August Pickup thread

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

Ryan,
More great photos. Very nice. What is up with Gabby's eyes? He looks like an alien. I assume it's accented by the newspaper editors to make the eyes stand out, but WOW, It sure looks weird.

Pre-1960s amphetamine use, perhaps?

[ksfarmboy]

Picked this up in an old fashion horse trade. I guess in this instance it was a Big Train trade.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by ksfarmboy

Picked this up in an old fashion horse trade. I guess in this instance it was a Big Train trade.

Here's the flip side--Fabulous trade all around, no cash out of pocket:

[slidekellyslide]

Now that's a nice trade. Great pickup by both of you fellas.

[Butch7999]

Alan, you probably have the date for your little spinner game about right.
Several versions of the game, in varying sizes, were made as premiums or promotional items for several different companies beginning around 1912.
Your version is reportedly a Cracker Jack premium (according to experts on Cracker Jack premiums). Because another version of the game had been produced to advertise the candy maker Shotwell Mfg, and Shotwell was absorbed by Cracker Jack in 1926, our best guess is that your version is from later than 1926, but not much later.

[baseballart]

In a quixotic quest to get every edition of The Art of Curve Pitching, here's another I've picked up, the 1888 edition

[bcbgcbrcb]

Love the composite, Hank!

[slidekellyslide]

I got these two items at an estate sale this weekend...best part is that I didn't even know that I bought them until I got home...they were in a bag of postcards, paper and photos...I saw a few photos I liked and didn't even search the rest of the bag. The first item is a blank backed card...the second is an invitation to a dance, it is a folder that is postcard sized.

[ksfarmboy]

Cool pickups Dan, never seen that lower one before.