Two c1930 Baseball Statues Disappeared from eBay

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Posted By: CarltonHendricks

Did anyone see these two statues below on eBay which were offered by the same seller? They were on for two days. I had the 9" one in my watch list and probably would have bid. No doubt somebody made an offer and the seller closed the auction. There is a larger version of the 9" that I'd rather have anyway. The seller claimed they were bronze, but I'm pretty certain they were both Galvano casts. It's not unusual for people to mistake the two mediums.

STARTED Nov-12-07 ENDED Nov-13-07 16:07:03 PST US $59.99 1930s VINTAGE 9" BRONZE BASEBALL TROPHY CATCHER EX COND
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=553&item=250187028173

STARTED Nov-12-07 ENDED Nov-13-07 16:11:45 PST US $39.99 1930s VINTAGE 6" BRONZE BASEBALL TROPHY PITCHER EX COND
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=553&item=250187019873

I have the 6" one and it's Galvano.

Jack Lincoln Lambert was the sculptor of the 9" one. I'm almost positive Lambert did the 6" as well based on the style, but have no documentation. The 9" one doesn't have a base; with the base it would have been 10 1/4" as seen in the J803 listing below

John Kanuit had a reproduction of the larger version at the 2006 National in Anaheim, seen in the bottom Left of the photo below; I recall I didn't include it in the story since it was a repro. Out of the zillions of antique things he had for sale, it was the only a reproduction as I recall, and he disclosed it up front. The black football statue of the lineman in stance wasn't a repro, but it wasn't old.

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