August Pickups
 

Just upgraded my Clemente rookie!!

Gorgeous card Paul!!

Thanks Dave!

Bam! August off with a bang. A beauty, Paul.

Paul, No need to buy a 8 clemente you just found it.

Thanks Dewey! And Henry... I saved $35,000 compared to an 8! :D

Beautiful card!


I just added one today myself. Been wanting this card for a while but I was always outbid or the price was through the roof, but thanks to Republicaninmass (Ted) I can now, finally, say I own one! :)
(I love SGC holders!)

Nice! I'm a big Pesky fan.

2 Mantles with the Clemente cards as throw ins.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...fcc14b9ce6.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here are a few recents for me. Not as nice as the Pesky or Clemente, but I'm starting with baby steps!
Chris

Thanks, Dan! :)



Nice cards, Chris.

And smart thinking, taking your time.

Nice pickups fellas!

My recent pickup, and with 6% ebay bucks, there may be a few smaller ones that have been on my watchlist

Attachment 282608

Amazing, Neal!! A beauty.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Great card, Neal.

Congrats!

nice mays card ! congrat

From the National:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...20Robinson.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ps%20Spahn.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...l%20Koufax.jpg

Adam,

Great pickups from the National. I especially like the Koufax and I'd never seen the Robinson. Thanks for sharing.

Nice cards, Adam.

Did you get them for a deal or did you overpay? :D (j/k, of course)

Beautiful Cards!!

So happy about these two !

wow beautifull pair !!

Thank You :-)

I guess so!

A perfect example of the kind of cards I love for my player sets. Decent centering, good color, and CHEAP (10 bucks).https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...a581d5b24c.jpg


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Great P/U, especially a slabbed copy!

Thanks Dale


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I dig (and match) your style. Nice card!

Not really a card pickup but found a great bday present for a friend of mine who is a lifelong Tribe fan.

Complete team issue photo pack of 30 includes Paige, Feller, Boudreau, Doby, Lemon, Greenberg (as GM), etc.

Some pretty good action shots in the set, with the Doby pic I believe being the same as his 1951 Bowman.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ba5d44e939.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...bebafdd4d8.jpg

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Great Birthday present and one lucky friend! :)

Very nice, Jason!

Wow, Jason, is that a nice Indians set - and a great gift by a great friend

Just looked it up - that set should have photos of 9 hall of famers - Boudreau, Doby, Feller, Joe Gordon, Greenberg, Lemon, Paige, Veeck, Wynn). That was a golden age for the Indians

My favorite '75 Topps
 

On the way.... The Aaron completes the set and if the raw cards look as good as I hope, I'll have some nice upgrades.

I was pleased.

Love the 75's Chris! One of my favorite sets as a kid!

I am so excited with this new arrival for August. It was my consolation for not being able to attend the National. Honestly, I consider this the perfect portrait of Mr. Aaron. It's his 1967 Coca-Cola Premium Card. I'll be including this baby in my next order to PSA. Save for a tiny bit or corner wear, it is just right.

---Brian Powell

Wow. That is a great card. Congrats.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

i have never seen the Aaron cola premium before. Great looking pickup. Congrats.

Very nice Jason. What a thoughtful gift.

Mine too. It was the first cards I remember buying as a kid. Of course, none of those survived.

I agree, Brian, and I can understand your excitement! That is a great looking picture of Aaron.

Congrats. :)

Very nice p/u.....While being issued by Coca Cola in conjunction with Dexter Press, I have only ever heard cards from this set referred to as "Dexter Press" cards.

Thanks, guys, for all the well wishes. Cardboard cloud nine! The eBay vendor assessed Hank as Near Mint, and I think he was acceptably close, perhaps EX-MT, though he might be right. Regardless, with these, if you can find a raw card with just a bit of corner wear, the price you pay will be minuscule for such a gem, as it was for me. Same goes for buying gum cards, as we all well know.

Savedfrommyspokes, you are absolutely correct in having always known them as "Dexter Press". While not totally balderdash, since on the backside of the cards, the ONLY source reference is Dexter Press. Be that as it may, Dexter Press merely printed the cards for the Coca-Cola Company. Dexter did not issue the cards at all, but the hobby got it wrong in subsequently referring to the issue as "Dexter Press". This card was strictly part of the massive 1967 Coca-Cola promotion that went on in most major league cities during 1967. Dexter was contracted to make twelve-card premium photo sets for each team that participated, on nice quality photographic card stock. Truly a regional, I could never have gotten Mr. Aaron in my Chicago suburb.

Anyway, I covered these cards in chapter 7 of my recently released book, NEVER CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, entitled, "Things Really Did Go Better With Coca-Cola". PSA began grading them some time in the last 10 years. They look spectacular in the large holder they use for this issue. Ditto for the job SGC does with them. Magnificent over-sized cards.

Thanks again for the congrats. ---Brian Powell

Brian, the Aaron, and I assume the others, look very similar/same to how Beehives were distributed with the pic glued/attached to a nice backing.

Any idea if they are around the same size?

Bee Hives are 4 1/4 by 6 3/4 inch black and white photos of hockey players mounted on 5 3/8 by 8 inch coloured mats (red, blue but most often beige).

I'm in love with both those Indians photos and the Dexter Hammer!

Awesome pick ups so far fellas. Well done.

Neal - sweet Mays. Glad you were able to snag one.

Adam- Love that '58 Bell Koifax. Want to pick up one of those some day.

Hiya Dale. To answer your good question, no, the 1967 Coca-Cola premiums were not glued to a backing piece of cardboard; rather, they were completely printed on the high quality photographic card stock. Thus, the Coke premiums are like the simulated wood border Bee-Hives from their later years.

According to the Krause Standard Cat, the size of the Coke premiums are 5 1/2" X 7".

Interesting---the Krause Standard Cat lists the set as 1967 Dexter Press. They got it wrong. Their description indeed tells us it's a Coca-Cola premium. However, I don't understand why they would put the printing company before the sponsor for which the cards belong. It would be like calling the Morrell issues "Mirror Chrome", or Hunters, Stahl-Meyer, and Briggs "Milprint".

All to say, the promotion and title of a set belong to the parent company who sponsored and paid the printing company to produce and print trading cards for their promotion.

---Brian Powell

So you just placed the Aaron on a piece of red cardboard/paper then?

When I first seen it, it looked identical to how Beehives were distributed with the actual pic glued to the backing paper. I was just guessing, thinking maybe these were done the same way.

I appreciate the info, Brian. :)

2 new arrivals today and 2 more tougher ones scratched off my list. :)

Pick-Up...
 

A slight upgrade to the rookie collection:

Here's a nice run of 1962 Pittsburgh Exhibits from the BST.

Dale, I think you caught on about the 1967 Coca-Cola premium. The scan is from the eBay vendor's listing. He merely placed it on a red background to provide good contrast----so a potential buyer could scrutinize the corners!;)

Hey buddy, congratulations to you as well in your getting a couple more cards for your 1952 Topps set.

Have a swell day, my friend. ----Brian Powell

Gotcha. Good idea from the seller!

I am slowly picking away at my 52's, and have had some good luck lately picking up some tougher cards. Still need some high dollar ones in the 1 to 310 numbers but hopefully they will come soon?

A couple more arrivals today and 3 more wins last night that I am excited about receiving.

Your getting closer to the finish line Dale!

Received 12 more '56s in the mail this week, including Fox and Martin. Now down to needing 58 to complete the set (VG/EX). Hoping to pick up a couple more this weekend at a local show.

Thanks Jeff. It's coming along better than expected lately! :)

I quoted you in my last post but forgot to comment. :o

Your latest P/U's, again, and not surprisingly, are super nice!

Congrats!

New addition:

Beautiful Kaline. The early Topps AS subsets are so fantastic.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

The true home run champ. 1961 Topps high number Maris. Sweet!!

Attachment 283710

Added this last week.

Nice card, Ray, and everyone else as well. :)

New York Mets fans will recognize:

Some player collecting progress...
 

Wanted this Clemente for a long time - and highest graded to boot!

Got a few good Maris cards, including (what I think) is a really cool KC Athletics card that I hadn't seen before...

Nice cards guys!

These have been rather difficult cards for me but I took a chance with a new (to me) seller, who's scans were less than great.

For the price that I won them (way cheaper than what they usually go for) I thought I can always return them.

Needles to say, they are not 7's, 8's, 9's or 10's, but are much better than what I was expecting.

Glad to say I can scratch these 3 off my 52 Topps want list. :)

Nice centering on your recent pickups Irv....they are sharp looking cards. You have been hard at work this month adding cards to your set....me not so much, just these two (and only because of the 10% back on ebay bucks last week).

Thanks! :)

Some great P/U's again, SFMS. I have to get on board with that 10% ebay bucks as I never seem to know about it?
I do receive ebay e-mails/notifications, but I never receive notice about it? :confused:
Maybe, which was once the way, they are only available to U.S. customers?

I purchased my first high number card the other night. Again, the scans were less than great but the price was so I took a chance. If it looks close to the cards I just posted, I'll be very happy. It was only $65 for a high number card.

MCoxon, I flat-out love your suite of Roger Maris items. The poses are compelling, all with that certain eye appeal that "does it" for those of us that cherish Roger and his memory. Well done, mate!:D

---Brian Powell

thanks so much, Brian - I always love to see so many expressions across his set of cards -- Indians, A's, Yankees, and Cardinals.

That Athletics one just grabbed me as the perfect picture of a young care free kid doing what he loved.

I loved reading Roger's biography, and reading about his time with the Indians and As even before his move to NY. I only have 2 each from his time with the Indians (1957 Sohio and '58 Topps) and A's (1959 Topps and now this Jay Publishing). I think that A's is my favorite across all the cards of his, across all the teams, that I have...

Mike, you're most welcome. Thanks ever so much again for sharing your bounty. I would love to get a 1962 Yanks team issue Rajah as yours.

You bring up an interesting point about Roger with Kansas City. I discussed that very matter in my E-book on a CD, NEVER CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN. Roger did not welcome the news that he was going to New York. He loved it in KC. He and his growing family lived in a suburb there. After he was traded, the family stayed behind at their home. Roger simply clicked in KC, and the fans loved him there, whether he was hot or in a slump. He soon sensed their unconditional loyalty, and tried all the harder to play well for them. The Rajah could just relax and play his game, which was all-out without theatrics.

Well, time to shush. Take care, pal. ---Brian Powell

Great pick-ups everyone! Here's a card I saw mentioned in the "rarest post war cards revisited 20 top" thread. It's a 1976 Jerry Jonas Productions Ltd Mel Ott card. Found it on ebay a week ago after reading that thread, sure is oooogly!

All great additions this month.

My latest:

Latest Additions...
 

A couple of HOF rookie pick-ups from the East Coast National...

Brian, I've noticed you've got quite a few really rare Mays items - great pickup, as well as the 1962 Bazooka complete box I saw elsewhere.

I've picked up a few Mays things from you on eBay in past months -

take care, mike

Nice Hunter RC. I've always felt that card was overlooked/ undervalued.

That Lasorda is a very strong 5! Nice pick up.
RayB

Another toughie for me (Sid Gordon) and my first high # purchase.

Pretty happy with these 2 cards, as, again, I took a chance with less than stellar scans from the seller, but the prices were right so I went for it and I'm glad I did. :D

Banks
 

Been on a Banks spree as of late. Have a '54 RC, '59, '66 & '69 on the way. Just missed on a nice '55 last night. Kicking myself for that one.

Whiz Kid Robin Roberts from the 1952 Topps set...
 

http://imagehost.vendio.com/a/204295...952BGS_NEW.JPG


...just added the '52 Robin Roberts to the Phillies pile....


...

That 58' Banks is off the charts for a 6!
Great pick ups this month.

Anniversary present from my beloved wife. She knows the way to my heart. I have been looking to add this card for some time.

Enough to risk submitting it for a review? Any success or failure stories doing a review submission?