1929 CHICAGO CUBS SOUVENIR CHAMPIONS PINBACK BUTTON COIN STADIUM PIN VERY RARE
Item History & Price
Reference Number: Avaluer:560782 | Year: 1929 |
Original/Reproduction: Original | Team-Baseball: Chicago Cubs |
Sport: Baseball |
This is a SUPER RARE pin that Rarely comes up for Sale!
These Pins are very difficult to find in High Grade condition due to rusting and scratching. This example is in higher Mid Grade condition, with rusting around the top right curl. Otherwise Very Good, Sharp, Bright, and well centered.
Presented here is what is widely considered the premier baseball team pin of its era: the extremely rare team composite pin featuring individua...l portraits of each member of the National League Champion 1929 Chicago Cubs, including Hall of Famers Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson, Kiki Cuyler, Gabby Hartnett, and Joe McCarthy. This is not only one of the rarest and most impressive of all baseball pins, it is also one of the best small display items of any kind ever produced featuring this legendary team.
The 1929 Chicago Cubs team composite pin has always been recognized as one of the great classics among serious pin collectors. Exceptionally large (measuring 3 inches in diameter) and designed as a baseball, it reads "Souvenir" and "Chicago Cubs - 1929 Champions" in brown lettering, surrounded by twenty-one identified sepia player-portraits (including executives Bill Veeck and team-owner William Wrigley, of chewing-gum fame). A variation of this pin, identical in design but with advertising for Certified Ice Cream, was also issued. This pin must have received very limited distribution, or been very expensive when issued, as very few are known to exist.
The Cubs lost the World Series in 1929, and therefore this pin, which identifies the team as the "1929 Champions, " was probably issued for only a very short period of time, after the pennant was clinched but before the World Series. The fact that the pin was manufactured by "Adcraft Mfg. Co., Chicago, " a very small company (the credit appears on the underside of the curl) may also be related to its great rarity.
Comes in pin-locking display box as shown.
PROVENANCE : Estate collection of prominent member of the Emil Verban Memorial Society, the invite-only Chicago Cubs fan club of Washington, D.C. that has counted presidents and Supreme Court justices among its members. The collector was closely acquainted with several of the "greats" from the 60s and 70s Cubs, and the collection includes personal letters and items gifted by the likes of Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, etc. I will be listing hundreds of vintage sports memorabilia from his collection in the coming months, including signed balls, photos, sports cards, pennants, etc. This is a CAN'T MISS for Cubs fans and a must-see estate collection for any devotee to the sport, so follow our page and stay tuned! Messages always welcome.