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THE 

NATIONAL 

 CONVENTION 

of the
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FEDERATION OF 
HISTORICAL BOTTLE

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ANTIQUE SPORTS UNIFORMS 

& EQUIPMENT 1840-1940 

Baseball Football Basketball

by Dan Hauser, Ed Turner, 

John Gennantonio

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Circa 1876  BASEBALL CLOCK STORY

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READ ABOUT THE WORLD'S FINEST BASEBALL CLOCK

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

c1950

Brayton Laguna

Black 

Boxers Statues

11" tall 

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ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

c1912

POWER

BOAT 

PRINT 

5ft. wide

 2ft. tall 

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Circa 1891

Tiffany & Co.

YALE 

FOOTBALL MATCH  SAFE

  Story

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ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

c1880

BASEBALL

CLOCK

New Haven

Clock Co.

20 1/4" wide 15 1/5" tall  

6 3/4" deep

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Circa 1910

ELLENSBURG WASHINGTON

FOOTBALL TEAM PHOTO STORY

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ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

c1910 
MISSION OAK STYLE 
ROCKING CHAIR WITH
BOWLING SCENE
39" tall 

33 3/4" wide 

40 1/2" deep

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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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C1940's 
JOE MARTY'S 
BAR AND 

GRILL

NEON BASEBALL SIGN
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Circa 1890

HIGH WHEELER

FIGURE Story

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C1890 
Mary Gregory/

Bohemian Style 
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19th Century 

ESTES PROFESSIONAL

BASEBALL BAT STORY

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c1930 

A. B.

SPRECKLES 

CUP GOLF TROPHY

Circa 1887

Reed and Barton Silver Plate Football 

Box Story

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GREATEST FOOTBALL BOX EVER MADE 

c1896 PRANG

FOOTBALL CALENDAR STORY

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Circa 1907

Kayser Sohn

HORSE AND JOCKEY INKWELL

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THE FINEST

HORSE-

RACING

INKWELL 

EVER MADE

Circa 1900

VIENNA

TENNIS

BRONZE

Story 

5 Inches Tall

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VIENNA TENNIS BRONZES EVER PRODUCED

Circa 1889

GAIL AND AX 

 TOBACCO ADVERTISING POSTER WITH

JOHN L. SULLIVAN

Story

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READ THIS SHORT ARTICLE TO SEE ONE OF THE GREATEST BOXING ADVERTISING

POSTERS EVER

PART 2 

OF THE 2013 NATIONAL SPORTS 

COLLECTORS CONVENTION COVERAGE

  - THE POST-CON ROAD TRIP -  

Featuring forays into Indiana's Antique Alley, Springfield Ohio 

Antiques Malls, Adamstown PA. , and a viewing of 

the John Gennantonio Collection

BY CARLTON HENDRICKS

THE 2013 NATIONAL SPORTS 

COLLECTORS CONVENTION COVERAGE

  POST-CON ROAD TRIP  

By Carlton Hendricks

THE SPRINGFIELD OHIO ANTIQUE MALLS

So I bedded down in a dumpy motel for the night in Richmond, and took off the next morning for the one hour drive to Springfield Ohio. Springfield has...or I should say had...three of the biggest antiques malls in the mid-west all within a mile or two of each other and all right off Interstate 70...So whenever I'm in the area I definitely stop and go thru them...Well...I got a little surprise when I got into Springfield...the huge AAA antique mall had been turned into a sort of indoor automotive swap meet called Grandpa's Garage...

A few items seen in Grandpa's Garage vintage  automotive store, off Interstate I70 Springfield OH (Click here to see everything Carlton saw)
"HI-SPEED GAS" Porcelain Sign aprox 40" wide, $1,500.00
c1900 Railroad station bench, 10ft, $1,200.00 CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT ELSE CARLTON SAW

GRANDPA'S GARAGE

I took a quick run thru it and saw a few interesting things...One was a "High Speed Gas" porcelain sign, probably 40" wide...I had never seen anything like it in 30 years collecting....Looked like something right out of the Barney Oldfield era...Just a dynamite piece and priced right at $1,500.00, I thought. Another winner I saw was a 10 foot long c1900 train station wood bench that was "as good as it gets" quality...priced very reasonable at $1,200.00. Again...I've collected 30 years and never seen a better or even close. The automotive stuff was interesting but I liked the AAA Antiques Mall that had been there before better. 

A few items Carlton saw in the  Springfield Antiques Center (click here to see all items) (CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL 52 PHOTOS) SEE ALL 52 PHOTOS   CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL 52 PHOTOS

SPRINGFIELD ANTIQUE CENTER

Next I headed to the Springfield Antique Center...finally I was cooking with gas...The Springfield Antique Center was a very good mall...though I didn't actually see too much in sports antiques...Just as I walked in hanging high over head was a great stuffed moose head I liked...Back in one corner I spotted a cool gymnastics pommel horse priced at $550.00...real nice shape...There was a paper and print area stuffed with a lot of good antique graphics...and I did find a couple of sports things worth mention...one was a 1940ish poster, or large print, of John L. Sullivan by the illustrator Emmet Watson that is pretty rare...I only recall one other example which I saw on eBay...and went for some decent money as I recall...The one there in Springfield was either $45 or $75...price tag was kind of muddled...Either price was a good deal but it was framed and would have been a hassle to drag around the rest of my trip...plus I "liked didn't love" it...so left it...However...there was an interesting and very nice print of a football player with a W on his chest...Interesting particularly because it appeared to have been trimmed from a poster...question was what poster? As I had never seen the image...so I snagged it since it could be rolled....And then what did I do...I went and forgot it in a hotel room and left back for California without it...now it's somewhere in New Jersey probably on the wall of some housekeepers son's room!

The one thing I found there at the Springfield Antique Center that impressed me and I seriously considered buying was a c1930 hat box for the "Roswelle Hat" by the Middleton Hat Company. On the front was a color illustration of a power boat race with people cheering on the boat at shore side...At the forefront was a close up of a guy driving a roadster, top down. Above it all was a bi-wing airplane flying low overhead with MIDDLETON inscribed across the bottom lower wing...It was only $95.00...but ya know...hat boxes take up a lot of room in a collection...and I'm about out of room so I ended up leaving it...But it was cool enough that even now I'm torn that I should have gotten it!...I'd never seen it before and  doubt I'll ever see another...Heck what was I thinking...greatest powerboat hat box on the planet...and all that action!

HEART OF OHIO ANTIQUE MALL

Once I'd seen the Springfield Antique Center it was just a short 6 minute drive to  the Heart of Ohio Antique Mall...Heart of Ohio is about as big as malls come...about the size of a Costco...Interesting layout...lots of employees milling around...three main wings with off-shoots here and there...all full of antiques in a clean well kept setting...and...air conditioned!...There's even a little snack bar type restaurant. It's not your typical antiques mall...more like an event...It's so big you can't help but anticipate making a find...Although I only made one interesting find...I shot anything and everything that looked even remotley interesting as I cruised the isles...Below is a link to photo pages of what I saw...

Below a few things Carlton saw  at the Heart of Ohio Antique Center (CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL 111 PHOTOS) SEE ALL 111 PHOTOS CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL 111 PHOTOS

Below is my one find at the Heart of Ohio mall...a 10" wide by 6" tall  Munsing Wear counter top advertising display made of wood and metal..

Carlton's pick up at Heart of Ohio Antique Mall Springfield OH - $140.00 As companion piece to Munsing union suit die cuts
c1910 - 10" wide X 6" tall MUNSING WEAR ADVERTISING COUNTER DISPLAY Featuring sales instructions chart on back   Acquired as Companion Piece to Munsing Union Suit  Die Cuts below - Formerly in the Barry Halper Collection
ABOVE, THE COLLECTION OF  BARRY HALPER  Munsing Union Suit Die Cuts  Circled in Red on Right
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So why did I buy a two sided counter top advertising sign for Munsing Union Suits you ask?...Good question....short answer...companion piece...Long answer...It is a companion piece to one of the coolest sports antiques I ever bought....Story goes...When I was just starting out collecting nearly 30 years ago....The April 1987 Smithsonian Magazine featured the baseball collection of Barry Halper, who at the time had the world's largest baseball collection...I would pour over the photos trying to see stuff in the panoramic shots of his room...and in the photo were four individual 12" tall die cut advertising figures of baseball players wearing Munsing Union Suits...And so fast forward twenty eight or so years later...I bought those die cuts....not another example....but "thee" same die cuts in the photo...which once belonged to Barry Halper...who passed away in 2005. So one of these days I'm going to get them displayed....and this sign will go in the middle of them...

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