San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Supplement
 

I few years back, I picked up a large San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Supplement dated March 28, 1909. It's titled, "THE CATCHER WAITING FOR A HIGH ONE." It has a postal cancel for Stanford University 1909. It has the artist name, HERSHFIELD, noted on the lower right corner of the supplement.

Just prior to buying the supplement, I picked up a beautiful 24" X 28.5" oak frame, and I decided it would be perfect for the supplement. I had it matted and framed with new glass. Yesterday, a friend snapped a few photos of the framed piece. It sits above my Waddall display case that my houses my PCL E-card collection. So here are the photos I promised of the completed piece a few years back.


Patrick

Very cool display Patrick.

Magazines and papers had a number of great cover illustrations. Here's one of my favorites

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/184/3...e0f50ece_o.jpg

Patrick - That's a beautiful piece, thanx for posting.
Doug

nice piece, nice cards
 

Patrick, Now that's how to display a card collection...I'm not a card guy but that's the best display of cards I recall...that's realizing they're display potential!

But I am a poster guy and that supplement is interesting, not to mention it looks great...Based on the size you gave of the frame, I'm guessing it's about 20" tall...Is that printed on newspaper stock? Is there, or can you recall if there was any printing on the back?...Newspaper art supplments seem to have been a regular practice of newspapers from around 1900-1910..The ones I've seen are usually about 18" x 12"...so yours is extra large. The whole subject of newspaper art supplments would make a good study sometime. Below is one I have put out by the Chicago Tribune and is the typical format I've seen...inside the mat it's 17" x 10 1/2"

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Carlton -

When you talk about "art supplements" are you talking about blank backed separate issues only, or are you including newspaper pages?

I have a few posted below.

I can't find the A's supplement (now I have something to do today), but I think it's about a foot high, and blank backed.

The St Louis Globe-Democrat is 17.5" wide and 22.5" high.

The St Paul Sunday Pioneer is 16" wide and 22" high.

Both of the larger pieces are just pages from the paper, so they have printing on the reverse.

I'm curious what similar items anybody else has, apologies to Patrick if we're hi-jacking his post, but all good posts (like his) get the responses flowing.

Doug

Very Cool display all the way around Patrick. I've wanted to ask you for a while now what your tie to catchers is. Were you a catcher in high school?

Doug, I have a couple of the St Louis supplements too. I would rather have the one you have though. This is the only one I have photographed. Plank is one and I cant remember who the other guy is. I love the color graphics.

Patrick, that is very cool...and I love that display case...I think the cards look better in screwdowns than they do in "slabs".

Doug and Clint, those St Louis Globe supplements are pretty cool...I've not seen them before...are they cataloged?

Thanks for the responses
 

Thanks for the responses.

Carlton,

The supplement is newspaper stock, and I believe it did have print on the other side if my memory is correct.

The St Louis Globe-Democrat Supplements look awesome. I regret not grabbing a Roger Bresnahan example that was on eBay years ago. It also was oversized.


Thanks ,


Patrick

different
 

Doug....Yes I was refering to blank backed separate issues, as you call them..not newspaper pages...From all this I've surmised "newspaper supplments" and "newspaper art supplments" though related are different...

Now when I hear the term newspaper supplment I'll think of illustrated newspaper pages that were produced as special features...

No matter, Patrick's catcher illustration supplement looks great...especially whre he's got it above his display case.....and the vintage frame is perfect...nice work Patrick!

The Visual Appeal
 

Hi Clint,

I wasn't a catcher.

My short answer would be that I have always been attracted to the visual appeal of not only catcher cards, but also of catcher memorabilia. I also prefer to display my collection, and I enjoy it every day.

Thanks,


Patrick