What's the rarest card you own?

Exhibitman · #1 12-24-2021, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Hankphenom

I've always been amazed at how many vintage cards and memorabilia seem to have survived as one of a kind or one of very few--one of the things making the hobby so interesting.

That's the fun of it, having something unique or nearly so. I've been collecting oddball cards and premiums for decades for just that reason: so much more of a back story than a mainstream card. With that in mind, onto one of my favorite items:

I bought a collection of cards and ephemera at an antique fair. The dealer filled a showcase with stuff and wanted a set price for it, which I paid. But I had nothing to carry it in. He gave me the box that he got the collection in. It was really dirty and had all kinds of padding and crap in it, like old newspaper scraps, but beggars cannot be choosers.

One of my maxims when I buy a collection is to always take apart the packaging just in case something is hiding in there. So I started through the packing and junk at the box bottom and out tumbled three snap shots of Indians from 1948 or 1949, including this Satchel Paige. Finding something like that totally unexpected is just heaven for a collector-picker like me.

GasHouseGang · #2 12-24-2021, 02:09 PM

That's a great find. But if that's really a snapshot, it must have been someone with greater access than an average fan to have taken the photo on the field during warm-ups.

Exhibitman · #3 12-24-2021, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

That's a great find. But if that's really a snapshot, it must have been someone with greater access than an average fan to have taken the photo on the field during warm-ups.

It was the team photographer. the other two that came with it were used for team issued PCs.

phlflyer1 · #4 12-24-2021, 07:00 PM

Craig and Aaron,

Great J=Ks!

I especially love the type II's where the players head was incorporated into part of the box tab.

Here are my two J=K examples... sadly "Rough" Bill Carrigan was decapitated somewhere along the way.

Tim Kindler · #5 12-28-2021, 07:20 PM

WOW!!! What beautiful cards in this thread!!!!!!............Really impressed with those ALL STAR BASE-BALL PACKAGES from Dockman & Sons belonging to Scott and Val!

Here are a couple of rare Old Put E98s

gabrinus · #6 12-29-2021, 10:34 AM

Cool Old Puts Tim...Jerry

Shankweather · #7 12-29-2021, 11:04 AM

This thread is freakin amazing. Here are a couple one-of's I picked up this year.

benge610 · #8 12-29-2021, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim Kindler

WOW!!! What beautiful cards in this thread!!!!!!............Really impressed with those ALL STAR BASE-BALL PACKAGES from Dockman & Sons belonging to Scott and Val!

Here are a couple of rare Old Put E98s

Second that Tim! (beautiful cards, ...)
I couldn't resist, after seeing the Old Puts; Here is a signed Fredericks CDV of "Old Put's"
(Gen. Isreal Putman, Rev. War hero) great grandson; in the era of when the Connecticut Tobacco Company was making the Old Put 5c. cigar. I love a good back story; still in progress.

Ben

TaxMechanick · #9 12-29-2021, 01:14 PM

Not exclusively cards, but, here goes...

Best,
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Brian Van Horn · #10 12-29-2021, 01:16 PM

Peckinpaugh properly spelled in this pose. Sorry, but it is not an E121:

Casey2296 · #11 12-29-2021, 04:33 PM

More Old Puts.
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dfletch00 · #12 12-29-2021, 06:33 PM

rare if you are a tribe/guardians fan I guess... still one of my favorites

Exhibitman · #13 04-12-2022, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by benge610

Second that Tim! (beautiful cards, ...)
I couldn't resist, after seeing the Old Puts; Here is a signed Fredericks CDV of "Old Put's"
(Gen. Isreal Putman, Rev. War hero) great grandson; in the era of when the Connecticut Tobacco Company was making the Old Put 5c. cigar. I love a good back story; still in progress.

Ben

I used to live in Putnam County, NY, where the general held a command once.

benge610 · #14 04-12-2022, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I used to live in Putnam County, NY, where the general held a command once.

Adam,
Coooool!
There is so much, un-tapped history; connecting Old Put, the General and our hobby; with the E98 back stamp; just another, of my dive projects.
And I've got a few, ....

Ben

"I love baseball history backstory; especially when it involves cards."

Leon · #15 04-13-2022, 03:37 PM

So happy to re-acquire this one, and even though I had to give up a nice card, my collecting tastes tilt this way.
I remember when I acquired it the first time. I am pretty sure I overvalued it by multiples ....not good when selling.

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