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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Alan Elefson
Hi- |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Dan Bretta
I don't own any pencil boxes, but there are three baseball design boxes that come up for sale quite regularly and sell in the $200-$400 range in decent condition. |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Mark Steinberg
Here is the only one I own... a bit different in that it is a figural turn-of-the-century Ring Bat. I have only seen one other, and it was demolished at the end. This is a well-made piece, in which the barrel end srews off (as the pics demonstrate). |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: CarltonHendricks
Here are some I shot at Nationals....the bicycle one and the three in one shot of track, and two tennis ones were offered by Glen Mechanick...always check out his booth, he always has killer stuff! I forgot I have one of those bat pencils too...I think maybe an enthusiastic fan wrote on it, not sure it was made with the Detroit on it. |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Mike H
I really need to pick up one or two with baseball themes. Carlton, which booth was that last pick taken from? |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Dan Bretta
One thing I've noticed about these boxes is that they usually go for around $150-200 on ebay for a nice decent one, but in the auction house auctions they typically sell for $300+ pre-juice in the same condition. |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: CarltonHendricks
Mike, The last photo is of my own stuff |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Mike H
Excellent! Then I'm sure you won't mind packaging up that Red Sox Whiskey bottle and sending it to me. We can discuss payment later. |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: 1880nonsports
have always collected theme mache/lacquer pencil boxes. Still sad I sold him my favorite non-baseball box showing an early wall sport similar to jai-alai. I have a few nice ones with civil war scenes but the sports ones are my favorites. Dan I have to take exception to the price range of 150. - 200. for these in any venue. While the price rise has not been as electric as many other estoteric issues - these with baseball theme (at least 4 different in the "set") sold in the 200.-300. range in the mid-1990's (essentially B4 eBay) at a show - or rarely in auction (typically an Oser/Quinn/Yesterday/Hunt/Whatever type auction) in the same range. I have only seen 3/4 of these come up on eBay (admittedly I no longer do a pencil box search) in the past 6 of 9 years & I haven't seen a single nice condition baseball box sell for less than 350.00 anywhere - and typically the price at least 100.00 higher. I don't doubt you if you say you've seen such prices - I don't have time to see everything and eBay is after all a wholesale market in many happenstances. If you can find 'em for 150. to 200. - I would buy nice ones @ 300.00+ from you all day long. The one with "carrying the bases" is IMO the best looking and most satisfying from a head-pleasing standpoint. |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Dan Bretta
The last two I've seen on ebay in the last 6 months both went for less than $200. I've seen many over the years and they almost always pop up under a search for "Antique Baseball" in all categories. Seems to be an item that antique dealers or everyday ebayers come up with more regularly than sports memorabilia dealers. There is one guy that does the regular antique show here in Lincoln that has one of the baseball themed ones...I think he's asking $350 for his. It's very nice though. |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: 1880nonsports
like I said in nice condition for under 300. is quite good. To the diligent searcher goes the rewards. Swear when I searched on eBay for them over 5/6 years worth - found just a few - only 1/2 in ex - never saw them nice for so little. Guess I'll have to add it back into my searches as 200. range a steal. I don't do categories and sellers either can't spell - don't know what they are made from - or don't know how to correctly list such a box so it will be seen by the most eyes.... These style pencil boxes were originally produced in the mid-1800's in Europe utilizing a technique learned from the Chinese perhaps(?) and continued on until the late 1800's where printing and manufacturing by machines relaced painting and hand manufacturing in the most general terms. I just like the graphics and that they are unusual. Never bothered to study up on them. Never saw a club for pencil box collectors but sure there must be one - there's one for people that collect potato chips that look like celebrities and people what collect pieces of barbed-wire. I hear there are even people that collect pictures of mostly dead baseball players on cardboard with outdated smoking advertisements on them... ugh.... |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Dan Bretta
I probably shouldn't have written that I do a search for "antique baseball" in all categories....probably a lot of folks here already do anyway, but some great stuff turns up in that search on a fairly regular basis. |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: CarltonHendricks
1880nonsport, You say you have some sports ones? Can we get some photos of them? Would be nice to see many different sports ones. |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: CarltonHendricks
I'm sorry Mike, did I say that was my collection?...I meant I can't remember which booth ...hey check out these bottles Bussineau had: |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Keith
Hey guys, |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: David Smith
Here is mine. |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Rob D.
I'm taking some liberties here because this is more a pencil case than a pencil box, and it's not nearly as early a piece as others shown here. But I've always liked it because it has the original ruler and pencils, and I think the image on the reverse was a pretty cool idea and complements Rapid Robert on the front very nicely. |
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Show your Vintage Sports Pencil Boxes!
Posted By: Mark
Very cool, Rob... |
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