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[mjkm90]

Just a few pins I've picked up recently.

[slidekellyslide]

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Hey Mike, you've got quite the nice Cubs pinback collection going. How are you displaying them?

I picked this Scrapps Sam Thompson up off of ebay last night:


Working on the set of 18...Only 15 more to go already have Comiskey so that's two of the 4 Hall of Famers out of the way.

[ironmanfan]

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Very cool pins...I wonder how many people knew off the top of their head that Dizzy Dean's real first name was Jerome (not me!)?

[sayhey24]

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Love the pins too!

Dizzy's real name was Jay Hanna Dean. At some point he started telling sportswriters that his name was Jerome Herman Dean -- Jerome Herman being a childhood palymate who died at a young age.

Greg

[vintagesportscollector]

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Mike and Dan - Very nice pins and Scrapps.

Picked up this 1890s mask. Very happy with it - heavy wire, non-welded, and large size.

[slidekellyslide]

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Joe, that's a good one. Nice and clean. Where'd you find it?

[mjkm90]

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Right now I have them in a glass top display table. I like the look of the different shapes colors and textures. Nice Scrapp. Five years ago I found the entire set minus 2 on scrap book pages in an antique mall for $200. I steamed them off with an iron and sold them to dealers at the Cleveland National. Obviously they weren't in perfect shape, but most were Vg-Ex.

[mjkm90]

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Joe, that is a killer mask!!! Very tough to find them that early in such terrific shape. Pieces like that will always be among treasures of our hobby.

[mjkm90]

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It's been a while since I updated this photo, so this was a good time to do so. This is the extent of my pinback collection. Nothing extremely valuable, but I love them.

[slidekellyslide]

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Sweet display Mike! Heh....I thought you were concentrating on Cubs pins...looks like you're all over the place. What's the 411 on that Red Sox pin sitting up above the bat barrell?


PS How did you steam off the Scrapps? It took me over a year to get up the courage to soak off my Comiskey.

[mjkm90]

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That is a 1950s Red Sox stadium pin. If you look in the upper left portion of the picture just below that white Cleveland Indians pin you will see a little navy blue pin that says Oh You Red Sox. That is a veeery rare early pin with a Perfections Cigarette paper backing. I got that thing on ebay for $10 last year because it was listed in some crazy location. I can't even remember how I found it, but it's a good find.

I just put the pages on an ironing board, laid a clean cloth of them and started ironing with the steam on full blast. It didn't take any time at all. I think I soaked the backs also. After they came off I laid them out with little weights on the ends to keep them from curling while they dried. Nobody I showed them to including the big boys had any problems with how they looked or how I did it. I gave full disclosure.

[mjkm90]

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I have been all over the place with pins. If I find them cheep and I like them, I buy them. I have a tough time focusing...hee hee.

[HiNeighbor]

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Here are a couple of new pieces that just came in. Thanks Chris and Pat if you're on here. Greg

[mjkm90]

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Those are terrific pieces. Is the hat referring to Babe Ruth for sure? I'm not doubting it. I just haven't seen anything like it in the past. Where did they come from?

[slidekellyslide]

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Could be Babe Didrickson-Zahara? But I doubt it.