What's the rarest card you own?

[ValKehl]

Hank, here's another example of a Dockman & Sons All Star Base-Ball card:

[DeanH3]

[Casey2296]

Beautiful cards Dean

[Exhibitman]

1949 Sommer & Kaufmann card signed by Lefty. A tough set to find at all, PSA has graded no Lefty cards from either S&K issue. I suspect this signed specimen is the only one in the world.



And just for s**ts and giggles, here'e the 1948:

[h2oya311]

I love early postcards of HOFers. I think these two early postcards of HOF umpire Bill McGowan would qualify as "rare". The first is likely one of a kind. I know of another example of the second, but still "rare" nonetheless.

Both were sent to presumed girlfriend Irene Seveier. The first is postmarked in 1915. The second is addressed to the same Irene, although McGowan got married to another woman in 1918, so I assume the second was sent before 1918, but who knows? The text on the back might suggest that he still had some feelings for Irene if issued after 1918.

I love that both of these were personally sent by Bill McGowan. He had very nice penmanship. Do these qualify as autographed items since both were signed "Bill" at the end???

[DeanH3]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Beautiful cards Dean

Thank you Phil!

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

Hank, here's another example of a Dockman & Sons All Star Base-Ball card:

Very nice, Val! Any idea what the total pop of these cards and boxes is thought to be? Double digits, I would guess.

[gabrinus]

Great J=Ks guys!!...Jerry

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Very nice, Val! Any idea what the total pop of these cards and boxes is thought to be? Double digits, I would guess.

Hank, I have no idea as to what the total pop of the 1910 Dockman All Star Base-Ball candy boxes is.

As to the total pop of individual graded cards, PSA appears to have graded only 1 card from this set: https://www.psacard.com/pop/baseball...hand-cut/33252.

SGC's pop report is more difficult to navigate than PSA's, IMHO. I am unable to find the two SGC-graded cards that Scott showed in Post #211 of this thread anywhere in SGC's pop report. And, I can only find this one graded example in SGC's pop report: https://www.gosgc.com/pop-report/res...20Gum/Baseball Edited to add that this link apparently doesn't work, even though I copied the link from the SGC pop report page I was looking at. This one card I found in the SGC pop report is George Gibson.

[ValKehl]

Many real-photo, black & white sets were issued by different companies in 1916 using the same two sets of card, commonly referred to as the M101-4 and M101-5 sets. The cards from several of these sets are very scarce/rare. The following are my type cards, and while each is a 1-of-1 per the PSA & SGC pop reports, it would not surprise me if there are raw examples of some of these in collections.

[JLange]

Recently picked up what I believe to be my rarest Bob Feller collectible, a c1947 PC of Bob Feller, "-now pitching for Popsicle"

Its been 10yrs since I saw the last one of these up for sale.

[Leon]

A more recent pick up. When I saw it, I was like, ok I have to have it...

[Exhibitman]

Boy, Feller and Rocky Marciano are the two biggest advertising whores I've ever seen. I don't think there was an endorsement deal too small for either of them.

Meanwhile, my contribution for the day:

[phlflyer1]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

Hank, I have no idea as to what the total pop of the 1910 Dockman All Star Base-Ball candy boxes is.

As to the total pop of individual graded cards, PSA appears to have graded only 1 card from this set: https://www.psacard.com/pop/baseball...hand-cut/33252.

SGC's pop report is more difficult to navigate than PSA's, IMHO. I am unable to find the two SGC-graded cards that Scott showed in Post #211 of this thread anywhere in SGC's pop report. And, I can only find this one graded example in SGC's pop report: https://www.gosgc.com/pop-report/res...20Gum/Baseball Edited to add that this link apparently doesn't work, even though I copied the link from the SGC pop report page I was looking at. This one card I found in the SGC pop report is George Gibson.

Hi Val,

Thanks for posting that info and for sharing your example from the set.

I haven't really paid much attention to SGC's new website since they got rid of their registry.

Sounds like they've lost data from their old pop reports as I had my whole set graded by SGC back at the 2005 national. In the old pop report, besides my set, I only ever remember them having graded maybe 2-3 other cards in total from the set.

[ctownboy]

I own some Star Player Candy cards and some Curtis Ireland Candy cards that have less than five on the pop reports. But for something different, I will post these cards.

1) A trimmed N175-2 (the rarer, larger size) Gypsy Queen card
2) Two cabinet cards of Yale Murphy. The first is from Pach Brothers when he was a senior at Yale. The second is from the Newboy series.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by ctownboy

But for something different, I will post these cards.

1) A (part) of a large Gypsy Queen card

Looks like your Keefe and my Connor are Gypsy Queen brothers.

Brian

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Looks like your Keefe and my Connor are Gypsy Queen brothers.

Brian

Very cool piece

[ullmandds]

Incredible stuff out there!!! OMG that red sox ruth m101-6...incredible!!!! I think in my current collection my most rare cards reside in my miller run...these t216/d303 blank backs are 2 of 2 and i have both. my t216 VE miller is also likely 1/2.