Show your Pre War Pins & Buttons-any sport

vintagesportflips · #1 02-26-2010, 11:16 AM

Beautiful collections guys. Truly amazing stuff. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to get the shadowboxes that many of the shown pins were displayed in. I have a fairly large post war Philadelphia Eagles pin collectcion, that I once had displayed in Michaels shadowboxes, but they are pretty poorly made. I then moved them to Riker/butterfly cases and hung those on the wall, but they do not hang well given their coardboard/not completely rigid quality. Any suggestions?

perezfan · #2 02-26-2010, 12:02 PM

Keith...

Here's a solution that could potentially work. I don't have a good enough Pin Collection to show off, but this shows how they work for other knick knacks... These cases are sold at Michael's, but are of a higher quality than some of the other Shadowboxes. These are completely rigid (unlike the Riker cases) and have a hinged lid, which makes for easy access.

The lid also has a locking mechanism (see photo) Also, on the back are hangers for either vertical or horizontal viewing. These display cases work great for me.

They come in 3 - 4 different sizes, and either in black or brown. Michael's is almost always having a Half Price Sale on these, so you can get them relatively cheap. Hope this helps!

andypcl · #3 02-26-2010, 05:09 PM

Hello again.

Thanks for the feedback.

Mark, I'm always open to entertaining any potential trades - I really like the last one we did. I'll have to add that button to my next picture.

Hi Al, here's a picture that shows my dilemma regarding Jimmie Wilson. I think you're gonna finish this group before me! I wouldn't rule out trading it but that means surrendering any thoughts I have about finishing the set. Giving up is hard to do. Anyway, great buttons Al!!

mjkm90 · #4 02-26-2010, 05:36 PM

Ok advanced collectors. I have a couple questions for you. Obviously, you have been at this for years and your collections began long before ebay.

1) Where in the world did the bulk of your collections come from?
2) When did pin values really take off?
3) Do you have a pinback holy grail?

batsballsbases · #5 02-26-2010, 07:30 PM

Andy I see the problem!

Mike all very good questions!(1) For me it started about 30 years ago with 1 very large trade involving about 100 stadium pins and about 100 mixed pins (all very hard to find) Remember pins werenot that collectible back then , but I always loved them for some reason. The trade was for a 1966 topps football funny rings checklist and 300 dollars!

I have been collecting them ever since. I also do like to trade but pin collectors were very few and far between.(2) Pin values really started taking off from the auction houses with the selling off of some very large collections in the late 90s . Roger Stecklers , Rob Lifsons, and Jim Copelands collections comes to mind. And also with the printing of Dr Paul Muchinskys book Baseball pinback buttons back in 2004. (3) as for holy grails I guess we will have to re define that statement and break it down to eras. Yes there are many holy grails I have owned and sold quite a few. Seeing in this post my Cameo Pepsin Buck Ewing and knowing a fellow board member now owns my Cameo Pepsin Cy Young. Those 2 would have to rank up there as an era Holy Grail. As for a modern era holy grail I guess I will just have to leave you with this scan as these would be 2 that rank right up there for me. I would love to hear from some of the other collectors out there.

sayhey24 · #6 02-26-2010, 08:30 PM

Al -- thanks for sharing those centennial pieces -- so many incredible pins are being shown -- this is fun.

Here's one more display possibility -- just use a standard frame and take out the glass. That's the case with the large rectangular frame I show in post # 39. Just secure a piece of colored felt over the frame backing, place it back into the frame, and you're good to go. The only negative is that there's no glass protecting the pins.

Greg

vintagesportflips · #7 02-26-2010, 08:48 PM

Mark - Those are the same shadow boxes I was using, but they didn't last long for me. Most likely because I was taking them down often, and adding new pins, or rearranging pins. Probably if I would have just hung them and left them alone, they would have worked well.

Greg - I was actually going to ask about that frame. I coudn't tell if that one had glass or not. I think I am going to steal that idea - it looks great, and plus it is easy to add new pins without taking down the shadow box, etc.

thanks

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