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Stonepony 03-12-2024 02:57 PM

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Gorditadogg 03-13-2024 10:33 PM

Oh yeah, very nice Mays!

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irv 03-14-2024 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Gorditadogg (Post 2419674)
Oh yeah, very nice Mays!

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X2!
Great looking, Mays, Dave.

Wish I had more centered copies I could share, but I don't, without stretching the parameters even further of what I have already posted. :(

Gorditadogg 03-17-2024 06:37 AM

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Lo-grade hi-numbers:

skelly423 03-17-2024 03:42 PM

Love those Al. They don't look very low grade to me.

irv 03-19-2024 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by skelly423 (Post 2420372)
Love those Al. They don't look very low grade to me.

X2.

Tom S. 03-19-2024 09:13 PM

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Here are a few more from my set in progress:

Saratogaslabs 03-19-2024 10:41 PM

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Just acquired this one last week

skelly423 03-20-2024 09:09 AM

Damn Alex, that's beautiful. Well done.

irv 03-24-2024 10:47 AM

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Here are a few more from my set in progress:

Well done, Tom. :)

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Originally Posted by Saratogaslabs (Post 2420885)
Just acquired this one last week

Yowzers! That's a rarely seen well centered copy.

Congrats. :)

rugbymarine 03-24-2024 05:29 PM

I sold this one a couple years ago:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1a29b007_c.jpg

jb67 03-24-2024 05:37 PM

A great thread. Some real centered beauties being shown. Here is my contribution.

https://www.collectorfocus.com/image...e-mays-psa-3.5

skelly423 03-24-2024 05:50 PM

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I'm loving this thread, and thought I'd toss in a few more that just came back from PSA.

Gorditadogg 03-24-2024 10:14 PM

Very nice cards, all. That Mantle looks great, so does the Mays card. And I've been trying to find a Schoendienst as nice that for years, now I see it can be done.

Tom S and Sean, it's always a pleasure to see highlights from your collections.

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MikeGarcia 04-17-2024 10:11 AM

52 - 48 is the best I could do in this set .
 
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..This Hank Sauer might be 50 / 50 both ways ?? -- Old Beckett graders hammered the final grade down because they considered early cardboard to have eight corners instead of 4 , and took a magnifying glass to new depths of pain and punishment.

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rgpete 04-17-2024 02:12 PM

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This is the only one I have and the best part is, it has the wax pack stain

Gorditadogg 04-18-2024 06:09 AM

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..This Hank Sauer might be 50 / 50 both ways ?? -- Old Beckett graders hammered the final grade down because they considered early cardboard to have eight corners instead of 4 , and took a magnifying glass to new depths of pain and punishment.



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Your Sauer is a beautiful card, no matter the grade.

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irv 04-18-2024 12:42 PM

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This is the only one I have and the best part is, it has the wax pack stain


..This Hank Sauer might be 50 / 50 both ways ?? -- Old Beckett graders hammered the final grade down because they considered early cardboard to have eight corners instead of 4 , and took a magnifying glass to new depths of pain and punishment.

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Great looking cards, guys. The Ritchie Ashburn, as Adam pointed out sometime ago, is a rather tough one for sure. Centered copies, if you can find them, definitely sell for a premium. I upgraded mine with this one as the price was right and I ran out of patience trying to find a more centered copy.

My Hank Sauer, (Posted earlier) although not as perfectly centered as Mike's also looks like it might have been graded on the harsh side as well, but the corners are definitely not pointy.

rgpete 04-18-2024 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by irv (Post 2427607)
..This Hank Sauer might be 50 / 50 both ways ?? -- Old Beckett graders hammered the final grade down because they considered early cardboard to have eight corners instead of 4 , and took a magnifying glass to new depths of pain and punishment.

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Great looking cards, guys. The Ritchie Ashburn, as Adam pointed out sometime ago, is a rather tough one for sure. Centered copies, if you can find them, definitely sell for a premium. I upgraded mine with this one as the price was right and I ran out of patience trying to find a more centered copy.

My Hank Sauer, (Posted earlier) although not as perfectly centered as Mike's also looks like it might have been graded on the harsh side as well, but the corners are definitely not pointy.[/QUOTE]
Nice card mine would not grade high with the wax pack stains

Tom S. 06-19-2024 04:57 PM

Schoendienst
 
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Bumping this thread with my most recent 52T acquisition. It was an eBay BuyItNow listing and I must have been one of the first to see it...I couldn't hit the BIN button fast enough. :)

irv 06-19-2024 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom S. (Post 2442237)
Bumping this thread with my most recent 52T acquisition. It was an eBay BuyItNow listing and I must have been one of the first to see it...I couldn't hit the BIN button fast enough. :)

Nice grab, Tom! :)

skelly423 06-19-2024 07:26 PM

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Love the Red! I should do this more often, here's a recent pickup of my own

irv 07-08-2024 06:24 PM

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A few recent additions that just arrived today.
Been looking for a long time for a Nippy Jones and a Granny Hamner. Both tough cards, in my opinion, to find centered. These aren't perfect but they're certainly better centered than most I've seen.
Matt Batts is is just upgrade as my old copy has some paper loss on the back. Thought I'd post it anyways due to the decent centering.

BillyC_KY 07-08-2024 09:08 PM

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Such a hard card to find centered.

irv 07-09-2024 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by BillyC_KY (Post 2446507)
Such a hard card to find centered.

Nice card, Billy.
I was watching this one a while ago, which might have been the best centered copy I ever saw?
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/326166831925

I remember back when I joined the site in 2016, some were commenting on my copy and how well it was centered. I didn't know squat back then about such things but based on what I've learned since, my copy, although certainly not centered, isn't too bad comparitively.

BillyC_KY 07-09-2024 11:32 AM

Thanks Irv!! I am all about the centered 52 cards. Nothing prettier than a centered 52. I’m about 65% finished with my set.

smellthegum 07-09-2024 11:52 AM

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Great cards all and thanks for sharing. Nice to know that some numbers actually DO exist centered!

Not all perfect but here are a few names from my 1-310 run that I think are better centered than most copies out there ...

irv 07-09-2024 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by BillyC_KY (Post 2446639)
Thanks Irv!! I am all about the centered 52 cards. Nothing prettier than a centered 52. I’m about 65% finished with my set.

Yes, you certainly have a point there, Billy.
Good luck the rest of the way. :)

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Great cards all and thanks for sharing. Nice to know that some numbers actually DO exist centered!

Not all perfect but here are a few names from my 1-310 run that I think are better centered than most copies out there ...

Great looking cards, Dave! :)
Thanks for posting them up.

Tom S. 07-09-2024 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by BillyC_KY (Post 2446507)
Such a hard card to find centered.

Billy, that's a nice Nuxhall!

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Originally Posted by smellthegum (Post 2446653)
Great cards all and thanks for sharing. Nice to know that some numbers actually DO exist centered!

Not all perfect but here are a few names from my 1-310 run that I think are better centered than most copies out there ...

Dave, great group of cards! I really like the Maxwell and Garagiola.

skelly423 07-11-2024 07:44 PM

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I know it's not perfect top-bottom, but it's a Herman freaking Wehmeier with great left-right centering. This is about as close as you can get for this card.

irv 07-12-2024 08:18 AM

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I know it's not perfect top-bottom, but it's a Herman freaking Wehmeier with great left-right centering. This is about as close as you can get for this card.

Is that a recent pick up, Sean?
One just like it, (if not the same one?) ended a week or 2 ago that I had my eye on but knew it would go for a handsome price.
Surprised, after the fact, however, it didn't go for more.

Congrats if you're the lucky winner. :)

skelly423 07-12-2024 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by irv (Post 2447335)
Is that a recent pick up, Sean?
One just like it, (if not the same one?) that ended a week or 2 ago that I had my eye on but knew it would go for a handsome price.
Surprised, after the fact, however, it didn't go for more.

Congrats if you're the lucky winner. :)

It's probably the same card, I just bought it two weeks ago. Someone broke a set, and there were two Wehmeiers. I got what I think was the better of the two copies

Gorditadogg 07-12-2024 02:20 PM

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A few recent pick-ups:

Gorditadogg 07-12-2024 02:34 PM

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Plus my Nuxhall:

skelly423 07-12-2024 03:17 PM

Beautiful cards guys, well done.

Tom S. 07-12-2024 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by skelly423 (Post 2447283)
I know it's not perfect top-bottom, but it's a Herman freaking Wehmeier with great left-right centering. This is about as close as you can get for this card.

Sean - nice Herm!

This must be Wehmeier week, because I just got one for my set as well. Mine's a little off-center T/B too, but I can live with it... :)

skelly423 07-13-2024 10:34 AM

Great copy Tom

irv 07-13-2024 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by skelly423 (Post 2447404)
It's probably the same card, I just bought it two weeks ago. Someone broke a set, and there were two Wehmeiers. I got what I think was the better of the two copies

Yep, those were them.
Glad to read/see you were the lucky winner, Sean.
Great looking card. :)

Nice cards, again, Al and Tom.
It's not too often (if ever?) that I've saw 2 great looking, centered, Wehmeir's back to back.

Bobmc 08-29-2024 11:57 PM

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Billy Pierce, a fav from my childhood, fingers crossed he is eventually enshrined in the HOF

skelly423 08-30-2024 06:44 AM

Beautiful copy, congratulations Bob

Zach Wheat 08-30-2024 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Tom S. (Post 2447503)
Sean - nice Herm!

This must be Wehmeier week, because I just got one for my set as well. Mine's a little off-center T/B too, but I can live with it... :)

Tom/Sean nicely centered Wehmeier cards!

GeoPoto 08-31-2024 05:44 AM

I don't think we have a Jackie yet. A little high right, but not bad.

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