The one card in your collection that took you the longest to obtain..

[smrtn240]

... and how long it took you to get it.
Let's see 'em

[HRBAKER]

Pre-war it would be this one. After I began in earnest to try to win/buy one it took nearly three years to land this one. Of course after buying it on the Net54 BST I acquired a second copy within several months.



Post-war it is this 1971 Unnumbered Dick Allen. Took over five years to find a copy. Was actaully alerted to this one on ebay by a board member.

[ErikV]

I started looking for this card in 1988. Finally purchased it in 2000.

[tinkertoeverstochance]

Took about 5 years....Other tough ones were Broad Leaf 460 (Konetchy) and Drum (Kelley).

[talkinbaseball]

I went to the fall Boston show the last two years looking for a fair price Zeenut with a coupon.
None to be found.
I received one in the mail today from a fellow board member at a very fair price.
SGC 40 3 grade.
1926 Staley Los Angeles.

one excited board member.

john

[Jacklitsch]

Has to be this Harry (Henry) Mathewson Ullman PC. Looking for at least 20 years. Just acquired in 2012.

[Bicem]

Winner, winner

[Spike]

Excuse the post-war example, but this postcard-sized type card eluded me for 6+ years before someone broke a set for singles on eBay. Interesting to see salt-and-pepper-haired Jackie in a suit!

[wolterse]

Originally Posted by Spike

Excuse the post-war example, but this postcard-sized type card eluded me for 6+ years before someone broke a set for singles on eBay. Interesting to see salt-and-pepper-haired Jackie in a suit!

your post has a nice tie to pre war with the picture of frank shaughnessy who I believe is aka shag from the southern leaguer subset of t206

[Bpm0014]

Frank Shaughnessy is most certainly Shag Shaughnessy. I managed to pick up a sweet autographed 3x5 of him recently.

[Spike]

Great catch on T206 Shag, you don't get to see cards reflect the passing of 5 decades often.

[E93]

This must be the one since it was the last card I needed to complete the set that I began years and years before. The card may be one-of-a-kind. A kind gesture from a very advanced collector who occasionally contributes to this board enabled me to acquire this card and complete my set. He said it was the first card he had sold out of his collection since 1985. There are rumors of another example in a very old collection, but the collector was unable to find the card and I am suspicious that his memory regarding another example of this card is fuzzy after a few decades.
JimB

[oldjudge]

Jim-putting the N167 set together was a great achievement. If they ever establish a collector HOF you get my vote.

[wonkaticket]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Jim-putting the N167 set together was a great achievement. If they ever establish a collector HOF you get my vote.

+1 amazing the word rare and tough gets tossed around a lot my pal Jim is walking the walk with this set in spades. Just simply amazing, I don't think most folks get how unreal this is a full set of N167s wow!

Huge Kudos to the collector who let Fanny come home....Jay I also think you're HOF spot is well secure.

Yes it's safe to say both Jim and Jay's collections are worthy of the OMG Cat.

[atx840]

Wow Jim! Such an aesthetically beautiful set.

Took me a good 4/5 years of searching to find a T206 ghost back. I ended up with the exact card that got me into collecting vintage, the set and errors.