Very cool

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1 of 2 known.... the amount of hours I spent searching/thinking about this card before I bought it was maddening..

http://i.imgur.com/XHPvvkrh.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/Sju0dw9h.jpg?1

Victory Cobb
 

Amazing Jamie...Jerry

+100,000!

Jamie, I always love seeing that card. Besides being insanely rare, I truly appreciate it's dead-on registration; creating incredible clarity in his face/eyes.

Thanks guys. Appreciate the kinds words! Happy new year.

So Jamie,
 

your ty cobb back isn't even in your top seven scarcest red cobb cards, is it?

t206 broadleaf 460- 1 of 2 known
t206 drum- 1 of 2 known
t213-3 factory 8 op- 1 of 2 known
t215- 1 of 2 known
t206 sovereign 460- 1 of about 10 (?) known
t206 lenox- 1 of about 12 known
t206 carolina brights- 1 of about 14 known

that is truly some rarified air!

My top Cobbs
 

My top Cobbs

Jamie

Your VICTORY Cobb is sensational......and, " maddening " is in the past, this card stays with you :)

My favorite Cobb for several reasons is the elusive SOVEREIGN 460.


http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...CobbSGCx50.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...obbSGCx50b.jpg


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T206 Reference
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An absolutely amazing card Jamie.

Cobb, not Cobb
 

My best Cobb and my not Cobb. I posted this in the "Let's see some postcards" thread but I thought it would be funny to show it here again (although the joke was one me). I bought this years ago because the seller was sure Cobb was fifth from the left (to be fair, so was I) and I paid for it as if it was him (this was well before ease of online research). Recently I found a clipping of the same photo in the Detroit Free Press from May 8, 1910 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4581...it-free-press/. The McGraw Tigers were a local independent team but "Cobb" is actually "Anderson, catcher".

Hey Mark!... i think you mean BL460.. a red cobb with a BL350 back has not been confirmed... but yes there are 2 BL460s.... the factory 8 OP i believe to be a 1 of 1.. i have not seen a second.. the other graded examples are the bat-off pose..... There are 4 drums im aware of.. and i think there might be less then 10 Sov 460s.. So while the cobb back is not the rarest.. it is still certainly one of the most desired!.... :) hope all is well my friend. Happy new Year

So many cool Cobbs on this thread

Probably largely redundant, but here is my quartet. I acquired three of the four (all but Greenie) on this board, so I want to thank those who made them available.

Only have the one, and almost embarrassed to post it next to these beauties...

[IMG]<a data-flickr-embed="true" data-header="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/190525740@N03/50801229113/in/dateposted-public/" title="cobb"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50801229113_290ca71168.jpg" width="322" height="500" alt="cobb"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/IMG]

A few rare Cobbs
 

Love the Cobbs, here are a few of mine,

https://www.net54baseball.com/pictur...ictureid=29429

https://www.net54baseball.com/pictur...ictureid=29430

So, dabbuu
 

is there any chance that jamie (blunder) knows about that red cobb? :)

Many Victories for a big loss!
 

A little story about that card:
Some 20 years ago I bought a common player Victory on eBay for a couple hundred. When the seller & I communicated afterward he said he had “a bunch” of Victories. Turned out to be 17 of them including Johnson (pitching), with back damage, and the Cobb you now have. I bought all 17 for $5k, they were ungraded and the seller lived in New Orleans! I overnighted a cashier’s check. When the seller shipped them to me the USPS lost them for 2 weeks! When I finally got them I took them to the next Chicago Sun Times show to have them graded and Pete Calderon was at the SGC booth & he was blown away by the group. I had sold Pete an e107 Cy Young not long before that (thru eBay as well) but it was our 1st time meeting face to face. I remember picking up the cards a day or 2 later and I couldn’t believe the Cobb only got a 2, besides the paper rub on upper right border it’s a very strong card! Not long after that Pete went on to work at Mastronet and I flipped the group of Victories to Terry Knouse (my ex wife wanted new windows for our house! Doh!). Not long after that I got divorced and the house with the new windows was sold. Too funny yet so sad!

Great great card! Much nicer than the other SGC 2 that sold in REA some years later.

This is amazing. Thank you for sharing!!!! USPS almost losing the nicest Cobb victory back known would have been heart breaking! Man am I happy it turned up :). Great story.

Ebay
 

Aaron, that is a great story...I really miss that Ebay...was Markman the dealer??...Jerry

I don't recall
 

Hi Jerry, I don't remember who the dealer was or if he was an actual dealer. What I do remember was the card he originally listed (Ames) and the group I got from him had the Cobb, Johnson (pitching w. back damage), Zack Wheat, & a few other minor HOFers and the fact that he lived in New Orleans and Victories were from Louisiana.

Jamie - I think we can trace the full provenance of the card now from Aaron's acquisition all the way to you.

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I think there's more Cobbs per capita here than anywhere on the planet. Adding my humble contribution.
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Great cards in this thread and this Victory is one of, if not the, nicest of all.

Here is another Cobby. Love the low grade from the "opinionators."

http://luckeycards.com/t206cobb.jpg

how does that get a 1.5?

Exactly what you see on the screen is the way it is in hand. There is some very minor surface wrinkling/crackling on the front, on both sides of his head. Personally I think it could be a full grade higher.....but I own it and all that. :cool:

Not my fave Cobby here but one of my latest ones and from our BST. Big top border with full name at bottom.

https://luckeycards.com/batton1.jpg

This red Cobb with a PIEDMONT #42 back is a real beauty....however, it is not a real T206. But, it sure is a darn good reprint.


https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...edmont42xx.jpg . . https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...iedmont42b.jpg




And, here are some of the real Cobb's in my collection......my favorite Cobb card is this AMERICAN BEAUTY........

http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...CobbSGC40x.jpg . http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...obbbat50xb.jpg




http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...OLDMILLx50.jpg . https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...OLDMILLx25.jpg




http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...0TyCobb50x.jpg . https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...tSOV350x25.jpg




https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...tcap42ovpt.jpg . https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...ovpt42xx25.jpg



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T206 REFERENCE....convenient access to T206 checklists
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A few more Cobb's......


https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...ereign150x.jpg . https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...RedCobb25x.jpg . https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...ges/acobb8.jpg

https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...reign150bx.jpg . http://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan7...ign350x25b.jpg




https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...0redCobb50.jpg . https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...redCobb50x.jpg




https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...vereign150.jpg . https://photos.imageevent.com/tedzan...ereign150b.jpg


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T206 Reference
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Here's a yellow Cobb with the super rare Challenge Butter back.
2nd attachment is a Type 1 photo of the House that Cobb built.

Happy Sunday!

Wow
 

I started this thread like 6 years ago and forgot about it. Crazy to see people are still commented on it! Any more Ty Cobbs to show off?

Finally......

My 3 best Cobbs
 

Two original photos of cards and 1 card

Damn.....

Wow, congratulations Scott!

no idea if I've posted this here...this thread is long!!!!

Congrats Scott! So which is the next stumbling block?

In honor of this thread's resurrection I will post new pictures of my Green Cobb Wedensday night.

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I have re-homed all of my Cobbs - all since the virus hit and almost all on BST...haven't seen any of them being shown by their new owners so I'll do the honors for the last time:

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Great thread. I am very partial to this one:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...1%20Cobb_1.jpg

I don't know why; I have 'better' Cobbs. I just happen to like it a lot.

I got this one recently:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...ries%20120.jpg

Only Cobb I recall getting since the original post I made.

Never seen registration that good on that particular issue card I could make out features that suggest Cobb's face.
Pretty incredible.

That could be it...

Come to think of it, I think I got this one at about the same time. I had a strip card phase about 15 years ago...

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...0Alexander.jpg

I’m fairly new to Net54 and am learning so much. This is the card that got me back into vintage baseball a few years ago.

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1914 T330-2 Piedmont Art Stamp
w/Factory 42 back;
1912 T227 Series of Champions
w/Honest Long Cut back;
1909 S74 Silk - white
w/Turkey Red back;
1911 T205 Gold Border
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Very nice Piedmont Art Stamp Cobb!

That T205 is terrific all around

Took a new snap tonight of my Green Cobb with an iPhone 12.
https://i.imgur.com/aTZ6AAAh.jpg