July Pickups

[Scott Garner]

Nice job, Kevin!

[yankeesjetsfan]

That's a gorgeous piece.

Mike

[Rickyy]

Beautiful piece!

Ricky Y

[vintagesportflips]

Thanks guys; I was very excited to cross that one off the want list.

[aelefson]

I found this 1905 Hires scorer at a flea market over the weekend. I really like the graphic as the mouth and eyes are different depending on the score and number of outs.
Alan

[perezfan]

That's super cool, Alan! Rare Scorer, too...

Would love to see another face, based on a different combination of runs/outs (if you don't mind posting again)

Great pickup!

[CobbvLajoie1910]

Thank you, Andy!

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by aelefson

I found this 1905 Hires scorer at a flea market over the weekend. I really like the graphic as the mouth and eyes are different depending on the score and number of outs.
Alan

Alan, Nice pick up...That's the hires soda jerk guy...He's in my Hires sign above...Seems like there is some story behind him...Something about they stopped using him in ads at some point for some reason...As I recall there's some pretty serious Hires collectors...Your scorer is probably super rare.

You were probably pretty happy to find it...can you relate any the details of bagging it..can you say the flea?

[1880nonsports]

but in the top 3/4 of the most sought after celluloid scorers. I have come across 7/8 in the 10+ years I've had a passing interest - but typically NOT in the sports arena. My friend Glenn Mechanic sold one at last year's national. Funny story is that I know of someone who ONLY collects scorers of this type and perhaps some of the paper ones. He comes to the national every year to try and find ones he doesn't have (like a couple maybe?). To begin with only 2 or 3 dealers might even have a scorer at their table - he has nearly all of them - it must be quite frustrating to collect but a single thing of which there are so few elements to the "set" and have a desire so strong as to go to an expensive show year after year and adding NOTHING. We joke about it. I have seen him there every year I've been to the national over the past 15+ years.............

[TMKenKen]

On this. What does anyone think. Is it authentic? Thanks in advance!!!

[coachdude2]

Originally Posted by aelefson

I found this 1905 Hires scorer at a flea market over the weekend. I really like the graphic as the mouth and eyes are different depending on the score and number of outs.
Alan

Alan,
That is one that has escaped me. Very nice and a great pickup. I'm going to keep a eye out for one to add to my colection. Here is the link to my scorer collection. http://www.baseballfinds.com/BaseballScorers.html

Baseball Finds: http://www.baseballfinds.com/