October Pickups

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

Damn. Great Pick up Steve. I have been looking for one of those myself for a while. I def would have picked that one if I had seen i. Congrats

Had I not worked from home and logged in right around when it was posted would have certainly lost it to someone else. Lucky.

Posted a better picture.

[roarfrom34]

seatback from the Minneapolis Metrodome, signed/inscribed by Cal Ripken Jr.:

[ooo-ribay]

^^^^ loving EVERYTHING on this page!

[ooo-ribay]

Based on the date coding, this is definitely a 1958 Zippo....which is good because '58 was the Giants' first year in SF

But Willie didn't sign his name like that in 1958, so it must have been engraved later

[Scott Garner]

Many thanks to Gary Scamehorn for allowing me to add this circa 1914- 1916 snapper of Brooklyn Robins great left handed no-hit pitcher Nap Rucker. Dimensions 3.5" x 5.5"

[prewarsports]

I was just stating that the general consensus now is that these are likely from the 1940's (with some earlier and some a little later). However, nobody (literally nobody) can tell the difference between 1937 paper and 1944 paper. So without stamps and other evidence we will never know for sure. I think personally they were issued over a period of time so they could very well be examples that date to the late 1930's, but clearly some were issued a bit later. I doubt we will ever know for sure but they are clear, old and really nice examples for sure! Some have a more sepia tone and are clearly earlier. When we first started selling these we listed the ones with a clearly older "feel" as vintage 1 and the others as vintage 2. To be safe we now just call them all vintage 2. I doubt a definitive answer will ever come to the surface but we can hope. We all learn as we go and I learn new stuff everyday about vintage photos and photographers.

I think they were issued over a period of time, starting in the 1930's and ending in the 1950's.

[Lordstan]

Thanks for that explanation. I appreciate the insight and it does confirm what I thought about them as well