Saturday, April 2, 2016

Card show summary part 2: The non oldies

Hopefully everyone likes pictures, because this will be another image laden post. The only things I'm not showing are the many cards that I was fortunate enough to find for other people (probably some of you reading this).

Since I covered the who, what, and where in the last installment, I'm just going to jump right in.


Seller #5: I didn't know which post this would belong in since there seems to be some debate whether buybacks should be considered old or new. I only saw two at the show and both were overpriced, in my opinion. But I had to have this one for the set, even at the hefty price tag of $2:

For some reason I just don't think they stamped a lot of '62 checklists, so I just couldn't pass it up.


Seller #6: The most expensive thing from this point on is 33 cents (3/$1 box). This seller is at every show and is set up with mostly dime boxes, although this time he had a few more than normal, along with the aforementioned three for a dollar box.

I don't why I bothered scanning this first group of 1994 Action Packed cards. Even though they are in mint condition, because of the gold borders the scans make them look anything but. On the plus side, I now only need a few more cards to complete this set:




I didn't realize there were two of Chuck Daly until after they were scanned.
 
How about some 90's refractors:





I think a few of the baseball one's are doubles (I haven't checked yet), but at 10 cents each I'm not about to leave any behind.

Here are some misc. 90's basketball inserts, which contain a few more bad scans:



You can't tell from the image, but the 1999-00 Skybox Metal card of Scottie Pippen is one of the emerald parallels.

Now is where we get to some stuff that has probably been shown a million times on the blogs, but most of it is new to me, so you'll just have to endure (or skip ahead a little):




These are some really great inserts from the 2012 Cooperstown set.

Some more players of yore sets:




Here are a couple of more contemporary cards from the 3/$1 box:


And finally from the same box, a card from a set I had never seen before:


I now have yet another new-ish set to work on.


Seller #7: This is the only guy at these shows who ever has 20/$1 boxes, along with other various priced boxes.

I will start with a trio of 1996 Leaf Preferred Steel, that were had for 25 cents each:


A few more misc. inserts, parallels, minis, refractors, etc. that ranged in price from 10 to 25 cents each:



Now for something I somehow didn't know even existed until a couple of months ago, when one was featured on Billy's Cardboard History:


These are the xplosion parallels from the 1998-99 Molten Metal set. Considering they came out during my heyday of collecting I don't know how I missed them. I don't recall ever buying any packs, but I should have at least seen them at a card shop or in a Beckett article. The Larry Johnson and Toni Kukoc were a 25 cents each, while the rest were 5 cents apiece.

Rounding out this post is a whole mess of 2001 Archives Reserve, that came courtesy of the 20/$1 box. I had seen these online many times, but never in person. I guess since I was able to get almost 1/4 of the 100 card set I might as well add this to my set building list. For those that don't know these are refractors, so that's why they look a little weird in the scans:

 



That's it for this round of card show acquisitions. At least the next three posts will be very scan heavy with trade recaps, so don't say you weren't warned (if you're the sort who doesn't like lots of pictures).


Thanks for taking a moment to look at my page.



14 comments:

  1. I gave a few cards from the 1922 American caramel set that the tcma set copied. The Tiny Archibald card is pretty cool. I was at a Redsox game in the early 80's and sat next to Tiny and ML Carr at Fenway.

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    1. Did you talk to either of them at all? From what I have read and heard, it seems like M.L. Carr would be the nicer of the two.

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    2. No I didn't talk to either of them

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    3. That's too bad. But, it's still pretty cool just to be able to say that you sat by them at a game.

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  2. Archives Reserve is a beautiful set, you made out like a bandit on those at 20/$1.

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    1. They look really great in person. I just wish there would have been more to be had at that price, especially since they seem to be a little more than a nickel apiece online (shocking, I know).

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  3. I'm a huge fan of Archives Reserve. That was one of the sets that got me back into the hobby in the early 2000s.

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    1. It's probably a good thing I was taking a break from sports cards at the time, especially after reading what the makeup of hobby box was. I would have been very tempted to buy multiple boxes in pursuit of those signed baseball's that were inserted at 1 per box.

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  4. looks like a nice haul. i am partial to the newk and dressen cards!

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    1. I had quite a few Dodgers in this post, probably the most in one post so far.

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  5. What a great haul! You can never go wrong with refractors. The 1994 Action Packed Hall of Fame set (It's not 1995 as everyone calls it- the cards celebrate the class of 1994, they are copyright 1994, etc) Beckett calls in 1995 because that's when the redemptions expired- I'm glad to see you used the right term!- that set was my first real introduction to the history of the NBA. I was still able to find boxes at my local K-mart when I began collecting NBA in 1996 and I ended up completing the set, although I didn't really know it at the time. At 38 cards, it's the smallest set I consider "mainstream". Unfortunately for me I pulled a redemption that had expired a year earlier. I to this day do not have any of the autographs from it- it was also the first NBA set to include an autograph parallel ever.

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    1. Both the 1993 and 1994 Action Packed sets flew under my radar when the were originally released, although to be honest I probably wouldn't have been interested in them at the time anyway. It always brings me joy to hear about Beckett messing up on something, so thank you for letting me know about that. I am very curious to know who your expired redemption was for? The only autograph I have from that set is Bill Bradley which I got from Sportlots last year. It even came with the original COA letter that was given to people who got their redemptions. Because of the lack of interest in it, the final price with shipping was just little over $5.

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    2. Wow, you got a steal on that one! Mine is for Jack Ramsay.

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    3. I would have been really ticked off if I had pulled an expired redemption for a Dr. Jack auto.

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