Your Best Pickup of the Year -- 2012 Edition

[the 'stache]

I have to say, also, that I absolutely love my scanner. I picked up an old Canon CanoScan 8400F on Ebay for $40, and this thing scans like a dream. All I had to do was slightly tweak the levels in Photoshop, and voila. What a beautiful card!

I am so happy! Now I'm trying to decide what to buy next. I've got it narrowed down to a 1958 Topps Roberto Clemente, a 1953 Bowman Color Stan Musial, a 1957 Topps Hank Aaron, and a few others.

[ALR-bishop]

This gave me a run of these programs from 1959 to 1966 ( including the 1964 a boxed card set)

[HRBAKER]

Neat item Al!

[bcbgcbrcb]

Agreed, great stuff, Al.

[Exhibitman]

Yeah, Andy and David, the set is a beast to collect. I remember the Atlantic Oil cards from when I was a kid. I got a huge box of cards from a family friend whose kids were already grown up and had quite a few of them in there. I lost track of them over the years--probably traded them--and then started with the set again about a dozen years ago. I quickly got the 40 basic cards done, then found one of the booklet prize winners, and have spent the next decade+ looking for the cash prize winners. I really kicked the tires a bunch on the Osteen since it was very expensive for a freakin' Claude Osteen card, but my rule of thumb is that when I come back to an item repeatedly that's my [ample] gut telling me to buy it, so I pulled the trigger on it. At this rate I should have the set finished by 2113.

[David W]

Do the high dollar redemption cards even exist and/or has anyone seen them?

[h2oya311]

no redemption cards for me, but my best pick-up of 2012 (post-war) must have been my 1951 Mantle. A close second would have to be this 1973 Jim Rice rookie that I picked up from Phil earlier in the year: