August 2011 pickup thread

Joe Hunter · #1 08-11-2011, 09:31 PM

I recently purchased an original copy of Harpers Pictorial History of the Civil War, Part One. This is a voluminous book published in the late 1800's containing 400 pages of Civil War woodcuts, maps, and text. While looking through it I noticed this woodcut with Capt Abner Doubleday. Just thought it was interesting.

71buc · #2 08-11-2011, 09:43 PM

I just received this one in the mail today. It is my first die cut Chesterfield display piece. I really think 1950's advertising is classic.

mr2686 · #3 08-12-2011, 07:16 AM

Picked up a Fred Merkle auto at a recent auction. Will go nicely next to my Fred Snodgrass.

Scott Garner · #4 08-12-2011, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by mr2686

Picked up a Fred Merkle auto at a recent auction. Will go nicely next to my Fred Snodgrass.

Mike,
Nice momento of "the boner"!!

mr2686 · #5 08-12-2011, 07:24 AM

Thanks Scott. I wonder if anyone will get my inside joke when I have Merkle and Snodgrass next to each other on my wall. One known for the "boner" and the other known for the "muff".

Mark · #6 08-12-2011, 09:58 AM

Roger Peckinpaugh. This one looks to come from the 1922-25 label period.

DixieBaseball · #7 08-12-2011, 10:25 AM

August Pick up :

Scott Garner · #8 08-12-2011, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by mr2686

Thanks Scott. I wonder if anyone will get my inside joke when I have Merkle and Snodgrass next to each other on my wall. One known for the "boner" and the other known for the "muff".

Mike,
That's pretty funny! I love it!

Mark · #9 08-12-2011, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by mr2686

Picked up a Fred Merkle auto at a recent auction. Will go nicely next to my Fred Snodgrass.

Also, two men whose lives were permanently damaged -- even ruined? --by a single play.

deebro041 · #10 08-12-2011, 10:56 AM

Nice pickup Jeremy!

mr2686 · #11 08-12-2011, 11:20 AM

Mark, not sure how damaged they were but they both were known for those plays for the rest of their lives, as well as to this day. Interesting note, I was unaware the Merkle was also involved in a play that could have taken Snodgrass off the hook. Turns out that Chief Meyers was as much to blame for the loss as Snodgrass but never got the blame:
http://old.thedailystar.com/sports/2...phamilton.html

Mark · #12 08-12-2011, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by mr2686

Mark, not sure how damaged they were but they both were known for those plays for the rest of their lives, as well as to this day. Interesting note, I was unaware the Merkle was also involved in a play that could have taken Snodgrass off the hook. Turns out that Chief Meyers was as much to blame for the loss as Snodgrass but never got the blame:
http://old.thedailystar.com/sports/2...phamilton.html

If you read or listen to the Ritter interview with Snodgrass, you will recognize how hurt Snodgrass was 50 years later by the reputation. He mentions one incident that is telling: Many years after he retired, he was in church with his family when a visiting preacher came to give the sermon. This preacher began by saying that he was from some small town (Ventura?), which he identified as being the home town of Fred Snodgrass. Not knowing that Snodgrass was present, the preacher reminded the congregation that Fred was the goat of the 1912 world series. Snodgrass said that he and his family just stoop up and left. On the tape, you can tell that it still ate him up. I've heard that Merkle had an even tougher time.

DixieBaseball · #13 08-12-2011, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by deebro041

Nice pickup Jeremy!

Thanks Dan ! I was surprised at how many pages were in this record book & schedule. (40+) Compact, but loaded with info, records, and dozens of pictures.

CarltonHendricks · #14 08-12-2011, 01:43 PM

Chris, Congrats on the Max McGee...I like the story and your attributes list....especially the two offers of $5,000.00 and $6,000....which sounds about what you'd net after auction fees....but then again, first superbowl touchdown and all....maybe it would catch fire if you auctioned it....Years of stopping at that store really paid off...Reminds me of Mike Hovet at the National this year....pickings were a little slim but he kept combing and found that D&M trophy
.

Gary, I like your Morrisiana ribbon...everything about it is very thumbs up...nice condition, great vignette with the two tone high top shoes etc., it's N.Y. baseball which I'd have never known, and the red white and blue stars and stripes letters are incredible...I've never seen letters like that...probably the best ribbon like it I've seen. I speculate you got it from either Terry Knouse/Tic and Tic...or Glen Mechanic. Knouse had the one below at the National, which doesn't come close to yours.....looks like same maker

Speaking of the National....I've got about 500 photos I'll be posting on my site pretty soon Lord willing....have been plucking away at it but so exhausted when get home from work!

Below is one of my National p/u's...a really out there Carlton kind of piece...Doesn't photograph well...looks better in person....The dealer Robert Klevens of Prestige Collectibles, pictured at bottom, specialized in Japanese baseball....said it was only the second Japanese BB related broadside he's ever had...He said he had researched it and If I recall correctly he said it was from 1924 just months after Yankee Stadium opened ...I'll take it in that condition anyday instead of mint...if they're too good of shape you're nervous it's a repro....this one there's no doubt when you hold it. If you know me you know I'm wild for broadsides....that thing stopped me in my tracks...I wasn't leaving without it!

Hot Springs Bathers · #15 08-12-2011, 02:04 PM

Great broadside and photos! How about some more National photos for those of us unfortunate enough to have been stuck at home. Anybody!

Scott Garner · #16 08-12-2011, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by CarltonHendricks

Chris, Congrats on the Max McGee...I like the story and your attributes list....especially the two offers of $5,000.00 and $6,000....which sounds about what you'd net after auction fees....but then again, first superbowl touchdown and all....maybe it would catch fire if you auctioned it....Years of stopping at that store really paid off...Reminds me of Mike Hovet at the National this year....pickings were a little slim but he kept combing and found that D&M trophy
.

Gary, I like your Morrisiana ribbon...everything about it is very thumbs up...nice condition, great vignette with the two tone high top shoes etc., it's N.Y. baseball which I'd have never known, and the red white and blue stars and stripes letters are incredible...I've never seen letters like that...probably the best ribbon like it I've seen. I speculate you got it from either Terry Knouse/Tic and Tic...or Glen Mechanic. Knouse had the one below at the National, which doesn't come close to yours.....looks like same maker

Speaking of the National....I've got about 500 photos I'll be posting on my site pretty soon Lord willing....have been plucking away at it but so exhausted when get home from work!

Below is one of my National p/u's...a really out there Carlton kind of piece...Doesn't photograph well...looks better in person....The dealer Robert Klevens of Prestige Collectibles, pictured at bottom, specialized in Japanese baseball....said it was only the second Japanese BB related broadside he's ever had...He said he had researched it and If I recall correctly he said it was from 1924 just months after Yankee Stadium opened ...I'll take it in that condition anyday instead of mint...if they're too good of shape you're nervous it's a repro....this one there's no doubt when you hold it. If you know me you know I'm wild for broadsides....that thing stopped me in my tracks...I wasn't leaving without it!

Carlton,
Great pickup- congrats!!

HRBAKER · #17 08-12-2011, 07:37 PM

Not sure of the year, pennant is in great shape.

GKreindler · #18 08-12-2011, 10:00 PM

Scott,

LOVE that Koufax photo - simply stunning. Bravo!

Graig

Scott Garner · #19 08-12-2011, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by GKreindler

Scott,

LOVE that Koufax photo - simply stunning. Bravo!

Graig

Thanks Graig! Any time you want to borrow it for a painting, let me know.
Best,
Scott

GKreindler · #20 08-12-2011, 10:42 PM

Scott,

Thank you for the offer! Anytime you want to send over a high-res scan of it, I'd be happy to receive one.

Graig

GaryPassamonte · #21 08-13-2011, 06:15 AM

Carlton,
You're right on about the baseball ribbon. I spent quite a bit of time with both Glen and Terry and they are two of the hobby's best. I got the ribbon from Terry. He has the most incredible group in the hobby.

matty39 · #22 08-13-2011, 12:40 PM

Picked up six extremely rare 1936-38 bf3s. Note the Dimaggio spelling.

slidekellyslide · #23 08-13-2011, 07:04 PM

Not baseball, but a very cool Civil War era scrapbook that has a handwritten Confederate General Order, a piece of a rebel flag and flower picked up from the battle of Pittsburg Landing (Shiloh), a piece of the curtain from the Marshall House where Col. Ellsworth was murdered, and lots of Confederate notes. For those that don't know Ellsworth is the first officer of the North to be killed in the war..he was a very good friend of Abraham Lincoln. Union Soldiers in the weeks after Ellsworth's death collected souvenirs at the Marshall House where he was killed. Anyone know what something like this might be worth?

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