October pickups

[slightlyrounded]

Thrilled to add another rookie-year hockey auto to my collection: an emergency US visa application (in lieu of passport) for a 21 year-old Maurice 'The Rocket' Richard. A week after this was signed he broke his wrist and ended up playing only 16 games in the 1942-43 season.

[daves_resale_shop]

Amazing Piece!!!!

Originally Posted by slightlyrounded

Thrilled to add another rookie-year hockey auto to my collection: an emergency US visa application (in lieu of passport) for a 21 year-old Maurice 'The Rocket' Richard. A week after this was signed he broke his wrist and ended up playing only 16 games in the 1942-42 season.

[Topnotchsy]

During WWII there was a big question about whether to continue Major League Baseball or to put it on hold. On one hand, resources were incredibly scarce. On the other hand, it provided a sense of comfort and a chance to get aware from the unbearably serious nature of what was going on. President Roosevelt famously sent the "Green Light Letter" to baseball commissioner Landis, telling them to continue playing.

Most of my WWII baseball collection is related to games by players who were drafted and playing for Military Bases, in Europe or in the Pacific Theatre (mostly Hawaii). This original newspaper drawing by cartoonist Bill Crawford (wiki link below) expresses public support for continued play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Crawford_(cartoonist)

[perezfan]

Great piece Jeff.... sadly, this is such a lost art.

I suppose Sports Cartoonists have gone by the wayside with the demise of newspapers and magazines.

I especially love the works of Mullin, Gallo, Hubenthal and Olderman... and your Bill Crawford piece ranks right up there with all of them. Nice post!

[Topnotchsy]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Great piece Jeff.... sadly, this is such a lost art.

I suppose Sports Cartoonists have gone by the wayside with the demise of newspapers and magazines.

I especially love the works of Mullin, Gallo, Hubenthal and Olderman... and your Bill Crawford piece ranks right up there with all of them. Nice post!

Thank you! I'm a sucker for original art (I often find myself looking at illustrations by Garth Williams and own a number of originals from the Little House on the Prairie books).

Was thrilled when an illustration that relates to my WWII collection came up on eBay.

[bigfanNY]

First love the Rocket photo and Signature.

My contribution to this months puckup thread is also pre war Hockey. A 1926 Stanley cup Finals program. 1926 was the last year a non NHL team contended for the cup. The Victoria Cougers faced off against the Montreal Maroons.

[Topnotchsy]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Great piece Jeff.... sadly, this is such a lost art.

I suppose Sports Cartoonists have gone by the wayside with the demise of newspapers and magazines.

I especially love the works of Mullin, Gallo, Hubenthal and Olderman... and your Bill Crawford piece ranks right up there with all of them. Nice post!

I just it in the mail and it is roughly 2 feet tall. Way larger than I had imagined. Wow...!

[ooo-ribay]

Just picked this up for a friend. I collect SF Giants...my buddy collects Giants and Niners. I'd like to get your thoughts...

The seller listed this as "salesman's sample." Strangely enough, another popped up on ebay a few days later. That seller is calling his a "showroom sample." Well, I watch enough Antiques Roadshow to know about salesman's samples. Thing is, those samples tend to be furniture or machinery. Would a bread company really put out a "sample"? Wouldn't they just wrap their bread in whatever and send it out to stores? Would General Mills test the waters on commemorative Wheaties boxes or would they just send them out?

I will say, the paper seems vintage. It does not seem like someone printed it out recently. The paper feels like it is wrapped around a block of foam. What do you guys think?

[Huck]

Just received this scoreboard. I am quite happy with the purchase. I wonder what Freud might say about my affinity for scoreboards.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Just picked this up for a friend. I collect SF Giants...my buddy collects Giants and Niners. I'd like to get your thoughts... The seller listed this as "salesman's sample." Strangely enough, another popped up on ebay a few days later. That seller is calling his a "showroom sample." Well, I watch enough Antiques Roadshow to know about salesman's samples. Thing is, those samples tend to be furniture or machinery. Would a bread company really put out a "sample"? Wouldn't they just wrap their bread in whatever and send it out to stores? Would General Mills test the waters on commemorative Wheaties boxes or would they just send them out? I will say, the paper seems vintage. It does not seem like someone printed it out recently. The paper feels like it is wrapped around a block of foam. What do you guys think?

Definitely good, maybe there was a find. Griffith Stadium in D.C. was in the middle of a bread factory district, and everybody that ever went there remembers the heavenly smell of bread baking in the neighborhood, including the ballpark. I also remember eating miniature loaves of bread there, similar to yours. I think they were given away as promotions, and no bread has ever tasted as good in my life. Nothing else, just plain old white bread direct from the factory. Perhaps yours is the Seals Stadium version of that.

[Vintagedeputy]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Just picked this up for a friend. I collect SF Giants...my buddy collects Giants and Niners. I'd like to get your thoughts...

The seller listed this as "salesman's sample." Strangely enough, another popped up on ebay a few days later. That seller is calling his a "showroom sample." Well, I watch enough Antiques Roadshow to know about salesman's samples. Thing is, those samples tend to be furniture or machinery. Would a bread company really put out a "sample"? Wouldn't they just wrap their bread in whatever and send it out to stores? Would General Mills test the waters on commemorative Wheaties boxes or would they just send them out?

I will say, the paper seems vintage. It does not seem like someone printed it out recently. The paper feels like it is wrapped around a block of foam. What do you guys think?

Whenever I have seen loaves like that, they've been vintage new old stock bags/labels and someone inserted a block of foam inside to make it aesthetically pleasing like a loaf of bread.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by daves_resale_shop

Amazing Piece!!!!

+1 Agree and love the photo

[slightlyrounded]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

+1 Agree and love the photo

Thanks Jeff (and David)....this piece has a special meaning for me: The prior year (1941) my great uncle, also a 'Maurice', briefly centred a line with Richard / Blake in the Quebec Senior Hockey League for a couple of games. This was the farm team for the Canadiens for several years.

Ultimately he ended up heading south and playing professionally in the USHL (where he knocked a 17 y/o Gordie Howe out of a game with a stick to the head!) and later the PCHL.