Your favorite purchase of 2005??

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Posted By: Charlie O'Neal

Since it's getting close to the end of the year I was wondering...Over the past year what was your favorite purchase that you made regarding card(s) this year? Weither you got a card real cheap or found one that you have been looking for what seems like forever what is it.

Mine is...

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Posted By: t206King

JOE TINKER KSA 4, and the SGC 10 E93 Collins, love these cards! Collins is low grade but still!! (tinker scan is ****ty)

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Posted By: identify7

Gosh, there have been so many crucial acquisitions this year! I haven't recovered from my most recent tho. I look at it daily. It completed my set.

Well, it completed a subset of my set.

The set is: the highlights of baseball in 1936. And in that year, one of the things which occured was that (ho-hum) more players hit 50 or more doubles than any other year. ie. 1936 is "the year of doubles" in the 20th century.

I chose to portray this with Batter Up cards. Although several are difficult in nice condition, Medwick is particularly troublesome. This set also lets you include cards with different colors. Of course, I am still in the process of adequately portraying the diversity of the batter up colors in conjunction with the main focus of this 1936 subset.

In any case, the Medwick card took me over two years to acquire. And if it wasn't for a conversation with Brad Green of this board (about a different subject), I wouldn't have it yet.

If anyone is still reading and understands any of this, please e-mail me at identify7@aol.com

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Posted By: scott ingold

3 Of many favs.

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Posted By: identify7

Scott: Once you go Wheaties, there is no comin' back.

My favorites (other than your Gehrig) include the Dimaggio, Vaughn, Hubbell and all Series 15.

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Posted By: leon

And FAIR WARNING for the sake of the board and load time I am again invoking the "scans at 1x" rule...unless the item is tiny like a Baguer (sp?) Chocolate or T332 Piedmont Stamp please make your scans 1x size...thaks again

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Posted By: cmoking

World Wide Gum Ruth

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Hoy (lower left), Selee (seated, center)--these two before their major league careers--and McCarthy (seated to Selee's left). An actual card, the back says "Pennant winners of 1887" and lists the players, and Selee as Manager, printed in red ink. Won it on eBay, after keeping mousy quiet about it for a week. (scan is about half the size of the card)






Russian pitcher Starffin in Japan. See website for story. www.julievognar.com/home

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Posted By: Anonymous

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Posted By: jay behrens

These would be the key acquisitions of the year for me. The Wagner was a seperate purchase from the e104-3s:



I'd like to add to Leon's comment about scans and please ask that you not put each scan on a new line. Start a new line when the scans would cause you to scroll left to right. This will minimize the amount of scrolling up and down.

Jay

I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: Colt McClelland

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Posted By: MyBuddy

It may not be "the" card of the set, but it is one of the "the" cards of the set (and a beautiful one at that) ---

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Posted By: JimB

Cmokin,
That is a really nice Ruth!
JimB

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Posted By: quan

wish they were in higher grades...also looking for an e92/e102 cobb in VG to EX condition.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

In cards, have to go with the 1917 Zeenut Frank Chance.

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Posted By: Anonymous

I have a tough time choosing. When speaking about individual cards I got the most kick out of getting these five. However, my favorite purchase of 2005 was the 61 card lot of T206's and E102's.
Thanks Wes!
Thanks Mastro!
Thanks Greg!Thanks BCD!

Thank you Dan K.!

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Posted By: Chad

Now, to get the HOF committee to see the light...

--Chad

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Posted By: Larry

I'm going to shoot for your 2005 haul in 2006! Nice group. Can you tell this newbie what the bottom card is?

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Posted By: Elliot

e103 Williams Caramel Co.-- Christy Mathewson

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Posted By: Larry

Thanks, Elliott

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Posted By: Bob Shannon

e97 Keeler

e97 Sullivan Boston...How many board members own this cards? How rare is it?

e97 Steinfeld and Steineldt

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Posted By: Mike Campbell

George C. Miller - Foxx, Grade 5, and US Caramel - Foxx, Grade 5. I love the early 30's cards. May every one have a fantastic 2006.

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Posted By: Frank Evanov

It's only 53 years old, but it was my best pickup of this century so far:



Frank

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Posted By: Joe_G.

I have not yet received my Mastro 1886 Game in Progress Cabinet (Detroit vs Chicago), so I'll go with this Charlie Bennett Tomlinson cabinet. Certainly one of my favorite Detroit items.



Joe Gonsowski

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Posted By: Scott Thompson

My collections is definetely on the low end of the scale, but I enjoy it a great deal. These are three of my favorite pickups over the past year.



The quest continues...



Scott

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Frank, we think alike....my favorite of the year...

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Posted By: Scot York

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Posted By: Bruce Babcock

Hard to pick just one, but this one is certainly one of my favorite pickups of 2005.

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Posted By: Al Crisafulli

No question.



-Al

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Posted By: Bill Stone

T210 Series 6 McIlvain( Frankfort) --fits nicely in my collection !!

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Posted By: David McDonald

Probably will be my favorite of every year. Don't think I'm going to the next level of collecting. Can't afford the extra zeroes.

It had to be a great year for this to be my second favorite card!

Ya gotta love it. (Is there a Tim Hortons in Dog River?)

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Posted By: leon

Difficult to pick one but this is up there....pretty much with Bruce on this one...btw, Bob S. - if those are 1x scans we might go to 1/3x in the future, pretty please....regards all

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Posted By: Zach

Was a lot of 9 but I have since sold off the dupes-

The following two were purchased for my for my father for Christmas, since we collect together they have been added on to our collection.
Felicies Minoso rare back varaition

1923 Agulitas Capablanca

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Posted By: barrysloate

Hey Zach- love your Jose Capablanca card. Best chess player ever to come from Cuba, world champ in the 1920's, and one of the game's immortal geniuses. Really cool card.

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Posted By: Jim Clarke

To hard to just think of one.. So I'll cheat and put them into groups!

Cabinets:



Postcards:



Score Cards:



Pins:


Die Cuts:


Lastly, for cards:

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Posted By: zach

Thanks Barry, thats the exact reason I got it for my father, big chess player and fan. The scan doesn't give the great sepia photo jusitice. Thanks again to Ryan C.

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Posted By: barrysloate

I was a tournament chess player myself many years ago. Don't really get a chance to play any more. Kind of miss it.

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Posted By: JimB

Quan,
Let me know when you decide to trade that TipTop Wagner.
JimB