A Haul of a Weekend….2nd Best Alameda Ever

[CarltonHendricks]

32 1/2" Wide x 28" Tall, Framed Period Photo of the Mayflower, Winner of the 1886 America's Cup Race





Had a heck of a weekend….Saturday went to the Hillsborough Antiques Show and found a c1886 imperial size photograph 32 1/2" Wide x 28" Tall Framed, of the Mayflower sloop…The Mayflower was the American contender that won the America’s Cup Race in 1886. Owned by Charles Jackson Paine August 26, 1833 – August 12, 1916…Although it’s in its original frame with wavy glass…it has been refitted with conservation quality materials. Large photographs of the Mayflower are very rare…As a side note…. the Mayflower’s owner Charles Jackson Paine was one of the oarsmen in the first boat race between Harvard and Yale in August 1852, which was the first inter-collegiate sporting event in North America. …Also a side note..the photo has a purported provenance from the J.P. Morgan family… Everything aligned and it hit the “had to get it” level.


16 ½” wide X 12 ¾” backing



So I was pretty much finished for the weekend as far as major purchases…I was going to the Alameda Point Antiques Fair the next day but didn’t expect to find anything big…But what do you know…I got there really late….like 10:30AM….and it worked in my favor…on the second row I spotted a vintage blue and red sleeved FB jersey displayed with a pair of reeded FB pants…AND a large c1908 Stanford football team photo mounted on a 16 ½” wide X 12 ¾” backing…The card backing is pretty wiped out…but if it’s damaged at all it may as well be damaged a lot because I’ll just mat over it…probably with the same greenish gray color mat…You just don’t see large photos like that very often…



I’ve had that photo over 24 hours and still haven’t figured out exactly what year the team is from…Fortunately on the back is the name “J.D. Taggart”…I was able to ID him as a1908 Stanford grad…so I can loosely figure the team as being from between 1904 and 1907 but nothing concrete yet…





I bought the photo....then afterwards considering how rare the jersey was I bought the jersey and the pants too…It was like going to a National…you just don’t see jerseys like that at antique shows…..when I saw it, it was like what the heck?!?!....The dealer sets up late and had I gone thru that isle early I wouldn’t have seen it…He usually has a few trophies for sale but I’ve never seen him put out something this quality…I asked him what he would have next month and he said nothing that good!...Now that it’s sunk in what I have…a lace up canvass football smock to go with it is the natural next step….so it’s on my mind…unless I end up selling or trading the jersey and pants…





The jersey is by Rawlings…guess late 1920’s from the Ra-Tex on the label but could be earlier…The pants are by Iver Johnson…who I really wasn’t familiar with…turns out they were in the sporting goods biz since 1871 but mostly known as a gun maker…they later got into bicycles and then later motorcycles…obviously somewhere in their timeline they got into football pants and who knows what else….pants are in darn nice shape…great clean maker tag…probably from about 1900-1910

All said it was the second best Alameda I’ve been to since they opened in 1998…the best was that plaque I got in 2009