1880 Merchant's Gargling Oil Baseball Comics

These are the only cards from the 1800's that I own. I wish for an 1800's card of an actual baseball player, but until then, this bulbous buffoon will do.

 

Several of these oversized ad pieces were made by a snake oil company with all sorts of designs. Five of them featured our man on the baseball diamond. I have three.

 

Ingredients in the gargling oil were petroleum, soap, ammonia, oil of amber, iodine tincture, benzine, and water. It was meant for burn wounds and saddle sores but some duplicitous idiot convinced people to gargle it. I despise people like this, but that's a topic for my future 'old man ranting' blog. It was sold in two forms, one for horses and one for humans, as it was fit "for man and beast". 

 

Back variations include different ads for very 1800's companies. Mine are these.

 

Beauties, all three.

Also, take a moment to get in on my Mickey Mantle giveaway! 

Go Redlegs. 

The Blog Return, a Mickey Mantle Giveaway, and 27 Gookie Dawkins Autographs

Ohhhhh boy. Over a decade of hiatus. Why come back now? Who the hell knows. But here we go. Coming back strong with a pair of all-time legends.

I have most definitely been collecting this whole time. And scoping out y'all's blogs. But doing so in cyber solitude. I'm still hip to the scene, man. Hittin' those Columbus, Ohio shows on the reg. Hittin' dat Sportlots. No longer COMCing since they got too greedy during covid. And I've expanded my collection to more than just Reds. In fact, I've been unloading several thousand modern Reds cards, striving for vintage. 

Reds do remain the stars of the collection, though. Example:

27 autos of the Gookster. How does one acquire such resplendence? By being insane, I imagine. How can you not love a dude named Gookie?

 

These are the current collecting projects, most of which I'm dedicating a tab too.

• Vintage Topps Flagship Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey (pre-1980) 
• Vintage anything else of those sports
• Reds autos
• Bengals autos
• Blue Jackets autos
• Ohio State, Clemson, Miami OH, Toledo, OhioU, UC, Xavier autos
• Reds Opening Day Starting Nines Binder
• Halls of Fame Binders (MLB, NFL, Basketball, Hockey)
• One of every Columbus Clippers (AAA) player who made The Show
• ADAM DUNN
• Ickey Woods
• Anthony Munoz
• One of every Ohio State alum who went pro 
• As many junk wax sets as I can find
• Baseball and Basketball inserts and parallels from 1980-1995 
• Reds and Bengals Topps flagship, all years 

It's too much. Yet I persevere. My first flurry of posts will surely be an intro to each subcollection.

OH BUT YOU JUST WANT THAT SWEET MICK, DONTCHA?

Here's the deal. So I'm not typing into the empty, echoic ether, if I get 100 shares of this post, I'll put everyone who shares into a drawing for this:

 

Comment with a link to your blog with the share and You. Are. In. And a preemptive thank you for seeding me some followers.

Onward and upward, muchachos. 

 

12 years

Thinking about two things.

1) Starting this blog again

2) thos Beans