The BASEBALL RELIQUARY Inc.
Fully adjustable. Black with green and gold embroidery.
$10.00 ($8.00 to Members)
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BASEBALL RELIQUARY
GUIDE TO THE COLLECTIONS
The Baseball Reliquary has published a 20-page catalog (5.5" x 8.5") entitled Guide to the Collections, which offers a sampling of some of the historically significant artifacts in its collections. Also included in the catalog are details on the inaugural election to the Shrine of the Eternals and relevant information on becoming a member of the Baseball Reliquary. The catalog Guide to the Collections is available for $2.00 postpaid from the Baseball Reliquary, P.O. Box 1850, Monrovia, CA 91017. |
BASEBALL RELIQUARY POSTERS
The Baseball Reliquary recently commissioned Hatch Show Print of Nashville, Tennessee to produce two advertising posters on their vintage letterpresses. Each Hatch Show Print poster is a unique creation, individually hand-printed and inked onto paper in a process that dates back several centuries. The process, known as letterpress, involves selecting wood blocks, setting up wooden and/or metal type, and then inking and pressing these elements onto paper to form an image. In operation since 1879, Hatch Show Print is one of America’s oldest working poster shops. For much of the past century, the firm’s vibrant, colorful posters served as a leading advertising medium for Southern entertainment, ranging from vaudeville and minstrel shows to magicians and opera singers, from carnivals and professional wrestling extravaganzas to commercial products like Airstream Trailers and Graves Whole Hog Sausage. True to their motto, "Advertising without posters is like fishing without worms," Hatch’s posters created the excitement that sold the show, covering the sides of buildings and barns in cities and towns throughout the country. Hatch also printed posters to promote baseball games by teams of the Negro Leagues, as well as a varierty of barnstorming clubs of the 1920-1955 era, including the Chicago American Giants, New Orleans Eagles, Zulu Cannibal Giants, Evansville Colored Braves, and Baltimore Elite Giants. The two posters produced for the Reliquary reflect this slice of Americana, with text derived from the identical hand-carved wood blocks used on baseball posters of over half a century ago, creating new art that is squarely in the tradition of a bygone era.
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SHRINE OF THE ETERNALS
COMMEMORATIVE ITEMS
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