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[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

Awesome stuff. Poster cuts can be really tough; I have some I’ve been trying for years to even find any other copies of known. Fun complement to a set

Want some G20 and G21 cuts, I'm game.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Want some G20 and G21 cuts, I'm game.

Emailed you.

I have some T68 poster cuts from a poster otherwise unknown; some T29's from what I suspect was a thick cardboard display otherwise unknown, and this Tommy Ryan that is clearly from some kind of poster type product (not skinned, very different front stock to a normal card). This kind of stuff is fun to slot in alongside a set, a way to keep collecting after finishing a 'set'.

I remember the unique T227 poster cuts that appeared awhile back, those were pretty neat. Don't know where they ended up. There's presumably a number of still unknown posters that existed for these T and N sets waiting to be found.

[Exhibitman]

Which is amazing to consider: 150 years down the line we still don't have this stuff fully catalogued.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Which is amazing to consider: 150 years down the line we still don't have this stuff fully catalogued.

It really is. 150 years of collecting, and about 50 years now since card collecting went mainstream in the sense that the general public has been aware that old cards can equal lots of $$$. But every year, we still find some stuff that nobody has seen before in the hobby. On the flip side, there's certainly a lot of great cards that were made but no copies survive today for us to find.




Since it's the pickup thread and I haven't been posting a pickup, here's a recent pickup from a friend of a card that went 96 years before being 'discovered'. It's the worst of the 5 known, but it's my desk card for the month. I'll crack it out when I file it away with my cards.

[Exhibitman]

Speaking of cuts from unknown posters, there's this one with the N266 images that's never been resolved:

[G1911]

And here's the common ones seen, with no mystery to it:

[G1911]

Cards 35-38 for my set. Maybe it's just perception, but it really seems the percentage of cards graded in this set is abnormally high. Almost every card has had to be a crack out.

Hayes is one of the handful of boxers in the set who wasn't in T218. His rights were also used for T225-2, which is similarly rare though much less popular. Coulon was the best of the fighters, the Bantam champion for a few years.

I have cards 39 and 40 in the mail right now; 46 is probably the closest I will come. The heavy SP'ing and price bonus of the 5 black fighters makes it unlikely I will finish this set anytime soon. When I get to 46 I might look into having some reprints made of the other 4 so that I can use a binder without holes in it.