Autographed Pre-War Cards - Cobb, Lajoie, Others

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Posted By: T206Collector

As many of you know, I have been sharing pre-war autograph stories with long-time collector Jeff Morey. I have been fortunate to be able to add some of his cards to my collection, which I have shared on my website. He just sent me some scans of his old collection from a past Mastro auction catalog and I was just floored. I had to share these images because they are so amazing.





I hope to upload full scans of the catalog pages to the Morey Collection section of my website in the near future. If anyone knows the whereabouts of these cards, please let me know.



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Posted By: sean

Those are bad arse!
What other ones were in the auction? Im curious what non hofers he got

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Posted By: T206Collector

This is the Mastro description:

This is a phenomenal lot of some great early turn-of-the-century stars and famous Hall of Famers - some in quantity!! They include: Tris Speaker, Wahoo Sam Crawford (2 different), Ed Walsh, Zack Wheat (3 - one T-206, 2- T205), Fred Clarke, Elmer Flick, George Sisler, Rube Marquard (5), Heinie Zimmerman, Donnie Bush, Barbsau, George McBride, Hans Lobert(2), Fred Snodgrass, Chief Meyers, Russell Blackburne(2), Jack Warhop(pitched Babe Ruth's 1st homer!), Fred Parent, Gavvy Cravath(home run king!), Bill Carrigan, Geo. Wiltse, Hoblitzell, Larry Doyle. All signed in bold pen. Cards are basically VG. The greatest array of early signed baseball cards we have seen! Signatures are overall near mint with a couple of lighter ones.


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Posted By: sean

wow!
Ive never seen zimmerman or wiltse before. I wonder how many of those are ones you own now?

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Posted By: T206Collector

I didn't get any from this particular sale. Morey only had a few left last year, but no HOFers and actually no signatures from players I did not have already.

I would really like to know who ended up with these. Would I like to own them? Of course. But what I really want to know is what cards each of those players signed. Did Morey get Lobert on a T206? That sort of thing. Jeff's recollection of what cards were signed by who is fuzzy, though he has a story to tell about nearly every player he ever got an autograph from.



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Posted By: Sean BH

Wow, I would just love to even see a scan of the Cravath...

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I read Morey got one of his cards autographed by Cobb in Coopertown. Asked Cobb to sign it while Cobb was eating breakfast in a cafeteria. I believe Morey started collecting as a kid through the mail when the autographs had minimal if any financial value. All along he disliked the idea of autographs being worth money, but finally sold his collection after he retired.

Another interesting big old time collector of both baseball and non-sport autographs was historian M. Watt Espy Jr. of Alabama. Espy is regarded and academically cited as the world's leading authority on the history of the American death penalty, and just so happened to have the hobby of collecting celebrity autographs through the mail. He was even interviewed in the New York Times, but about the death penalty not autographs.

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Posted By: T206Collector

....was one of the items Morey had signed by Cobb at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown, during brunch Hall of Fame weekend, 1959. Below is a brief transcript of my conversation with Morey about this exchange.

Q: Did you ever meet Ty Cobb?

A: Yes.

Q: Where did you meet him?

A: Cooperstown. I interrupted his breakfast to get him to sign some things.

Q: Do you remember if you got signed any tobacco cards?

A: He signed a tobacco card, a caramel card a Callahan Hall of Fame card, an exhibit card , a Hall of Fame plaque and two baseballs.

Q: Wow. Just for you.

A: Yes. Just for me. I felt bad because his eggs were getting cold.

[Laughter.]

Q: Did he seem happy to do it? Or was he sort of grumpy about it?

A: Oh, he was a most pleasant fellow. He stood up; shook my hand. “People your age are the future of the world.” As kind as he was to hear all the negative about him it just didn’t match up.

Q: I hear what you’re saying.

A: He was just a super guy.

Q: Now what year would that have been?

A: I want to say 1959.

Q: So that was just a few years before he died?

A: Yes and that was at the Otesaga Hotel, Cooperstown, New York, Hall of Fame weekend.

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Posted By: nbrazil

thanks for sharing! i have never seen a lajoie auto on a card before.

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Posted By: ErikV

Here's a Cicotte autograph on a T206 card

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Posted By: Richard Cline - RC

Paul - As usual... fantastic cards and autos as well as interesting stories.
We are all appreciative that you share with us.

Thanks, RC

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Gotta love that Cicotte! Gorgeous coloring and bold signature! It almost makes me want to collect this (autographed) set.

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Posted By: T206Collector

Get in line! (:

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Precisely why I'm not!

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Posted By: Rawn Hill

If that Carrigan ever comes up for sale please give me the first shot.

Rawn

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Posted By: T206Collector

....are you speaking of?

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Posted By: Rawn Hill

Either the one on your website or if you find the one you mentioned in your second post. As I see that you are the leading known collector of such fine examples, I figured that you were the one to mention it to.

Rawn