From last nights LOTG auction.

http://photos.imageevent.com/royalro...e/cabinet.jpeg

That's an awesome run of Cobbs, Jamie!

I have to admit, you have me thinking about trying the same thing, albiet perhaps at a smaller scale (one for each manufacturer).

Jamie/Bill,

Thank you very much for the nice words about the Dahlen. It's been pretty frustrating. I've been looking for a Dahlen for a few years now, but they just haven't been showing up. It seems people have been holding on to them in hopes of his making it into the HOF. I just missed a couple others within the past 6 months or so, so I'm very glad to finally get one.

Steve

Mine from last night
 

My LOTG winner

Great scores....
 

and Clayton....Great pick ups and thread:)

A lot of Tolstoi's i see are somewhat faded, this one is a very bold example. Also a little WST action on front for Johnny's viewing pleasure. :)

John, nice pick-ups from Goodwin. I was watching the Wiedman myself as an upgrade but opted to be happy with what I have. There were some amazing nice cards. I really liked the Foutz Brownie (apparently someone else did as well) and the Macullar was a great card (nice appearing, tough card).

Pretty neat pass, would look even better in purple ;)

I would like to thank Kevin for helping me get one step closer to finishing a run on Manning. First four poses down, two more to go. Kevin traded a Manning for a Manning to help me out. Thank you Jay & Cambridge collection for allowing me to obtain acceptable trade material.

Sweet Gehrig Brad! Congrats

T205 Miscut
 

courtesy of Joe's Vintage SC on eBay. Not really into miscuts but for some reason i found this one interesting. Mike

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ps7e5f5129.jpghttp://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ps83418f19.jpg

Picked up this W513 sheet at an estate auction over the weekend:

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5ca181b5.jpg

Great book
 

I know it's not a card but i just received The Photographic Baseball Cards of Goodwin and Company (1886-1890) that purchased on Amazon. I don't (yet) collect the cards from this era but this is still an amazing book for anyone interested in vintage cards.

I got that for Christmas. Beautiful book.

Nice pick up Jerry. That's a tough card to find centered with nice registration. Congrats!!

As you all may be aware by now, one of my collecting focuses is Sam Rice cards, all backs/variations. Due to my early-Alzheimer's-like memory, I managed to acquire two E121/80 cards with Type 1 Reverse backs. A few weeks ago, in a thread re E121/80 backs, another Board member showed his Rice card with a Type 2 back. So, I contacted him, and he very kindly agreed to do a trade with me. Are Net 54 Board members great folks, or what?!! Bill, again I say, MANY THANKS!
Val

I would have bought it just for the goat ;)

Living in Delaware now . Sorry I missed that one . Goat or no goat .

Picked up from trophybob
 

just getting around to posting.

February pick-ups
 

Val - great looking Rice card!

Here's my most recent pick-up...a 1912 Olympiska Spelens PC of Mr. Jim Thorpe. Although not baseball, I think we can make an exception for the former Giants and PCL player...

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...2%20Thorpe.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...e%20_back_.jpg

It was a battle on ebay just now, but I always wanted one of these-- and not enough of'em to go around...

http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...oe-dimaggio-rc

Mike that's a cool card!

Dang that's a super looking PSA 2 of Joe, wow Matt.

Me rikey! Very nice Matt, hope that battle didn't take too much out of you......

That certainly is a fresh old T205 Yankee card. 97 Steals!

Wonka-- very much appreciated. I know you've seen 'em all.

Ty-- oh it took a toll; I am utterly tapped now with that Joe and the Satchel SP. Might've shot the 2014 load already in Feb!

That Dimaggio is a really great card..

Take a breather, drinks lots of water and take some zinc pills......you'll be ready for March ;)

Thunder-stealer
 

Thanks for stealing my thunder Matty!! Your wad seems endless. I'm sure we'll see some other killer cards from you before the end of the month!!

Finally a match for my Gehrig in same grade and appearance..

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1391522518

Coupons
 

I have been looking for one of these for the past two years and I ended up finding three of them. I put a T213-2 next to one of the T82's for comparison. The T82 is slightly wider and taller than a T213.

Rick

Not sure if I posted these two yet Bugs Raymond cards yet.

The first is a super-rare red border Colgan Chip. What is particularly interesting about this one is that the red borders, I believe, were only made in 1912. Bugs didn't play Major League ball at all that year and actually died in early September. I would love to know if any Tin Tops were made of Bugs, but since those seem to have been produced after the red borders, I sort of doubt it.

The second just came back from SGC. The color on this silk just pops. It is far brighter in-person.

Toughie

T205 Cobb
 

Forgot to post this last month.

http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps4c450b2e.jpg

Matt

Nice look SGC 10

T205 Cobb
 

Yeah the back has some paper missing but I can live with it!!

Matt

That T205 Cobb has a clean white baseball and no red on the basepaths as well. So many have that red ink shifted over. Great call picking that up.

Type set additions
 

My winnings from the most recent Bagger's Auction just arrived today...thanks Dave!

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...psb1f1f477.jpg

http://www.sgccardregistry.com/cards/um23340.jpg

A little OT. I bought this because of the picture and I because this gentleman-and he was a gentleman-was the only pre-WWII ballplayer I ever met.

Two pickups with the last of my ebay bucks...R303-b Simmons and a duplicate W554 McWeeny I picked up thinking I still needed one (oops)

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=14109

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=14108

DJ

Black Swamp Find Mack Miscut
 

This finally arrived today. To me this card is Gem Mint, I am just glad that SGC gave it a technical grade of "Good" so that I could afford it. Factory errors, to me, shouldn't be counted against the grade of a card (especially to the extent it was with this card).

I don't have time to scan, and HA has great scans already so I will just use theirs:
http://dyn2.heritagestatic.com/lf?se...oduct.chain%5Dhttp://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?se...oduct.chain%5D

Just picked this up the other day. I can't not smile when I look at it.

February Pickups
 

Great E98 miscut......further proof the BSF cards are legit.

That Black Swamp Find card is sweet.

That e98 is incredible! The Mack is by far my favorite in the set. Nice pickup!

way cool fatty postcard. i want 1...

From the Lawson's Game--the very first baseball card game, so it's said. This is one of the rarest cards in the set. 1884. I guess this makes this my oldest card.

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1391750316

Great looking card.
For the record I have owned several sets and all of the cards are exactly equal in rarity, in my experiences.

We might even have a nice raw set in our upcoming auction, as we have before.

Leon in the set there are multiple cards of some, like the Striker and some cards are solo like the Umpire.

Leon, according to Pop reports (which I know don't represent all cards) the "Striker" card (which I also have) and one other appear in dozens of copies, all of the others only a handful at PSA and another handful at SGC... so from that, yes, there are two "commons" and the rest about equally scarce..

Thanks...

Here's the Striker, of which we speak, by far the most common in the set...

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1391826272

Woops forgot. There are in fact different numbers of different players. I was thinking that all of the decks of cards I had seen were the same..Time to go back to sleep.

and I should add, yes Greg, you were correct on this. :)

Silks of a couple of notorious guys:
http://photos.imageevent.com/imoverh...f%20img731.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/imoverh...rge/img732.jpg