Whats your best card purchase?

[GregMitch34]

12 years ago bought raw Marquard CJ for $200, didn't even know then which year. Turns out it was 1914 and PSA graded it a 7 -- then and now highest grade for the card. So value up a bit.

[Tcards-Please]

Bought this T205 Moran raw for $69.00 on ebay a couple years ago, which is my best deal. Proudly posted on this site only to have one of the board members contact the seller and let them know what they had. The seller immediately let me know who contacted them. I was surprised that someone (who I shall not out) was that childish. Lesson learned though.

Purchased the T205 Mathewson before the craze at a great price.

My wife's best card purchase for me was this Joe Jackson. It was sold raw and she was on eggshells not knowing if it was authentic or not? Turned out to be a good pickup and my favorite that isn't leaving my collection.

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Frank

[Exhibitman]

That's a tough question. Does best purchase mean the toughest item I've gotten? The biggest differential between paid price and card value? The one I waited for the longest? I can't decide...

I got this 1928 PCL Earl Averill on the cheap at a local show:



Pulled this out of a miscellaneous junk box at a show:



This card routinely goes over $100 due to the Lon Chaney fans; got it for $5 at a show:



This wasn't cheap--around $90--but Capital Candy athletes are about as tough as Mono Cigarettes baseball cards:



Only 1 of these has surfaced thus far in all my years of boxing card collecting and I got it on Ebay before anyone realized how rare it was:



The 4 on 1 Exhibit cards with this art are tough; the strip cards made from the same art are nearly impossible, but I have one; never seen another, though I have seen 3-4 cuts from the Exhibit cards:



How do I know it is a strip? Besides being on different stock, the set was mixed sport and nonsport and these surfaced:

[birdman42]

Chicago National, 1999. The dealer had two, and I passed on the second one because now I had that hole filled in my type set. I think I spent the money on a Diamond Star.

$38

[abothebear]

Just last week I was able to find, for only $2, a complete factory set of the inaugural issue from Score. This groundbreaking set features many action photos, full color backs including another player photo, an included 56 trivia magic motion cards!

But my best deal was probably a lot of 1983 topps cards I got off of ebay one night last year. For some reason the seller did not list in the title the Ripken rookie or the two HOF pre-war cards included in the photo. The winning bid was more than I'd pay for ink-stained '83s, but much less than what the other cards were worth. It was only a few months into my pre-war collecting days and I had already gotten great deals on a Gold Medal Foods Medwick and a couple other ones. I thought getting good deals was going to be easy. Now I think it was beginners luck.

[steve B]

Probably these. The Cobb was $20, the Hannifan probably $2-3. I got a Nattress at the same time, but no scan.

There's a few others, but those are probably the best moneywise.

The small batch of Sl blank backs, the Dominion chocolates baseball player, and the T49s are other favorites.

Steve B

[MikeGarcia]

[DixieBaseball]

A Buck for the Hub... (Well, not exactly....)

I snagged a small lot of 15-20 cards in an auction last year, for one card (T211 Hub) that was buried in the auction lot, and quickly sold off the parts at market value putting me at a buck for this very rare card among the Red Sun toughies.