Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

This is really cool. Thank you for sharing it.

Agreed - nicely done!!

-Bruce

I was inspired by rdb34's display that he set up in his local library, so I decided to do the same with my modest Ken-Wel collection.



The library staff was very receptive to having something displayed. It seems that they were wondering what to put in case just as I happened to come along.

Ken

Nice!

I like the color ads as a back drop. Very Nice! What was the earliest model you had in the display?

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

I've never read Baseball in the Garden of Eden, but i thought that was a nice touch. Great display!

Ken, Very nice display of gloves for your library. The signs and ads are a nice touch for the display too. Good job!!
Thanks for sharing.
Dave

Nice display Ken. By the way, Baseball in the Garden of Eden was one of the best baseball books I ever read. I highly recommend it.

JD