Post your top three favorite cards!
 

It's always interesting to see what other bored members have for there top three! So go ahead guys post them up:)

As a Canadian type card collector these are my top three pics:

1)1926 Holland Creameries Bucky Harris
2)1923 Maple Crispette #8 Babe Ruth
3)1951 Vancouver Capilanos Bobby McGuire

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...Cards/BUCK.jpghttp://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...s/IMG_0739.jpghttp://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...ornMcGuire.jpg

heres mine
 

Cy Young upside down 4 back
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...nder19/600.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...19/517Back.jpg
T206 with a President Taft Campaign Sticker "Meet us at Wilmington" dated nov 9th on the back... after some research you can see Nov 9th 1909 Taft visited Wilmington... This is prob my favorite one... the fact that it made it through all these years with an piece of American History is awesome...
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g.../taftback2.jpg
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g.../taftfront.jpg
My 1 and only brown lenox... they are too rare to not be one of your favorites if you own one :)
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g.../tbrownlen.jpg

Jamie

http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...35-wheaties-s1


http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...an-goudey-v300


http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...40/1934-goudey

Two Matty and 1 Cool card of Smokey Joe. Please disregard Mr.Lajoie for the sake of the 3 favorite cards part.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...1-Matty004.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...1-Matty003.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...dsfeb08058.jpg

Tough to choose just three, but here are mine...

These are probably my top 3 favorites...

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...%20SGC%20A.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...20SGC%2010.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...0composite.jpg

Sweet Boilers card
 

@terjung: As a Purdue alumnus, I'm loving that Boilermaker QB card.

Thanks! I had it custom made. It is far and away the favorite card in my collection.

Boiler up! (BSCE '94)

Do Postcards count?

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...colnteampc.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...lincolnpc4.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...colgansred.jpg

Would you be interested in selling this one?

Nice Hindu, looks much nicer than a 2, other than the back being OC is there something else wrong with it?

There is a little bit of vertical creasing on the front, you can't see it on the scan. When I get home tonite I'll take a pic and post it so you can see... But still, its a great card, probably the favorite of my collection.

I'm a bored board member :D, so I'll post my 3:
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...erComiskey.jpghttp://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...r/E95Plank.jpghttp://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...90-1Lajoie.jpg

Here are my new three, I just sold a card that would have been up here, feels odd not seeing it-

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...24exruth30.jpghttp://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...206ClarkeA.jpghttp://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...eclemente1.jpg

My top 3 (today!)

Like having twelve children and having to pick which ones you like best. :(

http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...CJ%20Matty.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...aphed-pen_.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_...10_Stengel.jpg

Top 3
 

Here's my top three:



Tony

As always, beautiful cards, everyone!

At the moment...

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2159/top3p.jpg

Wow, really nice to see these amazing cards in one thread. Here are my favs:

http://photos.imageevent.com/vanslyk...dell%20Doc.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/vanslyk...ell%20Back.jpg

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/5686/t3waddell.jpg

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/4613/koufaxrc.jpg

David, that autographed '34 Goudey Gehrig may be my favorite card that I've seen in anybody's collection. Simply iconic.

David: Your M116 Signed Joe Wood does not make the top 3? Man, tough collection :)

My 3
 

My favorite card that I've seen so far is Michael's Texas Tommy Speaker! What an amazing card!

http://dixonsbaseballcards.weebly.co...62238_orig.jpg http://dixonsbaseballcards.weebly.co...38460_orig.jpg

http://dixonsbaseballcards.weebly.co...84132_orig.jpg

OK, I apologize since the first is not pre-war but it's my favorite card ever made so it's my #1.

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...ge/53Reese.jpg
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...06JohnsonP.jpg
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...4greenberg.jpg

Can't do three today
 

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/5204500892/" title="1908-09 Rose Company PC760 by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/5204500892_b827c49eca_o.jpg" width="472" height="871" alt="1908-09 Rose Company PC760"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/3084954078/" title="1908 Detroit Free Press PC 773-4 by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3015/3084954078_91616db3e7_o.jpg" width="475" height="882" alt="1908 Detroit Free Press PC 773-4"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/2910089374/" title="1928 Star Player Candy by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3234/2910089374_304b2f8660_o.jpg" width="418" height="735" alt="1928 Star Player Candy"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvindog/3855430139/" title="1910 Tip Top Bread D322 by calvindog65, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2480/3855430139_9916c4c365_o.jpg" width="401" height="683" alt="1910 Tip Top Bread D322"></a>

Tough to pick 3.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m...0/scan0003.jpghttps://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-I...0/scan0017.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-i...0/scan0013.jpg

Cool cards, Matt! I recall seeing that Johnson before, but I
don't remember the story behind it. Is that a blank-backed,
hand cut proof card which was given to Johnson?

Thanks for sharing the scans, and whatever info you might have.

Thanks Chuck! The T206 WaJo was his personal copy that he kept in a scrapbook he assembled before he was married. It's not clear how he acquired it - if the ATC gave it to him or if it was from a fan; the part of the back that is showing is blank, but much of it is covered with a newspaper clipping.

Amazing stuff everyone really great items!

I can't pick only three right now, heck ask me again in an hour and I'll have a new fav three. So consider me disqualified. :)

http://photos.imageevent.com/piojohn...ig%20three.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/piojohn...arge/three.jpg

Cheers,

John

Wow, Matt! You have an auto'd '34 Goudey Gehrig too? Incredible!

In no specific order: ;) By the way, fabulous cards everyone............

#1
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95...t5gandil-1.jpg

#2 & #3
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95...310weaver2.jpg http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95...eportfront.jpg

My current top 3 (but this is tough!):

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m...tOnSGC55-1.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m...ds/M116WAG.jpg http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m...213-1Matty.jpg

Tomorrow it will change for me.......
 

If there was a "smilie" for "drooling it would be inserted (here).......beautiful cards everyone !!!

Today I'm liking these ones.....(but I don't yet own what would be my true favorites-here are a few that I have now)

Wow Tony, that Lajoie is stunning!! How can that be an SGC50?? :confused:

favorite cards:

Baseball: I tend to think of favorite baseball cards not in terms of rarity or value but in terms of where I was in life when I got them. I pulled the Aaron from a pack in 1976, have had the T206 Johnson since I was 12, and the Dropo is the first old card I got (probably got it when I was 10 or 11).

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...76%20Aaron.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...on%20ready.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ps%20Dropo.jpg

Nonsports: Easiest to choose of all categories. I'd wanted a good Connery autograph for years before I got one, Shatner/Kirk 'nuf ced, and the Marx Bros are not only favorites but the card is from a rare theatrical set from 1926 and is the only example I've seen.

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...rge/74998a.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...%20Shatner.jpg http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...arx%20Bros.jpg

Boxing: One of my cousin, one of my favorite, one of "the greatest of all time"; the latter two are 1 of 1, as I've never seen another of either:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...Miller%203.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ng%20Fists.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...eli%20Clay.jpg

my baseball cards are almost all gone :eek: -

but here are my favorite three baseball this morning.....


http://www.internetville.com/images/...antsfrontA.jpg

http://www.internetville.com/images/...1912_wajo.jpeg

http://www.internetville.com/stuff/1...eswatching.jpg

3 favorite cards
 

I'm not trying to be flip (well, maybe just a little), but I just scanned these and at this very moment they are my three favorites. It'll change any minute now.

wow
 

Matt, wow, if you care to part with one of those Greenbergs, can you let me know?!
Brian
PS very nice cards, all

I had fully intended to post on this thread, but after seeing what every body else is bringing to the table, I'll just sit in the locker room until the varsity is out of the showers:o

Wonka-The Plank is just stinkin gorgeous. I was oogling that thing like it was a Cindy Crawford pinup

I've truly enjoyed this thread...awesome stuff, guys.


<a href="http://s210.photobucket.com/albums/bb189/Tyjaycox/?action=view&amp;current=joss.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb189/Tyjaycox/joss.jpg" border="0" alt="joss"></a>

<a href="http://s210.photobucket.com/albums/bb189/Tyjaycox/?action=view&amp;current=1910OrangeBordersChristyM athewsonSG.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb189/Tyjaycox/1910OrangeBordersChristyMathewsonSG.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

<a href="http://s210.photobucket.com/albums/bb189/Tyjaycox/?action=view&amp;current=ewingn173.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb189/Tyjaycox/ewingn173.jpg" border="0" alt="ewingwithmascotn173"></a>

3 and 1/3 cards of Johnny Evers
 

Some of my favorite cards feature Johnny:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-K...vers_Ramly.jpghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M...d8dfd025_b.jpghttps://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-D...30b0ebea_b.jpghttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...b3a96da8_z.jpg


Peter

Favorites...
 

Here a few of my favorites :

It depends on what day I am asked, but these are my favorites today. The Lajoie is my favorite T206 pose and was one of my first two T206s that I got when I was 12 years old. The Cobb is an e93. I should probably post it on the big border thread too.
JimB

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5...0dpicroppe.jpghttp://img20.imageshack.us/img20/867/n167ewing.jpghttp://img844.imageshack.us/img844/6...7ewingback.jpg
http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/4483/batpsa35.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/bicem/h...e/Rube%201.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/bicem/h...e/Rube%202.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/bicem/l...%20Waddell.jpg

Jeff - Those Rube's are simply spectacular. Especially the Top 2 RPPC's... The images, the pose, the background... Thanks for sharing -

Tyler -

Great Matty!

I always loved the orange border Matty.

my current 3 favorites

(wipes drool) Great card, Mark! (resumes drooling)



Jim, I am typically a much bigger fan of photographic portraits, but your N167 Ewing might just change my mind. ...and the back of it is double-take worthy too. Phenominal card, my friend!

My top 3.......

3?
 

Pick my 3 favorites? I couldn't even pick 300!! Here are a few I enjoy though...

Great thread!

Congrats on landing that '21 Voskamps, Leon! It's the only one I know of. I remember being shell-shocked when I saw that one in person a couple years ago (since I only knew about the earlier Voskamps Coffee set prior to seeing that one). Great, great card!

I think this thread just reinforces for myself why I chose to go the vintage route. Great stuff guys!

Thanks Brian. Your E107 Wagner and Young are not a bad pair!
JimB

My 3 right now. I just picture Stallings fighting with Chase in the dugout with that outfit.

<a href="http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/zouraspm/?action=view&amp;current=scan0001-3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/zouraspm/scan0001-3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><a href="http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/zouraspm/?action=view&amp;current=t206johnsonf.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/zouraspm/t206johnsonf.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><a href="http://s8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/zouraspm/?action=view&amp;current=purcellf.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/zouraspm/purcellf.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

As Archie would say about Stretch Cunningham:"...got an IQ of about 1"

Three of my favorites.

http://photos.imageevent.com/mhgt/t2...wjohnson_1.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/mhgt/t2...%20Brights.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/mhgt/co...Joss-E90-1.jpg

My 3 favorites today.

http://photos.imageevent.com/davidw/...0Ty%20Cobb.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/davidw/...142%20Nash.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/davidw/...0Mathewson.jpg

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sick Jerry!

Nice Bernhard, Jim.

Man,

I am lovin' this thread. I might need to break the scanner out n play along. Extra special kudos goes to Blunder and Wonka --- great stuff guys WOW!

Best,
SGL

Jerry S, great cards and and even cooler avatar! :)

Jim R's favs are Baltimore players what next the sky is blue? :D

Cheers,

John

thanks mike

and what a sweet carolina speaker.

Jim - You're one sick puppy ! Nice BB !! :D

I don't play favorites, but I know one member likes to view three of my cards, so I will post for his viewing pleasure. I'm not bragging or trying to tease the member, just posting for his enjoyment:

If we are limiting it to picking our favorite three pre-war cards today I would pick these three.

Really...just 3?
 

I can't show my favorite because its locked up (E105 Mello-Mint Wagner)
but I can show these HOFers that I couldn't imagine parting with :

Like many others, it's very hard to pick just 3. So i picked 3 with the same image, for today's post. If the thread is still alive next week. I'll pick a different player.

Top 3 Favs
 

Like these 3 this week

http://i332.photobucket.com/albums/m...alChase1-1.jpg
http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/...s/SCAN0308.jpg
http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/.../HoffmanPB.jpg

Tough Decision....
 

Here are three.... One of them is not pre-war.... :)

http://www.bandkgreen.net/lefty_grov...iamondstar.jpg

http://www.bandkgreen.net/lefty_grov..._uscaramel.jpg

http://www.bandkgreen.net/lefty_grov...k_baseball.jpg

Wow, nice Wagners Scott.

This thread makes my head spin! I've scrolled through this one top-to-bottom at least 10 times and every time a different card catches my eye.

Out of my humble contribution, the top two never change. There is about a 10-way tie for the number three spot, but today I'll occupy that slot with the oldest card I own.

<img width="500" border="0" src="http://www.richardarmstrong.ca/baseball/Voskamp_Gibson.jpg">

<img width="500" border="0" src="http://www.richardarmstrong.ca/baseball/Toronto/C46_1_OHara.jpg">

<img width="500" border="0" src="http://www.richardarmstrong.ca/baseball/Toronto/N172_Serad.jpg">

Regards,

Richard.