If you could only keep ONE...

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Not true at all, Ed.

I recently sent over 100 items out to various auction houses...

but I have not publicized one of them.

In this one instance, however... I was truly torn between which card to keep and which to auction off.

As always, the collective wisdom of this site was invaluable.


Present company excluded, of course.

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Posted By: Ed

I stand corrected. Sorry.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

But Ed's got me beat by a mile. Thanks for making me feel better about myself, guy!

And in case you don't know, Hal is one of the really good guys in collecting, with a genuine passion for the hobby and a lack of attitude that you might otherwise expect him to have given the caliber of his collection.

Edited to add the smileys; I'm kidding so don't go all postal on me.

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Posted By: peter chao

Hal, Ed

Now that we're all pals again, keep the Cobb with the Cobb back, that is a true scarcity. Remember, there's quite a number of old-line collectors that haven't gotten their Cobb with the Uzit back graded, yet. Who knows somebody might be holding a PSA 7 Cobb with a Uzit back but simply hasn't bothered to get it graded yet.

Peter

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Posted By: Jason L

that it's not me.
(All of my Cobb/Uzit's are graded, because you know what they say, ..."Uzit, or lose it.")

Thanks everyone, you've been great...-But now it's Friday and I'm outta here!
try the veal and please be good to your waitress

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Posted By: T206Collector

....then see which one you can get more for from dealers/collectors.

If you're more interested in keeping one for reasons unrelated to wealth, then keep the Cobb/Cobb. If you want an Uzit back, you can pick one up with any number of common backs If you want a Cobb back, well, then you've got the only one.

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Posted By: Dylan

Is this Ed guy actually suggesting that collecting 100 year old tobacco cards while representing a case against big tobacco is some sort of agregious offense? PLEASE, collecting these cards has nothing to do with tobacco and everything to do with baseball. It just so happens that they were distributed in tobacco packs. What a bunch of crap, i wouldnt have even been so nice as to respond if that crap was aimed at me.

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Posted By: Cobby33

I think they should be donated to The Human Fund.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I didn't think you were allowed to post off topic if you were not a regular contributor????

Better get to posting something useful and on topic Ed. You gotta lot of catching up to do.

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Posted By: Sean

What's the Human Fund? Sounds like it just money for people?

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Posted By: Cobby33

I think our resident Seinfeld expert could give a cogent explanation of "The Human Fund..."

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Posted By: barrysloate

I think I am becoming the board "Seinfeld Savant". Ask him a question and he will instantaneously come up with the answer.

George Costanza, being too cheap to buy Christmas gifts for his office mates, made up a fake charity- The Human Fund- and told his coworkers he was making a donation on their behalf.

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

Hi Hal,
I'll take your UZIT Cobb for 75k if you will except a check from the Human Fund... Be well Brian


Hi Barry,
Break out the Pole, Festivus is alive and well on the board....


PS Hal, keep them both, because I doubt there are any more Uzit 6's out there, and I doubt we will see many unknown Cobb backs hit the market.

My last count on each card:

Cobb/Uzit 7 known
Cobb/Cobb 14 known

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Posted By: MVSNYC

Brian-

slightly O/T, but to your knowledge, what are the highest graded Uzits & Drums? i think in the past you had said there is a PSA 7 Griffith, Batting Drum...and do we know if Hal's Uzit is the highest graded Uzit, or have you heard of or seen higher graded examples?

while we are at it, let's apply the same question to all of the brand backs? (Hindu, Polar Bear, etc)...

maybe this should be a seperate thread?