The Most Fragile Cards In Your Collection
 

In mine, it would be W514 strip cards and 1915 Cracker Jacks. Anything less than meticulous handling, and they would easily go to pieces. How about you?

Ruth
 

Not normally a fragile issue, but I was scared to death handling this one before it was slabbed.

Were the Cracker Jack cards printed on thin paper?

I’ll be looking at two slabbed HOF 1914 Cracker Jacks next week, Eddie Collins and Fred Clarke - excited to see them (even though they’ll likely be outside my price range).

My most fragile card is the 9 Rogers Hornsby W512 just picked up yesterday (see my other thread).

I picked up a lot of t206’s on the BST a few years back. The Clark Griffith portrait is in dire straights.

Out w/SGC for slabbing right now. Hopefully won't be rejected as too delicate to undergo the process. N269:

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I feel like we need to set a timer until Brian's Goudey Ruth makes its appearance.

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PSA refused to cross it.

Here is my 1933 Goudey Ruth...just kidding. Goudeys are thick and fairly indestructible cards...you have to mean spirited for them to end up looking like mine. Instead I show this T216 Kotton of Evers. The cards from this set are on very thin paper, and if not careful, they end up looking like this:

Brian

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This postcard was in pretty rough shape when I rescued it from a cigar box at a local paper show. The crease down the middle is pretty deep and not many more fibers holding it together.

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In the same boat as calvin

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Sure any given card can be fragile if it's beat up enough. For a fragile set, however, I nominate T201. They printed those things on tissue paper and encouraged you to bend them in the middle. I've got a Matthewson that is never ever going to leave its card saver because the top half is still connected to the bottom half mostly through force of habit.

In the same boat as Jack V. - these 1924 Diaz Cigs cards are thin.

Type 3 Kotton
 

fractured
 

largeass

a few fragile ones
 

Not in the best shape.

That card is doubly decapitated.

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The bottom portion broke off during encapsulation. The top of the bat broke off before I purchased it. It was very fragile.

This Canadian Post Sugar Crisp uncut sheet from 1962:

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It must be handled very carefully so it doesn't start separating down the iddle.

I would have said the T207 Brown backs due to the known "crazing" issue with the surface of the front of the card, or maybe even the T200's which are fragile. However, I recently ripped in half a T201 Mecca Double Folder just by opening it up.

If I breathe on this it will fall apart.

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I doubt it would
 

survive the slabbing process. I think you can see the light of day through the crack in the upper left.

I had no idea how small and delicate these were until I got this one in my hand prior to slabbing.

Buenos dias señores and for me its these hombres.

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My General Sherman signed CDV. The corner is only partially attached still:

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I have five W514 strip cards. I think they would crumble if you breathe on them. To me, they look like they are printed on what they call pulp; next thing up perhaps from newspaper. Of the five, these two are by far in the best shape. Oh so fragile though.

Mr. Baker is in the best condition of all my 1915 CJs. All the others have become brittle with, what, paper loss? I hesitate to call it card stock. Incredibly fragile, and the Cracker Jack residue just adds to it, I think. These too must be handled very, very carefully or they will crumble.

I'm assuming the original owner handled this card on 1,307 consecutive days?

Imagine what his Gehrigs must look like!

Not really a card, but the most fragile item I have.

I have a 1934 Butterfinger premium that likewise was printed on something like pulp, and has turned crazy brittle and (I was going to say yellow, but it's beyond that) brown. It's safely in an archival sleeve. But if I tried to take it out it would crumble to pieces if not dust! Some things have held up to the test of time pretty well, others, it's a miracle they still exist.

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Love this.

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E221 Bishop & Co. very fragile because of the folds. Thankfully member Craig Martin was able to make a custom holder for the card so I can sleep at night.
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I was hoping you would post this one, Phil. That card is awesome!

Sí, sí. I had read about "paper thin" vintage cards, but didn't have any until I picked up this sheet of Caramelo Deportivo cards.

Cool, but definitely the most fragile in my collection.

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Sadly, after posting this, I took it out to look at it without removing it from its protective sheet and a little more of the upper left corner came off.

I also have a T201 that I would never dream of folding.

Su tarjetas de jugadores Cubanos son muy buenas. Saludos.

These are likely my most fragile examples.

The T215 Red Cross Purtell Jersey City is a one of one graded example from PSA and SGC combined.

The E98 Chase was part of Lionel Carter's collecting, so I'll be keeping that one even after I upgrade it for my near set.



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I nominate the entire E125 set.

Thanks for the heads up Paul. I will try to avoid picking up any additional examples in the future.


Brian

Gracias John. Un gran saludo from Los Angeles !


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E221's are on heavy paper stock... (always looking for more I don't have)

I feel like these cards are fragile with age. It's like the cardboard dried out and the edges seem to chip and crack easily, making high grade examples hard to find.