Recent slab pickups / grading

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More goodness listed recently as I clear all the thick stuff away and thin down

 

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Took 10 minutes but the Oswalt and Career Stats Five disappeared (sold)

 

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Not sure if I've ever shown these Fisk slabs from my registry- been inside a box forever ( 15 + years)
Downsizings reminding me of the Red Sox generalist I used to be when I was younger
Whatever caught my eye was an interest
The Fall Classics was an interesting one as a Stadium Seat was cut up during an expansion / redo
the TGL Platinums were a pain to locate- could easily skim over in a box break if one didn't know the variations

 

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Three more deeply buried registry slabs emerged and scanned
UD Premiers one of my All Time Favorite subsets.
While I bought minimal boxes I did go crazy on singles back in the day

 

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More slabs that will find new homes- somealready went bye bye others on feebay as we speak

 

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Some thick Premier Dual Patches soon to depart. These are from 2007 UPPER DECK PREMIER

When the set came out- UD's checklists were a rushed mess.
Personally I think they designed it the way they did for a reason- for people to have to research

Clemens had multiple " Dual Patch" items- both Individual and Dual with someone else- but ALL were called Duals
Go figure. On the individual side- see below. He had a Position Dual ( SP) and a Jersey Number Dual ( 22)
I never saw the 1/1 andmissed one or two of them on feebay




BASE # to 22 -- silver foil
GOLD # to 24 ( go figure) - gold foil
PLATINUM # to 10 - platinum foil

 

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Below are the POSITION Duals. Have the Base Silver # to 22, missing the Gold and have the Platinum # to 10

BASE # to 22 - Silver foil ( MIA- cant locate it)
GOLD # to 20 - Gold Foil
PLATINUM # 10 - Platinum Holofoil

 

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Some more thick from 2007 Upper Deck Premier these from the Rare Patches Dual series combos.

All but the Rare Patches Dual Gold Maddux / Clemens #25/25 found new homes. Paid two bills and used remaining ebay sales to buy new printer ink. When in the did ink suddenly cost 3x what it did less than 2 years ago ?? Paid $107 = less than 3 years ago cost $69 wtf ??

 

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Two different people with two different levels of collecting getting the below
Been working with other Clemens collectors to address their needs, and with some set collectors on other stuff
One guy loves numerically significant items, the other rare pieces to fill in spots he's had open for years
Makes me happy two different collectors can enjoy the hobby with different focus on the same player, and both get to grow their individual collections

Been fun owning these for about a decade now- time to let someone else enjoy

 

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More 2008 thick stuff. Loved the 2008 Upper Deck Premier set
These are Dual Combos with Johan Santana ( 2006 Cy Younf winner) and Clemens who of course has 7 Cy's


BASE # to 50 , GOLD # TO 25, PLATINUM # TO 5

 

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OK next up in 2008 Upper Deck Premier is the 2008 UPPER DECK PREMIER REMNANTS QUAD subset
The UD checklists of that time could be highly confusing, even to experienced users.

For Roger Clemens - he had two Quad Remnants 4 subsets by my research

Subset 1 had his ALCY appearing on cards
Subset 2 had his WINS appearing on cards

The ALCY had a Base version # to 50, a Bronze version # to 25, and a Gold Milestones version # to 20
The WINS had a Base version # top 50 and a Quad Bronze # to 10
They finished it up with an Autograph version # to 15, and a Masterpiece # 1/1

I see the checklists on line- most show 7 items for this subset
By my count- that's 7 items

Below is my ALCY variations I'll be jettisoning as I trim down
The base version being his uniform # 22/50

 

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Dug out some 1982 Brighams / Red Sox Coke after seeing a PSA CU post from a user indicating "difficult to find"

May be difficult to find where they are, but I had some local and know I have more in storage. Took a photo of a box in tbe bedroom storage

Scan of my slabbed Dewey Evans ( sold the Yaz years ago) and some spares

 

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Next up to depart is the 2008 Upper Deck Premier Memorabilia subset
This subset consists of a Triple # to 25 and a Quad # to 40- which made no sense here usually numbers are lower the
more the windows go up. Here its the opposite. The Triple had a Gold version # to 3, the Quad Gold was # to 4
Never looked for either as I was moving cross country at the time and too many other sets had my attention

Also included pics of the Remnants Five Piece I own # to 25
Has some nice numbering ( #01/25)

 

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More from 2008 UD Premier. Both these had condition issues, which I knew prior to submitting
Protected both so future buyers would get HONESTY instead of hidden headaches when buying
Trying to reverse my normal course of action by isting to feebay first then doing the social media stuff
These lasted less than 5 minutes= both got purchased soon as I listed
Trios is numbered to 50, the Gold to just 15

 

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Couple of the base autos the Base/45 and the Gold Jersey Number /22

 

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Couple of rare 2008 UD Premier Foursome Quad PLATINUM # to 4 items went in my feebay store. Havent seen many of these slabs in 15+ years. Takinv me back to my deep dive. In the hobby days

 

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A fw plates from 2008 Topps Milestones and Moments. All 3 went on feebay- didnt last 10 minutes
Gotta dig out more that I own tonite from storage

 

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Back to more 2007 Upper Deck Premier and Utimate stuff as the ntire box is gonna fly
The 2007 Upper Deck Premier Premier Stitchings subset had three levels. UD quality control non existent on these and at $300 a box- yeah- major disappointment

Base - # to 50- was supposed to be Silver in color or light grey- instead its Dark grey
Gold - # to 35 - was supposed to be Gold of course- instead its got Bluish /Platinum Holofoil
Platinum- # to 10 - was supposed to be Bluish Holofoil- instead its Gold

First up is his Accompishments version - 7 CY YOUNGS ( Base is already gone otehr two are being listed)

 

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Part Deux of the 2007 Upper Deck Premier Premier Stitchings subset - card # 49 - had his Nickname ROCKET card
Wish the Base card had that serial numbering on the Cy one, but hey still a nice serial number for him
Below is Base /50 the Gold/35 and Platinum to 10

 

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Part 3 of the 2007 Upper Deck Premier Premier Stitchings subset- this time the 300 WINS Stitchings
I remember back in 2020/21 range during Covid the insurance gal made me inventory and send new pictures of the Stitchings subsets. I searched and searched for my Base and Platinum and realized like most of the good crap its back east locked away. Well dummy me failed to remember what I did 5 years ago last night when I foolishly went looking. I couldn't find the other two and panicked- then remembered to check my gmail

So when I go look at the emails- I realze I am not gonna locate them
Oh well. Here is the GOLD Variation at least= this ones local and going away
These are highly sought- believe the last few base items went for 50-60 or so
Clemens / Ryan / Maddux / Seaver guys all chase these