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Circa 1876  BASEBALL CLOCK STORY

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  STORY

JOE LOUIS 

ARMY RECRUITMENT POSTER STORY

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Circa 1891

Tiffany & Co.

YALE 

FOOTBALL MATCH  SAFE

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Circa 1910

ELLENSBURG WASHINGTON

FOOTBALL TEAM PHOTO STORY

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CARLTON'S PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF GETTING 

Joe DiMaggio's

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MEETS AND TALKS TO THE YANKEE CLIPPER

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Circa 1890

HIGH WHEELER

FIGURE Story

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19th Century 

ESTES PROFESSIONAL

BASEBALL BAT STORY

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Circa 1887

Reed and Barton Silver Plate Football 

Box Story

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c 1896 

PRANG

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Circa 1907

Kayser Sohn

HORSE AND JOCKEY INKWELL

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Circa 1900

VIENNA

TENNIS

BRONZE

Story 

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Circa 1889

GAIL AND AX 

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JOHN L. SULLIVAN

Story

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Lot No. 1052

44 3/4" wide by 26" tall

"FOOT BALL"

ENGRAVING/PRINT

BY THOMAS WEBSTER

SOLD FOR

$600.00

 

I consider this one of the most important football art works, and arguably the most important 'work of art on paper' featuring football. Though English, it captures, large  and poignant, the embryonic innocence of the game from which today's college and NFL game developed. I would put it up nearly as football's answer to baseball's "Union Prisoners at Salisbury North Carolina". Hans Gerretzen of the Netherlands, one of the world's foremost soccer/Euro football collectors advised me it's quite rare in good condition, and he's seen very few even in Europe. Moreover, this example is only the second one I've seen for sale or auction. The other I acquired and have in my collection. -Carlton

 

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Lot 1358

24" x 31 1/2" c1929 Mickey Cochrane Die-Cut Tobacco Advertising Sign (partial sign)

SOLD FOR

$1,300.00

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Lot 1309

7" tall x 9 3/4" wide x 2 11/16" deep,

Late 19th-early 20th century 

J & E Stevens' "Darktown Battery" Mechanical Cast Iron Bank

SOLD FOR

$2,750.00

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Lot 1321

13" x 20 5/8" (trimmed)

c1903 Yale Baseball poster

SOLD FOR

$600.00

 

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Lot 1320

38" Turn of the century

mushroom bat

SOLD FOR

$180.00

 

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Lot 1429

8" x 3 3/4" x 2" 1959 Fleer Ted Williams Five-Cent Display Box

SOLD FOR

$475.00

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Lot 1336

5 1/8" x 23 7/8" 1911 "White Sox New Ball Park" Tri-Fold Panoramic Postcard

SOLD FOR

$275.00

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Lot 1310

1880s Cincinnati Baseball Sterling Silver Spoon

SOLD FOR

$350.00

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Lot 1323

10 1/2" x 13 1/4" 1907 "The White Sox March" Sheet Music Dedicated to Charles A. Comiskey

SOLD FOR

$500.00

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Lot 1426

9 1/4" x 13" 

1950s Wilson baseballs Advertising Sign

SOLD FOR

$250.00

 

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Lot 1403

1950 "The Jackie Robinson Story" One-Sheet Movie Poster

SOLD FOR

$1,800.00

 

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Lot 1496

54 5/8" wide x 35" tall, Boston Garden Stadium Seats Trio (3) By Heywood Wakefield 

SOLD FOR

$800.00

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Lot 1476

106" x 73" Joe DiMaggio Personally Owned Oriental Rug

SOLD FOR

$160.00

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Lot 1060

23" x 29 1/4" Turn of the century football chromolithograph

print by Albert Morgan 

SOLD FOR

$225.00

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Lot 1557

24 1/4" x 32" 

1919 Inter-Allied Games Poster

SOLD FOR

$150.00

 

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Lot 1541

Oct. 22, 1927 Ohio State at Univ. of Michigan Football Program and Ticket Stub for the New "High Stadium" Dedication

SOLD FOR

1,100.00

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Lot 810

8" x 10" 

1920s Bobby Jones news wire photo

SOLD FOR

$325.00

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Lot 1554

6 1/2" x 9 1/2" 1889 hardcover book  "Athletic Sports in America, England and Australia "

SOLD FOR

$275.00

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Lot 1053

30 3/4" / 28 1/4" diameter

Two1920s -1930s College Football 

Marching Band Tuba Covers 

"Georgia vs. Auburn" 

SOLD FOR

$1,300.00

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Lot 599

17" x 12 1/2" 1950s 

Joe Louis Portrait Photograph 

SOLD FOR

$110.00

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Lot 1325

37 1/4" c1910 Philadelphia Athletics 

Pennant with Hand-Stitched Letters

SOLD FOR

$425.00

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Lot 1330

19" 1910 Philadelphia Athletics World Champions Pennant

SOLD FOR

$600.00

 

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Lot 1355

28 1/2" c1915 Chicago White Sox Pennant, displayed in a 20 1/2" x 44 1/2" frame

SOLD FOR

$650.00

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Lot 1383

26 1/2" 1940s Ted Williams Pictorial Boston Red Sox Pennant

SOLD FOR

$275.00

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Lot 1339

30" c1913 New York Giants Pennant

SOLD FOR

$500.00

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Lot 1397

29" 1950 Cleveland Indians  pennant featuring Lou Boudreau

SOLD FOR

$120.00

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Lot 1343

33 3/4" c1915 Tacoma Tigers Pennant

SOLD FOR

$500.00

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Circa 1889

GAIL AND AX 

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JOHN L. SULLIVAN

Story

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Circa 1920 

DIEGES AND CLUST 

TRACK RELAY TROPHY STORY

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Circa 1887

Reed and Barton Silver Plate Football 

Box Story

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Circa 1930

PEN AND INK FOOTBALL

DRAWING

Story

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Circa 1876  BASEBALL CLOCK STORY

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ARMY RECRUITMENT POSTER STORY

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Circa 1891

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19th Century 

ESTES PROFESSIONAL