Anything 19th century

[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...

[ValKehl]

Washington: First in war, First in peace, and Last in the American Association for 1884 with a 12-51 won-loss record. The Washington Nationals (a/k/a Statesmen) did not even finish the season - the team disbanded after its August 2, 1884, home loss by the score of 6 to 5 to the eventual league champion New York Metropolitans with HOF pitcher Tim Keefe, who played center field in this game. Below are (1) a scored scorecard for this game upon which is written in the right margin, "Washington club disbanded after this game," and (2) an 1884 season schedule for the Washington team upon which "Disbanded this date" is written next to the August 2nd game date. It appears to me that the same person wrote both of these comments about the team disbanding, however, interestingly, I did not acquire these two items from the same dealer or at the same time.

[GaryPassamonte]

Great stuff everyone. Here's a mid/late 1860s baseball cdv. It's hard to see, but the bats have "Get Up & Git" carved/written on them.

[bgar3]

Very nice as usual Gary.