The Official Post-REA Recovery Thread

[oldjudge]

John--Congratulations, that 1888 Giants piece is great. You will want to have it restored to fix the tears and remove the tape, but after that it will look amazing. The contrast is the best I have ever seen. If you want the name of someone who is good working with albumen prints drop me an email at oldjudge@gmail.com

Jay

[wonkaticket]

Jay, thanks I would like that very much! I will drop you an email now.

Thanks Leon.

Post # 5 (Sorry had too)

Cheers,

John

[shammus]

Terrific cards, John! Congrats!

[Zone91]

wonkaticket

Truly amazing stuff!!! I am jealous of your T206 Red back Walter Johnson...I am sure many are...congrats!!!

Holy molly I did not see the T206 Plank wowwwww now I am really envious!!!! You made some serious purchases!!! I guess you are one of the big fishes in this hobby....you must be very proud of those new cards....I know I would be!!!

Post # 11

[bcbgcbrcb]

Ken:

Congrats on the '11 CAG postcard, at a great price too!

[e107collector]

John,

Looks like you had a very productive night! Awesome Plank. Congrats.

Tony

[MVSNYC]

Great pick-ups, everyone!

John- amazing, congrats.

Here's my lone win, i'm very happy with it:

[baseballart]

Finally picked up Tuohey's Boston Base Ball Club. The others in the lot are duplicates for me, so if any are of interest let me know.

I got blown away on the other book lots. The prices for the signed copies of McGraw, Mathewson and Cobb were strong and Sol White (~$20K), Sphere and Ash ($10K) and Pfeffer's Scientific Ball (~$6500) were far too much for me. Looks like another 20 years before the latter two come up again.

[BigJJ]

John, Awesome Plank and Mathewson, beautiful.

[yanksfan09]

I wasn't expecting to win anything, but had three bids leading into the night when I went to sleep. I got outbid on the Rogers Peet Ruth (congrats to whoever won that one).

But I won 2 other lots: A lot of 2 foreign Ruth's (Josetti and Bulgaria).
I also won something I've been wanting to add for years and gets me much closer to finishing my collection of 1923 Yankees signatures. A Babe Ruth signed check made out to his wife Claire. I get the nice bonus of having his wife's signature on the back! I'm going to be really thrilled to see this one when it comes! I always wanted a Ruth sig, and to me a check is the best way to go. I thought I got both lots for a nice price as I expected both to go for a decent amount more!.....

I'm going to go hibernate until fall I think (unless someone has a D381 I need, I'll tap into reserve funds or sell a kidney or something.....