Show us your Rarest card
 

Let's see the rarest card in your collectionAttachment 175929

Wouldn't a scan/picture of the back of the Cobb card put the exclamation point on the post? :p

Here's my rarest.
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W575-1 Keating Candy Eddie Collins

<a href="http://s209.photobucket.com/user/TopekaPalms/media/CollinsFront_zps846516c2.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb212/TopekaPalms/CollinsFront_zps846516c2.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo CollinsFront_zps846516c2.jpg"/></a>


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Mack's Dairy and Grocery Leaf Premium Lou Gehrig

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that is a great card...

Two
 

babes<br><a href="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/zouraspm/media/zouraspm001/jnjscan0009_zps11a02242.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/zouraspm/zouraspm001/jnjscan0009_zps11a02242.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo jnjscan0009_zps11a02242.jpg"/></a>

a rare two

George Wright CDV

Damn Kenny, that's next level.

Rob....
 

your downey is rarer than the Cobb! let's see it;)

Pre war: <a href="http://s22.photobucket.com/user/nudan92/media/1878-1946%20Lincoln%20Baseball/1911colgansred.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/nudan92/1878-1946%20Lincoln%20Baseball/1911colgansred.jpg" border="0" alt="1911 Colgan's Red Border photo 1911colgansred.jpg"/></a>

I've never seen another one, but I admit I haven't looked that hard.

Post War: <a href="http://s22.photobucket.com/user/nudan92/media/1947-1961%20Lincoln%20Baseball/miley_zpsa52c3a15.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/nudan92/1947-1961%20Lincoln%20Baseball/miley_zpsa52c3a15.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo miley_zpsa52c3a15.jpg"/></a>

Another "never seen another one" cards, and I actually have looked very hard for another one of these.

Thanks Jeff. I was very happy and very fortunate to pick it up.

Thank you, Michael.

I'm sure everyone is sick of seeing T206 cards...but this blank back is the only Hoblitzell example known.

(Hi Johnny!) ;)

Mike........
 

those borders are sooooo sexy!:eek: I'm BLIND!:eek:

1908.....Big year for the Cubbies!

Ajc

E104
 

Not sure if truly "rare" by board standards, but probably my toughest card...
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I don't think that I've ever posted this one before this:



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Here's the back of CobbAttachment 176034

Nice looking card Sean

Many Thanx to Brian Mc. for this panel. Only wish I`d grabbed the Christy Mathewsen at the same time !
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w...y/IMG_5140.jpg

Um.....holy crap.

Tom C

Tom took the words right our of my mouth. Ridiculously awesome piece.

Beautiful stuff so far

Can't get rarer than this--only card produced, may be "prototype" and never distributed.

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1421775104

One of only 4 or 5 known to exist

"Rare" cards are a focus of my collection so I'm loving this thread!
Show some more , Leon; we know you have them.
Nice Cobb postcard!

Probably not too many of these Ewing cabs out there

Never seen that Ewing before, amazing.

Killer thread.

-Al

Simply fantastic stuff so far!

Awesome Wright!!

Sean....
 

:eek:

+1

Here are a few of mine - I kinda like extremely rare cards too - here are my two favorites / rarest:

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...0OquRourke.jpghttp://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...20Jennings.jpg

It's what we do :).

1904 Eastern League Champions
 

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/d...904buffalo.jpg


TED Z
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The 1887 Canton team from the Ohio State League and the 1889 Williams College team.

Being an U of Akron grad the Canton team has a little more meaning!!

Great looking stuff so far everyone. I hope to add another rare card, Spud Johnson, this year if I can find one.


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one of them

Not too many of these out there:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...%20OquDoul.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...n%20sample.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...Unc%20Ruth.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit.../Darby%201.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...0Gomez%202.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...th-Hornsby.jpg

So is Adam Panama the precursor to Tommy Bahama's?

Lot's of cool stuff in this thread.

Not my rarest but a recently added one

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+1

I know, I know the Hamilton is more rare than the McPhee and the OP said 'rarest' but whadya gonna do right? I love 'em.

Thanks for posting guys. This is a great thread. Ken W. - always great to see your cards.

peter

Nice Cobb Factory 42

Peter, your Hamilton is absolutely stunning!!!

Haven't seen too many of these...

The first LDS/Mormon a well as the first Utah-born player in the Major Leagues. I have never seen another example of this card before, although I have seen 2-3 copies of the Dick Bayless card from the same set of over-sized postcards.

http://www.starsofthediamond.com/atlantacastleton.jpg

I also love this Rose Co. postcard which is the only "individual card" of the real "Moonlight" Graham of Field of Dreams fame, even though there are a few known copies of it in existence (how many? I have no idea but I have a hard time imagining there being more than 5-6 total copies known)

http://starsofthediamond.com/graham.jpg

Rhett:

Those are great items.

Kevin

nice looking Cobby psa 1!

Rare
 

Like others, I seem to gravitate to rare items. Here's an example - 1 of 1 ?

Thank you Peter!!

Me too. I have stacks of them...

Mr. Cady
 

Last I checked there were only 16 of these graded.

Since someone broke the autograph ice, I don't think you'll find too many more:

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...jams/Honus.jpg

Amazing items in here!
Leon-those Cobbs :eek:
Chris- Absolutely stunning Carey T207

here are my more rare signed Hof rookies:

http://i.imgur.com/qn3kyOy.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/O3NzA3x.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/fvW9FCI.jpg

-Dan

Nice Dan

Thank You

Pinkerton Blank Back

Dan:

Those are incredible signed HOF rookie cards, WOW!

Phil,
Thank You

-Dan

Here's a strange one, which may be unique: 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings photo disk. A little larger than a Colgan's. Made of cardboard, but enclosed in a metallic ring. Looks like a pin, but there is absolutely no evidence of any kind of pin backing. No evidence of an attachment of any kind, for that matter. What the hell do I have here?? :)

A few more rare cards
 

Here is a few more that are uber rare.

Thanks a lot Derek! Guess you'll post your Campy for the "show your rarest Campy card"?

Ken - I've been looking at vintage stuff for decades and have never seen that. I did a quick search and found the image was used here:

http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2012/06/

The images are the heads from the Peck & Snyder card. A Google search seems to show that every image of the team, just contain the starting nine except the P&S.

Like your cool round piece Ken, they leave out the 'substitute' player - Dick Hurley who didn't play at all with the team.

Love it.

Cool, thanks for that link, Peter! It definitely is the same piece. I won it in REA about 3 years ago (maybe 4), and they believed it was the only one they had ever seen. And they weren't sure what it was, either.

My friend's
 

Attachment 176320Pretty cool dual image (miscut) of HOF Hugh Jennings. Careful Hugh, someone might be gaining on you! :D

I have never seen another.

Mike

Dixie, I've long wanted a Red Sun card for Hub Perdue, nice. Very nice. I have 2 of his red border Old Mills, his autograph, a couple of white borders, a Fatima, and one CJ... I met his grandson, who let me look at some of Hub's stuff. A letter from Roosevelt, a couple of Conlon photos with back stamps...


I think that this is much less plentiful than is generally perceived.

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...RedRhoades.jpg

You're right...I guess I simply didn't want to hijack this thread with postcards...but since you asked!!

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...Campanella.jpg

Derek, that Campy is a beauty!

Frank - Good to see you posting on the board! The Gallatin Squash... Have you seen the new book by John Simpson? (Clown Prince...)

I learned of the book about Perdue about a week ago, hope it arrives in the mail soon. I've not seen a copy yet. And I wish I had spoken with Simpson before publication. Hub's letter from Roosevelt was on Governor of New York letterhead, it was just after the presidential election and before inauguration. He was thanking Hub for working for votes in middle Tennessee. For a time Hub was the County Clerk for Sumner County, Gallatin is the county seat. I was in Rotary with a fellow who knew Hub years ago, and was friends with his grandson. He took me down to Sumner County to meet him, and that's where I saw the stuff. This Rotarian's father had played in the minors in the 30's. They had some interesting baseball stories.

Hub considered his best pitching effort an opening day complete game shutout of the New York Giants; he out-dueled Christy Mathewson. He was annoyed that the next day's papers had virtually no coverage of his great pitching. Instead, the papers were full of another event that happened the middle of April, 1912... the sinking of the Titanic.

Hollar at me if you think of parting with that Red Sun card, please sir.

Great cards everyone!!
Bruce that Duffy is outstanding!!!
This doesn't compare to most, but to keep the thread alive.

http://photos.imageevent.com/mhgt/ho...001%20copy.jpg

This one's for Mike

http://photos.imageevent.com/derekgr...Campanella.jpg[/QUOTE]


Fantastic!! thanks for sharing