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04-23-2005, 12:00 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: vetekbob
If this question has been posed before I appologize as I did a search and didnt see anything. Whether you were just starting out collecting pre-war cards or a veteran collector who made a trade or sold a card to get another card, is there a card or cards that in looking back now you could just kick yourself for? 
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#2
04-23-2005, 12:19 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: scott
i'm getting into the hobby after a 15 year layoff.here's my list of pre war.1934 goudey vg-ex,half the set including dizzy dean,jimmy fox ,lefty grove,bill terry,paul waner.t206's vg-ex cobb green back portrait,mathewson dark hat and por,chance por., tinker por.,johnson por.,young pitching,mcgraw pointing and por.,marquard,walsh,clarke,kelley,and about 25 commons.
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#5
04-23-2005, 12:58 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: jay behrens
Those that have been on the board for awhile know my answer. I miss many of the cards I used to own, but the only ones I regret selling were my t208s of Baker, Barry, Bender, Collins, Plank and Mack. Most of the other cards I used to own I could find and own again. I have no hope of ever owning these cards again.
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#6
04-23-2005, 01:22 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: Texas Ted
I swapped a poor condition Honus Wagner Cracker Jack to somebody we all know and love a few weeks ago. Now I regret it. I got a very fair trade out of it, but since then have decided to venture out of the 1940s and 1950s, and retain a few examples from the true world of Vintage. I have no intention of building sets, but want to have an example of all the major sets to at least know what y'all are talking about. I realize now the Wagner would have been a great example of a Cracker Jack, and it was the only one I had.
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#7
04-23-2005, 01:47 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: JimB
I sold a solid nm/mt CJ Wagner about ten years ago and still wish I still had it. Last year I traded my D314 PSA 5 Cobb to a member of this board. I am happy with the trade, but still miss the Cobb. I know I will never get a chance to replace that one again.
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04-23-2005, 02:19 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: David Vargha
I suppose we can all tell stories about cards we sold "cheaply" back in the day. I guess that selling Teddy Ballgame's 1939 Play Ball rookie card in NM or better condition in 1978 for $14 ranks right up there. However, the only cards I have sold that I wish I still had were a complete set of graded 1949 Bowman PCL cards.
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#11
04-23-2005, 02:58 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: barrysloate
In theory, based on today's prices, any vintage card anybody ever sold would be one you'd like to get back. How about selling six Just So's in 1998 for starters? But you can make yourself crazy so it's best not to even think about them.
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#13
04-23-2005, 03:23 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: leon
The one that is for auction now in the REA used to be mine. Now, with the other purchases I've made and the price it's at, I can't hardly afford to buy it back....oh well.....
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#14
04-23-2005, 03:36 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: vetekbob
The card that I regret selling the most about 5 years ago is a 1914 T216 Peoples Tobacco Honus Wagner batting. My first ever wagner card and I had a weak moment for another vintage card and gave it up. I kick myself all the time over that card. I wish I could get it back and I keep an eye out on ebay and other places for one but to no avail
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#15
04-23-2005, 03:42 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: barrysloate
Now that I've given the matter a little more thought, the T206 Wagner that Leland's sold in their last auction for 101K, the one with the upper left corner missing, used to be mine. I bought it in 1986 for $8250, then sold it in a Phillipp's auction a year and a half later for $18,000 (less 10% to the house). At the time I was thrilled, but I think I'd like to reel that one back in. Ironically, the day after the auction the winning bidder reneged and I had to hire an attorney to force him to buy it, which he eventually did. In retrospect, I should have let him back out and just kept it. But who would have guessed a card in that condition would be worth that much today?
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04-23-2005, 04:29 PM
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Posted By: Julie
for other people. I don't miss them yet, though I know I'll never get another Ramly Burkett, and thus never complete my 19th century HOFers., Ther other two are the World Wide Gum ('36 Goudey) Joe DiMaggio, VG, and an M101-4 Ruth (nice card, but has a small smoke stain on one side, and 4 small slight-loss-of-gloss spots where tape was expertly removed. The Joe and the Burkett have alreadcy been graded; the Ruth will not grade, because of the tape removal--although it looks like an awfully nice card.
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#18
04-23-2005, 05:57 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: Scott Elkins
Old Put Cobb
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#19
04-23-2005, 06:00 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: Adam J. Baxter
I've sold off quite a bit (N172's, T212's) in the last 1-2 years and I have only a couple of regrets.One was an N172 of McQuaid, Denver. I originally paid $120 and and later sold it ungraded on Ebay for $370.00. I haven't seen another example since then and I sometimes wonder if I had held on to it, whether it would do even better now? The other regret is the Zeenuts I've sold in the last 2-3 years. Before I decided to get serious collecting these, I had sold a couple dozen or so here and there. I have often regretted it as I could really use many of them now and I've been unable to find some of the same cards again, even on Ebay. Oh, well.
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#21
04-23-2005, 08:35 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: Chuck R
I have some stuff that nobody else in my end of the hobby (pre-war nonsports) has but I've never been tempted yet to sell anything I don't have a dupe of....credit card bills come and go, but my suggestion is to hold on to the tough stuff
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#22
04-24-2005, 06:24 AM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: John Spencer
Oh so many, but the one that I still wake up screaming about in the middle of the night is an ex/mt E107 Matty. It was the jewel in the crown of my collection that I sold in its entirety about 15 years ago to buy a house.
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#23
04-24-2005, 09:25 AM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: Scott Elkins
I don't mind helping out fellow collectors (still do it when I can and have the cards). Besudes, I know that most of you guys who bought them cherish them as much or more than I did and they are resting in some very nice collections. There were a ton of rare backs I didn't list I sold as well.
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#25
04-24-2005, 09:50 AM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: vetekbob
Hi Scott,
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04-24-2005, 06:52 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: Scott Elkins
I'm hoping now that the surgery is not until after the National - would love to get there and finally meet Tbob, Dan, Leon and the rest of the gang in person!
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#29
04-24-2005, 08:12 PM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: Scott Forrest
Anything I sold I used the money to buy something else. But if I could have any items back, it would be: t206 ledger page with Hindu Ed Reulbach, BL460 Reulbach, t206 Jacklitsch proof, t205 Matty with particularly incredible color and registration, my completed e95 set and almost complete e96 set, my almost complete t206 HOF portrait subset (missing Wagner and Plank so incomplete
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#30
04-25-2005, 07:45 AM
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PRE-WAR CARDS YOU SOLD AND WISH YOU NEVER HAD
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
In the past few years I have sold my T-205, 206, and 207 sets.
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With that card being the only one psa has ever graded, chances are looking terrible. Live and learn the hard way.
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