Leon, I'm curious. Hope you don't mind my asking, what % of your current collection are recoveries from your first collection?

Hey Val
As far as what I have now, vs what have now And used to own, I would guess only around 4% to 5%, is what I used to own. That is on individual cards. The value of those might be closer to 10%...
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Incoming…probably the nicest PSA 1 I’ve seen in this card.

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Bob and Rob

Congrats Great Cards

And

Rob you are right the eye appeal on the Cobb is better than the grade

Last nights win in Goldin

Fortunate to add this to my collection

Congrats, Jeff and Sam!

Wonderful card, Jeff. Congrats
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Congrats, Jeff, you got it for a really cheap price too.

Phenomenal card, Jeff. I was guessing that you were going after that one. Congrats!

Incredible pickup, Jeff! I love that card.

Blue Birds
 

Anyone here win the 2 Ruth Blue Birds in scrapbook tonight? If not what's the thought on the price.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/30610296350...mis&media=COPY

Very nice Jeff. Congrats!


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Thank you everyone appreciate the kind words about my card

The best part of this group is the sharing of each others collections and
The feedback and different topics.

Keep those cards coming

cool scrapbook...i missed that one. really cool to see vintage blue birds seeing as the only ones ive seen are rather high grade.

I put a snipe in but was way low. I was concerned about them coming out without too much back damage. There was good upside if they can be safely removed without that damage, no doubt.
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Shoulderless Ruth
 

Congrats Jeff! Nice to see it stay here with a
Net54 member!!

Sam

Thanks Sam

There are so many great board members who have great and diverse collections that I hope we all keep collecting and keep sharing.

This I am hoping to keep in my long term collection unless something over the top comes up

Happy to keep this in the N54 family and add another piece of Leon's old collection to mine

1923 world series game 1...1st ws game at the NEW...yankee stadium.

Wow and Wow

Great Card and Love the Ad Back

Congrats

Granted that you can't really get much information from an inflation calculator when you're trying to compare time frames 100 years apart, but that said:

$5.50 in 1923 works out to about $100 in 2025. Not bad for third-row lower-deck tickets to a World Series game!

That's not just a rare Successful Farming back Jackson. It's a no number on front Jackson. Those are even rarer.

Nothing major but I'm starting to build up my pre-war collection.

I'm enjoying the different ad backs in the M101-4 series. Is there a guide to the relative rarity of the different backs (e.g. Sporting News vs Weil vs Globe?

Here is a link to the Old Cardboard website that has a chart Net54 members Tim and Todd created about the scarcity and relative availabilty of the M101-4 and M101-5 backs.


https://www.oldcardboard.com/m/m101-4/m101pop.asp


and a link to an updated and detailed back article by Todd that is a pdf file on the Old Cardboard website:

https://www.oldcardboard.com/m/m101-...scarcity4b.pdf


Brian

................. HOF (mis-cut ;)) ..... Ohio State Lg. :p ....... Fed .............. :)

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Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

I was able to upgrade a couple backs in the T206 HOF set. I should probably finish the set before doing upgrades, but that’s no fun!

Enjoy the weekend,
Bob

Last pick up for a while.
Time to regroup

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You could at least take a new picture :). That is a great card....Congrats,


And Jeff.,...those 2 Ruths are off the charts! Congrats.

Wow, Jeff, crazy huge pickup. Definitely one of the top 10 Ruth cards. Congrats!

Amazing Ruth, Jeff!

Congrats Jeff.

Thanks Leon, Gary, Jason and Phil

To much great stuff coming to fast

This is my Best February ever for pickups.

Now I am going to sit back and enjoy and re-group

Looking forward to whatever everyone in the board picks up and shares

Great Ruth card. If you haven't received it yet, make sure not to throw it out when it arrives. If I remember the hobby lore correctly, many years ago Barry Halper accidentally tossed out a Ruth Butter Cream that he won.


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Well that is one way to keep the population count down.

And I will keep it in mind to avoid the same outcome

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Haven't been picking up much lately but did pick up a few new N172 Old Judge cards I liked and thought it would be fun to make a video sharing some of my favorite cards I have from that set (including the new cards)

Newer pickups:
N172 John Crooks (Sliding Pose)
N172 John Tener (would go on to become Governor of Pennsylvania & President of the National League)
N172 Frank Foreman (Baltimore) -Great image

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For fun I searched the web for the Barry Halper Butter Cream Ruth story, and found a 2007 post from a Net54 thread discussing it in more detail, which I have quoted below.

Brian


I had the following story told to me tonight about a Butter Cream Ruth:

Shortly after it was discovered that there indeed was a Ruth card in the Butter Cream set (we're going back quite a few years here), one was offered in an auction. Barry Halper was interested in the card but told the person running the auction that he wasn't thrilled with the minimum bid. The Ruth card ended up not drawing a bid (!), and the next day Halper, who was high bidder on one other item in the auction, said he would purchase the Ruth for the minimum bid.

The other item that Halper won was rather bulky, so the Ruth was packed in a smaller box, which was placed in the larger box that contained the bulky item. I'll skip a few details that aren't that relevant to the story, but the end result was that Halper didn't realize the Butter Cream Ruth had been shipped with the other item, and that Ruth got thrown out with the larger box and packing materials.

So, an incredibly scarce card got even scarcer that day.

Well done on the research Brian. Makes sense on how it can happen but wow what a loss I wonder what that looked like and what it would have been worth today

Swung by the closest card shop yesterday to buy a storage box and found a prewar card! I felt it was my duty to support them, so added a nice looking 1929 Kashin Lloyd Waner

Enjoy,
Bob

Nice pick-ups Jamie. I was the underbidder on three of these.

Chad

I almost "tossed my cookies" when I read about Halper's Butter Cream Ruth. Yikes!

Great card, Jeff!

Big thanks to Luke for a trade that landed me a nice Cobb. Luke was the best and a pleasure to work with.

The color and especially the registration on your Cobb is real nice...congrats!

Brian

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Thanks Brian and Phil!

Pleased to pick this up off Heritage.

Fun fun

teenage Ty

..................... Man, some great T206 backs !!!!!

............... A little of everything ..... HOF ..... Fed. Lg. ...... low pops ........ :)

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I like the "big border" Mullin, as a 1914 FL champ...... and Collins .............. ;)

Fun, fun (I got to trade mark that :p), Scott :rolleyes:

T213s
 

Those are nice Scott...Jerry

That was a great article by Todd and Tim. However, it needs an update to reflect all the Morehouse backs that have popped up recently. Apparently, there is also another large group that may hit the market soon.

Great looking card!!

Thanks Brian

And I can confirm mine was not tossed it made it safely to a good home.

Now time to relax and enjoy until the next (and something may be brewing)

Thanks Leon! Fantastic eye appeal for a 1.5. Looks great in hand.

Picked up in the last Heritage auction a T3 McGraw, one of my favorite Turkey Reds.