Most Pleasant Surprise of 2011

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Great Welch card, Jim. Presents way better than a 20.

[almostdone]

After nearrly 10 years of thying to complete my HOF colletion I was two cards short comming into 2011. Eddie Plank and Honus Wagner. I figured it would probably take the whole year to find what I was looking for as I had only seen 1 or 2 Planks since I started and not many more Wagners in my price range.
In late January not just one or two, but three Planks came up for auction within days on ebay and I was able to win one of them for less than expected.
Then I decided to go for the Wagner to colmpete the collection so I sold everything I had been holding on to in order to get it. (mostly other sports lots of commons). Not only was I able to get a Wagner to complete the HOF set I had enough money left over to pick up a 1948 Leaf Musial! All this was before the end of March.
A great start to the year. We shall see what the rest of the year holds.
Drew

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At the risk of sounding sappy, but I am by all means sincere, I have picked up a lot of things for my collection this year, but the best thing has been that, because of the sad circumstances of a friend's death, I have done a few show. I had not set up at years. I have made some wonderful new friendships with Ted Z, Dave at Baggers, the guys at Huggins and Scott, Lelands, and the Deans, just to name a couple and reconnected with buddies like Rand Bailey and Chandy Greenholt that I had not really had a chance to talk to for years.

It has been a great experience and I expect to wind down most of the marketable stuff in the collection in the next 60 days. My friend's family now has a nice start on a college fund for their daughter. I should also mention the items I have sold on Net 54 have often brought generous offers because of the circumstances, and I thank all who have assisted me.

Does this mean I am going to get back into setting up at shows? H*ll no!

[DanP]

After not doing much over the past few years I was able to add these RC's to my MLB HOF Player RC collection in the 1st half of 2011. There are quite a few that I had been trying to find for years. Many of these cards were acquired via trades or purchases from N54 members!

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Two Dietsche postcards: (1) 1907 Tigers Ty Cobb Fielding position, PSA 5; and (2) 1907 Cubs Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, PSA EX+ (2nd highest PSA has graded). Pretty tough cards, as PSA has graded only 5 of each at this writing, with no change in those numbers in quite some time.

The Cobb alone made it a good year!

Larry