Second October Pick Up Thread

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Posted By: Paul

I thought I'd start a new thread with this scorecard from about 1945. The text on the inside is a little fuzzy because I had to compress it to post the images. But it includes a very nice story of Pete Gray's career. The "Barnstorming Colored Giants" roster had no names that I recognize, but several players are listed as members of Satchel Paige's All Star team.

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Posted By: Mark L

I've always wanted one of these.

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Posted By: Danny Grimes

I have some good pick-ups with some on the way. Heres what i got from a show today.

1. 1910 Orange Borders Hal Chase (Trimmed)
2. 1909 T206 Ty Cobb Green Portrait Piedmont 150
3. 1909 T206 Cy Young Portrait Piedmont 150
4. 1911 T205 Hal Chase (Both Ears, Border Ends) Cycle Back
5. 1911? Mecca Double Folders Hal Chase / Jeff Sweeney
6. 1916 M101-5 Sporting News Wally Pipp #139 Blank Back (Trimmed)
7. 1916 M101-5 Sporting News Roy Hartzell #76 Blank Back (Trimmed)

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

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Posted By: Steve

some battered batters;

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Posted By: Chris Bland

Danny,

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I am pretty sure the M101-5s you picked up are reprints. If you look at the space between the inner border and the image, the gap is much larger than it should be on a true M101-5.

I am not positive though - maybe someone with a little more experience could give their opinion for you...

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Posted By: Matt

Chris - I was just going to say the same thing - that inner border looks wrong.

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Posted By: Ed McCollum

Lived about 12 miles from Paris the first 21 years of my life. Kinda strange to see that card show up on the board...

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

No clue Ed. I picked it up at the Antique show at the state fairgrounds yesterday from a Kansas dealer. Nothing written on the back except the price.

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Posted By: Ken W.

This guy is the grandfather of a good buddy of mine. Picked this up as a Christmas gift for him - been looking for awhile. I think he will be pleased.

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Posted By: Darren

Cool gesture, Ken.

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Posted By: Dave F

This will be headed to the house soon thanks to Craig...email sent back Craig on which payment method your wanting....thanks

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

This 1911 Murray T212 will go nicely with his 1911 Zeenut that I already own.







Patrick

(Added Zeenut scan.)

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Posted By: Chris Bland

Had this since the national, just now got around to scanning it though...

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Posted By: Danny Grimes

Here's the one I've been waiting for!!

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

I don't post in these pickup threads nearly enough.

Here's a cabinet card of Eddie Collins from 1906, when he was a student at Columbia. If anyone here was a prior owner of this item, and you know more about it, I'd love some more info. Clearly the mount was trimmed away from the photo, but the image is stunning.



-Al

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Posted By: Ken W.

Very COOL, Al!

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

So you're the culprit Al!!! Nice pickup...I noticed that Hunt's had quite a few items that once belonged to Collins in their last couple of auctions.

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

Sorry, Dan.

I'm really happy to own this. I'm becoming more and more addicted to cabinets.

I hadn't noticed the Collins memorabilia in Hunt, but that's good to know - thanks for telling me that.

-Al

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

That cabinet came from Hunt's. I just assumed you won it there. Did you get it off of ebay?

A couple of months back (July?) they had 3 scrapbooks that belonged to Collins...I'm pretty sure this cabinet photo you have was owned by him.

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

Oh, no, I wasn't being clear. I bought the cab from Hunt, but wasn't aware they had a slug of Collins memorabilia that he once owned.

I wanted to dig around and try and figure out where the photo came from and who took the shot, but to me, it adds even a little more excitement if the cab was potentially owned by Collins. I'll have to get in touch with Hunt and ask them.

Thanks for that info!

-All

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I think you can almost bet that this cabinet was owned by him since it is from his college days and it's probably a one of a kind or perhaps only a few were made for he and his family. Add that to the fact Hunt's auctioned off scrapbooks owned by Collins and his wife and it's probably a certaintly. I've noticed Hunt's likes to spread out their collections they get from one auction to the next...they had a nice group of items that belonged to Smokey Joe Wood that they auctioned off over the course of 2-3 auctions.

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

Wow. That would be dope.

I'll report back to 54 once I find something out - I don't want to hijack the new pickup thread much more, but Dan, I really appreciate all that info. That really makes it a much cooler piece than I even thought it was, if it's the case.

-Al

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Posted By: Dave F

Thanks to a couple board members

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Posted By: MVSNYC

dave- nice E cards...are you still collecting T206?

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Posted By: Dave F

Thanks Michael. I still have some T206's..but currently am trying to put together on example of each e card from e90 through e107...not done with T206's though.

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Posted By: Steve

Great Collins!.. Boy, I bet he good ol' Eddie had some stories to tell. Any known books on him?.. Well done Al.

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

Turns out that the Collins cab is, indeed, from one of Collins' own scrapbooks.

How about that! Thanks for pointing it out, Dan.

-Al

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Posted By: Joe D.

very nice!

and your comment: "Wow. That would be dope."


I haven't heard that expression in a long, long time.


(edit to put in the smiley)

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

That's great Al. I don't know why Hunt's doesn't mention stuff like that in their descriptions, but often times they don't. Collins is my favorite deadball era player and I seriously considered going after that harder, but lucky for you a once in a lifetime panorama came up and I shifted my focus.

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Posted By: Robert S

I bought this one a couple of years ago at a show in NY. Here are both sides of this cut-down cabinet.

The writing on back identifies him as Edward T. Collins and as Eddie Collins and has a partial date of what looks to be a 'y' followed by '31, 1908.'

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Posted By: Tony Andrea

Jeff L -
Congrats. Those are a couple beaut's......

Tony

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Posted By: Dave F

A big thanks to Mark for helping me out on acquiring a E98 for my E card run. Once it got to the house it quickly went to my favorite card list

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Posted By: Matt

Dave - that's not just any E98 - that one's a beauty!

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Posted By: Dave F

Thanks Matt. Usually I try to wait to post cards once I scan them in myself with the black background..but couldn't wait here.

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Posted By: Dave F

I'm sure I overspent on it, but thought it was one of the tougher cards in the set

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Posted By: Joe D.

you are making a nice run of pickups.

Great Lajoie!

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Posted By: Dave F

Thanks Joe....yes, I'm getting mighty stupid these days