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Read my comment above yoursNice find. Maybe I shouldn't have been narrowing my search to fresh inventory...? Either that or he just added them.
Well he didn't know that he had them. I asked him about the Belle patterns and he said they were patterns 46 and 84, neither of which I needed. I asked him if either happened to be a diffractor and he has no clue what that was, so I told him what they look like without blowing it out of proportion for what they are or what value might be and he said he found four but no Belle's. He must have switched them over and then you picked them up, congrats. I probably would have jumped on them if he came back and was like "Yea, found a McGwire, Griffey, etc."
YesSo this means that some of the people who have already placed orders might be getting Diffractors! Right?
Well he didn't know that he had them. I asked him about the Belle patterns and he said they were patterns 46 and 84, neither of which I needed. I asked him if either happened to be a diffractor and he has no clue what that was, so I told him what they look like without blowing it out of proportion for what they are or what value might be and he said he found four but no Belle's. He must have switched them over and then you picked them up, congrats. I probably would have jumped on them if he came back and was like "Yea, found a McGwire, Griffey, etc."
This must have happened. I asked him about the patterns for two Venturas he had posted, and he PM'd me back with "5 and 46", which I didn't need. I now see he only had one listed...Mans, did you pick up one of these?
So this means that some of the people who have already placed orders might be getting Diffractors! Right?
This must have happened. I asked him about the patterns for two Venturas he had posted, and he PM'd me back with "5 and 46", which I didn't need. I now see he only had one listed...Mans, did you pick up one of these?
Oneof the four diffractors I picked up from that seller on Sportslots was a Ventura. No idea of the pattern number, but I need both pp. 5 and 46.
Any of you you guys have any of the following 1998 Topps TEK cards?
My 1998 TEK Condition Upgrade Want List ..Must be near mint with no scratches, spotting, water marks, peeling of the ovals on the back (that has the card #/ pattern #) and misalignment of the card number/pattern # within the silver oval on back
Ivan Rodriguez....Card # 5 Pat # 47
D Bichette…….…… Card # 8 Pat # 36
Derek Jeter........Card # 14 Pat # 44
Brady Anderson..Card # 16 Pat # 34
David Justice......Card # 18 Pat # 25
Chipper Jones.....Card # 19 Pat # 28
Todd Walker.......Card # 24 Pat # 61 (Coming in mail)
Tino Martinez......Card # 25 Pat # 38
Curt Schilling......Card # 32 Pat # 7
T Dunwoody.......Card # 36 Pat # 36
Paul O' Neill........Card # 37 Pat # 24
Randy Johnson....Card # 39 Pat # 11,21,27
Albert Belle.........Card # 47 Pat # 36
Jeromy Burnitz....Card # 48 Pat # 21,36
Jason Kendall......Card # 52 Pat # 15
Ellis Burks..........Card # 53 Pat # 25
Barry Larkin.......Card # 57 Pat # 28
Paul Konerko......Card # 63 Pat # 8
Javy Lopez.........Card # 65 Pat # 31
Knoblauch..........Card # 70 Pat # 36
Kevin Brown.......Card # 71 Pat # 36
Tim Salmon........Card # 72 Pat # 30
Jeff Bagwell........Card # 74 Pat # 78
AJ Hinch.............Card # 83 Pat # 56
Jim Thome..........Card # 89 Pat # 46
Same Card #/ pattern # Want List (Set # 2)
13p13(McGwire),21p21(Clemens),41p41(P Martinez),51p51(Ripken),61p61(Glaus),63p63(Konerko),66p66( M Ramirez)
Same Card #/ pattern # Want List (Set # 3).....2,5,6,7,8,9,13,14,15,21,23,23,29,30,31,
33,39,41,45,48,49,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,60,61,63,64,66, 67,69,74,76,78,81,
82,83,84,86,90
^It's amazing you have three Belle diffractors for trade and I happen to have all three ugh... I only have like a dozen... just so strange.
In other news, I have two Belle diffractor pattern 15's. I would LOVE to trade that to someone who has a Belle diffractor but doesn't care about the pattern #. Like if someone is going after just a diffractor set but not paying attention to the pattern #. I'd even kick something in to make it worth the trade.
Here is a question, if we put all our Tek cards together, would we be close to a complete master set? What about every Tek we know about between various boards? Do any of you set collectors mark that a certain diffractor exists or has sold previously or is owned by another collector?It would be amazing - and probably impossible to ever prove - if Topps had SP'd some patterns.
Here is a question, if we put all our Tek cards together, would we be close to a complete master set? What about every Tek we know about between various boards? Do any of you set collectors mark that a certain diffractor exists or has sold previously or is owned by another collector?
Here is a question, if we put all our Tek cards together, would we be close to a complete master set? What about every Tek we know about between various boards? Do any of you set collectors mark that a certain diffractor exists or has sold previously or is owned by another collector?
Mac,
I've compared diffractor collections with just about every player collector with large diffractor collections. For example, Joe, onionring9 and I both have over 30 McGwire diffractors each, but almost 100% correlation in what we have. We also both needed only patterns 86 and 89 from the 30-card '98 Tek McGwire pre-production set. Same kind of correlation with Bonds, Justice, Grace, and Griffey collections. Chris Kurdelski had 34 Griffey diffractors; I have 43 Griffey diffractors. He only has 9 that I don't have. I need more than 60% of the diffractor patterns, but seemingly 80% or more of everything that shows up on-line is a duplicate for me. Not sure of the explanation. May well be uneven print distribution.
Rich