Your memorabilia focus?

[Leon]

I collect all things that go with the cards and the companies that made them....Here is an M101-7 Sporting News Letter I just picked up from the BST....The "cards" are all the same size, the scans are different sizes from each other.

[brownscollector78]

Nice items guys

I collect Cleveland Browns collectibles focusing mainly on vintage pennants but also dabble in figures, statues, banners and signage and other things vintage and current Browns.

Here is the most recent vintage item I've acquired, about two weeks ago

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Leon

I collect all things that go with the cards and the companies that made them....Here is an M101-7 Sporting News Letter I just picked up from the BST....The "cards" are all the same size, the scans are different sizes from each other.

I am sure glad I wasn't around back then to be bothered by junk mail, trying to send me free Babe Ruth pictures

[Tuna82]

Single Signed HOF Baseballs.

Favorite addition this year...and yes if you saw it on eBay; I know I overpaid.

Eddie Mathews ball from the Dean & Gloria Rothstein collection

[Exhibitman]

An eclectic swath of crapola [I call it "The Festival of Bric-A-Brac"]:

--Academy Awards tickets and memorabilia:



Ticket to the Oscars for 1943 films: Best Picture Casablanca



Postcard view of the scene outside the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium before the 40th Academy Awards



A "tombstone" made of the poster for the 70th Academy Awards, given to attendees at the Board of Governors Ball after the show.

--Jim Jeffries memorabilia. Jeff was a lifelong Burbank resident whose farm and boxing venue were only a few miles from my office



10.5" x 13" print of Jim Jeffries. The photographers' imprint at the bottom right is the famous Dana Studio in San Francisco. Judging from the look of the image, the imprint and Jeffries' appearance, I'd say this is a 1910 image shot of him at either the Hotel Rowardennan, near Santa Cruz CA, or Reno NV, when he was in training for the Johnson fight



PC of Jeff on the farm in Burbank



1930s snapshot of Jim Jeffries' Barn in Burbank, California, at the southwest corner of Victory and Buena Vista



7.5" x 9.5" [10" x 12" mount] mounted photo of Jim Jeffries on his farm in Burbank with his pup, with a handwritten copyright of 1906 By Jas. J. Jeffries and Jas. M. Johnson [perhaps the photographer], captioned "The Good Friends" in pencil on the mount.

--Boxing Promotional Photos: Issued by the boxers' management to promote them. I especially collect them for fighters who have no boxing cards, Jewish fighters, and fighters with interesting back stories.



1920s publicity photo of Kid Francis, who was sent to Auschwitz during WWII and killed there



George Freedom Abrams. A WWII era Jewish fighter with basically no cards (there is a postcard known). He was a top middleweight contender; Sugar Ray Robinson said Abrams was his toughest opponent.

--Groucho memorabilia:





--Big Band Leaders Signed Memorabilia



Xavier Cugat



Desi Arnaz



Cab Calloway

--Star Trek TOS

[Exhibitman]

More Bric-A-Brac:

--Exhibit Original Artwork:









--Sport Publication Art and Printing Materials:



Kid Hogan printing plate



Kid Paret printing plate



1930s publication art of Primo Carnera and Jess Willard. I suppose the suggestion was that the two were like skyscrapers. It is composed of two photos [Willard and Carnera] cut out and pasted on board with inked in details and silver ink used to remove details under Willard so it would appear he and Carnera were standing together.

--Ray Miller: my boxing cousin

[slidekellyslide]

If I collected like you Adam I'd be broke....uh...more broke than I already am.

[Runscott]

He just has a different definition of the word 'focus'