444 Photos of the 2011 National posted on SportsAntiques.com

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by kjjavic

Great pickups Carlton, That sign has an amazing look, and the trophy is great too! Thanks for posting photos. I'm already angry at myself for not getting out there, as in the first group of photos, I saw something I likely would have bought. By chance do you know who the dealer was in the first group of photos you putup (the photos with Corey Leiby in the booth) - the booth had a silver basketball trophy in the case (possibly the one you bought). Is that Bushings booth?

Hey Keith, Thanks, glad you like the sign....The booth Corey is in is Herbert Thomas the third's booth...PM me and I'll give you his phone. And yes that's the same basketball trophy I got...It had a few dents and tarnish but it had a Dieges and Clust plate on the back, and it was for a the California Coast Conference Championship in 1923-24 won by Fresno State college...and it was a Spalding trophy....you see these kinds of basketball trophies offered but this one had all the right ingriedients...and it was a full sized one not the smaller version....a basketball version of a Spalding trophy...and it had the wood base as opposed to a bakelite/plastic one

There were very few trophies this year...very few good advertsiing signs....It was tough this year but I did good...and Ryan Sims found a lot of stuff...He bought a Harvard vs Exeter track broadside I ended up buying off him...I went over to his hotel room to pick it up and you should have seen the haul he made...I mean like 20 or so items....good uniforms and equipment posters...I can't beleive I sat there talking to him and forgt to take a photo of it all spread over his sofa...Below Ryan with the Harvard Exeter he sold me.



It's an interesting poster...Exeter, a prep school...competing with Harvard a college...I'm assuming it was Harvard's freshman team...I've only had time to do some cursory research but I was able to pull up an Exeter sports history page on the internet that supplied a little info...
http://www.exeter.edu/documents/Exet...portsPages.pdf
If it was the Harvard freshman team, who would be the class of 1916...I guess that would make the poster from 1913...I think....and the page in the link above references a Coach George Conners below who apparently had a heck of a track team

1915 Coach George Connors
and his dominant Exeter track
team win a sixth straight New
England Interscholastic title.

I also found this interesting clipping from the New York Times 1909 that references the Plimpton grounds mentioned on the poster



Wish I had the time to research more

By the way....plug for me....if anyone gets a braodside like this one for sale please contact me...for most any athletic sport...especially 19th century college ones....baseball, football, rowing, lacrosse, etc.