T3 Turkey Red find !! Pics added
 

Hello all,

I was contacted recently by a gentleman in South Carolina who was looking for information on a large group of Turkey Reds in his possession.

The vast majority of inquiries like this turn out to be someone with a stack of reprints. He did mention, however, that there were a few boxers in the group, so my ears perked up as I don't recall seeing a T9 reprint set.

Long story short, the cards were originally collected by his grandfather as a youth, passed to his father in the early 50's and then passed on to him upon his father's passing in 1996. They sat untouched since then.

The group consists of 86 T3 Turkey Reds (23 HOFers w/Cobb, Young, Speaker, 2 Lajoie, etc), 6 T9 Boxers and a lone Old Mill cabinet. The majority are first series cards and in fine shape. Interestingly, the grandfather's signature appears on one or two of the card backs.

Waiting for the Fedex guy over the last day or two has been a struggle and I am so glad to have the collection here with me now. As an aside, I promised the gentleman that I'd scan all the cards and create a photo book for him and his sons in honor and rememberance of their collection. Pretty sure I'll keep a copy for myself as well.

Very exciting to be able to re-introduce these cards to the hobby after 100 years.

Happy Collecting,
Craig

pretty neat Craig! post pics when you can! Are you keeping them or reselling on the b/s/t? :D

Wow! Looking forward to seeing those!

Amazing looking set, keep me posted.

Can't wait to see the pics.

Looking forward to pics, have only managed to accumulate 8 so far, beautiful set.

Craig, what a fantastic lot, congrats on the find

Awesome. One of my favorite sets. Congrats on the find.

My favorite set. Look forward to seeing them.

Nice! I'd be interested to know whether any of the T9s are no address or Turkey Red advertising backs [the latter shouldn't exist but figured I'd ask].

congrats Craig! great exciting stuff.

:)now that's neat!!

T9 Boxers
 

Hi Adam,

In terms of the few T9 boxers in the lot, none with the no-ad backs and no Turkey Red ad-backs. As you noted, the boxers shouldn't be found with the Ad-back type. Here's one for you to keep an eye out for - T9 boxers with the 1-75 (no Jack Johnson) checklist back.

See you Saturday,
Craig

Absolutely stunning! Great find!

Nice, dont appear to have pinholes, look like sharp corners, what are the plans for them? Are they really as nice as they look, or am I missing something?

Holy crap! Nice find.

Turkey Reds
 

Hi Big Red,

One card has pinholes (Devlin). A bit of creasing here and there - a couple relatively rough cards. A dozen or so with writing on the back - definite MKs. The majority are nice clean VGEX and EX. Maybe (fingers-crossed) a few even better.

The Old Mill cabinet (Armstrong, Wilson), is creased up, but is very clean otherwise, front and back with decent corners. Nice rare card.

My plan is to have most of them graded by PSA, then sort through them to upgrade my set and fill in some holes in my master set (all front and back variations). Many will be destined for the BST.

As an aside, they smell awesome. My wife even decided to take a whif and she also took the pictures.

Thanks,
Craig

GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY!!!

Sorry, but I'm at a lost for words.

Lovely Day.

t3
 

wow!
absolutely breathtaking.
congrats!

best,
barry

Congratulations, I will be looking out for those, you must have some master set. Good luck with the grading.

Why PSA and not SGC for these cards. Rob

Nice lot

WOW this is the King Tut's tomb of T3's congratulations!

Craig after seeing the pics for the 1st time now, makes me want to start the set again :rolleyes:

What a FANTASTIC find & score! Great picture!

WOW - just WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

martin

I'm pretty sure Craig's existing T3 set in the works is PSA.

Oh, I've been looking...So far I've found one no-ad and that's it for variations.

Wow Craig, that's the nicest find I've seen during my short time learning about the hobby. And from the original collector too. Just super nice.

Hey Craig how did you get so lucky to be contacted by the gentleman who offered these for sale??