December Pick Ups

[Dave Grob]

Just pick this one up. Just love these things and I grab them whenever I can.
So far, my reference library includes:

1913 Spalding
1928 Goldsmith (pictured)
1930 Wilson
1934 Goldsmith
1936 Rawlings
1939 Goldsmith
1951 MacGregor-Goldsmith
1954 Wilson

Dave Grob
DaveGrob1@aol.com

[vintagesportscollector]

Originally Posted by Dave Grob

Just pick this one up. Just love these things and I grab them whenever I can.
So far, my reference library includes:

1913 Spalding
1928 Goldsmith (pictured)
1930 Wilson
1934 Goldsmith
1936 Rawlings
1939 Goldsmith
1951 MacGregor-Goldsmith
1954 Wilson

Dave Grob
DaveGrob1@aol.com

Dave - Would love to see a pic of the 1913 Spalding.

I've got this 50's salesman samples (see link) which is chalk full of Dodge-Davis flannel swatches..

http://antiquesportscollector.com/UniSwatches.html

[Runscott]

recent acquisition along those lines - samples for 'Crack-A-Jack' baseball uniforms:

[Hankphenom]

Nice pickups, Scott, some great stuff in that lot. I picked up the postcard, have always loved this image. It's from 1912, not 1924-25 as they said, and was used for the Tuxedo Tobacco ad.

[Runscott]

Gorgeous card, Henry - and seemed like a great deal at that price.

[Hankphenom]

Yes, I thought so. Yours were a bargain, too, for all that great stuff. The broadsides came from the estate, by the way.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Yes, I thought so. Yours were a bargain, too, for all that great stuff. The broadsides came from the estate, by the way.

Henry - I just received the Johnson lot with the uniform samples and broadsides. So did this small (5x7) one come out of one of Walter's scrapbooks? Thanks.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Nice pickups, Scott, some great stuff in that lot. I picked up the postcard, have always loved this image. It's from 1912, not 1924-25 as they said, and was used for the Tuxedo Tobacco ad.

Hank,
That signed postcard of Walter is spectacular!!

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Hank,
That signed postcard of Walter is spectacular!!

Not his signature, according to Keating, although there are some similarities to his early autographs, which were quite different from later ones. As always, I will defer to Kevin's expertise, and it doesn't matter to me, anyway.

[t206blogcom]

Don't know much about bats, but thought this one was pretty cool.

[bobfreedman]

Just picked up these off of eBay. I do not collect football pieces but could not resist

[ruth-gehrig]

Reach Baseball Sign

[UnVme7]

1980-83 Andre Dawson game used bat

[pbspelly]

Originally Posted by Runscott

recent acquisition along those lines - samples for 'Crack-A-Jack' baseball uniforms:

These are awesome

[Scott Garner]

Happy holidays to everyone on net54!

I recently picked up two neat items- one prewar, one more recent:

The first is a ticket stub from 17 year old HOF phenom Bob Feller's 2nd career win on 9/7/36. It's hard to believe that Feller was so good at such a young age. At this point Feller was still a high school JUNIOR. Wow!

The second item is a game used ball from Astros 1986 Cy Young winner Mike Scott's no-hitter on 9/25/86. The thing that made this no-hitter so unique is that it also clinched the NL Western Division for the Astros. That's what I would call a clutch performance!

This ball came directly from the personal collection of the former Astros PA announcer David Courtney. The inscription on the side panel is in the hand of Courtney. Mike Scott signed the ball for Courtney after the game.

[39special]

That's a real cool ball Scott!

[Bumpus Jones]

Great stuff Scott!