I'm confused... how would a plastic sleeve help? Don't they just cut out the black felt and then stick the card in? Is there risk of damaging the card when they are cutting out the black felt?

Seymour..

SGC said that heat and pressure are part of the holdering process.. not a problem for the majority of cards... but very rarely... for cards that have layers of paper loss...as such with the corner on my cobb lenox.. if the paper loss is severe enough, causing the paper to be much thinner then normal.. the card could be damaged while being holdered....So SGC will have reservations about holdering such a card....especially if it is an expensive card..

The plastic helps to protect the card from the holdering process (heat and pressure) as they described it to me... They strongly recommended it based on the condition of the Cobb...and I went with their recommendation.. as the card didn't get damaged during the process I am happy I followed their advice.

SGC has a great bunch of guys working there. Really top of the line..my advice is just let them be the judge and follow what advice they give... when it comes to should a card be holdered or not due to how flimsy the card may be.

Wow, Jamie, thanks for sharing. That is very interesting... sounds like you made a good decision under the circumstances. Congrats on the crossover.

Great pickups, everybody. I am very much enjoying this thread! :)

Gorgeous 1.5, Adam!

It's not felt, it's black plastic with a fairly sharp edge. I think all cards should be holdered with the sleeve, I've busted cards out and noticed damage to the edges of the card, from the insert.

Nice card Jamie!

They really ought to be careful then to make sure the insert is large enough to not damage the edges of the card, but I don't think that's sufficient reason to subject every card to a sleeve. Certainly it makes sense in this scenario, however.

Just back from SGC today, I picked up these two raw on ebay not too long ago. The Elberfeld came back about what I expected, and I am very pleased with the grade on the Chase to say the least. :)


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That Chase is beautiful! Congrats :)

M116 Cobb blue
 

Just back from being graded, nicer than the grade.

Nice Cobby!

I have never seen this Cobb before. The colors are seriously beautiful!

I love that Blue m116 Cobb! Very nice!

Great Cobb for the grade. Nice pick up.

Sweet looking Tannehill with a print/crop line at the top. Can I just say I hate when these cards are in high grade and not a Pied/SC back, I hate paying extra for numbers. If anyone has a card with a crop mark, please bend a corner before grading it. Thanks :)

honestly if the card is that fragile it should be in an Aut holder, not numerical.

Great m116 Blue Cobb
 

I managed another T206 Dougherty Arm in air back variation. This one a sc 460 Fact. 42 from Probstein on ebay. Thanks!..


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First E107 from our own bst
 

Looking forward to this beauty showing up

Another toughy for my type collection
 

Thanks Mr Peich and Mr Saddic

Churchman's Cigarettes
 

My first Ruth, and my favorite out of all his cards.

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George

Nice Ruth

I gave up with Sterling...prices got too high so checked ebay instead

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This guy screams soak me

Edit: HAAAA I had no idea you can't link things from a hidden folder, that explains so much

I love the Cobb! Great pickup!

An eBay pickup and Thank You, Pat and Kevin:

picked this one up for my T205 HOF set, only 4 more to pickup. and this one has a back miscut.

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I can hear my sons Little League coach now.Hands off your knees.Get in a baseball ready position!

A big thank you to Marc Macrae at today's Los Angeles show.

Some recent pick-ups. The raw E92 Davis and Casey seem to be missing the red ink.

The Cobb, Mathewson and Lajoie were obtained in a trade with a fellow board member.

Thanks John!
 

T216Kotton - Another toughy for my type collection.

David nice stuff

Missing ink cards are great, especially the Casey

good may
 

good May

W503?
Awesome!

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First T213 I've gotten so far, kinda shocked I won this one but I guess REA drained some of the bids

D311 Pacific Coast Biscuit
 

Picked up my first D311 Claude Berry.

Patrick

New arrivals
 

Like the T205 high grade Nee, T213 Schaefer NY, and D311.

Here are some from Sterling, Heritage, and Probstein. Plus a trade from bst for a T215-1 Ford to go with my T215-2 Ford. Ford backrun time..........

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Thanks to WTGA for the trade on this one. Miscut, missing red ink in the collar, the rare pink collar version from the day the clubhouse guy threw the white collared shirts into the laundry with the red hats! I also like the out-of-focus part of the card...unless he wore white "eye-black"

Just got my winnings from the Sterling Auction

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Thanks to Jimi and another B/S/T smooth transaction.

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Neat that the type 2 Ford is missing the grass detail from the type 1/t206.

T213-2 Ford
 

Chris, thanks for pointing to the grass background on the T215-2 Ford. I had not noticed that until now. It is all dark green w/o the light green grass with dark green shadows on all other Fords I've seen.

Here is the T213-2 Ford I have. There is only 1 Ford in T213-2, shown as a Buffalo Fed. Ford played for Buffalo in 1914 and 1915 so the T213-2 Ford is probably from the earlier run of 1914-1916 type 2 Coupons. The T215-2 Red Cross ran into 1913 when Ford was still on NY. So, it would be interesting to see if anyone else had a T215-2 Ford with the same all green grass background.

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A big thank you!
 

It seems I've needed to try to be creative recently. I was able to work out a deal with JP to get the following cards, but had to work out separate trades/purchases with Luke and John to pull it off. All told, four N54 members, 13 low grade T206s, 5 mailings and a lowly $15. Thanks guys! This puts me at 80 different EPDG!

Just back from SGC. Grade aside, I like used PC's especially one like this, postmarked on the same day as a world series game, with relevant content.

great cards
 

wow:eek:

great cards all:)

love the miscut back johnny:D

Rube Waddell (Levis scan) and Larry McClean.

awesome image on the waddell!

Received these from Sterling already. Thanks again Lee!

Of all the different T206 backs, EPDG are my favorite.

Happy to help Erick! We traded 6 cards and I was able to add another Cycle back along with a couple EPDGs. Worked out great for me too!

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