by Kenny Wel » October 5th, 2011, 4:57 pm
Thanks for the nice comments.
The catcher's mitt is a 1924 model. The fan style first basemitt and the two gloves standing on the top shelf have Gloversville logos, and are about the time of Ken-Wel's move to Utica.
The Gerhig glove ad on on the top shelf is an original, as is the Dazzy Vance glove ad. The tin Gerhig sign is a repro, but I thought the bold graffics would look nice in the display and give someone the impression of how big Ken-Wel was at the time. The other graffic items are copies of pages from catalogs that show items the bat line and ball construction, etc, that I have mounted on foam core. I was trying not to get too carried away with being educational, but I did want to provide some information as to what people were looking at. And since it is in a library...the balls on the top shelp are resting on a copy of John Thorn's Baseball in the Garden of Eden.
Ken