Let's See Your Holy Grail - Prize Possession - #1 Item

[jcmtiger]

This was my Holy Grail, now at REA for the Spring 2016 auction.
1904 thru 1911 Detroit Baseball Club Financial Ledger. A few pages pictured.

Joe

[ScottR81]

My Cubs Fav's

[CW]

Originally Posted by ScottR81

My Cubs Fav's

Amazing displays!

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

Circa 1956 Mantle Game Used Bat.

Museum worthy!

[SAllen2556]

I have two I'd never sell. Neither have a ton of monetary value, but to me...priceless!
My grandfather was a photographer for the Detroit News. This hung in his basement until I inherited it. This is an original News photo of the '35 Tigers taken by William Keunzel.



My dad was a photographer for the Free Press and got to go to the annual Tiger party around 1977. He walked around with a notepad and got a whole bunch of autographs personalized to me. You can imagine being 12 years old and waking up to see this on the kitchen table! Unfortunately, Ralph was very wrong!

[atx840]

Amazing pieces everyone, neat to see the diversity in what people consider their #1s.

Jamie that BL is insane, its definitely in the right collection.

[GoCubsGo32]

This is the original plaque that belonged to the "Cannon Trophy" (college football rivalry trophy between Purdue University and University of Illinois). This plaque has been on the rivalry trophy since the first year they started the tradition in 1943. As you can see, the plaque is filled and both universities agree to start a new plaque.I was very fortunate to find the opportunity to owning this piece of history. As a second generation Purdue Alum. it's priceless to me.


The plaque:


The Cannon Trophy in Purdue's possession (after winning the rivalry game 2014) before removing the plaque.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by jcmtiger

This was my Holy Grail, now at REA for the Spring 2016 auction.
1904 thru 1911 Detroit Baseball Club Financial Ledger. A few pages pictured.

Joe

Wow! Pretty awesome! That's not my cup o' tea, but it is certainly a unique item! Good luck with the sale!

[Howe’s Hunter]

Originally Posted by jcmtiger

1904 thru 1911 Detroit Baseball Club Financial Ledger. A few pages pictured.

If I'm reading this correctly, Cobb was getting less than George Mullin and Stanage?

[Bestdj777]

Here's mine. A 1959 Venezuelan:

[almostdone]

Not a holy grail n the same sence of the word but defiantly an original one of a kind and I love just looking at it and thinking about how it all came together. A few years ago I started doing through the mail autograph requests from former players. By far the nicest and one of the most gracious players was former Brooklyn Dogers pitcher Carl Erskine. He ne I actually ended up writing back and forth a number of times.i decided to put together a custom piece featuring one of his greatest accomplishments. In the 1953 World Series he set a record by striking out 14 Yankees in one game (since been broken).
I sent him a photo of him pitching which he signed with the record breaking inscription. Then he listed the names of each strikeout victim in order across the top. I ended up matting the photo with a ticket stub to the game as well as a 1961 Nu Scoops card describing the accomplishment and a index card which he deceived the toughest strikeout that day.
It doesn't have a ton of monetary value like so many items posted here but I know it is 100% unique and it's hanging in my room making it 100% mine.
Thanks for reading. Enjoy.
Drew

[dclarkraiders]

Originally Posted by almostdone

Not a holy grail n the same sence of the word but defiantly an original one of a kind and I love just looking at it and thinking about how it all came together. A few years ago I started doing through the mail autograph requests from former players. By far the nicest and one of the most gracious players was former Brooklyn Dogers pitcher Carl Erskine. He ne I actually ended up writing back and forth a number of times.i decided to put together a custom piece featuring one of his greatest accomplishments. In the 1953 World Series he set a record by striking out 14 Yankees in one game (since been broken).
I sent him a photo of him pitching which he signed with the record breaking inscription. Then he listed the names of each strikeout victim in order across the top. I ended up matting the photo with a ticket stub to the game as well as a 1961 Nu Scoops card describing the accomplishment and a index card which he deceived the toughest strikeout that day.
It doesn't have a ton of monetary value like so many items posted here but I know it is 100% unique and it's hanging in my room making it 100% mine.
Thanks for reading. Enjoy.
Drew

Very nice piece. Thanks for sharing the story.

Duane Clark

[Fred]

Holy crap Joe, that ledger is the kind of stuff that makes collecting fun.

[bobfreedman]

I could not pick just one so here are my four Holy Grail items and that was difficult

[Blunder19]

the only 1 in the world...

[Joshwesley]

That BL Cobb

[Fastball]

Former Holy Grail...I sure do miss him...

[Bpm0014]

The Detroit financial ledger.... WOW!

[WillowGrove]

I love that ledger too. Good luck with your sale.

I have to consider this my holy grail. My dad bought me this Sliding Billy Hamilton at a big auction in roughly 1993. He knew I loved the card and he actually surprised me with it. It didn't grade high but who cares. Luv it. Thanks for looking.

[egri]

My progress as of last July on the 1953 Topps project. I really need to update the picture, but it's a bit of a challenge getting them all to fit in one shot. I was able to get a little over 40 of them by writing to the players, which is pretty good for a set that was 61 years old when I started.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by WillowGrove

I love that ledger too. Good luck with your sale.

I have to consider this my holy grail. My dad bought me this Sliding Billy Hamilton at a big auction in roughly 1993. He knew I loved the card and he actually surprised me with it. It didn't grade high but who cares. Luv it. Thanks for looking.

simply stunning!

[MVSNYC]

Circa 1956 Mantle Game Used Bat.

[jcmtiger]

Originally Posted by StuckInOmaha

If I'm reading this correctly, Cobb was getting less than George Mullin and Stanage?

Yes 4 players were being paid more than Cobb.. This was at the beginning of his career that started in Summer of 1905.

Joe

[DBesse27]

So much great stuff! Amazing that such a die hard fan of the 71 pirates and Clemente would own the banner that hung above roberto's head during that postseason! Also love the Erskine piece, because of the pen pal friendship it resulted from. Really outstanding, guys!