2012 national convention pickups/pictures

[sayhey24]

Those are all great items Carlton -- what a haul!
What was the fourth item that you passed on?


Greg

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by sayhey24

Those are all great items Carlton -- what a haul!
What was the fourth item that you passed on?


Greg

Bill, Thanks for the kind words...I'd have certainly liked to have been there...I don't like missing all the fun. I've just had such a stellar year finding stuff I couldn't pass on...that I never got it together and saved enough moola to go. Take the 1906 Olympics panorama above for instance. I had a chance to buy it what could I do...go..oh I gotta save for the National...no, you gotta buy it while you have the chance...And you just can't go all that way and spend all that money to get there to buy a couple things...you have to bring serious fire power. It's $1,200.00 just to walk in the door for me considering airfare, hotel, car rental, etc. Now if I had a sponsor to do a story!!!....But I've just never had the time and energy to seriously pitch for one.

SayHey,
It was a large statue of a European football/rugby player that Herbert Thomas the Third had. I liked the large melon ball and it seemed pretty nice overall but I've got other similar pieces already...I have one kind of the same genera of three players going for it trying to catch a pass....see Herbert's below..He may still have it as I he said as much he didn't have a good booth location...maybe it didn't get enough exposure and didn't sell.

[jt39]

I saw that statute -- very cool. I don't collect outside of baseball, but as a former rugby player I was seriously considering buying it just to put up in my office. I did, however, buy one of the bats on the rack beyond that photo, as I've been looking for something decorative and it had great, bold stamping and interesting repairs.

Actually, I was meaning to ask on here about one of the repairs to the bat -- it's actually the reason I bought it, because I've never seen one like it (not that I'm an authority on the topic). It is a copper sheath, about 3.5 inches in length, secured by a row of small nails, and is located about 6 inches from the knob. Anyone ever seen such a repair? Was it common? The bat is circa 1920 from what I gather.

Had a great time at my first ever trip to Nationals!

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by jt39

I saw that statute -- very cool. I don't collect outside of baseball, but as a former rugby player I was seriously considering buying it just to put up in my office. I did, however, buy one of the bats on the rack beyond that photo, as I've been looking for something decorative and it had great, bold stamping and interesting repairs.

Actually, I was meaning to ask on here about one of the repairs to the bat -- it's actually the reason I bought it, because I've never seen one like it (not that I'm an authority on the topic). It is a copper sheath, about 3.5 inches in length, secured by a row of small nails, and is located about 6 inches from the knob. Anyone ever seen such a repair? Was it common? The bat is circa 1920 from what I gather.

Had a great time at my first ever trip to Nationals!

How much was the statue by the way?...Herbert and I never did get to the price

[sayhey24]

Wow -- looks like Herbert had a great booth!

Greg

[MGHPro]

The statue was consigned to Hunt auctions. Its very impressive in person.

[jt39]

I can't recall precisely, but I'm not a big-budget collector and wasn't shocked enough not to at least run the idea of owning it through my head. Maybe $700? Of course, I have no idea of the market for those kinds of items.