November pick-ups

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I don't chime in very often but I keep up with the forum regularly. I wanted to share the haul I brought in this past weekend. A good friend of mine passed away a few weeks ago and his wife asked me to take his collection. Although there weren't many eccentric and rare items, I'll probably never have a better day from a collecting standpoint than I did on Saturday. Most things are pre 1930 with 15 ca 1910 catchers masks, many gloves including a nice Reach Duck Web, uniforms, many, many team photos, rain cap helmet, much golf and tennis along with the baseball, basketball, and football items I'll show you here. Dan, note the framed Nebraska Indians basketball broadside! Enjoy the pics.

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I know this is a baseball thread but I thought you might enjoy the scope of the whole thing. A question, the uniform with the blue A on the breast is a Spalding and has professional looking sewn names in pants and collar. Any idea what team may be? I assume it's minor league 1930s-40s.

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Very cool stuff.

Max

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Wow...wonderful collection!

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Bert, nice haul, but your post makes me a bit sad because I think I knew your friend. A lot of that stuff I recognize from the antique malls on I-80 in Ashland and Omaha. I can't remember the fellows name, but I bought stuff from him and talked to him on the phone a few times and also chatted with him when he used to set up at the Lincoln antique shows. I hadn't been to the Ashland mall in a few months and when I went in there a few weeks ago I noticed all of his stuff was gone. I had my eye on the Nebraska Indians broadside, but he always wanted too much for it....That Duckweb glove he had something like $2,000 on it...not sure what it's actually worth, but it must be pretty rare. The last item I bought from him was a nifty O'Neill, NE cabinet photo.

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Don Girard was his name...a very good guy and he was set up at those places. Lived in North Platte for years but health forced him to Omaha. His wife really wanted the stuff out of the house and essentially didn't want anything for it. All of the stuff had price tags on it with much of it priced high. I'm thankful to have it all and will disperse of much of it when I get time. Dan, feel free to email an offer on the NI broadside. I'm going to take it out of the frame and take a closer look at it.