March pick-ups!!

[vintagesportflips]

Thanks guys,
All but the poster, were ebay pickups. The poster was acquired at an estate auction. I will send you an email about the tintypes later today.

[CarltonHendricks]

9 1/2" diam.
Great stuff Keith...you're really cleaning up, good job. Above my little pick up I better hoist before March ends..Got on eBay, seller said it dates to 1949....but I dunno..can anyone here date it? I recently posted a Heisman dinner plate as my Sports Antique of the Week you can see here

[bmarlowe1]

Carlton - the cubs logo really did not take that form until 1979, and certainly did not look like that in the 1940's. The logo on the plate was used by the now defunct Chicago Athletic Club for quite a long time.

-----1949------------------------1979--

[thekingofclout]

After the Syracuse China Company's I00th anniversary in 1971, you can tell what year a piece was made due to their code. So the back of your plate has 9-?D I can't quite make out what the first letter is after the # 9 possibly also a D. Anyway, their code would be to add the said number "9" in this case to their Centennial year 1971 and you have 1980. The Letter "D" would stand for the piece being made in the fourth quarter of the year.

They shut their doors for good last year and gave their employees a commemorative plate with the markings on the verso stating 38-A. So 38 plus their Centennial year 1971 = 2009 and the "A" means it was made in the first quarter of the year.

Damn, they shut the doors after 138 years in business...

Regardless Carlton, I think it's a cool looking plate!

Best, Jimmy

[vintagesportflips]

As I was going through the scrapbook I posted yesterday, I noticed one sort of neat thing for N302 Mayo Collectors. Several of the Mayo Yale players appear in the scrapbook on a 1894 Junior Promenade booklet. Both George Adee and Frank Butterworth (who were both in the Mayo set and College All Americans in 1894) were listed on the invitation card as being on the Promenade Committee. Also on the same page is a little booklet, that has lists of names of different male students that I am assuming the Scrapbook owner danced with. The names include Adee, and Butterworth again, as well as Phillip Stillman (also in the Mayo set and an all american). At first I thought they has all signed the booklet, but I think it is all done in the same hand (the owners) Several of the names in the dance booklet corresponded with the owner, and the scrapbook includes signed invitation acceptances from some of them, but I haven't located any signatures of any of the football players yet. The scrapbook is really packed, and it has been pretty neat to dig through it.

There are a couple of ticket stubs that I would like to remove from the scrapbook eventually, but am not sure what the best way to attempt to try this, other than trying to slowly and carefully pull them off. I am guessing that soaking would be a very bad idea, correct?

[CarltonHendricks]

Mark and Jimmy, Thanks for the assist...I sure hope I can get my $9.99 back...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT
Seriously, I appreciate your scrutiny...I thought it looked a little later and I knew Net54 was the place to find out...that is I knew it would get torn to shreds if it wasn't from 1949...which is fine...I like commercial restaurant plates and especially sports related ones.

Jimmy you are encyclopedic!
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[bmarlowe1]

It's gotta be a Chicago Athletic Club plate. They were around for nearly 100 years I believe. For $9.99, I'd keep it.

Interestingly, on their web site they used to claim that the Cubs logo was "borrowed" from them. Not true, but it sounded good.