December 2023 Pick Up Thread

[Howe’s Hunter]

After all these years, not sure I've ever started a pick-up thread ...

This arrived in today's mail, there should be another waiting in my office on Monday morning, but we'll see. Guessing these will be the last for the year.
Schlafly was another of those unknown, meaning I hadn't seen an example with Howe's stamp on the back in the almost 20 years of collecting. Isaac saw my post on another thread, thought he might have a couple with the stamp, and there was one I needed. Thanks, Isaac.

[ColtWinchester]

Here’s my first T207 pickups since returning to the hobby last month. The Wallace is pretty good minus the spot of paper loss in the front field

[BabyRuth]

super tough W511 Ruth with AMER LEAGUE caption and a few Ruth items along with a Cobbie to round things out

[glchen]

Originally Posted by BabyRuth

super tough W511 Ruth with AMER LEAGUE caption and a Cobbie to round things out

Hi Jim, great pickup on the W511. I wonder if the font for yours is different than the one that I have or whether your card was stamped a bit lighter? Regardless, as you said, the caption variation is really tough to find.

[BabyRuth]

Thanks Gary!!! - I think mine is just stamped a bit lighter

[tkd]

Nice cards! I like the w511 Ruth's. An overlooked thing about these is many have the U&U Underwood & Underwood stamp on the bottom left. Resembles the larger/clearer exhibit style U&U Ruth from the 1920s.

[4815162342]

Starting over after a 7+ year hiatus.

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[puckpaul]

Picked up this nice C56 #12 Art Ross rookie. One card away from completing the set!

[Eric72]

I made two pickups at the Philly Show yesterday. The first was a '56 Topps card I posted in a pickup thread over there.

I still had some money left after that purchase, so I grabbed a T206 card to add to my collection.

I like the really light "B" on this one. I know, faint or missing red ink is usually not a factory error/variation. Still, it looks cool to me.

[mrreality68]

Some very nice cards
Good start to month
Will be interesting to see what will be picked up this month with many good auctions from REA, Mile High, Memory Lane, LOTG etc

Some ways feels like auction and product fatigue never ending flow of auctions in an never ending cycle

[paul]

From tonight's REA auction. I never thought I'd own a card from either one of these sets.

[NYYFan63]

My two Matty pickups this week. The Matty portrait was purchased from a Net54 member.





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[sb1]

One of a few Horners...

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by sb1

One of a few Horners...

Awesome pickup! I had my eye on those cabinets, yours is a beauty. Congrats!

[mrreality68]

Nice pickup from Christie’s Chris.

These were my 2 Postcard pickups. I really like the Joe Jackson PC as it is from 1909 and he is wearing his Savannah Indians Uniform (from the South Atlantic League) and the image has provenance from Joe Jackson’s personal collection

[gabrinus]

Cool pickups this month everybody...nice postcards Jeff...Jerry

[t206fix]

I have a little collection I call Project.25 -
I'm collecting all the Sweet Caporal factory 25s in the set (minus Wags/Plank).

There are 613 in all - Currently I'm at 586 - with 27 to go.

Latest pick up - #586 - believe it or not, it was a tough one!

[molenick]

A couple of type cards from REA. There were a lot of E106's and Uncle Jacks to choose from. I was trying to balance condition/subject/price and ended up with these two (scans on the REA site are better than mine).

[brass_rat]

That's a really nice E106 Michael.

Great WaJo, Ryan

[molenick]

Thanks...I would have been happy with the Bender, Collins, McGraw, or Tinker portrait...the bidding just worked out that I got this one, and it is very nice in-hand.

[GregZakwin]

Thank you to Matt (ghostmarcelle) for working with me on this earlier this year. Realized I never got around to posting it and a thank you to him!

[terjung]

Gorgeous V89, Greg! Those are really tough to find in nice condition. Congrats!

[Wa_Jo]

Just came in the mail today. Thank you for sharing all the beautiful cards.

[VintageBen]

Picked up this 1907 Heimer Postcards Detroit Tigers Pennant Winners SGC 1.


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[RCFire82]

Really happy to once again own the VERY tough Cycle 350 Chance...
Got off a fire, 2am back at the station, checked ebay and found a newly listed American Beauty buy-it-now for $70...Absolutely 👍

[mullinsm]

Great score on that eBay American Beauty!

It can still pay to keep an eye on eBay, which is how I found this e90-3 Three Finger Brown, a card I have been seeking for many years. Others have been offered but I've always been blown away in the bidding. When this one popped up as an auction with a "make an offer" option, I immediately made an offer...and to my relief, joy and amazement it was accepted.

This takes me to 19 out of 20 cards for my beater e90-3 set. Dougherty was my first vintage card, purchased in the early 1990's for $10 at an antique show/flea market in St. Louis. Finishing this set would be a dream come true. The search continues for a reasonably-priced Gandil...

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[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by mullinsm

Great score on that eBay American Beauty!

It can still pay to keep an eye on eBay, which is how I found this e90-3 Three Finger Brown, a card I have been seeking for many years. Others have been offered but I've always been blown away in the bidding. When this one popped up as an auction with a "make an offer" option, I immediately made an offer...and to my relief, joy and amazement it was accepted.

This takes me to 19 out of 20 cards for my beater e90-3 set. Dougherty was my first vintage card, purchased in the early 1990's for $10 at an antique show/flea market in St. Louis. Finishing this set would be a dream come true. The search continues for a reasonably-priced Gandil...

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Good luck on closing it out Mike.