April Pickups

Everyone's fave, Hans Lobert:

And good ole Patsy Dougherty:

Blair you've been busy!! Great looking cards.........

3-2-count wrote:Blair you've been busy!! Great looking cards.........

Hi Tony - thanks! Yes, a bit of Ebay + some B&L + a little shopping at the 3-2 Count makes for a busy pick-up month, for sure.

One more for the T204 Ramly subset:

And a Famous & Barr:

Wiggum Fan wrote:

sweet johnson. i was in negotiation to buy the card when i think u bin'ed it. love the huge border.

Picked up this neat Tolstoi "label." I believe it to be from the top of a carton of tolstoi cigarette boxes but will know more when it arrives. As some may be aware, the cigarette boxes that housed our T206 and other cards were usually shipped in cartons of 10 or 20 packs. I have never seen or heard of a Tolstoi carton before, but this piece is the same "brand" as the T206 Tolstoi (see the pack below for reference) and seems to indicate Tolstois were shipped in cartons of 20 packs. Tolstoi didn't make it out of the 1910s so I would approximate this to the 1910-1915 era.

killing 3 birds with 1 stone...my first 35' goudey...and knocking off 2 top notch HOF'ers...cochrane and simmons for my HOF collection...all for $25!

How about a T204 Tubby Spencer...

Nice Ramly Blair. Your Boston collection just keeps growing.....

3-2-count wrote:Nice Ramly Blair. Your Boston collection just keeps growing.....

Thanks Tony - I'm really pleased with my Boston pick-ups over the last while!

What's your dream Boston card to acquire?

Bicem wrote:What's your dream Boston card to acquire?

Hmmmmm - excellent question. Probably at present a Ruth "rookie" (not Baltimore, but Boston). I have no Ruth card with Boston in my collection yet. But I have never spent that kind of money on a single card...so I'm working up to it!

would you take a ruth in boston uniform but yankees caption? those caramels would probably set you back around 2k+ and cheaper than the sporting news.

I added one more to my Goudey HOF set (now at 48% complete). I wish all 6s looked like this one.

Brian, a sweet (6) in deed.

3-2-count wrote:Brian, a sweet (6) in deed.

Not quite as nice as a couple of your 3s though, Tony!

cccc wrote:would you take a ruth in boston uniform but yankees caption? those caramels would probably set you back around 2k+ and cheaper than the sporting news.

Good thought...but I decided that for my collection the cards would be only those where the player was listed as Boston.

(To Brian: that Haines is an amazing "6"...looks way better!)

Sounds like you need an E107 Willis then.

terjung wrote:Sounds like you need an E107 Willis then.

Hi Brian,

If your response was to me, I believe E107 Willis is a Boston NL card (I only collect AL). But I need the Cy Young...gotta save some pennies for that one!!!

Bosox Blair wrote:

terjung wrote:Sounds like you need an E107 Willis then.

Hi Brian,

If your response was to me, I believe E107 Willis is a Boston NL card (I only collect AL). But I need the Cy Young...gotta save some pennies for that one!!!

Hi Blair,

You might have some competition for that one (Young 107) down the road . Love that card and high on my list.