A little bit of everything

During my recent two-week break from the blog, I spent some time going through, and trying to clean up, my photo/scan folders. I also went through my draft folder, which was starting to get a little out of hand.

All in all, it was time well spent, as I was able to delete quite a few folders. Some of the stuff was just to good (my opinion) to delete before sharing it with everyone, so I figured I might as well throw all of said good stuff into one post, and call it good. Most of the cards that you'll be seeing are just some smaller purchases that have accumulated over the last couple of months, and the couple of non-card items mentioned at the end are all from the last two weeks.

2008 Topps Chrome Trading Card History refractor #'d to /400

This Ichiro refractor might look a bit familiar, as it's only the third time that I've shown it here on the blog, but what hasn't been shown here before, is...

... two Ichiro Trading Card History refractors! After doing the red card themed Blog Bat Around a few months back, I decided that I would like to have another one of these refractors, which was easier said than done. The only one that I could find for sale, was on Sportlots, since you're seeing it, obviously I bought it. I don't know why a card that is numbered to /400 is so hard to find, but it is, so good luck if you decide to seek one out.

Getting this second card seems to have triggered a new collecting interest as well, which is... seeking out duplicates (and triplicates, and quadruplicates, etc.). As a set collector, I've never really had much in having more than one of any particular card, but my interest in set collecting is almost non-existent as of late, and my interest in duplicates has gone through the roof. This will be very evident when I get around to showing some of the stuff from the most recent card show, as well as when I get my COMC horde at the end of the year. I don't know if anyone is going to care or not, but sometime in the very near future, I will be adding a new tab for cards that I'm looking for multiples of, I just haven't figured out what to call it yet -- "cards that I'm looking for multiples of " seems awfully long for a tab title.

1955 Topps All American

Back in February or March, I bid on around a dozen cards -- all of the vintage variety -- from a seller on eBay. Not willing to overbid like some of the other folks seemed to be doing, I only ended up winning one, this one.

This was my first, but hopefully not the last, card from the All American set. For just a little over $3, with free shipping, I thought it was a pretty solid get. I'm never gonna try to work on this set, but at some point I'd like to get all of the cards that feature a player in the act of kicking.

2005-06 Topps 1952 Style Fan Favorites Autographs

At one time I was collecting this set, but about a year ago I realized that there are just too many cards with black backgrounds that were signed with blue ink (on said black backgrounds) for my liking. So I ended up going through what I had, keeping most of the guys that you don't see autographs from in every single new set, and sold the rest in a lot right before last Christmas.

I don't really seek out cards from the set anymore, but a couple of months ago I did come across this really cool Em Bryant on eBay that I just had to have, and luckily, the final price ended up being only about half the normal going rate. This is one of those cards that was supposed to get it's own post, but I had already talked about Emmette twice in the previous year, and I just couldn't come up with anymore to say about him.

1960 Topps

I think this card might've come from a card show, and for whatever reason, ended up being forgotten about when it came time to do a recap post.

2016 Rittenhouse Star Trek 50 Autographs

At a little under $4 with free shipping, this was another cheap eBay purchase. Thanks to my mom, I grew up watching the original Star Trek in syndication, and have been a fan of the series for just about as long as I can remember. I'm not a Trekkie by any stretch of the imagination, but I do have a few collectibles pertaining to the original series, including about a dozen autographed cards. For the price, I just couldn't pass up this Barbara Luna.

1972-73 Topps

I think this may have been another card from a show that somehow didn't make it into a recap post. I don't have much to say about it, other than it was a big time set need.


2001 Playoff Absolute Memorabilia Ground Hoggs

My semi-recent love for the 2001 Ground Hoggs set has been well documented here on the blog, so it should come as no surprise that I just recently picked up another one. The piece of shoe might look kind of boring, but it's actually an outer piece of the tongue, which is really cool -- it also happens to be my first piece of game used tongue :p

This is also my favorite one so far, because I was a big fan of "Mr. Third Down", it's just too bad that he spent his whole career with such a sucky team. And I don't know why, but for some reason, even with a $3.50 starting price (w/free shipping), nobody else ended up bidding on this one.


2014 Panini Golden Age Historic Signatures

Another cheap eBay win, how cheap? Around $4 with free shipping! With this card, I'm now have 17 of the 49 autos from the 2014 set. I also now only need more Globetrotter (Geese Ausbie) to complete their portion of the 2012-14 Historic Signatures checklist.


2016-17 Panini Select Copper Prizm #'d to /49

This card...

2017 Panini Prizm Purple Crystals Prizm

... and this card, came from a show a couple of months back. I was thinking about doing a multi-sport serial numbered frankenset (inspired by Robert), but ended up deciding against it, as I don't really want to take on any more card projects right now (maybe someday though). Oh, and how beautiful is that Watt?

Now for a couple of non-card items:

Last week I saw my first, and most likely last, Luna (two Luna's in one post) moth of the year. Even though they're not super rare or anything, you still don't see a lot of them around here, and when you do, it's usually when they're closer to dying (their wings start deteriorating) -- this one on the other hand, was very much alive, and as gorgeous as ever. It's hard to tell from the picture, but this one measured in at almost exactly four inches long (they can be over 5"). Definitely one of the highlights from last week!

I already showed these on Twitter, but they were met with virtual crickets, so I'm showing them again on here. These are the only two figures from Mego's recent 2nd wave that I had to have, and the cool thing was, that the Target I go to in Knoxville had these on the shelves over a week before the official release date.

And finally, I found this really neat chair at the dump last week. It's kind of fancy, what with the contoured slats for your butt and all. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, save for needing a new stain, or a new coat of paint. I didn't really need any more winter projects, but I just couldn't not bring it home with me.

I always enjoy doing these kinds of posts, the more variety there is, the easier it is for me to put words on the screen, so hopefully everyone enjoys reading them just as much.


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