T205 Cobb
 

Yeah the back has some paper missing but I can live with it!!

Matt

That T205 Cobb has a clean white baseball and no red on the basepaths as well. So many have that red ink shifted over. Great call picking that up.

Type set additions
 

My winnings from the most recent Bagger's Auction just arrived today...thanks Dave!

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...psb1f1f477.jpg

http://www.sgccardregistry.com/cards/um23340.jpg

A little OT. I bought this because of the picture and I because this gentleman-and he was a gentleman-was the only pre-WWII ballplayer I ever met.

Two pickups with the last of my ebay bucks...R303-b Simmons and a duplicate W554 McWeeny I picked up thinking I still needed one (oops)

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=14109

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=14108

DJ

Black Swamp Find Mack Miscut
 

This finally arrived today. To me this card is Gem Mint, I am just glad that SGC gave it a technical grade of "Good" so that I could afford it. Factory errors, to me, shouldn't be counted against the grade of a card (especially to the extent it was with this card).

I don't have time to scan, and HA has great scans already so I will just use theirs:
http://dyn2.heritagestatic.com/lf?se...oduct.chain%5Dhttp://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?se...oduct.chain%5D

Just picked this up the other day. I can't not smile when I look at it.

February Pickups
 

Great E98 miscut......further proof the BSF cards are legit.

That Black Swamp Find card is sweet.

That e98 is incredible! The Mack is by far my favorite in the set. Nice pickup!

way cool fatty postcard. i want 1...

From the Lawson's Game--the very first baseball card game, so it's said. This is one of the rarest cards in the set. 1884. I guess this makes this my oldest card.

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1391750316

Great looking card.
For the record I have owned several sets and all of the cards are exactly equal in rarity, in my experiences.

We might even have a nice raw set in our upcoming auction, as we have before.

Leon in the set there are multiple cards of some, like the Striker and some cards are solo like the Umpire.

Leon, according to Pop reports (which I know don't represent all cards) the "Striker" card (which I also have) and one other appear in dozens of copies, all of the others only a handful at PSA and another handful at SGC... so from that, yes, there are two "commons" and the rest about equally scarce..

Thanks...

Here's the Striker, of which we speak, by far the most common in the set...

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1391826272

Woops forgot. There are in fact different numbers of different players. I was thinking that all of the decks of cards I had seen were the same..Time to go back to sleep.

and I should add, yes Greg, you were correct on this. :)

Silks of a couple of notorious guys:
http://photos.imageevent.com/imoverh...f%20img731.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/imoverh...rge/img732.jpg

Thanks. I am pretty excited and I am glad I was able to work out a deal to sell one of my t205 multi-strikes in time to have funds to purchase this card.

I am curious to see if more miscuts come up in the BSF cards to know if the rest of the sheet was distributed to the same place. If they do show up in the BSF collection we may be able to figure out an entire sheet layout.

Nice silks Todd.

Here's a few that came today:
2 are from a fellow board member, down to needing about 25 more for my Cracker Jack set!

'14 CJ Tinker
 

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Beautiful Red!
 

Andy, Your Mack is incredible and I echo everyone else's comments on it.
Awesome Card! Really neat to see that Ford was above Mack on the sheet!
Way Cool!
Tim Kindler

That Tinker makes me think of him Carey from the second Ace Ventura movie.


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This nice rookie just in from Goodwin.

And many thanks to DSTUDEBA for these two beauties. Not quite pre-war, but close enough.

Picked this up today at a show in KC.

From 1883...

I was at KC show too!
 

Nice pickup Doug...that's a tough one. My bid didn't even register on that one.

Christmas has come early this year for me!
 

As many of you are aware, two of my major collecting focuses are WaJo cards and Sam Rice Cards. And, you may have seen my recent, ecstatic post in the LOTG Auction pick-up thread where I showed the 1921 Herpolsheimer's WaJo 1-of-1 card that I won in the LOTG Auction that ended a week ago.

Well, guess what - a couple of days after my WaJo post, I received an email from a Net 54 Board member (whom I didn't know, but whom happens to live roughly 25 miles from me) asking if I would be interested in purchasing his 1921 Herpolsheimer's 1-of-1 card of Sam Rice (and, at a reasonable price!). I could hardly believe my eyes as I read this email. Would I be interested - heck, I'd kill for this card, so to speak! I put my check into the mail on Thursday, and the Herps-Rice arrived in today's mail. Are Board members great, or what?!! Bruce, again, MANY THANKS!

I keep pinching myself to make sure that I am not merely dreaming that within a week's time, I have picked up two cards that I never, ever expected that I would be able to obtain. 2014 is already a great year, irregardless (sorry, but I've long used this "incorrect" word) of whether or not I add anything else to my collections for the remainder of this year!
Val

congrats Val on some "true" 1 of a kinds!!!:D

Ok Val, now you're just showing off! Amazing.

Usually don't show my pickups but ...
 

Liked the condition .

2 new ones this month
 

Thanks to Chris Buckler for working a deal on the Baker & Jones from Joe's Vintage last auction. Now there's an auction house who knows how to do it. Ended Tues. night, invoice on Wed. morn (pd. Wed). Received card on Fri. No buyer's premium and $3 for postage. Screw the big AH, I'll stick with these guys!

Congrats Val. It is a pleasure to read the joy in your acquisition.. Very happy for you!!

Val
 

Great pick up Val!

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Great job Val

Glad to have met you 3 years ago at the National at Leon's Table.

Hey John, what you deem to be my "showing off" is merely my feeble attempt to "keep up with the Joneses Wonkatickets," which I now realize is even more futile than ever, especially since you've been "showing off" your incredible N172s, each of which is better looking than all of my 70+ N172 Washington-player cards!!! :D

Seriously, Pete, John, Leon, Jason and Frank, many thanks for the kind comments. You guys and many other Board members have brought me so much pleasure and made this hobby so much more fun for me ever since I found Net 54, which was around the time I retired in 2007 and began having more time to enjoy my hobby.
BEST to ALL,
Val

It's been a real postcard-y few days for me. Here is Bob Lemon's true rookie card, the 1947 Van Patrick postcard.

+1...I always enjoy reading fellow collector's excitement and passion for the hobby when they pick up a key item(s) for their collection...this is one part that is truly awesome about our hobby. Thanks for sharing your story and passion for this great hobby of ours...hopefully it is contagious!

haven't posted in this thread this year
 

Now have fewer than 100 to get. Also grabbed another 40, but then found out I already had it. I guess this is where it starts getting tough:

Well, let's crank out the ol "congrats Val" message - where is it........ oh here it is.

Congrats Val!


Keep up having a great year!

peter

That Cobb run is amazing, downright breathtaking, Congrats

Great postcard, Paul, that's a really tough one to find.

Are you still going after all of the BB HOF RC's?

Phil, I guess I'd say I collect rookie HOFers but I'm not really going after all of them. The Baltimore Ruth and the Just So Young are a bit beyond my expectations.

Another Seal
 

I never intended to go for the whole SF Seal team, but am now only a handful short. Mohler is coming courtesy of Sterling.
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... also never intended to go for a Duffy back run, but I guess I am by default after picking this off the BST (no way I'm chasing the biggies though)
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Ian, how am I supposed to buy any cards if you keep swooping them up??? ;)

Nice cards, man! I'm beginning to like those OBAKS more and more.

Congrats Paul! I was an under bidder on that one. That guy has had lots if nice postcards on eBay recently.

This is my first T206 from the great Cubs teams of that era, but it won't be my last. I just love the hairdo. Thanks Tony!

That hairdo reminds me of this guy. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/02/11/2adepavy.jpg


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Happy to add this T206 Wheat AB 460, with a bit of a WST on the back to boot!

First T206 Cobby!!
 

Got this in the mail this morning. My first Cobb for the raw T206 HOF group that I am working on.

http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps3d066402.jpg

Matt

Great looking AB460 Wheat Scott, very nice PU ;)

Great Cobb! Very nice character to that card. Love the sideways belt buckle, too.

You always remember your first Cobb.... ;)

I don't remember mine. LOL.

I picked up a couple more Series 4 cards to get to just under 75%.If anyone has one they would be willing to part with that I need ill trade handsomely in your favor.Thank you for any help.

Here are a few of my additions this month including my first T206 and Old Judge :D. Still waiting to receive my first postcard.

Jealous here on the Goudeys for sure. Man that Frisch is nice

Picked up this T3 of Devlin, I liked the crop mark.

Well... when you're old enough to have pulled your first Cobb directly from a pack of Sweet Caporal, I can see how it might be tough to remember.


:D ;) :p

A couple recent pickups:

http://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...Youngfront.jpghttp://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...5Youngback.jpg

http://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...teHatFront.jpghttp://caimages.collectors.com/psaim...iteHatBack.jpg

How did you do that?


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He went back in time.....it's actually fairly easy to do. I'm making another trip back at the end of the month if you'd like to tag along :cool:

Now we're talking some toughies! Nice pickups of a couple very hard finds. I love these MMs almost as much as the Cocoas.

Thanks Buddy!

Daryl, glad to see you were able to win the Bender.

DJ

Thanks to the Sterling Auctions for my 1st T3. Lajoie makes this tape look good.

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Thanks again DJ for letting me know about it!

Boo!

Definitely one of my favourites.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2884/1...c7918327_o.jpg

Okay so I'm not into the whole ghosts and miscuts or even t206 for that matter, but the Gibson above is ridiculous!! That is just sick!

Chris.....
 

the "eyes" have it!;) beauty my friend.....I love it! you and I definitely appreciate these gemz:D

Fresh pickup
 

Thought it looked great even for a ten and had to have it!! (Excuse the iPhone picture, my scanner broke...)

Absolutely fantastic card, Chris!

My T206 Gibson back run was completed for all of two hours thanks to that card.
The day I got what I thought was the last card I needed was the day REA made the announcement about that card in an upcoming auction.

I have been pretending it doesn't exist ever since ;)

Cheers,

Richard.

Thanks guys!

Richard, I've really enjoyed watching you build your Gibson collection. An awesome accomplish.

tougher Kahn version of the two...

http://photos.imageevent.com/bicem/r...n%20Lajoie.jpg

Jeff great PC!

Awesome! Congrats Chris! :eek:

Sincerely, Clayton