Josh Evans has a store in Red Bank, NJ
 

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Well believe it or not I have a store for selling my memorabilia. Well sort of. I have a display case in The Antique Center of Red Bank near where I live New Jersey. I have put some neat stuff in there. Nothing real expensive, just neat collectibles, mostly sports, and the prices are CHEAP (all caps for a reason). This is stuff I am just looking to get rid of and it is all FRESH STUFF that is left over from collections we bought, and from my personal collection. If you cut out this post (print it first dummy) you get 20% off on anything you want. Heck you can buy everything in the display case for 50% off but you have to take it all. If you do, you get a full page honorarium in the next Lelands.com catalogue (I’m serious). There are some great deals like a couple of Nolan Ryan signed books (from book signings) $35 each, a Joe Palooka 1940s belt buckle (mint $45), Fritz the Cat promo pin ($8), Sugar Ray Robinson PM10 pin with hanging do-dads ($35), a neat collection of unusual Ted Williams stuff, 1990s NY Mets mint signed baseball ($45), and much more. Red Bank is a great town and is one of the last bastions of antiques stores on the East Coast. There are literally scores of them. Great place for a weekend. We are located at 195 West Front Street in Red Bank, NJ (tel: 732 842 3393, Exit 109 off the GSP, redbankantiques.com). Tell them Josh sent you.

Josh,
I was excited when Judy said you were getting a showcase in the shop. I bought a few things you had up there. If you're serious about 1/2 off the entire case, shoot me an email and let's see what we can do.
Thanks
Matt

Red Bank
 

No fair Matt-you are way closer......LOL
Congrats on the store display.

Going to stop by and see your stuff in the next few weeks. Frequent Red Bank very often.

Josh, Which building are you in? Is it the big one on the corner? or the smaller one will the muddy parking lot?

Good luck with your sales! I used to have an Aunt and Uncle and a couple of cousins from Red Bank.I visited once when I was a kid only remember the trip because it was when Thurman Munson`s plane had crashed.

back to basics
 

It is the muddy parking lot
It is even muddier since I got there

These kind of projects can really be fun
It’s about getting back to basics
Yes it’s about the stuff but it’s also about the people you come into contact with
That was lost somewhat when eBay and other factors changed things so dramatically

Judy who runs the place has known my family and myself since the 1970s and remembers me well as a kid (well in many ways I’m still a kid)
She is very cool and runs the place with an iron hand (old cast iron)
She has been buying fine stuff like Tiffany and Icarts for years and socking it away
Boy I would love to get into that house

The first day I set up I recognized an old antique dealer I knew from the NY shows in the 1970s-80s
We had a good chart
He mentioned a Bobby Thomson pin he had and after some prodding (not ez) let me see it
It was in his car because he must have just bought it
No picture but it said “Bobby Thomson Day” with the date (1947)
Never say it
$175
I gave it to my partner Mike Heffner for his pin collection
It came with this neat little card from the kid who attended the game
It was a Police Athletic League NY Giants free pass in cardboard dated that same day
The cardbaioard had deteriorated so much it was in peoiecs but I sat up for an hour or so piecing it back together with archival tape like a jigsaw puzzle

This can be a fun hobby if you love it

Josh

thanks for sharing...
 

Josh- thanks for sharing your story. You are like a kid in a candy shop, still, after all of these years. I hope that in 20 more years I will be the same way. Love the hobby and most people in it. I don't care what anyone says :) you are still one of my favorite guys to speak with. A few folks don't care to make friends in the hobby and I truly think they are missing out on a wonderful part of it. take care (hope to see you in Oaks)