Fantastic Collection Found!!!! Pre-War Scan Heavy

[jhs5120]

Hey Guys!
So about 2 years ago my friends uncle died, But my friend happened to inherit his modest baseball card collection. 2 years ago he told me to come over to his house to tell him if the cards were worth anything, and I can't tell you the amount of times I have been disappointed with binders of 1991 score, but needless to say this was different. There are only a few boxes but the cards blew my mind! I helped him grade and sell a few a couple of years ago but now I am helping him with the more expensive items and I included a few scans for your viewing pleasure

Other Highlights not scanned:
1952 Berk Ross Complete Set - The Mantle graded 5.5
1963 Topps Complete Set - Missing the Rose RC
7 1968 Topps Action Stickers Complete Sheets - W/ 3 Clementes, 2 Mays and a Mantle
Several Complete bazooka boxes - 1962 clemente, 1963 clemente, 1963 Koufax
About 50 more HOF tobacco cards not shown below!
















I'll be posting more photos through out the night!

[jhs5120]

[jhs5120]

[jhs5120]

Not much post war, other than the bazooka, 63 Topps and 52 Berk Ross but here are some Post-War Highlights from the collection.

I had some berk ross graded last year to introduce him to grading and to show him the differences between grades and the importance of PSA. lol

[jhs5120]

I'll be posting more photos through out the night!

[Tim Kindler]

Beautiful Find! Is that Joss a Kotton??? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kkkkandp]

Damn - that and the Mack ticket are sweet!!

[jhs5120]

Originally Posted by Tim Kindler

Beautiful Find! Is that Joss a Kotton??? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, American Caramel but still beautiful

[Mikehealer]

Wow those are some great cards. If I was a Bender collector what a find a Ju-Ju drum and a Kotton. That Mino Plank is gorgeous.

[jhs5120]

Originally Posted by kkkkandp

Damn - that and the Mack ticket are sweet!!

Hi,
Do you have any info on the Mack ticket? I know the obvious but it was hard finding any info on.
Thanks,
Jason

[3-2-count]

Great, great stuff. Thank you for sharing.......

[B O'Brien]

DANG! Nice stuff and a very interesting mix of things there.
Bob

[Matt]

Great stuff! Any idea what you're doing with the cards? I'm sure a number of us would be interested...

[fkw]

Nice to see the cards now I couldnt get them to load on the PSA board with my super slowwww jungle wifi.


Anyone figure out what the printing plates are for? looks like 2 dif sizes...

Love the T216-2 Plank, E286 Bender, and R306 Foxx

and that E90-1 Joss is a toughy in the set too.

[HRBAKER]

Don't know what the plates were for, they look to be Mule Haas (maybe) and Rube Marquard.

[Rob D.]

Good thing Leon expanded an individual's PM capacity this week.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by Tim Kindler

Beautiful Find! Is that Joss a Kotton??? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks like that Kotton back belongs to the Matty!

Cheers,
Blair

[jhs5120]

Originally Posted by fkw

Nice to see the cards now I couldnt get them to load on the PSA board with my super slowwww jungle wifi.


Anyone figure out what the printing plates are for? looks like 2 dif sizes...

Love the T216-2 Plank, E286 Bender, and R306 Foxx

and that E90-1 Joss is a toughy in the set too.

The printing plates are two different sizes. The one of the man batting measures 2 1/16" by 4 5/16 inches. The one of the man on base? measures 1 1/2" by 4 inches (measurements are of the actual plates). They both have I.P.E.U. 156 engraved into the wood and after a quick google search I found that it stands for the "International Photo Engravers Union." Not sure what the 156 stands for but interesting to say the least.

Also, does anyone know anything about the Mack ticket?

Lastly, yes, the cards will be sold. I still need to look through them and organize them but I do intend on selling everything. Items that need to be graded willl be sent out within the next few weeks and everything else will be listed on ebay or consigned sometime soon. Thanks, Jason

[Tim Kindler]

Ya, No matter what backs go with what cards, they are all beautiful! Super Find. The kind I've been trying to find all of my life

[jhs5120]

Originally Posted by Tim Kindler

Ya, No matter what backs go with what cards, they are all beautiful! Super Find. The kind I've been trying to find all of my life

Haha yeah its funny because my friend told me that the relatives emptied out the house taking the sofa, tv, silverware and even his books but no one wanted the baseball cards. He was pretty shocked when I told him their value lol

[joeadcock]

Great story. Great pics

Frank

[Rob D.]

What makes it even cooler is it's a pretty eclectic group.

[dstraate]

Those Goudeys are too cool. Top flight HOFers there...

[ChiefBenderForever]

Wow

[Matthew H]

Thanks for sharing this, it's really fun to look at.

[Rickyy]

Nice collection! love the Ju Ju Drums!

[D. Broughman]

Originally Posted by jhs5120

The printing plates are two different sizes. The one of the man batting measures 2 1/16" by 4 5/16 inches. The one of the man on base? measures 1 1/2" by 4 inches (measurements are of the actual plates). They both have I.P.E.U. 156 engraved into the wood and after a quick google search I found that it stands for the "International Photo Engravers Union." Not sure what the 156 stands for but interesting to say the least.

Also, does anyone know anything about the Mack ticket?

Lastly, yes, the cards will be sold. I still need to look through them and organize them but I do intend on selling everything. Items that need to be graded willl be sent out within the next few weeks and everything else will be listed on ebay or consigned sometime soon. Thanks, Jason

I picked up this printing plate with I.P.E.U. 402 with 404 in pencil and the diamond shape but have not been able to find out anything about it. It measures 1 3/4" by 3 1/16". Good luck with finding out about yours.

[egbeachley]

FYI to the original poster, those pics take up a lot of bandwidth because of all the black background that should be cropped out.

[ullmandds]

Wow...as some say in MN...them's some great cards!!!!

[Anthony S.]

Apparently, it's time to upgrade to Pro. Cool stuff while the photos lasted.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Anthony S.

Apparently, it's time to upgrade to Pro. Cool stuff while the photos lasted.

No need to upgrade to pro - just switch to using an image host that is free.

[slidekellyslide]

I love that Moline ticket...Connie Mack owned all of the Athletics minor league clubs. I have two similar tickets for Lincoln Athletics games in 1948.

[jhs5120]

I FIXED THE PICTURES!!!! YAY

WOW, sweet ticket. I would love to know what these fetch. I might just keep the one I have lol.

[slidekellyslide]

I got one of my tickets at a local auction and paid about $70 for it..I found the other on ebay and paid about $50 for it. Until I saw yours today I was fairly certain that the Lincoln club had made these special tickets, but now I think the Philadelphia club probably had these made and sent them down to their minor league clubs.

[jimm]

Originally Posted by jhs5120

I FIXED THE PICTURES!!!! YAY.

WOW, now that i can see them i agree!

[alltimeball]

Originally Posted by jhs5120

I FIXED THE PICTURES!!!! YAY

WOW, sweet ticket. I would love to know what these fetch. I might just keep the one I have lol.

Great find. Great pics too. Good job.

[M's_Fan]

Are you moving these in a major auction house, ebay, private sale, or some combination?

[jhs5120]

Originally Posted by M's_Fan

Are you moving these in a major auction house, ebay, private sale, or some combination?

Most likely a combination of the three. Obviously, I need to send a few items out to get graded but some of the rarer and more expensive cards I will end up consigning while many will be ebayed off. Private sales are welcome but the bulk will be ebay.

[ethicsprof]

absolutely phenomenal!!!!
thanks for sharing.
the tannehill red cross has me captivated.

best,
barry

[fkw]

On the scarcer "type" cards (nonT206/Goudey), you may want to consider SGC when you get them graded
Especially the R306, T215, T216 group, E286, etc.
Just a thought...

[jhs5120]

Sorry for bringing the thread back. the first three scans are cards that I found last night while looking through some more boxes and the scans after are just more cards I figure i'd scan

great stuff

[fkw]

More great stuff, too bad the R306 Grove didnt have the "September" back, Brad would have been very interested

[packs]

I'd love to know how collections like this one are assembled. Was this person the original owner? I wonder what he saw in Harry Gaspar.

[Leon]

Great collection. Thanks again for sharing....

[paulcarek]

Awesome. Thanks so much for sharing!

And here I thought I scored with a couple of '71 Topps coins at an estate sale last weekend...

[jhs5120]

Hi,
Sorry for bringing back an old topic but I still receive emails about the status of the cards. I realized I was in over my head so I sent the nicer cards off to Goodwin. The auction ends February 11th [L=Link]http://www.goodwinandco.com/default.aspx[/L].

This is the first time I have consigned an item to an auction house so hopefully they do well and sorry for hyping up my cards on the boards.

I'm sure many of you will be happy to know that most of the cards safely reside in SGC holders now.

Lot #51: 1902-11 Sporting Life W600 Harry Gasper Uniform SGC 5.5 EX+ “Only Copy Listed on BOTH the SGC and PSA “Pop” Charts!”
Lot #70: 1913-15 Pinkerton Hans Wagner Postcard #872 Scorecard Back SGC 3 VG “The Only Hans Wagner Pinkerton Scorecard Graded by Either SGC or PSA!”
Lot #77: 1911-16 Kotton Cigarettes T216 Ty Cobb Batting SGC 1
Lot #78: 1911-16 Kotton Cigarettes T216 Christy Matthewson SGC 3 VG “1 of 1 - Only 2 Graded Higher”
Lot #79: 1911-16 Kotton Cigarettes T216 Chief Bender SGC 4 VG-EX “1 of 3 - NONE Graded Higher!”
Lot #105: 1909 E101 Honus Wagner Batting SGC 2 Good
Lot #145: 1910 Ju-Ju Drums Chief Bender SGC 1.5
Lot #156: 1909-11 American Caramel E90-1 Cy Young Boston SGC 4 VG/EX
Lot #288: 1934 Goudey #37 Lou Gehrig SGC 4 VG/EX
Lot #333: 1933 Butter Cream (R306) Jimmie Foxx SGC 4 VG/EX
Lot #334: 1933 Butter Cream (R306) Lefty Grove SGC 3 VG
Lot #440: 1909-11 Polar Bear T206 Ty Cobb Portrait, Red Background SGC 3 VG
Lot #441: 1910 Sweet Caporal T206 Ty Cobb Bat Off Shoulder SGC 3 VG

Other Lots: 86, 102, 146, 157, 158, 159, 298 and 302


Sorry for using the board to show my cards but I know some of you guys wanted updates.
Thanks!
Jason

[deadballera]

Great stuff. Thank you for sharing.......

[glchen]

What happened to the Mello, Mino and Eclipse cards? Did you already sell them? Nice auction.