Picked up the Lajoie from the latest Goodwin auction!

Beautiful card Chris !!! :) Congrats-

Sincerely, Clayton

Great OJs
 

Great OJ's. That seller had some nice cards. I tried to win the Mays, but my bid was nowhere close.

Here are a few recent cards I did get...

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Nice OJ Rhett!

Why am I reminded of Billy Martin's 1972 Topps card though... ;)

I thought these were nice pickups! My first George C. Miller and DeLong!

I might have been the underbidder on the blue back Crofts. I have that one in an SGC60 with a red back.....would have gone nice together but oh well, glad it went to a board member. Nice cards!!

That is a stunner. I eyeballed it for longer than I should have ..... good pick-up!
One of my favorites of the month so far.

I got 5 CJs this past week. The first 4 from member btkpath, all 1914s with 3 needed cards getting my count to 176/180 (thanks Barry). The Delahanty is an upgrade along with the Walsh. I sure hope Mr Rickey is on his way soon :D

Just picked up this beauty off of Ebay. Great card for the grade and a miscut back to boot..

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8094/8...427ae2ca_z.jpg

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Nice score Rhett!

Super Happy with the LOTG pickups, also really impressed with them going the extra mile in wrapping and securing the cards for shipping. They can in a box with peanuts, wrapped in the middle with large bubble wrap, inside that each card had it own small bubble wrap pouch, the card was inside a team back with a nice printed label with the details of the auction and card! Wow really enjoy all the nice extras!

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I know it's not pre-war, but...
 

How can you go wrong with a Mickey Mantle autographed rookie card! This started off the New Year with a bang.

Oh my!!!!!!! What a beautiful card :) congrats!

Jeff -- very nice Lajoie!

Steven -- 176/180... nice! Alllllllmosssssstttt there!

HOF -- just awesome. Not sure how you're going to top that one this year. Love how it's got the middle name Charles, too (I'm partial to that name, btw).

Thanks Waz!! I'm still pinching myself buddy lol

I don't think I will, unless a signed T206 Cobb or signed Ruth Goudey were to stumble into my collection :). I love how it's his full name, I've never seen that on a card before if Mantle. Btw, it's a great middle name :), was my grandpas name, so I'm partial as well lol

Nice card. I know that yours is super-rare, but have you ever seen a '50s Mantle card signed with his signature from that period?

You just made me think about my 'dream card' - a T206 green portrait Cobb, inscribed 'To Scott, Ty Cobb - good luck to the Houston Astros, the AL's newest team'

okay, forget that last part.

I think I have seen one, where his signature was like his facsimile signature on his '52 Bowman I believe where it is a more upright signature. I've seen a decent amount of baseballs with a rookie sig.

That would be a sweet card!

WOW...Nice Matty!

Looking forward to getting Al's package myself :o

I've got his minor league era sig on a ball from 1950 and it is almost exactly like the facsimile from his old cards.. wish I had a pic or scan of it to post. Definitely does not have that loopy M that he developed over the years. On the topic of dream cards and '51 Bowman era rookie centerfielders, I'd love to have a signed Mays rookie.. and it would be really cool if it were a period sig since his autograph got pretty silly with age.. those "4"s instead of W and M.

Awesome Mantle BTW, congrats!

Wow, that's a hell of a ball! I love his minor league/rookie era sig a lot more! Yeah Mays has an ugly sig now, my signed '51 Mays looks decent for his sig now, but an era signed one would be amazing! The only era signed one I have is my '55 Killebrew and maybe a '60's Aaron on his rookie.

And thank you!

Thanks, it's been pretty thoroughly toned by the years and oily hands but for sheer sentimentality and connection to my dad, it is the most important possession I have. One of those family heirlooms that had better stay in my family until all Clarke's have vanished from this earth! I don't have kids yet, so don't have anyone/anywhere besides here to preach that yet.

Picked up this 1912 White Sox postcard on ebay recently. I've seen the large pictorial version of this postcard numerous times but not the regular sized one.

Nice Lajoie!
JimB

Love the T213-1 Bender and T213-2 Matty. Both awesome cards. Congrats!

I have a new white whale.

Jeff

Nice PC

Shoulderless Card
 

Picked up these three Shoulderless Players cards. Pretty obscure set. The George Kelly was previously unknown until this one.

Here is the list of players shown on Old Card Board:

http://www.oldcardboard.com/w/should...cardsetID=1472

(1) Rogers Hornsby Cardinals
(2) Walter Maranville Pirates
(3) A. Pennock (Herb) Yankees
(4) E.A. Rommel Athletics
(5) Babe Ruth Yankees
(6) George Sisler Browns
(7) K. R. Williams Browns
(8) Ross Young (actually Youngs) Giants

Nice, Jimi! If you'e gonna get a 1st example from a set might as well be a HOFer.

I've long liked this PC, so I was happy to pick it up:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...e/youngcy1.jpg

Wheat Die Cut
 

Picked up this Baseball die cut of Zach Wheat. I have been collecting Wheat for about 30 years and this is the first one I have had a chance to buy. I know they arent much to look at but in my opinion they are very hard to obtain. Have seen a few team sets at different Nationals but never saw a Wheat for sale or I would have bought it. Took SCD for about 20 years and didnt see any there either. Has anyone else had trouble getting one of a player they were looking for? Thanks.

I've wanted to pick up a Herpolsheimer back for a while - now I've got 28 of them!

:eek:

Quoted for posterity.

:cool:

Congrats Kenny. It took me 10 years to get a nice one. It is one of the keys to the set.
tbob

T210-8
 

Another Series 8 card for the collection.

Nice McTigue TBob.Ill follow that up with my winnings from the other night.There is something about this pose that really caught my eye.

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I just picked up another T206.

Red Ruffing Diamond Star
 

Been picking up graded examples for my set in the Ex/ExMt range...saw this raw Ruffing and it will fit right in with my set...thanks Tolstoi! (scratch on upper left is on holder, not card)

It's been awhile since one of these showed up, and this one looks like it's been through a war, but it's now time to update the avatar

Hafey
 

This Hafey is sort of lower grade, but still grades higher than the cancelled one I used to own...


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Also, an update on my botched attempt to buy baseball cards on liveauctioneers.. Stanton Auctions apologized for offering the fake King Kelly and Julie Freeman cabinets and sent me a full refund. Thanks again to the board members who helped me save $450.

Thanks Bob. It took me a little less time, but not much. I'm thrilled to have picked it up though. It has always been one of my favorites. Best,

Kenny

M114 Baseball Magazine Supplements - holy grail item X 2
 

I have been collecting the M113 & M114 supplements for many years, and as of today have accumulated 765 different ones, but up until last month, I had never seen an example of a Mickey Mantle.

In the most recent Henry Yee auction, he had some printing plates matched with examples of their supplements, but his Mantle printing plate did not come with a supplement, so I took this as proof that they exist, but also proof that they are hard to come by.

So, when one popped up on ebay at the end of January, with that classic shot of him batting righty, I was very happy to make it my own, even if his name is spelled wrong at the bottom.

Imagine my surprise when less than two weeks later, a second Mantle appeared on ebay, this one the classic lefty batting pose, with the added bonus of his original #6 visible. I also was happy to give it a new home.

Doug

Febuary Pickups
 

Picked up this 1961 original wire photo of Mickey Mantle. I really enjoy the press photos as they are pretty unique and the action shots are incredible. (I think I should have put this in the memorabilia section-my bad!)

This is a beautiful pic of Mantle chasing Babe Ruth's home run record during the 1961 season. I am going to get it graded and display it next to my Mantle Hartland Statue.

I also picked up the E101 Bescher in the Sterling Auction. It has a bad back but the front has great presentation.

Is that dried blood on it? :D

Yes, from the underbidder. If I can find out who was the second highest underbidder, there will be more :)

I'm even a sore winner

Second Underbidder
 

Ummmmm, John - it was you! Are you planning on cutting yourself while shaving? :D

Too funny :), congrats to John on getting one step closer to 100 Corcoran OJs . . . , what is the current count & breakdown?

Thanks Joe. I've been stuck at 35 now since Sunday

Hands at shoulder:
3 London
7 Corcoran,P,Indianapolis
5 pitcher,Indianapolis


Hand at chest pose:
5 pitcher,Indianapolis
5 London
10 Corcoran,P, Indianapolis

That's 15 of the hands at shoulder pose,20 of the hands at chest pose,
27 Indianapolis,8 London
10 with the script writing
35 all together

The other 34 pictured below during their family reunion

INCREDIBLE & INSANE... those are the only two words I can think of to describe this.

cozmokramer - INCREDIBLE & INSANE... those are the only two words I can think of to describe this.

I concur -Such unusual behavior, it requires further study. ;) I would like to see anyone else that owns a Corcoran to post their Corcoran! We need to start a dual thread : "Please post your Corcoran"

Arduous would be a good word. He isn't the easiest card to find. I got the first one 19 years ago, but have only seen two in the last two years and the previous last one was July 2011

I thought the nine Bottomleys I had from the 1933 Goudeys were excessive :D.

100 Corcorans?! That might be more ambitious than going for the set :)

I would say there aren't 100 out there, so that isn't a realistic goal. I know of about 10 more in collections. At most I've seen 40 over the last 19 years for sale/auction and two of those are in the collections I just mentioned. I say at most because I'm not sure the other 2-3 aren't ones that were resold over that time

I agree, I think only the most common OJs break the 100 mark.

Just arrived.

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The Big Train
 

Nice addition to my T205 HOF set, 7 left to find

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Cards I only have one each of now. Thanks to Mark M for helping me knock off a Dots Miller card I've tried to get for about two years

My first Mile High win:

http://www.milehighcardco.com/LotIma...7333a_med.jpeg

8 new EPDG
 

I picked up the Campbell in an Ebay lot; thanks to Chris for the other seven. Nice to pick up a small stack at once:

Nice Erick, this little EPDG project is starting to get serious :)

New pick up.
 

Very glad to add this piece to my collection. I am a sucker for well loved cards. Would have really enjoyed seeing the look on the SGC grader's face when he received this though.

http://imageshack.us/a/img195/6365/pfefferfront.jpg

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Now that card is way under graded, you should resubmit it;)

Great card, Best...I'm sure the grader took one look at that and felt that it was going to be the easiest money he was going to make all year long...no thinking involved in!

Mike

Now that's what a 1 is supposed to look like!! Almost seems like there's more disparity in the 1-2 range than there is in 9-10

To add: I wonder if Francis just had a bad day or two in the teens, or if it was a 100+ years of gradual cumulative abuse. Congrats on the pick up though!

Another Detroit OJ
 

Extremely pleased with February thus far, first McGlone, now a nice Pete Conway. This particular pose was only issued in 1888 which makes it pretty tough. Thank you Toby!

You guys are funny. I rarely pick up pre-war cards but thought it was amazing what this card had gone through over the years. Yet, it was clearly cherished by someone, or I don't think it would still be around 100+ years later.

Thanks to the Net54 board member that sold me this. It has got a great home now, and will likely stay in my shoebox for years to come.

Joe

Nice old judge

Picked this one up to complete my Mordecai Brown Sovereign back run. and even got a free hair thrown in!

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Nice card Joe. I'll be glad when you have all the Detroit cards you need, so these guys will start selling to me. :D

Joe

Great card! I was watching it. Hair...not so much. Congrats :)

Thanks! I nearly broke down and bought the clipped corners one for $90. Dodged one there :)

John, nice pick up, I have always thought that was a bit of an under-rated Dots Miller card due to the fact that he passed away that same year (In September if I remember correctly), he joins a few others in the Zeenut set pictured in the year that they met their untimely ends.

Included in that group is the 1912 posthumous batting champion Heinie Heitmuller who contracted a fever and passed away near the end of 1912...
http://www.starsofthediamond.com/12hrkheitmuller.JPG

Also included in this unfortunate club is Laverne "Larry" Chappell who contracted the Spanish Flu during the epidemic of 1918 and passed away that same year...
http://www.starsofthediamond.com/18zeechappell.JPG

Thanks Rhett. I'm not sure if you know, but I have some relatives in common with Dots, so they were really interested in seeing his last card. None of them had seen that image before, so I was real happy to finally get it.

That Tolstoi was purchased by me a few years ago (with 2 others) for a few $$. All had the same 'look'. Couldn't stand it - even in my beater set. Upgraded all 3 and gave the Pfeffer to Rob for his Tolstoi project. He had it graded. Glad it has a new home. Don't get too close....:D

A big shout out to Joel for this beauty!!!!!

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Nice CJ. To me, big Ed kind of looks like Joe Torre.

Danny boy

You said it...
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Beautiful CJ, Andy. Congrats on that pickup