December 2009 Pickups

Gorgeous Collins, Blair!

that Collins is a beaut! This one just arrived--I liked the colors and the centering most:

Ahhhhhhhh. E90-1's. I love em' Nice pick up Blair.

Tony A.

Thanks guys - and I really like that E96 Rube too. Really interesting image and background color!

Cheers,
Blair

After a few years of fruitless searching, I finally added this to my collection:

owww, a MN tax stamp

sabrjay wrote:owww, a MN tax stamp

Unfortunately! I've only seen a handful of these packs in 10 years though so I'll take what I can get. This one is complete with some cigarettes.

canjond wrote:After a few years of fruitless searching, I finally added this to my collection

Spectacular looking pack, congrats Jon! How high does it rank in scarcity for packs than contained t206's?

a very cool item, indeed!
can you translate the two words on either side of leo?

i see now that the second "word" is russian for "tolstoi"...
any chance the first word is "leonid"?

fisherboy7 wrote:

canjond wrote:After a few years of fruitless searching, I finally added this to my collection

Spectacular looking pack, congrats Jon! How high does it rank in scarcity for packs than contained t206's?

It's a pretty rare pack. I have seen 10 or so of them over the years, including one earlier this year on eBay. I put a ridiculous snipe on it when it came due - something like $650 because I wanted ti so bad. Wouldn't you know, I got outsniped! If I had to rank the packs based on scarcity, my list would look something like follows (all numbers are approximate):

Hindu (none known)
Drum (none known)
Broadleaf (2 known)
Uzit (2 known)
Lenox (5-10 known)
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Tolstoi (10 known)
Carolina Brights (10 known)
American Beauty (10-15 known)
Polar Bear (10-15 known)
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Cycle (20 known)
Old Mill (20 Known)
El principe de Gales (20 known)
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Sovereign (50 known)
Piedmont (100+ known)
Sweet Caporal (100+ known)

Scans of each pack can be viewed here:
http://baseballandtobacco.com/t206.htm

sando69 wrote:i see now that the second "word" is russian for "tolstoi"...
any chance the first word is "leonid"?

I actually had no idea what the Russian stood for...

Jon, are those numbers for packs that could have possibly held cards?

Jay

That pack is awesome. Beautiful piece, Jon, and if the Minnesota tax stamp turns you off, I will take it off your hands. The tax stamp only enhances the value as far as I'm concerned.

sabrjay wrote:Jon, are those numbers for packs that could have possibly held cards?

Jay

Jay - my numbers may be a little misleading. I call those the "era" numbers. By that, I mean packs dating between 1905 of 1912. If I was to focus on only 1909-1911, American Beauty would be eliminated from the list. In fact, until the recent find of a handful of American Beauty packs dating to 1905-1907, there was only 1 pack known to exist. To date, none have been found with a 1909-11 tax stamp.

Haven't had any new pickups in December. Been a dry month. But I will post one from last month that I haven't posted yet:

First pick up in a long time for me. Thanks Jon

Fantastic E94 Crawford, Eric. Looks EX! What's the reason for the grade? I'm guessing minor creasing.

Also, congrats on the T205 Young, Jay. Make sure you and Jon get your trader points!

fisherboy7 wrote:Fantastic E94 Crawford, Eric. Looks EX! What's the reason for the grade? I'm guessing minor creasing.

Also, congrats on the T205 Young, Jay. Make sure you and Jon get your trader points!

Thanks Ben. There's a small crease in the upper left corner, and lower right corner. Still an amazing looking card.

Great looking Crawford, Eric! Wow! Great eye appeal.

terjung wrote:Great looking Crawford, Eric! Wow! Great eye appeal.

Thanks Brian. I have Tony to thank for making this card available to me.

terjung wrote:Great looking Crawford, Eric! Wow! Great eye appeal.

Indeed! The image quality is so nice - Sam's hands and bat almost seem to be 3-D .

Bosox Blair wrote:

Indeed! The image quality is so nice - Sam's hands and bat almost seem to be 3-D .

Good point Blair. I actually thought that the first time I saw the card as well. The others I have don't nearly "pop" like this one.

Here's an example (another I haven't shown on the board yet)


It just doesn't have that 3-D look....