Last Sundays Antiques Fair Haul

[CarltonHendricks]

I Went to the monthly Alameda Point Antiques Fair last Sunday and came up with a few things....I don't usually find a whole lot of antique sports stuff there but did OK this time....The first thing I found was a 19th- early 20th century pair of Sandow's exercise Spring Grips in the original tin box...















Since I collect sports tins I'd have been very happy to find just the box....The grips are remarkable...very heavy and well made...Plus folded up under the grips I found an instructional chart poster, and a cloth for polishing the grips....plus another poster for Sandow's Chest Pull. Probably the original owner of the grips also had the chest pull apparatus and mistakenly placed its instructional poster in the wrong box. Everything is in really nice condition...Even the box has most of the bright red printed label intact...Had I found any one of the items by its self I’d have bought it because of the Sandow name…so it was a pretty good find.

Eugen Sandow is called the "Father of Modern Bodybuilding. He had a gym in London and toured the United States with Ziegfeld Follies in the late 19th century doing weightlifting and bodybuilding exhibitions. He was the Arnold Schwarzenegger of his day





The next thing I found was this c1905, 45” x 38” Seagram’s Whiskey advertising poster titled “Joseph E. Seagram’s Queen’s and King’s Plate Winners”. Joseph Seagram was the king of horseracing in Canada in the late 19th century. I think all the horses in the poster were his…. and like any self respecting mogul he had the original painting in his office….I believe Joseph Seagram was renown in the United States horseracing as well.…

The Queen's Plate race is the oldest and most prestigious horserace in Canada. It was started in 1860 by Queen Victoria of England and is held In Toranto in June or July at the Woodbine Racetrack.

The sign has discoloration in the upper area but the graphics are outstanding…The discoloration looks way more pronounced in the photos taken in bright sunlight…Looks much better in person but will still have to be restored…..The price was right and it looks dynamite over my dining table!





I also picked up this c1930's ice skates box

[Jay Wolt]

Carlton fantastic pickups!

[baseball tourist]

Interesting items! Are you ruining out of display room yet Carlton?

[smokelessjoe]

Great pickups Carlton! I really like the Spring Grips... Funny, if I remember correctly - there was someone that posted in the "What else do you collect other than baseball" thread that stated they specifically collect vintage hand grips or exercise grips or something like that....

[CarltonHendricks]

Thanks all for the positive comments

Chris, Yeah starting to...
Shawn, Interesting...please send me a link if you find it.



http://thecanadasite.com/art/art8a_hider1_war.html
Found out the artist Arthur Henry Hider who did the Seagram's Queen's Plate sign was a huge Canadian artist...That painitng was used on whiskey labels

[smokelessjoe]

Hi Carlton,

Here is the link - page 8 post #75 .... Says he collects strong man hand grippers - I thought it was interesting, never heard of anyone specifically collecting those... Not sure if the type you have are exactly what he goes after though????

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...=161531&page=8