Your absolute favorite card

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Posted By: Anonymous

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Posted By: peter chao

Daniel, Paul

Where can I get a wife like yours. Sigh.

Peter

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Posted By: bill

here's my favorite I still have

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Posted By: Clint

JC, I was wondering how you were going to pick just one from your awesome collection.

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Posted By: Richard

This is my Favorite! Now if only he can get in the Hall of Fame.
What a thrill to see all of these rare cards. Awesome!

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Posted By: peter chao

Steve,'

My favorite completed set is the '57 Topps all raw and ungraded. My favorite prewar is my '33 Goudey Mel Ott with bat. This is a real beater but most of the red surrounding Mel Ott and the bat is intact. Also, all the printing is legible on the back of the card.

I'm a real Giants fan and this was my first '33 Goudey. It would be a waste of time and money to get PSA to grade this card. It would be the first PSA card to grade .5 lol.

Peter

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Posted By: ScottIngold

My favorite this week at least.

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Posted By: Rob NYC

Not the most expensive but to me the entire set is beautiful. However, this is my favorite of the set:

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Posted By: Eric Brehm

My pre-WWII cards are all T206 HOFers and 1933 Goudeys. From the Goudey set I think the purple background Charlie Gehringer card is one of the prettiest; cmoking posted an image of it earlier. From the T206's, one of my favorites is the Ed Walsh portrait. Not really sure why, it just seems to capture the essence of the period and the card set:

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Posted By: Jerry Spillman

Rube

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Posted By: Kevin Saucier

Although not baseball...it did say favorite.

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Posted By: Joann

Wow Kevin. That Olympic & Titanic card is gorgeous. Total color from edge to edge. Is everything in that set the same way? And are they expensive?

Joann

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Posted By: JOHN

Here's my fav and also my latest purchase....
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Posted By: Kevin Saucier

<"That Olympic & Titanic card is gorgeous. Total color from edge to edge. Is everything in that set the same way? And are they expensive?">
It looks even better in person. It's the only trade card that shows the Titanic "before" it sunk and is a regular issue set of one.

Some would argue that they are not rare but I only found a dozen last year on ebay and only two so far this year. Beaters (grade level 1 or 2), which are almost all of them, sell from around $40 - $150 raw. So far it hasn't really hit our hobby yet...but it's very poular with Titanic collectors who often consider rounded corners with no paper loss or creases as high grade.

The SGC 5.5 above, is "by far" the best I have seen and has an insured appraisal value of $8,000. It will soon be on the way to the Branson, MO Titanic museum.

Kevin

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Posted By: Joann

Kevin,

Thanks much for the response. What ebay category would it be in?

I think the card is just mezmerizing. It's so different from what I am used to seeing, and I love that it is so colorful but still subtle, and with no borders.

Very, very nice card. Good for you for being able to own such a nice example. What a thrill that must be.

Joann

Edited to remove questions about other cards in the set, as I just reread Kevin's post.

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Posted By: Joe D.

Whats really cool about that card is -
and I'm not sure how they knew this when they printed 100 years ago...

if you zoom in on the front of the ship...





(seriously - with my silly attempt at humor aside... that is a really cool card, and an awesome piece of history - thanks for sharing.)

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Posted By: Steve M.

but that Titanic card blows me away!!

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Posted By: Kevin Saucier

The card really is stunning.

It has everything a collector is looking for; scarcity, value, mystique, attractiveness, tragedy, fame in addition to having a well documented and known subject matter. Titanic is so famous, the name is used to define an era in time.

Unfortunately it’s a British card which is probably why it hasn’t hit it big in our hobby or have catastrophic value.

I’ve always thought that this card has the potential to be "The Card" of non-sports...in other words, have higher profile than Horrors of War Hitler.

The movie reference / pic above is hilarious!
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Posted By: Mike

Not nearly my oldest, not nearly the most valuable. Just two I love, and will never part with. have had them for many many years.