Is it ever to good to be true?

[Vol]

With all the threads about people finding supposed real cards to be fakes, was wondering if anyone has ever been pleasently suprised by a card? One thought to be a reprint but ended up being the real deal. Maybe not a reprint, but a deal so good too be true with a card that looks too good to be true.......... I know that it is unrealistic, but you never know. It happens sometimes doesn't it??!

[fkw]

Sort of related...

Ive picked up a card for $5 on eBay that Id never seen, then sold it for 100X more once 6 more from same series was discovered. (I call em ca1923 Sepia "Shoulderless" cards), they are still uncataloged years later, and the same 7 are the only known cards.

Right now on eBay I have a card bookmarked that is uncataloged, but from a very rare cataloged set. commons sell for $300+ in EX, yet this card should sell for less than 10% of that because the seller didnt ID or list it correctly.
(more info once auction is over )

[vintagetoppsguy]

I have a similar story to Frank's. It's not pre-war, but a few years ago I bought a 1974 Topps stamp Nolan Ryan for $5 on eBay. I threw it in my Nolan Ryan box and it stayed there for about a year until I sent it off to PSA on one of their $5 specials. It came back a PSA 10 (the only 1 at the time) and I sold it for $1500 to the guy who had the number one Nolan Ryan set registry. I had $10 in to it including grading and made 150X my money.

[ls7plus]

Bought a "1955 Exhibits Postcard Back" Mantle graded SGC Ex+ for just over $300 in a Huggins and Scott auction awhile back (all the pure investor types apparently passed it by because it wasn't at least Near Mint-Mint). The card bore the legend in the lower right corner, "Made in USA," which, from what I've gleaned from several different sites specializing in Exhibits (I collect them myself also), indicates the card was originally printed in 1951-1953. Perhaps it was reissued in 1955 from new old stock by the Exhibit Supply Company. PSA has graded just 8 1955 Exhibits Postcard Backs, none of which are Mantles.
The rarest rookie era Mantle??? Any of you Exhibits specialists out there have any info on the 1955 Postcard Backs?

[fkw]

Originally Posted by ls7plus

Bought a "1955 Exhibits Postcard Back" Mantle graded SGC Ex+ for just over $300 in a Huggins and Scott auction awhile back (all the pure investor types apparently passed it by because it wasn't at least Near Mint-Mint). The card bore the legend in the lower right corner, "Made in USA," which, from what I've gleaned from several different sites specializing in Exhibits (I collect them myself also), indicates the card was originally printed in 1951-1953. Perhaps it was reissued in 1955 from new old stock by the Exhibit Supply Company. PSA has graded just 8 1955 Exhibits Postcard Backs, none of which are Mantles.
The rarest rookie era Mantle??? Any of you Exhibits specialists out there have any info on the 1955 Postcard Backs?

Adam W may know for sure, but I think the Exhibits with the postcard back only came out in 1955. They are very tough for sure!
You cant use the "MADE IN USA", "Printed in USA" info to date them because there are older poses mixed in with the 1955 Era design cards, ie Feller "salutation", Pafko "salutation", etc. found in the postcard back set of 64 different. Even the Jackie Robinson card in the set has a "MADE IN USA" that points to 1948...but the postcard back points to 1955, the real years they are all from.

[Exhibitman]

My understanding is that the PC back only made it into one year of production in the mid-1950s. ESCo re-used images for years and years. The rookie season pic of Mantle appears throughout the 1950s. Check out this uncut sheet with a Rocky Colavito Detroit (where he was traded after the 1959 season) right next to a Salutation Ted Williams, and look at the Mantle bottom right. That sheet has to be a 1960 or later issue yet it still has the Mantle with the rookie year patch on the sleeve.

[wolfdogg]

In a small card shop back in the 90s guy had an album full of tobacco, Goudey and "E' cards. He obviously knew the HOFers (Cobb, Johnson, etc,etc....). He had the cards in the album all priced so I went to digging. Found these: 1933 Goudey Berg ; Old Judge of Galvin (it looks like it says Calvin and to be honest I wasn't sure.....and it was the only OJ in the book); E90 Speaker....and he had like maybe 60-75 more E90s that I didn't buy....no telling what "toughies" were in there that I at the time wasn't familiar withhe had in E90 Cobb, Wagner batting, Cy Young Boston and a few more HOfers in his showcase (and I kick myself for not buying the E90-2s, E90-3s that were mixed in with the E90-1s)....)....T206 Marquard and Herzog with Lenox backs, T206 O'Hara St.Louis (knew there was a variation on the card but at the time wasn't sure if the NY or the StL was the toughie) although it was completely trimmed on 3 sides, album had (2) E102s....Zimmerman and MILLER FIELDING....thats the ones that come to mind..........I offered to buy the whole group along with the HOFers he had pulled out but he wouldn't hear my offer and he wouldn't put a price on them