Collecting Woodcuts - where to start?

[tedzan]

I discovered this "oldie-but-goodie" in a quaint Antique shop in the New Jersey Pine Barrens 12 years ago. This Harper's Weekly original
print is almost 150 years old and is in fantastic condition.









TED Z

T206 Reference
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[mouschi]

Does anyone know how many of some of these were made?

[drcy]

Originally Posted by mouschi

Does anyone know how many of some of these were made?

Identifying Antique Commercial Printing Processes, And the Basics of Authenticating Antique and Art Prints

Woodcuts are one of the old forms of printing.

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by drcy

Identifying Antique Commercial Printing Processes, And the Basics of Authenticating Antique and Art Prints

Woodcuts are one of the old forms of printing.

Thanks! Sorry, I meant how *many* there are. Cool looking book though, I'll check it out!

[drcy]

As they are from a popular magazine, they are fairly plentiful. You can find them in antique stores, etc.

As mentioned, one of the great thing about Harper's Woodcuts is they cover more than just baseball. There are football, politics, history, culture, etc. Lots of great stuff.

[bcbgcbrcb]

A number of years ago, Lew Lipset ran an auction lot for a scrapbook of NY Clipper baseball woodcuts. If memory serves me correctly, there were maybe 50 or so individual baseball subjects, including numerous HOF’ers. This was the nicest assembly of woodcuts I have ever seen all together. If you do some online research, you might be able to find the old listing, I was fortunate enough to see it in person and was the underbidder but never got to own it.

The Leslie’s Illustrated examples are also very nice and quite scarce. There was also a St. Louis publisher that did several, mostly ball players from the local team, Comiskey, etc.

[mouschi]

Cool, I'd love to see them - thanks for the heads up, I may just search for them later!