T3 Turkey Red Gallery

[jayshum]

There's a near complete set of T3s available in an auction that just started. For anyone interested, here's a link to it.

https://collectauctions.net/LotDetai...entoryid=38330

[chadeast]

[puckpaul]

Dooin

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by jayshum

There's a near complete set of T3s available in an auction that just started. For anyone interested, here's a link to it.

https://collectauctions.net/LotDetai...entoryid=38330

Cool grouping, that's my old PSA-1 Cobb
Would love to buy this batch, though I'm sure it will be out of reach by auction's end

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

Cool grouping, that's my old PSA-1 Cobb
Would love to buy this batch, though I'm sure it will be out of reach by auction's end

Any guesses as to what it will go for? Considering the condition of Cobb, Johnson, Mathewson and Young and the number of cards that are Poor or Authentic, I would think it will be under $20K, but since you don't see this close to a set all together in one lot very often, maybe it will go for more.

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Any guesses as to what it will go for? Considering the condition of Cobb, Johnson, Mathewson and Young and the number of cards that are Poor or Authentic, I would think it will be under $20K, but since you don't see this close to a set all together in one lot very often, maybe it will go for more.

Jay I would think it would go for much more then $20K, perhaps double that

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

Jay I would think it would go for much more then $20K, perhaps double that

It will be interesting to see. I actually kept track of how much I spent to put my set together over the last few years (luckily I had mostly finished it before the pandemic prices started). It cost me around $31K, and while my set isn't high grade, it's definitely better than the near set in the auction lot so if that set goes for more than what I spent, I'll be happy.

[jayshum]

Kid Elberfeld

[Jay Wolt]

[Huck]

Can someone post the dimensions of a PSA and SGC slabbed Turkey Red? In the baseball room, there is some dead area where the Turkey Reds might fit.

Thank you.

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by biohazard

Can someone post the dimensions of a PSA and SGC slabbed Turkey Red? In the baseball room, there is some dead area where the Turkey Reds might fit.

Thank you.

Dean, just grabbed a PSA & SGC slab.
PSA slab is 6.5" x 10"
SGC 7.5" x 10.5"

[conor912]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

Dean, just grabbed a PSA & SGC slab.
PSA slab is 6.5" x 10"
SGC 7.5" x 10.5"

Simply add them together to get the absurd dimensions of the BVG slab

[Huck]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

Dean, just grabbed a PSA & SGC slab.
PSA slab is 6.5" x 10"
SGC 7.5" x 10.5"

Thank you!

[chadeast]

[molenick]

Elberfeld

[Jay Wolt]

Michael, that is sweet!
The nicest Elberfeld I've ever seen, hell that's one of the nicest Turkey Red's I've seen

[Carter08]

These are amazing. If anyone is feeling bored could someone post a photo of one next to a more standard sized card?

[chadeast]

No #18 Jennings to share, it's on my want list.

EDIT: picked up my Jennings in January 2022

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by Carter08

These are amazing. If anyone is feeling bored could someone post a photo of one next to a more standard sized card?

Here's one I recently scanned, a Turkey Red T9 boxer w/ his T218 counterpart.
Note that a T218 card is a bit bigger then a T206

[Jay Wolt]

Found one of my T3 / T206 scans

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

Found one of my T3 / T206 scans

Cool picture with the same pose on both cards.

[Jay Wolt]

Jay there's a bunch like that.
I used to have them all listed during my 1st go around w/ Turkey Reds 15-16 years ago.
Much of the info I can no longer find...or just forgot

[brianp-beme]

T3 is one of the vintage card sets I wished I had pursued more (along with the Cracker Jacks). I think one of the reasons I held back was because of their size.

Here is my Jennings. It has a fun (in retrospect) story attached to it. I was at a card show, probably in the early to mid 1990's, and came to a table of a well-known dealer/hobby author. He had a binder full of T3 cards in plastic sheets. At the time I was in the need for a T3 type card, preferably a Hall of Famer, and something inexpensive (boy, nothing has changed in my collecting habits). I came across this Jennings...and at $25 it was a perfect match for my requirements. The dealer was seated at his table and busy working with his inventory and had never acknowledged me. I finally got his attention, paid the $25, and he silently (don't believe he said a word) handed me the plastic sheet from the binder with the Jennings. End of story.

Actually, about 15 seconds later as I was walking away from the table, I flipped the sheet over and noticed that it also contained another T3, a much nicer common player. I like a good deal, but the 2 for 1 was not discussed. I returned to the table with the Jennings/other player sheet and told him that I was mistakenly given the additional card. Without looking at me, and with a grunt he slid out the other card and handed me back the sheet with just the Jennings. No thanks for my honesty, nothing. A case of a hobby legend living up to his gruff reputation.

Well at least I have my story and this nice lower condition Jennings to share.

Brian (as far as the pose, I believe Hughie was well known for doing a wildly showy 'Ee-Yah' yell and dance while coaching third base, so to have him depicted as such was a natural choice that he probably didn't mind at all)

[Carter08]

Thanks for posting! Those look amazing.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Carter08

These are amazing. If anyone is feeling bored could someone post a photo of one next to a more standard sized card?

Here you go. T3s are 5-3/4" x 8" and the standard cards size has been 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" since the 1957 Topps set.