Hi from Canada...

[fafromislay]

Hi Folks:

This looks like a great forum. I am an engineer living in Ontario, Canada and a BB-aholic. My 11YO son is a very active baseball player and I started devoting some of my antique collecting time to baseball about a year ago. When I say active, he has traveled to Bucky Dent Camp in Florida. He has played in Baltimore and Florida. He has assisted as a Ball Boy at Harvard Try Outs. He has had two MLB Scouts as coaches at different times. He has been instructed as well by a World Series pitcher. Through all of this, he has collected a number of modern MLB signatures on balls, gloves and bats. I am starting to design some shelves and racks for his room to hold all of this stuff. When I started purchasing better quality equipment for my son (he has two Rawlings Pro Preferred Gloves for Pitching and 1B work), I began to realize that there must be some great antique stuff out there to sort through. I wanted to give him an appreciation for those that have gone before.

I am at the shotgun stage right now with glove collecting. I started collecting older baseball bats, books, balls, photos, etc. and have begun to pick up the odd glove from time-to-time. There are some places nearby where I can shell out some bigger bucks for earlier gloves (I missed a crescent pad glove a couple of weeks back). There are also some very beautiful large (2’ high cups with bats etc.) early baseball trophies that I want to pick up – these should be in some museum somewhere.

So far, we have the following gloves which I think would be about 1940’s vintage on average:

1. JC Higgins Pee Wee Pro Catchers Mitt Model 1667 (Made in Canada)

2. DR Catchers Mitt, (Daignault-Rolland, Made in Canada)
Cant find a model number – has not web but, a lace across the top of the pocket area
Silver writing proclaims “Hand Builtâ€

[Cowboy7130]

Welcome to the forum! and you are SO in the right place to get started!

If you have not already discovered it on your own, check out the glove conditioning forum on this site ... worlds of experience shared freely for guys like us who are just starting out!