4th Nov Pickup Thread

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Posted By: Jason L

And so let it be written...on the 17th Day of the 11th Month of the 3rd Year of The Quest...It was Completed! And then he rested.

This purchase on the Bay this evening completes another segment of my Tobacco Cubs team sets...the original leg of the journey is completed with number 37 finally falling into place. (A big thanks to Steve Murray for continued encouraging correspondence, a few of the cards, and spotting this last one for me!)

So far, T200, T201, T205, T206 and T207 (excl. Miller) are now completed. Perhaps I can attempt T3, T222 and T204 after the recession.

Welcome home, Mordecai. Have a cup, put up your feet and stay awhile.

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Posted By: Steve Murray

Congrats on the pickup! Damn nice looking 20! Thanks for the kind words.

Steve

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Posted By: Jimi

Congrats, Jason! I believe I sent you a couple of Cubby T205s about a year ago. Glad to be part of your quest! The T222s would be as following:

1914 Fatima Players T222 - CUBS

Jimmy Archer
Roger Bresnahan
Thomas Leach
Arthur Phelan
Vic Saier
Frank Schulte
Bill Sweeney
Heinie Zimmerman

All are certainly obtainable, but perhaps not over night!

Good luck!



Jimi

Always looking for T222 Fatimas!

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Posted By: leon

Congrats Jason!! You must be a proud young man...
and here is a card I just picked up....and am pondering going for the HOF subset of these....we shall see...

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Posted By: Jimi

Very jealous, Leon...very jealous.

Jimi

Always looking for T222 Fatimas!

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Posted By: Tim Kindler

Leon, Forgive my ignorance, but what is your Sewell? I love the clarity of the image!
Tim Kindler

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Posted By: leon

It is a W503 and is a caramel series more than a strip series....Burdick missed the designation on them....though I am not sure who put them out they aren't a strip card series......

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Posted By: Jimi

"W503's are mislabeled as an anonymous issue ("W") by Jefferson Burdick in his American Card Catalog. These blank-backed 1 5/8 by 2 3/8-inch B&W cards actually were issued in clear plastic wrappers with caramel candy in 1923 in the New York, St. Louis and San Francisco Bay regions. They should be considered "E" cards. Scarcity and use of photos not seen in other card sets make this a highly coveted issue. In addition, the photos were taken in ballparks and those views make the set even more desirable."

Again, Leon.....very jealous!

Jimi

Always looking for T222 Fatimas!

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Posted By: Tim Kindler

Leon,

You are correct. They do look much nicer and cleaner cut than a strip card series. I really like the simplicity of the image. Good luck on your pursuit of them.



Oh, Jason, congratulations on your newest accomplishment of your Cubs pursuit.

Wow! Jimi, thanks for the quick info. Your points on the images really make sense.

Again Nice Cards!

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Posted By: Doug

"Welcome home, Mordecai. Have a cup, put up your feet and stay awhile."

I thought I had it won, but you got me! Congratulations, it looks like a great card!

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Posted By: Jason L

Thanks Doug. Yes, I paid a little more than I wanted to because you appeared, but I just wanted this T206 team set done, so I stretched a bit. I hope it is as decent in person as it looks here...hoping for maybe even a little better registration than the scan shows, but we will see.



And thanks to everyone for the congrats. This one took a while, and I entered 2008 with only 2 of the HOFer cards, so it has been a little bit of a task and I am glad to be done. I didn't realize when I started that the Cubs team set would be such a chunk of the T206 set! It's a little more than 7% of the set, with 13 HOFers - isn't that like 20-25% of the T206 HOFer cards??!! (I can do math, but I don't know the HOFer card count off the top of my head)

Edited to add:
Doug, I saw on the 3rd pickup thread -that Cubs Shirt Evers you picked up is gorgeous. one tough card, and your selection has fantastic eye appeal - for the grade and on an absolute basis. Well-played, that one! Are you going after the Cubs team as well?

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Posted By: Anonymous

"Doug, I saw on the 3rd pickup thread -that Cubs Shirt Evers you picked up is gorgeous. one tough card, and your selection has fantastic eye appeal - for the grade and on an absolute basis. Well-played, that one! Are you going after the Cubs team as well?"







Actually, I'm working on a T206 basic HOF set and it just so happens that the Evers and Brown Cubs shirt variations are my favorite examples of each player. Congrats again on the Brown!!

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Posted By: Dave F

Just worked out the details and picked up these two...

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Posted By: Joe D.

"Burdick missed the designation on them"


simply impossible!


I mean if he missed that..... he may have missed the Coupon T206.

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Posted By: Doug

I got one after all!

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Posted By: leon

Poor try.....Burdick didn't miss Coupons. They are T213.....been there for nearly 70 yrs.....Burdick wasn't perfect I just don't think we can rewrite the ACC.....Others disagree .....and it's still not changed and it won't be.....so yak yak yak..... it's all fun!!

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Posted By: Phil Garry

Just back from Beckett...........

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Posted By: Chris Diaz

Phil those are really cool. I've never seen those before.

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Two new Postcards...

1908 American League Publishing Birmingham (Also perhaps the nicest example from this set I have personally ever seen.).


1908-09 Rose Co. Postcard Rube Oldring (Thanks Jerry)

-Rhett

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Posted By: sean

now officially have 168 different signed goudeys and my son now has 67

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Posted By: Chris Diaz

That's an incredible accomplishment, Sean.

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Posted By: Jeff Prizner

great pickups Rhett, where did you find those?

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Wow! I've never seen Blaeholder or Spencer Goudeys before. Very nice. Blaeholder is one of those oddities that, despite being dead for over 60 years, is not that tough an acquisition from an autograph standpoint. The opposite can be said of finding him on a signed Goudey, however! Spencer, although alive a decade longer than Blaeholder, is a much rarer signature.

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Posted By: Rhys

I was basically just going to post the same thing as Jodi. I have collected Blaeholder for quite a while and have 10 autographs of him right now including a single signed ball (a bit rough though) but I have only ever seen a few signed photos and never a Gum Card. That is a great card and I am jeleous of it. He will never make the Hall of Fame due to his numbers even though many people called him the toughest pitcher they ever faced. He is often credited with inventing the "Slider" but it is more likely he just the pitcher who turned it into a popular and viable pitch with success for some really bad teams.

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Benton and Bing Miller are other examples of easy acquisitions of long-deceased players, but, again, tougher on certain media such as cards. I've seen a few '33 Goudey Bentons out there, but never a Bing Miller. The Miller signature on that card is more stilted than I am used to. It also appears to be signed in ballpoint, so perhaps he was having trouble with the pen on that surface--who knows? As a side note, Miller was close to his teammate (and my old buddy) Joe Hauser, even serving as his best man at Joe's 1924 wedding. I once sold a Bing Miller cut signature to a guy in Scotland, who, like the player, was named Edmund John Miller.

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Posted By: sean

wow! 10 blaeholders?!?!!? good lord!
This is only the second blaeholder Ive ever seen. i love the Benton cause its my favorite looking card in the set. It is now the THIRD benton that I have though one is trimmed. I have a much nice Bing Miller signed but I think this newer one was signed close to when he died. Ive seen one other spencer before but it may have been this one as the ink blots on it looked very familiar to me. The Charles Berry is also very good as its the first Ive ever seen even though he died in 1972. Im sure there are probably more but considering ive been collecting these for 20 years thats saying something.

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Posted By: nbrazil

my first n28



and my first 33 goudey

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

Sean, Nice Collection of Goudey Auto's!

marty

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Posted By: Steve F

Great looking Clarkson. Funny, I don't see M101-7s very often. Nice stuff.

Just picked up this old PC thinking it may be significant. PM May 8, 1913 but mistakenly advertized as Negro League, oh bother.

*Negro Ball Game Hobson City Park, Anniston Alabama*

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Posted By: Phil Garry

I have been searching for this one for a long time. Thanks, Tim........

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Posted By: Jimi

Thought this one looked nice...


Been needing this one for awhile...


Jimi

Always looking for T222 Fatimas!

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Posted By: Anonymous

This is actually Paul and not Lloyd as is stated in the picture....

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Posted By: Kelly

Picked up this tough 1914 cracker jack.

The 1914 has a P on the sleeve, the 1915 leaves it off.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Jimi,







You do realize that your Nemo Leibold is autographed, right? That's definitely his handwriting; funny he would only sign his surname, seeing as the signature appears to be post-career. I only mention it since you didn't. You might have some of our signed pre-war card collector friends making you an offer!

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Posted By: Anonymous

<<This is actully Paul and not Lloyd as is stated in the picture>>

Hmm. I thought it was Fred Clarke.

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Posted By: Jodi

Are you sure, Jodi? I just figured it was some kid that wrote on it years ago.

Jimi

Always looking for T222 Fatimas!

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Posted By: Anonymous

100% certain.

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Posted By: Jim

Picked up this nice Sweeney on ebay for $20 and to my surprize found it had a nice clean Cycle 460 back.

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Posted By: Jason Carota

Nice pickup, Jim.

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Finally got around to scanning my 19th Century winnings, great cards...

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Posted By: Chris Diaz

These arrived yesterday and today. I also have a Walter Johnson and a Cy Young on the way. I'm working on a T206 Hall of Fame set.

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Posted By: Doug

Three more down:

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Posted By: Matt

HOF Registry Fight!!

Good luck to two good guys!

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Posted By: Doug

I think bodog has my odds at +220

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Posted By: Phil Garry

Just received this one back from Beckett picturing portraits of the 1894 Baltimore Orioles w/Hugh Jennings, Willie Keeler, Joe Kelley, John McGraw, Ned Hanlon, Dan Brouthers & Wilbert Robinson. Now if only the images were a little bit bigger and darker.......

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Posted By: Adam

Chris, I just picked up a Lajoie with bat in VG 3 condition as well a few days ago . . . yours looks a bit better than mine though . . . darn PSA.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Phil,

Nice!

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Posted By: Brian Goldner

Thanks Charlie

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Posted By: Jason

I like Hal Chase left ear variations so much I thought I'd get three.

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Posted By: Doug

8 HOFers down...30 to go.