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06-19-2013, 01:22 AM
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Anyone here win the Mask?
It's not every day that a Thayer Style Catchers Mask turns up on ebay. If not so strapped for cash, I could have made a better run at it. Just curious if anyone here happened to win it (see attached pics...)
Earliest known version of the Catchers Mask, and this ebay example looked superior to the one featured in Hunt's a few years back. Here's the link to that one, which exceeded $2,400 with the Juice... http://www.huntauctions.com/online/i...1095&lot_qual= Someone got a pretty raging deal 
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06-19-2013, 03:23 AM
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What did it sell for? I saw it but passed over it because I thought it was junk...lol Guess I have to research more stuff.
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06-19-2013, 01:00 PM
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Not a particularly attractive piece, but (in this case) the historical significance outweighs the aesthetics. More evidence that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
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06-19-2013, 01:32 PM
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no prob
Don't fret Mark...I will make one of those tonight and send it to you so you can have one!
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06-19-2013, 02:27 PM
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There was lots of talk recently in this forum about fake/reproduced Lemon Peel Balls. Makes you wonder if the same is being done with other vintage equipment. I know this Mask to be old, based on its materials and construction. Plus, it was offered along with an equally old (yet beat-up) Catchers Mitt of the period... found together. Tough to fake some of this stuff... although I'm starting to see those Repro leather football helmets being artificially aged, and sold as authentic. I'm guessing Baseballs would be the easiest form of equipment to pass off as antique. It would sure be nice if ebay would terminate those auctions, the way they do for phony autographs. Very disturbing trend, either way. Last edited by perezfan; 06-19-2013 at 02:28 PM.
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06-20-2013, 02:30 PM
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Photo of a Thayer
Does anyone have a photo of a Thayer mask?...and....what is the evolution of them?...Actually...can anyone offer a definition of a Thayer mask...How long were they used before the catchers mask was no longer a Thayer mask?...I know they are named after Fred Thayer....and as I recall invented by him in 1877...
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