Carlton World

[perezfan]

Valiant attempt, Carlton...

I really hope that Woolworth Trophy makes its way to you some day. What a beautiful artistic piece, and just perfect for your great collection!

[timzcardz]

Carlton,

I love the passion, the effort, and the fact that you share all of these amazing things and stories with us!

Thank you!

[Jewish-collector]

Carlton - Why didn't you just put another zero before the decimal. Guaranteed to win, right ?

Seriously, I enjoy your collecting passion so much. See you at the shows. All the best.

[CarltonHendricks]

Thank you all for the kind words...here's an interesting pick up from today...I thought I recognized the trophy in this press photo...checked my files and sure enough...Dealer was asking more than I wanted to pay when I saw it in 2013...I see him around at shows still...last I asked he still had it...but now...not only is it only Gar Wood's son...now I know it's missing the top...

[ooo-ribay]

….and the top is pretty damn cool.

[CarltonHendricks]

Yesterday I went to the Grass Valley Old West show....Towards the end of the day I didn't think I was going to find anything more than a couple small pickups, a 1921 Excelsior Motorcycle catalog...and a damaged but very early French penny toy of a motorcycle...paid a record amount for the penny toy...$10.00...It's probably the least expensive thing ever sold at that show....In the early 20th century they sold penny toys of many themes on the street in big cities in the United States and western Europe...New York, London, Paris, etc....But anyway at the end of the day as I was about to leave the show bronze dealer Chuck Morgenstern offered me this Vienna Polo Bronze for a price I had to bite...so worked it into my cabinet...

It's amazing the mallet is original...never broken off....And the horses body is suspended by only the back legs...the two front legs don't touch the base...So though it's unsigned I would speculate whoever the sculptor was they were seasoned...I'd like to think it was done by Franz Bergman, the king of Vienna bronze sculptors...But far as I know I think his pieces were usually signed...The three conjoined soccer/Euro football players to the left of the polo is a Bergman...Maybe the baseball batter catcher is too I can't recall...I would speculate there were number of studios in Vienna who produced Vienna bronzes other than Bergman at the height of their popularity...

I'll throw in some other shots of the show too at the bottom...

[CarltonHendricks]

Here's some more photos of the Grass Valley show...I didn't take a ton...but here's a few...