August Pickups

[MikeGarcia]

.... I own or have owned close to a hundred of these salutation exhibits and I've seen many hundreds of others for sale , but I do not recall ever seeing a pronounced mis-cut on any exhibit card..they obviously had some pretty good quality control on the mechanical process .

..do any of you have a mis-cut 1939-46 Exhibit or recall seeing any ?

...if this were a T206 I'd be getting phone calls at three A.M. begging me to sell it.... You know who you are....

[the 'stache]

My 8th T206 card purchased just came in. Here's an image I did of the 8, including the Pastorius.

Oh, how I love Photoshop.

I also discovered I've been doing something incorrectly when scanning. I changed the sequence a little, and now the scans are perfect. No tweaking of levels needed at all. Just run the Canoscan toolbox, checkmark to show the display driver, use the recommended color settings, and click the blue scan button in the preview window. For some reason, it wasn't color adjusting correctly before. Now it's perfect every single time. So I'm basically rescanning my entire collection.

[freakhappy]

Bill...love your recent pickups! You have good taste, my friend!

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by freakhappy

Bill...love your recent pickups! You have good taste, my friend!

Thank you, Mike. The feeling is mutual.

I'll probably go back to saving up for another month or two with some auctions coming up, then I'll be much more active working on my collection going forward. In the mean time, I'll have 3 more T206s coming in within a few days, and some cards coming in for the vintage side. Two of those are Minnie Minoso and Mark Belanger cards, cards that will be specific to a discussion I'll be starting on the All Sports Talk water cooler board. Something I've been chewing on for a while. Something they both have in common.

[MikeGarcia]

...lightly adhering to very thin brittle scrapbook page paper...I'll leave them as they were found except for trimming the exposed excess paper-- the backs are blank anyway...it worked out okay on the bottom two cards .. it's always nice to look at pre-war Yankees..I guess this is considered 22-year-old Scooter Rizzuto's rookie card ?

[MVSNYC]

Picked up the T206 Drum in SCP last night (it appears). I have a Wiltse Uzit also, so maybe a player run is in order?

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

Picked up the T206 Drum in SCP last night (it appears). I have a Wiltse Uzit also, so maybe a player run is in order?

That is pretty awesome to have a T206 Drum and Uzit of the same player.

[MVSNYC]

Thanks Eddie. I actually forgot that my Uzit was Wiltse (scans below) when I was bidding on the Drum...I realized it this morning.

[t206hound]

Makes #49 in the new set...

[Luke]

That's a really nice group Bill, congrats! Nice Drum and EPDG as well.

[kamikidEFFL]

Loving these pickups this month. I live through some of these members haha. My funds don't run as big as theirs do.

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by LukeLyon

That's a really nice group Bill, congrats!

Thank you so much, Luke! You know, it felt really good to just let loose a little bit. I'm almost at the point where I can start doing some serious work on my collection, and I can't wait.

I love the cards you picked up, too. People told me that after I'd been collecting the Monster for a while, I'd start to appreciate the different backs. They were right. They add a whole other dimension to the set for me. When I got my first Polar Bear backed card, I was pretty excited, even though it certainly wasn't a hard to get back. Then I got one of the factory 649 overprints followed closely by my first Southern Leaguer, which had an Old Mill back. Now I find when I look for cards, the backs play a very big part of my decision making. I look forward to my first Sovereign, Cycle, American Beauty and EPDG-backed cards.