February Pick Up Thread

[mrreality68]

Last pick up for a while.
Time to regroup

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[glchen]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Last pick up for a while.
Time to regroup

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Wow, Jeff, crazy huge pickup. Definitely one of the top 10 Ruth cards. Congrats!

[Jason Carota]

Amazing Ruth, Jeff!

[Casey2296]

Congrats Jeff.

[mrreality68]

Thanks Leon, Gary, Jason and Phil

To much great stuff coming to fast

This is my Best February ever for pickups.

Now I am going to sit back and enjoy and re-group

Looking forward to whatever everyone in the board picks up and shares

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Last pick up for a while.
Time to regroup

Sorry used this photo could not upload the primary photo no matter how much I tried

Great Ruth card. If you haven't received it yet, make sure not to throw it out when it arrives. If I remember the hobby lore correctly, many years ago Barry Halper accidentally tossed out a Ruth Butter Cream that he won.


Brian

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Great Ruth card. If you haven't received it yet, make sure not to throw it out when it arrives. If I remember the hobby lore correctly, many years ago Barry Halper accidentally tossed out a Ruth Butter Cream that he won.


Brian

Well that is one way to keep the population count down.

And I will keep it in mind to avoid the same outcome

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Well that is one way to keep the population count down.

And I will keep it in mind to avoid the same outcome

For fun I searched the web for the Barry Halper Butter Cream Ruth story, and found a 2007 post from a Net54 thread discussing it in more detail, which I have quoted below.

Brian


I had the following story told to me tonight about a Butter Cream Ruth:

Shortly after it was discovered that there indeed was a Ruth card in the Butter Cream set (we're going back quite a few years here), one was offered in an auction. Barry Halper was interested in the card but told the person running the auction that he wasn't thrilled with the minimum bid. The Ruth card ended up not drawing a bid (!), and the next day Halper, who was high bidder on one other item in the auction, said he would purchase the Ruth for the minimum bid.

The other item that Halper won was rather bulky, so the Ruth was packed in a smaller box, which was placed in the larger box that contained the bulky item. I'll skip a few details that aren't that relevant to the story, but the end result was that Halper didn't realize the Butter Cream Ruth had been shipped with the other item, and that Ruth got thrown out with the larger box and packing materials.

So, an incredibly scarce card got even scarcer that day.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

For fun I searched the web for the Barry Halper Butter Cream Ruth story, and found a 2007 post from a Net54 thread discussing it in more detail, which I have quoted below.

Brian


I had the following story told to me tonight about a Butter Cream Ruth:

Shortly after it was discovered that there indeed was a Ruth card in the Butter Cream set (we're going back quite a few years here), one was offered in an auction. Barry Halper was interested in the card but told the person running the auction that he wasn't thrilled with the minimum bid. The Ruth card ended up not drawing a bid (!), and the next day Halper, who was high bidder on one other item in the auction, said he would purchase the Ruth for the minimum bid.

The other item that Halper won was rather bulky, so the Ruth was packed in a smaller box, which was placed in the larger box that contained the bulky item. I'll skip a few details that aren't that relevant to the story, but the end result was that Halper didn't realize the Butter Cream Ruth had been shipped with the other item, and that Ruth got thrown out with the larger box and packing materials.

So, an incredibly scarce card got even scarcer that day.

Well done on the research Brian. Makes sense on how it can happen but wow what a loss I wonder what that looked like and what it would have been worth today

[B O'Brien]

Swung by the closest card shop yesterday to buy a storage box and found a prewar card! I felt it was my duty to support them, so added a nice looking 1929 Kashin Lloyd Waner

Enjoy,
Bob