photo of an airplane with the St Joe Baseball team advertised on the side of it.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...lia/stjoe1.jpg

And this 1930s uniform with Goetz Beer advertising on the back
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...a/crete011.jpg
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...a/crete002.jpg

Corey:

That's an awesome piece!!! Can you list the names of all of the players pictured as its hard to read from the scan?

Thanks

Sinclair Oil "Babe Ruth" Display
 

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Marketing piece (c. 1890) for a maker of farm machinery depicts (purportedly) Hall-of-Famer John Clarkson.

Phil
 

left to right,

Chance, Kling, Stahl, Mathewson, Walsh, Cobb, Bender, Chance, Lajoie, Wagner, Archer, Bresnahan, Gibson, Baker, McGraw, Mack, Meyers, Speaker and Johnson

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T204 Ramly Ad piece
 

I have shown it before, but some of the memorablia guys may not have seen it.

Scott

http://members.auctionhawk.com/sb1/3..._piece_REA.jpg

Forgot that I picked this up in the spring. The fact that Lajoie is pictured is a bonus.

Corey:

That Peach Gloves Ad Poster is sick (in a good way, of course!) Interesting that they put out such an elaborate ad, and their gloves are nowhere to be found today. I look for vintage gloves/mitts all the time, and NEVER see that brand. Does anyone have a Peach example, in which they can post a photo?

Corey, if you can locate one, it would be very cool to display both the poster and glove together...

perezfan
 

Here's the definition of glove from the following link: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictiona...baseball+glove


"glove, hand covering with a separate sheath for each finger. The earliest gloves, relics of the cave dwellers, closely resembled bags. Reaching to the elbow, they were most probably worn solely for protection and warmth. Although there is some indication of the use of separate fingers in an Egyptian relic, most early gloves were much like mittens, usually of skin with the fur inside. The glove as we know it today dates from the 11th cent. In England after the Norman conquest, gloves, richly jeweled and ornamented, were worn as a badge of distinction by royalty and by church dignitaries. The glove became meaningful as a token; it became custom to fling a gauntlet, the symbol of honor, at the feet of an adversary, thereby challenging his integrity and inviting satisfaction by duel. In the 12th cent. gloves became a definite part of fashionable dress, and ladies began to wear them; the sport of falconry also increased their use. In the 13th cent. the metal gauntlet appeared as a part of armor. Gloves became accessible to the common people, and their popularity grew. Scented gloves, an innovation that was to last until the 18th cent., came into vogue. The 16th and 17th cent. saw extravagantly ornamented gloves; they were of leather, linen, silk, or lace and were jeweled, embroidered, or fringed. After the 17th cent. the emphasis was on proper fit, and gloves were less ornamental. The first known glove maker was in Perth, Scotland, after 1165; a guild of glove makers was incorporated in France in 1190, and one in London c.1600. In the United States, glove making began in 1760 when a settlement of Scottish glovers was established at Gloversville, N.Y.; New York state has since been the center of the glove industry in the United States. Modern gloves are made of fabric, plain or knitted; of leather from almost every variety of animal hide; and of rubber and plastic used in surgical, laboratory, and household work."


So now at least we know where the name gloversville comes from. I agree it would be nice to have a Peach brand of glove to go along with the poster.

perezfan
 

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Peach Glove Links
 

Here are a few links. Peach examples are difficult to find.


http://www.baseballglovecollector.co...each+Front.JPG

http://www.baseballglovecollector.co...Peach+Back.JPG

http://www.baseballglovecollector.co....+Peach+Ad.jpg

There was a Peach glove posted a long time ago, the last time this poster was offered for sale. I was in contact for a while with a lady from Gloversville that sold me a bunch of Johnstown/Gloversville baseball photos whose mother worked at the factory. She had no memorabilia from the company though.

Green with envy regarding Scott's '09 Sox piece. Very nice indeed.

Die cut cardboard sign from the 1800s

http://www.cycleback.com/cardads_files/image005.jpg

Here is an original advertising piece to celebrate the N145 Duke Cross Cut Beautiful Ladies cards. It was found in an estate right outside of Durham.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m...ards/duke1.jpg
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m...ards/duke2.jpg

This thread is awesome. Thanks everyone, keep those great items coming.

Note: this is not my piece but always has been one of my favorite.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...ertisement.jpg

I actually had two of these, but just sold one recently...
 

Baseball and Beer are always a great combo, and here are 2 of my favorites.

The A's piece looks to be modeled after Jimmie Foxx and the Reds piece after a very young Pete Rose... but probably more wishful thinking than fact. Either way, the Reds/Wiedemann piece is seldom-seen with the dangling bottom portion...

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q304/mjkm90/tray.jpg
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/IMG_0226.jpg
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...0/IMG_0225.jpg

c. 1912 Peach Gloves advertising poster on Page 3
 

Corey, Could you please elaborate on that c. 1912 Peach Gloves advertising poster you posted on page 3. What are the details of that, dimensions, printer, came out of, etc. I looked into it a little Apparently there was a trimmed example REA sold, link here.
<img src="http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc120/CarltonHendricks/PeachPartial.jpg">
And in another example is referenced reference on Antiques and the Arts "a circa 1910 Peach Baseball Gloves advertising display sold for $35,187" I'm guessing that was your example.

Of course that's a whole different level of memorabilia not for the timid. Can you post some closer in photos of it? Acorrding to the REA listing "The display features full-length illustrations of nearly every top star of the game including Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker, Frank Baker, Nap Lajoie, Chief Bender, Ed Walsh, and Roger Bresnahan, as well as managers John McGraw and Connie Mack, who are pictured seated in the dugout."

I'm not a glove guy, but that's the first I've heard of J.A. Peach Gloves. And to think they lasooed all those big names to endorse it, that's amazing. Did somebody just change the name from A.J. Reach to J.A. Peach or something? LOL

Carlton
 

The poster is approximately 20" x 30", fairly substantial for an advertising poster. It is not the one you describe that REA (when they were part of Mastro Auctions) sold in 2001. That one, while looking beautiful, had substantial restoration. I know the consignor and had seen it in its original state. As I best recall, there was substantial inpainting done. A portion of the poster was also missing, which was rebuilt and inpainted.

The one I own I acquired in a private transaction several years ago. It was a fresh find and had not been previously known to exist. The condition was amazing for an advertising poster. The colors are very bright and show no signs of fading. Except for cleaning and the repair of one or two pinholes in the margins where the poster was orginally mounted, nothing else was done. No inpainting was performed; all the colors are original.

Including mine, I am aware of three copies. Besides being colorful and displaying important players of the era, the poster is the only chromolithgraphic advertising piece from that era of which I am aware (other than the T202 Hassan triple folders piece whose two side panels depicts Cobb and Mathewson). In contrast, the previous golden era of card issues (the late 1880's) had several outstanding chromolithographic advertising pieces.

I do not have closeups to share. Sorry.

For those who have great taste, like Perezfan, and enjoy the finer things in life...baseball and beer, here are a few more tidbits.

A very rare celluloid schedule for the 1916 Red Sox and Braves
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=beer13.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/beer13.jpg" border="0" alt="1916 Celluloid Schedule"></a>

A very rare celluloid schedule for the 1910 Providence B.B.C.
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=Scan10015.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/Scan10015.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=Scan10012-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/Scan10012-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

A 1911 Facts for Fans Booklet
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=facts.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/facts.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

A 1937 Joe DiMaggio Banquet Booklet honoring the Yankees W.S. Championship (This piece I have to keep hidden from my wife)
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=dimaggio.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/dimaggio.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=hanley.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/hanley.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
oh yeah, some guy named DiMaggio signed it in 1937 too!
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=03-15-2008011031PM-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/03-15-2008011031PM-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

To indulge a little "Post-War"...

A 1947 Red Sox and Braves Standup Schedule
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=britt.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/britt.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

A 1948 Schedule
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=whatsnewe-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/whatsnewe-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

1956 Schedule featuring Gansett Girl Irene Henessy who was a very good friend (rumored to be maybe more than a very good friend) to Ted Williams
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=henessy.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/henessy.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Here's a nice little piece from 1958
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=gggg.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/gggg.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

And if you would indulge me in showing one of the pieces in the other half of the house's "advertising" collection (seeing that some folks posted some non-baseball cigarette stuff, why not):

c. 1895
<a href="http://s189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/?action=view&current=narrylithooldman_jpg_w300h475 .jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z192/HiNeighbor_2007/narrylithooldman_jpg_w300h475.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

you can see more stuff like it at: www.rhodeislandbreweryhistory.com

Ty Cobb

c1912 J.A. Peach Sign
 

Corey, Thanks for expounding. Was J.A. Peach a major glove maker? Do you have any of their gloves you could post photos of? Was it just a coincidence the names A.J. Reach and J.A. Peach are so similiar? Do you know any history of the J.A. Peach company? Who formed it etc.?

Carlton,

Not being a glove collector, my knowledge about this company is very limited. Perhaps some of the glove collectors can offer further insight.

Carlton...

Mr. Mitt (Jerry) has posted links above, showing the front and back of a Peach Glove, as well as a vintage ad copy. You will be hard pressed to find many additional images, as examples are scarce.

Although the names are off by a single letter, the Reach and Peach companies were not related. The guys over at Vintage Glove Forum can probably shed more light, if you are interested...

http://www.vintagebaseballgloveforum.com/phpBB2/

oops
 

Sorry gentleman, I didn't see all the other chatter and Mr. Mitt's links. This company is interesting. All those big names endorsing, very little known history, and the gloves are real rare....then you have the name similarity thing. Corey, are you making up these signs in your garage?...just kidding. I guess I've muddled up this excellent thread with too much focus on this sign. It'd probably been more appropriate to have it's own thread. I really like that part Dan B. provided about the lady's mother that worked for the company, now that's interesting!

advertising pieces
 

brooklyn dodgers schaefer sign. jackie robinson pin display. home run coffee, and a score card with a.j. reach adv.sorry about sticking the robert riger art work in the wrong post.

Peach definitely has no association with Reach. Al Reach was a ballplayer turned sporting goods manufacturer who sold his Philadelphia company to Spalding, the more famous ballplayer turned equipment titan.

We know that Peach produced ball gloves from roughly 1911-16 in Gloversville, NY, but very little else is available to us. The name of the town speaks for itself. Immigrants settled in the area and applied their glove-making skills taken from Europe. Baseball gloves were a natural offshoot for the glove industry, so a few manufacturers popped up in the area... most notably Kennedy-Wells, better known as Ken-Wel.

The Peach advertising poster is absolutely magnificent! I seriously doubt that any of the players depicted were compensated for appearing on it. Interestingly, though players of the era are seen in advertisements for sporting equipment and in manufacturers' catalogs, actual player endorsements on gloves and mitts were sporadic in the teens. This practice didn't truly take off until the the 20's.

Small but sweet...
 

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Hires Baseball Kids Sign
 

30 inches wide by 22 inches tall
Here's a Hires Root Beer sign I've had a long time. I always thought it was about 1910, but someone told me it was from the 1890's. You can read the whole yarn about how I came into it here This sign is on the front cover of a book on root beer collectibles
<img src="http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc120/CarltonHendricks/HiresSign2.jpg">
<img src="http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc120/CarltonHendricks/RootBeer.jpg">

wow
 

Now that's what ya call a Honus Wagner sign...get that puppy fixed...never seen it before, it's exceptional...what's the details?? the who what where on it? What's the dimensions? looks like about 14" wide x 22" tall (or used to be)...the images of Wagner are so clear...and the graphic layout is quite unique...a Honus Wagner celebration.

Wagner sign.
 

Carlton- Check out my post on the b/s/t. Memorabilia section, 6-24-09.
I've seen 2 of these signs in 30 years. Looking pretty hard the last 15.

repro
 

I'm not a repro guy but that's one good looking repro.

Wagner sign.
 

Just to clarify.. The repro Carlton is referring to is on the b/s/t. Not the above piece.

sure amigo, I got ya, I saw it on the BST forum like you said...this one over here is the real McCoy

Wow ! I'm overwhelmed by all of the great pieces you guys have posted !
 

I really mean it. Just fantastic stuff from top to bottom ! Well done Gents.

Here are a few more advertising items related to the motion picture "Babe Comes Home"...

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1869 Peck and Snyder advertising poster. This 22" x 16" hand colored supplement was included in copies of the 1869 Haney Book of Reference. It was a perfect vehicle for P & S to showcase its jerseys, belts, caps, etc.

Read all about it..

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/95...d8df736ecf.jpg

Peck and Snyder Poster
 

Barry, Best piece on this thread....phenomonal.....I like how it states:

"THIS SHEET IS GIVEN AWAY AS A SUPPLMENT TO THE BASE BALL PLAYERS BOOK OF REFERENCE"

You sure don't see those implments for sale much, maybe the belts now and then....but not the hats...I did see a striped hat at the 2007 National that Darla Bernhardt had that was in the vein of the ones in the poster, but I don't see it in there...she said it was cricket, priced $300.00....none of the ones in the poster have the stripes going around. I did get a boater style one from her there by the way. How many examples of your poster have you seen? When and how did you come into it?
<img src="http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc120/CarltonHendricks/fullr.jpg">
<img src="http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc120/CarltonHendricks/fulll.jpg">
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Thanks Carlton. One thing that surprises me about the poster is Peck and Snyder did not put their name on it. The Haney Book of Reference was edited by Henry Chadwick from 1866 to 1868. Peck and Snyder purchased it in 1869, undoubtedly to use as a vehicle to promote their products. The 1869 copy I found it in also had a 16 page section in the back that exclusively advertised P & S sporting goods equipment. The poster was miraculously still affixed to the inside front cover, exactly as it was at the time of issue. There were tears throughout at almost half the folds, and a conservator had to put it back together. But the colors are pristine since they never saw the light of day for 130 years.

There is a variant to this poster in John Kashmanian's book Baseball Treasures. It is not as elaborate as mine but does have the name of the store printed on it. I assume it is later than this one, perhaps 1870-72. But as I said, the poster was made to hang in a store, and how they could leave their own name off of it makes no sense. A mystery that I can not solve.

Forgot to answer a part of your question: I got it about ten years ago when I got a call from an antique dealer in upstate New York who said he found two Haney Guides as well as some other miscellaneous material. He mentioned one was missing the covers, but I figured they were rare enough and he offered to send them to me. Just as we were finishing our conversation he said: "Oh by the way, there is a color poster inside the cover of one of them." It kind of slipped by me but by the next day I sensed that it might be something special. When I actually saw it I was of course amazed. As it turned out it was pretty close to a free throw in. Those things don't happen very often.

More Tuxedo

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g5...ary1915Dup.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g5...oApril1915.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g5...August1913.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g5...tember1916.jpg

Babe & Lou Barnstorming Letter.
 

From the hand of the first sports agent, Christy Walsh comes this colorful piece. In my opinion, he was a promotional and advertising genius. I'm also a little biased as over 40 of my original photos came from his collection.

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Love this topic!
 

I'm new to the board...but am very impressed at the breadth of interests and the level of participation. Hope to be around for a while and hope you enjoy these items.


http://s915.photobucket.com/albums/a...-sports010.jpg



http://s915.photobucket.com/albums/a...LLSIGNS011.jpg



http://s915.photobucket.com/albums/a...PHOTOS2036.jpg

The sport-kings ad is great!

34th annual NBC poster and a 1938 full page newspaper ad

Fabulous pieces posted by oldtix !
 

Thanks for sharing your tremendous items Rick P.

A Gehrig Ad Agency promotional photograph and a magazine it was used for.

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Been asleep at the wheel and missed looking at this thread for a while. Nice stuff guys. Carlton, love that Root Beer piece of yours.

Greg

A Few More
 

Some incredible stuff so far -- here are a few of my contributions.

Greg

Another Winchester.