Has a card ever mesmerized you?

[tinkertoeverstochance]

For me it was my first Broad Leaf 460....Simply beautiful!

Lee

[Bicem]

What's yours Leon?

[atx840]

Yep. When I first held the Chance ghost I spent the evening in a state of awe mixed with giddiness. Then proceeded to loupe like I've never louped before.

Oh and then there are these which still get me:

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Bicem

What's yours Leon?

We have all seen board members cards that are beauties to behold. I like so many of them. I admit I probably look at cards more than I should though . As for cards and which ones mesmerize I own/have owned. There are a lot of them. I guess one of them from the Luckey Collection I, and destined for a new home, is the D381 Wagner (and original photo). Such a great portrait and the card has it's coupon too. Then, in the newest collection, I only have the few Zeenuts with crazy poses, some generic rppc's and this new acquisition, E90-1. When I first saw it I tried to quickly, visually find something wrong with it. I couldn't. Then I looked very closely....still can't. It's almost like it's 50/60 Top to bottom and almost 50/50 side to side. To my OCD self, and knowing how this card usually comes, it's almost distracting. (scans not to size)... and yes, Peter, slow day!! It's a chat board...I am chatting....

[edjs]

Originally Posted by tinkertoeverstochance

For me it was my first Broad Leaf 460....Simply beautiful!

Lee

Your first? Man. I am so looking forward to when I can say things like that. "Oh, my first Wagner, how well I remember that ol' beater....I wonder where I left that, let me check my closet...."

and yes, if by mesmerized you mean having a card hold your every thought, constantly, I have been mesmerized by a few cards (most of them Leon's).

[edjs]

Chris, that strip proof is one that "mesmerizes" me for sure. I think about it often. I always think where there's one, there has got to be two.

[tinkertoeverstochance]

Ed et al.,

The BL 460 took me 5 years to obtain....it was a journey. I had at least half a dozen slip through my fingers before I finally nailed one down. Patience and a lot of luck!

Best,
Lee

[quinnsryche]

T206 Walter Johnson portrait. Still the best looking card of all time IMO.

[jthorst75]

Originally Posted by quinnsryche

T206 Walter Johnson portrait. Still the best looking card of all time IMO.

+1. Even though after seeing the T206 Wagner in Cooperstown, the WaJo portrait is still breathtaking and affordable. I will never part with mine.

[edjs]

Lee, I am sure you paid your dues, I was just playing around with my remark. I am trying to get one of every back, I am at 28, but I have only been collecting a bit over a year. Those last five backs (I am not even dreaming of the Cobb back) are going to be, well, something I won't put in print. And I doubt I will get them in five years.

[pawpawdiv9]

A few years back. A&G made those Erin Andrews & Kate Upton cards.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

A few years back. A&G made those Erin Andrews & Kate Upton cards.

Post them!

[4815162342]

When I was a kid, I finally saved up enough money to buy a 1983 Topps Ryne Sandberg. I was as giddy as a schoolgirl. I took that card (along with the rest of my Ryno collection) in and out of toploaders and binder pages more times than I can count, destroying them all in the process; but it was fun. I now have that card in a PSA 9 slab just for the memories.

In my adult collecting life, this Matty mesmerizes me well above all others:


Hopefully one day I will be able to add the Cobb to my collection, at which point I'm sure I'll be hypnotized for a while:
e105 cobb.jpg

[kcohen]

Mesmerized may be a bit strong, but for me the 33 Goudey Mickey Cochrane would be it. His eyes are staring right back at you.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Slow day?

[mark evans]

No, but when I first saw a '57 Mantle as a young kid, it made a lasting impression. A perfect card, in my view, and an early acquisition once I got back into cards as an adult.

[Exhibitman]

"In 1955, there were 77,263,127 male American human beings. And every one of them in his heart of hearts would have given two arms, a leg and his collection of Davy Crockett iron-ons to be Teddy Ballgame."
--The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book (Little Brown, 1973) by Brendan C. Boyd & Fred C. Harris

[GoldenAge50s]

Being raised in the Mickey Mantle years, idolizing him and never knowing there was a '52 Topps of him back when I was opening packs, I was floored to eventually find out there were cards issued ABOVE #250 & he was one of them!

The card has haunted me ever since because now I'll probably NEVER own one.

[oldcardboard]

T206 Ty Cobb red portrait. There are many others,but the Cobb is at the top of my list.

[clydepepper]

In 1993, I was shown what I still feel sure was an authentic T206 Wagner.

Doggonit! I just know I could have outrun that guy!

But, then, I was far too light-headed from the site of it to make any sudden movements.

I will never, ever forget that moment!

But, Hey - it's just cardboard, right??

[dabigyankeeman]

Yes, although i am a Yankee fan, the 1957 Dodgers Sluggers card is so insane looking, so great, I can look at that card forever.

[irishdenny]

1903 New York Giants Benjamin Falk PC

http://www.legendaryauctions.com/cir...lot106976.aspx

Back in 2006... When Joe D. started a thread that ended up with this PC
being his find... I was pretty much in Awe...
I was born in Astoria, NY & I'm an avid MaTTy Nat'l team Collector.
I also like ta keep my "Must have Cards" within reach!
Maybe some day the Timing will be RiGHT!?

[Bicem]

It's on my mesmerizing list too Denny...



So is this...

[brian1961]

Yes, I have been mesmerized frequently in the course of the 55 years, off and on, I have collected baseball, football, and hockey cards.

It is "just a trading card" some say and even scream, but if it were just that, then why, pray tell, do we even bother having Net54 in the first place?

For me, there's too many to list, but I will name one for each sport mentioned:

football: 1966 Philadelphia Gum Gale Sayers

hockey: 1961-62 Topps Bobby Hull

baseball: 1953 Stahl-Meyer Franks Mickey Mantle

Cheers to all your choices. ----Brian Powell

[triwak]

It's a beater, but it was my first 19th century card (as well as my first $3-figure card). It was found buried inside an old building's foundation, that was being refurbished over 100 years after the card was probably dropped there, by some tobacco smoking contractor, in 1895! That fascinates me, still. Plus, I had always been intrigued by Mr. Duffy's incredible .438 (now .440) single-season BA record, and this being the very next season's card... well, mesmerizing!!

[Leon]

I guess I am not alone in that approximately 75% of us are afflicted.