Your memorabilia focus?

[Exhibitman]

An eclectic swath of crapola [I call it "The Festival of Bric-A-Brac"]:

--Academy Awards tickets and memorabilia:



Ticket to the Oscars for 1943 films: Best Picture Casablanca



Postcard view of the scene outside the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium before the 40th Academy Awards



A "tombstone" made of the poster for the 70th Academy Awards, given to attendees at the Board of Governors Ball after the show.

--Jim Jeffries memorabilia. Jeff was a lifelong Burbank resident whose farm and boxing venue were only a few miles from my office



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



PC of Jeff on the farm in Burbank



1930s snapshot of Jim Jeffries' Barn in Burbank, California, at the southwest corner of Victory and Buena Vista



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.

--Boxing Promotional Photos: Issued by the boxers' management to promote them. I especially collect them for fighters who have no boxing cards, Jewish fighters, and fighters with interesting back stories.



1920s publicity photo of Kid Francis, who was sent to Auschwitz during WWII and killed there



George Freedom Abrams. A WWII era Jewish fighter with basically no cards (there is a postcard known). He was a top middleweight contender; Sugar Ray Robinson said Abrams was his toughest opponent.

--Groucho memorabilia:





--Big Band Leaders Signed Memorabilia



Xavier Cugat



Desi Arnaz



Cab Calloway

--Star Trek TOS

[Exhibitman]

More Bric-A-Brac:

--Exhibit Original Artwork:









--Sport Publication Art and Printing Materials:



Kid Hogan printing plate



Kid Paret printing plate



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.

--Ray Miller: my boxing cousin

[slidekellyslide]

If I collected like you Adam I'd be broke....uh...more broke than I already am.

[Runscott]

He just has a different definition of the word 'focus'

[sports-rings]

I collect Championship Rings. Here is my favorite acquisition this year, a player's Superbowl XL Ring and wood presentation box.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Runscott

He just has a different definition of the word 'focus'

Actually I'd call it "unfocus"

[jcking2722]

My collection is based on the All Century Team and I collect signed items, memorabilia, and cards of the players named to the team. I also collect some other HOF Baseball items as well such as the hat below that I picked up about a month or so ago.

1957 Brooklyn Dodgers Don Drysdale Game Used hat

[jcking2722]

Just for clarification, I am not claiming that the hat in the picture is the hat I own, just the same style. The picture is from 1957 though.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by jcking2722

My collection is based on the All Century Team and I collect signed items, memorabilia, and cards of the players named to the team. I also collect some other HOF Baseball items as well such as the hat below that I picked up about a month or so ago.

1957 Brooklyn Dodgers Don Drysdale Game Used hat

Great "Big D" hat!!

BTW, Did you ever hear that Drysdale was the designated "enforcer" on the Dodgers, especially later in his career? He subscribed to the Sal "The Barber" Maglie school of knocking players down. It was once said that Sal Maglie would knock his own mother down with a pitch if it would help him get a "W" (sic). Listening to Don Drysdale talk about this topic when he was a broadcaster for the Angels in the 1970's was always entertaining...

I seem to recall reading that Sandy Koufax never liked to hit opposing batters on purpose because he was afraid he might injure them or end a career. He asked Big D to take care of business as his proxy.

Drysdale would write the name of opposing players that he was suppose to hit inside his game hats and would refer to the lists frequently so that he would leave no stone unturned. You have to admire someone that is so passionate about their trade!