1910s Juvenile Tablet W/ Wagner, Young Plank

[Leon]

Not sure this has been shown but think it's interesting so ....

[Jobu]

Cool transfer tattoos in there!!

Here is a scan I saved of one of those airship tattoos on a T206.

[brianp-beme]

Cool transfers...never seen them before. Here are a couple: Kewpie kids and James Cagney, both on Zeenut backsides, and further blessed with Buck (I Found Some Available Space) Barker's handwriting:.

Brian

[h2oya311]

they certainly look very similar to the 1909-10 German Transfers, but they are different. Here's a Leach for comparison to your first one shown:

[CobbSpikedMe]

Here are the Tattoos/Transfers that I have on my back stamp site. The airship that Jobu posted already is included.


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[swarmee]

Originally Posted by h2oya311

they certainly look very similar to the 1909-10 German Transfers, but they are different. Here's a Leach for comparison to your first one shown:

Thanks for posting; this is what I first thought when I saw it.

[arcadekrazy]

I love items like this, not so much for the sports content (which is interesting) but more for the time capsule properties such an artifact offers. This book offers a quick snapshot into this young man’s life - his entire life in front of him, not many cares in the world other than learning about earth science and putting pictures of his heroes in his school notebook. He’d go on to live through two world wars, a depression, the rise of America as a superpower, and massive industrial & technological change. He’d get married, have multiple children and live until the ripe old age of 86, passing in 1983.

And now 37 years after his passing, we marvel at the whimsical nature of some pictures pasted onto one of his possessions - something probably tossed in a box and long forgotten, set aside as his life unfolded.

There are many ways to “collect” this hobby and the human aspect of these artifacts has always fascinated me.

[marcdelpercio]

I think this finally solves the mystery of the image on this one!

[Bridwell]

Derek, those look like typical german baseball stamps from 1910 like yours, except that some kid has used an old fashioned inkwell and colored in the backgrounds, and the jersey on the Leach.

[Bridwell]

Here's some in a Johnny Evers book I bought a few years ago. This is just one of the pages of them, with Cobb, Matty, McGraw, Plank and Leach. It does, actually, show Leach with the dark shirt though so perhaps there are variations in this set!

[h2oya311]

I know there are some subtle differences between the German Transfer Stamps with the team/name listed once vs. twice. Ron, it appears yours are the name and team twice variation.

For now, I know that the Keeler, Spike Shannon, and Frank Smith are different between the once vs twice. It looks like Leach might fall into that camp as well. I will study these some more when I have a spare hour. Wish I had more examples to see/study.

Btw, Leon and Ron, those are both very cool! Thanks for sharing!

[h2oya311]

Ron - I just noticed the Cobb in your group! Very, very cool! I don’t believe he exists in the name/team listed once “sub-set”.

[Exhibitman]

There are multiple sets of these transfers, some in portrait form. They are German-made, sold here. I believe there are 20 or 25 of them in each 'set'(1 sheet). I have some that were 'stuck' to the back of an Exhibit card but I can't find the image right now. I haven't seen the black BG before. There were all sorts of subjects from the same issuer:





I bet the parents just loved this stuff on everything in the house...

[Bridwell]

Here's a few others:

[h2oya311]

Nice posts/images Adam and Ron. Here's my 1909-10 German Stamp Panel (name/team listed once). Compare to the Bresnahan that Ron just posted and you'll see that there is a dark shirt and yellow shirt variation, although that may simply be due to the name/team listed once vs. name/team listed twice phenomenon. Probably some other differences too...



Here’s a link to my other 1909-10 German Baseball Stamps:

https://imageevent.com/derekgranger/...mps/1909german