Most Pleasant Surprise of 2011

[E93]

I was thrilled at the opportunity to pick this one up a few months ago.
JimB



P.S. Good thread Bruce.

[scooter729]

Nice idea for a thread...

I never thought at the start of 2011 that I'd pick up an uncut sheet of 1933 Goudey Sport Kings. Now it's one of my favorite pieces that I wouldn't want to part with! (Sorry for the flashes; can't get a good pic without a flash off of the glass on the frame.)

[Brendan]

Originally Posted by scooter729

Nice idea for a thread...

I never thought at the start of 2011 that I'd pick up an uncut sheet of 1933 Goudey Sport Kings. Now it's one of my favorite pieces that I wouldn't want to part with! (Sorry for the flashes; can't get a good pic without a flash off of the glass on the frame.)

Wow. That's an amazing piece.

[Bicem]

Jim,

Wow.

[Ladder7]

Outstanding!

[leftygrove10]

I have been searching for a 1936 Overland Candy Wrapper of Lefty Grove for about 15 years. This year, I found TWO!

[bcbgcbrcb]

Great Welch card, Jim. Presents way better than a 20.

[almostdone]

After nearrly 10 years of thying to complete my HOF colletion I was two cards short comming into 2011. Eddie Plank and Honus Wagner. I figured it would probably take the whole year to find what I was looking for as I had only seen 1 or 2 Planks since I started and not many more Wagners in my price range.
In late January not just one or two, but three Planks came up for auction within days on ebay and I was able to win one of them for less than expected.
Then I decided to go for the Wagner to colmpete the collection so I sold everything I had been holding on to in order to get it. (mostly other sports lots of commons). Not only was I able to get a Wagner to complete the HOF set I had enough money left over to pick up a 1948 Leaf Musial! All this was before the end of March.
A great start to the year. We shall see what the rest of the year holds.
Drew

[bbcard1]

At the risk of sounding sappy, but I am by all means sincere, I have picked up a lot of things for my collection this year, but the best thing has been that, because of the sad circumstances of a friend's death, I have done a few show. I had not set up at years. I have made some wonderful new friendships with Ted Z, Dave at Baggers, the guys at Huggins and Scott, Lelands, and the Deans, just to name a couple and reconnected with buddies like Rand Bailey and Chandy Greenholt that I had not really had a chance to talk to for years.

It has been a great experience and I expect to wind down most of the marketable stuff in the collection in the next 60 days. My friend's family now has a nice start on a college fund for their daughter. I should also mention the items I have sold on Net 54 have often brought generous offers because of the circumstances, and I thank all who have assisted me.

Does this mean I am going to get back into setting up at shows? H*ll no!

[novakjr]

Money's been tight so far this year, so I've been doing a lot of bottom feeding...For some reason I decided I just had to have a '49 Gil Hodges.. I wasn't expecting to find a 1949 Bowman Hodges in my price range this year, so I settled for a 1949 Eureka Stamp of Hodges...Pretty cheap, needless to say, I was happy with it...And then, about a week later I threw out a really lowball offer on a decent '49 Bowman Hodges just for the hell of it, and it got accepted. I about sh!t. ..Now although, I hadn't originally planned on adding the Eureka Hodges to my collection, I'm glad that I settled. Because now that I have both, I find that the two compliment each other very well in my collection, and I couldn't be happier..

In a very close second would have to be finding the full July 3 1869 issue of Harper's Weekly with the Red Stockings Woodcut for under $20 including shipping.. Of course it was somewhat generically listed amongst a bunch of other issues. Gotta love those finds.

[milkit1]

my biggest surprise was getting this Mordecai Brown blank back m116. Ive been needing both Browns for my Cubs team set for 4 years now. I couldnt believe my luck snagging this beauty and then a week later I secured non blank back PSA1. Now just need the pastel back Brown and my 4 year journey is finished

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m116 brown back.jpg

[Blunder19]

I guess my biggest surprise was my lastest pick up.. the t206 frank chance ghost image.. I really wanted a Ghost image of a player on the back... and theres only around 10 examples...

seeing one for sale was a surprise..and a HOFer nonetheless.... but where I found it was even more of a surprise.. listed on a local baseball card store's website.. not advertised as a ghost back in the title so it would have been impossible to search for it and find it.. I just stumbled upon it.. baseball gods were smiling on me I guess

[Vintagecatcher]

I would rank my purchase of a trimmed John Tiedemann Obak Cabinet from a boardmember at the top of my list.


Patrick