Your Best Pickup of the Year -- 2012 Edition

[CW]

This may be the last subforum that doesn't have one of these threads.

Please post your best postwar (pre-1980) pickup(s) of the year.

[novakjr]

Probably not the best, but some of my personal favorites of the year.

[Bestdj777]

2012 has been a great year for me. Added a fiancé to my household and three mantle rookies (51 Bowman, 51 Wheatie, and 52 Topps*). Of the cards, I'd say the PSA 4 wheaties is my favorite. I can't figure out how to post scans yet, but it makes me smile every time I look at it.


Hope that the rest of the board had a great year and wonderful holiday season. It is so great to have such large community of knowledgeable and friendly people with the same passion for collecting.

[mintacular]

I REALLY wish i could own YOUR Dan Dee Mantle. I had many nice pickups this year, here are some:

[Exhibitman]

1968 Atlantic Oil Claude Osteen. This is one of the winning SPs for the contest. They had to be turned in to the dealer or mailed into the company to redeem for the cash prizes and they were not returned cancelled, so the winning cards just aren't around. I've been collecting the set for many years and this is the first and only winning card I've ever seen:

[Jay Wolt]

Chuck that Dan Dee Mantle 5 looks fantastic. Undergraded for sure.
Compare it w/ this 6 that i sold a few months ago.
Congrats on the pickup.

[David W]

[QUOTE=Exhibitman;1067453]1968 Atlantic Oil Claude Osteen. This is one of the winning SPs for the contest. They had to be turned in to the dealer or mailed into the company to redeem for the cash prizes and they were not returned cancelled, so the winning cards just aren't around. I've been collecting the set for many years and this is the first and only winning card I've ever seen:

You almost never see the SP's.

That is one reason I've never really tried to put this set together.

Nice pickup

[bcbgcbrcb]

Has to be this one, my wife's first ever baseball card gift to me for X-Mas.........

[novakjr]

Phil. I think you've got a keeper...

[the 'stache]

This is the first purchase made specifically for my new vintage collection (and first PSA graded vintage card). The Pirates are my second favorite baseball team (after the Brewers), and the 1953 Bowman Color set is probably my all-time favorite. So, this was an easy choice to get my feet wet.



I hope everybody likes it. I must have stared at it for 15 minutes straight when I pulled it out of the bubble mailer.

[the 'stache]

I have to say, also, that I absolutely love my scanner. I picked up an old Canon CanoScan 8400F on Ebay for $40, and this thing scans like a dream. All I had to do was slightly tweak the levels in Photoshop, and voila. What a beautiful card!

I am so happy! Now I'm trying to decide what to buy next. I've got it narrowed down to a 1958 Topps Roberto Clemente, a 1953 Bowman Color Stan Musial, a 1957 Topps Hank Aaron, and a few others.

[ALR-bishop]

This gave me a run of these programs from 1959 to 1966 ( including the 1964 a boxed card set)

[HRBAKER]

Neat item Al!

[bcbgcbrcb]

Agreed, great stuff, Al.

[Jdoggs]

Nice clemente psa 7 rookie!

[HRBAKER]

I don't buy a lot of postwar but I am working on a couple of postwar sets. This '59 Bazooka Nellie Fox SP is probably my best p/u of 2012.

[varsitycollectibles]

Great Clemente's sir.

[Jdoggs]

Nice centering on Clemente 56 topps Psa 6.5!