Sept 2011 Pick-up thread

[Lordstan]

Wow, Some great stuff to start off September right.

Jimmy,
Only the best, as usual! Hope your going to stay around for a bit.

Graig,
Way to jump in with both feet. That is one beautiful Hubbell!

Dan,
Great early Vance postcard.

Mark,
That fan is superb. Is that the one Carlton has pictures of you haggling for at the National?

Mark

[GKreindler]

Thanks a lot for the kind words, guys!

Scott - I always thought I'd see Vader on the dark side. Wait a minute, I did have New Hope and Empire on today while I was painting. Sh*t.

David - Thanks for the clarification. I feel like I've always interchanged 'cut' with 'flats' for some reason, but obviously there's a big difference. I still have tons to learn!

Mark S. - I'm not really sure how I'm gonna display it, to be honest. In my head, I have this grand presentation of all of the cuts together in one large matted thingy. But if that doesn't work out, maybe a photo will be the way to go. I do have a lovely one that Jimmy got for me a few years back...

Mark V. - Thanks, buddy. But now I'm real scared!

Graig

[BrandonG]

For the baseball collector, this is an amazing find. Locked up in a chest in a house since 1913. One ball is sealed in the box, the other ball was opened 25 years ago and put on display, and it still looks mint! There was a box with the opened ball too (not pictured). I can only image how nice the ball inside the box is if the opened ball looks that nice!

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by BrandonG

For the baseball collector, this is an amazing find. Locked up in a chest in a house since 1913. One ball is sealed in the box, the other ball was opened 25 years ago and put on display, and it still looks mint! There was a box with the opened ball too (not pictured). I can only image how nice the ball inside the box is if the opened ball looks that nice!

Terrific pickup Brandon!!

It always amazes me that someting like this could remain perfectly intact for almost 100 years. You would think that if there were boys around, that baby would definately have been tossed around the yard.....

[Deadball]

Originally Posted by BrandonG

For the baseball collector, this is an amazing find. Locked up in a chest in a house since 1913. One ball is sealed in the box, the other ball was opened 25 years ago and put on display, and it still looks mint! There was a box with the opened ball too (not pictured). I can only image how nice the ball inside the box is if the opened ball looks that nice!

Brandon,

What makes you think this ball is from 1913? Do you have any more information on the person who saved it?

[BrandonG]

Originally Posted by Deadball

Brandon,

What makes you think this ball is from 1913? Do you have any more information on the person who saved it?

Well the older gentlemen I bought it from said it belonged to his Dad who was given the 2 baseballs at a game when he was a kid. I cannot obviously be certain that the baseballs were locked in the chest since that day, but the guy said that he's had the chest forever and that's where the 2 balls have sat until he opened one about 25 years ago, putting the open one on a shelf and leaving the sealed box in the chest. And obviously this particular model Ban Johnson ball was used from the 1912-1924 range so that nails down a timeframe. I went to this guys house to get the baseballs, he isn't a collector, didn't know anything about baseball, just happen to have them from his dad.