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John Gennantonio

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Circa 1876  BASEBALL CLOCK STORY

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POWER

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Tiffany & Co.

YALE 

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BASEBALL

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MISSION OAK STYLE 
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A. B.

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Circa 1887

Reed and Barton Silver Plate Football 

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VIENNA

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JOHN L. SULLIVAN

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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

So the wake-up call went off and I was back out there by 1:00PM going thru the stores...The landscape hadn't changed too much since I was last there in 2009...Most of the stores were the same...The closest venue from my hotel was the inside of Renninger's so that's where I started...Renninger's indoor part is a vast cavernous building with about 375 dealers set up on a permanent basis...It's sort of like a little city...even has a little grill with a counter...

c1900 Tickets Reverse Glass Sign 5 feet wide by 14" tall, $450.00

The inside was better than the outside that day...The first cool thing I came across was a framed ticket advertising sign made of glass that was about 5 feet wide by 14" tall. It was hung up high so I couldn't get a real good look but it appeared the lettering was reverse glass painted...priced $450.00. If it had documentation as being from a sports stadium of some kind it would be to die for...But the dealer didn't know it's history...could have been from a railroad, opera house, etc....nevertheless...as far as I was concerned it was very cool...but somehow I passed..

c1880 Merle & Heaney Billiards Table Rules Poster, 26" tall x 25" wide $900.00 Found in Renninger's indoor flea area

Next cool piece...just across the walkway and a couple dealers up I found a billiard rules poster issued by The Merle & Heaney Manufacturing company...probably about 1880-90...a little worn which didn't really bother me...the dealer Elliot Pincus had a $900.00 price tag...I can't remember what the price was after the arm wrestling but I remember I was really considering it...I think it was like $700.00 or so...Somehow I passed and left without it...Looking at it now it looks really good...Later when I got home I sent photos to Mike Gilmore in Ohio, who has some of the best billiards antiques I know of...way advanced billiards collector...He pooh-poohed it because of the condition...But Mike's a lot more of a condition guy than me...heck I actually like the wear...especially these days with the re-pops we're seeing...

Vienna Boxer as found  in showcase, booth  closed, owner gone		Side view as  photographed thru glass, showcase locked
c1927 VIENNA BRONZE BOXER, CITY CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY Cold painted, 5 1/2" tall incl. marble base Found in Renninger's indoor flea area

After the Billiards poster I continued on around the market...wasn't seeing too much interesting...and then boom I hit pay dirt...Out of nowhere, in a locked display case of a closed booth I spotted Vienna bronze of a boxer...It was mounted on a marble base and had been used as a trophy. The front of the base was crudely engraved: CITY - BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP  118 LBS WEIGHT 1927.

For those not familiar with the genera of Vienna bronzes...they were miniature bronze figures that were hand painted, often referred to as cold painted,...They were known for their high quality definition and were 

produced in Vienna Austria between 1880  to about the 1930's...They were made in many subjects...very often whimsical like kittens, and birds...but not all...some were even risqué...sports ones are very rare...I've managed to snag a few over the years...To me I didn't mind the engraving too much...but it would have been much better had it been professionally done. The booth was closed and the dealer gone and I couldn't make out the price tag. The dealer across phoned him and got the price....$500.00. All things considered I suppose $500.00 was fair. I never got around to pursuing it.

Next after Renninger's I headed over to Morphy. Morphy is both an auction house and antiques mall...with the highest quality per square foot in the town. Actually it's a contender for the best antiques mall in the world...they really get high quality stuff. I saw lots of great Americana but not much in sports pieces...First was a collection of occupational shaving mugs that include eight sports ones to be auctioned in a then upcoming auction. They were all nice but the most exciting one for me was the power boat racing one...I'm big on that sport...who'd have thought there was a power boat racing shaving mug out there!

Other than that the only other sports piece was a was a tin Moxie sign with terrific baseball graphics...Big and great...like about 30" tall by 24" wide...and like the mugs it wasn't for sale, just on display to be auctioned ...Looked outstanding...I pretty much just glossed over it though as something that would go sky high more than I wanted to pay...Then as I was writing this...for the sake of the story I looked up what it went for...Lot #225 Premier Advertising Oct. 4-5th 2013...What'd I tell ya...sky-high...sold for $6,600.00...see details here...I can buy a lot of sports antiques for $6,600.00...or take a vacation! 

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	c1890 dual cabinet photo mat with watercolor football painting
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After Morphy I hit a few more stores, then it started getting towards closing time 5:00PM for most the stores in town. So I headed for one of the best malls Adam's Antiques...It was good as usual...but one booth was really great...Keith Javic's...his booth was filled to the brim with antique sports stuff...One piece that was particularly memorable was a c1890 21 3/4" wide by 13" tall photo mat with two oval openings for cabinet sized photos. The mat had a water color painting of two football players...one a Yale player the other Princeton...both in c1890 period football union suits...

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