August pick ups
 

Wow. 16d into the month for someone to start a pickup thread. That has to be a record.

My 3 new pick ups.
1)1952 album of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Knute Rockne. Autographed by Christy Walsh
2) Snapshot of Lou Gehrig signing autograph in Spring Training.
3) 1920s record of Babe Ruth's Home Run Story. I think it's a 78. It is available for sale or possbly trade.
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Very cool stuff Mark. I picked up this circa 1938 Johnny Vander Meer pin with ribbon.

Just yesterday, I learned who the original Bumpus Jones was. :p

I love the pin!

Great pickups guys!

Very nice Chris!

Very nice pin. Was that released at the time of his no hitters?

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Thanks, fellas. Yes, Mark I believe it was shortly after he pitched his no-hitters and perhaps carried over into the following season...

Great posts so far -- love those records and the Vandy pin!

I was channeling my inner Carlton when I picked up this piece at a flea market in Central NY this week. It's bronze, huge and very heavy.
Not baseball obviously, but I just love the look. I didn't buy it when I first saw it, but when I went back, it was still there, so it came home with me.

Greg

Very cool. My wife grew up in Boonton. Wonder if they still have that competition.

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Pick ups August
 

More great items as usual guys, cool Babe records and Vandy pin. Found this ball cruising through a Maine flee market last week. Noticed the red/black stitches and grabbed it for short money.
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Great Pickups

But Especially Love the Records

It’s got Carlton written all over it!

Thanks Rob -- I love Carlton's stuff!

Mark I think they retired the trophy after it was won by one school three times.
Clyde Potts by the way, was the longtime mayor of Morristown, NJ in the 20s and 30s -- there is apparently a lot of stuff in that area named for him.

Greg

Here are some more pickups from my two different flea markets this weekend.
Among the highlights -- a Ted's Root Beer crate, a 1939 Doubleday Field souvenir bat, huge photo of heavyweight champ Tommy Burns, some Bob Coyne artwork, a complete set of U.S Army cards and more --


Greg

And a few more goofy pieces, including one ugly Yankees pennant --

Greg

Nice work Greg!

Would you say that pennant was once WHITE?

Quite a nice haul, Greg! Congrats!

NO.... it had to be blue originally. These very commonly faded to grey or even a brownish grey.

Amazing and rare Vandy Pin/Ribbon, Chris... fantastic pickup!

I have been looking at these for years after the first bat bank I seen posted on here. I finally broke down and bought one last night. I bought this era because it has my favorite player Wade Boggs in it.

Mark is right, it was once blue a very long time ago!

Thanks for your nice comments Chris and Scott, and nice bat bank Ben -- those things always look great in a baseball display.

Greg

In that case, Oxyclean ain’t gonna get it.

Nice haul Greg!

If time allows, how about a close-up shot of that Boxer Ashtray?

nice hall.

I believe I have an item I can finally show here that is a collectible.
just need to get pictures and get it posted

stay tuned

Here it is and a brief description from the web on it

very interesting, vintage, figural cigar / cigarette lighter of Baseball Player in Batter's Stance. This Art Metal Works / Ronson (of Newark, NJ) lighter is sometimes referred to as the Babe Ruth (or Honus Wagner) lighter or "liter." Its base is marked with embossed lettering: "COPYRIGHT 1913 BY LOUIS.V. ARONSON."

That’s ver cool. What is the purpose of the “pokey” thing?

That is the striker. That would be "light" and you would take out of the top of the head and use it to light your cigar or whatever you are smoking

A nice local pickup. 12 foot Sweet Caporal baseball scoreboard sign.

That is a great peice.

I posted this on the card side because of the Polar Bear reference but figured I'd throw it up here as well.

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That's an incredible sign. Any idea of how old it is.

Wow that is a great sign

Love it

Thank you. I'm thinking around the 20s.

That's a great sign as well. How big is that?

Thanks.
Its big, I'd guess about 5ft tall but haven't measured it.

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That's a great baseball lighter Jeff!

Those two signs are both off the charts -- where do you hang a twelve foot sign Ron???

Greg

On his fence! Duh. :p

Lol. I was going to suggest a wall, but fence works too.

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I just acquired this 6½ x 8½ glass plate negative of the 1912 U.S. Olympic rifle team. Though not a full plate this is the largest one that I now own, most of the others being 4x5.

This was listed as the 1908 team, but I knew otherwise. I already own a formal team shot of the 1912 team fully identified. Probably one of the few in existence as the US Olympic Committee does not even have one. The clue for me was the shortest man in the center. That is Harris Laning, Lt Commander at the time he was an admiral during WWI. He was the non-competing team captain which was not uncommon back then. I believe that the negative and my original photo were taken at the same time as they are all standing in the same order in each image.

I did not want to start up my pro photo scanner so I just captured the image from the ebay listing.

My photo is 5x7 mounted on an 8½ x 9 mat with a nice 2+ inch margin on the bottom embossed with a coat of arms.

My wife and I also collect original Disney Art and she just handed me an early birthday present that came in the mail today.

1942 How to Play Baseball original production drawing.
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Very nice.

Nice...what the heck are the dimensions...

lotta fund stuff....like that CCM box...

suh-weet...no pun intended...really that is a great scoreboard!!!

luv the records!!!

very nice....solid p/u...

Dang!!!!!!

Great Pickups this month

Great variety and uniqueness of items

I thinking I am going to start hunting for items myself to add to the Honus Wagner item I displayed

Record month
 

Must be a record month

I can't believe that nobody has connected the two completely unrelated Goofy posts in this thread...

Sincere Congrats! You've made me jealous. I bought a Casey at the Bat figurine 5+ years ago, but it arrived broke at the heel. That was my last attempt at Disney art.

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Mark -- here are a couple of closeups of the boxer --

Greg

Carlton -- Thanks for asking about the Clyde Potts trophy plaque . It measures 22 x 16 --


Greg

Picked up the 2nd largest piece of my collection, Cleveland Municipal Stadium ticket window. Approx 9 ft. Tall and quite heavy.

Has a counter on both sides of the window, one for the fan and one for the employee.

Pretty cool.

Where and how do you plan on displaying that?

Believe it or not, my wife likes antiques so the plan is to display it on our great room corner if it fits properly.

Wow I hope it fits.

Pretty cool that your wife is into sports antiques.

MY wife supports my Card addiction because she does not have to see it.

The few things I have non cards are not displayed in any primary area.

I love that kind of stuff! I really, really want a Candlestick turnstile.

Great piece. I'm trying to get my wife to let me put my Sweet Caporal sign in the living room lol.

1926 Soldier Field
 

An antiques dealer friend told me about this photograph last month, but I didn't get to buy it from him until yesterday. I goes along perfectly with my pennant from the inaguration game in 1926. It's 28" wide with a very clear image.

Beautiful piece Greg.... thanks for the better photos!

Matt:
Incredible Army/Soldiers Field pairing and stunning photo. Congrats on the perfect pairing!

Nice photograph. Amazing angle, detail, and clarity

Yaz
 

Super excited to have picked this one up.

Yaz 1978 game used jersey. She shows some use, a little fading, but overall a fantastic example from my birth year...who knows? It may have been the jersey that Carl was wearing when Bucky deposited that shot in the green monster netting!

Finally got the LS Bat Bank I bought a couple weeks ago. I didn't realize the large size of them. Wasn't sure where to display it at first but decided I liked this. Now I need to get one of the older ones with With Aaron, Mantle and the other big names from that era to put it between the NY and TB caps.

congrats
 

wow what a find...congrats...

Interesting and exciting stuff picked up in August.

I Look forward to Sept Pickups as I learn this side of the collections and see what might interest me

THanks all for Sharing

Just picked up my second Couroc tray. The ball is redder and the price was right (on etsy). These were made in 1958. The sticker on my first tray reads "Unique Couroc Products are cherished gifts because of their great variety and beauty in design. Hand inlaid by master craftsmen, shells, coins, woods and metals are fused into Couroc's famous satin black material which is impervious to alcohol, boiling water, and cigarette burns." Couroc made a zillion designs - mostly birds, flowers, etc.

Congratulations. It's outstanding!

Very cool Rob. First time I've seen any other team represented with the courac trays. Here's my Reds cheese tray.

And yours is the first I've seen OTHER than the Giants. Couroc was was Monterey/SF.

P.S. How often do you see the Reds version? The Giants is rare; the Reds has to be rarer.

Not very often. Here's a few more versions that I believe may be related. Sorry for the low pic quality...

Those are beautifully crafted trays. Never seen one prior to this!