December Pickups

[vintagesportscollector]

Wow Dan! Great stuff. Don't tease...tell us a little about this auction and the sale. (also is the $1 in the background for scale? )

[ksfarmboy]

Nice score Dan. Too bad those aren't 1970 Orioles buttons. Those are probably worth more though.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

Wow Dan! Great stuff. Don't tease...tell us a little about this auction and the sale. (also is the $1 in the background for scale? )

It was a local auction that was all cigar tins and boxes, cigarette packs, ephemera and World's Fair memorabilia. the Mets pins were out of place.

I think I got about 50 tins, 150 cigarette packs and probably 30 flats full of 1939 and 1964 New York Worlds Fair items. I filled up my van.

The auction company already removed the page, but here is a cached version of the sale I found on google.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&ct=clnk&gl=us

edited to add: The dollar I actually do use in my ebay auctions for scale.

[vintagesportscollector]

Dan, my Murad tin is in 'slightly' worse condition....but I am willing to sell it for only $223,000.

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[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

Dan, my Murad tin is in 'slightly' worse condition....but I am willing to sell it for only $223,000.

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A bargain!!

[tjenkins]

I have to give thanks to Brian Van Horn for my latest December pick-up. I love the card and the story behind it.

Wally Pipp, NY Yankee first baseman and American League homerun leader in 1918 with 12 homers and 1917 with 9 homers was replaced as a starter in in 1925 by none other than Lou Gehrig. It was the start of the Iron Horse's 2130 consecutive games played.

1916 Sporting News M101-4 Walter Pipps PSA 4 VG/EX

[Buckeye2015]

Tom Matte's varsity letter from his 1958 football season at Ohio State

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[ksfarmboy]

Couldn't pass up the opportunity to get this bronze of Walter Johnson. The detail is simply incredible. It was reproduced from a plaster statue made in 1924 by Ulric Dunbar. Dunbar made 50 of the plaster statues but only 3 are known to have survived. The bronze was licensed and issued on a very limited basis. This one is #7. It stands 18" tall and weighs over 13#'s.