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My McCovey Project: Looking for help/advice please

vintagefunvintagefun Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭
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The project started easily enough. I had found an autograph of a boyhood hero Willy McCovey, that I had obtained in person for the low price of one dollar back in 1981.
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Initially I was just going to do a simple 5 x 7 or 8 x 10 cut project with a photo.

Then in one of the group rips I received the 1980 cello pack with McCovey on top, and a larger project started to be envisioned. I started thinking shadow box. But would still need to do something cool with the auto.

Picked up some coins along the way, as well as the 78 cello, and after seeing Stone's 71 Killebrew Milk Duds box, did a quick search and found a nice McCovey box to join the gang. 71 was my birth year so I really dig this piece.
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So now I had a good set of items and was trying to figure out how to display them.

I had a RC reprint, and worked with someone in my marketing department to make some adjustments and made the pic 12.5 x 17.5...but resolution on the card is shotty to begin with, so blown up is no better.
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I'm considering doing a shadow box type deal, like so...you'll need to use some imagination.
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but before I get any further I wanted to take some advice from the board.

I was initially thinking of doing on my own, but not sure I'd do it justice.

Not sure what I'd paste the pic to, how to do the cuts cleanly, what order to do things in. Frame? Glass?

Would love some suggestions.

Other smallish but cool items to add?

A different pic? No pic? If I use this pic, I think I need to go just a bit larger.

I know there are a lot of creative folks on the board and I'd love your input.

Thanks a ton.
Jim
52-90 All Sports, Mostly Topps, Mostly HOF, and some assorted wax.

Comments

  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Awesome concept, though I would use the 60T AS card as the background over the 'true' rookie. It's a much nicer picture in the center and lighter background to highlight the items surrounding him.
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  • IndianaJonesIndianaJones Posts: 346 ✭✭✭
    Jim,

    I've really enjoyed reading your story filled with wonderful memories of getting an autograph of your hero, and what has come to be a display. I absolutely love the Salada and Topps coins and the 1971 Milk Duds box. The Topps cello products with Stretch on top are superb and not easy to find.

    Look, my fellow collector, you're having a blast. Keep it that way. However, I would say that there will be lots and lots of stuff you could add to it that would force you to continue to "stretch" the size of your display. Ponder what you really want to achieve. You obviously have some wonderful pieces there. Personally, I like the standard size All-State display case. I'd go for the 3.5" high version. It nicely keeps the dust out, and with a simple cover over it when you're not admiring your fine assembly of Mr. McCovey, keeps the damaging rays of the sun off of them.

    Limit what you put in the case as the best of the best------to you, that which makes your heart flutter, and moves your nostalgic and aesthetic sense of appreciation the most. As a backdrop to the case, standing up behind it, that's perhaps the best place for your Topps rookie card recreation poster. Research what other Willie McCovey pieces you would like to include, but again they simply must move you, regardless of what value the hobby places upon it at this moment.

    Thanks for sharing your joy with us. ---Indiana Jones (Brian Powell)
  • HalonutHalonut Posts: 78 ✭✭
    Cool idea! However, it is a little busy IMHO. I think the cut would look great matted in the center of the yellow oval.
  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    Damn, the price of a Curt Flood auto was only $1! Single signed baseballs sell for $200-$300 now.
  • vintagefunvintagefun Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Damn, the price of a Curt Flood auto was only $1! Single signed baseballs sell for $200-$300 now. >>



    Thanks for the input guys.

    I'm still in contact with the shop owner/promoter and he recently shared this with me, when I sent him a pic of my auto from the show...

    "Wow i barely remember making those flyers $40 for a table?????? What was i thinking? With Flood and McCovey for a dollar?

    I paid mccovey $2000 and the $ I collected I gave to stanford children's hospital. So many people thanked him for what he was doing for the children. He kept saying. No it's this man. I know he's was thinking. "you are gonna pay me right???".

    Flood I asked how much he wanted And he said "whatever you want. Give it to Oakland little league". $250??? Okay
    How about $500??? He was so nice I kept bidding myself up.

    Walked into the stadium club at candlestick five years later with my fatherinlaw and ran into Flood. He greeted me first.. Then said, "hey guys I want you to meet a friend of mine, Larry ". And introduced me to joe Morgan, frank Robinson, Willie Stargell. All Oakland HS guys
    My fatherinlaw couldn't believe it. He was from Pittsburgh and loved Stargell, told him so and we moved on to dinner. Floods wife called me to find some of his cards a few years later. I called her when he passed away and told her he was one of the greatest men I'd ever met."

    I thought that was a cool story and true to form from what I've heard of Flood.
    52-90 All Sports, Mostly Topps, Mostly HOF, and some assorted wax.
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