March 2010 Pickups
 

It is couple of hours early but picked up this 52' bowman Mantle up over the weekend. I have been searching for an affordable 52' bowman for quite some time and finally got one for a decent price. very happy with it

Munson RC
 

That's a really solid looking card for a PSA 1. Congratulations on the great card! :)

thanks I also thought it presented well for a PSA 1

For my HOF Rookie Collection:

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8708/75toppsbrett.jpg

Awesome
 

awesome Brett Rob, love the centering. Do you have a less grade of that now avialable? :)

Thanks Pat!! Sorry, I had an SGC 70 I sold at a card show in January.

Minty--

I have several raw Brett RC's--Yount also. Various grades.

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Finally got a '52 Zernial!!!
 

Picked up this sweet 1952 Topps Gus Zernial PSA 6 from forum member pwilk17. Many thanks for helping me find one.

Just got this in-from the 1967 Topps SF Giants disc set:

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...kssfgiants.jpg

These are harder to find the the "regular" 67 discs, which are no picnic. I now have both 67 types and a 68-hooray!

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Just back from SGC.........

Maris
 

Picked this up at the King of Prussia (Philly) show last weekend, great show-- lots of vintage:

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/q...pm/marisrc.jpg

Here's a beauty 1958 Stan Musial I got today:

Picked up this Pee Wee Reese A few days ago, love this card

Just got these in...

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/5118/ryanrc.jpg

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/9...smattingly.jpg

Rob

does your Nolan have two creases in it?? looks like it in the scan....

surprised it would get a vg....

Depending on how bad the crease is, I believe you can get up to a 50 or 60 from SGC. The creasing on the Ryan RC does not penetrate to the back of the card and does not take too much away from its appearance.

From the SGC website regarding the "40" grade:

90/10 or better centering, corners more rounded--but not excessive, stronger creasing may exist. Poorer focus, registration, and discoloration, and staining are more noticeable.

Working on player collections...
 

and added my first Jackie!

A couple toughies from the Lake to Lake Braves set...
http://home.roadrunner.com/~jevintage/l2l.jpg

67 Mantle
 

Raw Graded 6

Some more Cardinals

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75 mini's - Mike Tyson is an unlikely choice to be an all time Cardinal great second baseman.

Couldn't decide...ended up with both.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps200PSA65.jpghttp://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...pps200PSA7.jpg

Very happy to finally pick up Musial's only Bazooka.

Great Musial card Paul. Here are two recent pickups - I also posted about another in a different thread. Great cards everyone. Drew

Just back from Beckett, a 1947 NY Yankees Team Issue - Yogi Berra..........

Man that berra is sweet!! May I ask why you sent it to beckett?

I've decided to focus on mantle and berra cards for my collection.. And that thing is just lovely. nice pick up.

Here are my march pickups.. And prob. the only for @ least few months..

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...h/61mantle.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...tlesclutch.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../marispost.jpg

In general, I try to have everything in my collection graded and Beckett is the only grading company that makes a holder large enough for the Berra. Everything I have has either been graded by SGC or Beckett except for a few items which are too large for even their largest holders.

Went to a toy & comic show a couple of weeks ago and one guy had an open container of '61 Topps cards, all in individual sleeves. They were the only cards in the place. He had $2.00 each marked on the container so I naturally grabbed a handful and had a look. Not a lot of big names, mostly commons with HOF'ers Robin Roberts and Dick Williams and some semi-stars like Billy Pierce and Joe Adcock, but I was struck by the beautiful condition of the cards. They were pretty well all in EX-MT. He had 79 in total so I asked him how much for the lot. He said $80. I said I'll think about it. I left the show and came back knowing I had to make an effort to get his cards. I was going to offer $60 but at the last moment I decided on $40 and he took it. I don't usually buy card lots but I was thrilled to get those beauties for 50 cents a pop.