What Did You Pickup in February?
 

Was happy to start the month with three envelopes in the mailbox today. The Norfolk Tars played across the river from where I grew up so it's neat to add these to the collection. Otey joins the T206 Seitz I already had and the T210 Old Mill Jackson and Nimmo join the growing collection I have from that team set. Did anyone else start the month with any nice additions?

Got 1934 Diamond Stars Frisch (ebay bin)

1930s postcard of Davenport, IA, and its riverside ballpark. First saw pro baseball there (Quad City Angels) in the mid-1970s.

1907 Dietsche George Mullin

Those are so gorgeous!

Upgraded

Nice Kelly! Where did you find that? I picked this up in Clean Sweep to add to my Matty collection. Tough to find! I only count 16 total graded/sold in PSA/SGC.

Private collector who is on here too. I traded and cash upgrade

Picked this up from Memory Lane. Now have 3 of the 4 Babe Goudeys. Just need the yellow background.

That’s a strong 1, congrats!

One of my colecting focuses is pre-War Virginia League cards from the E222, T206, T209-2, and T210-2 sets. I finally got sround to completing my T206 Va. Leaguers with this card of Shag. I'm pretty sure the writing is pencil, so I intend to improve its eye appeal by removing it from its slab, erasing the pencil marks, and getting it re-slabbed.

You should trim it too - definitely an opportunity to sharpen those corners. 😉

Congratulations on closing it out Val.

Half of the E98 Bender "rainbow".
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Many thanks to a couple of excellent Net54 members, one of whom graciously parted with their collection.

#16 - 28 plus 4 upgrades/dupes.

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E105 pickups continued...

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Congrats Val!

Chad

You Hit the Mint!
 

Daryl,
You really hit the MINT!!! Nice collection, Thanks for sharing!!!!
Tim Kindler

Wow

Another fast start to the month

And Paul Great Pickup on the Matty

Thanks, Tim!


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Congrats on finishing a project, Val!

And wow, Daryl, that's an impressive grouping. Holy smokes!

Cool stuff guys...Here's a few new T206 cards that are part of mini back runs we have going. My son is collecting with me now, it makes it even more fun!

A relatively scarce one, and a scarce shiny one…

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Happy to pick this up. I love the sharp auto, and the fact that the card was issued between '51-53 based on bottom print makes it nicer, for me....

Who are you going to send it to?

Happy Willie Mays day! (2-4-24)

Jim, I will submit it to SGC, because I don't do PSA. Also, a plus with SGC is that I can submit the card to them in person at the Chantilly Show. Actually, I would keep the card raw (most of my highest-vauled cards are raw, my having acquired them before grading became the in thing), but all of my other T206 Va. League cards just happen to be slabbed.

To clarify what I said earlier in this thread about erasing the pencil marks and then re-submitting this card, I would not be looking for or expecting anything more than an "A" grade or a "1" grade from SGC. I just want a card that is more pleasing to my eye when I view it.

T206s
 

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Bescher Name at Top only, a fun little oddity

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I like to add cards of HOF Honorees to my HOF collection, if those guys actually PLAYED professional baseball. Recently picked up these two. My very first T207 and a slightly post-war, oddball newspaper issue.

I was able to pick up my first 19th century card for my Hall of Fame player collection - 1888 Allen and Ginter Buck Ewing

Question for those of you who are more knowledgeable than me - the SGC slab says N43, but the person I purchased from says this is mislabeled and is an N29. Is there a way to know for sure or could this be an N43 that was cut down to the size of the N29 from those sets? Just my curiosity and wondering if it is worth me sending to reslab with the correct set (if it would be N29). Thanks for any help!

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A couple blanks...

It certainly looks like an N29, but the N43 has the N29 card plus some surrounding images. This doesn’t look cut out of an N43, but the back would tell you for certain.

I did not think to look up the back of the N43 and realize the text was full size for the oversized card. The back of mine is the same size of the card so it is definitely the N29. I appreciate the response.

E90-1 Crawford. I like this set a lot.

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Mail day, random AH wins and a big one off my checklist.
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Happy to hear!

Wow, Phil. That Dietsche Cobb is a beauty!

+1

Thanks Tim and JC,
I've been on the hunt for awhile, it's about the cleanest "2" I've seen and came at a fair price.

In my mailbox yesterday. Slowly continuing my journey on this 1935 Goudey set. Also, this is the first Greenberg in my collection. Happy to have it.

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Nice pickups, Phil! Let me guess, the "big one off my checklist" is the E106 of Germany Schaefer - right? :p If nothing else, it's the most colorful of your pickups and my favorite.

Daryl, your cards proved that the theory that Mello Mint must have put the gum inside the card and then pushed up the sides, leaving creases in the middle. I once had a beautiful Wagner batting except for the creases straight down the middle.

John, there are many without the vertical crease as well. I think it’s been said that some employees may have taken Newman the Mailman’s approach and folded the cards before inserting them into the packs, while others did not.

There were also “free sample” packs that were wider and didn’t need the cards to be folded in order to fit.


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Thanks Val, I was mesmerized by the Schaefer also, love the horizontal look, matches the Matty horizontal. A card doesn't always have to valuable to be valuable to me.

Picked this up from the card show this past weekend.

I always really liked the look of the W515 Bancroft card, and now your example is no longer a Dave 'Sleeping Beauty' Bancroft.


Brian

Great month so far everyone!

This Black Old Mill helps me complete this (mini) player run...

For many years, I have been collecting N172 Old Judge cards of players depicted with Washington. There are a few tough players that I have been unable to acquire even one pose of. One of these players is Sam Wise, who was purchased by Washington from Boston in April 1889. Well, much to my surprise, I came across a N173 Old Judge cabinet of Wise shown with Washington on eBay, and I am beyond thrilled to have won it! This is the first OJ cabinet I have ever owned, and I suspect that it is a 1-of-1.

haha thanks

Congrats Val!

Thanks
Chad

Great find Val. I know how long you have been looking for those cards.

W551
 

Another back for the type set....on the way to me now..

Leon, your W551 Wool's Bread is a beauty - congrats! I see that in your prior collection you have a nice Wool's Bread of Frank Baker in a SGC slab. FYI, if you submit Mr. Sisler to SGC to slab, I think you are going to be disappointed. I say this because a few months ago I submitted my Wool's Bread card of WaJo, which I've had in my colection for 25-30 years, to SGC to grade. SGC gave it an "A" grade, which I'm okay with, but did NOT mention Wool's Bread on the label, which really ticked me off. Upon inquiry, a SGC rep informed me SGC is no longer notating Wool's Bread on the label. Damn!

This was months in the making

Thanks Sports Card Pete

Happy to make this my 2nd Heading Home Ruth

Found a scarce mid-career image of WWII player Earl Henry (George Brace RPPC), added Rube Waddell to my HOF postcards, and a large lot of 1919-21 Universal Toy & Novelty Co. actor strip cards with several print variations.

I don't usually post my m113/m114 finds in the monthly threads, but this one is pretty cool, and I wasn't even sure that this one existed until I saw the ebay listing, so I'm quite happy picking it up.

Cross posted, but others who don't have an interest in the m113 releases may be interested to see a Federal League item.

#106 in my m113 collection, the 1915 Chicago Whales team, first advertised in the Dec 1915 issue of Baseball Magazine.

Very cool piece Doug.

Love the E93 Waddell image. My favorite cards of his.

Nice pickup! (I was one of the underbidders in the Heritage auction).

Thanks Charles, I always hate when members compete but it's inevitable I suppose. I'm out of the Waddell market now so the next one is yours.

What a terrific piece! Federal League collectors might enjoy knowing that Max Flack's E120 (and related sets with its image) also show a Chicago Feds/Whales uniform. You can see part of its unique C logo on his chest and he's posing in front of Weeghman Park's scoreboard, as built for Weeghman's own stake in that team.

Very happy to get this 1927 Exhibit Bressler from a new board member to complete my 1927 Exhibit set.

Huge pick up. Congrats Jeff!
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I was watching that ebay item. Rare find!!

My first Wagner arrived today.

Shrink my collection to grow the quality and rarity

This is the only known scorecard with Joe Jackson from his last minor league game played, playing for the New Orleans Pelicans

Thanks Ryan for this opportunity to add this to my early era portion of my Joe Jackson Collection

Dang that is super cool Jeff!

Nice Wagner Charles.

Monster pick up Jeff.

Congrats to both of you.

Not an Exhibits fellow, but it is always enjoyable to know that one of us have finished a set. How long did it take Jay to compile this set?

Brian

Love the Hershey postcard, Matthew. I have never seen that one before.

Thanks Leon and Phil

SLow and steady as a re-align my collection and now the wait for the items I sent to HA

Nice Annis Furs Jeff, key to the set. A bit lazy of SGC to not label it properly.

LOL thank you and I agree. Annoying.

Nice card.
They don't have the expertise to figure it out.
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Nice card Jeff. One quick Google search by SGC would have informed them what Greenberg issue this was. Annoying indeed.

A February pick up for me right here off the B/S/T. Many thanks Kris!

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I think it took 5-6 years to complete. I was originally looking for only cards with clean backs but as I got closer to completion, I was happy to pick up something that I needed when I saw it even if there was some writing on the back.

Hoping Leon does another auction omg ,,I still have his catalog and enjoy Loki g at all the cards

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