APRIL Pick Up Thread
 

Got this super clean Ruth ball in a deal last night!!!! So glad to add it to my collection.

Also, snagged this rare black sox (1 of 1 SGC/PSA pop charts) Cicotte recently

One of my better April 1st pickups. **Updated - CARD IS NOT REAL **

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Damn chris!!!!! Awesome ruth ball!!

Most of my best pickups have come at the very start of April.

Brian

I met an old man that had a selection of these. I couldn't decide which one so I just picked up all of them. :D Too far?

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Chris showed me the Cobb Proof the other day. It's hands-down the most significant Proof found to date. Just stunning, and hugely important.

Holy shit Chris!! Congrats. That’s an amazing pick up. Can’t wait to see your April
2nd pick up.

Chris' pick-up was real?! It was so amazing I thought he was kidding. Great card!

ARGG!! You got me Chris! :D

What a way to start the month Chris, congrats, amazing card.

1911 H998 Western Playground.

Member trade, thank you Val.

What I really appreciate about this community is the willingness to work with each other to build our collections, doesn't always happen but its nice to see when the right cards find the right homes.
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I should wait til I get it in hand, but I'm excited about the card and the deal I got. It's nice to own a piece of history.

I'm also waiting on a PSA 9.5 1952 Mantle I recently picked up from another high end vendor off Facebook.

Great community, great people. It's nice to finally join the major players in the hobby.

Nice start to the month guys!

Chris, your Cobb proof is stunning!

Huge congrats!!!

Wow...great pickup!

Wow very fast start to the month. No Joke.

Looks like it might be a really strong month.

I already feel like I need to keep up with the Jones

Well it was a fun April fools day, definitely would be a dream card.

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Showed this a few weeks ago...Jerry

Nice, I couldn't figure out how to get a good picture of this. I put it on my computer screen so the light could shine through this amazing acetate Red Cobb that arrived today.

Amazing Cobb Chris !! My two new pickups

Very nice pick up Michael.

Great cards.

Congrats

Well been a long time since I could post an update to this in here

1924 Diaz Cigarettes Cleveland subset from 12/15 to 13/15

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Also picked up a Dewey Metivier where his misspelled name isn't also half eaten

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Down to 2...let's go Guy Morton and Pete Donohue (and maybe a non destroyed By Speece and Joe Shaute as well)

Congrats Jack, good luck on closing out the set.

Wow, that's not easy, congrats!

Steve

Thank you all

I know Morton is out there somewhere, he was graded with one of the early Diaz batches but was sold before the rest made it to Goodwin.

I've only seen one Donohue and it was rough. Was a picture on an old Cuban card site

Though interestingly enough, there's another Joe Shaute out there now, ran into the picture by accident. Someone seems to be compiling a virtual Diaz set website

By Speece,well the 1924 Senators are Val's baby so hopefully a 3rd's floating about somewhere

Nice- how is that Mick, only a 2???
Nice sharp corners..Really Nice!!

Nice corners, crease free, no print lines, no wax on back. It appears the card sat in an old time photo album with 4 corners protecting the card and it's corners. The result was a uniform light browning along the edges on the back. I’m thinking of sending it to PSA for review, wondering if it would be worth it.

What is the 2 spots/marks beside the power pole behind Mickey? That would be my guess for the 2.

Looks like a tiny stain of some sort, either that or the back could be the reason I’m assuming

I thought maybe small specks of paper loss. No matter what it is a beautiful card. Congrats on the pick up.

Thanks thought it had nice eye appeal for a 2!

That's a gorgeous 2, for sure.
Congrats on a awesome 51B pickup!

Thanks appreciate it

1927 Exhibit William Wambsganns. I just need Raymond Bressler to finish this set.

Wow Michael, that is a great looking card! Congrats

Thanks Ryan

...... "Variety [of backs] is the spice of life" ............ :)

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Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

Some awesome pick up’s so far, congrats to all

Here are a few of my new pick up’s. I have a few more sitting on my desk

This is my Heading Home pickup.

Cannot wait until I get it in my hands.

Very fortunate and honored to add this to my collection

Very fortunate to get it from a great partner and fellow collector

Awesome!

Congrats Jeff, nice addition to your collection.

1911 Hap Hogan Zeenut
 

Couldn't pass up this nice example of one of my favorite 1911 Zeenuts.

Patrick

Congrats Jeff, great pick up!! Right up your alley.

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Thanks Phil, Ryan, Matthew.

This was a want of mine for a long time.

Some how I have actually stayed focused on my collection. Slow, steady, and Strategic on my Collection

I totally forgot at the Huggins&Scott auction ended.
Didnt get any notices, but found out just now i won.
Its weird and colored, so the price stayed low it seems.
Another one off the checklist, stilling looking to close the set out.

Fun trade with Jay for an interesting HOF mid-tier ...... :)

Hindu -- pin hole / check .. creases / check .. good image / check .. clean back / check .. lower pop. / check ............. ;)

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Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

On Vacation last week, took my son into a small Maui card shop. Almost all modern (to be expected), but then came across two t206 cards in a display case. Already surprised to find them, I was even more surprised to find one with an off-back. Ended up snagging this H. Davis Sovereign 150 for $4o. Even more neat, it's one of the cards I needed for my off-back t2o6 set-build.

Wow! Congrats, that's a steal!

I've been to Maui many times and didn't know there was a card shop there. Where is it?

Thanks Tony 👍. Maui Sports Cards on Hana Hwy. Right around the corner from the airport. Was supposed to be a "T2o6 free" vacation...but things happen. : )

Great pickup! Love those big head cards and can share some research into them, if you're interested.

Found two more eBay hits to my 1962 Exhibit red text stat back set. Still need low-grade Aaron, Koufax, and a few others.

Excited to have added this to my back-run recently.

Chad

Just picked this guy up, and broke the century mark on my T205 EGGS score (102).

Upgraded my Felix Mendelsohn Cobb. It’ll be off to SGC for a new slab upon arrival.

Here’s a Ruth PC that you don’t see everyday.


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Great pickups Ben especially love the Mendelssohn Cobb

One more of the shortprints down, 1 more to go.

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Nice DJ...Jerry

Thrilled to add this Turkey Red Cobb and M101-6:

Thanks Ben.

Great pickup Erick

It’s a beauty and those colors POP

Thanks Jeff!

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1916-20 unc big heads
 

Got my (colored) SCHANG in the mail today!!
But i stumbled upon another SCHANG & a ZEB yesterday.:D
Down to 6

1910 American Caramel Company E90-3 Jimmy Archer
 

Thrilled to add this 1910 American Caramel Company Jimmy Archer card to my collection. For whatever reason, these cards are more often than not beat up.
Happy to have this example from the Frank Nagy collection that presents well with one small verticle crease and some paper loss on the back. Knocks another "type" off my list as well.



Patrick

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I believe the Grant is mislabeled, but I dig it all the same:

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Archer E90-3
 

That's a cool one of a kind pose Patrick...Jerry

C. 1906 Scranton Minors pre-linen PC. Could the good ol’ doc be in right field??? The closest I’ll ever come to owning anything “Moonlight” related!

awesome

An honest card of one of the best day in, day out players ....... :)

I have always found Morgan (along with Lapp) to have an "interesting" look. First off, the unique "white grass." But more importantly, the imagines seem to be placed on top of the background ..... giving them a "3D" (;)) look ......

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Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

May have been one or two in March...the rest in April. Nothing earth shattering, but lining myself up to list some decent t2o6's for sale here soon...

Verne Clemons W573

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Happy to pick this up last night--PSA has now (harshly) graded 190 of all of the fragile M101-2 and the highest grade it has ever given out for the entire run of all players is a 4, and just two of those. This is one of them, John J. McGraw. And he even went to my alma mater, along with Hughie Jennings. The baseball field is still McGraw-Jennings Field.

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Happy to pick up this one, I've been trying to find a nice Mohler portrait for awhile now.
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Phil, great Obak Mohler card. The Pollard collection was something special. Below I have linked an old thread that mentions it, and in the 14th post is one of my favorite photos of a bunch from the Pollard collection in a pile before they were sent off to be graded. Based on the post from the collector who ended up winning this Obak collection at auction, it can be deduced that the Mohler shown in the pile is actually a trimmed one from the 1910 set and not your 1911 example, as the 1910 is shown in its eventual graded state in the 13th post of the same thread by another collector who eventually ended up with it.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...hlight=pollard

Brian

Thanks for the link Brian, some great information in that thread.

Only 2 left to go!
 

Picked up this T200 Cleveland (Shoeless) at REA and now only 2 T200 to go for the complete set.

Awesome Mohler example Phil. Great image and a super clean back.



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Picked up another Cobb Bat on…

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