What is your best card you added to your collection in 2013?

[bbeck]

The Plank is incredible for the grade. Spotless back.

[GregMitch34]

Train Not in Vain

http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1386866032

[Angyale]

Angyale

[tedzan]

I acquired these 6 cards in 2013. But, I cannot decide which one is the "BEST" ......I leave it up to you to decide ?


rare 1888 S.F. Hess (proof)






AMERICAN BEAUTY 460 Cobb







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1933 George C. Miller Lefty O'Doul






.............. 1949 LEAF Fannin color error ..............






TED Z
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LOOKING for this T206 guy to complete my EXCLUSIVE 12 red HINDU sub-set (12 subjects)

SHECKARD (glove)

[kkkkandp]

An easy choice - Old Hoss

Eric:

Very jealous!

Kevin

[Jaybird]

Chappie Johnson with the St. Paul Gophers

[g_vezina_c55]

Verry nice E107 Plank Bob !

[oldjudge]

Eric--is that the 1887 sign for "one in the pink, one in the stink"?

[Exhibitman]

Wow, amazing stuff. I lost count of the Pirates cards in this thread...I am humbled by the caliber of collection I see here. Since I collect a variety of stuff I thought I would pull my favorite of each type. My modest contributions:

Baseball card, prewar: A newly-cataloged Adam Hats card that I've posted here so many times that people are certainly sick of it, but I am very glad to have it:



Baseball card, postwar: 1954 Johnston Cookies Hank Aaron RC:



Baseball memorabilia: A Lefty Gomez matchbook from the 1930s Adam Hats celebrity contest:



Baseball autograph: picked this up at the National:



Surfing/swimming: I have wanted this PC of the Duke for a long time, finally got one:



Soccer: This Pele card is my best soccer pick-up ever [1968 Crack from Argentina]:



Favorite hockey piece: 1964 postmarked Bobby Hull JD MCCarthy PC:



Favorite basketball piece: 1960 Wilt Chamberlain team issue



Favorite football piece: got this in a collection of 1950s-1960s cards I picked up. My favorite set of the 1950s-1960s FB, and Bart Starr was the #1 card in 1968, and the card had the special horizontal design only used for the Packers and Raiders Super Bowl teams:



Favorite nonsport: Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! 1957 George Reeves fan issue with neat DC comic advertising:



Favorite autograph: Nigel "The Dark Destroyer" Benn: He doesn't sign cards except on special occasions. A friend got this for me at a HOF event:



Favorite boxing card: Tough choosing here but I'd have to go with this 1920s Benny Leonard restaurant PC. I'd been looking for one for years:



Favorite boxing memorabilia: Again, a brutal choice, but I gotta go with this ticket from Jim Jeffries' boxing venue just up the block from my office here in Burbank. Again, an item I'd been hoping to find for a very long time:



And last of all, oddest oddball item is this rodeo PC of future movie star Hoot Gibson learning the hard way that if a horse doesn't want to be ridden, odds are the horse will win. I just love the image:

[Bugsy]

Another 1913 Cravats pennant

[philliesphan]

Some amazing acquisitions across this board. Really humbling the quality of collections people here have.

Here's one of my favourites for the year. In the Hall of Fame, but not for the sport with which he is pictured. Nevers went to University very close to where I'm currently living, and, of course, the tab on the bottom is a great addition to making this card a special card in my collection:

[sycks22]

Originally Posted by bbeck

The Plank is incredible for the grade. Spotless back.

Love the Plank Bob

[Blunder19]

Love the cards everyone.. looks like the Board had a great year all around.. here is my best:

[the 'stache]

Some really beautiful cards guys.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Thanks, Derek. Thought the Leland postcard was last year, I guess my memory deceived me...........

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

Thanks, Derek. Thought the Leland postcard was last year, I guess my memory deceived me...........

You have a good excuse!!

[npa589]

Amazing cards everyone...

My best pick-up and my favorite pick-up would vary, so here is my favorite pick-up of the year:

[Spike]

Traded for these two low-grade 33 Goudeys this week. Not much to see from the grading perspective, but check out the backs.

A 1930s collector named Bucky Jackson took it upon himself to modify and update every card he owned. Here's what he did.

1. Trimmed off any "BIG LEAGUE GUM" label from the front
2. Punched out Goudey's © notice
3. Scraped off the Goudey tag line
4. Signed his name with quotes on "Bucky"
5. Updated teams as years went by (Ruth has Yankees scratched out, replaced with "Brooklyn Dodgers" in pencil, so was updated in 1938)
6. Renumbered everything by a system I don't understand yet. (Ruth is now 189 & Gehrig now 297.)

By looking for low-grade Goudey lots, I've reassembled about 30% of Bucky's 1933 set and these are my biggest hits so far. Not sure what'll ultimately come of it, but the whole project's an interesting way to look through the eyes of another era's collector.

[7nohitter]

[QUOTE=Spike;1216715]Traded for these two low-grade 33 Goudeys this week. Not much to see from the grading perspective, but check out the backs.

A 1930s collector named Bucky Jackson took it upon himself to modify and update every card he owned. Here's what he did.

1. Trimmed off any "BIG LEAGUE GUM" label from the front
2. Punched out Goudey's © notice
3. Scraped off the Goudey tag line
4. Signed his name with quotes on "Bucky"
5. Updated teams as years went by (Ruth has Yankees scratched out, replaced with "Brooklyn Dodgers" in pencil, so was updated in 1938)
6. Renumbered everything by a system I don't understand yet. (Ruth is now 189 & Gehrig now 297.)

Matt-
This is a great story! I love stuff like this. Any idea where Bucky was from?

[Spike]

Originally Posted by 7nohitter

Matt-
This is a great story! I love stuff like this. Any idea where Bucky was from?

Assume that Bucky was a Boston or New York collector, as a number of what I've found came from auctions near Cape Cod. Hope they're still mostly in the area, so I don't have to travel very far to keep looking. :-)

[insccollectibles]

Hard to narrow it down but I love these three.

[CW]

Originally Posted by Spike

Traded for these two low-grade 33 Goudeys this week. Not much to see from the grading perspective, but check out the backs.

A 1930s collector named Bucky Jackson took it upon himself to modify and update every card he owned. Here's what he did.

1. Trimmed off any "BIG LEAGUE GUM" label from the front
2. Punched out Goudey's © notice
3. Scraped off the Goudey tag line
4. Signed his name with quotes on "Bucky"
5. Updated teams as years went by (Ruth has Yankees scratched out, replaced with "Brooklyn Dodgers" in pencil, so was updated in 1938)
6. Renumbered everything by a system I don't understand yet. (Ruth is now 189 & Gehrig now 297.)

By looking for low-grade Goudey lots, I've reassembled about 30% of Bucky's 1933 set and these are my biggest hits so far. Not sure what'll ultimately come of it, but the whole project's an interesting way to look through the eyes of another era's collector.

This is very cool. This is what I would call pure collecting, and one of many examples found on this forum. Good luck with the quest. If you add more down the road, or eventually get the inclination, this set might be worthy of its own thread.

Killer thread, all!

[Bestdj777]

Originally Posted by Spike

By looking for low-grade Goudey lots, I've reassembled about 30% of Bucky's 1933 set and these are my biggest hits so far. Not sure what'll ultimately come of it, but the whole project's an interesting way to look through the eyes of another era's collector.

If you ever decide to work on his 1934 set, let me know. I have number 59/298 and could probably let it go for ANY other card in the 1934 set (as long as it isn't moldy and doesn't have bed bugs).

[Spike]

Originally Posted by Bestdj777

If you ever decide to work on his 1934 set, let me know. I have number 59/298 and could probably let it go for ANY other card in the 1934 set (as long as it isn't moldy and doesn't have bed bugs).

OK, DM sent! I've got a handful of Buckys from 1934, but not many yet.

[brian1961]

The best card I added to my collection was a 1967 Coca-Cola baseball premium (produced by Dexter Press) of Mickey Mantle, graded 7.5 by PSA. I'll get to see it on Christmas!

Kind regards. --Brian Powell

[the 'stache]

Holy God, Chuck. That Speaker T3 is to die for!