Thursday, October 2, 2025

Rare Reed & Barton Rugby Football Repose Style Silver Plate Humidor C. 1887

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     Photo of the back of the humidor, which matches the front (front has a lock) and the sides. We have seen three or four of these rare hu...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

An Unusual Letter With Cricket Associations 1854

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  Previously having had the good fortune of acquiring two American cricket CDVs’, one of which pictures baseball’s Harry Wright (see blog po...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Rare Tiffany Sterling Silver Football Themed Flask 1891/1892

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 A wonderfully detailed, high relief, acid etched, Tiffany rugby football flask made in 1891/1892 for Dr. William Palmer Wesselhoeft. Wessel...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

Oneida Football Monument / Boston Public Garden

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 "So the Boston game became the Harvard game"                                                  Morton Prince '75 The Oneida Mo...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Exceptionally Early Football Team Photo c. November 1875 / Harvard Class Of 1879 Football Team

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  In their freshman year, in November of 1875, the ’79 class football team played Adams Academy at Quincy to a draw, one touchdown apiece. T...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Rare And Early Lawrence Football Team Photograph / 1881

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In 1880, Phillips Andover Academy played Lawrence High School (Massachusetts) in football (abutting towns), one of the earliest accounts of ...

Turn Of The Century Princeton Hockey Team / Gresham Poe

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 A turn of the century Princeton hockey team photo featuring Gresham Poe, Princeton '02, (middle row, second from the left) that we were...