October 2011 Pick-Up Thread

[packs]

[ruth-gehrig]

Although you can't "play" with it, I like the one hanging because it takes up so much less space! Very nice!!

[iwantitiwinit]

Kzoo looks like you have a really nice sized garage too!!! Any classic cars you'd ever care to post?

[sayhey24]

So much cool stuff this month -- I love those Twins pennants and the Larsen perfect game tickets.

Matt -- just when I thought I'd seen it all, you come up with a great idea -- using a pinball board as a piece of art on the wall. That looks fantastic, and I have to admit that I too am envious of the size of your garage!

Greg

[Kzoo]

Originally Posted by iwantitiwinit

Kzoo looks like you have a really nice sized garage too!!! Any classic cars you'd ever care to post?

Guys............Hey. That 'garage' is actually the back warehouse at our body shop. My Dad does have a few early cars, with two of them from 1911, but that warehouse is generally used more for work related to the shop....however, my Dad is currently using that space while restoring his 1911 Kissel Kar that is in a million pieces. I'll post photos someday next year when it's completed. Thanks for the interest.......Matt

[WillowGrove]

And I thought I was the only one who appreciated the space in that huge garage. (AND wanted to see the one hanging on the wall already!).

Here's my addition - I owned this game as a kid when my antique-collecting parents bought it for me. Years later we sold it. And then I started to miss it. So I was lucky enough to replace it this month - I wonder how many years will have to go by for me to forget this one is NOT the one I first owned.

Great stuff this month. thanks for looking - peter

[GKreindler]

Lovin' this shot of the Scooter that I just received!



BEAUTIFUL light.

Keep it up guys - this month is shaping up to be pretty darn amazing. I'm loving what I'm seeing thus far!

Graig

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by GKreindler

Lovin' this shot of the Scooter that I just received!



BEAUTIFUL light.

Keep it up guys - this month is shaping up to be pretty darn amazing. I'm loving what I'm seeing thus far!

Graig

Graig,

LOVE the Scooter shot!!

[vthobby]

Congrats to everyone on this thread for some great items.

I posted pics of the cover of this October pick up in another thread but just today I found this October thread (I'm a newbie!) so I thought I'd post a few of the inside pages of this magazine.

Cobb with his car and his kid. Ty Cobb had a heart? Who knew?!

Shoeless Joe Jackson in his glory!

A great ad for an A's poster for 50c which was quite a bit back in 1911! I'll take 2 please!

These are just 3 pages in this thick magazine. It is filled with history including another ad page for 25c posters of individual players and it lists the players including Matty.

I was thinking of trying to order all 6 and was going to send $2 just to be fair! Hey c'mon, I'm only 100 years too late on the order!

[mjkm90]

I've been looking for a catcher figural for a while. This is an early National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, N.Y. souvenir ashtray circa 1939 by K&O Novelties Company. They produced detailed bookends and figurines from gray metal or bronze from 1895 to 1939. Baseball Museum opened to the public in 1938 or 39 and the ashtray would have been a very early piece sold or presented at that time. Although this isn't a particularly large piece, I appreciate the detail and uniqueness of it. I've never seen another.