The holy Grail of your collection
 

I start this thread for everyone who want to post a pic of the holy grail of your collection.

Don't have mine but it would be a T205 Matty AB Green

My '37 Feller OPC Rookie. One card I wanted the most and finally obtained about 3 years ago. 2nd would be the Nolan Ryan RC my dad bought for me in '88 - Now an SGC 70 (special value). Green Cobb T206 (Sov150 back) would be 3rd.
http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/w...FellerPSA5.jpg

value aside
 

Value aside as it's not as valuable as others, and because I am a type card collector, this one might be it.....

http://luckeycards.com/pt231.jpg

Get moose and squirrel!!!

ditto
 

ditto...value aside, I just think this "card" is awesome...picked it up this year - it's an 1868 Sporting Times Woodcut w/ HOFers George and Harry Wright:

I'm hoping I win mine... it is in one of the current auctions.

Me as well...hello REA! That 1868 Sporting Times Woodcut is amazing...not sure Ive seen that before. So for now, Id go with these e107's:

Picked this up not long ago...it is my Holy Grail...for now ;)

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...c/82b5b08c.jpg

very nice Jackson!

Wow amazing card!!

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I don't know that I'd call these holy grails exactly but:

I'd been looking to add a card like this to my collection for the better part of a decade. I'd long wanted a Satchel Paige signed card but I wanted one that dated from his MLB days and ideally was signed while he was active. I finally got a 1953 postally used Paige signed Browns team issue PC.

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...Lipset%201.jpg

Likewise I'd been looking for years for a good Connery signed item when this came up:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...rge/74998a.jpg

This card was a big deal for me for a very card-nerd reason: it proved definitively that the PC back cards were Exhibit issues due to the coupon on the card back:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...y%20Kansas.jpg

without any surprise, my holy grail

http://i42.servimg.com/u/f42/11/52/54/64/plank10.jpg

I think another Net54er once owned that card.

Yep i bought it from this member via sterling auction dealer !

Not the most expensive, but my favorites.
 

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hard to put a value on these 2 '39 PB's... Im fairly certain the Ott is the only signed example of a '39 and Waner just didnt sign much at all...

I wish someone hadn't written the names at the bottom, but otherwise these 2 probably combin e to be my most prized.

lol priceless

Prewar grail (1914)....

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8623/cjcobb.jpg

I can't afford a true holy grail, but of the items I own, it would probably now be the 'Meteors' 1800's cabinet that's been owned by at least two board members so far. I appreciate their relinquishing control of it, but it won't be moving again until I'm dead.

It's not pre-war and I've shown it before, but...

1960 Topps Flexichrome art of Killebrew/Colavito card that was never produced.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Grz0B5RX2S...brew+flexi.jpg

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The old Autograph Book contains over one hundred autos obtained in 1957 by yours truly at Phillies' spring training games.

No parents, no fees, just a pudgy 9 y/o kid with a green book and a cheap fountain pen, who knew how to say please and thank you.

Signed by my buddies Ashburn, Campanella, Furillo, Doby, Minoso, Alston, Killebrew, Kuenn, Herzog, Stengel, Branca, etc, etc, etc.

I wonder how long they remembered me. Priceless.

Frank, that's great. My memorabilia holy grail is a no-brainer: a ball I had signed by the '72 Giants and '73 Phillies. It's nothing special to anyone but me, but was the first time I met major leaguers.

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Great memories Frank!! Here are mine from that same season 1957 with Pee Wee and the Duke in the bowels of Ebbets Field just a few short weeks before it was shut down. You can't put a price on memories.

Ed,

Duke is in my book. Pee Wee is not. I remember the game with the Dodgers in 1957 well. They came to Clearwater from Vero Beach and had the best bus. After the game I used to wait at the gate between the dressing room and the bus for my autographs. The Dodgers initially all refused to sign. But before the bus left, I was standing beside the bus looking like the kid in the Mean Joe Greene Coke commercial, when a window of the bus opened. One of da bums asked for the book and pen that I reluctantly surrended it to him. I waited a long time, fearing the bus would pull away with my book. Finally the book came back out the window with about 15 autographs. A shut out was turned into a grand slam in a few very long minutes.:):):):):)
Priceless memories indeed.

Frank

Ed and Frank - Those are great stories and what wonderful pictures. I love how bb keeps our hearts young...you 2 take the cake on this thread!

Yep, Ed and Frank win hands down. Love stories like that!

Frank, can you show us some of your favorite autos from that book?

Taddy's First Day at School? Is it finally available?

My dad pulled this from a pack when he was 9.

http://i.imgur.com/ViKps.jpg

verry nice mantle and extremmely nice if it was your father's card pulled directly in a pack from him...

wow

Thanks! When I was a kid I took it to school once..raw...I'm sure I am responsible for it only getting a 3.

Find the "Killer" Jarrod. Amazing how much more legible they are compared to the current crop. Only a few guys who never made the bigs were difficult to ID.

I have a lot of cards that have value. But I guess the holy grail is my T206 Honus Wagner.

About 30 years ago I met an old collector who had a small box of T206s he had gotten as a kid. We looked though his collection and he enjoyed talking to me about the old days when men would come out of the duckpin bowling alleys in Roanoke (which were on the second floor) and would throw their empty packs in the gutters and the boys would scramble after him. He said even in those days he had heard of Honus Wagner but none of the boys had ever seen one. One day, this guy had found a picture of Honus Wagner in a magazine, pasted it on a cigarette card back and traded it to one of his buddies for a bunch of cards he needed.

Fast forward about 15 years, I consigned a collection out of a neighboring town about 50 miles away from a guy whose grandfather had passed them along to him. Among the cards was this card....I wonder and suspect it may have been the same card that the old man had made eight decades before and it had changed hands from farmboy to farm boy and made its way from Western Virginia to Central Virginia.

Although it is unlikely I will ever own a real T206 Wagner, I am proud for this one to stand in (but I don't count it toward my monster number).

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/e...1/photo-14.jpg

Chris,
What a great card! How cool that it is one your dad pulled from a pack!
JimB

Wow, Frank. That is GREAT. Love the vintage Killer signature. What a special piece. :)

bbcard1 - you should count that towards your monster number. I bet if you stripped that honus pic off, you'll find a true wagner. I remember as a kid sticking Cal Ripken stickers on his cards... you never know, maybe somebody back then had a t206 wagner and wanted a better pic of him... tada, the first skinner! Great story!

Ed - dacubfan - is that you as a kid in those pics? If I were your kids/grandchildren, I would be amazed! People on ebay would pay hundreds/thousands for those autographs not even knowing you! What a cool picture! I have a 1920s birth certificate of my grandpa, but I would trade it for a picture of him as a teenager in Ebbets field hanging with the Duke and PeeWee! Who cares about his birth... meeting the those guys as a kid would be much cooler! Did you get to meet Jackie?

Yes, that's me alright!! It seems so long ago that it's hard to believe it happened. No I didn't meet Jackie as he had already retired after the 1956 season. That would have been awesome. I did meet Roy Campanella and he did sign the ball that I still have from that night. It was just a few months before the accident that ended his career. Here are a few more pictures from the one and only game I attended at Ebbets Field. Being a Cubs fan I was probably more excited to meet the Cub players than the Boys of Summer at that time!! lol I do remember being disappointed that I did not meet Ernie Banks. Had to wait 30 more years to do that (picture attached). Just for the fun of it, the first one who can correctly identify the 4 Cubs players in these pictures I will send them a 1950's era program from Wrigley Field. NO cheating now!

Cubs IDed????
 

PM sent with my answers so as to not tip anyone else off.

Fickle
 

It's hard to pick one piece for me, it might be different if a new thread is started next month. But I looked for this for a long time and it will always be in the conversation as long as I own it.

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...hornsby001.jpg

Love the Hornsby, Jeff!

thanks for asking
 

this is the holy grail of my collection and I'm really proud to post - in my quest to own one card of every HOfer, I never expected to be able to cross off the Wright Brothers with one card. Thanks for starting the thread g-vezina. And big congrats on your Plank. great photo of you holding it in the other thread. Happy Collecting. -peter

Thx mr grail, i have think about it a couple time before start this thread because i was not sure if Anyone had started à thread like this in the past, i am not a old member of this board so i dont know wich subject had discussed in the past

Thx and beautiful piece.

Congrat Frank!! You got them all correct. PM me your address and I will get your prize in the mail.

Beautiful Hornsby!

Great P & S, Peter!

Answer revealed.
 

Eds' Cubs are Tanner, Moryn, Drott and Long.

Ed is the kid in all four pictures.

Just thought everyone would like to know.

Frank

today, at least . . .
 

I love it simply beautifull

I collect White Sox cards, so the holy grail I don't already have is probably a Joe Jackson E90-1 in medium or high grade. I'm also working on the '53 bowman color set and have the Pee Wee Reese in a nearly perfectly centered PSA 6.5. I guess that's the holy grail that I already own.

thanks a lot all for your participation in the holy grail thread !

Any other holy grail ?

OK... I'll play.

Wagner's rookie card has long been my dream card (or holy grail, if you prefer). It isn't in dream condition, but being that only 4 have been graded, it isn't exactly the most common card to find. So, I'll definitely take it!

http://photos.imageevent.com/ltsgall...%20SGC%20A.jpg

My holy grail...
 

...is really my collection of signed T206 cards. It is really difficult to pick just one or two out of this group:

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My mission/obsession is to find a team photo for each team Jim O'Rourke played on. Please post or email me if you can help with these remaining 7 teams.
1872 Middletown Mansfields
1880 Boston Red Caps
1881 Buffalo Bisons
1883 Buffalo Bisons
1884 Buffalo Bisons
1887 New York Giants
1893 Washington Senators
Paul
Pr0726@aol.com

Paul...I love your collection...it's definitely one of the coolest collections around...to me...even if they are T206's!!!!:)

Thank you so much! What do you collect, if not T206?!

I guess this is mine, tied with a couple of others (or more), my w517 that looks just like this later graded as PSA 5.

Sorry for my ignorance about this Wagner card but how much is the value of a card like that ?

Fantastic Hans e107, Brian
Now that you have a Wagner which e107 is your new grail?

Paul,
Thanks so much for putting your babies all together in one shot. Awesome display.

Great E107 Wagner!

It's hard to finger one card.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...rovesFront.jpg

Nice Darren!
You have a collection of holy grails!

Thanks -- they are more amazing all together without all that plastic surrounding them. T206 cards are a lot more fun to look at all together like they were found in nature! But the perils of the hobby -- especially when dealing with autographed cards -- just about require reputable TPG/TPA.

Thanks again!

Paul

Beautiful display, Paul

no doubt!

I'll post mine
http://photos.imageevent.com/ruckers...ize/kelly3.jpg

Craig: Have we seen yours yet? Or, is it to hard to choose? :)

Probably not the holy grail of my collection, but hold a special place since I actually pulled the cards from packs when I was a kid.

Chris...
 

Really cool you still own this heirloom from your dad. That is the cleanest best looking 3 52' Mantle I have ever seen. If it weren't for the protection the case provides, I would remove it and make it raw again. (That grade is a slap in The Mick's face)

I have always wanted this card when I was pulling the reprints out of 1989
Bowman packs. Now I have a real one with zero plans of ever parting with it.

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...pictureid=4398

Wow, Darren, didn't know that you had that one, great card!

Not my "holy grail" per se as it's existence was unknown until somewhat recently...but probably my most unique card.

Nice one Peter!

Any new holy grail in your collection, with the end of the REA auction ?

Here's mine
 

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wow i love it !

It may not be the most valuable but it will never leave my collection.


http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/k.../Scan00714.jpghttp://i283.photobucket.com/albums/k...r/Scan0715.jpg

Real nice website Mozzie, well done.