Needing help with a broadside

[tlwise12]

I'm currently considering a purchase of a circa 1940's broadside. While I have purchased these kinds of things before, it has always been from a very reputable dealer or auction house (although these places can also have problems).

If you have or know anyone with a fair amount of knowledge about vintage baseball advertising please email me at tlwise12@aol.com

Thank everyone for their help in advance!

[ctownboy]

If it is on eBay and ACOFIND or style_quest is selling it, don't bother because it is fake.

Also be wary if it originates from Indiana or Ohio.

David

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by tlwise12

I'm currently considering a purchase of a circa 1940's broadside. While I have purchased these kinds of things before, it has always been from a very reputable dealer or auction house (although these places can also have problems).

If you have or know anyone with a fair amount of knowledge about vintage baseball advertising please email me at tlwise12@aol.com

Thank everyone for their help in advance!

Travis, I just shot you an email...I speak broadside...for about 25 years broadsides, mainly sports ones, have always been something I zero in on...one from 1940 would be latter than what I collect...but I'll give you what I know...

Anytime someone uses the term broadside I'm impressed....not many people even know what they are...the world population is about 6.8 billion...According to the Department of Labor and Statistics only 250 people in the world know what a broadside is....just kidding....But from what I've assembled over many years it's an archaic term for advertising posters...and used loosely...Some people refer to hand bills as a broadside...which is fine...a hand bill could have been used as both...One time I ran an ad to buy 19th- early 20th century sports broadsides and I got offered photos and other things that surprised me.

So I don't bore anyone I'll wrap this up...To me the pure essence of a broadside would be a poster from the last half of the 19th century with archaic elongated type style font with little or no graphics....But that would just be a classic example by my own subjective opinion....there is no broadside police to crack down on misuse of the term....the broadside evolved as printing techniques evolved...When chromolithography came into use around the 1870's it really changed the broadside...I speculate that's when the term "broadside" gave way the term "poster".

Below is a poster that I think would qualify as a broadside based on the archaic fonts used....not to mention get me thrown off this site... Although it's got the kiss of death from being English...it was so great I didn't care....a dealer in England had it on his website recently and I was so taken by it I was going to buy it...when he went to get it, it was missing and he thinks it was stolen out of his shop in London...Sorry for the rambling....

About 30" tall