Here's a nice little piece from 1958
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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
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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
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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?
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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

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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.


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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.

Baseball Ads
 

More equipment ads.

Greg

Baseball Ads
 

I'm sorry -- I still have to figure out how to put multiple photos in one post.

Greg

Baseball Ads
 

One more for now.

Greg

Greg- that Diamond Brand is a beauty. Is it circa 1910?

Edited to say it looks like 1909 World Series, with Detroit and Pittsburgh.

Thanks Barry, you're right on the date.
This was a piece sent to a retailers to entice them to put the full size Diamond Brand display in their window. It was a three dimensional piece -- 28 x 40 and ten inches deep, with cardboard cutouts of the players at their positions -- I have never seen one.

Here are a couple more pieces.

Awesome stuff Greg.... your collection is amazing. Thanks for posting all of those great pieces!

You would think i would ahve a great chance to find one of those Peach posters considering i live 10 minutes from Gloversville but i come across nothing dealing with the company, only thing i know is where the old factory was.

Thanks Mark -- it's fun finally being able to show some stuff.

Here are a couple of ad pieces from sporting goods stores. The Mays bat is a giant bat (appropriately enough) -- well over four feet long.

Greg, awesome pieces. Thanks for sharing.

Clint

I went to school in Johnstown (which is about 2 miles from Gloversville) and never came across a Peach poster either although I always looked. Also, I co-founded the Fulton Montgomery Sports Historical Society (the museum is now in Gloversville) and we did find some information on Peach but no equipment to display.

Jon,
I went to the museum two weeks ago to see the baseball stuff. It was good to see different baseball things from around the area.

Home Run Cigarettes Circa 1910... the 12X18 version.

The Colors are incredible.

Anyone ever notice that the T206 Johnny Evers With Bat, Chicago on Shirt has the EXACT same background as this Home Run poster?

Great Home Run poster -- I like the fact that you have it in an antique frame.

Greg

1910 Reach Catalog with original mailing envelope...
 

in remarkable mint condition. I recently found hundreds of scans from my last laptop. Earlier in this thread I posted the front of the catalog only. Here is all the goodies inside. Enjoy...

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1910 Reach Catalog (continued)
 

four more...

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Pretty sweet considering it will be one hundred years old in just a few more months!

Home Run Cigs Poster
 

Hi Jacksons,
When you say "the 12x18 version", does that mean you know of another size that was produced?

FYI, I featured that Home Run Cigs poster on my Sports Antique of the Week May 31st-June 10th 2009. Below the link if you haven't seen it already.
http://sportsantiques.com/homeruncigspost.htm

-Carlton

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=1092

1921 Exhibit advertising piece/machine header

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=1093http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=1094

Adam Hats advertising pieces showing Light-Heavyweight champ Bob Pastor

Great stuff everyone. Here is my contribution...

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...yo/Frisch1.jpg

Ricky Y

Ricky..
Nice piece.. How big is it?
Matt

Matt,

It's framed to size of 29x21. I like it because it has a product, portrait and an action shot all in one piece.

Ricky Y