Reading is fundamental........
 

don't really feel like reading that whole listing about a shoe polish tin.

what is your point?

:cool:

Reading
 

Great information actually. But ALOT of reading to get to the end !!

4th image. George J. Kelly. Mike "King" Kelly was long deceased by 1920.

The tin also has nothing to do with George Kelly the hall of fame baseball player. I would guess that George J. Kelly was the owner of the company that made the polish. Also for anyone interested in this tin the $299 opening bid is WAY too high.

Dan,

That's my guess as well.

ok. i claim to know absolutely nothing about this stuff, i don't see anything which indicates he was still alive or dead and how that is used to date this.

i could see it being a problem if it was before the guy was born? right? but not the other way around. what am i missing?

kevin

George J Kelly Corp. is still in business today. It is in Lynn, Mass. They are still in the shoe polish business.

There was a movie called "Slide Kelly Slide" that came out in 1927 that was a baseball movie, but had nothing to do with Mike "King" Kelly, it was a fictional account of a Yankees pitcher. REA's description of the product is just conjecture. The song was definitely about Mike Kelly, the movie not at all, the shoe polish, who knows?