Post your most beat up card that you would never part with

BaltimoreYankee

I know I've shown this card before but here is mine. Purchased for one dollar at a card show in the late '70's.

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DanBessette

Sweet Duke! Paging Stone....

I don't own a single 52 Topps, but that's not by design. I'd like to pick up a couple beaters some day.

I've shown this card several times, but it's one of my favorites. Purchased for $5 raw at a yard sale.



Pop 1, 1 higher, and this is the only slabbed red variation.

flcardtrader

Teddy Ballgame making an appearance!

graygator

To this point my only Goudey:

Darin

I bought these four cards 30 years ago from the local card shop, since closed. I like Jackie the best. My 8 year old nieces' class studied Jackie Robinson last year
and she was really impressed when I showed her this card. I was going to let her take it to school for show and tell but her mom was afraid she would lose it.
And she was probably right, so I'm lucky I still have it.

flcardtrader

Pretty sweet collection if those are your beaters Darin!

Love the Jackie!

Stone193

Good question!



Mom didn't throw out every collection!

One day, me and my brother were talking about our cards - where they went.

And my mom had just moved and found a carton full of cards - all beaters but still fun to look at - gave them to my son. The carton contained 3 brothers worth of cards. No, not 1000s.

All of us were casual collectors as children.

This was the first Mantle to come up - followed by a 66T Mantle - I think my son sold that one at a flea market sale on Ft Hamilton back in 1995 - also a beater.

TNP777

Got this surprise in the mail early in my OBC days. This one card helped me believe that I really could own older Dodgers, including the legends. My collection and collecting focus was never the same after it showed up.

DanBessette

<< <i>Got this surprise in the mail early in my OBC days. This one card helped me believe that I really could own older Dodgers, including the legends. My collection and collecting focus was never the same after it showed up. >>



Awesome Geordie!

BaltimoreYankee

Holy crap, that Goudey Hack Wilson is rough. Love it!!

graygator

<< <i>Holy crap, that Goudey Hack Wilson is rough. Love it!! >>



Nah, it's just a flesh wound!

TNP777

Mine's only a little less ragged.

handyman

Rose was given to me from my father and is the heart of my collection.
The J R is one I would like to pass down as well.

mrmopar

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MULLINS5

Superman's rookie card.

mattyc_collection

Man, I love this Joe D card. Was so hard to find the registration and centering combo; it just came on a card with really beat corners, and thankfully Joe's rarely focused face somehow escaped the ravages of the last 74 years. Tied with Joe is my Lou RC; a 90 year old card and barely 20 exist in all grades, so I know Lou will be with me for the long haul, rounded corners, one smashed in, and staining to boot. Both show the journey through time but they are well loved.

craig44

I love that mayo cut plug. Man, the stories I bet that card could tell