Latest Pickups

[G1911]

More Mayo's, getting closer to a 70 card run. The Van Heest is an excellent example of the toning variations in the name at bottom cards. Carney and Plimmer next to him are not the super tough true black and white versions, they just have the slight sepia filter instead of the red one on Van Heest here. The number of actual different versions is still a mystery to me as it becomes hard to separate the less obvious ones.

Edwards and Carney are the 'good ones' in my eye as they appeared in the T220 silver series. Griffo, Plimmer and Edwards held legitimate claims to world championships in their weight classes. Carney was the lightweight champion of England for a time in the 1880's.

[G1911]

Fitzsimmons, x2. The cards are from around the time he vacated the Middleweight world title to fight at Heavyweight.

[G1911]

Added a C52 of Bert Keyes. Puts me at 93 down, not an easy set. Keyes was one the east coasters in the no decision era who has a small record if you look up his W/L credits, but appears to have been fighting almost constant 6 round bouts. He fought Summers, Murphy, Hyland, Cross, McFarland, Baldwin, Frayne, Marto and pretty much every other lightweight who appears in the sets of this time.

[G1911]

Attell is Red Sun #40 out of 46 I think are doable. Happy to see this one popped up for a reasonable price.

[Exhibitman]

I picked up a complete set of these 1914 Farmer Burns booklets:



Looking to sell them, if anyone is interested.

[G1911]

McCoy was an upgrade for my set, only have 1 or 2 creased cards left to upgrade. On the down side one my few that needs an EX/EXMT upgrade is the Donovan, so I'm going to be looking for a few decades

[G1911]

T218 number 629 out of 632, Abe Goodman with a Tolstoi back. Only 3 cards to go