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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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