Last Sundays Antiques Fair Haul

[baseball tourist]

Interesting items! Are you ruining out of display room yet Carlton?

[smokelessjoe]

Great pickups Carlton! I really like the Spring Grips... Funny, if I remember correctly - there was someone that posted in the "What else do you collect other than baseball" thread that stated they specifically collect vintage hand grips or exercise grips or something like that....

[CarltonHendricks]

Thanks all for the positive comments

Chris, Yeah starting to...
Shawn, Interesting...please send me a link if you find it.



http://thecanadasite.com/art/art8a_hider1_war.html
Found out the artist Arthur Henry Hider who did the Seagram's Queen's Plate sign was a huge Canadian artist...That painitng was used on whiskey labels

[smokelessjoe]

Hi Carlton,

Here is the link - page 8 post #75 .... Says he collects strong man hand grippers - I thought it was interesting, never heard of anyone specifically collecting those... Not sure if the type you have are exactly what he goes after though????

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...=161531&page=8

[aquarius31]

Hi Carlton, those are awesome and really unique pieces! I particularly like the large advertising poster and will be a perfect candidate for restoration!

[Exhibitman]

Great Sandow piece. You know, he lost a weightlifting contest to a woman. Katie Brumbach, a strongwoman with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus for many years, and Sandow had a lifting contest. She won when she cleared 300# over her head and Sandow could only raise it to chest height. She adopted the stage name "Sandwina" in memory of the occasion. Her son, Ted, was a heavyweight contender in the 1920s.

[baseball tourist]

Carlton -

Thought of you sir.

Watching an episode of "Canadian Pickers" (very similar to the American TV show but up here in Canuck land) and the guys bought a similar horse racing sign at an outdoor fair in Ontario. Paid $600 CAD.