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[ooo-ribay]

Yet another incredible find!

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Yet another incredible find!

+1 Agree

Looks like you have a lot of fun with this also

Happy For you

Keep sharing

[CarltonHendricks]

I just received these two piece and unpacked them the other day…The wooden crate is from about 1913 era…The Auburn & Wright company was subsidiary of the New York Mica & Manufacturing Company…as indicated on the viewers left side of the crate (see N. Y. M & M Co.)…Mica was a mineral used in making spark plugs similar to porcelains use in that it acted as an insulator…

















I got this out of an auction with a ton of great motorcycle memorabilia….pennants, jerseys, posters, about a dozen helmets, and all sorts of great stuff…there was a lot of things I’d have liked to have gotten but I had to decide what had priority…after studying everything carefully I decided this crate was the end all and I had to have it…Auburn & Wright appear to have been around from about 1913 to 1917….that was right when motorcycle racing was just taking off…So I knew this crate was an incredible piece of history and to just let the other stuff go…It’ll go perfect with my motorcycle stuff…





I bid on four items in the auction...the crate, and this Cromwell racing helmet…Of all the helmets…and there were some great ones…This one stood out for me because of the number and name on it and the blue color was unique…I lost a footboard to an Excelsior…and a v cool flat track hot shoe with worn red paint…

[bgar3]

Excellent as usual, like the Indian association.

[Leon]

Awesome stuff, Carlton. Thanks for sharing!
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[CarltonHendricks]

This was always one of my favorite posts...so I'm rehashing it here
Originally posted February 25th 2014



I picked up this Lucky Strike trolley car sign this last November from fellow board member WillowGrove, thank you Peter!....I actually had seen it about 6 months prior on eBay and when it got past $100.00 or so I bailed because of the condition...mostly forgot about it until one day I saw it in the Net54 BST section...Peter and I arm wrestled over a month I think it was...and we finally made the deal...It was a partial trade and cash deal but the total dollar amount was quite a bit more than the $100 I bowed out at on eBay...but it just kept speaking to me...Regardless of the condition where would I ever find another Lucky Strike trolley with an Ivy League football player from 1919...it really was my kind of piece...So what the hay I finally bit the bullet...

It wasn't like there was a lot of background on Callahan...I had to do some digging...Once I found the Times Square photo below I started thinking...who is this guy...20 years old...has his mug plastered on Times Square!...Employed as a national advertising vehicle...Yes he was the Yale football Captain but I couldn't find anything really extraordinary...then when I read about his blue blood Boston heritage and all...dating Rose Fitzgerald (later Rose Kennedy)...I think maybe he was just hooked up with the right crowd...Then I was curious what ever happened to him...Went on to a career lawyering first for the Justice Department fighting for prohibition...then later with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a prosecutor...So now I just have to get it restored!...

[ooo-ribay]

^^^^ Would Tim Callahan have been able to endorse Luckys while at Yale or would that sign have been made shortly after he graduated?