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CARLTON'S SECOND BEST PICK-UP

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C1928, 12" TALL x 11" WIDE FOOTBALL TROPHY

MADE BY DERBY SILVER

I've already written about this football trophy in my

main page of this 2018 National so I copy and paste the excerpt below

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My second best find for the show was a c1920's silver plate figural football trophy...I found it within 15 minutes of walking into the National on the first day. It was in Keith Javic's booth priced at $1,500.00...Now mind you I really didn't want to just walk in and drop $1,500.00 quite that fast...Normally I like to look around a bit before taking a big bite and eating up a big chunk of what I had to spend for the show...But it was a very good example of that horizontal style trophy and I knew it wouldn't be there long...I could almost tell it was made by Derby just looking at it...Sure enough I took it apart later and saw the Derby makers mark...Derby trophies are always a cut above in style and presentation...So it was decision time...crunch decision time...buy it or loose it...I know the terrain pretty well and knew it was doubtful I'd see a better football trophy at the show...I hit up Keith for his best price and he said 15 was it...He knew he could get that...so I somewhat hesitantly pulled the trigger...done...I asked him to put it aside and kept on roll'n...

BOYLE'S JOCKEY CLUB

RYE WHISKEY BOTTLE

c1900, 7" tall, pint

Made by Samuel P. Haller, Pittsburgh, PA

Samuel P. Haller was in business from 1895-1913

THE INFORMATION BELOW IS COURTESY pre-pro.com

Samuel P Haller Co. listed from 1892-1918.

The company first shows up in business directories as Haller & Blackmore in 1892. It became Samuel P. Haller in 1895 and then the Samuel P. Haller Co. in 1914. They operated at least until 1915.
The business premises were located at 172-174 1 st Ave (1892-1895), 416 - 418 1 st Ave (1896), 111 Smithfield (1897-1901), 1153 Liberty Ave (1902-1910), finally 1633 Liberty Ave (1911-1915).

Brand names used by this company include: "Belle of Morgantown", "Cobweb Mills", "County Fair", "Gold Nugget Pure Rye", "Haller's Eighty - Nine", "Haller's Rye Nugget", "Keystone Medallion", and "Trotter."

Company name timeline:
Haller & Blackmore (1892-1894), Samuel P Haller (1895-1913), Samuel P Haller Co. (1914-1918)

Address timeline:
172-174 1 st Ave (1892-1895), 416 - 418 1 st Ave (1896), 111 Smithfield (1897-1901), 1153 Liberty Ave (1902-1910), 1633 Liberty Ave (1911-1918)

The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) held their yearly 2018 national convention the same week as the National Sports Collectors Convention...They held it downtown Cleveland August 2nd-5th at the Huntington Convention Center...I picked this up at the Bottle convention...I had never seen this bottle before. I liked the horseshoe with the horses heads inside it...had a great look so I pulled the trigger for $65.00. There aren't many sports themed bottles to be had.

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HOOVER FOR PRESIDENT

METAL CAMPAIGN TAG

c1928, 5 3/4" wide x 3 3/4" tall

Found in booth of Jack Landerson (next to Corey Leiby)

I've already written about this Hoover campaign tag in my

main page of this 2018 National so I copy and paste the excerpt below

EXCERPT FROM 2018 NATIONAL MAIN PAGE

...Then as I was flipping thru a box of paper in Jack's booth I came across an unusual metal...sign?...tag? advertising Herbert Hoover for president that I bought...actually I'm not sure what it is...it's metal and has a hole on each side, no doubt for mounting...Why would I buy a metal Herbert Hoover metal tag at the National Sports Collectors Convention you ask...How is that sports related you ask...Well it was a companion piece...the story is that a little less than a year ago...back in September 2017...I bought what was most likely the greatest cache of 19th century Stanford football memorabilia ever found...and that will probably ever be found...I found it essentially among a bunch of junk in a low end auction...READ THE SHOCKING TRUTH HERE...and in the cache was a huge photo of the 1894 Stanford football team...and in the photo is very young Herbert Hoover, who was the manager of the team...So the tag goes perfect with the photo seeing he would later become president of the United States...and as a bonus...as my friend Pat Nester pointed out...who I texted a photo to at the National for an opinion...(he said get it)...it's football shaped!

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c1910, 5" tall

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

PORCELAIN MUG

Made by Laughlin Art China, Newell, West Virginia

Track and Field College Relay Race Illustration by

Bristow Adams 1875-1956

The Homer Laughlin China Company initially began as Laughlin Pottery in East Liverpool, Ohio. The company was started in 1871 by brothers Shakespeare and Homer Laughlin. However, Shakespeare would later leave the company in 1879. In 1889, William Edwin Wells joined Homer and seven years later the two would incorporate. Homer would sell his interest to Wells shortly thereafter. The firm experienced rapid growth and opened a facility in Newell, West Virginia in 1903.[3] By the late 1920s all production was centered at the West Virginia factory and the Ohio site was abandoned.

This mug is pretty rare...you don't see this track one often...It's maker Laughin Art China was one of a handful of china companies that produced porcelain mugs and pitchers with collegiate sports scenes during the late 19th-early 20th century. F. Earl Christy was another illustrator who did many such sports illustrations...John Sheridan was another illustrator who was prolific in the college sports scene genera...Bristow Adams however was a far more interesting person...For instance Adams actually ran track at Stanford...He also started the Stanford Chaparral in 1899, the oldest college humor magazine in the west. But that's just for starters...Take a look at his bio below taken from aceweb.org. Then further down the page see a photo of him on the 1899 Stanford track team....and a track poster he did that I got at last years National...

COURTESY ACEWEB.ORG

Bristow Adams' diverse career included stints as a writer, editor, artist, teacher, forester and politician. Born in Washington, D. C., November 11, 1875, he attended public schools there and studied at Washington's Corcoran School of Art. Prior to attending college, he was a co-founder and editor of The Pathfinder, a Washington current affairs weekly that eventually became part of the Farm Journal.

In 1900, he graduated from Stanford University with a degree in languages, literature and art. At Stanford, he edited and illustrated student publications and founded the Stanford Chaparral, a campus humor magazine. As an undergraduate, he was an artist on the Bering Sea Fur Seal Commission, illustrating government reports of fur seal investigations.

Early in his career, he was associate editor of Forestry and Irrigation (1902-04), co-founder and managing editor of Washington Life (1903-04) and editor of the American Spectator (1905-06). From 1906 to 1914, he worked for the U. S. Forest Service as an editor and forester.

In 1914, Adams became a professor in Cornell's College of Agriculture. He was also the first head of the publications and information services of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics and the agricultural experiment station. During his tenure at Cornell, he taught journalism, drawing and painting.

In 1920, he established the Cornell chapter of Sigma Delta Chi and was later made an honorary national president of the society. He retired from Cornell in 1945 and served as acting mayor of Ithaca from 1948 to 1955. He died in Ithaca on November 19, 1957 at the age of 82.

BRISTOW ADAMS AT STANFORD 1899

Another of Bristow Adams' work

picked up by Carlton at the 2017 National

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