New Story On 1890's Spalding's Foot Ball Shipping Crate

[CarltonHendricks]

http://www.sportsantiques.com/spalding_fb_box.htm
Please know I've posted a new story about this box on my site, link above. Thanks Leon for the platform. By the way....if anyone has one of these please drop me a line. -Carlton

[Jay Wolt]

Carlton, fantastic story & info on the shipping crate, though it sucks being an underbidder.

[pgellis]

Nice article Carlton. I always search for "Antique Football" on eBay, but missed that listing. I'm not sure why. I would have definitely bid on it, but would not have topped the price it went for.

[CarltonHendricks]

http://www.sportsantiques.com/boxinggloveflaskb1.htm
Jay and Phil, Thanks for the kind words glad you liked...above another eBay "missed one" story -Carlton

[slidekellyslide]

Nice writeup Carlton...I know that feeling you had. About 6 or 7 years ago I ran across a letterhead with cover on ebay right when it was first listed for Green's Nebraska Indians and the letter had content about his all Japanese player team he was forming...I agonized over it the whole week..set my snipe and watched what I thought was an impossible to beat snipe get outbid. It sold for $705. Devastating at the time, it was all I could think about, I could not believe that my crazy, insane snipe was topped.

Partial good news is that a few years later I managed to find the cover envelope...listed wrong with no mention of baseball at all and I snagged it for $10. I've not seen another letterhead before or since though.

[ksfarmboy]

Great stories Carlton. We've all been there. I can think of three auctions that still haunt me even though I threw out what I thought was stupid money at them and came up empty. I came in 2nd at least on all of them.

I saw that box and thought about bidding on it and would have in my past collecting days. Great item and the type of collectible that you seldom if ever see. I remember that Spalding bat box too.