In my last post I asked what I should do with the sheet of ten Bruins autos and the three comments were basically saying no do not cut that as it is a piece of history. After reading the comments I do not like my autographs together I like seeing each player with his auto either on his card, but I am not a collector of multi signed items, I do not know why I guess it is just odd for me. So, before anyone scrolls down to see what the sheet looks like, I will say that it did change because of what I did. It looks better but not perfect but who needs perfection. Don't scroll just yet, think of that song Anticipation, you know its keeping me waiting.
I also was lucky enough to find an auto of another Bruins great player John "Jack" Crawford. I say lucky because I actually got his auto for under $10, I will replace it someday maybe but for right now it serves as a filler and the reason it is a filler is because of the trophies as the autograph is very nice. The word filler is not one used much in the collecting circles mainly because everyone wants the best condition cards but when you start collecting autographs of an original six team the first-year players are very difficult to acquire and can be extremely expensive. I have seen Crawford's auto run for over $100 so for under $10 I could not pass it up. This one comes from an old magazine which was a Bruins magazine and as an autograph collector a majority of older player autos can be found in game programs. A lot of those autos can be seen signed next to each players names on the roster which is with the scorecard. There are some teams that do not do the game programs, but I will add that I enjoy doing this during the game as it makes me think that I enjoy the game visually and in a historical way. Yes, I am old fashioned and for those fans who never got to grow up in the 60's or 70's you missed a lot, and the way life was back in those years was a world that was safer and as a collector during those times it was so much more fun collecting. With the computer it takes away the fun, when I started collecting, we had publications like SCD and there were so many ads selling all kinds of cards from Gum to Tobacco etc... We also had dealers that used to do auctions and you had to bid by mail and the auction listing that was mailed out did not have any photos only the cards condition. What made it fun was wondering if you had won or not, but it was great getting the answer back in the mail in a letter. You then had to mail out the payment, so it took a good 2-3 weeks to actually get your items, but it was better because I had things coming in daily through the mail. Another thing I remember was if you bought cards back then the seller would only send in a white envelope, but the card or cards were placed between some heavy cardboard for protection, and it only cost the seller a stamp or two.
Another player that I had some difficulty finding was that of Jim "Seaweed" Pettie. Jim played 3 seasons with the Boston Bruins his first 2 seasons he only played 1 game per season, in his third season 1977-78 he played in 19 games going 8-6 and his overall career stats were 9-7. Sadly, Jim Passed away August 31, 2019, at the age of 65 from Cancer. Jim wore # 31 and Jim Passed away on that very same number 31.
There are so many players that played briefly, and those players autographs are very difficult to acquire which does make sense and it makes it more costly as well. I call those auto's obscure because a lot of players only played in one career game. Don Cherry only played one game for the Boston Bruins but his popularity from coaching to his Rock 'Em Sock 'Em videos made him much more popular. Don Cherry when I wrote to him for his auto, he includes his things and signed them too. There are a lot of the old timers who enjoy signing but I will add those players years ago had beautiful penmanship unlike the players today and a large majority of today's players will not sign and what I say is it does not bother me because you can't read scribbling so who cares.
Ok so for those reading this post if you have not scrolled down to see what happened to the sheet, I say way to go. Here is the result.......
This is the front and the next scan is the back. It came out ok but I will someday get to cut it up and I sure hope that day comes soon so for now I can enjoy looking at it.
Well, that is another post, and my next post will be for the Baseball collectors and the Non-Sport cards as well so stay tuned and comments are always welcomed!!!
