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6 3/4" deep

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c1930 

A. B.

SPRECKLES 

CUP GOLF TROPHY

STERLING

21" W 18" T

PRESENTATION

SILVER 

BY REED AND  BARTON 

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Circa 1907

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Circa 1930

Basketball Trophy Plaque

Sculpted by

Jack Lincoln Lambert

 21 1/2 inches tall 

13 1/2 inches wide

From the collection of the author

 

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Great Basketball Pieces

This plaque serves as an excellent example of a great antique basketball display piece. It's very rare, I've never seen another.  I first saw this hanging in Steve Freedland's home in Southern California. I was in L.A. for a show back in about 2000 I think it it was. Steve invited me to stop by, and he showed me his collection. Part of it anyway...as it was big. He had many things in boxes. Anyway, I spotted this and asked if he was selling it. He said not then, but maybe sometime. So over the next couple years I'd occasionally mention "that Basketball plaque you've got". One day he asked me what I wanted to pay...then I blew it by low balling him with something weak, like $300.00 I think it was. Next thing I knew he listed it on eBay. It's hard to explain, but in collecting, sometimes you just get burnt out on chasing every great thing that comes along. The financial and emotional  pressure; always scrambling for money gets to you. I think that period was one of those times, and I recall I had a hard time making up my mind if I was going to swing hard at this. I decided to bite the bullet, and loaded a snipe bid of $727.00, and got it for $685.00 on June 30, 2002. 

The plaque is cast in galvano. Galvano was used in the 1920-30's to cast statues and bookends. Galvano is a process in which a plaster cast is electroplated with copper and given a patina. Since bronze is made up of mostly copper, with small amounts of tin, zinc, and lead, the resulting appearance can be nearly identical to a real bronze. You see galvano pieces in the antiques world occasionally.  I guess because it's all copper without the other metals, Galvano has kind of a strange, soft feel that most people don't know what to make of. Actually I have Amos Alonzo Stagg's personal bookends that are galvano casts. 

Back around 1995, my friend John Bounaguidi found the best trophy catalog I've ever seen in an antiques store in some central coast California town. He paid a whopping $10.00 or so for it. It's for Josten's Jewelers of Owatonna Minnesota. I've never seen so much antique sports sculpture in one book. This plaque is pictured in that catalog. The featured sculptor that the catalog touted, and that sculpted this plaque was Jack Lincoln Lambert....Jack and I were old friends figuratively speaking. It's a story for another time, but Jack Lincoln Lambert sculpted the Amos Alonzo Stagg bookends I'd acquired at the very beginning of my collecting back in 1988. The bookends weren't in the catalog though. John B. knew sports sculpture was my hot button so he eventually gave me the catalog where it remains in my reference library. I've also seen two or three pieces on eBay that were in the catalog. As well as being a sculptor, Jack Lincoln Lambert was a cartoonist, at the Chicago Sun Times, and the Baltimore Sun newspapers. It's been a long time since I researched him but I recall he has a heroic size statue in front of a stadium somewhere, Baltimore maybe.  Anyway, over the years I've also seen two sports caricature plaster ashtrays that he did. One I saw at Mickey Himsel's house, an Indian mascot for a baseball team I can't recall. The other was a goofy golfer motif that I came across at an antiques fair, and took a shot of. Creating caricature ashtrays like these, seems like a natural extension of the cartooning he did at the newspapers. He seems to have been very creative.

 

Golfer caricature ashtray by 

Jack Lincoln Lambert, photographed at the Alameda Point Antiques Fair, Alameda Calif.

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Like I mentioned, the plaque serves as a good example of a great basketball display piece, but it's not the greatest basketball piece I've ever seen. That distiction goes to a piece I heard about and tracked down a number of years ago.

 

One day I was at the Long Beach Antique Flea Market, in Long Beach California. (Don't miss Martha's Donuts nearby on Carson Ave.) I ran into John Kanuit and he told me the most facinating story about a bronze statue of two basketball players he got at the Atlantique City antiques show in Atlantic City.  He said it was incredible, and that the guy selling it wouldn't budge off $10,000. He called a collector he knew and told him about it, and the collector told him to get it. John said it was so heavy, it took two people to carry it. 

 

Since antique sports sculpture is my hot button, I was riveted by the story.  After I got home the story stuck with me a couple weeks. Naturally I wondered who the collector was that got it, and more importantly I wanted to see it! John didn't say and I didn't impose the question. 

 

It was sort of a long shot, but I went on eBay looking for serious basketball collectors that may have gotten it. I came across one guy that looked pretty serious, and took a stab at it. I emailed him and asked if by any chance he got an incredible basketball statue at the Atlantique City show. He emailed me back and said no, but that he had heard about it. I struck out, but thought it was interesting word of the piece had gotten around.  Next I thought of a Los Angeles collector that I knew had the ability to drop 10 g's. It's been a while, but as I recall I emailed him, and bingo, he said yes he'd gotten it. I recall, I talked to him on the phone about it at some point, and he was a little amused when I mentioned I heard it took two people to carry it.  He said to the extent, it wasn't quite that heavy. I asked if it would be possible he could send me a photo. He said he would send a hard photo by snail mail. I was hoping he would send a digital photo by email, but I wasn't about to complain. Shortly I got the photo in the mail. When I opened it I had to laugh and shake my head. He sent me a Polaroid! Here I'd been tracking this thing down, and dying to see the most incredible basketball piece I've ever heard of, and I get a  Polaroid...worst photos on the planet! I couldn't complain though.  He was nice enough to send it, and he's probably just very busy and a Polaroid was the fastest and easiest for him. It may be a lousy photo, but at least I got a basic idea of what it looks like! Check it out for yourself below.

 

Circa 1915

Bronze Basketball Group

24 inches tall by 18 inches wide

Made by Dieges and Clust

M. Peinlich, Sculptor

 

Greatest basketball piece I've ever seen

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ESTES PROFESSIONAL

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Circa 1887

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Box Story

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PRESENTATION

SILVER 

BY REED AND  BARTON 

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READ THIS SHORT ARTICLE ON A CLASSIC EARLY FOOTBALL TEAM PHOTO

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

MARCH 29th- 

APRIL 4th 

2009

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c1880

BASEBALL

CLOCK

New Haven

Clock Co.

20 1/4" wide 15 1/5" tall  

6 3/4" deep

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Circa 1891

Tiffany & Co.

YALE 

FOOTBALL MATCH  SAFE

  Story

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

MARCH

22nd- 28th 

2009

PowerboatCrop.jpg (27418 bytes)

c1912

POWER

BOAT 

PRINT 

5ft. wide

 2ft. tall 

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  STORY

JOE LOUIS 

ARMY RECRUITMENT POSTER STORY

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

MARCH 18th-14th

2009

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c1950

Brayton Laguna

Black 

Boxers Statues

11" tall 

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Circa 1876  BASEBALL CLOCK STORY

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One of the authors 

favorites!

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

December

20th- 26th

2009

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C1890 VICTORIAN 
MOVEABLE 

DIE CUT 
FOOTBALL PLAYER
 
DELUXE 

EXTRA LARGE & EMBOSSED  

13" tall 

10 1/2" wide 

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

SPECIAL

EXCURSION

FEATURE

THREE

PART SERIES

Sept. 25th 

- Oct 15th

2010

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Carlton's Road Trip

TO THE

PORTLAND

EXPO 

ANTIQUES

SHOW

July 9- 11 2010

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

June26th 

- July 2nd

2010

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SPECIAL

EXCURSION

FEATURE

Carlton's Road Trip

TO THE

ROSE 

BOWL

FLEA

MRKT.

PASADENA 

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

FEB. 

12TH- 19TH 2011

SPECIAL

EXCURSION

FEATURE

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 ANOTHER

CARLTON

ROAD TRIP TO THE ROSE BOWL FLEA MRKT
FEB 13TH 2011
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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

Feb. 26th 

- Mar. 4th

2011

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c1890

STERLING

SILVER

FOOTBALL

FLASK

By

Tiffany & Co.

 Only known 

 example 

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

Sept. 30th 

- Oct 6th

2012

CanoeSideWays.JPG (16343 bytes)

c1921

SILVER

PLATE CANOEING TROPHY

by 

Derby Silver Co.

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

Oct. 28th 

- Nov. 3rd

2012

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C1890
RAH RAH TOBACCO POUCH 
Best football themed tobacco pouch ever produced 

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

November

11th- 17th

2012

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C1920 MULTI SPORT 

TABLE

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Greatest Multi

Sport Table Extant

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

 - Nov. 25th-

Dec. 1st

2012

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June 22nd

1877
WESTERN

UNION TELEGRAPH

SENT BY 

E.V. BAKER

CONVEYING

SCORE OF

HARVARD VS

YALE

BASE BALL

GAME

HARVARD 10

YALE 1
Likely

sent by

famed Yale

foot ball

pioneer

Eugene V. 

Baker

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A SPECIAL CARLTON

EXCURSION

FEATURE

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Sports

Antiques

.com
Visits The Top Bottle Show in The Country

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THE 

NATIONAL CONVENTION 

of the
F.O.H.B.C.
FEDERATION OF 
HISTORICAL BOTTLE COLLECTORS

EXPO 

2012

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 July 27-29th 2012, Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, Reno NV. 

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

 - Feb 24th-

March 2nd 2013

c1892

SPALDING'S

FOOT-BALL

WOODEN

SHIPPING

CRATE

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Carlton Got

OUTBID

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

March 23rd-

30th 2013

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C1930 15" tall

- Die Cut -

KEDS

 BASKETBALL 

SHOES

ADVERTISING 

DISPLAY

Auctioned by

Legendary

Auctions.com 

Feb. 2013

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SPORTS

ANTIQUE OF THE WEEK

April 28th-

May 4th 2013

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LATEST FEATURE

c1920

HURDLER

STATUE

By Chiparus

Hurdler Installed Side Close.JPG (174422 bytes)

19" tall

Once owned 

by former

BASEBALL

COMMISIONER

PETER

UEBERROTH

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ALL-HEIL

HIGH WHEEL

BICYCLE

STEIN

c1890

19 1/2" tall

By Mettlach


Best bicycle

stein you'll ever see!

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