Favorite pick up(s) of 2018 Show 'em

[mrvster]

ok a little early......

lets see them! I love me some eyeball candy

[mrvster]

[cracker_jack]

Picked up on Sunday

[h2oya311]

very nice Dreyfuss, Chris!

Mine would definitely be this postcard from HOF umpire Bill McGowan to his girlfriend, postmarked in 1915:

[Sean]

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[invest]

I didn't pick up too much this year, but this is my favorite.

Troy

[jchcollins]

Assuming pre-war only, gotta go with this guy. My post-war entry would be a ‘53 Topps Satchel Paige.




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[packs]

[Aaron Seefeldt]

Cracker Jacks

[Lordstan]

Gee Aaron. Sorry to see you had a slow year. LOL
Great pickups

[DeanH3]

2018 was a GREAT year for many Net54's, yes I'm looking at you Ryan and Sam.

Here are a few of mine

Pre-War



Post-War



Modern

[C-mack]

Nice stuff everyone!


I had a pretty fun year 😀

[LincolnVT]

My favorite.

Never thought I'd own one. Dream card for me

[Jim65]

Not Pre-War but definitely my favorite pickup this year (Thanks Howard)

1968 Topps Disc Tommy Davis

[VintageBen]

1907 Dietsche Ty Cobb Batting SGC 3
1909 E101 Ty Cobb SGC 2.5




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[Marckus99]

‘11 Gilmartin Printing Co - Sutor
‘33 Iowana Farms Premium - Davenport Team

[Marckus99]

Others....

[Marckus99]

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[bcbgcbrcb]

My only vintage baseball pick-up of 2018 so has to be my favorite, thanks again, Steve. This is a 1940 Mexican League team photo picturing both Willard Brown (standing, far right) & Hilton Smith (standing, third from left)...…

[MattyC]

2018 was pretty much all Mantle for me. The more I shop for his cards, the more I see how rare a crisp and centered example is, so the more I hunt for such Mantles. Vicious cycle, lol.

I do try to temper it with a card of my favorite current player, Aaron Judge, here and there.

[Bucknutt2008]

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[runred41]

This was one of my most fortunate years to pick up Jim Thorpe items and one of my favorites is this early 1920’s baseball lineup between Thorpe’s Indians and Green Sox.




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[mrvster]

just incredible pieces.....I love opening this thread

[GregZakwin]

The Boston Store Wheat is the only one slabbed by PSA. The Crawford was my first Net54 purchase.

[Exhibitman]

Prewar baseball:




Postwar baseball:



Modern baseball:



Boxing (Adam Hats H815 Jack Dempsey--I had been searching for this for over a decade):



Football:



Basketball:



Hockey:



Nonsports:



Autograph: This is only the 2nd Signature Card from 1991 Kayo that has ever been seen.




Postcard (Holman Williams is a HOFer with only one other known card, a Propagandas Montiel. Williams was part of a group of African-American fighters in the 147# and 160# classes (welter and middle) nicknamed "Murderers' Row": Charley Burley, Lloyd Marshall, Williams, The Cocoa Kid, Jack Chase, Eddie Booker, Aaron Wade and Bert Lytell. The champs of the time refused to fight them, so they ended up fighting each other dozens of times (62 in all). Five of them have been elected to the HOF so far: Burley, Marshall, Williams, Cocoa Kid and Booker, and collecting them for a HOF set is a real challenge. Booker, Burley and the Cocoa Kid have no known cards; I had to settle for career-issued photos. Marshall appears in the 1940-70 Boxing News set from the UK. Williams has a 1947 Montiel card. This postcard is the first I've ever seen for Williams. It is an AZO four squares back (1924-49 per Playle's). The weight notation and format suggests that this was a self-issued postcard and it dates to his days in the early 1930s when he fought as a lightweight):



A better man than all of us:



Jeff Dickson was an American boxing promoter in Europe in the interwar period, elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2000. This British 1930s RPPC shows him with fellow HOFers Thil and Brown. In 1943, Capt. Jeff Dickson was killed in action over Germany while serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.

[mrvster]

wow

what an assortment

awesome

[sycks22]

A couple 38's for my set

[runred41]

Got all my better 2018 purchases put together now...very fortunate and blessed to add these to my Jim Thorpe and 1912 Olympics collection! Had to take a picture of a picture of the crate as I’ve got it boxed away real good right now.

FOOTBALL













Speaking arrangements/personal photos









MOVIE STUFF







TRACK/1912 OLYMPICS STUFF/EUROPEAN POST OLYMPICS TRACK MEET MEDALLION/NEW YORK OLYMPICS CELEBRATION STUFF

























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[runred41]

It’s amazing what diverse collections there are out there and what great 2018 purchases that everybody is posting! I Ran out of room to include my Thorpe baseball pickups so here they are.

BASEBALL/WHITE SOX & GIANTS WORLD TOUR PHOTO AND COMMEMORATIVE BOOK







Might be a bonus G H Ruth autograph inside this book..will have it checked for authenticity or not at some point.







CONLON PHOTO










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[runred41]

Forgot this baseball item..just purchased it recently and should be here any day.




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[rats60]

Pre-War to finish my t205 set



Post-War an upgrade of my Mantle RC

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by runred41

Forgot this baseball item..just purchased it recently and should be here any day.




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WOW, all 3 threads are full of amazing stuff, congrats on adding those amazing items to your collection.

[mrvster]

just incredible

[Spike]

I've shied away from Joe D cards in the past. This year, I picked up a sharp Wide Pen from Net54 for a good price. Great way to get two HOFers!

[MVSNYC]

This just arrived in time to squeeze into the 2018 pick up thread.

Thanks to Tony C.