1905?-1920? Draper & Maynard Logo

[BoneRubbedBat]

I have one that is sidewritten Miller 7-28-27. The sidewriting is too faint to photograph. Check out these at Left Field Collectibles:

http://www.leftfieldcollectibles.com...=VB&id=vb00234

http://www.leftfieldcollectibles.com...=VB&id=vb01003

http://www.leftfieldcollectibles.com...=VB&id=vb02021

http://www.leftfieldcollectibles.com...=VB&id=vb01238

http://www.leftfieldcollectibles.com...=VB&id=vb01239

[Vintagedeputy]

Is that a store bat or a gamer?

Is there a list of store model bats that bring decent money? I see store bats all the time but I only focus on gamers and dont know didly about store bats.

[BoneRubbedBat]

Unfortunately, there is no cut-and-dry way to determine professional from retail model bats from the early 20th century. H&B bats are a little different in the fact that we have some records available to refer back to. I have had through my collection store model bats sidewritten for hall of famers, hall of famer H&B bats sidewritten for minor leaguers, and everything in between. The bat I have was used at a professional level as evidenced by the sidewriting, so therefore it is a gamer.

[bat_master]

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for the help. I think the bat I have is from right around 1910.

Have you run into any D&M signature model bats? I know some are offered in the 1937 D&M catalog as "No. 100 "Player Name" Bats Tempur-ized and Grain Sealed". Haven't seen any catalogs from before that though.

I had seen the D&M bats offered by Art Jaffe and have emailed him for help, but haven't received a response yet.

The reason I'm thinking 1910 for mine is that I found a D&M advertisement that featured the 1910 Chicago Cubs and the centerbrand in the photo seemed to be a match to mine in shape and size.

[BoneRubbedBat]

I got outbid on this 1911 D&M catalog. You may want to contact the high bidder.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEDW:IT&ih=010

[bat_master]

I'm going to do that. I've also contacted a few other winners of D&M catalogs so hopefully I'll have some basis for comparision in the next few days.

Thanks again!