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... seventy or eighty years of exposure to cigarette/cigar smoke protects your glossy photos from fading....

...I'm still working on cleaning it.....diluted alcohol has brought some relief to the left and right border areas ; ---and as a side note it does the same for me too . Guy named Jose Cuervo ( no relation ).


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Sweet pick up Pete, and Nadja to boot. I made a modest run at it, but glad to see you ended up with it.

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My Latest Walter:
 

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....upgraded , but I still want to carefully clean the grime off the surface of my original...there are books on restoring old photographs but not much information about simply cleaning them up a bit...Worch are very glossy and on a sturdy stock.....I may experiment......anyone ever had any success in "soaking" a soiled glossy-surface photograph? Thanks , MikeGarcia

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Soaking not advised
 

Mike,

Would not advise soaking for this issue nor for T222 Fatimas. Because they are actual photographs with photographic gloss soaking will dissolve the gloss off of the photo, thereby altering them.

Patrick

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Dave, great looking Gehrig!

I'm not familiar with Tauscher but my word, that's quite the leg kick. I can imagine all the hitters must of saw was legs, a glove, and then a baseball. It looks like he's standing on his right leg and leaning backwards. If Tauscher was a hard thrower it must of been terrifying to try to hit. Even for the era that windup looks extreme.

Gulp!
 

I've been sucked in to collecting all the T206 backs now. Scratched a fairly tough one off the list and couldn't resist the Collins.

Dave, I can't blame you, that Collins is a cool card. Nice pick ups on all.

what are we not seeing on that Collins? it looks gorgeous!

Picked up a Zach Wheat E-120.

Thanks Ed!

Scott ...the Colins has a very light crease running from top to bottom ... really hard to see. Really harsh grade in my opinion.

Dave, that's a really nice Carolina Brights. :)

Two pre-war and one post (b/c I am too lazy to post it on the other side!).

Bryan, that's a great looking Reggie for the grade!!

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....Smokey Steve Sundra pitching in the minors.....some of you know him from making it to the New York Yankees late in the thirties .

...the odd browned bits of old 1930's "adhesive tape" are staying on the backs of all these photos because as they're being cleaned ( only the grime on the fronts ) they are going back into/onto the one-of-a-kind hand-made wall poster of the Minneapolis Millers/St. Paul Saints teams which I'm tidying up as much as possible without doing any actual repairs or card-doctoring......the tape is frail and brittle but it's part of the charm and history of the poster so I'm being careful to preserve everything about the piece.


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Picked up a few here and there, but this one I particularly like (registration's good, scanner's bad).

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T213-2 Davis Phila
 

Here's the T213-2 Davis "Phila", which is the more difficult variation. "Philadelphia" is the more commonly found example...

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couple recents

Rickey card is sweet, never seen the Exhibit Paige how tough is it?

I don't think too tough. 45 examples graded by PSA. Exhibits are also very reasonably priced which is refreshing given what CJ's command.

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I thought this was pretty cool. 1948 team issued greeting card with photo of the team--photo is seperate item glued to front of the card. Middle seated row far left is a VERY young HOFer Dick Williams in his second year in the Minor Leagues (predates his first other item known by a few years).

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Just in from Japan
 

Just in from Japan....another Menko catcher, Hasegawa.

Patrick

That's really interesting. What's the year on that? At first I was thinking 1930 or so but that doesn't seem right. Is it postwar?

Is there a back? I'd love to take a look if that's not too much trouble.

I'm intrigued.

1950'S Menko
 

Hi David,

Menkos were issued over a long period of time in Japan. This one was listed as 1950. Here is the back. Some have designs while others are blank.

Patrick

Got the Wiltse from Royce's recent BST listing (thanks Royce). Maybe the nicest 2 I've seen. The others are recent pickups that I'm just getting around to posting.

T213-2's
 

Picked up these 3, which puts me at 91. Getting close to the half way mark.

Thanks Patrick,

That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Great stuff guys

Wow
 

Hey Luke,
Great pickups. Those are really nice for the grade for sure. Especially the Wiltse

OPC DiMaggio
 

I've wanted this card for decades. It's nice to finally pick it up.

GEORGE: Can I say one thing to you? And I say this with an unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality.

JERRY: Absolutely.

GEORGE: ..It's fabulous

G is so....G :rolleyes:

Congrats on the pickup! Is the OPC Dimaggio a really tough card to find?

E-Bay "Search"
 

E-Bay search of " 1937 Dimaggio" will answer your question......please be downsitting when results appear , to avoid injury....


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July Pickups
 

Really excited to get a E102 Matthewson. I recently commissioned Tim Carroll to do one of his beautiful cut art masterpieces of this card so I really wanted this to go with it!

forget condition that's a beautiful card.

Now back to condition. how is that a 4? Back issues?

Yes. Don't have scan but there is some dark smudging on upper edge on the back.

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Nice Matty, Aaron!

Fantastic card!!

Uber-tough Cy portrait Old Mill. Just 3 on the SGC POP report, just 8 at PSA. That's 11 in total. There are 9 Hindus.

If only I actually collected these...

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Tom C

Very happy to pick up another Ramly pack. These things re so difficult to find, I'll never pass up the opportunity to get one.