Favorite pick up(s) of 2018 Show 'em

[runred41]

This was one of my most fortunate years to pick up Jim Thorpe items and one of my favorites is this early 1920’s baseball lineup between Thorpe’s Indians and Green Sox.




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[mrvster]

just incredible pieces.....I love opening this thread

[GregZakwin]

The Boston Store Wheat is the only one slabbed by PSA. The Crawford was my first Net54 purchase.

[Exhibitman]

Prewar baseball:




Postwar baseball:



Modern baseball:



Boxing (Adam Hats H815 Jack Dempsey--I had been searching for this for over a decade):



Football:



Basketball:



Hockey:



Nonsports:



Autograph: This is only the 2nd Signature Card from 1991 Kayo that has ever been seen.




Postcard (Holman Williams is a HOFer with only one other known card, a Propagandas Montiel. Williams was part of a group of African-American fighters in the 147# and 160# classes (welter and middle) nicknamed "Murderers' Row": Charley Burley, Lloyd Marshall, Williams, The Cocoa Kid, Jack Chase, Eddie Booker, Aaron Wade and Bert Lytell. The champs of the time refused to fight them, so they ended up fighting each other dozens of times (62 in all). Five of them have been elected to the HOF so far: Burley, Marshall, Williams, Cocoa Kid and Booker, and collecting them for a HOF set is a real challenge. Booker, Burley and the Cocoa Kid have no known cards; I had to settle for career-issued photos. Marshall appears in the 1940-70 Boxing News set from the UK. Williams has a 1947 Montiel card. This postcard is the first I've ever seen for Williams. It is an AZO four squares back (1924-49 per Playle's). The weight notation and format suggests that this was a self-issued postcard and it dates to his days in the early 1930s when he fought as a lightweight):



A better man than all of us:



Jeff Dickson was an American boxing promoter in Europe in the interwar period, elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2000. This British 1930s RPPC shows him with fellow HOFers Thil and Brown. In 1943, Capt. Jeff Dickson was killed in action over Germany while serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.

[mrvster]

wow

what an assortment

awesome

[sycks22]

A couple 38's for my set

[MikeGarcia]

..1936 R314 Goudey Wide Pen Premiums Type 3 Borderless ---those two mugs had eluded me for years ; the 1952 Star Cal Decal "Busby & Zarilla" has re-defined the term "rare" all by itself...... I know my phone is going to be ringing off the hook tomorrow.....do you kids even still say that ?

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[Rhotchkiss]

Very cool, Adam. You have such eclectic taste.

[itjclarke]

Great stuff everyone! The Tip Top Wags was probably my single favorite pick up of 2018, largely because it's not a card I ever thought I'd own. It is pretty mesmerizing to see that portrait and background color combo in hand.

T227 Cobb, 1926 Exhibits Ruth 1914 CJ Alexander are my other favorites this year.

1910 Tip Top Bread D322 Honus Wagner 2.jpg
T227 Ty Cobb!.jpg1926-29 Exhibits Babe Ruth old HA scan.jpg
1914 Cracker Jack Grover Alexander PSA2 iphone7.jpg

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

the 1952 Star Cal Decal "Busby & Zarilla" has re-defined the term "rare" all by itself.

Did you get that Star Cal at the National? There was a dealer there breaking down a huge lot or possibly a set of them and I snagged the Al Rosen the first day of set-up, which I also had been chasing without success for quite some time.