January Pickup Thread
 

Happy 2010, Everyone! :)

Thank you, Martin!
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Thank you, eBay?!
http://www.t206.org/misc/mitchell_copy.jpg

Won this cool little booklet on eBay... It's a salesman book for the American Tobacco Company for 1912, listing the brands and prices they produced. I've never seen anything like it before.

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E94 Purple Young
 

Im very excited to have picked this one up. Just received it yesterday.

Seven Left to complete the set in purple.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...lets/26925.jpg

Jon C - fascinating booklet!

Josh - great eye appeal for the grade - nice pickup!

That's a terrific piece Jon. Nice way to start the year!

Thank you for the kind words. I'll be curious to see the other brands listed when thr book arrives. It appears cigarettes are listed alphabetically. If there ate any other neat tidbits in it when it arrives, I'll post some photos.

great pickup Josh, one of my fav. Young cards.

Jon, that booklet is killer! Nice find.

Josh
 

e94 complete in purple is going to be some sight. I would love to see the scans. Good job.

Jon that is a really cool piece.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_UrSHvogCrmM/Sz...ty%20Tyler.jpg

Josh, if you don't mind me asking, where did you find the E94 purple Young? I've been looking for a nice low grade one for a long time with no success. Unlike you, I'm not trying to complete the set. It's just one of my favorite cards.

Tim,

Beautiful Fatima!

The Young was on ebay awhile back. There's also some other E94 Young's listed as well.

1917 Rose & Co. Chicago Fabric Sample Book w/ Babe Ruth
 

1917 Rose & Co. Chicago Fabric Sample Book w/ Babe Ruth

Hey Paul, as noted above, it was listed on ebay with a very high BIN. Fortunately for me, the seller accepted what I thought was a very reasonable offer for the card.

I guess I need to learn to ask sellers to take a lower offer!

The only known baseball card of siamese twins. This card has worked it's way through a few board members over the past couple years, but will remain in my man cave for the foreseeable future.

The shift is on!
 

Anthony,

Nice pickup!

This registration shift happened way before the shift on Big Papi.

Happy New Year,

Patrick

A couple of additions
 

Late year pickups just arrived.

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x...hme/Naps-1.jpg

If its not an obsession, I don't know what to call it...

I picked these 2 up this week... and I love them!

Thank You, Tom and Thank You for the bonus autograph:

My first venture outside of Prewar tobacco or Goudey cards.
I hear this is a D329 Weil Baking card. Looked like a good way to spend $12.00, as I start working on some cards from the "Big Easy".

I also added a couple T206's that I really like, because I can't help myself!
Let me know if you happen to know the location of an American Beauty Eddie Collins
Happy New Year,
Bob
upperhandisforemost@yahoo.com

<a href="http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/?action=view&current=D329Lavanfront.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/D329Lavanfront.jpg" border="0" alt="D329 Weil Lavan front"></a><a href="http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/?action=view&current=D329Lavanback.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/D329Lavanback.jpg" border="0" alt="D329 Weil Lavan Back"></a>
<a href="http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/Eddie%20Collins%20cards/?action=view&current=T206CollinsSOV350front.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/Eddie%20Collins%20cards/T206CollinsSOV350front.jpg" border="0" alt="T206 Collins Sovereign 350 front"></a><a href="http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/Eddie%20Collins%20cards/?action=view&current=T206CollinsSOV350back.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/Eddie%20Collins%20cards/T206CollinsSOV350back.jpg" border="0" alt="T206 Collins Sovereign 350 back"></a>
<a href="http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/?action=view&current=T206AB350Chasefront.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/T206AB350Chasefront.jpg" border="0" alt="T206 Chase Black AB 350 front"></a><a href="http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/?action=view&current=T206AB350Chaseback.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/T206AB350Chaseback.jpg" border="0" alt="T206 Chase Black AB 350 back"></a>
<a href="http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/?action=view&current=T206Cycle350Chasefront.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/T206Cycle350Chasefront.jpg" border="0" alt="T206 Chase Black Cycle 350 front"></a><a href="http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/?action=view&current=T206Cycle350Chaseback.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/upperhandisforemost/T206Cycle350Chaseback.jpg" border="0" alt="T206 Chase Black Cycle 350 back"></a>

Chick Gandil
 

Doggone it Josh, I thought I had a steal on that violet Young :(
I guess I would have if it hadn't been violet...

tbob if it makes u feel any better i offered the seller what essentially amounted to $150 extra in cash and i was willing to drive up 40 min and pick it up a couple months back but i guess he really wanted jk to finish that violet set...

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January has been good :)

Paul,
The purple Young is very tough. In 10+ years of watching E94s, I have only seen three of them including the one Josh just got.

Nice pickup Josh.
JimB

Thanks Jim. I feel pretty fortunate to land this one (of course, there is one other out there that I still drool over :))

A few CJ's the C. Wagner is raw and appears to be slightly trimmed

Seth
 

Seth I love the gandil miscut! I try to pick up T206 miscuts every once and a while.

Here is my latest on my T206 quest:

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Thank You, Rhys:

BST pickup. Thanks to Mark Rios.
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Sylveanus Augustus "Vean" Gregg. Cool.

Chipping away at the all time Cardinals.

Picked this up last week for my SGC Registry Set.

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Comiskey-

Thank you very much! I think it is very unique and I am especially attracted by the EPDG back! I can't wait to get it in!

Adding some diversity to my collection...

Dec/Jan pick-ups
 

I was kinda busy the end of this year, I doubt this year will hold the same.

I picked up...
 

a 21 year old and it wasn't cardboard......damn, just woke up from my dream

Thank You, David and Thank You, Tom:

To fellow Cardinal collector David W.
 

Nice pickups, I did not recognize the card between Houser and Lavan in the top row. What is it and who is it ? thanks, Ed

It's Les Bell, pictured on a strip card (W 560) as a Brave.

I'm not sure if Les Bell has a card as a Cardinal, so I cheated
and picked him up as a Brave, as he rarely has any cards at
all on E Bay.

Haven't been able to post any new stuff for a while, so it's nice to share these two. Thanks to Quan for the Foxx, and Dave (Bagger) for the Hubbell.
<a href="http://s397.photobucket.com/albums/pp55/paulcarek/?action=view&current=Picture5.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp55/paulcarek/Picture5.png" border="0" alt="'34 Goudey Foxx"></a>
<a href="http://s397.photobucket.com/albums/pp55/paulcarek/?action=view&current=Picture4.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp55/paulcarek/Picture4.png" border="0" alt="'34 Goudey Hubbell"></a>

Just arrived today...(Frisch is cut off due to poor scan job!!)

Huge Bender pick up for me !!
 

Very happy to get this in the mail today ! Very excited to add this one to the Bender collection !!

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Picked this one up on the Net 54 B/S/T

Thanks, Rhett

wow Phil! Surprised to see Rhett part with that!

Phil - that is a great pin - congrats!

January picked up almost exactly where I left off in December...very happy with this one.

Thanks to Frank W. for the W555!

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Wood
 

Steve - love the smoky Joe! The scan looks great too! : )

January Pickup Thread
 

Thanks, Leon!

My first W517 "mini" just arrived.

Thank You, Mark:

OT, but thank You, Glenn:

Unglaub Carolina Brights
 

Paper loss (and out of focus), but still a tough back:

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My two pickups...
 

The first is a T206 Donlin Batting with Old Mill back that I bought from Dave George on the Net54 B/S/T.

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The second is a T206 Burch batting that I picked up off eBay for a mere $28. Anyone guess what kind of grade this would get if it went to SGC? SGC 30 maybe?

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Some horizontals
 

Knocking out the horizontal cards. Now I only need Pattee, Pelty, and Dunn....he, he, he:D

Troublemaker Alert!

I see a skirmish on the horizon ...
 

... oh, wait, Dunn doesn't have a horizon. Never mind.

New for Jan.
 

Just got these in. The Snodgrass is really orange and really cool. The scan doesn't do it justice.

Late '09 stragglers
 

These didn't come in until recently - just glad they made it.

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Wow Mike, that is one nicely centered Carrigan. Nice pickup!

Jan pick-up
 

Thank you Bob O'Brien courtesy B/S/T!

Upgrade on the Grove. Bought the George C. Miller on a whim.
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I'm not sure why this card graded a 1. It has a 6-7 front and a couple of small spots of paper loss on the back. I've got a green E98 Chase graded a 4 with the same great front and the same amount of paper loss on the back. Of course, it cost 3x more because of the grade. Meanwhile, when I was at the White Plains show this weekend one of the great guy dealers had a Ramly Donlin in PSA 4 with paper loss on the front of the card, just under Donlin's face -- and it was a considerable amount, not tiny dots -- and it was graded PSA 4.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/4284435463/" title="1910 Set of 30 E 98 (Blue) by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2683/4284435463_a846b41045_o.jpg" width="450" height="758" alt="1910 Set of 30 E 98 (Blue)" /></a>

Nice pickup on the Chase. The guy had a bunch of E98's in low grades but they all looked pretty nice.

Another non Brave tobacco type card.

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That's a beautiful card, Tim. A hundred years old! I was going to take a shot at it because I thought it was the same guy as the Spartanburg Martin in the T209 Colors. A little sleuthing around at the SABR minor league data base proved me wrong although there is some resemblance. Relatives, maybe? Here is the skinny on your guy, pitcher Herbert Martin of the Greensboro Champs:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/mi...d=martin001her

http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...209_Martin.jpg
(Why he has a "W" on his cap I have not been able to figure out).

Edited to add: Righteous Billiken, Steve. Watch out, they're habit forming.

Another nice Billiken from Matt G.

David / Tim,
Agree, the B/W Martin is Herbert as referenced in your link.
The Color Martin is most likely "P." Martin:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/mi...d=martin002p--
1907-1909, SS, Spartanburg
1910, SS, Columbia, SAL, and has a T210-1 card.





I gotta get one of those Billiken's....... but I need one with the picked fence in backround !!!!!!!!!!!!!

added another T210

T211 Red Sun
 

I have been looking for this one for 7 years. My number was finally called and this T211 Red Sun ends a long dry run I have been on with T211 Nashville Types. Glad to add Bill to the team ! (Also, Thanks to the kind gentlemen who helped me!) The search continues...

Portraits

More stuff
 

Fred Merkle, 1908
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One more off East Honolulu's Toughest Wantlist
http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...ForbesFld1.jpg

Neat-o Billikens poster. ¿Es muy bonito, no?
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Bloody *&@#ing beautiful, Joe!

Walt McCredie really knew how to wear a baseball cap. Always looks like he's about to slug the photographer. Was wondering who won that postcard. Awesome.

Ese Billiken cartel esta "bloody" increíble!!!

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