horzverti ~
Good job on the eBay listing. I will be watching it with interest. I hope you don't mind my posting this link for others to enjoy ...
eBay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/400298575004...84.m1438.l2649
jollyElm ~
Thanks for sharing your detective talents with us. You are to be commended. If possible, I would like to employ your talents once again in trying to help make sense of something that continues to puzzle me involving the right field fence itself ...
Just this morning I came across another thread involving Hilltop Park. The thread is from a website called "Baseball Fever" and is dated 2008. The thread starter is an individual by the name of Philmore. The thread is 4 pages long and includes some great vintage photos of Hilltop. The link I am providing goes straight to page 2 where I found some interesting photos of the right field fence, a couple of which I have included below.
First of all, here's the link to page 2 ...
Hilltop Thread: Page 2 of 4:
http://www.baseball-fever.com/showth...top-Park/page2
Scroll down to Reply #39 and you will find the pictures I'm referring to which are dated 1912. Now take a real close look at the portion of the fence to the left of the "Coronet Dry Gin" sign. This is the best close up I have found so far and is similar to the one I posted earlier with the red arrow and "thought" was the Wayne Knit Hosiery sign. But upon closer inspection I now believe it is "not" the Wayne Knit Hosiery sign. Especially notice the style of the
W in horzverti's photo and compare it to whatever that letter is in the other photos. Also compare the wording at the bottom of both photos. After studying them at some length, I am now of the opinion that they are
two different signs. Please check them out for yourself using you xray detective eyes and see what you make of it. And if you agree that the sign in the 2008 thread doesn't say Wayne Knit Hosiery, perhaps you can figure out what it does say.
There is absolutely no question in my mind that horzverti's Ty Cobb photo ...
1. Is from 1912.
2. Was taken at Hilltop Park.
3. Reads "Wayne Knit ..." on the fence.
However, I do question the wording on the other photos. And if the other photos are in fact from 1912 and
do not say "Wayene Knit Hosiery," then exactly where is the
real 1912 "Wayne Knit Hosiery" sign"
I hope I'm not driving anyone nuts with this. Its just that I'm puzzled and need some help figuring it out.
Something about the fence just doesn't jive, but I'm not sure what it is.
Will the "
Real" Wayne Knit Hosiery fence please stand up!
Thanks.
BOB52
PS ~
Just for the fun of it I am including a picture of the "Venus Pencils" sign that was discussed earlier in this thread. It too is from the 2008 Baseball Fever thread and is shown there on reply #37