SOLD: Walter Johnson Signed Baseball Centennial FDC--Price Reduced

[David Atkatz]

This is the front of a Baseball Centennial first day cover, signed and addressed by Walter Johnson. The signature is bold and beautiful, and guaranteed to pass any authentication.
The downside is that it has been laminated.
SOLD

[Hankphenom]

Very nice, David, as gorgeous a WaJo signature as you'll find. I'm trying to figure out the idea behind having Walter sign as an addressee c/o a location in D.C.. The recipient worked there, maybe?

[David Atkatz]

It's somehow Johnson's address--maybe he had an office there. There's a similar piece, obviously from the same collector, of Babe Ruth, and Ruth has written his Upper West Side Manhattan home address.

[Shoeless Moe]

I believe CBS was located in the Earle Building and the Big Train did some announcing for CBS, so that may explain it.

https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/...ments/WJSV.pdf

Since the WJSV was now a CBS O&O (owned and operated), the majority of programs carried
over its air were CBS-produced fodder including its midday and afternoon slate of soap operas
and its evening comedies and variety efforts. The station would also move its broadcast facility
from Virginia into Washington, DC, proper, into the Earle Building located at the corner of 13th
and E Street in downtown DC.

Music, sports and comedy fill much of the afternoon schedule. “Rhythm and Romance” offers
soft swing before the afternoon game between the Cleveland Indians and the Washington
Senators is joined in progress in the 4th inning. It’s the last game of the season. It’s also “Lady’s
Day” in the park and, as noted by the announcer, several of the “fairer sex” are seated in the
stands. Former Senators pitcher and later Baseball Hall of Famer Walter Johnson provides some
of the game’s play-by-play.

[David Atkatz]

Price greatly reduced! It's a bargain, now.

[rajah424]

I'll take it.