October 2011 Pick-Up Thread

[chaddurbin]

a few recent pickups but just had time to scan it now.

teddy ballgame and the sisler fleer make me really happy! two of my all-time favorite players.

the mantle i showed in the mantle thread but just wanna throw it up here also, from last month's hunt auction.

[scmavl]

I picked this up for $4 at a local antique mall. It was marked "unknown baseball player" but his name was written on the back. It is Lyman Linde who pitched a whopping 10 innings for the Indians in '47-48. Not much of a player but a great photo.



(the photo isn't crooked/trimmed, just a bad angle)

[71buc]

Wow I'm almost embarassed to post this one after looking at the Ruth items on here. I picked up this 1955 Snider yesterday. I think it has an attractive artistic look to it.

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by 71buc

Wow I'm almost embarassed to post this one after looking at the Ruth items on here. I picked up this 1955 Snider yesterday. I think it has an attractive artistic look to it.

Hey Buc. That Snider is a tremendous photograph. Easily one of the finest images of the Duke that I've ever seen. Congrats on that pick up.

[thekingofclout]

A Sept. 1962 Beatles Original Photo by Les Chadwick of Peter Kaye Photography. This photo shoot was the first professional photographs ever taken of the Beatles.

Beatles manager Brian Epstein wanted photographs taken ASAP and hired a local Liverpool studio to shoot them. This image was used as the cover shot in Peter Kaye's 1987 paperback book entitled:

"Beatles in Liverpool"

Vintage original TYPE 1 photograph & companion piece book.

1962Beatles.jpgpeterkayebook.jpg

[perezfan]

Phenomenal, Jimmy... Earliest image of Ringo I can ever recall seeing (as a member of the band). You are the King of Companion pieces (as well as of Clout!)

[perezfan]

Here's the ultimate companion piece (for me, anyway...)

I've had the original Willard Mullin Illustration of the Bum for quite some time. A big/beautiful image of the infamous Brooklyn Mascot. But just recently I was lucky enough to find the original Sporting News issue in which this drawing was featured.

Icing on the Cake is that this drawing was used to grace the Cover. Aside from the great Mullin tie-in, the articles within this Sporting News Issue are very intriguing. Among other topics, it discusses Jackie Robinson's thriving career in the minors, and his chances of making the "Big Club". It also discusses the possibility of a 168 Game Regular Season Schedule (which apparently almost came to fruition).

Very interesting reading, and a purely lucky pickup for me

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by mr2686

I am always amazed at the stuff that both Scott and Jimmy find and purchase. It has left me with only one conclusion...they both invented the internet and have a downloaded file that comes to them a few days before the rest of us.
Great pickups guys...both the Ruth pitching photo and his last pitched game ticket are top notch!!

That's too funny Mike. Yep, Scott, Me, and Al Gore!

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

Jimmy- amazing photographs! how will you present them? matted & framed together, or some other way?

That's a good question Mike. One of the best things about collecting photos is they hardly take up any room at all. Which is good for me as I live in an 830 sq ft loft, with one wall almost all glass, and another all brick. So I really have only one place for them... a cool, dry, pitch black vault. A perfect place to store and preserve a couple hundred photos.

Originally Posted by chaddurbin

a few recent pickups but just had time to scan it now.

teddy ballgame and the sisler fleer make me really happy! two of my all-time favorite players.

the mantle i showed in the mantle thread but just wanna throw it up here also, from last month's hunt auction.

And Chad, those are some terrific signed cards there. I've always loved vintage signed cards... especially Hall of Famers! Congrats to you Chad.