MeelyPops cards

 A couple weeks back I had to go to the Gainesville V.A., and afterwards I decided to hit one of the card shops there. It was the very day that the 2025 Topps released. No, I did not buy any. Still haven't for that matter. The shop is not known for having any "good deals" or bargains. The closest they have are the two row boxes that hold dime cards (not sleeved) and sleeved fifty cent cards. I will say that I like that they are sorted by teams though. Anyways, I found two handfuls of each (sleeved and un-sleeved).

Some 2024 high end for my set builds, and a nice new Jr. card.

Two more set build needs and 2 I wasn't leaving behind (.50).

More set needs plus a couple of Holiday SP's that I didn't need for the set build, but the PC's will benefit from them.

PC grabs.

The entire BoSox set was in these boxes. I grabbed my PC guys only (there are tons more I didn't scan). Those dime cards.

More set build grabs.

I didn't come home empty handed, and was okay with the $30.00 I spent. Again, there was a lot more cards that I didn't scan.

Have a great weekend.

A couple of New Yorker bloggers, both with Vintage odd balls. Closing with a stumper.

 Let's do this! 

Got these 4 needs from Bo. Three 1965 Embossed and a Braves need. Thanks Bo.

Got a 10 pack from Greg. Four 79' Hostess an Acuna and Chipper need. He also sent a Maddux that I already had. I also had the Holiday SP Garcia. I scanned it because I know I had two of them before and I sent one to either Mr. Dilliard or Ginko, not sure who I sent it to. If you would kindly let me know which one got it, I can send this one to the other guy. Got me another new Holiday stocking ornament and a needed Laughlin. 

Thanks Greg!

Now, as for trivia last night. We did not win. We did well, but had absolutely no clue for the FINAL championship question. 

"What animal produces the milk used to make the most expensive cheese? PLUE cheese. Never heard of Pleu cheese, heard of Bleu cheese, but not Pleu.

Answer: Donkey.

Tomorrow's cards come from from a trip to Gainesville a couple weeks back.

Wacky Wednesday

 Another week another Wednesday, and another Wacky pre-scanned set of cards I find interesting for one reason or another. Sometime this coming weekend I will have to run another handful of scans. I really like having 2 months worth sitting in the scan files ready to go. After a year of not blogging on Wednesdays, it made for a super easy and very fast post to get back into the 5 days a week posting. Like others that have done this for awhile I remember posting every single day sometimes two or more times a day. Don't miss that. I have been thinking that I need to work on that Shadow Shots binder this weekend too. I used to and believe it still should be done on Saturdays. Saturday Shadow Shots. So I am thinking not posting on Friday and slip the Saturday back into the lineup. Let me know what you think in the comments. Also Saturday morning, midday, or evenings. (I actually prefer the night time myself).

Here are this weeks nominees which again is the last pre-scanned from that stack that needed placed into the binder which I still haven't done. 

Have a great night hope we won at trivia tonight. We won 2 weeks when we last played. Can we do back to back visit wins again? I'll let you know tomorrow (if we won).

Incoming: From coast to coast

 I'm certainly getting these incoming posts out this week.

This package came across the vast United States via DefGav aka; Gavin at Baseball card breakdown. He made these custom Braves for me, plus some other customs down below a scan or two. He also sent me a few Pacific ornaments. I want them all.

Gavin also made me the custom ornament Brave.

Now for the big finale.

BUBBLE GUM customs (series 2). I am sure Bob got his too. 

I probably should have scanned the backs individually so that you could read them. The write ups explain the photo on the front.

Thanks Gavin!

Have a great night everybody.

INCOMING: A local in person "trade".

quick update: 1 week in and now 1707 Braves cards. 

I'm going to get the remaining incoming cards done this week. Starting now with a trade buddy locally. Mike Block lives in The villages and I have known him for 15 years. My brother and I met up with Mike and had lunch near his home. Afterwards, we followed him (2 blocks) to his house. He was on his golf cart which is 100% absolutely normal for The Villages.

I can count on running into to Mike at the quarterly card shows in The Villages, and I did that last month and we planned our little get together. Mike is always giving you cards. This time he had a need....1 pocket pages and I had a box and took them to him. He tried to buy them, I said no.  While we were at his house he gave my brother a handful of cards and gave me a stack too. That Combo Piazza/Gibson is perfect timing as I just yesterday updated the Josh Gibson PC and needed it. Hopefully I already have one in the Piazza. I didn't need the 55' Bowman Braves, not even for the set builds so I gave them to my brother. I trimmed the top two (I didn't know this 8 card set existed). They are normal sized cards. here is the back below.

The trimmed version is so much better.

 Like the 55's I didn't need the Crandell in the sets or Braves so Jack got that one too.

The 1985 Eddie Mathews and Joe Adcock postcard was a need for me.

There you have one in person trade meet up done.

Have a great day!

More incoming cards. This time borrowing from Mark: Flea Market finds

 Probably need to post a few of these Incoming from bloggers/trader next week to get caught up. Meanwhile, last weekend I went to one of the local flea markets. I hadn't been since right after I got back home from Georgia. After two years I figure let's just see. There were probably 6 or 7 vendors with baseball cards....maybe a couple more. That in and of itself shocked me. I was figuring that I'd see a a couple. They were pretty all over priced crap. Like 10 for a penny cards charging a buck, yeah not for me. I actually walked every aisle looking at everything. Didn't buy a thing....that is until I got to the very last row. Three table outside no cover with a variety of mainly older antique like items, but I spotted some cards and comics.

Nearly the complete set, plus there were plenty of dupes. I think there were 50+ in all, and after a couple minutes of negotiating regarding the card set below I made a deal and these 1979 Topps comics were free. He initially wanted $5.00 which I would have gladly paid anyways, but I wanted the set below and wanted it for a better price. That my friends is the Art of the Deal (on a much smaller scale of course). 

These cards were in a binder (which I got too), but these 1934 German Tobacco cards were not in order, and there was a slew of them. I don't read German, but these Pre-War cards were interesting. He wanted $40.00 for the binder, we settled on him throwing in the comics.

After researching and figuring out what the set was I found the set contained 252 mini cards, and I got them all but 6 cards. They are basically military depictions of the old army. Old is the key word there, you can tell what I mean by the pictures, lol. Anyways. They are now in order and sitting in a box of non-sport cards waiting for me to get some more of those square pocket pages. They'll be fine in the box. I did wind up making one more purchase after the $40.00. It was on the very first row of the flea market on my way out I bought not one but two bags of some Cajun boiled peanuts... mmmh mmmh good!.

Thanks go out to San Jose Fuji for borrowing his theme for a post. 

Have a great weekend everyone.

Those leftovers the other day left me hungry. Let's eat.... It's supper time!

 

Maybe I should say let's have a snack.

Those of us that have been collecting for decades know that there are hundreds of different "food issue" cards out there. You have Cracker Jack, M&Ms, Tombstone, Jimmy Dean, Cap'n Crunch, Jumbo sunflower seeds, Yoo-Hoo, Squirt, Pepsi, Coke, Drakes, Chef Boyardee, Kraft, Wonder Bread and lots of other breads too, Twizzlers, Mother's and Johnston cookies, Ritz/Oreo, Quaker chewy, Oscar Meyer,  Nissen, King B, Granny Goose, Utz, Nestle, Hostess (duh), Little Debbie too, Big League chew, Mootown, Homer's, Jays, Jiffy Pop, General Mills, Eagle, Mr. Turkey, Armour, Humongus Ent., Wheaties, City pride, Dan-Dee, Hire's, Goudey, Glendale meats, Wilson franks, Bond bread. I'll stop here as the list goes on and on and these are just the ones mainly from the 80's and 90's. 

I know you're thinking how could I intentionally leave out a few missing obvious choices. Hah....I didn't.

I had a few of the "founder's" in my famous people box and thought why not make a post with them. 

Post from the 60's were basically the same including the Jell-o release which was slightly smaller. But Post had some various styles through the  years.

1982 above and 1983 below.

These are oversized which I do not like, and thus must be placed into 4 pocket pages which I have not done yet. I do have a handful of each of those years.

Below is the 90's version along with a 2001 design which I absolutely dig.

Moving on to the next guy.

With Kellogg's the main difference in their run was whether or not it was lenticular or not. In case you are wondering I used cards that were sitting in a stack waiting (for a year) to put in the binders.

 

I didn't have Micky D cards that were sitting in a stack needing to be put away, because any that I have that are keepers are PC guys. Most of know this guy owned the Padres. they released cards via Classic as well as with Topps.

Don't ask. I have no clue what a Farkleberry is.

Had these sitting in a stack for the PC guys.

Lastly out beloved Hostess.

There are tons of candy companies from the early 1900's too. Now, who is craving some junk food?

Wacky Wednesday

 Time for another round of interesting cards. Well, at least to me.

There is another 1994 card that has a similar Canseco card, but from a different angle with a much better view of the bat shavings.

Have a great night folks!

Leftovers. What's for dinner? What is on the plate tonight?

 Some people don't like leftovers. I for one do. Most times it is better the second time around. I will start off tonight's leftovers with those Bicycle cards from the deck box I showed last night.

I really like the card set below. I wish I had a complete set.

Now we can see some baseball card inserts.

2009 Heritage had a bunch.

In case you're wondering the two Wacky Packages PEZ have different card backs.

This next set is from 2023.

Let's give A & G a little love too.

The cards below are from the 2020 Historical Autographs POTUS the First 36 card set. The set is a 110 card set of which I have 87 of them. I did 5 scans of the ones with a President on the front (although 1 of the cards is of the back).

The set below is from 2022 HISTORICAL AUTOGRAPH COMPANY. I only scanned 1 page as I am sure you are getting sleepy. I did show a couple of the parallels below too.

I think I am missing like 10 cards from the base set.

The shiny parallel on the bottom looks so much better in hand. I like that parallel.

Let's get into some documents, some vintage too.

A campaign flyer.

I got this 1977 "stamp" set from my mom after she passed. It was in here things.

Finally, closing out Presidents Day (part two) with some buttons and a bit of trivia.

The Wilkie button is from 1940 and is my oldest Presidential campaign buttons.

If you didn't notice I put the Republicans on the left and the Democrats on the right. Who says you can't have fun with politics.

The Shirley Chisholm is from 1972. She was the first black woman elected to Congress, and the first Black woman to run for President (in the 2 major parties).

I'm sure I have other books on Presidents, but I'm not digging them out or even going to look for them. Pretty sure I have several other items that at some point will make it into this collection.

Have a great night and the rest of the week too.