Jeff,love the Campy and Drysdale!!

A few Mantles
 

Picked these up this week:

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Nice card, Joe! You have good taste. ;)

The Robinson I posted is a PSA 5 -- it also has a small stain on the back, in a similar place as the one on your card. I could see your card grading between a VG 3 or a VG-EX 4, so it's not far off from my card.

That card just has such a nice, full body pose of Jackie -- classic.

'50 bowman JR
 

Thanks for your feedback Chuck, I appreciate it! :)

Ted, what a great card!

Great Mathews rookie card, Ted.

Dang- Bestdj777 (chris)

I thought you were saving up for a wedding???
Whats the wife gonna say, when she finds out she could've had a bigger ring??

A few OPC Cardinals.

Nice '52 Mathews, Ted! If they ever made a list of cards that are notorious for poor centering, the Mathews would be right at the top.

Beauty
 

Great Matthews RC! One of the best I have ever seen.

Where did you pick it up?

Nice haul.

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In my quest to complete my 1969 master set, I picked up these three extremely tough to find 'white letter' rookie cards at the St. Leander's show in California today. A couple are o/c, but not enough to sway me. Got 'em at a good price, too. Not bad!

And the 1961 Hal W. Smith was mentioned in a recent thread about 'unknown' scarce cards, so he was sorta stuck in my head. I found this one in pretty nice shape with decent centering in an 'Any Card for $1' basket. Niiiiiice!!!!!!!

Love the Venezuelans. Such a nice lot.

No...I don't think I'll build this one up nor cut it and get it slabbed...

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Ricky y

Recent pickups

Two beauties, David.

I am warming to the '59 Topps set.

Love
 

Love BOTH cards David, where did you find that Berra? Plz pm me if you would take anything on trade/cash for it...

Last pickup of the month
 

Picked these up in separate auction but pleased that they are paired up again. May print a copy of the insert to display in the holder.

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I didn't feel right posting this in the modern section so I feel better posting it here, by the way my first HOF Umpire auto

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Excellent card and great centering. I bought the Mathews card a couple years back (PSA 5 dead centered), and much like you I paid a healthy premium over book because it was centered, and I haven't regretted it.

I think this card is THE SLEEPER of the entire '52 set: single print, high number, the only recognized rookie card of an all time great player, the last card in the set and prone to all the inherent condition problems, AND one of the most difficult cards in the whole set in terms of centering. Given all those variables, I think it is undervalued.

That an interesting item, but the photo actually does not look like Mantle IMO. I guess it's him, but it really doesn't look much like him.

From The Topps Vault a final color negative of Lindy McDaniel from the 1967 SF Giants Disc set:

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Hey, yea, it is a strange photo of him. It is definitely from a really photo as opposed to a hand drawing, but it does look weird. I think a lot of it is the poor picture quality on the piece.

Nice pickup Rob!

Thanks Steve!!

I guess I'm on a 1953 kick. Just picked this up.

Beautiful Robinson!

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Thanks Rob. That card is awful sweet for a "4". I always thought Red looked so scrawny in that picture. They list him as 170 lbs. at that time, but that might have been generous.

Already have one but could not help myself with this one:

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Anyone have any ideas on cleaning it? It is a glossy paper, so it would seem as if a slightly damp cloth might remove some of the lighter stains....

1951 Wheaties Mantle
 

Chris:

Nice pick up. However, this set always bothered me. The SCD Standard Catalog says it is " reliably attributed to General Mills, POSSIBLY intended to use as a Wheaties premium"

My problem is this, why would anyone put out a Mantle item in 1951? He was a rookie who only appeared in 96 games and hit .267. Maybe the year is off and it was issued later

I know others here on the board would have the original Tyoe 1 photo and be able to date it. Is the photo from 1951 or later?

Just because the same photos were used in Wheaties other issues, does not mean much as these were for the most part team issued photos that can been seen elsewhere as well.

Also seems strange that these did not turn up in the hobby until much later than 1951.

Any other ideas if this is really what everyone thinks it is?

Fred

Thanks Jeff. I read somewhere that the source of that information was a General Mills executive. There are some strange things about the set though, I'll give you that. Looking through the population report, I get the impression someone had a stack of these somewhere that just surfaced fairly recently. 35 have been graded and 30 of those are roughly in the same condition.

Mine definitely looks like it has had 60+ years of wear though.

Pie Traynor KQV Radio card/photo
 

Don't know if this should be here or in the Memorabilia section. May try to post in both.

Anyone ever seen this? NEAT!

BTW, I contacted Bob Lemke and he said: "No, that's one I have not encountered. I certainly would have added it to the catalog "back in the day."

56 feller auto
 

picked this beauty up a few days back. card seems ex and auto is certified authentic.

Nice cards everyone!! Here's a "Billy The Kid" I'm real happy with!

Nice!

Picked up a nice Gino for my 57s....

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Down to 5 left - Koufax, B. Robinson (RC), Brooklyn Team, Jim Bunning (RC), Mantle/Berra. Can't wait to finish, got some tough ones!


Love the 48 Bowman Red...great card!

Picked up this Curt Flood signed rookie. Thanks a lot Mike!

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