Post your most lovable beater card.

Have a card in your collection that's in really crappy shape, but you still love it? Give your lovable beater a chance to shine by posting it for all to see in this thread!

Here's mine - an E104-1 Mack with a "clean" Nadja advertisement back:



Kinda feels strange calling anything about this card "clean". He's seen better days for sure, but it's a very distinctive card that I enjoy very much. What's yours

Currently the king of my beaters, but he is looking for a new home along with all my other rare type cards of easy to find players

sabrjay wrote:Currently the king of my beaters, but he is looking for a new home

Jay, surely he can't be your most loved beater if he's looking for a new home!

A lot of my good beaters are headed out the door. I sold the CJ Mack, CJ Bender is on the market, and should be closing a deal on my last e104-3 which is beaten and has a hole.

I hall of these, but the BU Ferrell is looing for a new home.



Jay

One of my favorites in the e98 set..even in its condition

I don't own this one any more, but I did really like the card. Plus it was from the Lionel Carter collection which was an added bonus for me. Sold off all my E98's to concentrate on some type collecting.

For anyone who may have said I have a good eye for cards with nice eye appeal...hasn't seen my whole collection.

This Tinker is my favorite right now, but these other beaters are very much loved as well....



And I can't leave out the extremely rare and very seldom seen perforated T206's....



Thanks,

Andy

e94 lajoie...badly damaged back from being glued to something.

What's the story with the bottom group of t206s with dots and creasing around the dots?

Jay

Looks like sewing machine holes.

Here are a couple of mine:

Those dots might have been caused from someone taking a pen with a "roller" on the end to them (used in sewing I believe).

I agree with the sewing machine theory. They must have thought they were B18 Blankets.



If anyone has the missing piece Please let me know.

I almost forgot my favorite Beater, definately not on my For Sale List.



Lee

One of my favorite pre-war images on one of my favorite back types:




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yawie99 wrote:One of the my favorite pre-war images on one of my favorite back types:

Steve....I feel you. I love the T216's. That's my favorite Tobacco series.

I always assumed they were from a sewing machine, but I don't have any real background on them. I saw them on eBay years ago and had to have them. Actually Jay, when I saw these perforated ones, I thought about your super rare Walter Johnson diecut T206.

If you look at the Brain card in the middle, you can see some of the white string that is still in the holes. I don't what anyone would sew them into though.

Andy

Great beaters, Andy! I think those sewing machine specials clinched it for you as beater champion (for this round at least).

Well, I don't "love" any of these little rascals, but while we're on the topic of beaters, how about some T213-2 Coupons that are hammered nearly beyond recognition?

Thanks Fisher! I didn't know it was a competition, but I'm glad the perforated variations were so popular. I really do love those three cards. I like beaters a lot because I like to think about what the card had to go through to get in the shape that it's in. Take these ones, who would've sewn baseball cards into something? I can see pasting them into a scrapbook or even taping them, but sewing!? Come on.

wonkaticket wrote:

For anyone who may have said I have a good eye for cards with nice eye appeal...hasn't seen my whole collection.

John,

I love those E95s with the team logos drawn in on the portraits with plain uniforms. I know I've seen at least one or two others like that.

I can just imagine some bored kid (or adult) back in the day deciding that the E95s with plain uniforms just didn't look quite right and taking matters into their own hands.

Scott;

I think the same thing...some kid in class hiding it from the teacher etc. as he works away fixing the card the way it should look in his eye's. :study:

that's very cool, i think we've all seen that e95 doyle in a psa4 holder with the NY on the uni...so i don't think that hoffman would look out of place in a psa 4.5 holder wonka.

The kid did some nice work - the companies printing the strip cards of the 20's should have hired that kid - then, maybe, the strip cards would have looked more realistic!

This offering is among my most loved, but I'm not sure that it is MOST loved.
This one demonstrates my belief that a card's borders are designed to protect the image of the card. And this card's borders fought valiently in that regard. Yes, they were overrun in places, but they also held the line, and took heavy casualties. All in all though, they were successful, because here is the card!