My April pickups of Diamond Stars HOFers, including eight from PWCC this past weekend and a couple through B/S/T here.

Nine more to go.

i finally pulled the trigger on ewing...to complete my n43 set.

That Ewing is amazing Pete! Congrats!

(R87)


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Nice Pete!

Vic Willis. Piedmont back
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Recently picked up the greenish tint version of the Snookums card on the left to match the yellow one on the right that I already had.

You may not get the recognition over here as you should but that is an awesome pickup! The Ruth image on the super rare R87 trio is great! You just need the other 3 cards to make the set of 6 to see who the other ballplayers are, MUCH easier said than done!

Thanks to Greg Mitchell on BST for my one and only Old Judge Cabinet:

Denny Lyons played on the very first professional Base Ball team from my hometown, the 1885 Columbus (GA) Stars.

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Numbers 289, 290 and 291 are back with the others
 

and a great surprise with number 289.

John Taylor at TnT Collectibles near Pittsburgh has been the source of quite a few cards over the years. A couple of weeks ago, we had a miscommunication over a card, and after a series of emails, he just went through his current inventory and found all the cards he had that Howe had stamped, made an offer and sold in a group rather than go through the auction process on eBay.

When the package arrived today, there was a great surprise with the Jordan card, as it has Howe's "other" stamp, using his first name Urich, and listing him as an agent for the Saturday Evening Post, but still with the home/grocery address listed. Like the other two I've seen and been able to acquire, the stamp is in green, which doesn't seem to hold up as well over time (the others are quite faint also) but really is a wonderful surprise to have arrive.

John had told me the Myers stamp was really strong, and he wasn't kidding on that, either.

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<a href="http://s150.photobucket.com/user/T206ster/media/291%20Pelty%20Front_zpsiouzqr6m.png.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s81/T206ster/291%20Pelty%20Front_zpsiouzqr6m.png" border="0" alt=" photo 291 Pelty Front_zpsiouzqr6m.png"/></a> <a href="http://s150.photobucket.com/user/T206ster/media/291%20Pelty%20Back_zps5nve5dmu.png.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s81/T206ster/291%20Pelty%20Back_zps5nve5dmu.png" border="0" alt=" photo 291 Pelty Back_zps5nve5dmu.png"/></a>

Again, thanks to everyone on the board for keeping an eye out for these. I really appreciate it.

Nice cards Ed!

Happy to get my first one of these:

Luke,

Congrat's, I was determined to get that one, but I was at work when it closed, and couldn't bid. Fate was conspiring with you on that one! Glad to see it went to such a good guy. :)

Andy, love the Hornsby, especially.

Pete, beautiful A&G.

Wait, I thought you said Luke got it? :D

Thanks Bill.

I got the Hornsby today. It is my highest graded DS HOFer at 4.5. I decided to go a little nicer than the rest (I know the group photo isn't great ... my budget being what it is the others are almost all 2, 2.5, or 3).

It serves double duty as necessary for the DS collection and also as my only Hornsby; someone I definitely want in my collection in contrast to, say, Red Ruffing (whose example in the Quigley collection features the card number written in pencil on the front top right corner). Still, when I display them all together they look better than I hoped.

I won the Hornsby by 66 cents. My snipe v. another snipe. Mine was in about 20 seconds earlier than his. If it were reversed I guess he would have gotten the card because while my bid was higher by $0.66, it wouldn't have been large enough to satisfy the minimum bid increment. I think that's right ... someone please feel free to correct me.

Thanks.

Thank you, Bill:

lol... thanks guys! :D

Beautiful card, David

That's a really nice Lajoie, David. Congrats on winning it.

PWCC has been selling some incredible examples of his T206s recently. I was watching a couple of the portraits he sold. This one blew me away. That's a PSA 6 w/ a dark green Sovereign back. Then there was this PSA 4. That one looks under-graded to me.

I can't wait to own some of these.

A few Brockelman wins.

From the underbidder, congrats! E107s are tough!

A few T209 pickups to get to 25% of the set. Thanks to DavidBVintage for these.

It isn't raining rain you know.

Welcome back:

Just picked this up in a trade for two of my toughest Ruth cards plus one of my favorite Ruth cards of all time (1921 E121).

Some new pickups thanks to Mr. Lipset.

PC805 Al Bridwell
1903-1904 Columbus
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E271 Darby Candy Wrapper
Just for fun
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Boston Sun Herald Doc Gessler and Bowerman
Doc Gessler 1907 Columbus
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1906 Charlie Starr Photo
1905 and 1907 Youngstown Iron Workers Team
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Let's throw these ones in as well. From another fellow board member.

Molesworth was the manager for Columbus 1923-1925

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very nice...which ruth cards?????

Chippin' away at my '38 Goudey set

Interesting trade

It would seem mainstream Ruth's +1, for a D304 Cobb is interesting in trade but we know Gary (hey Gary) is shrewd. And that is no ordinary D304, it's really a cut above. Congrats on that one, Gary. Great looking card.

Thanks for the comments, everyone! I think it was a very fair and equal trade for both of us. I definitely gave up a lot of tough Ruth cards that now I have to go out and find again and hope the prices will still be reasonable. However, the Brunners has always been on my want list, and I probably could not have picked up a nice copy without a trade like this.

Love the Cobb bat off Joey.

da 'Stache
 

Arrived yesterday! Thanks MyBuddyInc!
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Not in the best condition, but I am in love with it!

Thanks man!

My poor man punch card of a HOFer! (Cuban Hall Of Fame)

E94 Lobert
 

An upgrade for my set...

Nice Cobbs.

Poor?........nice card

John Lloyd graded Authentic 94,875 (Hakes)
Pete Hill graded Authentic 64,936 (Hakes)
Ty Cobb graded Authentic I think 13k (Ebay) a steal BTW
Luis Padron graded Authentic 11,243 (Hakes)

And then my poor mans punch card which was under 10k.

Thank you Joe as that type card has always eluded me over the decades and finding one without the little hole in it, made it a must own. Wish I had one with the punch ad back which is ten times tougher!

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Very nice.

Wow
 

Fantastic eye appeal on that Cobb!

Wow Gary. What a spectacular card. Congrats.
That said.. Please don't stop being a crazy Babe Ruth fan/collector.

Thank you, Ken.

T205 Peaches Graham (Cubs)
 

Picked up this nice George "Peaches" Graham T205 from Sterling Sports Auctions to go with my T205 & colored S74 silks catcher project.


Thanks Lee!

Patrick

Sterling & David B.
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I've been lurking in the water's........Nit picking here and there in 52 Bowman.

Beckett had one JOB! Apparently I own the only T207 Eddie Collins known to man :rolleyes:

Picked up a nice O'Brien with great color.

FINALLY got a 3-Finger portrait at a very affordable price sub $75

And a HUGE thank you to the one and only Cool Hand Luke Lyon for the financing of my very first WAJO :)