Thanks for the kind words Ron -- I'm constantly amazed with the new bats you manage to dig up!
Mark, a few quick answers -- the Hornsby style was I believe used by Spalding for a couple of years -- I have a Roush just like it. I don't know if perhaps the Schalk branding was unique to his bats -- I say that because the only other Schalk bat I know of that has sold at a major auction, looks just like this style.
As for the Max Carey, I think it started as a Red Smith bat, not sure when the Carey was added, but it may have been by H&B. This bat is H&B sidewrittten with both Max Carey and Red Smith, and it has Carey's C130 vault mark on it. Carey's H&B ordering records reflect his use of the Red Smith. I have another Red Smith bat that I picked up years ago just in case it too might have been used by Carey.
I will have to post some bats in the coming days.
Greg
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