1970s baseball pinbacks

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Great find, Cliff. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who wastes time with memorabilia searches on Google. What did that huge lot go for?

Each scan was a separate lot, both lots were won back in April 2012 on Heritage, the cooler lot with this Callison pin went for $227 with BP and the other lot went for $179 with BP. Whenever I have looked at past sales of cool items from auction houses before I would often be shocked at how little they went for, I always believed they would have gone much higher if they were on eBay because there would be many more interested eyes on them. I'm sure that I have missed out on many rare underpriced items that I need over the years from these auction houses because I had no idea they were available and I am not signed up with any auction houses.

[ooo-ribay]

Gotta think there was “break value” in both those lots.

[Cliff Bowman]

While searching WorthPoint for possible star and semi star pins for this set that haven't been documented yet the last thing I expected to find were three new White Sox players, Tommy John, Bill Melton, and Rick Reichardt. I have a feeling there are more White Sox players to be found.

[Cliff Bowman]

At least this one isn't a White Sox player, here's a scan of Frank Howard from WorthPoint to confirm that it exists.

[Cliff Bowman]

Found another Sox player but this one is Red, Sonny Siebert.

[hcv123]

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...=166056&page=6

There are references to these pins starting form post 125 in the linked thread. I believe there are 2 different Red Sox issues - 1 that is part of the issue being discussed ( I owned a Yaz) and one that look similar, but was different and is a bit more plentiful - partially explaining why people tend to see more Red Sox that they believe are part of this issue. The image quality is not as good on the alternative Red Sox one.

[Chris-Counts]

Not only has this thread inspired me to start collecting pinbacks and buttons, but is has me interested in two other sets from the 1970s, including one that continued on into the 1980s.

I'm surprised by how little information I can find online about any of these sets. Although both seem to be far more common than the c. 1971 set discussed in this thread, distribution appears uneven. The Clemente button posted below comes from an early 1970s set, while Monte Irvin seems to be from 1978. The Oscar Gamble button and a couple hundred others likely come from about 1978 to 1981. There are others that clearly come from later than 1981, but the photos aren't nearly as good.

By the way, the early 1970s set, with the black nameplates, includes some of the same Cubs images as the 1971 set.

Can anybody tell more about these, or point me toward a link for more information? Thanks, Chris

[Cliff Bowman]

Just about burned out looking for these on WorthPoint but did find another Brewer, Phil Roof.