January 2012 Pick-Up Thread...

[Scott Garner]

Not supremely challenging to find, but I was able to finally add this 1950's Bob Feller pinback button that I found at an antique mall in North Cincinnati yesterday. I've had this on my want list for awhile and finally nabbed one. The best news is that its in great shape and was on sale for 25% off. Nice!!

[CarltonHendricks]

18 1/4" x 12"


24" x 18.75


Read more about this broadside on my home page www.SportsAntiques.com

It's been a good January for broadsides..one of my favorite collecting areas. I picked up the three above over the last month. One of the best aspects a broadside can have is the year plainly announced...and the FB and the balloning both have the year...the Yale one is a little tougher...no sport indicated. I'm pretty positive the Yale vs. Riverview was for Riverview Military Academy, in Poughkeepsie New York...opened in 1866, closed in the 20's ...The two schools are about 80 miles apart. And I think it would have been for baseball being that it was in May....and the word "game" called at 3:30, is used as opposed to a "meet" or "regatta" or "race" or something...

The football one is for Harvard freshmen vs Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire NH...Harvard and Exeter were very tight at the turn of the century...Exeter had the first cinder track and Harvard would travel there to use it...The broadside is a pink color.


All three are so fragile I hesitate to even touch them any more than necessary until I get them framed. The French ballooning one is so big 33 1/2" x 16 1/2" and it's so fragile I'm amazed it's in such good shape. I asked the seller where he got it and he couldn't remember and said he'd had it a long time and stored it carefully.









You find antique broadsides printed on various weight paper...from heavy cardstock to very light paper. All the ones above are on very lightweight paper. The lightweight ones are interesting...Broadsides printed on cardstock would have had to have been pinned or nailed to display...But I think these lightweight paper ones were dipped in a wheat paste solution and pasted to a wall. As I recall from reading up on it years ago...the persons who went around pasting posters to walls and fences were called bill posters and I suppose it was a profession of sorts. I speculate during the 19th - early 20th century a school or business or some entity would place an order for a broadside with a printing house and perhaps the printing house would hire a bill poster to go around with a stack of broadsides pasting them up. As I recall this was common in London and Paris...and no doubt here in America. Obviously the lightweight ones that have survived never got posted. The bigger a broadside the more rare.


Occasionally I'll buy a non sports broadside. Probably the greatest non sport broadside I ever saw was a could'a should'a....It was probably 5 years ago...I saw it on eBay and swung too low...It was a lecture broadside for Frederick Douglas the 19th century African American social reformer...It was about four feet tall and his name was in huge elongated font...a total classic...but it was in real bad shape....But if ever there was a broadside worth restoring!!! Phew!...I've never forgotten that one.

[Ladder7]

Boston Braves pillow cover.





Frederick Douglass, Two of his son's served with the 54th Mass Reg't, Vols (Glory). Keep an eye out Carlton, it may return one day...

[stone193]

I like the fact that it has the original cardboard back and the pins are really in nice condition. Got this from McCann.

[CarltonHendricks]

Very nice...you scored 100 on that one. I like the walking billboard

[Tigerden]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Not supremely challenging to find, but I was able to finally add this 1950's Bob Feller pinback button that I found at an antique mall in North Cincinnati yesterday. I've had this on my want list for awhile and finally nabbed one. The best news is that its in great shape and was on sale for 25% off. Nice!!

Nice Scott. Anytime you can find a decent baseball relic at an antique mall, and it is not grossly overpriced, it is a bonus. I seem to find that quality baseball related items are few and far between these days at the antique stores.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Tigerden

Nice Scott. Anytime you can find a decent baseball relic at an antique mall, and it is not grossly overpriced, it is a bonus. I seem to find that quality baseball related items are few and far between these days at the antique stores.

+1. Couldn't agree more. I never find baseball stuff.


Adam and Michael,
It's interesting, but I infrequently ever get a chance to visit Antique Malls these days although I did a lot of this in my past. I happened to have a business call with an account in the area and had never ever been in this huge Antique Mall. It looked big and I had a few minutes to kill after the call so I went inside and found the Feller pinback in the second glass case that I looked at. It was marked $44. When I went to check out the cashier let me know it was on sale for 25% off. Sweet!

Antique malls are definately hit and miss, but I've managed to pull a few great pickups out of them through the years.....

Thanks for your props!
Scott

[murphusa]

still find 95% of my stuff at garage sales, flea markets and antique stores. Out of the house at 4:30 on Saturday and Sundays to go to markets

[KrenBats]

Was lucky to pick up this extremely rare Winchester Kren's Special Hans Lobert bat. Kren bats were only offered for one year - 1923 - in the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. catalog. This is one of six models that was offered that year. I have seen a couple of Ruth models, but never a Lobert model. Very happy to add it to my Kren collection.

[MGHPro]

Mike.
Super rare bat, great pick up
Matt