November Pickups

[mintacular]

Hey Jon, awesome card! I very nice "2" with good centering and the image still nice; would love to own that card one day, probably one just like yours

[curch]

Oh man, awesome pick up on the Mantle. I am looking for the same Christmas gift

Congrats!

[canjond]

Thanks guys. I was happy with the card (and the centering) and thought the image was good for a 2. The price was also right in that I feel I paid on the lower end of what a 2 sells for.

[toppcat]

Ryno, Boggs and Gwynn. I remember looking for these all summer in '83. Is there a modern Topps set with as many solid, HOF hitters issued in the same year?

[toppcat]

Went to a local show today to pick up some supplies but managed to find some old Bums. Here's a card I have alsways liked, glad to have it in the fold:

[toppcat]

Went to a local show today to pick up some supplies but managed to find some old Bums. Here's a card I have always liked, glad to have it in the fold:

[ALR-bishop]

Nice one Dave. Not many show options in south Texas

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Nice one Dave. Not many show options in south Texas

Not all that many here but we have a couple. This is the best of what's left of the monthly shows on Long Island-held at Hofstra University Student Center. I hadn't been for years and decided on a lark to go yesterday as I needed some odd sized supplies and figured I'd fill in some holes in the lists. Probably two dozen dealers from 6 different states were set up but 7 or 8 had some vintage and one or two actually had E cards, T cards and a few other surprises.

I like the smaller shows for run of the mill, mainstream Topps and Bowman issues. I picked up some 50 Bowman Dodgers commons too, three Hodges cards and a couple of mid 60's Topps upgrades for my Mets team sets in addition to Campy. I almost bit on a 35 Goudey but thought the price was too high; turns out I was right so glad I passed.

There are about three or four monthly shows left on Long Island. There is also a bigger Hofstra show held twice a year and if you want to go 75 minutes North the White Plains shows are out there too. I am likely going to try and get a table at the spring "big" Hofstra show and try to sell all of my extraneous baseball books and programs, yearbooks, cards etc with the thought of dumping it all at the end of the show. I even have some Allstate showcases from my weekend warrior days I will finally sell.

If anyone here is interested and lives in the area, I would possibly want to split the table,which I think is an eight footer for $165 (two day show). There is enough room behind to bring your own backing table, which I plan to do if I go through with this.

[dstudeba]

Originally Posted by mickey7mantle7

That leaves the Dan Dee as the most desirable Mantle card for 1954 and the entire set receives a boost from Mantle's popularity...

Personally I find the 1953-54 Briggs or 1954 Stahl Meyer Mantle to be a more desireable Mantle card for 1954, but that is just me. Nice pickup.

[effe]

He has a few creases on his arm, but I got it for a great price.

[dstraate]

Great. Thread's over. Who's going to follow a 52 Mick?

[Taxman]

[Robextend]

[BlueDevil89]

Latest addition to the collection:

Jim Konstanty 1950 Bowman #226 Rookie Card PSA 7 NM

Konstanty led the Philadelphia Phillies "Whiz Kids" team to the World Series in 1950 leading the league in pitching appearances (74), saves (22), and won the NL MVP award with 16 victories as a relief pitcher.

[NOTE: This 1950 Bowman card is the less common variation with no copyright on the reverse side - see scan.]

[HRBAKER]

Finally got a nice one to go with my set.

[mickey7mantle7]

Originally Posted by dstudeba

Personally I find the 1953-54 Briggs or 1954 Stahl Meyer Mantle to be a more desireable Mantle card for 1954, but that is just me. Nice pickup.

Yea, the Stahl Meyer is another one that I'm in pursuit of and it is too a very beautiful card. Very tuff card to find in any condition. Would love to own one in a graded "3" or so...but I'll take a graded "1" any day.

[scmavl]

I've been looking for one for awhile now, and I finally found it. Signed '69 Topps Mantle without creases. Ungraded, but it looks like about a 4-5.



I also got this signed '52 Ashburn. It's a great looking card.

[jb217676]

A nice Spahn for my hall of fame player collection.

[hofers]

whoops just noticed wrong thread...putting it in december's thread.