September Pick Ups

[YankeeFan]

I'm new here...Love the site. Thanks for all the interesting, informative posts and pictures of great memorabilia!

Picked this up at an antiques co-op shop in PA over Labor Day weekend. I had never seen or heard of this before, so I had to buy it!

The advertisement portion at the bottom is perforated. Apparently, it was intended to be removed so that the unadultered Mantle portion could be displayed as a poster. 36" x 18"

The shop had two others: Wilt Chamberlain (advertisement tab removed) and Johnny Unitas (water damaged); otherwise, I probably would have bought them too.

[doug.goodman]

Nice way to start. Welcome to Net54 Jack.

Doug

[GrayGhost]

Nice flea market pickup. May sell soon, may keep. not a super expensive item, but I LIKE IT

Darker in person, too much light into scanner bed.

[cpbronco]

My first pick up post. Nothing too special, just a 9 inch mini pennant. Not sure on the date of this one. Could be early 1960s MLB Angels, but I haven't seen any other examples of the logo or font used by the MLB team. Might be 1950s PCL Angels?

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by cpbronco

My first pick up post. Nothing too special, just a 9 inch mini pennant. Not sure on the date of this one. Could be early 1960s MLB Angels, but I haven't seen any other examples of the logo or font used by the MLB team. Might be 1950s PCL Angels?

I'm 100% sure that this is not from the ML Los Angeles Angels era. I suspect that you are correct that this is from the PCL Angels era, FWIW.

[CarltonHendricks]

This is the fourth boxing piece in a row I picked recently.....I got a boxing clock too but no photo, post later...

www.SportsAntiques.com
Anyways....this little 4" tall boxer is what's referred to as a Vienna Bronze...usually they're painted, occasionally not...Vienna Bronzes were made in Vienna Austria from about the 1880's to as late as the 1930's I believe, Typically they're between 1" and 4" tall, usually very finely hand painted, and came in a myriad of subjects...often fanciful girly themes of animals, kittens and such...some were risqué...Arab/Oriental ones were popular....and a very slight few sports ones were produced. And yes there is a baseball one that goes for big bucks and is extremely rare...that's what I use for my thumbnail photo!. From what I can cull...They caught on in popularity and were exported around the world...typically sold in jewelry and gift stores I think. If you go to my website above you can read more about the boxing ones as I have it featured at the top my home page. Also I've written two other short features on them, links below

See the baseball one this link
http://www.sportsantiques.com/viennabbbronze.htm

See a tennis one this link
http://www.sportsantiques.com/ViennaTen.htm

See a soccer one at very bottom this link
http://sportsantiques.com/latestacquistions.htm

[71buc]

Here are my original photo pick-ups for September: 1928 Speaker, 1929 English/Evers/Hornsby, 1934 The Deans, 1930 Hornsby and family, 1936 Billy Herman, 1941 Billy Herman.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by CarltonHendricks

This is the fourth boxing piece in a row I picked recently

Once you start down the boxing path, forever will it dominate your collecting. Do not underestimate the powers of the Boxing Side.