The Plank is incredible for the grade. Spotless back.

Train Not in Vain

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1386866032

An easy choice - Old Hoss
 

Angyale

What is your best card you added to your collection in 2013 ?
 

I acquired these 6 cards in 2013. But, I cannot decide which one is the "BEST" ......I leave it up to you to decide ?


rare 1888 S.F. Hess (proof)

http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...N321jSmith.jpg




AMERICAN BEAUTY 460 Cobb

http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/...psbd913b5a.jpghttp://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0801c051.jpg





Wheat

http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...dHINDUx50b.jpg.http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...edHINDUx50.jpg




.................................................. .................................................. Duffy

http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...llDuffy25x.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...lDuffy25xb.jpg




.................................................. ............................................ Gandil

..http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...rGandil25x.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...Gandil25xb.jpg





1933 George C. Miller Lefty O'Doul

http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...tyODoulx50.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...yODoulx50b.jpg




.............. 1949 LEAF Fannin color error ..............

http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...tBluexBlue.jpg




TED Z
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LOOKING for this T206 guy to complete my EXCLUSIVE 12 red HINDU sub-set (12 subjects)

SHECKARD (glove)

Eric:

Very jealous! :)

Kevin

Best card of 2013
 

Great cards everyone.

My best card for the year is:

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Jerry

nice Jerry! the "grab" of the year!!!!

Chappie Johnson with the St. Paul Gophers

http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/...psbd79037b.jpg

Matt, AWESOME stuff. You had a year that dreams are made of. Can't wait to see what is in store for 2014!

Here are a couple more of mine for 2013.

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Verry nice E107 Plank Bob !

Eric--is that the 1887 sign for "one in the pink, one in the stink"?

Love the Plank Bob

Love the cards everyone.. looks like the Board had a great year all around.. here is my best:

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...psa28ce8af.jpg

My favorite pick-ups of 2013
 

Incredible stuff guys!! This has been a HUGE year for me!

Pre-War (+Day):
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...Campanella.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...0-%20c1940.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...9-50%20Day.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...29%20Gomez.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...887%20Mack.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...%20Nichols.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...894%20Betz.jpg

Post-war:
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...20Gibson_1.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...0McGowan_1.jpg

Modern (definitely my best pick-up of the year!!):
http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...yle8months.jpg

What a thread!
 

Some amazing acquisitions across this board. Really humbling the quality of collections people here have.

Here's one of my favourites for the year. In the Hall of Fame, but not for the sport with which he is pictured. Nevers went to University very close to where I'm currently living, and, of course, the tab on the bottom is a great addition to making this card a special card in my collection:

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...rnieNevers.jpg

Wow, amazing stuff. I lost count of the Pirates cards in this thread...I am humbled by the caliber of collection I see here. Since I collect a variety of stuff I thought I would pull my favorite of each type. My modest contributions:

Baseball card, prewar: A newly-cataloged Adam Hats card that I've posted here so many times that people are certainly sick of it, but I am very glad to have it:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...z_%20Lefty.jpg

Baseball card, postwar: 1954 Johnston Cookies Hank Aaron RC:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...es%20Aaron.jpg

Baseball memorabilia: A Lefty Gomez matchbook from the 1930s Adam Hats celebrity contest:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ok%20Gomez.jpg

Baseball autograph: picked this up at the National:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...y%20signed.jpg

Surfing/swimming: I have wanted this PC of the Duke for a long time, finally got one:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ku_%20Duke.jpg

Soccer: This Pele card is my best soccer pick-up ever [1968 Crack from Argentina]:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ack%20Pele.jpg

Favorite hockey piece: 1964 postmarked Bobby Hull JD MCCarthy PC:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...arthy%20PC.jpg

Favorite basketball piece: 1960 Wilt Chamberlain team issue

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...am%20issue.jpg

Favorite football piece: got this in a collection of 1950s-1960s cards I picked up. My favorite set of the 1950s-1960s FB, and Bart Starr was the #1 card in 1968, and the card had the special horizontal design only used for the Packers and Raiders Super Bowl teams:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...68%20Starr.jpg

Favorite nonsport: Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! 1957 George Reeves fan issue with neat DC comic advertising:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ising%20PC.jpg

Favorite autograph: Nigel "The Dark Destroyer" Benn: He doesn't sign cards except on special occasions. A friend got this for me at a HOF event:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...eous4/Benn.jpg

Favorite boxing card: Tough choosing here but I'd have to go with this 1920s Benny Leonard restaurant PC. I'd been looking for one for years:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...urant%20PC.jpg

Favorite boxing memorabilia: Again, a brutal choice, but I gotta go with this ticket from Jim Jeffries' boxing venue just up the block from my office here in Burbank. Again, an item I'd been hoping to find for a very long time:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...n%20ticket.jpg

And last of all, oddest oddball item is this rodeo PC of future movie star Hoot Gibson learning the hard way that if a horse doesn't want to be ridden, odds are the horse will win. I just love the image:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...t%20Gibson.jpg

Jerry, that might be the card of the year.

And seeing that ebay auction in which you got it is definitely my WTF moment of the year. :D

Another 1913 Cravats pennant

2013
 

A favorite is too hard to choose, so here's an unusual one: from 1876, and to my knowledge the first "card" showing a baseball scene in an actual stadium that was used to promote a product. For more, visit http://www.sportingoregon.com/ .

Wow Adam

Amazed at how you spread yourself all over the place, to bunch a different sports and then the non sport.

Darn, would say your definitely not a specialist, but rather a general practitioner.

Cool stuff.

Great cards, and a great thread!

Great seeing the highlight pickups from the year. Guess these are my four favorites.

Wow, Luke amazing Cobb!

Luke, that's a pretty great year. And how did that Jackson only get a 50?

Thanks guys! My take on the Jackson is that it may have been removed from an album and has a couple of faded letters on the back that may be considered paper loss. Definitely have been pondering a re-grade.

Yeah, that's a pretty serious 50, looks more like an 80-84 at least.

Here are mine.............

great stuff Phil! I'm surprised you didn't share your c1908 Leland Giants Team PC!!

Beautiful cards everyone. Here is the one that I find myself looking at the most. The colors on it are stunning, including the checkered jersey which you don't see on many cards.

Some really beautiful cards guys.

Thanks, Derek. Thought the Leland postcard was last year, I guess my memory deceived me...........

You have a good excuse!!

Amazing cards everyone...

My best pick-up and my favorite pick-up would vary, so here is my favorite pick-up of the year:

type card
 

1926 Zeenut W/ Coupon.

Merry Christmas,

John

Traded for these two low-grade 33 Goudeys this week. Not much to see from the grading perspective, but check out the backs.

A 1930s collector named Bucky Jackson took it upon himself to modify and update every card he owned. Here's what he did.

1. Trimmed off any "BIG LEAGUE GUM" label from the front
2. Punched out Goudey's © notice
3. Scraped off the Goudey tag line
4. Signed his name with quotes on "Bucky"
5. Updated teams as years went by (Ruth has Yankees scratched out, replaced with "Brooklyn Dodgers" in pencil, so was updated in 1938)
6. Renumbered everything by a system I don't understand yet. (Ruth is now 189 & Gehrig now 297.)

By looking for low-grade Goudey lots, I've reassembled about 30% of Bucky's 1933 set and these are my biggest hits so far. Not sure what'll ultimately come of it, but the whole project's an interesting way to look through the eyes of another era's collector.

Well its not POST WAR but its my prized card

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[QUOTE=Spike;1216715]Traded for these two low-grade 33 Goudeys this week. Not much to see from the grading perspective, but check out the backs.

A 1930s collector named Bucky Jackson took it upon himself to modify and update every card he owned. Here's what he did.

1. Trimmed off any "BIG LEAGUE GUM" label from the front
2. Punched out Goudey's © notice
3. Scraped off the Goudey tag line
4. Signed his name with quotes on "Bucky"
5. Updated teams as years went by (Ruth has Yankees scratched out, replaced with "Brooklyn Dodgers" in pencil, so was updated in 1938)
6. Renumbered everything by a system I don't understand yet. (Ruth is now 189 & Gehrig now 297.)

Matt-
This is a great story! I love stuff like this. Any idea where Bucky was from?

Assume that Bucky was a Boston or New York collector, as a number of what I've found came from auctions near Cape Cod. Hope they're still mostly in the area, so I don't have to travel very far to keep looking. :-)

Hard to narrow it down but I love these three.

Definitely my favorite pickup of the year.

well, it's not pre war and it's not graded. but still a nifty LT card for LT collectors like myself.

[IMG]http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/...s8ae1990f.jpeg[/IMG]

Very slow year as my budget shrunk unexpectedly.
 

Been wanting a t206 Cobb portrait for about four years really badly and I finally got this one from B&L in the spring. Great year though highlighted by the National dinner and show on saturday.

That's a gorgeous 3 Jason.

3 best of 2013. 2 nice backs for my T206 Cleveland team set and a tough Feller.
http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/w...psec336245.jpg

My main focus is the T210's and this is the best card I picked up this year for the set.Really great cards everyone.

This is very cool. This is what I would call pure collecting, and one of many examples found on this forum. :) Good luck with the quest. If you add more down the road, or eventually get the inclination, this set might be worthy of its own thread.

Killer thread, all!

If you ever decide to work on his 1934 set, let me know. I have number 59/298 and could probably let it go for ANY other card in the 1934 set (as long as it isn't moldy and doesn't have bed bugs).

http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...psa0ad43eb.jpg

http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2c3b8ce2.jpg

OK, DM sent! I've got a handful of Buckys from 1934, but not many yet.

The best card I added to my collection was a 1967 Coca-Cola baseball premium (produced by Dexter Press) of Mickey Mantle, graded 7.5 by PSA. I'll get to see it on Christmas!

Kind regards. --Brian Powell

Grabbed some nice ones this year, including the much wanted T3 Turkey Red Tris Speaker.

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...20SGC%2055.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...joe%20auto.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...anks%20Ted.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...20SGC%2050.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...20SGC%2050.jpg

CW,

As always, love your taste in cardboard! That Joe D auto is so bold and sweetly positioned on that image. I think he is one player poised to see an increase in collectibles value down the line, between his lofty place in American pop culture history and his hallowed streak. All it takes is someone to even weakly challenge 56 and his name returns to the forefront.

Same with Williams and .400. That's one of my favorite cards, the Franks. Just a classic card.

Holy God, Chuck. That Speaker T3 is to die for!

1866 Lowells. This is one of the sharpest images I have seen.

Gary:

That's a beauty! :)

Kevin

A few of the recent Heritage T206 autos, a Brush Jennings, and a T227 Baker that completes my run of the 4 baseball players from that set.

Many great cards in this thread, but I really like and appreciate the early Lowells image. Fantastic piece.

1951 Bowman Mantle and 1888 Goodwin Champs Glasscock
 

The Mantle is the more significant card obviously, but I love the Glasscock which is my first 19th Century card

Gorgeous CdV Gary. I always liked that one.

Factoring in...cost, scarcity...and coolness factor(to me)...I'd have to say this tough ruth strip is one of my favorite additions this year.

Pete, excellent Ruth strip. :)

Thanks, Bill & Matt!

It as cool to see everyone else's "best of" as well.

Gary, that's a superb piece with amazing clarity!

For grade and hof. Thanks Bruce!

And for backs, my piedmont 42 Snodgrass. Sorry for the poor quality photo.

Pete

That is one cool strip card

Thanks guys...in similar fashion...I will be posting more of my favorite "pickup" of 13' later!!!!

Amazing stuff everyone. These are my top three for the year.
Jeff

Thanks everyone.

Jeff:

Nice pick-up on the McPhee RC. I think that one was mine previously.

Phil,

Thanks. The image is strong and I got it for what I thought was a fair price.

Jeff

Best card for 2013
 

Tough to pick one card, but the rarest card I acquired this year is a Tom Needham Plow Boy Tobacco card.

Other favorite pickups this year include: a Tom Needham T207, a John Tiedemann T209, a Jimmy Archer T222, and a Claude Berry 1910 Obak (150 Subjects.)

I'd like to again thank Ted Z for the T209 and Mike P. for trading the Archer Fatima T222!

Happy Holidays!

Patrick

Not Pre-War, but this '51 Bowman Mays was my favorite pick up of the year.
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Other favorites would be Big Ed...
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Smiling George Weaver...
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... and my favorite new stash this year were the 9 signed Diamond Stars HOFers I picked up on the board... all as clean or cleaner than the Mr Dickey posted here.. as well as other signed pre-war
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I could probably add 10-15 more "favorite"(s) of the year, but will cut myself off now.:D

One of few I acquired this year.

Whatta year for ya, Ian! I like 'em all, but the Mays really stands out for me. Other than him being a Giant, it's a really nice card ;)

It was a good T205 year or me.

Last pick up of 2013 was worth the wait:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps099f4c90.jpg

Great Mays Ian! ;)

Love the K-Bats - great image on it!

My best add this year was the Chase, but my favorites of 2013 are the Knight, and Manning ABs!
All in all a fun year, and looking forward to an even better 2014!

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