What is your best card you added to your collection in 2013?

[rainier2004]

its a tie...

[kkkkandp]

..I really couldn't choose between these two.

[scooter729]

Awesome stuff - keep it coming!

And there are no breaking the rules, since there are no rules!

[the 'stache]

I will upgrade it sometime in 2014, as it is my favorite pre-war card, but I absolutely love my Johnson portrait.

[T3s]

T3 Cobb No-Ad Back. T3 guys will know just how rare this one is.

Hoping everyone has a blessed 2014!

[Sean]

My two best:

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[VoodooChild]

Sean, those are two bad a$$ cards!!!!!

[brewing]

I added some nice HoF rookie cards this year. Two of note are Mays and Mathews. The Mathews is one that was a goal for 2013, although I busted my target price in acquiring it.

My favorite card is one received from board member John V.

My oldest card in my collection and one of a Detroit legend.

[Iron Horse]

Here are a couple. Great stuff everyone.
Jeff, who are those signatures? first one is Arabic?

[Iron Horse]

Couple of more

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by kkkkandp

..I really couldn't choose between these two.

I think Kevin is the winner this year. Just so people don't overlook that beauty, his Lowell card pictured above is an extremely rare card...try finding another in your lifetime. You might as well quit now Kevin...

[Kawika]

Great stuff in this thread, everybody. Wonka, too.
Dead heat tie for my favorite 2013 pickups.
Always wanted an Ullman postcard. Richard Masson had three or four to choose from at Leon and Scott's table at the National. I picked McGinnity. Couldn't be happier.


This smart looking McGraw Rotograph replaces one I traded earlier and fills the hole in my collection quite nicely. Thanks, Jonathan.

[Joe_G.]

Originally Posted by kkkkandp

..I really couldn't choose between these two.

Beautiful OJs Kevin, while the Collins - Lowell is a tough team change (missed that team change on that pose in the book) and condition rarity, I prefer the Vaughn with its player/pose rarity and beautiful contrast with huge angle cut right border. What a beauty!

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by Iron Horse

Here are a couple. Great stuff everyone.
Jeff, who are those signatures? first one is Arabic?

Iran's president Rouhani and Hugo Chavez, a few months before he died.

[wonkaticket]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Iran's president Rouhani and Hugo Chavez, a few months before he died.

He’s dead? Does that mean the Coach’s Corner will only have so many left?

[T206Collector]

Most important to my collection...



Coolest signed pre-war card...



Best overall baseball card...

[Joe_G.]

I'm going to break the rule and post several items that I was able to add to my core collection over 2013 and give thanks to those who made it possible. I've split them into two pics, the large items and the small items.

Among others, thank you Jay Miller, Gary Passamonte, Ted Brown (N175), Toby Peterson (both N172 Conway cards), and Brian Hodes (N172 Deacon White). The Deacon is off-condition but can't be too choosy when trying to collect all the poses. The other items came from eBay and auction houses.

I was able to pick up a couple Detroit scorecards this year but the attached copy is from a home game in 1887. Finding Detroit scorecards with Detroit on the road is easy, finding a home game scorecard, tough.

The Sam Thompson cabinet is nice but hope to trade it for a Detroit example down the road (or buy Detroit/sell Philly). It has been a great 2013 and its not over yet!

[wonkaticket]

Joe, that's one amazing bunch of pickups!

[WillowGrove]

Like totally, one of my favorite threads?

Good year.....

[conor912]

Not technically a card, but my favorite none-the-less. Knowing I was having trouble finding one I liked in my price range, my wife painted this for me for my birthday as a "place-holder".

[Sean]

Hey Conor, that's quite good.
Can your wife paint a T206 Wagner for me?

[oldjudge]

Joe, John--thanks

"Jay,
You should have told me you were looking for that one; I have three of them."

Jim: Given the cards in your collection I wouldn't doubt it.

[MattyC]

I am in love with that Cobb steel tubes postcard image. What a badass pose. Awesome piece. Some great Cobbs in this thread.

[kkkkandp]

John and Joe:

Thanks for the congrats.

Joe:

You have had a stellar 2013!

Kevin

[g_vezina_c55]

Originally Posted by conor912

Not technically a card, but my favorite none-the-less. Knowing I was having trouble finding one I liked in my price range, my wife painted this for me for my birthday as a "place-holder".

Hey mat still a pleasure to see your cards and verry nice mantle !

[AMBST95]

[JasonL]

I finally added the T207 Ward Miller about a month ago...completes my T207 Cubs team set!

On to 2014, when I hope to tackle the T202 Cubs in a meaningful way, and perhaps start the T204 Cubs, but that one will be a very long project

[Leon]

Phenomenal stuff guys. Ya'll are way too addicted .....here are a few more.

[therajah]

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[MVSNYC]

Incredible stuff, guys!

Here's a few goodies i added this year. Upside down back from Chris, and Snodgrass letter from Jay Wolt (get better buddy).

[bbeck]

The Plank is incredible for the grade. Spotless back.

[GregMitch34]

Train Not in Vain

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[Angyale]

Angyale

[tedzan]

I acquired these 6 cards in 2013. But, I cannot decide which one is the "BEST" ......I leave it up to you to decide ?


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1933 George C. Miller Lefty O'Doul






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LOOKING for this T206 guy to complete my EXCLUSIVE 12 red HINDU sub-set (12 subjects)

SHECKARD (glove)

[kkkkandp]

An easy choice - Old Hoss

Eric:

Very jealous!

Kevin

[JerryTotino]

Great cards everyone.

My best card for the year is:

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Jerry

[ullmandds]

nice Jerry! the "grab" of the year!!!!

[Jaybird]

Chappie Johnson with the St. Paul Gophers

[DeanH3]

Originally Posted by MattyC

I am in love with that Cobb steel tubes postcard image. What a badass pose. Awesome piece. Some great Cobbs in this thread.

Matt, AWESOME stuff. You had a year that dreams are made of. Can't wait to see what is in store for 2014!

Here are a couple more of mine for 2013.

[g_vezina_c55]

Verry nice E107 Plank Bob !

[oldjudge]

Eric--is that the 1887 sign for "one in the pink, one in the stink"?

[sycks22]

Originally Posted by bbeck

The Plank is incredible for the grade. Spotless back.

Love the Plank Bob

[Blunder19]

Love the cards everyone.. looks like the Board had a great year all around.. here is my best:

[h2oya311]

Incredible stuff guys!! This has been a HUGE year for me!

Pre-War (+Day):








Post-war:


Modern (definitely my best pick-up of the year!!):

[philliesphan]

Some amazing acquisitions across this board. Really humbling the quality of collections people here have.

Here's one of my favourites for the year. In the Hall of Fame, but not for the sport with which he is pictured. Nevers went to University very close to where I'm currently living, and, of course, the tab on the bottom is a great addition to making this card a special card in my collection:

[Exhibitman]

Wow, amazing stuff. I lost count of the Pirates cards in this thread...I am humbled by the caliber of collection I see here. Since I collect a variety of stuff I thought I would pull my favorite of each type. My modest contributions:

Baseball card, prewar: A newly-cataloged Adam Hats card that I've posted here so many times that people are certainly sick of it, but I am very glad to have it:



Baseball card, postwar: 1954 Johnston Cookies Hank Aaron RC:



Baseball memorabilia: A Lefty Gomez matchbook from the 1930s Adam Hats celebrity contest:



Baseball autograph: picked this up at the National:



Surfing/swimming: I have wanted this PC of the Duke for a long time, finally got one:



Soccer: This Pele card is my best soccer pick-up ever [1968 Crack from Argentina]:



Favorite hockey piece: 1964 postmarked Bobby Hull JD MCCarthy PC:



Favorite basketball piece: 1960 Wilt Chamberlain team issue



Favorite football piece: got this in a collection of 1950s-1960s cards I picked up. My favorite set of the 1950s-1960s FB, and Bart Starr was the #1 card in 1968, and the card had the special horizontal design only used for the Packers and Raiders Super Bowl teams:



Favorite nonsport: Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! 1957 George Reeves fan issue with neat DC comic advertising:



Favorite autograph: Nigel "The Dark Destroyer" Benn: He doesn't sign cards except on special occasions. A friend got this for me at a HOF event:



Favorite boxing card: Tough choosing here but I'd have to go with this 1920s Benny Leonard restaurant PC. I'd been looking for one for years:



Favorite boxing memorabilia: Again, a brutal choice, but I gotta go with this ticket from Jim Jeffries' boxing venue just up the block from my office here in Burbank. Again, an item I'd been hoping to find for a very long time:



And last of all, oddest oddball item is this rodeo PC of future movie star Hoot Gibson learning the hard way that if a horse doesn't want to be ridden, odds are the horse will win. I just love the image:

[Sean]

Originally Posted by JerryTotino

Great cards everyone.

My best card for the year is:

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Jerry

Jerry, that might be the card of the year.

And seeing that ebay auction in which you got it is definitely my WTF moment of the year.

[Bugsy]

Another 1913 Cravats pennant

[bbpostcards]

A favorite is too hard to choose, so here's an unusual one: from 1876, and to my knowledge the first "card" showing a baseball scene in an actual stadium that was used to promote a product. For more, visit http://www.sportingoregon.com/ .

[joeadcock]

Wow Adam

Amazed at how you spread yourself all over the place, to bunch a different sports and then the non sport.

Darn, would say your definitely not a specialist, but rather a general practitioner.

Cool stuff.