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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
My very 1st T-card is this T206 Hal Chase (blue portrait) shown in the upper left corner (a Piedmont 350). |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: barry arnold
received a t205 mathewson and a t206 o'neil in 82 or 83 from a good friend of mine as a gift from an inheritance. first card i ever bought was a 206 matty dark cap with polar bear back in 84 or so. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Addie_Joss
First T-card I ever got was a Miller Huggins hands at mouth. I bought it probably 12 or 13 years ago when I was 10 or 11 at a card show in White Plains. Still have it. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Brian Weisner
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: MVSNYC
about 20 years ago, i was at a mall show in Bethlehem, PA and bought T206's of Devlin, Elberfeld NY Port, and Kroh...they were all in fair-good condition. from the second i held them in my hands, i was in love...shortly after that weekend, i watched "glory of their times"...and was absolutely hooked. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Paul Carek
When I was about eight, my uncle gave me a half dozen or so T206's, which I promptly lost. I was old enough to appreciate their significance, but evidently too young to take proper care of them. Shame about that. I distinctly remember having Tinker, Evers (batting), and Chance. Ever hopeful, though, I intend to scour my parents' attic -- yet again -- when I go home to Ohio for a visit this summer. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: CN
My first tobacco card was Happy Smith which I acquired at one of the Hofstra shows in the late 70,s which I still have. I was looking through a stack of T206,s when I saw the name I figured I had to have it. CN |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Doug
My first tobacco card was a T206 Tom Downey (fielding) with a Piedmont 350 back that I bought 8 or 9 years ago. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Gene Palmer
Got it in the early 80's I believe. Think I paid $5 for it... |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: JimB
Got this Lajoie and a red port. Cobb back in 1979 at shop in the San Fernando Valley. The Lajoie is still my favorite T206 pose and this card is still a centerpiece of my set. It is still raw. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Bruce MacPherson
$10 from a shop in Crystal City, VA. The back is an Old Mill. I vividly recall picking this back, since the dealer had a full nine pocket page of Red Cobbs and that was the only unique back. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: MarkC.
I got my first tobacco card at a baseball card shop in Cooperstown in the early '90's. It was a T206 Piedmont 150 Leifield (Pitching). I caught the bug and bought a couple more Pirates on that trip, and haven't looked back since. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: DMcD
Bought this T206 Matty Dark Cap raw off eBay six or seven years ago when I was a hobby newbie. Thought it was a beauty then and still do. I didn't know yet that eBay had a darkside of fakery and forgery and base dishonesty. Thus I was relieved when I had it graded at the Anaheim National and SGC gave it the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. It was my first tobacco card and third vintage card (preceded by a '33 Goudey Dean and a Zeenut Oana), and it's been a long, slippery slope since then. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: DD
CN, |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: bernie
I got my first four together at a card show that came to my high school in Warwick, RI in 1989-1990. I bought four HOF'ers ... M. Brown (chicago), McGraw (finger up), Speaker and E. Collins for $8 each. All are in fair-good condition. If only I knew then what I know now. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Rhett Yeakley
When I was 9 and my brother was 10 my father gave us each one T206 card. I got the only player in the t206 set to sport a mustache (John Titus) and my brother got Pryor McElveen. About the same time my father also bought us each a 1933 Goudey (I got Pepper Martin and Rhys got a yellow background O'Doul). I still have the Martin but have long since traded away the Titus (really wish I had kept it). Every time I see a Titus it reminds me of how excited I was when I got it. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Vincent
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: John S
Purchased in the mid-80's for somewhere around $5...still part of my collection. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Ken W.
From about 2002, when I was just getting started (off ebay). Still love the images! |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Richard Cline - RC
Not a big name but this Bates was my first venture into tobacco cards. Bought it at a show in Dayton, OH just over a year ago. Since then I have completed the Reds in T206 and picked up a few "name" players to the collection. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Jantz
My first T206 was a graded version of Nap Rucker throwing. My intention was to buy just one for my collection. When it arrived in the mail, I was hooked. I now own 40 and bought 6 more last week. I'm finding that the Monster is relentless! |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: leon
I might have had one before but I got a T202 Cobby that turned out to be about a 40 from a trade about 9 yrs ago.....it was from a guy who worked at a jail and I can't remember his name now. I bought an altered T205 Cobby in Nrmt-Mt (raw...yeah, I know)..... |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Ken McMillan
I bought a t207 joe Tinker and Frank Chance in the mid 90's. Still have both only they are now graded by SGC. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Kevin Andrews
First two I purchase from Barry Sloate about 20 years ago. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: bruce Dorskind
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Leslie Westbrook
...wee as it is, I first purchased 3 T206 BEATERS on Ebay about a year and a half ago. Ever since, I've been absolutely hooked on the pre-war side of collecting (I'd been a post-war collector already for about 20 years). |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
I'm surprised that no one has posted any 19th Century cards....yet ? |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Rob Ray
My late mom's uncle was Nap Rucker. When I was very young (late 60s),we visited him down south (first time I had ever met him,he was some sort of a town politician at the time and I belive he died a few years after our visit). He had a bunch of his tobacco cards,although at the time I had no idea what they were. He gave my brother and me a couple of his cards (I think one was a triple-folder) as well as a B-18 blanket (still have the B-18 prominently framed on my bookshelf at home)...again,these did not hold any interest for us at the time,so exscept for the blanket,we somehow lost them over the years. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: CN
Dave, Hofstra hosted some pretty big shows from 1977-to at least 1979. I remember going to one show where Mickey Mantle was signing autographs for the then unheard of price of $10. The press made a big deal out of it.CN |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Paul S
T206 Cobb bat off, in 1967-68. Put it atop the fireplace mantle. Still have it. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Ron
Hi Ted, |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
Back in the late 1970's and early '80s that was the going price for a T206 Cobb. I remember getting outbid |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Mike Ernst
Late fall/early winter 1971/72 I had an old North Dakota farmer pour out onto an oilskin tablecloth on a round oak clawfoot table 1100 tobacco cards (almost all T205 and T206--a few T201 and T202). I had no idea what their value was, and I knew that I couldn't afford them---ultimately I had to force $20 on him. I remember needing a Johnson portrait to complete my T205's, and feeling like I was held up at gunpont when I had to pay $6 to a dealer for it. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Scot Reader
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: boxingcardman
Picked it up for twelve bucks at a Labor Day show in Anaheim, California. As I recall, the seller was Mike Berkus. It now resides in a PSA 2 slab. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Phil Garry
I just sold it to another Network 54 board member tonight but this was my first tobacco card purchase...... |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Eric
This was my first tobacco card. Purchased in January 2007, when I started on vintage cards. I sold it back in October, in a massive selloff of all my T206's, after I gave up on the "Monster" to type collect. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Marty Ogelvie
My first pre-War card:
I've had it a little more than 1 year. I just started collecting pre war cards and the best part is almost every card i see is new to me. That is also the worst part. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: brian p
I can't claim a first tobacco card, but I can tell what I got with the first $11.00 I spent toward vintage cards. At the first baseball card show that I ever attended, in 1981, I purchased the following Pre-WW2 cards (at the table just inside the door): a T206 Matty dark cap, a T206 W. Johnson pitching, a T205 Breshnahan, a T205 Wheat (Broadleaf), and a E98 Cy Young, all for $11.00. That was just about all the collecting money I had brought. They are in F-G condition (still got them all), and they set the tone for my future in collecting cards in lower grade. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: peter ullman
brian...are you sure the cy young e98 doesn't have an old put stamp on the back?!?! |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: brian p
Yeah, the E98 Young makes my previous message off-topic. In the early 80's if a E98 had a stamp on it it probably would have gone for less than if it didn't (all that messy ink on the back). Thankfully I have an Old Put stamp handy so now Cy and all my other E98's can be officially classified tobacco cards. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: barrysloate
Hi Ted- haven't looked at this thread in several days and noticed the credit for the 42 N162's. Was it really 1984? Hard to believe it was that long ago. Maybe more like 1987 or 1988, as a guess. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
I recall either 1984 or 1985 when we made the deal for the 42 cards from the N162 set. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Richard Masson
In about 1970, I purchased T206s of Marquard, Snodgrass and Livingston at a local antique store. I sent them to each of the players and they were returned autographed. I still have them. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
That's a great 1st card(s) story. And, you were quite lucky in that Marquard, Snodgrass and Livingston lived very long lives. |
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Show and/or Tell us about your 1st Tobacco card
Posted By: Jason L
Here he is, old Joe. |
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