Anything 19th century

[jpop43]

These are a pair of Snyder style bats that date definitively to 1875, but research supports this model/style of bat being available and used back into the mid-1860s.

Period photography, such as this CDV recently offered in Hunts shows...upon close inspection...a fully milled down, wound handle bat with flat top barrel exact to the pair in my collection and seen in the 1875 Snyder Sporting Goods catalog.

The lighter grained example being the Ash or Willow variety with the darker one being the Fully French Polished exemplar.


Jonathan
www.dugouttreasures.com

[molenick]

Great stuff, Jonathan....and even more on your amazing website.

[bgar3]

Jonathon, great bats, and the Civil War cdv’s are among my favorites.
The other cdv you posted is a Yale player, Richards, 1871.

[Bill Rayburn]

"Our National Game" scrap book copyright date of 1887. Fairly common but looked for a long time to find one with all pages and cover in nice enough condition to frame. I guess I got a little carried away with the framing. Overall size is 41" by 51".

[Scott Garner]

Beautiful result, Bill!

[perezfan]

That's a jaw-dropper, Bill. Beautiful custom framing really accentuates the already stunning piece!

[aelefson]

Incredible items posted so far! Here is an early notebook showing a baseball scene.

Alan

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Bill Rayburn

"Our National Game" scrap book copyright date of 1887. Fairly common but looked for a long time to find one with all pages and cover in nice enough condition to frame. I guess I got a little carried away with the framing. Overall size is 41" by 51".

Beautiful, and you're right about finding "nice" ones. Congrats.

Seeing what I believe to be the cover of the colored section of the April 18, 1897 New York Herald on the other wall makes me want to look around your place...

[Bill Rayburn]

Thanks Scott, Mark and Doug for your kind comments. Doug I don't have that much in that particular room because it is a small sun room but I do have a couple of other nice pieces in there, just hard to get a good picture. You are correct about the other item in the "Our National Game" picture. It is an April 18, 1897 edition of the New York Herald titled "The Winning Slide". Framed size is 22" by 30". The second picture is on another wall in the same room. It is a teachers aid copyrighted in 1894. Shows kids playing and mentions "a bat" and "a ball". It measures 30" by 48".

[smokelessjoe]

Tankard with an engraved Baseball scene with batter, catcher, pitcher, shortstop & third basemen. I love the batter with the handle bar mustache! Stamped on the bottom Reed & Barton and has the name Thomas Mason Carpenter engraved on the side.

Photos do not do it justice...