Frank Gotch is the man! There is plenty to read about him everywhere and his story is simply amazing. He is the godfather of pro wrestling!
EDIT: Yeah right, Gotch refused to meet Lemm and sailed for America. Talk about a national bias for the text on this card!!!
BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
It is his rookie but it is by far his cheapest card. His American Caramel boxing card and his Pet Mouthpiece Cigarette cards are exponentially tougher to find. The Ogden's is what I would say is relatively "common" and the others you are lucky to see it more than once a year on ebay. I have never see a Kopec back of the Pet Mouthpiece Cigarettes card although they exist. That would be the number one card on my wrestling list right now.
BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
With wrestling, boxing ect... There are some super scarce sets that you can wait years before seeing it for sale. Typically the "rookie" cards are from more popular sets that are not nearly as scarce. The 22 champions jack Dempsey is widely considered his rookie but it is nowhere close to his most expensive card. The tricky thing as a rookie card collector of these kind of cards is the new issues are always surfacing. I thought I crossed off joe Frazier a long time ago when I got his 67 panini card.... But now it appears he has a card from 64
If you look at my SF Hess cards they are much rarer than the Allen and Ginters from 1887. I have yet to see many of the SF Hess wrestler cards and looking at the pop report you can see how amazingly rare these cards are. I doubt any collector would ever be able to put together a complete set of them despite there just being over 100 cards total to find.
BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
I picked up a PSA graded n43 Bibby in the Goodwin auction here a few weeks ago and got it today. I like the SGC cases for these cards more than PSA but this is a set that I want to have in PSA holders and this card was an improvement than the SGC card I had in my collection. It is a PSA 5 (MC) as the centering on this issue is a complete bear at times. I need to get this set over 95% and get some badges and could have done it this year but I got lazy and did not sub cards this size. I'll keep plugging along on this set as I buy wrestling all stars, etc
BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
<< <i>Wow, that's a GREAT collection of wrestling cards from the 19th century...
Donato >>
I was able to add a nice one thanks to djr to my collection
BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
This was the last n28 1887 Allen and Ginter card I needed to have all seven cards in PSA 7 or better!
BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
It is in the wrong type of holder but very excited to add a "new" 19th century wrestling card to my collection. This will have to find a home in a PSA holder soon.
BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
I had the Duncan Ross card for some time and got an altered stock on one of my subs but found another copy and have this to go into my set.
1 1 25859105 FAIR 1.5 1889 N43 Allen & Ginter World Champ Duncan C. Ross All Around Athlete
BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
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Yeah right, Gotch refused to meet Lemm and sailed for America. Talk about a national bias for the text on this card!!!
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Interesting to see you confirm this for Gotch King.
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
<< <i>Wow, that's a GREAT collection of wrestling cards from the 19th century...
Donato >>
I was able to add a nice one thanks to djr to my collection
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
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<< <i>This was the last n28 1887 Allen and Ginter card I needed to have all seven cards in PSA 7 or better! >>
That's an incredible accomplishment on cards that old. Congrats!
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
1 1 25859105 FAIR 1.5 1889 N43 Allen & Ginter World Champ Duncan C. Ross All Around Athlete
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable