Favorite color image...

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Posted By: Dan Kravitz

What are your top 5 (in any order) favorite color image of any player from any set? Mine would be...

Cobb (leaning on his bat) pose

Evers (ex. e102 set) pose

d304 Cobb

e90-1 Jackson

Any 1912 Boston Garter


Honorable mention...

e90-2 Wagner, 1914 CJ Mathewson & horizontal e92 pose, Cobb leaping pose, Wagner throwing pose, d304 Wagner, CJ Jackson, t208 PLank

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Posted By: Joe D.

All pictured below... some mine - some images taken from cardpricer.com (I hope Ted doesn't mind the free advertising )....

1) S81 Matty - classic matty pose looks great in silk
2) 1914/15 Cracker Jack Walter Johnson -- too cool
3) Cobb leaning on the bat - still looking for this card - contact me
4) Horizontal Matty
5) Oakes extending past the border... I always thought it was very cool that Oakes glove crosses through the boundaries of the border. Not too many vintage cards (do any others?) allow the image to break through the border.

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Posted By: EcardCollector

Dan... your gonna take some heat for that E90 Jackson choice around here!

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Posted By: Joann

I don't have scans for these, but maybe someone else can post if they have them:

E90-1 Oakes (or Tim Jordon - any E90-1 of that color theme)

T206 Matty black cap - the blue sky is an unbelieveable color in person

N162 Anson (or almost any N162 for that matter)

E95 Cobb - the deep scarlet background and view angle from below the face.

T212 (year?) Moskiman. I don't know if that's the right name, but it's the 1912 (I think) Obak with the striated lavendar background.

Joann

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Posted By: jackgoodman

Is this the one Joann?

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Posted By: Joann

That's the one! I really like the background on that. I like the single-color-different-shades backgrounds on the other 1912's too, but that one is neat.

Thanks for posting the scan

J

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Posted By: JimB

Here are a couple that come right to mind.

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Posted By: Joe Jones

Always liked the background color on this one. This card started my journey toward collecting the T209-1 set.

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

It's tough to beat the color on some of the 1911 Obaks and Turkey Red Cabinets. Here is a few of my favorites:







Patrick

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Posted By: Bob Shannon

I love the yellow background on this one...

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Posted By: warshawlaw

1974 Topps Hank Aaron
1975 Topps Tom Seaver
1970 Kelloggs 3-D Joe Morgan
1969 Topps Hank Aaron
1969 Topps Bob Clemente
1963 Topps Sandy Koufax
1956 Topps Roberto Clemente
1955 Topps Ted Williams
1954 Topps Willie Mays
1954 Topps Ted Williams #250
1949 Bowman Satchel Paige
1934 Goudey Gehrig portrait
1933 Goudey O'Doul portrait
T206 Waddell portrait
T206 Tinker portrait
T206 Evers portrait
T205 Bender
M116 Wagner

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Posted By: Steve M.

Always been one of my favorites. Now lives in New York.

Scan courtesy of: VintageCardPrices.com

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Posted By: Darren

e95 cobb
cj cobb
t206 Mcgraw portrait with cap
t206 Johnson portrait
t206 Wagner

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Posted By: Jeff Prizner

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Posted By: Bruce Babcock

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Posted By: John S

The T206 Cobb "Bat Off" is probably my favorite followed closely by T206 Johnson portrait. I have always enjoyed the artwork on the T203's although they do not qualify as player cards.

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Posted By: Glenn

Diamond Stars: Stan Hack
T206: Johnson (port.), Matty (black cap)
Cracker Jack: Cobb

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Posted By: Dan Kravitz

Joann, I really like the Obaks. Those cards have very nice images.

In regards to a set, I really like the d304s. The images are cool and very unique. I think Barry and Cobb are my 2 favs from that set. Most of the e95s, e96s, e98s, or e93s other than Cobb leaping, just don’t do it for me. It seems like the artist just rushed the job.

ECARD - I'm not sure how anyone can dislike the e90-1 Jackson. What a classic image. The distinct purple background grabs my attention every time I see it, and Jackson leaning on his bat with lipstick all over himself... I saw an image of the Jackson wen I was young and buying '78 Topps cards. Maybe it is because that image was burnt into my brain as a small child of a card I would most likely never obtain, but I think it is a pure classic. A smoke'n card on a bunch of levels. Just bumped it into my top 3 images from top 5.

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Posted By: JK

A few of my favorites (not all vintage):

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Posted By: Jay

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Posted By: JimB

Those Obaks are really amazing!
JimB

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Mine are the eight BB cards from the N162 set....shown here on two pages of my A36 Album

Lithography.....at its best depicted on these BB cards.

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Posted By: Marckus

D304 O'toole!

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Posted By: Brian

Some more Obak ...

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Posted By: Bob

Did I miss something here? Did the original post state nicest card images other than E94s???? How can you have any discussion of beautiful images without including the violet Cobb, olive Wagner, red Lajoie, gold Evers, green Cicotte and blue Speaker from that set?????

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Posted By: Dan Kravitz

No one said anything about excluding any issue. E94's are very cool (especially Cobb). The colors from that set are outstanding!

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Posted By: Dan Koteles

T-BOB....them e94's is ugly. They are a newspaper figurine of a player stuck in a boring colored background, but as long as you like them ,it is okay. ANd Kravitz, you start a post and never show us anything ,WHAT"S UP WITH THAT ?!?!

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Posted By: Bob

Dan- My post was tongue in cheek I just happen to think the E94s and E97s are woefully underrated aesthetics-wise (is that a word?) Everyone knows how their prices keep going up and up. Also, don't forget what may be the "prettiest" set- the D311s.

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Posted By: Dan Kravitz

Here you go Danny boy.

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Posted By: Aaron Seefeldt

e125 Wagner Batting
1912 Boston Garter Jennings
Darby Box laid flat with Wagner
d304 Cobb
T216 Cobb (leaning on bat)

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Posted By: Zach Rice

Walter Johnson's 1912 Boston Garter tops the list for me.

Walter Johnson's H813-1 Boston Garter
Christy Mathewson's H813-1 Boston Garter
Nap Lajoie's H813-1 Boston Garter
Ed Walsh's E90-1
Ty Cobb's E145-1 (or two) Cracker Jack

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Posted By: Wesley

Darbys have color? I thought E271 images were B & W.

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Posted By: Zach Rice

Here is a scan of Wagner's Darby box. It isn't black and white, but there isn't too much color to it. The image is cropped to only Wagner's portion of the box. Snodgrass is on the other full panel.

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Posted By: Wesley

Are the color settings on the image accurate? I have seen green and pink tints on Darby boxes but those colors are very faint. The yellow on the Wagner is very bright to say the least. Great piece though.

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Posted By: Brett

I have too many favourites, but i've always liked the t206 Cobb bat off shoulder.

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Posted By: JimB

Dan,
Wow! That is quite a little group of cards there.
JimB

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Posted By: Bill K

Of just the ones I own (minus the Halla). The Leach, Merkle, and Halla would be my top three against any other cards.







Bill

My personal collection - http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f176/fkm_bky/

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Posted By: S Gross

I've always tried to convince myself that I'm an East Coast guy, and, therefore am NOT allowed to collect PCL cards. Because those Obaks and D cards are UNREAL in color (I've said it before, and I'll say it again, that "why I oughta' give ya' da back of me hand" / "get outa' here kid, ya bother me" Mohler is a fav).

Another fav of mine is the seldom seen e90 Bell -- Rosey Orange / Orangy Rose -- your pick --
(Also like this card since he is obviously pointing out a stray printing line on top border)




Oh, pink can be very, very cool --



Finally, someone please .......... deep perrywinkle t206 Dougherty portrait

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Posted By: MINE'S MINT

its hard to choose.. but heres one i just happen to have near the computer..

wish you could see the color on this one in person.. slabbed scan does not do it justice.. much cooler than the T206 version in my opinion.

psa/dna authenticated signature -> Richard M.

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Posted By: Aaron Seefeldt

The e271 Darby Wagner (shown a few posts earlier) is actuall accented with a vibrant orange (similar to the orange in the e98 set) not the yellow shown in the scan above.

If you hadn't noticed, the e271 Wagner is actually the same image as used in the e94 set.

An interesting side note is that the e98 Wagner (the throwing pose) is the same image as the e125 Wagner throwing only the e125 is accented with blue colors.

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Posted By: Paul Kaufman

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Posted By: Anonymous

here are some i like.







my collection: http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/obaks/

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Posted By: Bill K

One I wished I didn't sell...love those Obaks!



Bill

My personal collection - http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f176/fkm_bky/