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06-28-2010, 03:14 PM
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seats
last pic
Last edited by batsballsbases; 04-12-2016 at 10:17 AM. 
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06-28-2010, 05:14 PM
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Yes I'm married but she allows me the basement man cave and my office to decorate how I please. My plan is to display them but seemed silly to purchase something then turn around and ruin the value could have gone to Vegas and pissed away money if I wanted.
They're a row of 5 and really considering cutting them apart into 2 pairs with an extra seat that would just be the wood and seat bottom. Makes it easier to display as a row of 5 is almost 8 foot long. Or other option take them apart keep the original slates intact and just use replacement wood painted correctly that way could always reform them into a row of 5. Looking into soda blasting the paint and rust off they might be able to just remove the top layer paint and leave the original green on the wood parts would be the ideal solution. But have to weigh cost of that.
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06-28-2010, 07:31 PM
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My experience would be to restore the seat unless it has the original paint on the outside. I spent months restoring a figural Tiger Stadium Seat that had paint from a local college team on the seat. You might say it was a labor of love and I never thought I would sell the seat. Little did I know I would sell the seat a year after restoring it since I found something I had to have and I'm not a Tigers fan. The seat sold for 4K in an auction 10 years ago and I doubt it would sell for half that today. I miss having the seats in my office and I hope whoever has them today enjoys them.
Mike
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06-28-2010, 07:50 PM
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At first I thought the tiger was holding a vuvuzela but upon closer inspection I see that it is a bat.
 I am sure that whomever (whoever?, whatever) owns the seats now is enjoying them. I know I would be. You did a beautiful job of restoration.
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David McDonald Greetings and Love to One and All Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.
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06-28-2010, 09:27 PM
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Mike,
Those seats look terrific. In fact, almost too good. Remember these are stadium seats. Most never saw any kind of preparation, or restoration. They got painted. Every few years. Period. In the case of the Yankee Stadium seats, some (the straight back and seats) went into the Stadium in 1923. The curved back and seats, were installed sometime in the 1940's when they pulled the folding chairs out of the box seat areas. If you want to make them look like they did, get some of that Yankee Stadium blue, from Sherwin Williams and slather it on!  (But, like David said, you did do a terrific job of restoring them.)
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Jim Van Brunt Last edited by Jim VB; 06-29-2010 at 10:27 AM.
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