Firemens v. Baseball 19th Century Uniforms

[vintagesportscollector]

I just won it and it was shipped today so I haven't received it yet. I was searching for "uniforms" and came across this listed under Collectibles> Historical Memorabilia > Firefighting. The seller was selling other firefighting memorabilia too. The only picture he showed in the auctions was the first one that shows the cover. I noticed it said baseball uniforms and I asked him to send me a picture of the baseball pages. He sent me a picture of all the other pages. I was blown away by the graphics, color, condition and the mutliple baseball images with all the equipment. Not sure about card stock but seller said it was sturdy with minimal seam separtion between the folds other than what is shown in pictures. It folds out to 6 pages wide, double sided for 12 page images.


Mike- Not sure about bib but my guess would be a manufacturer variable. I accidentally deleted image of shoes page he sent but I do remember the first two shoes on the top corner of the third image are baseball shoes, and the next one down(that looks like a normal leather shoe) is for Lawn Tennis.

[slidekellyslide]

WOW! Nice find Joe....Proves that you can still find hidden treasure on ebay....any guesses as to what you think the real value of this item is?

[Rob L]

I would guess that with the condition that the brochure appears to be in, this could easily garner $300 to $600 in the right auction. It is an awesome piece of memorabilia.

Rob L

[Rob L]

Hi Joe,

Did you receive the brochure yet? Any chance of some additional scans?

Rob L

[vintagesportscollector]

Sure thing Rob. I posted all the pages on my site. You can click each thumbnail to enlarge, and then expand again for large 960x1280 images.

http://www.geocities.com/vintagespor...Wilkinson.html

-Joe

[Rob L]

Joe, looks great. How sure are you on the 1880s date? I would almost put it back another decade or so (1870s), particularly with the belt style. Great piece.

Rob L