1937 r314-4
 

My 3rd Schoolboy Rowe.

<a href="http://s1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa471/abothebear/?action=view&amp;current=scan0043.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa471/abothebear/scan0043.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

My pleasure. I'll definitely need to replace that one at some point.

Martin Dihigo just back from SGC
 

I was pretty excited to get this one back from SGC. I actually bought and posted the card last summer, and just now got around to having it graded. Graded better than I thought.

Best regards,

Joe

Joe,

Congrats on the grade with your Dihigo. Hope all is well with you.

Best,

Andy

Finishing the month off with a roughy toughy, which will fit fine in my set. Thanks to Chris at Buckler Cards.

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...1/photo-10.jpg

another T205...
 

with every new T205 I pick up, the more I fall in love with this set. It amazes me that this set seems to get so much less attention than T206s. While I understand the absence of action shots is a strike against it, everything else about it is amazing. The portraits are incredible, the facsimile autographs on the NL player cards, the full write-ups, the gold borders...these are like T206s on crack AND steroids!!! Anyway, back to enjoying the humble start of my T205 collection...

http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...rs-piedmont-25

you didnt just say that??:eek::eek::eek:

Patiently awaiting the inevitable slew of death threats... ;)

Thank You, John and Judy:

awesome Voskamp's! Easily one of my favorite sets.

Beautiful card. Yep, lack of action shots and much smaller set. T206 and T205 - my 2 favorite pre-war sets (and I'm talking about the war to end all wars).

Jeff,

Thank You. I like the set as well. It is not the easiest to find, but I am a determined Pirates collector.

Thank You Again,

Brian Van Horn

Hale Missouri postcard
 

Picked this 1907 real photo postcard up today.

It's been said already, but it's worth saying again: Awesome Voskamp!

Regards,

Richard.

A couple to add to my Evers collection.
http://photos.imageevent.com/mhgt/ho...rkey%20Red.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/mhgt/ho...20-%20Copy.jpg

Nice..........
 

Tony: Really nice looking T206 Rudolf!!

Agreed. 1+

Thanks fella's.......

My first vintage cards in over four years! Thanks Shawn for the E-102! And thanks Jarrod for the Robby!

Richard,

Thank You. I appreciate the compliment.

Brian Van Horn

This showed up for me today.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m...gehrigSGC4.jpg

Great card, Dean, congrats!

Old pick-up, but I finally got a photo taken. ml die-cuts Dickey.

Very clean example Dean. Nicely done.

Very clean card Dean. Great pickup!

Thanks guys. I'm very happy with it. It is really clean and the focus is dead on. The first pre-war card I bought was this card, but in a PSA 8, back in 2000. I quickly realized that I would have a very small collection if I kept going after 8's. So I sold it and started going after mid-grade cards and I have no regrets. It's a thrill to find mid-grade cards with great eye appeal. :)

Wow! Just won these on the bay for way less than I thought? Makes me wonder what I'm missing???? An HOF in 60 for less than 200..:) And added another one to my N.Y. Amer. for less than 90..:) Maybe just a little OC?

Great deals for sure.


I will add to the compliments on that '33 Gehrig - that's about as good as you could want for that card.

Thank You, Scott and Thank You Historic Images (O/T) for the reunion picture of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame plus one of their tackles, James Boland.

Gotta love a guy named "Peaches"...
 

This is card #12 on my long road to completing a T205 set in VGish condition...not sure if this qualifies as the black signature or the blue signature or maybe a little bit of both...

http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...-sweet-caporal

Picked up a couple more T210-2's off Ebay last week.

question
 

for those of you that collect T210, i want to know why..

since they are all minor leaguers, you cant be player collectors..is it for the thrill of the chase? have you completed sets of real Major leaguers already?
is it the belief that they are undervalued?

thanks for the response...

I don't collect this set, but I think it's because many people like how the set looks and that the cards are reasonably affordable. Also, there is an iconic card in the set, i.e., the T210 Shoeless Joe Jackson, which is arguably his most valuable card.

I think its one of cleanest looking sets out there, if I decide to move away from the T206s, it is high on my list of potential sets.

Don't forget the T210 Casey Stengel which is also a very popular (and expensive) card as well.

interesting opinion....i bet if they were color lithographs instead of black and white, their popularity would be off the charts...

I collect -2's because they are all Virginia Based teams and the set has 15+ Hometown Richmond Colt Cards to collect.And its alot more challenging than my other collections by far.

Lots of minor league issues are highly collected. Obaks and Zeenuts come to mind. I collect T210's because they offer cards of teams that you can't find with any other set. If it weren't for the T210 set, the T206 Foley White card would be the only pre-war card made of a Houston Buffalo player. On top of that I think they're gorgeous cards.

Maybe Im the one guy who bought a T210 minor leaguer based on the player and not on the set. Or maybe not. Collecting interests can be extremely diverse.

T210's...
 

Scott - I love T210's for many reasons including (in no particular order) :

- Massive set with many scarce cards which presents a bit of a challenge and also a solid number of rare cards that you may only see once in your lifetime.
- The set contains many Major Leaguer's with a story to tell... (Fun research set)
- The set can be collected by portrait, batters, fielders, catchers with gear, or by town or city, state, team, league, or even by series. (8 series - 51 teams)

A collector can collect this set in such a variety of ways. I have enjoyed collecting the set over the last decade + and it still excites me.

Living in the Columbia, SC area it was a natural to collect T210 Series 1 Columbia players. I've considered jumping on Charleston, Greenville, etc. but haven't made the move yet.

Just scored this T206 Cobb Bat on. :)

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=5944

Cool double name Cobb

Thanks! I found it on the forum, it was listed last year and suprisingly he still had it. Lucky me!

Evers Sov460
 

Here's a recent pickup of mine. A somewhat tougher Evers back:

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ersASov460.jpghttp://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Sov460Back.jpg

Just in from Hawaii
 

Thanks Frank. From the BST:

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...OS/auw560s.jpg

Filling some holes in the sets...

My very first baseball card purchase came from a 1958 Topps box like this one. Impulse buy :D

Hey Bob, nice - I won the other one:

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...splay_Box1.jpg

Well, since the January 2012 pickup thread is getting less attention than the January 2011, I just wanted to round it out with a Thank You to David:

two in the mail today
 

Chalked up #198 in my SGC40 collection in a pickup from Ralph... and landed the Eddie Collins name on top from Bobby. Thanks to both of you!

#200
 

<a href="http://s150.photobucket.com/albums/s81/T206ster/?action=view&amp;current=200Magee.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s81/T206ster/200Magee.jpg" border="0" alt="200 Magee"></a>

Sorry, posted this to the wrong year earlier.

My end of another trade, $-In-Shield Steinfeldt and American Lg. Pub. Co. Berger. Love these PC's!

I've wanted one of the 1908 George Wright Postcard of Morgan Bulkeley for a long time now. And somehow I ended up with two of these beauties from the bay...One with address lines, and one without. Every other one I've seen so far has had the lines. YAY! VARIATIONS :D

Nice, David.

I'll have to remember to check the back of mine the next time I have it in hand.

Here's my Bulkeley postcard...............

Actually now that I'm looking, the photo on the front is different as well. The one you sold in '09 was the other photo. Very nice Phil.

Ok, some Dec. pickups in here, but thought I'd share . . .

and a few more . . .
 

two more . . .

Wheat Domino Disc.
 

Just picked up this Zach Wheat Domino Disc. Thanks Phil.

Happy with this one.
 

Picked up this "clean-cut" Feller from a fellow Board Member.

Gorgeous looking Feller.