Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Three Freebies From The Wrapper

 One of the Trading Card Trade magazines I subscribe to is called "The Wrapper" a low-budget publication that comes out every six weeks or so (7 times a year) and is Non-Sport specific. Often they dive deep into vintage Non-Sport sets as well as the occasional newer set, some super popular and well known and others that are rare and very obscure. I forget how many years I have been subscribed. Anyway when it comes to renewing your subscription along with the notice that your subscription is about to expire they will often send a few freebies to sweeten the deal. Here are three cards I received in my subscription renewal envelope; 1 I am pretty sure I already have, 1 I know I already have and the 3rd is "new" to me:

2004 Inkworks Charmed Connections Promo CC-3

1978 Donruss Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -
58 Preston, the weathervane, sings "Get Back".

1997 Fleer/Skybox Star Trek Original Series 1 - 47 EP16.2 The Menagerie






Sunday, April 30, 2023

Why Don't You Show Some Cards Already?


First off Hmm it looks like Trading Card Central (TCC) is down for the count. I first noticed, oh geez I think maybe the weekend of April 8th? That card site has had it's ups and downs many times over the years. In part due to the original owner skipping out years ago. He would occasionally pop up on the site and had some kind of arrangement for website renewals to avoid having the site go down every year, five years, or however long website registrations last. I forget what the time periods are as it has been over 10 or 12 years since I last attempted to maintain my own website. I'm pretty sure that TCC was the first trading card forum that I got involved with. I have always liked the way people there were friendly and most were in the hobby for the hobby not to just flip cards and make money as most people seem to want to do now. Some of my Facebook friends I met through TCC and I still keep loose contact with them even though many of them no longer use TCC and in some cases no longer collect trading cards. TCC has never been super high-tech but it used to be an old stand by. For several years I had used the "blog" area of the website for my trading card transactions and mail days before I started up my blogging and continued to blog there even though I eventually was the only one updating their blog there. I stopped detailing my mail days and trades and trading card stuff some years back about 10+ At one time I had started to copy my blog entries there onto a simple word document but stopped doing that after only having copied the first couple of years worth of stuff. I am not sure how many years worth of posts were left to copy over. I also used to make posts about purchases and favorite cards and whatever in the regular forums. I even had a "my collection" thread at one time. That reminds me I often had to repost images that had been on photobucket but I transferred to some other online photo gallery when photobucket started going corporate and having it's own problems and got greedy requiring paid subscriptions for access to actually do anything with the site. 

UPDATE: 20 April. Hey TCC is Back UP! I looked at the blog section over there. My last TCC blog was in early 2019 and the last blog by anyone was near the end of 2019. When I clicked on the link to add an entry I got a "this page isn't working" error. I probably should try to finish that "transfer" of my blogging from there to my word documents. I probably should have started backing up my archives here at blogspot back when I first signed up to blog here. OH Well.

ADDITIONAL UPDATE: 26 April 2023. BIG SIGH! Site is down again. not sure why... Still down as of time of this post's publishing on 30 April 2023.


In other card news over at COMC I have sold 4 cards this year, 2 in Mar and 2 in Apr. Granted 2 were under a buck one just a little over a buck and one a little over 2.5 bucks. The last few years I have sold 1 maybe 2 cards a year over there if that. Been years upon years since I submitted any cards to sell over there. I currently have 156 cards in my inventory over there.

OK so what cards to show?

This duo of cards I have had in a mixed box that has some cards that have been in my "to be blogged about" pile for years. Anyway, they are two copies of the same card. The difference is one of them missed the foil printing phase.

The Card 1993 Topps Stadium Club Baseball 515 Thomas Howard Cleveland Indians.

First the card as it should be:


Next the card that missed the foil lettering printing. 


It can't be seen in the scan but there is the slight indent of what was to be foil printing on the card.

Here they are side-by-side.



Friday, March 31, 2023

Terry Bradshaw 1974 Topps Slightly Miscut

 In a recent Sportlots auction purchase I got a miscut 1974 Topps Football Terry Bradshaw 470 Pittsburgh Steelers card for $2.25 + shipping. I thought I already had this card but it wasn't in my TCDB collection. It is now.

1974 Topps Football 470 Terry Bradshaw Pittsburgh Steelers miscut


Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Sketching A Post Out

 It has been a long time since I've made a post about sketch cards. It has been a long time since I have looked for or even bought any. The cards in this post I have been meaning to post about for some time since I have had them for 10-11 years. My criteria for sketch cards is generally first their appearance and that includes the quality of the art work and the price. Just like regular cards I don't like the super high prices that many ask for any card let alone a semi rare art card. Back when I used to hunt for sketch cards a decade ago. Many of them were just that a SKETCH card, usually one of a kind and often they were in just pencil or uncolored black pen & ink. Then some of the artists colored in their work and often they would make print copies to sell so they could keep their original art. I don't mind photocopies if they look OK and if I know upon purchase that they are prints. Anyway that is more than enough talk, time to show the cards. Oh one of these cards I have another sketch card by the same artist whose full name I do not know. In a previous post I mentioned another card by the artist named "Phil" whom I can't make out the last name.

So let me start by showing this second card by the artist "Phil" this is one of two sketch cards I have with Pauley Perrette as her character Abby Sciuto. It is also one of two sketch cards I'm showing that have a gold sticker "sealing" the card as a "Limited Edition Collectors Series". Back in the day I loved getting them for the gold seal to show they were sort of authentic, but if you really think about it, it doesn't make them any more special, as often the seal can be worn or damaged negating the whole specialness of them.

2012? Sketch card NCIS canvas prints Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto by Phil #200/250

Next the other "sealed" card from a similar series probably commissioned by the same Ebay seller from the Doctor Who canvas prints series we have Matt Smith as The 11th Doctor floating with his TARDIS by Michael Celona.

2012? Sketch card Doctor Who canvas prints Matt Smith as The Doctor by Michael Celona #246/250

Now the other Abby Sciuto sketch card this time by artist David Coalburn this one seems to be a print and it is numbered to only 25 and is dated 2012.

2012 sketch card Pauley Perrette as Abby Sciuto by David Coalburn #2/25

The final card is another print numbered to 25 by artist David Coalburn this time the subject is Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

2012 sketch card Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman by David Coalburn #1/25


Tuesday, January 31, 2023

2022 Topps Archives 1972 Fan Favorites Certified Autogragh

 A fairly recent buy from Ebay was a 2022 Topps Archives Fan Favorites Autograph card of San Francisco Giants hitting coach Alyssa Nakken. The autograph is on card in blue sharpie, and at some angles it looks like it is a blue ballpoint. 1972 Topps Baseball Design.

2022 Topps Archives Baseball Fan Favorites Certified Autograph
72FF-AN Alyssa Nakken San Francisco Giants

In May of last year I blogged about a Topps Now card of Alyssa (here) which I guess is her RC?

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Last Post Of The Year: All Capitals

 Well it is that time of the month again, and in addition that time of the year. Goodbye 2022 and Hello 2023.

 OK so a quick one this lot of cards came from a Trading Card Database member as a PIF (Pay It Forward) which is TCDBs form of a random act of kindness or as I like to call them "Random Act of Cardness" (RAC). The member sent me 9 Washington Capitals Hockey cards from my want list at the database.

Here they are as a group:

1991-92 Score Hockey:
20 Kevin Hatcher
128 Dino Ciccarelli
1997-98 Pinnacle Hockey:
24 Jan Bulis Rookie
1998-99 Pacific Paramount Hockey:
244 Sergei Gonchar
2000-01 Topps Heritage Hockey:
5 Olaf Kolzig
52 Adam Oates
112 Jeff Halpern
168 Chris Simon
214 Sergei Gonchar

The 2 Score cards

The 5 Topps Heritage cards

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Panini Redemption


 I seem to recall hearing or reading about Panini making an effort to fulfill outstanding redemption requests. Well it had been ages since I had filled out any such request and honestly didn't think I had any outstanding. Guess I was wrong. On 14 Nov 2022 I got a small card package. I hadn't been expecting anything except maybe my Nationals lot from the latest group break I was involved in that had just done its November break, that package also arrived that day (there is a 99% chance it will be the Nov post for my Curly W cards blog). I saw the return address was from "customer service" from Panini America. I'm not sure what product I had been on the waiting list for, anyway the note in the package said the card included was a replacement of equal or higher value.


Here is the replacement redemption card: 

2020-21 Panini Noir Basketball Rookie Private signings Association Version
PSA-GRI Grant Riller Charlotte Hornets Autograph on-card blue sharpie
If interested in this card please send an email offer to my yahoo address.


Monday, October 31, 2022

Trade Pile 001: Card 5 A Chrome Tampa Bay Ray

Trade Pile 001:
Card 5: A 2015 Topps Chrome Ray
31 Oct 2022

Adding another card to the pile it is now a  poker hand. Not to shabby.

Top of The Pile:
2015 Topps Chrome Baseball:
59 Kevin Kiermaier Tampa Bay Rays


The rest of the Pile:
1989 Topps Baseball:
373 Tracy Jones Expos

1991 Topps Cracker Jack Mini (Micro) Baseball:
17 Mark Langston Angels
Yes this one is creased some. 
(image obviously not to scale)

2011 Topps Opening Day Baseball:
ODS-3 Alex Rodriguez Yankees

2016 Bowman Draft - Chrome Baseball:
BDC-29 Justin Dunn Mets

The concept is simple I will post a card or cards I have up for trade and the first person to claim the "pile" in this post's comments will receive them all. The golden rule with this is that you must offer at least one card off of my wantlists. See My Master Want List on this blog or My Wantlist at TCDB (Collection -> Main Collection -> scroll to Wantlist, select sport category) If you don't have a card off of my lists I will also accept Pre 1987 Vintage Baseball or Football. Also Non-Sport from 1960s to 1970s. Please let me know what you intend to send.

After awhile I will add another card or two to the "Pile" (or "Stack") of unclaimed cards until the pile gets claimed. 

Friday, September 30, 2022

Trade Pile 001: Card 4 A 1989 Topps Expo

 Trade Pile 001:
Card 4: A 1989 Topps Expo
30 Sep 2022
Adding another card to the pile it is now a  foursome.

Top of The Pile:
1989 Topps Baseball:
373 Tracy Jones Expos

The rest of the Pile:
1991 Topps Cracker Jack Mini (Micro) Baseball:
17 Mark Langston Angels
Yes this one is creased some. 
(image obviously not to scale)

2011 Topps Opening Day Baseball:
ODS-3 Alex Rodriguez Yankees

2016 Bowman Draft - Chrome Baseball:
BDC-29 Justin Dunn Mets

The concept is simple I will post a card or cards I have up for trade and the first person to claim the "pile" in this post's comments will receive them all. The golden rule with this is that you must offer at least one card off of my wantlists. See My Master Want List on this blog or My Wantlist at TCDB (Collection -> Main Collection -> scroll to Wantlist, select sport category) If you don't have a card off of my lists I will also accept Pre 1987 Vintage Baseball or Football. Also Non-Sport from 1960s to 1970s. Please let me know what you intend to send.

After awhile I will add another card or two to the "Pile" (or "Stack") of unclaimed cards until the pile gets claimed. 

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Trade Pile 001: Card 3 Lets Get Small

 Trade Pile 001:
Card 3: Lets Get Small (Micro If You Will)
31 Aug 2022
Adding another card to the pile it is now a trio and the group sounds a little sharper and tunes up a little bit.

Top of The Pile:
1991 Topps Cracker Jack Mini (Micro) Baseball:
17 Mark Langston Angels
Yes this one is creased some.


The rest of the Pile:
2011 Topps Opening Day Baseball:
ODS-3 Alex Rodriguez Yankees

2016 Bowman Draft - Chrome Baseball:
BDC-29 Justin Dunn Mets

The concept is simple I will post a card or cards I have up for trade and the first person to claim the "pile" in this post's comments will receive them all. The golden rule with this is that you must offer at least one card off of my wantlists. See My Master Want List on this blog or My Wantlist at TCDB (Collection -> Main Collection -> scroll to Wantlist, select sport category) If you don't have a card off of my lists I will also accept Pre 1987 Vintage Baseball or Football. Also Non-Sport from 1960s to 1970s. Please let me know what you intend to send.

After awhile I will add another card or two to the "Pile" (or "Stack") of unclaimed cards until the pile gets claimed.