Definitely overpaid for this, but one this nice comes up very rarely, and it's the only baseball card that shows a pitcher winning 40 games on the back stats to my knowledge:

Type card from REA.

B18 Hank Gowdy (Dark brown infield)
 

Excited to add this tough dark brown infield Hank Gowdy 1914 B18. Also see attached a scan of a lighter brown version.

Just need the red infield to complete my run.

Patrick

N184 Kimball
 

Set of four

Always happy to add to my Piedmont Portrait & 14CJ runs, thank you Jeff on the CJ.
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Love the Heilman Greg, nice pick ups.

May Pickups
 

Hear are some recent random pickups.

There are too many phenomenal pick ups to mention only one or a few....Nice first week of the month for sure..

oddly be pinholes on the side didn't bother me as much as top to bottom ones...
and an m101-2 Mack to go with my Pinkerton card of him..
from the BST...

Anything that comes from Scott Gross always makes me smile! Thanks again my friend!

and this one..

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Nice combo Waz! :cool:

That is a Wow card! Congrats my friend!

Thanks guys!

Matty Wht Cap has become sooo difficult, Great snag Scott!!

Added some W517 mini's...

Wow...just a stunning card. Congrats!

Bill

New, full matchbook arrivals today from an auction, Billy Jurges and Tom Jones.

My newest Wagner arrived today. Was super nervous about this when I bought it. I wasn't sure if it was going to be a great buy or one of those "what were you thinking" moments. As you can see it is attached to a backing so I wasn't sure how it was attached, if it was skinned, could the backing be removed, etc. Luckily, one corner is already detached from the backing and you can see that the back is intact and it appears it is only held to the backing at the corners with a drop of glue. Any recommendation for getting the other corners unglued without too many issues?

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wow great piece you got there. Good luck with it

Nice M110 Wagner DJ. I always liked the look of this issue. This Wagner qualifies to belong in the "Definitely Less than T206" category from that current thread (to do a little cross-pollination of threads).

Brian

Just saw this post now, congrats on completing the master set Phil.

That is an awesome feat!

Scott

1st purchase to go through ebay authentication. Smooth transaction, very happy. Attachment 516157

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Thank you for the kind words Scott, definitely a sense of accomplishment.

Thanks to iwantitiwinit for this beauty.

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E90-1 Ira Thomas
 

Picked up a 2nd E90-1 Ira Tomas to display with my recent Ira Thomas cabinet.

Patrick

My first E95, figured I couldn't go wrong with a nice Eddie Collins.

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My first "higher" grade T206 card. Love the night background.

Until the last month, I was exclusively a post-war guy who owned one T206.

Now I'm up to about 14/520, including the jewel of such a small T collection (a beat up Mathewson portrait). And all from this forum. So I blame the people here :rolleyes:

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From Heritage last night (those W600s were off the hook)

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Great pick ups Ryan. I thought that Cobb was going to sell for a ton?

As always Ryan Congrats. Two great pick ups. Glad I bowed out on those cards early. lol :D

Ned Garvin
 

From Heritage last night. Virgil Garvin played 2 games for NYAL in 1904. He only appeared in W600 and E107 so had to pay nosebleed $ for this really nice PSA 4.5
Would be nice if they weren't put in crooked...

From Heritage. And great provenance too :)

Thanks Ethan and Jeff (and I too am glad you decided not to bid!).

Mike, great pickup. Enjoy it!

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !

Love the Plows, congrats Ryan

Hard to follow that Brown Lennox (what a beaut!), but I'm very happy to have snagged this highest PSA graded Cycle 460 Herzog for my back run. Won this last night from Sterlings! The rare, put one bid in yesterday and it stuck!

Was chasing a Black Lenox as well from Heritage, but could really only afford to tackle one at this time.

Bill

Great pickups as usual, Ryan. I also thought the Plow Cobb went low. I don't follow this card, but I think you got a great deal there.

Thanks Guys!

Ryan, killer pieces!

Bill, love that Cycle. Buzz, great W600.

Those W600s last night were amazing. I'd love to know who outbid me on the Burkett. It's the #1 card on my wantlist, but it went for about $34K (plus tax) in miserable condition.

Hey I needed the pose variation!

New arrivals.

I won this beauty last night, a Type 1 McGraw. Cards of McGraw as a player are REALLY tough and this one is special.
Trivia question: Which three players are at the top of the career OBP list? Most would guess Ruth and Williams but a close number three is McGraw.

Congrats Jay. I have the exact same McGraw, except listing him as a manager. I almost made a run for your "infielder" version. Glad it's going to a good home.

Thanks Paul. If it was a manager version I would have passed. That said, a type 4 manager version in worse shape went for $20,000 more.

FYI one thing people should be aware of who might have gotten PSA graded W600's last night(or anywhere else), the holders are pressed down very tightly, especially on the slightly thicker and textured surface type 4's. Many of the cabinets have shifted during mailing/shipping and were stuck to the front of the holder, then shifted, thus peeling the top layer of stock off on the edges.

DO NOT TRY TO TAP THEM BACK IN PLACE OR YOU RISK FURTHER DAMAGE.

They really need to be either reholdered with the mylar insert or freed entirely.

If you look as scans you can see where the cabinet originally rested and left traces of it's stock, which resulted in bare areas on the borders when it moved.

:eek:

Are there any other cabinet issues that have this problem with the PSA slab? Thanks for the forewarning!

Not that I have seen. The type 4 W600's seem to be the worst, due to thicker stock and the textured surface. When jostled around they leave a cross hatch pattern where the top layer(colored portion) used to be. One of the ones I won, I just happened to have a before and after scan(holdering) and it really did a job on the cabinet, but if one was unaware they might not notice.

WaJo
 

Quite happy with this from Heritage.



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