Cool Find: David Creagan 1910 Rocky Mount collection

[Michael Peich]

Rhett--This is an historically significant find, and thanks for sharing it with us.

Cheers, Mike

Great Find sir, and as always thanks for selling me that fantastic maysville cabinet photo.

TT

[tbob]

Congrats! You are one lucky guy Rhett!

[Wite3]

Wow! Amazing Rhett...congrats!

[Kawika]

Holy F-Bomb!! - good on ya, Rhett.

[docpatlv]

Very cool, nice score Rhett...Is the writing on back Dussault's or Thorpe's?

Congrats,

Mike

[Leon]

Wow.....great find ole Rhett...Congrats!!!

[Vintagecatcher]

Congrats Rhett!

I recognized Jim Thorpe immediately.

Enjoy,


Patrick

[Matthew H]

I don't think that lot could have been listed/sold any worse by that seller. I can only imagine the surprise opening that package! Congrats!!

[iggyman]

Great Caesar's ghost!!! And to think, I almost dismissed this thread, thinking it was just a few more T207 Red Cross cards. Fantastic pickup Rhett, I'm sure your patients were wondering why you had that silly grin on your face.

P.S. You better hurry-up and watermark those pictures before the guys in the Full Count FC board find out !

Lovely Day...

[Orioles1954]

Where's the link to this badness?

[Kawika]

http://tinyurl.com/28bcsj6
Boy, Rhett! I can't believe you paid thirty-seven bucks for a couple of no-name minor leaguers. Maybe you can get your money back.

[Bicem]

wow.

[uffda51]

Great Caesar's Ghost, indeed! Well done.

[Jacklitsch]

Fabulous!!

[celoknob]

Originally Posted by Kawika

http://tinyurl.com/28bcsj6
Boy, Rhett! I can't believe you paid thirty-seven bucks for a couple of no-name minor leaguers. Maybe you can get your money back.

I thought they were two no name minor leaguers. That's why I bid $27.67.

What's strange is that the seller carefully identified four or five very obscure minor league players on another Creagan postcard lot that I won (and paid more than Rhett did) but did not recognize Jim Thorpe on this lot ???

[rhettyeakley]

If it helps, like I said before I had no inclination that that was Thorpe in the image from the auction (why would I from that little scan?). When I was looking at the individual lots they had for sale I picked out the lot you won and this one as the two best ones and put a moderate bid on the bigger PC lot (that you won and outbid me on) and put a much more significant bid on this one ONLY because of the baseball player RPPC as I was hoping it was Creagan himself.

I'm never this lucky so this is uncharted territory for me!
-Rhett

Also in the sellers defense if you look at Thorpe sig on back to the untrained eye it looks more like "James Hufe" or something along those lines

[DixieBaseball]

Simply Incredible, Rhett. Significant for sure. Dussault has a nice head of hair as well.

[Rickyy]

That's one of the nicest and cleanest images of JT I've seen...Wow!

[GoSoxBoSox]

I find the picture on the postcard to be interesting. I am wondering why such a postcard would be made? Exactly how popular were these guys in 1910 when they played for this team and if they were popular enough for someone to make a postcard of them it seems odd to me they would pick this picture? Why not one of them in uniform?

I'm not trying to put the piece down. I think it's awesome. I'm just trying to understand their star power which I would have thought to have been relatively low at the time. It seems to me the stardom was yet to come.

Any thoughts on that?

[thegashousegang]

I just spent the last 5 minutes trying to find my jaw that I dropped onto the floor...

[rhettyeakley]

Tom,

Thorpe's best years were definitely ahead of him in 1910, as he really started making headlines as a football player in 1911. That being said, Thorpe may have NOT WANTED his playing pro baseball to be known as he was still in college competing as a college athlete in 1910 which is why I suspect he doesn't show up in either of the card sets T209-2 or T210-7 (He may have refused to okay that b/c he didn't want to jeopardize his amateur status if it became known)--all speculation by me but I think it has merit.

RPPC's became very popular in 1906-1920's as souveniers. You could sit for a photo and they would print it directly on a postcard and you could use that to send to relatives or friends. It is highly unlikely (although possible) that this postcard was mass produced for profit.

-Rhett

[celoknob]

As Rhett pointed out these types of individualized postcards were common. Often they are posted on this forum with someone asking who the person is, usually without an answer. I think a lot of these players on postcards were not even professional and there is no info to go with them. They were not mass produced--I very seriously doubt this was.

As Rhett mentioned, his best case scenario when he bought the lot was that the postcard would be of the minor leaguer Creagan and that he would be able to identify him. Even that was not a guarantee, which is why I bid so low. It could have been his cousin or some semi-pro player. Who would have thought that big lug in the 2nd photo was Jim Thorpe? That is astounding with a signature on the back !

I am truely glad someone like Rhett got it, but I am still beating myself up for not bidding higher, even though I couldn't have known. That's called envy.
Kell

[edhans]

Congrats Rhett. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

[Marckus99]

congrats, Rhett!