2023 National Pg 2 Carltons Pickups

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Next pickup was the silver plate speed skater trophy on the right..which I got from Brett Lowman...It's 8 5/8" tall and quite heavy for it's size...1930ish in style...no engraving, no engraving plate...I think I gave $75.00 for it...If I recall I gave about $200.00 for the gold one out of an antiques store...it was issued by Nester Johnson and awarded to Chicago speed skater Ray Strodel...I showed you all the other speed skating pieces so you'd understand why I got it...as it fits in with my other speed skater stuff...The big trophy with skate handles is 21 1/4"...awarded to Emil Penner...The skater bronze statue in the center is serious art sculpted by renown Vienna sculptor Bruno Zach done in the 1920's...

Baseball drum and speed skate trophy as found in Brett Lowman's booth

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I bought two drums at the show...this is the first one I got from Brett Lowman...it's smaller than my other two drums at 6" wide x 4 1/4" tall...It's not as nice as the football one coming up next...but toy sports drums are so rare I wasn't passing it up...Brett had $375.00 on it...Can't recall exactly butI probably got it for $300.00...

I bought the football one on right and baseball one on top at the show

The baseball one on the left was a 2017 National pickup.

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I was outbid on this c1895 toy football drum some thirty years ago and had been on the lookout for one ever since. After thirty years I spotted it sitting in Glen Mechanic's booth. It was made by the Converse Toy Company in Winchendon Massachusetts, also known as Toy Town. The founders son Atherton Darling Converse 1877-1956 graduated Harvard class of 1900. Perhaps his exposure to Harvard's rich football heritage may have influenced the production of this drum.

Notice I'm posting six sides of this football one...It gets the deluxe treatment as it was a remarkable find for me...I already gave the story on this on the previous page...I post it again below...I found it in Glen Mechanic's booth...

Copied from Carlton's Pick-ups page 1 - So continuing on with my second drum find!...I went over to Glen's booth and spotted a football toy drum...But it wasn't just any toy football drum...About thirty five years ago...before the internet...John Kanuit ran a small auction in Sports Collectors Digest...This exact drum was in the auction...I was pretty new to sports antiques but I zeroed in on it...I forget what I bid...all I know is the next day I called John and he informed me I had been outbid...I've been very active in the hobby ever since...I've covered a lot of ground and seen a lot in 35 years...and I've never seen another of this drum...So of course I bought it...Well the story goes on...Somehow I learned there at the National that fellow prolific collector Randy Johnson had owned it and...and that thru a series of events it was deaccessioned from his collection...Glen couldn't recall where he had gotten it...but I found it in a past Hunt auction...And on the subject of drums...you may recall I got a baseball drum from the John Kanuit/Jeff White duo at the 2017 National...so the football one pretty much completed my drum collection...

And for my last pickup is this c1930 bicycle race pencil box...This was another pickup from Glen Mechanic...Typical Glen....he's always got a great selection of smalls...just a great eye...These pencil boxes are fairly elusive...you just don't see them around much...

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