Any luck at antique shops/flea markets anyone??

[slidekellyslide]

Persistence pays off...I hit the antique stores in my area weekly, but rarely find anything, but I make at least one big score per year. It also helps to have your brother looking for you as well, he found this for me a year or so back.




Les Nunamaker on there!

[bwbc917]

Beautiful Reach baseball. Nunamaker and Cecil Eash played on the 1930 Lincoln, Neb. team. That would certainly help date the ball.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by bwbc917

Beautiful Reach baseball. Nunamaker and Cecil Eash played on the 1930 Lincoln, Neb. team. That would certainly help date the ball.

Yep, it's the 1930 Lincoln team...a centerpiece of my collection.

[brianp-beme]

I've mentioned it a couple times before on this board but I think it is worth a repeat. My only antique store find was back in the late 1990's in Northern California. A co-op type antique store had plastic sheets of what was described as 'black and white' cards in a display case. I checked them out, and decided to make an offer on them. The person at the front counter called the owner, and I was able to get the price down from $3.00 a card to $2.00 a card.

They were mid-1920 Zeenut cards, about 100, and overall in above normal Zeenut condition, with the position of the player written on their backs. It kickstarted me into collecting Zeenuts, starting with the 1925 year, and I haven't looked back (or given up) since.

Brian