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Lot
833
19"
x 14"
CIRCA
1923
YANKEES STADIUM
TERRA
COTTA CATCHERS MASK ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT
Once
graced front of Yankee Stadium
Estimated
selling price $4,500.00-$6,500
SOLD
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Auction Overview
By Carlton Hendricks
Some might consider my top pick for this auction to be unusual,
Lot
833, a terra cotta architectural ornament of a catchers mask that once graced the front of Yankee Stadium (estimate $4,500-$6,500.00). Particularly in light of
Lot
80, the Babe Ruth Yankees cap (estimate $150,000.00-$200,000.00), and
Lot 860 the Lou Gehrig Yankees warm up jacket (estimate so high you have to request it). But my likes are based on practicality. That is, your average bear won’t be bidding on the later two. If you like antique baseball decoration, where do you go from there? Say you get it and hang it in your living room. Friends come over and ask about it…you tell them…oh yeah, that came off the front of Yankee Stadium. That’ll generate a good 10 seconds of silence before they continue….awesome piece! Presumably there‘s another one out there somewhere, based on the photo of the front of Yankee Stadium Hunt posted with
the listing.
I wouldn’t say it’s David’s strongest auction for display pieces, but it’s got
some horsepower. The three statue lots, 146,
148, and
153, are certainly formidable. Antique sports statues seem to be growing in popularity. If you take a look at my
coverage of the Hunt booth in my 2003 National Sports Collectors Convention story you’ll see Lot
153 is the same example David had back then. You can see it’s got the same scratches on the wood base, and the little flattened area on the front of the metal base. Which means nothing in relation to it’s importance, which is very high.
Lot
73, the Gehrig leather satchel is fantastic. It looks like the same one offered in the Leland’s August 2006 auction. Actually it was my
top pick for that auction.
Lot 145 is great, one of the neatest baseball shaving mugs I’ve seen.
I think that may be part of a c1900 set of baseball themed porcelain, of which I have a large
plate/charger that I got lat summer in at the Adamstown Antique gallery during my pre convention wanderings. Mark Steinberg has a
beverage pitcher from the set.
I know there is a strong contingent of pennant collectors on
Net54, so I included seven pennant lots, which they may not really appreciate actually! At any rate, it’s a good auction, good luck bidding.
-Carlton
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Lot
146
9 1/2" tall c1910 Pair of baseball figural statues by P.Testi
DID
NOT SELL
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 Lot
148
22"
tall c1907 baseball player plaster statue, resembles Christy Mathewson
SOLD
FOR $1,900.00 |
 Lot
153
10" tall c1860-70s spelter baseball player statue
SOLD
FOR $2,000.00 |
 Lot
73
Lou Gehrig's travel bag c1920-30s
SOLD
FOR $12,000.00 |
 Lot
144
11" long c1920s figural baseball music box
SOLD
FOR $9,000.00 |
 Lot
145
4 1/2" tall c1900
baseball shaving mug
SOLD
FOR $550.00 |
Lot
67
28"x42" Ruth endorsed baseball game broadside
SOLD
FOR $8,500.00 |
Lot
151
8" tall c1890 "Consols" cigarettes adv. matchsafe w/striking plate
DID
NOT SELL
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 Lot
150
12" tall c1880 Pair Heubach porcelain baseball figurines
SOLD
FOR $1,100.00 |
 Lot
820
7"x9" c1930s-40s Ruth auto. golfing photograph
SOLD
FOR $7,500.00 |
 Lot
80
c1920-30s Babe Ruth New York Yankees cap
SOLD
FOR $285,000.00 |
 Lot
860
Lou Gehrig's New York Yankees warm up jacket
SOLD
FOR $325,000.00 |
 Lot
819
5"x8" 1947 Babe Ruth signed luncheon menu
SOLD
FOR $3,250.00 |
 Lot
866
21"x22" c1947 Chesterfield Cigarettes advertising sign, Williams, DiMaggio, Musial, Elliot, Harris, Blackwell
SOLD
FOR $4,000.00 |
 Lot
807
1949 Jackie Robinson
Barnstorming Tour program
SOLD
FOR $1,900.00 |
Lot
802
25" long Vintage Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn street sign
SOLD
FOR $1,400.00
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Lot
816
3 1/2" x 4 1/2" 1896-97 Page Fence Giants, African American baseball trade card
SOLD
FOR $6,000.00
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Lot
140
34 1/2" c1880-90 Spalding baseball ring bat
SOLD
FOR $1,300.00
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Lot
60
c1927-28 Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig autographed baseball
SOLD
FOR $20,000.00
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Lot
815
c1914-17 Chicago American Giants Negro League postcard
SOLD
FOR $6,000.00
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Lot
147
8" dia. 1889 New York Base Ball Club porcelain plate
DID
NOT SELL
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Lot
58
Signed
Ruth Photo
SOLD
FOR $3,600.00
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Lot
915
1886 Lorillard Tobacco Detroit BBC team card
SOLD
FOR $2,500.00
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Lot
861
5 1/2" tall
1952 figural Japanese baseball trophy
SOLD
FOR $750.00
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Lot
792
1956 Dodgers Yankees World Series pennant
SOLD
FOR $450.00
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Lot
862
1948 World Series lot w/pennant
SOLD
FOR $850.00
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Lot
814
Brooklyn
Eagles
pennant
SOLD
FOR $350.00
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Lot
805
c1940-50s Brooklyn Dodgers NL Champions pennant
SOLD
FOR $550.00
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Lot
795
1952 Brooklyn Dodgers "World Champions" phantom pennant
SOLD
FOR $900.00
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Lot
861a
1947 All-Star Game pennant
SOLD
FOR $550.00
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Lot
810
c1940s New York "Black Yankees" pennant
SOLD
FOR $500.00
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