Enough With The Damn Money Talk; Show A Card That Makes You Happy

[brianp-beme]

Leon, I like big borders too, as is evident on my E220 National Caramel card of Raymond Schmandt.

A regular, bigger size border E220 of Kopf is shown for comparison purposes.

Brian

[Exhibitman]

Basketball HOFer Clyde Lovellette's real RC, when he was at the Olympics in 1952. He's the one on the left.

[brianp-beme]

I smile at Leard's dangerous batting stance, or whatever you might call his pose.

[G1911]

My local library had a thin blue book called something like "Most Valuable Baseball Cards" when I was a kid, but it was really more focused on significant or odd vintage cards. Wish I could find that book again, it talked about the Hustler T206 claim, the E79/E95 ad piece, and lots of other non-money-centric notes of hobby history. I remember there was a whole page dedicated to this T213 Donlin and it's unique caption. I still can't figure out how they came up with the 7 years, but it's a card I love and is cheap.

[mrreality68]

Love this thread and all these cards

Love the diversity of cards

Keep them coming

[jingram058]

These cards, and the awesome stories behind them, are why I love this forum.

[67airborne]

These would be mine. Wrote to sgc to get ‘em entombed for fun, but there not doing stuff like this yet. Jeff

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by G1911

My local library had a thin blue book called something like "Most Valuable Baseball Cards" when I was a kid, but it was really more focused on significant or odd vintage cards. Wish I could find that book again, it talked about the Hustler T206 claim, the E79/E95 ad piece, and lots of other non-money-centric notes of hobby history. I remember there was a whole page dedicated to this T213 Donlin and it's unique caption. I still can't figure out how they came up with the 7 years, but it's a card I love and is cheap.

My version looks like ".200 batter 7 years" before breaking out a magnifying glass.

Brian

[Exhibitman]

The Nicholas Brothers

https://youtu.be/IoMbeDhG9fU

if you haven't seen them dance, it will make you smile for sure.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

My version looks like ".200 batter 7 years" before breaking out a magnifying glass.

Brian

Yours is closer to my preferred condition!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Leon, I like big borders too, as is evident on my E220 National Caramel card of Raymond Schmandt.

A regular, bigger size border E220 of Kopf is shown for comparison purposes.

Brian

Great cards. E220s are all over the place.
Big borders....

[brianp-beme]

Thanks Leon, and neat Croft's. I typically end up with something that has little to no borders/backgrounds like these.

Brian

[Exhibitman]

I used to own a Darby Chocolates Chief Myers cut-out like that, Brian. I still like die-cut cards. From a design standpoint, this is one of my favorites:



The fight sucked but the card is freakin' great. It is the size of a 1952 Topps card, to the top of the eagle silhouette.

Another die-cut I love:



Two known examples, this one and one with the stand torn off.

This card isn't die-cut but I ran across the image and decided to put it up because it always makes me wonder "why was Jack Dempsey punching a blind guy?"

[brianp-beme]

Not a boxing fellow, but that is a cool Leonard diecut card. Here is the high number Batter-Up of Dickey that a kid did what a kid does, but then gave up halfway through.

Brian