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LELAND'S
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Sports
and Americana Auction
June
6th 2008
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Lelands.com website for all rules and bidding details
www.Lelands.com
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1013
Lots
SportsAntiques.com
has identified the following
11 lots as exceptional.
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TOP
ELEVEN PICKS |
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No. 4
LOT
# 600
c1881
Earliest Lawn Tennis
Sheet Music
minimum
bid $300.00
SOLD
FOR
$358.50
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No. 3
LOT
509
c1891
John Rogers Football Statue, 16 1/5" tall
minimum
bid $500.00
SOLD
FOR
$3,675.82
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No. 2
LOT
# 280
Early
folk art "Athletics"
Baseball
Sign, 25" x 27"
minimum
bid $1,000.00
SOLD
FOR
$5,506.56
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No. 5
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LOT
# 523
1930's
Army vs. Navy Football
Pinball Game
minimum
bid $200.00
SOLD
FOR
$1,393.37
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# 92
c1920
Rare Babe Ruth
Studio Photograph,
9
3/4" x 7"
minimum
bid $1,000.00
SOLD
FOR
$4,550.56
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# 275
c1880
Heubach Bisque
Baseball Batter Statue,
13" tall
minimum
bid $200.00
SOLD
FOR
$532.97
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# 513
c1911
plaster football player statue
titled: "The American Idol", 12" tall x 11" wide x
11" deep
minimum
bid $500.00
SOLD
FOR
$597.50
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# 466
c1920's,
on-site boxing exhibition featuring former
World Heavweight Champion Jack Johnson vs. Floyd Johnson, Likely held
in La Grande Oregon
22" x 14"
minimum
bid $500.00
SOLD
FOR
$597.50
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# 453
c1923
on-site broadside poster for World
Heavyweight Boxing Championship between Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons
held in Shelby Montana
38" x 21"
minimum
bid $2,500.00
SOLD
FOR
no
bids
did
not sell
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# 460
c1941
on-site boxing broadside poster for
World Heavyweight Championship fight between Joe Louis and Red Burman,
at Madison Square Garden,
32" x 24"
minimum
bid $500.00
SOLD
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$1,555.89
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COMMENTARY
BELOW BY
CARLTON
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LOT
# 272 c1898
Cap Anson Presentation Bat - This
is in the exotic category. I've seen a number of these silver
presentation bats but don't recall any as nice as this. The
engraved illustration of Anson really makes it. Your average
bear won't be getting involved at this price range, but it's
fun to watch, reserved for the heavy hitters.
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# 280 Early
folk art "Athletics" Baseball
Sign
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I wouldn't say it's stunning, but it's good, and that's saying
a lot! Good 19th-early 20th century- baseball folk art is almost non existent, it's so
rarely offered. It's one of the best baseball folk art
pieces I've see on the market in 20 years
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# 509 c1891 John Rogers
Football Statue One
of the best and most important football statues. John Rogers'
sons who played football for Yale posed for it. return |
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#600 c1881
Earliest Lawn Tennis
Sheet Music. I've never seen or heard of tennis sheet music this
early, super rare, got the look return
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# 523 1930's
Army vs. Navy Football
Pinball Game - Never seen before, great graphics
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# 513 12"
tall x 11" wide x 11" deep, plaster football player statue
titled: "The American Idol" - Very unusual and very well
done, by an obscure sculptor named William C. Both from
Chicago return |
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# 275 c1880
13" Bisque Heubach
Baseball Batter Statue - These come in a larger version, this is the
13" tall. If you're into porcelain these are the classic
Victorian baseball statues to own.
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# 92 V.
rare c1920 Babe Ruth
Studio Photograph - This is almost stunning, it's so great, never seen
another. Probably the best Ruth photo I've seen. return |
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# 466, 453, 460 Three boxing site posters - You have to understand boxing posters to
appreciate these. There are fight movie posters that look like
site posters, then there are the ultra rare actual site
posters that were issued by the promoter and posted within
traveling vicinity of the fight. The Dempsey Gibbons one is
probably the most exciting, since there are stories about the
fight, and it's Dempsey in his prime. Whereas the Johnson is
post prime and clearly a for profit, milk the fame kind of
bout. return |
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