What is your biggest single card purchase

[CharleyBrown]

Originally Posted by x2drich2000

Dave, awesome Wagner, the more I see the m110, the more I want one.

Dj

+1

[steve B]

Wow.

Well, here's one for all of us with smaller budgets.


I'm pretty sure this is the card I paid the most for. Around 235.

The most I've spent on a lot was about 700 for the little batch of 8 SL blankbacks I got from Ebay maybe 10 years ago.

Of course I'm not counting nice stuff I bought decades ago when it was cheap. Probably the best buy was the Carolina Brights Red Cobb. A beater, but it was only fifty bucks.
The early 1900's Fred Parent bat I got in a swap for a modern store bat after it got cracked in a softball game is probably the best non-card deal.

Steve B

[peterb69]

Originally Posted by rainier2004

I also tend to round down when talking to the wife.

Ain't that the truth

[keating3620]

I've been looking for this card for a while. Picked up last week on Ebay.

[T206Collector]

The most expensive card I've ever bought is Nelson's T206 Plank (Carter Collectoin). However, since I no longer own it, I guess I should be sharing my signed T206 of Walter Johnson, which comes in at several thousand more than any other card I've ever bought outside of the Plank. (Honoable mention go to the Magie I no longer own, and the 1951 Bowman Mantle SGC 60 I just added.)

[honus94566]

Originally Posted by x2drich2000

Dave, awesome Wagner, the more I see the m110, the more I want one.

The M110 set is really cool, they look fantastic in person. Best looking set out there IMO. I only have the Wagner, but who knows, maybe sometime in the future I will try to go after some of the others.

[GregMitch34]

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[GregMitch34]

Not the most expense I paid but now worth the most. Got a 1914 CJ Marquard at small dealer in NYC for $200 some 15 years ago. Ungraded and, frankly, i didn't know then if '14 or '15 or if a reprint. Sent it away to PSA about three years later and happily found out it was 1) legit 2) a NM and 3) the highest graded. All those things still true these many years later.

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1361222299

[sdkammeyer]

Well, this appears to be yet another chance to show off Mr. Apple Tyrus

[Exhibitman]

[tschock]

All you high roller cards make me jealous! (j/k)

But I have the best girlfriend in the world of 15+ years who NEVER gives me grief about buying cards and is actually interested in what I buy and supports my collecting habits, so there! (j/k again)

Most expensive purchase, though not nearly most valuable card, was the '55 Clemente RC I picked up at the National last year. But I very well may pass that mark at this year's National. LOL

But to keep this pre-war appropriate, I did pick this guy up about 3-4 years ago for $35 (with a partially missing back). "Beat but neat" is my catch phrase!

[Shoele$$]

Originally Posted by sdkammeyer

Well, this appears to be yet another chance to show off Mr. Apple Tyrus

Wow another great looking card! I'd be proud of that one too Steve

[sdkammeyer]

Originally Posted by tschock

But I have the best girlfriend in the world of 15+ years who NEVER gives me grief about buying cards and is actually interested in what I buy and supports my collecting habits

trade??

Originally Posted by Shoele$$

Wow another great looking card! I'd be proud of that one too Steve

Thank you very much.

[wolfdogg]

Wanted this card since I first saw one in a 1983 issue of Baseball Cards Magazine (remember those?)...I was 12 at the time and told myself I would be lucky to just see one in my lifetime.....thanks to a fellow board member I was able to acquire this one in 2009....

[g_vezina_c55]

wow i love your Ruth card !

[philliesphan]

of posters on this thread whose single biggest purchase was *not* a graded card.

[g_vezina_c55]

Originally Posted by philliesphan

of posters on this thread whose single biggest purchase was *not* a graded card.

I don't have the picture but it is a hockey card

Art Ross sweet caporal postcard 1910

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by philliesphan

of posters on this thread whose single biggest purchase was *not* a graded card.

me too, probably not a graded card in the top 5

[joeadcock]

H. Murphy

That is a cool panel.

[Rob D.]

Close to wrapping up a deal for a shellacked, trimmed T206 Wagner ...

[sdkammeyer]

Originally Posted by Rob D.

Close to wrapping up a deal for a shellacked, trimmed T206 Wagner ...

I just wrapped it up. Sorry. Traded Tschock's girlfriend for it

[Shoele$$]

Originally Posted by Rob D.

Close to wrapping up a deal for a shellacked, trimmed T206 Wagner ...

You too???

[sycks22]

Originally Posted by wolfdogg

Wanted this card since I first saw one in a 1983 issue of Baseball Cards Magazine (remember those?)...I was 12 at the time and told myself I would be lucky to just see one in my lifetime.....thanks to a fellow board member I was able to acquire this one in 2009....

Beauty of a Ruth Wolfdogg

[cyseymour]

Had to reach for this one but it was worth it:

[Kenny Cole]

If a CDV is a "card" then it was the Wright. Otherwise I think it was the Charleston by a hair over a Tomas Gutierrez Torriente

[sycks22]

One of my top dogs

[vintagerookies51]

[Vintagecatcher]

Here are my two most expensive purchases:

Most expensive is my Joseph Laughlin Old Mill Cabinet and the runner up is my T4 Obak Cabinet of Claude Berry.


Patrick

[tbob]

Off-hand I'd say it was an E94 Honus Wagner SGC 60.

[honus94566]

Originally Posted by cyseymour

had to reach for this one but it was worth it:

drooling....

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by cyseymour

Had to reach for this one but it was worth it:

Wow Cy, that cabinet is amazing!

[triwak]

My most expensive two.
1) 1939 Ron Marin Rum team postcard from Puerto Rico featuring Josh Gibson (back row, 4th from right).
2) 1880's Taber Cabinet of Alexander Cartwright

[Robextend]

[Tyler]

Trust me, the wife has never seen nor heard of this...shhhhhhh.
Not as nice as Cy's, but neat that Ewing w/ mascot N173 tops both our lists.

[danmckee]

1910 Washington Times Crawford. Thanks to Leon running me to the moon, I bought this instead of a new car that year.

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by danmckee

1910 Washington Times Crawford. Thanks to Leon running me to the moon, I bought this instead of a new car that year.

worth it.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by danmckee

1910 Washington Times Crawford. Thanks to Leon running me to the moon, I bought this instead of a new car that year.

If I recall correctly I didn't even bid on it, or if I did, I was a very low bidder. You basically stole my HOF'er from the set. Now you won't even return the favor with a DUPE D351....I mean seriously....where is the love?

[cyseymour]

Thanks Dave and Matt for the compliments! Tyler, yours is really nice as well, and you've definitely got me beaten on price.

[rjackson44]

wow everyone with unreal treasures i dont even want to know what leon has it will make me jealous love net 54

[MikeGarcia]

.......at the time of issue these were for very rich kids because fifteen cents would buy you three nickel packs of 1952 Topps baseball cards.....

[T205 GB]

Had to sell Was biggest single card buy.

[Vegas-guy]

Since getting back into the hobby this is my biggest purchase. Prior to this it was a T206 Cobb (green back) in PSA 6 wish I still had it...

[Runscott]

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[CW]

Originally Posted by Runscott

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Ellipses ain't cheap these days. Nice!

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by CW

Ellipses ain't cheap these days. Nice!

no, and card borders have even less value