January 2010 Pickups
 

1948 Thom McAn 8x10 Bob Feller Premium

Nice pickup Jason!!

A few more of my all time Cardinal list

oops... here are the post WW2 pickups

Nice stuff, David! I'm a huge Cardinal fan myself so I always enjoy seeing Cardinal stuff. :)

Here's another St Louis one for you...
 

A long-time Wantlist entry finally crossed off...couldn't resist. There's actually a few disappointing hairline/spider wrinkles vertically through the middle of his head and face, but boy do you ever have to angle the card correctly in bright light to see them!

Nice Paige
 

Great Looking Paige you acquired there! Congrats

Unless Jason diddled the color . . .
 

that's the richest-looking color on a '53 Paige I've ever seen; I've always loved that card.

It's a good looking card...but
 

I did lower the brightness and increase the contrast a bit during the scanning to see if the wrinkles would show up. I'll try it again soon without any adjustments and show you how it comes out.

Well, this was an interesting experiment...
 

Here's the Paige again, this time without any adjustments at all to brightness or contrast settings on my old scanner. You can see it looks alot more washed out. But the thing is, this card in person is far more similar to the richer color, adjusted scan. Problem is, my scanner and software doesn't have any specific color, brightness, or contrast controls...just relative slides to adjust contrast and brightness...

Coincidentally
 

My best baseball pickup so far this year is a Paige too.
http://i.ebayimg.com/11/!Bf0UPIQ!mk~...,HNN!~~_12.JPG

A new addition to my Nuxhall collection - '53 Topps
RC
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...ps1953-105.jpg

That's amazing. My '53 Topps Nuxhall just arrived yesterday. My only card of him.

always wnated one. and some more great yankees for my collection

hey jason l- thats a sweet paige in a 3. there is a great example of buying the card and not the holder. the card displays ex++ back in the day thats what the card would have been, ex++ eye appeal eye appeal, wins out every time.

Thanks, Marty...
 

you're right. when you hold the Paige in your hand, you would think it's a 5, easy, until you find the spider wrinkles. The true color is somewhere in between my two scans that I shared, but it is closer to the richer one. One hint that helps you tell is by the deepness of color of the red PSA flip.

And nice of you to give the compliments, but good lord, your pickups are unreal!!! congrats on all those high-end Yankees greats. fantastic stuff.

Some of mine from Jan...
 

Always wanted a 57, but one day I hope to get a 6 or 7 grade

http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/o...57Mantle-1.jpg

and here are a couple of lower grade 61's...

http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/o...ndKoufax-2.jpg

http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/o...ndKoufax-1.jpg

These 3 arrived in the mail in the last few days...

A few pickups from earlier this month
 

been working on player collections...

Frank Rob
 

I have a very sharp '57 Frank Rob on the way, will post it when I get it in hand

I got this nice 72 topps of Yaz for 5.00 dlvd/Back is just as nice as the front.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2762/...5012ae8f39.jpg

Frob rc
 

Frob Rc
 

This the black spot by/behind the head a print mark (hickie)?

Ufo
 

I think of it as a UFO