Your best "gift" this year--that is, card you got in great deal

[packs]

I thought I lucked out pretty well on this Esterbrook. It's a script series card with no team designation, which I think makes it one of the first cards issued in the Old Judge series and could possibly date to Fall 1886, pre-dating the majority of the set.

Besides that it's got a much nicer image in person and is a card of one of the game's greatest eccentrics and best nicknames:

[DHogan]

Cool name. Dude

[t206hound]

Shown before... pictured in an auction house lot and the person scanning/photographing actually turned the card so it was NOT upside down to take a picture of the back (so that the back was the same as all of the other backs in the scan/photo). I was fairly certain it was an upside down back... extremely excited when I received it.

[Thromdog]

Probably doesn't satisfy the "alert" notion of this thread as it wasn't until after I bought this I realized how rare this guy is......And I bought it for a song.

Elite 8 T206 with a 350 back.....and a rarity card to boot.

[atx840]

Had been looking for clean example over the last few years and an inquiry into another card unintentionally led to the opportunity to pick this up.

[DeanH3]

Wow!! Awesome card Chris. The color and registration just explode off that card.

[abothebear]

I picked up an ebay lot of about twenty 30s R cards that turned out to be in nice condition, included several cards I needed for the R313A set I am putting together, and several more HOFers. It also included a R313A envelope (which I also needed). The lot ended up having 3x the value I paid for it. So it was great for my wallet as well as for my particular collecting focus.

[Michael Peich]

Picked up Mr. Demmitt this past Sunday. Great surprise find!

Happy Holidays to all,
Mike