Feb- 1st Recent Pickup's Thread

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Posted By: t206King

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Posted By: Joe Jones

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Posted By: Zach

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Posted By: dennis

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Posted By: joe

Here are some, picked up a quite a few more OBAK's but won't clog the board with them. Not a good scan, but ungraded is 1909 Browning OBAK. I like the Skeels best, played 1 game in the Majors 1910 which was with Detroit. Pitched 6 innings, 9 hits, 4 BB, 2 strikeouts, ERA 12.00, but won the game, Major League record 1-0.

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

E95's...



Strip cards...

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Posted By: Zach Smith

Hey Joe,
You forgot to mention his 3 at bats with a perfect 0.000 batting avg. I like Skeels too.

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Posted By: JimB

T206King,
What about that nice E93 Jones?
JimB

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Posted By: Bob Shannon

E90-1 Keeler Red background

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Posted By: Joe_G.

While not my normal focus, the following non-Detroit item piqued my interest. The errant back notations (Buck Ewing & John Vaughn) and lack of information on the initial listing likely diverted some of my competition .

However, before the auction closed, the seller was able to share information provided by Tom Shieber, Curator of New Media, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, as follows:

Well ... sometimes you catch a break. In this case, I was able to make good headway. There's no doubt in my mind that the players pictured are catcher Harry "Farmer" Vaughn and pitcher John Ewing with Memphis of the Southern League in 1888. For some reason the reverse of the card has both names listed incorrectly as "John Vaughn" and "Buck Ewing."

In June of 1888, the battery of Vaughn and Ewing was purchased from Memphis by Louisville (AA) for $800. Since Farmer Vaughn played only half a season with Memphis in 1888, I can only assume that this photo was taken during the first half of that season. For some corroborating pictures, refer to the following sources . . . (deleted) Note that John Ewing was little brother to the more famous Buck Ewing. Hope this helps. - Tom



So, I guess this would be a minor league card of Buck Ewing's little brother John who would go on to pitch 4 seasons. Farmer Vaughn would however prove to be the more talented player. Farmer stayed with Louisville through 1889, would jump to the New York Giants PL team along with John Ewing but was later traded to Cincinnati where he stayed until retiring in 1899. In all, a 13 year career mostly behind the plate. Both players have several Old Judge cards (poses).

A neat pitcher/catcher cabinet.

BTW, one of Tom Shieber sources listed shows a photo of both Ewing & Vaughn with Louisville in 1889 (Ewing in windup). The source is Philip Von Borries' "Louisville Diamonds". I'd like to hear from anyone who might have access to this. Thanks!

edit - Update to thank Kevin Cummings, Tom Boblitt, and others who sent additional information on this cabinet including scans. For the record, John Ewing is partially seated & Farmer Vaughn is standing. Thanks!

Regards,
Joe Gonsowski

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Posted By: Betty

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Posted By: t206King

Hey JimB how can i forget lol

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Posted By: warshawlaw

About the largest collection of E77s I've seen in a while:

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Posted By: Jim

Nice one Betty. Love that card!

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Posted By: Zach Smith

Not as nice as Betty's Magee... but I like 'em.

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Posted By: Frank Evanov

Presently reading "The Pitch That Killed" and couldn't pass up this Chappie:





Frank

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Posted By: pete ullman

beautiful boxing cards warshawlaw...wanna sell/trade me a johnson? Are there 2 of them?

pete in mn

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Posted By: Max Weder

This pick-up isn't that recent, but I haven't posted it before, and today is Slim Sallee's birthday.



Max

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Posted By: jim

Not that recent but first time showing. Joe is in upper left corner. Large 12.5 x 19" piece. Just like the glossy T200 premiums.

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Posted By: Ben

an ebay gamble that paid off

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Posted By: warshawlaw

There is only 1; thought I'd present it larger scale since it is the key card and so tough to find. It is on the way to SGC with the rest of them. Now, if you have an E78 Sammy Berger And Jim Jeffries to dangle as trade bait, we can deal...

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Posted By: Betty

Thanks Jim. I've been looking for the Magee error for a while now.

Ben, that Plank sure looks nice, too!

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Posted By: BcDaniels

I like that Chapman card a lot. Funny the E-92 in the "G" holder was mine. I wondered where it went!

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Posted By: Josh K.

Great looking card Ben - amazing what a difference a scan can make - I held off on that card b/c I thought it was probably fake (which clearly is not the case).

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Posted By: Scott Gross

Man, there are a lot of great cards so far in Feb ............
I've never seen that Obak Waggs with sky blue back ground and light clouds, absolutely beautiful.
Adam, I was watching those e77s on the ebay auction "auction" and never put in a bid, thinking they would out my range -- boy was I wrong -- nice pick ups

Mr. Young has been liberated and can breath once more:



And ol' Packey was removed from matt and frame with much sucess:

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Posted By: pete ullman

yeah...absolutely great cards!! That PlaNK IS AWESOME...and that wiggs...i want em all. I'll post when shipment comes in!!

pete in mn

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Posted By: joe

Oh well, here are the rest.

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Posted By: pete ullman

The T's are months old. Thanks for the OJ J...it's my first... and I'm sure some of you saw this beautiful e90-2 advertised as a t206 on ebay. I may part with it if prodded!

pete in mn

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Posted By: scott ingold

Awesome green cobb, Looks like a 5 from the small scan to me.
Here are my new babies.

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Posted By: Genaro

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Posted By: Genaro

How My Rhoades got a 5 and Howell got a 2 is beyond me. I have about 30 Im sending off next week I hope they more consistant.

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Posted By: Mark Rios

D304 Merkle
D304 Herzog
D304 Bell
'26 Holland Miller

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

I picked up another B18 catcher, Ainsmith with brown bases. I only need one more B18, Agnew with purple base paths to complete my run of catchers with the white infield.

I also picked up a Series 1 T210 Old Mill card, Wells, Savanah.

Unfortunately, the T210 had part of the right border chip as I broke it out GAI holder.

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Posted By: Zach Smith

I picked up these T206 commons at the show in RI today for $20 a piece. The colors on these are amazing (scan doesn't do them justice). Only reason I can see that they all got a 2.5 grade is due to the small green tape stain on the back top of every single one of them. Had it not been for that they probably would have all graded at least 3 or 4... but I would've paid much more for them.
I particularly like the Overall portrait...

please make the scans smaller (moderator dude)

Sorry moderator dude... I made 'em thumbnails.

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Posted By: Jpaol99

Couple of pick ups.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

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Posted By: Mark Rios

E90-2 Leach
M101-6 Sporting News Marsans
R300 Geo. C. Miller Melillo
E97 C.A. Briggs Bradley
T209-1 Contentnea Stubbe
R332 Schutter-Johnson Grove
E80 44 Scrappers J. Johnson (Red Back)
T216 Kotton Murphy
T216 Kotton Knight
D311 Biscuits Tiedeman
N28 Bennett
E90-3 Zeider

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Posted By: Henry Eshelman

t206 Hobby


Thanks, Henry Eshelman

Website:www.freewebs.com/vintagebaseball

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Posted By: Josh K.

A birthday gift to myself.

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Posted By: Zach Smith

Happy B-day, Josh... hope you get me something that nice for my B-day!! No kidding, though... Happy Birthday.

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Posted By: Cat

Edited to correct typos unless otherwise noted.

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

Here's proof that I'll collect anything related to baseball even in the smallest way.....Check out the belt buckle.



This Comiskey is not really new to me, but I did finally get brave enough to remove it from the scrapbook page that it was glued to.

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Posted By: Scot

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Posted By: JimB

Josh,
Nice pick-up. I have always wanted one of those. Come close a few times, but never pulled the trigger.
JimB

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Posted By: Brian E.

Josh, nice pickup on the Cobb; great looking card for only being slabbed as Good. The final price did catch me by surpise a little bit though.

Brian E.

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Posted By: Josh K.

caught me a little by surprise as well. the underbidder cost me a lot of money. it does have a miners back which is a bit tougher - particularly uncreased from what I have been told. I was hoping to get it about $300 cheaper.

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Posted By: Bill Kasel

From the B/S/T...where else?! My first E97.

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Posted By: Brent Butcher

my first E78.

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Posted By: tbob

E94 Speaker

Getting close on the M116s!
Criss, Ray Collins and Block welcomed to the fold.

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Posted By: Joe Jones

E95 UPGRADE