WizardofOz1982
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I'm betting the mini card with the relic moves around inside the bigger frame card just like they do in Ginter.
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Now that I look closer...that may be the case.
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Dilferules
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The Ray Durham Season Stat Line is 18/26 and gets me to within 2 of the 15-card team set, not too shabby considering the cards are numbered as low as /12. The remaining two I need are a David Justice/49 and Jermaine Dye/86, so not any of the real rare ones. Hinch puts me 3 away from the 1999 UD MVP Gold Signature/100 team set. The Reggie Cactus League Legends card was one of the few basic Topps A's inserts I did not have yet from pre-2020. Nothing super special about it, just a bit tough.
WizardofOz1982
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Today's mail day wasn't a card but it certainly makes cards look better.
Old crappy All in One Scanner pic versus New Hotness pic:
It's night and day for slabs.
Today's mail day wasn't a card but it certainly makes cards look better.
Old crappy All in One Scanner pic versus New Hotness pic:
It's night and day for slabs.
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WizardofOz1982
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Yep. Gotta start a refractor scanning party this weekend. The website is getting a picture refresh.
Old vs New
Old vs New
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Dilferules
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Definitely better since it looks like your old one had trouble with the focus on graded cards. I know my older scanner made the cards with lots of variation in the refractor pattern like the two above look awesome, but I ended up switching to a new one a few years back because I hated how it made regular refractors look. old vs. new:
It does have the effect of making many silver-toned refractors look white but I didn't like the lines that showed up on the old one.
WizardofOz1982
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I got the Epson v370 so I'm going to be interested to see how it makes regular refractors look since it has the light bar effect. I originally ordered a V600 that doesn't have the light bar effect but it has been back ordered for over 2 months and I got impatient.
BarryBonds762
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You could aways take the card out of the black border? And have it as a mini.
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Big Papi 2007 Topps Chrome Red Refractor. Team Colors.
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Dilferules
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Mine's a Canon 9000F Mark II, got it a few years back and it looks like they don't make it anymore. I will say it's kind of a nightmare for scanning full foil cards like Elite that don't have a holofoil effect, it picks up every tiny speck of dust. It seems like more people nowadays use a camera (or probably their iPhone) with lightboxes and such to show off their cards, but I'm old school and prefer a scanner. I very vividly remember the days when showing a picture of something online meant taking a picture with a film camera, getting it developed, then scanning it with an old low-resolution scanner, haha.
Oh I got distracted, here are today's pickups, a couple of great parallels:
Those put me at 3 away from the 2002 Pristine Gold Refractor/70 team set and 4 away from the 2000 SkyBox Premium Star Rubies Extreeeme/50 team set. With stuff like Tek and Stadium Club making a comeback, I'm surprised Pristine hasn't reappeared.
Dazed
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I've only been in a couple breaks before. Decided to get in some for 2021 Heritage. 6 total, 2-6 box, 2-4 box & 2-Player breaks. Sorry for the terrible pics.
SP's & box topper
Purple Refractors
Auto's
Purple Refractors
Auto's
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Used my eBay bucks for this 2005 Bowman Chrome Xfractor of Ortiz. Ser# out of /225. Only 10 bucks! Color Scheme of the card matches perfectly. 
WizardofOz1982
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Few Alex Reyes for the Cardinals collection today. The Stadium Club auto with the throwback uniform is my favorite. That's just a fantastic looking card all around.
2017 Topps Flagship sadly was a terrible year for parallel designs. I don't know why on earth they did them that way with the splashes of white running through the parallel. I do like the Limited Edition though it really feels like an afterthought set.
2017 Topps Flagship sadly was a terrible year for parallel designs. I don't know why on earth they did them that way with the splashes of white running through the parallel. I do like the Limited Edition though it really feels like an afterthought set.
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Dilferules
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A tough 1999 Topps Stars foil/99 parallel of Eric Chavez and a 2002 UD 40-Main Electric Rainbow David Justice 05/40 that arrived with a surprise corner ding (that's always nice). Harden and Kielty finish off the 2007 Topps (and Update) Copper/56 team set. So almost kind of like I finally finished a Topps Black team set, but not really. But hey it's a *36* card team set numbered/56 so that's nothing to sneeze at.
Trent Dilfer is in a couple of stupidly late-season "2020" football sets, so hey I gotta buy them. This one is 25/25. The Laureano gives me all A's Topps Chrome regular refractors 2002-2019. Still missing one 1998 and several from 2001, plus some I need to catch up on from 2020. The Orange Armenteros was just a cheap pickup, he seems like a dud. The Cespedes 2012 Topps Factory Orange/210 RC was the last non-1/1 variation of that card I needed. The Cespedes 2012 Ginter auto features his original signature, which he changed to something easier midway through his rookie year. And finally I could not pass up a Zito A's Gold Refractor, 07/50.
Philip J. Fry
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Remember when Donruss/Leaf experimented with the Studio brand in 1995? Good times.
Good. Times.
Good. Times.
bstanwood
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Is that a proof of some kind or am I misremembering the set, I thought they had round corners like an actual credit card?
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The basic set was what I posted. There was a gold and platinum parallel which were die cut and plastic.
1995 Studio - BaseballCardPedia.com
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Dilferules
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Michael Taylor knocks my A's needs for 2012 Topps Black down to 2 cards. The 2015 Toys R Us Purple Sonny Gray is just one I needed, not chasing the team set yet. The 2002 Rival factions Foxx/Martin was advertised as the retail version but is actually the hobby, which is super annoying because I already have the hobby version. It was $4 so it's not worth my time to try to get a refund on a card where it was a genuine mistake by the seller and not a ripoff attempt...the hobby version is actually owrth more. Rounding out today's pickups is the 2021 Donruss A's team set.
bstanwood
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I guess that's what I remembered, I do remember thinking it was cool when they came, but not cool enough to actually do much with.The basic set was what I posted. There was a gold and platinum parallel which were die cut and plastic.
1995 Studio - BaseballCardPedia.com
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WizardofOz1982
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Today's mail day brought a question, well actually a couple of them. All of the other Significant Signatures singles I've picked up are numbered /2,000 other than the Ryan non-refractor that's /1,000. The other Kiners I've seen are numbered as well. What the heck did i just buy? Proof? Backdoored copy that was signed as a replacement? Backdoor copy that was signed later?
The other What? about this card is more a case of Donruss being Donruss. Kiner is a Pittsburgh Pirates legend and Hall of Famer who spent 1 bad season at the end of his career in Cleveland. Indians picture it is I guess.
A couple more for the Reyes RC Rainbow. I like this kind of oddball parallels/variations that people don't always pick up.
2017 Topps Cardinals Team Set Issue
2017 Topps Online Mini
The other What? about this card is more a case of Donruss being Donruss. Kiner is a Pittsburgh Pirates legend and Hall of Famer who spent 1 bad season at the end of his career in Cleveland. Indians picture it is I guess.
A couple more for the Reyes RC Rainbow. I like this kind of oddball parallels/variations that people don't always pick up.
2017 Topps Cardinals Team Set Issue
2017 Topps Online Mini
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