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Things That Look Like Nothing

There is nothing new under the sun
Baseball in many different forms has been played for thousands of years
Bases were only added to the game before the printing press was invented
And the baseball gloves came hundreds of years later in the nineteenth century
With a true vintage baseball glove being one made before 1910

Some of these old gloves look far worse than nothing … but they have value …
This is not an extensive written discourse or final word on the subject … but6
You may study these things as you wish … this is merely show and tell …
After all “a picture is worth a thousand words or so” and like incunabula
You may want to have mental images in your mind of these valuable items …

The first gloves were fingerless baseball gloves and generally worn in pairs …
These were leather gloves with the fingers cut off at the joint …
Genuine fingerless baseball gloves have reached the five figures sale prices:

http://baseballglovecollector.com/gallery/cache/19th-century/Fingerless%20Gloves%20Picture_800.jpg

http://baseballglovecollector.com/gallery/cache/19th-century/Fingerless%20Gloves%202_800.jpg

The precursor to today’s baseball glove; the single workman’s glove came a bit later …
Recently these fabric workman’s baseball gloves have sold for many hundred of dollars
And most look exactly like something I would wear to pick up dog poop in the yard

http://keymancollectibles.com/glovesmitts/images/wpeA.jpg

http://www.legendaryauctions.com/LotImages/34/47617a_lg.jpeg

These images are just the beginning of knowledge …
And there are many things of value that look like nothing …
Things that you would kick aside to get at a box of books in a basement
Or things you would throw away when you clean out an attic …
Things that look like nothing

The TTLLN Idea stolen from Joel (satnrose)

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