Happy New Year. January pickups.
 

A wonderful alternative to going out to the theatre.

Nice one Brian!

Well, well Happy New Year!

So I picked up a 2 card sub from the Post Office today.
Took advantage of PSA Value Plus Special in December and got these door to door in two weeks.

A couple of additional surprises.
Card grades came in about as expected and was very pleased to see the continuance of PSA using the half grade when warranted.

Secondarily; this is not only a 9 digit cert number and a lighthouse holder but a new holder combo for M101 and similar sized cards.
Just a bit thicker, almost like it is 3 slabs of plastic in one.
The biggest surprise is the new addition of a plastic stabilizer insert for the card to rest in with plastic border stops roughly sized to house this size issue. No real chance now for the card to roam around too much like it did before using the baggie without any restraints inside the holder.
This is a much better thought out combo holder.
I hope this insert is a permanent addition.

Now for the cards.
The Pep Young Weil Baking card PSA 2.5 grade is pretty right on.

The Famous and Barr Oldring (Charles Albert Bender's personal catcher for many years) came in a nice deal from our very own Brian Van Horn. Thanks Brian. PSA treated this one fairly too.
Happy to have these back from PSA to start the New Year.
RayB

My pleasure Ray.

Cool theatre card. Looks like it's cut from a larger full ticket item of some kind. I wonder what the backs looked like all together.

Nice to see the Kings Theatre "cards" back in circulation. I say "card", as the Ward is one of the few that had creases that generally matched up on the front and back. Many/most had heavily creased fronts with seemingly pristine backs. FWIW, There were 18 Kings cards in a group of 34 cards that sold in one eBay lot in late 2008.

I did quite a bit of research on Kings Theatre back in the day - none of it survived a system crash a few years back, and I have never revisited it. For the curious, a google search starting with "Kings Theatre St Louis" gets you to lots of good info, beginning with the overview: https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/10802. Old issues of "Reel Journal" from the 20's used to/may-still be available on issuu.com. I went though most of the ones from late 1920 though the end of 1923 (that was all they had), looking for tidbits. Oddly interesting glimpses into moviehouse goings-on back in the 20's. If I recall, the owner (W. Goldman) lost a young son in a tragic accident at the theatre and never really recovered.

Various St Louis history/reminiscence sites also have first-hand and family recountings of the theatre and surrounding area. Sorry I don't have any of that research anymore, or I'd share more details. All I still have is images of the cards.

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Mike

Some fun ones to start the year!

Nice wajo -wazoo
That exactly the type Wajo I looking for and doesn’t bother me if raw/ ungraded

A couple of obscure Ruth items

Kings
 

That's a cool one Brian...I believe Sterling had a Cobb of this type a few auctions but listed as an E120 which I don't think it is...Jerry

Hey all!
Got my first 2025 pickup in a Trade with a board member today. I just started the 1938 Goudey Heads Up set last month, and so far this is the highlight of my collection.
Thanks Trent!

Many thanks to DJ for letting this one go:
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awesome
 

Holy shit Darryl that's awesome!!...Jerry

Thanks, Jerry!

Great looking card! I've collected cards for 40+ years now and have still never owned a '38 Goudey. I need to change that.:)

I absolutely love the 33 and 34 Goudey set and I finally decided to give this set a shot. With only 48 cards I figure that I would be happy calling mine "complete" at 46 since I doubt I'll be dropping $6k+ to get the Dimaggio's in a 1 grade!

Thank you, Derek.

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REA mail day. Both of these have been on my list for a while.
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Phil Classic image on Smith.
Love that card!
RayB

1914 Sophomore Perfect Clothes Giants, w/ Matty, Thorpe etc
 

Another 1914 Sophomore Perfect Clothes, w/ Matty, Thorpe etc.... Technically from last month but just added it to the collection..

Thanks Tim!

Super pumped to add this one to my collection.
RayB

Happy to iron out a trade for this Novelty Cutlery Matty over the holiday and picked him up from the post office this morning!

Fun start to the new year!

Enjoy,
Bob

Thanks to Al Stein for letting me buy this P42 Vic Willis back! I added his with bat pose with a P42 back last year, so wanted to bring this throwing back home to pair with it. Fresh off the mail truck.

Greatly appreciated Al!

Bob

Thrilled to own this '48 (or '47...) Jackie!

Not sure if this qualifies as my first Jackie Robinson Card

Saw this on eBay and thought it was a fun oddity to get

A Jackie Robinson “Braille” Card

T206 Milligan
 

An addition to my well-used T206 collection. The back stamp was a bonus.

In 1938 Johnny Vander Meer threw consecutive no hitters. Probably won’t happen again. Hard to get a 1938 card of his. Picked this up last week.

That card “pops”

Boy oh Boy (as Grandpa Gross used to say) ...... some mighty pick ups to start 2025 !!!!

Now here's Jimmy "Bruno" Blocke, who may not seem to be as big a deal, but is. He is one of the toughest Recruit commons in the set. To the extent that I one time thought he might be the last card I needed.

I can't thank TBob enough for making him available to me ...... :)

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Now, you may know me: I love cards with "character" -- redemption punches, back stamps, and occasional writing. This adds to that, as this is my first "typewriter card" ............. love it .................. ;)

Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

My pleasure, Bob. Any time you need a card curated, just send it over.

January Pick Up Shout Outs
 

A Couple new T206s to the collection from a wanted add on the BST.

Thanks to member Seablaster who offered up the Foster and who also has an ebay store. Karthik is a very trustworthy board member to do business with.

Also thanks to parkerj33 for the Shaughnessy. Jim is also a very trustworthy member to do business with. Another flawless transaction!

A side note thank you to Leon, his team, or at least his firewall/safe guard system that is in place on our board. I do not understand how all this works, but I did receive private messages from SO CALLED MEMBERS zgordon356 and leonardcohen2211 which both offered me to contact their uncle's cousin's nephew's brother through email because they had cards I was looking for... blah, blah, blah. Now of course, I'm not foolish enough to do that, but within a few hours on the days that I got these private messages on, these so called new members - who just joined those days of course- were BANNED by the Net 54 Safeguards. Thank you again for trying to watch out for our safety on Net 54 Leon!!!

Again, be cautious out there on the BST everyone and deal with trustworthy sellers like the above members!

Take Care, Tim Kindler

Nice pickups Tim

And it always amazes me that a century later the way the colors hold up and just seem to really Pop

Here is my pickup for my collection

So 1 new item in and 3 on way out to cover it

Consolidate to upgrade

Great pickups, everyone!

Continuing to work on my color run by picking up the black/white variation.

Great pick up Gary

Love the Back Run and cool that both Ruth and Gehrig are on the card

Sweet

Thank you Joe K!
RayB

Daryl, Great to see that it is finally in hand. Congrats!

Thanks, DJ!

I got three odds and ends cards for the little random stack/trading pile.

This I’ve never owned a E103, damn they have some thin paper stock!

I keep telling myself I need to focus on the last back I need for the backs line and last two HOFer cards I need for the T206 sets, but super fun to add a couple random cards to keep the juices flowing.

Happy Saturday,
Bob

My first Walter Johnson card! I’m ecstatic!

You never know, sometimes random stack cards become cards from sets you are focusing on. Nice cards, and I like the E103, and especially like the E95 Willis. I hear Willis has 24 potential playmates living on the same block of Philadelphia Caramel Blvd.

Brian

Brian,
Very true! I’m not really a set guy, but E95 will probably be the one that I do commit to building down the road. There are some great looking cards in the set and my aversion to buying commons (except Chase and Merkle) won’t be too bad since it’s only a 25 card set!

Thanks, as always,
Bob

It is indeed an outstanding set, and besides the nine other Hall of Fame players included, there are cards of Merkle and Eddie Cicotte, some players that had outstanding careers (Larry Doyle, Tommy Leach, Ed Reulbach), and even an eventual manager of the Red Sox, Bill Carrigan, who was the first manager of, and won two World Series in 1915 and 1916, with budding superstar Babe Ruth on the mound. So in my mind only 9 of the 25 are schlubs or semi-schlubs that you will need to pick up.

Brian

Crossed another one off the E98 list.
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I always liked the look of that E121 Walter Johnson. I think it is a nice snap shot of the follow through on his pitching motion (looks like a warm-up toss). Congrats.

Brian

I love, love, love vintage baseball postcards. Fantastic pick-up!

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Fantastic pick up Daryl, congrats.

Andy, solid pick up on the Orange Chase, tough card.

Thanks, Phil!

I agree, Thanks Brian. Those Caramels are sweet!

Congrats! Happy you got this.

Thank you very much, Jeff!

I just posted a video on my YouTube channel showing some of my recent pickups:

*Warning: Video is long but the Pre-War pickups are at the beginning**

Pickups:
-Large group of 1932 Zeenut cards (mostly without the coupons) but a few with including a pair of cards I need for my personal collection (I only need 4 cards for that set now: Collard, Mailho, Salvo, Walsh-Oakland)

-1940-1941 Wheaties "stamps" Large Lot

Other Pickups featured in the video but not pre-war:
-1961 Post Cereal Baseball Complete Set (200)
-Large Autographed card lot of 600+
-Fun group of rare vintage 1950's-1970's wrappers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5sNCngY2DM

Incredible Ruth postcard addition Jeff! Spectacular piece!


I started the year off trading for what may very well be my best addition to the collection!

So excited to upgrade this rare Cobb from my SGC 1.5 to this much nicer copy! Like Jeff I let go of several cards to get this one!

This came in on Saturday.
RayB

Oooh Don...I like that Collins! Congratulations!

Bill

Thank you! Was happy to add a rare back of HOF portrait

Wow really sweet upgrade.

Love the look and appearance is really clean

Congrats

Congrats! Great and rare card!

I posted these guys in the ML thread, but got them in hand today! Happy to repost in the official pickup post!

Ty Cobb Red Port Piedmont 42 back
Johnny Evers CHI Piedmont 42 back

I really like the 42’s and happy they don’t draw a ton of attention from some of the other back collectors.

Happy hunting,
Bob

Thank you Jeff and Jeff!!

Not crazy about the crease, but I like the bio on the back.

Not bad starting the day out with a Ping.

That’ll buff right out!

Nice card. Not sure I’ve ever seen that before.

I like the factory 42's as well, they were one of the reasons I got dragged into this hobby. Don't worry, I have other priorities for my collection. :-) Congrats on the nice pickups!

I love that Collins Congratulations!

Thank you for Todd S. for this beauty!
RayB

Thank you, Jim.

Brian Van Horn

I don't have many new pick-ups in a year anymore, let alone a month, but happy to get this one. Always looking for W600's!!!

Just wanted to share this pickup from a wonderful long-time board member (Hi Tony!), and I'm so grateful he reached out.

We're kindred spirits with our collectors' eye, and had a great time chatting and sharing our collections while we dealt on this card.

My collecting has narrowed down a lot over the last few years, to the point I've been working off a list of 30 cards I'm still hoping to find in the hobby.
This takes it down to 13, and every one off the list is a celebration!

Even better to have it come from a stellar Net54 board member. :)

Some fun cards added to my off back set. Up to 650 non Piedmont, Sweet Cap, Polar Bear combos.

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Jason congrats on that amazing card! See you in Chicago!!!

Nice Durocher rookie cards, there, Gary!! :D

Welcome The Big Train!

Another John McGraw / Polo Grounds postcard arrived today. I’m really not trying to corner the market on these, I swear!

What a beauty! Even hard to believe it was hand cut.

Sweet card. I'm officially envious! LoL Congrats!

Great pickups guys
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Andy, that is a great orange Chase! I wish I had that one in my set. Congrats on the pick up.



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I’m really hoping I didn’t accidentally turn into a type card collector, before finishing any of my T206 goals! I’ve got to get back to the monster weeds before I end up deciding to put $ towards the random raw stack.

E102 Crawford, no creases, wrinkles or paper loss, so pretty happy with this one.

Love a Sunday mail truck!
Bob