Musial Collectors Vintage Musial Pickup Thread

[Musial Collector]

This is also posted in the baseball forum, but will probably get more love over here vs those darn prospectors :lol:

As I posted in a thread a while back, I decided to start up my Vintage Musial Collection. I already had 6 cards, so I had a decent start. According to Beckett, Musial had 84 "cards" from his playing days, so those are the ones I will be looking for. Some will be easy, some will be hard, some will be impossible in my opinion. If I can find a nice signed/autoed copy of the card for a decent price, I will do that first, otherwise it will be slabbed or decent looking raw cards. I dont need the symmetry of having all cards being PSA, or BVG, or Raw, or sigend, just having a copy of each will suffice for now. To help fund this operation, I have decided to sell off the majority of the rest of the modern Musial cards that I have. I will keep the Studio set Im working on, the Sterlings (for now) and the Allen and Ginters that I have.

With that, lets start off showing the cards I currently have in my collection, starting with oldest to newest.

1947 Homogenized Bread (Autoed)
I picked this card up in the REA auction 3 years ago, so I am confident it is authentic.

1948 Bowman (Autoed)
This card was signed at the Bob Feller Museum in Jan 2011 at a private signing

1950-53 Royal Desserts (Autoed)
I picked this card up in the REA auction 3 years ago, so I am confident it is authentic.

1953 Bowman Color
Would like to get this PSA slabbed eventually

1960 Nu-Card Hi-Lites

1961 Topps
Would like to get this PSA slabbed eventually

OK, Here are the pickups in the last week, my personal favorite is the 1959 Topps 3,000th hit, amazing sig!

1947-66 Exhibits Kneeling (PSA Auto)

1959 Topps 3000 Hits (PSA Auto)

1960 Topps (PSA Auto)

1960 Topps Tattoos Autographed Ball (hard find)

1962 Topps In Action (PSA Auto)

1958 Topps All-Star (*** Auto)
Originally from my 190 Auto lot from REA in 2008, reacquired from hofmichael, thx

So Im at 12/84, or 14.3%

Thanks for looking.

 

[gradedeflator]

Looks awesome, that's a great focus for a collection. Musial is, i think, relatively underappreciated and his card undervalued compared with his peers.

 

[fkw]

Nice collection

Just a note... The (Homogenized) Bond Bread card you have is really from ca.1950 and wasnt issued by Bond Bread (even though everyone calls it that)
The cards with square corners (like yours) are known as W571 and were issued a couple years after the Bond Bread version (diecut corners) in a boxed set (actually 4 different series) at toy/candy stores.
ie.

ca.1950 W571


Im also curious, of those 84 "cards" listed by Beckett, what is the first 6???? (oldest)

They should be ...

1943 M114 Baseball Magazine
1946 PC-Unc. Sears Cardinals and Browns
1946-47 Unc. Propaganda Montiel
1946-47 Unc. Sensacion Premiums
1946-49 W603 Sports Exchange
1947 D305 Bond Bread (diecut round corners only)

Dr. Beckett may be King in the modern card hobby, but he is well known (and often laughed at) for butchering Vintage info... ie calling the 1933 R319 Goudey Ruth his "rookie" in previous lists/books, etc.

PS You picked a Great Player, Good luck with your collection
I also like that many of your signed cards are lower "collector" grade, there is something cool about a signed card that looks its age with some corner wear and a small crease or two Very nice!