October Pick-Ups...

[bks14sr]

Picked up a Banks RC and a few more 52 high numbers at the Tampa show today. Inching forward on each of these sets.




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[Seven]

Nice Pickups everyone! Love those high numbered Topps!

October's been a good month collecting wise, as I knocked out another Mantle on my quest. Earlier in the year, I posted across two threads that I ordered a 53 Bowman Mantle through ebay, it was delivered to the wrong address, stolen and relisted by a different seller one state away. Since then I've been on the hunt for one as good looking if not better. I made a couple of posts on here, and on FB groups but I didn't find one that I liked at a good price point.

I struck gold on this pickup. As some know, I buy strictly for eye appeal, meaning that even if it came back with an A grade, as long as it looks good, I'll buy it. Gotbaseballcards listed this beautiful AA 53 Mantle on ebay, I watched it for a bit, multiple auctions ended, I contacted the store directly and low behold roughly a week later it arrives. Beautiful picture, slight corner issue in the upper right hand corner, but I could not be happier with it, especially at the price I paid.

[GasHouseGang]

Picked up this classic card.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Picked up this classic card.

That's a really crisp Campy.

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

That's a really crisp Campy.

Thanks. I wasn't looking for it but thought the same thing, and picked it up.

[irv]

Originally Posted by bks14sr

Picked up a Banks RC and a few more 52 high numbers at the Tampa show today. Inching forward on each of these sets.




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Great looking, very well centered 52's! Congrats.

Great looking cards everyone. Been a while since since I've updated in post war but I can add this one which I finally received Friday.
Looks good to me. Other 52's match in size perfectly (laying cards on top through the slab) so not trimmed/doctored, imo. Now, just need to make my mind up to crack or not? The scratch/gouge is fairly deep so I'm leaning towards cracking.

[cgriffith]

Edited: need to take a better picture.