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EXPLORING THE 

WORLD OF 

SPORTS

DISPLAY 

ANTIQUES

1850-1950

  WORLD'S LARGEST INFORMATION SOURCE FOR SPORTS DISPLAY ANTIQUES

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

AUTOGRAPH

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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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GREATEST FOOTBALL BOX EVER MADE 

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c 1896 

PRANG

FOOTBALL CALENDAR STORY

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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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5 Inches Tall

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Circa 1889

GAIL AND AX 

 TOBACCO ADVERTISING POSTER WITH

JOHN L. SULLIVAN

Story

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Antique Sports 

Advertising Tins

 

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Collection of author

 

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Good sports tins are pretty rare. If you're active and continually hunting sports antiques, you come across sports tins every once in a great while. This small collection pictured above took me about 18 years to assemble. The rarest one you see there is the tan Pig-skin Mixture  at front center. It's shaped like an actual football, and is from about 1890. I got that at the Atlantique City antiques show about 12 years ago for $600.00 I think it was. I bought it on the last day of the show, in the last hour of the show. I once heard there are only 7 known examples of it. The latest one I got is the mustard colored All American Varnish tin with the football player. You can see it in the back upper right. I got it on eBay for $12.00 I think it was. It's from the 1930's, have never seen another. That Skiff one with the single sculler rower is a nice little tin. I met a guy named Jan Goedhart on eBay from Holland, eBay handle "tincollectors". He's the biggest dealer in Europe for tins. He knows I like the sports tins and offered me the Skiff for $100.00. It was kind of a no-brainer for that! It's the only one I've ever seen. It's English but still cool. It's neat when you meet people thru eBay. Jan is very helpful and shares his knowledge on tins. If you're a serious collector, Jan is just the kind of guy you want to know. He has years of experience in the Euro tins, so I was able to learn from him. That's very valuable as he's probably the world's most knowledgeable on the Euro tins. The orangish red Lucky Curve tin at dead center is another pretty rare tin. It's what is referred to as a "lunch box" style. I got that probably 10-12 years ago at the All American Antiques show in Glendale California, near Los Angles. I think I paid $350 for it, from Kim and Mary Kokles of Texas. They are one of the top advertising dealers in the country, and started the Indianapolis Advertising show. All these tins are basically reasonably priced. But there are some exotic antique sports tins that are pretty pricey. I'd say the top four sports tins would be the Home Run tin, the Home Run Stogie tin, the Ty Cobb pocket tin, and the Cy Young cigar tin. The Ty Cobb tin would probably be considered the Mother of all Sports tins, and goes for major bank. These four tins were in the April 2005 Robert Edward Auction of Watchung New Jersey www.robertedwardauctions.com I was taken back to see all four tins offered at once. See them below with the closing prices they sold for in that auction less premium:

 

 

FOOTBALL TINS

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c1880-1930

Grouping of rare 

football advertising tins

Collection of author

 

 

All photos below above courtesy 

Robert Edward Auction

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Home Run

Sold for $3,000.00

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Home Run Stogie

Sold for $2,250.00

 

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Ty Cobb 

Sold for $9,000.00

 

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Cy Young 

Sold for $4,250.00

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All prices are excluding premium, and were realized at Robert Edward Auction 

on April 30, 2005 

 

Rob Lifson, president of Robert Edward Auctions was kind enough to provide photos of the tins above. Another interesting development in the sports tin world was the recent sale of another very rare circa 1890's baseball  pocket tin called "3 strikes". This tin was auctioned on April 8th 2005, as lot number #201 by the Wm Morford auction house of Cazenovia New York. www.morfauction.com . The closing price before premium was $11,500.00. This was the first time in 18 years I'd seen it offered. Till then I'd only seen it pictured in a book on tins. Another quite rare sports tin that was in that same auction was Lot # 126,  "Golf Girl" talcum tin. It sold for $875.00 plus 10% premium. Take a look below to see these exciting tins!

 

All photos below above courtesy 

Wm Morford Auctions of Cazenovia, NY, 

www.morfauction.com

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Thre Strikes Tin Full.JPG (292129 bytes)

Sold for $11,500.00

 

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Sold for $875.00

 

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All prices are excluding premium, and were 

realized at Wm Morford Auctions of 

Cazenovia, NY on April 8th 2005

 

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fascinating subject is forthcoming, please 

check back. Thank you  for your patience 

- Carlton

 

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Circa 1889

GAIL AND AX 

 TOBACCO ADVERTISING POSTER WITH

JOHN L. SULLIVAN

Story

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Circa 1920 

DIEGES AND CLUST 

TRACK RELAY TROPHY STORY

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ONE OF THE GREATEST

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Circa 1887

Reed and Barton Silver Plate Football 

Box Story

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GREATEST FOOTBALL BOX EVER MADE 

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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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JOE LOUIS 

ARMY RECRUITMENT POSTER STORY

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Circa 1891

Tiffany & Co.

YALE 

FOOTBALL MATCH  SAFE

  Story

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CARLTON'S PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF GETTING 

Joe DiMaggio's

AUTOGRAPH

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MEETS AND TALKS TO THE YANKEE CLIPPER

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19th Century 

ESTES PROFESSIONAL

BASEBALL BAT STORY

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One of the authors favorites!

READ THIS TALE OF HOW THE ESTES 

BAT WAS FINALLY

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Circa 1907

Kayser Sohn

HORSE AND JOCKEY INKWELL

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THE FINEST

HORSE-

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INKWELL 

EVER MADE

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Circa 1896 PRANG

FOOTBALL CALENDAR STORY

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Circa 1900

VIENNA

TENNIS

BRONZE

Story 

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