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Posted 9/23/22 - (November 2020 pick-up)

Picked this up in an auction in Belgium…friend tipped me off to it…I prefer American but this was too cool to pass up…These city to city races were popular with motorcycles and autos in the teens and twenties in Western Europe…I gather this Liege to Paris to Liege race was a major race…but I’ve had a hard time researching it because I don’t know the go to people in Europe and the language barrier….the three major languages spoken in Belgium are Dutch, French, and German…Liege was I think the second largest city in Belgium next to Brussels…ya learn a lot collecting!…I think most Americans find this all curious but from what I’ve seen motorcycle racing was no less popular in Europe than it was here…maybe more so…Italy, Germany, France….they were all motorcycle crazy back in the early days of the teens and twenties…Below are some key questions I would like to learn about this statue.

1. Was it a trophy?
2. Was it a souvenir?
3. Who made it?
4. How many were made?
5. Were similar statues made for other races?
6. How many contestants competed in the race?
7. Who won the race?

End of 9/20/22 post - 1921 plaster motorcycle statue

blacton

I have a mountaineering themed cognac sign about the same c1900 vintage that’s almost exactly the same size and v similar color lithography...except its a horizontal format…So now I have two great graphic European, off the reservation, sports signs of similar size and format…sort of a pair…

Addenda 9/23/22 I got this email below from esteemed antique advertising tin dealer Nigel Scott in England which sheds some important light on this sign...   Nigel Scott eBay Store   Mon 9/19/2022 12:11 PM Subject: Bryan's Cricket sign  Hi Carlton,  Thanks for replying. I read your blog about the sign. Great to hear the back story, you are one lucky guy. I had the cricket sign years ago. I bought both The Football one & cricket one from a local antiques dealer. The guy had cleared out an old shop, years back, in my town ( Olney, UK)  The Football one ( which I still own) had been slightly trimmed on the bottom & had been used to board up an attic window in the shop.  The cricket one was in excellent condition. I foolish sold the cricket one about 25 years ago because I was broke & needed the money. The buyer (luckily) didn’t want the Football one. Which is now displayed proudly in my office.  I had another sign from the same antique dealer. It’s a card sign, but a lovely image & also from Bryan’s. Pic below.  Cheers Nigel

End of 9/18/22 Latest Greatest - Cricket Goods Sign

Posted 9/11122 

9/11/22

Weekend Wrap-up

It was a heck of a weekend for collecting....Started Friday Sept. 9th with the Pacific Coast Gas Bash held at Fred Stokes place in Santa Rosa Calif...Then Sunday 9/11/22 I hit the French antiques Market at the Marin Civic Center parking lot...found nothing zeroed out...But went to a very nice church afterwards about 3 minutes away...Bay Marin Church...nice visit friendly people...and they had a taco feed after service...Afterwards stopped at Urban Ore in Berkeley before heading over to my friend Pat Nester's home in San Francisco to buy an important motorcycle poster. 

Walker's Billiard Parlor sign purchased at Sept 2022 Pacific Coast Gas Bash

Advertising token for Walker's Billiard Parlor purchased on eBay post gas bash

Back to the Friday Gas Bash...I was up at 4am...got there 6:00am with a flashlight...Really I wouldn't call it a bang-up show....it was good...but I think the heat wave Northern California had that week put a dampner on it...not as big a crowd I expected and seemed like there should have been more dealers...Nevertheless it was fun....and I did make one find from renown sign dealer Bob Porter from Cypress, CA near Disneyland...He always lays out his whole arsenal of great signs on tarps on the ground...I spotted this billiard parlor sign at 6:20 A.M....twenty minutes after I got there....but I didn't buy it for another hour...the price was more than I could swallow...I came back later and made an offer...Bob is such a gentleman he just calmly said "Carlton I paid more than that, it came out of a collection"...I went away for a bit and decided to just go get it...Where in the world would I ever find another billiards sign from Chico...There are a lot of collectors of historical northern California signs and I figured I could find a buyer if I decided to sell it...   As typical at these early morning shows, I'm not a morning person and was still waking up...So I bought it in a bit of a fog...But as I came to walking the show I realized what a great piece it was and I was glad I bit the bullet...It's what's called a tacker...my first one...as they are light weight metal and theoretically you can hang them up with tacks...That's nice and all but I think I want the edges protected so I plan to get it framed...a black frame with set it off well I think...It's one of those buys the more I look at it the more I'm glad I got it...Researching it was remarkably easy...I even found a photo of the inside of the billiard hall...       So on to the motorcycle poster...after a quick stop at Urban ore in Berkeley I headed over to Pat's apartment in San Francisco...A friend of his got this poster in Michigan...where the race was...I'm always interested in early motorcycle posters but this one is for the national championship...The Jack Pine Run was the championship for enduro racing for the United States from 1923 until the early 1960's...Endurance racing is a different ball game than track racing...very demanding riding thru back roads....forests and waterways...very rugged...I have antique motorcycle race posters, which are rare...but this was a chance to add enduro racing in my collection...A photo of Oscar Lenz is featured on the poster. He was one of the founders of the race and won it seven times...   I kept wondering who Jack Pine was…I figured he must have started the race or something…turned out Jack Pine is a type of pine tree from the region…So I believe the race is named Jack Pine because the course is laid out thru a terrain of Jack Pines...       So while I was at Pat's he pulls out this killer little powerboat program that I had to have...For the uninitiated 1915 powerboat racing programs don't surface often...and I was real glad to add this to my powerboat collection...It's a very positive thing with boats...you can often research them by the names and numbers on their bow...I wish I had time to do some deep research on the boats referenced in this program...FYI...1915 was essentially right after the hydroplane was introduced about 1912....leaving behind the era of dispersion type powerboats that plowed thru water not over it like the hydroplane...So we're talking pioneer era of powerboating here...     Cover Back Cover         End of Sept. 2022 Gas Bash Weekend Coverage

Latest Pickup August 25th 2022 - Powerboat Stained Glass Panel

Here's my latest greatest...Now this would be a perfect example of you just don't know what's out there...never would I have imagined such a piece...it's my first stained glass in 35 years collecting...The older gentleman I got it from was the Detroit suburb of Garden City...His daughter acted as my contact person. He was told it came from the legendary Gar Wood mansion on Grayhaven Island...that would be Gar Wood the legendary Detroit industrialist and world champion speed boat racer...However...as exciting as that story was...based on the  T 41 bow number the story just didn't add up...If someone was going to make a stained glass of Gar Wood in a speed boat it would be of him in one of the ten Miss America boats he won the world championship with nine times 1920-1933. His $3,500.00 price was based on it being Gar Wood...so I tactfully sent the email below:

The sellers daughter called and said as much thanks for the offer but her dad felt it was worth much more than my offer...I asked her to find out what the least he would take...She came back with $3,000.00...I was leaving shortly for a vacation to L.A. for the Glendale show and Long Beach Flea...and 3g's would be a vacation killer...so I said as much I'd revisit it after I got back...So I hit L.A. hard over the weekend....found nothing...so Sunday afternoon I texted an offer...Seller countered...and I re-countered and we made the deal...To get to the bottom of its history I enlisted the help of renown hydroplane historian Leslie Field.

Only took a couple hours to hear back... 

The three biggest names in early powerboats in the United States were Chris-Craft…Hacker Craft…Dodge…and Gar Wood…all from the Great Lakes/Detroit region…There were some very formidable Canadian boat makers on the other side the lake as well… Ditchburn…Greavette…and Minett to name a few…not that I know much about them…Horace Dodge Jr was the son of Horace Dodge Sr. who with his brother John started Dodge Brothers Automobiles…Jr. was a party animal with a life that reflected it…Jr.’s Dodge Boat company was killed off by the depression in 1936…his father was one of the biggest yachtsmen of the day…had a whole string of huge ones….

At this point we can only speculate the who what why this stained glass panel was produced…Horace Jr. could have had it made but seems like someone of his means would have ordered something bigger…Perhaps it was a gift someone had made for him…and it hung in his den…The art quality of the boat and faces are so well defined I would almost bet it was done by a professional artist…As well the details of the boat are too exact…I see two air intake cowls above the engine compartment area…I clearly see two tie down cleats…a cooling water discharge port of some sort…what looks like a bow light at the front…between the tie down cleats is some kind of object I can’t make out…almost look like a fishing rod holder…but seemingly in the wrong place…The shadowing of the coats the two men are wearing is so well done I would speculate it would take a professional artist to execute…If it was given as a gift…it would likely have been from some wealthy playmate who would have likely had it made at the top stained glass shop in Detroit…which appears to have been the Detroit Stained Glass Works on West Fort Street…Once the book I ordered Discovering Stained Glass in Detroit by Nola Huse Tutag arrives perhaps will help I.D. the artist…

The best Dodge Boats history site in the world is http://www.thatoldboat.com/Dodge-Boa ...-Factories-Det ...there are tons of photos of the boats and factory from back in the day. The operator/owner Steve Martini has done a great job of preserving the history of the company...along with first hand accounts of pioneer research trips on foot to locate the buildings...don't miss it...

END - Latest Pickup August 25th 2022 - Powerboat Stained Glass Panel

21 1/2" wide x 14" deep x 12" tall
YALE TOAST CRACKERS WOODEN CRATE BOX
Incredible condition paper label

This isn't really sports related but obviously the Yale name is part of sports history. I got it for a $95.00 

BIN on eBay...Even though it's not really sports and takes up a lot of real estate to display...for that 

price I couldn't pass it up...just too good looking and too good of condition...At 21" by 12" I don't think 

I've ever seen a crate label this big...and it's the first example of this box I've seen in 30 years collecting.

The ornamental graphics along the top and bottom borders are very 19th century and pare part of what

had me. I vaguely saw this a consolation prize for that Spalding box I got outbid on!

c1864 Tennis Match Tankard 

by James Dixon & Sons, Oxford England

Acquired June 29th 2014

n 30 years of collecting, esthetically, this  is probably the best looking antique sports tankard I've seen. I see a lot of rowing ones with school crests and so on, but can't recall a tennis one. I spotted it on eBay and jammed the brakes hard to a screeching halt...I always like the look of crossed sports equipment like baseball bats, oars, skis, snowshoes, polo mallets and such. So the crossed racquets caught my attention initially...then once I saw the incredible engraving work, it really had me...and the archaic old world lettering...phew! Cursory research revealed the match was likely played in Oxford England...and my friend, rowing historian Tom Weil, told me the famous James Dixon concern who made the tankard was located right there in Oxford and essentially had a monopoly on all the sports trophy tankards made for Oxford. "It didn't come cheap...I was hoping to get it for about half of what I had to pay as top bidder...but I wasn't surprised being it's the best I've ever seen...had 22 bids.

 - BASKETBALL SCORE - 

YALE 40, SWARTHMORE 23

Acquired June 11th 2014

(Yale won championship, see teams below)

Acquired May 5th 2014

  Acquired May 9th 2014

 Read the chatter about these  

c1880, 7" tall, Cast Spelter

BARE KNUCKLE BOXER STATUE

c1910, 36" x 22"

JOHNSON VS. JEFFRIES 

FIGHT PHOTO 

By Dana Studios, San Francisco

Last January Net54Baseball.com member Ben Levinsohn/IronHorse2130 bought a tennis collection from a lady who collected antique tennis things. I think she bought most or all of it in the 1960's which I find very interesting...Anyways I kept asking and bothering Ben if there was any sculpture...and he was very busy sorting and photographing it all and he had a lot on his plate...Finally he sent a photo of the statue above....Artistically the pose had me right away...it's unique as I've never seen a statue of tennis player in a low stance going for the ball like that...and it has so much force...But then after I got it and could examine it closely I saw it was Bill Tilden...a big name major tennis legend...had a lot of personal problems....but a great player.

So that was great...but then it got more interesting...and then more interesting...The sculptor McClelland Barclay was a major name artist although as a graphic illustrator....He did a lot of big ad campaigns in the 20's...He was a globe trotter celebrity type and also did movie posters in Hollywood...then started his own art company making decorative metal items...bookends, jewelry, etc...then was killed by a torpedo in WWII while on assignment doing combat illustration...

Then as I was researching him I came across a poster he did for a Navy Benefit variety show In New York City at Madison Square Garden....And it dawned on me I had written about the show in detail in a story I did on a Joe Louis war poster titled "We'll Win Cause We're on God's Side"...see link here..I also got the c1900 tennis board game below from Ben. I jumped on it because it's the first Victorian tennis board game I've seen....it'll go in my game case when I get time...Thanks Ben!

c1900 Tennis Board Game

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"NOBLE CATCHER"

Undocumented 12" tall figural baseball player bottle

Believed to be a

c1880 Cyrus Noble Whiskey Back Bar Bottle

THE NOBLE CATCHER BOTTLE

....At any rate, this bottle probably represents the 

biggest mystery I've encountered in my 25 years 

collecting sports antiques!...

-Carlton Hendricks

I found this figural bottle of a baseball catcher in a Roseville CA antiques mall. My best guess is it was a c1880 Cyrus Noble Whiskey back bar bottle. I’ve done pretty much everything possible to research it but haven’t come up with concrete evidence…Nevertheless the strongest evidence clearly indicates it is very rare….That is…I’ve showed it to the most knowledgeable baseball and bottle collectors and almost no one has seen it before…At any rate, this bottle probably represents the biggest mystery I've encountered in my 25 years collecting sports antiques!....Here’s whole the story.....

On Sunday afternoon Feb. 12th 2012. I was planning to meet up with friends shortly at a nearby movie theater. It was suppose to just be a quick run thru the antiques mall then off to see Safe House….but I was brought to a halt when I spotted this…I had to gather my senses to determine if it was truly as rare as it seemed….I thought I may have seen it somewhere but wasn’t sure…I tried googling it on my smart phone and got essentially nothing…a good sign…It was seriously priced and I hated to make a quick decision…but I couldn’t keep my friends waiting at the theater…and I sensed not to think about it and come back later…Good thing since it would have been gone!…as you’ll see in the third page of the link on the right to Antique-Botttles.net…I examined it from every angle and sought input from the leading bottle collecting community on the internet.

 Below are some of the comments culled from 

3 pages of discussion

My apologies sir, but we have no company historian or archivist. In the 15 years that I've worked for Haas Brothers, I have not heard of a 19th century decanter for Cyrus Noble. We did a successful ceramic decanter program in the 1970's, but in the 19th century I'm only aware of a shot-glass series. I'm sorry I can't give a definitive answer, but as far as I've ever heard, this wouldn't be a decanter produced by/for Cyrus Noble Bourbon. 
Thank you for your inquiry, 
Jake Lustig 
National Sales Manager 
Haas Brothers | Since 1851 
San Francisco, California 

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I would look under tobacco card era players. Maybe an obscure player or is this a representative player bottle , noble simply meaning honorable, brave and true. It looks quite Victorian! 

Forum Member, CreekWalker

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I am truly intrigued and mesmerized to see what comes of this....Jim  

Forum Member EPackage

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Really great stuff and I'm fascinated. Thanks for all the research. I'm not a sports person but the bottle aspect has me. 
You must realize that Cyrus Noble, patina and glass making are all only partly connected though. The frosting shouldn't be confused with patina if that's what it is. Without actually holding it it's difficult for me to say of it's acid wash, powder blast or naturally occurring. Cyrus Noble in the earliest days probably didn't use glass and the commemoratives most likely didn't start until the time Jim Beam and others did, say 50's and 60's for the most part. 
I think the French connection as Surface tended to agree with, can't be ignored. You mention Mexico also which was another big contributor to new glass looking old. 
Everything I'm saying is speculation and theory but with a trace of glass knowledge. 
I look forward to more and thanks for the lively and great post to talk about! 

Forum Moderator -CowsEatMaize

GO TO NOBLE CATCHER PAGE

This is the only example of this box I've ever seen. The image of the football scrimmage is a statue titled "The Onslaught" sculpted by R. Tait McKenzie who as I recall I was a professor at U. Penn. c1900...McKenzie spent five years working on it...The original work is 36" wide, 15" tall....and probably the greatest football sculpture on the planet...I don't know how many were cast but very few I'm sure would be accurate...I would be surprised if six were done...You can read more about McKenzie in my Yale Trophy Room feature I did last May...I can't recall ever seeing sports sculpture featured in product advertising...So if for nothing else that put's it over the gotta have it goal line! See photos of the original statue below.

Picked up this off the chart bowling ball at the Hillsborough Antiques Show a couple 

months back. I had never seen anything like it before. All I knew was it looked like King 

Arthur's bowling ball and I wasn't leaving without it. I got the seller worked up good when I 

told him I thought I could make out a name with my magnifying glass...wide eyed I had his full attention as I slowly read the name..."wait I think I can make it out....Fr....Fred...Fli...Flint

...got it...Fred Flintstone!!!" It was in such perfect folk art condition I couldn't pass it up! 

Later at the same show I showed it to a dealer who said it was for a Basque version of bowling....and that he had some with some poles that went with it.

A GREAT JANUARY FOR OH' SO RARE BROADSIDES

Original school or team issued broadside posters are one of my favorite areas of sports antiques...I got both the posters below on eBay in January 2012....that's incredible because very few large posters this size have survived. Each came from different sellers.

The Yale one is a little tougher to decipher...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.

Carlton's big find at Turlock

1924 Period Photos of the

LOS ANGELES RACEWAY 

Beverley Hills Ca.

Plus portraits of Tommy Milton and Harry Hartz

Existed only four years, land

sold to build Beverly Wilshire Hotel

 33 1/2" x 16 1/2"

c1858 PARIS BALLOONING EXHIBITION 

BROADSIDE POSTER

Now here's something that is amazing in two regards...One, I never thought I'd own a ballooning broadside, much less one in French. And two...It has such a  remarkable presence I can't stop looking it over...Here's the story...

eBay listing photo - original size I had to go on

For those not familiar with this kind of poster...this would be referred to as a broadside...We'll forego lengthy prose on broadsides for now though and skip to the chase...I spotted this on eBay...It had a BIN of $95.00 plus $4.00 shipping. The photo was lame see directly above...Ever since my friend John Gennantonio told my virgin ears as much that poor photos on eBay indicate the seller is trying to hide something...I've taken closer looks and been more cautious...I came across it and looked it over...yeah right I thought, a French broadside...sure just what I need...and I put it in my watch list and moved on to other business.

A couple days later I saw it in my watch list and clicked on it again...I read it more carefully and contemplated it's large dimensions...Yeah right what are you doing Carlton...and I moved on again to other stuff...Probably a week went by and I clicked it on again...Apparently my head was clearer as I sized it up...First I translated the core message from French to English:

Next I googled Alfred M. Rousiot the person referenced on the poster and learned he owned a ballooning periodical of some sort in 1864 called “La Science Aerostatique, journal des amis du progres de l’aerostation”, and appeared to esteemed. 

All of sudden it was coming to me...it was a combination of it's largeness, 33 1/2" wide by 16 1/2" tall....and short and wide format...my favorite format for pictures and prints....Plus Alfred M. Rousiot appeared very interesting...and if he owned a magazine about ballooning, he was likely an important player in early ballooning. Once I realized all that it had me...

But then there was the question of the crummy photo and what was underneath...I concluded that it was a good possibility it may have been a reproduction of some sort...maybe an old reproduction, maybe new...or what ever...But taking it all in...If it was real for $100.00 it was a steal! And I figured I'd take a chance....If it wasn't right I'd return it.

The ambiguity I felt made waiting for it to arrive more intriguing than usual. And wouldn't you know...Via USPS it didn't come on time...According to the online tracking manifest it was suppose to get to me by the 11th of January....The 11th came and went and by the 19th I was writing the seller...even though the post office advised I wait till the end of the week before making an official inquiry...and of course it came the next day...

I got it in hand and put off opening it ...Good news can wait...bad news will find you out...I wasn't in the mood to deal with any disappointment so I finally got around to opening it that evening...I worked off the lid of the mailing tube and peered in....hmm...It appeared the seller had rolled it together with another piece of paper under it that offered it a little extra protection. then slid it in another rolled up piece of paper inside the tube...very professional!...a good sign...I knew I was possibly dealing with an 1858 antique so I went easy...Slowly and gently I began to unroll it to length...Eyes wide open I fixated on what I was seeing...carefully looking it over and trying to get a grip on it...Everything looked perfect!..and then I felt the weight of the paper...very light weight...absolutely correct weight paper...very impressive...very right....perfecto!!!

However I wanted to see it open and take it all in....but it was very fragile and the condition was unbelievable so I was reluctant mess with it until it was framed...But I couldn't wait....I had a large plastic sleeve bigger than the poster so I carefully worked it down in....tapped it around a little and got it so I could display it propped up against another large framed poster...I set it all on top my refrigerator so I could fully take it in...WOW....what a piece...what an incredible purchase. I've been around this stuff to understand when something is beyond rare...when the word rare can't convey it's self...The fragileness of the paper and it's age doesn't compute...It would have to be one of the oldest ballooning posters in the world. And I anticipate Alfred Rousiot will be interesting to research.

Picking up on something...I wondered what else the seller had...I was in such a good mood I emailed him in jest the following:

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1916 NEW YORK STATE 

AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP 

BOXING TROPHY PLAQUE

Cast and Engraved Bronze on Oak

Made by Dieges and Clust

20 1/2" Tall x 15" Wide

QUESTION?

Why would Carlton buy these unusual ice skates?

(hint he searched for them 12 years)

DUTTON'S SHELL 

GROOVE SKATES

Pat. Date April 15th 1862

Bought off eBay Oct. 26th 2011

Bottoms

Tops

Why would Carlton buy these unusual ice skates?

(hint he searched for them 12 years)

1886 Princeton Baseball Team

three styles of baseball caps

1881 Princeton Baseball Team

c1890 Baseball Cleats

Also got a 20” x 14” photo of a boy taking a photo 

of boys topping a bat at home plate sand lot style. I'm confident it was used as advertising for the Brownie camera.

Carlton going for it!

Above right - 16" tall x 11" wide
1902 Mogul Cigarettes Yale Football Poster

I picked this up right after I got home from the National...Has anyone ever seen football cards associated with this poster?

I've done some cursory...haven't found any cards but there's a player on there named James J. Hogan who became perhaps the biggest name in football during his playing days at Yale from 1901-1905...so much so he became a kind of a national whipping boy/example for college inducements reform...the cry was he was getting such good treatment from Yale and others he was basically not an armature...among other perks he was getting a percentage of every pack of Mogul cigs sold in New Haven....and was responsible for getting them offered in Morey's, the exclusive students restaurant club in New Haven...

It's printed on card stock...and the seller said it came out of an attic where it was rolled, presumably since it's era....so I have to work on getting it flattened out...Pretty exciting piece, never seen it before! 

c1880 VIENNA BRONZE

OF BILLIARD PLAYERS

This little 3 1/4" tall statue of billiard players is only example I've ever seen. Once I got it in hand I was taken back...I'm amazed by it...it's definitely my favorite recent acquisition. I like the way his top hat is slightly tilted back out of his eyes. Fits in perfect with the two Vienna's to it's right, the three soccer players and the two boxers.

3 1/4" tall players

Displayed on coffee table

10" x 9"

V. Rare 1913 Broadside poster

announcing house warming at

Boston Harvard Club night before

Harvard Yale Football Game

c1914

All Vallejos

vs

Yosemites 

of San Francisco

FOOTBALL 

BROADSIDE POSTER

click photos

35 1/2" tall X 21 3/4" wide

QUARTERBACK COFFEE TIN

3 5/8 inches tall by 5 3/4 diameter

click to enlarge

C1885 BRONZE STATUE OF A 

HIGH WHEEL BICYCLE 

click to enlarge

Posted May 25, 2008

c1910 14" BASEBALL PLATE

Picked this up on eBay from a gal in Canada. There's been a heap of discussion about this plate on Net54, click this link 14 inch c1910 baseball plate to read all about it. I feel it's from the period it represents because of the hand writing style on the back. Plus Butch & Co, dug up this print here . I think the artist was Hibberd VB Kline. If anyone has any information, please email me at comments@sportsantiques.com  

thanks -Carlton

Posted April 5, 2008

c1880 TAPPAN'S BASEBALL 

BAT PERFUME BOTTLE

Above is a 6 inch tall Tappan's League Bouquet perfume bottle in the shape of a baseball bat. Based on the the rings near the top of the barrel, and the graphics of the label, I'd guesstimate it from the late 1880's. I got this in Hunt Auctions February 20th 2008 monthly auction. David Hunt advised me he's only seen three of these, and it's the first I've seen. David also advised he has one in his collection he paid $750 for which is in worse condition than mine. Researching it I found another that sold in the 2006 Robert Edward Auction in a grouped lot of 28 items LOT #764 

posted 5/31/07

Announcing SportsAntiques.com's Acquisition of the extremely rare c1880

-"OLD POP SMITH" TIN-

Old Pop Smith 

in line up

Old Pop Smith tobacco tin

Old Pop Smith 

open

Old Pop Smith 

pictured in book

Book - Tobacco Tins 

and Their Prices, 

by Al Bergevin

Old Pop Smith 

close up in book 

Check out my latest piece! -Carlton

Posted 1/7/07

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c1890 

STERLING SILVER LACROSSE STICK PIN

3 3/16 inch by 3/4 inch

This is likely the finest Lacrosse stick pin ever made. I assume it was made as a broach type pin for a lady. Based on the engraving I'd estimate it to be circa 1890. It's sterling silver, but there's no makers mark, as I believe it was awarded and engraved to the B.A. Norman on the back. I think it's the most finely made item I've ever owned. The detail is very intricate. When I put it under a magnifying glass I can even see the detail of the cording in the basket. Click on the close in photo of the basket below to see what I mean. More that is really neat about it is that It's engraved Ogdensburg, N.Y., so we know for certain it is American, not Canadian. That is very fortunate to know it's national origin. I asked the person I bought it from if they knew any of it's history. They only knew that it came with a large collection of pins, and that the lady who collected them all, had a home in the Hudson Valley area, and another home on 5th Avenue in New York City. And that she collected collegiate things.

Posted 11/19/06

I've been finding a lot of stuff lately, 

here's some of my latest acquisitions -Carlton

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above  9 inches tall c1930 BRONZE FOOTBALL KICKER  STATUE This is one of the nicest football sculptures I've ever seen. It is unsigned. I imagine it was produced and  sold by a fine gift store like Tiffany's ___________________________________   below  c1915 SILVER PLATE AND GLASS BOX WITH ROWING MOTIF LID. MADE BY WMF -GERMANY 2 3/4" tall x 4 1/2" deep x 6" wide click photos - click photo - click photos
lid Engraving Weihnachten 1915 (Christmas 1915 in German)  WMF,  maker marking
Galvano cast  runner trophy  statue 16" tall, c1930		c1930 American Silver Plate Statue of Polo Player, 11" tall
	c1870 Advertising Handkerchief with sports theme	c1910 Sweet Ore Trousers Advertising Poster, 37" tall x 30" wide
c1910 Cloth Pillow Cover with polo scene litho, 20" x 20"	c1880 Lawn Tennis Cigarettes Advertising Sign, American, 20" wide x 16" tall	c1920's Framed Basketball Team Photo, 41 1/4" wide x 9 3/8" tall
32" tall x 25" wide c1910 football poster by Joseph Leyendecker
C1930 Chesterfield cigarettes die cut advertising sign with football player, 38" tall x 25" wide Close up

c1880-1930

Grouping of rare antique football advertising tins

collection of author

Very rare c1920 Yale Corn Syrup tin with football motif

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The SportsAntiques.com collection has acquired two rare football tins this week, seen in these photos below, an extremely rare Yale Corn Syrup tin, and another called the All American Cookies tin top left. The Yale Corn Syrup isn't in the greatest condition, but no problem. It's so rare I'm delighted to get it! 

- Carlton

Purchased Sunday May 6th 2006 at 

Antique Trove Mall - San Calos, Calif. 

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Purchased March 5th 2006 at 

Antique Trove Mall, Roseville, Ca.

c1900 high relief football plaque 

14 inch wide by 12 inch tall, of plaster

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sculptor's signature 

G.M. Bailey

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c1900

Euro Football / Soccer Vienna bronze

4 1/4 inch tall