Show some of your favorite vintage cards with writing/drawing on front

[brianp-beme]

Here is your chance to amaze and amuse. I don't own most of these, but I certainly wish I did. I typically like any marks to be confined to the backsides, but I will make exceptions for those that tell me a fine story of abuse.

Brian (Diamond Stars Jimmie Beret Foxx, the Melillo Diamond Stars on the left shown to emphasize the artistry on the example on the right, the Heilmann actually a rare W573 5-in-1 card with two Hall of Famers, a Trotsky T206 and T205 Village Person Ewing)

[asphaltman]

Don't know what five year old kid got a hold of this Newsboys.

[Eggoman]

ALWAYS loved the vintage "Sherlock Homes" pipe!

[mechanicalman]

The kid who typed Cobb's position was ahead of his time.

[Bill77]

The Merritt kind of grew on me while I was thinking about buying it over the course of about 6 months or so. And Arky was a no brainer as I won the auction at $6.

[canjond]

I've posted this before, but it's relevant here again. This is, without a doubt, both my least valuable, and favorite, pre-war card! I give you Buckley the Crusader. Buckley, along with his sword, staff and fire-bomb, has been dispatched to fight the Turks. Why... because "God Wills It" (of course).

[Exhibitman]

[paul]

This will always be my favorite very low grade card.

[scottzoe]

Someone love this Yaz card..1963 and 1964 stats as well as his birthdate and uniform number written on it.

[deadballera]

I will play along

[T206Collector]

I have always loved how Jack Barry wrote:

"I wish I looked like this picture now" for Doc Steen on his M101-2.

Barry was 23 on February 23, 1911, when this supplement was issued. He was probably about 53 when he signed this for Steen, approximately 30 years later. And he lived to be 3 days shy of his 74th birthday (on April 23, 1961).