T212 Obaks

[Leon]

We really haven't seen enough Obaks around here lately.

[Buythatcard]

I got plenty at my eBay store. Here are some of my favorites.


The high graded stamped Jud Smith.

The Gene Krapp card with the rare back "Delicate Aromatic".

The stamped Henry Jansing which was part of the Pollard collection.

[Leon]

Howard, those are fine. Thanks for posting them, but this isn't supposed to be a buy/sell/trade thread > Merely collectors showing some Obaks.

[brianp-beme]

I was thinking of skirting the rules by just showing the ones I have sold in the past, but decided to just post some of my colorful ones.

Brian

[JohnP0621]

Here are a few of mine with an OBAK Pack

[brianp-beme]

Here are the only players that I believe are pictured in all 3 sets...note that they used different artwork each year (Obak folks were not lazy). For each player the 1909 card is pictured on left, 1910 in middle, and 1911 on right

Brian

[familytoad]

The OBAK guys got lazy between 1910 & 1911 if the player didnt change teams...new backs of course.

I'll show some of mine a bit later.
This is a great trio of card sets!

[brianp-beme]

Brian is correct. I guess they figured that since no team change no need to update...at least there is a different backside!

Brian

[Marckus99]

‘09 Hand cut variety

[asphaltman]

My only two. One nice one and one beater.

[yanks87]

I grew up with my Grandmother spinning yarns of her Uncle, "the ball player." When I was a kid I got a photo copy of his one baseball cards, and I think a shot of his OBAK cabinet card. I researched him at the Hall of Fame, he was a decent pitcher who threw his arm out after pitching a Triple Header, no one got past Second Base, two shut outs and his arm literally fell off. I finally found and bought my first OBAK in 1998, bought one for Grandma, and the rest of the family and kept a couple for myself (of course).

[sb1]

09 Gandil

[tedzan]

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TED Z

T206 Reference
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[Jobu]

I dig the Obak oddballs.

[MMarvelli]

Always enjoy posting this...

Obak back run.jpg

[bocca001]

One of my favorites

[IMAXMAX]

A Spidey Scrap purchased from a board member a few years back,,,,
(Thanks Shammus!)

[conor912]

Originally Posted by MMarvelli

Always enjoy posting this...

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Finished my slogan run last year. It still irks me that they didn’t come up with a 36th!

[Orioles1954]

I like Obaks much better than T206!

[BruceinGa]

[attach] 1911 Obak Cig T212 Davis.jpg[/attach]
My only Obak.

[3-2-count]

Nice cards everyone. Obaks are most definitely unique and beautiful. The colors they display are off the charts.

How about original advertising? Does that fit this thread?

[Kawika]

1911 Victoria Obaks

[toppcat]

Let us not forget the T212-3 uncut sheet Huggins & Scott offered about ten years ago. I remember seeing this in person, I think at one of the Baltimore Nationals.

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by toppcat

Let us not forget the T212-3 uncut sheet Huggins & Scott offered about ten years ago. I remember seeing this in person, I think at one of the Baltimore Nationals.

I got to handle and write that lot

[seattlerainiers]

Originally Posted by Kawika

1911 Victoria Obaks

They are all gorgeous, but that card on the bottom right is truly the "Bees" knees. Uber rare, and highly coveted.

[bdk1976]

Picked up this “homemade” point of sale advertisement featuring Tacoma from a local seller off of eBay a while back. Supposedly came out of a local establishment that sold cigs back in the day and was purchased from a descendant at an estate sale (unframed).

[whaler]

[MMarvelli]

1910 Sacramento set. Black uniforms in the hot California valley.

Obak Sacramento-19.jpg

[deadballera]

here are a few nice ones

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by MMarvelli

1910 Sacramento set. Black uniforms in the hot California valley.

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I think everybody just roasted back then. Three piece suits on the beach, eight layers of clothes for the women, all that just looks exhausting to me.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by bdk1976

Picked up this “homemade” point of sale advertisement featuring Tacoma from a local seller off of eBay a while back. Supposedly came out of a local establishment that sold cigs back in the day and was purchased from a descendant at an estate sale (unframed).

I like that! I'm from eastern washington, so the location adds to the beauty! Great find.

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[bdk1976]

Originally Posted by todeen

I like that! I'm from eastern washington, so the location adds to the beauty! Great find.

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I should have mentioned in my first post that I grew up in the Tacoma area, so this is my hometown team!

[dlfallen]

Love the Tacoma pics. I grew up in Seattle, so here are the Seattle Obaks:

[bocca001]

Some of my Obaks with Gilliam Squires backstamps, who was a collector from the San Jose, CA area (at least later in life). Always sort of looking for more.

[familytoad]

I have a pretty good accumulation of 1910 and 1911 OBAKS for a low grade, binder set.

But because these are the most beautiful cards, I also collect some nicer, slabbed singles. Hogan may be my favorite (today)...it looks like a Kreindler!

And, while I was playing around with my OBAK spreadsheet, I fine tuned it to keep track of the back slogans on the 1910s. It is kinda fun to see how many unique backs I had acquired without really trying (29/35!)
Anyone who is interested in this spreadsheet/calculator, please email me.

[Jerry G]

I've been sitting on this Weed for a while, but I just got this Krapp in the mail today.

Yeah, it's sad, but I haven't changed much since the fourth grade.

[carlsonjok]

Are there any outrageously rare and expensive cards in this set? I've always wanted to try a pre-war set, but T206 is such that I could never complete it. After building the 2009-2011Tristar Obak sets, I've had this notion bouncing around in my melon about starting on the real Obak.

Thanks.

[bocca001]

Without checking, the most expensive cards are probably the Buck Weaver, Chick Gandil, and Ten Million. The 1909 cards are not always easy to find, but they are not super hard either.

[JUrsaner]

A couple from my 1910 complete set. Not a buy/sell/trade thread, but I am still looking to sell it at some point..

[JUrsaner]

Can anyone help me figure out how to get images to show up from my public dropbox? I reduced the size so each pic is less than 100kb

[Bill77]

I grabbed this one mostly just so I could say I got a Hickey. That and because I wanted another Obak.

[JUrsaner]

Circling back to this thread now that I figured how to post pictures. Took photos of about 1/4 of set



-- Oakland - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/45285n07r...NqDmgmGqa?dl=0
-- Portland - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/116w8cn36...TXNzczJka?dl=0
-- Spokane - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9k27wlwf7...pGaRCIJ7a?dl=0
-- Tacoma - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zu0o5lp76...90H8bRq7a?dl=0

[toppcat]

I've long thought the 1911 Obak issue was the nicest looking tobacco set of them all.

[Vintagecatcher]

Picked up another example of my favorite 1911 Obak John Tiedeman!

Patrick