Hendersonfan
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There are a couple that ended last week for ~$5. I think those sellers are crazy for those prices.
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Leffer
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rickeyfanatic said:
I could use it, but I probably wouldn't offer you as much as you'll get for it on ebay. *sigh* It will probably go to t***e who has been outbidding me on everything these days. Just like the Polar Bear I just lost to him.
Seriously, I'll bid on it (I might even bid it up for you), but the way some of these Rickeys have been going in the past 6 months, you're best bet is to put them on ebay.
Hendersonfan
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I don't feel like looking thru all 86 pages. And I can't find it using SEARCH. Can somone post a picture of the Silver Pewter Bronze and Aluminum Gallery of Champions? I know I saw it, just can't find it right now. Or post it in the thread asking about them (that's what I was going to do).
http://www.freedomcardboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=133396
http://www.freedomcardboard.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=133396
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RL24
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I had a whole crapload of pictures of the pewter in my bucket. I sold the pewter, and deleted the pictures. When was that... yesterday? Sunday maybe? :lol: Seriously, I did it within the last 48 hours.
Yeah, the 86 page thread is kinda brutal. The old set up was much better, with our own forum. We had a thread for pics only, a thread with wantlists and trades, the famous box thread*, and we would start a new thread every month. I kind of feel like here we dump everything into one thread, and in a few days it's forgotten.
I'm terrible about hitting quote, starting to respond to a question, get distracted by one thing or another, and then I never go back and answer the question. Maybe one of these days I should read through the 86 pages. Not any time soon though, I'm running the office this week while the boss goes camping in Utah, and at home we're zero-scaping the yard. What a weekend. :x
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Yeah, the 86 page thread is kinda brutal. The old set up was much better, with our own forum. We had a thread for pics only, a thread with wantlists and trades, the famous box thread*, and we would start a new thread every month. I kind of feel like here we dump everything into one thread, and in a few days it's forgotten.
I'm terrible about hitting quote, starting to respond to a question, get distracted by one thing or another, and then I never go back and answer the question. Maybe one of these days I should read through the 86 pages. Not any time soon though, I'm running the office this week while the boss goes camping in Utah, and at home we're zero-scaping the yard. What a weekend. :x
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Hendersonfan
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So did these come in different materials for different years? This guy doesn't have the aluminum but has a copper. Rickey just has 4, pewter, aluminum, silver and bronze right?
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dietdew said:these guys? These are from the 1984 Gallery of Immortals set. There wasn't an aluminum for that year, and the Carew pewter wasn't made by Topps but by someone probably trying to pass it off as the silver one.
Hendersonfan said:So did these come in different materials for different years? This guy doesn't have the aluminum but has a copper. Rickey just has 4, pewter, aluminum, silver and bronze right?
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dietdew said:these guys? These are from the 1984 Gallery of Immortals set. There wasn't an aluminum for that year, and the Carew pewter wasn't made by Topps but by someone probably trying to pass it off as the silver one.
These are my cards. I've wondered if maybe the bronze was counterfeited to some extent. The bottom two are supposedly the same bronze card. The pewter I have is an attempt to fake a silver as Topps didn't produce a pewter of this particular card (my 2010 Standard Catalog has an entry for the 84 pewters produced as fake silvers). I'll check if I have another darker bronze one. I got 5 of the shiny bronze ones a few years ago from Mr. Mint on ebay if I recall correctly.
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RL24
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Well Dietdew, I have only seen one tiny slice of your collection, but I'm impressed! Is the rest so... thorough?
ManOfSteal
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Hendersonfan said:
You're correct, Rickey has 4 Gallery of Champions cards (Aluminum, Bronze, Silver, and Pewter). The Aluminum, Bronze, and Silver cards were produced as complete sets. The Pewter cards, however, are slightly different.
As an incentive to dealers for buying complete sillver and bronze sets, Topps gave out the pewter cards each year. They would pick one player each year, and create a pewter version of just their card (they just happened to choose Rickey for 1991).
RL24 said:
more or less...here's my vintage
http://s1107.photobucket.com/albums/h386/RodCarew/
I also noticed when putting the bronze cards away that the copperish looking ones don't have the same flat smooth surface to the edges of the cards as the silver or darker bronze ones. A few seem way off center too which can be seen in the scan. No aluminum in 1984 or else I'd probably have a half dozen of those too.
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dietdew said:
WoW, well the first few pages are amazing! I'm happy Rickey wasn't in those old sets though. Based on what I know of Nolan Ryan's RC, your various 68s are most impressive. OPC, Milton Bradley, Venezuelan... no problems. I got to the 69 Topps card, and had to ask... what's up with that? :lol: Sentimental value?
henderson939
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AAHHH. The great Rod Carew. I remember being at a buddies house and him putting an 84 Topps Rubdown of Carew on to my sneaker. Not knowing about it, I went to school with it and finally someone asked me "what the hell is up with that?" So the phrase "there's a Carew on your shoe" was coined. Granted only 2 people have ever used that phrase, but it was famous anyway. This happened probably in 89, as I am pretty sure I was in high school at the time. I never did get him back for that.
Leffer
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Here are the 1991 Rickeys, in order from top to bottom:
Aluminum, Bronze, Silver, Pewter. On the back of the Silver, you can see a "Sterling" all the way on the top right near the "OF" and the others don't have that. The Aluminum is MUCH lighter than the others when you hold it, and the Pewter has a duller finish.
Aluminum, Bronze, Silver, Pewter. On the back of the Silver, you can see a "Sterling" all the way on the top right near the "OF" and the others don't have that. The Aluminum is MUCH lighter than the others when you hold it, and the Pewter has a duller finish.
rickeyfanatic
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What is reasonable to pay for the silver?
Do any of you remember what you paid/traded?
Do any of you remember what you paid/traded?
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RL24
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dietdew said:
No worries about hijacking, after 86 pages of talking about Rickey it looks like it was time to discuss Carews and shoes and things. :lol:
About the 69, I didn't mean there is only one parallel... I just meant, well... the 68 Venezuelan has to be pretty pricey, eh? For less you could probably get a PSA 9 1969 Topps card. But yours looks like this:
So I was just wondering if there was a story behind it... I imagine it's like "I was 8 and I got this Rod Carew card, it was my favorite... pretty soon I started collecting Carew, and the rest is history & so on and so forth... but I've always held onto that first card for sentimental value." Or something.
RL24 said:dietdew said:
No worries about hijacking, after 86 pages of talking about Rickey it looks like it was time to discuss Carews and shoes and things. :lol:
About the 69, I didn't mean there is only one parallel... I just meant, well... the 68 Venezuelan has to be pretty pricey, eh? For less you could probably get a PSA 9 1969 Topps card. But yours looks like this:
So I was just wondering if there was a story behind it... I imagine it's like "I was 8 and I got this Rod Carew card, it was my favorite... pretty soon I started collecting Carew, and the rest is history & so on and so forth... but I've always held onto that first card for sentimental value." Or something.
I have several copies of the 69 all of which are better looking, but I just kind of liked the beat up one. There are several cards on there that I used either my first or lesser copies that I like including the Venezuelan coincidentally. I spent several years finding my first 68 Venezuelan #80 so that is the one I display even though I bought this one all of about a week later
I actually didn't do much collecting other than opening random packs and such as a kid. I got back into it when Kirby Puckett died and decided to focus on Minnesota Twins specifically Puckett (my favorite) and Rod Carew (my dad's favorite).
Hendersonfan
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Don't worry about the hijacj Diet, it was caused by me posting your picture from the other thread asking about those cards. Yours were different materials than the Rickey so I was intrigued.
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