Recent Estate Auction find - Old Trophy Football and Photos

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  • kjjavic
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2005
    • 167
    #1

    Recent Estate Auction find - Old Trophy Football and Photos

    I came across this group of memoribilia at a recent estate auction. In the auction, I purchsed 2 Saint Marks football team photos, 1 panoramic photo with six individual mounted photos, 2 individual St. Marks baseball player photos, and a 1907 Spalding Trophy football.
    The football has '07 painted on 2 panels of the football on 1 side. The other side has written on it: (difficult to read) St. Marks Military C
    October 1, 1907.
    The ball is a spalding ball, but I can't make out the model number in the pump area between the laces.

    Anyone ever heard of a Saint Marks Military College. I can't guarantee the word after military is college, but it looks like it starts with a C.

    Another SM team photo that I missed out on, had a Chestnut Street address for a photographer/gallery label on the back of the frame. This coupled with living in a Philadelphia suburb, I seem to think it is from the Philly area, but I could be wrong.
    My recent research hasn't been able to uncover any Saint Marks Military College, but I'll keep trying.

    Any ideas?
    thanks
    KJ





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    • kjjavic
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2005
      • 167
      #2
      Re: Recent Estate Auction find - Old Trophy Football and Photos

      Sorry, here are those 2 football pics. I tried to edit the original but I couldn't



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        • kjjavic
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2005
          • 167
          #3
          Re: Recent Estate Auction find - Old Trophy Football and Photos

          I did some research and came up with following:
          The photos are from St Marks School in Southborough Massachussetts. It is a boarding college prep school, not a military college.
          I found an old postcard dated 1905 and addressed to a Alfred A Biddle of St Marks School in one of the box lots I won.
          Alfred Biddle is actually a member of the well known wealthy Biddle family of Philadelphia. They are Mayflower descendants.
          I misinterpreted what the football had written on it.
          I thought it said St Marks Military C.
          What it actually says is: St. Marks (score unreadable) Milton 0
          Milton Academy was another local school, so this was a trophy ball from one of their games.
          Alfred Biddle was the captain of the football team and went on to play for Yale.

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