Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

okdoak wrote:Interesting design on this Brine Joe DiMaggio block letter endorsement. Condition held it to $41. Still pretty cool.

Definitely a glove made by OK MFG Co. - I have a few that are the same but with different endorsements

I see that there's an Old Reliable Joe D. on ebay that looks the same as that Brine except it has a wrist strap and button instead of the laced back. The only gloves I remember seeing with that type of web were the Marathon Carl Hubbells. Then again, maybe I just wasn't paying attention.

I have an OK Frank Crosetti with the exact same web.

(Posted a picture of it here back a few years ago... viewtopic.php?f=11&t=764&p=2969&hilit=crosetti#p2969 )

Very cool looking glove, BretMan. OK certainly was innovative.

More sewn web mania...

White Spalding @ $285 best offer.




Reach with replaced liner and piping @ $225 best offer.




Plus a Marathon Bill Cissell @ $100.




And a Goldsmith KB Honus Wagner @ $3000 from Hunt's.


Ah, the stuff that dreams are made of.

Brett posted this same Goldsmith "Honus Wagner" glove selling for $948 in a Skinner auction in Oct. 2011. Not a bad return for sitting on it for three months. The back of the glove was extraordinary. Never have seen the color scheme of the cloth patch before. In addition, the pocket stitching, nice button and overall light wear on both sides really made the glove stand out. The endorsement and other markings on the front were strong.
Also, the "Bill Cissell" Marathon glove above was made by Dubow. The look and quality of the leather Dubow used in that period was distinctive. Bill Cissell was also among a group of players Dubow signed up in the 1920's. Nice grommet web.

The Wagner glove went through another transaction after it sold in Skinner's - Hunt's bought it from the original buyer at the Greater Boston Sports Collector's Show in November 2011.

Geo. Reach Dario Lodigiani @ $46




Black Tryon @ $265 best offer

If you're looking for sewn webs, they're on ebay right now.

White JC Higgins @ $175 best offer


White Spalding @ $265


Post Susskind Sporting Goods @ $150


Two nice Wilson Seamless Thumb models:

604X @ $64.51


643 @ $73


And the popular Stan Musial TG12 @ $135

Joe Gordon glove and picture box @ $250


Saggahew grommet web @ $175




Black sewn web @ $145

Buckleback full web with some interesting stitching @ $361

Richie Ashburn Macgregor @ $65 offer




Top of the line Spalding 42-105 Colavito PM with some condition issues went for $100 offer

Going a little NOKONA crazy this month.

First is the Charlie Engle three. I've been looking for one of these for about seven years. I almost missed it. I cleaned it up and added the thin web pieces so that it would somewhat resemble Jim's and Rob's.
I'd almost given up on ever finding one.

Second is a super-soft Pinky Higgins double-laced G47. What a glove!

Mike**Mize wrote:First is the Charlie Engle three. I've been looking for one of these for about seven years.

All I can say is you are one lucky dog! That one flew under the radar and should have and would have gone for a lot more. Congrats!

Thanks Rob. You're right, I am a lucky dog! I did a double take when I saw it listed and set to end in a couple of hours. I hadn't even noticed it before that. I had a bunch more on it when I won it, too. My daughter was in the middle of writing an essay for school and I begged on with about two minutes to go and posted a couple more bids just to be sure that when I got outbid, the buyer would feel the pain.
Then I won it ! Leave it to Nakona to make it out of such great leather. It really cleaned up nicely.

Brine buckleback @ $107


Spalding 133 Joe DiMaggio @ $102.50


Vintage box 1 @ $86


Vintage box 2 @ $118.50