+1

OT for the era, but happy with this pickup:

Skinner
 

Great pick up

Nice speaker

Darn you, Ryan! I was the underbidder on that SGC 7 Matty. Gorgeous card. Nicely done.

Triple play!
 

After a slow month in January, I have had a brisk month of February with regards to pickups. These three arrived today.

Picked up a George Gibson T205 with American Beauty back on eBay, then a Billy Sullivan from Sterling Sports Auctions, and lastly another Eddie Ainsmith T207. Weird how my pickups went in American Card Catalog order!



Patrick

Walsh Old Mill
 

Grabbed this tough front/back combo. Just love the Walsh t206 and wanted a rare Back of his issue.

Nice pickup on the Gibson AB, Patrick. I made a half-hearted attempt to pick it up on the cheap simply because they are super rare, but in the end, just drove the price up on you. Sorry about that -- had I known who I was bidding against, I'd have happily settled for only having one, and backed off.

Cheers,

Richard.

No worries Richard!
 

No worries Richard!

Figured I stole it for $41.00.

Patrick

T200 Fatima Detriot team
 

Picked this up on PWCC and can't figure out why it didn't get a numerical grade.
But will fit nice into my set

This Hands on Hip Johnston finishes of my first of four planned N172 pose runs. I have the same N173 image and two variation OJ's so still a bit of work to do for the master Johnston set. This one wrapped up surprisingly quick!

Thanks Luke! My first Coupon.

Done with first 49 set!
 

Satchmo!

Zeenut
 

Could not resist this one.....

Nice Michael!

Upgrade
 

Upgraded my SGC 1 to this guy. No creases, no folds, complete opposite of my other one. Been looking for a while for a nice copy.

Thanks Ryan, you mean the T206, er I mean Coupon?

:)

That T207 Vaughn makes me want to collect T207s. Sweet card!

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Thrilled
 

Happy early birthday present for myself, least that's the justification to the wifey.

Wow! Gorgeous and tough card. Among the most undervalued cards in the hobby in my opinion. Congrats Brad.

An E104-2 Wilson and an E105 of some guy named Wagner.

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Jayzus!

Great pickup Craig!

Thanks Clint. Glad to bring this one back to IA. Fits so well into my collection.

My two February pickups are the two roughest in my collection, but I have to say I don't enjoy them any less :)

Very nice Mark (both).

Thanks Orlando!

Picked up my 1st crackerjack!!

Nice start. Congratulations!

Nice job Jason! Getting a pose run is a pretty tough task to pull off. Let me take a wild guess, are Jim Powell, Mouse Glenn and Billy Nash the other three players you are going to do a pose run on? If so, Powell will probably be the most challenging. Good luck !

Jay

Happy to add a few more type cards.



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Dave, nice pick ups!

I especially like the T206.

:)

That Tango Eggs is sharp for the grade! Nice pick-up.

My recent prewar pick ups:

Re-posting the Cobb card due to poor image in previous post:

Thank you Jay its been a blast and Is till appreciate you helping along the way. You are correct that is the 4 main players I am looking for. Throw local boy Pop Tate in for good measure and we will call it 5.

That’s a bunch of nice cards Shain, congrats 🍾

I love the
 

E100 Bishop and Co. Never seen one! Very cool piece!

Jason, great accomplishment. Both Powell and Glenn are on my want list as well for my Sioux City run. GL sir.
Craig

Thank you sir!!

Interesting eBay pick up. Holmes to Homes, upside down.

E90 Plank
 

Welcome home Gettysburg Eddie.

Incredible cards guys! Love that upside-down Holmes to Homes Crawford!

Here is my latest:Attachment 345217Attachment 345218


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Fantastic group there Shain. Congrats!

Wow Glenn, that’s a great card. Congrats. Don’t see many of those, rightside up or upside down.

Great pickup Glenn. I have an upside down Holmes to Homes of a common player (Burns).

Thanks, guys. Guess there's a good chance Crawford and Burns were printed on the same sheet. I wonder if there are any other upside-down Holmes to Homes cards lurking out there.

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Some nice cards by all - and Holmes to Homes one of my favorites.


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Picked up four more of these in the mail today -


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Love the Stevens Firearms Dave. Great pick ups man.

huge back run addition...thanks Steve!

Jay, awesome.

Those are awesome and extremly scarce. Congrats!!!!

Found a upgrade for my r315 foxx!

Jay, that’s a hell of a tough combo, love it

Well, I missed out on the two Middy Bread cards on eBay Saturday night because of problems with my cell phone while at the Penguins vs Flyers Stadium Series game in Philadelphia, but this helps:

Never fear.....I don't use cell phones. :)

Well, what do you know? The hook worked.

Thank you, Leon!

Apparently it worked better than your phone.....

LOL! Touche.

pretty!

New Pairing
 

I am not really a card guy anymore than I am a photo guy, but this pairing was just too neat for me to pass up doing. Always like players like Bill Bruton, who have a rich contextual relationship to a ball club. On Opening Day 1953 (at Crosley Field), he became the first Milwaukee Brave to:

-Come to bat in an official major league game.

-Get a base hit in an official major league game

-Score a run in an official major league game.


Dave Grob

davegrob1@aol.com

This Milwaukee-area resident thinks this is awesome -- congrats!

Number 337 in the rebuild collection arrived today
 

And while I'm excited with every one that is added, this one is cool because it is one of the "lost cards." John Scott contacted me late last week and said he had one he wanted to reunite with the others and in our discussion, found out it was a Bergen that he had acquired at the same time I was just starting to really focus my collection on only Howe's cards. But I had missed this one on eBay, and only had the scans from that auction back in 2009. It arrived today, and comparing the scans, it is the Lost Bergen. With it off the list, that leaves 37 cards I know exist with the stamp on them, 27 of which I have no idea where they are. But even one off that list is big. Thanks, John.

Ed have you ever found a duplicate of a card also stamped?

Yes, Mike, there are many duplicates
 

Going back to March of 2017 (the last time I really counted), of the 311 cards I had at that time, there are 238 that had one card of the player/pose, 59 had two copies of the player in that pose, 12 cards had three of in the same player/pose, and two cards I with four copies of the same player/pose.

We can up that last one just a bit, because one of the cards I got from REA in the fall was copy number four of Lundgren/Chicago.

Seems strange that he had four of a card that is/was considered one of the tougher commons. Another one is Southern Leaguer Ed Foster, with a Hindu back. I have two, and I know of one more example that is out there, but isn't mine. Tough card with a tough back.

Makes me wonder as older collectors decide to sell or their heirs sell what other rarer cards might come out that have the stamp.

S74 George "Admiral" Schlei colored silk
 

Picked up this nice S74 silk from Mark Macrae.

I now just need a colored S74 silk of George "Peaches" Graham, and my run of catchers in the colored S74 silks will be complete.

Plenty of items available to trade or I can purchase outright!

Thanks again Mark!


Patrick

Old Trade card..

Couldn't resist this Georgia Lefty:

Does anyone know anything about Charles Bray?

I just did a forum search on 'Bray' and am very honored to have one of his cards joining my collection. Way Cool!


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...I decided to go against my policy of not purchasing graded cards this low, but it is another from Charles Bray AND it's stamped!

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Chester Hoff
 

Picked up a Factory 25 to complete my back run.......

Leon I love 19th century baseball themed trade cards and collect them. I have that one. I am always looking for others. I have Frank's book which I regard as the Bible for what might be out there.