Favorite Finds of 2002

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

As we all look forward to better times in 2003, I thought I would start a new thread to highlight some of our favorite finds of 2002. I thought breaking our finds down into the following categories might make for some interesting reading.

Best EBAY purchase: Near Mint Chief Meyers Yellow Colored S74 Silk in Blue Ink

Best SHOW/Auction find: Near Mint George Gibson W600 Sporting Life Cabinet purchased from Terry Knouse

Best purchase form another board member: Excellent Plus Chief Meyers White S74 Silk with Brown Ink

Item I regret passing on or a deal I was unable to close: Near Mint Roger Bresnahan Fatima T222 Card

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

EBay: Mayo Anson from Jay Miller; James Morrison: minor chess player who wrote a lot about chess. 19th century cabinet photo. Closed in the middle of the night for 25.00

Show: T206 Plank, Fan Craze Ned Hanlon, both from Mark Macrae, one at each of his shows this year.

Favorite card from board member: Old Judge Radbourne portrait and Peck and Snyder Cincinatti Red Stockings from Jay Miller.(the peck and Snyder hasn't come yet, but i have the back among my ikons before i get on the internet).
How about mail order? Mayo Nichols from Terry Knouse. S.F. Hess Ewing from ditto.
Biggest disappiointment: (Starving?) All I can think of is forgetting to bid on a T202 I really wanted a couple of days ago (Tiner-Evers-Chance).

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Posted By: Hankron

I bought a small stack of old baseball letters. Unknown to seller (and thus to me when I bought it) were included a handwritten Jack Glasscock autobiography and a Tommy Bond handwritten letter to Ford Frick about baseball in 1876.

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Posted By: Keith O'Leary

Best EBAY purchase: Allen & Ginter Indian banner. An early, well received X-Mas gift to myself.

Best SHOW/Auction find: 2 Allen & Ginter "Black Stocking Nine" female baseball player cabinets (similar to the N173s).

Best purchase from another board member: Was able to work out a deal for a nice PSA T206 Bliss.

Item I regret passing on or a deal I was unable to close: N28 SGC 84 Mulvey.

Wishing everyone good luck and happy hunting in the new year, Keith

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Posted By: jay behrens

Kieth, you told me you were giving that banner to me for Xmas

Since I didn't go to a show all year, all I have is eBay deals to brag about. The best is probably the e93 Collins I got cheap that graded SGC 70 and my A&G album of Indian Chiefs that I got $125.

A&G Indians have actualyl turned out to be a good investment. When I started buying them a little over 6 months ago I could get high grade examples for $25-30. Now it costs double that, thanks to the increased intrested since Mastro auctioned off the 2 sets a few months back.

Jay

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Posted By: John(z28jd)

Ebay:SCG graded T206 O'Hara St. Louis version
card shows: havent been to any since Nov. 2001 but Andy found me a hard to find Old Judge variation,at a show and i ended up buying it the day after the show....thanks again Andy!
From a board member: Jay Miller,a couple nice Old Judges at the beginning of the year(this answer will be the same for next years question,thanks Jay)
Card i regret passing on: Im sure theres some T206's that i wanted but passed on but the card that stands out twice was a T207 Hoff

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Posted By: marty

My best find was not real old. Someone was cleaning out there parents house and found 10 1958 Bell Brand Dodgers still in the original celophane package. I also was able to buy a complete set of 1933 Goudey including the Lajoie from the daughter of the one who opened the packs in 33 and asked for the missing #106 card.

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Posted By: Dan Mathewson

...would have to be: (by the way, damm these pop-ups!)

1. Matty - Nadja Caramels in surprisingly nice cond.

2. Matty - M116 Blue Bkgnd also in great shape

3. Matty - 1910 E-98, red bkgnd & great stance

4. A couple neat R423 Purple Back strips (with Matty)

I also found a few T206's (lower grades) with rare backs that I really enjoy. There are a few more that I also got that I'm realy pleased with, but I'll keep the list short. All in all, a pretty good year for the collection, and a pretty bad year for my bank account (thanks to the collection...I'm glad I have a one-HOF'er habit...anymore than that, I'd be card-rich and living in a tent).



Happy New Year everyone!

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Posted By: warshawlaw

Show: t206 common with great ghost image on the back, $30

ebay: T229 Pet Cigs Attell and Choynski (huge $$ for me, but soooo rare . . .). 1927 Zeenut Lefty O'Doul (been searching for that one for ages). 1926-30 Exhibit PC back Hornsby, printed name variation, ex-mt.

private sale: T229 Kopec Cigs Jeffries (even rarer than the Pet Cigs), one of only two Kopecs I've seen offered in the last five years.

personal find: long-lost but newly found second cousin in Chicago sent me a photocopy and scan archive of press clips and photos about my cousins Ray Miller and Benny Berris (her father), who were professional fighters in the 1920's.