What is your biggest single card purchase
 

What is your biggest $$$ card purchase ?
Post scan and when you buyed it ? And if you have any special story you want to share !

Big $$
 

Since collecting pre war, this card is major $$ purchase. I as looking for a nice low grade example, and by a stroke of luck, I happened to email our fearless leader Leon, asking if he knew of anyone that may have one for sale.

He had this card, and was looking to sell it. I bought it back in Jan 2009.

Great looking card in my opinion. Hopefully, I be adding some more big $$ cards from my wantlist in the near future.

Tony

Hans
 

This is my biggest single card buy, although I have spent more than this at once to acquire lots...

Walking in the park with my kids and Jamie (blunder) txts me and says "HOF BL460 on eBay, buy it".

Bought it without seeing card on the iPhone, took a bit of heat from the wife on the walk home :)


http://i.imgur.com/mCeE0lz.jpg

Purchased from a fellow board member.

http://i1204.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5d69316f.jpg

Thanks again Tony. That is probably one I should have kept :o. Nice card. It deserved the bump up. Nice other cards in the thread also.....

my most expensive card is a 1986 fleer Jordan rookie (yea a basketball card / my only one) its a BVG 8 with sub grades of 9-8-8-9.5

Took me about a year to find the right one, im sure it will remain my highest priced card till i get to a real nice T205 cobb, or a drum back

the Ohara to finish my T206 520 set. It is low grade, but was still a lot of card.

Here's Mine
 

An SGC40 E125 Honus Wagner (Throwing), purchased in January 2013 from an AWESOME board member here :D

Nice card everyone !! Tony i love your Jackson !

More $ has gone into my baseball collection as a whole, but this is the most expensive single card I've purchased

Thanks Nelson, and where is your Plank!!!

Greg,

That Wagner is a nice looking example. Very clean. Best of luck if you go after the batting pose.

Tony

Aha i will not post it since i pist it many time !
This boby orr test is amazing !

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...9/clemente.jpg


card was stolen a year ago, and I dont believe has reappeared as I have been scouring ebay

Thanks Tony, the fact that is mis-graded I am very hesitant, would rather have a whole card!! :D

Greg

Sorry to read that..
 

How did the police treat the situation ?

My most expensive is this Arlie Latham Player's League card. The nicest quality picture on an 1890 Old Judge that I have seen. The scan is from my old scanner, looks a little better in person. I don't have many high priced purchased, I'd rather go for quantity over quality.

Greg,
That's a tough spot. It is likely that some of your competition won't be as aware and be willing to "overpay" so to speak based on the incorrect grade. Then again as often as they surface you may have to bite the bullet and go for it.

These were all about the same and required some long discussions with the wife....

Here is mine:

http://i1323.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9ddde5ad.jpg

Like i said before barry congrat your collectionn is amazing

My two biggest baseball card purchase

http://i70.servimg.com/u/f70/11/52/54/64/img_0010.jpg

purchased 2 weeks ago

http://i1035.photobucket.com/albums/...psb1cf6035.jpg

Wow great thread.....and great collection guys! Gotta love some nice card porn! At this point Barry and Nelson are making me envious ;)

The Plank and the 1914 Joe Jax are a thing of beauty!

Thx a lot Glen..appreciated

2/4 big ones side by side. WOW.

Plank is a dream card, congrats.

Chris your are a great collector and i am sure you will have your Plank at some time in a near futur. Your are on the right way !

Thx !

Barry, those are great cards, I really love the Mathewson.
As for the long talk with the wife, I understand. I was only able to get my girlfriend on board when I was buying a Plank by finally making it clear that if it came to it, I would choose the card over her. It sounds bad, but it's true.
Nelson, sorry I can't post the Plank, but I'm at work now. I'll show it another time.:)

PS Since the Plank seems to have increased in value since I bought it (2006), she is actually mad at me that I didn't get two Planks (as if that was ever an option for me).:eek:

Barry I just love that Nap.

Jackie...
 

who else? not prewar, but...

Thanks for the nice comments Nelson, Glenn, Harry and Sean. There is definitely some great "eye candy" on this thread.

I don't collect t206's, but one of these days I need to get myself one of those Planks....

What a great, iconic card! Congrats Nelson and Sean!

Most expensive
 

Great looking cards, everyone. This Cobb caught me when I had a few coins in my pocket.

Best regards,

Joe

Would like to see people list how much they paid for the cards.....

If you are really curious, mine is #40 on the T206RESOURCE.com website, along with the sale price.

Wait, yours has missing ink?

Yes,that one is mine. I promise to post as soon as I can. The story about how I bought it also real.:o

Sean- lets me get this straight. You actually would have picked a baseball card over the touch of a real woman? Alright, I'll admit it. That T206 set must be a hell of a drug.

I would like to see people list how much they told their wives they paid for the cards...:)

Thanks for the spit-take. I usually round down--sometimes waaay down.

Bill

wow - some really stunning cards in here!!

Haha.....good one

I'm willing to bet there's a sizable gap every time..... ;)

Nice card everyone !
And nice Plank Sean !
When you have time share your story about your purchase! :)

Great cards to all - Barry, Ive spent some time looking at that Matty of yours.

This is mine, nothing will ever top it. I will be paying this off for a little while into 2013 and isnt even my favorite CJ. This purchase was a long talk with my wife as I was outta work for a couple weeks when I made this purchase...I also tend to round down when talking to the wife. ;)

wow steven Nice Jackson!!! Congrat to you and your Wife :)

Bbce
 

Don't remember my biggest single card purchase, but I bought about $2500 worth of "junk" from BBCE about 2 years ago. My now ex-wife got an email alert for any CC purchase over $125. Steve Hart graciously broke up the payments in increments of $124 so she would never know. Paid him about $20 extra for the extra CC charges.

Great cards everyone. Was able to purchase the bottom panel shown in this REA link, Cobb/Wagner, with the kind help and assistance of one Brian McQ.

http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/.../2007/267.html

This is it, the favorite card in my collection:

http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/t...od-1-1-1-1.jpg

Not expensive at all relative to most of the cards posted so far, and technically it is not a card, but it is the most I've paid for a card, and almost twice as much as the second most I've paid.

<a href="http://s1199.beta.photobucket.com/user/abothebear/media/PreWar%20Collection/scan0005-1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa471/abothebear/PreWar%20Collection/scan0005-1.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo scan0005-1.jpg"/></a>

Dave, awesome Wagner, the more I see the m110, the more I want one.

Dj

+1

Wow.

Well, here's one for all of us with smaller budgets.
http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=10074

I'm pretty sure this is the card I paid the most for. Around 235.

The most I've spent on a lot was about 700 for the little batch of 8 SL blankbacks I got from Ebay maybe 10 years ago.

Of course I'm not counting nice stuff I bought decades ago when it was cheap. Probably the best buy was the Carolina Brights Red Cobb. A beater, but it was only fifty bucks.
The early 1900's Fred Parent bat I got in a swap for a modern store bat after it got cracked in a softball game is probably the best non-card deal.

Steve B

Ain't that the truth

grove
 

I've been looking for this card for a while. Picked up last week on Ebay.

The most expensive card I've ever bought is Nelson's T206 Plank (Carter Collectoin). However, since I no longer own it, I guess I should be sharing my signed T206 of Walter Johnson, which comes in at several thousand more than any other card I've ever bought outside of the Plank. (Honoable mention go to the Magie I no longer own, and the 1951 Bowman Mantle SGC 60 I just added.)


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The M110 set is really cool, they look fantastic in person. Best looking set out there IMO. I only have the Wagner, but who knows, maybe sometime in the future I will try to go after some of the others.

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Not the most expense I paid but now worth the most. Got a 1914 CJ Marquard at small dealer in NYC for $200 some 15 years ago. Ungraded and, frankly, i didn't know then if '14 or '15 or if a reprint. Sent it away to PSA about three years later and happily found out it was 1) legit 2) a NM and 3) the highest graded. All those things still true these many years later.

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1361222299

Well, this appears to be yet another chance to show off Mr. Apple Tyrus :D

All you high roller cards make me jealous! :mad: (j/k) :D

But I have the best girlfriend in the world of 15+ years who NEVER gives me grief about buying cards and is actually interested in what I buy and supports my collecting habits, so there! :p (j/k again) :D

Most expensive purchase, though not nearly most valuable card, was the '55 Clemente RC I picked up at the National last year. But I very well may pass that mark at this year's National. LOL

But to keep this pre-war appropriate, I did pick this guy up about 3-4 years ago for $35 (with a partially missing back). "Beat but neat" is my catch phrase! ;)

Wow another great looking card! I'd be proud of that one too Steve ;)

trade?? :)

Thank you very much.

Bambino
 

Wanted this card since I first saw one in a 1983 issue of Baseball Cards Magazine (remember those?)...I was 12 at the time and told myself I would be lucky to just see one in my lifetime.....thanks to a fellow board member I was able to acquire this one in 2009....

wow i love your Ruth card !

Add me to the list
 

of posters on this thread whose single biggest purchase was *not* a graded card.

I don't have the picture but it is a hockey card

Art Ross sweet caporal postcard 1910

me too, probably not a graded card in the top 5

H. Murphy

That is a cool panel.

Close to wrapping up a deal for a shellacked, trimmed T206 Wagner ...

I just wrapped it up. Sorry. Traded Tschock's girlfriend for it :)

You too???

Beauty of a Ruth Wolfdogg

Had to reach for this one but it was worth it:

http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/t...gampmascot.jpg

If a CDV is a "card" then it was the Wright. Otherwise I think it was the Charleston by a hair over a Tomas Gutierrez Torriente

One of my top dogs

Most expensive purchases
 

Here are my two most expensive purchases:

Most expensive is my Joseph Laughlin Old Mill Cabinet and the runner up is my T4 Obak Cabinet of Claude Berry.


Patrick

Off-hand I'd say it was an E94 Honus Wagner SGC 60.

drooling....