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19th Century Fore-Edge Baseball Painting
This is one of the coolest pieces we have ever owned. A fore-edge painted book has a painting along the edges of its pages. Incredibly, this painting is baseball-themed. It is a marvelous home plate collision in full, vibrant color. This is a single fore-edge painting - the painting is along only one edge of the book. Gilt was applied after the painting dried, which makes the painting completely invisible when the book is closed. This is one of only two fore-edge painted baseball books we know to exist. The other sold for about $5,000 several years ago. The majority of extant examples of fore-edge paintings are done more recently and on reproductions of older books. This is consistent, as it is on a beautiful specimen of Oliver Goldsmith’s Prose by Clifford Irving. The condition of the book itself is EX-MT, while painting is even nicer.
Past Sports Card, Memorabilia, Non-Sports Card and Collecitble Auction Items
Other past auction items that may be of interest to you.
1940’s New York Cuban Stars Pin & Pennant
1940’s East/West Negro League Pennant
1943 Zulu Cannibal Giants Negro League Broadside
1945 Chicago American Giants Negro League Broadside
1930’s Colored House of David Broadside (22x32”)
Satchell Paige Original Artwork by Richard Merkin (16x20”)
1940’s New York Cuban Stars Pin & Pennant