January Pickups

[JollyElm]

Picked up a couple of long-forgotten centerfielders...

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[RCMcKenzie]

Nice cards so far this month, folks...Keep 'em comin'...

Here're a couple Leaf's and a Bowman. Great, great sets to work on slowly...Rob

[G1911]

Picked up Mickey to finish off my 1954 Bowman Basic Set. Just need Ted Williams variation and one of the Billy Martin statistical variants to complete the master set now. Avert your eyes, high grade collectors! This one is going into the shoebox of Peasant Collector Bowmans.

1954 and 1955 complete, 1950, 1952 and 1953 are just 1 card away from completion.

[whiteymet]

Just got this in a trade!

1962 Post Cereal Alpha Bits individual serving box with a Roberto Clemente card on the back.

[samosa4u]

Finally picked this baby up. It doesn't have the nasty print lines often found on the front and the wax stains on the back are very faint.

Borders do show some toning, and this is consistent with the other commons I have from this set. I didn't want one with borders as white as the snow on my driveway because I don't think paper from 1951 should look like it was printed yesterday!

The other thing I did was measure it and it appears fine to me. I do have a few others sitting inside PSA cases and they all lined up fine.

And the last thing I did was the UV test and it passed that one too. I understand that most forms of restoration can't be seen under the UV light, however, sometimes it can pick up weird sh*t!

[Phil68]

Clean Mantle! Some really nice cards so far, guys! How about that Ted Williams and those Leaf beauties!!

[Phil68]

Here's my first addition for 2020...It's been elusive for me with this kind of centering and surface combo

[thatkidfromjerrymaguire]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

Finally picked this baby up. It doesn't have the nasty print lines often found on the front and the wax stains on the back are very faint.

Borders do show some toning, and this is consistent with the other commons I have from this set. I didn't want one with borders as white as the snow on my driveway because I don't think paper from 1951 should look like it was printed yesterday!

The other thing I did was measure it and it appears fine to me. I do have a few others sitting inside PSA cases and they all lined up fine.

And the last thing I did was the UV test and it passed that one too. I understand that most forms of restoration can't be seen under the UV light, however, sometimes it can pick up weird sh*t!

Amazing Mantle! I hear a lot of talk about how that is a very underrated card....and I completely agree. His true rookie. And that's a GREAT looking copy. Very good pickup, thanks for posting.

Also, the price of that card is the one reason I decided not to chase the 1951 Bowman set and went after the 1952 instead.

[geosluggo]

Two key cards in my pursuit of the 1953 Topps set arrived in Friday's mail. I still need 82 cards, including Mantle and Jackie Robinson.

[cannonballsun]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

Just got this in a trade!

1962 Post Cereal Alpha Bits individual serving box with a Roberto Clemente card on the back.

Wow Fred, great pickup. I think REA just recently sold a Koufax like this -$11,000.