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I'd like to make a checklist of sorts of all the Lucky Strike trolley signs (not die cut) depicting sports figures. Here's what I have so far:
Heilmann
P. Waner
L. Waner
Lazzeri
Grove
Tim Callahan (football)
Sarazen (golf)
Hagen (golf)
Farrell (golf)
Alex Smith (golf)
Helen Wainwright (swimming)
Pony McAtee (jockey)
Laverne Fator (jockey)
Does anyone know of any others? Better yet, does anyone have a scan of any others?
Let's include Tuxedo trolley signs:
Mathewson
McGraw
Gowdy
W. Johnson
I wonder if that Hughie Jennings one isn't from Canada? Looks like a lot of that stuff in Hunt's was found in Canada, but it doesn't mention it on the writeup.
Mathewson, McGraw and Johnson are the trolley car versions that I know exist. I've never seen a Gowdy Trolley car version, just a regular version. Dick Rudolf also exists in regular form.
Matt
Too hard to tell from the scan....I have been fooled on ad pieces several times from scans.....Just from the scan it looks ok to me....but again, I have been fooled before...and this isn't my area of expertise (if I even have one)....regards
All I know is that it looks nothing like the other Tuxedo ads of the time. The whole sign has a sort of airbrushed appearance but I think I did see that it had been restored. My guess is that it's good and rare without the attn to detail as the others. I also don't think anyone would recently produce something as vintage when it doesn't conform to the "norm".
Thanks, Jerry. I had forgotten about that one! Dan,
is your Hagen of a smaller size than 21x11? I used to have a smaller Sarazen about 7x9 (?) and that was the only other smaller version I had ever seen.
I usually don't regret selling items, but this is an exception: a giant 6 ft x 3ft canvas-like paper banner. I only know of one other and that is of Lefty Grove in a Colorado collector's home. I wonder where they were displayed and how many are out there.