1915 CJ's... Am I Alone On This Preference?

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by CW

Nice addition, Matt -- CONGRATS!!

(I can now rest easy at night knowing you will no longer be after my CJ Cobby )

I need one of those, plus we are both Tiger fans, c'mon!

[MattyC]

CW's outstanding CJ Cobb was one of the cards that really drew me into the older classics realm. That card was an inspiration. Glad to see someone else is already in pursuit of it!

[thunderdan]

Matt, Chuck, I hope you don't mind me sharing this one. I don't know many on N54--mostly a CU guy, but thought I'd share this Matty.

[ullmandds]

I agree with this philosophy regarding most...if not all cards. If a vintage card came with a story book of it's history...how boring a story would it be if it said..."I got this card from a man as he was leaving the smoke shop...I rushed home and put it in the middle of my bible...and never touched it again!"

[MattyC]

Originally Posted by thunderdan

Matt, Chuck, I hope you don't mind me sharing this one. I don't know many on N54--mostly a CU guy, but thought I'd share this Matty.

Wow, Dan. No stains but pretty special-- looks mint to me. What centering. Dayum!

[kdixon]

Wheat.

[RichR]

Here is the Cobb I mentioned earlier:

[CW]

Originally Posted by rainier2004

I need one of those, plus we are both Tiger fans, c'mon!

LOL! Oh no.... will the PMs ever STOP??!

Originally Posted by thunderdan

Matt, Chuck, I hope you don't mind me sharing this one. I don't know many on N54--mostly a CU guy, but thought I'd share this Matty.

Damn, that is absolutely gorgeous. I like how you can see the texture of the "cardboard" on that scan. That's one thing I like about CJs -- they have very unique stock for cards, especially the 1914 examples.

Is that the card that was recently given away in the Set Registry promotion? Either way, great card, Dan!


Here's a couple 1914's... the Tinker was the first CJ I ever picked up -- just a small dab of caramel on the front of his jersey. The Crawford is more recent, and more stained, and sits in and SGC 60 holder. I might have only 5 or 6 cards from this issue, but they are among my faves. Much of their charm lies in their simplicity. I have to pick up that recent book on the set, too.

[CW]

Oh, and, nice Cobb, Rich! At least the mouse stopped chewing before the "Cobb".

[pepis]

Back in the 70s i used to buy and sell, carmel, tobacco, cracker jack, goudeys cards etc with stains, glue, tape, writing, with absolutely no problem, and i guess the reason was because it seemed like about 1/2 the cards in existence had this issues! of course we always had a select few that wanted nothing to do
with such issues and these were the high class collectors and would pay more money for the cleaner cards, so some people/dealers learned how to clean this
cards, so they could nail this high class collectors for more money!! now a days
i wonder what happened to those thousands of cards with such issues that went through my hands?? OH YES is now called paper loss!! and is widely accepted.
finally i think this stain issues are proof of authenticity sort of.

[RichR]

Originally Posted by CW

Oh, and, nice Cobb, Rich! At least the mouse stopped chewing before the "Cobb".

I know right lol

[leaflover]

This is my 1914 CJ type card. If PSA hadn't put the (ST) qualifier on it I would not have been able to afford it. Sometimes qualifiers are a good thing!!

[thunderdan]

Chuck, yes that is correct.