Show 3 of your favorite pre-war cards - A little different this time

[Leon]

I will play too. Looking down my list I have a ton of favorites, so here is one I have always liked a lot, hence the reason I kept it as my last 19th Century card..



I don't know if any have real sentimental value but this E90-2 was the first card of over 700 I acquired from the Trucker Boy find. No one bid on this for 1.5k on ebay....then the seller put it up again and we made a deal for it at 1k. The rest is history...



and I don't know what this Paramount Clothes Premium would be worth, but not much, and I like it as it's not often seen.

[Luke]

Haha, thanks guys. Really cool cards. I'd say about half the topics I start go immediately to the thread graveyard, so this one is doing better than some

[familytoad]

Haha Luke,
Don't be so tough on yourself!
Your topics are cool, including this one. The thread graveyard happens a lot here, unless you want to criticize an eBay posting or crooked AH

I don't have easy access to my scans anymore or I would definitely post my 3 faves. In fact, maybe I will do that on the weekend when I will dig this thread out of page 3

J/k everyone...

[bnorth]

I have not been collecting pre-war for very long so 1 card fits all 3.
It is by far my favorite pre-war card.
It was my first T210 Fort Worth player. Go FtW!
It is worth way less than $50

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by LukeLyon

I'd say about half the topics I start go immediately to the thread graveyard

Haha, I feel the same way... or worse, when I simply post in a thread and it dies. I literally had that happen when I posted in a thread and it somehow ended up in the "testing forum".
http://www.net54baseball.com/forumdi...=21&order=desc

No idea what that was all about, but I digress.

This one's tough because I don't have scans of most of my lower value cards and/or sentimental ones given me by my parents, etc. Here are a couple though...

2) sentimental--- this Babe was my first major/large purchase, coming from Simsclassicsports in 2000. I've been "all in" ever since. No coincidence- it came during my first solid paying summer internship, and I was living at home!
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3) under $50--- this Snider (photo'd with Willie and the Mick) is a favorite, also for sentimental reasons. My dad gave it to me while I was in HS. His favorite player growing up had been Snider (named his dog Duke) and my favorite vintage set at that point was '56 Topps (mainly cuz a kid in my middle school had traded a bunch of them for candy bars, Garbage Pail Kids, etc).
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1) I'll come back to this one

[Louieman]

Love the idea of this thread. Ok here's mine

1) Everything about the t206 Keeler captures what enthralls me when I think of the 'old days' of baseball. That bat with the thick handle, his glove in the back pocket, his weathered, stone-cold face, the fact that he chokes up...and the colors and the background and everything...just wow! I bought this one ungraded from Shoebox Cards a few years ago, and was thrilled that it got that half grade boost when I got it back from PSA.

2) This is the card that started it all for me. I was about 11, and was at a card show in San Leandro, CA (...a show that still happens bi-annually)...and with a $20 bill that I had saved up for a month I walked up to this really old guy who was sitting there with plastic folder after plastic folder of these beat up cards I hadn't ever seen before. I think I asked them why they were so small, and he told me they were from 1909, and my mind was blown and hasn't recovered since.

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[Louieman]

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3) I think this Ott wouldn't be under $50 if it wasn't so beat up, but that's what I love about it. This thing has a life of its own. Rips, tape, creases...someone even drew a bat in pencil over the bat already there...I just like the fact it's gone through over 80 years of abuse and still looks great (at least to me!)

[T206Collector]

1st card: Your absolute favorite card



2nd card: A card that has sentimental value to you

Wife gave me this on our wedding day right after we got married, and while she was still in her wedding dress, and me in my tux...



3rd card: Your favorite card with a value of less than $50

Poor man's signed T206 card...

[Peter_Spaeth]

Did you give her a George McBride?