Pre-1870 Baseball Memorabilia

[smokelessjoe]

Thanks Guys,

Bgar3, I believe I have seen the Pocket Companion section on the Massachusetts Game - I do appreciate the offer to send pictures and nice Stereoview by the way!

Ramram, shortly after winning the diagram - the lady contacted me and said she had something else that she thought should go with it and wanted to know if I was interested. I told her yes (sight unseen) I would like to purchase anything she had associated with the diagram. Once the package arrived the additional item turned out to be the Rules and Regulations!

A month or two later I noticed she had listed the Autograph booklet and I purchased it well.

[smokelessjoe]

A side note: Richard Hershberger wrote an extensive article about these items in the Spring 2010 issue of John Thorns Base Ball -A Journal of the Early Game-

The Autograph Album belonged to Carrington Phelps but I believe the "whole lot" was drawn / created by W. L. Camp of whom in my opinion was probably the "class artist". Several of the little flourishes / handwriting etc. all match W. L. Camps Autograph page...

Carrington Phelps went on to Yale and was quite a famous Rower accomplishing many firsts...

There are 46 signatures in the album that belonged to Carrington Phelps. I have included a small list and am interested if there are any names of importance?

W. L. Camp - Winsted, CT.
Robert G. Fitch - Sheffield, Mass
Charles J Townsend - Monterey, Mass
Reginald Canning - Stockbridge, Mass
George N. Hayward - CT.
David Ives Bushnell - Sheffield, Mass
A. B. Church - Wassaic, NY.
William Taft - Sheffield, Mass
John R Huggins - Sheffield, Mass
Charles Stoddard - CT.
Henry T Powell - New Marlboro, Mass
Mason B. Smith - Mill River, Mass
George C. Walter - Southfield, Mass
Frank Warner - Mill River, Mass
H. W. Rising - New Marlboro, Mass
John P. Cook - Winsted, CT
Edward G. Day - Barrington, Mass
William H Clark - Sheffield, Mass
W. H. Chapin - Barrington, Mass
John B. Walker - New Marlboro, Mass