May pickups

[vintagesportscollector]

Spalding Medal depicting first baseman from my favorite of the Spalding figural trophies.

[mjkm90]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

Spalding Medal depicting first baseman from my favorite of the Spalding figural trophies.

Very cool Joe. I never would have made the trophy connection but it's obvious now that you pointed it out

[ruth-gehrig]

Fantastic 1865 Harwood and Sons Baseball Letter.
Thank you fellow member Paul for the piece and a deciphering job that was much better than my own.

Goes something like this...

Messrs. Gilbert & Wells,

We send you today for RR to ? 14 larger sacks which we suppose will hold balance of your stock of scraps.

If we were to pack them we should string up the sack at the 4 corners by cords to the joists on ceiling overhead just allowing the bottom of the sack to touch the floor--then put a man inside the sack to tend them and get in twice as many.

Yours respectfully,
H Harwood & Sons

[vintagesportscollector]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

Fantastic 1865 Harwood and Sons Baseball Letter.
Thank you fellow member Paul for the piece and a deciphering job that was much better than my own.

Very cool Mike. Harwood was the first mfg of baseballs, I believe, and this letterhead is only a few years after they began operations.

[ruth-gehrig]

Thanks Joe....and you are correct. Harwood was founded in 1858 and the first baseball factory in the world. Interesting that the original building was closed in 1998 and has now been converted into condominiums.

[icollectDCsports]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

Thanks Joe....and you are correct. Harwood was founded in 1858 and the first baseball factory in the world. Interesting that the original building was closed in 1998 and has now been converted into condominiums.

Big Yellow Taxi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgMEPk6fvpg

[JoeyFarino]

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

Thanks Joe....and you are correct. Harwood was founded in 1858 and the first baseball factory in the world. Interesting that the original building was closed in 1998 and has now been converted into condominiums.

Great research

[irv]

All the same old clichés: "Is that a woman or a man?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GONmFCkCGCc

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

Fantastic 1865 Harwood and Sons Baseball Letter.
Thank you fellow member Paul for the piece and a deciphering job that was much better than my own.

Goes something like this...

Messrs. Gilbert & Wells,

We send you today for RR to ?

The word in front of "RR" is probably via. 'We send to you today via RR (railroad) to ...' The word after to looks like Fonda.

[CarltonHendricks]

http://sportsantiques.com/1868_beadle's_broadside.htm
Great letter congrats...what a classic...interesting the clip art is very similiar to one I used for my 1868 Beadle's broadside feature...

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

Fantastic 1865 Harwood and Sons Baseball Letter.
Thank you fellow member Paul for the piece and a deciphering job that was much better than my own.

Goes something like this...

Messrs. Gilbert & Wells,

We send you today for RR to ? 14 larger sacks which we suppose will hold balance of your stock of scraps.

If we were to pack them we should string up the sack at the 4 corners by cords to the joists on ceiling overhead just allowing the bottom of the sack to touch the floor--then put a man inside the sack to tend them and get in twice as many.

Yours respectfully,
H Harwood & Sons