Show us your Rarest card

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by WillowGrove

+1

I know, I know the Hamilton is more rare than the McPhee and the OP said 'rarest' but whadya gonna do right? I love 'em.

Thanks for posting guys. This is a great thread. Ken W. - always great to see your cards.

peter

Peter, your Hamilton is absolutely stunning!!!

[the-illini]

Haven't seen too many of these...

[rhettyeakley]

The first LDS/Mormon a well as the first Utah-born player in the Major Leagues. I have never seen another example of this card before, although I have seen 2-3 copies of the Dick Bayless card from the same set of over-sized postcards.



I also love this Rose Co. postcard which is the only "individual card" of the real "Moonlight" Graham of Field of Dreams fame, even though there are a few known copies of it in existence (how many? I have no idea but I have a hard time imagining there being more than 5-6 total copies known)

[kkkkandp]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

The first LDS/Mormon a well as the first Utah-born player in the Major Leagues. I have never seen another example of this card before, although I have seen 2-3 copies of the Dick Bayless card from the same set of over-sized postcards. I also love this Rose Co. postcard which is the only "individual card" of the real "Moonlight" Graham of Field of Dreams fame, even though there are a few known copies of it in existence (how many? I have no idea but I have a hard time imagining there being more than 5-6 total copies known)

Rhett:

Those are great items.

Kevin

[WillowGrove]

Originally Posted by h2oya311

Peter, your Hamilton is absolutely stunning!!!

Thanks a lot Derek! Guess you'll post your Campy for the "show your rarest Campy card"?

Ken - I've been looking at vintage stuff for decades and have never seen that. I did a quick search and found the image was used here:

http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2012/06/

The images are the heads from the Peck & Snyder card. A Google search seems to show that every image of the team, just contain the starting nine except the P&S.

Like your cool round piece Ken, they leave out the 'substitute' player - Dick Hurley who didn't play at all with the team.

Love it.

[triwak]

Cool, thanks for that link, Peter! It definitely is the same piece. I won it in REA about 3 years ago (maybe 4), and they believed it was the only one they had ever seen. And they weren't sure what it was, either.

[vthobby]

001.jpgPretty cool dual image (miscut) of HOF Hugh Jennings. Careful Hugh, someone might be gaining on you!

I have never seen another.

Mike

[FrankWakefield]

Dixie, I've long wanted a Red Sun card for Hub Perdue, nice. Very nice. I have 2 of his red border Old Mills, his autograph, a couple of white borders, a Fatima, and one CJ... I met his grandson, who let me look at some of Hub's stuff. A letter from Roosevelt, a couple of Conlon photos with back stamps...


I think that this is much less plentiful than is generally perceived.

[DixieBaseball]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Dixie, I've long wanted a Red Sun card for Hub Perdue, nice. Very nice. I have 2 of his red border Old Mills, his autograph, a couple of white borders, a Fatima, and one CJ... I met his grandson, who let me look at some of Hub's stuff. A letter from Roosevelt, a couple of Conlon photos with back stamps...


I think that this is much less plentiful than is generally perceived.

Frank - Good to see you posting on the board! The Gallatin Squash... Have you seen the new book by John Simpson? (Clown Prince...)

[FrankWakefield]

I learned of the book about Perdue about a week ago, hope it arrives in the mail soon. I've not seen a copy yet. And I wish I had spoken with Simpson before publication. Hub's letter from Roosevelt was on Governor of New York letterhead, it was just after the presidential election and before inauguration. He was thanking Hub for working for votes in middle Tennessee. For a time Hub was the County Clerk for Sumner County, Gallatin is the county seat. I was in Rotary with a fellow who knew Hub years ago, and was friends with his grandson. He took me down to Sumner County to meet him, and that's where I saw the stuff. This Rotarian's father had played in the minors in the 30's. They had some interesting baseball stories.

Hub considered his best pitching effort an opening day complete game shutout of the New York Giants; he out-dueled Christy Mathewson. He was annoyed that the next day's papers had virtually no coverage of his great pitching. Instead, the papers were full of another event that happened the middle of April, 1912... the sinking of the Titanic.

Hollar at me if you think of parting with that Red Sun card, please sir.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by WillowGrove

Thanks a lot Derek! Guess you'll post your Campy for the "show your rarest Campy card"?

You're right...I guess I simply didn't want to hijack this thread with postcards...but since you asked!!

[vintagehofrookies]

Derek, that Campy is a beauty!

[benchod]

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Fantastic!! thanks for sharing

[gnaz01]

Just a few known of Mathewson

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by gnaz01

Just a few known of Mathewson

That is so very cool.

[Bigb13]

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