Wednesday, March 27, 2024

January Jacksonville Sports Card shop

 Quite a few scans here tonight. Just as a reminder that back in January I visited Fred at his house, and the following day I went to the card shop. I didn't get a ton (over all), but I did bring home a lot. You will see odd balls, oversized cards (I bought a whole box of them), and magazines along with other items. Most of the odd or non oversized cards were a buck each, but the grand total counting everything came out to .30 a piece. 



Buck each.



Same here.



Here too. I grabbed the dupe because I know I will ultimately open one of them up for display and to get at the card.




You got it.....buck and a buck.




A couple of those magazines still have the cards inside and intact. And yes a buck each. Now let's start the oversized cards. First up are the cards that ARE NOT keepers.



Football, not my thing. But Cramer's Choice for .30. 



All extras, dupes or just someone I don't collect.



Same here dupes or whatever.....NOT keepers.



Nor these.



I believe the scan above is where the keepers start.












Jumbo Diamond Kings are extre sweet at less than 3 for abuck.



Lastly, the Braves. Between these and the haul from Fred's I went over board in January with the over sized stuff. I should be good for a long while (except I usually grab one or two from Ormond when I go). 


Have a great night folks!.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

TRADE NIGHT: White Sox

 Getting closer and closer to the end (one more week). Then I can say I have my tuesdays back, lol. Who am I kidding? I just spent the last week going through a bunch of the mini collections including two which will be occupying two days every week. Wacky Wednesday's is just just around the corner, and the other will be Shadow Shots. Not sure what day will be the Shadows (remember they used to run on Saturdays).  Anyways, I also updated several other binders which will be used for posts along the way I just don't know when or how. I am looking forward to finishing up the January acquisitions this week and hopefully cleaning up February next week. We'll see.


Now let's trade some cardboard (okay plastic too).



Not a whole bunch tonight with just 3 scans. 






Alrighty then, next week finishes up the team portion of this year's trade nights doing the New York Yankees.

Monday, March 25, 2024

The rest of the book cases and then some, lol.

 Friday I promised to give a preview of the progress I have made inside my home (and a few in the garage). Here they are.



The book case on the left is for my Bowman and the one on the right is for my Fleer.



Left to right: Donruss & Leaf, Score, Pinnacle, & Chronicles, Upper Deck and Pacific.

As you can see some of those have lots of cards lurking around to be bindered. All of those binders will also have to be re-done at some point just not even a thought right now.

 


This little case is for a good bit of my mini-collections. Working on those now. This one will look similar to the big book shelves once the task is completed.



This one is in my living room and houses some of my Star Wars toys and cards along with my grand sons Pokemon, my Wacky Packages and a lot of my mini collections.




These two shelves are for my Player Collections. The top one is one that obviously had been bindered although I have purged a few players from them. The bottom scan is one that the players have been checked against my list and need added to the binders. Again, I purged those as well.



Okay, these are the cards for my PC that I still need to check against my lists to see if I need them. The cards in the bottom photo pertain to just the top two shelves with the "shoe boxes". The rest on that rack are trade cards. The top scan the cards on the pool table have yet to be sorted in any way whatsoever, whereas the shoeboxes have made it through round 1 of  my sorting process. Now you can see why I am so far behind with those that it is hard to even get motivated to do anything with them.



A quick trip back to my living room has the 3 book cases for my Topps set builds. The 2 on the left have the flagship and the one on the right have the high end sets like Tribute, Chrome Platinum, Finest, Triple Threads, Museum, Inception, and Stadium Club. I'm sure I left a few out. The fox his name is "BUD". My dad had him dome when I was 10 years old. He seen him get run over on the highway. My mom after we left my dad (again) held onto him until her passing. All of my kids grew up with BUD, and now my grandson Elijah get's to enjoy him as well. His mom (Hunter) gets a bit grossed out because E kisses the fox. The little guy likes the little guy.

Now let's go back to the garage for a minute.



This racks contain the majority of my trade boxes (99% baseball).



The boxes above contain "future PC" guys that I still need to purge some players from.



The above boxes contain nothing but rookies that I do actually purge them every 4-5 years. 



These are more trade boxes (not the loose cards on top) that don't have any place on the racks. Back to the living room for one last one.



Those cards are for my birthday binders that haven't been checked against the lists yet. Yes, the loose cards in the very back go all the way to the ground.


I think that is a good enough update n my re-organization of my cards.  Keep in mind this doesn't show my Braves dupes, and other misc. stuff. One day I'll get to that, one day.


Friday, March 22, 2024

Happy Friday!

 Looks like we've made it through another week. Looking forward to a couple of days doing nothing. I have finished the Braves book shelf....sort of. I still need to maneuver some non card items around from several of my book shelves, but for now I am good. I'm going to do a quick post tonight with what that book shelf looks like, with a few other scans thrown in to give you folks an idea of what I am dealing with getting things in some sort of  organization.



Okay what is on the top shelf are my Braves 1906-1989. (The 3 binders on the bottom right are the 80's). It took 3 binders to get them all in and I still have some more to add to those books.

The 2nd row/shelf are all 1990's. Again I still have a shoebox of Braves left to put into the binders.

The 3rd shelf is for 2000-2009.

The 4th is where things start to "expand". By which I mean the binders are fuller and can't hold much more for several of them. years 2010-2018. 2018 actually has 2 binders.

The 5th shelf (bottom) holds years 2019-2024. Again most years are taking up 2 binders but at least they now have room for growth. With the shelf being full/complete 2025 poses a new situation where I am undecided as to how to deal with it. I will probably clear off the top and use that for at least 5 years. This shelf also does NOT contain another Braves binder... my mini collection of "Braves in the Background". I will have to put that one with most of the other "mini collections" More on that Monday. Then I still have to binder up my odd ball items like ticket stubs, parking passes, coins, bottle caps, chipz, large cards etc., and other misc. stuff which will ultimately join the Braves in the Background.


Now, I do have the rest of my book shelves loaded in the files to show them and where I am heading with those. I'll do that on Monday too.

Have a great weekend.

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

A vintage trade with Bo.

 Recently Bo and I did a large swap. Vintage goodies going both ways.



Yes, My 75' set is complete. These 4 were needs for the 75' Topps mini set build.





I will have to upgrade a few of these at some later date, but for now they have been marked off the needs lists.


The cards below were and are the keys for me. Vintage O-Pee-Chee!







The card backs are why I like OPC so much. As for the 91' I needed it too.

Bo also sent other cards, but the ones above are the highlights.


Knocking out some incoming cards with a "pop rocking" kick.

 I've had several incoming packages recently and need to start getting them posted. I got two yesterday that I need to get scanned too. 

Frist I want to send some big thanks out to Nick V who sent not one but two pwe's with the needs from those vintage Coca-Cola education sets. I didn't can before I put them into their pages (my bad).


Next up is a package from Rod of Padrographs fame.


Pretty sure these have been consumed (by my grandson).



Odd ball vintage (1960) comic from a toy company. 


Needed the first 6 cards here. I really like those 2023 Topps Flagship cards!



Needed a couple here too.






A couple more needs here.




Thanks Rod!


Let's do one more scan tonight.



The above were a trade from one of the trade nights courtesy of Matt of Diamond Jesters.

Thanks for the trade Matt!


Tomorrow I'll have one coming via Bo. After that I'll have to scan some more.


Tuesday, March 19, 2024

TRADE NIGHT: Minnesota Twins

 Feels pretty good knowing I am nearly done with all of the teams.  Let's get right at it.










R.J. I know you've been waiting on this night. Hope you've been hoarding your Braves, lol. Set build needs work just fine too!