Antique Roadshow: California League Cabinets

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by Anthony S.

Screw baseball cards. I'm gonna start collecting over-sized Eskimo spoons and carved raven thingamabobs. Same episode. $300,000. Wow.

I used to collect Eskimo memorabilia, then I had a bad experience on the Inuit54 chat board. A couple of their board members ridiculed me when I suggested their ancestors came from Madagascar. It no longer was fun for me, so I sold all my hand-carved bone faces, soapstone kayaks and scenic engravings on their B/S/T.

Luckily, I'd been collecting that stuff only four days. I guess if you haven't been an Eskimo your whole life, they don't want you sharing ideas that have little to no basis of fact.

[barrysloate]

Those Inuits can really get under your skin...likewise Hottentots.

[Anthony S.]

Originally Posted by Rob D.

I used to collect Eskimo memorabilia, then I had a bad experience on the Inuit54 chat board. A couple of their board members ridiculed me when I suggested their ancestors came from Madagascar.

This sounds vaguely familiar. Were the guy who insisted on calling Malamutes "Sled Lemurs?"

[Bill Stone]

Tor: " You know, I lived with the Eskimos many years ago, and they used to plunge their faces into the snow."

[Rob D.]

Bill,

You're eating too much dairy.

[Kawika]

Yours for five hundred bucks, Rob.

[Robextend]

Love couchgrass

[Hankphenom]

Probably just a coincidence, but there have been a lot of early 20th century California team and individual photos like this one on Ebay lately:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

These have included such notables as the L.A. Angels c.1906, individual photos of Pop Dillon and Hen Berry, etc., along with a number of semi-pro and town team pictures. A couple of the first ones from a month or so ago had something like "L.A. Athletic Foundation" and an address with zip code stamped on the back. I should have paid more attention to the name, but perhaps there has been a major deacquisition of a photo archive out there. And who is eBay seller WCM, or West Coast Memorabilia? I know they do a lot of photos, and they have the largest number of feedbacks (65,000) I've ever seen. Anybody know who they are?

[FUBAR]

I have 8 or 9 of the Warren Moon/ Edmonton Eskimos cards from Red Rooster... i could work out a trade if someone was a Moon fan.... some are better then others.

Ive never seen that card Kawika, where is that from. (I grew up in Edmonton)

How do you compliment an eskimo??? Nice tooth!