March pickup thread
 

Lovin' this 1884 Peck and Snyder tin badge/medal with original ad

Great badge!

I'm a little behind on my posts. I'll start with a dash/diamond/dash J F Hillerich and Son bat I just got. It's 35" long and 37 ozs. The wood is dark and possibly hickory. Uncracked and in fine condition. It is the "Trademark" version and probably dates from 1894-1896.

Picked up this very cool NFL toy box at a tag sale this morning. Also found this Mets pinback that I can't locate on the interwebs. Common or tough?

That is gorgeous!

Rescued these from an antique store today.

Great pickups all. keep it coming

That is a beauty...glad you were able to pick it up.

Picked up a few more pinbacks yesterday in another antique store.

Found today

Nice item!

I have one also, but mine was definitely used. LOL

Very nice!!

A big shout out to fellow Net54'er "edtiques." While beating the bushes (much deeper than I ever do), Ed found this from AbeBooks, a SF independent bookstore. They were selling it for Bolerium Books, a tiny SF bookstore specializing in books and ephemera from various social movements...gay, communist, black, labor, etc. Bolerium is in a third floor suite and open by appointment. Say what you want about those radicals but the customer service was outstanding! "Watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical; a liberal, fanatical, criminal." :p Fast, FREE shipping and extremely well packaged. This pin was one of my 50 Most Wanted. I had seen it ONCE; I don't remember where. The "poster" is so low budget it was printed directly on corrugated cardboard. Thanks, Ed! You are what Net54 is all about!

Anxious to know what the other 49 are on the list!

More good stuff today!

Some great pickups guys and we're only 6 days into March.

My 1956 Oak Premier Card Vending machine arrived today. The right-side glass broke during shipping but I think I can get that replaced pretty easily. The rest of the machine is really clean and works well.

I just need to put some 1956T cards in the machine and get some gumballs. :-)

Beautiful!!

Added another Brown Portrait

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Those are great, congrats

great stuff especially love the vending machine and the foot locker

Some pins with nice patina

Very nice machine -
Hopefully you will not mind - what did you pay for it?
Jerry Sage

I think it was/is in the B/S/T section….

Hey Jerry never look back..... LOL Just think of all the trips you have gone on with what you sold... Stay well my friend...;);)

Al -
All is good here :)
Not looking back - very pleased with my decisions.
I was curious about the Premiere Machine because I have one left.
Never been used NOS.

I am fortunate to have acquired the original "Pride of the Yankees" award presented to Lefty Gomez in 1987 by George Steinbrenner at the Yankees Homecoming banquet April 16 of that year. It consists of the original metal die cast plate that was used for the front page and a print of the front page signed by Willie Mays and several other Hall of Fame players. A pretty cool piece.

black soxxx
 

type 3 at best I believe, of Hap Felsch:

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1916 White Sox Spring Training RPPC
 

Won this nice RPPC at LOTG...since I had the matching type 1 photo it made sense. This was during the White Sox spring training in Mineral Wells, TX in 1916. The other player is "Hickey" and I have tried to determine exactly who he was with no luck.

Bam Bam Cam
 

my vintage baseball collecting has been pretty quiet for the last year, largely in part to the fact that i have been helping my daughter build her game used stick collection... her latest: a 1990 cam neely gamer signed and dated to 1990, from the collection of long time flyers PA announcer Lou Nolan

1940 WS partial Cincinnati team ball. But check out the awesome Union Telegram!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ff8b2fda83.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...9dc871346d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...7c5879ad6e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b6c9ecc6eb.jpg

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Very cool, Tim!

Two new arrivals today; Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds. Both postally unused.

The Polo Grounds one is a bit worn around the edges and I already had a black ink version, but how can you let a vintage postcard with John McGraw pass by you without buying it?

I didn't get mine from the BST section. Jerry, I've just sent you a PM with details. (Your Oak Premier looks fantastic Jerry).

If anyone has any information about the decals (or how to get repop decals) used on the Oak Premier machines, I'd be interested. The only thing about my machine that I'd like to improve is the decal on the glass.

Added a Marquard Follow Through “Red Dash”.

Picked up this 1946 Feller All-Stars Barnstorming Program. The back page is missing, but the program is beautifully scored. There is a newspaper article about the game taped into it, and the person wrote the date Oct 7, 1946 in it. This is one of the earlier versions of the program which has a white cover. Later examples (ones printed for later games) had an all orange cover.

The listing only had the front page and the scorecard page, so it was a cool surprise to see the ticket stub taped into the program behind the newspaper article.

The scorecard is filled out including Paige in the game, though the newspaper clipping does not show him. The Paige All-Stars had Artie Wilson, Henry Thompson, Quincy Trouppe, Howard Easterling, Buck O'Neil etc. The Feller team had Phil Rizzutto, Bob Lemon etc.

The Feller All-Stars won the majority of the games of the series, though the Paige All-Stars won this one.

Today’s arrival
 

Got a message online from an antiques dealer. She thought I might like this. Set me back a whopping $1.50.

From the Philly show

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Postcard of Johnny Hayes, winner of the 1908 Olympic marathon.

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Picked up this ring bat. 7 total rings with a unique coloring to the rings.

Ron- Nice bat with interesting colors. I don't think I've seen blue rings like that before.

Good one, Jeff! :cool:

Thank you Gary. I’ve looked and couldn’t find one either with those colors. Definitely an early bat. I’ll continue to look on here, there’s some great threads with ring bats.

Just picked up this incredible 1909 Reds Team photo. Love the exact date!

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I picked this 2 1/8 inch Pee Wee Reese pin up. Unfortunately, it has some spots, the ribbon's dirty and faded but it's a scarce pin.

The spots aren’t that bad and yiu can always find a new ribbon.

Mike and I have already exchanged messages, but others may be interested to know that the first 11 m114 Baseball Magazine supplements
were released in December 1916 and this was one of them.

The others were :
Dodgers Team
Larry Gardner
Charles Herzog
Rogers Hornsby
Fielder Jones
Benny Kauff
Dave Robertson
Babe Ruth (pitching)
George Sisler
Zack Wheat

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And thank you Doug for your help whenever I have had a question regarding the M114s. I admire the amount of effort you have put into collecting and researching these items. Maybe a reference book could be in the works???👊🏼

Not a huge find, but I found this baseball glove charm for sale. It’s the same ones that you often see attached to vintage pinbacks, so I picked it up.

A couple of additions to my low end Giants collection...a tray with the SF Chronicle headline after they beat the Dodgers in the 1962 NL Playoff...shown with matching mug and a mug with the SF Examiner headline...there is also a glass candy dish and pennant with the Examiner headline. The Examiner headline was better but the Chronicle mug is of better quality. They were sold at Bullock and Jones, a SF store that had been around since the Gold Rush days.

I also picked up a Wine List from the Francisco Grande. The Giants owned the resort and trained there from 1961-79. I have a ton of Francisco Grande stuff.

Jack the Giant Killer
 

Big Ed
 

I picked up this autographed 1921 photo of Tommy Melton. Tommy won the Indy 500 in 1921 and 1923. He set the land speed record in the Duesenberg pictured in 1920. Unfortunately, he committed suicide 1962.

Finally picked up one of the brown HOF bats for my favorite player Wade Boggs. Pic is from the listing as I just bought it this morning.:)

That's a pretty cool photo, congrats.

'61 Golden Press
 

Have always wanted this set.....really nice condition - all intact with no staining....tempted to punch them out!! But will keep as is....

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Made a deal for these 2 Boggs bats last night. I believe this gives me 40 different Wade Boggs model bats.:)

Always loved these. Ubiquitous in the old days, getting harder and harder to come by now.

That boggles my mind.

Nice one!

LOL, good one. It amazes me there are that many different models. I know of at least 10 other models I don't own yet and I only collect Louisville Slugger bats.

Picked up a Harry Heilmann professional model bat.

Sweet bat! Beautiful patina…

Thank you Jim!

That is awesome!

Fantastic! Beautiful Bat of a .400 Hitter, and tremendously underrated HOFer!

Thank you sir!

Mark, thank you! I'm loving the youtube channel. I look forward to watching your upcoming episodes. Your collection is out of this world! Thank you for sharing it.

Sure thing... so glad you are enjoying it! The latest episode focuses on the transition from the Lemon Peel to Figure 8 Ball. Pretty interesting "evolution"...

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Baseball Magazines
 

Added two more nice condition prewar magazines to my Baseball Star & HOFer Magazines Collection

Some amazing pickups this month. Doug, I love that Red Sox M114.

I've added a Roger Maris Cut Signature (JSA Certified) to go in what I'm now calling Yankees Corner.

Those pennants are off the charts!

I do too, but it's not mine, it was posted by docpatlv

A few nice college football items

My apologies docpatlv. A very nice pickup.

BTW, I had a look at the image gallery from your footer. What a fantastic collection

Picked up this original photo of the Atlanta Crackers. Shown on the far left is a young Bob Uecker. Ca.1958https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5ba9fc24c0.jpg

No worries Gary, and thanks. Appreciate the kind words. It’s what happens when you have no focus.

I haven’t posted a pick up in quite sometime. Here is an autographed Willie Stargell Hall of Fame induction ceremony invitation I just added to my collection.

New Pickup
 

I am so lucky to acquire a former AAGPBL 's album of when she played back in the 1940's and later again in the early 50's. These 3 photo albums tell a story which began when she was 15 and continued through 1992 when she was involved with the Penny Marshall production of League of their Own. There are over 60 original photos from the time period and several like these 2 shown here are also signed. A treasure for sure.

My fascination with scoreboards continues....
 

Just received this scoreboard in the mail. The Johnnie Neblett story was tragic.

Great piece!!

Thank you. I really like the colors! It will be a good thing if there is a long break before another scoreboard that strikes my fancy comes up for sale.

I love it, too! Columbus Red Birds? 1930s-40s?