July 2012 Pick-ups

[CarltonHendricks]

25 1/2" tall x 17" wide


c1870, 7 1/4" tall



http://sportsantiques.com/fohbc_reno_show_7_27_12.htm
I picked up the two items above at a bottle show this weekend. I don't recall the Dodgers vs Yankees banner before. It's an eye catcher at 25 1/2" tall by 17" wide. The seller tapped it to the backing and shrunk wrapped it....and I'm reluctant to take it out to examine it displays so nice. There seems to be a looped edge at the top which would have likely been for a pole to slide thru I suppose.

It's very interesting it's was made after the Dodgers won their league championship but obviously before they went on to sweep the series...so it's a very ephemeral piece that would have been used a very short while before the Series began...I'm out of my element with it since it's so later than I collect. I can see fold lines like it was folded up about 8" x 6"..that's probably why it's in such good shape. It doesn't feel like a commercial piece...that is like something that hung in a magazine stand...more like a souvenir sold at the park..

Below some close in shots

http://sportsantiques.com/fohbc_reno_show_7_27_12.htm
Actually it wasn't just any bottle show...it was the National Convention of the FOHBC...Federation Of Historical Bottle Collectors....held in Reno NV...I made the 3 hour drive and stayed two days Friday and Saturday..you can see 200 photos I took in the link above (100 up now of Friday, 100 to come of Saturday). I posted photos of the bottle on Antique-Bottles.net which I belong to and it's getting the deserved scrutiny...that community is the
net54BaseBall.com of the bottle world...link below to the thread
http://www.antique-bottles.net/forum...-536973/tm.htm



shot on location in sellers booth

[aquarius31]

Very nice pickups everyone. Here are mine for the month.

1) 1885 22" x 16" NY Daily Graphic depicting NY Baseball Team
2) 1889 14" x 11" Michigan Agricultural College (now MSU) Baseball Team Photo (no professional players but was able to identify all the players and their coach with the help of the MSU Archives!)
3) 1902 woodcut (yes still a woodcut) with Chadwick

[ullmandds]

awesome yankee/dodger piece...i love it!

[Shoeless Moe]

picked up a nice old possibly game used ball from the Cobb, Ruth, & Deadball era.

[murphusa]

got a call at work today asking if I was interested in a couple of baseball items

[Lordstan]

Originally Posted by murphusa

got a call at work today asking if I was interested in a couple of baseball items

I assume you said yes?
Love the Gehrig bat.

[BigJJ]

Nice Jim. Never seen a 36".

[murphusa]

great but sad story on this bat. Yes it was a TA 116 Hanna Batrite 36". A father purchased the bat for his oldest son who used it well and then past it down to his brother who was not as big of a boy as his brother. The father fixed that by removing the knob and cutting off 2 inches from the bat and then screwing the knob back on the bat. Both sons went off to WWII and were killed in France.