Your top finds for 2011

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

6 kids under the age of 10.

As Groucho did not say [but should have] when encountering a man with 17 kids: "I smoke a cigar, but I take it out of my mouth occasionally"

My favorite p/u's from 2011 [so far]:



7.5" x 9.5" [10" x 12" mount] mounted photo of Jim Jeffries on his farm in Burbank with his pup, with a handwritten copyright of 1906 By Jas. J. Jeffries and Jas. M. Johnson [perhaps the photographer], captioned "The Good Friends" in pencil on the mount in what I believe is Jeffries' hand.



10.5" x 13" print of Jim Jeffries. The photographers' imprint at the bottom right is the famous Dana Studio in San Francisco. Judging from the look of the image, the imprint and Jeffries' appearance, I'd say this is a 1910 image shot of him at either the Hotel Rowardennan, near Santa Cruz CA, or Reno NV, when he was in training for the Johnson fight.



Jim Jeffries signed release allowing Christy Walsh to use his image in a Brown & Bigelow calendar. By this time Jeff had suffered a stroke so his signature was a tad shaky but still solid.



9" x 14" print of HOFer Peter Jackson. This is a Dana Studios original; the writing on it was applied in ink by someone at Dana. I suspect it was wider but has some damage to the left edge. Found this at a local show in a crappy frame with a mat on it that made it look like it had been cut up. When I had the seller pull it out for me and realized that it was essentially intact and inked, I had to make an effort to keep a poker face.



This is a 1924 photo entitied "Boxing Fraternity Los Angeles Santa Fe Station to see Commissioner Seth W. Streilinger off for Europe." It depicts the 1924 Olympic boxers from L.A. prior to departure for the games, seeing off Streilinger, a boxing commissioner for CA in the 1920s. Jackie Fields and Fidel La Barba, the two HOF boxers shown, were Los Angeles-based teammates on the 1924 U.S. Olympic team. Some of the other named subjects were local fighters, managers or promoters during the 1920s. Walter Yarwood served as secretary of the commission from 1924-1926. Commissioner Louis Almgren was ousted from office in 1928. Georgie Rivers was a local club fighter in the 1920s. In the very back is Chief Meyers, the old Giants catcher who was out of baseball and gradually becoming involved in boxing. He would eventually become a commissioner.



1930s publication art of Primo Carnera and Jess Willard. I suppose the suggestion was that the two were like skyscrapers. It is composed of two photos [Willard and Carnera] cut out and pasted on board with inked in details and silver ink used to remove details under Willard so it would appear he and Carnera were standing together.



1950s Groucho promo foto for You Bet Your Life. Came with the original mailing envelope. The same shoot yielded the Bowman card.