Carlton World

[carlsonjok]

Seeing these recent posts reminded me of visiting the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY on the St. Lawrence River. It is an absolutely fantastic museum and you can actually take rides on the river in one of the wood boats they have restored.

[CarltonHendricks]

Just unpacked this terra cotta tobacco jar of famed English horseracing jockey Fred Archer 1857-1886…Over the years I’d seen stevengraphs and I think maybe tobacco cards of Fred Archer, but never knew much about him...But I was attracted to this because it was figural…once I got it unpacked and displayed I was glad I got it…has some cracks but for a buck fifty I can live with it…came from England. A tragic figure but great at what he did…

Frederick James "Fred" Archer
Born 11 January 1857 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Died November 8, 1886, Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Fred Archer, also known by the nickname The Tin Man, was an English flat race jockey of the Victorian era, described as "the best all-round jockey that the turf has ever seen". Delirious from wasting and the loss of his wife during childbirth, he took his own life at the age of 29.
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[CarltonHendricks]

Here's today's snag at Alameda...It’s a great consolation prize for getting outbid today on the double sided Dodge Boats sign below....I thought I had a decent crack at it with an $1100.00 bid...ha!...went for $6200.00...the other boat signs in the same auction went for big money too...It was a learning excursion for me...I knew boat stuff was curiously high for as obscure as it is...but apparently not as obscure as I thought...and I'm not the only one that likes the stuff...Dodge...Hacker...Chris-Craft...and Gar Wood are basically the biggest names in early powerboat racing....would have been nice to get the Dodge...That Evinrude is quite remarkable though...not powerboat racing but too good to pass up...you don't usually find stuff that caliber at Alameda...Usually things that good go in a brick and mortar...The seller knew the history of the poster...said he got it from the family of someone who worked at the Schreiber establishment that sold Evinrudes on Tomales Bay in Marin County, north of the Golden Gate Bridge...referenced on the bottom the poster...and I found a photos online of the business...I think the seller said the building is an historic landmark or something...Useless information...Drakes Bay where we used to cut school and go to isn't far from there...

[Leon]

Cool stuff, Carlton. Thanks for sharing!
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