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Posted
10/31/22

Carlton
bid $510.00...went for $540.00
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Hi Carlton, good to hear from you... No, I don't have that tin. Extreme rare. And no other tins like that.
Cheers, Jan
Jan
Goedhart, Gouda, Netherlands, eBay handle: tincollectors |
Monday
10/31/22
Here's my
weekend report....I got outbid on this rare c1925
advertising tin on Saturday for Pascall's candy...out of
Morford's Auction...I gave it all I could so I don't
feel bad...but it would have gone great in my tin
collection...It's an English tin...I had never heard of
Pascall's but it's a major brand that started in London
in the 1870's.....then migrated to Australia and New Zeeland...still around today...This
is a rare tin....it's the only example I've ever
seen...I checked with my Euro tin sources Jan Goedhart
and Nigel Scott the two biggest dealers in European tins
and they both confirmed as much it's rare...Nigel
speculated this may have been the same example he sold
on eBay for $475.00...My take once again...good boat
stuff prices are nuts...I've seen boat signs go way over
the top I would have expected...I would speculate why
this tin is so rare is children would play with
them...then typically the tops would get separated and
lost...and eventually they would be discarded...The
colors really make it...Navy, yellow and red...
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Posted
10/19/22
GREATEST
ANTIQUE BACKPACK FIND
FOUND
AT OCT. SACRAMENTO ANTIQUES FAIR
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How
it could have survived in such incredible condition is amazing!!!
Seller
said believed to have come from the Wyoming/Utah region
Clearly
appears homemade folk art


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Posted
9/23/22 - (November 2020 pick-up)

Picked this up in an auction in Belgium…friend tipped me off to it…I prefer American but this was too cool to pass up…These city to city races were popular with motorcycles and autos in the teens and twenties in Western Europe…I gather this Liege to Paris to Liege race was a major race…but I’ve had a hard time researching it because I don’t know the go to people in Europe and the language barrier….the three major languages spoken in Belgium are Dutch, French, and German…Liege was I think the second largest city in Belgium next to Brussels…ya learn a lot collecting!…I think most Americans find this all curious but from what I’ve seen motorcycle racing was no less popular in Europe than it was here…maybe more so…Italy, Germany, France….they were all motorcycle crazy back in the early days of the teens and twenties…Below are some key questions I would like to learn about this statue.
1. Was it a trophy?
2. Was it a souvenir?
3. Who made it?
4. How many were made?
5. Were similar statues made for other races?
6. How many contestants competed in the race?
7. Who won the race?
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of 9/20/22 post - 1921 plaster motorcycle statue
blacton

posted
9/18/22

Saturday
9/17/22
So yesterday I get up at 5:15 A.M. and drive 2 ½ hours to a western
antiques show in Nevada City CA…all that time, missed sleep, and not
to mention $gas$...and all I got was a motorcycle sheet music for $40.00…Hit
the one store in nearby Grass Valley….zero…hit couple shops in
Marysville…zero…and that was it…off to grocery shopping and back
home…up at 8:00 A.M. and drove 45 min. to a bottle show in Santa Rosa
CA…zilch zero…nada…So fine…I head home and stop in Calistoga CA…went
to an antiques store I used to stop at and was turned into some kind of
wine tasting deal with a few wine antiques as props…I guess…So
across the street is some funky antiques shop in an old home…I walk in
curious since the whole antiquing landscape seemed to have changed since
I last was there…maybe two or three years…So I walk up in the porch
area and there’s a 12ft. c1920 decorated English college sweep oar
hanging…cool but the blade was ¾ gone worn away…the fragment left
still had the painted times…interesting but no…so I mosey around and
stroll into a room and see this Cricket Goods advertising sign…talk
about hit ya between the eyes when you’re not expecting it (it was the
Lord no question)…I was so worn out from the last couple days looking
for something…I was dazed and just stared at it like is this a joke…So
I buy it and cart it off to my truck…drove to a shady park area where
I could examine more…shooting text photos to my buddy Ryan Sims down
in Yorba Linda…sharing the excitement while confirming it’s real not
a re-pop…Ryan goes…get it out of the frame…so I get home and undo
the weird 1980’s metal frame and pop it out…my gosh it was real as
rain…the back and edges said it all…sigh of relief…I could feel
the gentle rain of dollar bills floating down on me…as I bought it
right…But it’s a keeper I think…as I told Ryan…if you’re gonna
have a cricket sign, which I don’t collect…this is it…the embossed
lettering is very defined almost 1/8” deep…
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I
have a mountaineering themed cognac sign about the same c1900 vintage
that’s almost exactly the same size and v similar color
lithography...except its a horizontal format…So now I have two great
graphic European, off the reservation, sports signs of similar size and
format…sort of a pair…
Addenda
9/23/22
I
got this email below from esteemed antique advertising tin
dealer Nigel Scott in England which sheds some important light
on this sign...
Nigel
Scott eBay Store
Mon 9/19/2022 12:11 PM
Subject: Bryan's Cricket sign
Hi Carlton,
Thanks for replying. I read your blog about the sign. Great to hear the back story, you are one lucky guy.
I had the cricket sign years ago. I bought both The Football one & cricket one from a local antiques dealer. The guy had cleared out an old shop, years back, in my town ( Olney, UK)
The Football one ( which I still own) had been slightly trimmed on the bottom & had been used to board up an attic window in the shop.
The cricket one was in excellent condition. I foolish sold the cricket one about 25 years ago because I was broke & needed the money. The buyer (luckily) didn’t want the Football one. Which is now displayed proudly in my office.
I had another sign from the same antique dealer. It’s a card sign, but a lovely image & also from Bryan’s. Pic below.
Cheers Nigel
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of 9/18/22 Latest Greatest - Cricket Goods Sign
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Posted
9/11122

9/11/22
Weekend
Wrap-up
It
was a heck of a weekend for collecting....Started Friday Sept. 9th with
the Pacific Coast Gas Bash held at Fred Stokes place in Santa Rosa Calif...Then
Sunday 9/11/22 I hit the French antiques Market at the Marin Civic Center
parking lot...found nothing zeroed out...But went
to a very nice church afterwards about 3 minutes away...Bay Marin
Church...nice visit friendly people...and they had a taco feed after
service...Afterwards stopped at Urban Ore in Berkeley before heading over
to my friend Pat Nester's home in San Francisco to buy an important
motorcycle poster.

Walker's
Billiard Parlor sign purchased at Sept 2022 Pacific Coast Gas Bash
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Advertising
token for Walker's Billiard Parlor purchased on eBay post gas bash
Back
to the Friday Gas Bash...I was up at 4am...got there 6:00am with a
flashlight...Really I wouldn't call it a bang-up show....it was
good...but I think the heat wave Northern California had that week
put a dampner on
it...not as big a crowd I expected and seemed like there should
have been more dealers...Nevertheless it was fun....and I did make
one
find from renown sign dealer Bob Porter from Cypress,
CA near
Disneyland...He always lays out his whole arsenal of great signs
on tarps on the ground...I spotted this billiard parlor sign at
6:20 A.M....twenty minutes after I got there....but I didn't buy
it for another hour...the price was more than I could swallow...I
came back later and made an offer...Bob is such a gentleman he
just calmly said "Carlton I paid more than that, it came out
of a collection"...I went away for a bit and decided to just
go get it...Where in the world would I ever find another billiards
sign from Chico...There are a lot of collectors of historical
northern California signs and I figured I could find a buyer if I
decided to sell it...
As
typical at these early morning shows, I'm not a morning person and
was still waking up...So I bought it in a bit of a fog...But as I
came to walking the show I realized what a great piece it was and
I was glad I bit the bullet...It's what's called a tacker...my
first one...as they are light weight metal and theoretically you
can hang them up with tacks...That's nice and all but I think I
want the edges protected so I plan to get it framed...a black
frame with set it off well I think...It's one of those buys the
more I look at it the more I'm glad I got it...Researching it was
remarkably easy...I even found a photo of the inside of the
billiard hall...


So
on to the motorcycle poster...after a quick stop at Urban ore in
Berkeley I headed over to Pat's apartment in San Francisco...A friend of his got this poster
in Michigan...where the race was...I'm always interested in early
motorcycle posters but this one is for the national
championship...The Jack Pine Run was the championship for enduro
racing for the United States from 1923 until the early
1960's...Endurance racing is a different ball game than track
racing...very demanding riding thru back roads....forests and
waterways...very rugged...I have antique motorcycle race posters,
which are rare...but this was a chance to add enduro racing in my
collection...A photo of Oscar Lenz is featured on the poster. He
was one of the founders of the race and won it seven times...
I
kept wondering who Jack Pine was…I figured he must have started
the race or something…turned out Jack Pine is a type of pine
tree from the region…So I believe the race is named Jack Pine
because the course is laid out thru a terrain of Jack Pines...


So
while I was at Pat's he pulls out this killer little powerboat
program that I had to have...For the uninitiated 1915 powerboat
racing programs don't surface often...and I was real glad to add
this to my powerboat collection...It's a very positive thing with
boats...you can often research them by the names and numbers on
their bow...I wish I had time to do some deep research on the
boats referenced in this program...FYI...1915 was essentially
right after the hydroplane was introduced about 1912....leaving
behind the era of dispersion type powerboats that plowed thru
water not over it like the hydroplane...So we're talking pioneer
era of powerboating here...

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Posted
9/12/22

Latest
Pickup August 25th 2022 - Powerboat Stained Glass Panel

Here's
my latest greatest...Now this would be a perfect example of you just
don't know what's out there...never would I have imagined such a
piece...it's my first stained glass in 35 years collecting...The older
gentleman I got it from was the Detroit suburb of Garden City...His
daughter acted as my contact person. He was told it came from the
legendary Gar Wood mansion on Grayhaven Island...that would be Gar Wood
the legendary Detroit industrialist and world champion speed boat
racer...However...as exciting as that story was...based on the T
41 bow number the story just didn't add up...If someone was going to
make a stained glass of Gar Wood in a speed boat it would be of him in
one of the ten Miss America boats he won the world championship with
nine times 1920-1933. His $3,500.00 price was based on it being Gar
Wood...so I tactfully sent the email below:

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Detroit Suburb of Garden City, from whence our stained glass hails.
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Hi…Carlton
Hendricks here…I’m a collector of early powerboat racing and
really like your stained glass…However I cannot connect the
T-41 on the boat with Gar Wood…Gar Wood won all his
championship races with the Miss America boats…there were ten
of them…all with Miss America followed by the roman numeral of
its linage…i.e. “Miss America VII…Miss America VIII…etc….I
can’t find any boat titled T-41 associated with Gar Wood…So
it’s a mystery to me…nevertheless I’m making a $REDACTED$
offer as it’s still great looking…
Kindly –carlton
SportsAntiques.com |
The
sellers daughter called and said as much thanks for the offer but her
dad felt it was worth much more than my offer...I asked her to find out
what the least he would take...She came back with $3,000.00...I was
leaving shortly for a vacation to L.A. for the Glendale show and Long
Beach Flea...and 3g's would be a vacation killer...so I said as much I'd
revisit it after I got back...So I hit L.A. hard over the
weekend....found nothing...so Sunday afternoon I texted an
offer...Seller countered...and I re-countered and we made the deal...To
get to the bottom of its history I enlisted the help of renown
hydroplane historian Leslie Field.
Sent: Tue 8/23/2022 8:01 PM
Leslie
Field
Hydroplane Historian
www.lesliefield.com
Hi Leslie…
Carlton Hendricks here…I just got the attached stained glass
work featuring a powerboat that appears to be from about the
1920’s…the bow number on the boat is T41…I’m hoping to
ID the boat with that…
The stained glass came the Detroit area…the seller purportedly
bought it in an antiques store 35-40 years ago and it was in his
basement since then as I understand…the seller was told it was
salvaged from the Gar Wood Mansion in Gray Haven Island…after
it burned I assume…and the pilot is purportedly Gar Wood…However
I cannot find any boats associated to Gar Wood with the T41 bow
number…Q. Would you have any insight into the identity of the
boat?
I found a photo of a boat with the bow number T-46….see
attached…Q. What do those numbers signify?...
The stained glass should arrive in a few days…I will take
better photos then…
Thanks so much for any help you could be….
Most Kindly -carlton |
Only took a couple hours
to hear back...
Sent:
Tue 8/23/2022 10:11 PM
Carlton,
This one was easy. T-41 was Musketeer II, owned and raced in
1923 and 1924 by Horace Dodge. I didn’t notice a direct Gar
Wood connection. The numbers on the bow are just racing numbers
designating the racing class. “T” was the prefix for the
senior level of motorboat racing at the time. Dodge won several
races with this boat. Dodge was a rival of Gar Wood and raced
against him with this boat. Musketeer II sank in June 1925. I
have no info whether it was salvaged or its later fate.
Cheers,
Leslie
Leslie Field
Hydroplane History
Website: www.hydroplanehistory.com
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1558238831117830/
Vancouver, BC Canada |
The
three biggest names in early powerboats in the United States were
Chris-Craft…Hacker Craft…Dodge…and Gar Wood…all from the Great
Lakes/Detroit region…There were some very formidable Canadian boat
makers on the other side the lake as well… Ditchburn…Greavette…and
Minett to name a few…not that I know much about them…Horace Dodge Jr
was the son of Horace Dodge Sr. who with his brother John started Dodge
Brothers Automobiles…Jr. was a party animal with a life that reflected
it…Jr.’s Dodge Boat company was killed off by the depression in 1936…his
father was one of the biggest yachtsmen of the day…had a whole string
of huge ones….

At this point we can only speculate the who what why this stained glass
panel was produced…Horace Jr. could have had it made but seems like
someone of his means would have ordered something bigger…Perhaps it
was a gift someone had made for him…and it hung in his den…The art
quality of the boat and faces are so well defined I would almost bet it
was done by a professional artist…As well the details of the boat are
too exact…I see two air intake cowls above the engine compartment area…I
clearly see two tie down cleats…a cooling water discharge port of some
sort…what looks like a bow light at the front…between the tie down
cleats is some kind of object I can’t make out…almost look like a
fishing rod holder…but seemingly in the wrong place…The shadowing of
the coats the two men are wearing is so well done I would speculate it
would take a professional artist to execute…If it was given as a gift…it
would likely have been from some wealthy playmate who would have likely
had it made at the top stained glass shop in Detroit…which appears to
have been the Detroit Stained Glass Works on West Fort Street…Once the
book I ordered Discovering Stained Glass in Detroit by Nola Huse Tutag
arrives perhaps will help I.D. the artist…
The best Dodge Boats history site in the world is http://www.thatoldboat.com/Dodge-Boa
...-Factories-Det ...there are tons of photos of the boats and factory
from back in the day. The operator/owner Steve Martini has done a great
job of preserving the history of the company...along with first hand
accounts of pioneer research trips on foot to locate the
buildings...don't miss it...
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21 1/2" wide x 14" deep x 12" tall
YALE TOAST CRACKERS WOODEN CRATE BOX
Incredible condition paper label
This
isn't really sports related but obviously the Yale name is part of
sports history. I got it for a $95.00
BIN
on eBay...Even though it's not really sports and takes up a lot of
real estate to display...for that
price
I couldn't pass it up...just too good looking and too good of
condition...At 21" by 12" I don't think
I've
ever seen a crate label this big...and it's the first example of
this box I've seen in 30 years collecting.
The
ornamental graphics along the top and bottom borders are very 19th
century and pare part of what
had
me. I vaguely saw this a consolation prize for that Spalding
box I
got outbid on!
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c1864
Tennis Match Tankard
by
James Dixon & Sons, Oxford England
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C.F.
Reid v. T.C.A. Robartes Jan. 22nd 1864 |

Acquired
June 29th 2014
n
30 years of collecting, esthetically, this is
probably the best looking antique sports tankard I've
seen. I see a lot of rowing ones with school crests and
so on, but can't recall a tennis one. I spotted it on
eBay and jammed the brakes hard to a screeching halt...I
always like the
look of crossed sports equipment like baseball bats,
oars, skis, snowshoes, polo mallets and such. So the
crossed racquets caught my attention initially...then
once I saw the incredible engraving work, it really had
me...and the archaic old world lettering...phew! Cursory
research revealed the match was likely played in Oxford
England...and my friend, rowing historian Tom Weil, told
me the famous James Dixon concern who made the tankard
was located right there in Oxford and essentially had a
monopoly on all the sports trophy tankards made for
Oxford. "It
didn't come cheap...I was hoping to get it for about
half of what I had to pay as top bidder...but I wasn't
surprised being it's the best I've ever seen...had 22
bids.
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name on tankard
C.F.
Reid
Cecil
Frederick Reid
1842-1898
TANKARD
DATED
JAN.
22ND 1864
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Reid
was
21 years,
9 months, 23
days old
on
day of match
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REID
FAMILY
BREWING HISTORY

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Dated
Jan. 22nd 1864
Further research will be needed to learn the full history of this handsome tankard. So far we know the opponents Cecil Frederick Reid and Thomas Charles Agar Robartes both attended Christ Church College at Oxford. Of the thirty eight colleges at Oxford, Christ Church is the most prestigious and exclusive. We believe both Reid and Robartes were undergrads there when the match was played. Both players were from well to do families. Cecil Reid's family had owned a brewery for over half a century and Thomas Robartes father was a Baron, and Robartes himself later became a Baron, as well as a member of Parliament. |
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name on tankard
T.C.A. Robartes
Thomas Charles Reginald
Agar-Robartes
1844
–1930
TANKARD
DATED
JAN.
22ND 1864
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Robartes
was
20 years, 21 days old on
day of match
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Thomas Charles Reginald
Agar-Robartes
1844
–1930
Portrait
from later
in life
By
Walter William Ouless
Agar-Robartes was the son of Thomas Agar-Robartes, 1st Baron
Robartes. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1870. In
1882 he succeeded his father in the barony and entered the House of Lords.
In 1899 he succeeded his kinsman as sixth Viscount
Clifden. Later he served as Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire from 1906 to 1915. |
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BASKETBALL SCORE -
YALE
40, SWARTHMORE 23

Acquired
June 11th 2014
(Yale
won championship, see teams below)
Note: The seller from Connecticut was able to provide much on the history
of this poster, in that it came from one of the Yale players who played on the 1915 team...so we know it's one of the players pictured below...determining which one will require
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c1940
PENFOLD GOLF BALLS
ADVERTISING
DISPLAY

Acquired April
25th 2014
Read
the chatter about this item
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C1900
FOOTBALL PLAYER
ICE
TEA SPOON

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Acquired
May 5th 2014 |
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C1896
CABINET PHOTO
OF
BICYCLE RACE BROADSIDE POSTER IN WINDOW
Acquired
March 25th 2014
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C1941
CHALK SOUVENIR STATUE FROM INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

Acquired
April 6th 2014
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C1920
SNAP SHOT OF WEST
POINT
POLO PLAYER 
Acquired
April 30th 2014
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Hawaiian
Legend
SIX
C1925 SNAPSHOTS OF
OLYMPIAN
AND
FATHER
OF SURFING
DUKE
KAHANAMOKU
AND
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
SWIM TEAM
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C1900
42" X 18"
HARVARD
CREW
ROWING FLAG

Acquired
May 7th 2014
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C1908
22" X 14"
CALIFORNIA
VS. STANFORD
TRACK
MEET
BROADSIDE
POSTER
with
art nouveau graphics
Acquired
May 11th 2014
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c1900
ROWING THEME PILLOW
c1900
ROWING GIRL PILLOW
Acquired
May 9th 2014
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11/20/12
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c1880,
7" tall, Cast Spelter
BARE
KNUCKLE BOXER STATUE
Picked
this little statue up last week off eBay from
England...The seller said they thought it was a boxer
named Bendigo..or
William Bendigo Thompson..I
showed it to a lot of boxing collectors but no one knew
for sure. I've
never seen it before and set out to find someone who
had...no luck, asked all over the place, Europe, here in
the states....nada as of yet...I thought it looked
English but then I ran into Chuck Morganstein at Alameda
Point yesterday and he said he thought it was French..It
was so different and cool I just had to get it! |
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11/20/12
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c1910,
36" x 22"
JOHNSON
VS. JEFFRIES
FIGHT
PHOTO
By
Dana Studios, San Francisco
Picked
this huge photo yesterday at the Alameda Point Antiques
Fair of the Jack Johnson vs. James Jeffries fight that
was held in Reno Nevada on July 4th 1910. The fight was
a national phenomena that sparked race riots across the
country after Jack Johnson won. I'm looking into it further
but I believe it's signed by James Jeffries and Jack
Dempsey, see close ups below. The dealer told me it came
out a bar in Alameda Ca...In original oak frame. |

James
J. Jeffries |

Reno
NV July
4th 1910
110
degrees |

Jack
Johnson |
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Signed
James J. Jeffries |
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Posted
11/20/12
A
Latest Acquisitions Feature

25
1/2"
x 15 1/2" framed
Original
1906 Olympic Try Outs Poster
CARLTON'S
INCREDIBLE LATEST PHOTO PICK UP BELOW i
AS COMPANION
TO
HIS 1906 OLYMPIC TRY OUTS POSTER
ABOVE h

21
5/8" wide X 17" tall
Panoramic Photo Of The
1906
Olympics
(Also
referred to as the Intercalated Games of 1906)
Panathenaic Stadium
Athens Greece
Very
rare period photo in original
frame with wavy glass
Seller
purchased in London from picker who got it at a
flea market near Charleroi, Belgium
I spotted this panoramic photo of Panathenaic Stadium on eBay about 2 months ago. The seller had it listed as being the 1896 Olympics. As I examined the photos and made enquiries to the seller I came to the conclusion it could have been the 1906 Olympics held in the same Panathenaic Stadium in Greece as the 1896 games… even though the seller felt it was from 1896. Whether 1896 or 1906, based on it’s huge size and that I’d never seen the photo before…I wanted it…Not to mention I have a companion poster to it that advertises the try outs for the 1906 Olympics in Chicago!.....Indepth feature
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11/20/12
10/15/12
UPDATE, Unfortunatly
the seller of the statue below did
not mention in the listing
it doesn't stand up....After a few days
of looking at it laying next to
my computer I concluded that no
matter how nice it looked I really
didn't have any use for it
and advised the seller I was sending it
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Just
picked off eBay this morning from Austria!!!
Coincidently,
fourth boxing piece in a row picked up lately!?!
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Comparison
photo to previously seen painted version on right
This would be one of only three examples of a Vienna bronze boxer
I have seen over 25 years collecting.
I’ve seen a painted version of
this one
back in about
2005 on eBay that
came with a mate.

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c1890
Vienna bronze 4 inch tall conjoined boxers
Acquired
2006 - Carlton Hendricks collection
I have another example of Vienna boxers I picked up on eBay
maybe five or six years ago that are joined as a group of two seen
above and below on my coffee table....which is where the new one
is heading once it arrives.

c1890
Vienna boxer group in line up on Carlton's coffee table
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4/5/12
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Bill
Tilden
Last January Net54Baseball.com member Ben
Levinsohn/IronHorse2130 bought a tennis collection from a lady who collected antique tennis things. I think she bought most or all of it in the 1960's which I find very interesting...Anyways I kept asking and bothering Ben if there was any sculpture...and he was very busy sorting and photographing it all and he had a lot on his plate...Finally he sent a photo of the statue above....Artistically the pose had me right
away...it's unique as I've never seen a statue of tennis player in a low stance going for the ball like that...and it has so much force...But then after I got it and could examine it closely I saw it was Bill Tilden...a big name major tennis legend...had a lot of personal problems....but a great player.
Works
by McClelland Barclay
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to U.S. Naval History McClelland Barclay Page

General
Eisenhower
By
McClelland Barclay |

Barclay's sailors are notable for their square jaws, well-defined muscles and exceptional physique. Theron MacKay, gunners mate, recalls meeting Barclay in 1943:
"Me and another crew member were cleaning a gun, so we were bare from the waist up. Barclay had his sketchpad and was drawing us. Being an amateur artist myself, I took an interest in what he was doing and asked could I look over his shoulder? Well, he made us look like the finest human specimens that ever were! Really, we were skinny kids with our ribs hanging out. I said to him, 'I don't look like that!' and he answered, 'Well, if I sketched you like you are, it wouldn't make much of recruiting poster, now would it?'"
http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/artist/b/barclay/barclay%201.html |
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Great
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Texaco
Magazine Ad |

See
many examples of
Barclay's
jewelry here |
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So that was great...but then it got more
interesting...and then more
interesting...The sculptor McClelland Barclay was a major name artist
although as a graphic illustrator....He did a lot of big ad campaigns
in the 20's...He was a globe trotter celebrity type and also did movie posters in Hollywood...then started his own art company making decorative metal items...bookends, jewelry, etc...then was killed by a torpedo in WWII while on assignment doing combat
illustration...

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This
poster was
made
by
McClelland
Barclay
for
a Navy relief show
which
World Heavyweight
Champion
Private Joe
Louis
gave a speech at
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This
poster was made with part of the speech
which
World Heavyweight
Champion
Private Joe
Louis gave at that show
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THE WHOLE STORY |

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Then as I was researching him I came across a
poster he did for a Navy
Benefit variety show In New York City at Madison Square Garden....And it dawned on me I had written about the show in detail in a story I did on a Joe Louis war poster titled "We'll Win Cause We're on God's
Side"...see link
here..I
also got the c1900 tennis board game below from Ben. I jumped on
it because it's the first Victorian tennis board game I've
seen....it'll go in my game
case when I
get time...Thanks Ben!

c1900
Tennis Board Game
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Posted
5/15/12
Carlton's
Latest Acquisition
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HERE
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THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THIS SIGN
54"
X 18"
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Posted
3/25/12
"NOBLE
CATCHER"
Undocumented
12" tall figural baseball player bottle
Believed
to be a
c1880
Cyrus Noble Whiskey Back Bar Bottle |
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THE
NOBLE CATCHER BOTTLE
....At
any rate, this bottle probably represents the
biggest
mystery I've encountered in my 25 years
collecting
sports antiques!...
-Carlton
Hendricks
I found this figural bottle of a baseball catcher
in a Roseville CA antiques mall. My best guess is it was a c1880 Cyrus Noble Whiskey back bar bottle. I’ve done pretty much everything possible to research it but haven’t come up with concrete evidence…Nevertheless the strongest evidence clearly indicates it is very rare….That is…I’ve showed it to the most
knowledgeable baseball and bottle collectors and almost no one has seen it
before…At any rate, this bottle probably represents the
biggest mystery I've encountered in my 25 years collecting
sports antiques!....Here’s whole the story.....
On Sunday afternoon Feb. 12th 2012. I was planning to meet up with friends
shortly at a nearby movie theater. It was suppose to just be a quick run thru the antiques mall then off to see Safe House….but
I was brought to a halt when I spotted this…I had to gather my senses to determine if it was truly as rare as it seemed….I thought I may have seen it somewhere but wasn’t sure…I tried googling it on my smart phone and got essentially nothing…a good sign…It was seriously priced and I hated to make a quick decision…but I couldn’t keep my friends waiting at the theater…and I sensed not to think about it and come back later…Good thing since it would have been gone!…as you’ll see in the third page of the link
on the right to Antique-Botttles.net…I examined it from every angle and sought input from the leading bottle collecting community
on the internet.
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Below
are some of the comments culled from
3
pages of discussion
My apologies sir, but we have no company
historian or archivist. In the 15 years that I've worked for Haas Brothers, I have not heard of a 19th century decanter for Cyrus Noble. We did a successful ceramic decanter program in the 1970's, but in the 19th century I'm only aware of a shot-glass series. I'm sorry I can't give a definitive answer, but as far as I've ever heard, this wouldn't be a decanter produced by/for Cyrus Noble Bourbon.
Thank you for your inquiry,
Jake Lustig
National Sales Manager
Haas Brothers | Since 1851
San Francisco, California
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I would look under tobacco card era players. Maybe an obscure player or is this a representative player bottle , noble simply meaning honorable, brave and true. It looks quite
Victorian!
Forum
Member, CreekWalker
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I am
truly intrigued and mesmerized to see what comes of this....Jim
Forum
Member EPackage
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Really great stuff and I'm fascinated. Thanks for all the research. I'm not a sports person but the bottle aspect has me.
You must realize that Cyrus Noble, patina and glass making are all only partly connected though. The frosting shouldn't be confused with patina if that's what it is. Without actually holding it it's difficult for me to say of it's acid wash, powder blast or naturally occurring. Cyrus Noble in the earliest days probably didn't use glass and the commemoratives most likely didn't start until the time Jim Beam and others did, say 50's and 60's for the most part.
I think the French connection as Surface tended to agree with, can't be ignored. You mention Mexico also which was another big contributor to new glass looking old.
Everything I'm saying is speculation and theory but with a trace of glass knowledge.
I look forward to more and thanks for the lively and great post to talk about!
Forum
Moderator -CowsEatMaize
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At
Least One Example With Baseball Cap Top
Established And Located |
I
was tipped off by Jim/epackage of Antique-bottles.net
that there was a collector who was the king of figural
bottle collectors named Michael E. Anderson, and that he
might be able to I.D. or otherwise elaborate on my Noble
Catcher.
7/29/12
- Carlton, I spoke with the Godfather of all figural bottles and he tells me that your Noble Catcher is a French bottle, he has one along with the Pitcher too. I think I have his email address here somewhere, I'll find it for you if you would like to contact him...Jim |
Michael,
who by the way...will soon be publishing an authoritative
book on figural bottles...was kind enough to email me
photos of his pair of Noble Catcher AND a Noble Pitcher.
Michael also snail mailed me a photocopy of a c1901
catalog of the North Wheeling Glass Co. Although my Noble
Catcher isn't in the catalog, a pair of figural bottles of
American Indians is and Michael feels certain the baseball
players were made by the same company. To make a long
story short he believes the Noble baseball bottles were
produced prior to 1901 and that they were likely blown in
France and imported.
Michael
also knows of a pair of the baseball players in a
collection which, at least the catcher, has
it's original baseball cap shaped top...and he will be sending a
photocopy of an auction catalog that pictures it!!!
Moreover
Michael also believes there is another pair of the
baseball players in another collection which
also have their tops/baseball caps!!...It's all very exciting news and
We'll keep you posted what I learn! -Carlton
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Posted
3/18/12
c1922
HARVARD CIGARS FOOTBALL BOX
Tobacco,
Football, and Sculpture, all come together in this very rare cigar box |

8 1/8" wide x 7" tall with lid open x 5 1/2" deep
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Harvard
Cigars football box alongside big brother |
This
is the only example of this box I've ever seen. The image of the football scrimmage is a statue titled "The Onslaught" sculpted by R. Tait McKenzie who as I recall I was a professor at U. Penn. c1900...McKenzie spent five years working on it...The original work is 36" wide, 15" tall....and probably the greatest football sculpture on the planet...I don't know how many were cast but very few I'm sure would be accurate...I would be surprised if six were done...You can read more about McKenzie in my Yale Trophy Room feature I did last May...I can't recall ever seeing sports sculpture featured in product advertising...So if for nothing else that put's it over the gotta have it goal line!
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Posted
3/13/12
c1850
BOWLING BALL

7
1/4" wide
Picked
up this off the chart bowling ball at the Hillsborough Antiques
Show a couple
months
back. I had never seen anything like it before. All I knew was
it looked like King
Arthur's
bowling ball and I wasn't leaving without it. I got the seller
worked up good when I
told
him I thought I could make out a name with my magnifying
glass...wide eyed I had his full attention as I slowly read the
name..."wait I think I can make it out....Fr....Fred...Fli...Flint
...got
it...Fred Flintstone!!!" It was in such perfect folk art
condition I couldn't pass it up!
Later
at the same show I showed it to a dealer who said it was for a
Basque version of bowling....and that he had some with some
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3/7/12

18 1/4" x 12" |

24" x
18 3/4" |
A
GREAT JANUARY FOR OH' SO RARE BROADSIDES
Original
school or team issued broadside posters are one of my favorite areas of
sports antiques...I got both the posters below on eBay in January
2012....that's incredible because very few large posters this size have
survived. Each came from different sellers.
The Yale one is a little
tougher to decipher...no sport indicated. I'm pretty positive the Yale vs. Riverview was for Riverview Military Academy, in Poughkeepsie New York...opened in 1866, closed in the 20's ...The two schools are about 80 miles apart. And I think it would have been for baseball being that it was in May....and the word "game" called at 3:30, is used as opposed to a "meet" or "regatta" or "race" or something...
The football one is for Harvard freshmen vs Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire NH...Harvard and Exeter were very tight at the turn of the century...Exeter had the first cinder track and Harvard would travel there to use it...The broadside is a pink color.
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Carlton's
big find at Turlock
1924
Period Photos of the
LOS
ANGELES RACEWAY
Beverley
Hills Ca.
Plus
portraits of Tommy Milton and Harry Hartz
Existed
only four years, land
sold
to build Beverly Wilshire Hotel |
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any photo to enlarge

13" x 10" c1924
Los Angeles Raceway, Beverly Hills Ca.
Constructed
of all wood, made of 2x4's
I picked up these photos at the Turlock auto swap meet
January 29th 2011. I’d heard about Turlock for decades and finally made it…I’d heard there was a significant amount of antiques mixed in....I wouldn’t drive 3 hrs again to get there but if I lived closer….
SEE
CLOSE IN SHOTS BELOW |
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All these photos came out of a scrapbook, are about 10x13 inch and all have the name Earl Cooper printed on the back. The dealer said Earl Cooper 1886-1965 was a big name racer and died in 1965 and that he had bought a lot or all his racing memorabilia from the estate….There were a lot of his things in flat display cases including two of his goggles...The first two photos below of the Los Angeles Raceway have an embossed stamp for Keystone Photos, which I believe was Keystone Studios in Los Angeles that made the early silent films. As you can see some of the photos have old writing dated 1924. |
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13" x 10" c1924 Auto race track in Beverly Hills Ca.
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The dealer selling them, who I see around at antiques shows, was kind
a nice guy….I looked over all six racing photos he had…Not being very familiar with early auto racing I zeroed in on the two of the race track because of all the clear details….and because I could see all the rural land around Beverly Hills in the background…Plus in the back of my mind I thought they'd display well with a
Barney Oldfield poster I got a couple years
ago.

Barney
Oldfield Poster, found in Grant's Pass Oregon Antiques store July 2010
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The seller wanted $150.00 each…not knowing photos I didn’t know if that was a good deal or
what…I didn’t have too much on me and left without them…but they kept speaking to me….I ended up coming back later and got both for $160.00….Once home I researched them and learned the Los Angeles Raceway only existed four years and was sold to build the Beverly Wilshire hotel…and that Beverly Hills High School is also located where the track was….
I took photos of the other portrait photos of racers and once I got home kicked myself for not getting them all…Tommy Milton 1893-1962 is in the Motorsports Hall of Fame and so is Earl Cooper…Tommy Milton won the Indianapolis 500 twice….
A week later I saw the dealer at the Alameda Point show and he had sold the photo of Earl Cooper..I bought the remaining photos he had left of Milton and Harry Hartz, another big name…and one of the Altoona PA race track…I started to leave and ended up buying the last pair of goggles he had….He had another light brown rubber pair at Turlock that were cooler but they were sold…The strap appears replaced but the seller said he got them that way so Cooper probably replaced the strap.

Earl
Cooper's Goggles
Below are the ones I got a week later at Alameda.
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Harry
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Tommy
Milton,
Inducted
Motorsports Hall Of Fame 1998 |

Altoona
PA. Speedway 1924
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33
1/2" x 16 1/2" c1858
PARIS BALLOONING EXHIBITION BROADSIDE
POSTER
Now
here's something that is amazing in two regards...One, I never
thought I'd own a ballooning broadside, much less one in French. And two...It has
such a remarkable presence I can't stop looking it
over...Here's the story...

eBay
listing photo - original size I had to go on
For
those not familiar with this kind of poster...this
would be referred to as a broadside...We'll forego lengthy prose
on broadsides for now though
and skip to the chase...I spotted this on eBay...It had a BIN of
$95.00 plus $4.00 shipping. The photo was lame see directly
above...Ever since my friend John Gennantonio told my virgin
ears as much that poor photos on eBay indicate the seller is
trying to hide something...I've taken closer looks and been more
cautious...I came across it and looked it over...yeah right I
thought, a French broadside...sure just what I need...and I put
it in my watch list and moved on to other business. A
couple days later I saw it in my watch list and clicked on it
again...I read it more carefully and contemplated it's large
dimensions...Yeah right what are you doing Carlton...and I moved
on again to other stuff...Probably a week went by and I clicked
it on again...Apparently my head was clearer as I sized it
up...First I translated the core message from French to English:
http://babblefish.com/freetranslator.php
FRENCH
FETE DE BELLEVILLE DIMANCHE 20 JUIN 1858, DE MIDI A QUATRE HEURES DANS LA COUR DE LA MAIRIE, GRANDE SOLENNITE FETE AEROSTATIQUE EXTRAORDINAIRE DONNEE PAR M. ALFRED ROUSIOT...AU PROFIT DES PAUVRES DE 2 A 3 HEURES, GRAND CONCERT MILITAIRE, A 4 HEURES TRES-PRECISES, ASCENSION VOIR LES PROGRAMMES DE LA FETE. PRIX D'ENTREE: 50 CENTIMES.
ENGLISH
FESTIVAL OF BELLEVILLE DIMANCHE 20 JUIN 1858, from noon to four hours in the COURT OF THE CITY HALL, great solemnity Balloon FESTIVAL SPECIAL GIVEN BY ALFRED M. ROUSIOT to the poor ... 2 TO 3 HOURS CONCERT GRAND MILITARY, A 4 TIMES-VERY PRECISE ASCENSION PROGRAMS SEE THE FESTIVAL. ENTRANCE FEE: 50 cents. |
Next
I googled Alfred M. Rousiot the person referenced on the poster
and learned he owned a ballooning periodical of some sort in
1864 called “La Science Aerostatique, journal des amis du progres de l’aerostation”,
and appeared to esteemed. 
All
of sudden it was coming to me...it was a combination of it's
largeness, 33 1/2" wide by 16 1/2" tall....and short
and wide format...my favorite format for pictures and
prints....Plus Alfred M. Rousiot appeared very interesting...and
if he owned a magazine about ballooning, he was likely an
important player in early ballooning. Once I realized all that
it had me... But
then there was the question of the crummy photo and what was
underneath...I concluded that it was a good possibility it may
have been a reproduction of some sort...maybe an old
reproduction, maybe new...or what ever...But taking it all
in...If it was real for $100.00 it was a steal! And I figured
I'd take a chance....If it wasn't right I'd return it. The
ambiguity I felt made waiting for it to arrive more intriguing
than usual. And wouldn't you know...Via USPS it didn't come on
time...According to the online tracking manifest it was suppose
to get to me by the 11th of January....The 11th came and went
and by the 19th I was writing the seller...even though the post
office advised I wait till the end of the week before making an official
inquiry...and of course it came the next day... I
got it in hand and put off opening it ...Good news can
wait...bad news will find you out...I wasn't in the mood to deal
with any disappointment so I finally got around to opening it
that evening...I worked off the lid of the mailing tube and
peered in....hmm...It appeared the seller had rolled it together
with another piece of paper under it that offered it a little
extra protection. then slid it in another rolled up piece of
paper inside the tube...very professional!...a good sign...I
knew I was possibly dealing with an 1858 antique so I went
easy...Slowly and gently I began to unroll it to length...Eyes
wide open I fixated on what I was seeing...carefully looking it
over and trying to get a grip on it...Everything looked
perfect!..and then I felt the weight of the paper...very light
weight...absolutely correct weight paper...very
impressive...very right....perfecto!!! However
I wanted to see it open and take it all in....but it was very
fragile and the condition was unbelievable so I was reluctant
mess with it until it was framed...But I couldn't wait....I had
a large plastic sleeve bigger than the poster so I carefully
worked it down in....tapped it around a little and got it so I
could display it propped up against another large framed
poster...I set it all on top my refrigerator so I could fully
take it in...WOW....what a piece...what an incredible purchase.
I've been around this stuff to understand when something is
beyond rare...when the word rare can't convey it's self...The fragileness
of the paper and it's age doesn't compute...It would have to be
one of the oldest ballooning posters in the world. And I
anticipate Alfred Rousiot will be interesting to research. Picking
up on something...I wondered what else the seller had...I was in
such a good mood I emailed him in jest the following:
Michael,
A cage full of parcels fell off the back of the post office truck as it was going down the interstate and my broadside was run over by oncoming traffic....It then rolled off into a river and was retrieved by fisherman...who used it to wrap the days catch...until the postal authorities retrieved it and got it back on its way again...Apparently that’s why it was late to my post office...
Just kidding...I really like it...Do you have any more broadsides?
-Carlton
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Purchased
1/7/12 at
Vintage Paper Fair,
Hall
of Flowers Golden Gate Park San Francisco

1908,
31 1/2" x 13"
PANORAMIC PHOTO OF J. BERGER'S RACING TEAM
First
year of All Alaska Sweepstakes, Beverly Dobbs Photographer
It was an
action weekend for hunting sports
antiques the weekend of Jan.. 7-8th...I went to a paper show in Golden Gate Park
in S.F. held at the Hall of Flowers...I didn't get there till about an hour and forty five before they closed. They hold that show twice a year I believe it is...Over the years I've gone to it and found practically nothing...then again I've gone to it and scored
big...see this link for an epic c1914 All Vallejos vs Yosemites of San Francisco football broadside I picked up there in 2010....
Anyway..I missed the last show...and was determined to make it to this one. I wasn't in the mood to spend much money after the golf clock I just got so what ever I found had to be eBay flip-able or too good to pass up...bingo...
http://www.allalaskasweepstakes.org/History.html
I picked up something I'm wild over and had never ever in 25
years of collecting, given even a single thought of...Dog Sled Racing!!!!! I spotted this photo below within the first twenty minutes and it was love at first
bite...I mean site. 31 1/2” x 13” 1908 photo from Nome Alaska of an early dog sled race team...titled: ”BERGER’S RACE TEAM – FIRST ANNUAL ALL ALASKA SWEEPSTAKE”, see link above to All Alaska Sweepstakes website. From a cursory review I believe this team won the Sweepstakes in 1909..whereas my photo is marked 1908...It will be fun to research this.....Yeah
it has some damage....but find another...it'll frame up nice. Turns
out the photographer Beverly Bennett Dobbs is quite a story by
himself, see bio below.
ABOUT
THE PHOTOGRAPHER
The son of a farmer, Beverly Bennett Dobbs was born in 1868 near Marshall, Missouri. At age 8, he moved with his parents to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he learned photography. In 1888, Dobbs moved to Bellingham, Washington, and operated a photography studio for 12 years, including a partnership in 1890-1891 with F.F. Fleming under the name Dobbs & Fleming. He married Dorothy Sturgeon of Bellingham in 1896, then moved to Nome, Alaska, in search of gold in 1900. Dobbs continued to earn his living as a photographer, and by 1903, he had formed a partnership with the photographer A.B. Kinne from San Francisco. The Dobbs & Kinne studio in Nome offered photography services and photo supplies. Dobbs photographed scenes in Nome and the Seward Peninsula and made portraits of Native Alaskans. He was awarded a gold medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World’s Fair) in 1904 for his Native Alaskan photographs.
By about 1909, Dobbs had started Dobbs Alaska Moving Picture Co., making him one of the first to use motion picture film north of the Arctic Circle. He made a name for himself as a filmmaker with Atop of the World in Motion (also called Top of the World in Motion), a collection of his motion picture travelogues detailing the Alaska gold rush. By 1911, it is probable that Dobbs was focusing only on his moving picture business; he no longer had his photography supply store, and had sold his photography negatives to the Lomen Brothers, who later issued some of his work under their name. By 1914, Dobbs had returned to Seattle and was managing the Dobbs Totem Film Company. He is listed as the cinematographer for A Romance of Seattle, a film shot in and around Seattle in 1919. In his later years he specialized in developing motion picture films in his studio at his home. During the 1930s, Dobbs photographed the fish processing operations at Pacific American Fisheries (PAF) in the Fairhaven area of Bellingham. He died at age 69 in 1937.
Courtesy
The Northwest Digital Archives
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv59896 |

c1955-60,
31 3/4" wide x 20 1/2 tall REGAL
PALE BEER ADVERTISING
SIGN PRINTED
ON CARDSTOCK

In
custody as leaving fair |

Photographed
on location
As
found at Antiques Fair |
http://beercanhistory.com/regal.htm
So then the next day I hit the Sacramento Antiques Fair...I had finished two combs and was about to leave for church, but would have been early so decided to take one more quick run thru...and there it was....the dealer didn't have it out earlier...a late 1950's/early 60's advertising sign for Regal Pale. It wasn't cheap but I couldn't leave without it. Funny thing...we were talking and the dealer said he'd gotten it at Alameda last week...He said it was about 6:00AM and a guy was unloading a whole collection of Regal Pale stuff and people were surrounding the guy like sharks and buying up everything...said this was the only sports sign and he got it and he had to pay money for it....So essentially it hasn't been out for sale too
long...that day or the week before at Alameda! I found out a lot about Regal Pale in a page linked above. It's really late for me to collect but I couldn't resist it's size and impact...As I mulled it over I concluded I
don't recall ever seeing any advertising signs with boxing graphics
this quality... Using
my art reference library I thought I'd I.D.'d the illustrator as
John Whitcomb...But then I went on the internet and found a very
interesting illustration
blog by Leif Peng of Canada...Leif felt for sure it wasn't
by Whitcomb and said he'd look into it. Below our email exchange
and his very interesting perspective.
Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:54 PM
To: Leif Peng
Subject: Re: Jon Whitcomb?
Hi Leif,
I read your comments about Jon Whitcomb. A week ago I bought a c1955-60, 31 3/4" x 20 1/2" card stock advertising sign for Regal Pale that features a boxing scene. I attach two photos...Do you think it’s by Jon Whitcomb?
Kindly, -Carlton
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Monday, January 16, 2012 2:55 AM
To: Carlton Hendricks
Subject: Re: Jon Whitcomb?
Hi Carlton;
Great find - definitely NOT Whitcomb. I don't know who did this offhand but we might be able to narrow it down....
Do you know if Regal was a regional brand or was it sold nation-wide?
Best, Leif
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Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:28 AM,
To:
Leif
Peng
Subject: Re: Jon Whitcomb?
http://beercanhistory.com/regal.htm
Hi Leif,
Hey thanks glad you appreciate it...wow I thought it was by him...I’ve seen that girl it seems in some
illustration...The beer was back east and S.F. both...Check out the link
above which is a link to a Beer site that give more brand info...Let me know what you find out
–Carlton
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Monday, January 16, 2012 4:04 AM
To: Carlton Hendricks
Subject: Re: Jon Whitcomb?
Hi again, Carlton;
SF was a major advertising art center back in those days and a lot of national brand advertising was done regionally for that market. They even did a lot of automotive art for Detroit all the way across the country, believe it or not. So its possible that a forgotten west coast illustrator did this. But the painting style suggests otherwise. This isn't the typical west coast style.
The style is more reminiscent of one propagated by Haddon Sundblom (Coca-Cola Santa Claus artist) among his many apprentices. Which means this may be either a Chicago illustrator (where Sunny's studio was located) or someone who apprenticed there before going to NYC, which was the center of the commercial art universe back then.
There's a hint of caricature in the style of the faces - just a hint, but enough to make this style quite distinctive. I don't recognize it, but I'll ask around. If I hear anything back, I'll let you know. Either way, its a great piece - congrats!
Best, Leif
P.S. The style also suggests a slightly earlier date - c. 1950-'55. Most commercial artists were moving into a flatter, more graphic painting technique after
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Acquired December 31st last day of 2011 -
NORTH
BRITISH GOLF BALLS
ADVERTISING
CLOCK
Hung
in Ben Sayers Ltd Golf Shop
North
Berwick Scotland 1934-1965
c1930
Chrome plated - 10 1/2" wide |
This c1930 North British brand golf balls advertising clock is my finale’ pick up for 2011. After a week of negotiating I made the deal Christmas Eve and received it
December 31st. The clock hung in the Ben Sayers Ltd. Golf Shop at 56 High Street in North Berwick Scotland. The shop was open between 1934 and 1965…although the Ben Sayers concern had operated since the late 19th century…The Ben Sayers Company continues to this day under different ownership and is believed to be the oldest golf company in the world. I can’t recall many if any sports related advertising clocks of this quality and vintage so I had to get it! It goes perfect with my golf
stuff....plus it makes a cool ticking sound in my collection

Ben
Sayers 1858-1924
Ben Sayers 1858-1924 was an early Scottish golf professional and contemporary of Old Tom Morris. He was one of the leading golf club makers of the late 19th- early 20th century, designed many golf courses in Scotland, and taught golf.
http://www.northberwick.org.uk/sayers.html
Sayers also gave lessons to Her Majesty Queen Alexandra over the nine hole course at Windsor Castle. He gave instruction to the Prince of Wales, Princess Victoria, Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia of
Connaught. Princess Victoria was a very keen golfer, and Sayers partnered her in several foursome matches at Chatsworth, home to the Duke and Duchess of
Devonshire. During this period Edward VII visited the seven-hole course at Chatsworth for a week in January.
A.J. Balfour the prime minister was among the guests and invited professionals included Jack White,
J.H. Taylor and Ben Sayers.
Courtesy Douglas Seaton
Ben Sayers died in 1924. His son Ben Sayers Junior, himself a pro, was in charge of golf club production from the 1920’s and would have managed the shop where this clock hung.
I feel I’ve brought a wee bit’o Scottish golf history into my living room and plan to do a story on it soon. It runs five days before needing rewound.
Below is a shot of it installed in my collection

Clock
mounted
on wall in Carlton Hendricks collection.
Left
some room underneath for a small plaque giving its history.
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ACQUIRED OCTOBER 2011 -
DRAYPER
MAYNARD (D&M)
C1900
HIGH TOP
BASEBALL
CLEATS
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Above
is a pair of D&M baseball cleats from the turn of the century...I
got them based on I know early high top cleats hardly exist and the
sellers claim they
were
the best he'd handled in his career...I believe they're the first pair
of early
high
tops I've seen for sale...They must have been stored in a well sealed
trunk
as
I've never seen leather from the turn of the century so supple...it's
like they're brand new!...though the soles appear to have very slight
wear...and the tag is mint!...phew!
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ACQUIRED OCTOBER 2011 -
VINTAGE
1880
THE
OLDEST FATEST
FOOTBALL
I'VE EVER HELD
AND
IT'S AMERICAN!!!!
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LACES
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LACES
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BACK
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GRIP
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The
same dealer said the same thing about this melon ball...best he'd ever
handled...and that got my attention...hated to spend the money but I
know melon footballs...and I knew the rounded shape was very
early....Sure enough when I held it I was blown away....it's the oldest
football I've ever seen in person...the patina screams 1880 even though
the leather is supple....Plus another big bonus was it was found at
Girard College in Philadelphia...so I know it's American!!!....at least
played with in America...that's a whole lengthy subject of it's own as
far as imported footballs in the late 19th century...I wish I had the
time to do a deep research story on it...Anyway...took me twenty five
years to find a ball this good!...It's filled with some kind of polly
fill to hold it's shape. I was considering having a bladder put in but
may leave it as is...I was told if I took the laces apart there might be
a makers mark inside...but I hate to disturb it.
The only other melon football I've seen this good was one I saw last May
in the Yale trophy room...which
you can read about here...that
one would shut down north America!
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1916
NEW YORK STATE
AMATEUR
CHAMPIONSHIP
BOXING
TROPHY PLAQUE
Cast
and Engraved Bronze on Oak
Made
by Dieges and Clust
20
1/2" Tall x 15" Wide |
A
couple weeks ago I drove down to L.A. to pick up this 1916 NYC
amateur boxing plaque. The plaque was made by the renown Dieges
and Clust
company….Instead of risking damage in shipment I figured
I’d pick up in person and hit the Rose Bowl flea same day….got to RB right at 6:00AM but never could get traction…pretty much the weakest
Rose Bowl I’d ever been to….The winning club of the plaque
“Union Settlement” was founded in 1895
Union Settlement was founded in 1895 by members of the Union Theological Seminary
Alumni Club. After visiting Toynbee Hall in London, and inspired by the example of Hull
House in Chicago, the alumni decided to create a settlement house in the area of
Manhattan enclosed on the north and south by East 96th and 110th Streets and on the east
and west by the East River and Central Park.
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c1920,
7 inch tall
THIS
STATUE OF A MOTORCYCLE RIDER
IS
ONE OF MY FAVORITE PURCHASES
OF
THE YEAR!!
I
first saw this in at an antiques show in Grass Valley Ca.
in
May of 2011, the day before I was to leave for
the
May 2011 Brimfield Antiques Fair. I passed on it to conserve
fire
power...but in hindsight....it's nicer than anything I saw in Brimfield.
Earlier this month I attended the Hillsborough
Antiques
show in San Mateo CA and the dealer
Chuck
Morganstein still had it.
I
walked the whole show and at the end of the day I stopped in to chat
with Chuck....as I sat there discussing statues and antiques
I
kept looking at the motorcycle...I came the conclusion it was
the
best thing I saw at the whole show...but I hated to spend
the
money...but it got me thinking...I considered pulling the
trigger
that evening....but just to frugal...
I
went home and the next day it was on my mind and I made the decision to
get it....I called Chuck's store Woodchuck
Antiques on Sacramento Street in San Francisco, and asked for
Chuck's cell number....
I
called him at the show and said I'd take it...he said it's
yours...and
he told me a lady had come by earlier that day
and
said she would come back at the end of the show and
get
it for her husband...
Chuck
said he asked if she wanted him to hold it
but
she said no....About a half hour later Chuck called me
and
said the gal came back to get it but the sold sign was
already
on it.
In
25 years I only recall seeing three motorcycle statues
for
sale...this one which I bought, another which Chuck
Morganstein
had which was a little smaller, and one I
saw
years ago at the All American Collectors show
in
Glendale Ca. It sold right away before the public
even
came in and was a couple $thousand$ as I recall.
Below,
installed on my coffee table...

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QUESTION?
Why
would Carlton buy these unusual ice skates?
(hint
he searched for them 12 years)

DUTTON'S
SHELL
GROOVE
SKATES
Pat.
Date April 15th 1862
Bought
off eBay Oct. 26th 2011 |
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Bottoms |

Tops |
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Why
would Carlton buy these unusual ice skates?
(hint
he searched for them 12 years)

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Posted
10/9/11
Carlton's
Latest Pick Up

Here’s
my first pickups for October…Went to the Alameda Point show
yesterday…I got the 1880’s baseball cap below…I initially
saw it at the National last summer…I made an offer but the
seller wasn’t ready to sell since he got it there at the
National…Fortunately the seller lives here in the bay area and
sets up at the Monthly Alameda show…Last Alameda he shot me a
price and I put down $300.00 to hold it and paid the balance
yesterday…It's a very rare example of cap and kind of
completes my collection of basic styles..I have the pillbox,
boater, small bill Harvard cap, and now this striped one...which
is the only one I've ever seen for sale...No makers tag but I
got coaching from John Gennantonio and he gave it his stamp of
approval as a style that was used for multiple sports as well as
baseball...as seen by the 1886 Princeton baseball team photo
under it |

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1886
Princeton Baseball Team |

three
styles of baseball caps
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1881
Princeton Baseball Team
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c1890
Baseball Cleats
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The
seller also had a pair of 1890ish two tone Spalding baseball
cleats…I didn’t plan on it but I couldn’t leave without’um!... |
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Also
got a 20” x 14” photo of a boy taking a photo
of boys topping a bat at home plate sand lot
style. I'm confident it was used as advertising for the Brownie
camera. |
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Plus
got an interesting little 1924 team photo of the Tucson High
School girls basketball team (Tucson AZ)….The names of the
players are written by hand in ink on each player…along with
the name of the coach…A few weeks ago I bought a girls
basketball poster with a large illustration of a girl player for
the 1929 Oakland Ca YWCA vs San Francisco YWCA…so this kind of
goes along with it… |

Carlton
going for it! |

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Above
right - 16" tall x 11" wide
1902 Mogul Cigarettes Yale Football Poster
I picked this up right after I got home from the National...Has anyone ever seen football cards associated with this poster?
I've done some cursory...haven't found any cards but there's a player on there named James J. Hogan who became perhaps the biggest name in football during his playing days at Yale from 1901-1905...so much so he became a kind of a national whipping boy/example for college inducements reform...the cry was he was getting such good treatment from Yale and others he was basically not an
armature...among other perks he was getting a percentage of every pack of Mogul cigs sold in New Haven....and was
responsible for getting them offered in Morey's, the exclusive students restaurant club in New Haven...
It's printed on card stock...and the seller said it came out of an attic where it was rolled, presumably since it's era....so I have to work on getting it flattened out...Pretty exciting
piece, never seen it before!
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c1880
VIENNA BRONZE
OF
BILLIARD PLAYERS
This
little 3 1/4" tall statue of billiard players is only
example I've ever seen. Once I got it in hand I was taken
back...I'm amazed by it...it's definitely my favorite recent acquisition.
I like the way his top hat is slightly tilted back out of his
eyes. Fits in perfect with the two Vienna's to it's right, the
three soccer players and the two boxers. |

3
1/4" tall players |

Displayed
on coffee table |
MORE
RECENT EBAY PICK-UPS BELOW |
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Rare
10" wide c1900 Cigar Tin
with
boat race graphics |

12"
tall 1930 metal
statue
of Tennis
Player |
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10"
x 9"
V.
Rare 1913 Broadside poster
announcing
house warming at
Boston
Harvard Club night before
Harvard
Yale Football Game |
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Below
is a 27 inch by 21 inch Yale vs Harvard track meet poster I'm very glad
to have. Large Ivy League broadsides like this are so rare and hard to
find. This one came from the same seller on eBay as the Mogul Cigarettes
poster above. It to is also on card stock and will need to be flattened
out before I can frame it |
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27"
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c1885
Madison Square Skate Pamphlet
11 1/2" wide x 9" tall unopened
- 9" by 23" opened Advertising brochure for the
Madison Square roller skate manufactured by Merwin, Hulbert & Co of NYC.
Dated to 1886-87 based on the skate's patent date of 1883 and the testimonials from satisfied customers all dated 1885. Familiar to firearms collectors, Merwin Hulbert
is mainly for producing guns. Apparently they saw an opportunity to cash
in on the 1880's craze for roller skating. Best illustration of a skate
I've ever seen! |

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open 9" by 23" |

11 1/2" wide x 9" tall unopened
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open 9" by 23" |

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7
inch tall
c1900
Statue of a Bowler
Bought
Sept 3rd 2011 |
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POSTED
6/23/10
c1914
All
Vallejos
vs
Yosemites
of
San Francisco
FOOTBALL
BROADSIDE
POSTER
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photos

35
1/2" tall X 21 3/4" wide
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Sunday
Aug. 9, 2009
Yesterday
I attended the Vintage Paper Fair San Francisco. The event is held in
the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. The show opened at 10:00 AM
but I got there about an hour late, around 11:00 AM. It's usually a
pretty good show. Two other major sports collector/dealers were set up
there so naturally I knew they had been going thru it for a while. One
was Bart White. Bart graciously walked me over to Barney Chapman's
booth and asked him to show me a football broadside he had that
announced a game between the "Yosemites" of San Francisco
and the "All Vallejos". Barney had a lot more than just the
broadside; but a ton of photos and newspaper clippings all out of two
huge albums. There was about thirty photos, and probably about that
many newspaper clippings all about the Yosemites...all from about
1910-15 . I had never heard of the "Yosemites" of San
Francisco, but the broadside was awesome. At first the Photos and
newspaper clippings didn't mean much to me, but after gathering my
thoughts, I saw them as an important package.
Barney
was asking $800.00 for everything, but the broadside was in four
pieces and needed restoration. I walked around the show a while and
pondered it. It took me by surprise; I wasn't expecting to find
anything like it....but that's why you go to these shows! I couldn't
make up my mind on it. I was tired and hungry. So I decided to go get
some lunch and think thru it. I headed over to Escape
from New York Pizza on Haight St; not far from the show. Escape
from New York Pizza is kind of an institution in the Haight I think. I
did a feature on it years ago you can see here.
Anyway
back to the broadside. I went and ate then went back and offered
$400.00. Barney reminded me of the photos, and I upped it to
$500.00. He called the owner of the broadside and he took my offer. I
haven't started researching it yet. As broadsides go, it's a classic.
The green printing really makes it. But boy is it fragile. I have to
get it restored and mounted on a linen backing and get it
framed.
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That
was my first pick at the show. Once I had that settled, I bought an
exceptional piece of sheet music. It was from 1838 and titled "Our
Boat Sets Lightly On The Wave". It was dedicated to the New York
Boat Clubs and had an illustration of an eight man crew team on the
cover. I haven't researched it yet but I believe it to be one of the
earliest American illustrations of competitive rowing, not to mention
one of the earliest American sports illustrations period. Moreover, it
was printed by Nathan Currier, who went on to be thee Currier of Currier
and Ives, the famous printing concern of the late 19th century.
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EMAIL
CORRESPONDENCE WITH ROWING HISTORIAN/COLLECTOR EXTRAORDINAIRE,
TOM WEIL |
Tom,,
How are you? I got an interesting sheet music... scroll down on my home page to
"Carlton's Latest acquisitions"...have you seen this before? thanks -Carlton |
Carlton:
Thanks for getting in touch again.
Your sheet music piece is one of the older ones for rowing memorabilia and, as you suggest, it is also one of the earliest images of amateur rowing in the U.S. (actually, it's pretty early for anywhere).
I've got that piece in my collection - here's my list of the rowing sheet music in my collection through 1852, ending, appropriately, with Row, Row, Row Your Boat (there's a lot more after that, too, but this is the earlier stuff). The earliest rowing sheet music of which I am aware is a piece in the Falk/Stearns Collection at the National Rowing Foundation, which is “My Bark is My Courser”, dedicated to the New York Boat Club, and published by John B. Pendleton in New York in 1831. It has a lith of an unmanned gig on the cover.
You can see a bunch of these at the rowing history exhibition at the Rowing Hall of Fame at Mystic Seaport - come on up and I'll give you a tour.
I would like to continue this conversation.
Best, Tom
1836 “Light May the Boat Row”
o “Duett/ Sung with the most enthusiastic applause by/ Mrs. and Miss Watson/ At the Park Theatre, Concerts &c./ Written by Jonas B. Phillips,
Esqre./ The Music arranged from a Northumbrian Melody, the Additions and accompaniments composed and respectfully dedicated to the/ Amateur Boat Club association by J. Watson,/ This Celebrated Melody has been sung by the above Ladies in London, Dublin,
Edinburg, Paris, Brussels &c. with unprecedented applause having been usually called for and repeated three times on each evening of its performance./ New York, Published at Atwill’s Music Saloon” [b/w lith [no attrib] showing coxed pair-oared club boats by Castle Garden, and a host of small oared, sailing and steam vessels in the harbor; cover plus [4 pp.]
mwl; eataoc 1836 John Watson SDNY; ref: L. Long/Levy?, GRACE NOTES, p. 155; ref: 1985
PMMex, number 32 at p. [19]; ref: 1990 GAGex, TEW image listed as number 56; ref: 1996Ex, TEW item reproduced as Figure 10 on p. 29; ref: Cooper, TEW image reproduced as Figure 2 on p. 168]
o [as above, with “Second Edetion [CHECK].” at top of first page of music.] 10/07
o [as above, with variants in spelling and placement of lines and “dedicated to the New York Boat Clubs”; lith is similar to, but a variant of, above, and within oblong frame with “A.E. Baker’s
Lithg.”; this may be the first issue; 5 pp. mwl; 2nd (cover only); 3rd Image 11.6cm x 18.2cm Sheet 34.2cm x 26.0cm 2/01]
o “5th Edition. A Duet, as sung by Mrs. & Miss Watson,/ Written by
J.B. Phillips,/ Arranged by J. Watson./ New York, Published at Atwill’s Music Saloon” [b/w lith [by Endicott, N.Y.] view of coxed four-oared club boats by Castle Garden, and a few large sailing and steam vessels in the harbor; 5 pp.
mwl; eataoc 1836 J.F Atwill SDNY]
1837 “Hark, Brothers
Hark!/ A/ Regatta Song & Chorus/ Written by/
J.H. Willis/ Music Composed & Dedicated/ to the/ Boat Clubs of the United States/ by/ John H. Hewitt./ Price 50
Cts./ Philadelphia, Geo. W. Hewitt & Co. 5 pp. no illus;
mwl; eataoc 1837John F. Nunns EDPA] 34.7cm x 26.3cm [McBlain Books 3300 11/08/08]
1838 “Our Boat Sets Lightly on the Wave”
[b/w lith by N. Currier which is a simplified variant of the scene for the foregoing three items: in the foreground only a coxed eight in a cutter with a banner labelled “American” and a coxed pair in a cutter with a banner labelled “Romp”; 3 pp.
mwl; “A Duet and Trio, Written Composed and Arranged and Respectfully dedicated to the New York Boat Clubs, by William Clifton”; eataoc 1838 Thomas Birch
SDNY; ref: 1984 UCSBex, reproduced as Fig. 24 at p. 26]
1838 “Old Rosin the Beau” [b/w lith by Wild & Chevalier showing a coxed eight in a barge with a banner labelled “Falcon” with [waterworks?] on the far left shore; 5 pp.
mwl; “Favorite Comic Song Dedicated with much respect to the members of the Falcon Barge by the Publisher. Arranged by J.C.
Beckell. Philadelphia, Osbourn’s Music Saloon” (the lyrics have much in common with those of the old cowboy lament, “Streets of Laredo”); eataoc 1838
J.G. Osbourn EDPa; ref: 1985 PMMex, number 35 on p. [19]] 34.2cm x 25.7cm
1840 “Arouse Ye Gay Comrades”
[b/w lith by “Thayer, successor to Moore, Boston”; coxed eight with man holding pole in bow of cutter named “Tiger” in public [Boston?] gardens; 6 pp.
mwl; “A Song and Chorus dedicated to the Tiger Boat Club. written by Thomas Power, Esq. the music composed by Jos. Philip Knight./ Boston. Published by Parker & Ditson”; eataoc 1840 Parker & Ditson Mass] $100
[MSM 2005 xred 2005.110.170**] 34.0cm x 25.4cm [2nd 220393395821 6699 16/04/09; x 110056047465 NS@12500 21/11/06]
1843 “Oh! Boatman Haste!”
[b/w lith. by Thayer & Co’s showing wherry with boatman, and couple in stern, at twilight; 8 pp.
mwl; “A Popular Western Refrain. The Poetry written and respectfully dedicated to Mrs. Charles F.
Dennet, of Boston, by George P. Morris. The Music arranged from the well known Melody of “Dance, Boatmen Dance” by George
Loder/ New York, Published at Atwill’s”; eataoc 1843
J.F. Atwill SDNY] RL
1846 “Mahopac Lake Waltz”
[b/w lith by G. & W. Endicott after Charles Parsons (1821-1910) showing coxed six in a cutter on lake; 3 pp.
mwol; “Club Boat Gazelle/ Composed and respectfully dedicated to The Amateur Cornet Club, by Allen
Dodworth./ New York. Published by Firth, Pond & Co.”; eataoc 1846 Firth & Hall
SDNY] 33.2cm x 25.9cm
1847 “Row Thy Boat Lightly” [no cover; 2 pp.
mwl; “Words by Miss H.F. Woodman The Music Composed and Respectfully Inscribed to Mrs.
R.S. Jameson (of Hartford) by I.B. Woodbury./ Boston. Published by Oliver Ditson”; eataoc 1847 Prentiss & Clark Mass]
1849 “Brightly, Boys, Brightly. A Rowing Quartett”
[b/w lith by J.H. Bufford & Co. showing coxed four in cutter in coastal harbor with lighthouse and mountain behind town; 5 pp.
mwl; “Written and Composed by Marshall S. Pike, Esq. of the Harmoneons and Dedicated to his Esteemed Friend
T.F. Oakes, M.D. of Boston, Mass./ Published by A. & J.P. Ordway”; eataoc 1849 A. & J.P. Ordway Mass] 33.0cm x 25.7cm
[1850?] “Boatman Dance”
[no pic; n.d.; no pub. line; 5 pp mwol; “Arranged as Rondinos for the Piano by
Ferd. Beyer/ Philadelphia. A Fiot/ New York. W. Dubois] RL
1852 “Row, row [sic; lyrics of chorus give familiar three “row, row, row”] your boat or the Old Log Cabin”
[no illus on cover; 5 pp. mwl; “as sung by Master Adams of Kunkels Nightingale Opera Troupe/ Music by R. Sinclair. Composer of Ben Bolt etc./ New York. Published by Firth, Pond & Co.”; eataoc 1852 Firth, Pond & Co.
SDNY] 33.2cm x 25.7cm |
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Par
After Shave Powder Tin
5
3/4" tall x 2 1/4" wide
Found
at 49er Old West Antiques Show
Grass
Valley Calif May 8-9th 2009
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I've picked up quite a few new things lately, hope to post more when get time, but here's one I got a week ago. I went to the 49er Old West Antiques Show
in Grass Valley Calif. Why go to an old west show? I learned a long
time ago they are usually high quality and anything can show up....I once got an executioner football helmet by going to one!!!!...but that's another story...anyway...I spotted this Par After Shave Powder tin and it caught me off guard...I had to stop and think what it was and remembered it was the same image I have on a sign....so I sort of HAD to buy it...but darn they had it jacked up to $575.00. I looked it over and tried to develop some strategy to counter offer...or even if I really wanted it....I didn't start the wrestling match right then...I figured it wasn't going to run out of there for that much...so cruised the rest of the show....didn't find anything that cleaned me out....so started thinking thru what I would do....talked it over with antique advertising dealer friend Kim Kokles who was set up....he said try to get them down, and offer $450.00....I hit um at $400.00...the gal played the let me ask my husband card....she came back with a $450.00 whine they hated to let it go that cheap.....I said I'd split it for $425...she said they couldn't..but I knew they could....I politely asked her to recheck and I'd be back....of course they took it...who knows if I got a deal or not...a bargain's a state of mind....I'm not use to buying mint condition tins because they are always so expensive....I remember seeing a mint talcum tin sell at a show for $800.00 once, right in front of me, about 12 years ago, that had a gal golfer...so maybe I got a deal. When I got home I realized the sign is for the "lotion" and the tin is for the "Powder"...but what the hey it's the same company and image...I thought about selling it on eBay because of that but a week later and no way would I sell it. |
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QUARTERBACK
COFFEE TIN
3 5/8 inches tall
by 5 3/4 diameter |
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I picked up
this new tin for my tin collection....it's a c1918 Quarterback Coffee tin and was produced by The Dolan Mercantile Co. St. Joseph, MO and Atchison, KS. It measures 3 5/8 inches tall and a diameter of 5 3/4 inches. This is the only example of this tin I've seen, and was a natural fit for my collection..I'd say it's one of the nicest tins I've seen, so I was determined to work it into my other tins even though I'm maxed out of room. I had to move out some lesser ones to fit it in.
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and IN LINEUP
to see a larger photos. Below is a shot of it now included
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C1885
BRONZE STATUE OF A
HIGH
WHEEL BICYCLE |
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I
picked up this bronze of a high wheeler bicycle last
summer right before I was to leave for the National. It's
one of the most exciting bronzes I've ever seen. That excitement
is generated foremost because the sculptor S. Bechho,
inscribed the date 1885 next to his signature. Moreover,
the quality of the casting confirms it's period.
"Period" meaning it's original, produced
during the time it represents. So it's not a cute nostalgic piece made
to represent old time bicycling....it's the real deal
produced when high wheel's were actually used. Which
was a relatively short time. The "high wheel",
also called the "penny farthing" and the
"ordinary" was a link in the evolution of the
bicycle, and was only popular from about 1870 to the late
1880's. They were hazardous, riders were prone to falling
off them. The next generation bicycle was called the
"safety", and they were essentially the bicycle
of today.
The
way I came into it was unusual. I was at the 49'er western
antiques show in Grass Valley California, and ran into
Chuck Morganstein of Woodchuck Antiques in San Francisco.
Chuck knew I liked sports sculpture, and told me about
this bronze, and that he sold it at the Hillsborough
Antiques Show to two ladies before the show opened. Chuck
said they spotted it right as he pulled it out of the box.
He described it and it sounded fantastic, but all I could
do is go shucks I wish I'd have gotten it, and that was
it. Then a few months latter I saw it on GoAntiques.com. I
figured it had to be the same one and emailed the seller.
They confirmed they got it from Chuck. I had to swing
hard, but the gal's worked with me, and I got it. Even
after we made the deal it was a logistics scramble. The
Gals lived in Las Vegas, and were going to be doing a show
in Redondo Beach California near Los Angeles. Picking it
up in person is way better than risking damage in shipment.
The only thing was I was going to be in Chicago for the
National when they'd be in Redondo. My buddy John
Buonaguidi's sister lives the next town over in Manhattan
Beach, and was kind enough to pick it up and hold it till
I was down in L.A. for the Glendale show. I remember when
I came to pick it up. I had bought it based on photos
only, never seeing it in person. Buying an expensive piece
like this is a little bit of a gamble. But when I
unwrapped it, I was more than pleased. It looked even
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May 25, 2008
c1910
14" BASEBALL PLATE
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Picked
this up on eBay from a gal in Canada. There's been a heap of
discussion about this plate on Net54, click this link 14
inch c1910 baseball plate to
read all about it. I feel it's from the period it represents
because of the hand writing style on the back. Plus Butch &
Co, dug up this print here
. I think the artist was Hibberd VB Kline. If anyone has any
information, please email me at comments@sportsantiques.com
thanks -Carlton
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April 5, 2008
c1880
TAPPAN'S BASEBALL
BAT
PERFUME BOTTLE |

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Baseball
bat
perfume bottle |
Displayed
in curio |
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Above
is a 6 inch tall Tappan's League Bouquet perfume bottle in the
shape of a baseball bat. Based on the the rings near the top of
the barrel, and the graphics of the label, I'd guesstimate it
from the late 1880's. I got this in Hunt Auctions
February
20th 2008 monthly auction.
David Hunt advised me he's only seen three of these, and it's
the first I've seen. David also advised he has one in his
collection he paid $750 for which is in worse condition than
mine. Researching it I found another that sold in the 2006 Robert
Edward Auction in a grouped lot of 28 items
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5/31/07
Announcing
SportsAntiques.com's Acquisition of the extremely rare c1880
-"OLD
POP SMITH" TIN- |
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Old
Pop Smith
in
line up |

Old
Pop Smith tobacco tin |

Old
Pop Smith
open |

Old
Pop Smith
pictured
in book |

Book
- Tobacco Tins
and
Their Prices,
by
Al Bergevin |

Old
Pop Smith
close
up in book |
Old
Pop Smith Tobacco Tin |
Vintage |
c1880 |
Dimensions |
4
1/2" wide x 3 3/8" deep x 1 3/4"
tall |
Type |
square
corner |
Produced
by |
M.
Zunder & Sons, New Haven, CT. |
Printing
type |
Lithographed |
Estimated
examples extant |
6-8 |
Sold
for |
$1,174.75 |
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I
first
saw an Old Pop Smith tin about twenty
years
ago, pictured in a 1986 edition of a book titled: Tobacco Tins
and Their Prices, by Al Bergevin. The crossed baseball
bats and the bearded old timer sitting in the chair seemed
to echo a civil war connection, but I've never learned
that for sure. The flags with the "Y'" clearly
imply Yale since the tobacco company M. Zunder & Sons
was located in New Haven Connecticut. To the left and
right of the word "mixture" are football goal
posts, below it is a baseball. The bats have "squared
barrel" ends (sawed of look), which date them to the
1880's.
For
twenty years I kept an eye out, but never saw a single Old
Pop Smith tin. I put it in my eBay permanent search to be
notified if it ever surfaced. Very early A.M., the week of
May 6th 2007, I got an email notice from eBay that one was
listed.
In the middle of something, I stopped and clicked on the
link and saw Old Pop for the first time. The condition was
a little rough, but since It was the first one I'd ever
seen for sale, it was good enough.
Two
days before it closed I happen to run into antique
advertising expert extraordinaire Kim Kokles at The Grass
Valley Old West Antiques Show and asked him what he knew
about it. Kim told me he knew the tin, and that it was
very rare and that he'd had one 25 years earlier. He said
he'd gotten it at Brimfield for thirty or forty dollars,
and sold it right away for $2,500.00. He said his friends
scolded him that he could have gotten $5,000.00. He said
the market for square corner tins had softened since then,
and he helped me establish it's value based on the
condition I gave.
It
sat dormant for most of the week at around $10.00 as I
recall. The seller said as much that he was very surprised
at the amount of interest it had gotten, and that he originally
thought he would get about $30-$40 for it. The seller said
he got it at an estate sale in West Port Connecticut. It
turned out he got two, mine plus another
that was in much worse condition than mine,
which he later sold for $22.00. Mine
got 5 bids and I got it for $1,174.75 plus shipping and
insurance.
It's
interesting that the one pictured
in The Bergevin book appears to have rounded corners, and
possibly a lip around the edge. I'm not a tin expert but
that seems like it may be a later example than mine.
Another antique advertising expert, Don Lurito, who has an
Old Pop Smith, estimated there are 5-6 extant, plus mine,
plus the wiped out one. I
plan to research the tin, and who Old Pop Smith was and
will let you know what I learn! -Carlton
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10/20/07
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SportsAntiques.com
is pleased to have solved the mystery of
who Old Pop Smith was. Below are two
clippings from the New York Times
PHOTO
OF OLD POP SMITH


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Published:
November 10, 1890
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Published:
March 3, 1905
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Check
out my latest piece! -Carlton
Posted
1/7/07
click
photo

c1890
STERLING
SILVER LACROSSE STICK PIN
3
3/16 inch by 3/4 inch
This
is likely the finest Lacrosse stick pin ever made. I assume it
was made as a broach type pin for a lady. Based on the engraving
I'd estimate it to be circa 1890. It's sterling silver, but
there's no makers mark, as I believe it was awarded and engraved
to the B.A. Norman on the back. I think it's the most finely
made item I've ever owned. The detail is very intricate. When I
put it under a magnifying glass I can even see the detail of the
cording in the basket. Click on the close in photo of the basket
below to see what I mean. More that is really neat about it is
that It's engraved Ogdensburg, N.Y., so we know for certain it
is American, not Canadian. That is very fortunate to know it's
national origin. I asked the person I bought it from if they
knew any of it's history. They only knew that it came with a
large collection of pins, and that the lady who collected them
all, had a home in the Hudson Valley area, and another home on
5th Avenue in New York City. And that she collected collegiate
things.
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photos

c1890
Lacrosse stick pin
3
3/16 inch by 3/4 inch |

Back
with pin closed |

Close
in of basket |

Back
with pin open |

Engraved
to
B.
A. Norman,
Ogdensburg,
N.Y. |
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Posted
11/19/06
I've
been finding a lot of stuff lately,
here's some of my latest
acquisitions -Carlton
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above
9
inches tall
c1930
BRONZE
FOOTBALL KICKER STATUE
This
is one of the nicest football sculptures I've ever seen.
It is unsigned. I imagine it was produced and
sold by
a fine gift store like Tiffany's
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below
c1915
SILVER PLATE AND GLASS BOX WITH ROWING MOTIF LID. MADE
BY WMF -GERMANY
2
3/4" tall x 4 1/2" deep x 6" wide
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photos - click photo - click photos |
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lid |

Engraving
Weihnachten
1915
(Christmas
1915 in German) |

WMF,
maker
marking |
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Galvano
cast
runner
trophy
statue
16" tall, c1930 |
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c1930
American Silver Plate Statue of Polo Player, 11"
tall |

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c1870
Advertising Handkerchief with sports theme |

c1910
Sweet Ore Trousers Advertising Poster, 37" tall x
30" wide |

c1910
Cloth Pillow Cover with polo scene litho, 20" x
20" |

c1880
Lawn Tennis Cigarettes Advertising Sign, American,
20" wide x 16" tall |

c1920's
Framed Basketball Team Photo, 41 1/4" wide x 9
3/8" tall
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32"
tall x 25" wide
c1910
football poster by Joseph Leyendecker |

C1930
Chesterfield cigarettes die cut advertising sign
with football player, 38" tall x 25"
wide |

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kk |
Posted
11/15/06
FOOTBALL
TINS
CLICK
PHOTOS
c1880-1930
Grouping
of rare antique football advertising tins
collection
of author
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Very
rare c1920
Yale Corn Syrup tin with football motif |

To
get a rare look at some of the world's finest antique sports tins, visit
our TINS
PAGE |
The
SportsAntiques.com collection has acquired two rare football
tins this week, seen in these photos below, an extremely rare Yale Corn
Syrup tin, and another called the All American Cookies tin top
left. The Yale Corn Syrup isn't in the greatest condition,
but no problem. It's so rare I'm delighted to get it!
- Carlton |
ALL
NEW - ALL NEW - ALL NEW
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here
to
watch a video of
the
antique sports tins above on
YouTube.com
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last updated 3/6/06
CARLTON'S
LATEST ACQUISITIONS
Purchased
Sunday May 6th 2006 at
Antique
Trove Mall - San Calos, Calif.
click
photo
1869
CURRIER AND IVES LARGE FOLIO PRINT
"THE
BEAUTIES OF BILLIARDS"
35
1/4 inches wide by 29 1/4 inches tall , framed
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posted
3/6/06
Purchased
March 5th 2006 at
Antique
Trove Mall, Roseville, Ca.
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c1900
high relief football
plaque
14
inch wide by 12 inch tall, of plaster click
photos
to enlarge |

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back |

sculptor's
signature
G.M.
Bailey |
IF
ANYONE HAS SEEN ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS PLAQUE, OR HAS
ANY INFORMATION ON IT'S BACKGROUND PLEASE CONTACT ME VIA
THE COMMENTS
AND SUGGESTIONS FORM
ON THE HOME PAGE, THANKS - CARLTON |
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Yesterday
I got back from a three day ski trip at Lake Tahoe. When
my friends dropped me off at my car in Sacramento, it
was Sunday afternoon about 5:00PM. I figured while I was
in the area I'd run thru the Antique
Trove Mall in nearby Roseville, since it closed at
6:00PM. I'd been thru the store many times over
the years, but had only made one other sports find
there, a circa 1930's boxing gloves box. P1,
P2,
P3,
which I sold on eBay. The same booth I got that at, had
this football plaque. I wasn't expecting to find
anything, so it shocked me when I saw it. I really
looked it over carefully, but it looked to be real. So I
took it up to the front desk to ask if any discount was
available. They looked up the dealer and read the note
out loud: no
discounts, do not call. No problem, I snipped off
the price tag and handed it to the clerk...game over. It
was coming with me discount or not. The players appear
to be from around 1900, based on the reeded pants, and
that half the players aren't wearing head gear. The
opposing teams wear blue and red jerseys, which could
represent one of the most famous football rivalries of
the era, Harvard and Yale. The relief sculpting of the
scene is in what's referred to as "high
relief". High relief is the term for relief work
that juts out an inch or so, as opposed to relief work
that sticks out just enough to impart the needed
definition. Relief sculpture is also referred to by the
French term "base relief" (pronounced -
"ba relif") The arm of the player getting
tackled sticks out about 1 1/4 inch. In 18 years it's
the only example I've seen. I'm not sure what to
make of it, but I think it's c1900. Though it's possible
it could have been an advertising piece done later. I
think it's more likely something a student may have done
as an art project. The art quality seems like that of an
amateur, but it's not bad. Pretty ambitious really for
an amateur. It's signed G.M.
Bailey. The average joe probably wouldn't be too
impressed, but in the context of art, it's a very
rare and early example of American football
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posted
11/10/05
Purchased
at Nov. 2005
Hillsborough
Antiques Show
San
Mateo County Expo, San Mateo Calif.
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to enlarge

c1900
Euro
Football / Soccer Vienna bronze
4
1/4 inch tall |
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This
is one of the rarest Vienna sports bronzes. I'd never
seen another, so when I came upon it at the Hillsborough
Antiques Show
last Sunday, it stopped me in my tracks. And of course,
nothing great is cheap these days, so I really
had to bite the bullet. The gal selling it knew what she
had, and her asking price was enough to choke a couple
of reindeer. I saw a rare tennis Vienna bronze at this
same show in 2003 from a different dealer that was
asking $1,695.00 . That was cheap compared to this. It
was Sunday, the last day of a four day show. The dealer,
Muriel Peterson of Sammamish, Washington said she'd only
had it out of the case three times to show people over
the whole four days of the show. She said she'd
gotten it at the Atlantique City Show from Richard
Wright, the famous doll dealer and expert that is on the
Antiques Road Show. She said Richard had gotten it out
of an estate somewhere, and that he regularly saves
things for her, so it hadn't been seen. Antiques dealers
are very conscious about having fresh things that
haven't been seen. Doesn't mean jack to me though. If
it's something I want, that's all that matters! For
anyone new to this site, probably my biggest hot button
is antique sports sculpture. I've lived and breathed it
18 years, so I know what's important, and what's not. As
a collector, one of the funnest things is finding
something you've never seen. This is a perfect example.
Even though Soccer's not my bag really, it's just a
great piece. Plus I figure I might be able to use it for
a trade some day if I come across someone in Europe that
has the baseball Vienna bronze, that is pictured in the
Vienna
Tennis Bronze Story I
wrote.
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