Hourglass Antiques to Offer Autographed 1930’s Sports Pen & Ink Drawings

In the aboriginal 1930’s a afraid adolescent assurance painter and ambitious bartering artisan in New York City became amorous with all types of sports abstracts who were accepted during this period. After a day’s plan and on weekends, he would retire to his allowance in his parent’s home and go to plan at his cartoon board. He would cede the players’ action poses in charcoal and pen & ink and again characterization the assets by duke with the player’s position and aggregation name. Living in New York was the absolute befalling for the adolescent man to eventually appear in acquaintance with his heroes. When a aggregation would appear to boondocks he would crop his cartoon to the bold and seek out the subject, sometimes in the dugout, at added times in the locker room. His ambition was to access the signature, but added importantly, he capital to accommodated the amateur and perhaps, just perhaps, accept a abbreviate babble with him about the ‘game’, whether it be baseball or boxing. Many times he would crop his artwork to a bold or bout artlessly to go home with nothing. But over the amplitude of two years, he was able to auspiciously affix with a hundred or so of his idols.

This shy adolescent artisan was Arthur August Haas, the ancestor of the buyer of Hourglass Antiques. As a adolescent growing up in Miami, Fla., she says it was blood-tingling to apprehend the belief he would acquaint about his successes affair his admired players, but it was aswell alluring to apprehend about the times if he addled out. Just once, in 1935, he trusted a acquaintance to crop a cartoon to a locker allowance in adjustment to accept it active by Joe Louis. “I’m traveling that way anyway” his acquaintance said. “Let me crop it for you.” This cartoon was different because it was the aboriginal (and only) one Haas had done in color. He never saw the cartoon again. Another adventure complex a hockey team. Haas had done several assets of aggregation individuals from the Chicago Blackhawks. He was continuing alfresco the locker allowance if a amateur came out to attending at what he had brought. The man was amazed. And why, for advantage sake, accept anniversary amateur appear to the aperture to see their image? Haas was arrive into the close atelier of the locker room. About 45 account later, he left. The guys had all marveled at the adolescent man's aesthetic adeptness and again arrive him to break awhile to shoot the breeze.

One of the assets is of Honus Wagner if he was the drillmaster of the NY Yankees. Haas was in the stands, just beside the dugout, allurement for Wagner. Instead, a amateur offered to canyon the cartoon to his coach. Wagner autographed it with a atramentous ink pen, again noticed he had active in the amiss place, and partly on top of his atramentous jacket. (Haas would leave a white amplitude or accomplish a ‘box’ for the player’s signature.) And so the old man did the appropriate affair – he active it again.

Mr. Haas anesthetized abroad in 1999 at the age of eighty-seven. Yes, he did eventually become a bartering artist, alive as a assurance artist for the Electro Neon Sign Company in Miami for thirty years. His sports assets were absolute to his daughters. Now 24 of them are accepting offered for auction at Hourglass Antiques & Collectibles at TIAS. Evelyn and Bill Mancino accept been a allotment of the TIAS ancestors for 10 years. They accept been antiques dealers for 19 years altogether. As always, any acquirement may be alternate (in it’s aboriginal condition) for any acumen for a abounding refund.

And now a few words about the assets themselves. Having been done in the 1930’s, a lot of of them accept an Art Deco feel. They were done on ample cartoon paper, and may accept been sprayed with a fixatif. They are active and anachronous by Mr. Haas. Some of the sports abstracts accessible in this alms are: Howie Morenz, Chuck Klein, Honus Wagner, Mel Ott, ‘Gabby’ Hartnett, Jack Dempsey, Jimmie Foxx, Sam Rice, Lorne Chabot, Pie Traynor, Waite Hoyt, Bill Dickey and Freddie Spencer.

Unlike sports cards or photographs, these are different and one-of-a-kind. Even so, Hourglass Antiques is appraisement the assets as if they were autographed 8 x 10 photos, back Evelyn's ancestor was an alien artist. All accept been hand-signed by the accountable aural 12 to 18 months of their completion.