February 2016 New Pick Ups
 

I didn't notice this thread started yet, so here goes. I woke up about an hour ago to FedEx banging on the door to drop this one off. Not a bad way to start the month off as I've been looking for one for a while. Thanks to Sam from Net54 and his friend for this one.

That's NICE!!!

Great card Jesse. One might even call it a "splendid" pick up!

Never made it in on the first day of a new Pick-up Thread
 

Pretty exciting. Or I just have a dull life.

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Number 284 in the rebuilt collection. Large enough it looks like there is just a bit of an extra factory number at the top. Thanks to Travis Bidner for pointing this one out on eBay.

With any luck, number 285 in the collection will be about the last post in the month of February....

I was thrilled to win the t207...nice that no one seems to be chasing them now. I love the LC cards. Speaking of passing through famous hands, OBC trading buddy Jimi Thayer sent an interesting M101-2...neat stamp I thought.

A nice upgrade for me, thanks Jerry!
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Picked up this World Wide Gum Babe Ruth. Have been looking for this card for three years. Thanks Brad Pencil.

Thanks guys, I thought it was pretty splendid myself. Looks like a few nice pickups already. That Ruth looks great.

Congrats! And a little bit of a WST ghost on the back to boot. I always get a thrill every time you add another of Howe's cards. Thanks for continuing to post all of them.

Beautiful card !!

Awesome Nap!

That Ted is off the chain. Congrats.

T5 Cobb Fielding
 

Happy to add this to my T5 collection. If anyone has or knows who has the Young pls lmk!!!

Awesome Cobb!!!!!


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Thanks Steve!

Holy cow, Pete, sweet card!

gorgeous Cobb (and other cards posted so far)...keep 'em coming!

Nice one Pete! I humbly request that you post a scan of Ty side-by-side with Shoeless Joe.

Nice Cobb Pete just beautiful

Great looking Ted rookie there as well

Ty & Joe
 

Here you go Bryan & thanks everyone...

Maybe not the best condition, but, man o'man, what image and color (and great registration, especially for this set) !!!!!

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Now............. maybe ............. just a Duffy, next :eek::eek:

Fun stuff, Scott :rolleyes:

Amazing Pete.

1st addition of 2016

Wags is a great start to 2016.


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Sweet! :cool:

Pretty sure I overpaid for it, but picked up this Worch box variation (on left) to go with the no box one (on right) that I've had for a while.

My eyes, along with the rest of me, must be going, as I swear it looks like in that beautiful T5 Cobb that he is using a catcher's mitt ???

worth it...whatever it cost!

T5 Cobb
 

John, it is a catchers mitt he's wearing. I've seen only one other photo of Cobb wearing one. I'm sure there are more, but it's a rare sight and pretty cool they used this photo for the Pinkerton.

Thanks, Pete!

Well February looks like a tough month to compete in so far, but here are my humble additions :) The Speaker and Chase are two of my favorite cards in the set, really beautiful colors. And I know the Campanella was post-war, but it just came in this week and so I threw it on the scanner with the others. Love that card too, what a great image.

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#2 of 2016 just got sweeter. What else is better than a Wag?
How about this guy:

Next up after the Babe
 

Nice one, doesn't get much better that Ruth and Wagner. Throw in a Cobb and a Gehrig and you'll be good to go.

I finally picked up a really nice Helmar. The ones I've had have always been pretty rough.

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Glad you got it!

Sweet cards, both of them!

Here are a few recent pickups.
Lavender is a PC, and the others I got at a good price.

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My last 2 pickups:

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[QUOTE=xplainer;1500558]Here are a few recent pickups.
Lavender is a PC, and the others I got at a good price.

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Jimmy, Great pick ups on the T206s........... BUT:

I LOVE the A&G Frey, one of my favorite 19th century cards !!!!!!!!!

Man, he has a bad case of "Rabbititis" :):)

[QUOTE=mybuddyinc;1500565]Yeah Scott. I had to read up on him. Quite a story there. Died young too.

Really excited to add 3 more to my 1934 Goudey set. It's been a year since the last additions.

I am now at 79/96. If anyone has any PLMK.

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Thanks, Ed!

Wow, his signature is very similar to Ruth's.

Great looking Gehrig!

Whenever I see that Frey I always think "That Albert Frey sure had a lot of balls."

Nice Lavender - I am happy to see you add another one.

Henry Gruber OJ Run
 

Completed an OJ player run for Henry Gruber. The cards do not have impressive images, but took awhile to obtain (I'll take what I can get). I collect cards of all the 1887 Detroit Wolverines; Henry posting a 4-3 record for the Champs. Henry was not issued an OJ card until joining Cleveland in 1889.

Smoky Joe '14
 

I'll take my 1.5s looking like this all day long....

Happy with this pickup from Scott. From the Paddy O'Connor estate and although it doesn't have Paddy, it has another Pirate (no, not Wagner):

A clean shaven Blackbeard? :D

A couple of Goudeys.

lol. :D

February 2016 Pick Ups
 

These 5 were just in too good of condition to pass up.

Scott - I just love this card......
 

the set contains quite a few such beauties - this one my favorite. Nice P/up!

and apparently we share an appreciation of the Frey N28. While I sold my set (a hint too pedestrian) I kept a sweet Frey along with an Oakley and Buffalo Bill in my treasured cards type card subset. Forgetting about the all too easy jokes - unlike most normally staged cards - the inexplicable balls in the air thing gets me - and despite the unbordered white background approach I find the card to be aesthetically pleasing.

Scott- very nice CJ Wood.

Daryl- great Red border Chase.

Nice Nap Scott, as you pointed out the color and registration is very good for that set and overall very good anyway!

Just bought this interesting card last night. It pictures Julia St. Clair, who through research I have identified as a Bloomer Girl. I found her on a roster in 1902, so I'd guess this was produced some time around then. I also found one other image through Google search as well as a discussion on another example on this website. That makes 3 and it makes me confident this was a commercially issued card and not just a homemade memento:

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"Gribbin" came in the mail today -- another example of a great exchange with a board member -- thank you! :)

I put Gribbin in quotes because his actual name (and anything about him) eludes me. Baseball reference spells his name Francis Gribbens: http://www.baseball-reference.com/re...d=gribbe001fra
Lew Lipset spelled it Gribbon on his encyclopedia. What other references should I check?

I'm still looking for a few more Red Sun cards over on the BST page.

Cheers,
Steve

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Nice SL'er and Tenney. Tenney is a toughie in higher grade condition. Very nice registration and color too, on both T206's.

Seems they always look better in hand...

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My favorite pick up of the month. A little WST Ghost image on the reverse.

Had these oddball Ruth cards for a while, but recently got them holdered.

Cool cards Gary - I've never seen either of those before...and I've been around the block a few times.

Is that a football that the right handed Babe Ruth is throwing? And why does he have a block of wood in his glove?

Tom C

and why is he right-handed and wearing what appears to be a cricket outfit?

Yea, I don't think the quality control in that set was the best. The 1928 Sociedade set looks much better where they used actual photos.

Nice pickup Leon!
 

Leon,

Congrats on picking up that beautiful 1909 Obak of the infamous Chick Gandil of Black Sox fame.

Patrick

Huggins Sweet Caporal
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Freshly graded. All from board members.

I picked up this beauty in an eBay auction for a nice price -- 25 cents below my maximum bid! My third AB 460, and probably the nicest one condition-wise, though the other two are not bad.

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Pinholed T3's
 

Pinholed T3's

Got it 3 weeks ago but here is Mr. Cobb in all his green glory :)

Here's a card that i feel is undervalued for what it is

Beautiful pick-ups, Ruben!

Nice one! I had my eye on that too, congrats on being the winner.

New project. Hoping to put together a mid grade 1938 Goudey set full of well centered cards. Just got my first today. If anyone has any available please let me know.

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Tom C

Thank you Sam :)

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Re: February 2016 New Pick Ups
 

I started this set 20 months ago today. With these recent pickups I am now only 18 cards away from completing the set.

ErikV