Collecting Woodcuts - where to start?

[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!

[bgar3]

Phil is correct about the beautiful N.Y. Clipper woodcuts, beautiful.
I think there is a 2 volume fairly
recent publication that contains most, if not all of them.
Here Is Chadwick, I have Spalding just no photo right now.

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by bgar3

Phil is correct about the beautiful N.Y. Clipper woodcuts, beautiful.
I think there is a 2 volume fairly
recent publication that contains most, if not all of them.
Here Is Chadwick, I have Spalding just no photo right now.

Sweet! What's the Chadwick from? Do you know?

[minibatsman]

Wod cuts. I have been collecting news paper for years. especially wood cuts I framed a few . A 1869 red stockings is one. they look great. I didn't want to bend or cut the paper. so I framed the entire page. Cool Baseball team and a paddle Boat. The ones that have actual color do sell. The ones someone colored ? One day they may actually go up in value. You buying one helps?.

News paper. Knute Rockne's last collage game. Both sides of the full page is showing. big papers back then.
Guys in Old leather helmets going at it cool. has several teams . great graphics color. names off the players
They look really good. I buy them as I find them. Wood cuts only in excellent condition. there available. Dollar value not much. I got a couple hundred dollars in the frames. On $10 dollar news papers. I really like them . that's all that matters.
Store them properly . Don't handle them . If you do your probably causing damage of some kind.

[bgar3]

The Chadwick is from the New York Clipper