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Carlton World
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VZbP0h.jpg http://sportsantiques.com/viennabbbronze.htm Twenty two years ago I saw one of these Vienna baseball bronzes that you can read about in the feature linked above. I couldn’t afford that one and I had been on the lookout for another ever since. Recently a collector I’ve known a while who only collects University of Pennsylvania items wanted three things from my collection and I traded them for this Vienna. I gave up my Leyendecker U. Penn football poster, a big porcelain U. Penn football lamp (the collector had a matching lamp so now he has a pair), and a 12” plaster figure of a U. Penn football player (which I most hated to give up of the three)…I gave it a lot of thought since it’s so worn. I consulted two collector friends who gave the thumbs up. On the one hand yes it’s worn and beat up…but on the other hand…you’re 300% sure it’s original from the wear. And speaking of the wear…it would have to be the most mysterious statue I’ve ever dealt with. Reason being…how could it have gotten that worn…And the arm is cracked…hey It’s bronze...I don’t think I’ve ever heard of bronze cracking…and besides that how could it have gotten cracked downward the way it is…Bronze is extremely strong stuff…And then there’s the base…How in the world could the paint have gotten that much wear and yet the red marble base is essentially perfect!....puzzling and a mystery. To me it looks like it has been clanging around in a toy box full of toys for about three generations...Like there parents let them play with it as a toy...Another thing I'll mention is the catchers mask is missing. You'll see the featured one has the mask...They were so finely crafted you could remove them! But being I already had three other Vienna sports bronzes it fit in perfectly with them…a billiards one…two joined boxers…and a group of three soccer players going for the ball…I found that soccer one at the Hillsborough Antiques show about 20 years ago and had to throw down some very serious money to get it…The lady was an experienced antiques dealer from the east coast and knew what she had!…Out of the zillions of Vienna bronzes produced during the late 19th century to the late 1930’s very few sports ones were made. In all the years I’ve known of the one I did the feature on…I never stopped to think about the P on the batters cap…And there’s an H on the catchers, (cap worn backwards). I understand that under the bronze base of mine, the words “Harvard and Pennsylvania” is written. I hate to disturb it though so haven’t looked. To add more to the mystery...Because the other one I featured also had the same P on the cap...I would speculate that perhaps some well heeled parent of a Harvard or Penn student had them made special order... Auction House Description: Exceedingly scarce antique cast metal baseball player statue titled "Two Strikes" showing a batter and a catcher. Circa 1890s. Much of the original paint remains, including the letter P on the batter and the letter H on the catcher. When metal statue was removed from base the words "Harvard and Pennsylvania" were found written under the metal baseplate, indicating that the players depict a game between University of Pennsylvania Quakers and Harvard Crimson, both Ivy League schools. Good condition with original base plaque and minor damage to the bat. Measures 6 1/2" tall. Another interesting tid-bit is one day I was thumbing thru a book on Victorian Interiors...and guess what I spotted in a c1905 photo...see at very bottom this post... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/nibhM8.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/57MP9w.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/3SdMwV.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/qtD5Ci.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ZjNWod.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/xPuMOk.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/dY45kB.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Soci0w.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/N1wwYf.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Uesrin.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/bOKZ8S.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ujlTJC.jpg |
Carlton,
As we know we are only care takers of these items and we are all getting older! At this point in life if it makes you happy (and I know it does) you have to go for it! Its a cool piece and it fits right into your collection! Looks like it made you happy and made your friend happy.. SOOOOO a nice win win! Enjoy it and as always great collection!;);) |
WOW!!! Great piece, even though a lot of paint is missing the detail is fantastic. I especially like the "ring bat" the U Penn player is holding.
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anytime you can trade football for baseball I would do it. Great piece!
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Great piece. Love you got in trade also, the very best deal as both sides get something they wanted more.
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Beautiful piece, Carlton.
Congrats on finally being able to add it to your great collection! :) |
terrific do you still have the mustang??
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Congrats on your deal! I sure do love those football pieces you traded!
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Your spotting the piece in the photograph is almost as impressive as finding the piece itself! Fabulous
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Rare Motorcycle Statue
Hey thanks everyone for the kind words on the Vienna...Below another recent p/u...
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/fsRUku.jpg Picked this up in an auction in Belgium recently…friend tipped me off to it…I prefer American but this was too cool to pass up…These city to city races were popular with motorcycles and autos in the teens and twenties in Western Europe…I gather this Liege to Paris to Liege race was a major race…but I’ve had a hard time researching it because I don’t know the go to people in Europe and the language barrier….the three major languages spoken in Belgium are Dutch, French, and German…Liege was I think the second largest city in Belgium next to Brussels…ya learn a lot collecting!…I think most Americans find this all curious but from what I’ve seen motorcycle racing was no less popular in Europe than it was here…maybe more so…Italy, Germany, France….they were all motorcycle crazy back in the early days of the teens and twenties…Below are some key questions I would like to learn about this statue. 1. Was it a trophy? 2. Was it a souvenir? 3. Who made it? 4. How many were made? 5. Were similar statues made for other races? 6. How many contestants competed in the race? 7. Who won the race? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/7HWuhD.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/cbtbac.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/IuTWu6.jpg |
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Hey Carlton,
Great pickup! Please circle back when you answer the 7 questions! Fabulous images of the statue! Did you use some type of special photographers box? The statue is in great shape for being so fragile! I imagine it is pretty light because it’s plaster? Thanks for sharing! John |
If you do your search through Chrome or Chrome Edge you may have the option to translate automatically. It does it for me when I search ebay Germany. It also did it when I found your statue on the site that sold it. You got it for a fair price.
Here is a link to the oldest cycle/motorcyle manufacturer in Belgium. If you read the article you will see that they entered 3 bikes in the 1921 race with factory drivers and won 3 gold medals. Making motorcycles since 1901. https://www.sarolea.com/story Check out their current models. Wild looking bikes - N60 and MANX7. |
Interesting little gadget
Thanks John...will do on those answers but not so easy...
Below a cool little piece... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/uHvhcw.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/DIHBSA.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/xqjzQ9.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/LNBR8q.jpg This was an interesting little eBay snag I got last week, that came yesterday…Cruising eBay at my usual speed…something flashed by that caught my eye…put in reverse…found and clicked on it…the heck is this chingadera I thought…anything with Victorian lithography like that want to know more…turned out it was an exercise invention for home use…and American!…bingo…it was sitting at $1.00 I think it was with one bid and a few days to go…I wanted it for $20 or so but it was pretty cool so I put a “just in case” snipe of $38.88…So what happened?...some wack job like me went and bid $37.00…can you believe that!!...but once I opened it no problem…I found a great story on Whitely on Stack.com…below an excerpt…click the link above it for the full story… https://www.stack.com/a/1800s-home-gym-trx EXCERPT In the mid-1800's, strength training and fitness began to emerge both in business and popular culture in America. By the late 1880s, Dudley Sargent, an assistant professor of physical education at Harvard University, had designed several free-standing pulley machines to exercise the back, chest and abdominal muscles. These machines relied primarily on weight stacks, making the resistance level adjustable. But the machines were large and didn't gain wide use beyond Harvard's gym. In 1894, Alexander Whitely unveiled a pulley-driven exercise machine for the masses. With just a single pulley that could be attached to a wall or doorframe, it was suitable for in-home use. By changing the position of the pulley, the Whitely Exerciser allowed users to perform a full-body workout—one that purportedly could be completed in less than an hour. Since the device was portable, the Whitely was marketed to business folks and travelers, and to those subjected to stress or "nervous energy." It was also aimed at women, proclaiming itself capable of "making weak women strong" and suitable "for every member of the family," young and old. - Maddy Lucier END EXCERPT https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/a49XSQ.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/KlHiHK.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/CXfiim.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/w7kVyA.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/V97dXk.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/MHZmR5.jpg |
Exerciser Pulley
Great pickup! Very Victorian in appearance. I have a similar system to rehab my shoulder. The thing is it generates so much heat as the rope moves through the gear quickly and the pulley itself bangs up against the door.
My theory why yours is in such great shape is because when your athlete started using it to muscle up in the house and his wife saw what it was doing to her doors she got pissed and that practice stopped right away. Lol! 😃😂🤣🤪 I also think the heat that those little pulley’s generate would have deteriorated the finish/look in a few uses. Anyone that has ever rehabbed a shoulder could probably vouch for what I am saying. My wonderful, loving wife makes me go down in the basement and use a door that nobody sees to use the pull system to loosen up my shoulder. Great addition to your collection C!! Quote:
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Boat Trophy
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/B1WXdz.jpg Foremost I’m into speed boats but I just couldn’t pass up this cabin cruiser trophy…I’m not sure if it was a one off custom made…or a stock one you could order from a catalog. The boat is certainly not cast but assembled which would require much more soldering, fabrication, and design skills…Since I’ve never seen another…I lean toward custom…Perhaps someone from this community would have it in a catalog. For me what really sets it apart are the perfect crisp details of the boat…born on horseshoe cradles…combined with that well defined ebony base…Plus the engraved shields…Occasionally you see engraved shields like those on American trophies…but mostly it’s an English thing…Initially I speculated Dieges and Clust might have made it since they were in NYC close to Staten Island where the presenting yacht club was…now that I have it in hand I’m also including John Frick Jewelers NYC…and Black, Starr & Frost, also in NYC as other contenders…If I removed the black wooden base I would probably find the maker stamped under the base of the upper brass part. But I hate disturbing a ninety eight year old piece like this…The mast looks bent but I’ll live with it for while till I figure something out. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/dGH9Kk.jpg In 1922 it was given as a contribution by the Princess Bay Yacht Club to the Raritan Bay Yacht Racing Association. The Raritan Bay Yacht Racing Association was an association of numerous yacht clubs from the Raritan Bay vicinity, which is located off the southern end of Staten Island and extends across the sound to New Jersey. From what I can gather it appears the Raritan Bay Yacht Racing association was formed for the purpose of organizing regattas and social functions between neighboring yacht clubs. Initially when it formed in 1922 the founding clubs were the Raritan Yacht Club, the Sewaren Yacht Club, the Rah-way Yacht Club, and the Princess Bay Yacht Club. Other clubs were anticipated to join as well. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/96BCsx.jpg One thing about yacht clubs is they exist for pleasure…it’s all about fun. I can imagine some of the shindigs they put on…4th of July BBQ’s…Christmas parties, etc…The one photo I found of the Princess Bay club, posted above, certainly looks like the kind of place members enjoyed with their families and friends. Previous to this trophy my research of yacht clubs was of ultra-exclusive ones like the New York Yacht Club and Eastern YC…Somehow I get the feeling these Raritan Bay clubs were made up of the middle class. From what I read their regattas were full on robust affairs that featured races for quite a number of classes of boats…speed boat, sail, cabin cruiser, and others…To me these modest clubs represent the opportunity and prosperity a God blessed America offered for the hard work of the fortunate. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/idQok3.jpg As for this trophies lifespan…it appears to have been intended as a perpetual…since we see the three boats that won it… Why it stops after three years is certainly curious…Somehow it eventually migrated from Staten Island to Muncie Indiana where the seller is located without any damage besides the mast…Below our exchange once I got it… Sent:Oct-16-20 12:55 got the trophy fine...Q where the heck did you find this thing???....please elaborate on everything you might know...come from antiques store?....flea market?...auction?...family heirloom?...I'm wild over it!!!!! -carlton SportsAntiques.com Received:Oct-16-20 23:40 Carlton, Glad you like it. Not much to tell. I have a guy here local that calls me when he needs money. I know he bought from a local auction. You'll have to make up a good story on this one. Sorry, https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/i7ga5W.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/7ZujAh.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/p2Q53b.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/LdzvFb.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/WL7EUp.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/30B5fP.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/foYV7u.jpg |
Great thread, Carlton! What amazes me most, besides your pickups, is the amount of info you are able to find on your acquisitions. Old ads, newspaper articles, etc. How do you find all the background information? You must be using more than just Google...
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Thanks Rob…I have a subterranean research facility of four square blocks I access by elevator. Once down there I use a moped to get to the section I want…Just kidding…I have a fair amount of reference material I’ve collected over thirty plus years…but mostly I use the internet…. |
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Boat Sign
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A month ago I went out antiquing on a Sunday afternoon…last store of the day I saw this 12 foot boat sales sign…great folk art but where was I gonna put it...It was so cool I hated to not get it…the worn blue lettering had me…But I had to think hard where I could hang it…the store was closing so I told them I’d have to give some thought and the dealer gave me his best price to ponder…After racking my brain I thought of a spot that might work…got home and measured, just barely fit but I could make it work…I called the store the next day and they delivered it for $50.00...It's from the San Francisco Bay Area...too bad it's not inscribed on the back "New London Boat Sales, Purveyor to Yale Crew Team"....has that look... So we set up a delivery time…and I started thinking…I got non-sport antiques to move….he’s an antiques dealer…why not sell him some stuff…I had a great folk art bread sign with gold paint displayed in my kitchen for years…but I got a porcelain NYC Municipal Railway sign I wanted to put there…so it was time to move out the bread sign…He bought that and a locker room bench I got at Alameda but ended up not wanting…thank the Lord I paid for the boat sales sign plus got rid of stuff….win-win for everybody…Once I get organized I’ll get it hung… https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/WC6cly.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/XVK45G.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/6bKMvt.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/2rVrKR.jpg |
Like you I also love the blue, but the rope outline makes it different. Very nice.
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Wilton Gas Bash et al
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/AiTR9c.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/V7sNtj.jpg Last Sunday I got up at 3:00AM and went to a gas bash in Wilton Ca about 1 ½ hour drive. Wilton is at the bottom of the foothills of the Gold Country…not all that far from Sacramento…got there right about the time the gate opened. Gas bashes are mostly petro related advertising but other advertising shows up. I didn’t find anything sports so just to prove I was there I got a little porcelain San Francisco Water Department no trespassing porcelain sign for my bathroom, for $35.00 https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/4VvPul.jpg Later that day I went to an antique mall in Roseville and got a great motorcycle photo of Miny Waln and Sprouts Elder side by side astride motorcycles… Miny Waln was National Speedway Champion in 1930, 1932 and 1933…Sprouts Elder also won the National Speedway championship in 1925… Waln’s grandson has a blog all about him http://minywaln.blogspot.com/ …I also got an American Motorcycle Association arm band. Down below is a bio of Waln… After that find I continued around the store and spotted a very unusual tennis trophy…I thought was a trophy that is…It turned out to be a dinner gong missing the gong. I couldn’t resist it. I could tell it was English. During the Edwardian era 1900-1910 they produced a lot of silver plate decorative tennis nick-knacks such as this. The Following biographical sketch of AMA Motorcycle Museum Hall of Famer Miny Waln is courtesy minywaln.blogspot.com Minard H. Waln, known the length and breadth of the short track racing world as the "Mighty Mite,” was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa November 20, 1901. Miny spent most of his school and boyhood days on the family country estate, taking long courses in the art of hunting, fishing, hiking and the like. After finishing school, Waln began traveling and visited Richmond, Virginia during the war. His racing career began in 1918 at the age of 16 and in his first year racing he took the Iowa State Championship. "I rode a Pope at Cedar Rapids my first race" Miny said. "The favorite was a scrappy guy named Peanuts Spurgeon, of Marion, Iowa. He was taking bets he would lap me. I chased him down to the finish line and almost nosed him out." After winning in the East, he came to Los Angeles, California in 1924 and raced on the 5/8 mile Ascot track along with other venues at The Beverly Hills 1¼ mile board track, Long Beach, Emeryville, San Diego and numerous other tracks. He rode primarily Indian, JAP, Douglas, Crocker and even threw his leg over a Harley-Davidson Motorcycle during his brilliant racing career. The biggest crowd he ever appeared before was at Syracuse, New York where 90,000 fans saw him take the nationals in 1930. Syracuse was then the Indianapolis for bike racing. The major factory teams were there, men like Jim Davis, Joe Petrali, Freddie Ludlow and Andy Hader. Miny had won there in 1929 also. In 1931 at the Breakfast Club, was the night when short track racing started in Southern California. Miny, with his experience, was a natural over the kids at the new sport. Only Sprouts Elder stood in his way. They ran nip and tuck as top scratch riders for a while, and then Miny took the lead. Sprouts retired and for a couple of years Miny ruled the roost. When the Breakfast Club shut down, Waln retraced his steps to Richmond. Virginia. There he won two national championships at the Richmond Decoration Day race meet and returned to California shortly thereafter, where he continued to thrill speedway fans. Waln, the first man to introduce the Comerford JAP machine into the United States, held records at practically all tracks of the western circuit. Some of the records were Oakland, Ca. 4-lap handicap record, Fresno, Ca. 4-lap scratch, Gilmore Stadium, 4-lap handicap, Atlantic Stadium 2-lap, San Diego, Ca. 1-lap title and Bakersfield Ca.; he held the 5 mile record on big track. In all he held 15 national title medals and was a 3 time National Champion from 1930-1932. He retired from racing speedway in 1938. The late 30’s brought on a different form of racing. Miny built midget cars and stacked up prize money with Louie Foy behind the wheel of the Dale Drake Special. He went to work for Lockheed in 1938 where he was in charge of a hydraulic crew for years and then went on to be a supervisor on final assembly and finally a test mechanic. Throughout his career his pretty wife Gwynie was ever present at the races. She was immensely popular with the motorcycle fraternity. The great tragedy of Miny’s life was when Gwynie succumbed to a brain tumor in 1963. They had traveled the country and had been inseparable for 37 years. Joe Walker, of Santa Ana, former Sprouts Elder Mechanic, who watched Waln race for years, observed, “Miny was one of the all-time greats. He was such a mild mannered, soft-spoken gentleman, nobody would suspect he was such a tiger in action and tough enough to take such a battering over two decades and quit in one piece.” Miny purchased some land in a small town about 100 miles east of Los Angeles, known as Hemet, California. There he owned property that consisted mainly of apricot orchards. He raised his two daughters and retired, being close to them and his grandchildren. Miny would frequent the local tracks at the time and shared in many reunions, seeing his old friends and fellow racers at tracks that continued to prosper such as Costa Mesa Speedway. Miny passed away in 1991, but I am sure he is riding faster than he ever dreamed. A true legend in his time, he was always looking for a way to do whatever he could to outrun the competition. Godspeed Miny! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/Q9NcBQ.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/hCex6I.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/ltXrQ2.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/M38Gov.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/mbfuzW.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/maOEcJ.jpg |
Awesome stuff, Carlton!! Thanks for sharing...
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Great tennis trophy, gong...what ever. One of the best trophy's I ever had was tennis. Probably 25 yrs ago, sold it to your buddy Herbert. The University of Arkansas has never been the same without him.
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Motorcycle Finds Sacramento Antiques Faire
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Always good to wake up to a new Carlton adventure -- great items and great research!
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The Gas Bash looks like an American Pickers “honey hole”! Thanks for the vicarious trip (and breakfast)!
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Marie Brizard Cognac Sign
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https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/aAFtMj.jpg Back in December 2014 I had a chance to buy a Milka Suchard Chocolate advertising sign with a great mountaineering illustration…Just by chance I came across it on line in a European auction site that had it for sale…I was never sure but maybe it didn’t sell in one of their auctions because of a high reserve…The condition was a little rough and it was like $1500 USD…I liked it but thought maybe I could find another example for less…wrong!!!...I’ve never seen one since…and a very knowledgeable antiques dealer friend in the Netherlands has never seen one…so it was rare!… So when I came across this Marie Brizard and Roger Cognac sign I zeroed in…Some quick research indicated it was just as rare as the Milka Suchard…no one had ever seen it before…So of course I pulled the trigger…Antique mountaineering advertising signs are very tough… Starting about 1850 newspaper and magazine stories about mountaineering began to capture peoples imagination…the public was hungry for adventure and such stories spurred sales of publications… The Age of Enlightenment and the Romantic era marked a change of attitudes towards high mountains. In 1757 Swiss scientist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure made the first of several unsuccessful attempts on Mont Blanc in France. He then offered a reward to anyone who could climb the mountain, which was claimed in 1786 by Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard. The climb is usually considered an epochal event in the history of mountaineering, a symbolic mark of the birth of the sport. By the early 19th century, many of the alpine peaks were reached, including the Grossglockner in 1800, the Ortler in 1804, the Jungfrau in 1811, the Finsteraarhorn in 1812, and the Breithorn in 1813. In 1808, Marie Paradis became the first woman to climb Mont Blanc, followed in 1838 by Henriette d'Angeville. The beginning of mountaineering as a sport in the UK is generally dated to the ascent of the Wetterhorn in 1854 by English mountaineer Sir Alfred Wills, who made mountaineering fashionable in Britain. This inaugurated what became known as the Golden Age of Alpinism, with the first mountaineering club – the Alpine Club – being founded in 1857. One of the most dramatic events was the spectacular first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 by a party led by English illustrator Edward Whymper, in which four of the party members fell to their deaths. By this point the sport of mountaineering had largely reached its modern form, with a large body of professional guides, equipment, and methodologies. Edelweiss, a plant associated with mountain sports In the early years of the "golden age", scientific pursuits were intermixed with the sport, such as by the physicist John Tyndall. In the later years, it shifted to a more competitive orientation as pure sportsmen came to dominate the London-based Alpine Club and alpine mountaineering overall.[18] The first president of the Alpine Club, John Ball, is considered to be the discoverer of the Dolomites, which for decades were the focus of climbers like Paul Grohmann and Angelo Dibona.At that time, the edelweiss also established itself as a symbol of alpinists and mountaineers -wikipedia https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/hggzjL.jpg |
Congrats Carlton and thanks for sharing...
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Awesome as usual Carlton!
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First time Seeing this Carlton. Great Collection and amazing and rare items I have no experience with these but they look incredible |
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Yeah Jeff I'm way off the reservation...when you just collect one sport it's bad enough...but when you collect'um all there's always something coming at ya...but boy is it fun and interesting...Thank the Lord I don't even have time to post everything I get... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Qv8WsF.jpg |
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Thanks for the background and thanks for sharing that photo. It is huge, amazing and very historic.
I also checked out your website. Sensory overload. Looks like you know how channel your obsession into a great collection. Thanks |
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Congrats C!
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Dick Hyland won a gold medal in Rugby at the 1924 Olympics in Paris. One of his teammates was Dudley DeGroot. DeGroot was a long time college football coach. He also coached the Redskins and LA Dons. "Tricky Dick" Hyland worked as technical director on the movie "The Drop Kick" one of John Wayne's first movies. He was also a sportswriter. Joined the USMC in 1942. He was a captain in the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing during WWII. |
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Carlton - How the hell is the National ? Give us all the details !!!
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Gosh sorry didn't go...but check out my remote pickups in link above... |
Winged Wheel
Picked up this interesting piece couple weeks ago...don't know where it originated...perhaps off a building is my best guess....a bicycle manufacturer...automobile shop....or maybe a railroad station...posted it on Instagram and an antiques dealer friend said he's had a few but doesn't know what they were used for...I have to make a stand for it...or maybe mount on a base...very heavy...
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Bowling
I rarely pick up bowling items unless they're pretty cool ...like that plaque I got at the 2019 National from the great Keith Javic...
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/t2zxKY.jpg About two years ago September 29th 2019 9:10AM to be exact...I was walking around the Petaluma Antiques Fair when I got a call from Ryan Sims who was at a another antiques fair in Orange County...told me about this bowling trophy...the photo he sent looked great but I passed because of the price...little later he called back and said the lady would take less...and he was leaving the show....last chance...bingo I pulled the trigger...The plan was next time I came down to L.A. I'd pick it up...then Covid hit...never made it down till last weekend for the Glendale show and the Long Beach flea...After two years I finally got it home...the whole two years I was half sorry I got it...but after seeing in person very glad I got it...here it is in line-up... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/ClmDXG.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/s7AUZp.jpg |
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Thought of you right away Carlton
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Impressive and beautiful piece, Carlton!
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Bike Humidor
Even though it's not American it's a beauty! Congrats!
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Thanks Mark and John...collecting all sports sure keeps you on your toes...always something come'n at ya...but it's a blast...
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Love it Carlton.... the good old days, when SNL was actually funny! Really miss Chris Farley. :(
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Hey Carlton, that bowling trophy looks like a Pairpoint Co. trophy. Is that the case? |
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Great stuff And I am learning alot |
1908 Speed Boat Advertising Ploy
A CLEVER CASE OF EARLY POWERBOAT RELATED ADVERTISING
Some may know my interest in pre 1920 powerboat racing I’ve taken to over the last few years…tuff to find…especially pre 1910…I was cruising eBay recently and spotted this postcard…great looking early speedboat but I’m not into postcards much…then I looked at the back…postmarked January 8th 1909, 5:30pm Detroit Michigan…signed: “W. E. Scripps”….I vaguely recalled the Scripps name was related to publishing…launched an investigation faster than a Senate Intelligence Committee looking into fake Russian Collusion….Turned out W.E. Scripps was William Edmund Scripps…born May 6, 1882 to James E. Scripps, founder of the “Detroit News” newspaper. The Detroit News started in 1873 and evolved into one of the largest media empires. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/hM2sew.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/iFSNTn.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/90bsPX.jpg So according to the verso, penned in his own hand…it’s a photo of him in the throes of winning the National Long Distance Championship of 1908, which was held in Detroit…the P.S. even provides that the boat was going 29 MPH when the photo was taken…pretty straight forward…But let’s take a more comprehensive look… QUOTE: Dear Jack - This is a hand colored photo of my speed boat “Scripps” the American long distance champion. Going some eh? Will see you at the New York show and tell you all about it Yours, W.E. Scripps P.S. I have covered a mile course at the rate of 30.3 miles. Going over 29 when this was taken – UNQUOTE FYI The term “going some” was a slang idiom of the period referencing “a high level of achievement”… William Edmund Scripps Birth 6 May 1882 Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan Death 12 Jun 1952 (aged 70) Lake Orion, Oakland County, Michigan, USA He worked almost 56 years at the Detroit News which was founded by his father James E. Scripps in 1873. He was head of the Detroit News and president of the Detroit News Publishing Company. He was also president of the Scripps Motor Company, manufacturers of marine gasoline engines. Among his many charities was the gift of his private art collection to the city of Detroit and his home which later became the Saint Mary's Residence for Girls; operated by the Daughters of Divine Charity. Mr. Scripps was an air enthusiast and founder of the Radio station WWJ. In later years he devoted much of his time to his farm Wildwood located in Lake Orion. Courtesy findagrave.com From the bio above we see that besides being a publishing executive, J.W. Scripps was president of Scripps Motor Company…Scripps Motor Company primarily made marine engines and was in business from 1906 to 1956…Which brings us back to this photo…as you can see…the inscription beneath the boat states: “SCRIPPS” LONG DISTANCE CHAMPION of AMERICA SIX CYLINDER 5 ½ X 6 SCRIPPS MOTOR https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/3lXEs5.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/3VLKY8.jpg STARTING TO GET THE PICTURE (PUN INTENDED) After I learned Scripps owned a marine motors company I started to understand the postcard...that it would have been an advertising vehicle for his company...And winning the long distance title of 1908 would have been very important for his motor company’s status...I speculated the postcard was made for his personal use to promote his company...not available retail… THE POSTCARD PHENOMENA STARTED 1907 From a little research into postcards I learned that in 1907, Kodak introduced a service called "real photo postcards," which enabled customers to make a postcard from any picture they took. Moreover I learned starting March 1, 1907, the postal service allowed senders, for the first time, to include a message on the backs of postcards…The Long Distance Championship race was held August 22nd 1908, so that would be the day the photo was taken according to the back of the postcard.….and the postcard was postmarked January 8th 1909, less than five months after the photo was taken…So we know the postcard was produced sometime between those two dates…So that means our Scripps postcard was produced at least one year, ten months and seven days after written notes on the backs of postcards became permissible…So it’s pretty early-on in the development of the postcard. SAME POSTCARD – DIFFERENT ADDRESSEE What I could not figure out was who was "Wm. B. Wallace the postcard was addressed to in Cheney Kansas....and moreover....who was "Jack" that the note speaks to...I researched William B. Wallace in Cheney Kansas in 1909 but found no reference…..Then I researched to see if Jack was a nick name for William….nope it wasn’t….which certainly seemed odd...And then guess what happened…I found another example of the postcard addressed to an Ellis Atwood in Marion Massachusetts…and guess what…the personalized inscription was identical… When I got mine I looked it over quickly and all looked fine…The style of the handwriting and verbiage seem so realistic and authentic there was nothing to notice…But after seeing the identical Atwood example obviously the personalized note was machine printed and intended to appear hand written…Nothing nefarious, just a cleaver advertising ploy by Scripps that serves as an example of his business acumen…The invention of the photo postcard being less than two years old Scripps had the foresight to exploit the new phenomena in a very simple grassroots method…Why they are written to “Jack” remains a mystery… GETS DEEPER But the rabbit hole still had a way to go…Scripps mentioned “Will see you at the New York show and tell you all about it”….”New York show”…what New York show…Some digging turned up that the New York Boat show was held approximately five weeks after my postcard was postmarked...So the advertising ploy had a shelf life...meaning all these postcards would need to be mailed before the Feb. 1909 New York Boat show... I dug up newspaper coverage of the show and photos...I figured there was a reasonable chance the Scripps booth might be in one of the photos...bingo...had to look hard but it's way in the back of one of them ...but I found it...see it circled in yellow below.... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/oBbbgy.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ho4asK.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/HWrfE9.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/PllI6K.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/DYCsjh.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/nAdbtZ.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/LqzJOl.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/1JdiSV.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/5Y7OQt.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/7Ey8l7.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/IYPe6k.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/8G69pS.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/35zSOT.jpg |
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Speed Boat Advertising Ploy
Great story and killer post card C! I love the history on RPPC's. I always wondered when the "craze" started. Thanks for that!!
I am a little disappointed that you couldn't find and image of Scripps and "Jack" together at the Speed Boat show in NY, however! 🤣🤣 |
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As always, your research blows my mind!
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All Alaska Stuff
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One of the things I collect is early All Alaska Sweepstakes Dog Sled Race items. The first race was 1908 and ran consecutively until 1917…then was restarted in 1983 and again in 2008...The All Alaska race was the first major sled race….before the Iditarod…It’s a very demanding sport. Although there were check points that followed the telegraph lines…between them the terrain was extreme…The teams are on their own in desolation out in the middle of nowhere basically…against the elements and wolves…Maybe today they have Sat phones but not back then… One day maybe ten years ago I went to the San Francisco Paper Fair and found a panoramic of a dogsled team from the first All Alaska race…Over the years I’ve gathered a few more things…a program from the 1909 race and marshal’s ribbon…Then recently I spotted a dog sled harness on eBay…There was one for like $700.00…and this one was listed for $256.00 OBO…I figured it would go well with my All Alaska stuff so made a run at it…got it for $180.00…Really I was sort of apprehensive as I had never even seen a dog sled harness…so I was very curious what I was getting into…I did my due diligence and researched it best I could before pulling the trigger…found a guy on-line in Alaska who mushes and asked his opinion…basically he gave the nod…said he had one that had been in a museum…and his attorney had a collection of ten…Plus I learned of other people like me that collect early Alaska… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Seppala One of the racers Leonhard Seppala, who won the sweepstakes in 1915, 16 and 17 is especially interesting…see below excerpt from Wikipedia Role in the "Serum Run" of 1925 A diphtheria outbreak struck Seppala's town of Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925. Previously unexposed children as well as adults were at risk of dying from the infection. Seppala's only child—an eight-year-old daughter named Sigrid—was also at risk. The only treatment available in 1925 was diphtheria antitoxin serum. However, the town's supply was not only insufficient but also of presumably low efficacy, being past its expiry date. The only practical way to deliver more serum to Nome in the middle of the coldest winter in 20 years was by dog sled. A relay of respected mushers was organized to expedite the delivery, and Seppala (with lead dog Togo) was chosen for the most forbidding part of the trail.[1] The serum was to be taken by train to Nenana, and from there relay teams would set out from Nome and Nenana, meeting in the middle at Nulato. The whole trail was 674 miles from Nenana to Nome, and Seppala was initially selected to cover the more than 400 miles from Nome to Nulato and back. Seppala's section of trail featured a dangerous shortcut across Norton Sound, which could save a full day of travel. It was decided that he was the most qualified of the relay mushers to attempt this shortcut. The ice on Norton Sound was in constant motion due to currents from the sea and the incessant wind. It ranged from rough hills of smashed-together ice to slippery "glare ice" polished by the wind, where it was difficult for the dogs to get a foothold. Small cracks in the ice could suddenly widen, and driver and team could be plunged into the freezing water. If the wind blew from the east, it could reach speeds as high as 70 mph (110 km/h), flipping over sleds, pushing dogs off course, and causing a windchill as low as −100 °F (−73 °C). A sustained east wind could also push the ice out to sea, and a team caught on a drifting floe could find itself stranded on open water. Seppala had taken the shortcut across the Sound several times in his career; a less-experienced musher was likelier to lose not only his life and the lives of his dogs, but also the urgently needed serum. Seppala would cross the sound each way in the race to deliver the serum... So came the day it arrived…When I pulled it out of the box and spread it out it looked incredible…ancient …way more impressive in person than in the photo…the leather is a bit stiff and cracked but not too bad…and the rivets and attachments look like 1890…but there’s no way to tell…no makers marks…no doubt a professional harness maker made it back in the day…The seller was in Washington state and said he got it at an estate sale…so no telling its origin….it’s possible it could have found its way to Washington from Alaska…Sort of what made me get it was….even though it’s a bit stiff from age and all there’s no missing pieces…it’s all there… https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/tyUfZm.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/9n3mAn.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ch6map.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/7SyVMB.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/ZCh9eU.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/B4pnu7.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/9rn8hs.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/89teQH.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/xH5wog.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/G0zqAc.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/HvIM7j.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/W74g16.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/OQP8br.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/yynBHH.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/tqLi9c.jpg |
Most eclectic collection on the planet!!!! :D
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I went to a western antiques show in Nevada City last Friday...Kind of a small show at the Elks Lodge...A 2 1/2 hour drive is a long way for a small show but as western antiques go....i.e. anything and everything western...mining, gambling, railroad, cowboy, Indian, guns, etc...you couldn't ask for a more target rich area than Nevada City and surrounding area...so just on that I went...didn't find anything I had to have...I seriously considered a c1900 panoramic photo of a bread company in Los Angeles with horse drawn delivery wagons...but passed...then there was this porcelain sign for harness'...kind of a coincidence since I just bought a dog sled harness...That was one of the best porcelain signs I've ever seen...had Wyatt Earp written all over it...$5,000.00 firm...If you're not familiar with porcelain signs it may not mean much but that was over the top rare... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/zgI43K.jpg So you collect sports display antiques, why ya going to a western show you ask...turn over every rock...anything can happen...I've found stuff at western shows before....below a theater poster with a track theme....that I found at the Grass Valley Old West show.... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/bw4feG.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/JBbCet.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/qB4C62.jpg https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=187684 And same show once I found a group of snap shots of Duke Kahanamoku...see link above... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/6ajInv.jpg |
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An amazing and diverse collection The real question is IS there anything he does not collect? Is there any shop or show that he actually did not buy something from? |
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04' Big Game
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Here would be probably the best piece I ever pulled out of a western show…Four or five years ago I went to the Grass Valley Old West Show…A well-known advertising dealer who I knew a little was set up. He goes to me…I got a Cal Stanford football poster I’d like your opinion on…So he shows me a photo of this poster and asks what do you think it’s worth…And I’m like…dang it…there was no way out…I had to tell him…there would be no sneaking up on it…I told him point blank…it may be the best football poster I’ve ever seen and it’s probably worth $3,000.00 to $5,000.00…and I asked him if he wanted to sell it…said he was going to keep it for now…So….a year goes by and he calls me and offers it to me for $XXXX.XX…said he’d be at the upcoming Grass Valley show in a couple weeks…. I gulped, took a breath, and said I’d take it…I wasn’t taking any chances…he offered…I accepted…no negotiating… https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/w9ICAG.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/3tCick.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/AnQBYh.jpg |
WOW !!! That's my kind of poster.
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Agree.... insanely cool poster, Carlton!
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Gold Cup
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Thanks everyone for the kind words on the 04" Big Game poster....here's a recent p/u...Occasionally I pick up old school restaurant ware plates if they're interesting...The Detroit Yacht Club is iconic as the center of the Gold Cup races in Detroit...World Powerboat Champion Gar Wood was their most famous member and it was basically his home base during his nine year reign as World Champion in 1917, 18’ 19’ 20, 21’ and 26’, 28’, 29’, and 30’…. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/RgeU89.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/VXKkkL.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/JW2fDU.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/eFA2JB.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/12fxOS.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/zoJRwv.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Q3IEIA.jpg |
Good looking eggs, Carlton!
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hot roast beef...
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Grass Valley Old West Show, et al
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I took off work Thursday and Friday Nov 11th and 12th to go to two antiques shows…The Grass Valley Western Show in Grass Valley California on Thursday… and a half hour away, the 49er bottle show held in Auburn California on Friday…plus I went to the Sacramento Antiques Faire on Sunday…so that was three shows in four days….By Sunday night I didn’t want to hear anything about antiques… Paid $80.00 for an early entry pass to get into the Old West Show on Thursday during set up….First thing I found was this c1905 die cut easel back Carter’s Union Suits sign featuring a little girl shooting a basketball…before I even got into the show…guy was set up in the parking lot selling an array of advertising…and this was setup on a stack of plastic tubs right in the center his booth…c1905 advertising signs depicting basketball are almost nonexistent…so I was all over it…had never seen an example before…When I got home I emailed Pat Vesper to see just how rare it was and Pat had never seen one…Pat has one of the best basketball collections in the world…Turns out Carter’s clothing company is still in business….they started in 1865… https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/4nvi4X.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/41eUvN.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/wIhQ9A.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/CNwjMz.jpg So that was my first strike…I saw a few things I liked but intuition said hold off…then I spotted this fire station sign…from Station one of the El Cajon California Fire Department…built 1950 razed 1983…the seller was retired from there and had worked at the station…said he got the letters when they tore down building and had them in his collection many years…Knowing the sign’s history was invaluable…It was pretty serious money and I don’t like spending too much on non-sport pieces…however…where would I find another…so bingo pulled the trigger…wasn’t exactly sure what I’d do with it…just figured I’d sort it out later…once home I eyeballed a spot where it could go above my cupboards in my kitchen… https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/Wtz3Yv.jpg Next was this bulldog pillow cover…price was right $200.00… https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/98n1K4.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/oLoRAB.jpg The next day was the 49er Bottle Show…what a letdown…Before covid it was one of my favorite shows of the year…about half bottles half general antiques…and typically lots of advertising…used to be there were people selling out of their cars in the parking lot before the show opened…They hadn’t had the show I think last two for covid…so I was raring to go on this reopening one…However…Just wasn’t the same by any means…Used to be people drove right into the fairgrounds and parked wherever…no rules…total open range policy…Not this time…I got up at 4am and got there at 8:30am not wanting to miss any of the parking lot action…not to be…I go there and friend was packing up his stuff…said someone from the fairgrounds told everyone they couldn’t sell in the parking lot and to pack up…So that was stunning…what was I supposed to do for three hours till the show opened…Then a friend invited me to go to a guy’s house nearby that had stuff for sale…and I got this 1956 California motorcycle license plate….very cool it’s still on the tail mount and has a 1959 sticker so you know it’s been retired since then…. Well the bottle show was a bust…It was almost all bottles…I think the sellers that brought all the great advertising in years past were at the Old West Show…I was so disappointed afterwards I drove the half hour back to the Old West Show…and ended up getting this bronze statue of a swimmer…I think in thirty five years I’ve only seen maybe two sculptures of swimmers so it’s rare… https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/mk3dPq.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/tmP7rU.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/mzrl2k.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/8EgiLv.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/RcLKlS.jpg I picked up quite a bit more stuff online same weekend...the most important was this 1953 metal Tour de France press sign that were mounted on cars as they trailed the cyclists...The description said it was 1950...but I figured out the 50e meant "50th"...so since the TDF started in 1903 it would be from 1953, the 50th anniversary... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/d8iBLN.jpg Like I said...by Sunday night I didn't want to see anymore antiques... |
amazing Carlton
Great stuff. This is my most enjoyed thread seeing your discoveries |
All great stuff but I’m most impressed with the 1926 bronzes catalog. Do you own that or did you just find it in your research?
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Hi Carlton. I love viewing your posts along with your research. In my experience, some anticipated shows or auctions can be disappointing, but if you don't go, you'll never know. That's my philosophy. Never give up the hunt!
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You should open your own museum... I'd go... Heck yeah!! Amazing collection!! You must have unlimited space??
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Or at least have a net54 forum day at your home and invite us over |
Carlton, did you find anything at the Sacramento Faire? I live in Lincoln and usually go but bowed out this month.
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Carlton: That Stanford/Cal poster is just insane. Don't know how I missed it in your earlier post. I love the eclectic nature of your pickups.
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