The Macon Find

[iggyman]

This thread definitely gets my vote for "Net54 all-time favorite thread." We have a winner! Tell him what he's won Leon!

Excuse me while I get teary eye but keeping this collection together in memory of your grandmother is just beyond incredible. Some bidder like myself, would have purchased the lots (which would probably have been grouped together). I'd have kept what I needed and sold the rest off; not really caring where (or how) they came from. End of story and end of collection, plus the money gained would have been gone by now. Yet, like a Walt Disney fairy tale, this moment in time memory is still so alive.

Lovely Day...

[JohnP0621]

This story and tribute is worth more than any auction house could have made for you. I can tell how much you loved your Grandmother by yor tribute to her and I am sure that you would have regreted it for a long time had you sold her(your) cards. Thanks for sharing her story with us. I enjoy stories like this as much as I like collecting the cards. Do any of the cards have rare backs and do you have photos of them posted. I love to see the backs as much as the fronts.

Thanks again
John Perrotta

[Tsaiko]

Thank you so much for your appreciation guys, it makes the whole process worthwhile - really!
As for the backs, I painstakingly scanned each and every back and gave them a name that can only be associated with it's front. As far as I can tell, there are no rare backs and the T206's are all Piedmont 150 or 350.

Maybe it only exists in my mind, but I swear there is a picture of gram holding a bat somewhere and I continue going through family albums looking for it. My mom recently passed and there's literally a ton of papers to go through, so I keep hoping for more to come.

But really, how about those arms

Thanks again,

[T206Collector]

For fun, I would consider getting some of the Cobbs graded by SGC, with the phrase "Macon Peach Collection" on the slip. They would certainly do that for you.

[Tsaiko]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

For fun, I would consider getting some of the Cobbs graded by SGC, with the phrase "Macon Peach Collection" on the slip. They would certainly do that for you.

At some point, a few months ago, I emailed both SGC and PSA and asked them to guesstimate how much grading all the cards would cost and also asked them about a possible collection designation, but neither of them responded.

I chalked it up to me not having very much experience in these matters and haven't thought about it since. Probably because I know it would cost a bunch and I'd really like the whole collection graded and designated if possible.

[Section103]

I absolutely LOVE that T210 Balenti (Savannah). Its a wonderful collection.

[Tsaiko]

Before anyone thinks this is a shameful excuse to get more visitors to my grandma's site, I confess, it is.

My grandma received her college degree in drama and art and we have many wall hangings of her art, but I just found a lot of her sketches and small drawings and guess what, some were of baseball players, so I added them to her front page. You can enlarge them from the site, so that's why I'd ask for a visit rather than posting them here.
Are these drawings derived from cards, some other media or from my grandma's imagination. She had lots of other drawings and sketches, but these were the only one's with a baseball theme.
If these are sketches of cards, can anybody tell me who they might be and what series they may have come from?
Thanks as always.