January 2023 Pickup Thread -- Happy New Year Everyone!
 

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Greg

I love the way you planned and started the new year
And SGC 1 and a Type 1 for the First Post in the first day of the New Year

Recent pickups - Some from Board Members!!!

............... Happy New Year from Rube ............. :)

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Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

1946 Cardinals with Stan the Man etc....
 

A loosely defined premium put out by the St Louis Club. It's approx. 12 x 8 1/2 inches, trimmed on the sides, with a blank back.

Nice
 

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Excited to have this one...
 

Glad to have one of these back

Not expecting this to happen, but really happy to add these three Dihigo cards on eBay of all places. I have been looking for years and was amazed to see all three consigned at once.

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Joe Gordon and Charley Keller getting vertical in the under-loved 1941 Double Play set.

Brian

A great Conlon image of Gehrig on the Kashin.

My first Lenox

Beauty Josh! Congrats!

Bill

Lenox McGraw
 

That's nice Josh...Jerry

Great Lenox! That's a keeper.

Ok, so please forgive me since this isn’t baseball but I had to share this with folks who appreciate vintage cardboard.

I live in Richmond, Va. and after 136 years of being away from home, this 1887 Allen & Ginter card from the N28 World’s Champions set came home to live with me. It’s my first N28 and I’m just speechless.

👉Always looking for Abner Dalrymple!

📬Today's mail: 113-1 Hands on hips, feet apart
Dalrymple, L.F., Denvers (Fc)

This is my:
7th (of 12 possible) Abner
3rd outside his pose run
2nd from 1889/ w Denver.
Plus, it completes the 113-1 variation run (of 3)
Big thanks to Bill Evans for the assist here.

Love the T206s so far, And All the others! Awesome Rube Hindu Scott!! And that McGraw Lenox is also very nice Josh

Here’s my first Becker, my first Howe stamp, and my first Howe fingerprint?? :p

Cheers All

Ty Cobb far right, 2nd row.... M101-2 double-sized

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It's not the prettiest card but happy to have picked up this off back Cy Young

As someone who rows and also lives in richmond, va this card is super cool!

Cy has a very nice backside, and the top 87% of the card has great color and overall look. The bottom 13% of the front is what I imagine made it affordable, so nice pickup.

I love that Campy photo!

It helped for sure but its also my first cy young of any kind so im not gonna complain.

Nice going. n172 pose runs are a fun challenge. I'm making progress on Billy Crowell, journeyman pitcher who played for many teams including New Orleans and Houston. Here are 2 new additions.

Haha thanks! I missed the new year by like 30 mins but who's keeping track ;)

Thanks! Was thrilled to pick it off eBay some time ago, you usually get the one classic and awesome Campy pose so I'm always happy to grab something a bit more unique. The Hodges cameo is a nice bonus :D

Later 2022 REA Win
 

Thanks, Patrick!

My wife rowed one year with the boat club on the James, so this card piqued my interest when it came up for sale…plus of course being an A&G card.

Thanks for the kind words about the Lenox guys…

Nice one!

First time in a bit I've had anything to post

My two from Sterling

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I like this set! I only need the priddy/murphy to complete my yankee team set. Card is avoiding me like the plague.

Speaker
 

The Grey Eagle has landed. Grateful to get this off n54 from Seablaster!

The good news is, Speaker is now off the list. bad news, spending freeze for a bit on nice T206's

Next on the list, Wajo Portrait!

Nice Hindu Devlin, Josh. Here is a Piedmont 150 of Devlin I just received from Ted Z. for being one of the winners of his recent contest. Love the multi-shading of red color on these. Thanks again Ted!

Brian

An interesting pair of T210 catchers
 

Nice way to start the New Year off with a couple of "visually" opposite T210s.

One tall and lean, T210=6 Jeff Elgin, Richmond, and the other...short and stout, T210-5 G.O. MacConachie, Winston-Salem.

Patrick

LOL, great cards!

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got this beauty earlier this month...2 more HOF'ers to go from this set!!!

Great Teddy Ballgame!

Thanks Rob!

Thanks to Brad...

Love the massive borders on that!!!!

Thanks Scott! Being a little OC helps make the borders look "massive". :)

Thanks, Mac!

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That Campy photo is so cool.

Big one in the 520 off back quest!

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That’s a combo toughie Scott!

Congratulations.

How about one of the greatest pitchers in minor league history, the ol’ spitballer! Here’s a cool write-up on “Shelly” from one of Bob Lemke’s old blogs: http://boblemke.blogspot.com/2011/04...nback.html?m=0

Member pick-up. Added to the back collection.

A BIG Thank You to Brian W. for making these gentlemen available ...... :)

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As long as I'm here. T207s don't quite have the number of "backs" as T206. But enough to keep one honest ...... ;)

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Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

Wow that Joss....I'm in love....great card Scott!!!!

Nice ones, Chad, congrats on the pick-ups

Thanks Steve! Made some actual progress the last few months.

Chad

I’m thankful to add this to my collection

Wow! Rare Cobb that just oozes vintage.

Fantastic pickup Aaron. That must be a fairly recently slabbed Red Sun - Cobb white version silk. For the longest time there were only two total in SGC's pop report shown as graded.

Have to ask, if you don't mind, where did you find that?

Again, super fantastic pickup that many don't realize how extremely rare that card is with the Red Sun backing still attached. It is super underappreciated, and even more so extremely undervalued IMO. And I would be extremely jealous, except I own the other one also graded 2. :D

Again, super fantastic pickup!

Hey Bob,
I’m not sure when it was graded but I acquired it in Hunt’s December auction and I am absolutely thrilled to have it! I collected white silks with backs many years ago…

A little story about Red Suns. About 25 to 27 years ago I was set up as a dealer at the Chicago Sun Times show (was held in the Rosemont Convention Center now known as the Donald Steven’s Center where the National is when in Rosemont, IL). The Sun Times show was 3 or 4 times a year. At one of the shows a guy approached my booth and saw that I had a bunch of white S74s w/ backs and he told me he had a bunch of them and would I care to look. He said he had a storefront and sold mostly modern cards but this group of silks came with a large purchase of other stuff… I forget exactly how many he had but it was more than 20 and they were all Red Suns! And most of them weren’t folded! Including the nicest Cobb I ever saw, now in an SGC 7. This was before grading services ruled the roost so they were unslabbed. There were several HOFers in there! I bought the whole group for $1500. I kept them for a couple years in my collection then sold them in a Mastro auction. I always regretted selling the Cobb.

Great story Aaron, and what a pickup that was. Been collecting silks, especially the backed white version S74-1s myself, for quite a while now. That must have been a heck of a collection that guy you had bought them off had. The fact they all did not have the fold is interesting, I know there are some theories about the white ad-backed silks that exist with no folds. My belief has always been that someone working at the printers where these silks were made/put together, or at the factory where they were folded and then put into the cigarette packs, simply grabbed a bunch of these to take home, for whatever reason. I've never heard of someone coming across a batch of unfolded silks that large before, all in one collection. Wow! I've seen images of the graded 7 Red Sun Cobb , it is stunning. I'd be kicking myself to this day letting any of those Red Suns you once had get away, let alone the Cobb.

Didn't catch that it was in Hunt's recent auction, must have missed it somehow as I normally at least check out all their auctions. But that is a huge pickup none the less, and IMO you got it at a ridiculously cheap price. And I can guarantee you that it was only graded in the last year or so. I remember checking pop reports while talking with someone else in the past year or so, and there had only been the same two Red Sun backed Cobbs showing on their pop report as had been for years, the unfolded one you once had that was now graded a 7, and the other graded 2 version I have. And I know mine had been slabbed a while back as it shows the grade as 30, based on SGC's old grading scale of 1-100, instead of 1-10.

I've got a few other Red Sun backed silks, but of course Cobb is the ultimate prize from this set. Again, super pickup, and stunned you were able to get it at that price. Just goes to show once more how ridiculously underappreciated and undervalued these S74 silks still are. I keep waiting for the day that PSA finally starts grading them, like they recently in the past couple years started doing with the M101-2 Sporting News Supplements. Though I couldn't care less about having items from either of these issues that I own graded by PSA, the impact on some market prices of PSA graded M101-2s was unreal. If PSA ever does agree to start grading these S74 silks, I think we'll start to see a more accurate value finally being reflected on them in the marketplace.

Now all you have to do is find yourself a Helmar backed Cobb silk to go with your Red Sun one. And if you thought finding Red Sun backed S74 silks was hard..................

Picked this 41 Play Ball Ted Williams up at a show this weekend via trade. Despite being poor with staple holes and staining from rust (yeah rust) I’m very pleased to add this to my personal collection.

Moriarty
 

George Moriarty E254. Not a biggie but while noted as Detroit, he is likely shown in a 1907 NYAL uni. He went to Detroit in 1909 and from 1909-12 Detroit had no dark unis. Love this photo-based series.

Bob and Aaron, glad to include myself as a holder of a S74 Silk Cobb. Mine is an SGC4.5 with an Old Mill back. We should start an appreciation club.

LOL I'm in.

There are a few other big-time silk collectors who are members on here as well.
Interesting set with some still unknown mysteries to it. Check out the following site for some great info and images. Not my site, but a lot of the silks pictured on it are.

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I have always especially liked seeing the silks actually used for what they were originally intended, to make pillows, covers and other fancy items for home decoration. Even says so right on the back of the ad-backed white version silks. If you go to the linked site, be sure to go to the RELATED ITEMS page, and then cursor down to the "Recommended Re-Use" section. Both those items demonstrate what these silks were actually supposed to be used for, and are both mine.

Should I try to remove the tape on this neat little pickup?? Oh and on the stats page I put a little black line next to one of the names I recognized :cool:

That's a very cool item! I would not attempt to remove the tape, personally.

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Very excited about this tough Cycle 460 Lajoie. Picked this up from a fellow board member.

Nice ad back Zee, Pete.

Won this in December but didn’t arrive to January. One of my grail pieces!

1912 Hugh "Kid" Smith Zeenut
 

Picked up a cancelled 1912 Hugh "Kid" Smith Zeenut.

Patrick

Nice trade with Jay, to finally pick up a "tough" AB 460 ............. ;)

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“dot Latams is driving me crazy.” -- Chris Von der Ahe

Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

January 2023 Pickup Thread -- Happy New Year Everyone!
 

Picked this up a couple weeks ago…Sweet Cap 350-460/25

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Cy Young and Lou Criger, not many around for this.....as my m101-2 pursuit continues....

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Beautiful!

A nice Propagandas Montiel of Mel

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Thank you Jim!

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Added a few this month.

The E254 Colgans drops my Jersey City Skeeters wantlist for Colgans down to one. I just need the Abstien now to finish the team set.

The T205s are for my low grade T205 set I'm putting together slowly. And the Wiltse one ear fills two holes including the one in my NY Giants team set. :)



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Great month of cards everyone.

Haven't picked up an error in a while, thank you Kevin :cool:

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Great pickup! The stamp adds so much to a already great card!

Great pickup! The stamp adds to a already great card!

A couple for the trading stack