Display items to compliment your baseball card collection?

[Belfast1933]

I’d love to hear (and see) some of creative vintage items that collectors have picked up to include as adjunct display items around their vintage card collections.

For example, empty wax boxes from a specific era of cards (an empty late 70’s wax box to act as a side display to my HOF cards from that decade could look cool and kind of fun.)

I think I’ve also seen some collectors use vintage Spaulding baseball boxes (ie, a dozen baseballs with vintage Spaulding logo and font, etc.

Personally, I have a great George Brett cover from a late 1970’s Baseball Digest to help show off my 75 Brett rookie

Please share your ideas, your images etc! I’ll be making some changes and additions to my “card cave” soon and could use some new inspiration!

Thx,

Jeff

[todeen]

This is my Ernie Lombardi display, and I occasionally rotate the items.

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[todeen]

This is my Tris Speaker display. A couple items I have my eyes on include a metal statue from the 70s, and also the 2002 T206 relic card. And of course adding more vintage cards. I also want a Type playing photo.

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[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Belfast1933

I’d love to hear (and see) some of creative vintage items that collectors have picked up to include as adjunct display items around their vintage card collections.

For example, empty wax boxes from a specific era of cards (an empty late 70’s wax box to act as a side display to my HOF cards from that decade could look cool and kind of fun.)

I think I’ve also seen some collectors use vintage Spaulding baseball boxes (ie, a dozen baseballs with vintage Spaulding logo and font, etc.

Personally, I have a great George Brett cover from a late 1970’s Baseball Digest to help show off my 75 Brett rookie

Please share your ideas, your images etc! I’ll be making some changes and additions to my “card cave” soon and could use some new inspiration!

Thx,

Jeff

My collection is the exact opposite idea… the cards compliment the memorabilia….

I have player-endorsed gloves of the game’s greats (Ruth, Gehrig, Hornsby, Foxx, Ott, Vance, Collins, etc.) The gloves are displayed on easels, flanked by the endorsers’ Goudey Cards (from the same era).

Another example is the Harland Statues set, flanked by that player’s Topps or Bowman card. Same can be done with the 1963 Hall of Fame Bust Set.

There’s an infinite number of possibilities… Vintage Photos, Magazines, Programs, Scorecards, Line-up Cards, Autographs, Statues, Ticket Stubs… all can be complimented with a related card.

But to me, the mass-produced card is secondary to the rarer piece of memorabilia it compliments (even if the card is worth more money, haha).

[mrreality68]

Both ways sound good.

I currently have my card locked up and I have some autographed balls on a shelf and a BST signed by Ted Williams in a glass gas on wall with some pictures and autographed pictures

But nothing special and nothing as nice as what is shown above

I could see getting old game programs and putting behind or around the cards

[todeen]

Originally Posted by perezfan

My collection is the exact opposite idea… the cards compliment the memorabilia….



I have player-endorsed gloves of the game’s greats (Ruth, Gehrig, Hornsby, Foxx, Ott, Vance, Collins, etc.) The gloves are displayed on easels, flanked by the endorsers’ Goudey Cards (from the same era).



Another example is the Harland Statues set, flanked by that player’s Topps or Bowman card. Same can be done with the 1963 Hall of Fame Bust Set.



There’s an infinite number of possibilities… Vintage Photos, Magazines, Programs, Scorecards, Line-up Cards, Autographs, Statues, Ticket Stubs… all can be complimented with a related card.



But to me, the mass-produced card is secondary to the rarer piece of memorabilia it compliments (even if the card is worth more money, haha).

Perezfan has shown his collection on other threads: the man cave thread, and I think one other. Its worth digging up and gawking at. I'm also proud to call him a fellow Reds fan. His hat collection.... out of this world.

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[MK]

I don’t display many of my cards, mostly memorabilia. But here are a few.

[Leon]

This should qualify. I picked up this 8 x 10 Type 1 photo recently to go with the lobby card.

[NiceDocter]

Lou decided to give the bad guy a break by shooting him right handed instead of his usual left……

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by Leon

This should qualify. I picked up this 8 x 10 Type 1 photo recently to go with the lobby card.

Nice companion p/u....don't recall seeing either....had the half sheet poster once...congrats Leon...

[BobC]

Originally Posted by MK

I don’t display many of my cards, mostly memorabilia. But here are a few.

Hey Mike,

Love the bubble gum machine. I'm assuming that also dispenses cards with the gumballs? And are those real '56 Topps cards in the display windows that were to be given out? I've got a late '50s Baby Grand penny gumball machine myself, made of wood and metal, that originally dispensed '58 Topps cards with gum. Mine came with three actual '58 Topps cards in the display on the front of the section that held the cards for dispensing. Your machine looks to be be all metal though. Do you know it's actual year of manufacture, and who made it? Really cool item!

[vintagesportscollector]

Bob, I used to have one those machines. Here is a 1957 ad for the 'Oak's Premiere', by the Oaks Manufacturing Co. Dispensed both a gum ball and a baseball card with your penny. Holds 800 cards.

[MK]

Originally Posted by BobC

Hey Mike,

Love the bubble gum machine. I'm assuming that also dispenses cards with the gumballs? And are those real '56 Topps cards in the display windows that were to be given out? I've got a late '50s Baby Grand penny gumball machine myself, made of wood and metal, that originally dispensed '58 Topps cards with gum. Mine came with three actual '58 Topps cards in the display on the front of the section that held the cards for dispensing. Your machine looks to be be all metal though. Do you know it's actual year of manufacture, and who made it? Really cool item!

Bob, yes the machine does dispense both a gumball and a card for a penny. Those are real 1956 cards I display. I’m not sure what year the machine was manufactured but it is an Oak and is all metal.