My dealer friend staying with me this week has just picked up the 2005 Playoff Absolute Memorabilia Tools of the Trade Jumbo Patch TT-110 Cal Ripken PSA 5 SN # 201 / 250
the jumbo patch is a sick piece of the Jackie Robinson 50th anniversary patch, I'll be uploading a picture in a bit
asking...
I still love these challenging sets, which I feel like have something in common
2005 Donruss Throwback Threads - Polo Grounds -100 card insert set with 45 variations of each card Serial number between 5 and 85
2005 Leaf (Donruss) - Sportscasters - 50 card insert set with 140 variations of each...
One of my player PCs is Shawn Green. He was a "semi star" back in his playing days.
There are a good number of collectors that PC him.
He's been in a lot of Topps Archives Retired Signature releases.
I grab them when I can get them for $10, or $20 for a very low SN
I like that they are...
over on TCDb a member named "pjx5x" has 17 for sale / trade
15 record(s)
Quantity
1
1C
Jason Dickson SN63
1
31C
Raul Mondesi SN63
1
39C
Tino Martinez SN63
1
66C
Andy Benes SN63
1
69C
Travis Lee SN63...
I've got that 2023 Shawn Green ARchives auto /99 in my Shawn Green PC. I like getting Shawn Green autos on green parallels. Also the base of course, and also the blue color match, when it comes to Dodger uniform Shawn Green Autos. The more green the better. 2023 was a good year. The 2023...
I picked up a couple "out of case" Green Archive Signatures recently. Up until now, I only got encased from Archives Signature Retired edition.
I'm trying to figure out if people opened up cases, or if they were pulled like this, "leftovers" slated at ARchives Signature retired,
inserted into...
fyi, I saw on insta, that Firehandcards.com [breakers] recently pulled a rather nice Flawless 1/1 bat knob
https://www.instagram.com/firehandcards/p/C53v4YdvMpf/
I think it's a limited market as compared to professional.
Having said that 21-22 Topps put out an NCAA basketaball draft product called Bowman University, and
for many years 96-14 there was a college football draft product called Press Pass
so there are customers for your idea
Good morning. Newby to these daily good morning threads.
Got a Pause in the SoCal Pineapple Express / Atmospheric River / El Nino, whatever you want to call it, the sun is out.
Looks like it might be dry for a week.
Heading off to the airport to pick up my 36 YO oldest son, who is stopping in...
Fanatics bought Topps for the brands, so the various Topps products should continue, every year they purge a few concepts that aren't selling well, and add a few new concepts.
And let's not forget that the [Fanatics with Topps] plan is to grow the hobby 10X, so they need to have a lot of product...
here's the checklist
Silver / Base
Blue Refractors (serial-numbered to 150 copies)
Green Refractors (serial-numbered to 99 copies)
Green Wave Refractors (serial-numbered to 99 copies)
Gold Refractors (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
Gold Wave Refractors (serial-numbered to 50 copies)
Gold...
you now have a nice rainbow going of the 2023 Finest red /5, orange /25 x2, gold /50, blue /150.
I'm sure you have the silver base /199 incoming, and the green /99 incoming.
when you have them all, let's see the rainbow
that's the same math to figure out how much a smoker wastes, who smokes 2 packs a week for 25 years at an average of $4 / pack = 2x4x25x52 = $10,400 and
if it's 2 packs a day becomes $72,800
or someone who must have a fancy $6 cup of coffee at Starbucks daily ... 1x6x25x365 = $54,750
To have one of the 2014 Topps 1st Edition Sets [complete] with box and redemption card, is quite a thing, clearly you can feel you have something rare, with a stated print run of 10.
But we all know that there are crooks out there, and since the PR 10 1st edition cards are merely stamped with a...
back in the day when "Of Mice and Men" was required reading, almost everybody understood this cartoon was referencing literature, these days not so sure.
In general, I'm more confident picking up serial numbered cards for my collection, over cards that are tagged with SP / SSP, because the insert rate on the wax wrapper is 1 per 10,000 [and so on]
over at TCDB, Ian Badeer "DyeHardFan" is a Royals Super Collector, and he is the only one on TCDb that has your Matheny
he would be a good resource for information