Your Favorite Memorabilia Pick Up of 2016
 

Less than a month left in the year time to fire up the 2016 Favorite Pick Up thread. Let's see what you got!

I picked up a lot of stuff this year, but I think by far my favorite is this George Sosnak Lincoln Chiefs ball.

For me it is a tie between 2 items I bought from fellow member Tony Quinn. I got an awesome Wade Boggs autographed bat and a autographed program from the 1970 Northern League Cubs that played it the town I live in. They are not just the best from this year but all-time favorites.

Favorite pickups in 2016
 

Always tough to choose...
For my Nolan Ryan collection:
The backlit Starter brand advertising sign.

For my Vander Meer collection:
The showcase that I purchased for $65 that allows me to properly display my Vandy 1938 collection and the 1938 vintage signed Goldsmith ball with provenance.

For my no-hitter ticket collection:
The vintage signed Ed Head no-hitter ticket from 1946.

Happy holidays to everyone on net54! :)

My God that Vander Meer ball is fantastic!

Favorite Figural Piece

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Favorite Glassware Addition

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Favorite Cubs Piece (couldn't decide which, so I'm posting both;))

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Thanks Gary! That Vandy ball really is a blazer considering it's age.

I really wish...
 

I really wish players today could sign that clearly. That is a sweet ball!!

I'll go with Dan and pick my 1966 Team signed Cardinals Sosnak ball.

Tough call
 

But this is mine:

Outstanding choice!, Bob.

While not technically a gamer, this jersey was given to Whitey from Joe D.; who wore it at the Yankees fantasy camp in the mid 1980s.
For me, pretty much the ultimate capstone of my Joe collection (mostly because a real gamer is waaaaaaaayyyy out of my price range! Lol.)

Vandy
 

For my Vander Meer collection:
The showcase that I purchased for $65 that allows me to properly display my Vandy 1938 collection and the 1938 vintage signed Goldsmith ball with provenance.

Scott,

That Vandy glove and box have to be one of the most striking display combinations I have seen in a very long time.

Dave Grob

Great items guys. Probably this big ole' thing!

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I had 3 nice ones this year.
 

As a ticket collector I knocked off two TOUGH 500 HR Club stubs. Hank Aaron and Mel Ott (Thanks Scott)

And also was able to finally make a deal on Bob Feller's High School ring. (thanks Charlie) I had been the under bidder in the auction it was in but managed to get it a few years later.

late 50's Roger Maris game bat...
 

I was happy to pick up this late 1950s Roger Maris game model O16 bat over the past summer. It matches factory records, but I still want to have one of the experts take a look at it.

This bat.

That's a beauty, John!! Would love to obtain one of those in the future.

Thanks Matt & Dave!

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Lon Kinch, catcher, Columbia BBC (NJ) c. 1866

Rob M

1903 Ohio State vs Indiana Thanksgiving Day Football Program

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I did not purchase an item of any note baseball-wise this year. However, more generally, it was my best year of collecting sports memorabilia ever - and my main collecting habit is soccer.

Although not my favourite pick-up of the year, the below is my favourite American-related memorabilia. All 4 items pictured relate to the same soccer game - an exhibition game between the New York Cosmos and a World All-Stars XI in 1978 which was Johan Cruyff's first game for the Cosmos.

The ball is the match ball autographed by the World All-Stars XI side. The jerseys are (orange) match-worn goalkeeper shirt by Bailey for World All-Stars, match-worn number 10 shirt by Rivelino who scored one of the World All-Stars goals in a 2-2 result and, finally, the green "second" shirt, number 30, for Johan Cruyff. He, and the Cosmos, wore white so this ended up being unworn.


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ignoring any cabinets or photos, I'd have to go with this 1949 Birmingham Black Barons Team Calendar w/ Mr. Mays seated in the front row with his beaming smile - about what mine looked like after I picked it up:

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Nice piece Derek.

Rob M

Love it!!

One of my favorites.....
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ring bats
 

That's a good one...nice pickup!!...is the barrel squared?...looks 1890's

Aesthetically, it has to be this 19th century tiger maple bat. It's the most beautiful bat I have seen. Historically, it would be this 5/1871 scorecard from the first days of the National Association.
If anyone knows how to increase the size of my scans, I would appreciate the help. Net54 creates a problem for me with my scans.

That is one beautiful bat.:cool:

That Browns football is amazing!

Awesome Maple Bat
 

Gary,

Awesome Maple Bat!

Patrick

Here you go.

Thanks for enlarging the bat scan, Patrick. Is there an easy way for me to do that?

1915 Cornell-Michigan Football Program
 

It took until the end of the year, but finally was able to scratch an item off my "Top 10 Want List"...I've been after this program for a while.

John and Gary - beautiful bats! I will always have a sweet spot (pun intended :D) for baseball pieces that were functional plus aesthetically beautiful. Great choices and congrats on owning them.

Congrats Joe! I love antique college football memorabilia. I picked up some early Notre Dame programs this year for resell purposes, but just can't let them go.

Ira Thomas Types head my list for 2016
 

Ira Thomas Types head my list of my top pieces of memorabilia that I picked up in 2016.

Picked up a 1911 Ira Thomas PE2 Diamond Gum pin in trade for some catcher postcards, and a 1913 Ira Thomas Cravat from the National. Two tough Thomas types.


Patrick

Jim Brown signed sideline cape

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Signed Jim Brown game use helmet and Pro Bowl helmet

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Thanks Dan. I actually started my collecting 'career' collecting college football programs - I love much of the cover artwork. Would like to see some of those early ND programs you have.

I didn't expect it to be this but I like it better every time I see it.

https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8855/2...b803c2be_c.jpgTy Cobb sliding Type 1 by Paul Herbener, on Flickr

^^^ Wow! Great photo!!

I think mine would be this Hal Chase (attributed) game used glove for sure.

My favorite memorabilia pick-up of the year is not baseball related, either. I was very very happy to find this for sale in Italy. It's Marco Pantani's complete cycling jersey worn during the 1998 Giro (which he went on to win). He took the leader's jersey after this stage (photomatched).

Pantani was a bad ass. RIP, Pirate.

Resizing images
 

Glad to help Gary.

I use Paint.net software to resize images from my image gallery.

Patrick

Here they are. I actually picked up that Nebraska v ND program for $1 at a tag sale.

A $1 for the Nebraska?? Wow. That program would fetch a pretty penny..$500+. The Navy program too would fetch a nice price.

Great pickups Dan! Never been lucky enough to find such a steal in my travels but I'll keep looking....

One of my favorites
 

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I don't know if this is my favorite pick-up for the year....but I'm pretty excited about it...just unpacked it a week ago...I'm still sorting it out just what I have...but I'm thinking it's one of the most important cycling broadsides extant...on either side of the pond...I found a reference to this race and learned he came in third...must have been a bad hair day...Another reference on him said Dubois came to the United States the following year after this race...along with a group of other cyclist...and raced here...

Aside from being for a big name cyclist..some important aspects of the poster are that it's dated...and the race was in England, thus in English so we can read it...as opposed to being in French...Also this photo doesn't do it justice...In person it's not tan...it's a mustard yellow with black type...so a real eye catcher!!

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Bill Barilko 1951 Stanley Cup winning goal
36" x 52" oil on linen painting by Graig Kreindler



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Whoa Brian, that's one of my favorite Kreindler paintings! Beautiful.

Rob M

Brian: That is a huge pick-up! Could give Annie a run for best tourist attraction on PEI. I realize that Graig did the heavy lifting by painting the sucker but what a brilliant idea to commission this iconic hockey image! Great going all around.

1898 Princeton Football Program v. Yale
 

Just picked this up. The picture doesn't do justice to this 1898 Princeton football shaped program. Original binding and great condition. The earliest football program in my collection.

Jeff

This would have to be my favorite although there are a few very close. 1875 Flesh VS Bones at Topeka, KS. Pretty cool putting it in a stereo optic device and seeing it in 3d.

+1 I strongly agree!

This is awesome...and to have that much info on the actual stereoview itself is rare.

Love it! The article is quite interesting to read too...the fats vs. the leans...haha! I would have changed camps a few times over my lifetime...went from lean (swimming days) to fat (post-swimming) to lean (masters swimming) to fat again (desk job w/ two kids). As I near 40, I'd like to change teams again!

Mine is this incredible Type 1 photo of the moment Joe DiMaggio extended his historic hitting streak to 56 consecutive games:


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^^^^^That is an awesome photo!!

Incredible Dimaggio photo! :) Is the baseball about to nail the pitcher after Dimaggio hit that one? :eek:

Epic Joe D photo!

That DiMaggio photo is unreal!! Great pick up

+1

Thanks Dan and Derek! Dan you're quite right. Having the story with the photograph is extremely rare as you know. That's why this was pretty high up on my want list.

Unbelievable painting!

I assume you are aware of Tragically Hip's song about him?
This is a vid I had never seen before. Hope you enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_1j4xRDDV4


Very nice!

Thanks guys!

I would have to say this set picked up individually from an SCP auction.

Lucky Strike
 

Mike, beautiful pieces, these are some of the finest known of each known copy. How do you have them displayed if you dont mind me asking?

Thanks Bob! Because I can't make up my mind on exactly what style of frame looks best, I haven't done anything with them. They are resting comfortably in the original shipping box :rolleyes:

2016 Purchase
 

I decided that my best pick up this year was the Pittsburgh schedule that posted earlier in this thread but I picked up these two pieces this year as well and these could have easily been the best pick up for me this year.

Hell, Bob's entire year of pickups could have made this favorite list.
Really an epic year of pickups, Bob! Congrats again?

What will you do for an encore? :cool:

Xxxxxx

Babe and Gehrig
 

My favorite pick up this year by far was this Ruth Gehrig photo from Christies. The photo was owned for many years by Stan Coveleski and has an amazing write up by him on the reverse.

"Lou Gehrig & Babe Ruth. I never got any credit for making a hitter out of Babe R. He pitched a game against me he hit the hardest home run I ever had hit off me. 1 wk later they took him away from pitching & put him in the outfield. So I always said to myself that I made a hitter out of him."

Pretty good penmanship for a guy who was working 72 a hours a week in a coal mine as a 12 year old boy in Shamokin, PA.

Wow...incredible condition...congrats!!!!

My favorite two, Pirate cabinet photo and Scoops Carey porcelain...uhm, although not quite to scale.

I'm not sure if this would be memorabilia or cards.

In the 1920s, the Moosehead-Whitely Exercise Co. made one of those steel cable strengthening contraptions. They signed the great Benny Leonard to shill for it. I had this box top in my collection:

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I always wondered about the "illustrated course". This year I got to stop wondering. I found one. The course comes in an embossed leatherette folder. Here is the booklet:

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The booklet has about a dozen images in an accordion folded piece. The rest of the images are cards, roughly postcard sized. Here is a header card:

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Some examples of the photo cards:

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Never seen a porcelain baseball "card". That is very cool.
Did a little sleuthing. Carey played for Memphis from 1906 to 1909 so that dates the item to then. You wonder if similar pieces were made for his other team-mates. For instance, Moonlight Graham played twelve games for Memphis in 1906 following his major league "career". A long shot but it gets the imagination salivating.

Those Lucky Strike and Tuxedo signs are amazing.

Mathewson
 

Easily my fave