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AT THE 2023 NATIONAL

elow are my pick-ups at the 2023 National...Pretty much every year it's the same thing...summer comes and I'm busy working and finding great stuff...I know the National is coming but not sure I'll have the money...June passes and July starts and the National is within sight...I know I have to make the decision...soon...wait too long and the airfare starts rising...I start getting emails from Bill Rayburn...are you coming...uh yeah I think...Oh gosh I gotta make up my mind...Easier said than done when you'll pulling down great stuff continually...And so once again I pulled the trigger and bought my ticket...Oh and by the way...a word of advise to people who don't fly often...don't buy your ticket in a Home Depot parking lot on your phone when you're tired...So I got it...all done...all good...or so I thought...Day before I was suppose to leave I go to check my departure time...6PM...no no no...I cannot go to bed at 2am and get up at 6am for opening day of the National...I thought I bought a 6am flight...all wrong all bad...would not work...Oh no problem...you can change flight time....FOR $300.00!!!!...So all that concern about having enough money for the show...down $300 before I even left LOL...

So...Day one...I get in the show and...you're kind of lost when you first get it...It's a sea of card dealers and you're looking for the antique relics ...Finally you run into somebody you know...hey where's Leiby's booth....and it starts...I got to Leiby's and of course there's a swarm of people already there...The great Brett Lowman was set up right next to Leiby...which was very convenient...Almost immediately I spotted a red metal baseball toy drum Brett had that I bought. Not a really great toy drum but any antique toy baseball drum is very rare...as are pretty much all good sports toys...So all was well and I continued on around the show...and blam....I find another drum...But this wasn't just any drum...we had history...

GLEN MECHANIC BOOTH

CARLTON'S AUGUST 5TH 2020 INSTAGRAM POST

Not too far away was Glen Mechanic's booth...which you never want to miss...Glen specializes in Victorian/Edwardian graphic sports relics...I doubt there is another dealer quite like him anywhere...His booth is always rich in esoteric sports ephemera....For example...Glen had a copy of a McLoughlin Brothers ABC Baseball book for sale at the show...The McLoughlin ABC baseball book is "thee" number one children's sports book...They rarely surface...As I write there is one on AbeBooks.com for $14,750.00...So continuing on with my second drum find!...I went over to Glen's booth and spotted a football toy drum...But it wasn't just any toy football drum...About thirty or so years ago...before the internet...John Kanuit ran a small auction in Sports Collectors Digest...This exact drum was in the auction...I was pretty new to sports antiques but I zeroed in on it...I forget what I bid...all I know is the next day I called John and he informed me I had been outbid...I've been very active in the hobby ever since...I've covered a lot of ground and seen a lot in 35 years...and I've never seen another of this drum...So of course I bought it...Well the story goes on...Somehow I learned there at the National that fellow prolific collector Randy Johnson had owned it and...and that thru a series of events it was deaccessioned from his collection...Glen couldn't recall where he had gotten it...but I found it in a past Hunt auction...And on the subject of drums...you may recall I got a baseball drum from the John Kanuit/Jeff White duo at the 2017 National...so the football one pretty much completed my drum collection...

VERY RARE BASKETBALL BOARD GAME

BY SELCHOW AND RICHTER

TOY BASEBALL DRUM CARLTON BOUGHT AT 2017 NATIONAL FROM JOHN KANUIT / JEFF WHITE

TOY AND GAME COLLECTION OF CARLTON HENDRICKS

BELOW CARLTON'S

PICK-UPS OF THE SHOW

60" wide x 30" tall,, Lithographed on heavy paper

It was the greatest basketball sign I'd ever seen...

It was a lot of money ...but the kind of piece you find the money

This sign made my show...I've already written some about it on the main 2023 National page which I paste below...

Copied from main 2023 National page - ....my top pick-up from the show...Best basketball sign I've ever seen...I was probably about 20 yards away when I spotted it. Jon English had it hanging on the outside his booth. I made my way to it like a heat seeking missile... Jon was asking $3,500.00 but I didn't have that much ...Once I concluded there was no way I could afford it right then...I told Jon if he didn't sell it and ended up taking it home I would try to raise the money when I got home... The show lasted till Sunday...I left Thursday...Late Sunday I called Jon to see if he sold it....BLAM...no didn't sell it... Ok let me see what I can do I said....within a few days I raked it up and made the deal...It could use some restoration...it's got tears and holes...and even stains...but it looks good enough to display as is...I don't like antiques too perfect anyway because you're not sure if it's a reproduction. I asked Jon where he got it...Madison-Bouckville he said...the giant 2000 plus dealer outdoor show in Up-State New York near Syracuse I always wanted to go to...

From the art style and what I've gathered I would guess this sign is from the early 1930's...Being it's the biggest most impressive basketball advertising sign I've ever seen I plan to do a feature on it...The basics are that it was illustrated by a Philadelphia illustrator Elmer P. Cook...the only thing is there were two Elmer P. Cook's...father and son...they were partners in the Philadelphia advertising agency Elmer P. Cook Associates starting in the early 1930's...I speculate however...that this poster may have been illustrated by the father prior to their forming an ad agency...Reasoning that the son might have signed it Elmer P. Cook Jr...Before starting his own agency, the father Elmer P. Cook Sr. had worked for renown Philadelphia advertising agency N. W. Ayer & Son. As for the printer...it's inscribed McCandlish Litho Corp. of Phila. PA at the lower right corner. McLandish produced a lot of war posters for the government. Three of the players are wearing the Gulf colors blue and orange...I have found many references to the Gulf Refinery League in multiple American cities...So the uniform colors would be consistent with that. It's interesting I've never seen another Gulf poster featuring baseball or football or any other sport than basketball.

Next National pick-up is this exceptional advertising poster for the c1895 book Yale Yarns by John Seymour Wood; subtitled: Sketches of life at Yale University. In the vintage poster world this would be referred to as a literary poster...and would have been displayed in book stores. There is a lot packed into this poster. From the richness of the illustration, the illustrator A.W. B. Lincoln seems to have had an uncanny understanding of the Yale Fence depicted. The fence which stood on Yale campus from 1833 to roughly 1888 was a central and storied gathering place students socialized at. It was gradually removed from 1869 to 1888 to make room for new construction...amid much protest...So by 1895 when the book was marketed the scene was a romantic one of Yale's past.

It's hard to imagine a more precise illustration of 19th century Yale life. The artist loaded it all in with classic costuming...You have the football players wearing quilted football pants...turtleneck sweaters with large Y's...Two dandies in striped rowing blazers....both with striped sports caps...blazers, vests, ties, a derby, even a monocle...Whatever the conversation...it appears directed at the football player in the middle, like they've cornered him... while the other football player listens in obscurity...the dandy on the left is seen making his point with his finger...The delineating is so good the faces seem to have personalities...The green background of the trees and grass blend perfect with blue...enhancing the picture...instead of only using blue and white, Yale's colors...And all the pipe smoking going on...both the dandies...plus the football player on the right are loaded up...All them gathered at the iconic Yale Fence...The artist didn't miss anything...even got the elms in the back right...All on a small 16" x 16" format poster...It would have to be the best color illustrated book poster of a collegiate subject ever made...The artist was quite accomplished and did many posters similar quality...But in my opinion this Yale Yarns was his pinnacle...

I bought it in the Three Bills room from my good friend Bill Rayburn. I was kind of surprised to see it there. It was Bill's first sale of the day...I didn't waste any time...I had been wanting one about eighteen years ever since my first encounter with the basic image I saw at the 2005 National in the Hunt Auctions booth...which you can read all about here...

A SAMPLING OF OTHER LITERARY POSTERS BY

A. W. B. LINCOLN, ILLUSTRATOR OF YALE YARNS POSTER

c1895 BOOK YALE YARNS COVER AND SAMPLE PAGES