April Pickups
 

I'll start it off this month -- and I'm not making an April Fool's joke here! -- I am absolutely thrilled to be adding a new signed T206 card to my collection, thanks to a trade with another collector who has his own awesome signed T206 collection going. It's nice when collecting competitors can mutually work to fill holes in each other's collections! Thanks Art! (Net54 ID: rebelsart)

Heinie Zimmermann (2x WS Champ) is the 44th unique pose in my signed T206 collection:

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Wished it was an April Fool's Joke
 

Just "picked up" 7-8" inches of heavy wet snow. Wished it was an April Fool's joke here in Maine.

Patrick

Some guys buy a Porsche or get a young girlfriend for their midlife crisis. I prefer fishing. Caught this on the very day I turned 40.

Very nice!
 

Awesome card! As a signed vintage collector myself, I am quite envious of your collection...keep it up! :)




Technically this one arrived yesterday, but I'll post it here. Was an impulse buy to get use of the 'Spend $50+ get 10% ebay bucks' promo they had going. Dickman (D. 81) has a great looking sig. (Not much of a career though)




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Thanks! Great signed 1940 Play Ball!

Here is a piece to add to my RedSox collection!

Fantastic Cobb Orlando! Congrats!

Loved the auto'd cards as well.

A great start to April!

Received these in the mail today from a trade with a fellow member. Added 3 more to my T206 cigarette brand back run.:)

Actually got these closing days of March, but hey. Busy (and expensive) end of the month. Thank You Johnny and Kevin!! (Fixed Pics, thanks Bryan)

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:Oh MY!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I saw this kind of chucked in the back corner of a showcase. At $35, I thought it was a bargain. Reasonably tough issue and a hall of famer to book albeit a football hall of famer.

Nice one, Orly!!

I was the owner of that drum hofman from about 1992-2001 or so... I sold it and bought a leather reclining chair that my cat proceeded to destroy with the proceeds! I bought that card at a Silver Spring Armory show in Silver Spring Maryland when I was living with my parents in the year 1992 or so! The card was listed for $37 and while I wanted to haggle because it was so beat up I decided against it!!!

Orly, I hope you live longer than 80! Nice card!

E121-120 Ruth
 

My final E121-120 Ruth

Picked up the graded Wheat Die cut. I notice my other one is a different pose.

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Ryan, great pick ups...Pete, great history behind the Drum.

One of the great porno names of all-time :rolleyes:

I picked these up at a comic book show I'm working
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Very interesting. You do realize that the original game pieces were issued and in subsequent years, stickers were issued to put over the bottom part of the piece to reflect the players for that particular year. It is likely that if you removed to paper covering the bottom of one of your pieces, there would be another player printed there.

Good start to April, keep them coming!!


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Love those Goudey's! Nice pickups!

Max Carey, Mendelsohn.

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1491142379

Some info from OCB:
From 1920's game by National Game Makers of Wash, DC
Game: "Major League Ball--The Indoor BB Game Supreme"
Fourteen die-cut player cards used for each team
All 16 teams represented; roster varied each year
Generic player position poses repeated for each team
Same pose for each position; coloring keyed to team

So I wouldn't try taking the paper off of them as it will most likely be blank underneath.

Definitely would leave it alone. Just found it interesting. Is a way of dating a particular year as my Great great uncle was in the 1921 issue of the game and there was no sticker on his game piece.

Actually there could be printing from the initial 1921 printing or perhaps a "sticker" from a prior year (or blank). Ironically, neither of Kenny's two Zach Wheat's depict the left fielder from the game.

MLB Die-cuts
 

Kenny, here's a pic of my complete sheet of the Washington Senators team. Most likely, it was issued in 1921, as 1921 was the last year that Jose Acosta and Frank O'Rourke played for the Senators, and 1921 was the first year for Goose Goslin and George Mogridge.

Hey Val, that Joe Judge would look good in my collection. Think you could poke it out and sell it to me?-- I think those pieces go for $30-40 or so each.
Appreciate it.

Not my favorite set, but I wanted one for my Providence collection.

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Great pick ups everyone....
 

Ryan......:eek:


phenominal! incredible.......milestone cards!

Neal-Hooper died in 1974. When was that reprint produced?

Sure Todd, be glad to! :D

Would you also like me to sell you this Joe Judge card that I picked up in the LOTG auction?

Sure! I bid on that Gertenrich until it started to leave my budget (i.e. pretty early). I thought the card looks nicer than the grade, but that can be said for all Joe Judge cards :).

I suppose I've got no shot on the Holland Creameries Joe Judge coming up in REA?

The Gertenrich-Judge card went for more than I was hoping to get it for, but it was my numero uno "had-to-have-it" card in the LOTG auction.

I do have all of the Hollands cards, except the near impossible Peckinpaugh, but the majority are in pathetic condition, including Judge. I have been slowly upgrading my Hollands, as my budget will allow. Whether I go after the Judge example in REA depends what other goodies in REA appeal to me more.
Val

The Hooper signed Cracker Reprint card was produced by TCMA back in 1972.

Nice pickup Val. Was wondering who outbid me at 4am, thought I was the only one collecting the set :) Tough to find 'em w/o paper loss. Glad its staying in the net54 family!

recent pick up!

E94 Murray
 

I was able to pick up this tough color combo recently...

E94 Bates
 

Forgot to add this one...

That is a great card Orlando and the "Wagner" of Postcards. Congrats on the pickup as you probalbly won't see any more of those come up in public auction anytime soon.

Here are a couple of My April pickups which my Birthday is this month as I turn 50!

Beautiful pickups, Cobbzilla is amazing.

Rob, thanks for the kind words. I suspect you are the only one collecting the Gertenrich set. The reason I wanted to win this card so badly is that it fits both of my top collecting focuses - type cards and cards of all the players on the 1924 Senators championship team.

I agree, the Gertenrich cards are tough to find w/o paper loss on the back - ditto for the Holmes to Homes cards. And, I'm anal about not having paper loss on the backs of my type cards that have neat ads on the backs.
Val

Had a feeling that might have been you who snagged that one.....nice pick up!! :)

Really thrilled to pick this up from a board member, thanks Bill!!
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Great cards everyone.

Congrats on that Rose Orlando!

Quite the month Jay!

.................... Love my Sov. 150 portraits :):):):):)

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Great, Scott :rolleyes:

This just arrived today, courtesy of our b/s/t section here. One half of a pair I've been after for a while.

Wow is that a good looking 2. Nevermind the rounded corners - the centering and surface is beautiful. Good color, too. Congrats!

Nice one Jesse, I considered that card too.

Chantilly pick-ups...

Got most of these from the BST. Thanks guys

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http://dixonsbaseballcards.weebly.co...ander_orig.jpg http://dixonsbaseballcards.weebly.co...croft_orig.jpg http://dixonsbaseballcards.weebly.co...faber_orig.jpg

http://dixonsbaseballcards.weebly.co...carey_orig.jpg http://dixonsbaseballcards.weebly.co...ilman_orig.jpg http://dixonsbaseballcards.weebly.co...ooper_orig.jpg

Nice pick ups for my BoSox Collection!

Thanks guys I really like the art work on the cards in that set. They sure don't make em like they used to. Lots of great pickups so far this month. Love the Cobb Orlando.

Great silver lining
 

I had hoped to land the LOTG beauty on Saturday, but I came up short. I did, however, manage to track this one example down on Sunday, and it arrived today!

It's not pretty as the other one, but it looks better in hand than the scan gives it credit for. :)

Great Wagner!

Wow...beautiful! I would have been shaking and I seen that. He coached football at my alma mater (West Virginia) and I'm looking to add one of these to my collection at some point.

I have been looking for a purple Murray for 15 years now... it seems everyone has one now except me !!!☹️️

Nice Steve. I once owned that Wagner and agreed, it does look better in person. Great find.

1925 Exhibits George H. "Babe" Ruth PSA 1
 

The last time that I was thinking about purchasing a Babe Ruth card, I snoozed. I learned my lesson.

Two for the set... both low grade, but with some great eye appeal IMO.

Thanks, Erick and Jeff!

Jon, great cards. Absolutely love them both. Mine are no where near as nice. Steve, that is a Wagner to be proud of, I only wish I could have one.

Thank you Ed.

Also, Jon -- those are beautiful D304s...great cards from a bright set.

Jon: I am the previous owner of your D304 Cobb. It resided happily in my set for the past eight or nine years. I had a second one, an "Authentic" that presents as pristine, so decided to let Al have a go with the SGC20. Don't remember what I paid for it but I think it did pretty well. You did just fine; I don't think D304 Cobbies will ever diminish in desirability or value. Good luck with the rest of your set. Some beautiful cards to be had. Tenney was the big toughie for me and Young wasn't easy either.

My set: http://imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pa...4brunnersbread

Ben: great card that presents extremely well for the grade. The community is finally taking notice of those big beautiful exhibits.

Jon: beautiful cards. Congrats

From an original find
 

It's not every day you get to be the second owner on a pair of Johnson examples:

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Those are some very nice cards!

beautiful...practically identical twins! american beauties?

Thanks for the response guys!

Here are my twins, making a dent in the t205 set.
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First Colgan's and no need to go further.

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1491616714

Great cards everyone.

Here is a fringe item for me, an imperial cabinet (13" x 7 1/2") of actress Helen Dauvray, commissioner of the first World Championship trophy (the Dauvray Cup) that was first awarded to Detroit Wolverines in 1887. For a short time Helen was also the wife of HOFer John Ward.

Nice pickup, Joe!

Beautiful pickup Greg!!! Amazing shape!!! Love it.

Just picked up my first McGraw earlier today. Not as impressive as some of the killer cards in this thread but I was happy to pick up a legendary HOFer and my 71st card towards the T206 set which I'm hoping to complete in the not so distant future.

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(Sorry for the smudgy holder, needs to be cleaned)

I sold one of these years ago, have missed it since, got the chance to trade back into one:

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Yay!

Just got these two this week. Bought the Newt Randall with Ebay bucks because I just found out he grew up and is buried in Duluth MN which is very close to where I live. Just think it is cool to have a T206 player in my local area.