I would agree that pose 3 (Stooping to field grounder) is his toughest as it was only issued in 1888. All his other poses were either issued in both 1888 and 1889 or just 1889 with the 1889 cards being more common than the 1888 examples. Nice card.

Thanks Joe....I had noticed over the years that I have only seen maybe 1 or 2 of this pose (from 1888) offered for sale or at auction.....

Thanks, Joe! I'm pretty happy with all the tough ones I have acquired over the years. Most of them are in pretty decent shape picture-wise. I might post a few more later and one is a tad ugly! :D

A Few More...
 

...as promised (including the aforementioned ugly McQuaid).

Nice....especially that O'Connor Columbus!!


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Kevin--great cards of some really scarce players. Didn't you also have a Taylor Shafer?

Blondy Purcell
 

Nice cards all.

A few more of mine

Wow, guys! I love that Visner card...that is freaking great.

Great stuff everybody! Keep them coming!
JimB

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Jay:

Did John Dreker put you up to asking that question? He'll never let me live that down. I saw a Taylor Shafer once at a Fort Washington show, but by the time I got back to the seller who had it you had already bought it! :( So, if you ever want to sell it...

John:

That particular Visner has one of the best pictures I have ever seen on an Old Judge card. The scan doesn't do it justice. Brooklyn had those god-awful uniforms that looked like graph paper and you can see the lines in his shirt and pants. I had zero interest in him as a player, but when I saw the image I just had to have it. It also helped that it looks like someone just stole his beer money! :D

:-)

I agree that the Visner card has an incredible image. Visner looks to be a mean sucker - I wouldn't want to incur his wrath!
Val

Not always mean. Here he is praying for more beer money.

LOL, I need to find a Visner now.

Jim amazing cards.

A few repeats, but here are my HOFers, along with Ned. My all-time favorite set!

Well, we have that in common then!

P.S. Did you have your thumb amputated? :D

P.P.S. Nice stuff, Jim!

Thread is OJs, didn't say they had to be baseball.... :)


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Fred:

You've been holding out on me, brother! You have an unidentified Hafner, too! Nicely done!

Kevin

Fred--how did you get a Corcoran away from John?

Jay,

I did it the only way possible... I BEGGED..... I mean really BEGGED... I threw my dignity out the window and BEGGED.... I almost had to fly to the east coast and carry a cardboard sign that said "will BEG for a Larry card..."....

Kevin,

That Hafner came from the Oregon Find. You can barely read the name Hafner at the bottom, it is very faint. After Dave sold it to me he kind of let me know that he let it go too cheap... :D Well, I didn't think it was that cheap...

That must have been the only card from that find that got sold too cheap.

"P.S. Did you have your thumb amputated? "

Don't be bitter. I'm sure another Taylor Shafer is just around the corner.

A public service message to the board...
 

It never gets old...... :)

Angyale

Clevelands best player in 1888
 

Ed McKean

Angyale

Eric--nice McKean run!

I hope I get a Taylor Shafer card just so I can trade it for Kevin's Daniels card

Amazing Cards, Great thread
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Eric:

That is one OJ I do not have that I really wish I did!

Kevin

Would you take a Larry Corcoran card instead? :D

Let me look at my checklist, see if I have him. I have this horrible habit of buying cards I like and finding out I already have the card/player

Hey John, the next time there's a Corcoran for sale, let me know.... I'd be happy to remind you that you already have 1.... (or two, or three or xxxxxx)... You had to figure you walked right into this thread respose... :p

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Ted--you've got some great cards in that group.

Here are 2 new ones from Joe G. and Jay.

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For those who have never seen it--here is the photographers proof for the McGreachery (Deacon White) portrait.

Clarkson
 

Another OJ

Love seeing these photos.....amazing cards all round!

A few new additions...
 

Just got these two in the mail, with a few more good ones coming very soon.

A Darnbrough "no name" card and a Germany Long team over print...

I don't think any cards of this HOFer have been showed yet:

Low and outside. Good eye Connie

Printer's scrap is unheard of in the Old Judge set. This is the only such piece I have ever seen. Please note that the Gleason Browns Champ shares the card with a bit of low number series card 5, which is the King Kelly catch, hands chest high pose.

Jay, that has to be one of the coolest cards I've seen. Wow!

What's great about that card is that although only a tiny remnant of the second card is visible, it's the number #5, positively identifying it. Very impressive.

Really neat card Jay.


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Absolutely one of the cooler OJ cards I've seen in a while.

First one I've ever seen. Really cool!

A few more new ones...
 

A few more...

Nice Worcester pickup!

This is one of the most interesting Old Judges I have ever found. As most/some of you know, sheets of Old Judges were made by rephotographing cabinet size photographs produced from glass plate negatives. If you look closely at the bottom of this card you will see the words "OLD JUDGE CIGARETTES". Those words, in that format, are not found on any N172. The only place to find that line is on the mount of an Old Judge cabinet. Thus, when making this card (and possibly the sheet it came from, Old Judge cabinets were used to provide cabinet sized images, instead of just albumen photograph prints.

The "Thumb" strikes again...very cool card Jay!

Not baseball, but how many of you have ever seen a Large Gypsy Queen size Old Judge card

That is a cool item.

Extremely cool card Jay, thanks for sharing. Have you ever seen another one, same pose or otherwise? When the card maker compiled a matrix of 24 cabinet sized images I suspect the photos were rarely mounted on full size cabinet mount as they needed to be trimmed down so as to not affect the neighboring cards. But to see your Weber with the OLD JUDGE mount at least partially present, what a treat.

Joe--I have never seen another.

My new addition, O'Connor Columbus!!!!http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/07/13/uhy7e9ym.jpg



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Great pickup Steve. O'Connor is a very scarce card.

Jay showed some non-Baseball so I don't feel bad showing these two Goodwin & Co. cards, I have never seen another of each "set"...

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Neat cards Rhett, especially the one with the French caption

Two new ones
 

Really excited to pick these 2 up!

Just back from vacation and catching up to more beautiful examples.. thank you to all posting.

Macullar/Maskrey misidentified - New example

Maskrey in photo, Macullar listed - ball cropped out of photo (slight variant to 295-1)

I am really getting a kick out of searching for OJs out there. Finding good and bad cards out there.

The nicest "pink" OJ I've seen . . .
 

Jay,

If you're still following this thread I had a quick question -

Where in the "OJ spectrum" of "hard to get" would you rate the Phenomenal Smith portrait card? How does this card rate in the order of "rarity" when compared to the spotted ties?

Thanks!

Hi Fred! The Phenominal Smith portrait is a very scarce card, as scarce or scarcer than most of the spotted ties, possibly with the exceptions of Behel and Brady. It is scarcer than all of the Connor, Gerhardt, Kelly, Welch, Esterbrook, Orr, and Lynch script cards (one Lynch script pose may be as scarce). Unfortunately, it also tends to come with a light photo.

Who thinks Jay needs a manicure? ;)
JimB

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Sorry for the stray Dukes card in upper right.....think the pink one may be an Australian.....like the Pope card......

Jay - Thank you!

Tom - I love the non-Sport OJs, they are pretty cool (IMO).

Bump to keep the thread alive. Here is a pink tint coupled with a non-pink tint from same scan, no trickery to make the pink look darker.

Best pink OJ I have........
 

Jim McAleer ("normal" Albert for comparison).

Angyal

Pinkish cards can have sharp images. Unfortunately, in most instances they do not. Scarcer than the pink tints are the purple tints. Unlike the pink tints, they usually have nice photos, sometimes very nice ones.

Now you are going to have to show us one! :D

Troublemaker--now I have to remember which players I have with that tint.

Also Jay if you could whack your thumb with a hammer prior to showing us that way the thumb is sort of purple...it would give us something as a reference color to compare against and would be a big help. :)

Like this? ;)

Kevin exactly. :)

This is not the purple I was thinking of, more redish pink. I will find the purple one and post image at a later date.