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03-06-2022, 07:35 PM
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The matchbooks are pretty cool collectibles. They haven't too sought out in the past but with everything going stupid in price, collectors may be picking these up as a way getting a cheap fix. These were probably part of the final frontier of cheap baseball collectibles, but soon they'll be like everything else.
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03-06-2022, 07:53 PM
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Here I was thinking that I was the only one that collected these! I’m not actively chasing them, but I gladly buy them when I find them in the wild.
Here’s the few that I’ve found so far. Last edited by Vintagedeputy; 03-06-2022 at 07:54 PM.
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03-07-2022, 09:20 AM
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I really like your Lon Warneke. Seems to be in nice condition. I found my way to the matchbooks when I noticed a listing for a Stanley Hack Matchbook on Ebay in UK in 2020. It not often that I find something like that in the UK and it was going cheap. I'd never seen or heard of them before but it was just too interesting to pass up. I found out about them and started to slowly build my collection. I now have 65 of them. I really enjoy them. Maybe one day they'll become a hot item, but for now I enjoy the fact that I can picked them up pretty cheap. 
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03-07-2022, 04:56 PM
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No idea how many I have, probably somewhere between 15-20 in the piles of stuff. A some baseball, mostly football.
I started picking them up specifically because of the Portsmouth Spartans and the affordability at the time. I collect all Detroit sports and am a glutton for punishment enough to be a Lions fan.
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The others I have been finding here and there. I missed out on a football one recently but I'd collect those too if I could find them. Last edited by Vintagedeputy; 03-07-2022 at 05:36 PM.
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I've looked at these too and wondered how easy to find they were. My kids wouldn't really know what to do with a match book I don't think. Course they rarely see anyone even smoking...big change from the old days.
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03-14-2022, 04:24 PM
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That Stengel is very nice, esp with the matches intact.
I won this Mel Ott last week. Just waiting on delivery.
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A few more:
   
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FYI, I noticed 100+ of these listed in lots of 2 to 5 over at Kevin Savage being auctioned today and remembered this thread.
https://www.kevinsavagecards.com/default.aspx
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Thanks Chad. So it was you're post that drove the bids up at that auction.
 It was actually nice to see so many lots listed. That was actually the 3rd auction where they had a sizable number of Diamond MBs recently. I managed to pick up a couple of the lots but some of the prices went higher than I thought was fair value.
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New arrival today!
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04-24-2023, 09:31 PM
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No baseball in my collection but I have some New York Rangers.
  
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