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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Also posted on the card board. Hope I don't start a 400 post thread <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Images of dogs seem more prevalent in baseball memorabilia (think D&M). <br /><br />Here's an image of a cat on a 1940 Quebec ticket envelope, for Black Cat tobacco. There is also the written reference to Rock City, which had a number of baseball tobacco tins in the 1930s. For me, it's also neat that the writing refers to my birthday, just a few years earlier than my birth date <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br /><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3158/2936682622_bd4901e873.jpg"><br /><br />Any other images of cats in vintage baseball?<br /><br />Max

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Posted By: <b>Mark</b><p>Max:<br /><br />This is such an "off the wall" thread! I think I can support it though... does this piece qualify?<br /><br />I believe it may have been a Detroit Tigers related piece, even though the uniform colors are different. The Cat/Tiger is wearing #5, which might correspond to Hank Greenberg. It stands 15" tall, and is a heavy cast metal. My guess is that its from the 1930s, perhaps early '40s.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff178/perezfan/Figurals006.jpg"><br /><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Brock G.</b><p>That is way too cool Mark. Given the size and material its made of do you think it was perhaphs intended as a garden statue or something? Looks like to me it is wearing a college letterman sweater. How do you display that thing?

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>That's purrfect, Mark

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Posted By: <b>DMcD</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/June08/BigCatMize.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Brecheen?