What is the Best Looking Vintage Card?

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by 1880nonsports

no not THOSE johnsons - the T206 Walter and the T227 Jack - and some of the colors on the E series are unreal - I'm a 19th century guy so.....

I'm with you....except I cannot choose between these two Goodwin's....Anson and Kelly are both fabulous pieces of lithography....
that are aesthetically pleasing to the eyes.





Post WWII

1949 LEAF Paige............Hey guys, this set is strictly a 1949 issue (the TPG's have it incorrectly dated.

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T-Rex TED
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[1880nonsports]

[QUOTE=tedzan;1281283]I'm with you....except I cannot choose between these two Goodwin's....Anson and Kelly are both fabulous pieces of lithography....
that are aesthetically pleasing to the eyes.





Post WWII

1949 LEAF Paige............Hey guys, this set is strictly a 1949 issue (the TPG's have it incorrectly dated.

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I know you know the T206 Johnson portrait, and I assume you know the Jack Johnson card, so given the sky behind Anson it's an easy choice for me. I also dig the N162 Keefe when in high grade. Overall it's just a really nice set with many striking cards, excellent likenesses, powerful subjects, and colors that transform the card to art status. I regret selling my near set but have since taken up the chase again - putting together a higher and lower grade set one damn brick at a time. Having a hard time finding a decent Beecher at a fair and resonable price but I keep on a forward path not to be deterred......

[Peter_Spaeth]

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[SMPEP]

It's post war ... but in my mind ... the first card I alway think of when the topic great image comes up is the 1953 Bowman Pee Wee Reese. It may be mass produced ... but what an image.

Cheers,
Patrick

[GregMitch34]

Amazing how many of the picks for most beautiful are also among the greatest players which suggests....what? That the card makers put more time and talent into picturing the better players? Or we are all partly biased by the fame of the player? Take any one of the cards that usually make the "most gorgeous" list and pretend it's not a HOFer but, say, Art Devlin, as the player pictured and then imagine if you would still pick it #1 when there are so many others to choose from...just asking...

[the 'stache]

Greg, I suppose that on some level (perhaps subconsciously), a player's greatness enhances the overall appeal of their cards.

I will tell you one thing, though. Wally Moon could have put up Babe Ruth type numbers, and you still wouldn't have seen his cards in any "best looking" lists.

Originally Posted by GregMitch34

Amazing how many of the picks for most beautiful are also among the greatest players which suggests....what? That the card makers put more time and talent into picturing the better players? Or we are all partly biased by the fame of the player? Take any one of the cards that usually make the "most gorgeous" list and pretend it's not a HOFer but, say, Art Devlin, as the player pictured and then imagine if you would still pick it #1 when there are so many others to choose from...just asking...

[clydepepper]

Dickie Kerr - Copy.jpg

Walter Mails - Copy.jpg


From a very tough decade to find good-looking cards.

Two Southpaw cards with great back stories.


Thanks to everyone who has shared so far...fascinating stuff !