April Pickups

[GregC]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

WOW! Man...I feel like the last guy on earth without a 311...

CONGRATS!

I'm right there with you! Congrats, that is a great looking 311!

[pawpawdiv9]

Well done JOB CW...glad to have helped you.
As i said in our PM, i know it will set in the bank, but try using it as your desktop background or screensaver so you dont miss it as much or put on a phone.
I love mine every time i am in my bedroom. I look at my new display of my RC's.
Sorry guys, no looking thru my windows.
FYI: Those searching for a #311, there is a very nice PSA 4 being sold by JustCollect..looks very nice with a minor bit of corner ding and is a 'B" variation

[ALR-bishop]

Very nice Chuck

[CW]

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[MattyC]

CW,

Heartfelt congrats-- it was a long search but the patience paid off as you have one of the two best-looking 3's I've ever laid eyes on (the other being my old one!). Centering like that on a #311 does not come around too often. In fact it is downright impossible to find. 99.9% of the #311's that come up are poorly centered, forget centering like your new specimen. Yours makes only FIVE I've ever seen below 9-grade that are perfectly centered like that.

It is a great new piece to what was already a world-class collection. Glad to have provided any small measure of help and counsel along the way, my friend. Just a gorgeous, gorgeous card!

I just noticed that when I admire a #311 Mantle, I have to look back like after the fourth time to even notice the sticker grade; all I stare at is central image and centering.

Best,

Matt

[Bestdj777]

I departed a bit from my usual this month and grabbed two awesome pieces. The first is a gorgeous 52 Topps Pafko that I got off of a board member (thanks Tony!). I don't know what it is about this card, but I felt I had to have it.

The second is a Don Sutton autograph that I got in person today. This is the first baseball autograph I've gotten in person for over 15 years, so I was very pleased with it. I wish I had something better on me to get signed though.

[bnorth]

Got this nice Joe DiMaggio in the mail today. My first Joe D, and my first Venezuelan card. It will be hard not cracking this card out of the holder, might send to SGC to get it back into a better looking holder. From looking at past sales this exact card was in a SGC holder when it was sold by Huggins & Scott on 10/12/12 for considerably more than I just picked it up for.

[h2oya311]

Super lucky on this one!

I picked up a large lot of JD McCarthy PC's and was pleasantly surprised to find that the Jim Bunning in the group was postally used and canceled in 1955...two years before his widely recognized 1957 Topps rookie card!!

Time to update my "rookie" checklist!

[autograf]

Love those Venezuelan Retirado cards.......50 in the set I think. Have a couple of them. Have had more in the past. Don't know why PSA would label that as MC.....that's what those cards are. You'd think they'd have some notations in their 'system' that would say all Venezuelan cards are pretty much cut like that. Great card though and a good price if I remember about what you paid for it when you discussed it a few threads ago...........

[bcbgcbrcb]

Great pick-up, Derek. Never even knew that one existed either.

[MattyC]

I know I've been silent since starting the month strong, but back with another...

Best centering south of 8s and up that I've ever seen.

[K-Nole]

Jim Palmer Collection is complete now!

[h2oya311]

That '67 Palmer looks MUCH better than a 4. Nice lookin' card!