SAN FRANCISCO 49ers 3 Different FOOTBALLs - YA Tittle, John Brodie, Jim Plunkett

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SAN FRANCISCO 49ers 3 Different FOOTBALLs - YA Tittle, John Brodie, Jim Plunkett
Unless you are a diehard, I mean really
DIEHARD, SAN FRANCISCO 49ers  FAN
and want something that NO OTHER ‘diehard’ 49ers  fan will have  ... move on to the next listing.  This listing will NOT be for you!
Available are
THREE  store model footballs endorsed by 3 different players
, all from the GLORY Days of the 49ers.  I once had the largest ‘store model’ football collection ever assembled.  I had (divorce provides the past tense) almost 3,600 different model balls and variation, dating from the beginning of the game up to the early 1970s, ie nothing modern and easy to procure.  What I am selling now are the remaining footballs of the collection and the balls that I couldn’t part with when I sold the collection, en masse to a Houston collector.
Generally, footballs are ‘rarer’ than baseball type equipment, gloves for example.  You only needed one football for the entire neighborhood to play the game  Footballs are almost always ‘roughed-up’ because they frequently hit the ground.  Additionally, over time bladders and stems simply give out and need to be replaced.  While all of these footballs hold air at some level, please assume that they will leak slowly over time - ALL Footballs do this.  So finding footballs that ‘hold air’ is uncommon.  However, there are solutions depending on a collectors need.
Wilson will replace bladders, stems and laces for about .00 - I have done that with great success many times in my collecting career.  Also, I know of collectors who elect to ‘stuff’ the ball and then relace the football rather than replace the bladder - most collectors are displaying these balls and not needing to throw them.
With regard to
shipping, it is not a profit center for me
.  We have become accustomed to free 2 day shipping with Prime.  Obviously, the REAL world does not operate in that fashion or at least mine doesn’t.  I have gone to USPS and had the box measured and weighed and the number below is the dollar figure that I will have to pay, thus the one that you will have to pay.  I lean toward shipping the balls slightly deflated and ‘packed in’ to save space and money.  We can, of course, do it differently, if you like.
All of the footballs have been used.  All of the
balls DISPLAY nicely on ‘tees’ in a 49er Shrine
, like the one I had.  Assembling this collection today would be nearly impossible or simply
IMPOSSIBLE
.
Y A TITTLE
WILSON 644CL Chicago Leather - VERY RARE Football
good form, does not hold air
circa late 1950s
JOHN BRODIE
WILSON  1442CL Chicago Leather - VERY RARE Football
good form, does hold air (though ALL footballs slowly lose air)
circa late 1950s
JIM PLUNKETT
WILSON  F1478 Red, White, Blue Football - RARE Football
OK form, does not hold air
circa middle 1970s