Show Your Early Baseballs

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by todeen

Mark I like how you displayed that glove standing straight up. Is that a home-made glove holder? How'd you get it to stand that way?

Hi Tim...
The white glove is perched on a wood glove stand. I got it from a fellow collector named Paul Montesano, who might be a member here. I believe Paul makes these himself, and used to sell them periodically (both directly and on eBay). They were very reasonably priced, as I recall.

If you (or someone you know) is handy, they actually look pretty simple to make. It's just two prongs and a flat oval base. I'll follow up with a pic shortly...

[todeen]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Hi Tim...



The white glove is just sitting on a clear tabletop easel. These are available on eBay, Amazon, and some of the craft stores like Ben Franklin, Michaels and Hobby Lobby.



Here's are links to just a couple of examples...



https://www.ebay.com/itm/Acrylic-Boo...oAAOSweqperJUL



https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Acrylic...AAAOSwXahbWVS7



They are available both with and without the vertical "lip" in the front. The one you referenced with the white glove does not have the "lip".



Hope this is helpful!

Ingenious!

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[perezfan]

Here's the wooden glove stand. Pretty simple... 2 prongs and an oval base.

I like to use these for my favorite gloves, which I rotate on display. I already know these pics will post sideways, and nothing I do will fix it.

Hope the sideways pics aren't too distracting, and that this is helpful.

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Here's the wooden glove stand. Pretty simple... 2 prongs and an oval base.

I like to use these for my favorite gloves, which I rotate on display. I already know these pics will post sideways, and nothing I do will fix it.

Hope the sideways pics aren't too distracting, and that this is helpful.

Well displayed as always Mark!

[aelefson]

Hi-

I want to thank everyone again for sharing your incredible early baseballs! I still have questions I will post about some of them but they are all amazing to look at.

My antiquing hot streak continued a few weeks after this post as I found yet another lemon peel ball at an outdoor antique show in NH. It came from an Americana collection that was put together in PA more than 30 years ago. The dealer who bought the collection had two lemon peel balls. One was small and very similar to the one I bought from a board member in the spring. The other was large (very close to a modern baseball). I bought the large one but I had to pay a steep price (800 range). I am very happy to have a large lemon peel and am amazed that I found two within weeks of each other.

Alan

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Huysmans

Well displayed as always Mark!

Thank you Brent.... hope all is well!

[ruth-gehrig]

Incredible baseballs and amazing displays!!
One of my old baseballs that has always been interesting to me is this early figure 8 that has another figure 8 "shell" around it. I've had the ball probably 15 years and when first purchased I had hoped that underneath was a lemon peel that someone tried to modernize by placing a figure 8 covering on top of. I've been able to carefully move the ball around and have found the stitch pattern underneath to be figure 8 as well. I guess instead of repairing the ball someone just decided to place a new covering on top.