The results of my most recent treasure hunt

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Posted By: Dennis W.

I was on a business trip this week in D.C. and decided to make a detour into Fredricksburg just to see what treasure awaited me there in the thrift stores and antique shops. The results:

An advertising piece for Arbuckle coffee. The size of a post card. Paid $1:





Got a good deal on this Tinker pin (small letters variety):



And lastly and slightly O/T. A photo of what could be Jesse James. The St. Louis based photographer (J.H Fitzgibbon) was in business in the 1870's and history shows James was in St. Louis during that time frame. It measures approx 2 1/2" x 4". Paid $1.



Also scored bunches of WWI and other stuff. If you're ever in that area it's worth a stop.

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Posted By: Julie

letters at the bottom of ther pin are in CAPS. That "
Arbuckle Coffee" thing is really a trip. Who knows what James looked like?

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Is there a DATE for the Arbuckle Coffee thing?

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Posted By: jamie

i went to school in fredericksburg (mary washington college). it was a lot more rural when i went but i used to love walking downtown and checking out all the old antique shops.

some neat pick-ups though i dont think thats jesse in the picture. looks too old, too weak a hair-line for the 1870's for him (he'd be in his 20's). check out some other pics here: http://www.islandnet.com/~the-gang/jessepic.htm

still a neat item

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Posted By: Dennis W.

It has a copyright date of 1893. The back is full of text and info. I'll post a pic of the back. Sorry for the poor pic of the Tinker but the thing is so small it's hard to get a clear photo.

Jamie go here and look at these photos of Jesse James and please get back to me via email. thanks for the input. http://www.ericjames.org/JJFakePhotoSwann/index.html

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Posted By: Dennis W.

I know the text is too small to read. The jist is that this is card number 1 of a series of 50 cards depicting the sports and past times of 50 countries. Mine is the US. The text on the left just tells how to grind your coffee and such. The bottom left says "Arbuckle Bros New York City". The right side talks about the photos on the front of the card (in this case baseball, circus,etc).

Now here's where I got stupid. The box I was looking in had at least 250+ post cards and other paper stuff from the 1860's-1910's. It was my first stop and I didn't have much time or cash so I offered the guy $50 for the whole box (pretty generous of me huh?). I figured I could tote it home and go through it later. He said no but that I could have anything in there for $1 each. I hurriedly went through and got about 25-30 pieces. What I didn't get were the other at least 20 of this Arbuckle series. Actually the entire set may have been in there.

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Posted By: Darren J. Duet

I love the arbuckles cards. I've been collecting them for a couple of years now and can't get enough of them---Good pick-up.

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Posted By: jay behrens

At a $1 a pop, postcards and trade cards from that era are a steal. If they have any sort of theme at all, they will get $20 each or more. I have a 1880s trade from the Home Sewing Machine Comapany featuring a Native american on it and it sold for $50. I got several emails from people asking me if I had more trade cards of sewing machine companies, so there seems to be a good market for that stuff, aside form NAtive American items.

Jay

I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: Dennis W.

Funny you should mention sewing machine cards. There was at least 10 of those in there. They weren't cards but more of a diecut looking piece. They were all identical. Who knew?

Thanks Darren. Is there a source for pricing for the Arbuckles?

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Posted By: Scott Forrest

I think it was on ebay - some of them were pretty weird, including "American Negroes" apparently trying to entice a possum out of a tree.

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Posted By: Darren J. Duet

From search engine yahoo, type in Arbuckles trading cards. From the results page click on Arbuckle Trade Cards--Other references, and you'll find what you're looking for.

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Posted By: fkw

The Arbuckle Coffee card you have is from a set of 50 called K4 "History of Sports and Pastimes of the World" from 1893, found page 93 in the 1967 version of The American Card Catalog (ACC). They are fairly common on eBay especially when you search with the word Baseball in the Victorian Trade Card category. The UNITED STATES card you have in the best one and sells for about $10-$20 on eBay. I see about 10-20 on eBay a year. Nice find for $1. Frank

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Posted By: fkw

Theres one of th United States cards on eBay right now

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=37843&item=7134557708

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Posted By: fkw

sorry duplicate message

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Posted By: Dennis W.

Thanks for the info Frank. The one on ebay isn't mine though.